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I am building a home rig and have recently acquired an HP P2000 G3 SAN with SAS controllers. I appreciate these are supposed to connect into a DL380 G7 or G8 with the HP branded SAS interface card (sc08e) but I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 server. I'm wondering, if I purchased a dell SAS card like a Perc H200e, would I be able to directly connect the SAN in a similar way?

Steve Gould
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Technically this question is off-topic if this is for home lab use - check out the allowed topics.

The question here is essentially whether the HP array will work with a Dell SAS HBA, or if an HP SAS HBA will work in a Dell server. Either one should work, but there's no guarantee. HP's rebranded LSI 9200-8e and Dell's rebranded 9207-8e both use the same LSI SAS 2008 chipset, so I would fully expect things to "work", though an HP card's firmware might not play nicely with Dell's system monitoring. Probably best to use the Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA or a generic LSI 9207-8e, as I doubt the HP array would have any mechanism to "disallow" non-approved HBAs from connecting.

JimNim
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  • That is excellent, many thanks. I appreciate it falls slightly off-topic and I apologise but as it involves enterprise level hardware I thought there may be some value for people who might have a similar situation in a business scenario. – Steve Gould Aug 13 '19 at 15:16
  • Yeah, TBH these kinds of questions are usually 2 words away from being on topic by the letter of the law... e.g. "I am building a testing/learning lab rig". The site isn't strictly limited to production boxes, though that's certainly where the priority and focus are. – JimNim Aug 13 '19 at 15:20