NetApp FC4600 Manuale utente

NetApp™ Hardware

Hardware Cabling Guide

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents v

Chapter 1 Cabling Concepts and Best Practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Cabling Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Fabric (Switched) Topologies Compared to Direct-Attach Topologies . . . . 1

Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Switched Bunch of Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Controller Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Host Channels and Drive Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Host Ports and Drive Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Dual-Ported Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Preferred Controllers and Alternate Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Alternate Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Redundant and Non-Redundant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Single Point of Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

SFP Transceivers, Fiber-Optic Cables, and Copper Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Host Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Host Interface Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Network Interface Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Switches and Zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

How Initiators and Targets Respond to Zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

How Best to Approach Zone Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

In-Band Management and Out-of-Band Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Drive Cabling for Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Host Cabling for Redundancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Host Cabling for Synchronous Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Cabling for Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Fibre Channel Drive-Side Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Considerations for Drive Channel Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Multiple Types of Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Single-Controller Topologies and Dual-Controller Topologies . . . . . . . . . 21

Copper Cables and Fiber-Optic Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting to Drive Trays That Support Loop Switch Technology . . . . . 22

Labeling Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Cabling Information Provided by SANtricity ES Storage Manager. . . . . . 24

Adding New Drive Trays to an Existing Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Common Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Handling Static-Sensitive Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing an SFP Transceiver and a Fiber-Optic Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing a Copper Cable with a Passive SFP Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing an iSCSI Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Installing a SAS Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 2 Product Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Host Channel Information by Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Drive Channel Information by Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Drive Tray Information by Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Chapter 3 Host Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Host Interface Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Maximum Number of Host Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Direct-Attach Topologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

One Host to a Controller Tray or a Controller-Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Two Hosts to a Controller Tray or a Controller-Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . 46

One Hosts with Direct SAS Connections to Four Controller-Drive Trays. 47

One Single-HBA Host to a Single-Controller Controller Tray or a Single-

Controller Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Switch Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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One Host to a Controller Tray or a Controller-Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Two Hosts to a Controller Tray or a Controller-Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Two Hosts to a Controller-Drive Tray with Switched SAS Connections. . 53

Four Hosts to a Controller Tray or a Controller-Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Mixed Topologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 4 Drive Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Drive Channel Redundancy for the CE7900 Controller Tray and the CE7922

Controller Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Drive Channel Redundancy for the CE6998 Controller Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Drive Channel Redundancy for the E5460 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 63

Drive Channel Redundancy for the E5412 Controller-Drive Tray and the E5424

Controller-Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Drive Channel Redundancy for the CE4900 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . 65

Drive Channel Redundancy for the CDE3994 Controller-Drive Tray and the

CDE3992 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Drive Channel Redundancy for the E2600 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 67

Drive Channel Redundancy for the E2660 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 68

ESM Canister Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Drive Cabling Topologies for the CE7900 Controller Tray and the CE7922

Controller Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Connection for the CE7922 Controller Tray or the CE7900 Controller Tray

and One to Four FC4600 Drive Trays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Connection for the CE7922 Controller Tray or the CE7900 Controller Tray

and Five to Eight FC4600 Drive Trays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

One CE7922 Controller Tray or CE7900 Controller Tray and Nine to 16

FC4600 Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

One CE7922 Controller Tray or CE7900 Controller Tray and 17 to 28

FC4600 Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

One CE7922 Controller Tray or CE7900 Controller Tray and One to Four

DE6900 Drive Trays without Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

One CE7922 Controller Tray or CE7900 Controller Tray Five to Eight

DE6900 Drive Trays without Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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One CE7922 Controller Tray or CE7900 Controller Tray and One to Four

DE6900 Drive Trays with Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

One CE7922 Controller Tray or CE7900 Controller Tray and Five to Eight

DE6900 Drive Trays with Drive-Side Trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

One CE7900 Controller Tray and Multiple Types of Drive Trays . . . . . . . 96

Drive Cabling Topologies for the CE6998 Controller Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

One CE6998 Controller Tray and One Drive Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

One CE6998 Controller TrayController Tray and Two Drive Trays . . . . . 98

One CE6998 Controller Tray and Four Drive Trays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

One CE6998 Controller Tray and Eight Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

One CE6998 Controller Tray and Multiple Types of Drive Trays . . . . . . 103

Guidelines for Connecting FC2610 Drive Trays or FC4600 Drive Trays

103

Guidelines for Connecting AT2655 Drive Trays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Drive Cabling Topologies for the E5400 Controller-Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . 105

Drive Cabling Topologies for the E5424 Controller-Drive Tray and the

E5412 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Drive Cabling Topologies for the E5460 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . 112

Drive Cabling Topologies for the CE4900 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . 120

Drive Cabling Topologies for the CDE3994 Controller-Drive Tray and the

CDE3992 Controller-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126