Dell 740N, 720N, 760N manual Disk-Array Enclosure DAE storage system with 18-GB

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Serial Port	CONSOLE port—Provides a console connection from
	which you can monitor and manage the filer.
	After you install the filer in a rack, you configure it for
	network operation from the console. Later, you can use
	the console to access and manage the filer when a
	remote connection is not available.
FC-AL Disk Interface	The built-in interface provides an FC-AL (Fibre Channel
	Arbitrated Loop) connection to the Dell PowerVault 700N
	Disk-Array Enclosure (DAE) storage system with 18-GB
	disk drives.
NVRAM Card	This card provides Non-Volatile Random Access Memory.
	It stores in-transit data before the data is permanently
	written to disk.

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An optional feature is a feature that you can use or order for your system to supple- ment the standard features.

The optional features fall into five categories:

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Additional NICs

Additional FC-AL adapters

Your filer ships with the optional features you selected installed. You can also order optional features later.

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You can order the following Ethernet NICs for additional network connectivity:

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Single-port 10/100Base-T NIC

Quad-port 10/100Base-T NIC

Gigabit (GB) NIC

Figure 1-4 shows the back panel of a filer with two quad-port 10/100Base-T Ethernet cards installed in slots 1 and 2, and a GB Ethernet card installed in slot 6.

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