Intel SBXD62 - Server Compute Blade, Installation And User Manual

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Intel® Server Compute Blade SBXD62 Installation and User’s Guide 27
Installing an I/O-expansion Card
If I/O-expansion is supported by the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE in which the
blade server is installed, you can add an I/O-expansion card to the blade server. I/O-
expansion cards give the blade server additional connections for communicating on a
network. Your blade server supports the installation of one I/O-expansion card of small-
form-factor or standard-form-factor design.
You can install a small-form-factor expansion card in addition to two SAS hard disk
drives.
The blade server supports a number of daughter cards, such as:
•
Gigabit Ethernet expansion card
•
Fibre Channel expansion card
When you add an I/O-expansion card, you must make sure that the I/O-modules it is
mapped to both support the expansion card network-interface type. These I/O-modules are
typically installed in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE.
For example, if you add an Ethernet expansion card to a blade server installed in a Intel®
Blade Server Chassis SBCE, the I/O-modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 must both be
compatible with the expansion card. All other expansion cards that are installed on other
blade servers in the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE must also be compatible with
these I/O-modules. In this example, you could then install two Ethernet switch modules,
two pass-thru modules, or one Ethernet switch module and one pass-thru module. Because
pass-thru modules are compatible with a variety of I/O-expansion cards, installing two
pass-thru modules would enable the use of several different types of compatible I/O-
expansion cards on blade servers within the same Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE.
To install a small-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page 65 in Appendix C, “Safety
Information” and “Installation Guidelines” on page 15 .
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server
from the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE. See “Removing the Blade Server from
an Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE” on page 17 for instructions.
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, non-conductive surface.
4. Open the cover (see “Opening the Blade Server Cover” on page 18 for instructions).