Installation overview. HP D2600

4 Installation

Installation overview

Installation steps include:

1.

Locating

Required items , page 23

2.

Completing

Preliminary tasks , page 24

3.

Preparing the site , page 29

4.

Racking the disk enclosure , page 30

5.

Installing disk drives in the enclosure , page 32

6.

Connecting SAS cables and power cords , page 35

7.

Powering on the disk enclosure , page 39

8.

Verifying the operating status of the disk enclosures , page 40

Required items

Items required for installation include the following, some of which ship with the disk enclosure:

• Rack mounting kit

• Disk enclosure

• Disk drives and drive blanks

• SAS controller or controller enclosure

• SAS cables

• Power cables

• Access to a workstation on the server

• Access to the Internet

NOTE:

A variety of disk drives, SAS controllers, controller enclosures, and SAS cables are supported for use with this disk enclosure. For more information, see the QuickSpecs for the disk enclosure, available on the D2000 website: http://www.hp.com/go/D2000 .

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