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VTrak E-Class Product Manual

Fibre Channel DAS

Fibre Channel direct attached storage (DAS) requires:

• An FC HBA card in the host PC or server

• An SFP transceiver for each connected FC port on the subsystem

• A network switch

Data Path

To establish the data path:

1. Connect an FC cable between a data port on the left RAID controller and the

FC HBA card in your host PC or server.

See page 29, Figure 13.

2. Connect an FC cable between a data port on the right RAID controller and

the FC HBA card in your host PC or server.

Important

For a list of supported HBAs, switches, and SFP transceivers,

download the latest compatibility list from PROMISE support:

http://www.promise.com/support/.

Note

For multipathing (MPIO) applications, see:

• “Appendix B: Multipathing on Windows” on page 363.

• “Appendix C: Multipathing on Linux” on page 385.