Mellanox Technologies BX4000 Series Quick Start Manual

Overview
Mellanox BX4000 series is a 1U, top-of-rack gateway that provides I/O consolidation on both InfiniBand
and Ethernet. The product supports 10/20/40Gb/S InfiniBand to 1/10Gigabit Ethernet and 2/4/8G Fibre
Channel.
The BX4000 series, a top of the rack gateway, provides LAN and SAN connection to the InfiniBand and 10
Gigabit Ethernet based networks.
The uplink and downlink ports are separated into gateway port groups. Specific uplink ports are assigned
corresponding downlink ports. Each gateway port group is assigned a color to easily associate the uplink
ports to the corresponding downlink ports of the gateway port group.
A10 A12 B13 B11
FC
A1
EN
A11 A13 B12 B10 FC
B1
EN
The Port Numbering Table shows the uplink and downlink ports by color, alpha-numeric id identifying the
IB uplink ports.
Table 1 - MTB 4010B Port Numbering
Gateway BridgeX
Port Group Controller
by Color Number
White
Orange
A20 and B20 are InfiniBand ports.
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Document Number
3054
BX4000 Series Quick Start Guide
Figure 1: MTB 4010 Gateway Port Groups Distinguished by Color
B20 A20
I2C IOIO
I2C RS232 1 GigE
Gateway Port Group A – BridgeX controller 1 – White
Gateway Port Group B – BridgeX controller 1 – Orange
Uplink Corresponding Downlink
Ports
1 A20 A10 A11 A12 A13
1 B20 B10 B11 B12

Quick Start Guide

Sys
Fan
PSU 1
PSU 2
Corresponding Downlink
FC Ports Ethernet Ports
A10 A11 A12
B13 B10 B11 B12
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®
BX4010
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