Drive bay mapping for the HPE Apollo r2800 Chassis

The HPE Apollo r2800 Chassis, featuring the storage expander backplane, supports the flexibility to assign drive bays to specific server nodes. System administrators with the Integrated Lights Out (iLO) administrator login credentials may provide and execute iLO XML commands or scripts to change the association of drive bays to server node numbers.

Drive bay mapping configuration changes may be made from any server node and take effect after all server nodes in the HPE Apollo r2800 Chassis are turned off and the Chassis firmware is able to reset the storage expander backplane. All nodes must remain powered off for at least 5 seconds after executing the configuration changes. The server nodes may be remotely restarted through the iLO remote interface, or may be locally restarted by pressing the power button for each node.

This feature requires the following minimum firmware versions:

• Apollo 2000 System Chassis firmware version 1.4.0 or later
• Storage Expander firmware version 1.0 or later
• iLO firmware version 2.10 or later