HP D6000 Disk Enclosure Installation Instructions

4 Cabling the D6000
After installing the D6000 in a rack, connect the I/O cables and power cords to the
rear panel.
IMPORTANT: To achieve 6G performance, all components
in a system (hard drives, disk enclosures, switches, and
controllers) must be 6G capable.
Mini-SAS I/O cables
The D6000 does not ship with any I/O cables, but supports the use of 2.00 m (6.56
ft) mini-SAS cables.
For information about the supported cables, see the QuickSpecs on the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/go/d6000/quickspecs).
Observe the following guidelines:
• Only use supported 2.00 m (6.56 ft) external mini-SAS cables.
• Always be sure that the servers attached to the D6000 are powered down
before connecting SAS cables.
The D6000 can be deployed in the following environments:
• Direct-connect: Connected directly to a rack-mounted or stand-alone server with
a supported Smart Array controller installed.
• Switch-connect: Connected to a SAS BL Switch installed in a BladeSystem
c-Class enclosure (and server blades with a supported Smart Array controller
installed.
In direct-connect and switch-connect environments, when one I/O module is installed
in each storage drawer, single domain is supported. When additional, optional I/O
modules are installed, dual-domain is supported.
Because each D6000 storage drawer is managed as a separate enclosure, the
drawers can be connected to different servers or switches.
To connect the mini-SAS I/O cables:
1. Connect a mini-SAS cable to port 1 on the primary (top) I/O module on the
designated storage drawer.
2. Connect the other end of the mini-SAS cable to a port on the switch or server
HBA.
3. If optional, additional I/O modules were installed, install an additional cable to
port 1 of the secondary (bottom) I/O module and to the redundant switch or
server HBA port.
4. Repeat these cabling steps to connect the other D6000 drawer.
The following illustration shows one example of cabling the D6000. For more
information and examples, see the following documents, available on the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/go/d6000/manuals):
• HP D6000 Disk Enclosure Direct Connect Cabling Guide