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Q u i ck SA S C a b l i n g G u i d e A Dell Technical Whi te Paper PowerVault™ MD320 0 and MD32 00i Storage Arrays.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page ii THIS W HITE PAPER IS FO R INF ORMATIONAL PURPO SES ONLY, AND MAY CO NTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACI ES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTI ES OF ANY KIND. © 2 0 10 Dell Inc.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 1 Contents Components of Dell Powe rVault™ MD32x x/MD32x xi System ........................................................ 2 Supported System Confi gurati ons ...........................................................
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 2 Components of Dell PowerVault™ MD32x x/MD32xxi System The following are the int egral blocks of the Dell Powe rVault ™ MD3 2xx/MD3 2xxi storage array systems: 1. MD3200 is the SAS RAI D array residi ng in the enc losure with 12 ho rizontally posi tioned 3.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 3 MD32xx SAS RAID array has SAS RA ID controllers (RCs): MD32xxi iSCSI RAID array has iSCSI RA ID controllers (RCs): Array expansion en closure has enclosure management m.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 4 Supported System C onfigurations The MD32xx/ MD32xxi storage array system ma y consis t of the following twenty four order i ndependent combinations of the enclos ures with 12 horizonta lly posi tioned 3.5" disk slots an d the enclosures wit h 24 vertically positioned 2 .
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 5 Fault-tolerant Asymmetric Cablin g Scheme Although more complex to set up, the fault -tolerant a symmetric cabli ng scheme is the recommend wa y of connecting the expa nsion enclosures to t he RAID array as it makes the enclosure los s protection possi ble.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 6 Figure 1. Simple Cascade Cabling Scheme: Configur ation C01.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 7 Figure 2. Simple Cascade Cabling Scheme: Configur ations C02, C03.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 8 Figure 3. Simple Cascade Cabling Scheme: Configur ations C04, C05, C06.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 9 Figure 4. Simple Cascade Cabling Scheme: Configur ations C07, C08, C09, C10.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 10 Figure 5. Simple Cascade Cabling Scheme: Configur ations C11, C12, C13, C14, C15.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 11 Figure 6. Simple Cascade Cabling Scheme: Configur ations C16, C17, C18, C19.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 12 Figure 7. Two Enclosures: Confi gurations C20, C21, C 22.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 13 Figure 8. Single Enclosur e: Configur ations C23, C24.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 14 Figure 9. Fault-tolerant Asymm etric Cabling Scheme: Con figurations C01.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 15 Figure 10. Fault-tolerant Asymm etric Cabling Scheme: Co nfigurations C02, C03.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 16 Figure 11. Fault-tolerant Asymm etric Cabling Scheme: Co nfigurations C04, C05 , C06.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 17 Figure 12. Fault-tolerant Asymm etric Cabling Scheme: Co nfigurations C07, C08 , C09, C10.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 18 Figure 13. Fault-tolerant Asymm etric Cabling Scheme: Co nfigurations C11,C12,C 13,C14,C15.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 19 Figure 14. Fault-tolerant Asymm etric Cabling Scheme: Co nfigurations C16, C17 , C18, C19.
Quick SAS Cabling Guid e Page 20 Figure 15. SAS Cable Lab els Labels for SAS Ca b les (Cut out the labe ls and attach them to the ends of t he SAS cab les RE -RC0-OUT RE -RC1-OUT EE1 -EMM0- IN EE1 -EM.
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