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3 Deployment types..............................................................................................20
4 Installation.........................................................................................................21
Installation overview...........................................................................................................................21
Required items....................................................................................................................................21
Preliminary tasks................................................................................................................................22
Determining who will install and configure the disk enclosure......................................................22
Confirming support for your hardware and software components.................................................22
Signing up to automatically receive advisories, notices, and other messages.............................23
Confirming warranty support and finding out about related services............................................23
Gathering and recording information.............................................................................................23
Planning the storage configuration................................................................................................23
System and performance expectations....................................................................................24
Striping methods......................................................................................................................24
RAID levels...............................................................................................................................24
Disk drive sizes and types........................................................................................................25
Spare disks...............................................................................................................................26
Array sizing...............................................................................................................................26
Preparing the site................................................................................................................................27
Racking the disk enclosure.................................................................................................................28
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