HP BladeSystem Deployment Guide for Solutions with 6Gb SAS BL Switches and External SAS Storage Enclosures

Drive enclosures—Contain I/O modules, for connecting to the P2000 G3 SAS MSA controller
enclosure, providing additional storage capacity. The following illustrations show rear views of
supported drive enclosure models:
D2700 This SFF enclosure has 25 drive bays for 2.5 inch
drives
P2000 or MSA 2040This LFF enclosure has 12 drive bays
for 3.5 inch drives
NOTE:
• A mixture LFF and SFF drive enclosures can be cascaded from an MSA controller enclosure.
• The total number of drives associated with a P2000 G3 SAS MSA System cannot exceed 149. The total number
of drives associated with the MSA 2040 SAS array cannot exceed 199.
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