topic Re: e2700 to e2600 connection in General Discussion

e2700 to e2600 connection

krondizzle — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:49:14 GMT

I have a netapp e2700 and an e2600. I would like to conect them together. The e2700 has a sas sff-8644 and the e2600 which has a sas sff-8088. Can i just buy an adapter to connect them?

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

SpindleNinja — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 02:18:09 GMT

You can't, they're controllers with disks, not shelves. And I don't think there are conversion kits out there for the e.

Can I ask why you're trying to do this?

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

krondizzle — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:08:41 GMT

We currently have a e2700 wich is acting as our storage for backup. We received an e2600 from a sister company. Bare with me as I am not very familiar with netapp equipment. I think the e2600 has a 3612 chassis. We would like to connect the e2600 via sas to the e2700 to expand the storage. Would sas not work for this?

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

SpindleNinja — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:40:16 GMT

Quick blurb on NetApp systems; there's 3 major types of physical systems.

AFF/FAS - Runs ONTAP OS

eSeries - Runs SANtricity

Solidfire / HCI - Runs Element OS.

As far as your 2700 and 2600 they are two different generations of the eseries controllers/arrays. You can connect and e-Eeries to a FAS platform via FlexArray. But you have eseries to eseries. I don't think there is a way to turn the 2600 in to just a shelf (maybe buy ESMs)

How is your current eseries setup? DataStores to VMware? You could just run them side by side.

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

krondizzle — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:41:20 GMT

The e2700 is attached to vmware via ISCSI. I would be more than happy to try that. Just to give you some information, I logged into the e2600 via santricity but didnt see any iscsi settings. Now I know that there are different firmware versions for the e2700 to set it to iscsi or fiber channel. I dont know if I am missing the settings or if it is like the e2700 and I just need to get a different firmware version. Or maybe I am just crazy.

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

SpindleNinja — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:44:05 GMT

The eseries ship with a couple different configs.

But two general configs are:

Direct Connect SAS via mini-SAS HD ports
FC/iSCSI via SFP ports.

it'll say what type of ports are on the back of the 2600.

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

krondizzle — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:13:58 GMT

On the back it just has two ethernet and three sas ports. So I am assuming it only supports sas. Is that correct?

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

SpindleNinja — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:09:45 GMT

Mmm.... Are you able to post a picture? but yeah, probably just 2 sas to the hosts and 1 expansion port.

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

krondizzle — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:25:01 GMT

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

SpindleNinja — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:42:33 GMT

Yep. just sas.

If you look at HWU, there are adaptor cards out there to add FC or iSCSI to it.

X-52710-00-R6 is the 2p 10Gb iSCSI card. (not sure current availability though)

check out https://hwu.netapp.com for more details.

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

krondizzle — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:33:46 GMT

I will look into that. I think I will end up trying to add it to the server with an hba. Thank you very much for your help on this.

Re: e2700 to e2600 connection

Nona — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:13:49 GMT

Even i have the same doubt.