Product manual

Making Management and Data Connections

Fibre Channel DAS

Fibre Channel direct attached storage (DAS) requires:

• Two FC HBA cards in the Host PC or Server

• A network switch

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

Data Path

To establish the data path:

1. Connect an FC data port on the left controller of the RAID subsystem to one

of the FC HBA cards in your Host PC or Server.

See page 26, Figure 14.

2. Connect an FC data port on the right controller of the RAID subsystem to the

other FC HBA card in your Host PC or Server.

For multipathing (MPIO) applications, see the VTrak E-Class Product

Manual on the CD.

Management Path

To establish the management path:

1. Connect the Management ports of both controllers to your network switch.

See page 26, Figure 14.

2. Connect the Host PC’s or Server’s NIC to your network switch.

Important

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

the latest compatibility list from PROMISE support:

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