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Figure 1. Hardware Connections for a Fibre Channel Cluster
Table 1. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections
Cluster
Component
Connections
PowerEdge™
system node
One Category 5 enhanced (CAT 5e) or CAT 6 cable from the public
NIC to the Local Area Network (LAN)
One CAT 5e or CAT 6 cable from the private Gigabit NIC to the
Gigabit Ethernet switch
One CAT 5e or CAT 6 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 Fibre Channel switch 1
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
storage systems
Client systems
PowerEdge systems
(Oracle Database)
Gigabit Ethernet switches
(private) network)
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel switches
(SAN)
CAT 5e/6 (public NIC)
CAT 5e/6 (copper Gigabit NIC)
Fiber optic cables
Additional fiber optic cables