Owner's Manual

5
Before You Begin
Verify that the following tasks have been completed for your cluster:
• All hardware is installed in the rack.
• All hardware interconnections are configured.
• All virtual disks/LUNs, RAID groups, and storage groups are created
on the storage system.
• Storage groups are assigned to the cluster nodes.
CAUTION: Before you perform the procedures in the following sections, ensure
that the system hardware and cable connections are installed correctly.
Cabling Your Dell|EMC Fibre Channel Storage
You can configure your Oracle cluster storage system in a four-port SAN-attached
configuration, depending on your needs. See the following procedures for both
configurations.
Figure 2 illustrates the hardware connections used in setting up a SAN-attached
Fibre Channel cluster.
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
storage system
Two CAT 5e/6 cables connected to LAN
(one from each storage processor)
One to four optical connections to each Fibre
Channel switch in a SAN-attached configuration
See "Cabling Your Dell|EMC Fibre Channel Storage"
on page 5 for more information.
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
switch
One optical connection to each PowerEdge system’s
HBA and one optical connection to a port on each
storage processor
Gigabit Ethernet switch One Cat 5e/6 connection to the private Gigabit NIC
on each PowerEdge system
One Cat 5e/6 connection to the other Gigabit
Ethernet switch
Table 1. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections (continued)
Cluster Component Connections