6.2 HP IBRIX 9000 Storage Network Best Practices Guide (TA768-96069, December 2012)

Physical description
Figure 13 IBRIX 9730 dedicated management network — physical view
The physical connection from the enclosure to the customer network is routed through either the
VC modules or the OA modules. Network traffic between the enclosure and the customer network
must traverse these modules to exit the enclosure. All other physical connections are routed internally
via the enclosure’s midplane. Network traffic between servers within an enclosure is routed through
the VC modules and does not count against the total external bandwidth availability. In Figure 13,
the SAS interconnect modules are combined into a single block to simplify the diagram. In the
actual IBRIX 9730 system, there are still four distinct SAS interconnects in bays 5, 6, 7, and 8.
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