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Acoustic noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Electrical requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Site wiring and power
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
AC power recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Power cords and receptacles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Heat output, airflow, and cooling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 2. Installing the storage subsystem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Preparing for installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Preparing the site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Preparing the rack cabinet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing the support rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installing the DS5100 and DS5300
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing the DS5100 and DS5300 on the support rails . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 3. Cabling the storage subsystem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Working with SFPs and fiber-optic cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Handling fibre-optic cables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing SFP modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Removing SFP modules
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Installing fiber-optic cables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using LC-LC fibre-channel cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Connecting an LC-LC cable to an SFP module . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Removing an LC-LC fibre-channel cable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using LC-SC fibre-channel cable adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Connecting an LC-SC cable adapter to a device
. . . . . . . . . . 58
Removing an LC-LC cable from an LC-SC cable adapter . . . . . . . 59
Connecting storage expansion enclosures to the DS5100 and DS5300 . . . . 60
Redundant drive channel pair
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Non-trunking cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Drive-side trunking cabling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Overview of steps to connect storage expansion enclosure to a storage
subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
DS5100 and DS5300 drive cabling best practices and rules . . . . . . . 73
EXP5000 storage expansion enclosure cabling rules . . . . . . . . . 75
EXP5060 storage expansion enclosure cabling rules . . . . . . . . . 76
DS5100 and DS5300 drive cabling topologies
. . . . . . . . . . . . 77
One DS5100 and DS5300 and one EXP5000 storage expansion enclosure 80
One DS5100 and DS5300 and two EXP5000 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
One DS5100 and DS5300 and four EXP5000 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
One DS5100 and DS5300 and eight EXP5000 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
One DS5100 and DS5300 and sixteen EXP5000 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
One DS5100 and DS5300 and one EXP5060 storage expansion enclosure 85
One DS5100 and DS5300 and two EXP5060 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
One DS5100 and DS5300 and three EXP5060 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
One DS5100 and DS5300 and four EXP5060 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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