Dell SCv3000 Deployment Guide

Discover and Congure the Storage Center
The Discover and Congure Uninitialized Storage Centers wizard sets up a Storage Center to make it ready for volume creation.
Use the Dell Storage Manager to discover and congure the Storage Center. After conguring a Storage Center, you can set up a localhost
or VMware vSphere host using the host setup wizards.
The storage system hardware must be installed and cabled before the Storage Center can be congured.
Topics:
• Connect Power Cables and Turn On the Storage System
• Locate Your Service Tag
• Record System Information
• Supported Operating Systems for Storage Center Automated Setup
• Install and Use the Storage Manager Client
• Discover and Select an Uninitialized Storage Center
• Deploy the Storage Center Using the Direct Connect Method
• Customer Installation Authorization
• Set System Information
• Set Administrator Information
• Conrm the Storage Center Conguration
• Initialize the Storage Center
• Congure Key Management Server Settings
• Create a Storage Type
• Congure Ports
• Congure Time Settings
• Congure SMTP Server Settings
• Using SupportAssist
• Update the Storage Center
• Complete the Conguration and Continue With Setup
Connect Power Cables and Turn On the Storage
System
Connect power cables to the storage system components and turn on the hardware.
About this task
• If the storage system is installed without expansion enclosures, connect power cables to the storage system chassis and turn on the
storage system.
• If the storage system is installed with expansion enclosures, connect power cables to the expansion enclosure chassis. Make sure you
power on each expansion enclosure before turning on the storage system.
NOTE
: When powering on expansion enclosures with spinning hard drives, wait approximately three minutes for the drives to
spin up before powering on the storage system.
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Dell SCv3000 Specifications

General

HDD speed	10000 RPM
Storage drive size	3.5 \
Storage drive capacity	900 GB
Storage drive interface	Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Storage drives installed	Yes
Installed storage drive type	HDD
Total installed storage capacity	6.3 TB
Maximum supported storage capacity	- TB
Number of storage drives installed	7
Number of storage drives supported	16
USB connectivity	-
Chassis type	Rack (3U)
Product color	Black, Grey
AC input voltage	100-240 V
AC input frequency	50 - 60 Hz
Power supply unit (PSU) capacity	1485 W
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 65 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	10 - 35 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	5 - 95 %
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	10 - 80 %
Dell E-Value Code	SCv3000FC

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	785 mm
Width	445 mm
Height	133.3 mm