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Making Management and Data Connections

Examples of VTrak configurations include:

• Fibre Channel SAN (below)

• Fibre Channel DAS (page 25)

• Fibre Channel JBOD Expansion (page 27)

• Fibre Channel SAN – No Single Point of Failure (page 28)

Fibre Channel SAN

A Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) requires:

• A Fibre Channel switch

• A Fibre Channel HBA card in each Host PC or Server

• A network switch

• A network interface card (NIC) in each Host PC or Server

Figure 12.FC controller data and management ports

Important

For a list of supported FC HBAs, Switches and SFPs, download

the latest compatibility list from PROMISE support:

http://www.promise.com/support/.

Fibre Channel data ports

SAS expansion port (to JBOD)

Management port