Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide 17
Before You Begin
Verify that the following tasks have been completed for your cluster:
• All hardware is installed in the rack.
• All hardware interconnections are configured.
• All virtual disks/LUNs, RAID groups, and storage groups are created on the
storage system.
• Storage groups are assigned to the cluster nodes.
CAUTION: Before you perform the procedures in the following sections, ensure
that the system hardware and cable connections are installed correctly.
Cabling Your Dell|EMC Fibre Channel Storage
You can configure your Oracle cluster storage system in a four-port SAN-
attached configuration, depending on your needs. See the following procedures
for both configurations.
Figure 1-2 illustrates the hardware connections used in setting up a SAN-
attached Fibre Channel cluster.
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
storage system
Two CAT 5e/6 cables connected to LAN (one from
each storage processor)
One to four optical connections to each Fibre Channel
switch in a SAN-attached configuration
See "Cabling Your Dell|EMC Fibre Channel Storage"
on page 17 for more information.
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
switch
One optical connection to each PowerEdge system’s
HBA and one optical connection to a port on each
storage processor
Gigabit Ethernet switch One Cat 5e/6 connection to the private Gigabit NIC on
each PowerEdge system
One Cat 5e/6 connection to the other Gigabit Ethernet
switch
Table 1-5. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections
(continued)
Cluster Component Connections