Optional Components
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PCIe Drive Controllers in BaseIO Blade
The SGI UV 2000 system offers a RAID or non-RAID (JBOD) PCIe-based drive controller that
resides in the BaseIO blade’s PCIe slot. Figure 1-9 shows an example of the system disk HBA
controller location in the BaseIO blade.
Note: The PCIe drive controller (upper-right section in Figure 1-9) always hosts the system boot
drives.
Figure 1-9 BaseIO Blade and PCIe Disk Controller Example
RAID PCIe Disk Controller
At the time this document was published, the optional RAID controller used in the BaseIO blade
PCIe slot is an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e. This PCIe 2.0 card uses two external SAS control
connectors and supports the following:
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
• Advanced array configuration and management utilities
USB
2
1
0
SAS0-3 SAS4-7
VGA
SERIAL
LAN1
LAN0 BMC
PCIE
SAS System Disk Connectors