Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Management Station Hardware Requirements . . . 5
Introduction to Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Storage Configuration Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
About the Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Cabling the Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Redundancy vs. Nonredundancy . . . . . . . . . . 10
Single SAS In Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . 11
Dual SAS In Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 15
Expanding with Previously Configured MD1000 Enclosures 21
Expanding with New MD1000 Enclosures . . . . . 23
3 Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
System Assembly and Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing MD Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing on Windows Systems . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Documentation for Windows Systems . . . . . . . . . 33