Step 1: Cable rack servers to the top-of-rack switches

Cable rack servers to the same top-of-rack switch to enable communications between the devices.

Procedure

Cable each rack server to both top-of-rack switches. You can choose any ports in that top-of-rack switch.

The following figure is an example that illustrates cabling from the rack servers to the top-of-rack switches when Lenovo XClarity Administrator is installed on a server that will be managed by Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

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 a virtually separate data and management networks.
Figure 1. Example cabling for virtually separate data and management networks
Illustrates a single data and management network in a KVM-based environment.