User`s guide

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1: Introduction and Overview
Server Chassis Features
The following sections provide a general outline of the main features of the 1U system chassis.
Figure 1-2 shows the rear panel of the SGI Altix XE340 server.
Figure 1-2 Altix XE340 Rear Panel and I/O Ports
System Power
Your Altix XE340 server uses a single high-efficiency 1200W cold-swap power supply, which
provides the power to both serverboards housed in the unit.
Disk Drive Subsystem
The Altix XE340 chassis was designed to support up to four SATA or SAS hard disk drives, which
can be optionally configured as hot-swappable units.
Note that the standard XE340 only supports SATA disk drives. However by adding a SAS HBA
the XE340 will support SAS disk drives. The SAS HBA will also support RAID 0 and 1 on both
SAS and SATA disk drives. One HBA is added to each node of the XE340 server.
Control Panel
The Altix XE340 features two independent control panels associated with each node
(serverboard). Each control panel has LEDs to indicate power on, network activity, hard disk drive
USB ports
LAN ports
COM2 port USB ports
LAN ports
VGA port
COM2 port
InfiniBand port
(optional connector)
Power supply
PCIe x16 slot
PCIe x16 slotDedicated BMC port Dedicated BMC port
VGA port
InfiniBand port
(optional connector)