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Contents
I. Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
II. Getting started ................................................................................... 3
Three easy steps .......................................................................................... 3
Selecting hard drives ................................................................................... 3
Choosing capacity ................................................................................... 4
A note about drive capacity .................................................................... 4
Keeping your product up-to-date ................................................................ 4
Best Practices .............................................................................................. 5
III. Setup ................................................................................................... 6
Install Drobo Dashboard .............................................................................. 6
Inserting drives into DroboPro/DroboElite ................................................. 6
Connect DroboPro to your computer.......................................................... 7
USB 2.0 .................................................................................................... 7
FireWire 800 ............................................................................................ 7
iSCSI ......................................................................................................... 8
Connect DroboElite to your computer ........................................................ 9
Connect power ............................................................................................ 9
Configurations — iSCSI ................................................................................ 9
Creating a volume ................................................................................. 13
Picking a file system and volume size ................................................... 14
VMware and Linux Customers .............................................................. 14
DroboPro/DroboElite Lights ...................................................................... 16
IV. Using Drobo Dashboard with your DroboPro/DroboElite ................ 17
Drobo Dashboard basics ............................................................................ 17
The main page ....................................................................................... 17
Advanced Controls: Data tab ................................................................ 19
Advanced Controls: Tools tab ............................................................... 20
Additional features ............................................................................... 20
Keeping Drobo Dashboard up-to-date .................................................. 21