Cabling your equipment racks into a cluster

Basic equipment rack configuration  

Depending on the amount of storage you ordered, you need to install the equipment in one or more telco-style equipment racks. These racks can hold one or two filers, along with disk shelves, or up to a maximum of eight disk shelves in a disk shelf-only configuration. For information about how to install the disk shelves in an equipment rack, see the appropriate fibre channel storageshelf guide.

Basic filer configuration  

The basic configuration you receive with your cluster is a minimum of two Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) adapters per filer. You can add two additional FC-AL adapters per filer.

Your filers also arrive with one cluster interconnect adapter apiece. This adapter enables you to cluster your filers together. For further information about other components you receive, see the F700 Series Hardware Guide.

Required tools and manuals  

You need the following tools and manuals to prepare your equipment racks for clustering:

• The F700 Series Hardware Guide
• The appropriate disk shelf hardware guide
• #1 and #2 Phillips screwdriver

Required cables  

When you received your filers and disk shelves, you should have received the following cables:

• HSSDC to DB-9 filer-to-shelf cables, one per FC-AL adapter
• Shelf-to-shelf cables, two pair per disk shelf for the Channel A and Channel B loops
• Cluster interconnect cables, one pair

For detailed information  

The following sections discuss cabling your new cluster.

The cabling process is divided into six major steps:

• Step 1: Preparing your equipment
• Step 2: Cabling the Channel A loops
• Step 3: Cabling the cluster interconnect adapters
• Step 4: Cabling the Channel B loops

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