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SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

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Supported operating systems

The SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) supports the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2, Standard x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2, Datacenter x64 and x86 Editions

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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 and 2003 R2 Standard Edition

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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 and 2003 R2 Premium Edition

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen for x86

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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 the 

expansion card to see the supported operating systems.

Related publications

For more information refer to these documents:

SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) Installation and User Guide:

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http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5079707

    

IBM US Announcement Letter for the SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv)

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http://ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=ca&&htmlfid=897/ENUS109-101

 

IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide

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http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073016

  

IBM Redbooks publication 

IBM BladeCenter Products and Technology: 

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http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247523.html

 

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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