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Physical Installation
The DX8200D Appliance Family
Connecting your appliance
The DX8200D family of appliances are supplied with six Ethernet network interface ports
dedicated to 'storage port roles'; two 'Front-End' ports, two 'Mirror' ports and two 'Back-
End' ports.
Front-End ports act only as iSCSI targets and are used to present Virtual Disks (LUNs /
VVols) to host servers. Mirror ports act simultaneously as both iSCSI initiator and target
ports and are used exclusively to provide synchronous replication of highly available
Virtual Disks ('Mirrored Disks'). Back-End ports are iSCSI initiator ports, used to connect
external storage systems so that their resources can be managed by the DX8200D
appliance.
Remaining Ethernet network Interface ports are used to provide "Management" ports (out-
of-band communication between DX8200D appliances in highly available topologies) and
for regular Windows Server administration.
If your appliance is to operate correctly it is vital that the physical connection of the storage
ports is correct with respect to the DataCore topological design and the prevailing network
infrastructure. In adding additional appliance(s) into an existing DataCore Server Group,
the potential to create a highly available environment arising but only if the requisite
storage port connectivity is observed:
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Lenovo DX8200D Install Guide (Additional Appliance)
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