Manual Contents
For your own safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
About the ATAbeast Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
[01.0] – ATAbeast Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
[02.0] – ATAbeast Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
[03.0] – Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
[03.01] – Before you begin 7
[04.0] – Power Up Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
[04.01] – Single and Dual Controller Configurations 8
[05.0] – LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
[06.0] – Installing Rack kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
[06.01] – Inner Rack Slide Mounting Assembly 10
[06.02] – Rack Slide Mounting Bracket Assembly 12
[06.03] – Mounting the Slide Assembly in a Rack 13
[06.04] – Final Rack Equipment to Rack Assembly 16
[07.0] – Inserting Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
[08.0] – Single controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
[09.0] – DCNR (Dual Controller Non Redundant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
[10.0] – Setting up the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
[10.01] – Set Time and Date 34
[10.02] – Setup Fibre Channel Interface 36
[11.0] – Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
[12.0] – Creating Custom RAID sets and Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
[12.01] – Deleting Volumes 43
[12.02] – Deleting RAID Sets 45
[12.03] – Creating RAID sets 47
[12.04] – Renaming Volume 50
[12.05] – Configuring Volumes 51
[12.06] – Creating Volumes 51
[12.07] – Expand Volume 56
[12.08] – Rename Volume 57
[12.09] – Map Volume 58
[13.0] – Configuring Fibre Channel and LUN Masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
[13.01] – Fibre Channel Topologies 59
[13.02] – LUN Mask 62
[14.0] – Advanced Network Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
[14.01] – Network Settings 65
[14.02] – Network Port 67
[14.03] – E Alert 68
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