Owners Manual
No. Item Description
7 Supercap Supercap and holder for PCIe RAID card (Microsemi and Broadcom).
8 Server rear bay Supports installation of up to eight 2.5-inch SSDs (SSD0—SSD7).
9 NPDB Node power distribution board.
10 Cable management arm Optimizes data and power cabling usage.
11 SAS expander board Controller card which allows the expansion of storage capacity. External
connections are supported through a SAS cable.
12 Hot swap HDD bay Supports twelve 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch HDDs.
13 Expansion port, slot 5 Supports x16 PCIe expansion risers, directly connected to CPU 2.
14 HDD backplane Supports four HDD modules, each server contains three HDD backplanes.
15 FW server chassis Full width server chassis for DSS 9600 server.
16 Expansion port, slot 4 Supports x16 PCIe expansion risers, connected to CPU 1.
17 Expansion port, slot 3 Supports x8 OCP expansion cards, connected to CPU 1.
Topics:
• System specications
• Front-panel features
• Diagnostic indicators
• Locating your system service tag
System specications
Figure 2. DSS 9600 dimensions
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Overview