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Chapter 1. Introduction
This Installation and User’s Guide contains instructions for installing:
v The IBM
®
ERserver BladeCenter
™
Fibre Channel Expansion Card in an HS20
or HS40 blade server
v The IBM ERserver BladeCenter JS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card in an IBM
Eserver BladeCenter JS20 blade server
Except
where specifically stated otherwise, the terms I/O expansion card and
expansion card refer to both the IBM Eserver BladeCenter Fibre Channel
Expansion Card and the IBMEserverBladeCenter JS20 Fibre Channel Expansion
Card throughout this document. Except where specifically stated otherwise, the
IBM Eserver BladeCenter unit (for example, the BladeCenter Type 8677) and
IBM Eserver BladeCenter T unit are referred to throughout this document as
the BladeCenter unit.
This document applies to blade servers that are installed in the IBM Eserver
BladeCenter and IBM Eserver BladeCenter T units. This document contains
information about:
v Features of the expansion card
v Installing the expansion card in your blade server
v Updating the basic input/output system (BIOS) code or firmware code and
device drivers of the expansion card
v Performing custom configuration of the expansion card
v Performing basic troubleshooting of the expansion card
Note:
The IBM ERserver BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card contains
BIOS code to provide storage area network (SAN) startup (boot)
functions on the IBM BladeCenter HS20 and HS40 blade servers. The
IBM ERserver BladeCenter JS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card contains
firmware code to provide SAN startup (boot) functions on the IBM
BladeCenter JS20 blade server.
The expansion card is a 2 Gb Fibre Channel device that has two configurable
adapter ports. Communication signals are routed from the blade server
through the Fibre Channel high-speed connector on the expansion card to
I/O-module bay 3 and bay 4 in the BladeCenter or BladeCenter T unit.
Note: The modules in I/O-module bay 3 and bay 4 must support Fibre
Channel operation.
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