HP Virtual Connect for c-Class BladeSystem Version 3.00 Setup and Installation Guide for HP Integrity BL8x0c i2 Series Server Blades, Fifth Edition

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Remove the transceiver. (SFP transceiver shown).

4. Install dust plugs on the fiber-optic transceiver and rubber plugs on the fiber-optic cable.

CAUTION: Be sure to install the dust plugs on the fiber-optic transceiver and the rubber plugs

on the fiber-optic cable. The plugs and caps protect the transceiver ports and cables from

contamination and ambient light.

Recommended stacking connections

Stacking links are used to interconnect Virtual Connect Ethernet modules when more than two Virtual

Connect Ethernet modules are installed in a single enclosure. This feature enables all Ethernet network

controllers on all servers in the Virtual Connect domain to have access to any for HP Integrity BL8x0c i2

Series Server Blades uplink port. By using these module-to-module links, a single pair of uplinks can

function as the data center network connections for the entire Virtual Connect domain. Stacking enables

any server NIC physically connected to a VC module to be connected to any Ethernet network.

Each interconnect module has several numbered Ethernet connectors. All of these connectors can be used

to connect to data center switches or they can be used to stack Virtual Connect modules and enclosures.

Virtual Connect automatically detects when one for HP Integrity BL8x0c i2 Series Server Blades port is

connected to another for HP Integrity BL8x0c i2 Series Server Blades port within the domain and turns the

port ID indicator amber.

All for HP Integrity BL8x0c i2 Series Server Bladess within the Virtual Connect Domain must be

interconnected. Any combination of 1-Gb and 10-Gb cables can be used to interconnect the for HP

Integrity BL8x0c i2 Series Server Bladess. However, the following illustration provides recommended

configurations for two, four, six, or eight for HP Integrity BL8x0c i2 Series Server Bladess. A 10-Gb

stacking link is already provided on the enclosure midplane for horizontally adjacent for HP Integrity

BL8x0c i2 Series Server Bladess (bays 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, or 7 and 8 of the c7000 enclosure, or

bays 1 and 2, or 3 and 4 of the c3000 enclosure).

NOTE: Port X0 is the 10Gb port connected through the midplane of horizontally-adjacent VC-

Enet modules. Port X7 and x8 connect to the internal link between horizontally-adjacent Flex-

10 enabled VC-Enet modules. These ports appear in the list of stacking link connections within

the user interface.