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v The PCIe adapters and their associated SSD modules are supported in the IBM Power 710
Express, IBM Power 720 Express, IBM Power 730 Express, IBM Power 740 Express, and IBM
Power 750 Express system units or in the feature 5802 and 5877 12X PCIe I/O drawers when
attached to the IBM Power 720 Express, IBM Power 740 Express, IBM Power 750 Express, IBM
Power 770, and IBM Power 780.
v The adapter is not supported in the IBM Power 770 and IBM Power 780 system units. It is not
supported in the 12X-attached feature 5803 and 5873 PCIe I/O drawers. It is not supported on
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POWER6 servers.
v Each RAID formatted (528-byte blocks) SSD module provides up to 177 GB of capacity in the
IBM AIX, IBM i, or Linux environment. Modules can also be formatted as a JBOD (512 byte
blocks) and provide up to 200 GB of capacity in an AIX and Linux environment. Formatting for
RAID provides additional data integrity and the option to use RAID 0 (when SSD modules are
mirrored at the operating system level), RAID 5, or RAID 6.
Operating system or partition requirements
This adapter is supported for the following versions of the operating systems:
v AIX
– AIX Version 7.1
– AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-06 Technology Level
– AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level and Service Pack 7
– AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-04 Technology Level and Service Pack 7
– AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-05 Technology Level and Service Pack 3
– AIX for POWER Version 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level and Service Pack 5
– AIX for POWER Version 5.3 with the 5300-11 Technology Level and Service Pack 5
– AIX for POWER Version 5.3 with the 5300-12 Technology Level and Service Pack 2
v Linux
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5, with update 5, or later
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, with Service Pack 3, or later
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, with Service Pack 1, or later
v IBM i
– IBM i Version 7.1
– IBM i Version 6.1, or later
v VIOS
– VIOS Version 2.2, or later
This adapter requires the following drivers:
v AIX: devices.pciex.14103903 device driver package
v Linux:
– iprutils version 2.2.21 and ipr driver version 2.2.0.3 (or newer) for RHEL5 kernels
– iprutils version 2.2.21 and ipr driver version 2.2.0.3 (or newer) for SLES10 kernels
– iprutils version 2.2.21 and ipr driver version 2.4.3 (or newer) for SLES11 kernels
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new
feature and that you determine whether there are any prerequisites for this feature and attaching devices.
To check for the prerequisites, see IBM Prerequisite website (www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/eServerPrereq.nsf).
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