Cabling Enterprise Partition Platforms to Your Network

For nonpartitionable enterprise partition platforms (EPPs), connect any of the NIC ports to your network and any of the fibre channel HBA ports to your storage subsystem.

For a partitionable EPP,

  1. Using the Fabric Manager user interface, view the partition summary of a particular partition on the partitionable EPP.

  2. Click View Port Info to display a logical diagram of the NIC and HBA ports allocated to the partition.

  3. Identify the physical location of the ports, and then connect the ports appropriately to your network.

    Note: If multiple ports are allocated to your partition, be sure to cable all described ports to your network.

Figure 1. Example of Physical Location of Ports for 2-Socket Enterprise Partition Platform with 3 NICs and 2 Fibre Channel HBAs

Example of Physical Location of Ports for 2-Socket Enterprise Partition Platform with 3 NICs and 2 Fibre Channel HBAs