Supported Host Bus Adapters - IBM System x3850 X6 Installation And Service Manual

v The server provides up to twelve PCIe Gen 3 and Gen 2 slots.
v The server also supports several optional NVIDIA adapters that you can
v For information about the specific adapters that you can install in the individual
v The server supports optional RAID controllers, RAID cache cards, and Feature

Supported host bus adapters

Use this information for an overview of the type of host bus adapters that the
server supports and notes about the adapters.
About this task
The following table lists the host bus adapters that the server supports. For more
information about installing adapters, see "Installing an adapter" on page 84.
Table 24. Supported host bus adapters and information about the adapters.
Name of adapter
N2215 SAS/ SATA Host Bus
Adapter for IBM System x
For additional information about the supported adapters, see "Supported RAID
adapters" on page 87, "Supported ML2 (Ethernet) adapters" on page 89, and
"Supported RAID cache cards" on page 88.
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purchase.
Attention: Do not install the NVIDIA Grid K1 and K2, the NVIDIA Tesla K20
and K40, and the NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and K6000 adapter options in systems
containing 1TB of system memory or more. If these options are installed in
systems with 1TB of memory or more, it might cause undetected data corruption
and system instability. These options are only supported in systems containing
less than 1TB of memory. This limitation applies to both the 4-socket (4U) and
the 8-socket (8U) configurations. For more information, see RETAIN tip H213010
at http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/myportal/docdisplay?lndocid=migr-
5096047.
I/O book, see "Storage book" on page 24, "DDR3 compute book" on page 30,
"Half-length I/O book" on page 35, "Full-length I/O book" on page 36, and
"Standard I/O book" on page 32,
On Demand software RAID that you can purchase for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6,
50, and 60 support. For configuration information, see the documentation that
comes with the adapter or the ServeRAID documentation at
http://www.ibm.com/supportportal/.
For more information about supported RAID adapters, see Table 25 on page 87.
For more information about the supported RAID cache cards, see Table 26 on
page 88. For information about the supported Ethernet adapters, see "Supported
ML2 (Ethernet) adapters" on page 89. For more information about the supported
Features on Demand (FoD) software, see Table 28 on page 92. For more
information about the supported Host Bus Adapters, see "Supported host bus
adapters."
Notes
v This solid-state drive controller provides no RAID support. It helps provide
optimized performance for applications that do not need RAID support.
v Low profile adapter
v 12 Gb SAS/SATA Internal non-RAID adapter
v PCIe Gen 3 x8
v 8-port controller