Fibre Channel San - No Single Point Of Failure - Jbod Expansion - Promise Technology VTrak E610f Product Manual

VTrak E-Class Product Manual
Fibre Channel SAN – No Single Point of Failure – JBOD
Expansion
A Fibre Channel SAN with no single point of failure requires:
• Two Fibre Channel switches
• 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 a Fibre Channel (FC) data port of the LEFT controller to the FC
HBA card in one of the Host PCs or Servers.
See page 25, Figure 13. And see page 26, Figure 14.
2. Connect the other FC data port of the LEFT controller to the FC HBA card in
the other Host PC or Server.
3. Connect a FC data port of the RIGHT controller to the FC HBA card in one of
the Host PCs or Servers.
4. Connect the other FC data port of the RIGHT controller to the FC HBA card
in the other Host PC or Server.
Management Path
To establish the management path:
1. Connect the Management ports on both VTrak controllers to your network
switch.
2. Connect the NICs in both Host PCs or Servers to your network switch.
Expansion
To expand the number of disk drives:
1. Connect the SAS expansion port on the LEFT controller to the SAS IN port
(with a diamond icon) on LEFT I/O module of the first J610s or J310s unit.
See page 25, Figure 13. And see page 26, Figure 14.
2. Connect the SAS expansion port on the RIGHT controller to the SAS IN port
(with a diamond icon) on RIGHT I/O module of the first J610s or J310s unit.
3. Connect the SAS OUT port (with a circle icon) on LEFT I/O module of the
first J610s or J310s unit to the SAS IN port (with a diamond icon) on LEFT
I/O module of the next J610s or J310s unit.
4. Connect the SAS OUT port (with a circle icon) on RIGHT I/O module of the
first J610s or J310s unit to the SAS IN port (with a diamond icon) on RIGHT
I/O module of the next J610s or J310s unit.
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