5486m550.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
126 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook
Model overview
This section takes a closer look at the minimum functional server, required
features, and optional features.
Minimum functional server
A minimum functional server consists of the base server unit and selected priced
features. The base server includes:
Physical package and power elements
Five hot-plug PCI-X card slots
Operator panel (mounting hardware is different between the rack mount
system and the deskside system)
Base 1475W Power Supply (CCIN 51BA)
#6592 Base Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) cage (four hot-plug
internal disk slots)
Base SCSI controller (CCIN 570B)
This controller is integrated with the backplane and does not take up one of
the PCI-X slots. It provides support for up to eight disk units (four in the #6592
Base DASD Cage and four in the #6593 4-Disk Slot Expansion), the required
internal DVD feature, internal feature DVDs, and feature tapes. The base
controller does not support Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) or
hardware data compression. A #5709 RAID Enabler Card (CCIN 5709)
controller must be added if the system data protection is RAID.
The #5709 RAID Enabler Card (CCIN 5709) plugs into the backplane and
does not take up one of the PCI-X slots. It provides support for up to eight disk
units, the required internal DVD feature, internal feature DVDs, and feature
tape devices. This controller supports RAID but does not support hardware
data compression. The #5709 has a 16 MB write cache.
Three media bays and one operator panel bay
– The three media bays consist of one half-height (5 ¼-inch wide x 1-inch
high, top bay) and two slimline bays. The half-height bay is for SCSI media
devices. (Half-high optical devices are not supported in this bay.) The top
slimline bay is usable by i5/OS for the required DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM.
The second slimline bay is straight Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) and is usable only with AIX 5L V5.2 or Linux partitions on 9406
systems.
– In the rack drawer configuration, the bottom bay is for the operator panel.
With a deskside configuration, the operator panel is mounted in a separate
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