Cabling The Exp3500 Storage Enclosure; Esm Connectors; Removing The Lc-Lc Fibre Channel Cable - IBM DS3500 Installation, User's, And Maintenance Manual

Figure 3-21. Removing the LC-LC Fibre Channel cable from an LC-SC Fibre Channel cable adapter
3. Replace the protective caps on the cable ends.

Cabling the EXP3500 storage enclosure

The EXP3500 storage enclosure comes with one ESM, which enables you to connect the EXP3500 storage
enclosure to a DS3500 storage subsystem. If you are attaching the EXP3500 to a dual controller DS3500
storage subsystem, you must add a second ESM to the EXP3500 storage enclosure to provide a redundant
drive path.

ESM connectors

Figure 3-22 shows the connectors on the ESM.
SAS in connector 1
ESM
Figure 3-22. ESM connectors
SAS In 1
Connect a SAS cable to this connector and to either an IBM SAS controller or the SAS Out (↓)
connector of another EXP3500.
SAS In 2
Connect a SAS cable to this connector and to either an IBM SAS controller or the SAS Out (↓)
connector of another EXP3500.
SAS Out
Connect a SAS cable to this connector and to the SAS In (↑) connector of another EXP3500.
Note: Each ESM contains two SAS In connectors. You can use either SAS In connector but only one SAS
In connector can be used at a time.
SAS in connector 2
1 2
SAS out connector
Chapter 3. Cabling the storage subsystem and storage enclosure
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