5802-8205 - IBM i Series E4B, 12X I/O Drawer PCIe, SFF disk

IBM i Series 8205-E6B (#5802) - 12X I/O Drawer PCIe, SFF disk

This feature provides a 4U high I/O drawer containing ten PCIe slots and eighteen SAS hot-swap Small Form Factor disk bays. This drawer attaches to the central electronics complex via 12X DDR cables (#1862, #1864, or #1865). When SFF disks are installed, they are driven by at least one SAS PCIe adapter and SAS AT cable (#3688). Using a mode switch the 18 SFF slots can be configured as one group of 18 slots (AIX/Linux) or two groups or 9 slots (AIX/IBM i/Linux) or four groups of 4 or 5 slots (AIX/Linux).

Attributes provided: 10 PCIe Slots, 18 SFF SAS disk bays

Attributes required: Available 12X connection ports.

For 8202-E4B: (#5802)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 2 (Initial order maximum: 2)

OS level required:

AIX Version 5.3 supported

AIX Version 6.1 supported

AIX Version 7.1 supported

IBM i 6.1 supported

IBM i 7.1 supported

SUSE Linux supported

Red Hat Linux supported

Refer to Software Requirements for specific O/S levels supported

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No