Chapter 1 Overview; Bx600 Blade Server - PRIMERGY BX620 S3 User Manual

Chapter 1 Overview

1.1 BX600 Blade Server

This blade server has the following features.
■ High Performance / High Integration
PRIMERGY BX600 is a blade server that consists of a chassis and multiple blades.
It is a sophisticated high-performance blade server that enables you to efficiently install a server blade,
monitoring device, LAN switching hub, power supply unit, fan, fibre channels, and so on in a 7U
(height: approx. 31 cm) chassis due to its high-performance and highly-integrated design.
The blade server consists of the following components:
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Chassis (or Case)
The following blades can be installed on the 7U-size chassis:
• Server blades (BX620 S3 Server Blade: Max.10)
• Network blade (external connection device) (Max.4. Fibre Channel switch blade and FC Pass-Thru
Blade: Max.2)
• Management Blade (Monitoring device) (2 installed as standard)
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BX620 S3 Server Blade
This server blade contains a CPU, memory, and a hard disk in the unit (42 × 476 × 286mm).
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Network Blade
This is an option that can be connected to LAN port and Fibre Channel devices.
Refer to the manual provided with each network blade for details about network blades that are not
described in this manual.
• Switch Blade
This is a LAN switching hub that supports a Gigabit LAN.
• Fibre Channel Switch Blade
This is a switch blade that enables fibre channel connection. The switch blade supports a Brocade
Fabric Operating System (Fabric OS) and is compatible with all SilkWorm products.
• GbE Pass-Thru Blade
The GbE Pass-Thru Blade is used to connect the internal LAN ports (including a LAN Expansion
Board) in a server blade to the external LAN ports at a ratio of 1:1.
• FC Pass-Thru Blade
This blade supports fibre channel output, which is used to connect the fibre channel equipment, on a
server blade basis through the Fibre Channel Expansion Board installed in the server blade.
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