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Fibre Channel Storage Components
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About Fibre Channel FC4700 Storage Systems and Storage Networks
inches) for the 8 port. They are available to fit into a rackmount
cabinet or as small deskside enclosures.
Figure1-5 16-Port Switch, Back View
If your servers and storage systems will be far apart, you can place
the switches closer to the servers or the storage systems, as
convenient.
A switch is technically a repeater, not a node, in a Fibre Channel loop.
However, it is bound by the same cabling distance rules as a node.
Storage Component (Storage Systems, SPs, and Other Hardware)EMC FC-series disk-array storage systems, with their storage
processors, power supplies, and cooling hardware form the storage
component of a Fibre Channel system. The controlling unit, a Model
FC4700 disk-array processor enclosure (DPE) looks like the following
figure.
Figure1-6 Model 4700 DPE
DPE hardware details appear in a later chapter.
EMC1807
Ports
EMC1808
Disk
modules