increase disk number Proliant DL380 g10

[Chanklish]

hello 

i have a Proliant DL380 g10 with  HPE Smart Array P408e-m SR g10 raid card and 8 ssf disks

i am looking to double this number , how to proceed ? new raid card ? or just new backplane and disks ?

thank you

[Cali]

See:

HPE DL 380 Gen 10 with P408i-a SAS controller driv... - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Community

Cali

[Chanklish]

the ssd are sata ..so half sas ?

[Cali]

P408e-m is a Blade (Synergy) Raid Controller.
Should be P408i-a or P408i-p.
8 Disk are 8 does not matter if SSD, SAS or SATA.
The xx8 Controller have connections for 8 Disks as I wrote in the Link above.

[Chanklish]

will I need a backplane witht eh extender ? and how to add the extender to the current raid card?Tarek Halloun

[Cali]

The SAS Expander is a PCI Card, the Backplane has no expander (only Apollo Server).

SFF hot-plug drive SAS expander cabling (SAS/SATA) (hpe.com)

DL380 Gen10 box 1, 8 bay SSD drive bay - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Community (hpe.com)

Cali

[Chanklish]

hello cali

i did not understand , should the expander be added to the raid card ? and if not , how would the disks be controlled ?

can you give me the part number for the backplane and box plz 

[Cali]

You insert the Expander Card into a PCI Slot.

Then remove the two SAS Cables that go from Raid Controller to the Backplane and put them into the Expander Input.

(Cable go now from Raid Controller to Expander)

The Expander has multiple Outputs.

Route Cable as in the Diagram from the Expander to the Cages.

The Expander has no configuration, it's only peace of Hardware.

The best is if you configure your Server here, it will advise you for all Cable and other Parts needed.

One Config Simple (OCS) (hpe.com)

Or ask your HPE Partner.

[Chanklish]

excellent ! thank you 

what would happen to the raid config ? would my data be safe ?

[Cali]

The Raid Config is on the Disk and even if you rearrange the Disks it should be fine.

Nobody can give a 100% fine answer and Backup is always a good idea, you know. 

Cali