Supported hardware

Use this information to identify various IBM® systems and storage products that are supported by Dynamic System Analysis.

Supported Intel and AMD processor-based systems

You can run diagnostic tests and collect system information for the following Intel and AMD processor-based systems using Dynamic System Analysis:

Table 1. Supported IBM systems
Server	Machine type
BladeCenter® HS22	1911, 1936, 7809, 7870
BladeCenter HS22V	1949, 7871
BladeCenter HS23	1929, 7875
BladeCenter HS23E	8038, 8039
BladeCenter HX5	1909, 1910, 7872, 7873
Flex System x220 Compute Node	2585, 7906
Flex System x222 Compute Node	7916
Flex System x240 Compute Node	7863, 8737, 8738, 8956
Flex System x440 Compute Node	2584, 7917
iDataPlex® dx360 M2	7321, 7323
iDataPlex dx360 M3	6391
iDataPlex dx360 M4	7912, 7913, 7918, 7919
IBM NeXtScale Node	5455
Smart Analytics System	7949
System x®3100 M4	2582
System x3200 M2	4367, 4368
System x3200 M3	7327, 7328
System x3250 M2	4190, 4191, 4194, 7657
System x3250 M3	4251, 4252, 4261
System x3250 M4	2583
System x3250 M5	5458
System x3300 M4	7382
System x3400 M2	7836, 7837
System x3400 M3	7378, 7379
System x3500 M2	7839
System x3500 M3	7380
System x3500 M4	7383
System x3530 M4	7160
System x3550 M2	4198, 7946
System x3550 M3	4254, 7944
System x3550 M4	7383, 7914
System x3620 M3	7376
System x3630 M3	7377
System x3630 M4	7518, 7519
System x3650 M2	4199, 7947
System x3650 M3	4255, 5454, 7945
System x3650 M4	7915
System x3650 M4 BD	5466
System x3650 M4 HD	5460
System x3690 X5	7147, 7148, 7149, 7192
System x3750 M4	8722, 8733, 8718, 8752
System x3755 M3	7164
System x3850 X5	7143, 7145, 7146, 7191
System x3850 X6/x3950 X6	3837, 3839
System x3950 X5	7143, 7145, 7146, 7191

Supported storage

DSA does not run directly on an external storage device. DSA collects system information and runs diagnostic tests on the following storage devices:

