Connecting to an Ethernet network

Supported Ethernet connections

Your appliance has one onboard 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet port. It also supports the following Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) in the PCI slots of your appliance motherboard:

Copper Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) NIC (with an RJ-45 connection)
Fiber optic GbE NIC
Note
See the System Configuration Guide at http://now.netapp.com for slot assignments.

Cabling requirements

The following table lists the cabling requirements for Ethernet connections.

Note
Network Appliance recommends using a cable with a minimum length of one meter for the onboard Ethernet LAN port.

Ethernet type	Type of cable used	Maximum distance
10Base-T/ 100Base-TX	Category 3 (10Base-T only) or 5 (10Base-T/100Base-TX) unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable with RJ-45 connectors	100m
10Base-T/ 100Base-TX/ 1000Base-T adapter	Category 5 UTP cable with RJ-45 connector for the copper GbE adapter only	100m
1000Base-SX adapter	50 micron multimode fiber optic cable, SC connector	550m
1000Base-SX adapter	62.5 micron multimode fiber optic cable, SC connector	220m