Back View Of An Expansion Cabinet With Four Capacity Blocks; Performance Blocks (C-Class Blade Enclosure); Front View Of A C-Class Blade Enclosure - HP StoreAll 9730 Administrator's Manual

Back view of an expansion cabinet with four capacity blocks

1. X9700c 8
2. X9700c 7
3. X9700c 6
4. X9700c 5

Performance blocks (c-Class Blade enclosure)

A performance block is a special server blade for the X9720. Server blades are numbered according
to their bay number in the blade enclosure. Server 1 is in bay 1 in the blade enclosure, and so
on. Server blades must be contiguous; empty blade bays are not allowed between server blades.
Only X9720 Storage server blades can be inserted in a blade enclosure.
The server blades are configured as file serving nodes. One node hosts the active Fusion Manager
and the other nodes host passive Fusion Managers.
The active Fusion Manager is responsible for managing the cluster configuration, including
file serving nodes and StoreAll clients. The Fusion Manager is not involved in file system I/O
operations.
File serving nodes manage the individual segments of the file system. Each segment is assigned
to a specific file serving node and each node can "own" several segments. Segment ownership
can be migrated from one node to another while the file system is actively in use. The Fusion
Manager must be running for this migration to occur.
The following diagram shows a front view of a performance block (c-Class Blade enclosure) with
half-height device bays numbering 1 through 16.

Front view of a c-Class Blade enclosure

The following diagram shows a front view of a performance block (c-Class Blade enclosure) with
half-height device bays numbering 1 through 16.
212 The IBRIX X9720 component and cabling diagrams
5. X9700cx 8
6. X9700cx 7
7. X9700cx 6
8. X9700cx 5