Silicon Graphics NAS MIS Manual de usuario

SGI®NAS MIS Server and

JBOD Setup Guide

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About This Guide

This Setup Guide provides an overview of the hardware and software general setup steps

necessary to installing the SGI® Modular InfiniteStorage™(MIS) NAS system. Booting

information and descriptions of the major components in the system are covered. This guide also

provides basic troubleshooting and maintenance information, BIOS references, and important

safety and regulatory specifications.

Audience

This guide is written for users, installers and system administrators of the SGI Modular IS NAS

systems. It is written with the assumption that the reader has a good working knowledge of

Network Attached Storage, computer interface cabling and computer systems. This guide may

also be useful to service personnel looking for overview information on the Modular IS NAS

system.

Chapter Descriptions

The following topics are covered in this guide:

•Chapter 1, “Introduction,” provides an overview of the Modular IS NAS system and its

various components. Information is provided to guide the user to the setup steps they will

need to take to get their system setup and operational.

•Chapter 2, “MIS NAS System Hardware Installation,” provides hardware, drive and cable

installation instructions for MIS NAS system hardware. Rails, enclosures or disks that did

not come already installed in a system rack are covered, along with basic cabling guidelines.

•Chapter 3, “MIS NAS Operation and GUI Startup,” describes the control panel as well as the

drives and lists the steps necessary to bring the enclosures and drives online. GUI software

necessary for basic system setup is also covered.

•Chapter 4, “System Safety,” provides general system safety information necessary for

proper setup and operation of the system.

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•Chapter 5, “Troubleshooting Information,” provides best practice procedures to identify,

troubleshoot and correct minor problems with an SGI MIS NAS system.

•Appendix A, “BIOS Error Codes,” provides a brief listing of BIOS (beep) error code

information.

•Appendix B, “System Specifications and Regulatory Overview,” provides basic

environmental operating requirements and regulatory information for the MIS NAS server.

Related Publications

The following SGI documents may be relevant to the use of your Modular IS NAS server:

• SGI NAS Quick Start Guide, publication number, 007-5865-00x

This quick start guide describes the basic installation and use of the SGI NAS system

application software used with your system. It provides guidelines on loading and

registering the Appliance Software License, configuring the primary network interface and

performing essential configuration tasks.

•SGI NAS User Guide, publication number, 007-5860-00x

This document provides information on multiple aspects of working with SGI NAS APIs,

including basic terminology, SGI NAS Management View (NMV) and NAS Management

Console (NMC) managing instructions.

•SGI NAS HA Cluster User Guide Release 3.1.x,publication number, 007-5899-00x

This user guide is intended for customers who purchase the HA Cluster optional storage

volume sharing service cluster “middleware” application. This software package (along with

the required hardware) ensures critical applications and services are kept running in the

event of system failures. HA cluster consists of two or more SGI NAS systems running a

defined set of services and monitoring each other for failures.

•SGI NAS VM Data Center User Guide Release 3.1.x, publication number, 007-5901-00x

For customers purchasing the optional NAS VM Data Center software, this document covers

the optional Virtual Machine Data Center plug-in (also called VMDC) which provides

integration of infrastructure virtualization software with the SGI NAS system. VMDC

supports “hypervisors” such as:

–VMwareESX

–CitrixXen

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The pluggable module is designed to provide a single point of control to manage all storage

related aspects of a virtualized infrastructure.

•SGI NAS FC Plug-in User Guide Release 3.1.x, publication number, 007-5902-00x

For users who have purchased the optional SGI NAS FC plug-in software, this guide

provides information on how the software continuously monitors system configuration, and

can take snapshots of the system at configurable intervals without user intervention. The

NAS FC plug-in can also generate intelligent reports for system administrators and support

personnel and provides the capability to revert the NAS system to the (previously

snapshot-ed) system configuration.

•SGI NAS Namespace Cluster User Guide Release 3.1.x, publication number, 007-5903-00x

For customers who have purchased the optional SGI NAS Namespace Cluster plug-in

software package, this guide provides information on the management of multiple NFS

servers, as well as advanced graphics and statistics. Namespace Cluster allows you to extend

existing infrastructure with new servers and spread the workload between a group of servers

instead of centralizing it on a single server. The optional Namespace Cluster plug-in

software also lets you manage all the NFS servers from every node.

•SGI MIS Platform User Guide, publication number, 007-5818-00x

This user guide should be used only as a reference source in understanding the general

hardware aspects of the Modular InfiniteStorage platform that serves as the basis for the SGI

MIS NAS system. It describes the features and components of the platform and its two main

enclosure configurations (NAS server plus storage, or JBOD—Just a Bunch Of Disks). The

guide covers the different configurations, their respective components, interface panels,

indicator lights and meanings, software, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

•SGI Modular InfiniteStorage (MIS) 1.5 Platform User Guide, publication #, 007-5916-00x

This user guide should be used only as a reference source in understanding the general

hardware aspects of the Modular InfiniteStorage platform that serves as the basis for the SGI

MIS NAS system.

• 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.

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

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The release notes, which contain the latest information about software and documentation in this

release,are in a filenamed SGI-{PRODUCT}-{VERSION}-readme.txt in the docs directory of the

SGI software product media.

SGI systems include a set of Linux®man pages, formatted in the standard UNIX®“man page”

style. Important system configuration files and commands are documented on man pages. These

are found online on the internal system disk (or DVD-CD) and are displayed using the man

command. For additional information about displaying man pages using the man command, see

man(1).

In addition, the apropos command locates man pages based on keywords. For example, to

display a list of man pages that describe disks, type the following on a command line:

apropos disk

For information about setting up and using apropos, see apropos(1).

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Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Product Support

SGI provides a comprehensive product support and maintenance program for its products. SGI

also offers services to implement and integrate Linux applications in your environment.

• Refer to http://www.sgi.com/support/

• If you are in North America, contact the Technical Assistance Center at

+1 800 800 4SGI or contact your authorized service provider.

• If you are outside North America, contact the SGI subsidiary or authorized distributor in

your country.

Convention Meaning

Command This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files,

routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language

structures.

variable The italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being

defined. Italic typeface is also used for book titles.

user input This bold fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in

interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.

[ ] Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

man page(x) Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

GUI element This font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements such

as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes,

fields, and lists.

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