CHAPTER 2: Getting Started

Enclosure cabling - multiple enclosures

You can connect additional expansion enclosures to an E-842R RAID enclosure. Multiple enclosures are connected together using SAS patch cables, up to a maximum of five enclosures, including the RAID enclosure. A typical two-expansion enclosure configuration is shown below. To fully populate your installation to the maximum number of enclosures, follow the example below connecting the enclosures in the same fashion for each additional expansion enclosure.

Drive slot arrangement

Each enclosure has 12 drives which are referenced by their locations as shown in the following table. Drives are numbered column/row. For information on installing drive carrier modules, see “Installing a drive carrier module” on page 27.

Column/row

1

2

3

4

 

 

 

 

 

1

Drive 1

Drive 2

Drive 3

Drive 4

 

 

 

 

 

2

Drive 5

Drive 6

Drive 7

Drive 8

 

 

 

 

 

3

Drive 9

Drive 10

Drive 11

Drive 12

 

 

 

 

 

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