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Chapter 2. Installing an expansion card
This chapter provides instructions for installing an expansion card in your blade
server or expansion unit. The following documents provide related information:
v The Installation and User's Guide for your blade server or expansion unit
v The Installation and User's Guide for your BladeCenter unit shows I/O-module
v The Installation and User's Guide for your I/O module has installation and
Installation guidelines
Before you install the expansion card, read the safety information and the
guidelines in "Handling static-sensitive devices" on page 7. This information will help
you work safely.
Make sure that you are using the latest versions of device drivers and firmware for
your blade server, management module, and I/O modules that are used by the
expansion card. Go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/ for the latest
information about upgrading the device drivers and firmware for BladeCenter
components. See the latest instructions in the documentation that comes with the
updates.
Before you install an expansion card into a blade server or expansion unit, consider
the following BladeCenter I/O-module information.
Notes:
1. If a blade server with an expansion card is installed in a BladeCenter H unit, I/O
2. If a blade server with an expansion card is installed in a BladeCenter S unit, I/O
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provides server-specific expansion-card installation requirements.
bay locations.
configuration instructions for the I/O module.
Table 2. Expansion-card connections to expansion-card ports
BladeCenter Unit
BladeCenter H
BladeCenter S
module bays 7, 8, 9, and 10 must either contain an Ethernet switch module or
be empty. Installing a second I/O module in the BladeCenter unit provides a
backup I/O module in case one I/O module fails.
module bay 2 must contain an Ethernet switch module or be empty.
I/O module bays
7 (upper left
interconnect-module bay)
8 (upper right
interconnect-module bay)
9 (lower left
interconnect-module bay)
10 (lower right
interconnect-module bay)
2 (lower left)
2 (lower left)
Expansion-card
ports
Module ports
1
Module 1: port 1,
MAC 1
2
Module 2: port 1,
MAC 3
3
Module 1: port 2,
MAC 2
4
Module 2: port 2,
MAC 4
1
Module 1: port 1,
MAC 1
3
Module 1: port 2,
MAC 2
5
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