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External SAS Connections
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Stratus ftServer 2600, 4500, and 6300 Systems: Site Planning Guide (R638)
External SAS Connections
ftServer systems running the Linux or Windows operating system support U106
Eight-Port SAS PCI-Express Adapters for connection to tape drives. You must provide
your own serial attached SCSI (SAS) tape drive(s) and SAS cable(s).
Fibre Channel Connections
ftServer systems support connections to ftScalable Storage systems and EMC
CLARiiON and Symmetrix storage systems. Optical Fibre-Channel host bus adapters
(HBAs) in the CPU- I  O enclosures provide connection points to these storage
enclosures.
For ftServer systems running ftSSS for the Windows Operating System and ftSSS for
the Linux Operating System, the following connection options are available:

Directly attach the Fibre Channel cables between one or two ftServer systems and
the RAID controller trays of an ftScalable Storage system

For Windows systems only, connect the Fibre Channel cables from one or two
ftServer systems directly to an EMC storage system

Connect multiple ftServer systems to ftScalable Storage systems through a
storage area network (SAN)

Connect up to six ftServer systems to EMC storage systems through a SAN
For ftServer systems running ftSSS for VMware vSphere, the following connection
options are available:

Directly attach the Fibre Channel cables between a single ftServer system and the
RAID controller trays of an ftScalable Storage system

Connect multiple ftServer systems to ftScalable Storage systems through a
storage area network (SAN)

Connect up to six ftServer systems to EMC storage systems through a SAN
A pair of Fibre Channel HBAs is teamed for fault tolerance. The adapters are
single-ported and each member of the pair is installed in a different
CPU- I  O enclosure: one in the top enclosure and the other in the bottom enclosure.
The
Stratus ftServer Systems: Peripherals Site Planning Guide
(R582) lists the optical
Fibre Channel HBAs supported by each operating system.