Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Management Station Hardware
Requirements
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Introduction to Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Storage Configuration Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Cabling the Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Redundancy vs. Nonredundancy . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Single SAS In-Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 9
Dual SAS In-Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 13
Expanding with Previously Configured
MD1000 Enclosures
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Expanding with New MD1000 Enclosures . . . . . 21
3 Software Installation
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System Assembly and Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing MD Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing on Windows Systems . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28