Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 10)

Quadport Capable Hardware for the M1000e Modular Chassis
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Figure 7 is a logical drawing of a half height blade with a quadport Mezzanine card mapped to Bank 1 and Bank 2
switch IOM
F IGURE 7
Quad port to IOM relationship
IO Adapters
All Dell blades feature embedded Ethernet Controllers with at least 2 discrete ports. These discrete ports are
directly mapped to IOM’s installed in Fabric “A”, banks one and two. IOM slots “A1” and “A2” can only accept
Ethernet IO Modules.
Optional IO adapters or “Mezzanine cards” can be installed in a server blade to enable fabric B and C. These
mezzanine cards can be dual port or Quadport. An Ethernet Mezzanine card installed in Fabric B slot in a blade will
enable a Matching Ethernet IO Module to be placed in IOM slots B1 and B2. The same population rule applies for
fabric “C”.