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: 8247-21L (IBM
Power® System S812L) and 8247-22L (IBM Power System S822L).
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 LP 2-port 56 Gb FDR IB Adapter x16 |
EL3D |
2CE7 |
Ubuntu 14.04.2 with MLNX_OFED
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 |
PCIe3 2-port 100 Gb EDR IB Adapter x16 |
EC3E |
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 |
EC3T
|
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 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 |
EN0T |
2CC3 |
Ubuntu 14.04.1, or later
Ubuntu 16.04, or later
Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later |
PCIe2 LP 4-port (10Gb+1GbE) Copper SFP+RJ45 Adapter |
EN0V |
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 |
EL3Z |
2CC4 |
Ubuntu 14.04.1, or later
Ubuntu 16.04, or later
Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later |
PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 GbE Adapter |
5260 |
576F |
Ubuntu 14.04.3, or later
Ubuntu 16.04, or later
Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later |
PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 GbE Adapter |
EL4M |
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 |
EN0Y |
EN0Y |
Ubuntu 14.04.1, 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 |
EL2N |
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 |
EL43 |
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 |
EL3T |
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 |
PCIe3 LP CAPI Accelerator Adapter |
EJ16 |
N/A |
Ubuntu 14.10, or later
Ubuntu 16.04, or later
Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.2, little endian, or later |
1 Download
CUDA from the NVidia website.