Compaq Infortrend manual Controller Communications over Fibre Loops

replacement, making the host unaware of controller replacement so that controller failback is totally transparent.

Choose “View and Edit Peripheral Devices,” “Set Peripheral Device Entry," then enable the "Redundant Controller" configuration. You will be requested to enter a value for the “Controller Unique Identifier.” For firmware release 3.25 and above, enter a hex number between 0 and FFFFF. The identifier selection box will prompt automatically. The value you enter MUST be different for each controller.

The unique identifier can also be accessed from "View and Edit Configuration Parameters" → "Controller Parameters" → "Controller Unique ID."

Controller Communications over Fibre Loops

Controllers running firmware version 3.14 and above supports controller communications over Fibre loops.

There are two options with the controller communications over Fibre loops. Hardware configuration should be completed before firmware setting.

1.Select from the main menu "View and Edit SCSI channels," and configure the selected FC channels into "RCCOM (Redundant Controller Communication)" mode. To ensure the connection with data path redundancy, you may use two channels as the dedicated RCC loops. The dedicated channels should not be attached with any other device.

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