15.3 Administrative Ethernet Port Cabling Tables

This topic contains the tables for the administrative network cabling.

The Management Network Switch is located in rack unit 21 on Oracle Exadata X8M-2 racks and in rack unit 22 on Oracle Exadata X8M-8 racks.

In the following tables, Un denotes the unit height in the rack, where n is the number, such as U20. The cables used for the Management Network Switch are blue in color. The following tables are in this section:

  • Table 15-3 Administrative Network Cabling for Oracle Exadata X8M-2 Full Rack
  • Table 15-4 Administrative Network Cabling for Oracle Exadata X8M-8 Full Rack

The following table shows the cable connections from the Admin port in the rack components to the Management Network Switch:

Table 15-3 Administrative Network Cabling for Oracle Exadata X8M-2 Full Rack

From Rack Unit Type of Equipment Management Network Switch Port

U39

Storage Server

1

U37

Storage Server

3

U35

Storage Server

5

U33

Storage Server

7

U31

Storage Server

9

U29

Storage Server

11

U27

Storage Server

13

U26

Database server

15

U25

Database server

17

U24

Database server

19

U23

Database server

21

U22

RDMA Network Fabric Switch

45

U20

RDMA Network Fabric Switch

46

U19

Database server

23

U18

Database server

25

U17

Database server

27

U16

Database server

29

U14

Storage Server

31

U12

Storage Server

33

U10

Storage Server

35

U8

Storage Server

37

U6

Storage Server

39

U4

Storage Server

41

U2

Storage Server

43

U1

RDMA Network Fabric Switch

Note that the spine switch is not included by default on Oracle Exadata X8M-2 racks, but port 47 is still reserved on the Management Network Switch for the spine RDMA Network Fabric switch.

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The following table shows the cable connections from the Admin port in the rack components to the Management Network Switch:

Table 15-4 Administrative Network Cabling for Oracle Exadata X8M-8 Full Rack

From Rack Unit Type of Equipment Management Network Switch Port

U41

Storage Server

1

U39

Storage Server

3

U37

Storage Server

5

U35

Storage Server

7

U33

Storage Server

9

U31

Storage Server

11

U29

Storage Server

13

U24

Database server

15

U23

RDMA Network Fabric Switch

33

U21

RDMA Network Fabric Switch

34

U16

Database server

17

U14

Storage Server

19

U12

Storage Server

21

U10

Storage Server

23

U8

Storage Server

25

U6

Storage Server

27

U4

Storage Server

29

U2

Storage Server

31

U1

RDMA Network Fabric Switch

Note that the spine switch is not included by default on Oracle Exadata X8M-8 racks, but port 47 is still reserved on the Management Network Switch for the spine RDMA Network Fabric switch.

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