Input/Output Connectors And Devices - IBM HS40 - BladeCenter - 8839 Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

might need to upgrade the operating system to support SMP. For more information,
see IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS40 Type 8839 Installation and User's Guide and
your operating-system documentation.

Input/output connectors and devices

The input/output connectors that are available to your 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 8 for information about these buttons and their
functions.
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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