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Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Blade
The 2/2 Gbit Fibre Channel pass-thru blade, hereinafter referred to as FC pass-
thru blade, provides 10 ports for the bypass connection between FC daughter
boards (see manual for the relevant server blade type) and optical transceivers
for serial FC I/O and general-purpose I/O signals. The FC pass-thru blade
features 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel speed. It also provides LEDs for each FC port
to indicate the link status.
FC pass-thru blade
SFP module
Figure 64: Fibre Channel pass-thru blade
The PRIMERGY BX600 S2 basic unit can be fitted with one or two FC pass-thru
blades. The slots for these blades are on the back of the system unit (NET 3 and
NET4 in
figure 69 on page
117). If Fibre Channel functionality is to be available
for one or more server blades, at least one FC pass-thru blade or FC switch
blade must be installed. The assignment of the Fibre Channel channels is
described in
section "Port Assignment of the FC Pass-Thru Blades" on
page
117.
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PRIMERGY BX600 S2 Basic Unit
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