Owner's Manual

22 Deployment Guide
The switches, the HBA ports in the cluster nodes, and the SP ports in the storage system use duplex LC
multimode connectors. The connectors consist of two individual fiber optic connectors with indexed
tabs that must be inserted and aligned properly in the small form-factor pluggable (SFP) module
connectors on the Fibre Channel switches and the connectors on the cluster nodes and storage systems.
Each HBA port is cabled to a port on a Fibre Channel switch. One to four cables connect from the
outgoing ports on a switch to a storage processor on a Dell|EMC storage system.
Cabling a Stand-alone Server
1 Connect a standalone server to the SAN
a Connect a cable from HBA port 0 to Fibre Channel switch 0 (sw0).
b Connect a cable from HBA port 1 to Fibre Channel switch 1 (sw1).
2 Connect the storage system to the SAN.
a Connect a cable from Fibre Channel switch 0 (sw0) to SP-A port FE 0.
b Connect a cable from Fibre Channel switch 0 (sw0) to SP-B port FE 1.
c Connect a cable from Fibre Channel switch 1 (sw1) to SP-A port FE 1.
d Connect a cable from Fibre Channel switch 1 (sw1) to SP-B port FE 0.
Figure 1-7. Cabling a Stand-alone Server to the Dell|EMC CX3-20 SPE