You didn't specify which ONTAP version you plan to use so I'll list the NetApp supported cards for ONTAP GD release 7.0.6.
NetApp PN Description
X1027* GBE with copper X1027B-R5 GBE with copper X1037-R5 Dual GBE with copper
* indicates by RMA only but if you find a card, still works.
How you obtain the cards is up to you.
Dave Rubright Jr 4Base Technology, Inc
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Scott Lowe Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: GbE card for F840
Good afternoon all, I have an old F840 that has been donated for use in a test/development lab at my office. I need an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet adapter for this system. Does anyone have any suggestions on what cards are compatible with ONTAP and could be used in this system? Best regards, Scott Lowe Senior Engineer ePlus Technology, Inc. slowe@eplus.com
Is there any different in performance between the different GigE cards?
I noticed that the dual port copper and the quad port copper GigE cards are nearly the same price on the used/refurb market. It seems a bit odd.
----- "Dave Rubright" dave@4basetech.com wrote:
You didn't specify which ONTAP version you plan to use so I'll list the NetApp supported cards for ONTAP GD release 7.0.6.
NetApp PN Description
X1027* GBE with copper X1027B-R5 GBE with copper X1037-R5 Dual GBE with copper
- indicates by RMA only but if you find a card, still works.
How you obtain the cards is up to you.
Dave Rubright Jr 4Base Technology, Inc
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto: owner-toasters@mathworks.com ] On Behalf Of Scott Lowe Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: GbE card for F840
Good afternoon all,
I have an old F840 that has been donated for use in a test/development lab at my office. I need an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet adapter for this system. Does anyone have any suggestions on what cards are compatible with ONTAP and could be used in this system?
Best regards, Scott Lowe Senior Engineer ePlus Technology, Inc. slowe@eplus.com
No.
I'd recommend following the slot assignments for cards as per the NetApp system configuration guide. It's based on filer model and ONTAP version.
Dave Rubright Jr 4Base Technology, Inc
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Samplonius [mailto:tom@samplonius.org] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:33 PM To: Dave Rubright Cc: Scott Lowe; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: GbE card for F840
Is there any different in performance between the different GigE cards?
I noticed that the dual port copper and the quad port copper GigE cards are nearly the same price on the used/refurb market. It seems a bit odd.
----- "Dave Rubright" dave@4basetech.com wrote:
You didn't specify which ONTAP version you plan to use so I'll list the NetApp supported cards for ONTAP GD release 7.0.6.
NetApp PN Description
X1027* GBE with copper X1027B-R5 GBE with copper X1037-R5 Dual GBE with copper
- indicates by RMA only but if you find a card, still works.
How you obtain the cards is up to you.
Dave Rubright Jr 4Base Technology, Inc
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto: owner-toasters@mathworks.com ] On Behalf Of Scott Lowe Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: GbE card for F840
Good afternoon all,
I have an old F840 that has been donated for use in a
test/development
lab at my office. I need an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet
adapter for
this system. Does anyone have any suggestions on what cards are compatible with ONTAP and could be used in this system?
Best regards, Scott Lowe Senior Engineer ePlus Technology, Inc. slowe@eplus.com
Copper ports are cheaper than fibre ports so, in that light, it would make sense that you could get twice the copper ports for the same price. They should perform the same but the fibre ports probably have a longer distance although I'd have to check the formal specs to be sure.
Notice I said the CARDS should perform the same. There may be a case where a higher end model filer has more bus bandwidth so you that could be your bottleneck.
-- Adam Fox NGS Tools Developer adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Samplonius [mailto:tom@samplonius.org] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:33 PM To: Dave Rubright Cc: Scott Lowe; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: GbE card for F840
Is there any different in performance between the different GigE cards?
I noticed that the dual port copper and the quad port copper GigE cards are nearly the same price on the used/refurb market. It seems a bit odd.
----- "Dave Rubright" dave@4basetech.com wrote:
You didn't specify which ONTAP version you plan to use so I'll list the NetApp supported cards for ONTAP GD release 7.0.6.
NetApp PN Description
X1027* GBE with copper X1027B-R5 GBE with copper X1037-R5 Dual GBE with copper
- indicates by RMA only but if you find a card, still works.
How you obtain the cards is up to you.
Dave Rubright Jr 4Base Technology, Inc
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto: owner-toasters@mathworks.com ] On Behalf Of Scott Lowe Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: GbE card for F840
Good afternoon all,
I have an old F840 that has been donated for use in a test/development
lab at my office. I need an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet adapter for this system. Does anyone have any suggestions on what cards are compatible with ONTAP and could be used in this system?
Best regards, Scott Lowe Senior Engineer ePlus Technology, Inc. slowe@eplus.com
Hi
We have a old filer 740 with fc9 disk shelves attached to it
We want to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it along with fc9 shleves
Will FC9 shelves work with 820 ?
How can I go about it
Regards, Rahul
Sure, this will work. You've got 2 options:
1) The FC9 shelves can reside on their own loop. This assumes you have a copper HBA (and you can't use the one on your 740, it's a different one, the one supported on the F820 has a GBIC on it, that's your clue).
