The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) allows you to monitor server physical health characteristics, such as temperature, voltage, fans, power supplies, and chassis intrusion. These monitoring capabilities provide information that enables system management, recovery and asset tracking.
If an adapter is TCO-enabled and connected to a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), you can add it to any type of iANS team. However, if you add it to a Static Link Aggregation (SLA) or an IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation Team the system management capabilities will be non-functional. This is due to load balancing requirements within a team and the fact that manageability traffic is restricted to a single port on a specific adapter. Also, if the adapter is connected to a BMC device that does not use a dedicated MAC address, Receive Load balancing and Adaptive Load Balancing teams will lose manageability traffic like SLA and Dynamic Link Aggregation Teams mentioned above.
If you are using an 82541 or 82547-based network connection and plan to configure a VLAN dedicated to IPMI manageability traffic, you must configure the IPMI-enabled port of the system and the BMC to use the same VLAN ID. If the port will pass only non-manageability traffic, you do not need to configure a VLAN on the BMC.
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