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1. Overview

The IPU-POD systems are designed to be easily expanded to include more IPUs. This guide describes how to expand your existing IPU-POD system.

With the information in this guide, you will be able to expand:

an IPU‑POD₄ direct attach (DA) system to an IPU‑POD₁₆ DA system (Section 2, Expand an IPU‑POD4 DA to an IPU‑POD16 DA)
an IPU‑POD₁₆ DA system to an IPU‑POD₆₄ system (Section 3, Expand an IPU‑POD16 DA to an IPU‑POD64)
an IPU‑POD₆₄ to a larger system, for example, a IPU‑POD₁₂₈ system (Section 4, Expand an IPU‑POD64 to a larger IPU-POD system).

Warning

This guide is for properly trained service personnel and technicians who are required to expand IPU-POD systems.

Note

In this guide, the term IPU-Machine refers to the blades installed in your Pod, so an IPU-M2000 in IPU-POD systems.