5630-8202 - IBM Power7 E4B, Storage Backplane -- 8 SFF Bays/175M

IBM Power7 8202-E4B (#5630) - Storage Backplane -- 8 SFF Bays/175MB RAID/Dual IOA

This feature provides a storage backplane which supports eight SFF (Small Form Factor) storage HDDs or SSDs with paired dual controller support, dual 175MB Cache RAID, RAID-5/6 enablement and an external SAS port. The backplane supports connection for a slimline SATA DVD and a half high tape bay for either a tape drive or USB removable disk. No PCI slot is used for the internal controllers. This feature is required by IBM i to natively use the internal storage (HDDs/SSDs and media) and the system SAS port.

Attributes provided: Storage backplane

Attributes required: None

For 8202-E4B: (#5630)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 1 (Initial order maximum: 1)

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

Note:

Either #5618 or #5630 required.