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A.5. Storage hardware setup

1. Cable the MD3200 to the SAS 6 Gbps card on servers as shown in the figure below. Each server has

two dual-port SAS cards. Cable one port on each SAS card to the storage. That is, each server will

have one cable per SAS card going to the MD3200.

Reference: Dell PowerVault MD3200 and MD3220 Storage Arrays Deployment Guide,

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/md3200/en/DG/PDF/DG.pdf, Section “Dual

Controller Configurations”

Ensure that each server is connected to both the MD3200 RAID controllers as shown in the figure

below.

 Cabling for 144TB configuration