Hi, I hope someone can help.
Ive got a DL320e Gen8 V2 server with the two LFF non-hot plug drive blanks.
From what I can see, there is no actual backplane to support Gen8 Drive trays. From what I can see, its the following part thats fitted..:-
http://partsurfer.hp.com/ShowPhoto.aspx?partnumber=725275-001
Can I fit an HP Gen8 Hard drive in the new carrier and this means the LEDs will not work?
I see other Gen8 Models have the B120i controller that allows Gen8 Drive tray LED control, could I fit the Hot-Plug Backplane for 2 LFF and use this with the B120i controller for a pair of LFF disks?
I dont care about "hotswap" as such, I just want a pair of G8 drives in the front with the LEDs working in SATA mode.
If I went for the SFF backplane and front bezel, does this mean the only way of getting the 2.5" drives working as SATA is to connect the SFF backplane to an internal RAID card? I cannot do this, as both PCI slots will be full with NICs.
Could I also get the HOT PLUG LFF Backplane, connect it to the B120i with a Mini SAS cable, and just run SATA drives off it?
If someone can help that would be GREAT!
Seems strange that HP can say the Gen8 drives work on this, but there are no G8 drive LED contacts on the Non hot plug backplane as shown in my link above.
I really need this, as I have to boot from SD Card, and then use two other SATA drives in the bays for vmware vSAN experimentation.