Blade Connection to NEM

The Sun Blade 8000 Chassis provides up to four NEM slots labeled NEM 0-3 with 0 being the bottom NEM slot and 3 being the top NEM Slot. The Sun Blade 8000 P Chassis provides up to two NEM slots labeled NEM 0-1 with 0 being the bottom NEM slot and 1 being the top NEM slot.

Each Gigabit Ethernet NEM for example, provides 10 individual GbE NICs – one for each blade, labeled 0.0 to 9.1 right-to-left as viewed from the back of the chassis as follows.

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Item

Description

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10 blades labeled BL0 to BL9

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10 NEM RJ-45 ports labeled 0.0 to 9.0

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10 NEM RJ-45 ports labeled 0.1 to 9.1

Each of the GbE NICs provide two external network ports for each blade, labeled port 0 at top and port 1 on the bottom as viewed from the back of the chassis.

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Item

Description

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Midplane connectors

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DC-power conversion

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Control logic system controller communication

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Individual blades

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External network ports