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CHAPTER
5
Configuration Overview
This chapter highlights the tools and the important limitations and guidelines which
must be understood prior to configuring your array.
This chapter covers the following topics:
■ “Controller Defaults and Limitations” on page 5-2
■ “Planning for Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability” on page 5-2
■ “Dual-Controller Considerations” on page 5-2
■ “Single-Controller Considerations” on page 5-4
■ “Write-Back and Write-Through Cache Options” on page 5-5
■ “Software Management Tools” on page 5-5
■ “Out-of-Band Connection” on page 5-5
■ “In-Band Connection” on page 5-6
■ “Summary of Array Configuration” on page 5-6
■ “Point-to-Point Configuration Guidelines” on page 5-9
■ “A SAN Point-to-Point Configuration Example” on page 5-10
■ “A DAS Loop Configuration Example” on page 5-16
■ “Connecting Two Hosts to One Host Channel (Sun StorEdge 3511 FC Array
only)” on page 5-20
■ “Larger Configurations” on page 5-21
Subsequent chapters in this manual describe further procedures used to complete
the installation and configuration of the arrays. The flexible architecture of the Sun
StorEdge 3510 and 3511 FC arrays makes many configurations possible.
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