Cabling Powervault Md1200 Series Expansion Enclosures; Expanding With Previously Configured Powervault Md1200 Series Expansion Enclosures - Dell PowerVault MD3200 Deployment Manual

Cabling PowerVault MD1200 Series Expansion
Enclosures
You can expand the capacity of your PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array
by adding PowerVault MD1200 Series expansion enclosures. You can expand
the physical disk pool to a maximum of 96 physical disks using a maximum of
seven expansion enclosures.
Expanding With Previously Configured PowerVault MD1200 Series
Expansion Enclosures
Use this procedure if your expansion enclosure is directly attached to and
configured on a Dell PERC H800 adapter. Data from virtual disks created on
a PERC H800 adapter cannot be directly migrated to a PowerVault MD3200
Series storage array or to a PowerVault MD1200 Series expansion enclosure
connected to a PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array.
CAUTION:
attached to PERC H800 adapter is used as an expansion enclosure to a PowerVault
MD3200 Series storage array, the physical disks of the expansion enclosure are
reinitialized and data is lost. You must backup all data on the expansion enclosure
before attempting the expansion.
To attach previously configured PowerVault MD1200 Series expansion
enclosures to the PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array:
1 Back up all data on the expansion enclosure(s).
2 While the enclosure is still attached to the PERC H800 controller,
upgrade the expansion enclosure firmware to the latest version available
at support.dell.com.
Windows systems users can reference the DUP .exe package and Linux
kernel users can reference the DUP.bin package.
3 Before adding the expansion enclosure(s), ensure that the storage array
software is installed and up to date. For more information, see the Support
Matrix at support.dell.com/manuals.
Install the software and driver package included on the PowerVault
a
MD3200 Series resource media. For information about installing the
software, see "Software Installation" on page 25.
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Hardware Installation
If a PowerVault MD1200 Series enclosure that was previously