Dell F-Series manual Example Configurations

Example 2: A configuration with two clusters attached to a single PowerVault storage system would have two zones as shown in Figure 1-13.

Zone 1

cluster	PowerEdge cluster	PowerEdge cluster
interconnect
PowerVault		PowerVault3
51F Fibre
Channel		5F Fibre
		Channel
switch 1
		bridge

PowerVault tape library

PowerVault Fibre Channel storage

up to 11 disk array enclosures Zone 2

Figure 1-13. Example Showing Two Zones

PowerVault 51F Fibre Channel switch 2

Example Configurations

This section provides examples of supported configurations for SAN-attached cluster consolidation configurations.

Figure 1-14 shows an example of a configuration with five MSCS clusters sharing one PowerVault 65xF storage system and a pair of PowerVault 56F 16-port Fibre Channel switches. Figure 1-15 provides an example of a maximum configuration with one PowerVault 65xF storage system. Figure 1-16 shows a combination of different groups of MSCS clusters using different PowerVault 65xF storage systems.

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