Device numbering
With optional drive cages installed, the server supports up to 48 SFF drives or up to 24 LFF drives. The server does not support mixing SFF and LFF drives.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that you populate drive bays starting with the lowest SAS or SATA device number. Drives are numbered from left to right or bottom to top in each component box.
- 48 SFF drives
- Tower orientation
- Rack orientation
- 24 LFF drives
- Tower orientation
- Rack orientation
- SAS Expander
- One SAS expander configuration with SFF drives
- Tower orientation
- Rack orientation
- One SAS expander configuration with LFF drives
- Tower orientation
- Rack orientation
- Two SAS expanders configuration with SFF drives
- Tower orientation
- Rack orientation
- One SAS expander configuration with SFF drives
- Media bay
- SFF Media bay and 32 SFF drives
- LFF Media bay and 16 LFF drives
- NVMe SSD Express bay
- NVMe SSD Express bay installed in box 1 and 8 SFF drives
- NVMe SSD Express bay installed in box 4 and 8 SFFdrives
- NVMe SSD Express bay and 40 SFF drives