Supported bare metal input/output (I/O) adapters on IBM Power S824L

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Bare metal, or non-virtualized, servers support a variety of adapters. This list of adapters is supported on specific IBM Power Systems, including the following models: 8247-42L (IBM Power System S824L).

Refer to these tables to find out if your I/O adapter is supported on systems running in bare metal mode.

Table 1. Supported InfiniBand adapters
InfiniBand adapter name Feature code Customer card identification number (CCIN) OS levels
PCIe3 2-port 56 Gb FDR IB Adapter x16 EL50 2CE7 Ubuntu 14.04.2 with MLNX_OFED Ubuntu 16.04, or later, with MLNX_OFED Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later, with MLNX_OFED
PCIe3 2-port 100 Gb EDR IB Adapter x16 EC3F 2CEA Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later, with MLNX_OFED 3.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later, with MLX_OFED 3.3, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later, with MLNX_OFED 3.3, or later
PCIe3 1-port 100 Gb EDR IB Adapter x16

EC3U

2CEB

 Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later, with MLNX_OFED 3.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later, with MLNX_OFED 3.3, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later, with MLNX_OFED 3.3, or later
Table 2. Supported Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) adapters
RoCE adapter name Feature code Customer card identification number (CCIN) OS levels
PCIe3 2-Port 40 GbE NIC RoCE QSFP+ Adapter EC3B 57BD Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later, with MLNX_OFED Ubuntu 16.04, or later, with MLNX_OFED Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later, with MLNX_OFED
Table 3. Supported local area network (LAN) adapters
LAN adapter name Feature code Customer card identification number (CCIN) OS levels
PCIe2 LP 4-Port (10Gb+1GbE) SR+RJ45 Adapter EN0S 2CC3 Ubuntu 14.04.1, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
PCIe2 4-port (10Gb+1GbE) Copper SFP+RJ45 Adapter EN0U 2CC3 Ubuntu 14.04.1, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
PCIe2 LP 2-port 10 GbE BaseT RJ45 Adapter EL55 2CC4 Ubuntu 14.04.1, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
PCIe2 4-port 1 GbE Adapter 5899 576F Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
PCIe2 4-port 1 GbE Adapter EL4L 576F Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
Table 4. Supported storage controllers for fibre channel storage
Storage controller name (fibre channel) Feature code Customer card identification number (CCIN) OS levels
PCIe2 LP 8 Gb 4-port Fibre Channel Adapter EN12 EN0Y Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
PCIe LP 8 Gb 2-Port Fibre Channel Adapter EL58 577D Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
PCIe2 LP 16 Gb 2-port Fibre Channel Adapter EL5B 577F Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
Table 5. Supported storage backplanes for serial attached SCSI (SAS)
Storage controller name (serial attached SCSI) Feature code Customer card identification number (CCIN) OS levels
PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID internal adapter 6Gb EJ0N 57D7 Ubuntu 14.04.1, or later Ubuntu 16.04, or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later
Table 6. Supported Accelerator adapters
Accelerator adapters Feature code Customer card identification number (CCIN) OS levels
PCIe gen3 x16 GPU Adapter EC47 2CE8 Ubuntu 14.04.2, with CUDA 7.0, available from NVidia1 Ubuntu 14.10, with CUDA 7.0, available from NVidia
PCIe gen3 x16 GPU Adapter EC4B 2CE9 Ubuntu 14.04.2, with CUDA 7.0, available from NVidia1
1 Download CUDA from the NVidia website.