HPE D3710 Installation Guide

Contents
Preparing............................................................................................................................ 5
Preparing the site............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Confirming support for your hardware and software components....................................................................................................5
Disk enclosure installation and configuration responsibilities.............................................................................................................. 6
Information gathering................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Registering with the HPE Email Preferences Center..................................................................................................................................6
Required installation tools..........................................................................................................................................................................................7
Storage planning considerations............................................................................................................................................................................ 7
System and performance expectations.............................................................................................................................................7
Striping methods............................................................................................................................................................................................ 8
RAID levels......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
RAID best practices..................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Disk drive sizes and types.........................................................................................................................................................................9
Spare disks......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Array sizing........................................................................................................................................................................................................9
Warranty support and services.............................................................................................................................................................................10
Deployment types........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
Installing........................................................................................................................... 11
Installation overview...................................................................................................................................................................................................11
Disk enclosure racking guidelines.......................................................................................................................................................................11
Rack installation best practices............................................................................................................................................................................11
Installing the rack......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Installing disk drives in the enclosure...............................................................................................................................................................14
Disk drive options....................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Disk drive guidelines................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Installing a disk drive................................................................................................................................................................................ 15
Installing SAS controllers or controller enclosures................................................................................................................................... 16
Preparing the server................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Connecting SAS cables and power cords....................................................................................................................................................... 17
Cabling best practices.............................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Cabling guidelines–disk enclosure to server or controller enclosure........................................................................... 17
Cabling guidelines–disk enclosure to disk enclosure.............................................................................................................18
Power cord guidelines.............................................................................................................................................................................. 19
Powering the disk enclosure.................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Powering on disk enclosures................................................................................................................................................................ 20
Powering
o disk enclosures................................................................................................................................................................21
Verifying the operating status of the disk enclosures............................................................................................................................ 21
Cabling.............................................................................................................................. 22
Large Form Factor D36x0 disk enclosures — maximum capacity configuration...................................................................22
Small Form Factor D37x0 disk enclosures — maximum capacity configuration....................................................................23
Dual domain example — best fault tolerance cabling.............................................................................................................................23
Dual domain — best performance cabling.....................................................................................................................................................24
Dual domain—alternative cabling.......................................................................................................................................................................25
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HPE D3710 Specifications

General

Brand	HPE
Model	D3710
Category	Enclosure
Language	English