Let's go back to basics:  1. is your array correctly setup? Did you get a connection diagram with the parts?  2. do you know what the IP addresses are for the array? Each Storage Processor (you should have two - SPA and SPB). On each SP there is a connection for a LAN and for a serial port. The LAN is a 10/100 connection. You need to connection those ports to a 10/100 switch and each port on the switch should be set to auto/auto. The serial port is a service port (there are some threads on this forum that explain how to use the serial ports to log in).  3. of the disks that you got, you should have the first five disks (counting from the left) should have a label listing which OS disk is which - OS 0, OS 1, OS 2, OS 3, OS 4 - or something like that. If you do not have these disks, the array will not boot. This is where the serial port can be used to see if the SP is booting. The Boot process is three stages: BIOS, POST, Booting Array OS.  The Fault light on the SP blinks when booting up - the frequency of the blinks indicates the state of the boot process.  Stages:  1. once/4 seconds — BIOS activity. 2. once/second — POST activity. 3. four/second — booting.  Steady indicates fault  If the blinks stay in one stage, that indicates a problem in that stage. If the lights are blinking at the rate of one blink every four seconds, that means the BIOS activity has discovered an error and will not proceed to the next stage. If both fault lights on each SP are stuck in the same stage (BIOS), that may indicate a problem with the getting to the next stage (POST) where access to the Vault (or the OS) drives come into play. This may indicate a problem in the disks. and will probably require someone to troubleshoot the issue as you may have an issue with the Vault disks, or image on the vault disks.  glen  SPA uses disks 0 for booting the array OS (disk 2 is a mirror of disk 0).   SPB uses disks 1 for booting the array OS (disk 3 is a mirror of disk 0).   You could power off the array, then remove all but the first disk (disk 0) in the SPE and disconnect any other DAE's (remember to label the DAE cables so that you get the cables back in the correct position) and remove SPB, then power on just SPA - if that boots, you will still get some faults as the other SP is removed and the disks are all removed except for disk 0, but at least you could see if the SP will boot. You could then try the same steps with SPB and its boot disk (disk 1) and see if SPB boots.  glen
A few days ago I bought on eBay these items for my home lab:  CX3-40C-DE (CK200075001120)  DE-CX-4PDAE (JWXCH102301910)  EMC Clariion 500GB Hard Drive Caddies / Interposer Board  SFP to HSSDC2 4Gb Fibre Channel Cable  QLOGIC 4GB FIBRE CHANNEL PCI-e HBA  Fiber Channel Cables  I need to study about Storage/arrays and my idea would be to implement my failover cluster with these devices.  I was checking out and I got the conclusion that I need to perform a new installation of FLARE OE in VAULT disks,   Could someone tell me exactly what I should do to restore the system in my CX3-40C, I just need a direction, a point of start, what should I check, how to get the FLARE OE? how to install?   as previously informed my idea would be to use these devices to study, I do not make money with my home lab ... only knowledge ...   Thank you in advance for your help    Franklin Correa
cx3-40c FLARE OE