MODULAR SERVER ARCHITECTURE WITH ETHERNET ROUTED ACROSS A BACKPLANE UTILIZING AN INTEGRATED ETHERNET SWITCH MODULE

摘要

A modular server system (100) includes a midplane (170) having a system management bus and a plurality of blade interfaces on the midplane. The blade interfaces are in electrical communication with each other. A server blade (110) is removeably connectable to one of the plurylity of blade interfaces on the midplane. The server blade has a server blade system management bus in electrical communication with the system management bus of the midplane, and a network interface to connect to a network. A media blade (150) is removeably connectable to one of the plurality of blade interfaces on the midplane, and the media blade has at least one storage medium device. A switch blade (120) is removeably connectable to one of the blade interfaces on the midplane and adapted to perform network switching.