26 IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
3 Gb SAS Passthrough Expansion Card (CIOv)
This card, feature #8246, is an expansion card that offers the ideal way to connect the
supported BladeCenter servers to a wide variety of SAS storage devices. The SAS
connectivity card can connect to the Disk Storage Modules in the BladeCenter S. The card
routes the pair of SAS channels from the blade's onboard SAS controller to the SAS switches
installed in the BladeCenter chassis.
This card is installed into the CIOv slot of the supported blade server. It provides connections
to SAS modules located in bays 3 and 4 of a supported BladeCenter chassis.
The card has the following features:
CIOv form factor
Provides external connections for the two SAS ports of blade server's onboard SAS
controller
Support for two full-duplex SAS ports at 3 Gbps maximum per channel
Support for SAS, SSP, and SMP protocols
Connectivity to SAS storage devices
For more information, see the IBM Redbooks at-a-glance guide at the following Web page:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0701.html?Open
QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh)
The QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter, feature #8271,
is installed in the blade server and allows connectivity to high-speed switch bays. This
expansion card provides flexibility for connecting the blade server to the horizontally oriented
BladeCenter H modules in bays 7 and 8 or bays 9 and 10 when using the Multi-Switch
Interconnect Module (MSIM). This card is used in conjunction with MSIM on the chassis and
requires that a Fibre Channel capable I/O module is installed in the right position of the MSIM.
It can be combined with a CFFv I/O card on the same high-speed blade server.
The card has the following features:
Support for Fibre Channel protocol SCSI (FCP-SCSI) and Fibre Channel Internet protocol
(FCP-IP)
Support for point-to-point fabric connection (F-port fabric login)
Support for Fibre Channel service (classes 2 and 3)
Support for NPIV when installed in PS701, PS700 and PS702 Blade Servers
Support for remote startup (boot) operations
Support for BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
Support for Fibre Device Management Interface (FDMI) standard (VESA standard)
Fibre Channel 8 Gbps, 4 Gbps, or 2 Gbps auto-negotiation
For more information, see the IBM Redbooks at-a-glance guide at the following Web page:
Tip: This card is also known as the SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter.
Note: This card is also known as the QLogic Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion
Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter. However, the Ethernet ports were not supported in the
POWER7 processor-based blades at the time of writing.
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