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Required equipment

When you receive your HA pair, you should receive a list of required equipment.

For more information, see the Lenovo Press to confirm your storage system type, storage capacity, and so on.

Lenovo Press

Required equipmentDetails
Storage systemTwo of the same storage nodes in a chassis
DisksStorage disks in the same chassis as the storage nodes or disks from cabled expansion shelves
SAS HBAs, if applicableNecessary if onboard SAS ports are not enough. SAS adapter add in (if available) allows for more storage stacks to be connected
Fibre Channel switches, if applicable---
Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules, if applicable---
Cables (provided with shipment unless otherwise noted)
  • Two SAS controller-to-disk shelf cables per stack

  • Multiple disk shelf-to-disk shelf cables, if applicable