Installing An I/O-Expansion Card - Intel SBXD132 - Server Compute Blade Installation And User Manual

Installing an I/O-expansion Card

If I/O-expansion is supported by the SBCE unit in which the blade server is installed, 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
support.intel.com/support/
types.
Make sure that the SBCE 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 installed in a SBCE unit, the I/O-modules
in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the SBCE unit must both be compatible with the expansion
card. All other expansion cards that are installed on other blade servers in the SBCE unit
must also be compatible with these I/O-modules. In this example, you could 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 on blade servers within the same SBCE
unit.
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.
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for a list of available I/O expansion cards and their form-factor
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