Preface; Audience; Organization; Overview Of Dell Equallogic Products - Dell EQUALLOGIC PS6500 Hardware Manual

Preface

This manual describes how to maintain the PS6500 storage array hardware, including disks, channel cards, EIP
card, control modules, and power supply and cooling modules. It also provides basic information about operating
an array.

Audience

This manual is designed for administrators responsible for installing or maintaining PS6500 array hardware.
Administrators are not required to have extensive network or storage system experience. However, it may be useful
to understand:
• Basic networking concepts
• Current network environment
• Disk storage space requirements
• RAID configurations
• Disk storage management
Note: Although this manual provides examples of using PS6500 arrays in some common network configurations,
detailed information about setting up a network is beyond its scope.

Organization

This manual is organized as follows:
• Chapter 1, Basic Array Information, describes the PS6500 array front and back panels and technical
specifications, in addition to basic array operations.
• Chapter 2, Maintaining Disk Drives, describes how to obtain disk drive status and how to install and remove
disk drives.
• Chapter 3, Maintaining Control Modules, describes how to obtain control module status, how to install and
remove a control module, and how to replace the micro SD card.
• Chapter 4, Maintaining Power Supply and Cooling Modules, describes how to obtain module status and how to
install and remove a module.
• Chapter 5, Maintaining Channel Cards, describes how to obtain channel card status and how to install and
remove a channel card.
• Chapter 6, Maintaining the EIP Card, describes how to obtain Enclosure Interface Processor (EIP) card status
and how to install and remove an EIP card.
• Appendix A, Array Technical Specifications, lists the environmental and physical specifications for the array.

Overview of Dell EqualLogic Products

Thank you for your interest in Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series storage products. We hope you will find them intuitive
and simple to configure and manage.
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