melloa
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I'm trying to consolidate two of my servers in an all-in one, running FreeNAS as a VM on ESXi.
I have a X9DR3-LN4F+ laying around and a CSE-836BE16-R920B with a BPN-SAS2-836EL1 backplane. This chassis came with two cables: CBL-00129-01-A-R (breaks in four sata ports - connected to the 2.5 HDDs bays under the PSUs) and CBL-00117-01-A-R (connected to the back plane).
Searching Supermicro for the CBL-00117, I get the 2.5 hotswap rear bays; Searching google, it sends me to a different cable (CBL-0281L-01).
Looking at the manual I see:
Also:
With that I assume that the CBL-00117 is a 16 ports cable (?).
Looking at LSI 16i and 16e HBAs, I couldn't find one HBA with a single connector. Either they have four external or four internal.
Question(s):
- Is there a single port HBA that could be used with above configuration? Speed is not important as this will be a back-up server, so lower cost is a plus.
- Is there a cable I can use two LSI 8 ports to connect to that back plane?
- What other back plane options do I have for that chassis, that would support a two HBA configuration?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I have a X9DR3-LN4F+ laying around and a CSE-836BE16-R920B with a BPN-SAS2-836EL1 backplane. This chassis came with two cables: CBL-00129-01-A-R (breaks in four sata ports - connected to the 2.5 HDDs bays under the PSUs) and CBL-00117-01-A-R (connected to the back plane).
Searching Supermicro for the CBL-00117, I get the 2.5 hotswap rear bays; Searching google, it sends me to a different cable (CBL-0281L-01).
Looking at the manual I see:
Code:
Connector 7. Primaray SAS connector: PRI_J1 8. Primary SAS connector: PRI_J2 9. Primary SAS connector: PRI_J3
Also:
Code:
SAS2-836EL1 backplanes have a single-port expander that accesses all hard drives and supports cascading.
With that I assume that the CBL-00117 is a 16 ports cable (?).
Looking at LSI 16i and 16e HBAs, I couldn't find one HBA with a single connector. Either they have four external or four internal.
Question(s):
- Is there a single port HBA that could be used with above configuration? Speed is not important as this will be a back-up server, so lower cost is a plus.
- Is there a cable I can use two LSI 8 ports to connect to that back plane?
- What other back plane options do I have for that chassis, that would support a two HBA configuration?
Thanks in advance for any help.