topic Disk shelf failure in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Disk-shelf-failure/m-p/38295#M2634 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Guys!</P><P></P><P>Consider we are having 2 bus 0a and 0c&nbsp; with 5 Enclosures connected to it daisy chained as follows:</P><P></P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/26167_pastedImage_0.png" style="width: 850px; height: 514px;" /></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>What happens when any of the shelfs fails completely? Say if shelf id 2 is failed, will the connectivity to shelf below it(3) will fail?&nbsp;&nbsp; Also is there any connection from shelf 3 to Bus 0a directly? Or the data from Shelf id 3&nbsp; has to traverse from 3 to 1 before reaching Bus 0a?</P><P></P><P>Cheers,</P><P>Krish</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:33:51 GMT KRISH_ROCKS 2025-06-05T05:33:51Z Disk shelf failure https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Disk-shelf-failure/m-p/38295#M2634 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Guys!</P><P></P><P>Consider we are having 2 bus 0a and 0c&nbsp; with 5 Enclosures connected to it daisy chained as follows:</P><P></P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/26167_pastedImage_0.png" style="width: 850px; height: 514px;" /></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>What happens when any of the shelfs fails completely? Say if shelf id 2 is failed, will the connectivity to shelf below it(3) will fail?&nbsp;&nbsp; Also is there any connection from shelf 3 to Bus 0a directly? Or the data from Shelf id 3&nbsp; has to traverse from 3 to 1 before reaching Bus 0a?</P><P></P><P>Cheers,</P><P>Krish</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:33:51 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Disk-shelf-failure/m-p/38295#M2634 KRISH_ROCKS 2025-06-05T05:33:51Z