Bottom-exit cable management

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Bottom-exit cable management is the standard method for managing your Fibre and Ethernet cables.

Figure 1 illustrates the routing of the cabling for bottom-exit. The following notes provide more information about the color-coded cable routing and components.
  •  1  Customer Fibre Channel host cables. The Fibre Channel host cables, shown in red, are routed through the at the bottom of the rack and through the black cable guide behind the bottom rear of each I/O enclosure pair.
  •  2  Network Ethernet cables. The network Ethernet cables, shown in light blue, are routed as shown. The four customer network connections in the rack are cable ends that hang free. They are not installed in a sheet metal bracket. Each cable is labeled as shown in Table 1.
  •  3  Mainline power cords. Two or four bottom-exit mainline power cords for each rack, shown in green, are routed during the installation.
Table 1. Management console (HMC) customer network connections
Management console Ethernet connection Cable color Connector boot color Label text
HMC1 - Primary Blue Purple HMC1-eth2
HMC1 - Secondary Blue Green HMC1-eth1
HMC2 - Primary Red Purple HMC2-eth2
HMC2 - Secondary Red Green HMC2-eth1
Notes:
  • The customer is required to provide and pretest for safety the power outlets (for connecting power cords) within the specified distance.
  • Fibre Channel host cables and customer Ethernet cable connections to the HMCs are internally routed and connected by either the customer or by a technical service representative.
  • All remaining cables are internally routed and connected by a technical service representative.
Figure 1. Bottom exit cable routing rear view
This figure illustrates how cables are routed through the bottom-exit into the storage system.