Setup guide

Connecting the Fibre Channel Adapter
On HP Z800 workstations, connections to media storage are made using the ATTO Celerity FC84-EN fibre
channel adapter, located in slot five (top to bottom).
The fibre channel adapter is equipped with four ports, called loops. You can connect your storage enclosure
to the fibre channel cards using either 2 loops or 4 loops. A 2-loop device can be connected to either the
inner pair of ports or the outer pair of ports. A 4-loop device requires both the inner pair and the outer pair.
NOTE If you are not using all the ports of a fibre channel adapter, terminate the two unused ports with the FC
loopback couplers that shipped with your system. Terminating these ports significantly decreases the time required
to boot the system.
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 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3003 Storage
The Dot Hill storage solution consists of one main disk enclosure, plus an optional expansion enclosure.
The main disk enclosure contains two controllers: Controller A at the top, Controller B at the bottom.
Connecting an expansion: if you are using an expansion enclosure, connect the SAS port of controller A to
the SAS port of the top I/O module on the expansion, and the SAS port of controller B to the SAS port of
the bottom I/O module of the expansion.
Connecting the FC loops to the main enclosure controllers: each controller has 4 FC ports, numbered 0 to
3. The Autodesk recommended configuration uses only ports 0 and 2 of each controller.
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