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Cabling Your Blade Cluster Hardware

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Network-Attached Cluster Connected to an External Fabric
External Switches incorporate the external switch network or SAN connected

to the PowerEdge Enclosure through the pass-through modules or switch

modules. These configurations allow you to extend the Fibre Channel/iSCSI

network by connecting more storage systems. The following sections provide

examples for these configurations.

Cabling PowerEdge Server Enclosures With Pass-Through Modules to an

External Fabric
Figure 2-8 shows an example of a switch-attached iSCSI cluster with

embedded Ethernet pass-through modules that are connected to external

Ethernet switches (dedicated for iSCSI). Figure 2-8 illustrates a PowerEdge

1855/1955 server enclosure configured with an iSCSI storage array. You can

use a similar configuration model for other supported server modules, server

enclosures, and storage arrays.

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