Two-bay SFF rear drive cage option

For rear drive cage installation, the front bays must be fully populated using the 12 LFF or 24 SFF drives. High performance fans must be installed in all fan bays.

To install the component:

Procedure
  1. Power down the server.
  2. Remove all power:
    1. Disconnect each power cord from the power source.
    2. Disconnect each power cord from the server.
  3. Do one of the following:
  4. Remove the access panel.
  5. Remove the secondary riser cage or PCI blank:
    • Secondary riser cage
      Removing the secondary riser_Radner_04
    • PCI blank
      Removing the secondary PCI riser blank
  6. Remove the rear wall blank.
    Removing the rear wall blank
  7. Install the drive cage compatible rear wall.
    Installing the rear 2 SFF drive bay wall
  8. Install the rear two-bay SFF drive cage option.
    Installing the rear 2 SFF drive cage
  9. Install blanks or drives.
  10. Install the secondary riser cage or PCI blank.
  11. If installing drives, connect the power cable:
    • Single cable connection with 12 LFF configuration in the front
      Connecting the rear bay power cable
    • Y cable connection with 24 SFF drive configuration in the front
      Connecting the rear bay power cable with 8 SFF installed
  12. Connect the data cable in one of the following configurations:
    • Connected to the onboard x4 SATA connector
      Connecting the rear bay data cable
    • Connected to the x2 SATA port and optical disk drive connector
      Connecting to the x2 SATA connector and ODD connector
    • Connected to a PCI expansion board
      Connecting the rear bay data cable to PCI card
    • Connected to a PCI expansion board and the 12 LFF backplane
      Connecting to a PCI expansion board and 12 LFF backplane
    • Connected to an HPE 12G SAS Expander Card
      Connecting the rear bay data cable to an HP 12G SAS Expander card
  13. Install the access panel.
  14. Slide the server into the rack.
  15. Connect each power cord to the server.
  16. Connect each power cord to the power source.
  17. Power up the server.