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RXE-100 Expansion Enclosure
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1.6 RXE-100 Expansion Enclosure The attachment of an RXE-100 Remote Expansion Enclosure is also supported. These are supported in a number of configurations with some configurations offering redundancy. The RXE-100 is connected to the x455 via one or two remote I/O cables and has a throughput of 1 GBps. It is available as standard with six PCI-X slots available but is upgradable to 12 PCI-X slots, giving you up to a total of 12 PCI-X or 18 PCI-X slots, respectively. In a multinode configuration an RXE-100 can be shared by two machines. This allows a total of one RXE-100 in a 2-node partition and two RXE-100s in a 4-node partition. For systems configured for RXE failover, one of the RXE Expansion Port connections may fail at either runtime or boot time and the system will continue to operate properly. Failover capability requires the RXE-100 to be configured with 12 slots, be configured in unified (that is, non-shared) mode, and have both RXE Expansion Ports connected. Runtime failures will be logged in the System Error Log. The broken connection is not re-established at runtime. A Reboot is required to recover failover capability. An RXE-100 connection also requires the connection of the RXE management port(s). There is no failover capability for RXE management port connections. Important: Although other combinations of attaching RXE-100s in a multinode partition will work, they are not supported configurations. The following connectivity options are supported: Connecting one 6-slot RXE to one x455 Connecting one 12-slot RXE to one x455 using one or (recommended) two data cables Sharing one 12-slot RXE between two independent x455s Connecting one RXE to a two-node x455, configured so as to share the slots between the nodes Connecting one RXE to a 4-node x455 (one RXE connected to two of the nodes, either nodes 1 and 2, or nodes 3 and 4) Connecting two RXEs to a 4-node x455 (one RXE connected to two of the nodes), configured so as to share the slots between nodes 1 and 2, and between nodes 3 and 4 See "Remote Expansion Enclosure connectivity" on page 70 for details. Chapter 1. Technical description 21
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