An enclosure is the basic housing unit for the system. It is the rack-mounted hardware that contains all the main components of the system: canisters, drives, and power supplies. The term enclosure is also used to describe the hardware and other parts that are plugged into the enclosure.
The system has two different types of enclosures: control enclosures and expansion enclosures. A control enclosure manages your storage systems, communicates with the host, and manages interfaces. In addition, each control enclosure can have multiple attached expansion enclosures, which expand the available capacity of the existing control enclosure. The system supports up to four control enclosures with up to nine expansion enclosures per control enclosure.
An expansion enclosure houses the following additional hardware: power supply units (PSUs), canisters, and drives. Enclosure objects report the connectivity of the enclosure.
| Machine type/model | Description |
|---|---|
| 2076-112 | Lenovo Storage V series control enclosure for up to 12 3.5-inch (8.89 cm) drives |
| 2076-124 | Lenovo Storage V series control enclosure for up to 24 2.5-inch (6.35 cm) drives |
| 2076-312 | Lenovo Storage V series control enclosure for 3.5-inch drives (with two 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE Ethernet ports) |
| 2076-324 | Lenovo Storage V series control enclosure for 2.5-inch drives (with two 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE Ethernet ports) |
| 2076-212 | Lenovo Storage V series expansion enclosure for 3.5-inch drives |
| 2076-224 | Lenovo Storage V series expansion enclosure for 2.5-inch drives |
| Machine type/model | Description |
|---|---|
| 2076-524 | Lenovo Storage V series control enclosure, with up to 24 2.5-inch (6.35 cm) drives |
| 2076-12F | Lenovo Storage V series expansion enclosure for up to 12 3.5-inch (8.89 cm) drives |
| 2076-24F | Lenovo Storage V series expansion enclosure for 2.5-inch drives |