UCS B-Series servers

Can B-series sever ping each other within the UCS chassis without ethernet uplink? Please advice.
Thanks

Hi Kaivon,
1) The chassis has to be connected to a FI,
2) In the service profile you will have to make sure the traffic is send to the same fabric / FI
3) In the default behaviour it won't, however you can change the Network Control policy to make this work.
LAN Tab -> Network Control policy -> Create a new policy -> Action on uplink fail -> change it to Warning -> in the service profile on the vnic specify this new policy.
However for a production environment we recommen not to change the link policy to warning and leave it at link down to avoid any failover issues etc.
./abhinav

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