Adapter considerations

There are many considerations to plan for regarding adapters for your Operations Console environment.

Determine the console by adapter location
If your system is not managed by a Hardware Management Console (HMC), and the embedded Ethernet port is disabled, the console-supporting hardware must be located in specific slot locations based on your server model.
External adapters
The 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI Express Adapter (5767), 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI Express Adapter (5768), PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 GbE Adapter (5260) and PCIe2 4-port 1 GbE Adapter (5899) do not require an IOP and are available for use with the Operations Console.
Configured console type
How a console type is specified depends on whether the system is managed by a Hardware Management Console (HMC) or not.
Adapter resource considerations
The service interface is a single adapter that is used for the service tools server.
Console adapter placement
You can use dedicated IOPs for the console adapter and for the storage devices to reduce possible connectivity problems on systems where an IOP is needed to support the LAN adapter.

Parent topic: Operations Console considerations

Last updated: Tue, April 23, 2024