5886-8204 - IBM i Model E8A EXP 12S

IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#5886) EXP 12S

(Refurbished Condition Only as of January 6, 2012)

The EXP 12S is an expansion drawer with twelve 3.5-inch form factor SAS bays. #5886 supports up to 12 hot-swap SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD) or up to 8 hot-swap Solid State Drives (SSD). The EXP 12S includes redundant AC power supplies and two power cords. Though the drawer is one set of 12 drives which is run by one SAS controller or one pair of SAS controllers, it has two SAS attachment ports and two Service Managers for redundancy. The EXP 12S takes up a 2 EIA space in a 19-inch rack. The SAS controller can be a SAS PCI-X or PCIe adapter or pair of adapters or can be an imbedded SAS controller in a server with an imbedded SAS port such as the 8203 or 8204. Attachment to the controller is via the appropriate external SAS cables. A pair of #5886 EXP12S drawers can be attached together with SAS cables allowing the SAS controller(s) to access 24 SAS bays.

Attributes provided: 12 SAS bays, slot filler panels are provided for empty bays when initially shipped from IBM.

Attributes required:

Available SAS controller (PCI or imbedded server controller)

Power System server, POWER5 or later

Available 2U 19-inch rack space

For 8204-E8A: IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#5886)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 48 (Initial order maximum: 48)

OS level required:

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-07 Technology Level or later.

AIX 6.1 or later.

IBM i V5R4 with V5R4M5 machine code, or later

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for POWER Systems, or later.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER, version 4.6, or later.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER, version 5.1, or later.

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No

Note: System Maximum of 48 is achievable with SAS adapters in remote I/O drawers. Four #5886 can be supported per #5900. Two #5886 per SAS Adapter is recommended for redundant configurations.