Hardware |
- You have used the Installation and Setup Instructions included with the controller shelves to install the hardware.
- You have connected cables between the optional drive shelves and the controllers.
- You have applied power to the storage system.
- You have installed all other hardware (for example, management station, switches) and made the necessary connections.
- If you are using NVMe over Infiniband, NVMe over RoCE, or NVMe over Fibre Channel, each EF300, EF600, EF570, or E5700 controller contains at least 32 GB of RAM.
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Host |
- You have made a connection between the storage system and the data host.
- You have installed the host operating system.
- You are not using Linux as a virtualized guest.
- You are not configuring the data (I/O attached) host to boot from SAN.
- You have installed any OS updates as listed under the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool.
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Storage management station |
- You are using a 1 Gbps or faster management network.
- You are using a separate station for management rather than the data (I/O attached) host.
- You are using out-of-band management, in which a storage management station sends commands to the storage system through the Ethernet connections to the controller.
- You have attached the management station to the same subnet as the storage management ports.
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IP addressing |
- You have installed and configured a DHCP server.
- You have not yet made an Ethernet connection between the management station and the storage system.
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Storage provisioning |
- You will not use shared volumes.
- You will create pools rather than volume groups.
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Protocol: FC |
- You have made all host-side FC connections and activated switch zoning.
- You are using NetApp-supported FC HBAs and switches.
- You are using FC HBA driver and firmware versions as listed in the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool.
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Protocol: iSCSI |
- You are using Ethernet switches capable of transporting iSCSI traffic.
- You have configured the Ethernet switches according to the vendor’s recommendation for iSCSI.
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Protocol: SAS |
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Protocol: iSER over InfiniBand |
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Protocol: SRP over InfiniBand |
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Protocol: NVMe over InfiniBand |
- You have received the 100G or 200G host interface cards in an EF300, EF600, EF570, or E5700 storage system pre-configured with the NVMe over InfiniBand protocol or the controllers were ordered with standard IB ports and need to be converted to NVMe-oF ports.
- You are using an InfiniBand fabric.
- You are using NVMe/IB driver and firmware versions as listed in the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool.
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Protocol: NVMe over RoCE |
- You have received the 100G or 200G host interface cards in an EF300, EF600, EF570, or E5700 storage system pre-configured with the NVMe over RoCE protocol or the controllers were ordered with standard IB ports and need to be converted to NVMe-oF ports.
- You are using NVMe/RoCE driver and firmware versions as listed in the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool.
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Protocol: NVMe over Fibre Channel |
- You have received the 32G host interface cards in an EF300, EF600, EF570, or E5700 storage system pre-configured with the NVMe over Fibre Channel protocol or the controllers were ordered with standard FC ports and need to be converted to NVMe-oF ports.
- You are using NVMe/FC driver and firmware versions as listed in the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool.
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