HP Direct-Connect External SAS Storage for HP BladeSystem Solutions Depoyment Guide

◦ Sign up for driver and support alerts (strongly recommended)
◦ Customer advisories
◦ Customer notices
Information available in the BladeSystem Technical Resources website
Some of the tasks you can perform in the BladeSystem documentation page (http://www.hp.com/
go/bladesystem/documentation) include the following:
• In the initial display, access and read conceptual documents and architectural overviews of
the HP BladeSystem environment.
• In the Installing tab, select a device from the displayed list to access the following links for
that device:
◦ QuickSpecs
◦ Customer Advisories
◦ Support and Documents
◦ Quick Install (instructions shipped with the device)
◦ User Guide (the primary Installation and Setup or User guide for the device)
Helpful HP websites
HP support: http://www.hp.com/support
HP storage: http://www.hp.com/go/storage
HP BladeSystem: http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem
Direct Connect SAS Storage for HP BladeSystem:www.hp.com/go/directconnect
HP BladeSystem technical resources (user documents, white papers, and support documents)http://
www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/documentation
HP BladeSystem components: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/
c-class-components.html
HP BladeSystem interconnect devices: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/
c-class-interconnects.html
HP BladeSystem adapters and mezzanines: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/
components/c-class-adapters.html
HP MDS600: http://www.hp.com/go/mds600
HP MSA2000sa: http://www.hp.com/go/msa2000sa (under Previous Generation)
HP MSA2000sa G2: http://www.hp.com/go/msa2000sa
Tape Storage & Media website: http://www.hp.com/go/tape (under Business Class Libraries or
Tape Autoloaders)
12 Introduction