hp-proliantssdu.2
I have a HP Proliant DL360 G9 (with P440ar storage controller). I would like to know whether it is possible to connect NVMe U.2 SSD? The SSD I was thinking about is Samsung 983 DCT.
I'm not sure how to determine whether the controller supports U.2. It only specifies that it supports SAS/SATA, and that is has a PCI Express Gen3 x 8 link.
Another thing – does the controller determine the backplane connectors? Or are those two separate items?
When you first turn the server on, there's a a section during startup that says "Push F8 to enter iLO Configuration" (might be some other function key). Do that and fill in the network information and setup a login.
Once that's done, open a web browser at your computer and enter the IP you configured. It should be very self explanatory from there.
The iLO configuration is not stored on disk, and not in the BIOS, so there's a decent chance it isn't clear. Also, how your VPN works and how to use it is completely outside the scope of using iLO.
So, after bringing a third system into the mix, and experiencing the same issue, we began to question the environment. I dug up a copy of the HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide and found the POST problems flowchart shown below.
Carefully running through the steps in the chart, we realized that the one constant across all of the servers was a KVM switch attached to the data center crash cart. This was a consumer-class USB-enabled KVM. As per the highlighted node in the flowchart, Do you have known good KVM?, I could not answer conclusively.
So, we unplugged the servers from the KVM switch and ran an automated boot, sleep 300; reboot sequence in rc.local. The servers had no issues with this, regardless of the normal DIMM, low-voltage DIMMs, PSU wattage, etc.
This was all the result of a poor interaction with a USB KVM switch. By virtue that this was the console, it ensured we'd see the failure if we were looking for it. Self-fulfilling...
Best Answer
The HPE Proliant DL360 gen9 will accept NVMe devices with the addition of an
HPE DL360 Gen9 NVMe 2 Solid State Drive Express Bay Enablement Kit(p/n 764628-B21) or theHPE DL360 Gen9 6 NVMe + 4 SAS/SATA Express Bay Enablement Kit(p/n 817676-B21). This provides support for up to 2 or 6 NVMe SFF drives (HPE reference).At time of writing there are currently eight HPE NVMe parts listed as compatible with this server, for instance the
HPE 2TB NVMe x4 Lanes Read Intensive SFF (2.5in) SCN SSD(p/n 877986-B21). These are described as having interface "NVMe" with no mention of U.2 or any other established physical interface. I interpret this to mean that the interface with the server is via the enablement kit which is a PCI x4 3.0 card. This is not U.2 and I can see no evidence that the gen9 supports U.2.I would suggest that NVMe using an add-in card (AIC) would be a good option. Any standards-based PCI AIC could be used.