Installing the MEDIArray ZX4 Hardware
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Connecting One MEDIArray ZX4 to Two MEDIASwitch 16-4G
A single MEDIArray ZX4 can connect to one MEDIASwitch 16-4Gb if it has
one Fibre Channel board or two MEDIASwitch 16-4G if it has two Fibre
Channel boards. When you use two Fibre Channel boards, as displayed in the
following figure, each Fibre Channel board must connect to a different
MEDIASwitch 16-4Gb of the same speed.
The cabling in the figure uses the standard Duplex 3 meter LC/LC cables.
The cabling connections are:
See
Considerations for
MEDIArray ZX4” on
page 22
for the
maximum number of
MEDIArray ZX4s per
Unity system.
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One LC end of Duplex Cable 1 (LC/LC) connects to one Fibre Channel
board in the MEDIArray ZX4 and the other LC end of the cable connects
to a port in MediaSwitch 2.
•
One LC end of Duplex Cable 2 (LC/LC) connects to the other Fibre
Channel board in the MEDIArray ZX4 and the other LC end of the cable
connects to MediaSwitch 1 in the same port number as in MediaSwitch 2.
One MEDIArray ZX4 and Two MEDIASwitch 16-4G
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MEDIAswitch 1
MEDIAswitch 2
MEDIArray ZX
MEDIAswitch 1
MEDIAswitch 2
Cable 1
Cable 2
Cable 1
Cable 2
Detailed Connections
Cable 1
