topic Re: FAS6240 and DS4243 cabling in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS6240-and-DS4243-cabling/m-p/69186#M4845 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>You can have up to 10 DS4243 shelves in one stack, so definitely you need to create a new one for new shelves.</P><P></P><P>Also SSD drives should be on a separate stack, so it looks like you should end up with three stacks.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:58:25 GMT radek_kubka 2012-01-17T09:58:25Z FAS6240 and DS4243 cabling https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS6240-and-DS4243-cabling/m-p/69182#M4844 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>We currently have an HA pair FAS6240 with 4 DS4243 shelves and one DS4243 with SSD disks We just bough another 10 shelves and we are unsure how to proceed with the cabling. </P><P></P><P>We are currently cabled as the cable bottom secinario. How many shelves are supported in this configuration? How many are recommended for optimal performance?</P><P></P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/14394_cabling.PNG" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:37:22 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS6240-and-DS4243-cabling/m-p/69182#M4844 CHRISTOPHER_BECK 2025-06-05T06:37:22Z Re: FAS6240 and DS4243 cabling https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS6240-and-DS4243-cabling/m-p/69186#M4845 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>You can have up to 10 DS4243 shelves in one stack, so definitely you need to create a new one for new shelves.</P><P></P><P>Also SSD drives should be on a separate stack, so it looks like you should end up with three stacks.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:58:25 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS6240-and-DS4243-cabling/m-p/69186#M4845 radek_kubka 2012-01-17T09:58:25Z