Tiger Box Assembly Guide
Site Installation: Powering On The Appliance
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If the appliance is properly connected, the power module LED indicator will
display solid green light. If there's problem with the module installation, its LED
indicator is amber (solid or blinking) or there is no light at all.
Powering On The Appliance
To power on the appliance:
Note:
If the front panel bezel is installed, to power on/off or restart the appliance you
must first remove the bezel, following the steps in“Installing and Removing The Front
Panel Bezel” on page 7.
1.
Press once the power button
on the front panel of the appliance.
2.
Wait until the power status LED at the front becomes solid green.
To power off the appliance:
Important:
It is advisable to always attempt to shut down the appliance
through the web UI, before resorting to hard shut down.
Press continuously the power button
on the front panel of the appliance, until the
power status LED’s light goes off.
To restart the appliance:
Important:
It is advisable to always attempt to restart the appliance through
the web UI, before resorting to forced restart of the system.
Press the Reset button on the front panel of the appliance.
Cabling Tiger Box
Tiger Box features a Public network port for connection to a computer, from which to
perform the initial setup of Tiger Box and assign IP addresses to all available network
ports. Before cabling Tiger Box it is important to carefully plan the topology of your
network. Client computers can connect to Tiger Box as SAN clients (connected via
Fibre Channel) or LAN clients (connected via 1GbE or 10GbE). While SAN clients
need the additional network connection (through a 1GbE/10GbE port) for metadata
exchange with Tiger Box, LAN clients use only one network port for both data traffic
and metadata exchange. As metadata overhead is kept to an absolute minimum,
there's no need to connect each SAN client to a separate network port, but rather
connect them to the Public port through an Ethernet switch and spare the remaining
network ports for connecting LAN clients. You can connect client computers directly
to the available FC/10GbE/1GbE ports for full bandwidth, or you can expand the
number of connected clients by deploying FC/Ethernet switches. Note that in this
configuration the bandwidth available to each node decreases, as additional nodes are
added.
Important:
If you want to connect your Fibre Channel clients using multipathing,
prior to connecting them to the appliance, contact Tiger Technology support for
instructions.
