IBM Power Systems Series Site And Hardware Planning

Table 143. SAS cable labeling (continued)
Name Connects Label
SAS 4x EE cable One disk expansion drawer to
another disk expansion drawer in a
cascaded configuration
SAS AA cable SAS adapter to SAS adapter
SAS YO cable SAS adapter to a disk expansion
drawer
SAS X cable Two SAS adapters to a disk
expansion drawer in a RAID
configuration
SAS YI cable System external SAS port to a disk
expansion drawer
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IBM Power Systems Series Specifications

General

Virtualization	PowerVM
Architecture	POWER
Operating System	AIX, IBM i, Linux
Use Case	Enterprise workloads, cloud
Form Factor	Rack-mount
I/O	PCIe
Power Supply	Redundant power supplies available
Management	HMC (Hardware Management Console)
Processor	IBM POWER processors (POWER9, POWER10, etc.)
Storage	Supports various storage options including SSDs and HDDs