Installing An I/O-Expansion Card - IBM HS21 - BladeCenter - 8853 User Manual

10. If you removed a small-form-factor expansion card or a high-speed expansion
If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, go to
"Completing the installation" on page 34.

Installing an I/O-expansion card

The following sections describe how to install an I/O expansion card in the blade
server. The illustrations show installation of the I/O expansion cards in the system
board: installing the cards in an expansion unit is similar.
If the BladeCenter unit supports I/O expansion, you can add an I/O expansion card
to the blade server. An I/O expansion card provides additional connections for
communicating on a network.
The blade server supports various types of I/O expansion cards. See
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/ for a list of available
I/O expansion cards and their form-factor types. The following notes describe
information that you must consider when installing I/O-expansion modules:
v Some expansion cards are available as both small-form-factor cards and
v The system board supports one I/O expansion card. The supported cards are the
v If two hard disk drives are installed in the blade server, you can install only a
v If an expansion unit is installed, you cannot install a high-speed expansion card
v Small-form-factor and standard-form-factor expansion cards are not supported in
Make sure that the BladeCenter unit and the I/O modules to which the I/O
expansion card is mapped support the network-interface type of the I/O expansion
card. For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server in a
Type 8677 BladeCenter unit, the I/O-modules in I/O module bays 3 and 4 on the
BladeCenter unit must both be compatible with the expansion card. All other
expansion cards that are installed in other blade servers in the BladeCenter unit
must also be compatible with these I/O modules. In this example, you can then
install two Ethernet switch modules, two pass-thru modules, or one Ethernet switch
module and one pass-thru module. Because pass-thru modules are compatible with
a variety of I/O expansion cards, installing two pass-thru modules would enable the
use of several different types of compatible I/O expansion cards in blade servers
within the same BladeCenter unit.
card in step 6, reinstall it (see "Installing an I/O-expansion card").
standard-form-factor cards. Other expansion cards are available only as
standard-form-factor or high-speed cards.
small-form-factor card, the standard-form-factor card, or the high-speed card.
small-form-factor expansion card or a high-speed expansion card. If only one
drive is installed in the blade server, you can install any type of expansion card.
in the blade server; however, some expansion units do support installation of
additional I/O expansion cards. See the documentation for your expansion unit
for information.
the Blade Storage Expansion Unit 3, when a Memory and I/O Expansion Blade is
installed.
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