topic How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040 in ONTAP Hardware

How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Stu_Gregory — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:41:00 GMT

Hi All,

I am new to the hardware so please go easy on me,

I am looking for a guide on you can work out how many more Disk Shelves you can put into a Cluster.

In my cluster of 2x FAS8040's a "storage shelf show" command shows me 8x DS2246 all with IOM6 Modules.

Do I take this as 4 Shelves within each node?

How do I work out how many more shelves can I put in?

Regards, Stu

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Naveenpusuluru — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:39:11 GMT

You can put maximum of 30 disk shelfs of DS2246 for 8040 HA- cluster. Please find the below screenshot for your reference.

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Naveenpusuluru — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:32:47 GMT

Is this what you need? ...

Naveen Kumar Pusuluru

Storage lead, C3i Healthcare connections

Kudos and accepted solutions are always appreciated.

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Stu_Gregory — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:32:03 GMT

where did you get the above info from, is there a portal?

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Naveenpusuluru — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:49:36 GMT

Hi @Stu_Gregory

Please login to below portal.

hwu.netapp.com

Then you can able to see all the hardware and software compatabilities.... 🙂

Naveen Kumar Pusuluru

Storage lead, C3i Healthcare connections

Kudos and accepted solutions are always appreciated.

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Brandon_M_Boyd — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:59:43 GMT

Where does that resolve? hwu.netapp.com does not resolve for me.

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Naveenpusuluru — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:12:25 GMT

Please find the below screenshot.

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Stu_Gregory — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:32:31 GMT

Hi Brandon_M_Boyd

Try using Internet Explorer or Firefox, Chrome seems to not work as it should for me (if thats what you are using?)

Stu

Re: How do you work out Disk shelves on say a FAS8040

Naveenpusuluru — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:34:02 GMT

If you already login to netapp support from the current browser, please logout from support site and type hwu.netapp.com. It will ask you for login credentials , Please use your support site credentials. You must have partner or customer access to support site to use this site. It won't work with guest user access.