Connect the Appliance to Your Network
Before you power on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for the first time, ensure that you make the necessary external network connections.
For external connectivity, 5 ports are reserved on each spine switch. Four ports are available to establish the uplinks between the appliance and the data center network; one port is reserved to optionally segregate the administration network from the data traffic.
On each spine switch, ports 1-4 can be used for uplinks to the data center network. For speeds of 10Gbps or 25Gbps, the spine switch port must be split using a 4-way splitter or breakout cable. For higher speeds of 40Gbps or 100Gbps each switch port uses a single direct cable connection. For overview information, see "Uplinks" in the Network Infrastructure section of the Hardware Overview.
At a minimum, you must connect 1 port on each spine switch, which provides a single high bandwidth, high availability network for the administration and data traffic.
Note:
The administration network and the data network can be configured at different speeds. For example, you can configure your administration network to operate at 10Gbit, and your data network to operate at 40Gbit.
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Connect 1-4 high-speed Ethernet ports on each spine switch to your data center public Ethernet network.
Use the following table to determine the correct configuration for your environment.
Caution:
It is critical that both spine switches have a connection to a pair of next-level data center switches. This configuration provides redundancy and load splitting at the level of the spine switches and the data center switches. The cabling pattern plays a key role in the continuation of service during failover scenarios.
Use Case Network Speed Cables Required Ports Administration Network Port Minimum Configuration
10Gbit or 25Gbit
2 splitter cables
Port 1 on each spine switch
Not Used
Minimum Configuration
40Gbit or 100Gbit
2 direct cables
Port 1 on each spine switch
Not Used
Minimum Configuration with Administration Network
10Gbit or 25Gbit
4 splitter cables
Port 1 on each spine switch
Port 5 on each spine switch
Minimum Configuration with Administration Network
40Gbit or 100Gbit
4 direct cables
Port 1 on each spine switch
Port 5 on each spine switch
Maximum Configuration
10Gbit or 25Gbit
8 splitter cables
Ports 1-4 on each spine switch
Not Used
Maximum Configuration
40Gbit or 100Gbit
8 direct cables
Ports 1-4 on each spine switch
Not Used
Maximum Configuration with Administration Network
10Gbit or 25Gbit
10 splitter cables
Ports 1-4 on each spine switch
Port 5 on each spine switch
Maximum Configuration with Administration Network
40Gbit or 100Gbit
10 direct cables
Ports 1-4 on each spine switch
Port 5 on each spine switch