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Cable the hardware - FAS50

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After you install your FAS50 storage system hardware, cable the controllers to the network and shelves.

Before you begin

Contact your network administrator for information about connecting the storage system to your network switches.

About this task

  • The cabling graphics have arrow icons showing the proper orientation (up or down) of the cable connector pull-tab when inserting a connector into a port.

    As you insert the connector, you should feel it click into place; if you do not feel it click, remove it, turn it over and try again.

    Cable pull tab direction

  • If cabling to an optical switch, insert the optical transceiver into the controller port before cabling to the switch port.

Step 1: Cable the cluster/HA connections

Create the ONTAP cluster connections. For switchless clusters, connect the controllers to each other. For switched clusters, connect the controllers to the cluster network switches.

Note

The cluster/HA cabling examples show common configurations.

If you do not see your configuration here, go to NetApp Hardware Universe for comprehensive configuration and slot priority information to cable your storage system.
Switchless cluster cabling

Use this cabling option when the two controllers are directly connected to each other without using cluster network switches.

FAS50 with one 2-port 40/100 GbE I/O module

Cable the cluster/HA interconnect ports on the I/O module in slot 4.

Note The cluster interconnect traffic and the HA traffic share the same physical ports (on the I/O module in slot 4). The ports are 40/100 GbE.
Steps

  1. Cable controller A port e4a to controller B port e4a.

  2. Cable controller A port e4b to controller B port e4b.

100 GbE Cluster/HA interconnect cables

Cluster HA 100 GbE cable
fas50 switchless cluster cabling diagram using one 100gbe io module
Switched cluster cabling

Use this cabling option when the controllers connect to cluster network switches instead of being directly connected to each other.

FAS50 with one 2-port 40/100 GbE I/O module

Cable the cluster/HA interconnect ports on the I/O module in slot 4 to the cluster network switches.

Note The cluster interconnect traffic and the HA traffic share the same physical ports (on the I/O module in slot 4). The ports are 40/100 GbE.
Steps

  1. Cable controller A port e4a to cluster network switch A.

  2. Cable controller A port e4b to cluster network switch B.

  3. Cable controller B port e4a to cluster network switch A.

  4. Cable controller B port e4b to cluster network switch B.

    40/100 GbE Cluster/HA interconnect cables

    Cluster HA 40/100 GbE cable

    fas50 switched cluster cabling diagram using one 100gbe io module

Step 2: Cable the host network connections

Cable the controllers to your Ethernet or FC host network.

Note

The host network cabling examples show common configurations.

If you do not see your configuration here, go to NetApp Hardware Universe for comprehensive configuration and slot priority information to cable your storage system.
Ethernet host cabling

Connect the controllers to your Ethernet host network using the appropriate ports based on your I/O module configuration.

FAS50 with one 4-port 10/25 GbE I/O module

On each controller, cable ports e2a, e2b, e2c and e2d to the Ethernet host network switches.

10/25 GbE cables

GbE SFP copper connector

cable fas50 to 10/25 GbE ethernet host network switches
FC host cabling

Connect the controllers to your Fibre Channel host network using the FC I/O module in your system.

FAS50 with one 4-port 64 Gb/s FC I/O module

On each controller, cable ports 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d to the FC host network switches.

64 Gb/s FC cables

64 Gb fc cable

Cable to 64gb fc host network switches

Step 3: Cable the management network connections

Cable the management (wrench) ports on each controller to the management network switches.

1000BASE-T RJ-45 cables

RJ-45 cables
Connect to your management network
Important Do not plug in the power cords yet.

Step 4: Cable the shelf connections

The following procedures show how to cable the controllers to one or two DS460C shelves.

About this task

One DS460C shelf

Cable each controller to each IOM12 module on the DS460C shelf.

Steps

  1. Cable controller A port 3a to IOMA port 1.

  2. Cable controller A port 3d to IOMB port 3.

    Controller A ports 3a and 3d cabled to one DS460C shelf

  3. Cable controller B port 3a to IOMB port 1.

  4. Cable controller B port 3d to IOMA port 3.

    Controller B ports 3a and 3d cabled to one DS460C shelf

Two DS460C shelves

Connect each controller to the IOM12 modules on both DS460C shelves.

  1. Cable Shelf 1 IOMA port 3 to Shelf 2 IOMA port 1.

  2. Cable Shelf 1 IOMB port 3 to Shelf 2 IOMB port 1.

    cable shelf to shelf connections

  3. Cable controller A port 3a to shelf 1 IOMA port 1.

  4. Cable controller A port 3d to shelf 2 IOMB port 3.

    Controller A ports 3a and 3d cabled to two DS460C shelves

  5. Cable controller B port 3a to shelf 1 IOMB port 1.

  6. Cable controller B port 3d to shelf 2 IOMA port 3.

    Controller B ports 3a and 3d cabled to two DS460C shelves

What's next?

After you’ve cabled the hardware for your storage system, you power on the storage system.