AssuredSAN 4004 Series FRU Installation and Replacement Guide
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About this guide
Overview
This guide identifies 4004 Series FRUs (field-replaceable units) used in 2U12 and 2U24 chassis form
factors, and describes how to remove or install them within the AssuredSAN™ 4004 Series storage
enclosure products listed below:
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CNC (Converged Network Controller) Controller enclosure (4824/4834 models):
• Qualified Fibre Channel SFP option supporting (4/8/16 Gb)
• Qualified Internet SCSI (10GbE) SFP option
• Qualified Internet SCSI (1 Gb) Copper RJ-45 SFP option
•
HD mini-SAS (12 Gb) Controller enclosure: 4524/4534
For a complete description of product models, see the “Components” chapter within the Setup Guide.
AssuredSAN 4004 Series enclosures support both traditional linear storage and new virtual storage, which
uses paged-storage technology. For linear storage, a group of disks with an assigned RAID level is called
a
vdisk
or
linear disk group
. For virtual storage, a group of disks with an assigned RAID level is called a
virtual disk group
. This guide uses the term
vdisk
when specifically referring to linear storage, and uses the
term
disk group
otherwise.
AssuredSAN controller enclosures support compatible Dot Hill drive enclosures for adding storage.
Supported enclosure form factors include traditional 2U models (2U12 and 2U24) and high-capacity
models in 2U (2U48) and 4U (4U56) format. A summary overview of drive enclosures supported by
controller enclosures is provided in the “Connecting the controller enclosure and drive enclosures” topic
within the
AssuredSAN 4004 Series Setup Guide
.
AssuredSAN 4004 Series enclosure user interfaces
The 4004 Series enclosures support two versions of the web-based application for configuring, monitoring,
and managing the storage system. Both web-based application GUI versions (v3 and v2), and the
command-line interface are briefly described:
•
Storage Management Console (SMC) is the
new
primary web interface (v3) for the enclosures,
providing access to all common management functions for both linear and virtual storage.
•
RAIDar is a secondary web interface (v2) for the enclosures, providing access to traditional linear
storage functions. This legacy interface provides certain functionality that is not available in the primary
interface.
•
The command-line interface (CLI) enables you to interact with the storage system using command syntax
entered via the keyboard or scripting. You can set a CLI preference to use v3 or v2 terminology in
command output and system messages.
NOTE:
For more information about enclosure user interfaces, see the following:
•
AssuredSAN 4004 Series Storage Management Guide or online help
The guide describes SMC (v3) and RAIDar (v2) GUIs
•
AssuredSAN 4004 Series CLI Reference Guide
Intended audience
This guide is intended for storage system administrators.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites for installing and using this product include knowledge of:
•
Servers and computer networks
