Apple NMB-003 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Planning RAID Storage for the Xserve RAID System 79
Xserve RAID Hardware Connections
The Xserve RAID system offers three standard hardware configurations—a system with 4
Apple drive modules, 7 drive modules, or 14 drive modules. You can connect any of these
systems to a host or fibre channel switch in several ways. The examples below show several
of the possible connections.
Host
or
or
Host A Host B
Host A Host B
Host C Host D
Fibre channel switch
Single fibre channel
PCI dual-port card
Xserve RAID
Xserve RAID
Xserve RAID