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6000 Series Hardware Upgrade Guide • December 2010
FIGURE 4
Securing the Front of the Tray
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Reconnect the Cables and Cords
You now have a Sun Storage 6580 or 6780 array with either four or eight host
interface ports (using one or two Host Interface Cards (HICs)) and eight drive
expansion ports. The following cabling scheme is recommended for your initial
setup.
Note –
In some cases, the host ports at the end (Host 2, Channel 4) are used or
reserved for Remote Replication.
1. Plug in the host interface cables as described in
If you now have eight host ports per controller, you can skip some ports to spread
the workload across more of the available circuitry.