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Sun Blade T63X0 PCIe Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module Overview

The Sun Bladetrademark T63X0 PCIe Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module (FEM) provides two x4 PCIe lanes between the server module, the chassis midplane, and a PCIe NEM in the server module chassis (FIGURE 1-1 and FIGURE 1-2).

FEM Overview

The Sun Blade T6320 and Sun Blade T6340 server modules each have two hot-pluggable ports on the motherboard. However, those ports are dedicated to the PCI-EM ports on a server module chassis. To provide hot-plug support for the network express modules (NEMs), you must install this Sun Blade T63X0 PCIe Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module (FEM). (FIGURE 1-1)

This FEM is needed for the T6320 and T6340 servers to connect with the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE Network Express Module (NEM).


Note - Before you install the FEM and NEM, you must ensure that certain firmware and software components are up to date. See Chapter 2 for details.


FIGURE 1-1   FEM With a Sun Blade T6320 Server Module

This figure shows the FEM and a Sun Blade T6320 server module.


FIGURE 1-2   FEM Block Diagram

This diagram shows the FEM signal paths from the server module to the chassis midplane and NEMs.




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