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Operating Manual
BX900S2
Functional overview
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Each pair of adjacent connection blade slots forms a so-called fabric. The
following table shows how you can fill the fabrics and which network
components of the server blades they are connected to:
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CAUTION!
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The downlink ports of connection blades DCB SW 10Gb and FEX
B22F 10Gb (Cisco) operate only at 10 Gb link speed.
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The two connection blades within a fabric must have the same
technology, i.e. either Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SAS or Infiniband.
System unit
Server blade
Connection blade slots
Fabric 1
CB1:
1Gb Ethernet or
CB2:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
Onboard LAN controller /
DCB SW 10Gb or
DCB SW 10Gb or
Onboard CNA controller
FEX B22F 10Gb
(Cisco)
FEX B22F 10Gb
(Cisco)
Fabric 2
CB3:
1Gb Ethernet or
CB4:
1Gb Ethernet or
Mezzanine card 1
10 Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
DCB SW 10Gb or
DCB SW 10Gb or
FEX B22F 10Gb
(Cisco) or
FEX B22F 10Gb
(Cisco) or
Fibre Channel or
Fibre Channel or
Infiniband (CB3/4)
Fabric 3
CB5:
1Gb Ethernet or
CB6:
1Gb Ethernet or
Mezzanine card 2
10 Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
DCB SW 10Gb or
DCB SW 10Gb or
FEX B22F 10Gb
(Cisco) or
FEX B22F 10Gb
(Cisco) or
Fibre Channel or
Fibre Channel or
SAS or
SAS or
Infiniband (CB5/6)
Fabric 4
CB7:
1Gb Ethernet or
CB8:
1Gb Ethernet or
Infiniband (CB7/8)
Table 1: Fitting rules for connection blade slots