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SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

IBM BladeCenter at-a-glance guide

The SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter is an expansion card that offers the ideal way to
connect the supported BladeCenter servers to a wide variety of SAS storage devices. Built on proven 3
Gbps, full-duplex, SAS technology, the SAS Connectivity Card can connect to the IBM System Storage
DS3200 from the BladeCenter E or H chassis, and to multiple Disk Storage Modules in the BladeCenter
S. The card routes the pair of SAS channels from the blade's onboard SAS controller to SAS switches
installed in the BladeCenter chassis.

This card is installed into the CIOv slot of the supported blade server. It provides connections to SAS
modules located in bays 3 and 4 of supported BladeCenter chassis. The SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) is
shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

Did you know?

The adapter is based on the PCI Express bus, which can be thought of as a high-speed serial
replacement of the older technology. Its use offers many benefits, including higher speeds and the ability
to send and receive data at the same time.

When using the CIOv adapter, you can simultaneously use a CFFh adapter to enable more types of I/O to
supported blade servers such as the HS22 when installed in the IBM BladeCenter H chassis. The
innovative design of the CIOv adapter works with the CFFh adapter to support this combination.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a point-to-point architecture in which all storage devices connect directly to
a SAS port rather than sharing a common bus as traditional SCSI devices do. Point-to-point links increase
data throughput and improve the ability to locate and fix disk failures. SAS architecture solves the parallel
SCSI problems of clock skew and signal degradation at higher signaling rates.

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Part number information

The part number to order this card is shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Ordering part number and feature code

Description Part number Feature code

SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter 43W4068 1041

The part number includes the following items:

z

One SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

z

The Documentation CD that contains the

SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter

Installation and User’s Guide

z

The

IBM Important Notices

document

Features

SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) has the following features:

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CIOv form factor

z

Provides external connections for the two SAS ports of blade server's onboard LSI 1064e disk
storage controller

z

Support for two full-duplex SAS ports at 3 Gbps maximum per channel

z

Support for SAS, SSP, and SMP protocols

Operating environment

The expansion card is supported in this environment:

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Temperature:

z

10 to 35°C (50 to 95°F) at 0 to 914 m (0 to 3,000 ft)

z

10 to 32°C (50 to 90°F) at 914 to 2,133 m (3,000 to 7,000 ft)

Relative humidity: 8% to 80%z

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Maximum altitude: 2,133 m (7,000 ft)

Supported servers and I/O modules

The SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) is supported in the IBM BladeCenter servers listed in Table 2.

Table 2. Supported servers

Part

Expansion card

SAS Connectivity Card
(CIOv)

number

43W4068 N N N Y N N N N N N N Y Y N

N

See IBM ServerProven for the latest information on the expansion cards supported by each blade server
type: http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/.

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CIOv expansion cards are installed in the CIOv slot in supported servers such as the HS22, as shown in
Figure 2.

Figure 2. Location of the CIOv slot in the IBM BladeCenter HS22

The SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) requires that a supported I/O module is installed in bay 3 (and bay 4
depending on the configuration) of the chassis in which the cards and servers are installed. Table 3 lists
the supported I/O modules.

Table 3. I/O modules supported with the SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv)

I/O module Part number

SAS Connectivity Module 39Y9195 Y Y Y Y Y

SAS RAID Controller Module 43W3584 Y N N N N

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Popular configurations

This section illustrates three ways in which the SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) can be used in
configurations.

External DS3200 attachment

Figure 3 shows the supported topology for the SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) and an IBM System Storage
DS3200 storage server connected to the BladeCenter E or BladeCenter H chassis. In this configuration,
the RAID functionality is provided by the external DS3200 storage server.

Figure 3. IBM BladeCenter connected to an external IBM System Storage DS3200 storage solution

The parts used in this configuration are listed in Table 4.

Table 4. Components used when connecting the SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) to external disk storage

Diagram
reference

Part number / Machine
type

Varies BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server 1 to 14

43W4068 SAS Connectivity Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter 1 per

8677 or 8852 BladeCenter E or BladeCenter H 1

39Y9195 IBM BladeCenter SAS Connectivity Module 2

1726-22X IBM System Storage DS3200 (Dual Controller) 1

1727 Optional IBM System Storage EXP3000 (Dual ESM) 1 to 3

39R6536 DS3000 Partition Expansion License 1

Description Quantity

server

This configuration will also require cabling between the chassis and the storage server and between the
storage server and expansion units. (The cable part numbers are not listed in the table.)

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