Hardware Installation
PixelStor 5000 User Manual
Rev. 1, May 2013
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Two USB 3.0 ports (per Ctrl.)
One Mini Display port
This chapter provides the detailed information and removal steps for controller module,
including processor, system memory and battery.
5.4
Storage
Disk Roaming:
PixelStor 5000
and PixelStor 300e/100e have the unique capability of allowing disk groups and
their properties to roam with the drives. The user can physically remove the drives that make up
a disk group and install in different locations within the same array or in a different array and the
system will recognize the disk group configuration including the RAID volume.
LUN Masking and host information are stored on the disks of the roamed disk group and are
maintained when the disk group is roamed into the new system.
Disk roaming is possible because when a disk group is created, the system automatically
creates a small 128MB partition on each drive. This partition contains the disk group
configuration. In this way, all the information regarding a disk group can be recognized by any
PixelStor 5000
controller during the automatic boot up discovery or during a manual discovery
using the PixelStor Storage Manager or CLI.
The drives can be reinserted in different slots and they can be rediscovered while the system is
on-line. You can take advantage of this flexibility to arrange your storage for different on-line
and off-line tasks. This feature provides a basic and inexpensive way to upgrade a system and
retain your data or move drives to another system for basic system recovery.
Disk Orphans:
If some of the drives from a disk group are not re-inserted or a drive from the disk group goes
bad and the disk group is not reconstructed before it roams to a new system, the new system
will not be able to discover that disk group. It will know that one or more drives are missing and
will designate the drives in the incomplete disk group as orphans. The data in the incomplete
All drives in a DG need to be present for the disk group discovery to take
place. A disk group with one missing member can be forced online using the
PixelStor Storage Manager or CLI discovery command.
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