Introduction 1-5
$%,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:
Additional NICs
Additional FC-AL adapters
Your filer ships with the optional features you selected installed. You can also order
optional features later.
You can order the following Ethernet NICs for additional network connectivity:
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.
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 provi des Non-Volat ile Random Access Mem ory.
It stores in-transit data before the data is permanently
written to disk.
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