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 InfiniteStorage NAS 50/100 

Quick Start Guide

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Summary of Contents for InfiniteStorage NAS 50/100

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Page 2: ...ocument was developed at private expense if acquired under an agreement with the USA government or any contractor thereto it is acquired as commercial computer software subject to the provisions of its applicable license agreement as specified in a 48 CFR 12 212 of the FAR or if acquired for Department of Defense units b 48 CFR 227 7202 of the DoD FAR Supplement or sections succeeding thereto Cont...

Page 3: ... 7 Drive Expansion Enclosure Rear Panel 7 System Indicators 8 The RAID Controller Module 9 Drive Locations and Indicators 9 Powering On an IS NAS Server 11 Software Configuration 12 Accessing the Web Manager SMU 12 Configuring SMU for Your Environment 15 General Setup and Network Settings 16 File System Configuration 20 Serving the File System 21 Documentation 22 After Software Configuration 22 Co...

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Page 5: ...Center to schedule the on site visit For more information on the hardware software used with the SGI InfiniteStorage NAS 50 100 see Documentation on page 22 This quick start guide as well as other SGI documents can be accessed and downloaded from the SGI publications library http docs sgi com Various formats are available This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online b...

Page 6: ...rray controllers and or drive trays populated with disk drives Fibre Channel FC switch depending on system configuration Private management network Public data network The IS NAS server is a highly scalable and modular NAS server with multi gigabit throughput from network to disk IS NAS Server Front Controls and Indicators Figure 1 1 shows the LEDs on the front of an IS NAS server Table 1 1 and Ta...

Page 7: ...y doing so Flashes once every 8 seconds Fast Flash The IS NAS server is rebooting Flashes five times per second Off The IS NAS server is not powered up Table 1 2 Server Status LED Amber State Meaning Amber Critical failure The IS NAS server is not operational Slow Flash System shutdown has failed Flashes once every three seconds Medium Flash The IS NAS server needs attention a non critical failure...

Page 8: ...mponents RST PWR PSU 2 PSU 1 USB port 2 Serial port RS 232 Ethernet management Ethernet management port 1 USB port 1 PSU2 PSU1 10 GbE cluster interconnect ports 10 Gigabit ethernet 10GbE public data network ports 10 Gigabit ethernet GE ports Gigabit ethernet 10 100 Ethernet ports 1 2 4Gbps Fibre channel ports Power switch Reset switch ...

Page 9: ... server is powered on its operation state and if the NVRAM is currently being protected by battery backup power Table 1 3 Table 1 4 and Table 1 5 describe the various states of the LEDs Table 1 3 NVRAM Status LED Green Amber State Meaning Solid Green Normal operation Flashing Green NVRAM contents are protected by battery power Solid Amber Battery pack is faulty or not fitted properly Off Disabled ...

Page 10: ...y doing so Flashes once every 8 seconds Fast Flash The IS NAS server is rebooting Flashes five times per second Off The IS NAS server is not powered up Table 1 5 Server Status LED Amber State Meaning Amber Critical failure The IS NAS server is not operational Slow Flash System shutdown has failed Flashes once every three seconds Medium Flash The IS NAS server needs attention a non critical failure...

Page 11: ...ure Rear Panel SAS Dual Controller Shown Drive Expansion Enclosure Rear Panel The drive expansion enclosure connects to the RAID expansion enclosure s using serial attached SCSI SAS cables rather than fibre channel Each RAID controller has one drive expansion connector located on the far right of the controller You can connect up to three optional drive expansion enclosures to your RAID controller...

Page 12: ...osure The RAID controller drive enclosure has a set of indicators on the front left side that help you determine the operational status of the unit see Figure 1 6 1 Module locate LED 2 Service required LED 3 Module over temperature LED 4 Power good LED Figure 1 6 NAS Drive Module Status LEDs ...

