Chapter 14.1.4. Cable management

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254 SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines 14.1 Cabling None of what we are going to tell you in the following section is SVC- specific. However, because some cabling problems can produce SVC issues that will be troublesome and tedious to diagnose, we thought that reminders of how to structure cabling might be useful. 14.1.1 General cabling advice All cabling used in a SAN environment must be high- quality cables certified for the speeds at which you will be using the cable. For most installations, this is multi- mode cable with a core diameter of 50 microns. The cables that you use need to be certified to meet the 400- M5- SN- I cabling specification. This refers to 400 MBps, ...

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