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Major components of the blade appliance
Use this information to locate the major components on the blade appliance.
The following illustration shows the major components of the blade appliance.
Input/output connectors and devices
The input/output connectors that are available to the blade appliance are supplied
by the BladeCenter unit. See the documentation that comes with the BladeCenter
unit for information about the input/output connectors.
The blade appliance has two selection buttons on the control panel: the media tray
select button and the keyboard/video/mouse select button. See "Blade appliance
controls and LEDs" on page 9 for information about these buttons and their
functions.
The Ethernet controllers on the blade appliance communicate with the network
through the Ethernet-compatible I/O modules in the BladeCenter unit. Network
signals to and from the blade appliance or any expansion cards are automatically
routed to a same-network-interface I/O module through circuitry in the
BladeCenter unit.
Expansion unit
Hot-swap
storage drive
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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