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SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

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Summary of Contents for SAS Connectivity Cars

Page 1: ...S Connectivity Card CIOv is shown in Figure 1 Figure 1 SAS Connectivity Card CIOv for IBM BladeCenter Did you know The adapter is based on the PCI Express bus which can be thought of as a high speed serial replacement of the older technology Its use offers many benefits including higher speeds and the ability to send and receive data at the same time When using the CIOv adapter you can simultaneou...

Page 2: ...SAS ports of blade server s onboard LSI 1064e disk z storage controller Support for two full duplex SAS ports at 3 Gbps maximum per channel z Support for SAS SSP and SMP protocols z Operating environment The expansion card is supported in this environment Temperature z 10 to 35 C 50 to 95 F at 0 to 914 m 0 to 3 000 ft z 10 to 32 C 50 to 90 F at 914 to 2 133 m 3 000 to 7 000 ft z Relative humidity ...

Page 3: ...ter HS22 The SAS Connectivity Card CIOv requires that a supported I O module is installed in bay 3 and bay 4 depending on the configuration of the chassis in which the cards and servers are installed Table 3 lists the supported I O modules Table 3 I O modules supported with the SAS Connectivity Card CIOv I O module Part number SAS Connectivity Module 39Y9195 Y Y Y Y Y SAS RAID Controller Module 43...

Page 4: ...ts used in this configuration are listed in Table 4 Table 4 Components used when connecting the SAS Connectivity Card CIOv to external disk storage Diagram reference Part number Machine type Description Quantity Varies BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server 1 to 14 43W4068 SAS Connectivity Card CIOv for IBM BladeCenter 1 per server 8677 or 8852 BladeCenter E or BladeCenter H 1 39Y9195 IBM Blad...

Page 5: ... Partition Expansion License is z required to support more than four host server blades RAID levels 0 1 10 3 5 and 6 are supported by DS3200 z A maximum of 48 drives is supported in a single RAID 0 1 and 10 array z A maximum of 30 drives is supported in a single RAID array for other RAID levels 3 5 and 6 z The logical volume size can be greater than 2 TB z One SAS host interface per controller is ...

Page 6: ... storage partitions and so forth as in shared storage systems Instead each blade has its own set of physical disks residing in DSM or DSMs The SAS Connectivity Module controls disk assignments by using zoning like techniques which z results in the SAS module maintaining single isolated dedicated paths between physical HDDs and the blade server Configuration of HDD assignments is done by the admini...

Page 7: ...f SAS SATA drives is supported z as well However each volume must have hard disks of the same type that is SAS or SATA External disk storage attachments are not supported z BladeCenter S integrated storage advanced RAID functionality with shared storage The configuration shown in Figure 5 connects the SAS Connectivity Card CIOv installed in each blade server to the integrated BladeCenter S storage...

Page 8: ...es or be shared by several blade servers Zoning is supported by the SAS RAID controller module However zoning should not be used for z regular operations that is for purposes other than troubleshooting The RAID functionality is supplied by the SAS RAID Controller Modules installed into the BladeCenter z S chassis RAID levels supported 0 1 5 10 z Maximum volume size is 2 TB z Maximum number of volu...

Page 9: ... Edition z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86 z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen for AMD64 EM64T z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen for x86 z See IBM ServerProven for the latest information on the specific versions and service packs supported http ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us Select the blade server and then select ...

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Page 11: ...egistered or common law trademarks in other countries A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at http www ibm com legal copytrade shtml The following terms are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both BladeCenter IBM Redbooks Redbooks logo System Storage The following terms are trademarks of other companies SUSE the...

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