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With gen2 controllers, hard disk drive and storage enclosure

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Supported IBM System Storage DCS Series with

Gen2 controllers .

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Receiving product updates and support notifications ix

DS Storage Subsystem installation and support

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Notices and statements in this document .

Chapter 1. Prerequisites to adding

capacity and hard disk drive migration . 1

Preparing the storage subsystem.

Preparing to export and import drives .

Determining the supported number of drives and

drive loop pairs .

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Verifying controller, NVSRAM, and ESM firmware

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Storage subsystem profile .

Physical View pane .

Upgrading ESM and controller firmware .

Drive migration limitations

Verifying hard disk drive model compatibility .

Viewing the product ID and model of a hard disk

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Bringing storage subsystems and drive loops into

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Intermixing storage enclosures .

Chapter 2. Adding or migrating hard

disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Considerations .

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Handling static-sensitive devices .

Adding new hard disk drives .

Migrating hard disk drives .

Step 1: Preliminary activities.

Step 2: Verifying drive migration enable settings

Step 3: Placing drives offline.

Step 4: Removing drives .

Step 5: Inserting drives

Migrating arrays within the same storage subsystem 21

Chapter 3. Adding or migrating storage

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Considerations .

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Step 1: Preliminary activities.

Adding new storage enclosures with new hard

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Migrating storage enclosures with hard disk

drives that have defined logical drive

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Step 2: Preparing and backing up the drives .

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Step 3: Shutting down and moving the storage

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Step 5: Installing and setting storage enclosure IDs

Step 6: Cabling, turning on, and verifying storage

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enclosure operation.

Cabling the new enclosures .

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Connecting storage enclosures at the end

(bottom) of a drive loop .

Connecting storage enclosures at the end

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(bottom) of a SAS drive cable loop scheme in a

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DCS3700 and DCS3860 storage subsystems with

Gen2 controllers configuration .

Returning the drive/loop channel to optimal

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Storage subsystem SAS drive channel/loop

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schemes for enclosures in a DCS3700

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Storage subsystem SAS drive channel/loop

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schemes for enclosures in a DCS3860 with Gen2

controllers configuration .

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Cabling multiple enclosures .

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Step 7: Inserting drives and cabling additional

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storage enclosures .

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Step 8: Inserting hard disk drives and placing

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logical drives online

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Chapter 4. Upgrading a storage

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subsystem controller . . . . . . ..

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Upgrade considerations .

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Host attachment and premium feature

Storage firmware migration .

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Alternative procedure to upgrade a storage

subsystem controller enclosure .

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Supported upgrades

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Configuration behavior after an upgrade and

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storage subsystem replacement .

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Storage subsystem behavior when turning on the

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power with no drives attached .

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Performing an upgrade .

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Redeploying the original storage subsystem

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Redeployment limitations.

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Configuration behavior in a redeployed storage

Appendix. Getting information, help,

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and service . . . . . . . . . . . ..

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Before you call .

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Using the documentation .

Finding Storage Manager software, controller

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firmware, and readme files .

Getting help and information from the World Wide

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