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With SANergy, you can reduce or even eliminate the expense of redundant storage
and the overhead of data synchronization in multi-host environments. These
environments include large-scale web, video, or file servers. Because each system
has direct access to the SAN-based storage, SANergy can eliminate your file server
as a single point of failure for mission-critical enterprise applications. Therefore, this
reduces costly down-time. Also, with SANergy, you can readily manage all your
data backup traffic over the storage network, while users have unimpeded LAN
access to your existing file servers.
To set up SANergy on your network, use the following steps:
1. Make sure your network is correctly configured for LAN and SAN.
2. Configure your storage system, including disk formatting, partitioning, and
volume configuration.
3. Enable SANergy bus management and device assignments. The Meta Data
Controller will then be enabled for the appliance operating system.
4. Install additional SANergy licenses on properly configured hardware clients.
You can read further details on SANergy in the online help.
FastT Check
FastT Check allows you to manage and control host bus adapter(s). With FastT
Check, you can:
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Retrieve and display general information about the adapters
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Request and display the real-time statistics of adapters
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Diagnose operations on the adapters and attached devices
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Display the NVRAM parameters of adapters, and accept and execute changes
on these parameters
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Monitor alarms and indications of the adapters
The primary purpose of FastT Check in the Model G00 is to obtain diagnostic
information about the Fibre Channel connection to the SAN. Specifically, you use it
to obtain connectivity status of the Fibre Channel adapter that connects the
gateway to the SAN.
You start FastT Check by double-clicking the IBM NAS Admin icon. Then, under
the NAS Management icon, double-click Storage, then NAS Utilities. And finally,
you select FastT Check. Once the FastT Check opens, click Connect.
For further details on FastT Check, see the online help.
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