Input/Output Connectors And Devices - IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 Type 8832 Installation And User Manual

Input/output connectors and devices

The input/output connectors that are available to the blade server are supplied by
the BladeCenter unit. See the documentation that comes with your BladeCenter unit
for information about the input/output connectors.
The blade server has two selection buttons on the control panel: the
CD/diskette/USB select button and the keyboard/mouse/video select button. See
"Controls and LEDs" on page 16 for information about these buttons and their
function.
The Ethernet controllers on your blade server communicate with the network
through the Ethernet-compatible switch modules on the BladeCenter unit. Network
signals to and from the blade server or any I/O expansion cards are automatically
routed to a same-network-interface switch module through circuitry in the
BladeCenter unit.
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