Chapter 1. The Netxen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card - IBM NetXen 10Gb2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card Installation Manual

Chapter 1. The NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion
Card
This Installation Guide contains instructions for and information about:
v Installing the NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card for IBM
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BladeCenter
v Updating the firmware and device drivers of the NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port
Ethernet Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter
v Solving problems with the NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card for
IBM BladeCenter
For installation details, see Chapter 2, "Installing an expansion card," on page
7. For additional information about Ethernet expansion cards and other
BladeCenter components, see the BladeCenter documentation that comes with
these devices.
To support each Nortel 10 Gb high-speed switch module (HSSM) that you
install in the BladeCenter unit, you must also install a compatible, high-speed
NetXen 10 Gb Ethernet expansion card in each blade server that you want to
communicate with the HSSM. In this environment, the expansion card operates
as a host channel adapter (HCA).
The NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter is an
Ethernet device. Communication signals are routed from the blade server
through the high-speed connector on the I/O expansion card to I/O-module
bays 7 and 9 in the BladeCenter unit. For the location of the blade server bays
and to determine whether your blade server supports HSSMs, see the
documentation that comes with the blade server. I/O-module bays 7 and 9 in
the BladeCenter unit support HSSMs, such as the Nortel 10 Gb Ethernet Switch
Module for IBM BladeCenter.
The following illustration shows an example of a BladeCenter unit with the
I/O-module bays identified. In this BladeCenter unit, these bays are in the rear
of the BladeCenter chassis. In a different BladeCenter unit, these bays might be
in a different location.
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