topic New Shelf Cabling Guidance? in ONTAP Hardware

New Shelf Cabling Guidance?

AlexMaldonado1 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:58:04 GMT

Hi all, my customer is looking for a diagram to help them properly cable their new shelves. Below is a picture of their config currently. Does anyone know of a tool or app we can use to generate a diagram to help them cable their new shelves?

Re: New Shelf Cabling Guidance?

k4azy — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:43:37 GMT

For additional context, here's what the existing cabling looks like (the FAS2820 & 3x DS212C shelves).

Re: New Shelf Cabling Guidance?

andris — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:01:52 GMT

ConfigBuilder is a possibility, but that is not available to customers.

You can always use something like Visio and leverage the NetApp stencil library.

https://www.visiocafe.com/netapp.htm

BTW, it looks like they're maxing out the stack at 144 drives with these shelf additions.

Frankly, you would just add the shelves as shown to the existing stack.
For performance reasons, keep the DS224C (with SSDs) at the end of the stack.