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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Daniel S. Critchley, Winchester, GB;
Gordon D. Hutchison, Eastleigh, GB;
Gareth P. Jones, Chandlers Ford, GB;
Jonathan W. L. Short, Eastleigh, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for cabling a set of enclosures. Using a set of cables that comprises eight physical layers (PHYs), the set of enclosures are coupled together such that: for a first enclosure and each intermediate enclosure in the set of enclosures, at least four PHYs of the eight PHYs terminate within a Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) (SAS) expander of the first enclosure and a SAS expander of each intermediate enclosure white passing through a remaining four PHYs of the eight PHYs without connecting to the respective SAS expander; and, for a last enclosure in the set of enclosures, all of the eight PHYs terminate in the SAS expander of the last enclosure.