A(one) cable in the active Controller is enought. You can use SFP+ or BaseT.  Connecting to a Server (your Blade) should also work. Just a "link" is needed. Once you have bypass the wizard you can setup the optional managing port. This one also needs an uplink, but you can use an normal switch there. After that you can point your browser to that IP. Regards, Joerg
While performing initial setup for EQUALLOGIC 6110 getting an error msg IP address for network interface []: 192.168.6.8   Netmask [255.255.255.0]:    Default gateway [192.168.6.1]:  Initializing interface eth0.  This may take a minute...........   *** Interface eth0 failed to connect to the network.  Please establish a network link to eth0.       Please try again.please suggest me
EQUALLOGIC 6110 initial setup failing