Chapter 1: Overview
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1-8 Introduction to the AOM-S3108M-H8L Mezzanine
Card (Optional)
The Supermicro AOM-S3108M-H8L is a highly-efficient SAS controller mezzanine
card that offers a high level of performance in today’s server and storage environ-
ments. This mezzanine card can directly support eight SSD devices and delivers
SAS data transfer rates of up to 12Gb/s. Designed for use on a Supermicro propri-
etary motherboard, the AOM-S3108M-H8L also supports CacheVault Flash Cache,
MegaRAID, and can run on Windows and Linux operating systems. Supermicro
continues to be an industry leader with the introduction of the AOM-S3108M-H8L.
Note
: For SAS support, be sure to use an SMC-proprietary mezzanine
card. Install the mezzanine card (AOM-S3108M-H8L) with the LSI 3108
controller built-in on the (CPU1) JMEZZ1 PCI-E slot for SAS 3.0 support.
Refer to Section 2-6 for more information.
AOM-S3108M-H8L Add-on Card