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Deciding whether to use this guide
This guide contains conceptual information and best practices for cabling your storage array. It
includes the following types of procedures:
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Host cabling
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Drive cabling
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Ethernet cabling for a management station
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Cabling to support mirroring features
This guide is intended for a hardware installer or system administrator who is installing or expanding
a storage array, or cabling to support mirroring features. The procedures in this guide assume that
you have installed the storage array as described in the
Installation and Setup Instructions for your
hardware. In addition to controller shelves (controller-drive trays) and drive shelves (drive trays), you
might need some or all of the following components:
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Cables: SAS, Fibre Channel (FC), Ethernet, InfiniBand
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Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) or Quad SFP (QSFP) transceivers
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Switches
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Host bus adapters (HBAs)
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Host channel adapters (HCAs)
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Network interface cards (NICs)
This guide references the
Installation Instructions for various hardware, E-Series Site Preparation
Guide, SANtricity System Manager Upgrade Guide, and the SANtricity Storage Manager Upgrade
Guide.
Related information
NetApp E-Series Systems Documentation Center
E-Series Site Preparation Guide
E2800 and E5700 SANtricity Software and Firmware Upgrade Guide
E2700 and E5600 SANtricity Software and Firmware Upgrade Guide
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