Silicon Graphics InfiniteStorage 3000 Manual de usuario

SGI®InfiniteStorage Server 3000 (ISS3000)

User’s Guide

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Contents

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Related Publications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Product Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Reader Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The ISS3000 3U Server Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

General Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Configurable Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Key Components of ISS3000 3U Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Power Supply Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

AC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2 Pre-Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Server and Rack Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Electrical Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Operating Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Rack Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3 Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Getting Ready to Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Determine Server Positioning in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing into a Rack or Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing into a Telco Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4 Installing Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Drive Insertion Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Installing a Hard Drive into the Hard Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5 Using the Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Powering the Server On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Powering the Server Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Working with Roamer Remote Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6 RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Configuring Hardware RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

LSI Hardware RAID (SAS or SATA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3ware-Based Hardware RAID (SATA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Configuring Software RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

7 Software Installation and Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Linux Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Operating System Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Filesystem Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Data Drive Configuration (Hardware RAID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Exporting Filesystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Tuning Linux NFS Server Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Tuning Linux Client Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using Smartmontools Software to Improve Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Windows Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

A Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

B Safety Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Electrical Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

General Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Handling Your Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

C RAID Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

RAID Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

RAID 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

RAID 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

RAID 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

RAID 6 (Dual Parity) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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.About This Guide

This guide provides an overview of the SGI®InfiniteStorage Server 3000 (ISS3000) along with

instructions for system installation and general operation. The appendices include technical

specifications, safety practices, and an overview of RAID.

Audience

This guide is written for owners, installers, system administrators, and users of ISS3000 servers.

It is written with the assumption that the reader has a good working knowledge of computers and

computer systems.

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Related Publications

Depending on your choice of system components and operating system, the following SGI

documents may be relevant to your ISS3000 server:

•SGI InfiniteStorage Server 3500 (ISS3500) User’s Guide (007-5653-00x)

• SGI InfiniteStorage series documentation

• Man pages (online)

You can obtain SGI documentation, release notes, or man pages in the following ways:

• Refer to the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are

available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books,

release notes, man pages, and other information.

• Refer to the SGI Supportfolio webpage for documents whose access require a support

contract. See “Product Support” on page xi.

• You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line.

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