HPE MR216i-p Gen11 x16 Lanes without Cache PCI SPDM Plug-in Storage Controller

P47785-B21 is the HPE MR216i-p Gen11, the plug-in tri-mode storage controller that has no cache. The half-height, half-length PCI card uses a Broadcom Aero ASIC and a PCIe Gen 4.0 x8 host interface. Its two x8 SlimSAS ports provide 16 lanes, which reach up to 16 drives without an expander, and up to 64 volumes can be defined.

RAID levels are 0, 1 and 10, and mixed mode lets RAID volumes and JBOD drives sit on the same controller. Link speeds are 16 Gbps for NVMe, 12 Gbps for SAS and 6 Gbps for SATA. Like the rest of the MR family, SPDM allows iLO 6 to authenticate the card by certificate, and a hardware root of trust protects against malicious firmware.

Spare number P47953-001 is the MR216i-p Gen11 controller assembly. The OCP 3.0 form of this controller is the MR216i-o, P47789-B21, and the version with 8GB of cache is the MR416i-p, P47777-B21. 24G SAS drives can be fitted, and they run at no more than 12 Gbps on this controller. In the ProLiant DL360 Gen11, a 4-port full-height networking adapter fitted together with this half-height controller rules out the secondary full-height riser. The DL380 Gen11 also carries this controller among its tri-mode options.

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