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SL
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Jun 29, 2016

Viprion Blade Management IP Addresses

I recently installed 2 additional blades into and existing Viprion Chassis.   My question is does each Blade need to have a management cable and IP Address assigned so that the guests that are con...
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SL
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Jun 30, 2016

Thanx All

 

Looks like I will need to cable all the Management ports, as whenever i migrate Guest to one of the Blades that does not have a cable I am unable to access the Guest.

 

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Dec 05, 2016

I have the same question. Why are blade specific addresses needed on the vCMP guests? You want them for the vCMP hosts for the rare times you may need to access a specific blade (e.g., for troubleshooting). But you can access a specific blade on a guest using vconsole; you don't need separate IP addresses for them. IPv4 addresses are becoming very precious...