Preface

About this guide

This guide describes how to install a NetApp® NearStore^TM R100 storage system, connect it to the network, and start it up.

Audience

This guide is for system administrators who are familiar with operating systems that run on the storage system's clients, such as UNIX®, Windows 95^TM, Windows® NT, and Windows® 2000. The procedures in this guide describe replacement, upgrade, and maintenance tasks for personnel with the following skills and experience:

Working familiarity with small computer system hardware and operation
Basic understanding of common networking concepts and practices
Working familiarity with accepted tools and procedures for installing and operating sensitive electronic equipment

Terminology

This guide uses the following terms:

R100 or R100 system refers, at a minimum, to an R100 chassis and seven connected R100 SCSI disk shelves.
Disk shelf refers to an R100 disk shelf.
Chassis, or R100 chassis, refers to the "controller unit" that the disk shelves are attached to.
Note
In the Data ONTAP^TM software documentation that came with your R100 storage system, the term filer is used in place of the word chassis. For this instance, the terms filer and chassis refer to the same physical component of the storage system; that is, the one that oversees the flow of data to and from the disk shelves.

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 says 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 monospace` 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.

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.