IBM 5886 Installing

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RAID 6Minimum of four drives per arrayRAID 10Minimum of two drives per array7. Review connector information pertaining to the hardware in your configuration as follows:a. Adapter cables attach to ports at the rear of the systems in which the adapters are installed. Toidentify port locations for the system in your configuration, see “Server connectors” on page 15.b. Adapters are cabled to the 5886 by using ports at the rear of the enclosure. To learn about theenclosure ports used in the following options, see “Enclosure connectors” on page 26.8. Cable the disk drive enclosure to the server as follows:a. Confirm that all adapters that you need to connect to the 5886 disk drive enclosure have beeninstalled in the system. If the adapters have not been installed, complete the adapter installationprocedure for your system before continuing with this task.b. If the server requires an internal cable to be installed to produce an external SAS port forconnection with the 5886 disk drive enclosure, confirm that the installation has been performed.Review the following list of systems that require the installation of an external SAS port, andthen complete the action for your system, if required:Remember: When installing or confirming the use of an external SAS port, record the location ofthe external SAS port on the server. Later in this procedure, you are instructed to install theexternal SAS cable to this server connector location.v For installing the external SAS port on the IBM Power ® 710 Express (8231-E2B and 8231-E1C)or IBM Power 730 Express (8231-E2B and 8231-E2C), see Installing the external SAS port in the8231-E2B, 8231-E1C, 8231-E1D, 8231-E2C, or 8231-E2D (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/hw/topic/p7hal/installsasport_71x_73x.htm).v For installing the external SAS port on the IBM Power 720 Express (8202-E4B, 8202-E4C, and8202-E4D) or IBM Power 740 Express (8205-E6B, 8205-E6C, and 8205-E6D), see Installing theexternal SAS port in the 8202-E4B, 8202-E4C, 8202-E4D, 8205-E6B, 8205-E6C, or 8205-E6Dsystem (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/hw/topic/p7hal/installsasport_72x_74x.htm).v For installing the external SAS port on the IBM Power 750 Express (8233-E8B) or IBM Power755 (8236-E8C), see Installing the external SAS port on an 8233-E8B or 8236-E8C(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/hw/topic/p7hal/dasd550backplanesasfeature.htm).v For installing the external SAS port on the IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB, 9117-MMC, and9117-MMD) or IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB, 9179-MHC, and 9179-MHD), see Installing theexternal SAS port in the 9117-MMB, 9117-MMC, 9117-MMD, 9179-MHB, 9179-MHC, or9179-MHD (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/hw/topic/p7hal/9117installsasport.htm).c. Locate the connection for each adapter for which you are using an external SAS cable to connectthe 5886.Note: The configuration figures in step 8d use adapter cards to represent the external serverconnections. The adapter card can represent one of the following connection types:v The external port of an adapter that you confirmed in step 8a.v The external port of an internal adapter cable that you confirmed in step 8b.d. Choose one of the following options to cable the SAS adapter:v To perform a connection of one 5886 disk drive enclosure to a single SAS adapter by using aYO cable, go to step 8e on page 11.10 Power Systems: Installing the 5886 disk drive enclosure