Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5250 Appliance
installations
You can use the supported Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configurations to best serve
the needs of your particular environment.
The controller is installed in both non-shelf and with-shelf configurations
The following table provides information on the make and model of each the PCIe
cards that are available for use in each appliance I/O slot.
Table 1-10
Acceptable PCIe-based I/O cards for each appliance I/O slot
Comment
Acceptable PCIe I/O card
Slot
External RAID controller to which you
connect a Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB
Storage Shelf
INTEL RMS3MD088F 12Gb/s 8 port
Internal / 8 port External PCI-Express
3.0 X8 SAS RAID controller
1
PCIe-based 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus
adapter
PCIe-based 16Gb 25/10Gb network
interface cards
QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre
Channel host bus adapter
*
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN
MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
2
PCIe-based 16Gb 25/10Gb network
interface cards
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN
MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
3
PCIe-based 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus
adapter
PCIe-based 16Gb 25/10Gb network
interface cards
QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre
Channel host bus adapter
*
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN
MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
4
PCIe-based 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus
adapter
QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre
Channel host bus adapter
*
5
PCIe-based 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus
adapter
QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre
Channel host bus adapter
*
6
QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter
The QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapter is used for
optimized deduplication over Fibre Channel, tape library connectivity, or Fibre
Transport Media Server (FTMS) mode.
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About the Veritas 5250 Appliance
Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options