Connecting to a third-party Fibre Channel switch

Shut down the storage engine by entering the following command at the console:

halt

Caution
Always use the halt command to perform a clean shutdown.

Turn off the power to the storage engine.

Connect the cable provided with the Fibre Channel switch to the following points of connection:

• The appropriate port on the back panel of your storage engine
• An available port on the Fibre Channel switch

When connecting to a dual-channel Fibre Channel adapter in your storage engine, insert the duplex fibre optic cable into Port 1 and the LC loopback plug into Port 2 until they click and lock into place.

Go to Connecting the storage engine to an ASCII terminal console.