NonStop NS-Series Planning Guide (H06.04+)

Modular System Hardware
HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series Planning Guide—529567-005
5-20
Fibre Channel Disk Module
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802.3x (Flow control)
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802.3u (100 Base-T and 1000 Base-T)
For detailed information on the G4SA, see the NonStop Gigabit Ethernet 4-Port
Installation and Support Guide.
Fibre Channel Disk Module
The Fibre Channel disk module is a rackmounted enclosure that contains:
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Up to 14 Fibre Channel arbitrated loop disk drives (enclosure front)
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Environmental monitoring unit (EMU) (enclosure rear)
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Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) modules (enclosure rear)
A Fibre Channel disk module connects to a FCSA in an IOAM enclosure. You can
daisy-chain together up to four Fibre Channel disk modules with 14 drives in each one.
This illustration shows a fully populated Fibre Channel disk module:
Tape Drive and Interface Hardware
For an overview of tape drives and the interface hardware, see FCSA to Tape Devices
on page 6-14.
Maintenance Switch (Ethernet)
The ProCurve 2524 maintenance switch includes management features that NSAA
requires and provides the communication between the Integrity NonStop NS-series
system at the switch boards in the p-switches and IOAM enclosure, and optional UPS
and the system console running HP NonStop Open System Management (OSM). The
maintenance switch includes 24 ports, which is enough capacity to support multiple
FC-AL
Port A2
Port A1
FC-AL
Port B2
Port B1
Fi bre C hannel
Disk Module
(rear)
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Fi bre C hannel
Disk Module
(front)
Disk Drive Slots 1-14
EMU