Setup guide

Connecting Stone Direct Storage
The diagrams in this section illustrate how to connect the fibre channel loops
to the Stone Direct storage enclosures supported with your workstation. For
technical details on each storage model, see the Storage chapter in the hardware
setup guide.
Connecting XR 6500 Storage
The following diagrams illustrate 2-loop and 4-loops connections for XR 6500
series storage assemblies. Cable your storage exactly as illustrated to ensure
proper functionality.
A XR 6500 RAID enclosure supports a maximum of seven XE expansion
enclosures. Configurations with two XR RAID enclosures are not supported.
WARNING Do not power on your storage before installing Linux
®
, otherwise the
Red Hat
®
installer might attempt to format the storage array and use it as the
system disk.
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