Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 11
Verify that the following tasks have been completed for your cluster:
• All hardware is installed in the rack.
• All hardware interconnections are set up as shown in Figure 1-1 and listed in Table 1-4.
• All logical unit numbers (LUNs), redundant array of inexpensive disk (RAID) groups, and storage
groups are created on the Dell | EMC Fibre Channel storage system.
• Storage groups are assigned to the nodes in the cluster.
NOTICE: Before you perform the procedures in the following sections, ensure that the system hardware
and cable connections are installed correctly.
Table 1-4. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections
Cluster Component Connections
Each PowerEdge system node One CAT 5e cable from public NIC to LAN
One CAT 5e cable from private Gigabit NIC to Gigabit Ethernet switch
One CAT 5e cable from a redundant private Gigabit NIC to a redundant Gigabit
Ethernet switch
One fiber optic cable from HBA 0 to Fibre Channel switch 0
One fiber optic cable from HBA 1 to switch 1
Each Dell|EMC Fibre
Channel storage system
Two CAT 5e cables connected to the LAN
One to four optical connections to each Fibre Channel switch; for example,
for a four-port configuration:
• One optical cable from SPA port 0 to Fibre Channel switch 0
• One optical cable from SPA port 1 to Fibre Channel switch 1
• One optical cable from SPB port 0 to Fibre Channel switch 1
• One optical cable from SPB port 1 to Fibre Channel switch 0
Each Dell|EMC Fibre
Channel switch
One to four optical connections to the Dell | EMC Fibre Channel storage system
One optical connection to each PowerEdge system’s HBA
Each Gigabit Ethernet switch One CAT 5e connection to the private Gigabit NIC on each PowerEdge system
One CAT 5e connection to the remaining Gigabit Ethernet switch