PRIMERGY BX620 S2, User Manual

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Chapter 1 Overview
1.1 BX600 Blade Server
This server has the following features.
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Blade Server
PRIMERGY BX600 is a blade server that consists of a chassis and multiple blades.
It is a sophisticated high-performance server that enables you to efficiently install a server, monitoring
device, LAN switching hub, power supply unit, fan, fibre channels, and so on in a 7U (height: approx.
31 cm) chassis due to its high-performance and highly-integrated design.
The blade server consists of the following components:
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Chassis (or Case)
The following blades can be installed on the 7U-size chassis:
• Server blades (BX620 S2 Server Blade: Max.10)
• Switch Blade (LAN switching hub): Max. 4
• GbE Pass-Thru Blade (GbE Pass-Thru unit): Max. 4
• FC Pass-Thru Blade (FC Pass-Thru unit): Max. 2
• Management Blade (Monitoring device): Max. 2 (Installed as standard)
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BX620 S2 Server Blade (Server)
This server contains a CPU, memory, and a hard disk in the unit (42
×
476
×
286mm).
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Switch Blade (LAN Switching Hub)
This blade is a LAN switching hub that supports a Gigabit LAN in all ports and runs in the data link
layer (layer 2). There are two types of ports: 10 internal ports for connection with server blades and 3
ports for external connection.
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GbE Pass-Thru Blade
The GbE Pass-Thru Blade is used to connect the internal LAN ports (including a 1 Gbit/s Ethernet I/O
Module) in a server blade to the external LAN ports with 1:1.
There are two types of ports: 10 internal ports for connection with server blades and 10 ports for external
connection.
The external connection ports are used as a 1000BASE-T interface.
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FC Pass-Thru Blade
This blade supports fibre channel output, which is used to connect the fibre channel equipment, on a
server blade basis through the 2Gbit/s FC I/O Module installed in a server blade (Maximum 10 ports in
total).
There are two types of ports: 10 internal ports and 10 external ports with the maximum transfer rate
2Gbps.