Iscsi Cluster Setup For The Dell™ Equallogic™ Ps Series Storage Systems; Cabling Dell™ Equallogic™ Iscsi Storage System - Dell PowerVault MD3000i Bedienungsanleitung

iSCSI Cluster Setup for the
Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series
Storage Systems
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Cabling Dell™ EqualLogic™ iSCSI Storage
System
Host servers can be attached to the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI array through
an IP storage area network (SAN) industry-standard Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Figure 5-1 shows the recommended network configuration for a dual control
module PS5000XV array. This configuration includes two Dell PowerConnect™
54xx Gigabit Ethernet switches, to provide highest network availability and
maximum network bandwidth.
It is recommended that you use two Gigabit Ethernet switches because in the
event of a switch failure in a single ethernet switch environment, all hosts will
lose access to the storage until the switch is physically replaced and the
configuration restored. For such configurations there should be multiple ports
with link aggregation providing the inter-switch, or trunk, connection.
Additionally, it is recommended that from each of the control modules, one
Gigabit interface connects to one Ethernet switch, and the other two Gigabit
interfaces connect to the other Ethernet switch.
iSCSI Cluster Setup for Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Systems
Before you begin any of the procedures in this section, read the
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