Table Of Contents - Quantum StorNext QD7000 Hardware Manual

Contents
Deciding whether to use this guide ............................................................. 6
Cabling concepts and best practices ........................................................... 7
Cabling concepts ......................................................................................................... 7
Best practices ............................................................................................................. 12
Common procedures ................................................................................................. 16
Component locations .................................................................................. 21
Component locations on the E5500 and E5600 controller-drive trays and the
Component locations on the E5400 controller-drive trays and the EF540 flash
Fabric (switched) topologies compared to direct-attach topologies ................ 7
Trays and shelves ............................................................................................ 7
Host channels and drive channels ................................................................... 8
Host ports and drive ports ............................................................................... 9
Dual-ported drives ........................................................................................... 9
Preferred controllers and alternate controllers ................................................ 9
Alternate path software ................................................................................... 9
Failover ............................................................................................................ 9
Redundant and non-redundant components .................................................. 10
Single point of failure .................................................................................... 10
SFP transceivers, fiber-optic cables, and copper cables ................................ 10
Host adapters ................................................................................................. 11
Host interface cards ....................................................................................... 11
Network interface cards ................................................................................. 11
Switches and zoning ...................................................................................... 12
In-band management and out-of-band management ..................................... 12
Drive shelf cabling for redundancy ............................................................... 12
Host cabling for redundancy ......................................................................... 13
Cabling for performance ............................................................................... 13
How best to approach zone configuration ..................................................... 13
Host cabling for mirroring ............................................................................. 13
Single-controller topologies and dual-controller topologies ......................... 14
Adding new drive shelves to an existing storage array ................................. 14
Cabling for different management methods .................................................. 14
Labeling cables .............................................................................................. 16
Cabling information provided by storage management software ................. 16
Handling static-sensitive components ........................................................... 16
Installing an SFP transceiver and a fiber-optic cable .................................... 17
Installing a copper cable with a passive SFP transceiver .............................. 18
Installing an RJ-45 cable for iSCSI connections ........................................... 19
Installing a SAS cable ................................................................................... 20
EF550 and EF560 flash arrays ............................................................................ 21
array ..................................................................................................................... 27

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