Connect the Controller to Oracle Disk Shelves

This section describes connecting the controllers to Oracle DE3-24 disk shelves.

Before You Begin

Observe the following guidelines:

• If connecting to more than one disk shelf, balance the number of disk shelves across the disk chains in your system.

• Disks with different capacities or rotation speeds cannot be mixed within a single disk shelf.

• Maximize the number of disk chains before adding disk shelves to an individual chain.

• DE3-24 disk shelves require SFF-8644 (iPASS mini-SAS HD) connectors at each end of the cable to connect to ZS5-ES controllers.

1. Locate the four-port HBA in PCIe card slot 2.
2. Connect the HBA ports of each controller to disk shelf ports.
   • To connect one DE3-24C disk shelf, use the following cabling pattern:
     
   • To connect two DE3-24P disk shelves, use the following cabling pattern: