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Intel® Storage Server System JBOD 2000 Family Hardware Guide JBOD 2000 External SAS Connection Mode Overview

7.6

Dual-port JBOD 2000 External Connection Mode

The Intel

Storage System JBOD 2000 dual-port SKU is compatible with the single-port JBOD

2000 connection modes in section 7.5. Besides, dual-port JBOD 2000 can support dual-domain

SAS connection modes. Dual-domain SAS implementations can tolerate the failures of the SAS

controller, external cable, or expander in JBOD 2000. Dual-domain SAS solutions offer higher

reliability, performance, and availability. To take advantage of multiple domains, hard drives

must be dual-ported and connected to pathways in both domains. The SAS drives can meet this

requirement, while the SATA drives usually cannot.

7.6.1

Figure 44 shows an example of a 2-connector SAS HBA or RAID adapter capable of dual-

domain support. The connectors of the controller connect to "A PRI" and "A SEC" port on JBOD

2000 with two mini-SAS cables. In the figure, the "4\" notation indicates a 4-lane bundled path.

This dual-domain SAS configuration can tolerate single port failure on the SAS controller,

external cable failure, and failure of the expander in JBOD 2000.

The SAS controller in the host can be the single point of failure in the connection mode above.

To avoid this, the second SAS controller can be added in the host. Figure 45 shows an example

of two SAS controllers connecting to the dual-port JBOD2000. The connectors of the first

controller connect to "A PRI" and "A SEC" port on JBOD 2000 with two mini-SAS cables. The

connectors of the second controller connect to "B PRI" and "B SEC" port on JBOD2 000 with

other two mini-SAS cables.

This kind of connection mode can tolerate SAS controller failure but usually needs additional

multipath I/O (MPIO) software support, or using OS native MPIO component. MPIO is a fault-

tolerance and performance enhancement technique when there is more than one physical path

between the host and storage devices through the connection of the buses, controllers,

switches, and bridge devices.

Note: Special FW for the SAS HBA or SAS RAID adapter may be needed for this connection

mode.

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