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