HPE 3PAR Disk Enclosure Expansion

The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8440 supports up to thirty-eight (38) added drive enclosures. Each drive enclosure includes 24 drive bays, 2 IO modules, 2 1m SAS cables, 1 mounting rail kit, and power cables. The 2U SAS drive enclosure provides 24 SFF drive bays arranged in a single row. With a four-node configuration, the best practice is to attach the same number of drive enclosures and drive types to each node pair.

Four Controller Nodes are installed in Starter Kit Rack and additional drive enclosure are installed in the adjacent 42U rack for additional future capacity upgrade.

The Switch port is already configured for Controller iSCSI port with BLS VLAN.

SFF drives must be loaded in pairs of identical drives, beginning with the leftmost slot, slot 0, and filling to the right, leaving no empty slots between drives.

For more information on Disk enclosure expansion, it is advisable to contact HPE authorized representative.

The complete details and the prerequisites, along with the cabling instructions from 2 Disk Enclosure to 38 Disk Enclosure, are available in "Cabling Configurations" chapter from HPE 3PAR StoreServ8000 Storage Series Cabling Configuration Guide.