# SANbox2-64 Blades and Ports

I/O blades and ports are selectable and serve as access points for other displays and menus. You select I/O blades and ports to display information about them in their respective data windows or to modify them. Context sensitive popup menus and properties windows are accessible through the I/O blade and port icons.

Blades and Slots

An I/O blade is a component switch of the larger SANbox2-64 switch. When you configure an I/O blade and its ports you are really configuring the slot. Because this configuration is saved on the switch CPU, any I/O blade that you install in that slot will acquire that configuration.

The SANbox2-64 switch numbers its slots from 0–10 from left to right. I/O blades occupy slots 1–4 and 6–9. To open the Blade Information data window, choose the Blade Info tab below the data window in the faceplate display. The Blade Info data window assigns blade numbers 0–7 to slot numbers 1–4 and 6–9.

Ports

Ports are numbered from 0–7 from top to bottom in slot 1, 8–15 in slot 2, and so on to 56–63 in slot 9.