Understanding About Adding A Dr Series Expansion Shelf; Supported Software And Hardware - Dell DR Serie Manual De Instrucciones

NOTA: If you are running a DR4000 system with an installed release of system software prior to 2.1, and you intend
to upgrade to release 2.1 system software and install an external expansion shelf (or shelves), Dell recommends
that you observe the following best practice sequence of operations to avoid any issues:
• Upgrade the DR4000 system with the release 2.1 system software
• Power off the DR4000 system (required for 2.1 with Dell OpenManage 7.1)
• Connect the external expansion shelf (or shelves) with cabling to the DR4000 system
• Power on the external expansion shelf (or shelves)
• Power on the DR4000 system
NOTA: If you install an expansion shelf enclosure to support a DR Series system, each shelf must use physical
disks that have a capacity equal to or greater than each DR Series system internal drive slot capacity (0–11) that
they are supporting.
Ilustración 2. DR4100 System Expansion Shelf (MD1200) Drive Slot Locations
Drive 0 (top)
Drive 1 (middle)
Drive 2 (bottom)

Understanding About Adding a DR Series Expansion Shelf

The 2.0 release of the DR Series system appliance allows you to connect up to two Dell PowerVault MD1200 data
storage expansion shelf enclosures to provide additional data storage capacity beyond the capacity of the basic DR
Series system. Supported data storage expansion shelves can be added in 1 Terabyte (TB), 2 TB, or 3 TB hard drive
capacities. The process for adding an expansion shelf requires the following:
NOTA: The 300 Gigabyte (GB) drive capacity (2.7 TB) version of the DR Series system does not support the addition
of expansion shelf enclosures.
• Physically adding or installing the expansion shelf (for more information, see
Expansion Shelf)
• Cabling the expansion shelf to the DR Series system (for more information, see
Shelf Cabling)
• Installing the license for an expansion shelf (for more information, see

Supported Software and Hardware

For a complete list of the latest supported software and hardware for the DR Series system, Dell recommends that you
Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide at support.dell.com/manuals. For example, the Dell DR Series
see the
System Interoperability Guide lists the following supported hardware and software categories:
Drive 3 (top)
Drive 4 (middle)
Drive 5 (bottom)
Drive 6 (top)
Drive 7 (middle)
Drive 8 (bottom)
Adding a DR Series System
Installing an Expansion Shelf
Drive 9 (top)
Drive 10 (middle)
Drive 11 (bottom)
DR Series System - Expansion
License)
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