Cabling your NetApp System Cabinets into a cluster

How your NetApp System Cabinets arrive  

Your NetApp cluster comes to you in one or more system cabinets, depending on the amount of storage ordered for your cluster.

Single system cabinet

If you ordered six or fewer disk shelves, your cluster arrives in a pre-cabled, single system cabinet. This system cabinet can be configured as follows:

• Three disk shelves mounted at the bottom of the cabinet
• Two F700 series filers mounted above the bottom set of disk shelves
• Three or fewer disk shelves mounted above the top filer

Your single system cabinet comes to you with the Channel A and Channel B disk shelves cabled, and also has the cluster interconnect adapters cabled. All you need to do is connect the cluster to the network, apply power to the system and components, and configure your cluster. See the F700 Series Hardware guide for information about connecting your cluster to the network and applying power. See the System Administrator's Guide for cluster software configuration information.

Multiple system cabinets

If you have seven or more disk shelves in your cluster, your cluster arrives in two or more system cabinets. Each system cabinet supports up to eight disk shelves and one filer, or two filers and six disk shelves. If you ordered the maximum storage capacity for your cluster, your system cabinets contain the following components:

• Four disk shelves mounted at the bottom of two of the system cabinets
• One filer mounted above the disk shelves in two of the system cabinets
• Four disk shelves mounted above the filers in two of the system cabinets
• The balance of the disk shelves, a maximum of eight disk shelves per system cabinet, in the remaining system cabinets

Required tools and manuals  

You need the following tools and manuals to prepare your system cabinets for

clustering:

• The System Cabinet Guide
• The F700 Series Hardware Guide
• #1 and #2 Phillips screwdrivers

Required cables  

When you received your system cabinets, you should have received the following cables:

• HSSDC to DB-9 filer-to-shelf cables, one per FC-AL adapter for the Channel B loop
• Cluster interconnect cables, one pair

  Note
  Your system cabinets arrive with the Channel A and Channel B loops pre-cabled with the shelf-to-shelf cables.

For detailed information  

The cabling process is divided into four major steps:

• Step 1: Preparing the system cabinets
• Step 2: Cabling the cluster interconnect adapters
• Step 3: Cabling shelf 0 for takeover
• Step 4: Completing setup

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