Pcie Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer Optical Cabling - IBM Power Systems E870 Technical Overview And Introduction

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Concurrent repair and add/removal of PCIe adapter cards is done by HMC guided menus or
by operating system support utilities.
A blind swap cassette (BSC) is used to house the full high adapters which go into these slots.
The BSC is the same BSC as used with the previous generation server's
#5802/5803/5877/5873 12X attached I/O drawers.
Figure 2-24 shows the back view of the PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer.
Figure 2-24 Rear view of the PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer

2.9.2 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer optical cabling

I/O drawers are connected to the adapters in the system node with data transfer cables:
2M Optical Cable Pair for PCIe3 Expansion Drawer (#ECC6)
10M Optical Cable Pair for PCIe3 Expansion Drawer (#ECC8)
Cable lengths: Use the 2-meter cables for intra-rack installations. Use the 10-meter
cables for inter-rack installations.
Two PCIe3 Optical Cable Adapter for PCIe3 Expansion Drawer (#EJ07) are required to
connect the expansion drawer, one for each of the two PCIe3 6-slot fanout modules in the
drawer. The top port of the fan out module must be cabled to the top port of the #EJ07 port.
Likewise, the bottom two ports must be cabled together.
Connect an active optical cable to connector T1 on the PCIe3 optical cable adapter in your
server.
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IBM Power Systems E870 and E880 Technical Overview and Introduction
PCIe Optical Interface to CEC
Fan-out Module
6 PCIe G3 Slots
4 x8 & 2 x16 4 x8 & 2 x16
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PCIe Optical Interface to CEC
Fan-out Module
6 PCIe G3 Slots
4 x8 & 2 x16 4 x8 & 2 x16
Dual Power Cords