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4 System Configuration Guidelines
This chapter provides configuration guidelines for a NonStop BladeSystem and includes these
main topics:
• “Internal ServerNet Interconnect Cabling”
• “ServerNet Fabric and Supported Connections” (page 54)
• “NonStop BladeSystem Port Connections” (page 56)
NonStop BladeSystems use a flexible modular architecture. Therefore, various configurations of
the system’s modular components are possible within configuration restrictions stated in this
section and Chapter 5 (page 77).
Internal ServerNet Interconnect Cabling
This subsection includes:
• “Dedicated Service LAN Cables”
• “Length Restrictions for Optional Cables”
• “Cable Product IDs” (page 54)
Dedicated Service LAN Cables
The NonStop BladeSystem uses Category 5, unshielded twisted-pair Ethernet cables for the
internal dedicated service LAN and for connections between the application LAN equipment
and IP CLIM or IOAM enclosure.
Length Restrictions for Optional Cables
NOTE: For product IDs, see “Cable Types, Connectors, Lengths, and Product IDs” (page 93).
Maximum allowable lengths of optional cables connecting to components outside the modular
cabinet are:
Product IDMaximum LengthConnectorsFiber TypeConnection
M8900nn
250 mLC-LCMMFIOAM enclosure
(Fibre Channel port)
to ESS
M8900nn
250 mLC-LCMMFIOAM enclosure
(Fibre Channel port)
to FC switch
M8900nn
250 mLC-LCMMFStorage CLIM
enclosure (Fibre
Channel HBA) to FC
tape
M8900nn
250 mLC-LCMMFStorage CLIM
enclosure (Fibre
Channel HBA) to ESS
M8900nn
250 mLC-LCMMFStorage CLIM
enclosure (Fibre
Channel HBA) to FC
switch
M8905nn
6 mSFF-8470 to SFF-8088N.A.Storage CLIM
enclosure (SAS HBA)
to SAS tape
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