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Emulex 8Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCente

Take into account the following restrictions regarding the use of switch modules listed in Table 3:

(*) When any of the switch modules indicated with (*) is installed in BladeCenter T, the internal switch

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connections to blade ports operate at 2 Gbps. The external ports operate at up to 8 Gbps (or 4 Gbps

for 4 Gb switch modules).

(§) When any of these switch modules that have the section indicator symbol (§) is installed in

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BladeCenter HT, the internal switch connections to blade ports are supported at 4 Gbps. The external

ports operate at up to 8 Gbps (or 4 Gbps for 4 Gb switch modules).

The Emulex 8Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) can be installed in servers in the

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BladeCenter S and are used with supported switch modules as shown in the table. However, by doing

so, you lose the ability to connect to the BladeCenter S Disk Storage Modules (DSMs). The Fibre

Channel expansion card goes in the place of the SAS expansion card that is needed to connect to the

DSMs.

Popular configurations

The Emulex 8Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) can be used in various configurations. Figure 3

shows the CIOv card installed in a supported blade server, which in turn is installed in a BladeCenter

chassis. The chassis is connected to the IBM System Storage DS3400. The RAID functionality is provided

by the external storage system.

Figure 3. IBM BladeCenter connected to an external IBM System Storage DS3400 storage solution

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