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FC Pass-Thru Blade
11.3
Port Assignment of the FC Pass-Thru
Blades
FC pass-thru blades can be installed in slots NET3 and NET4 on the rear of the
base unit. The FC pass-thru blade in slot 1 provides a bypass connection
between channel A of the installed fibre channel daughter cards and the corre-
sponding optical transceivers. The FC pass-thru blade in slot 2 provides a
connection to channel B of the installed fibre channel daughter cards.
NET4
Figure 69: Slot numbering for the Fibre Channel pass-thru blades
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CAUTION
FC pass-thru blades must always be installed in slot NET3 first. This
ensures that port A of the FC daughter cards is connected if
redundant fibre channel connections are not used.
If Gigabit Ethernet daughter cards are installed in the server blades,
LAN switch blades (see
page
99) must be installed in slots NET3 and NET4.
Asynchronous balanced mode of Ethernet blades and fibre channel
blades in slots NET3 and NET4 is not permitted.
PRIMERGY BX600 S2 Basic Unit
page
81) or Ethernet pass-thru blades (see
FC Port Assignment
NET3
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