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IBM AS400 iSeries IBM 5886 EXP12S Expansion Drawer  .. Product #: EXP12S-5886

IBM 5886 EXP12S Expansion Drawer Power System Disk

Brand: IBM AS400 iSeries
Model Number: EXP12S-5886

IBM 5886 EXP12S Expansion Drawer for IBM Power Systems provides twelve 3.5-inch form factor SAS bays for disk drives. IBM 5886 supports up to 12 hot-swap SAS Hard Disk Drives HDD or up to 8 hot-swap Solid State Drives IBM SSD. The EXP12S 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 controllers to access 24 SAS bays.
 
The IBM 5886 EXP12S Expansion Drawer supports the following IBM Power System models: 8203, 8204, 8234, 9111, 9113, 9116, 9117, 9119, 9125, 9131, 9133
 
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
2U 19-inch rack space
Maximum allowed: 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.

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.