Chapter 4: Subsystem Connection and Operation
drive behaviors may occur. Please see
Figure 4-8
for the
supported and unsupported configuration of mixing columns of
SATA and SAS drives.
Figure 4-7: Supported and Unsupported Drive Configurations
-- SAS and SATA drives come with different capacities. Do not
include drives of different capacities in a logical drive. Otherwise,
some part of the larger drives’ capacity will be wasted. Infortrend
firmware always uses the maximum capacity of the smallest drive
as the standard capacity of all member drives when composing a
logical drive.
4.4 Power
On
Once all the components have been installed in the EonStor subsystem,
the iSCSI ports have been connected to the network, power on the network
devices, the subsystem, and then power on the servers/iSCSI initiators.
4.4.1 Check
List
BEFORE
powering on the EonStor subsystem, please check the following:
Memory Modules
– Memory modules have been correctly installed
on the controller boards. You may skip this if you have not changed
the pre-installed module.
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