(IBM® BladeCenter® devices only) BladeCenter devices number ports by bay
and offset. BladeCenter devices provide four offsets per bay and eight
physical ports (or 16 virtual ports) per offset.
- Ports 1 and 2 are reserved for the on-board Ethernet devices.
- Ports 3 and 4 are reserved for standard expansion cards.
- Ports 5 to 8 are reserved for high-speed expansion cards.
Note: Map high-speed two-port combination form factor horizontal (CFFH)
converged network adapters to ports 5 and 7. The mapping between the IFM ports and
the switch numbering on the BladeCenter chassis is dependent on the
chassis. For example, the BCS chassis routes both on-board Ethernet
devices to I/O Module bay 1.
The following table defines the mapping of the
IFM ports to the
switch numbering on the IBM BladeCenter chassis.
Table 1. IBM BladeCenter IO module numbering
| |
IBM BladeCenter model |
|
IFM port
|
H
|
E
|
HT
|
S
|
| 1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| 2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
| 3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| 4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
| 5 |
7 |
N/A |
7 |
2 |
| 6 |
8 |
N/A |
8 |
2 |
| 7 |
9 |
N/A |
9 |
N/A |
| 8 |
10 |
N/A |
10 |
N/A |