Dot Hill Systems SANnet II 200 FC, Installation, Operation & Service 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