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60 | Hardware Cabling Guide
HICs and Base Ports
Data rate and
protocol
6 Gb/s SAS
40 Gb/s InfiniBand
Base Ports:
8 Gb/s Fibre
Channel
8 Gb/s Fibre
Channel
10 Gb/s iSCSI
1 Gb/s iSCSI
Note: For an E5400 controller-drive tray with an InfiniBand HIC, use only InfiniBand host
connections. Do not mix Fibre Channel host connections with InfiniBand host connections.
The following table shows host cabling configurations for the E2800 controller shelves.
HICs and base ports
Data rate and
protocol
12 Gb/s SAS or
6 Gb/s SAS
6 Gb/s SAS only
16 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s, or 4
Gb/s Fibre Channel
Cable
Number of Connector
connectors
4 MiniSAS
MiniSAS
Fan-out cable type
#1
2 QSFP+
QSFP+
4 SFP
SFP
4 SFP
SFP
2 SFP+
SFP+
Twin-Ax
RJ-45
Cable
Number Connector
and type of
connectors
4 or 2 HIC MiniSAS-HD
ports
MiniSAS-HD
Fan-out cable type
#3
4 or 2 HIC Fan-out cable type
ports #2
4 or 2 HIC SFP+
optical ports
SFP+
2 base SFP+
optical ports
SFP+
SFP+
Type Length
passive copper 1-10m
active copper 5-20m
passive copper 2m
passive copper 1-5m
optical 10-300m
OM2 SW optical 2 ,3, 5, 10,
25m
OM3 SW optical 50-150m
OM2 SW optical 2 , 3, 5, 10,
25m
OM3 SW optical 50-150m
OM2 optical 2, 3, 5, 10,
25m
OM3 optical 50-150m
passive copper 2-7m
passive copper 2-70m
Type Length
passive copper 1-5m
optical 5-100m
passive copper 2m
passive copper 2m
OM2 SW optical 2,3,5,10,25
m
OM3 SW optical 50-100m
OM2 SW optical 2,3,5,10,25
m
OM3 SW optical 50-100m
OS1 LW optical 50-300m