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Installing an I/O-expansion Card, Blade Server Chassis SBCE

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Installing an I/O-expansion Card If I/O-expansion is supported by the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE in which the blade server is installed, you can add an I/O-expansion card to the blade server. I/Oexpansion cards give the blade server additional connections for communicating on a network. Your blade server supports the installation of one I/O-expansion card of smallform-factor or standard-form-factor design. You can install a small-form-factor expansion card in addition to two SAS hard disk drives. The blade server supports a number of daughter cards, such as: • Gigabit Ethernet expansion card • Fibre Channel expansion card When you add an I/O-expansion card, you must make sure that the I/O-modules it is mapped to both support the expansion card network-interface type. These I/O-modules are typically installed in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE. For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server installed in a Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE, the I/O-modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 must both be compatible with the expansion card. All other expansion cards that are installed on other blade servers in the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE must also be compatible with these I/O-modules. In this example, you could then install two Ethernet switch modules, two pass-thru modules, or one Ethernet switch module and one pass-thru module. Because pass-thru modules are compatible with a variety of I/O-expansion cards, installing two pass-thru modules would enable the use of several different types of compatible I/Oexpansion cards on blade servers within the same Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE. To install a small-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps: 1. Read the safety information beginning on page 65 in Appendix C, "Safety Information" and "Installation Guidelines" on page 15. 2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server from the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE. See "Removing the Blade Server from an Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE" on page 17 for instructions. 3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, non-conductive surface. 4. Open the cover (see "Opening the Blade Server Cover" on page 18 for instructions). Intel® Server Compute Blade SBXD62 Installation and User's Guide 27

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Intel® Server Compute Blade SBXD62 Installation and User’s Guide
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Installing an I/O-expansion Card
If I/O-expansion is supported by the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE in which the
blade server is installed, you can add an I/O-expansion card to the blade server. I/O-
expansion cards give the blade server additional connections for communicating on a
network. Your blade server supports the installation of one I/O-expansion card of
small-
form-factor or standard-form-factor design.
You can install a small-form-factor expansion card in addition to two SAS hard disk
drives.
The blade server supports a number of daughter cards, such as:
•
Gigabit Ethernet expansion card
•
Fibre Channel expansion card
When you add an I/O-expansion card, you must make sure that the I/O-modules it is
mapped to both support the expansion card network-interface type. These I/O-modules are
typically installed in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE.
For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server installed in a Intel®
Blade Server Chassis SBCE, the I/O-modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 must both be
compatible with the expansion card. All other expansion cards that are installed on other
blade servers in the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE must also be compatible with
these I/O-modules. In this example, you could then install two Ethernet switch modules,
two pass-thru modules, or one Ethernet switch module and one pass-thru module. Because
pass-thru modules are compatible with a variety of I/O-expansion cards, installing two
pass-thru modules would enable the use of several different types of compatible I/O-
expansion cards on blade servers within the same Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE.
To install a small-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps:
1.
Read the safety information beginning on
page 65 in Appendix C, “Safety
Information”
and
“Installation Guidelines” on page 15
.
2.
Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server
from the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE. See
“Removing the Blade Server from
an Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE” on page 17
for instructions.
3.
Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, non-conductive surface.
4.
Open the cover (see
“Opening the Blade Server Cover” on page 18
for instructions).