Preface

About this guide

This guide describes how to convert existing F630, F740, and F760 filers and Fibre Channel StorageShelves into clusters. This guide does not cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and network topology.

Audience

This guide is for system administrators who are familiar with operating a NetApp® F630, F740, or F760 filers and a Fibre Channel StorageShelf FC7 (9-GB disk drives) or a Fibre Channel StorageShelf FC8 (18-GB disk drives).

Terminology

This guide uses the following terms:

Command conventions

You can enter filer commands on the system console or from any client that has access to the filer using telnet. In examples of commands run on a UNIX workstation, this guide uses the command syntax and output of SunOS 4.1x. If you use a different version of UNIX, the command syntax and output might be different.

Formatting conventions

The following table lists the kinds of formatting this guide uses to identify special information.

Formatting convention Type of information
Italic type
  • Words or characters that require special attention.
  • File names and path names.
  • Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide requires you to enter the arp -d hostname command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host.
  • Man page names.
  • Book titles in cross-references.
Monospaced font
  • Command and daemon names.
  • Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.
  • The contents of files.
Bold monospaced font Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters for it to work properly.

Keyboard conventions

This guide uses capitalization and some abbreviations to refer to the keys on the keyboard. The keys on your keyboard might not be labeled exactly as they are in this guide.

What is in this guide... What it means...
hyphen (-) Used to separate individual keys.
For example
Ctrl-D means holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the D key.
Enter Used to refer to the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named Return on some keyboards.
type Used to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard.
enter Used to mean pressing one or more keys and then pressing the Enter key.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that are described as follows.

Note: A note contains important information that helps you install or operate the system efficiently.

Caution: A caution contains instructions that you must follow to avoid damage to the equipment, a system crash, or loss of data.

WARNING: A warning contains instructions that you must follow to avoid personal injury.

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