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AD348A is the upgrade product for adding the second PCI-X 8 Internal Port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host bus adapter to the HP Integrity rx3600, ordered as the upgrade option AD348A#006. The first adapter is the standard PCI-X 8 port SAS host bus adapter installed in the reserved core PCI-X I/O slot 1.
The second adapter is not available for standard factory installation. It must be installed via Factory Express or in the field. When it is installed, it must be located in slot 2, and the LAN adapter is moved to slot 10.
With a second adapter, each adapter connects up to a maximum of 4 drives, and the maximum number of disks supported in a RAIDed array is four. A single adapter supports up to two internal RAID 1 volumes (2x2 HDDs) and a disk for global hot spare, for a maximum of five disks in RAIDed arrays for HP-UX and OpenVMS. All hard disks in a RAID 1 volume must be the same size and speed, and RAID 1 only is supported on this adapter.
The rx3600 supports up to eight internal Serial Attached SCSI 2.5 inch hot plug disk drives. The 8 internal port host bus adapter provides one port per disk for point to point connection: each disk has its own 3 Gb link.
| Designation | PCI-X 8 Internal Port SAS host bus adapter, second adapter |
| Upgrade option | AD348A#006 |
| Server | HP Integrity rx3600 |
| Slot for second adapter | PCI-X slot 2 (LAN adapter moves to slot 10) |
| Slot for first adapter | Core PCI-X I/O slot 1 |
| Factory installation | Not available as standard; Factory Express or field |
| Drives per adapter with two adapters | Up to 4 |
| Maximum disks in RAIDed array with two adapters | 4 |
| RAID level | RAID 1 only |
| Internal disks supported by server | Up to 8 SAS 2.5 inch hot plug |
| Link per disk | 3 Gb |