Summary

In this chapter, we walked through some failure scenarios that are mostly related to connectivity issues or physical components, such as power supplies, FANS, or SFP failures. We looked at how to acquire information for troubleshooting and identify failed components or misconfiguration that results in a connectivity failure. We looked into the issues related to network connectivity with northbound port channels. We also looked into complete connectivity, from mezzanine adapters to IOM Backplane ports, to IOM Fabric Ports, to northbound Fabric Interconnect server ports. We also looked into Fiber Channel connectivity issues.

We then looked into a complete Fabric Interconnect or Blade Server chassis failure. We discovered that as there are ...

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