The reason for this is that if one of the controllers malfunctions, the other controller (its partner) can take over its disks and continue serving data, albeit at reduced performance. The FAS2040 head contains dual controllers, intended to be used in a High Availability (HA) pair. NetApp filer heads run NetApp's operating system, Data ONTAP. It is a special purpose computer with several disk interface and Ethernet ports. There must be at least one disk shelf, but our FAS2040 filers have a built-in shelf and could be used standalone.Ī head is the 'brains' of the system.
These disks also contain NetApp specific firmware and can't be replaced with a disk that has non- NetApp firmware.Ī NetApp storage system is comprised of a head, and a number of disk shelves. These disks contain NetApp specific firmware and can't be replaced with a disk that has non- NetApp firmware.Įach of these contains 14 300GB Fibre Channel disks (hence the name DS14). These are a combination filer head/disk shelf containing dual controllers and 12 300GB SAS disks. TODO: Add PDFs of actual documentation from NetApp support siteĪs of February 2013, the club has the following NetApp hardware: This is not intended to be an all-inclusive guide to NetApp filers, but rather a brief introduction with links to more useful documentation. The purpose of this page is to document some of the details about this equipment, including what equipment we have, details about what it does, and some basic stuff to know about it. In 2012, the club received a donation of used filers and disk shelves from NetApp.
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