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Essential safety guidelines for physical setup, rack mounting, and weight considerations.
Critical electrical safety precautions for installation and operation, including grounding.
Guidelines for safe handling, component removal, and system operation.
Prerequisites and configuration requirements before installing SAS disk shelves.
Overview of the installation process, including rack mounting and cabling considerations.
Prerequisites for changing a disk shelf identifier, including drive state verification.
Details on valid shelf IDs, system behavior for duplicate IDs, and power cycling.
Requirements for adding a SAS disk shelf to an existing system, including firmware.
Overview of the hot-add process, including cabling and firmware verification.
Detailed steps for connecting SAS and ACP cables for the hot-added disk shelf.
Identifies and describes invalid disk shelf number errors and corrective actions.
Identifies and describes duplicate disk shelf number errors and solutions.
Explains the importance of current firmware for disk shelves, drives, and IOMs.
Prerequisites for hot-removing disk shelves, including system configuration and error checks.
Overview of the hot-removal process, aggregate checks, and system requirements.
Procedure for removing disk shelves from older Data ONTAP versions, requiring system halt.
Overview of checking disk shelf health via LEDs, H0/H1 modes, and error messages.
Details the meaning of Power, Shelf Fault, and Activity LEDs on the operator display panel.
Explains disk drive LED indicators and their status meanings for specific models.
Covers monitoring the status, LEDs, and error messages of the I/O modules.
Details how to check the health of power supply units using LEDs and error messages.
Procedure for replacing SAS copper and optical cables nondisruptively or with system halt.
How to replace a failed disk drive or carrier nondisruptively while the system is online.
Steps to replace a failed power supply unit while maintaining system power.
Steps to replace an entire disk shelf, requiring system halt and component transfer.
Guidelines for selecting appropriate AC power cable sizes based on distance and current.
Method for calculating DC wire lengths and resistance for optimal power delivery.
Safety measures to prevent ESD damage during handling of disk carriers.
Guidelines for careful physical handling of disk carriers to avoid damage.
Copyright notice and terms of use for the document content.
List of NetApp trademarks and company names.
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