Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
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Contents
1 About Your System
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Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Enclosure Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Modular Disk Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Hardware Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Indicators on the Enclosure Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Front-Panel Indicators and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Back-Panel Indicators and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cache Functions and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2 Cabling Your RAID Enclosure
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Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About the Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Cabling the Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Redundancy vs. Nonredundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Single SAS In-Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Dual SAS In-Port Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Attaching MD1000 Expansion Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Expanding with Previously Configured MD1000 Enclosures . . . . . . . . 30
Expanding with New MD1000 Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3 Using Your RAID Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Physical Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) . . . . . . 35
Virtual Disks and Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35