IBM System Storage® DS4000® family
IBM System Storage DS8000® family

Supported server options

Ethernet adapters
- Broadcom 1 Gb 4 port Mezz Card Tier 1
- Broadcom 1 Gb Ethernet CFFh Expansion Card
- Broadcom 10 Gb Ethernet CFFh Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter
- Broadcom Dual Port 10GB SFP + Adapter
- Broadcom Dual Port 10GB SFP + Ethernet Card
- BroadcomDual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter
- Broadcom Dualrunner/Quadrunner NetXtreme I
- Broadcom NetXtreme II
- Broadcom NetXtreme Dual_Port 10 GbE BaseT Adapter for IBM System x
- Emulex 2-Port 10 Gb Multi-function IO Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter (vNIC)
- Emulex 2+2 10 Gb (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter (vNIC)
- Emulex 10 GbE vNIC w/ BE3 Chipset
- Emulex Dual Port 10 GBase-T Embedded Adapter for IBM System x
- Emulex Dual Port 10 GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter for IBM System x
- Emulex Dual Port 10 GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter BE3R for IBM System x
- Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA II for IBM BladeCenter HS23
- Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA III for IBM System x
- Emulex x ITE-Blacktip onboard NIC for Flex
- IBM Flex System 4-port 10GB Ethernet Adapter
- IBM Flex System CN4054 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
- IBM Flex System CN4058 Virtual Fabric Adapter FCoE Upgrade
- IBM Flex System CN4024 4-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
- IBM NetXtreme II 1000 Express® Ethernet Adapter
- Intel 10 GB SFP+ NIC
- Intel X540 Dual Port 10GBaseT Embedded Adapter
- Intel Xeon Phi 5110P
- Intel Xeon Phi 7120P
- Intel x520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter
- Mellanox 2x 10 GbE SFP+ ConnextX-2LowLatency, RDMA
- Mellanox 2xFDR10 ConnectX3 Adapter
- Mellanox 2-port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter for IBM Flex System® EN6132
- Mellanox 2-port FRD Infiniband Adapter for IBM Flex System IB6132 (Malaya-x)
- Mellanox 10 Gb 2-port Ethernet Adapter for IBM Flex System EN4132
- Mellanox 10 Gb 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card
- Mellanox 10 GB Ethernet Mezzanine Card (x-only) Tier 2 (Malaya-xnet)
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 GbE Adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-2 Dual Port 10 GbE Adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-2 Dual Port 10 GbE Adapter for IBM System x
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 40GbE Adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port PCI-E 2.0 Mezzanine
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port QSFP FDR 10 IB Adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port QDR/FDR10 Mezzanine Card
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI IB/E Adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR14 Mezzanine Card
- Mellanox FDR FDR IB Dual Port
- Mellanox QDR/FDR Mezzanine Card (x-only) Tier 2 (Malaya-x)
- QLogic 16Gb FC HBA
Note: Mellanox options are only supported by portable DSA, not by preboot Dynamic System Analysis.
Graphics Processing units
- Nvidia Gemini Kepler GPU (K10)
- Nvidia Quadro 2000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 600, 5000 update
- Nvidia Quadro K600, K2000, K4000, K5000
- Nvidia Tesla K20, K20X
- Nvidia Tesla K40m
- Nvidia Tesla M2090, M2090 update, X2090, X2090 update
- Nvidia VGX K1, K2
Fibre Channel adapters
- Brocade 4 Gb FC Dual-port HBA
- Brocade 4 Gb FC Single-port HBA
- Brocade 8 Gb FC Dual-port HBA
- Brocade 8 Gb FC Single-port HBA
- Brocade 10 Gb CNA
- Brocade 16 Gb FC Dual-port Mezz
- Brocade 16Gb FC Quad Port
- Brocade 16 Gb FC Single/Dual-port HBA
- Emulex 2-Port 10 Gb Multi-function IO Adapter
- Emulex 2-port 16Gb FC Adapter for IBM Flex System FC5052
- Emulex 4-port 16Gb FC Adapter for IBM Flex System FC5054
- Emulex 4G FC exp. card
- Emulex 4 Gb/s FC PCI Express HBA (lpe11000/lpe11002)
- Emulex 4 Gb/s FC PCI-X 2.0 HBA (lp11000/lp11002)
- Emulex 4G SFF FC exp
- Emulex 8 Gb FC Dual-port HBA for IBM System x
- Emulex 8 Gb FC Mezz card
- Emulex 8 Gb FC Single-port HBA for IBM System x
- Emulex 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel over Ethernet Dual Channel Converged Network Adapter
- Emulex 10 Gb 4-port Mezz card w/ FcOE/iSCSI key (Wildcat) for System X Tier 1
- Emulex 16 Gb Fibre Channel Single/Dual-port HBA
