StoneFly USO-HA Setup Guide
Introduction
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Introduction
This document is aimed for system administrators who would like to know how to get started
with StoneFly Unified Scale Out
–
High Availability (USO-HA) Appliance. It describes initial
steps for launching the appliance.
The StoneFly USO-HA appliance provides a powerful Storage solution that can Scale Out
Storage capacity while scaling up performance. Active-active cluster nodes coupled with Storage
subsystems featuring active-active hot-swappable RAID controllers, hot-swappable disk drives
and power supplies provide the utmost in high-availability.
This guide gives an overview of the product, rack mounting instructions and initial installation
procedure. Information for using the features of the StoneFusion software is found in the Storage
Concentrator User Guide on the included CD.
StoneFly Resource Library:
https://stonefly.com/resources
The StoneFly StoneFusion
™ Webpage:
https://stonefly.com/stonefusion-bare-metal
Each StoneFly USO-HA comes preconfigured with StoneFly Stonefusion
™ Bare
-metal Storage
Controller on each cluster node.
StoneFly USO-HA is made of three or more parts: Two Converged StoneFly Storage
Concentrator (SC) appliances and one or more StoneFly HA RAID Storage Expansion
Arrays.
StoneFly USO-HA supports the following SC cluster appliances:
Dual 1U Storage Concentrator Cluster, Quad 12Gb SAS Connection
Dual 2U Storage Concentrator Cluster, Quad 12Gb SAS Connection
Dual 1U Storage Concentrator Cluster, Quad 16Gb FC Connection
Dual 2U Storage Concentrator Cluster, Quad 16Gb FC Connection
USO-HA 2U Storage Concentrator (with bezel)
