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2/4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

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Summary of Contents for Redbooks 2/4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card

Page 1: ...age of the benefits of 6 or 4 ports per blade respectively Figure 1 shows the 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Figure 1 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCent...

Page 2: ...rd in the same server z Based on the Broadcom 5709 module z PCI Express x4 host interface for high speed connection z Connectivity to either standard or high speed I O modules bays depends on chassis...

Page 3: ...rted in the IBM BladeCenter servers listed in Table 2 Table 2 Supported servers Expansion card Part number 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh 44W4479 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N N Y N Figure 2 shows where th...

Page 4: ...supported with the Broadcom 10Gb 2 Port and 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Cards Description Part number 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh 44W4479 Y N Y N Y Y Y Details of this support is described in...

Page 5: ...BNT Layer 2 7 Gb Ethernet Switch Module 32R1859 No No BNT Layer 2 3 Copper Gb Ethernet Switch Module 32R1860 Yes Yes BNT Layer 2 3 Fiber Gb Ethernet Switch Module 32R1861 Yes No BNT 10Gb Uplink Ethern...

Page 6: ...FFh cards are routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 as shown in Figure 3 The BladeCenter HT is similar in that the CFFh cards are also routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and...

Page 7: ...is in conjunction with the 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh Ethernet switch modules Part number Bay 2 of BC S Cisco Intelligent Gb Ethernet Switch Module 32R1892 No Cisco Intelligent Gb Fiber Eth...

Page 8: ...Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh BladeCenter H configuration The 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh and the BladeCenter H chassis makes it possible to supply eight Gigabit Ethernet ports to every Blad...

Page 9: ...ter HS22 or other server that supports CFFh cards 1 to 14 None Ethernet controller on the system board of the server 1 per server Varies Ethernet CFFv or CIOv expansion card 1 per server 44W4479 2 4 P...

Page 10: ...nnections to each blade in the BladeCenter S chassis The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 8 Table 8 Components used when connecting Broadcom 4 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Car...

Page 11: ...rprise Linux 4 WS HPC for x86 z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for System i and System p z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition with Xen z Red Hat Enterpri...

Page 12: ...ort docview wss uid psg1MIGR 5082171 IBM U S Announcement Letter for the 2 4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter z http ibm com common ssi cgi bin ssialias infotype dd subtype ca htm...

Page 13: ...not part of the materials for this IBM product and use of those Web sites is at your own risk IBM may use or distribute any of the information you supply in any way it believes appropriate without inc...

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