There are two types of switches: managed and unmanaged. Read more at: https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/answer/What-is-the-difference-between-a-managed-and-unmanaged-switch

We are going to work with the Mellanox SB 7800 Switch: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/infiniband/sb7800/ - It is a managed switch

July 14th

• The switch on rack 10 is NOT going to connected to the network because it is an unmanaged switch. So I have to crash cart the switch and see what I can do
• Tried crash carting the switch but I get a blank screen. Hmmm…

This is different from the other switches….

• Blocked for now

Enter Will. Bim bam boom!

Connected the switch to the network using a ethernet cable, assigned it an IP address on GTIpam, gave it a name.

Configured the switch with just 3-4 commands (desc for name, something that

Able to ping!