Supermicro SBI-7425C-S3E, Руководство пользователя

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Chapter 1
Introduction
1-1 Overview
This user’s manual covers both the SBI-7425C-S3 and SBI-7425C-S3E blade modules.
The only difference between these two modules and their respective B7DC3 and
B7DC3-IB mainboards is the Infiniband support found in the SBI-7125C-S3E blade
module.
The SBI-7425C-S3/S3E blade modules are compact self-contained servers that connect
into a pre-cabled enclosure that provides power, cooling, management and networking
functions. One enclosure for the SBI-7425C-S3/S3E blade modules can hold fourteen
blade units.
In this manual, “blade system” refers to the entire system (including the enclosure and
blades units), “blade” or “blade unit” refers to a single blade module and “blade
enclosure” is the chassis that the blades, power supplies and modules are housed
within.
Please refer to our web site for information on operating systems that have been
certified for use with the SuperBlade (
www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/ ).
1-2 Product Checklist of Typical Components
Your blade module ships with its mainboard already installed in its chassis. Memory,
hard disk drives and the CPU must all be installed by the user after shipment. See
Chapter 3: "Setup and Installation" on page 3-1 for details on installation of these
components.
Aside from the blade module unit itself, the following optional add-on cards may be
ordered for your blade module:
• Blade IPMI Add-on Card: AOC-SIMPL
• Mezzanine Cards (with Infiniband Switch): AOC-IBH-001, AOC-IBH-002 or
AOC-IBH-003
See the Supermicro website and the
SuperBlade Network Modules User’s Manual
on
your SuperBlade system’s CD-ROM for more details on these add-on cards.