Deciding Whether To Use This Guide - Quantum StorNext QD7000 Hardware Manual

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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:
• Host cabling
• Drive cabling
• Ethernet cabling for a management station
• 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
hardware. In addition to controller shelves (controller-drive trays) and drive shelves (drive trays), you
might need some or all of the following components:
• Cables: SAS, Fibre Channel (FC), Ethernet, InfiniBand
• Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) or Quad SFP (QSFP) transceivers
• Switches
• Host bus adapters (HBAs)
• Host channel adapters (HCAs)
• Network interface cards (NICs)
This guide references the
Guide , SANtricity System Manager Upgrade Guide , and the SANtricity Storage Manager Upgrade
Guide .
Related information
NetApp E-Series and EF-Series Systems Documentation Center
E-Series and EF-Series Site Preparation Guide
SANtricity System Manager 11.30 System Upgrade Guide
SANtricity Storage Manager 11.30 System Upgrade Guide
Installation Instructions for various hardware, E-Series Site Preparation
Installation and Setup Instructions for your