Chapter 1: Hardware overview
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Figure 5: Back panel of an OmniCube server with two CPUs
Table 2: Back panel component descriptions
Callout
Component
Description
1
Riser 1
Contains PCIe slots 1-3. You can install optional
2x10GbE or 2x1GbE network cards in these slots, as
shown in slot 2, used by guest VMs only.
A system with a single CPU does not contain riser 1. A
plate is installed in place of riser 1.
2
Accelerator
Installed in PCIe slot 5 of riser 2, but also occupies slot 4.
The card has two LEDs that continuously glow green to
indicate normal operation.
3
RAID controller
RAID Controller for the rear boot drives installed in PCIe
slot 6 of riser 3. The RAID Controller for the front data
disks is a mezzanine card.
4
System identification button System identification button and system identification
connector.
The system identification button helps you locate a
system within a rack. If you push the system identification
button on the back panel or the front panel, the system
identification buttons on the front panel and the back
panel flash blue. Push a system identification button a
second time to stop it from flashing.
The system identification connector, located to the right
of the system identification button, connects the optional
system status indicator assembly through the optional
cable management arm.
5
IPMI port
Dedicated IPMI port for remote, out-of-band, web-based
management.