IBM i Series 8205-E6B (#5630) - Storage Backplane -- 8 SFF Bays/175MB RAID/Dual IOA</p><p>This feature provides a storage backplane which supports eight SFF (Small Form Factor) storage HDDs or SSDs with paired dual controller support, dual 175MB Cache RAID, RAID-5/6 enablement and an external SAS port. The backplane supports connection for a slimline SATA DVD and a half high tape bay for either a tape drive or USB removable disk. No PCI slot is used for the internal controllers. This feature is required by IBM i to natively use the internal storage (HDDs/SSDs and media) and the system SAS port.</p><p>Attributes provided: Storage backplane</p><p>Attributes required: None</p><p>For 8202-E4B: (#5630)</p><p>Minimum required: 0</p><p>Maximum allowed: 1 (Initial order maximum: 1)</p><p>OS level required:</p><p>AIX Version 5.3 supported</p><p>AIX Version 6.1 supported</p><p>AIX Version 7.1 supported</p><p>IBM i 6.1 supported</p><p>IBM i 7.1 supported</p><p>SUSE Linux supported</p><p>Red Hat Linux supported</p><p>Refer to Software Requirements for specific O/S levels supported</p><p>Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both</p><p>CSU: Yes</p><p>Return parts MES: No</p><p>Note:</p><p>Either #5618 or #5630 required.
