Promise Technology VTRAK E610f User Manual

Chapter 2: VTrak Installation
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Making Management and Data Connections
Examples of VTrak configurations include:
• Fibre Channel SAN (below)
• Fibre Channel DAS (page 21)
• Fibre Channel with JBOD Expansion (page 23)
• Fibre Channel SAN – No Single Point of Failure – JBOD Expansion (page 24)
• SAS DAS (page 27)
• SAS Cascaded Storage (page 29)
• SAS with JBOD Expansion (page 32)
• SAS DAS – No Single Point of Failure – JBOD Expansion (page 33)
Fibre Channel SAN
A Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) requires:
• A Fibre Channel switch
• A Fibre Channel HBA card in each Host PC or Server
• A network switch
• A network interface card (NIC) in each Host PC or Server
Data Path
To establish the data path:
1. Connect one of the Fibre Channel data ports on each VTrak controller to
your Fibre Channel switch. See page 20, Figures 8 and 9.
2. Connect your Fibre Channel switch to the Fibre Channel HBA card in each
Host PC or Server.
Management Path
To establish the management path:
1. Connect the Management port on each VTrak controller to your network
switch. See page 20, Figures 8 and 9.
2. Connect each Host PC’s or Server’s standard NIC to your network switch.

Promise Technology VTRAK E610f Specifications

General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	VTRAK E610f
Category	Storage
Language	English