topic Re: Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300 in ONTAP Hardware

Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300

ashrafbinali — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:40:33 GMT

Dear All,

we have 3 x HP DL 380 GEN 10. is it possible to connect Netapp FAS 8300 to HP DL 380 GEN 10 ( With Out SAN Switch)

Re: Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300

SpindleNinja — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:38:29 GMT

you can direct attached with iSCSI.

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.dot-cm-sanconf/GUID-193CC377-5C6F-4D3C-B42E-CE71AB6AA77F.html

Re: Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300

ashrafbinali — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:53:19 GMT

Thank you for quick reply . I am looking for FC connectivity

Re: Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300

SpindleNinja — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:03:45 GMT

Does not look like it's supported anymore.

Here's the doc - https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.dot-cm-sanconf/SAN%20configuration.pdf

"You cannot directly attach FC or FC-NVMe SAN hosts to HA pairs without using a switch." - page 13

"You cannot directly attach FC or FC-NMVE SAN hosts to single nodes without using an FC switch." - page 11

Re: Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300

paul_stejskal — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:12:36 GMT

Correct. Was possible in 7-mode but the functionality needed in FCP is not supported with CDOT and always has been that way. A switch is required.

However, if you want, as mentioned iSCSI works perfectly fine as it will be a layer 2 network anyway. Chances are, you already have it networked either way.