EMC FC4700 Configuration Planning Manual page 7

1-1 Cutaway View of FC4700 Storage System ................................................ 1-2
1-2 Nodes - Initiator and Target ....................................................................... 1-3
1-3 Switch Topology (Port to Port) ................................................................... 1-5
1-4 A Switch Zone ............................................................................................... 1-6
1-5 16-Port Switch, Back View .......................................................................... 1-7
1-6 Model 4700 DPE ............................................................................................ 1-7
1-7 Types of Storage-System Installation ........................................................ 1-8
1-8 Components of a SAN ................................................................................. 1-9
1-9 Sample Shared Storage Configuration .................................................... 1-11
1-10 Data Access Control with Shared Storage .............................................. 1-12
1-11 Storage System with DPE and Three DAEs ........................................... 1-13
2-1 Multiple LUNs in a RAID Group ............................................................... 2-3
2-2 RAID 5 Group ............................................................................................... 2-5
2-3 RAID 3 Group ............................................................................................... 2-6
2-4 RAID 1 Mirrored Pair .................................................................................. 2-7
2-5 RAID 1/0 Group ........................................................................................... 2-9
2-6 How a Hot Spare Works ............................................................................ 2-11
2-7 Disk Space Usage in the RAID Configuration ....................................... 2-16
3-1 Sites with MirrorView Primary and Secondary Images ......................... 3-3
3-2 Sample MirrorView Configuration ............................................................ 3-7
4-1 SnapView Operations Model ...................................................................... 4-3
4-2 How a Snapshot Session Starts, Runs, and Stops .................................... 4-4
5-1 Sample Shared Switched Storage Configuration ..................................... 5-4
5-2 Unshared Direct Storage Example ............................................................. 5-7
6-1 Types of Storage-System Installation ........................................................ 6-2
6-2 DPE Storage-System Components - Rackmount Model ...................... 6-3
6-3 Rackmount Storage System with DPE and DAEs ................................... 6-4
6-4 Disk Modules and Module IDs .................................................................. 6-5
6-5 Shared Storage Systems ............................................................................... 6-6
6-6 Cable Planning Template - FC4700 Shared Storage System .............. 6-14
EMC Fibre Channel Storage System Model FC4700 Configuration Planning Guide
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