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XCubeSAN Hardware Owner’s Manual
For more detail deployment type and cabling, please refer following sections.
4.2.
Cabling the System
The following examples illustrate how to configure the cabling for the XCubeDAS series.
Recommended SAS cable length for the host connection is less than 3 meters. The
XCubeDAS supports a maximum of up to 260 drives for the system storage space
expansion; both single and dual path cabling are supported. The expansion cables are
needed for XCubeDAS series
in server storage expansion (DAS or JBOD). If users want to
enable wake on SAS for the XCubeSAN series array expansion enclosures, the QSAN
genuine SAS cable with sideband is required to enable this feature.
The table below shows the available cables, model name, and its description.
Table 4-2
Available Cables for XCubeDAS Series
Model Name
Picture
Description
Applied Models
CBL-12SW150
SAS 12G Expansion Cable
with Wake-on-SAS, SFF-8644
to SFF-8644, 1.5 Meters
(This cable is not suitable for
connecting HBA or RAID card)
XD5300 Series
CBL-12SH150
SAS 12G Expansion Cable,
SFF-8644 to SFF-8644, 1.5
Meters
4.2.1.
Expansion Configuration Rules
For the maximum number of extension enclosures and disk drives support, it depends on
the capability of the HBAs and RAID controller cards. Please refer to the user guides of the
HBAs or RAID controller cards.
For the expansion of QSAN XCubeSAN series SAN storage, it supports up to ten of mixing
XCubeDAS XD5300 series for expansion and allows scaling up to 286 disk drives (including
SAN storage). Please refer to the chapter 4.2.1, Expansion Configuration Rules in the
Summary of Contents for XCubeDAS XD5324D
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