IBM Power Systems Series Site And Hardware Planning

Notes:
v The second connector on the adapter can be used to attach a disk expansion or media expansion
drawer as shown in Figure 60 on page 129 or Figure 64 on page 133.
Figure 67. SAS adapter to internal SAS disk slots through the system external SAS port
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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