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24 IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction

1.5.8 I/O features

The PS700 and PS701 have one CIOv PCIe expansion card slot and one CFFh PCIe

high-speed expansion card slot. The PS702 blade server has two CIOv expansion card slots

and two CFFh expansion card slots.

Table 1-8 shows the supported CIOv and CFFh expansion cards in POWER7

processor-based servers.

Table 1-8 Supported I/O Expansion Card on POWER7 Blades

QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)

The QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter, feature #8242,

enables high-speed access for IBM blade servers to connect to a Fibre Channel storage area

network (SAN). When compared to the previous-generation 4 Gb adapters, the new adapter

doubles the throughput speeds for Fibre Channel traffic. As a result, you can manage

increased amounts of data and possibly benefit from a reduced hardware expense.

The card has the following features:

򐂰 CIOv form factor

򐂰 QLogic 2532 8 Gb ASIC

򐂰 PCI Express 2.0 host interface

򐂰 Support for two full-duplex Fibre Channel ports at 8 Gbps maximum per channel

򐂰 Support for Fibre Channel Protocol Small Computer System Interface (FCP-SCSI) and

Fibre Channel Internet Protocol (FC-IP)

򐂰 Support for Fibre Channel service (class 3)

򐂰 Support for switched fabric, point-to-point, and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

connections

򐂰 Support for NPIV when installed in the PS700, PS701, and PS702 Blade Servers

For more information, see the IBM Redbooks at-a-glance guide at the following Web page:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0692.html?Open

Card Description Feature Code

CIOv

QLogic 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) 8242

QLogic 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) 8241

Emulex 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) 8240

3 GB SAS Passthrough Expansion Card (CIOv) 8246

CFFh

QLogic 8 GB Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) 8271

QLogic Ethernet and 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) 8252

QLogic 2-port 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) 8275

4X InfiniBand DDR Expansion Card (CFFh) 8258

IBM BladeCenter PS700 User Manual

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