HP ESL E manual LAN-free backup and restore

Library Overview

External FC ports

Two FC ports (for external connections) with LED indicators are found on the interface controller: Port F0 and Port F1. See Figure 8 and Figure 9for the location of the FC ports.

■Green (ACT) - FC port activity

■Green (LINK) - Valid FC link

SCSI buses (e2400-160 FC interface controller only)

Four SCSI buses with LED indicators are included in the FC interface controller. See Figure 8 for the location of the SCSI buses.

■Green - SCSI bus activity on corresponding port

Internal FC ports (e2400-FC 2G interface controller only)

The native FC interface controller has 6 native FC ports with LED indicators: 2ports (FC0 and FC1) connect to the SAN; 4 ports (TD0 through TD3) connect to drives in the corresponding cluster. See Figure 9 for the location of these ports.

■Green (ACT) - FC port activity

■Green (LINK) - Valid FC link

LAN-free backup and restore

The e2400-160 FC and the e2400-FC 2G interface controllers can enable LAN-free backup/restore to allow the bulk of data traffic to be moved from the LAN to the storage area network (SAN).

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