Contents
Front panel components ............................................................................................................... 6
Front panel LEDs ......................................................................................................................... 6
Rear panel components ............................................................................................................... 7
Disk drive bay numbers ............................................................................................................... 8
Disk drive LEDs ........................................................................................................................... 8
Disk drive LED combinations ......................................................................................................... 9
7-segment display ..................................................................................................................... 10
2 Deployment types ............................................................................ 11
Environmental requirements ........................................................................................................ 13
Temperature requirements .................................................................................................... 14
Power requirements ............................................................................................................ 14
Rack planning resources ...................................................................................................... 15
Rack warnings ................................................................................................................... 15
MSA70 shipping contents .......................................................................................................... 16
Installing hardware options ........................................................................................................ 19
Installing disk drives .................................................................................................................. 19
Disk drive options ............................................................................................................... 19
Disk drive guidelines ........................................................................................................... 19
Installing a disk drive .......................................................................................................... 20
Preparing the server .................................................................................................................. 22
Cabling best practices ........................................................................................................ 23
Connecting power cords ..................................................................................................... 24
Power on best practices ....................................................................................................... 26
Configuration overview .............................................................................................................. 29
Supported software tools ........................................................................................................... 29
70 Modular Smart Array User Guide
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