Chapter 1: Introduction
About the StorNext M330 Hardware
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StorNext M330 Metadata Appliance Hardware Guide
About this document
This document describes how to maintain the StorNext M330 after
initial installation and configuration .
Hardware Specification
Each StorNext M330 MDC node contains the following:
• Two redundant, hot-swappable system hard drives in a RAID 1
configuration
• Redundant cooling fans and power
Network Connectivity
Here are the quantity and type of network ports available on the
different system models:
• The StorNext M330 features one 2-port 8 Gb FC card for SAN
network connectivity.
• The StorNext M330 features three configurable 1 GbE Ethernet
ports per node.
MDCs coordinate SAN file access across SAN clients. Additionally, the
standby node can be used as a distributed data mover (DDM) host.
Base System and
Expansion Description
The StorNext M330 comes configured as a Base System with two
Metadata Controller (MDC) nodes which share a common file system
located on a single metadata array for storage.
StorNext M330
Documents
A complete list of documentation for the StorNext M330 Metadata
Appliance is located on the following web page:
