ridley Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) Having just got a NetApp DS4243 Diskshelf with 2 x iom3 and 4 x PSU's cheap complete with a LSI SAS9200-16e I am now wondering what cable do I need to connect the two? Also there seems to be a lack of cooling on the DS3243, do the drives get hot? Edited January 14, 2020 by ridley Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 SFF-8088 to whatever NetApp uses, I believe it's QSFP 2 Quote Link to comment
ridley Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 11 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: SFF-8088 to whatever NetApp uses, I believe it's QSFP Thanks, just need one cable to address all 24 drives, or one to each iom3? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 One cable only, the other IOM3 is for multipath/redundancy, only SAS drives with dual port support that and even with those you can only use one cable since Unraid doesn't support multipath. 1 Quote Link to comment
ridley Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: One cable only, the other IOM3 is for multipath/redundancy, only SAS drives with dual port support that and even with those you can only use one cable since Unraid doesn't support multipath. Thanks Quote Link to comment
ridley Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 Wow, those cables are not cheap... Quote Link to comment
ridley Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 Out of curiosity, now that I have fired the diskshelf up, are they always thus noisy? Quote Link to comment
IDontBelongHere Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 On 1/14/2020 at 10:27 PM, ridley said: Out of curiosity, now that I have fired the diskshelf up, are they always thus noisy? Mine is decently quiet. I have two PSU's plugged in. Just a note, I had a thread on here from when I first got my shelf. You might want to read through it. It might save you a lot time, money, and frustration. If you intend on staying down your current path, I have dual IOM6's for sale if you're interested. Also the NetApp HBA and QSFP cables. Quote Link to comment
Mrobert Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Hi, have you managed to connect everything? Can you please post a description/pics? I'm struggling with the same problem... Quote Link to comment
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