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Capacity Expansion Overview............................................................... 5
Installing the Capacity Expansion Disk Pack, BB941A....................... 9
Disk bay locations within a drawer................................................................................................9
Distributing the drives correctly...................................................................................................10
Important Safety information.......................................................................................................10
Maintenance mode with StoreOnce Remote Support................................................................. 11
Installing the drives......................................................................................................................11
Installing additional Capacity Expansion enclosures, BB933A ...... 14
Multiple enclosures supplied at installation.................................................................................14
Enclosures purchased after installation...................................................................................... 14
SAS cable lengths.......................................................................................................................16
Installation pre-requisites............................................................................................................ 16
Important safety information....................................................................................................... 17
Installing the rails and locking nuts ............................................................................................ 17
Installing the disk enclosure........................................................................................................18
Cabling Capacity Upgrade enclosures............................................... 22
Power on prerequisites............................................................................................................... 22
Maintenance mode with Remote Support via STaTS................................................................. 22
Cabling sequence overview........................................................................................................ 22
Cabling up to two enclosures above and two enclosures below the head server.......................23
Connecting the first additional Capacity Upgrade enclosure (JBOD 2) to PCIe slot 3.....23
Connecting the second Capacity Expansion Kit (JBOD 3).............................................. 25
Connecting the third Capacity Expansion Kit (JBOD 4)................................................... 31
Guidelines........................................................................................................................ 36
Daisy chaining sequence................................................................................................. 37
Cabling examples.............................................................................................................38
Applying the License and Completing the RAID Expansion............ 41
Scan for storage..........................................................................................................................41
Redeeming the Capacity license from the HPE Passport web site............................................ 42
Licensing and adding storage to the HPE StoreOnce System................................................... 43
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