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Introduction: Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N Service Manual
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Introduction: Dell™ PowerVault™ 720N, 740N, and 760N Service Manual
Terminology • Command
Conventions • Formatting Conventions •
Keyboard Conventions • Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
This guide describes the field service procedures for replacing, upgrading, and
maintaining hardware units in PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N filers.
In this guide:
- Filer refers to the Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N filers.
- Expansion adapters used in PowerVault filers refers to the following:
- NVRAM adapter
- FC-AL adapter
- On-board SCSI tape interface
- network adapters
- PowerVault 700N storage system refers to a PowerVault 700N Disk-Array Enclosure
(DAE) storage system.
You can enter filer commands on the filer console or from any client that can obtain
access to the filer using telnet. In examples of commands run on a UNIX� workstation,
this guide uses the command syntax and output of SunOS 4.1x. (The command syntax and
output might be different, depending on your version of UNIX.)
In this guide, the following kinds of formatting in the text identify special
information.
| Formatting
convention |
Type of information |
| Italic type |
- Words or characters that require special attention.
- File names.
- Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the
guide says to enter the arp -d hostname command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual
name of the host.
- Book titles in cross-references.
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| Monospaced
font |
- Command and daemon names.
- Information displayed on the system console or other computer
monitors.
- The contents of files.
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| Bold monospaced font |
Words or characters you type. |
This guide uses capitalization and some abbreviations to refer to the keys on the
keyboard. (The keys on your keyboard might not be labeled exactly as they are in this
guide.)
| What is in this guide... |
What it means... |
| hyphen (-) |
Used to separate individual keys. For example: Ctrl-D means holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the D key.
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| Enter |
Used to refer to the key that generates a
carriage return, although the key is named Return on some keyboards. |
| type |
Used to mean pressing one or more keys on
the keyboard. |
| enter |
Used to mean pressing one or more keys and
then pressing the Enter key. |
This guide contains special messages that are described as follows:
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NOTE: A note contains important
information that helps you install or operate the system efficiently. |
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CAUTION: A caution contains instructions that
you must follow to avoid damage to the equipment, a system crash, or loss of data. |
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WARNING: A warning contains instructions that
you must follow to avoid personal injury. |
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