The 57840s is only going to provide connectivity for the server it is installed in. The 57840s does support NIC partitioning. Here are some links that go into further details about the 57840 and M1000e interconnect. 57840: [URL] [URL] M1000e [URL] [URL] [URL] I don’t believe there is an option where you can map an internal port to a specific external port. However you can achieve this through the use of VLANs. If you set the internal server port for a specific VLAN, and the external port to the same VLAN, that server s only path outside of the switch will be the one port.  Example: MXL1(conf)#interface vlan 11  MXL1(conf-if-vl-11)#untagged tengigabitethernet 0/1  MXL1(conf-if-vl-11)#no shutdown  MXL1(conf-if-vl-11)#exit  Here is the MXL user guide and a sample initial config. [URL] [URL] Hope this helps
Hello, We have a M1000 Chassis  (2x  Force10 MXL 10/40 GbE DCB Switch for dual switch config + 2x Brocade M5424 FC8 Switch Redundant (FI) 12 Ports with 2x 8Gb SFPs) with 5xM620( 1x Broadcom 57840S 10Gb Quad Port and 1x Emulex LPE1205-M 8Gbps Fibre Channe)  My Question:  1) On the M620 Servers 1.1) Can the 4 port of the Broadcom 57840S  be actif on each M620 ? 1.2) Can this port be splitted in mutiple vNIC ?  1.3) Can some body point on a link that explain internal port maping between the Force10 swithc and the M620 Ethernet port (in case of the pNIC and vNIC if applicable)  2) On the Force10 MXL can we choose some internal port and instruct the switch to have the data go out from a specific External port ?     for the guys that are familiar with juniper the config done is that : vnic vnicgroup 1         vlan 10         enable         failover         member INTA1.1         member INTA2.1         member INTA3.1         member INTA4.1         port EXT1         exit ! vnic vnicgroup 2         vlan 11         enable         failover         member INTA1.2         member INTA2.2         member INTA3.2         member INTA4.2         port EXT2         exit    Thank you for your feedback, Kamal
Dell Force10 MXL & Broadcom 57840S 10Gb Quad Port