Hello,
There is one critical change I would suggest. You should not disconnect the power to the enclosure prior to powering down the array head. change the process to the following.
- equip Array and Enclosure with HDDs
- connect Enclosure to Array
- Power on Enclosure (wait for LEDs to stop blinking and check for error LEDs)
- Power on Array (wait till ready)
- connect to CLI and perform IP configuration
- shutdown both controllers with cli
-remove power from Array
-remove power from Enclosure
This way in case the shutdown command does not complete fully you will not have an enclosure disappearing which will cause a SAS backend domain reformation prior to removing power from the controllers.
Cheers,
Shawn