Connections for Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1

Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1 models have specific connection requirements.

The following control connections are required:

Each Lenovo Storage V7000 control enclosure requires two Ethernet cables to connect it to an Ethernet switch or hub. One cable connects to port 1 of the left node canister, and the other cable connects to port 1 of the right node canister. A 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet connection is required for each cable. Both Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) are supported.
Note: For increased redundancy, an optional second Ethernet connection is supported for each Lenovo Storage V7000 node canister.
To ensure system failover operations, Ethernet port 1 on each node canister must be connected to the same set of subnets. If used, Ethernet port 2 on each node canister must also be connected to the same set of subnets. However, the subnets for Ethernet port 1 do not have to be the same as Ethernet port 2.
Each Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1 control enclosure has eight Fibre Channel ports, each of which is supplied with an LC-style optical small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver for connecting to a Fibre Channel switch or directly to host Fibre Channel HBA ports.
Each Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1 2076-3xx control enclosure has four 10 Gbps Ethernet FCoE ports, each of which is supplied with an LC-style optical small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver for connecting to a FCoE switch.
If you have more than one control enclosure in your Lenovo Storage V7000 system, the control enclosures communicate through their Fibre Channel ports or their FCoE ports.

Each canister has two SAS ports for connecting optional expansion enclosures. Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1 control enclosures can have up to nine expansion enclosures: five from SAS port 1 and four from SAS port 2 of the node canisters.

Short-wave SFP transceivers are preinstalled in the control enclosure Fibre Channel ports and any 10 Gbps Ethernet ports. You can order long-wave SFP transceivers to replace the short-wave transceivers in the Fibre Channel ports only. 10 Gbps Ethernet ports for FCoE and iSCSI do not use long-wave transceivers.

To view the Fibre Channel, USB, Ethernet, and SAS ports on Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1, see the information about node canister ports and indicators under the hardware components topics.