The OOB interface is connected to the chassis management controller through the chassis mid-plane. Traffic on this port is segregated from operational network traffic on the switch ports and cannot be switched or routed to the operational network.
I'm sorry if this question belongs in another section but as it relates to the functionality of these switches I thought I'd start here.  My question is, does the M6220 and 8024-K out-of-band connection go through the onboard connections (say port 18 for example) or through the M1000e's CMC connection? The reason for this question. We recently vlaned our network and the CMC modules are on VLAN 8 (10.100.8.0  255.255.248.0) and our switches' management is supposed to be on VLAN 1 (10.100.1.0 255.255.255.0) . I'm unable to ping the assigned IP addresses (IE 10.100.1.15) but our CMC modules are fully accessible (IE10.100.9.120). Our blades are fully accessible and can access all VLANs needed on them (they're ESX hosts). Lastly I'm sorry if not all the information needed has been provided, I'm not so much a networking guru.  Thoughts?  Thanks for all your help
Question about Powerconnect M6220 and 8024-K out-of-band/management connection