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 configured as shown in Figure 1-1 or Figure 1-2, and listed in
Table 1-4 or Table 1-5.
• All the logical unit numbers (LUNs), redundant array of independent disks (RAID) groups, and the
storage groups are created on the Dell|EMC Fibre Channel storage system.
• Storage groups are assigned to the nodes.
NOTICE: Before you perform the procedures in the following sections, ensure that the system hardware and
cable connections are installed correctly.
Table 1-5. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections
Cluster Component Connections
Each PowerEdge
system node
One Cat5e/6 cable from the public NIC to the LAN
One Cat5e/6 cable from the private Gigabit NIC to the Gigabit Ethernet switch
(private network)
One Cat5e/6 cable from the redundant private Gigabit NIC to the redundant
Gigabit Ethernet switch (private network)
One optical cable from the optical HBA 0 to the Fibre Channel switch 0 and one optical
cable from HBA 1 to switch 1
Each Dell|EMC Fibre
Channel storage
system
Two Cat5e/6 cables connected to the LAN from each SP
One or two optical connections to each Fibre Channel switch
See "Cabling Your Storage System" for more information.
Each Dell|EMC Fibre
Channel switch
One or two optical connections to the Dell|EMC Fibre Channel storage system
One optical connection to each PowerEdge system’s HBA
Each Gigabit Ethernet
switch
One Cat5e/6 connection to the private Gigabit NIC on each PowerEdge system
One Cat5e/6 connection to the other Gigabit Ethernet switch