Cabling your cluster

Required tools and manuals  

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

• The 42U System Cabinet Guide
• The F800 Series Hardware Guide
• The appropriate Fibre Channel disk shelf guide
• #1 and #2 Phillips screwdrivers

Required cables  

When you received your system cabinets or nodes and disk shelves for installation in equipment racks, you should have received the following cables:

• For system cabinets:
  • HSSDC to DB-9 filer-to-shelf cables, one per FC-AL adapter for the Channel B loop or one optical cable per dual Fibre Channel adapter
  • Cluster interconnect cables, one pair for the cluster interconnect adapter or one optical cable for the VI cluster adapter
• For equipment installed in equipment racks:
  • HSSDC to DB-9 filer-to-shelf cables, one per FC-AL adapter for the Channel B loop or one optical cable per dual Fibre Channel adapter
  • Cluster interconnect cables, one pair for the cluster interconnect adapter or one optical cable for the VI cluster adapter
  • Multiple DB-9 shelf-to-shelf cables

    Note
    If your cluster will be farther apart than 30 meters, you must use a SC-SC Duplex 50/125 plenum cable to connect them.

For detailed information  

For details about the cabling process, see the following topics:

• Step 1: Preparing your equipment
• Step 2: Cabling the Channel A loops
• Step 3: Cabling the nodes together
• Step 4: Completing the Channel B loop
• Step 5: Completing setup and testing your cluster

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