Dell SC4020 - Page 4

Installation Safety Precautions......................................................................................................37
Electrical Safety Precautions.........................................................................................................38
Electrostatic Discharge Precautions.............................................................................................38
General Safety Precautions...........................................................................................................38
Install the Storage System in a Rack...................................................................................................39
Installing Hard Drives in a Storage System.........................................................................................42
Installing Hard Drives in an SC200/SC220 Expansion Enclosure..................................................... 42
Installing the Hard Drives in an SC280 Expansion Enclosure........................................................... 44
3 Connect the Front-End Cabling...................................................................... 48
Front-End Connectivity Modes..........................................................................................................48
Virtual Port Mode.......................................................................................................................... 48
Legacy Mode................................................................................................................................. 50
Types of Redundancy for Front-End Connections........................................................................... 52
Failover Behavior........................................................................................................................... 53
Multipath I/O..................................................................................................................................53
Fibre Channel Zoning......................................................................................................................... 54
WWN Zoning Guidelines...............................................................................................................54
Cabling SAN-Attached Host Servers.................................................................................................. 55
Connecting to Fibre Channel Host Servers..................................................................................55
Connecting to iSCSI Host Servers................................................................................................ 66
Cabling Direct-Attached Host Servers............................................................................................... 75
Preparing Host Servers..................................................................................................................75
SAS Virtual Port Mode....................................................................................................................75
Four Servers Connected to Dual 12 Gb 4-Port SAS Storage Controllers................................... 76
Four Servers (Two HBAs Per Server) Connected to Dual 12 Gb 4-Port SAS Storage
Controllers..................................................................................................................................... 77
Two Servers Connected to Dual 12 Gb 4-Port SAS Storage Controllers....................................79
Labeling the Front-End Cables.....................................................................................................80
Cabling the Ethernet Management Port.............................................................................................81
Labeling the Ethernet Management Cables.................................................................................82
Cabling the Embedded Ports for iSCSI Replication...........................................................................83
Cabling the Replication Port for iSCSI Replication...................................................................... 83
Cabling the Management Port and Replication Port for iSCSI Replication................................84
Cabling the Embedded Ports for iSCSI Host Connectivity................................................................85
Two iSCSI Networks using the Embedded Ethernet Ports on a Storage System with Fibre
Channel Storage Controllers........................................................................................................ 85
Two iSCSI Networks Using the Embedded Ethernet Ports on a Storage System with iSCSI
Storage Controllers....................................................................................................................... 87
4 Connect the Back-End Cabling.......................................................................89
Expansion Enclosure Cabling Guidelines...........................................................................................89
4