Oracle^® ZFS Storage Appliance Customer Service Manual

ZS5-2 PCIe Card Configuration

The ZS5-2 controller is equipped with six PCle Gen3 expansion slots. One of these slots is always dedicated to an external HBA and one is reserved for a cluster interface card. The remaining slots may be used for an additional external HBA or one of several client-facing adapters.

The ZS5-2 base configuration contains the following PCIe cards:

• One 4-port (4x4) SAS external HBA (slot 2)

• One cluster interface card (slot 4)

The following figure shows the PCIe I/O slot numbers.

PCIe Slot Order - Install optional PCIe cards in the following order:

1. Install an additional 4x4 SAS HBA card into slot 6.

2. Install optional dual port QDR 40Gb InfiniBand HCA cards into slot 5, then slot 1, then slot 3, then slot 6.

3. Install optional dual port 16Gb FC HBA cards into slot 5, then slot 1, then slot 3, then slot 6.

4. Install optional dual port 40GbE NIC cards into slot 5, then slot 1, then slot 3, then slot 6.

5. Install optional dual port 10Gb Ethernet cards into slot 5, then slot 1, then slot 3, then slot 6.

6. Install optional dual port 10GBASE-T NIC cards into slot 5, then slot 1, then slot 3, then slot 6.