Setup Guide
22 Dell PowerVault ML6000 Getting Started Guide
Connecting Fibre Channel Cables Through a Fibre Channel I/O Blade
Perform this step if your library contains Fibre Channel tape drives that you will be
connecting to your host or switch through a Fibre Channel I/O blade.
1
For each tape drive: Connect one end of a Fibre Channel cable to the Fibre
Channel port on the tape drive. Connect the other end of the Fibre Channel
cable to an initiator port (lower ports 3 – 6) on the nearest Fibre Channel I/O
blade.
2
For each Fibre Channel I/O blade: Connect one end of a Fibre Channel cable
to one of the target ports (upper ports 1 and 2) on the Fibre Channel I/O
blade. Connect the other end of the Fibre Channel cable to your host or
switch.
1 Fibre Channel port 2 Fibre Channel cable