New part(?) of C7000 Enclosure

[SYSTEM]

What’s the name and function of part in red circle?
It’s rear side of C7000 enclosure.
Nothings from SAW and Quick View.

rear_part_C7000.png

[SYSTEM]

This is Intelligent Power Module for the Intelligent Power Discovery/Management

You need to connect it by USB cables to OAs to get/report extended power/location information.

[SYSTEM]

Interesting thread.

Does this mean that if a customer has the this module plugged in it has to stay plugged in?

if so I assume this takes away the option of sticking a USB key in the back of the OA to mount ISO images?

[SYSTEM]

If you don’t have iPDU or don’t care about IPD functionality, then you can do whatever you want with your USB connector.

But if you have an iPDU and are using the IPD functionality, then you’ll want to keep this plugged in “as much as possible”.

If the connection is broken (ie. you stick in a USB key to mount an ISO image), IPD will stop working.

But once the connection is restored, IPD will start working again.

[SYSTEM]

Would it be possible to put a USB hub on the OA so both functionalities could work at the same time?

[SYSTEM]

The initial design was to actually embed a USB hub directly into the new intelligent power module so that it wouldn’t tie up the USB port for IPD functionality.

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And I checked with the team and they tested an external hub and it worked.