Step 1: Cable the rack servers and Lenovo XClarity Administrator host to the top-of-rack switches

Cable rack servers and XClarity Administrator host to the top-of-rack switches to enable communications between the devices and your networks.

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)
Illustrates a single data and management network in a KVM-based environment.