Cabling The Storage Systems; Cabling Storage For Your Direct-Attached Cluster - Dell PowerEdge FE600W Hardware Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

Cabling the Storage Systems

This section provides information on cabling your cluster to a storage system
in a direct-attached configuration or to one or more storage systems in a SAN-
attached configuration.

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.
Direct-attached configurations are self-contained and do not share any
physical resources with other server or storage systems outside of the cluster.
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
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Cabling Your Cluster Hardware
public network
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storage system
cluster node
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