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3 Standards-based NIC and FC-HBA management for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Introduction to iDRAC RESTful API and DMTF Redfish .............................................................................................. 6
3 Key benefits of DMTF Redfish ..................................................................................................................................... 7
3.1 Redfish 2016 NIC and FC-HBA management APIs ........................................................................................... 8
3.2 Inventorying PowerEdge NICs / FC-HBAs with Redfish 2016 ........................................................................... 8
3.3 Configuring network device properties by using Redfish 2016 ........................................................................ 13
3.4 Limitations when using Redfish 2016 standard network APIs for network configuration ................................. 18
4 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 19
5 Additional information ................................................................................................................................................. 20