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

4 Installation

Installation overview

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

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
• SAS controller or controller enclosure
• SAS cables
• Power cables
• Access to a workstation on the server
• Access to the Internet
NOTE:
A variety of disk drives, SAS controllers, controller enclosures, and SAS cables are supported for use
with this disk enclosure. For more information, see the QuickSpecs for the disk enclosure, available
on the D2000 website: http://www.hp.com/go/D2000.
Required items, page 23
Preliminary tasks, page 24
site, page 29
enclosure, page 30
enclosure, page 32
enclosure, page 39
cords, page 35
enclosures, page 40
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