One DS5100 and DS5300 and eight EXP5060 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
One DS5100 and DS5300 and one EXP5060 intermixed with a maximum
of three EXP810/EXP5000 storage expansion enclosures . . . . . . 91
DS5100 and DS5300 storage subsystem and one EXP5060 intermixed
with a maximum of seven EXP810/EXP5000 storage expansion
enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Drive-side trunking cabling configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Cabling the storage expansion enclosures to a storage subsystem . . . . 105
Storage expansion enclosure settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
DS5100 and DS5300 storage expansion enclosure ID settings . . . . . . 107
Fibre channel loop and ID settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
DS Storage Manager client host port numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Connecting hosts directly to the DS5100 and DS5300 Fibre Channel host ports 108
Connecting hosts to the DS5100 and DS5300 iSCSI ports
. . . . . . . . 110
Connecting secondary interface cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configuring the storage subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Storage subsystem management methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Host-agent (in-band) management method . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Direct (out-of-band) management method. . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Fibre channel and iSCSI host connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Fibre channel host loop configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Redundant host and drive loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
iSCSI configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Host iSCSI configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Installing the storage subsystem configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Connecting the power cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Chapter 4. Operating the storage subsystem
. . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Performing the DS4000, DS5100, and DS5300 Health Check process . . . . 128
Web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Hardware responsibilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Removing and replacing the front bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Turning the storage subsystem on and off
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Turning on the storage subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Turning off the storage subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Restoring power after an unexpected shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Performing an emergency shutdown
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Restoring power after an emergency shutdown
. . . . . . . . . . . 137
Responding to the audible alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Installing the DS Storage Manager client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Monitoring status through software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Finding controller, storage expansion enclosure, and drive information
141
Firmware updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Troubleshooting the storage subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Checking the LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Front bezel LEDs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
RAID controller LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Seven-segment numeric display LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Power supply and fan unit LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Interconnect-battery unit LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Recovering from an overheated power supply and fan unit . . . . . . . . 156
Resetting the controller circuit breakers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Cache memory and cache battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Cache memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Subsystem cache battery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
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