Connecting Data Hosts; About Host Ports - Sun Oracle Sun Storage 2500-M2 Arrays Hardware Installation Manual

Note – Sun Storage Common Array Manager supports Solaris Sparc and x86,
Windows, and Linux platforms for in-band management. For Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OS, Release 5.1 or higher is required. Check the Sun Storage Common Array
Manager Release Notes, for the latest list of packages to install.
3. Refer to "Configuring In-Band Management for RAID Arrays," in the Sun
Storage Common Array Manager Installation and Setup Guide for information about
installing the RAID Proxy Agent.

Connecting Data Hosts

Data transmission between the host and the controllers in the array is through Fibre
Channel (FC) or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) cables. SAS connections from the host to
the controllers are direct connections, and FC connections are direct or through a FC
switch.

About Host Ports

Caution – Possible hardware damage—To preven t e lectrostatic discharge damage to
the tray, use proper antistatic protection when you handle tray components
Each controller tray has from four or eight host ports.
Sun Storage 2530-M2 array has four SAS-2 host ports (two per controller module)
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supporting 6-Gb/s data rates.
Sun Storage 2540-M2 array has eight Fibre Channel host ports (four per controller
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module) supporting 8-Gb/s data rates. Four SFP transceivers are provided in the
ship kit.
Note – The SAS host ports on the 2540-M2 FC controller tray are not for use and not
supported.
Chapter 4 Connecting Hosts
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