Cisco Systems Network Switch Cabling Racking and cabling guidelines

CASSATT ACTIVE RESPONSE CONTROL NODE AND NETWORK SWITCH CABLING EXAMPLE 19

Racking and cabling guidelines

To cable your control nodes to the network switches according to Figure 1, follow these

steps. Remember that this sample configuration uses four network switches, so use these

instructions as a guideline for your own configuration.

1. Rack all switches and control node hardware according to the vendor’s documentation

and/or the site policy. For lack of any other policy, rack the heaviest of the following

pieces of equipment on the bottom:

•Cisco switches

•Power distribution units (PDUs)

•Control nodes

•Application nodes

2. Follow the Cisco switch hardware installation instructions and use the StackWise cables

to cable the four switches into two sets of switch stacks, as shown in Figure 2. Once the

two 24-port switches have been stacked, they behave as a single logical 48-port switch.

Figure 2 Stacked Switch Cabling

Remaining switch ports can be used to connect application nodes and their remote management controllers

into the Cassatt Active Response environment. In general, distribute the connections evenly between the

switches and the application nodes (both the application node NICs and their associated remote management

controller NICs) For more information, see the

Info Central

site for detailed information on setting

up application nodes.

Switch 1Switch 2

Switch 3

Switch 4

Rear panels

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