Fujitsu BX600 S3 User Manual

BX600 S3

Operating Manual

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Ethernet I/O 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.

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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.

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To provide fibre channel functionality, fibre channel I/O blades must 
be installed in slot NET3 and/or slot NET4, see 

Asynchronous balanced mode of Ethernet I/O blades and fibre 
channel I/O blades in slots NET3 and NET4 is not permitted.

NET1

NET2

NET4

NET3