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Figure 1-6. Example of Cabling a PowerVault Storage System and a PowerVault 130T DLT Library

NOTE: The PowerVault 35F Fibre Channel SCSI bridge, the PowerVault 130T DLT library, and their cables are made through a single switch fabric; their operation is not redundant. Therefore, tape backups may be incomplete if one of these components fails.

Connecting a Single PowerEdge Cluster to Multiple PowerVault 65xF DPEs

With the use of redundant PowerVault Fibre Channel switch fabrics, the PowerEdge Cluster F-Series systems support configurations with multiple storage units attached to a single pair of clustered servers. In this scenario, the MSCS software can fail over disk drives in each cluster-attached PowerVault 65xF shared storage array between the two cluster nodes.

Configurations With Two to Four PowerVault DPEs

When using multiple PowerVault 65xF storage arrays with your cluster, the following rules apply:

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Two to four PowerVault DPEs can be used with the cluster nodes.

All PowerVault 65xF systems must use the same firmware revision. Contact your Dell representative for more information on storage system firmware.

Redundant Fibre Channel switch fabrics are required.

Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation software must not be running on clus- ter nodes.

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