Fibre Channel fabric cabling

Make your cable connections symmetrical when cabling a multiple switch fabric. For example, for a K2 SAN-attached client system (or Server) that has redundant connections that each go to a different switch, if you make one connection to port 1 on switch A, make the other connection to port 1 on switch B. This is especially important on switches that are not interconnected by ISLs, as the Fibre Channel failover path can get confused if redundant cable connections are not in the same order on both switches.

To cable the Fibre Channel fabric for such a system, do the following:

Each K2 Media Server is connected to a different zone. For example, connect as follows:
- Connect K2 Media Server 1 to switch A port 0 (Zone 1)
- Connect K2 Media Server 2 to switch A port 8 (Zone 2)
- Connect K2 Media Server 3 to switch B port 0 (Zone 3)
- Connect K2 Media Server 4 to switch B port 8 (Zone 4)
There is only one Fibre Channel connection at each K2 Media Server. The second Fibre Channel port on each K2 Media Server not used.
Each K2 RAID storage chassis is connected to all four zones. For example, connect RAID chassis 1 as follows:
- Connect controller 0 port HP0 to switch A port 1 (Zone 1)
- Connect controller 0 port HP1 to switch A port 9 (Zone 2)
- Connect controller 1 port HP0 to switch B port 1 (Zone 3)
- Connect controller 1 port HP1 to switch B port 9 (Zone 4)
Connect RAID chassis 2, 3, and 4 similarly.