Overview for the ESLL and ESLS storage enclosures
The ESLL and ESLS storage enclosures provide extra disk drives. The ESLS also provides extra solid-state drives.
The ESLL and ESLS storage enclosures are connected to system units via a
serial-attached SCSI (SAS) port. The ESLL storage
enclosure can hold up to 12 large form factor (LFF) drives. The ESLS storage enclosure can hold up to 24 small form factor (SFF)
drives. The enclosures can be split logically into one, two, or four independent groups. The SAS
storage enclosures support the following operating systems:
- AIX®
- IBM® i (The ESLL is not supported by IBM i)
- Linux®
- VIOS