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You cannot mix LAN and IBP modules within a fabric.
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You can only assign profiles if no networks are defined for their ports.
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You can operate LAN models of different sizes within a fabric, although
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you cannot use all download links from the larger model.
4.1.1.2 Fibre Channel hardware configuration
You can only install the Fibre Channel switch blades in fabric 2. They can be
operated in two different modes:
in normal switch mode
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in Access Gateway mode
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As a result, different combination options are possible. The following table
shows you which configurations are possible and which are supported in fab-
ric 2:
Bay 3
Access Gateway mode Access Gateway mode
Standard switch mode Standard switch mode
Access Gateway mode
Standard switch mode
4.1.2 Configuring the BX600 management blade
The blade server must be fitted with one or two S3 management blades.
The management blade has two user-friendly user interfaces: a Web inter-
face and a Remote Manager interface per Telnet or SSH protocol (a con-
nection to the management blade is established per Telnet or SSH). You can
ServerView Virtual-IO Manager
4.1 Configurations on the managed BX600 Blade Server
You can force the assignment of a profile with network def-
initions by answering the subsequent query accordingly. In
doing so, however, the network definitions are ignored.
Bay 4
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Access Gateway mode
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Standard switch mode
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