HP Integrity BL870c Server-Blade - Manual (Page 39)

Figure 21 Blade Link Domain Configuration Change Example (show devicebay command)
How profile connections are mapped
Profile connections can be divided into two categories, Ethernet (enet) connections and Fibre
Channel (FC) connections. These two connection categories do not use the same server ports and
are therefore mapped independently of each other. There are two different types of Ethernet
connections, Fibre-Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and regular Ethernet. FCoE connections are
mapped to the available CNA ports first; then the Ethernet connections are mapped to the remaining
CNA ports and other NICs. This mapping is done using the same algorithm that is currently used
for multi-blade servers.
nPar configuration changes
As stated earlier, profiles are actually assigned to the device bays not the servers. A partition
contains exactly one monarch blade. In the case of a multi-blade nPar the other blades are referred
to as auxiliary blades (just like with multi-blade servers). The monarch blade in an nPar is always
the lowest numbered bay in the nPar. It is also the blade represented by the first of the repeated
letters in the nPar. When a profile is assigned to an nPar, it actually gets assigned to the monarch
bay of the nPar. The descriptions of the blades in each nPar for a BL890c i4 are:
Table 7
Blade Description nPar
The blade in bay 1 is the monarch blade and the blades in bays 2, 3, and 4 are the auxiliary
blades. AAAA
The blades in bays 1 and 3 are the monarch blades and the blades in bays 2 and 4 are the
auxiliary blades. AACC
The blades in bays 1, 2 and 3 are the monarch blades and the blade in bay 4 is an auxiliary
blade. ABCC
The blades in bays 1, 3 and 4 are the monarch blades and the blade in bay 2 is an auxiliary
blade. AACD
All blades are monarch blades. ABCD
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