Blade ICE BLADEOS BMD00098 - Manual (Page 4)

BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes
4 BMD00098, December 2009
Hardware Support
BLADEOS 5.1 software is supported only on the 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module
(
Figure 1 ) for IBM BladeCenter. The GbESM is a high performance Layer 2-3 embedded network
switch that features tight integration with IBM BladeCenter management modules.
Figure 1 1/10Gb Uplink ESM Faceplate
The GbESM has the following port capacities:
Three external 10Gb SFP+ slots
Six external 1Gb Ethernet ports (RJ45)
One RS-232 serial console port
Two 100Mb internal management ports
Fourteen 1000Mb Ethernet internal ports
RS-232
console port
1
2
3
4 7
6 9
RJ45 ports
1Gb Ethernet
SFP+ slots
10Gb Ethernet