Drive installation options for the 9006-22P system

Find information about the drive installation options for the IBM® Power® System LC922 (9006-22P) system.

Note: The ambient temperature must not be more than 35°C (95°F).
Table 1 shows the allowed combinations of front SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives with the standard drive backplane. Table 2 shows the allowed combinations of front SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives with the enhanced LSI drive backplane.
Table 1. Number of allowed front SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives with the standard drive backplane
Integrated controller Integrated controller Integrated controller Integrated controller -
  NVMe adapter SAS/SATA adapter SAS/SATA adapter and NVMe adapter SAS/SATA adapter and NVMe adapter
0 NVMe drives 4 NVMe drives 0 NVMe drives 2 NVMe drives 4 NVMe drives
SAS/SATA drives SAS/SATA drives Four drives to integrated controller;
eight drives to SAS/SATA adapter		 Two drives to integrated controller;
eight drives to SAS/SATA adapter		 Eight drives to SAS/SATA adapter
12 8 12 10 8
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3    
Figure 1. Up to 12 SAS or SATA drives, and up to two DOMs
Up to 12 SAS or SATA drives, and up to two DOMs
Figure 2. Up to 8 SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (eight drives total), four NVMe drives attached to an NVMe adapter, and up to two DOMs
Up to 8 SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (eight drives total), four NVMe drives attached to an NVMe adapter, and up to two DOMs
Figure 3. Up to eight SAS or SATA drives attached to a SAS/SATA adapter, up to four SAS or SATA drives attached to integrated controller, and up to two DOMs
Up to eight SAS or SATA drives attached to a SAS/SATA adapter, up to four SAS or SATA drives attached to integrated controller, and up to two DOMs
Table 2. Number of allowed front SAS/SATA drives with enhanced LSI drive backplane. The enhanced LSI drive backplane requires a SAS/SATA adapter.
0 NVMe drives 2 NVMe drives and an NVMe adaptor 4 NVMe drives and an NVMe adaptor
12 10 8
Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6
Figure 4. Up to 12 SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (12 drives total), SAS/SATA adapter, and up to two DOMs
Up to 12 SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (12 drives total), SAS/SATA adapter, and up to two DOMs
Figure 5. Up to 10 SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (10 drives total), SAS/SATA adapter, two NVMe drives attached to an NVMe adapter, and up to two DOMs
Up to 10 SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (10 drives total), SAS/SATA adapter, two NVMe drives attached to an NVMe adapter, and up to two DOMs
Figure 6. Up to eight SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (eight drives total), SAS/SATA adapter, four NVMe drives attached to an NVMe adapter, and up to two DOMs
Up to eight SAS or SATA drives, or a mix of SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs (eight drives total), SAS/SATA adapter, four NVMe drives attached to an NVMe adapter, and up to two DOMs

SATA Drives

The 9006-22C system with direct attach drive backplane can support up to 12 SATA drives. The drives are directly connected to the SATA ports and to the controller on the system backplane. The SATA drives can be installed into the front drive bay locations. SATA drive cables connect the disk drive backplane to the SATA sockets on the system backplane.

You can plug SATA drive on module (DOM) drives directly into the system backplane. Use the two orange SATA connectors. You can use up to two SATA DOM drives.

Figure 7 shows the port to drive bay mapping for the disk drive backplane.
A
Maps to mini-SAS drive connector 1 and supports the indicated drive bays 0 through 3.
B
Maps to mini-SAS drive connector 2 and supports the indicated drive bays 0 through 3.
C
Maps to mini-SAS drive connector 3 and supports the indicated drive bays 0 through 3.
Figure 7. Port to drive bay mapping
Port to drive bay mapping

SAS Drives

With the direct attach drive backplane and by using the system backplane controllers, the system can support up to eight SATA/SAS drives with a maximum of four SATA drives. There are two SAS cables that connect the disk drive backplane to the system backplane.

With the direct attach drive backplane and by using SAS/SATA RAID adapters, the system can support up to twelve front SATA/SAS drives. If you are installing a RAID adapter, use three SAS cables to connect the SAS ports on the PCIe adapter card to the SAS ports on the disk drive backplane.

NVMe Enabled System and Drives

When the system has the NVMe drive backplane, the system supports both SATA/SAS and NVMe drives. You can install up to twelve SATA/SAS drives using a SATA/SAS adapter. To support NVMe drives, you need an NVMe adapter.

Four NVMe cables connect the disk drive backplane to the NVMe storage adapter.

The first two NVMe drives must be plugged into drive locations 9 and 10 as shown in Figure 8. The second two NVMe drives must be plugged into locations 11 and 12.

NVMe drives are supported only on host operating systems. NVMe drives are not supported by guest operating systems. On systems with RHEL 7.3 or later, or Ubuntu 16.04 or later, NVMe drives can be used as bootable drives. Port 1 of the internal NVMe host bus adapter must be plugged into NVMe port 1 on the disk drive backplane.

Figure 8. NVMe drives go in locations 9 through 12
NVMe drive locations
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