Proliant ML350 Gen10 Second HDD cage

[Jiri-P]

Proliant ML350 Gen10 now supports mixing SFF and LFF drive cages.

My question is, what components do I need, if I want to install LFF cage to server with installed one SFF cage and P408i-a SR controller, to install additional SATA drives.. I've read documentation for server, controller, cage, but I'm still not sure what is included in drive cage kit and what to buy extra.

I know that I need:

874566-B21 4 LFF Hot-Plug hard drive cage

What else ?

Thank you.

[DANDKS]

Refer to the OverView page for ML350 Gen10 server: 

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00027626en_us

Supports mixed LFF and SFF drive cages within the same server for tiered storage. 

NOTE: Now the system can support mixed SFF and LFF HDD cages in one system, for example, 4LFF + 8SFF + 4LFF based on a 4 LFF chassis

874566-B21 4 LFF Hot-Plug hard drive cage, this kit contains the below parts

Blank Large Form Factor (LFF) reduced depth
Hot Plug Hard drive backplane supports 4-Large Form Factor (LFF), 12 Gb/s transfer rate SAS

Thank you

[Moderator edit: Updated the link. You may also refer to https://support.hpe.com/]

[Jiri-P]

Thank you for reply. To be sure, so I need only:

874566-B21 4 LFF Hot-Plug hard drive cage, this kit contains the below parts Blank Large Form Factor (LFF) reduced depth
Hot Plug Hard drive backplane supports 4-Large Form Factor (LFF), 12 Gb/s transfer rate SAS

No cable, no additional stuff? I don't have server yet, so I can't check directly what is inside.

[DANDKS]

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller has Internal: 8 SAS/SATA lanes across 2 x4 Mini-SAS ports. This will support upto 8 Hard Drives with two SAS cables. Depending on the number of Drives added to the server, more cables are required.

Since the controller support only 8 Hard Drives, for more than 8 Drives, an Expander or another PCIe based Controller needs to be added in the server.

By default, the server will be shipped with two SAS cables.

Thank you

[Luciano2]

I have a similar question.

All examples that I found are about ML350G10 with  4LFF+8SFF+4SFF but my case (ML350G10 P21788-B21) is relative to 8SFF+4LFF+4LFF.

More precisely, I have a native 8 SFF disk tray and I would like to add two 4 LFF disk tray.

Do you know if this is an admitted configuration?

[Gyorgy]

Hello,  I have the same question:  Base model P21788-421 with 8SFF cage. To expand with a 4LFF cage the following parts seem to be adequate:

874566-B21 HPE ML350 Gen10 4LFF HDD Cage Kit
874574-B21 HPE ML350 Gen10 LFF SA/HBA Cable Kit
830824-B21 HPE Smart Array P408i-p SR Gen10 Ctrlr

is there somebody who has already made the expansion?    (I don't see why the Quick Spec. advise the 4LFF-8FF-4LFF set,   If cable length would be the problem, then position of the cages can be swapped)

thanks

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