Title. I scored a MD3600F storage array for free and know nothing about how to use it. The documentation says that the RAID controllers’ management ports use DHCP, but I can’t seem to get it to grab an IP. Also, the array’s enclosure LED flashes amber which I think is just the battery error? Not sure.
Any information would be helpful.
Using the SAS cards instead of the FC controllers should be fine, but it will be a different beast. The MD3600 controllers are basically your RAID card and you use a SAS HBA to connect to it. The virtual disks are configured on the MD3600 and exposed as LUNs to the hosts over FC. If you put plain SAS controllers in the storage chassis instead, you are exposing all the bare drives to the host. That is how I would do it if I were in your shoes and then would just create ZFS arrays over those bare disks. If I were going to try and have multiple hosts using that storage then you would need to stick with the MD3600F.