? about san storage

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I recently just purchased a dell badged emc clariion dae-de 2gb fibre san. Im having a tough time finding documentation. But, the rear of the unit has 2 controller cards, but the connections are db9 serial. So, I guess I have 2 questions.
- how does this connect to a fibre hba? Is there some sort of fibre to serial adaptor?
- Can it connect directly to a fibre hba and just present the luns to linux as block devices?
My overall goes is to just be able to use the available storage. I can use software raid if need be.
 
Here is a pic:
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I think you may be SOL.

You're most likely missing a card.

The bigger issue may be not having hard drives. Usually you need dell (emc) specific drives, with dell (emc) firmware on them.
 
The pic is from the rear of the unit, the empty slot is where the power supplies are inserted and the control cards shown go on both left and ride side. The unit has a mid plane with the drives up front, which has 10 15k drives in it.
 
Those aren't serial ports. Fibre channel can use a DE9 port. It is more commonly used with T-cards though. You can buy cables/adapters that go from SFP to DE9, HSSDC to DE9, and so on. Just figure out what your switches or HBAs use and get the proper one. Shouldn't be too hard if you look around online.
 
So wait, you just have a DAE? You need a head unit with system processors.

It looks like the DAE is designed to work with a FC4700. I know the CX200/300 and CX3 used a different cable for DAE expansion.
 
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geiger said:
So wait, you just have a DAE? You need a head unit with system processors.

It looks like the DAE is designed to work with a FC4700. I know the CX200/300 and CX3 used a different cable for DAE expansion.
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Yea, I just have the DAE unit.
 
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