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Egenera® Control BladeTM EX and Switch BladeTM EX

By hosting Egenera PAN Manager software, the fully redundant Control Blades EX manage BladeFrame performance and functionality. They also house a DVD drive, ports for laptop-based administration, and interfaces to external network and storage resources.

The fully redundant Switch Blades EX provide the switching of both external and internal network traffic and allow PAN Manager software to dynamically create connections between Processing Blades.

Control Blade EX Architecture

 

 

 

Number per
BladeFrame EX

2

Height

7.0 in. (4U) / 17.8 cm.

I/O options



Four Port 10/100/1000 Ethernet (copper)

Four Port Gigabit Ethernet (fiber)

Four Port 2Gb/s Fibre Channel

Console port

Front-accessible: RS 232

Management port

Front-accessible:10/100/1000
Ethernet

DVD drive

40X (1 per Control Blade EX)

Power supply

Independent of other
blades

Cooling

Self-contained
front to back

Hot-pluggable

Yes

 

 

Switch Blade EX Architecture

 

 

 

Number per
BladeFrame

2

Height

3.5 in. (2U) / 8.9 cm.

Power supply

Independent of other
blades

Cooling

Self-contained
front to back

Hot-pluggable

Yes