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Simple End-to-End Connection
This connection type shows a simple end-to-end connection, with each SFP port is connected to
a host adapter. Multiple logical drives. logical volumes, and logical partitions are created and
each partition is mapped to a corresponding host channel ID/LUN combination.
Channels
Controller A
Controller B
Host
CH0, CH1, CH2, CH3
CH0, CH1, CH2, CH3
Configuration information
Number of controllers
2
Host servers
2
Data path connection
Fault-tolerant data paths
NOTE:
You need a multipathing software such as
MPIO
or
Linux Device Mapper
to control and
optimize the access to logical drives via multiple data paths.