Users Guide

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5. Verify the virtual ports on the Fabric Expander that are up and connected to servers in CONFIGURATION mode. Unit IDs 71
to 82 are used as virtual slot numbers 1/71 to 1/82 on the Fabric Expander.
OS10# show interface status
6. Configure a Fabric Expander virtual port to transmit server traffic in CONFIGURATION mode.
OS10# interface ethernet node/virtual-slot/port
node is 1 for a Fabric Expander.
virtual-slot is the unit ID number assigned to the Fabric Expander, from 71 to 82.
port is the virtual port number 1 to 8.
View Fabric Expander virtual ports
OS10# show interface status
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Port Description Status Speed Duplex Mode Vlan Tagged-Vlans
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Eth 1/71/1 up 25G auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/2 up 25G auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/3 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/4 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/5 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/6 up 25G auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/7 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/71/8 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/1 up 25G auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/2 up 25G auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/3 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/4 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/5 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/6 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/7 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/72/8 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/1 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/2 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/3 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/4 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/5 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/6 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/7 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/73/8 down 0 auto A 1 -
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Eth 1/81/1 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/2 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/3 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/4 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/5 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/6 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/7 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/81/8 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/1 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/2 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/3 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/4 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/5 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/6 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/7 down 0 auto A 1 -
Eth 1/82/8 down 0 auto A 1 -
Single-density QSFP28 interfaces
On the MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine module, a QSFP28 port group consists of one Ethernet 100G port. By default, QSFP28
port groups 13 and 14 (physical ports 41 and 42) operate in 1x100GE mode.
PowerEdge MX Ethernet I/O modules
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