IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switches
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Supported chassis and adapter cards
The switches are installed in switch bays in the rear of the IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis, as shown
in Figure 2. Switches are normally installed in pairs since I/O adapter cards installed in the compute
nodes route to two switch bays for redundancy and performance.
Figure 2. Location of the switch bays in the IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis
The connections between the 2-port adapters that are installed in the compute nodes and the switch bays
in the chassis are shown in Figure 3. Figure 3 shows both half-wide servers, such as the x240 with two
adapters, and full-wide servers, such as the x440 with four adapters.
Figure 3. Logical layout of the interconnects between the 2-port FC adapters and I/O modules