Contents 3
Contents1 About Your System
Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Indicators on the Enclosure Bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Front-Panel Indicators and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Drive Carrier LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Back-Panel Indicators and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enclosure Management Module (EMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Enclosure Failover When Two EMMs are Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
EMM Thermal Shutdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Enclosure Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2 Operating Your Storage Enclosure
Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cabling Your Enclosure for Unified or Split Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting the Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Using Your Enclosure to Expand a Dell PowerVault MD3000
Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Changing Your Enclosure’s Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Managing Your Storage Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Downloading Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3 Installing Enclosure Components
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27