Cabling your equipment racks into a cluster

Step 3: Cabling the cluster interconnect adapters

Cluster interconnect adapter cabling diagram

The following diagram shows how the local filer and partner filer are cabled into a cluster through the cluster interconnect adapter cables.

Caution
Make sure that you cable the X port on the local filer to the X port on the partner filer. Incorrectly connecting the cluster interconnect adapter ports disables the cluster takeover feature.

Cabling the cluster interconnect adapters

To cable your local filer and partner filer into a cluster through the cluster interconnect adapter, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Connect one end of the 4m cluster interconnect cable to the X port on the local filer, and the other end to the X port on the partner filer.
2	Connect one end of the 4m cluster interconnect cable to the Y port on the local filer, and the other end to the Y port on the partner filer.
3	Go to section "Step 4: Cabling the Channel B loops."