Document Outline

• HP D3600/D3700 Disk Enclosure User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Hardware
  • Overview
  • D3600 Large Form Factor disk enclosure chassis
    • LFF Front view
      • Drive bay numbering
    • Rear view
  • D3700 Small Form Factor disk enclosure chassis
    • SFF 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 module LED
  • Fan module
    • Fan module LEDs
  • I/O module
    • I/O module LEDs
  • Rear power and UID module
    • Unit identification (UID) button
    • Powering on
  • Cables
    • Cables to connect HP D3600/D3700 to any HP 6Gb SAS initiator
    • Cables to connect HP D3600/D3700 with any HP Smart Array 12Gb SAS initiator
• 2 Technical specifications
  • Physical specifications
  • Power and environmental specifications
  • Acoustic noise levels
• 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
    • Rack Installation 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
    • Power on procedures
  • Powering off disk enclosures
  • Updating disk enclosure firmware
• 7 Cabling examples
  • Single-domain example
  • Dual domain example
• 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 System Health 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
  • Hardware components
• 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
  • Battery replacement notices
  • RoHS material content declarations
    • China RoHS material content declaration
    • India RoHS material content declaration
    • Turkey RoHS material content declaration
    • Ukraine RoHS material content declaration
  • Regulatory notices
    • 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