Installation; Installation Overview; Required Items - HP StorageWorks D2700 User Manual

3 Installation

Installation overview

Installation steps include:
1. Locating
2. Completing
3. Preparing the
4. Racking the disk
5. Installing disk
6. Installing 6Gb SAS controllers and preparing the
7. Connecting cables and power
8. Powering on the disk
9. Verifying the operating status of the

Required items

Items required for installation include the following, some of which ship with the disk enclosure:
• Rack mounting kit
• Disk enclosure
• Disk drives and drive blanks
• 6Gb SAS controller
• SAS cables
• Power cables
• Access to a workstation on the server
• Access to the Internet
NOTE:
A variety of disk drives, 6Gb SAS controllers, and SAS cables are supported for use with this disk
enclosure. For more information, see the QuickSpecs for your disk enclosure model, available on the
D2000 disk enclosures website: http://www.hp.com/go/D2000.
Required items, page 23
Preliminary tasks, page 24
site, page 29
enclosure, page 30
drives, page 33
cords, page 36
enclosure, page 40
servers, page 35
devices, page 41
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