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failure. All LCCs are connected (loop) using HSSDC (cables). phese HSSDC
cables and LCC cards are hot swappable which will not cause an outage on
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replacements on those while the machine is functional. Based on your
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addressing scheme is very important.c
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purposes.c
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installed in it starting at Slot 0 and going to Slot 14.c
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replacement, troubleshooting and also figuring out disk contention or
possibly help you design your environment with your applications and
database, so you can put certain apps on certain buses, enclosures and
drives (lets say your ORACLE needs 15K drives and your backups need ApA

drives). You will be able to configure all of it using LUNS, MetaLUNS, RAID
Groups, Storage Groups, etc.c
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