Cabling Powervault Md3060E Expansion Enclosures - Dell PowerVault MD3460 Series Manual

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Figure 6. Four Cluster Nodes Connected to Two Controllers

Cabling PowerVault MD3060e Expansion Enclosures

You can expand the capacity of your PowerVault MD3460 Series storage array by adding PowerVault
MD3060e expansion enclosures. You can expand the physical disk pool to a maximum of 120 (or 180, if
enabled using Premium Feature activation) physical disks using a maximum of two expansion enclosures.
To connect the MD3060e expansion enclosure to your MD Series Dense RAID storage array:
1.
Connect the supported SAS cable (MiniSAS HD end) to SAS OUT Port 0 on the MD Series Dense
storage array.
2.
Connect the other end of the SAS cable to SAS port 1 on the MD3060e Enclosure Management
Modules (EMM).
3.
To add a second MD3060e expansion enclosure, daisy chain it to the first expansion enclosure.
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