Cabling The Pcie Storage Enclosure; Cabling The 5888 Pcie Storage Enclosure To An 8202-E4C Or 8205-E6C System - IBM Power System 5888 Service Information

Table 1. PCIe storage enclosure features (continued)
Feature code
External hard disk drives (HDD)
External SAS enclosures
Drive redundant SAS paths
Drive concurrent maintenance
Enclosure RAID module (ERM)
ERM custom card identification
number (CCIN)
ERM RAID levels
ERM write cache size
ERM external SAS links
ERM concurrent maintenance
ERM fan assembly
ERM fan concurrent maintenance
Redundant power supplies
Power supply concurrent
maintenance
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See Managing PCI adapters

Cabling the PCIe storage enclosure

Use this information as a guide for cabling your storage enclosure.
Cabling the 5888 PCIe storage enclosure to an 8202-E4C or 8205-E6C
system
Use this information as a guide for cabling your PCIe storage enclosure to an 8202-E4C or 8205-E6C
system.
Figure 3 on page 5 shows one 5888 PCIe storage enclosure connected to a single 8202-E4C or 8205-E6C
system by using one feature code (FC) EJ03 PCIe2 GX++ adapter and two PCIe cables.
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Power Systems: Service information for the PCIe storage enclosures
5888
None
None
Two paths from each enclosure RAID
module (ERM) (one path through
each SAS expander)
Yes
PCIe2 3.1 GB cache RAID SAS
enclosure 6 GB x8
57C3
RAID 0, 5, 6, and 10 with hot spare
for 5, 6, and 10
3.1 GB
None
No
Two redundant fans per ERM
No
Two
Yes
EDR1
48 maximum
Two 5887 disk drive enclosures
maximum
Two paths from each enclosure RAID
module (ERM) (one path through
each SAS expander)
Yes
PCIe2 3.1 GB cache RAID SAS
enclosure 6 GB x8
57C3
RAID 0, 5, 6, and 10 with hot spare
for 5, 6, and 10
3.1 GB
Two mini SAS HD 4x connectors that
contain three physical links each
Yes
Two redundant fans per ERM
Yes
Two
Yes