About Chassis Slot Locations and Internal Connections

The Sun Blade 8000 Series Chassis provide slot locations, external ports, and internal connections between Network Express Modules (NEMs), Sun Blade Server Modules (blades) and, if applicable, PCIe ExpressModules (EMs).

The blades provide PCI Express I/O connectivity to the NEMs and EMs using HyperTransport links. A brief description about these connections are described in the followng topics: