Sun Microsystems A3500FC manual FC-AL Host Connections

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FC-AL Host Connections

This chapter describes configurations for one or two Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) Sun StorEdge A3500FC controller modules connected to one or more hosts.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

■Configuration Guidelines—page2-2

■Supported FC-ALHost Configurations—page 2-3

■Single Host Connected to One Controller Module—page 2-4

■Independent Controller Module Connected to Two Hosts—page 2-5

■Single Host Connected to One Controller Module Using Hubs—page 2-6

■Single Host Connected to Two Controller Modules Using Hubs—page 2-7

■Single Host Connected to Four Controller Modules in a Loop Using Hubs— page 2-9

■Multi-Host—page 2-11

■Setting the Loop ID—page 2-13

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