Overview for the 5887 disk drive enclosure

The 5887 disk drive enclosure provides extra disk drives and solid-state drives.

The 5887 disk drive enclosure is connected to system units via a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) port. The SAS disk drive enclosure can hold up to 24 drives. The enclosure can be split logically into one, two, or four independent groups. The SAS disk drive enclosure supports the following operating systems:
  • AIX®
  • IBM® i
  • Linux
  • VIOS



Last updated: Mon, October 22, 2018