Before You Begin - Sun Microsystems Sun StorEdge A3500 Manual

2.1

Before You Begin

Before you begin the installation, make sure that:
You are installing the controller module in a expansion cabinet containing drive
trays. The drive tray mounting hardware, drive trays, and other hardware should
already be set up, and the cabinet should be near its operating location.
You have SCSI cables to connect each drive tray to the controller module. These
cables were shipped with the drive trays.
The cabinet and installation site meet all area, environmental, power, and site
requirements for the controller module. See Appendix B for more information.
The host is installed and contains either two Sun-qualified Wide Intelligent
UltraSCSI host adapters or two Sun-qualified FC-AL host adapters.
Note – You can use a DWIS host adapter in place of the UDWIS host adapter, but to
achieve optimum SCSI performance use the UDWIS host adapter.
Do not daisy-chain other types of SCSI devices to the RAID controller module.
To prepare the cabinet, drive trays, and host system, refer to the documentation that
arrived with that equipment.
2-2 Sun StorEdge A3500/A3500FC Controller Module Guide • August 1999