Preface

About this guide

This guide describes how to set up, install, connect, and manage the NetApp® Fibre Channel DiskShelf14 (DS14).

Audience

This guide is for qualified system administrators and service personnel who are familiar with Network Appliance^TM filers and/or NetCache^TM appliances.

Terminology

This guide uses the following terms:

Disk shelf refers to any Fibre Channel disk shelf model.
Storage appliance refers to those NetApp filers, NetCache appliances, and Fibre-Attached Storage (FAS) appliances that support the disk shelves.
Device carrier refers to the container that encases a fan/power supply unit or a disk.
Disk applies to any Fibre Channel disk encased in its device carrier.
Loop refers to one or more daisy-chained disk shelves connected to a storage appliance.
Multiloop appliance refers to a storage appliance with more than one FC-AL adapter connected to disk shelves.
LRC module refers to the device that combines the LRC (Loop Resiliency Circuit), which keeps the FC-AL loop intact during the addition and removal of disks within a disk shelf and the enclosure services processor, which communicates the environmental data of the disk shelf.
Terminate refers to the process of closing a loop on an LRC module by activating a terminate switch on the last disk shelf in the loop. The terminate switch replaces the Output terminators and the auto-termination mechanism in previous versions of Fibre Channel StorageShelves.

Command conventions

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

Formatting conventions

The following table lists different character formats used in this guide to set off special information.

Formatting convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide requires you to enter the `fctest` adaptername command, you enter the characters "fctest" followed by the actual name of the adapter. 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 your program is case-sensitive and uppercase letters are necessary 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.