Preface

About this guide

This guide describes the following tasks and topics:

How to install a FAS900 series appliance in a two-post or four-post equipment rack
How to connect it to different types of networks
How to start up the system
How to perform basic troubleshooting
How to replace field-replaceable units (FRUs)

This guide does not cover basic system or network administration, which is covered in the appropriate system administration guides.

Audience

This guide is for qualified system administrators and service personnel who are familiar with storage appliances from NetApp, which supports the following protocols: Network File System (NFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol), SCSI protocol over TCP/IP (iSCSI), and Direct Access File System (DAFS).

Terminology

This guide uses the following terms:

FRU refers to any field-replaceable unit that is replaceable at the customer site.
Appliance refers to a FAS900 series storage appliance.

Command conventions

You can enter commands on the system console or from any client that has access to the system using Telnet. In examples of commands executed on a UNIX workstation, the command syntax and output might differ, depending on your version of UNIX.

Keyboard conventions

This guide uses capitalization and some abbreviations to refer to the keys on the keyboard. The keys on your keyboard might not be labeled exactly as they are in this guide.

What is in this guide...	What it means...
hyphen (-)	Used to separate individual keys. Example Ctrl-D means holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the D key.
Enter	Used to refer to the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named Return on some keyboards.
type	Used to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard.
enter	Used to mean pressing one or more keys and then pressing the Enter key.

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. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide requires you to enter the `arp -d hostname` command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced font`	Command and daemon names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. Contents of files.
`Bold monospaced` 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.