CAUTION
To prevent improper cooling or thermal damage, do not operate
the server blade or the enclosure unless all device bays are
populated with either a component or a blank.
Figure A-5. The c3000 enclosure is divided by sheet metal panels into two full-height zones. Zone 1 and Zone 2
are divided in half by a removable shelf to accommodate a maximum of eight half-height device bays per
enclosure. These zones reflect the PCIe bus mapping in the signal midplane and limit placement of the server
blade/storage blade combination. The signal midplane has a direct PCIe link connecting adjacent paired device
bays.
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IMPORTANT
The server blade/storage blade relationship cannot extend beyond
the removable dividers between full height device bays, nor can it
span the removable bay shelf dividing the zone into half-height
device bays
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The enclosure comes preinstalled with removable full-height dividers between the four device bays in
Zone 2 and the four device bays in Zone 1. In addition, a half-height divider is available for use
between device bays 4 and 8 if the full-height divider is removed. Using these combinations of
dividers, the following combinations of server blades can be installed:
• Eight half-height server blades with both full-height dividers installed
• Four full-height server blades with both full-height dividers removed
• Four half-height server blades in Zone 1 with one full-height divider installed
• Two full-height server blades in Zone 1 with one full-height divider removed
• Four half-height server blades in Zone 2 with one full-height divider installed
• Two full-height server blades in Zone 2 with one full-height divider removed
• One full-height server blade and two half-height server blades in Zone 2 with one full-height divider
removed and the half-height divider installed
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