Tiger Box Assembly Guide
Product Overview: Hardware Overview
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Apart from the 16 drive bays for the drives comprising the shared storage, Tiger Box's
front panel features the following elements:
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LED indicators for monitoring system activity (see “Monitoring the System Activity”
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system reset button
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system power button
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2 x USB 2.0 ports - for firmware updates and system recovery
Rear View
The back of the appliance features the following elements:
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2 x power supply modules
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2 x system hard drives
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1 x SAS port for directly connecting a Tiger Box expansion chassis
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depending on the configuration you have purchased client connectivity through:
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8/16Gb FC ports;
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10Gb Ethernet ports;
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1Gb Ethernet ports;
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1 x Ethernet port for public and Internet communication (Public port).
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1 x Ethernet port for safety net access to the appliance (Admin port).
Tiger Box supports the following types of cables for connection of client computers
and/or switches:
Clients via Fibre Channel —
fibre optic cable with LC connectors for SFP+
transceivers.
Clients via 10GbE —
depending on the 10GbE adapter model:
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fibre optic cable with LC connectors for SFP+ transceiver or copper cable with SFP+
transceiver
