HPE STOREONCE 5500

Contents
Capacity Expansion Overview............................................................... 5
Introduction................................................................................................................................... 5
Planning for the Capacity Expansion............................................................................................ 5
Expansion process and time considerations......................................................................5
Rack warnings...............................................................................................................................6
Space requirements........................................................................................................... 6
Power on/off procedure.................................................................................................................7
Powering off and on........................................................................................................... 7
Installing the Capacity Expansion Disk Pack, BB941A....................... 9
Disk bay locations within a drawer................................................................................................9
Distributing the drives correctly...................................................................................................10
Important Safety information.......................................................................................................10
Maintenance mode with StoreOnce Remote Support.................................................................11
Installing the drives......................................................................................................................11
Installing additional Capacity Expansion enclosures, BB933A ...... 14
Multiple enclosures supplied at installation.................................................................................14
Enclosures purchased after installation...................................................................................... 14
SAS cable lengths.......................................................................................................................16
Installation pre-requisites............................................................................................................ 16
Installation scenarios........................................................................................................16
Important safety information....................................................................................................... 17
Installing the rails and locking nuts ............................................................................................ 17
Installing the disk enclosure........................................................................................................18
Cabling Capacity Upgrade enclosures............................................... 22
Power on prerequisites............................................................................................................... 22
Maintenance mode with Remote Support via STaTS................................................................. 22
Cabling sequence overview........................................................................................................ 22
Cabling up to two enclosures above and two enclosures below the head server.......................23
Connecting the first additional Capacity Upgrade enclosure (JBOD 2) to PCIe slot 3.....23
Connecting the second Capacity Expansion Kit (JBOD 3).............................................. 25
Connecting the third Capacity Expansion Kit (JBOD 4)................................................... 31
Fully expanded system .........................................................................................35
Cabling all enclosures below the head server............................................................................ 36
Guidelines........................................................................................................................ 36
Daisy chaining sequence................................................................................................. 37
Cabling examples.............................................................................................................38
Factory-integrated SAS cabling configuration.............................................................................39
Applying the License and Completing the RAID Expansion............ 41
Scan for storage..........................................................................................................................41
Redeeming the Capacity license from the HPE Passport web site............................................ 42
Licensing and adding storage to the HPE StoreOnce System................................................... 43
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