Owner's Manual

34 Setting Up a SAS Cluster
Figure 4-1. Cabling the Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) Cluster
and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 Storage Enclosure
Table 4-1. 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 PowerVault MD3000 system node
through the SAS 5/E
Private Network
PowerVault MD3000
Storage System
PowerEdge Systems
Two PowerVault
MD1000 Expansion
Enclosures
CAT 5e/6 (Public NIC)
CAT 5e/6 (Copper Gigabit NIC)
Fibre Optic Cables
LAN/WAN
DNS and DHCP Server
Client Systems