WARNING:
Risk of electrical shock
— Before connecting the power
cords, make sure that both power switches on each tray are off.
Confirm that the two power switches on each tray are off.
Turn on the two power switches on the controller-drive tray.
Do not turn off the power switches during the power-on process.
Connect the two power supplies in each tray to separate power
distribution units (PDUs) in the cabinet.
If you have expansion drive trays, turn on their two power switches first.
Then, wait 2 minutes before applying power to the controller-drive tray.
The fans in each tray are very loud when they first start up. The loud
noise during start-up is normal.
Check the LEDs and the seven-segment display on the back of each
controller.
4
5
3
1
2
If any of the amber LEDs are on, confirm you completed the installation
steps correctly. If you are unable to resolve the problem, contact
technical support.
Power Switches
Connect power cords
and apply power
Refer to the
Hardware Cabling Guide
for lists of supported cables and
transceivers, the best practices for cabling, and detailed views of the host
ports for your controller. Refer to the NetApp Interoperability Matrix
(
http://mysupport.netapp.com/matrix
) for the supported host topologies.
Before connecting the host cables, confirm that host bus adapters (HBAs) are
installed in the data hosts. If you are using AIX, wait to connect the data hosts
until after you have installed and configured the NetApp multipath driver.
Refer to the
SANtricity Storage Manager Express Guide
.
Insert the appropriate transceiver into each controller port that you plan to
use, based on the host protocol and the host topology. Start with the lowest
numbered controller port.
You do not need transceivers for copper iSCSI.
Connect to the data hosts as follows:
1
2
To use direct attach topology,
connect each HBA directly to the
host ports on controllers A and B, as in this example:
To use fabric topology,
connect each HBA to a switch that is
connected to the host ports on controllers A and B, as in this example.
To zone a switch, follow the instructions in the appropriate
SANtricity
Express Guide.
Data hosts with
redundant
HBA ports
HBA 2
HBA 1 HBA 2
HBA 1
HBA 2
HBA 1
Storage array
with two host
ports/controller
Data hosts with
redundant
HBA ports
Redundant zoned
switches
Storage array
with four host
ports/controller
HBA 2
HBA 1 HBA 2
HBA 1
HBA 2
HBA 1
A
B
A
B
Connect to the data hosts
The seven-segment display shows the repeating sequence
OS, Sd,
blank
to
indicate that the controller is performing start-of-day processing. After the
controller has booted up, the display shows the tray ID.
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