Dell CX4 manual Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster, Fibre Channel Connections

Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster

Adirect-attached cluster configuration consists of redundant Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) ports cabled directly to a Dell/EMC storage system.

Figure 2-4 shows an example of a direct-attached, single cluster configuration with redundant HBA ports installed in each cluster node.

Figure 2-4. Direct-Attached Cluster Configuration

	public network
cluster node	cluster node
	private network
Fibre Channel	Fibre
connections	Channel
	connections
	storage system

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