If you ordered a cluster in a system cabinet, it comes to you in one or more NetApp System Cabinets. The number of system cabinets you receive depends on how many disk shelves you ordered. All internal adapters, such as networking adapters, Fibre Channel adapters, and other adapters, arrive preinstalled in your nodes.
If you ordered a cluster with six or fewer disk shelves, you receive it in a single system cabinet. This system cabinet comes to you with the Channel A and Channel B disk shelves cabled, and also has the appropriate cluster interconnect adapters cabled. All you need to do is connect the cluster to the network, apply power to the system, and configure your cluster. See the F800 Series Hardware Guide and the 42U System Cabinet Guide for information about connecting the nodes to the network and applying power to the cluster. See the System Administrator's Guide for cluster software configuration information.
If you ordered a cluster with more than six disk shelves, you receive your cluster in two or more system cabinets. You must cable the local node to the partner node's disk shelves and the partner node to the local node's disk shelves. You must also cable your nodes together in a cluster. See the 42U System Cabinet Guide for information about connecting your system cabinets together for clustering. See the F800 Series Hardware Guide for information about connecting the nodes to the network and see the System Administrator's Guide for more configuration information.
The following table lists the different combinations of nodes in a cluster and how many disk shelves you can have in each system cabinet.
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