Internal drive sharing on a 9040-MR9 system

Learn how to split the internal drives in the system into groups, which you can manage separately.

Before you begin

Two PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID internal adapters, quad-port 6 Gb (FC EJ0K; CCIN 57B4) are used to split the disk drive backplane in the 9040-MR9 system. The eight short-form factor (SFF) disks can be split into two sets of 4 SFF drives. The drives can be configured for RAID 0, 10, 5, and 6.

For more information about the SAS Subsystem, see SAS subsystem.

For more information about the FC EJ0K adapter, see PCIe3 RAID SAS quad-port 6 Gb adapter (FC EJ0K; CCIN 57B4)

For more information about installing FC EJ0K, see Installing PCIe adapters in the system.

The split disk drive mode can be useful for partitioning. If you are setting up two distinct logical partitions (LPARs), the resources that are associated with FC EJ0K can be assigned to two distinct partitions. To learn about a partitioned environment, see Logical partitioning .