Promise VTrak e610 Setup Questions

We currently have an 8-core Xserve with a SCSI card going to an HP autoloader for tape backups and a 2 port fibre card in the second slot using 1 port to connect to our old Xserve XRAID enclosure with 4TB of RAID 5 capacity. 3TB of the space is in use currently, but we just bought a Promise e610 16TB that I eventually will need to get the data moved over to. I wanted to set the e610 as RAID 60 across all 16 drives, but based on what I've found online I'm getting the impression that this is not possible. Are you able to utilize all 16 drives across both controllers as one volume? Ideally I wanted to use an already established script, but I have not been able to find any for RAID 60 and the RAID 5 script I found shows each controller independent of the other leading me to believe that I would need to have 2 volumes each with its own spare. Is this the case? I'm assuming I'll need to configure RAID 60 manually which I'd rather not do.
Also, is it ok to connect one controller on the e610 to the one port on our xserve while having the xraid connected on the other fibre port? The documentation states using a separate fibre card to connect each controller on the e610. Is this for redundancy or a necessity?
I was planning on plugging one of the e610 fibre ports into the open port on the xserve, manually configuring the 16 drives as raid 60 and then using ditto over the weekend to copy everything over from the old to the new enclosure. How wrong am I?
Thanks

I plugged fibre connection 1 from the promise left controller into the open port on the server card and it shows the array as a fibre connection, but does not show it as connected in the fibre channel system preference. The web utility to set up the array is great. The hyper text links in each setting explaining what each setting is proved very helpful. I was able to set up 15 of the 16 drives as a raid 60 array and specified drive 16 as the spare. Once the volume is done synchronizing I'll try copying the data over from the other raid enclosure, but so far it seems to work as is. Once data is copied over I'll be connecting both ports on the pci-x card to the promise raid which i would image would improve performance if anything correct?

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