Making Management And Data Connections; Fibre Channel San - Promise Technology VTrak E610f Product Manual

Making Management and Data Connections

Examples of VTrak configurations include:
• Fibre Channel SAN (below)
• Fibre Channel DAS (page 21)
• Fibre Channel with JBOD Expansion (page 23)
• Fibre Channel SAN – No Single Point of Failure – JBOD Expansion (page 24)
• SAS DAS (page 27)
• SAS Cascaded Storage (page 29)
• SAS with JBOD Expansion (page 32)
• SAS DAS – No Single Point of Failure – JBOD Expansion (page 33)

Fibre Channel SAN

A Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) requires:
• A Fibre Channel switch
• A Fibre Channel HBA card in each Host PC or Server
• A network switch
• A network interface card (NIC) in each Host PC or Server
Data Path
To establish the data path:
1. Connect one of the Fibre Channel data ports on each VTrak controller to
your Fibre Channel switch. See page 20, Figures 8 and 9.
2. Connect your Fibre Channel switch to the Fibre Channel HBA card in each
Host PC or Server.
Management Path
To establish the management path:
1. Connect the Management port on each VTrak controller to your network
switch. See page 20, Figures 8 and 9.
2. Connect each Host PC's or Server's standard NIC to your network switch.
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