Dell DL4300 Deployment Manual

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Introduction The Dell DL4300 appliance is the latest generation of backup to disk protection appliance powered by Dell AppAssure software. The appliance allows: • Scalable storage capabilities to support organizations of any size • Faster backups, as well as quicker recovery scenarios over conventional tape devices and backu ...

• Dell PowerEdge RAID Controllers (PERC) • Preinstalled operating system and Dell OpenManage system and storage management software • AppAssure software NOTE: If your appliance configuration does not include Dell Storage MD1400 storage enclosures, ignore any references to Dell Storage MD1400 and storage enclosures in this documen ...

1. Rack and cable the DL4300 system and storage enclosure(s). 2. Turn on the storage enclosure(s) and then the DL4300 system. Installing the appliance in a rack If your system includes a rail kit, locate the Rack Installation Instructions supplied with the rack kit. Follow the instructions to install the rails in the rack ...

Redundant port configuration For redundant port configuration: 1. Connect one end of each SAS cable to port 0 and port 1 on the DL4300 system PERC controller. 2. Connect the other end of each SAS cable to port 1 on each Enclosure Management Module (EMM) on the MD1400 storage enclosure. Si ...

one of the enclosures connected to a single port on the controller card. The other two enclosures are daisy-chained with one of the enclosures connected to the second port on the controller card. Connecting the Cable Management ...

expansion using an MD1400 storage enclosure is optional. 10 ...