Dell PowerEdge M1000e User Manual page 59

I/O Fabric Architecture for Half-Height Blades
Half-Height Blade Server (1 of 16)
Fabric A
4-8 lane
CPU
LOM
PCIe
1
Fabric B
8 lane
PCIe Mezzanine
CPU
Fabric C
2 8 lane
PCIe
Mezzanine
Half-Height Blade Server (16 of 16)
Fabric A
4-8 lane
CPU
PCIe
LOM
1
Fabric B
8 lane
PCIe
Mezzanine
CPU
Fabric C
8 lane
2
PCIe
Mezzanine
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Right side of chassis
M1000e Mid-plane
Fabric A
Ethernet
I/O Module
Fabric B
I/O Module
Fabric C
I/O Module
Fabric C
I/O Module
Fabric B
I/O Module
Fabric A
Ethernet
I/O Module
8.4Tb Mid-plane
Left side of chassis
Fabric A:
2
Dual port and Quad port 1Gb or
•
10Gb Ethernet adapters
2
2
Fabric B & C:
Ethernet, Fibre Channel, &/or
•
InfiniBand mezzanine cards
1
Dual port 1Gb and 10Gb
•
Ethernet mezzanine cards
Quad port 1Gb Ethernet mezz.
•
and capable of quad port 10Gb
1
Ethernet mezzanine
Dual port Fibre Channel mezz.
•
Dual port InfiniBand mezzanine
•
1
Link between a dual port adapter and
switch of same fabric type
Additional link provided by quad-port
adapter cards and an IOM with 32
internal ports