Owner's Manual

Fibre Channel Cluster Setup 13
Cabling Your Dell/EMC Fibre Channel Storage
You can configure your Oracle cluster storage system in a four-port storage
area network (SAN) attached configuration, depending on your needs.
See the following procedures for both configurations.
Figure 2-2 illustrates the hardware connections used in setting up a
SAN-attached Fibre Channel cluster.
Dell/EMC Fibre
Channel storage
system
• Two CAT 5e or CAT 6 cables connected to the LAN
• One to four fiber optic cable connections to each Fibre
Channel switch. For example, for a four-port configuration:
–One
fiber optic cable from SPA port 0 to Fibre Channel
switch 0
–One
fiber optic cable from SPA port 1 to Fibre Channel
switch 1
–One
fiber optic cable from SPB port 0 to Fibre Channel
switch 1
•One
fiber optic cable from SPB port 1 to Fibre Channel switch 0
Dell/EMC Fibre
Channel switch
• One to four fiber optic cable connections to the Dell/EMC
Fibre Channel storage system
• One fiber optic cable connection to each PowerEdge system
HBA
Gigabit Ethernet
switch
• One CAT 5e or CAT 6 connection to the private Gigabit NIC
on each PowerEdge system
• One CAT 5e or CAT 6 connection to the remaining Gigabit
Ethernet switch
Table 2-1. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections (continued)
Cluster Component Connections
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