EMC CX700 User Manual
EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, and CX700 Initialization Guide
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Making Management and Switch or Host Connections
Connecting a Fibre-Optic Switch or Fibre Channel Host
Connect to your fibre-optic switch or Fibre Channel host as follows:
1. Remove the protective covers from each optical connector and
cable.
2. Plug the cables into the SP front-end (FE) host ports. Figure 14
shows a CX700 SP, which has four host ports; a CX500 SP and a
CX300 SP both have two ports that are marked FE 0 and FE 1.
CX300 SP both have two ports that are marked FE 0 and FE 1.
Figure 14
Connecting the Fibre-optic Switch/Host Cables (CX700 Shown)
3. Connect the other end of the Port 0 cable as follows:
• For a direct attach configuration — to the host server’s host bus
adapter (HBA).
If the HBA is not yet installed in the host server, use your
device-specific documentation to install the HBA in your host, then
connect the SP.
device-specific documentation to install the HBA in your host, then
connect the SP.
• For a storage area network (SAN) configuration — to a Fibre
Channel switch port.
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Port 0
Port 0
Port 1
Port 1
Port 2
Port 2
Port 3
Port 3
Front-end
Host
Connectors
Host
Connectors
Front-end
Host
Connectors
Host
Connectors
SP B
SP A