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- Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 or later with aacraid device driver X.Y.Z
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, for Power, or later with aacraid device driver X.Y.Z
- For support details, see the Linux Alert website (www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/
lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).
- The latest version of the device driver or iprutils can be downloaded from IBM Service and
Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/
home.html).
v PowerKVM 3.1 Systems (FC EC40):
– Virtualized resources served to guest partitions
– PCI pass-through direct to guests not supported
PCIe3 low profile 6 Gb SAS/SATA RAID adapter (FC EC3Y - PMC 71605E)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC EC3Y - PMC
71605E) adapter.
Overview
The PCIe Gen3 SAS/SATA RAID Adapter is a low-profile, PCIe generation-3 (PCIe3) x8 adapter with a
256 MB volatile write cache. The adapter has four internal connections each of which has four x1 ports,
allowing it to support up to 16 drives. The adapter supports RAID (0, 1, 1E, 10) and the hot plug of its
attached drives.
Note: Cache content is lost if a problem such as a power failure occurs.
The adapter provides the following RAID features:
v Optimized Disk Utilization
v Hybrid RAID levels: 0, 1, 1E, 10
v HBA Mode and Simple Volume Mode for automatic deployment
v Supports up to 256 SAS or SATA devices that use SAS expanders
v Support for native 4 K sector SAS and SATA devices in addition to 512-byte sector devices
v Hybrid RAID 1 and 10
v Quick initialization
v Online Capacity Expansion
v Copyback Hot Spare
v Dynamic caching algorithm
v Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
v Background initialization
v Hot-plug drive support
v RAID Level Migration
v Hot spares - global, dedicated, and pooled
v Automatic and manual rebuild of hot spares
v SES and SAF-TE enclosure management
v Configurable stripe size
v S.M.A.R.T. support
v Multiple arrays per disk drive
v Dynamic sector repair
v Staggered drive spin-up
v Bootable array support
v Support for tape devices and autoloaders
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Installing the System and Ordered Parts for the 8348-21C
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