I/O Features - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

1.5.8 I/O features

The PS700 and PS701 have one CIOv PCIe expansion card slot and one CFFh PCIe
high-speed expansion card slot. The PS702 blade server has two CIOv expansion card slots
and two CFFh expansion card slots.
Table 1-8 shows the supported CIOv and CFFh expansion cards in POWER7
processor-based servers.
Table 1-8 Supported I/O Expansion Card on POWER7 Blades
Card Description
CIOv
QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
QLogic 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
Emulex 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
3 GB SAS Passthrough Expansion Card (CIOv)
CFFh
QLogic 8 GB Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh)
QLogic Ethernet and 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh)
QLogic 2-port 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh)
4X InfiniBand DDR Expansion Card (CFFh)
QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
The QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter, feature #8242,
enables high-speed access for IBM blade servers to connect to a Fibre Channel storage area
network (SAN). When compared to the previous-generation 4 Gb adapters, the new adapter
doubles the throughput speeds for Fibre Channel traffic. As a result, you can manage
increased amounts of data and possibly benefit from a reduced hardware expense.
The card has the following features:
CIOv form factor
QLogic 2532 8 Gb ASIC
PCI Express 2.0 host interface
Support for two full-duplex Fibre Channel ports at 8 Gbps maximum per channel
Support for Fibre Channel Protocol Small Computer System Interface (FCP-SCSI) and
Fibre Channel Internet Protocol (FC-IP)
Support for Fibre Channel service (class 3)
Support for switched fabric, point-to-point, and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
connections
Support for NPIV when installed in the PS700, PS701, and PS702 Blade Servers
For more information, see the IBM Redbooks at-a-glance guide at the following Web page:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0692.html?Open
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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
Feature Code
8242
8241
8240
8246
8271
8252
8275
8258