SANRAD V-Switch manual Network Port Connections, Network Port Cable Connections

Network Port Connections

The copper network ports, labeled Eth 1 and 2, are located on the front left of the V-Switch 2000. Use the 1Gb Ethernet ports to connect to the network or directly to the host station.

When configuring your network topology, keep in mind that the current initiator technology does not support volume access by more than one server at a time. There are two methods for allowing multi-server access to a volume:

Connect a single server to the V-Switch 2000 and allow other server to access the volume via file sharing.

Install volume-sharing software to coordinate the read/write functionalities and data synchronization between servers.

The network ports support all of the following:

Table 7:	Network Port Cable Connections
CABLE		LENGTH	SFP
1000BASE-TX(TWISTED-PAIR)OVER CATEGORY		UP TO 100M	__
5 UTP

10206

Copper

RJ45

Network Ports

Figure 9. V-Switch 2000 Network Ports

Each network port has two LEDs:

act – indicates whether the port is connected and active: slow blink

– active; fast blink – port traffic.

1 Gb – indicates whether the port is operating at 1 Gb. The LED is off if the port is operating at 10/100.

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