Sled To Hard Drive Mapping; Expander Zoning - Dell EMC PowerEdge R6400 Installation And Service Manual

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Sled to hard drive mapping

Figure 6. Sled to drive mapping for the enclosure with 24 x 2.5 inch drives
1 drives 0–5 mapped to sled 1
3 drives 12–17 mapped to sled 3
5 (optional) NVMe hard drive location
Figure 7. Sled to drive mapping for the enclosure with 12 x 3.5 inch drives
1 drives 0–2 mapped to sled 1
3 drives 6–8 mapped to sled 3
NOTE: The warranty of the drives are linked to the Service Tag of the corresponding sled.

Expander zoning

A SAS expander board allows higher, single-volume hard drive configurations. An integrated expander device expands each sleds hard drive
footprint.
The PowerEdge 6400 enclosure allows four sleds to access a single expander controller at the same time. there are two zoning options
available, they are:
• Up to 6 SAS/SATA device of each sled in Split Mode (6+6+6+6)
2 drives 6–11 mapped to sled 2
4 drives 18–23 mapped to sled 4
2 drives 3–5 mapped to sled 2
4 drives 9–11 mapped to sled 4
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