HP P6000 HP P6300/P6500 EVA M6612/6625 Disk Enclosure Installation Instruction - Page 13
Cabling the P6500 EVA enclosure while offline, Adding below the controller enclosure
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Cabling the P6500 EVA enclosure while offline Adding below the controller enclosure 1. Power down the array and existing disk enclosures. Figure 12 (page 13) shows the cabling for an array with one P6500 EVA controller enclosure and four disk enclosures. With the P6500 EVA, disk enclosure are balanced as evenly as possible above and below the controller enclosures. Additionally, the controller enclosure and disk enclosures are connected using Y-cables. The Y-cables enable each controller port to act as two ports. For example, the DP-A port has both a DP-1 cable and a DP-2 cable. Figure 12 Cabling for preexisting P6500 EVA 2. Figure 13 (page 14) shows the cabling when another disk enclosure is added below the controller enclosure. Unplug the DP-1 cable from I/O module A port P1 of the existing disk enclosure nearest the newly installed disk enclosure and plug it into port P1 of I/O module A of the newly installed disk enclosure (1, Figure 13 (page 14)). Cabling the enclosure 13
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