Dell PowerEdge E02B Owner's Manual

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Depending on the processor core license on your system, the system BIOS displays the maximumnumber of cores per processor on your system. For instance, if you have a license for an 8-coreprocessor configuration, the system BIOS displays the maximum cores per processor as 8.Networking configurationsThe LAN On Motherboard (LOM) network provides Ethernet connectivity from the I/O modules on theFX2 enclosure to the sleds in the enclosure. The network traffic from the nodes in an FM120x4 sled to theI/O modules on the FX2 enclosure is routed through a network switch that is embedded on the sledsystem board. Each FM120x4 sled in the enclosure maps to two ports on each I/O module. For moreinformation, see the Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FX2s Enclosure Owner's Manual at Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.There are four networking configurations supported on the FM120x4 system. You can select the networkconfiguration from the CMC web interface. All FM120x4 sleds in the FX2 enclosure have the samenetwork configuration. For more information on the networking configurations supported on yoursystem, see Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.Standard configurationIn this configuration, the uplink ports from the embedded network switch on a sled and the four uplinkports on the enclosure I/O modules to which the sled maps are configured in a single trunk group or LinkAggregation (LAG). The ports on the external switches to which the enclosure I/O modules connect mustbe configured into a single trunk configuration or LAG. Alternatively, spanning tree must be run on theexternal rack switches to disable three of the four uplink ports.Figure 5. Standard configurationTable 5. Standard configuration icon descriptionIcon DescriptionNetwork pathSingle trunk configuration or LAG28