Chapter 1
Installing a MEDIArray ZX4 Drive Enclosure
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Looping Two MEDIArray ZX4s to One MEDIASwitch 16-4Gb
Two MEDIArray ZX4 enclosures can connect to one port on a MEDIASwitch
16-4Gb if you loop them together using special simplex cabling. The
following figure shows the cabling needed to loop two MEDIArray ZX4
enclosures to one MEDIASwitch 16-4Gb using 3 simplex 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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Simplex Cable 1 is LC/LC and is 3 meters in length. One end of the cable
connects to the Receive (bottom) connection of the Fibre Channel board
in MEDIArray ZX4 1. The other end of the cable connects to the Transmit
(right) connection of a port in the MEDIAswitch.
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Simplex Cable 2 is LC/LC and is 3 meters in length. One end connects to
the Transmit (top) connection of the Fibre Channel board in MEDIArray
ZX4 2. The other end of the cable connects to the Receive (left)
connection of a the same port of the MEDIASwitch 16-4Gb.
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Simplex Cable 3 is LC/LC and is .5 meters in length. One end of the cable
connects to the Transmit, top, connection of the Fibre Channel board in
MEDIArray ZX4 1. The other end connects to Receive (bottom)
connection of the Fibre Channel board in MEDIArray ZX4.
Looping Two MEDIArray ZX4s to a MEDIASwitch 16-4Gb
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Detailed Connections
