Ports (total) 8x internal Internal ports (SATA) 8 Internal ports (SAS) 8 Internal ports (NVMe) 0 Scalability (SAS/SATA) 256 SAS/SATA Bus PCIe 3.0 x8 Technology SAS-3 (12Gb/s) internal connectors 2x SFF-8643 external connectors - MTBF 1.36 Mio h VMware vSAN Field of application vSAN 7.0 All Flash, vSAN 7.0 Hybrid