Grass Valley PVS Series System Guide v.4.0 Dec 10 200 - Manual (Page 64)

Chapter 3 Working with Profile XP storage systems
64 Profile XP System Guide July 27, 2001
Connecting storage: Using multiple PFC500s
This section describes how to connnect and set up Profile XP storage using multiple
PFC500s and optional PFC500E expansion chassis. Connecting multiple PFC 500
Fibre Channel RAID chassis increases storage capacity and bandwidth. After
completing the procedures in this section, you must configure the PFC500 System.
See “Configuring storage using Disk Utility” on page 69.
Addressing requirements
There are two addresses for the PFC 500: the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop address
ID and the chassis address.
Fibre Channel Loop address ID
Each device on a Fibre Channel loop must have a unique Fibre Channel address ID.
You must set the Fibre Channel address ID for the PFC500 using switches on the
RAID Controller board, as explained later in this procedure. If your PFC 500 has a
second, redundant RAID Controller board, it should be set to a different Fibre
Channel address ID than the primary RAID Controller board.
Chassis address (CA)
Each PFC500 and PFC500E needs a unique chassis address that identifies the chassis
and determines disk module addresses. All PFC 500s must have a chassis address of 0.
You must set the chassis address using the chassis address switches, as explained later
in this procedure. If you cable any PFC500Es to the PFC 500, you might want to set
the nearest PFC500E’s chassis address to 1, and the next to 2. The chassis address is
displayed in lights visible behind the front door.
To connect storage using multiple PFC500s:
1. At the back of the PFC500 chassis, remove each RAID Controller from its slot and
check the switches as shown in the figure.
If you do not have the redundant RAID controller option, only one RAID controller
is installed.