Guide to the installation process

Install the storage appliance in a freestanding rack.

Only if the disk shelf installation is part of a new system installation.

Hardware guide for your storage appliance.

Install the disk shelves in the rack.

Yes, if the disk shelf is an addition to your existing system or if your new system was not shipped in a system cabinet.

Installing a DS14 Disk Shelf.

Connect the disk shelf to the storage appliance.

Only in the following scenarios:

• If the disk shelf installation is part of a new system installation.

Connecting a DS14 to storage appliance.

• If the disk shelf is the first in an additional loop to your existing system.

Connect the disk shelves.

Only in the following scenarios:

• If the new system installation has multiple disk shelves.

Connecting multiple DS14 disk shelves.

• If the disk shelf is an addition to your existing system.

Installing a DS14 disk shelf in an existing mixed shelf loop.

Ground the Fibre Channel disk shelves and storage appliance.

Yes.

Grounding disk shelves.

Connect the disk shelves to a power source.

Yes.

Connecting the disk shelf to a power source.

If the system was shipped in a system cabinet, you must connect the system cabinet to a power source.

See the System Cabinet Guide.

Configure the system.

Yes, if the disk shelf installation is part of a new system installation.

See the Data ONTAP Software Setup Guide or the NetCache Quick Setup.