IBM HS40 - BladeCenter - 8839, Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

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might need to upgrade the operating system to support SMP. For more information,
see IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter HS40 Type 8839 Installation and User’s Guide and
your operating-system documentation.
Input/output connectors and devices
The input/output connectors that are available to your blade server are supplied by
the BladeCenter unit. See the documentation that comes with your BladeCenter unit
for information about the input/output connectors.
The blade server has two selection buttons on the control panel: the
CD/diskette/USB select button and the keyboard/mouse/video select button. See
“Controls and LEDs” on page 8 for information about these buttons and their
functions.
The Ethernet controllers on your blade server communicate with the network
through the Ethernet-compatible switch modules on the BladeCenter unit. Network
signals to and from the blade server or any I/O expansion cards are automatically
routed to a same-network-interface switch module through circuitry in the
BladeCenter unit.
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