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Chapter 2: Installation

Making Management and Data Connections

Examples of VTrak configurations include:

• Fibre Channel SAN (below)

• Fibre Channel DAS (page 28)

• Fibre Channel with JBOD Expansion (page 30)

• Fibre Channel SAN – No Single Point of Failure (page 31)

• iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) (page 34)

• iSCSI Direct Attached Storage (DAS) (page 37)

• iSCSI with JBOD Expansion (page 39)

Fibre Channel SAN

Figure 10.FC data and management ports on the RAID controller

Important

For a list of supported HBAs, Switches, and SFP transceivers,

download the latest compatibility list from PROMISE support:

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

Note

For multipathing (MPIO) applications, see:

• “Appendix B: Multipathing on Windows” on page 363.

• “Appendix C: Multipathing on Linux” on page 385.

FC ports

Management port SAS expansion port

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