Setup Guide
Cable Dell PowerSwitch Series for
deployments with ToR switches
This chapter contains the following information.
Topics:
• Cable the out-of-band management switch
• Cable the base enclosure to the ToR switches
• Cable the ToR switches together
• Cable the Top-of-Rack switches to the core uplinks
Cable the out-of-band management switch
Cable the out-of-band (OOB) management switch to the appliance base enclosure nodes and the management uplink.
ToR
Switches
1
2
Figure 20. Base enclosure appliance connection to the OOB management switch
The out-of-band (OOB) management switch is connected through the 1 GbE management port on each of the appliance base
enclosure nodes.
Table 23. Steps to connect to the base enclosure nodes to the OOB management switch
1 Connect the management 1GbE port of the bottom node (A) to port 2 of the OOB management switch.
2 Connect the management 1GbE port of the top node (B) to port 53 of the OOB management switch.
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