Bull NovaScale Blade BL265, Installation And User Manual

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Chapter 3. Installing Options
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3.10 I/O-expansion cards
The following sections describe how to install an I/O expansion card in the blade server.
The blade server has two I/O expansion connectors on the system board. One connector
supports horizontal combination-form-factor (CFFh) expansion cards and the other
connector supports vertical-combination-I/O (CIOv) expansion cards.
Make sure that the Blade Chassis and the I/O modules to which the I/O expansion card is
mapped support the network-interface type of the I/O expansion card. For example, if you
add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server, the I/O modules in I/O-module bays 3
and 4 on the Blade Chassis unit must both be compatible with the expansion card. All
other expansion cards that are installed in other blade servers in the Blade Chassis must
also be compatible with these I/O modules. In this example, you can 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 in blade servers within the same Blade Chassis.
3.10.1 Installing a horizontal-compact-form-factor expansion card
Note The horizontal combination-form-factor expansion cards are supported in Bull Blade
Chassis-Enterprise only.
Use these instructions to install a compact-form-factor expansion card in the blade server.
The blade server supports a horizontal-combination-form-factor (CFFh) expansion card. The
following illustration shows how to install a CFFh expansion card.
Figure 3-11. Installing a CFFh expansion card