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
      SFF configuration drive numbering
    • Rack orientation
      SFF configuration drive numbering (rack)
  • 24 LFF drives
    • Tower orientation
      LFF configuration drive numbering (tower)
    • Rack orientation
      LFF configuration drive numbering (rack)
  • SAS Expander
    • One SAS expander configuration with SFF drives
      • Tower orientation
        SFF drive numbering for one SAS expander configuration (tower)
      • Rack orientation
        SFF drive numbering for one SAS expander card configuration (rack)
    • One SAS expander configuration with LFF drives
      • Tower orientation
        LFF drive numbering for one expander card configuration (tower)
      • Rack orientation
        LFF drive numbering for one SAS expander card configuration (rack)
    • Two SAS expanders configuration with SFF drives
      • Tower orientation
        Drive numbering for two expander card configuration (tower)
      • Rack orientation
        Drive numbering for two expander card configuration (rack)
  • Media bay
    • SFF Media bay and 32 SFF drives
      Server configuration for 32-bay SFF drives and two media bays model (rack)
    • LFF Media bay and 16 LFF drives
      Server configuration for 16 LFF drives and one media bay
  • NVMe SSD Express bay
    • NVMe SSD Express bay installed in box 1 and 8 SFF drives
      NVMe drives installed in box 1
    • NVMe SSD Express bay installed in box 4 and 8 SFFdrives
      NVMe drives installed in box 4
    • NVMe SSD Express bay and 40 SFF drives
      NVMe drives configuration