Chassis Slots; Cable Organization - IBM System Storage SAN384B-2 Installation, Service And User Manual

v FS8-18 blade - The 16 physical Fibre Channel ports on this blade are numbered 0

Chassis slots

Slots are numbered 1 through 8, from bottom to top of the chassis when facing the
port side of the SAN384B-2. Control processor blades (CP8) can be installed only in
slots 4 and 5. Core switch blades (CR16-4) can be installed only in slots 3 and 6.
Port, application, or encryption blades can be installed only in slots 1, 2, 7, and 8.
Unused slots must be filled with blade filler panels to maintain adequate cooling.
See Appendix E, "Port numbering," on page 151 for different SAN384B-2 port
blades. Also refer to the IBM Redbook, Implementing an IBM/Brocade SAN with 8
Gbps Directors and Switches, SG24-6116, for more comprehensive information on
port numbering and area port numbering, and other technical information. This
publication is available through www.redbooks.ibm.com/. Search by title or
publication number.
Note: This publication was written for earlier products, but many of the practices

Cable organization

Two vertical cable management finger assemblies (shown in Figure 32 on page 69)
are attached to the rack vertical rails. They are not attached directly to the
SAN384B-2 chassis. This pair of cable management finger assemblies can be used
to keep the cables from hanging down in front of other blades, and to route them
away from the exhaust vent of the port-side exhaust kit, which is located below
the SAN384B-2 chassis.
Use these guidelines in planning for cable management:
v Plan for rack space required for cable management before installing the chassis
v Leave at least 1 m (3.28 ft) of slack for each port cable. This provides room to
v If you are using ISL Trunking, consider grouping cables by trunking groups. The
v For easier maintenance, label the fiber optic cables and record the devices to
v Keep LEDs visible by routing port cables and other cables away from the LEDs.
v Use hook and loop type straps to secure and organize fiber optic cables.
Attention: The minimum radius to which a cable can be bent under full tensile
load is 5.1 cm (2 in). For a cable under no tensile load, that minimum is 3 cm (1.2
in).
Attention: Do not route the cables in front of the air exhaust vents, located at the
top and bottom of the port side of the chassis.
– Trunk group 2: FC ports 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
through 15 from right to left. The two 10/100/1000 BaseT ports are numbered
GE0 and GE1 from right to left.
apply to this product.
remove and replace the switch, allows for inadvertent movement of the rack,
and helps prevent the cables from being bent to less than the minimum bend
radius.
cables used in trunking groups must meet specific requirements, as described in
the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.
which they are connected.
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