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Figure 8. Dual expansion cabling diagram

Expanding With New PowerVault MD3060e Expansion

Enclosures

NOTE:

Hot plug of MD3060e expansion enclosure is not recommended. Power on all MD3060e expansion enclosures

before you power on the array enclosure. For helpful videos and other resources on PowerVault MD series, see dell.com/

PVresources.

Perform the following steps to attach new PowerVault MD3060e expansion enclosures to a PowerVault MD3460 Series storage array:

1. Before adding the expansion enclosure(s), ensure that the storage array software is installed and is up to date.

For more information, see the Support Matrix at dell.com/powervaultmanuals.

2. Install the software and driver package included on the PowerVault MD Series resource media.

For information about installing the software, see Installing MD Storage Manager.

3. Using MD Storage Manager, update the RAID controller module firmware and NVSRAM to the latest versions available on

dell.com/support.

4. Click Tools > Upgrade RAID Controller Module Firmware from the Enterprise Management Window (EMW) by selecting the

array enclosure that you want to update.

5. Stop all I/O to the storage array and turn off affected host systems attached to the storage array.

Hardware Installation