Cabling Powervault Md3060E Expansion Enclosures; Expanding With New Powervault Md3060E Expansion Enclosures - Dell PowerVault MD3260 Series Storage Arrays Deployment Manual

Figure 6. Four Cluster Nodes Connected to Two Controllers

Cabling PowerVault MD3060e Expansion Enclosures

You can expand the capacity of your PowerVault MD3260 Series storage array by adding PowerVault MD3060e
expansion enclosures. You can expand the physical disk pool to a maximum of 120 (or 180, if enabled using Premium
Feature activation) physical disks using a maximum of two expansion enclosures.
NOTE: Hot plug of MD3060e expansion enclosure is not recommended. Power on all MD3060e expansion
enclosures before you power on the array enclosure. For helpful videos and other resources on PowerVault MD
series, see dell.com/PVresources.

Expanding With New PowerVault MD3060e Expansion Enclosures

Perform the following steps to attach new PowerVault MD3060e expansion enclosures to a PowerVault MD3260 Series
storage array:
1. Before adding the expansion enclosure(s), ensure that the storage array software is installed and is up to date.
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