HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus

Installing a tertiary riser cage........................................................................................................................................................... 103
Installing the 2 NVMe Slim SAS riser option............................................................................................................................106
Installing the 8 NVMe Slim SAS riser option............................................................................................................................107
Expansion slots........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108
Supported PCIe form factors.............................................................................................................................................................108
Installing expansion boards............................................................................................................................................................... 109
Installing a 12G SAS Expander Card............................................................................................................................................ 111
Accelerator options.................................................................................................................................................................................113
Installing an OCP NIC
30 adapter...................................................................................................................................................................117
Installing the Systems Insight Display...........................................................................................................................................................119
Installing the chassis intrusion detection switch.....................................................................................................................................121
Installing a rear serial port interface...............................................................................................................................................................122
Cabling............................................................................................................................ 124
HPE ProLiant Gen10 Plus DL Servers Storage Cabling Guidelines.............................................................................................124
Cabling diagrams....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 124
Cable routing: 8 LFF front I/O module to SATA Port......................................................................................................... 128
Cable routing: Universal Media Bay to SATA Port............................................................................................................... 129
Cable routing: 2 SFF Slim SAS Universal Media Bay in box 1 to system board.................................................. 129
Cable routing: 2 SFF side by side SATA to system board................................................................................................130
Cable routing: Front 8 SFF drive options (box 3 to HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10
Controller, ports 1-2)............................................................................................................................................................................. 130
Cable routing: Front 8 SFF drive options (box 1 to HPE Smart Array P816i-a SR Controller, ports
3-4)...................................................................................................................................................................................................................131
Cable routing: 24 SFF SAS drive options (box 1, box 2, and box 3 to SAS expander)...................................131
Cable routing: 24 SFF drive options (box 1, box 2, and box 3 to SAS expander card and HPE
Smart Array P816i-a SR Gen10 Controller, ports 1-2)......................................................................................................132
Cable routing: 8 NVMe Balanced Direct Solution..................................................................................................................132
Cable routing: 8 NVMe Direct Single Processor Solution.................................................................................................133
Cable routing: 16 NVMe Balanced Direct Solution...............................................................................................................133
Cable routing: Front 8 LFF to system board............................................................................................................................134
Cable routing: 12 LFF drive options (midtray to system board)................................................................................. 134
Cable routing: Front 12 LFF drive options (midtray to HPE Smart Array P816i-a SR Gen10
Controller, ports 1-4)............................................................................................................................................................................. 135
Cable routing: LFF backplane to HPE Smart Array P816i-a SR Gen10 Controller........................................... 135
Cable routing: System board processor 1 (ports 1A and 2A) to slotted expansion board ports 1-2
in the primary riser..................................................................................................................................................................................136
Cable routing: SFF Front I/O module to Front power/USB
31 Gen1 connector................................................136
Cable routing: Systems Insight Display to front power/USB
31 Gen1 connector............................................137
Cable routing: 12 LFF power switch and thermal sensor to system board........................................................... 137
Cable routing: 8 LFF front I/O module display port to system board.......................................................................138
Cable routing: Display port to system board........................................................................................................................... 138
Cable routing: Universal Media bay external USB to dual USB port on system board................................... 139
Cable routing: Rear serial port interface.....................................................................................................................................139
Cable routing: Rear serial port interface (tertiary riser)....................................................................................................140
Cable routing: SFF backplane power cabling to the system board.............................................................................140
Cable routing: LFF backplane power cabling to the system board............................................................................ 141
Cable routing: 4 LFF backplane and 2 SFF side by side LFF power cable connections to the
system board.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 141
Cable routing: Rear 2 SFF riser power cable............................................................................................................................ 142
Software and configuration utilities......................................................................... 143
Server mode..................................................................................................................................................................................................................143
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