Making Data And Management Connections; Fibre Channel Direct Attached Storage (Das) - Asus DS300i User Manual

Making Data and Management Connections

You can configure your ASUS Storage for:
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Fibre Channel Direct Attached Storage (DAS), see below
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Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) (page 21)
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iSCSI Direct Attached Storage (DAS) (page 24)
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iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) (page 27)
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SAS JBOD Expansion (page 30)
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SAS JBOD Expansion (page 30)

Fibre Channel Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

This arrangement requires:
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A Fibre Channel (FC) interface card in the Host PC
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At least one FC transceiver for each ASUS Storage subsystem
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A network interface card (NIC) in the Host PC
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A standard network switch
Data Path
The ASUS Storage DS300f controller has two (2) FC Port connectors and one
(1) SFF-8088 SAS Expansion Port connector. See page 19, Figure 7.
To establish the data path:
1. Install an FC transceiver into the FC data port on the ASUS Storage
controller.
See page 20, Figure 8.
For a list of supported FC HBAs, Switches and SFPs, download
the latest compatibility list from the ASUS support web site
http://support.asus.com/.
ASUS Storage does not support cascading of multiple RAID
subsystems. Cascading is planned for a future release.
ASUS Storage Fibre Channel subsystems also have two (2)
Ethernet RJ45 iSCSI Port connectors. See ―iSCSI Direct Attached
Storage (DAS)‖ on page 24 for connection instructions.
Chapter 2: ASUS Storage Installation
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