IBM PS700, Technical Overview And Introduction

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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
1.5.8 I/O features
The PS700 and PS701 have one CIOv PCIe expansion card slot and one CFFh PCIe
high-speed expansion card slot. The PS702 blade server has two CIOv expansion card slots
and two CFFh expansion card slots.
Table 1-8 shows the supported CIOv and CFFh expansion cards in POWER7
processor-based servers.
Table 1-8 Supported I/O Expansion Card on POWER7 Blades
QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
The QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter, feature #8242,
enables high-speed access for IBM blade servers to connect to a Fibre Channel storage area
network (SAN). When compared to the previous-generation 4 Gb adapters, the new adapter
doubles the throughput speeds for Fibre Channel traffic. As a result, you can manage
increased amounts of data and possibly benefit from a reduced hardware expense.
The card has the following features:
򐂰 CIOv form factor
򐂰 QLogic 2532 8 Gb ASIC
򐂰 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
򐂰
Support for two full-duplex Fibre Channel ports at 8 Gbps maximum per channel
򐂰 Support for Fibre Channel Protocol Small Computer System Interface (FCP-SCSI) and
Fibre Channel Internet Protocol (FC-IP)
򐂰
Support for Fibre Channel service (class 3)
򐂰 Support for switched fabric, point-to-point, and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
connections
򐂰 Support for NPIV when installed in the PS700, PS701, and PS702 Blade Servers
For more information, see the IBM Redbooks at-a-glance guide at the following Web page:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0692.html?Open
Card Description Feature Code
CIOv
QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) 8242
QLogic 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) 8241
Emulex 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) 8240
3 GB SAS Passthrough Expansion Card (CIOv) 8246
CFFh
QLogic 8 GB Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) 8271
QLogic Ethernet and 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) 8252
QLogic 2-port 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) 8275
4X InfiniBand DDR Expansion Card (CFFh) 8258