About this task
In some situations, the controller-drive tray might be delivered without the drives installed. Follow the steps in this procedure to install the drives. If your controller-drive tray already has drives installed, you can skip this step and go to Step 5 - Connecting the controller-drive tray to the hosts.
Attention: Risk of equipment malfunction
– To avoid exceeding the functional and environmental limits, install only drives that have been provided or approved by NetApp, Inc. Drives might be shipped but not installed. System integrators, resellers, system administrators, or users can install the drives.
Note: For the E5512, the installation order is from top to bottom and from left to right. For the E5524, the installation order is from left to right. The installation order is important because the drives might already contain configuration information that depends upon the correct sequence of the drives in the tray.