Owner's Manual

7
Setting Up Your SAS Cluster with a PowerVault™
MD3000
To configure your PowerEdge Systems and PowerVault MD3000 hardware and
software to function in an Oracle Real Application Cluster environment,
verify the following hardware connections and the hardware and software
configurations as described in this section using Figure 3, Table 2, and Figure 4.
Figure 3. Cabling the SAS Cluster and PowerVault MD3000
Table 2. SAS Cluster Hardware Interconnections
Cluster Component Connections
PowerEdge system node One CAT 5e/6 cable from public NIC to the local area
network (LAN)
One CAT 5e/6 cable from private Gigabit NIC to
Gigabit Ethernet switch (private network)
One CAT 5e/6 cable from redundant private Gigabit
NIC to redundant Gigabit Ethernet switch
(private network)
Two SAS connections to a PowerVault MD3000 storage
system node using a SAS 5/E. See "Cabling Your SAS
Storage System" on page 8
Private Network
PowerEdge Systems
PowerVault MD3000
Storage System