Blade ICE BMD00098 Manuel D’Utilisation
BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes
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BMD00098, December 2009
Hardware Support
BLADEOS 5.1 software is supported only on the 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module
(
(
) for IBM BladeCenter. The GbESM is a high performance Layer 2-3 embedded network
switch that features tight integration with IBM BladeCenter management modules.
Figure 1
1/10Gb Uplink ESM Faceplate
The GbESM has the following port capacities:
Three external 10Gb SFP+ slots
Six external 1Gb Ethernet ports (RJ45)
One RS-232 serial console port
Two 100Mb internal management ports
Fourteen 1000Mb Ethernet internal ports
RS-232
console port
1
2
3
4
7
6
9
RJ45 ports
1Gb Ethernet
SFP+ slots
10Gb Ethernet