IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Installation Manual page 23

BladeCenter unit
Blade server
Integrated Ethernet Controller
Integrated Ethernet Controller
I/O Expansion Card
Connection 1
Connection 2
Blade server
Integrated Ethernet Controller
Integrated Ethernet Controller
I/O Expansion Card
Connection 1
Connection 2
Blade server
Integrated Ethernet Controller
Integrated Ethernet Controller
I/O Expansion Card
Connection 1
Connection 2
Important: In a BladeCenter unit that supports four I/O modules, the I/O
modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the BladeCenter unit must both be of
the same type and must both support the I/O expansion card
network-interface type. For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to
a blade server, the modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the BladeCenter
unit must both be the same and of a type compatible with the Ethernet
expansion card. All other I/O expansion cards installed on other blade servers
in the BladeCenter unit must also be compatible with these I/O modules. In
this example, you could then install two Ethernet-switch modules or two
copper pass-thru modules. Copper pass-thru modules are compatible with
Ethernet expansion cards.
For additional information, see the Installation and User's Guide for your
BladeCenter unit on the IBM BladeCenter unit Documentation CD.
Chapter 2. Installing and removing a copper pass-thru module
I/O Module
Bay 1
I/O Module
Bay 2
I/O Module
Bay 3
I/O Module
Bay 4
Network
Infrastructure
Network
Infrastructure
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