IBM Power Systems Series Site And Hardware Planning

7. Four single FC 5901 or FC 5278 adapters to one 5887 enclosure via a mode 4 connection.
v 5887 enclosure with four sets of six hard disk drives (HDDs).
v Connection using dual SAS X cables to connect to the 5887 enclosure.
v Supported only on AIX and Linux systems.
Figure 81. Mode 2 connection of a 5887 enclosure by using X cables to two pairs of SAS adapters
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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