Could you get a 91140 to work in a A400?
#Thought experiment..
dense mulch
austere trout
91140?
wooden yoke
Which Card is that? don't see it anywhere in HWU.
x9- it'll have a quick inset cartarage type. so even if you worked around the physical part of it.. and the system found the driver, doubt it would be supported.
nevermind. it's the NVRAM Card.
why?
hasty slate
How would you "insert" that thing anywhere in your A400? Just look at some pictures, it won't physically fit... You want to solder wires to the mainboard or something? 😉
austere trout
NVMe card? Isn't that for FlashCache?
calm vessel
If I am not mistaken, any of those cards for that platform (fas9000/9500/aff700/900) use an adapter card. The x92071a is the same as the x2071a, just in an adapter to slide into the chassis
There may be a few of the cards that only work in that high end platform.
I remember the 40g card…in most platforms the 40g would breakout into 4x10 on port a and port e would be disabled on lower platforms. This platform could handle the bandwidth and either port could be in 40g or 4x10g
dense mulch
X91440A I'm sorry my typo.. Read what i mean? LOL
so there is a 2p 40g card for the 400 but Im asking specifically about the x91440 which does not have a non 9 counter part as far as I can tell
calm vessel
Right. There are some cards that are specifically for the high end platforms (lots and lots of pcie lanes and so forth) that can handle the bandwidth. Those cards do not have a sister card without the “9” at the beginning.
There is an x1440 for the older a300 platform. That card was limited could run at 2x40 or 4x10 only on that platform.
When in the adapter as the x91440 it could support any combination on the card, but only in the a700/fas9000 (when it was released)
The a400 is a newer platform and Netapp decided to only support the 40/100g card there x1148 (does RoCE). There is also an iWARP card used for metro cluster x1146. Depending on platforms always caveats there are
hasty slate
If I am not mistaken, any of those cards for that platform (fas9000/9500/aff700/...
nope. I remember that this was the idea in the beginning, to offer some sort of adapter where you could plug in the regular PCIe cards, but all cards I have seen so far (that includes the quad-UTA cards, the quad 10GBase-T cards, the dual 40G cards, the new dual 100G cards, and the SAS cards) are purpose-built PCBs that extend through the full length of the box, not something plugged into an adapter. (yes I have opened at least one of each 😉 ). They are still PCIe though, and I'm sure you could whip up an adapter for the cPCI connector (or whatever it is called these days) to a regular PCIe slot, but you can't just open them up and get a free PCIe card ... sadly...
you can, however, use pretty much any other "regular" PCIe card (those with a 4-digit code, not the 5-digit 9xxxx code) in any regular PC or server mainboard, as long as you have drivers for it. Most of them are stock OEM cards (that might have a special firmware but usually still work). Network, SAS and FC cards all work. Exceptions I know are the PAM cards (no, they don't work as "fast PCIe SSD" drive), and the "vertical I/O cards" X2056 of the FAS62xx (those are QLogic OEM PCIe FC cards, but they use a chip/device-ID that was never publicly released on any "non-OEM" card, so drivers don't support it, not even Linux 😉 )