Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node - Vxflex Ready Node R840 Linux Server Port Designations

The default configuration used in simple mode deployment follows the following rules of thumb:
l
If there is a 1G NIC onboard, the left one of the pair is always used for the management network.
l
If there is only one NIC, the left 10G onboard port is used for the data network.
l
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 must run on these same two ports.
l
If there are only 4*10G onboard ports:
n
The left port is used for management
n
The left port, and the third port from the left are used for VxFlex OS data
n
The second port from the left, and the right port are used for application\client traffic
VxFlex Ready Node R840 Linux server port designations
For single-node VxFlex Ready Node servers running a Linux distribution, connect the cables, and configure the ports as
shown in the configuration tables according to the server type.
The following additional information should be taken into account:
l
The logical bus address is dynamic and will be allocated by the operating system. Use the slot name to correlate
to between the bus address and port name of the interface in the operating system.
l
In storage-only configurations, the customer ports can be used as additional data ports.
Table 15
R840 server configuration for 2x10GbE+2GbE rNDC, 2x10/25GbE PCIe slot 3, 2x10/25GbE PCIe slot 5
Description iDRAC
Monitoring
VxFlex OS
Data1
VxFlex OS
Client Network
Port1
VxFlex OS
Client Network
Port2
VxFlex OS
Data2
VxFlex OS
Management
Network
Not in
Use
Interface name
(RHEL 7)
N/A p3p1 p3p2 p5p2 p5p1 em3 em1,2,4
Interface name
(SLES)
N/A p3p1 p3p2 p5p2 p5p1 em3 emXX
Slot name N/A PCIe Slot3
Port 1
PCIe Slot3 Port
2
PCIe Slot5 Port
2
PCIe Slot5
Port 1
Integrated NIC 3 Integrated
NIC 1,2,4
Logical bus
address
N/A 33:00.0 33:00.1 5b:00.1 5b:00.0 01:00.1 01:00.X
Physical port on
node
iDRAC PCIe
10/25 GbE
Bottom
PCIe 10/25 GbE
Top
PCIe 10/25 GbE
Right
PCI 10/25
GbE Left
Onboard 1 GbE
Left
Onboard
Speed 1GbE 10/25 GbE 10/25 GbE 10/25 GbE 10/25 GbE 1 GbE 1 GbE
Physical Switch Mgmt Switch Data
Switch1
Data Switch1 Data Switch2 Data
Switch2
Mgmt Switch Not in use
Note: Two or more PCIe slot-based NICs are supported.
Configuring network ports on Linux servers
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