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Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
BX900
S2
Connection blades
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Connection blade fitting rules
Figure 20: Connection blade slots
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:
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)
Table 6: Fitting rules for connection blade slots
CB1
CB3
CB5
CB7
CB2
CB4
CB6
CB8
Fabric 1
Fabric 2
Fabric 3
Fabric 4