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Cabling Your Cluster Hardware
Cabling the Storage Systems
This section provides information for connecting your cluster to a storage
system in a direct-attached configuration, or to one or more storage systems
in an iSCSI SAN-attached configuration.
Connect the management port on each storage processor to the network
where the management station resides on using an Ethernet network cable.
Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster
A direct-attached cluster configuration consists of redundant iSCSI NIC
ports cabled directly to a Dell|EMC storage system. Direct-attached
configurations are self-contained and do not share any physical resources with
other cluster nodes or storage systems outside of the cluster.
Figure 2-4 shows an example of a direct-attached, single cluster configuration
with redundant NIC ports installed in each cluster node.
Figure 2-4.
Direct-Attached Cluster Configuration
cluster node
private network
public network
cluster node
storage system
iSCSI connections
iSCSI connections
