Couple notes on ROHS v. non-ROHS FAS250/270.

Yes, all the FC connections are now SFP sockets.

ROHS FAS270 has two SFP ports: one for tape or FC SAN (with SFP installed) and one for disk expansion shelves (no SFP installed).

ROHS FAS250 has one SFP port for tape (with SFP installed).

You can tell in sysconfig -a or -v which one you have by the manufacturing part number (a.k.a. 3x5 number)

FAS250 non-ROHS 110-00016
FAS250 ROHS 110-00052

FAS270 non-ROHS 110-00046
FAS270 ROHS 110-00051

Supposedly, all units shipped after a certain date (08 May 2006) are supposed to be ROHS versions. I haven't found that to be entirely reliable.

As for what you get via RMA, "It depends (tm)".

Basically, if you have ROHS, you should get ROHS.

If it ships to a ROHS country and it's after the ROHS compliance date, you get ROHS even if you originally had non-ROHS.

If it ships to a non-ROHS country and you have non-ROHS, you get a non-ROHS replacement, at least until they run out.

In general, the only problems with getting a ROHS replacement for a non-ROHS is tape connection on FA250 and shelf connection on FAS270.

For the non-ROHS FAS250 and tape, if you have an optical tape interface, you're probably using some kind of converter, like Tim Naple was talking about. Now you don't need it. If you have a copper connection to tape, you need a different cable with SFP instead of HSSDDC2.

For FAS270 shelves, you'll need X6530 SFP-SFP shelf cables from each head (i.e. 2 in a cluster) to the first shelf. I don't know if the RMA procedure checks for that, but you can certainly tell from sysconfig (it lists both the head part numbers and the modules in the shelves).

Personally, I think the change to SFP is a good thing since overall it greatly simplifies cabling.

--- "Oliver Bassett" <Oliver.Bassett@infinity.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Glenn,
>
> Yes I have seen a couple of these now. I have set one up with direct
> connect to a tape library via optical FC using NDMP to control the
> backups. It isn't acutally optical LC until you put the GBIC in, so yeah
> it is a lot more flexible than before.
>
> As for the in the field replacement, I suspect you probably would end up
> with one of the ROHS units but it isn't a definate thing. If you are
> selecting the RMA part yourself select the one that has a part number
> ending in R5 as this is the ROHS kit.
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
> On Behalf Of Glenn Dekhayser
> Sent: Friday, 6 October 2006 8:07 a.m.
> To: toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: Interesting FAS250 note on Tape connectivity
>
> >From the NOW Forums:
>
> "FAS250 units ordered after 8-May-2006 are now fitted with optical LC
> (instead of copper HSSDC2) connector style. This change in connection
> with ROHS compliance."
>
> This was a major pain in the keester before, as there were only a few
> copper-FC tape devices available. Has anyone seen these newer units?
> I didn't see any announcements made on this, and the online system
> config guide still shows the copper HSSDC2 port, not fiber.
>
> Also, if there was a FAS250 in the field that needed a controller
> replacement, would Netapp ship the new RoHS compliant controller, or the
> older one?
>
> Glenn (the other one).
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