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Dell PowerVault™ TL4000/TL2000 Failover Guide

Main Path

Failover Reference Configuration 2:

One Host with one dual port Fibre Channel HBA, two Fibre Channel switches and one Dell

PowerVault™ with two Fibre Channel drives

In this configuration, failover occurs if one of the following occurs:

‐ One of the drives in the library fails (hardware failure or drive is disconnected from the Fibre

Channel switch)

‐ One of the switches fails

‐ One of the HBA ports fails

The physical connection of this configuration is shown in Figure 2.

Important Note: Dell Recommends Fibre Channel drives to be same generation. For Heterogonous

configurations refer to section: Heterogonous Validated Configurations

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Failover configuration

(one host, one switch, two FC drives)

Failover Path

Figure 1: Reference Configuration 1

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