After installing new Drive Enclosures in the rack, you can use Guided Maintenance to cable the new Drive Enclosures, or you can manually complete the cabling steps.
As a feature of Oracle FS System Manager (GUI) (version 6.2.0 and later), Guided Maintenance guides you through the cabling steps necessary to add new Drive Enclosures, one at a time, to the Oracle FS System. Guided Maintenance displays images that identify the SAS ports to which you connect the SAS cables.
Manually cabling new Drive Enclosures involves following the cabling sequences based on the Drive Enclosure number within the string. If Guided Maintenance is not available, or if you brought the system offline for the expansion, you must manually complete the cabling steps.
Work with your Oracle Sales Engineer and refer to the expansion planning worksheet, as well as the SAS topology output, to determine the string assignments for each new Drive Enclosure in the system.