Required documentation, tools, and equipment

Required documentation

The following table lists and briefly describes the documentation you might need to reference when preparing a new cluster, or converting two stand-alone systems into a clustered system.

Manual name	Description
System Cabinet Guide	This guide describes how to install NetApp equipment into a system cabinet.
Site Requirements Guide	This guide describes the physical requirements your site must meet in order to install NetApp equipment.
The appropriate disk shelf Guide	These guides describe how to cable a disk shelf to NetApp appliances.
FAS900 Series Hardware and Service Guide	This guide describes how to install an FAS900 Series appliance, connect it to a network, and bring it up for the first time.
NetApp Diagnostics Guide	This guide describes the diagnostics tests than can be run on the appliance.
Upgrade Guide	This guide describes how to upgrade appliance and disk firmware, and how to upgrade appliance software.
Data Protection Guide	This guide describes, among other topics, what a synchronous mirror is, how to enable it, and how to maintain it.
System Administrator's Guide	This guide describes how to maintain your appliance and disk drive software.
Software Setup Guide	This guide describes how to configure the software of a new appliance for the first time.
The appropriate Brocade® manuals	These guides describe how to configure and maintain Brocade switches.

Required tools

The following list specifies the tools you need to install the cluster:

#1 and #2 Phillips screwdrivers
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Required equipment

When you receive your cluster, you should receive the equipment listed in the following table. See the System Configuration guide to confirm this equipment.

Required equipment	Standard cluster	Nonswitched MetroCluster	Fabric Attached MetroCluster
Appliance type	Two of the same type of FAS900 appliance: FAS940, FAS960, or FAS980
Storage	Up to the maximum for mirrored clusters. See the System Configuration Guide for storage maximums.		Up to 32 TB of storage for DS14 and DS14mk2 FC disk shelves.
Cluster interconnect adapter	IB cluster adapter (The NVRAM5 functions as the cluster interconnect adapter on the FAS980.)		VI-MC cluster adapter
FC-AL adapter or FC HBA (FC HBA for Disk)	Minimum of two FC-AL adapters	Two FC HBA adapters Note The ports on the FC HBA adapters are labeled 1 and 2. However, the software refers to them as a and b. You see these labeling conventions in the user interface and system messages displayed on the console.
Fibre Channel switches	N/A	N/A	Two pairs of Brocade 3800 or 3200 switches, the same type per node.
SFP modules	N/A	N/A	Two per ISL, long distance. One per switch port used, short distance.
NVRAM5 cluster adapter media converter	Only if using fiber cabling.	Only if using fiber cabling.	N/A
Cables	One optical cable per port on the dual Fibre Channel adapter or One HSSDC to DB-9 node-to-shelf cable per disk loop Multiple DB-9 shelf- to-shelf cables Two optical cables with media converters for the IB cluster adapter Note Clusters that have FC9 disk shelves require one MIA (media interface adapter) for each input LRC on the first disk shelves only.	Four SC/LC FC-AL to disk shelf cables Two SC/LC IB cluster adapter-to-switch cables Four SC/LC disk shelf-to-switch cables	LC/LC node-to-switch cables SC/LC (for DS14) or LC/LC (for DS14mk2 FC) disk shelf-to-switch cables Two LC/LC ISL cables, not provided in shipment HSSDC2-to-HSSDC2 for DS14 disk shelves with ESH modules or DB-9 to DB-9 shelf-to-shelf cables