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v BladeCenter T Types 8720 and 8730 Installation and User's Guide
This document contains instructions for setting up and configuring the
BladeCenter T unit and basic instructions for installing some options. It also
contains general information about the BladeCenter T unit.
v BladeCenter Type 8677 Rack Installation Instructions
This document contains the instructions for installing your BladeCenter unit
in a rack.
v BladeCenter T rack installation instructions
These documents contain instructions for installing the BladeCenter T unit in
4-post, universal telco frame (UTF), and 2-post racks.
v Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guides
These documents contain information to help you solve problems yourself,
and they contain information for service technicians.
v BladeCenter blade server Installation and User's Guides
Each type of blade server has a customized Installation and User's Guide.
These documents provide general information about your blade server.
v Safety Information
This document 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 document.
Depending on your blade server model, additional documents might be
included on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD or the IBM BladeCenter T
Documentation CD.
In addition to reviewing the documents in this library, be sure to review the
IBM BladeCenter Planning and Installation Guide or the IBM BladeCenter T
Planning and Installation Guide at http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ for
information to help you prepare for system installation and configuration.
Features and specifications
The Intel Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card has the following features:
v Connection to 1000BASE-TX environments
v Serialiser/Deserialiser (SerDes) interface to the backplane
v Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions standards
v Specialized connector for supporting PCI-X 64-bit/133-Mhz signaling
v Full-duplex (FDX) capability, enabling simultaneous transmission and
reception of data on the Ethernet local area network (LAN)
v Wake on LAN
v Failover support
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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