About This Guide; Introduction; Intended Audience; Prerequisites - Seagate Exos E 4U106 Hardware Installation And Maintenance Manual

About this guide

Introduction

This guide provides information about initial hardware installation and setup, as well as removal and installation of
customer-replaceable units (FRUs) for the Seagate Exos E 4U106 enclosure. The Exos E 4U106 is a high-capacity
expansion enclosure designed for use in cloud and enterprise environments. The Exos E 4U106 measures 4 EAI
units of rack height (7") and fits a 1.2 m rack. It conforms to Common Form Factor (CFF) for canister bay support,
and it integrates with Seagate controller enclosures for storage management. The integral cable management arm
(CMA) allows the enclosure to be withdrawn from the rack for servicing, while remaining connected and powered
in this mode.
The Exos E 4U106 is designed for use as an expansion enclosure. This 4U106 enclosure can either be used as a
server-attached Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD), or it can be cabled to an RBOD (RAID Bunch of Disks) as an
Expanded Bunch Of Disks (EBOD) for adding storage.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for system administrators and storage administrators.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using this product include knowledge of:
• Server system administration
• Linux and Microsoft Windows servers
• Storage system configuration
• Server-attached storage
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) protocol

Document conventions and symbols

Table 1 Document conventions
Convention
Green text
Black, underlined text
Colored, underlined
Bold text
Italic text
Monospace text
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Monospace, bold text
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Element
Cross-reference links
Email addresses
text Website addresses
• Keys that are pressed
• Text entered into a GUI element, such as a text box
• GUI elements that are clicked or selected, such as menu and list items,
buttons, and check boxes
Text emphasis
• File and directory names
• System output
• Code
• Commands, their arguments, and argument values
• Code variables
• Command parameters
Emphasis of file and directory names, system output, code, and text entered
at the command line