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By adding Fibre Channel expansion cards to the blade servers and Fibre Channel-compatible I/O
modules to the BladeCenter unit, you can attach the blade server to an external storage area
network (SAN) through the external 4 Gbps (Gigabits per second) or 8 Gbps optical ports on the I/O
modules. Depending on the system configuration, the adapter provides up to 8 Gbps or 16 Gbps of
full-duplex bandwidth per port.
Inventory checklist
Make sure that the shipping carton contains the following items:
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If any of these items are missing or damaged, contact your authorized reseller for replacement.
Related documentation
This Installation and User's Guide contains instructions for installing, removing, configuring, and
troubleshooting the adapter. This document also contains information about updating the firmware
and device drivers for the adapter. This document is included on the Documentation CD that comes
with the adapter.
In addition to this Installation and User's Guide, the following IBM documents are available to help
with the installation, configuration, and use of the other BladeCenter devices associated with the
installation of the adapter.
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Introduction
One Brocade 2-Port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter
IBM Important Notices document
IBM Warranty Information booklet
The Documentation CD, which contains the following documents:
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This Installation and User's Guide (this document)
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IBM Environmental Notices and User Guide
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IBM Warranty Information booklet
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IBM Safety Information document (multilingual)
IBM BladeCenter H Installation and User's Guide
This document includes the I/O-module bay locations in the BladeCenter H.
IBM BladeCenter blade server Installation and User's Guide
Each type of blade server has a customized Installation and User's Guide. This document
includes server-specific expansion card installation requirements.
IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide
This document provides instructions to install the blade server in the interconnect module. For
the latest version of this document, go to
for "BladeCenter Interoperability Guide."
The Installation Guide or Installation and User's Guide for the I/O module installed in your
BladeCenter
This document contains installation and configuration instructions for the I/O module.
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