Installation guide
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APPENDIX
Software Drivers
• OS Independent
Physical/Electrical
SAS hard drives
• Up to 12/16 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SAS hot-plug hard drives (6.0 
Gb/s) at speeds of 10K or 15K rpm
SATA hard drives 
• Up to 12/16 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA hot-plug hard drives (6.0 
Gb/s) at speeds of 7.2K or 10K rpm. Connectivity to the controller 
system backplane is provided through an interposer assembly for 
redundant controller.
Subsystem Controller Modules
• Controller board 1 or 2 modules
• Sensors 2 sensor per controller Board 
Backplane Board
Connectors
• 12/16 SAS hard-drive connectors
• 2 power supply/cooling fan module connectors
• 2 sets of controller board connectors (3 connectors each control-
 ler board)
Sensors 
• 12/16 temperature sensors (one for each slot)
Controller Back-Panel Connectors
Host connectors (per controller board)
• 2 SAS CH0 and CH1 connector for connection to the host
• 4 Fibre CH0, CH1, CH2 and CH3 connector for connection to the 
host
• 4 iSCSI CH0, CH1, CH2 and CH3 connector for connection to the 
host
Expander connector (per controller board)
• 2 SAS “EXP 0 & EXP 1” connector for expansion to an additional 
SAS JBOD enclosure
Management connector (per controller board) 
• 2 6-pin UART RJ-11 connector 










