Procedure
Cable each rack server, and the XClarity Administrator host to both top-of-rack switches. You can choose any
ports in the top-of-rack switches.
The following figure
is an example that illustrates cabling from the rack servers and XClarity Administrator host to the top-of-rack switches.
Note: This figure does not depict all cabling options that might be required
for your environment,. Instead, this figure shows only the cabling-option
requirements as they relate to setting up physically separate data
and management networks.
Tip: Instead of setting up two physical
switches that are connected to each network for redundancy (for a
total of four switches), you can set up a single physical switch that
is connected to each network (for a total of two switches). In that
case, each switch would be connected to both networks, and you would
implement two VLANs: one for the data network and one for the management
network, to segregate data traffic.
Figure 1. Example cabling for physically separate data and management
networks (VMware ESXi)