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Quick Start Guide

STONEFLY USO-HA 

Cluster High-Availability HyperConverged Appliance

Summary of Contents for USO-HA

Page 1: ...Quick Start Guide STONEFLY USO HA Cluster High Availability HyperConverged Appliance...

Page 2: ...eFly logo Storage Concentrator Integrated Storage Concentrator ISC Modular Storage Concentrator StoneFly Backup Advantage StoneFusion StoneFly Repli cator CDP ValueSAN Unified Scale Out USO Twin Scale...

Page 3: ...diagram and description 3 Getting Started 5 Step 1 Mounting Rails Installation 5 Step 2 Rack Mounting Considerations 6 Step 3 Locking tabs 9 Step 4 Cabling the Equipment 11 Connecting the Storage Con...

Page 4: ...Converged Storage Concen trator SC Cluster Nodes and one or more StoneFly High Availability RAID Expansion Arrays These Expansion Arrays include two RAID controllers and zero or more High Avail abilit...

Page 5: ...olumes for recovery Synchronously replicate campus mirror all of your VMs and storage to a second on premises USO HA appliance for business continuity Asynchronously replicate all of your VMs and Stor...

Page 6: ...StoneFly USO HA Appli ance It consists of two StoneFly Hyper Converged Storage Concentrator SC Cluster Nodes Also it includes shared dual ports Storage array with dual Active Active failover failback...

Page 7: ...ly USO HA comes preconfigured with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit and StoneFly SCVM Virtual Storage Controller Caution Please review the following safety information completely before installing y...

Page 8: ...he equip ment in its operational environment A simple configuration is 7U high comprising two SC s and one Storage Array Note that the SAS cables connecting the Storage Arrays and the Expansion Units...

Page 9: ...to keep your system operating in case of a power failure Always keep the rack s front door and all panels and components on the StoneFly Appli ance components closed when not servicing to maintain pro...

Page 10: ...irst time it is important to remove the protective film covering the top of the chassis in order to allow for proper ventilation and cooling 1 Peel off the protective film covering the top cover and t...

Page 11: ...the right outer rail 3 Adjust both the short and long brackets to the proper distance so that the rail can fit snugly into the rack 4 Secure the short bracket to the front side of the outer rail with...

Page 12: ...out for servicing Installing the Storage Concentrator into the Rack You should now have rails attached to both the Storage Concentrator and the rack unit The next step is to install the Storage Concen...

Page 13: ...3 Insert and tighten the thumbscrews that hold the front of the server to the rack Figure 5 Installing the USO appliance into a Rack USO HA Quick Start Guide 10...

Page 14: ...ely mounted into the rack cabi net in which they were installed Step 4 Cabling the Equipment The cabling plan is straightforward to describe and must be followed to make the USO HA completely function...

Page 15: ...e Storage Array See Figure 6 Each of these SAS connections is connected to one of the SAS ports on the back of each Storage Concentrator The First RAID Storage Array should be connected to the first S...

Page 16: ...ment role when the Primary Controller cannot function properly due to hard ware error controller module removal etc The following picture is a suggestion for connecting two StoneFly RAID Storage Array...

Page 17: ...USO HA Quick Start Guide 14 Figure 9 Storage Array Expansion Connection...

Page 18: ...tch in front of the box 4 Configure a computer to be able to access subnet DHCP since the default IP address for the StoneFly USO HA is set to DHCP 5 A monitor is not needed to access the StoneFly USO...

Page 19: ...the Download VSphere Client link and that will guide you to download and install a client agent that you will use to access your USO HA which is running VMware ESXi as its hypervisor USO HA Quick Star...

Page 20: ...esktop for launching the client Double click on the client icon and it will give you a screen to enter the user name and password Enter root for the username and stonefly for the password 9 You will s...

Page 21: ...creenshot shows one SCVM is already installed If you want to access the user interface for that particular SCVM click on that SCVM first and then click on the Con sole Tab You will see a screen like t...

Page 22: ...n to the SC Service console using the VMware Virtual Console for the SCVM by doing the following a Press Enter to display the login prompt b At the user ID prompt type console and hit Enter c At the p...

Page 23: ...rage Controller Management GUI is blocked while the SC Service menu is active Also note that there can be a short delay before the Storage Concentrator GUI becomes available 4 At this point it should...

Page 24: ...Guide 21 For more information about the configuration and use of the Storage Concentrator please consult the StoneFly Storage Concentrator User Guide supplied in your package Figure 11 Storage concent...

Page 25: ...StoneFly Inc 26250 Eden Landing Rd Hayward CA 94545 510 265 1122 support StoneFly com www StoneFly com...

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