Use this information for details about the N2215 SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapter for System x adapter.
The N2225 and N2226 SAS/SATA HBAs for System x are Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host bus adapters (HBAs) that provide high-performance external storage connectivity for servers and workstations. The N2225 HBA provides eight lanes of 12Gb/s SAS connectivity and is matched with eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 8Gb/s performance. The N2226 HBA provides sixteen lanes of 12Gb/s SAS connectivity and is matched with eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 8Gb/s performance.
To verify that this adapter is compatible with your server, go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/indexsp.html.