Cable a New Drive Enclosure (Guided Maintenance)

After installing the new Drive Enclosures, use Guided Maintenance to complete the process of cabling the Drive Enclosures. Guided Maintenance guides you through the process of cabling each new Drive Enclosure without disrupting data access to the system.

Prerequisites:

The steps for planning the system expansion are complete.
The new Drive Enclosures are installed in the rack and powered on.
The cables are unpacked and you have the correct mini-SAS to mini-SAS cables and mini-SAS to mini-SAS HD cables for adding the Drive Enclosures to the system. Refer to your system expansion plan for details.

Log into Oracle FS System Manager (GUI).
Navigate to Hardware > Drive Enclosures, and select Actions > Add Drive Enclosure.
The GUI initializes Guided Maintenance.
Follow the steps shown in Guided Maintenance.
Important! Carefully follow the steps in Guided Maintenance. Removing or inserting a cable in the wrong location or at the wrong time can disrupt data access to existing Drive Enclosures.

With each cabling step, Guided Maintenance displays an image that identifies the SAS port to which you connect a SAS cable. Connect the SAS cable as shown in Guided Maintenance. Also, ensure that you arrange the cables so that all the power cooling modules and I/O modules can be replaced without disrupting the cables.
After completing the steps in Guided Maintenance, click Finish.
Guided Maintenance closes and returns you to the Drive Enclosure Overview page.
Complete the expansion process.
Repeat the procedures for cabling a new Drive Enclosure for each Drive Enclosure planned for the system expansion.