Installing An I/O-Expansion Card - IBM LS42 - BladeCenter - 7902 Installation And User Manual

Installing an I/O-expansion card

If I/O expansion is supported by the BladeCenter 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 single-width type of blade server supports one I/O-expansion card of the
small-form-factor, standard-form-factor, or high-speed design. The double-width type
of blade server supports one additional I/O-expansion card of the small-form-factor,
standard-form-factor, combination-form-factor, or high-speed design. Some
expansion cards are available as both small-form-factor cards and
standard-form-factor cards. Other expansion cards are available only as
standard-form-factor or high-speed cards. The blade server supports various types
of I/O-expansion cards. See http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/
compat/us/ for a list of available I/O-expansion cards and their form-factor types.
Note: Some BladeCenter units do not support high-speed expansion cards, see the
documentation for your BladeCenter unit for compatibility information.
You can install one expansion card in the system board of a BladeCenter LS22
Type 7901 or LS42 Type 7902 blade server. Make sure that the I/O modules to
which the I/O-expansion card is mapped support the network-interface type of the
I/O-expansion card. In a blade server with an MPE installed, you can install an
additional small-form-factor card, standard-form-factor, combination-form-factor, or
high-speed expansion card. If the blade server has an MPE installed, a high-speed
expansion card can be installed only in the MPE unit.
See http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/ for a list of
available I/O-expansion cards and their form-factor types.
When you add an I/O-expansion card, you must make sure that the I/O modules to
which it is mapped 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 BladeCenter
unit. For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server that is
installed in a Type 8677 BladeCenter unit, the I/O modules in I/O-module bays 3
and 4 of the BladeCenter unit must both be compatible with the expansion card. All
other expansion cards that are installed on other blade servers in the BladeCenter
unit must also be compatible with these I/O modules. In this example, you can 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 BladeCenter unit.
The following expansion cards are supported by your blade server:
v High-speed expansion card (HSDC)
v Standard-form-factor expansion card
v Small-form-factor expansion card (SFF)
v Horizontal combination-form-factor expansion card (CFFh)
v Vertical combination-form-factor expansion card (CFFv)
v Concurrent KVM card (cKVM)
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