Dell AX4-5 User Manual

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Cabling Your Cluster Hardware

Figure 2-8.

Cabling a SAN-Attached Cluster to an AX4-5 Storage System

Cabling Multiple SAN-Attached Clusters to a Dell|EMC Storage System

To cable multiple clusters to the storage system, connect the cluster nodes to
the appropriate Fibre Channel switches and then connect the Fibre Channel
switches to the appropriate storage processors on the processor enclosure.

See the Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrices located on the Dell High
Availability Clustering website at www.dell.com/ha for rules and guidelines
for SAN-attached clusters.

NOTE:

The following procedure uses Figure 2-8 as an example for cabling

additional clusters.

A

B

A

B

0 Fibre 1 Fibre

0 Fibre 1 Fibre

sw0

sw1

cluster node 2

cluster node 1

AX4-5 storage system

0 1

0 1

HBA ports (2)

HBA ports (2)

SP-A

SP-B

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