Cabling Considerations For Controller-Drive Tray Hardware Upgrades - Quantum StorNext QD7000 Upgrade Manual

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Cabling considerations for controller-drive tray
hardware upgrades
Compare your current host cabling to the supported cabling for your new controllers to determine
whether you can reuse SFPs, QSFPs or cables from your old cabling configuration. The HBAs,
HCAs, or Ethernet adapters, as well as switches in the network fabric used to connect your hosts to
your storage array must match the HICs in your controller canisters.
Supported cables for E5500 and E5600 controller-drive trays and the EF550 and
EF560 flash arrays
HIC
Data Rate and
Protocol
12 Gb/s SAS
6 Gb/s SAS
56 Gb/s InfiniBand
40 Gb/s InfiniBand
16 Gb/s Fibre
Channel
10 Gb/s iSCSI
Cable
Number of Connector
Connectors
4 MiniSAS-HD
MiniSAS-HD
MiniSAS-HD
Fan-out cable type
#2
Fan-out cable type
#3
4 MiniSAS-HD
MiniSAS-HD
Fan-out cable type
#1
1
2 QSFP+
QSFP+
2
2 QSFP+
QSFP+
4 SFP+
SFP+
SFP+
4 SFP+
SFP+
Twin-Ax
Type Length
passive copper 1-5m
active copper 8-15m
optical 5-100m
passive copper 2m
passive copper 2m
passive copper 1-10m
active copper 5-20m
passive copper 2m
passive copper 1-3m
optical 5-100m
passive copper 1-5m
optical 10-300m
OM2 SW optical 2, 3, 5, 10,
25m
OM3 SW optical 50-150m
OS2 LW optical 50-300m
OM2 optical 2, 3, 5, 10,
25m
OM3 optical 50-150m
passive copper 2-7m