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SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

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CIOv expansion cards are installed in the CIOv slot in supported servers such as the HS22, as shown in 

Figure 2.

Figure 2. Location of the CIOv slot in the IBM BladeCenter 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

43W3584

Y

N

N

N

N

Содержание SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv)

Страница 1: ...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 se...

Страница 2: ...AS 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 environme...

Страница 3: ...er 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 T...

Страница 4: ...s 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 Descriptio...

Страница 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 a...

Страница 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...

Страница 7: ...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 sto...

Страница 8: ...s 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...

Страница 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...

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