IBM DCS3860, Installation, User'S, And Maintenance Manual

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Chapter 3. Cabling the DCS3860 storage system
The section contains information and instructions for cabling the DCS3860 storage
system. After the storage system is installed in its permanent location, you must
cable it to hosts, expansion units, and other external devices, depending on your
hardware configuration.
Controller connectors (with SAS host interface card)
Table 14. Legend to the DCS3860 storage system diagram
Number Description Number Description
1 USB port 10 Battery fault LED
2 Two Ethernet ports 11 Battery charging LED
3 Link rate 12 Service Action Allowed LED
4 Link activity 13 Controller Fault LED
5 Two 6 Gbps SAS expansion ports
(port 1 on the left and port 2 on the
right) 14 Cache active LED
6 Fault indicator (for the SAS
expansion port) 15 Seven segment status display
7 Activity indicator (for the SAS
expansion port) 16 Four 6 Gbps SAS host ports
8 Serial port 17 Fault indicator (for the SAS host
port)
9 Password reset button 18 Activity indicator (for the SAS
host port)
SAS Host port 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Host Interface Card
Each of the DCS3860 host ports is a x4 multilane, 6 Gbps universal
mini-SAS port. Connect a SAS cable from your host system SAS host bus
adapter to a host port on each controller.
Expansion port 1 and 2
Expansion port is a x4 multilane SAS port. Connect a SAS cable to this
port and to a drive expansion enclosure.
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3 4 1 2 5 6 7 8 9
13 14 15
10 11 12
16 17 18
Figure 16. DCS3860 storage system
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