Making Management And Data Connections - Asus DS300j G2 Series User Manual

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Examples of ASUS DS300f G2 configurations include:
• "Fibre Channel SAN" on page 18
• "Fibre Channel DAS" on page 20
• "Fibre Channel with JBOD Expansion" on page 21
• "Fibre Channel SAN – No Single Point of Failure" on page 22
• "iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN)" on page 24
• "iSCSI Direct Attached Storage (DAS)" on page 27
• "iSCSI with JBOD Expansion" on page 28
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For a list of supported HBAs, Switches, and SFP transceivers, download the latest
compatibility list from ASUS Storage support:
http://www.ASUS Storage.com/support/.
Figure 2 - 9: FC data and management ports on the RAID controller
Management Port
A Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) requires:
• An FC HBA card in each host PC or server
• An SFP transceiver for each connected FC port on the subsystem
• An FC switch
• A network switch
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