Dell PowerVault 660F Installation Manual
Dell PowerVault 660F Installation Manual

Dell PowerVault 660F Installation Manual

Fibre disk raid controller

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  • Page 1      UPGRADE INSTALLATION GUIDE www.dell.com support.dell.com...
  • Page 3      UPGRADE INSTALLATION GUIDE www.dell.com support.dell.com...
  • Page 4 Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Computer Corpo- ration is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL E COM logo, PowerVault, and Dell OpenManage are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products.
  • Page 5: System Features

    Dell™ PowerVault™ Fibre Disk RAID Controller Upgrade Installation Guide Dell PowerVault Fibre Disk RAID Controller for the PowerVault 660F and 224F storage systems provides protection against drive failures and supports configurations using multiple hosts and redundant controllers for improved fault-tolerance and high- performance data throughput.
  • Page 6: Other Documents You May Need

    Getting Help Dell provides a number of tools to help you if you don’t understand a procedure described in this guide or if your system does not perform as expected. For informa- tion on these help tools, see the chapter titled “Getting Help”...
  • Page 7: Installing The Raid Controller

    Installing the RAID Controller This section describes how to install the controller into Dell PowerVault 660F and 224F storage systems. See Figure 1-1 for a view of the controller, LED indicators, and connectors. DB 9 connector HSSDC connector LED indicators Figure 1-1.
  • Page 8 Upgrading the RAID Controller Perform the following steps to install the Dell Fibre Disk RAID Controller. NOTICE: This product is to be used with the PowerVault 660F or a PowerVault 224F that has been upgraded to a PowerVault 660F. See the Dell PowerVault 660F and 224 Storage Systems Installation and Trouble- shooting Guide for additional installation and safety instructions.
  • Page 9: Conditioning The Battery

    The battery requires six hours to be fully charged. NOTE: During conditioning, the controller is in write-through cache mode. This may slow normal operations; therefore, schedule this operation accordingly. LED Indicators Figure 1-3 shows the LED indicators on the Dell Fibre Disk RAID Controller. support.dell.com Upgrade Installation Guide...
  • Page 10 (amber) device activity (green) partner controller host activity failure (amber) (green) controller not ready (amber) controller ready (green) Figure 1-3. Dell Fibre Disk RAID Controller LEDs Upgrade Installation Guide...
  • Page 11: Technical Specifications

    5.1 V +/- 5% @ 2.5 A average Battery charging 12 V +/- 25% @ 0.3 Controller operating limits 5 V +/- 5% Environment Specifications Operating temperature 10 ° C to 35° C Connectors Backplane 60-pin Host one DB 9 Expansion one HSSDC support.dell.com Upgrade Installation Guide...
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