Dell Powerconnect 6248 1gb and 10gb "redundant" Links

Hello,I have two powerconnect 6248 switches on separate floors that are currently linked with a 1gb fiber. This environment was setup prior to me joining this team.We have noticed that we are saturating the 1gb line and need to go to a 10gb link. The building is already cabled with a 10gb aqua fiber bundle that runs about 220 meters, and we have purchased the appropriate sfp+ modules and fiber patch cables.We need to make this switch with little to no downtime and the proposed solution by the prior sysadmin was to connect the 10gb link and leave the 1gb link as failover.To give a little background on the switch environment, there are 4 vlans including the default vlan 1 and all vlans are tagged on the ports for the 1gb link. STP is enabled on both switches.So I disabled the sfp+ ports, plugged the fiber cables in, and set the ports to...
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Hi Ross,
The only rack servers which we support to be connected to the UCS FI are the C series servers. One of the reasons being they running the CIMC which the UCSM uses to manage and configure the rack server (almost like the way we do with our blades).
./Abhinav

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https://community.emc.com/message/841141#841141
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https://community.emc.com/message/837419 might also be useful.
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http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/tolly_pwcnt6200_test.pdf
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