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BX600 S3 Operating Manual 91
Ethernet I/O Blades Port Assignment
8.9 Port Assignment of the LAN Switch Blades
For each of the ten server blade slots, connections to a maximum of 6 ports of
the onboard LAN controller and to 2 ports of the optional Gigabit Ethernet
daughter card are available in the BX600 S3 basic unit. With 4-way
server blades, the number of connections increases accordingly.
The LAN I/O blade in the NET1 slot is connected to port A of the onboard LAN
controller of the installed server blades. The LAN I/O blade in slot NET2 is
connected to port B of the onboard LAN controller. In the same way, the LAN
I/O blades in slots NET3 and NET4 are connected to port A and B of the gigabit
Ethernet daughter cards.
Figure 40: Slots for the LAN I/O blades
The installation of two LAN I/O blade in NET1 and NET2 (or NET3 and NET4)
enables redundant LAN connections to be provided for the relevant LAN con-
trollers of the server blades.
V CAUTION
● LAN switch blades must always be installed in slots NET1 and NET3
first. This ensures that port A of the relevant LAN controller is
connected if redundant LAN connections are not used.
● To provide fibre channel functionality, fibre channel I/O blades must
be installed in slot NET3 and/or slot NET4, see page 101.
Asynchronous balanced mode of Ethernet I/O blades and fibre
channel I/O blades in slots NET3 and NET4 is not permitted.
NET1NET2
NET4 NET3