38 Options Guide BX920 S2
Mezzanine cards
Please set the transfer rate of Connection Blade to 1000 Mbit/s when you 
connect Mezz with Connection Blade by the following combinations. For more 
information, refer to the Management Blade manual.
– Connection of Onboard LAN (1Gbit/s) and Connection Blade 10 GbE 
Switch/IBP 18/8
– Connection of Onboard LAN (1Gbit/s) and Connection Blade 10 GbE LAN 
Pass Thru 18/18
– Connection of 1 Gbit/s Ethernet mezzanine and Connection Blade 10 GbE 
Switch/IBP 18/8
– Connection of 1 Gbit/s Ethernet mezzanine and Connection Blade 10 GbE 
LAN Pass Thru 18/18
System unit
Connection blade slots Server Blade 
Mezzanine 
card
Fabric 1
CB1:
1 Gb Ethernet 
or
10 Gb Ethernet
1
1
10 Gb Ethernet connection blades in fabric 1 only work with a transfer rate of 1 Gbit/s, 
because the onboard LAN controller only supports 1 Gbit/s. 
CB2:
1 Gb Ethernet 
or
10 Gb Ethernet
1
Onboard 
LAN controller
--- 
Fabric 2
CB3:
1 Gb Ethernet 
or
10 Gb Ethernet
or
Fibre Channel
CB4:
1 Gb Ethernet 
or
10 Gb Ethernet
or
Fibre Channel
Mezzanine 
card 1
Eth 1 Gb 4 port
or
Eth 10 Gb 2 port
or
FC 8 Gb 2 port
or
IB 40 Gb 2 port
or Infiniband (CB3/4)
Fabric 3
CB5:
1 Gb Ethernet 
or
10 Gb Ethernet
or
Fibre Channel
CB6:
1 Gb Ethernet 
or
10 Gb Ethernet
or
Fibre Channel
Mezzanine 
card 2
Eth 1 Gb 4 port
or
Eth 10 Gb 2 port
or
FC 8 Gb 2 port
or
IB 40 Gb 2 port
or Infiniband (CB5/6)
Fabric 4
CB7:
1 Gb Ethernet
CB8:
1 Gb Ethernet
Eth 1 Gb 4 port
or
IB 40 Gb 2 port
or Infiniband (CB7/8)