Overview

Adapter Cards

3Each server has a blank plastic asset tag that pulls out of the front panel, provided so you can add your own asset tracking label without interfering with the intended air flow.

LEDs

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

Buttons

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

Connectors

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

Adapter Cards

Depending on the model of server in question, one to three adapter cards will reside in each blade server, providing failover connectivity to each FEX in the chassis. The following models are available, and others are released on an ongoing basis:

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280

The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280 (UCS-VIC-M82-8P) is an eight-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable mezzanine card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. The card enables a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure that can present up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as either network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). In addition, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280 supports Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.

Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card

The Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter card. The virtual interface card is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter card that supports

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