Installing An I/O Expansion Option - Intel SBX44 - Server Compute Blade Installation And User Manual

11. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, go to "Completing the
installation" on page 41.

Installing an I/O expansion option

You can add an I/O expansion option to your blade server to give the blade two additional network
connections for communicating on a network.
Attention: When you add an I/O expansion option, you must make sure that the switch modules in
switch module bays 3 and 4 on the system chassis are for the same interface. For example, if you add
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the Intel Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBFCM option to your blade server, the modules in switch
module bays 3 and 4 on the system chassis must be Fiber Channel switches, such as the Intel
Switch Module SBCEFCSW, and all other I/O expansion options installed on other blade servers in
the system chassis must also be Fiber Channel interfaces.
The following illustration shows how to install an I/O expansion option on the blade server. The
option is installed near IDE connector 2.
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