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Components to Be Installed ................................................................................................... 52
Installing Controller Module(s) ........................................................................................... 53
Installing Hard Drive(s) ........................................................................................................ 54
Hard Drive Installation Prerequisites ...................................................................................... 54
Mux Board Installation............................................................................................................ 56
SAS Interface ......................................................................................................................... 60
Installing the Hard Drive into Drive Tray................................................................................. 61
Installing the Hard Drive Tray into the Enclosure ................................................................... 62
Installing CBM for RAID Models.......................................................................................... 63
Removing the RAID Controller ............................................................................................... 63
Controller Type....................................................................................................................... 64
Installing the BBU (Type I)...................................................................................................... 64
Installing the FBM (Type I) ..................................................................................................... 65
Installing the BBU (Type II)..................................................................................................... 66
Installing the RAID Controller ................................................................................................. 67
Installing the Earth Lead Kit for DC PSU systems.................................................................. 68
General Considerations on Making Connections ............................................................. 70
Host-Side Topologies ............................................................................................................. 71
Host-Side Parameters............................................................................................................ 71
Maximum Concurrent Host LUN Connection ("Nexus" in SCSI) ............................................ 72
Maximum Queued I/O Count.................................................................................................. 73
Fibre-Host RAID Connections............................................................................................. 74
Fibre-Host Components (including 10GB iSCSI) ................................................................... 74
Fibre-Host Topologies ............................................................................................................ 76
Fibre Cabling.......................................................................................................................... 77
Simple End-to-End Connection .............................................................................................. 78
DAS (Direct-Attached) Connection......................................................................................... 79
Switched Fabric Connection (Dual-Controller) ....................................................................... 81
Switched Fabric Connection (Single-Controller)..................................................................... 83
SAS-Host RAID Connections .............................................................................................. 85
SxxS-R/G2240-4 Controllers in DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) Configuration ...................... 86
DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) Connection with Redundant Host Path................................. 88
DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) Connection to Two Servers................................................... 90
iSCSI-Host RAID Connections ............................................................................................ 91
Network & Host Connection Topologies ................................................................................. 92
High Availability IP SAN with Redundant RAID Controller...................................................... 93
Single-Controller with Fault-Tolerant Path.............................................................................. 95
High Availability IP SAN with Port Trunk (Remote Replication Enabled) ................................ 98
Single-Controller with Trunk ................................................................................................. 100
Hybrid Host Connections .................................................................................................. 101
Single Hybrid Unit Connected to FC/ iSCSI Hosts ............................................................... 101
Utilizing Hybrid iSCSI ports for Data Replication.................................................................. 102
JBOD Connections ............................................................................................................ 103
SAS Expansion Links ........................................................................................................... 104
Type I JBOD SAS Expansion Configuration......................................................................... 104
Type II JBOD SAS Expansion Configuration........................................................................ 107
Configuration Rules.............................................................................................................. 109
Management Console Connections ................................................................................. 111
Power Connections............................................................................................................ 112
Checklist .............................................................................................................................. 112
DC Power Supply Power Cord Connection .......................................................................... 113
Connecting Power Cords ..................................................................................................... 114
Power On Procedure............................................................................................................ 116
Power On Status Check ....................................................................................................... 117
LCD Screen.......................................................................................................................... 119
Power Off Procedure............................................................................................................ 120
Monitoring Features........................................................................................................... 121
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