Connecting an R150 storage engine to an Ethernet network

Supported Ethernet connections

Your appliance has one onboard 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet port. It also supports the following Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) in PCI slots 10 and 11of your appliance motherboard:

Copper Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) NIC (with an RJ-45 connection)
Fiber optic GbE NIC
Dual GbE NIC

Slot assignments on the storage engine

The following illustration shows the location of the onboard Ethernet port and the suggested slot locations for additional NICs, SCSI shelf adapter cards, NVRAM4 card, and backup devices.

Note
The actual slot assignments might vary depending on the options ordered for your system. See the System Configuration Guide at http://now.netapp.com for the most current slot assignments.

Cabling requirements

The following table lists the cabling requirements for Ethernet connections.

Ethernet type	Type of cable used	Maximum distance
10Base-T/ 100Base-TX	Category 3 (10Base-T only) or 5 (10Base-T/100Base-TX) unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable with RJ-45 connectors	100m
10Base-T/ 100Base-TX/ 1000Base-T adapter	Category 5 UTP cable with RJ-45 connector for the copper GbE adapter only	100m
1000Base-SX adapter	50 micron multimode fiber optic cable, SC connector	550m
1000Base-SX adapter	62.5 micron multimode fiber optic cable, SC connector	220m