Installation and Product Setup
QX and QXS Series Getting Started Guide
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Provisioning the System/Storage Profiles
You can provision your system by using one of the following methods:
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Using the One Button Configuration Feature: This feature is designed to set up drive profiles that make
efficient use of the number of drives and SSDs in the QXS systems. It provides a convenient method for
creating StorNext volumes. You will select the profile for the desired volume and click a button. The
following events are triggered:
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A RAID vdisk is created.
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A volume or volumes are created.
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The logical unit LUN is mapped to the host ports.
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A StorNext label is written to the volume(s) for the default profiles.
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New profiles can be created to meet customer needs/requirements.
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A StorNext label is not written to new profiles.
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New profiles might issue a warning if the number of global spares is not configured.
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StorNext default profiles do not use this functionality.
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Refer to the disk management utility guide for information on global spares.
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Using the Provisioning Wizard: The Provisioning Wizard helps you create a vdisk with volumes and to
map the volumes to hosts.
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Before using this wizard, read documentation for your product to learn about vdisks, volumes, and
mapping.
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Then plan the vdisks and volumes you want to create and the default mapping settings you want to
use.
Note:
You must use the command line interface (CLI) to set up read cache for the QXS-312 and QXS-
324 systems.
Refer to the
QX and QXS CLI Reference Guide
for additional information.
One-button Configuration Features
The One-Button Configuration is a feature that provides a:
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User-initiated one-button configuration for Quantum’s QXS arrays
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Quick customer-initiated set-up of StorNext volumes
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Quantum-exclusive feature
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WBI to be used with the QXS systems
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All default profiles are StorNext profiles.
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Default profiles can be replaced as needed.
