Features And Specifications - IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Installation Manual

– How to install options in your blade server
– How to configure your blade server
– How to install an operating system on your blade server
– How to perform basic troubleshooting of your blade server
– How to get help
v Safety Information
This document is in PDF on the IBM BladeCenter unit or option
Documentation CD. It contains translated caution and danger statements.
Each caution and danger statement that appears in the documentation has a
number that you can use to locate the corresponding statement in your
language in the Safety Information book.
v Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guides
These documents are in PDF on the IBM BladeCenter unit Documentation
CD. They contain information to help you solve problems yourself, and they
contain information for service technicians.
Depending on your blade server model, additional documents might be
included on the IBM BladeCenter unit Documentation CD.

Features and specifications

This section provides a summary of the features and specifications for the
copper pass-thru module.
The features include:
v Ports
– Three external copper ports for making connections to network
infrastructure. Each port provides connections for up to five bi-directional
copper channels.
– Fourteen internal bi-directional ports, connected through the copper
pass-thru cables to each of the blade servers
v Status and error LEDs
Information LEDs on the front panel indicate I/O module port status and
errors.
v Cables:
– Up to three copper pass-thru module cables can be connected to the
copper pass-thru module. One copper pass-thru module cable is
provided.
– The copper pass-thru module cables are terminated with
industry-standard bi-directional connectors.
Chapter 1. Introducing the IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module
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