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It's been a while since It looked under the covers. I seem to remember it has a complex loom that bridges front to back and has pretty complex routing. Then splits out into 2 8087 male connectors at the rear PCI-E bay. I have the 8 x 3.5 LFF version.

Yes to your point 1 that would work. Your google fu is better than mine as I could not find any. It looks like the link you sent could be the only place in the world that sells them! Short 8643 to 8087 then into this coupler then into the backplane 8087 connector. It would give us a forward...

Hmm, I am on that track but not sure that would be easier ;) We use the card to support multiple VM's some with passthrough drives some not. This is not a storage host but a general purpose host. I can see there are SFF8643 to SFF8087 male cables but can't seem to find any SFF8643 male to...

Hello, My first post here so go easy. We are looking to upgrade a Dell R720 server to ESXI 8 but need to change the LSI 9211-8i to a SAS3008 card to be supported. The backplane has SFF 8087 cables with male connectors that plug into the 9211-8i SFF8087 female ports. The new SAS3008 cards have...