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Figure 1-16 shows a configuration with six MSCS clusters. Clusters one through four
share a single PowerVault 65xF storage system, cluster five has its own storage
system, and cluster six uses four storage systems. All six MSCS clusters also share
the two PowerVault 130T tape libraries through the SAN with the use of the
PowerVault 35F Fibre Channel Bridge. This configuration requires four PowerVault 56F,
16-port Fibre Channel switches and the creation of six zones. Each of the first five
zones includes two nodes in the same MSCS cluster, the Fibre Channel-to-SCSI
bridge, and the PowerVault 65xF storage system. These five zones are for the five
clusters and the two storage systems on the left side of the figure. The sixth zone
includes the two nodes of the cluster on the right side of the figure, the Fibre
Channel-to-SCSI bridge, and its four storage systems.
Figure 1-16. Multiple Cluster, Multiple Storage SAN Environment
Example
PowerVault
56F Fibre
Channel
switches (2)
1 PowerEdge
cluster
4 PowerEdge
Clusters
backup for
all clusters
storage for 1 clusterstorage for
1 cluster
storage for
4 clusters
1 PowerEdge
cluster
cluster
interconnect
PowerVault
51F Fibre
Channel
switches (2)
PowerVault
35F Fibre
Channel bridge