Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Management Station Hardware Requirements
. . . 5
Introduction to Storage Arrays
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Storage Configuration Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
About the Enclosure Connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Cabling the Enclosure
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Redundancy vs. Nonredundancy
. . . . . . . . . . 10
Single SAS In Port Configurations
. . . . . . . . . 11
Dual SAS In Port Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . 15
Expanding with Previously Configured MD1000 Enclosures
21
Expanding with New MD1000 Enclosures
. . . . . 23
3 Software Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
System Assembly and Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing MD Storage Manager
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing on Windows Systems
. . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing on Linux
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Documentation for Windows Systems
. . . . . . . . . 33