Supermicro SC846BE1C-R1K23B User Manual page 110

SC846 Chassis Manual
Connecting an External Host Bus Adapter to the
Backplane
This backplane supports external Host Bus Adapters. In this configuration, the HBA
and the backplane are in different physical chassis. This allows a JBOD configura-
tion system to connect to the other system that has a HBA.
Single External Host Bus Adapter
HBA
Dual External Host Bus Adapter
HBA
HBA
Figure C-14: Dual External Host Bus Adapter
IMPORTANT: See Section 3-3 of this manual, Failover with RAID Cards and Multiple
HBAs for important information on supported configurations.
Figure C-13: Single External Host Adapter
SEC_J2
SEC_J0
J17
Power Card
External HBA Cable
SEC_J2
SEC_J0
J17
Power Card
External HBA Cables
C-16
PRI_J2 PRI_J1
SEC_J1
PRI_J0
CBL-0200L
PRI_J2
PRI_J1
SEC_J1
PRI_J0
CBL-0200L