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Entering the iDRAC Settings utility
1. Turn on or restart the managed system.
2. Press <F2> during Power-on Self-test (POST).
3. In the System Setup Main Menu page, click iDRAC Settings.
The iDRAC Settings page is displayed.
Processor core licensing
There are three processor core configurations for each of the four node processors supported on your system:
• 2.4GHz 2 core
• 2.4GHz 4 core
• 2.4GHz 8 core
The default license is for the 2-core 2.4 GHz configuration. The core license for the 4-core and 8-core processor
configurations are available on factory shipped systems.
Depending on the processor core license on your system, the system BIOS displays the maximum number of cores per
processor on your system. For instance, if you have a license for an 8-core processor configuration, the system BIOS
displays the maximum cores per processor as 8.
Networking configurations
The LAN On Motherboard (LOM) network provides Ethernet connectivity from the I/O modules on the FX2 enclosure to
the sleds in the enclosure. The network traffic from the nodes in an FM120x4 sled to the I/O modules on the FX2
enclosure is routed through a network switch that is embedded on the sled system board. Each FM120x4 sled in the
enclosure maps to two ports on each I/O module. For more information, see the
Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FX2s Enclosure
Owner's Manual
at dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
There are three networking configurations supported on the FM120x4 system. You can select the network configuration
from the CMC web interface. All FM120x4 sleds in the FX2 enclosure have the same network configuration. For more
information on the networking configurations supported on your system, see dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
Standard configuration
In this configuration, the uplink ports from the embedded network switch on a sled and the four uplink ports on the
enclosure I/O modules to which the sled maps are configured in a single trunk group or Link Aggregation (LAG). The
ports on the external switches to which the enclosure I/O modules connect must be configured into a single trunk
configuration or LAG. Alternatively, spanning tree must be run on the external rack switches to disable three of the four
uplink ports.
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