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IBM feature #ESA4 is the LSI SAS 9206-16E 6 Gbps host bus adapter for the IBM Elastic Storage Server. It is a PCI Express generation 3 SAS adapter with four ports at 6 Gbps, and it is rated at over 1 million input/output operations per second. The adapter supports the attachment of SAS disks and SAS solid-state drives through four mini-SAS HD (high density) connectors.
The card provides 16 lanes of 6 Gbps SAS data transfer, and its PCIe3 interface runs at 8 Gbps per lane. The four mini-SAS HD connectors attach the SAS drives in the EXP24S drawer, using four AE SAS cables.
The adapter FRU number is 00MH942, designed to comply with the RoHS requirement. It is a PCIe3 x8 card for 3.3 V, short in length with a full-height tailstock, and it takes one PCIe x8 slot. In the Elastic Storage Server it is installed in slots P1-C2, P1-C3 and P1-C11, and a maximum of three #ESA4 adapters is supported. The supported operating system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or later.
| Feature code | #ESA4 |
| Description | LSI SAS 9206-16E 6 Gbps Host Bus Adapter |
| System | IBM Elastic Storage Server |
| Adapter FRU number | 00MH942 |
| Bus | PCIe3 x8 |
| Ports | 4 mini-SAS HD connectors, 16 lanes of 6 Gbps SAS |
| Performance | over 1 million IOPS |
| Form factor | short, full-height tailstock |
| Voltage | 3.3 V |
| Slots | P1-C2, P1-C3, P1-C11 |
| Maximum per system | 3 |
| Operating system | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or later |