Figure 17. Two PowerEdge MX7000 enclosures using Fabric Switching Engine
Cabling
In all the congurations, the external cabling remains the same. This is because the PowerEdge MX5016s storage sleds are internally cabled
and the PowerEdge MX5000s SAS IOM has no impact on external cabling.
Cabling for a single PowerEdge MX7000 enclosure
conguration
The following gure shows the external cabling for a single PowerEdge MX7000 enclosure conguration. The Customer Network Link
Aggregation is shown here as an example as the upper layer connection is not specied but it must use an LACP enabled Link Aggregation
(LAG).
Physical layout
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