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Battery Backup Unit Installation ............................................................................................. 42
Supercapacitor Battery & Flash Backup Module Installation .................................................. 44
Flash Backup Module Installation ........................................................................................... 44
Installing the Supercapacitor Battery ...................................................................................... 46
Installing the RAID Controller ................................................................................................. 48
System Connection
General Considerations on Making Connections ............................................................. 49
Host-Side Topologies ............................................................................................................. 50
Host-Side Parameters ............................................................................................................ 50
Maximum Concurrent Host LUN Connection (“Nexus” in SCSI) ............................................ 51
Maximum Queued I/O Count ................................................................................................. 52
Fibre-Host RAID Connections ............................................................................................. 53
Fibre-Host Components (including 10GB iSCSI) ................................................................... 53
Fibre-Host Topologies ............................................................................................................ 55
Fibre Cabling .......................................................................................................................... 56
Simple End-to-End Connection .............................................................................................. 57
DAS (Direct-Attached) Connection ......................................................................................... 58
Switched Fabric Connection (Dual-Controller) ....................................................................... 60
Switched Fabric Connection (Single-Controller) .................................................................... 62
SAS-Host RAID Connections .............................................................................................. 64
DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) Connection with Redundant Host Path ................................. 65
DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) Connection to Two Servers................................................... 67
iSCSI-Host RAID Connections ............................................................................................ 68
Network & Host Connection Topologies ................................................................................. 69
High Availability IP SAN with Redundant RAID Controller...................................................... 70
Single-Controller with Fault-Tolerant Path .............................................................................. 72
High Availability IP SAN (Recommended Cabling Method for Remote Replication) .............. 73
High Availability IP SAN with Port Trunk (Remote Replication Enabled) ................................ 75
Hybrid Host Connections .................................................................................................... 77
Single Hybrid Unit Connected to FC/iSCSI Hosts .................................................................. 77
Utilizing Hybrid iSCSI ports for Data Replication .................................................................... 78
JBOD Connections .............................................................................................................. 79
SAS Expansion Links ............................................................................................................. 80
JBOD SAS Expansion Configuration ..................................................................................... 80
Configuration Rules ................................................................................................................ 81
Dual Controller Expansion Connection .................................................................................. 83
Single Controller Expansion Connections .............................................................................. 84
Management Console Connections ................................................................................... 85
Power Connections .............................................................................................................. 87
Checklist ................................................................................................................................ 87
Connecting Power Cords ....................................................................................................... 88
Power On Procedure .............................................................................................................. 88
Power On Status Check ......................................................................................................... 89
Power Off Procedure .............................................................................................................. 91
System Monitoring
Monitoring Features ............................................................................................................. 92
LED Panel LEDs .................................................................................................................... 94
Drive Tray LED ....................................................................................................................... 96
Controller LED ...................................................................................................................... 97
Controller LED for RAID Models ............................................................................................ 97
Controller LED for JBOD Models ........................................................................................... 99
iSCSI / Ethernet Management Port LEDs ............................................................................ 100
10Gb iSCSI Host Port LEDs (Fibre) ..................................................................................... 101
10Gb iSCSI Host Port LEDs (RJ45) ..................................................................................... 101
8Gb Fibre-Host Port LEDs ................................................................................................... 102
16Gb Fibre Channel Host Port LEDs ................................................................................... 103
6G SAS-Host Port LEDs ...................................................................................................... 104
12G SAS-Host Port LEDs .................................................................................................... 105
PSU / Cooling Module LEDs .............................................................................................. 106
Alarms and I2C Bus ........................................................................................................... 107
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