ISS Technology Update, Volume 7 Number 3 - Newsletter

ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 3

• If a VC-Ethernet Module is installed in an interconnect bay, the only module that can be installed in the adjacent interconnect

bay is another VC-Ethernet Module. A non-Virtual Connect module placed next to a Virtual Connect module will be marked

as incompatible and will not be managed by Virtual Connect.

• If an HP 4Gb VC-Fibre Channel module is installed in an interconnect bay, the only module that can be installed in the

adjacent interconnect bay is another VC-Fibre Channel module.

NOTE

The VC Manager creates bay-specific I/O profiles, assigns unique Media Access Control

(MAC) addresses and World-Wide Names (WWNs) to these profiles, and administers them

locally. The VC Manager will not provision VC-assigned MACs and WWNs to the server

connections that are linked to non-Virtual Connect modules.

Sample Supported Configurations

The Virtual Connect User Guide has several pages of sample configurations supported by Virtual Connect

(

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00865618/c00865618.pdf). It is not an exhaustive list,

but is meant to show typical supported configurations.

Tables 4-1 and 4-2 give examples of supported configurations for the BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure.

Table 4-1. HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure example of a typical supported configuration

Bay Module Bay Module

1 VC-Ethernet 2 VC-Ethernet

3 Other/empty 4 Other/empty

5 VC-Ethernet 6 VC-Ethernet

7 Empty 8 Empty

Table 4-2. HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure example of a typical supported configuration

Bay Module Bay Module

1 VC-Ethernet 2 VC-Ethernet

3 VC-Fibre Channel 4 VC-Fibre Channel

5 Other/empty 6 Other/empty

7 Other/empty 8 Other/empty

Tables 4-3 and 4-4 give common examples of supported configurations for the BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure.

Table 4-3. HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure example of a typical supported configuration

Bay Module Bay Module

1 VC-Ethernet 2 VC-Ethernet

3 Empty 4 Empty

Table 4-4. HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure example of a typical supported configuration

Bay Module Bay Module

1 VC-Ethernet 2 VC-Ethernet

3 VC-Fibre Channel 4 VC-Fibre Channel