- Emulex Dual Port 10 GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter for IBM System x
- Emulex x ITE-Blacktip onboard NIC for Flex
- Emulex Nantahala onboard NIC OCl14104-U2-X
- Emulex PCI-e Gen 2.0 Dual Port 10 Gb NIC
- Endeavor III/Endeavor III Lite (vNIC2) using IBM FoD for FCoE Upgrade
- IBM SAS HBA controller
- LSI 1068 SAS HBA
- LSI 12Gb RoMB
- LSI N2115 SAS/SATA HBA
- LSI N2125 SAS/SATA HBA
- LSI N2126 SAS/SATA HBA
- LSI N2215 SAS/SATA HBA
- QLogic 2-Gbps Fibre Channel HBA
- QLogic 2-port 16 Gb FC Adapter for IBM Flex System FC5172
- QLogic 4G/8G FC CFF exp. card
- QLogic 4G/8G FC dual port HBA
- QLogic 4G/8G FC single port HBA
- QLogic 4G/8G SFF FC exp. card
- Qlogic 8 Gb FC 2 port mezz card Tier 1 for Flex
- QLogic 10Gb ASIC Update
- Qlogic 8200 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter
- QLogic Dual Port 10 GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter for IBM System x
- QLogic iSCSI PCIe dual port HBA
- QLogic iSCSI PCIe HBA
Network adapters
- IBM 10 GbE PCIe SR Server Adapter
- IBM NetXtreme II 10 GigE Express Fiber SR Adapter
- Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter (no diagnostic support)
- Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter (no diagnostic support)
- Intel PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter (no diagnostic support)
RAID adapters
- Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 6m
- Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 6i +
- Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 7k
- Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 7t
- Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 8i, 8k, 8k-l, and 8s
- LSI BBC 6 Gb SAS RAID card
- LSI Feature-on-Demand M1100 Upgrade
- LSI IR 1078, 1064, 1064e, and 1068e
- LSI M5016
- LSI M5100 Feature-on-Demand RAID 5 cacheless, RAID 6
- LSI M5100 Upgrades - Battery
- LSI M5100 Upgrades - 1 GB Flash
- LSI M5100 Upgrades - RAID 5 cacheless
- LSI MegaRAID 8480
- LSI MR 10is
- LSI ServeRAID 0//10 FDE SAS-2 6 GB
- LSI ServeRAID B5015
- LSI ServeRAID C105
- LSI ServeRAID F5110-200/800GB SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x
- LSI ServeRaid H1135 Controller
- LSI ServeRAID M1015, M5014, M5015 and M5025
- LSI ServeRAID M1110
- LSI ServeRAID M1115 RAID SAS-2 6 Gb PCIe
- LSI ServeRAID M1200 Series Zero Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade for IBM Systems-FoD
- LSI ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x+SPY
- LSI ServeRAID M5100 Performance Accelerator for IBM System x
- LSI ServeRAID M5100 Upgrade
- LSI ServeRAID M5100 Upgrade - 512MB Flash (P/N 81Y4484/81Y4484)
- LSI ServeRAID M5100 Upgrade - 512MB Flash (P/N 81Y4484/81Y4487)
- LSI ServeRAID M5110 RAID SAS-2.5 6 Gb
- LSI ServeRAID M5110e RAID SAS-2.5 6 Gb
- LSI ServeRAID M5115 SAS/SAT Controller
- LSI ServeRAID M5120 RAID SAS-2.5 6 Gb PCIe
- LSI ServeRaid M5200 4GB Flas/RAID 5 Upgrade for IBM System x
- LSI ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x
- LSI ServeRAID M5225 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x
- LSI ServeRAID MR 10i, 10ie, 10is, 10k and 10m
- LSI N2225 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x
- LSI N2226 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x
- LSI Shikra NGP Storage Mezzanine Expansion for IBM Flex System
- LSI x ITE-Blacktip onboard RAID (LSI 2004) for Flex
- LSI x ITE-Nantahala - onboard RAID (LSI 3004)
Optical Storage
- IBM 8x 1.8" HS 12Gb SAS HDD Backplane
- IBM 4x 2.5" HS 12Gb SAS HDD Backplane
Storage adapters
- Fusion IO 1.2TB High IOPS MLC Duo
- Fusion IO 2.4TB High IOPS MLC Duo
- Fusion IO 640GB High IOPS MLC Duo
- IBM 200GB SATA MLC Flash DIMM
- LSI 300GB MLC Option Bulk
- LSI 300GB SLC Option Bulk
- LSI 600GB MLC Option Bulk
- LSI 800GB MLC Option Bulk
Tape drives
- IBM DDS5 36/72 SATA
- IBM DDS5 36/72 SCSI
- IBM DDS5 36/72 USB
- IBM DDS6 80/160 USB
- IBM External Tape Drive HH SAS LTO 6
- IBM GoVault tape drive
- IBM LTO2 FH 200/400 SCSI
- IBM LTO2 HH 200/400 SCSI
- IBM LTO3 FH 400/800 SCSI
- IBM LTO3 HH 400/800 SAS
- IBM LTO4 HH 400/800 SAS
- IBM LTO5 HH 400/800 SAS
- IBM HH LTO 6 SAS Tape Drive
- IBM VS160 tape drive
- Pompano: RDX USB 3.0 Docks
Daughter cards
- BPE-4
- cKVM Daughter Card for IBM BladeCenter
- Emulex Dual Port 10GB SPF Ethernet Daughter Card
- Intel Dual Port 10GB-T Ethernet Daughter Card
- LSI BR10i, BR10ie, BR10il
- Quad Port 1G-T Ethernet Daughter Card