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14 Operating Manual BX900 S1
Technical data
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In the event of errors, the ServerView Operations Manager refers you directly to
the affected component and its order information in the Illustrated Spares
catalog of the server in question.
Server performance
The PRIMERGY BX900 S1 system unit has 18 slots for server blades. Six
server blade slots can be fitted with storage blades which provide additional
storage capacity for the neighboring server blades. For information on installing
and removing server blades and storage blades, see section "Server blades
and storage blades" on page 83. For further information on the server blades
and storage blades, see the relevant operating manuals.
Connection blades
The PRIMERGY BX900 S1 system unit has eight slots for connection blades on
the back. These provide the installed server blades with connections to the
Ethernet LAN as well as to SAN environments.
The following connection blade types are available:
● Ethernet connection blades
– Connection Blade GbE Switch/IBP 36/12 (SB11A)
– 36 internal 1-Gbit ports to the server blades
– 8 external 1-Gbit ports through RJ45 connections
– 4 external 1-Gbit ports through SFP modules
I This connection blade can be used in all connection blade slots.
Ethernet connection blades in slots CB3/4 (fabric 2), CB5/6 (fabric
3) and CB7/8 (fabric 4) only support server blades that are fitted
with an Ethernet mezzanine card.
– Connection Blade GbE Switch/IBP 36/8+2 (SB11)
– 36 internal 1-Gbit ports to the server blades
– 8 external 1-Gbit ports through RJ45 connections
– 2 external 10-Gbit ports through SFP+ modules
– 1 internal stacking port to the midplane of the BX900 S1 system unit
– 1 external stacking port through a CX4 connection
The stacking ports allow up to 8 SB11 connection blades to be
switched together to form a so-called stack, see "Connection blade
stacking" on page 96.