Cabling Powervault Md1200 Series Expansion Enclosures - Dell PowerVault MD3800i Series Deployment Manual

Cabling PowerVault MD1200 Series Expansion Enclosures

You can expand the capacity of your PowerVault MD3800i and MD3820i series storage array by adding
PowerVault MD1200 series expansion enclosures. You can expand the physical disk pool to a maximum
of 120 (or 192, if enabled using Premium Feature activation) physical disks using a maximum of seven
expansion enclosures.
NOTE: To connect the MD1200 expansion enclosure to your MD Series RAID storage array, refer to
the following diagrams shown here.
Figure 11. Single expansion cabling diagram
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