Sun Microsystems CP3260 manual 2 I/O Configurations, ATCA chassis midplane

Figure Legend

1Sun Netra CP3260 blade server

2Sun Netra CP32X0 ARTM

3ATCA chassis midplane

Note – When a Netra CP32x0 ARTM is used with the Netra CP3260 blade server, shielded cables are required for serial I/O ports. Unshielded cables can be used on Ethernet ports to satisfy EMI compliance standards. The shields for all shielded cables must be terminated on both ends.

The customer can order a Netra CP32x0 ARTM, build a custom card, or buy from an independent hardware vendor (IHV). A minimal set of I/O must provide a boot path for the host blade server and a path for console I/O to deliver commands and to read blade server and system status.

Possible boot and console configurations are described in TABLE 1-2. Sun Microsystems supplies the Netra CP3260 blade server and compatible Netra CP32x0 ARTMs. The other configurations require (IHV) hardware.

TABLE 1-2I/O Configurations

I/O Hardware Required Description

Ethernet	Netra CP3260 blade server
	Netra CP32x0 ARTM
	(ARTM—supplied as an option
	for rear access)

Default boot path uses the Ethernet port; when the blade server runs in diskless client configuration.

SAS	Netra CP32x0 SAS Storage	SAS devices can be used for local booting.
	ARTM, Dual HD
Serial data	Netra CP3260 blade server	Serial port on front panel provides a path for a console I/O.
	Netra CP32x0 ARTMs	The serial port can be used on either the Netra CP3260 blade
		server or Netra CP32x0 ARTM, but both ports cannot be used at
		the same time. If the serial port on Netra CP3260 blade server is
		used, the serial port on the Netra CP32x0 ARTMs should not be
		used and vise versa.
Compact	Sun Compact Flash card	The Compact Flash connector can be used to add an optional
Flash		Sun 8-Gbyte or 16-Gbyte user flash type I/II memory card.

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