Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node - R640 and R740 Xd PCI Slots, Integrated Nics and BMC Port Locations

Figure 1 R640 and R740xd PCI slots, integrated NICs and BMC port locations
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Data cables are connected to two switches for high availability, via the nodes' 10 GbE, 25 GbE, or 100 GbE ports.
Management interfaces are connected to a switch on a separate management network using onboard and iDRAC ports.
The iDRAC IP address can reside on a different subnet and/or VLAN, and the only requirement from the iDRAC side is
that the AMS (when used) must have a routable IP Path to the iDRAC IP address on the node.
The default configuration used in simple mode deployment follows the following rules of thumb:
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If there is a 1G NIC onboard, the left one of the pair is always used for the management network.
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If there are two PCI cards or more, the lowest slot number is used for allocation of data ports. For example, if
slots 2, 3 and 5 are populated with NICs, AMS uses slots 2 and 3, and the left port on each PCI card is used for
data.
Note:
You can always change the default using advanced deployment mode in AMS.
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If there is only one NIC, the left 10G onboard port is used for the data network.
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If there are only 2*25GbE onboard ports, the left port is used for both the management and data network, and
the right port for is used for data.
Note:
The application\client network will have to run on those same two ports.
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If there are only 4*10G onboard ports:
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The left port is used for management
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The left port, and the third port from the left are used for VxFlex OS data
Configuring network ports on Linux servers
VxFlex Ready Node Operating System Installation Guide for Linux 37