Preface; Audience; What Is Included In This Guide; What You Should Know Before Reading - Infortrend EonStor CS Series Expansion Manuallines

1. Preface

The purpose of this guide is to instruct you on how to add/expand expansion enclosures to Infortrend
storage system without affecting the existing storage operations with minimum downtime.
Infortrend continues to develop the best quality solutions to fulfill customer's expectations and requirements.
We periodically release information about hardware and software online. We recommend users to check our
official website for the latest news and our customer support for the latest releases of firmware and software.
In case of product malfunction or if a feature is not working, contact our technical support team.

2. Audience

This Expansion Guide is intended for Infortrend customers, partners, and employees who install/configure
the EonStor CS systems.

3. What is Included in This Guide

This guide contains the following topics:
Expansion constraints: Lists all the principles when connecting multiple expansion enclosures.
Expansion enclosure connections: Explains the cabling connections between the storage system and the
expansion enclosure of different generations.
Expansion enclosure online expanding: Illustrates on how to add/expand an expansion enclosure to an
operating Infortrend storage system.
Hybrid expansion enclosure connections: Demonstrates the prerequisites before setting up the hybrid
expansion enclosure configuration.

4. What You Should Know Before Reading

This Expansion Guide assumes that you are familiar with basic server, storage, and networking concepts,
and configurations.
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