Fujitsu BX600 S2 manual Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Blade, Fibre Channel pass-thru blade

11 Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Blade

The 2/2 Gbit Fibre Channel pass-thru blade, hereinafter referred to as FC pass- thru blade, provides 10 ports for the bypass connection between FC daughter boards (see manual for the relevant server blade type) and optical transceivers for serial FC I/O and general-purpose I/O signals. The FC pass-thru blade features 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel speed. It also provides LEDs for each FC port to indicate the link status.

FC pass-thru blade

SFP module

Figure 64: Fibre Channel pass-thru blade

The PRIMERGY BX600 S2 basic unit can be fitted with one or two FC pass-thru blades. The slots for these blades are on the back of the system unit (NET 3 and NET4 in figure 69 on page 117). If Fibre Channel functionality is to be available for one or more server blades, at least one FC pass-thru blade or FC switch blade must be installed. The assignment of the Fibre Channel channels is described in section “Port Assignment of the FC Pass-Thru Blades” on page 117.

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