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Hardware User Guide

Galaxy Qubex

Storage Enclosure

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641500 3/06

Summary of Contents for Galaxy Qubex

Page 1: ...Hardware User Guide Galaxy Qubex Storage Enclosure www rorke com 641500 3 06...

Page 2: ...Page ii Revision V1 0 February 16th 2006...

Page 3: ...e void In all cases proof of purchase must be presented when a warranty claim is being made Rorke operates a Return to Factory warranty The period of this warranty is two 2 years Warranty registration...

Page 4: ...Qubex 12 RAID Controller LED Definitions 13 Rear View of Qubex 13 FRU replacement 13 Cooling Fan 13 RAID Controller 14 Drive Carrier 15 Power Supplies 16 Chapter 3 Initial Configuration 17 Attaching t...

Page 5: ...efer to the documentation supplied with the host system Conventions Used In This User Guide The following conventions are used throughout this User Guide A WARNING means beware There is a risk of elec...

Page 6: ...p storage Direct Attached Storage High speed local storage device for dedicated workstations Server Attached Storage High speed storage device attached to your server Features include RAID levels 0 1...

Page 7: ...uration transparent to the host operating system This means that the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selected Correct installation of...

Page 8: ...ts member disk drives due to its lack of redundancy RAID 1 RAID 1 also known as disk mirroring means that data written to one disk drive is simultaneously written to a second disk drive Read performan...

Page 9: ...3 provides disk striping and data redundancy though the use of a dedicated parity drive RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or operation on the block...

Page 10: ...ime greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system RAID 6 RAID 6 extends a RAID 5 array by using dual distributed parity Data and parity is striped at block level across all member drives just...

Page 11: ...ve 30 C or to direct sunlight Caution Allow disk drives and power supplies to reach ambient room temperature before applying power to the enclosure Unpacking When you receive the Qubex visually inspec...

Page 12: ...the power supply inlets before opening the Qubex series storage enclosure for maintenance Caution Do not place or drop objects onto the enclosure and do not force any foreign objects into it Caution A...

Page 13: ...D is the Fault LED Rear View of GQUB6 U4S The rear connector points of the SCSI unit are show in the following diagram The GQUB6 FCS4 is similar except that there are Fibre Channel host ports rather t...

Page 14: ...orizontally above the drive bays and is attached to the rear panel To remove the controller follow the steps outlined below 1 Remove drives from backplane 2 Remove the black plastic side panel by remo...

Page 15: ...four mounting screws Drive Carrier The drives are mounted in purpose designed caddies The caddies are designed for hot swap operation with a damping handle and EMI shielding Status information is conv...

Page 16: ...es The Qubex System uses a single external power supply by default When dual power supplies are used the system is has a jumper plug to allow correct environmental monitoring The jumper is JP4 which i...

Page 17: ...use This is carried out using one of the following methods VT100 terminal connected through the RAID subsystem serial port Firmware embedded TCP IP web browser based RAID manager via the 10 100 Ethern...

Page 18: ...VT 100 terminal software Web browser based RAID manager Firmware embedded web browser RAID manager is a HTTP based application which utilizes the browser installed on your operating system The Ethern...

Page 19: ...port number in the dialog shown in the diagram below The Parameters for the General Setting are TCP Port value 1 65535 RAID Connected to value 1 10 where 1 is for COM1 2 for COM2 and so on BaudRate v...

Page 20: ...The system can also be configured from the front panel display It is recommended that detailed configuration is performed using normal keyboard or mouse input rather than through the front panel howev...

Page 21: ...gnated as follows Enter Selects a menu option Esc Backs up a level Moves forward to next field Moves backward to next field The button correspondence is as shown in the diagram below The default passw...

Page 22: ...red Q My Operating system does not recognize the newly created volume A Verify that the HBA drives are correctly loaded if the HBA supports BIOS recognition check to see if the volume is recognized at...

Page 23: ...r adapters Physical Dimensions Height 21cm 8 26 inches Width 28 5cm 11 22 inches Depth 30 5cm 12 Inches Weight 16kg 35 3lbs maximum including two power adapters and six disk drives Power Supply AC Inp...