2) The FC9 shelves can go on the same loop as the DS14 shelves as long as the DS14 shelves have LRC modules and not ESH modules. You can't mix LRC and ESH in the same loop. The rule here is when assigning shelf IDs, give the FC9 shelves the lower numbers in the loop and the DS14 shelves the higher numbers. This way you will avoid conflicts.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Kumar, Rahul [mailto:rkumar2@ugs.com] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 2:47 AM To: Fox, Adam; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it
Hi
We have a old filer 740 with fc9 disk shelves attached to it
We want to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it along with fc9 shleves
Will FC9 shelves work with 820 ?
How can I go about it
Regards, Rahul
Toasters, Sorry to open an old thread but I have a related question. I have an F820 with 8 FC9's (56 disks) (7x36) attached on one FC-AL loop. I want to add a DS-14 (14x144) with an LRC for which I have a second HBA to accommodate the DS-14. The 820 literature indicates a max of 56 disks per loop, max two loops, and a max capacity of 3Tb. With my proposed config I will be at 4Tb (2 per loop) but only 14 disks on the second loop. Is it a disk limit or a file system size limit? Can I proceed with my proposed addition?
Rahul, How many FC9 shelves did you add?
Thanks, Jamie
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Fox, Adam Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:22 AM To: Kumar, Rahul; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it
Sure, this will work. You've got 2 options:
1) The FC9 shelves can reside on their own loop. This assumes you have a copper HBA (and you can't use the one on your 740, it's a different one, the one supported on the F820 has a GBIC on it, that's your clue).
2) The FC9 shelves can go on the same loop as the DS14 shelves as long as the DS14 shelves have LRC modules and not ESH modules. You can't mix LRC and ESH in the same loop. The rule here is when assigning shelf IDs, give the FC9 shelves the lower numbers in the loop and the DS14 shelves the higher numbers. This way you will avoid conflicts.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Kumar, Rahul [mailto:rkumar2@ugs.com] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 2:47 AM To: Fox, Adam; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it
Hi
We have a old filer 740 with fc9 disk shelves attached to it
We want to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it along with fc9 shleves
Will FC9 shelves work with 820 ?
How can I go about it
Regards, Rahul
I would not procede with that plan. Exceeding the 3TB limit is a problem. Most versions of ONTAP will not boot with that limit exceeded.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Rogers, Jamie [mailto:jrogers@aware.com] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:44 PM To: Fox, Adam; Kumar, Rahul; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it
Toasters, Sorry to open an old thread but I have a related question. I have an F820 with 8 FC9's (56 disks) (7x36) attached on one FC-AL loop. I want to add a DS-14 (14x144) with an LRC for which I have a second HBA to accommodate the DS-14. The 820 literature indicates a max of 56 disks per loop, max two loops, and a max capacity of 3Tb. With my proposed config I will be at 4Tb (2 per loop) but only 14 disks on the second loop. Is it a disk limit or a file system size limit? Can I proceed with my proposed addition?
Rahul, How many FC9 shelves did you add?
Thanks, Jamie
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Fox, Adam Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:22 AM To: Kumar, Rahul; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it
Sure, this will work. You've got 2 options:
1) The FC9 shelves can reside on their own loop. This assumes you have a copper HBA (and you can't use the one on your 740, it's a different one, the one supported on the F820 has a GBIC on it, that's your clue).
2) The FC9 shelves can go on the same loop as the DS14 shelves as long as the DS14 shelves have LRC modules and not ESH modules. You can't mix LRC and ESH in the same loop. The rule here is when assigning shelf IDs, give the FC9 shelves the lower numbers in the loop and the DS14 shelves the higher numbers. This way you will avoid conflicts.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Kumar, Rahul [mailto:rkumar2@ugs.com] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 2:47 AM To: Fox, Adam; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it
Hi
We have a old filer 740 with fc9 disk shelves attached to it
We want to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it along with fc9 shleves
Will FC9 shelves work with 820 ?
How can I go about it
Regards, Rahul
They work just fine. <scw>
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:16:57PM +0530, Kumar, Rahul wrote:
Hi
We have a old filer 740 with fc9 disk shelves attached to it
We want to swap 740 with 820 head and attach 1tb ds14 shelf to it along with fc9 shleves
Will FC9 shelves work with 820 ?
How can I go about it
Regards, Rahul
Intel Pro/1000 T PCI will work. you can find these for a couple bucks on ebay or craigslist.
i had one working in my F720 flawlessly and it will work in the F840 as well. netapp part is X1027
--daniel
-- Daniel Leeds Senior Systems Administrator Edmunds.com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Scott Lowe Sent: Thu 5/10/2007 10:48 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: GbE card for F840
Good afternoon all,
I have an old F840 that has been donated for use in a test/development lab at my office. I need an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet adapter for this system. Does anyone have any suggestions on what cards are compatible with ONTAP and could be used in this system?
Best regards, Scott Lowe Senior Engineer ePlus Technology, Inc. slowe@eplus.com
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