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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.