Product guide

IBM NeXtScale nx360 M5 19
Internal tape drives
The server does not support internal tape drive options.
Optical drives
The server does not support internal optical drive options. Instead, use an external USB drive, such as the
IBM and Lenovo part numbers 73P4515 or 73P4516.
I/O expansion options
The nx360 M5 offers the following I/O expansion options:
One PCIe 3.0 x16 ML2 adapter slot (optional, front accessible)
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One PCIe 3.0 x16 full-height half-length slot (optional, front accessible)
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One PCIe 2.0 x8 slot for internal RAID controller (optional, not front accessible)
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Notes:
Each slot requires a riser card, as listed in the following table.
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The use of the PCIe full-height slot and the use of the two 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays are mutually
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exclusive.
When the PCIe Native Expansion Tray is installed, the full-height half-length slot becomes a PCIe 3.0
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x8 interface (physically still a x16 connector).
The front accessible slots are shown in the following figure. The internal slot for the RAID controller is
shown in Figure 3.
Figure 9. Optional front accessible PCIe slots
With the addition of the IBM NeXtScale PCIe Native Expansion Tray, the server has two additional PCIe
3.0 x16 full-height full-length double-width slots, as described in the "IBM NeXtScale PCIe Native
Expansion Tray" section.
The ordering information for optional risers for the three slots is listed in the following table.
Table 13. Riser card options
Part number Feature code Description Maximum
supported
00FL180 A5JV nx360 M5 ML2 Riser 1
00FL464 A5JY nx360 M5 Compute Node Front Riser 1
00FL179 A5JZ nx360 M5 RAID Riser 1