Connecting The Storevirtual 3000 Drive Enclosure; Connecting To One Drive Enclosure; Connecting To Two Drive Enclosures - HP storevirtual 3200 User Manual

Connecting the StoreVirtual 3000 drive enclosure

Up to three HPE StoreVirtual 3000 drive enclosures can be connected to the array enclosure. The drive
enclosures must be connected to the array enclosure using an asymmetric cabling scheme as shown in the
following figures. The storage controllers must connect directly to the drive enclosure I/O modules.

Connecting to one drive enclosure

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Figure 18: One drive enclosure cabling configuration
1. Array enclosure
1. Connect DP-1 on the storage controller in slot 1 to DP-1 on the I/O module in slot 1 of the drive enclosure.
2. Connect DP-1 on the storage controller in slot 2 to DP-1 on the I/O module in slot 2 of the drive enclosure.

Connecting to two drive enclosures

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Figure 19: Two drive enclosure cabling configuration
1. Array enclosure
2. Drive enclosure 1
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2. Drive enclosure
3. Drive enclosure 2