Hot-Adding A Disk Shelf To An Existing Adapter In Your System - Network Appliance DiskShelf14 Hardware And Service Manual

Hot-adding a DS14/DS14mk2 FC/DS14mk4 FC

Hot-adding a disk shelf to an existing adapter in your system

Requirements for
this procedure
Hot-adding a disk
shelf to an existing
adapter
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The following requirements must be met for this procedure:
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Your system must have Data ONTAP 7.2 or later.
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There must be an available but unused adapter on your storage controller to
do this procedure.
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If you have an available dual-port and an available quad-port adapter,
the dual-port adapter should be used first.
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If you only have an available quad-port adapter and you are hot-adding a
single loop of disk shelves, then Ports A and B are defined as a port pair
and Ports C and D are defined as a port pair. For the purposes of
incorporating redundancy, Module A connects to Port A or Port B and
Module B connects to Port C or Port D.
To hot-add a disk shelf to an existing loop, complete the following steps.
Caution
To hot-add disk shelves to a cluster, see the cluster guide for your filer.
Step Action
1 Verify that your NetApp appliance meets the minimum software
requirements to support the disk shelf and module combination. See
the System Configuration Guide at
information.
2 Verify that you received the envelope with the disk shelf ID labels.
3 Ground yourself to the system chassis using the grounding leash.
4 Use the rail kit installation flyer in the rail kit box to install the
appropriate rail kits on the rack.
5 Install and secure the disk shelf onto the support brackets and rack.
6 If you are adding multiple disk shelves on the same loop, repeat
4 and Step 5
numerical order, according to the IDs on their labels.
to install the remaining disk shelves in ascending
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