SAS Card for UCS

[dani_bosch]

Hello,

I need to connect a Quantum LTO-5 Tape Drive, Full Height, Single, 3U Rackmount, 6Gb/s SAS with an SFF8088 mini-SAS connector

Can you suggest me a SAS card for Cisco UCS C-200 M2 server in order to connect it to the tape drive?

Thanks,

[giuliano.bertello]

same here, did you find a solution dani ?

[dani_bosch]

We just purchased a PCIe LSI 9200-8E SAS HBA...but I guess any PCIe SAS HBA will work.

Cheers,

[David Alpizar]

Hi Dani ,

There are some SAS cards that are supported by the system.

Please check on the following document for further details:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C200M1/install/replace.html

Hope this helps!

David

[dani_bosch]

I'm sorry I don't see them in the link you provided me with.

Can you point them out to me please?

[Zaira Vega]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C200M1/install/RAID.html#wp1015625

[dani_bosch]

Sorry, I don't know how does this exactly work. So if I understand correctly, I can perfectly plug a SAS Tape Drive to a RAID Controller PCIe as long as this PCIe does have an external SAS connector...is that right? In this case, only MegaRAID 9280-4i4e would work...the rest don't have any external SAS connector, as far as I see...

In this assumption, MegaRAID can act as a SAS HBA while acting as a RAID Controller at the same time for internal disk drives as well....

Is my understanding right?

[dani_bosch]

Someone could please answer whether last statement is right?

Thanks,

[Robert Burns]

You're correct.  To connect to an external SAS Tape drive you'd need a MegaRAID card with "e" external connectors.

For the C200 M2 that LSI MegaRAID 9280-4i4e is your only option.

Regards,

Robert