Figures
1. DS5100 and DS5300 Storage Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. Location of components in the storage subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Controllers in the storage subsystem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. Fibre Channel Controller connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. iSCSI Controller connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. Host interface card slots on controllers A and B
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Power supply and fan unit
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8. Interconnect-battery unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9. SFP module with fiber-optic cable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10. DS5100 and DS5300 Storage Subsystem dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
11. DS5100 and DS5300 airflow
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
12. Example of cold aisle/hot aisle rack cabinet configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
13. DS5100 and DS5300 front rack mounting template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
14. DS5100 and DS5300 rear rack mounting template
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
15. DS5100 and DS5300 support rail assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
16. DS5100 and DS5300 front views and back view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
17. Securing the DS5100 and DS5300 to the rack cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
18. Best practice bending and looping specifications for fibre-optic cables . . . . . . . . . . . 49
19. Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
20. Replacing an SFP module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
21. Unlocking the SFP module latch - plastic variety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
22. Unlocking the SFP module latch - wire variety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
23. Removing caps from fiber-optic cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
24. Connecting fiber-optic cable to SFP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
25. LC-LC fibre-channel cable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
26. Removing fiber-optic cable protective caps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
27. Inserting an LC-LC fibre-channel cable into an SFP module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
28. LC-LC fibre-channel cable lever and latches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
29. Removing the LC-LC fibre-channel cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
30. LC-SC fibre-channel cable adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
31. Removing the LC-SC cable adapter protective caps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
32. Connecting an LC-LC cable into the LC-SC cable adapter
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
33. LC-LC fibre-channel cable lever and latches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
34. Removing the LC-LC fibre-channel cable from an LC-SC fibre-channel cable adapter
. . . . . 60
35. Example of redundant drive channel pairs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
36. One DS5100 and DS5300 and two EXP5000 storage expansion enclosures using a non-trunking
cabling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
37. Example of EXP5060 storage expansion enclosure with non-trunking cabling
. . . . . . . . 62
38. One DS5100 and DS5300 cabled to two EXP5000s behind the same DS5100/DS5300 drive
channel port using a non-trunking cabling scheme
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
39. Example of cascading EXP5060s in non-trunking cabling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
40. Preferred EXP5060 and EXP5000 intermixing behind the same controller drive channel port
65
41. EXP5060 and EXP5000 intermixing behind the same controller drive channel port. . . . . . . 66
42. EXP5060 and EXP5000 intermixing behind different controller drive channel ports that are
connected in the same controller drive channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
43. EXP5060 and EXP5000 in different controller drive channels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
44. EXP5060 in trunking cabling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
45. An example of trunking cabling that is improperly wired
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
46. Cascading EXP5060s in trunking cabling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
47. EXP5000 port labels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
48. EXP5060 port labels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
49. DS5100 and DS5300 ports and controllers with Fibre Channel host connections
. . . . . . . 78
50. DS5100 and DS5300 ports and controllers with iSCSI host connections
. . . . . . . . . . 79
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