Clustering with SATA is fine, however the 900 series FAS controllers do not support SATA.  You can only add SATA (officially) to FAS270, FAS30XX and FAS60XX series systems. 

http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/product_info.html

The above product comparison is good to find this high level info.

On May 18, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Tom Samplonius wrote:


  One item that I've researching that is a bit unclear, is that, can I can connect a SATA disk shelf (DS14mk2 AT) to a clustered set of FAS960 heads?

  I think there is no problem.  I assume that you must use the AT-FCx modules, as they are dual-looped.  I suspect that the the AT-FCx is mandatory for clustering (as opposed to the AT-FC) , but NOW seems a bit vague, at least according to what I was able to find.

  Also, I've heard rumors that connecting SATA shelves to a cluster is not really reliable.  I was a bit taken a back, as NetApp as the SATA shelves have been out for a while.  Is this really the case?


Tom