Deployment Guide

Adding or Removing Expansion Enclosures

This section describes how to add an expansion enclosure to a storage system and how to remove an expansion enclosure from a storage

system.

Topics:

• Adding Expansion Enclosures to a Storage System Deployed Without Expansion Enclosures

• Adding a Single Expansion Enclosure to a Chain Currently in Service

• Removing an Expansion Enclosure from a Chain Currently in Service

Adding Expansion Enclosures to a Storage System

Deployed Without Expansion Enclosures

Install the expansion enclosures in a rack, but do not connect the expansion enclosures to the storage system.

For more information, see the SCv300 and SCv320 Expansion Enclosure Getting Started Guide or the SCv360 Expansion Enclosure

Getting Started Guide.

NOTE:

To preserve the integrity of the existing data, use caution when adding expansion enclosures to a storage

system.

Install New SCv300 and SCv320 Expansion Enclosures in a

Rack

Prerequisites

Install the expansion enclosures in a rack, but do not connect the expansion enclosures to the storage system. For more information, see

the SCv300 and SCv320 Expansion Enclosure Getting Started Guide

Steps

1. Cable the expansion enclosures together to form a chain.

a) Connect a SAS cable from expansion enclosure 1: top, port 2 to expansion enclosure 2: top, port 1.

b) Connect a SAS cable from expansion enclosure 1: bottom, port 2 to expansion enclosure 2: bottom, port 1.

c) Repeat the previous steps to connect additional expansion enclosures to the chain.

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