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Chapter 3: Basic System Operations
Before Upgrading Firmware
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Figure 17 Locating the System
Serial Number on the GUI
Serial Number Format
System serial numbers are alpha-numeric (example: CX1234CKD5678).
Locating the Service
Tag Number
The Service Tag Number is located on the service tag, which is located
on a pullout tray on the front of each MDC Node of the StorNext M330
Metadata Appliance.
Before Upgrading Firmware
TSM Indexing Delay for
Large Databases
A database index named
classndxatimeme
will be automatically
added to the tmdb.tier000files% and tmdb.tier001files% tables upon
starting TSM for the first time after upgrading to StorNext 5 release
5.0.1 (and later). This index improves the performance of certain
operations such as truncation policies. However, the creation of this