Yes, the only other thing is the NIC card. You can add a hot standby NIC on each filer, or you can configure the cluster to share each existing NIC card in failover situations.

But you don't need any other software. Ontap needs only to be licensed for clustering.

The System Config Guide on the NOW site is a great little tool for finding out hardware particulars, part numbers and such: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/hardware/syscfg/

Best regards,

Deborah

Deborah Rousseau Network Appliance

-----Original Message----- From: Kelly McQuarrie [mailto:kellym@sd.us.am.ericsson.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:44 PM To: Shaun Erickson Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Clustering question.

Hi Shaun:

You need some extra hardware to do that clustering and a license for the clustering from netapp. The hardware you will need (and may already have you need to check) is second LRC's in every self and the cabling for it and a servernet card in each head and the cabling for that. I think that's about it but maybe somebody else can verify.

Kelly McQuarrie Unix System Administrator Ericsson CDMA Systems

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Shaun Erickson wrote:

Can two arbitrary F740s be clustered together, or must they have been bought that way (i.e., two "F740c"s). I just inherited a second system and am considering turning it and my existing system into a clustered setup.

-ste