Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC User Manual

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4.4

Connecting the Chassis to DC Power Outlets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9

4.5

Cabling to Expansion Units

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–11

4.6

Setting Loop IDs on Expansion Units

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–13

4.7

Powering Up and Checking LEDs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16

4.8

Reviewing Channels, Ports, and SFPs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16

4.8.1

Drive Port Connectivity in a Dual-Controller Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–17

4.8.1.1

SANnet II 200 FC Array Drive Ports

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18

4.8.1.2

SANnet II 200 SATA Array Drive Ports

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18

4.8.2

Host Port Connectivity in a Dual-Controller Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–19

4.8.2.1

SANnet II 200 FC Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–19

4.8.2.2

SANnet II 200 SATA and SATA SE Arrays

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4–20

4.8.3

Default SFP Placement

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–21

4.8.4

Changing Your SFP Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–24

4.9

Establishing Communications With An Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–25

4.10

Configuring a Host COM Port to Connect to a RAID Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–26

4.11

Manually Setting a Static IP Address

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–27

4.12

Setting Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–28

4.13

Scaling a SANnet II 200 Fibre Channel Array Into a High-Capacity
Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–29

4.14

Adding an Expansion Unit to an Existing RAID Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–30

4.15

Connecting Ports to Hosts

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–31

4.16

Power-On Sequence

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–32

4.17

Powering Off the Array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–33

5.

Configuration Overview

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1

5.1

Summary of Array Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1

5.1.1

Point-to-Point Configuration Guidelines

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3

5.1.2

A Sample SAN Point-to-Point Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–5

5.1.3

A Sample DAS Loop Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–10

5.1.4

Connecting Two Hosts to One Host Channel (SATA Only)

. . . . . . . . 5–14

5.2

Larger Configurations

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–14

6.

Checking LEDs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–1

6.1

LEDs When The Array Is First Powered On

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–1

6.2

Front-Panel LEDs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

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