Skip to main content

6 x 2.5'' SAS/SATA + 4 x 2.5'' AnyBay (liquid cooling)

Use this section to understand the cable routing of six SAS/SATA front drives and four AnyBay front drives for liquid cooling configuration with the 6 x 2.5'' SAS/SATA and 4 x 2.5'' AnyBay front backplane installed.

To connect power cables for a backplane for standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, refer to Cable routing for backplane power.

To connect cables for a 7mm drive backplane, refer to 7mm drive backplane.

To connect signal cables for a backplane for standard six SAS/SATA and four AnyBay front drives, refer to the following cable routing scenarios depending on your server configuration:

Cable routing for onboard configuration​

The following illustrations and tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and processor board connectors for onboard configuration.

The following figure illustrates the cable routing for the configuration of six SAS/SATA and four AnyBay front drives bays. Connections between connectors: 1 ↔ 1, 2 ↔ 2, 3 ↔ 3, ... n ↔ n.

Figure 1. Cable routing for onboard configuration of six SAS/SATA and four NVMe front drives

Table 1. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and processor board for onboard configuration
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 01 SATA 0
2 SAS 12 SATA 1
Front BP (NVMe)3 NVMe 0–13 PCIe 2
4 NVMe 2–34 PCIe 1
Figure 2. Cable routing for onboard configuration of six SAS/SATA and four NVMe front drives

Table 2. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and processor board for onboard configuration
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 01 SATA 0
2 SAS 1, 22 SATA 1, 2
Front BP (NVMe)3 NVMe 0–13 PCIe 2
4 NVMe 2–34 PCIe 1

Cable routing with an SFF HBA/RAID adapter​

The following tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and an 8i or 16i SFF HBA/RAID adapter (Gen 4).

Figure 3. Cable routing for six front SAS/SATA drives and four front AnyBay drives bays with an 8i or 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 4)

Table 3. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0
Front BP (NVMe)2 NVMe 0–12 PCIe 2
3 NVMe 2–33 PCIe 1
Figure 4. Cable routing for six front SAS/SATA drives and four front AnyBay drives bays with an 8i or 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 4)

Table 4. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0
Front BP (NVMe)2 NVMe 0–12 PCIe 2
3 NVMe 2–33 PCIe 1
Front BP (SAS)4 SAS 24 C1

The following illustrations and tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and an 8i or 16i SFF HBA/RAID adapter (Gen 3).

Figure 5. Cable routing for six front SAS/SATA drives and four front AnyBay drives bays with an 8i or 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 3)

Table 5. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0, C1
Front BP (NVMe)2 NVMe 0–12 PCIe 2
3 NVMe 2–33 PCIe 1
Figure 6. Cable routing for six front SAS/SATA drives and four front AnyBay drives bays with an 8i or 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 3)

Table 6. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0, C1
Front BP (NVMe)2 NVMe 0–12 PCIe 2
3 NVMe 2–33 PCIe 1
Front BP (SAS)4 SAS 24 C2