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• Connect the 10 GbE NIC ports to different 10 GbE switches.
• Use VLANs on each switch according to the network separation rules specified in the
HPE OmniStack for
vSphere Client Administrator Guide
.
Switch-connected network configuration
The switch-connected network configuration for a federation with two HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen10 chassis (each
with multiple servers) uses redundant connections to 10 GbE switches for the HPE OmniStack Storage and
Federation networks. It uses redundant 1 GbE connections to 1 GbE switches for the Management network.
The following figure shows a sample configuration in which only server 3 in a 3-server chassis is connected for
ease of viewing. Servers 1, 2, and 4, if installed, should also be connected using the same configuration strategy.
