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The Sun Blade 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).
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. |
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