Dell EMC AX4-5I Cabling the Storage Systems, Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster

Cabling the Storage Systems

This section provides information for connecting your cluster to a storage system in a direct-attached configuration, or to one or more storage systems in an iSCSI SAN-attached configuration.

Connect the management port on each storage processor to the network where the management station resides on using an Ethernet network cable.

Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster

Adirect-attached cluster configuration consists of redundant iSCSI NIC ports cabled directly to a DellEMC storage system. Direct-attached configurations are self-contained and do not share any physical resources with other cluster nodes or storage systems outside of the cluster.

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

Figure 2-4. Direct-Attached Cluster Configuration

	public network
cluster node	cluster node
	private network

iSCSI connections

iSCSI connections

storage system

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