Owner's Manual

Fibre Channel Cluster Setup 19
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 3-1. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections (continued)
Cluster
Component
Connections
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