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When connecting appliance servers across a space larger than 3 U or on two
separate racks, you must use a C2T interconnect cable that is 2 m (6.5 ft) long,
which is available in the C2T option cable kit.
Note: Only one 2-m (6.5 ft) cable can be used in the C2T chain.
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The C2T chaining cables are hot-swappable.
Attention: Do not let the pins of the C2T cable connectors touch the appliance
server chassis when adding or removing systems to or from the C2T chain.
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Servers are numbered by their position in the chain (1 through n). If one
appliance server is removed from the chain, all successive appliance servers are
renumbered. For example, if the twelfth appliance server is removed from a chain
of 15 appliance servers, appliance servers 13 through 15 will then be renumbered
to 12 through 14.
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The C2T numbering is independent of any other appliance server reference.
Changing the position of the appliance server in the C2T chain does not affect its
IP addresses.
Complete the following steps to connect the appliance servers:
Note: If you are not connecting multiple servers, begin with step 1d.
1. Using the C2T cables, connect the appliance servers together:
Note: Your appliance server comes with a short C2T chaining cable that can
span approximately 3 U if needed. A longer C2T cable is available in the
C2T cable option kit.
a. Connect one end of the C2T chaining cable to the C2T (Out) port of the top
appliance server.
b. Connect the opposite end of the C2T chaining cable to the C2T (In) port of
the appliance server below it.
c. Repeat these steps until all of the appliance servers are connected together.
d. Connect the C2T breakout cable to the C2T (Out) port of appliance server 1.
Figure 24. Viewing a C2T interconnect
Note: Server 1 (usually the appliance server at the bottom of the rack) is the
appliance server to which you connect the device breakout cable.
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