1
Overview
This guide explains how to install and initialize an EMC
®
CLARiiON
®
CX700 Fibre
Channel storage processor enclosure (SPE).
Only an authorized service provider should install and cable hardware. Customers
can perform all the other procedures in this guide or have an authorized service
provider do them.
The
EMC Installation Roadmap for CX-Series, AX-Series, and FC-Series Storage Systems
provides detailed checklists of installation procedures for supported storage-system
environments, and lists the documents you will need to complete each task. EMC
CLARiiON manuals related to the storage system are on the
EMC CLARiiON
Storage-System Hardware and Software Documentation CD
. Once you have logged in to Powerlink, select
Support >
Document Library
and find the documents you need. The
Installation Roadmap
discusses many storage-system configurations; you need to read only the chapter
that covers your operating system.
This guide uses the term
disk-array enclosure
(
DAE
) to describe both 2-gigabit disk-array
enclosures (DAE2) and 2-gigabit point-to-point (DAE2P) disk-array enclosures.