EMC CX500I Configuration Guide - Page 29

What Next?, Admin Server, Inventory Server, E-mail Server, Web Server

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About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems sharable (accessible by more than one server), if, as shown above in Figure 1-11, the servers run cluster software. Figure 1-12 shows access control through Storage Groups. Each server has exclusive read and write access to its designated Storage Group. Admin Server Inventory Server Operating system A Operating system A Highly available cluster E-mail Server Web Server Operating system B Operating system B Adapter 07 Adapter 06 Adapter 05 Adapter 04 Adapter 03 Adapter 02 Adapter 01 Adapter 00 FC Switch or LAN FC Switch or LAN Admin Storage Group Dedicated Data access by adapters 01, 00 Inventory Storage Group Dedicated Data access by adapters 02, 03 E-mail and Web Server Storage Group Shared Data access by adapters 04, 05, 06, 07 SP A SP B LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN EMC2403a Figure 1-12 Data Access Control with Shared Storage What Next? For information about RAID types and RAID trade-offs, continue to the next chapter. For information on the Navisphere® Manager Suite software, go to Chapter 3. About Switched Shared Storage and SANs (Storage Area Networks) 1-17

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About Switched Shared Storage and SANs (Storage Area Networks)
1-17
About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems
sharable (accessible by more than one server), if, as shown above in
Figure 1-11, the servers run cluster software.
Figure 1-12 shows access control through Storage Groups. Each
server has exclusive read and write access to its designated Storage
Group.
Figure 1-12
Data Access Control with Shared Storage
What Next?
For information about RAID types and RAID trade-offs, continue to
the next chapter.
For information on the Navisphere
®
Manager Suite software, go to
Chapter 3.
EMC2403a
Highly available cluster
Admin Server
Adapter 00
Adapter 01
Operating
system A
Inventory Server
Adapter 02
Adapter 03
Operating
system A
E-mail Server
Adapter 04
Adapter 05
Operating
system B
Adapter 06
Adapter 07
Web Server
Operating
system B
SP A
SP B
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
LUN
Admin Storage Group
Dedicated
Data access by adapters
01, 00
Inventory Storage Group
Dedicated
Data access by adapters
02, 03
E-mail and Web Server
Storage Group
Shared
Data access by adapters
04, 05, 06, 07
FC Switch
or
LAN
FC Switch
or
LAN