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This document provides installation steps for racking, cabling, and setting up the
UNITY
33
00 Storage System and the UNITY
US316
Storage Expansion.
For additional documentation please visit
http://helper.nexsansupport.com/unt_support.html
NEXSAN
UNITY
33
00 Storage System
Quick Start Guide
Taking delivery
Your Unity shipment includes the UNITY
33
00
Storage System, and optionally one UNITY
US316
Storage Expansion. Check to ensure
that no damage has been sustained to the
packaging in transit. If any of the Unity
storage components
appear damaged, please contact your reseller
immediately.
Hardware overview
The main components of the UNITY
33
00 are
shown in these diagrams.
UNITY
33
00 front view
UNITY
33
00 rear view
Item Name
Description
1
Power supply unit
1200W Redundant Power Supplies with PMBus
2
Fan assembly
4x 80mm and 4x 40mm PWM cooling fans
Redundant cooling
3
On-board 10GbE LAN ports (2 per
node)
z
Right port: Primary data network interface (nx0 - optional)
z
Left port: Management Interface (nx99) and IPMI interface
NOTE:
If you are using a 1GbE port for the management
interface, these ports will be used for data, with the left port
still being used for the IPMI interface.
4
KVM connections
USB, VGA, and serial connections for remote console access
to the Unity Storage System
5
Storage connectivity
Dual port SAS PCIe to HD Mini-SAS
6
Optional connectivity to Hosts
You can use these slots for additional host connections, which
can be any of these supported NICs:
z
Pair of 10GbE NIC with dual RJ-45
z
Pair of 10GbE NIC with dual SFP+
z
Pair of 1GigE, Quad-port NIC, RJ-45
z
Pair of 1GigE, Dual-port NIC, RJ-45
z
Pair of 32Gb Fibre Channel - dual-port
z
Pair of 16Gb Fibre Channel - dual-port
z
Pair of 8Gb Fibre Channel - dual-port
z
Pair of 40GbE NIC with dual QSFP Connectivity
