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Dell PowerVault™ TL4000/TL2000 Failover Guide

(Host with dual port HBAs, two FC switches, and two FC drives)

Main Path

Failover Reference Configuration 5:

Two hosts with dual Fibre Channel HBAs, two Fibre Channel switches and one Dell

PowerVault™ with two Fibre Channel drives

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

‐ One of the drives fails (hardware failure or is drive disconnected from the HBA port)

‐ One of the HBA controllers fails

‐ One of the switches fails

The physical connection of this configuration is shown in Figure 5.

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

Failover Path

Figure 4: Reference Configuration 4

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