Administrative Ethernet Port Cabling Tables X8M

Table 16-2 shows the cable connections from the servers to the gigabit Ethernet switch in a Recovery Appliance X8M full rack. The port numbers are the same in racks with fewer storage servers.

The Management Network Switch is located in rack unit 21 on Recovery Appliance X8M. Ethernet cables are blue.

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 16-2 Ethernet Cabling for the Recovery Appliance X8M Full Racks

From Rack Unit(1) Component To Ethernet Port

U41

Storage server

15

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

U25

Storage server

17

U23

Storage server

21

U22

RDMA Network Fabric switch

45

U20

RDMA Network Fabric switch

46

U18

Storage server

25

U17

Compute server

27

U16

Compute 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

Footnote 1 Un is the unit location in the rack, where n is the number.