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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.
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”...
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.
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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.
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...
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...