Document Outline

• D2600/D2700 Disk Enclosure User Guide
• 1 Hardware
  • Overview
  • Small Form Factor disk enclosure chassis
    • Front view
      • Drive bay numbering
    • Rear view
  • Large Form Factor disk enclosure chassis
    • Front view
      • Drive bay numbering
    • Rear view
  • Disk drives
    • Disk drive LEDs
    • Disk drive blanks
  • Front status and UID module
    • Front UID module LEDs
    • Unit identification (UID) button
  • Power supply module
    • Power supply LED
  • Fan module
    • Fan module LED
  • I/O module
    • I/O module LEDs
  • Rear power and UID module
    • Rear power and UID module LEDs
    • Unit identification (UID) button
    • Power on/standby button
  • SAS cables
• 2 Technical specifications
  • Physical specifications
  • Power and environmental specifications
• 3 Deployment types
• 4 Installation
  • Installation overview
  • Required items
  • Preliminary tasks
    • Determining who will install and configure the disk enclosure
    • Confirming support for your hardware and software components
    • Signing up to automatically receive advisories, notices, and other messages
    • Confirming warranty support and finding out about related services
    • Gathering and recording information
    • Planning the storage configuration
      • System and performance expectations
      • Striping methods
      • RAID levels
      • Disk drive sizes and types
      • Spare disks
      • Array sizing
  • Preparing the site
  • Racking the disk enclosure
    • Rack installation best practices
    • Racking procedures
  • Installing disk drives in the enclosure
    • Disk drive options
    • Disk drive guidelines
    • Installing a disk drive
  • Installing SAS controllers or controller enclosures
  • Preparing the server
  • Connecting SAS cables and power cords
    • Overview
    • Cabling best practices
    • Connecting SAS cables to the server or controller enclosure
    • Connecting SAS cables to cascaded disk enclosures
    • Connecting power cords
  • Powering on the disk enclosure
    • Power on best practices
    • Power on procedures
  • Verifying the operating status of the disk enclosures
• 5 Configuration
  • Configuration overview
  • Supported software tools
• 6 Operation and management
  • Powering on disk enclosures
  • Powering off disk enclosures
  • Updating disk enclosure firmware
• 7 Cabling examples
  • Large Form Factor D2600 disk enclosures — maximum capacity configuration
  • Small Form Factor D2700 disk enclosures — maximum capacity configuration
  • Dual domain example — best fault tolerance cabling
  • Dual domain — best performance cabling
  • Dual domain—alternative cabling
• 8 Troubleshooting
  • If the enclosure does not initialize
  • Diagnostic steps
    • Is the enclosure front fault LED amber?
    • Is the enclosure rear fault LED amber?
    • Is the power on/standby button LED amber?
    • Is the power supply LED amber?
    • Is the I/O module fault LED amber?
    • Is the fan LED amber?
  • Recognizing disk drive failure
    • Effects of a disk drive failure
    • Compromised fault tolerance
    • Factors to consider before replacing disk drives
    • Automatic data recovery (rebuild)
      • Time required for a rebuild
      • Failure of another drive during rebuild
      • Handling disk drive failures
• 9 Replacement procedures
  • Customer self repair (CSR)
    • Parts-only warranty service
  • Best practices for replacing hardware components
    • Verifying component failure
    • Identifying the spare part
  • Replaceable parts
  • Replacing the failed component
  • Replacement instructions
  • Exploded view
• 10 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Before you contact HP
    • HP contact information
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
    • Websites
  • Document conventions and symbols
  • Customer self repair
  • Rack stability
• 11 Regulatory compliance notices
  • Regulatory compliance identification numbers
  • Federal Communications Commission notice
    • FCC rating label
      • Class A equipment
    • Modifications
    • Cables
  • Canadian notice (Avis Canadien)
    • Class A equipment
  • European Union notice
  • Japanese notices
    • VCCI-A notice
    • Japanese power cord statement
  • Korean notices
    • Class A equipment
  • Taiwanese notices
    • BSMI Class A notice
    • Chinese notice
  • Recycling notices
    • English notice
    • Bulgarian notice
    • Czech notice
    • Danish notice
    • Dutch notice
    • Estonian notice
    • Finnish notice
    • French notice
    • German notice
    • Greek notice
    • Hungarian notice
    • Italian notice
    • Latvian notice
    • Lithuanian notice
    • Polish notice
    • Portuguese notice
    • Romanian notice
    • Slovak notice
    • Spanish notice
    • Swedish notice
    • Turkish notice
• Index