** I answered my own question. It seems there are 16 internal nics on the 8024-k and there are NDC (network daughter cards) on the blade servers that work internally to get use those 32 'nics'. Then the 8 external ports are used as trunks to the storage subsystem.
New to this company and new to this chassis in general. We are using Dell 8024-k switches (2) in a
M1000E blade enclosure. The switches have a single module with 4 10GbE ports (making it 8 10GbE ports in total). When logging into the switch console, it appears as a 20 port switch on each switch (16 ports + 4 additional sfp ports)? Another observation is that in our virtual environment, these 2 switches are dedicated to our storage network and appear as 32 ports in total for that networking, 16 blades/hosts making it 32 nics - all @ 10Gb and active). I am just confused how this is configured since I there are only 4 10GbE ports per switch. Is there some virtual port configuration for the switch?
A bunch of searching as pulled up nothing on the matter and scouring the configuration menus didn't shed any light on the matter either.