IBM HS40 - BladeCenter - 8839, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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Installing an I/O expansion card
You can add one or two optional I/O expansion cards to your blade server to give
the blade server up to four additional network connections for communicating on a
network. Each I/O expansion card provides two additional network connections that
are routed through I/O-module bays 3 and 4 of the BladeCenter unit. If two I/O
expansion cards are installed, both expansion cards must be of the same type.
Attention: When you add an I/O expansion card, you must make sure that the
switch modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on the BladeCenter unit both support
the I/O expansion card network-interface type. For example, if you add an Ethernet
expansion card to your blade server, the modules in I/O-module bays 3 and 4 on
the BladeCenter unit must both be compatible with the Ethernet expansion card. All
other I/O expansion cards that are installed on other blade servers in the
BladeCenter unit must also be compatible with these switch 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 allow use of several different types of compatible I/O
expansion cards within the same BladeCenter unit.
Important: Installation of an I/O expansion card requires removing the IDE drive
installed in IDE connector 2. The I/O expansion card occupies the same space as
this IDE drive and replaces it. You cannot install an IDE drive in IDE connector 2
while an I/O expansion card is installed in the blade server.
If the IDE drive that is installed in IDE connector 2 contains any information that you
want to keep, back it up to another storage device.
If the IDE hard disk drive that is installed in IDE connector 2 is part of a RAID array,
delete this IDE RAID array configuration before removing the hard disk drive. When
you delete the RAID array, the array configuration information is removed; no data
is deleted. See “Deleting an IDE RAID array configuration” on page 61 for
instructions.
The following illustration shows how to install an I/O expansion card on the blade
server. The same procedure is used to install an expansion card in either IDE
connector location; however, the illustration shows installing an expansion card only
in IDE connector 2.
Chapter 3. Installing options
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