Cabling Storage For Your Direct-Attached Cluster - Dell CX4 Series User Manual

Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster

A direct-attached cluster configuration consists of redundant Fibre Channel
host bus adapter (HBA) ports cabled directly to a Dell/EMC storage system.
Figure 2-4 shows an example of a direct-attached, single cluster configuration
with redundant HBA ports installed in each cluster node.
Figure 2-4. Direct-Attached Cluster Configuration
cluster node
Fibre Channel
connections
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Cabling Your Cluster Hardware
public network
private network
storage system
cluster node
Fibre
Channel
connections