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Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers
• SFP transceivers connect fiber-optic cables to host ports and
drive ports.
• SFP transceivers are only included with the controller-drive tray
when a fibre channel HIC is ordered or an iSCSI HIC is ordered.
• Depending on your connection requirements, you may need to
purchase SFP transceivers (two SFP transceivers for each fiber-
optic cable).
• You must purchase
only
Restriction of Hazardous Substances
(RoHS)-compliant SFP transceivers.
iSCSI with SFP+ transceivers
• 2m-to-7m twin-ax passive copper cables
• Cat5 2m-to-7m RJ-45 passive cables
• 2m-to-7m RJ-45 passive cables
• 2, 3, 5, 10, or 25m OM2 cables
• 25m-to-300m OM3 cables
Ethernet cable
For information about out-of-band storage array management, see
the description for “Deciding on the management method” in the
SANtricity Storage Manager Software Installation Reference
.
SAS cables
The HD Mini-SAS (SFF-8644) to Mini-SAS (SFF-8088) SAS
cables connect each controller expansion port to the drive tray(s).
HD Mini-SAS (SFF-8644) cables for connecting to the native SAS
ports on a E2700 controller or the SAS HIC ports, to a 12-Gb/s SAS
HBA on a server.
External Mini-SAS (SFF-8088) cables for connecting between drive
tray ESMs that use a mini-SAS connection.
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