Fujitsu BX600 S3 manual Gbit Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Blade, Fibre Channel I/O Blades

Fibre Channel I/O Blades 2 Gbit FC Pass-Thru Blade

9.32 Gbit Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Blade

The 2 Gbit Fibre Channel pass-thru blade provides 10 ports for the bypass connection between server blade FC daughter boards and optical transceivers for serial FC I/O and general-purpose I/O signals. The 2 Gbit FC pass-thru blade features 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel speed.

FC pass-thru blade

SFP module

Figure 52: Fibre Channel pass-thru blade

The PRIMERGY BX600 S3 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 57 on page 109). 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” on page 109.

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