116 Operating Manual BX900 S1
Hot-plug components
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8.2.9 Fitting rules for connection blades
The connection blade slots of the BX900 S1 system unit are numbered as
follows.
Figure 41: Connection blade slots
Each pair of adjacent connection blade slots forms a so-called fabric. The
following table shows how you can fill the fabrics and which network
components of the server blades they are connected to:
System unit Server blade
Connection blade slots
Fabric 1
CB1:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet
CB2:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet
Onboard LAN-controller
Fabric 2
CB3:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
Fibre-Channel or
CB4:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
Fibre-Channel or
Mezzanine card 1
Infiniband (CB3/4)
Fabric 3
CB5:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
Fibre-Channel or
CB6:
1Gb Ethernet or
10 Gb Ethernet or
Fibre-Channel or
Mezzanine card 2
Infiniband (CB5/6)
Fabric 4
CB7:
1Gb Ethernet or
CB8:
1Gb Ethernet or
Infiniband (CB7/8)
Table 2: Fitting rules for connection blade slots
CB1
CB3
CB5
CB7
CB2
CB4
CB6
CB8
Fabric 1
Fabric 2
Fabric 3
Fabric 4