Page 13: ...ice action allowed 6 Service action required 7 Controller power 8 Ethernet activity 9 Ethernet speed 10 Host channel speed 11 Host channel speed 12 Not used in this configuration Figure 1 7 RAID Controller Rear Panel Indicators Drive Locations and Indicators Each RAID enclosure or drive expansion enclosure holds up to 12 sled mounted removable hard drives At least two drives must be installed in t...

Page 14: ...8 Drive Extraction Front From the Enclosure The disk drive indicator LEDs have the following meanings 1 Service action allowed blue 2 Service action required yellow 3 Disk drive active green Figure 1 9 Disk Drive Indicator LEDs ...

Page 15: ...SMU to start 7 Power up the IS NAS server or the first node in the cluster To switch the power on for a server node If the power cables are not connected to the PSU plug in the power cables If after 10 seconds the PSU LEDs are lit but the Power Status LED on the rear panel is not lit press the PWR button to restore power to the system boards If the power cables are connected to the PSU press the P...

Page 16: ... Explorer 7 0 or later Mozilla Firefox 1 5 or later Some advanced features of SMU require Sun Microsystem s Java Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 6 or later To access the web manager SMU do the following 1 Connect a cross over ethernet cable from a laptop or PC to the primary ethernet port Port 0 on the IS NAS server See Figure 1 10 Figure 1 10 Ethernet Connections on the IS NAS Server 2 Launch a we...

Page 17: ... 007 5621 001 13 Note The IS NAS server may take two to three minutes after the start of the power up sequence to fully come online and be reachable via your browser Figure 1 11 Login Screen for SMU ...

Page 18: ...ful login the system displays the SMU home page as shown in Figure 1 12 Table 1 6 Default Settings Setting Default Root password nasadmin Manager password nasadmin Admin password nasadmin Admin EVS private IP address eth1 192 0 2 2 Admin EVS public IP address eth0 192 168 31 101 ...

Page 19: ...on briefly describes the areas of setup and configuration using the following topics General setup and network settings File system configuration Serving the file system Documentation The setup wizard is intended to be easy to use and leads you through the initial system configuration steps ...

Page 20: ...tings Figure 1 13 SMU Administration Screen Choose SMU Administration from the SMU home page for general SMU setup and network settings On the SMU Administration screen choose the SMU Setup Wizard and Management Network links shown in Figure 1 13 ...

Page 21: ... 007 5621 001 17 Setup Wizard On the Setup Wizard page you can change the following items Passwords DNS server setup SMTP relay Date and Time Private management network ...

Page 22: ...01 Modifying IP Addresses of Service EVS Figure 1 14 shows the path to the screen that allows you to change the EVS IP addresses to that of your network enviornment Figure 1 14 Modifying IP Addresses of Service EVS ...

Page 23: ...d for customer support use and sends email alerts to SGI Global Services This feature is enabled by default To configure your email alerts use the following path to the Email Alerts Setup screen as shown in Figure 1 15 Home Status Monitoring Email Alerts Setup Figure 1 15 Email Alerts Setup Screen ...

Page 24: ...ed with file systems already set up If your system was not so ordered you must create your file system First create a storage pool and then a file system using the Storage Management link from the home page Figure 1 16 shows the resulting web page Figure 1 16 SMU Storage Management Screen ...

Page 25: ... 007 5621 001 21 Serving the File System Choose File Services from the home page if you need to serve your file system Figure 1 17 shows the resulting web page Figure 1 17 SMU File Services Screen ...

Page 26: ...MU Documentation Screen After Software Configuration Once you have completed the software configuration the SMU software will instruct you to reboot the external SMU or the IS NAS server To restart the IS NAS server use the following SMU links Home Server Settings Restart Reboot and Shutdown To restart the external SMU use the following SMU links Home Server Settings SMU Shutdown Restart ...

Page 27: ... your local SGI sales office For more information on available SGI storage products see http www sgi com storage To reach SGI for other purposes use the following contact information SGI Corporate Office 46600 Landing Parkway Fremont CA 94538 http www sgi com North America 1 800 800 7441 Latin America 55 11 5185 2860 Europe 44 118 912 7500 Japan 81 3 5488 1811 Asia Pacific 1 650 933 3000 ...

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