Contents
iv StorNext M660 Metadata Appliance Hardware Guide
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview 13
StorNext M660 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
StorNext M660 MDC Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
StorNext M660 Metadata Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Determining the Controller Used in the Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
StorNext M660 Metadata Expansion Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
StorNext M660 Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
StorNext M660 Power Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
StorNext M660 SAS Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
StorNext M660 LAN Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
StorNext M660 SAN Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
StorNext M662 Lattus Cabing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Relocating the StorNext M660 System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 3 Basic System Operations 49
Powering On All StorNext M660 System Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Shutting Down All StorNext M660 System Components . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Powering On a Single MDC Node of the StorNext M660. . . . . . . . . . . 54
Shutting Down a Single MDC Node of the StorNext M660 . . . . . . . . . 55
System Serial Numbers and Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Locating the System Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Serial Number Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Locating the Service
Tag Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Before Upgrading Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
TSM Indexing Delay for Large Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Running the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Upgrading Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Upgrade Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Obtain the Firmware Upgrade Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Firmware Upgrade Process and Time Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Upgrade Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Deleting Uploaded Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Converting to HA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Additional Common Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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