Up to 4x 3.5-inch or 12x 2.5-inch or 16x EDSFF hot-swap drive bays:

• Front bays can be one of the following:
  • 10x 2.5-inch hot-swap: All AnyBay
  • 10x 2.5-inch hot-swap: All NVMe
  • 10x 2.5-inch hot-swap: 6x SAS/SATA + 4x AnyBay
  • 10x 2.5-inch hot-swap: 6x SAS/SATA + 4x NVMe
  • 10x 2.5-inch hot-swap: 6x SAS/SATA + 2x AnyBay + 2x NVMe
  • 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA
  • 16x EDSFF E1.S form factor hot-swap drives
  • 4x 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA
  • 4x 3.5-inch hot-swap AnyBay
• Rear can be one of the following:
  • 2x 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA bays
  • 2x 2.5-inch hot-swap NVMe bays
  • 2x 7mm 2.5-inch hot-swap SATA bays
  • 2x 7mm 2.5-inch hot-swap NVMe bays
• Internal M.2 module supporting up to two M.2 drives, for OS boot and drive storage support

• 12x Onboard SATA ports (Intel VROC SATA RAID, formerly known as Intel RSTe RAID)
• Up to 16x Onboard NVMe ports (includes Intel VROC NVMe RAID, with optional license for non-Intel NVMe SSDs)
• NVMe Retimer Adapter (supports Intel VROC NVMe RAID)
• 12 Gb SAS/SATA RAID adapters
  • 8, 16 or 32 ports
  • Up to 8GB flash-backed cache
  • PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 3.0 host interface
• 12 Gb SAS/SATA HBA (non-RAID)
  • 8-port and 16-port
  • PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 3.0 host interface

Ports

– Front: 1x USB 3.2 G1 (5 Gb/s) port, 1x USB 2.0 port (also for XCC local management), External diagnostics port, optional VGA port.

– Rear: 2x USB 3.2 G1 (5 Gb/s) ports and 1x USB 2.0 port, 1x VGA video port, 1x RJ-45 1GbE systems management port for XCC remote management. Optional DB-9 COM serial port (installs in slot 3). Optional second RJ-45 1GbE systems management port for XCC remote management (installed in OCP adapter slot).

– Internal: 1x USB 3.2 G1 connector for operating system or license key purposes

Up to 3x PCIe slots (PCIe 5.0 or PCIe 4.0), all with rear access, plus a slot dedicated to the OCP adapter. Slot availability is based on riser selection and rear drive bay selection. Slot 3 requires two processors.

Four choices for rear-access slots:

• 3x PCIe x16 low-profile slots
• 1x PCIe x16 full-height half-length slot + 1x PCIe x16 low-profile slot
• 1x PCIe x16 low-profile slot (also supports 2x rear 2.5-inch drive bays)
• 2x PCIe x16 low-profile slot (also supports 2x rear 7mm 2.5-inch drive bays)

For 2.5-inch front drive configurations, the server supports the installation of a CFF RAID adapter or HBA in a dedicated area that does not consume any of the PCIe slots.

The server alternatively supports slots at the front of the server (planned for 2Q/2023):

• OCP slot
• 1x PCIe x16 full-height half-length slot + 1x PCIe x16 low-profile slot