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Installing an I/O expansion card
You can add optional I/O expansion cards to your expansion unit to give the unit additional
connections for communicating on a network.
Attention: When you add an I/O expansion card, you must make sure that the I/O modules in I/O
module bays 3 and 4 on the NovaScale Blade Chassis unit both support the I/O expansion card
network-interface type.
The I/O expansion cards that are supported by the expansion unit are a standard form-factor and a
small form-factor card. The Fibre Channel expansion card and the Gigabit Ethernet expansion card
are available as small form-factor and standard form-factor I/O expansion cards.
Complete the following steps to install an I/O expansion card:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page “NovaScale Blade safety and regulatory
information” on page iii and “Installation guidelines” on page 19.
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the NovaScale Blade Server, and remove the expansion
unit from the NovaScale Blade Chassis unit (see “Installing a SCSI storage expansion unit” on
page 33).
3. Carefully lay the expansion unit on a flat, non-conductive surface.
4. Open the cover (see “Opening the expansion unit cover” on page 38 for instructions).
5. Install the I/O expansion card:
Figure 12. Installing an I/O expansion card in the expansion unit.
a. Orient the I/O expansion card, as shown in Figure 12.
or
or
Standard card
Short card