Enclosures and expansion units

Enclosures and expansion units can be connected to POWER9™ processor-based servers.

Use the following table to determine which enclosures and expansion units are supported on your server.

Table 1. Server support for the 5887 disk drive enclosure, EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer, ESLL storage enclosure, or ESLS storage enclosure
Server	Enclosure or expansion unit
8335-GTC	None
8335-GTG	None
8335-GTH	None
8335-GTW	None
8335-GTX	None
9006-12P	None
9006-22C	None
9006-22P	None
9183-22X	None
9008-22L	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9009-22A	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9009-22G	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9009-41A	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9009-41G	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9009-42A	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9009-42G	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9040-MR9	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9080-M9S	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9223-22H	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9223-22S	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9223-42H	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
9223-42S	5887 disk drive enclosure² EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer ESLL storage enclosure ESLS storage enclosure
IBM® Elastic Storage Server Data Server and Management Server (5104-22C and 5105-22E)	None
¹The SAS port connectors are on the rear bulk head. The external SAS ports are used for expansion to an external SAS drawer. ²The 5887 disk drive enclosure is supported as a migrated only enclosure for the POWER9 processor-based servers.