Hot-swap support
In order for an I/O Book to be hot-swappable, all adapters that are installed in the book must support hot-
swap and the operating system must also support hot-swap. These operating systems support hot-swap:
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
The adapters listed in the following table support hot-swap.
Table 19. Adapters that support hot swap
Part number Feature code Description
00D8540* A4XH Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA IIIr for System x*
49Y7960 A2EC Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for System x
49Y7970 A2ED Intel X540-T2 Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for System x
00AG500 A56K Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter for System x
00AG510 A56L Intel I350-T2 2xGbE BaseT Adapter for System x
00AG520 A56M Intel I350-T4 4xGbE BaseT Adapter for System x
* Hot-swap is only supported when the adapter is in pNIC mode. Hot-swap is not supported in either vNIC
mode (Virtual Fabric mode or Switch Independent mode).
Optional I/O books
The usage of these Optional I/O Books requires all four processors to be installed.
The following table shows the ordering information for the optional I/O Books.
Table 20. I/O Book options
Part
number
Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported x3850 X6
44X4049 A4A2 X6 Half-Length I/O Book 2
44X4051 A4A3* X6 Full-Length I/O Book 2
* The Full-length I/O Book can be ordered only as an option. It is not available through CTO because the
Full-length I/O Book cannot be shipped installed in the server
The following figure shows the two optional I/O Books, the Half-length I/O Book and the Full-length I/O
Book.