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BFC 3.5: Network Diagnostics at Install and Discovery

All data center administrators need reliable network information.

It is very time-consuming to detect unplugged cables and wrong network configurations.

For the Backbone Fabric Controller, the following might happen:

• A server installation fails due to a network problem
• A system is quarantined due to detected network problems during the discovery

The new automatic network analysis detects the following problems:

1. Check the NICs, VLANs connectivity to the BFC via external/backbone network
2. More than two NICs available but not all of them have been plugged in (in case of high-availability networks)
3. Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on the backbone network
4. NIC speed does not meet the required throughput of more than 1000 mbps

The information about the problem is clearly described in the document below. Network_Diagnostics.pdf