Specifications

5102ch02.fm Draft Document for Review May 12, 2014 12:46 pm
44 IBM Power System S822 Technical Overview and Introduction
򐂰 Adapters with smaller speeds are allowed in larger sized PCIe connectors but larger
speed adapters are not compatible in smaller connector sizes (i.e. a x16 adapter cannot
go in an x8 PCIe slot connector).
All adapters support Enhanced Error Handling (EEH). PCIe adapters use a different type of
slot than PCI adapters. If you attempt to force an adapter into the wrong type of slot, you
might damage the adapter or the slot.
IBM POWER8 processor based servers are able to support two different form factors of
PCIe adapters:
򐂰 PCIe low profile (LP) cards, which are used with the Power S822 PCIe slots.
򐂰 PCIe full height and full high cards are not compatible with Power S822 and are designed
to the following servers:
–PowerS814
–PowerS824
Before adding or rearranging adapters, use the System Planning Tool to validate the new
adapter configuration. See the System Planning Tool website:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/tools/systemplanningtool/
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software required to support the
new feature and determine whether there are any existing update prerequisites to install. To
do this, use the IBM prerequisite website:
https://www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/eServerPreReq.nsf
The following sections discuss the supported adapters and provide tables of orderable feature
numbers. The tables indicate operating system support (AIX, and Linux) for each of the
adapters.
2.5.2 LAN adapters
In order to connect the Power S822 to a local area network (LAN), you can use the LAN
adapters that are supported in the PCIe slots of the system unit. Table 2-9 lists the available
LAN adapters.
Table 2-9 Available LAN adapters
Feature
code
CCIN Description Maximum
with one
processor
installed
Maximum
with two
processors
installed
OS support
5260 576F PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 GbE
Adapter
6 8 AIX, Linux
5270 2B3B PCIe LP 10 Gb FCoE 2-port
Adapter
5 8 AIX, Linux
5271 5271 PCIe LP 4-Port 10/100/1000
Base-TX Ethernet Adapter
5 8 AIX, Linux
5272 5272 PCIe LP 10 GbE CX4 1-port
Adapter
5 8 AIX, Linux
5274 5768 PCIe LP 2-Port 1 GbE SX
Adapter
5 8 AIX, Linux