Provisionable Server Connections

This section provides the logical port diagrams and connectivity requirements for the Sun N1 System Manager provisionable server.

A SPARC or x86–based server can be used as a provisionable server as described by Management Server Requirements. Each server provides two 10/100/1000 network interface ports. Each server also provides one or two system management ports depending on server architecture, labeled ALOM or ILOM on single management port servers, and labeled SP0 and SP1 on dual management port servers. In this document, the management port is always shown as MGMT.

The following illustrations provide the logical diagrams for the provisionable server ports based on the server architecture, and are used in subsequent sections to illustrate reference diagrams.

Each provisionable server should provide connectivity to three separate networks as follows:

• The management port connects the provisionable server to the management network and should be on the same switch and network as the ETH2 connection of the management server. The provisionable server management port connection is not required to be on the same switch as the ETH2 connection of the management server as long as connectivity to the management server ETH2 port is provided.

  The management port should be a 100 megabit connection.

• ETH0 connects the provisionable server to the provisioning network and must be on the same switch and network as the ETH1 connection of the management server.

  ETH0 should be a 1 Gbyte connection.

• ETH1 connects the provisionable server to the data network through the switch to provide external corporate network access to the provisionable server.

  ETH1 should be a 1 Gbyte connection.

The next section provides reference system connection and VLAN configurations for the N1 System Manager.