Installing An I/O-Expansion Card - Intel SBXD62 - Server Compute Blade Installation And User Manual

Installing an I/O-expansion Card

If I/O-expansion is supported by the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE in which the
blade server is installed, you can add an I/O-expansion card to the blade server. I/O-
expansion cards give the blade server additional connections for communicating on a
network. Your blade server supports the installation of one I/O-expansion card of small-
form-factor or standard-form-factor design.
You can install a small-form-factor expansion card in addition to two SAS hard disk
drives.
The blade server supports a number of daughter cards, such as:
•
Gigabit Ethernet expansion card
•
Fibre Channel expansion card
When you add an I/O-expansion card, you must make sure that the I/O-modules it is
mapped to both support the expansion card network-interface type. These I/O-modules are
typically installed in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE.
For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server installed in a Intel®
Blade Server Chassis SBCE, the I/O-modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 must both be
compatible with the expansion card. All other expansion cards that are installed on other
blade servers in the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE 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 Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE.
To install a small-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps:
1. Read the safety information beginning on
Information"
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server
from the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE. See
an Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE" on page 17
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, non-conductive surface.
4. Open the cover (see
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBXD62 Installation and User's Guide
and "Installation Guidelines" on page
"Opening the Blade Server Cover" on page 18
page 65 in Appendix C, "Safety
15.
"Removing the Blade Server from
for instructions.
for instructions).
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