Owner's Manual

10 Deployment Guide
Figure 1-1. Hardware Connections for a Fibre Channel Cluster
Table 1-4. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections
Cluster Component Connections
Each PowerEdge system node One CAT 5e or CAT 6 cable from public NIC to LAN
One CAT 5e or CAT 6 cable from private Gigabit NIC to Gigabit
Ethernet switch
One CAT 5e or CAT 6 cable from a redundant private Gigabit NIC
to a redundant Gigabit Ethernet switch
One optical cable from optical HBA 0 to Fibre Channel switch 0
One optical cable from HBA 1 to switch 1
Dell | EMC Fibre Channel
storage systems
client systems
PowerEdge systems
(Oracle database)
Gb Ethernet switches (private network)
Dell | EMC Fibre Channel switches
(SAN)
LAN/WAN
CAT 5e/6 (integrated NIC)
CAT 5e/6 (copper gigabit NIC)
fiber optic cables
additional fiber optic cables