Fabric Expansion Modules

Fabric expansion modules (FEMs) allow blade servers to use the 10GbE connections provided by certain NEMs. These NEMs and the corresponding FEMs operate as a matched set. For example, a blade must have a Sun Dual 10GbE FEM to use the 10GbE functionality on a Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-Fabric NEM.

FEMs are installed on the FEM connector on the blade motherboard.

The following illustration shows a fabric expansion module on a Sun Blade X6450 server module.

The following table shows the supported FEMs and links to available FEM documentation. The FEMs listed here were available at the time this document was last updated.

FEM	Part Number	Documentation Web Site
Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module	X4822A	http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19956-01/index.html
Sun Blade T63X0 PCIe Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module	X4835A	http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19134-01/index.html
Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module	X1029A	http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19781-01/index.html
Pass-Thru PCI Express Fabric Expansion Module	X4681A	This FEM is documented in the documentation of the server modules that support it.
Sun Dual 10GbE PCIe 2.0 Fabric Expansion Module	X4871A	http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19539-01/index.html
Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x DDR PCIe Fabric Expansion Module	X4239A	http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19244-01/index.html
Pass-Thru Expansion Module for Sun Blade Server	X4263A	This FEM is documented in the documentation of the server modules that support it.
Pass-Thru Expansion Module for Sun Blade Server	X4278A	This FEM is documented in the documentation of the server modules that support it.
PCIe-2 Pass Through FEM	7100283 7100633	This FEM is documented in the documentation of the server modules that support it.

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