Fujitsu V3.1 manual Viom server profile mapping, Mapping of IO-channels

4 Configuration

Although VIOM does not guarantee that boot images created for one server type also work with another server type, VIOM also supports the assignment of server profiles for blades on PRIMERGY rack servers and vice versa. For further information, see the section "VIOM server profile mapping" on page 132.

4.5VIOM server profile mapping

Although server profiles for PRIMERGY rack server models and blade servers differ with regard to I/O channel types, profiles for PRIMERGY rack servers can be assigned to blade servers and profiles for blade servers can be assigned to PRIMERGY rack servers if the target server provides the same I/O controllers and meets certain requirements.

To determine if such an assign is possible, it is important to know how I/O channels of blade server mezzanine cards are mapped to I/O channels of PCI add-on cards and vice versa. Onboard I/O channels are taken as they are. Of course, the device type of the destination ports have to be compatible to the source ports. The used I/O channel mapping is shown in the following table:

Mezzanine card in blade	PCI controller in PRIMERGY rack
server	server
Mezzanine card 1, I/O port 1	PCI controller 1, I/O port 1
Mezzanine card 1, I/O port 2	PCI controller 1, I/O port 2
Mezzanine card 1, I/O port 3	PCI controller 1, I/O port 3
Mezzanine card 1, I/O port 4	PCI controller 1, I/O port 4
Mezzanine card 2, I/O port 1	PCI controller 2, I/O port 1
Mezzanine card 2, I/O port 2	PCI controller 2, I/O port 2
Mezzanine card 2, I/O port 3	PCI controller 2, I/O port 3
Mezzanine card 2, I/O port 4	PCI controller 2, I/O port 4
Figure 18: Mapping of IO-channels

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