Users Guide

FlexAddress and FlexAddress Plus Comparison
FlexAddress has 208 addresses divided into 16 server slots, thus each slot is allocated with 13 MACs.
FlexAddress Plus has 2928 addresses divided into 16 server slots, thus each slot is allocated with 183 MACs.
The following table shows the provision of the MAC addresses in both the features.
Fabric A Fabric B Fabric C iDRAC
Management
Total MACs
FlexAddress 4 4 4 1 13
FlexAddress Plus 60 60 60 3 183
Figure 4. FlexAdress (FA) vs FlexPlusAddress (FA+) Features
Activating FlexAddress
FlexAddress is delivered on a Secure Digital (SD) card that must be inserted into CMC to activate the feature. To activate the
FlexAddress feature, software updates may be required; if you are not activating FlexAddress these updates are not required. The
updates (listed in the following table) include server module BIOS, I/O mezzanine BIOS or firmware, and CMC firmware. You must
apply these updates before you enable FlexAddress. If these updates are not applied, the FlexAddress feature may not function as
expected.
Component
Minimum Required Version
Ethernet Mezzanine card - Broadcom
M5708t, 5709, 5710
• Boot code firmware 4.4.1 or later
• iSCSI boot firmware 2.7.11 or later
• PXE firmware 4.4.3 or later
FC Mezzanine card - QLogic QME2472,
FC8
BIOS 2.04 or later
FC Mezzanine card - Emulex LPe1105-M4,
FC8
BIOS 3.03a3 and firmware 2.72A2 or later
Server Module BIOS
• PowerEdge M600 – BIOS 2.02 or later
• PowerEdge M605 – BIOS 2.03 or later
• PowerEdge M805
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