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 disk shelf cables listed in the following table.

Note
See the DiskShelf14 and DiskShelf14mk2 FC Hardware Guide for detailed information about the differences between LRC and ESH modules.

You should also receive cluster interconnect cables, one pair for the cluster interconnect adapter or one optical cable for the VI cluster adapter.

Note
If your cluster will be farther apart than 30 meters or more than 30 meters to a switch, when in a MetroCluster, 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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