The following table provides a guide to the disk shelf installation process.
Stage
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Procedure
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Is the procedure required?
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For instructions, go to...
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1 |
Install the storage appliance in a freestanding rack.
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Only if the disk shelf installation is part of a new system installation.
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Hardware guide for your storage appliance.
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2 |
Install the disk shelves in the rack.
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Yes, if the disk shelf is an addition to your existing system or if your new system was not shipped in a system cabinet.
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Installing a Disk Shelf.
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3 |
Connect the disk shelf to the storage appliance.
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Only in the following scenarios:
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- If the disk shelf installation is part of a new system installation.
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Connecting a disk shelf to a storage appliance.
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- If the disk shelf is the first in an additional loop to your existing system.
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4 |
Connect the disk shelves.
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Only in the following scenarios:
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- If the new system installation has multiple disk shelves.
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Connecting multiple disk shelves.
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- If the disk shelf is an addition to your existing system.
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Installing a disk shelf in an existing mixed-shelf loop.
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5 |
Ground the Fibre Channel disk shelves and storage appliance.
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Yes.
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Grounding disk shelves.
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6 |
Connect the disk shelves to a power source.
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Yes.
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Connecting the disk shelf to a power source.
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If the system was shipped in a system cabinet, you must connect the system cabinet to a power source.
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See the System Cabinet Guide.
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7 |
Configure the system.
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Yes, if the disk shelf installation is part of a new system installation.
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See the Data ONTAP Software Setup Guide or the NetCache Quick Setup.
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