Storage Service Processor; Customer Management Connection; Storage Devices - Sun Microsystems StorEdge 6320 System 1.0 Reference And Service Manual

2.1.1

Storage Service Processor

The Storage Service Processor is a Sun Fire™ V100 server. The Sun Fire server
provides a 550-MHz, 64-bit UltraSPARC
Gbyte IDE internal drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a universal serial bus (USB) flash
disk to save the Storage Service Processor personality data.
The hot-swappable USB flash disk provides 16 Mbyte of removable storage. The USB
flash disk enables you to restore the Storage Service Processor personality files (for
example, /etc/ethers). The data can be restored in the event of a Storage Service
Processor failure.
Every Storage Service Processor is configured with the same hardware and software
components to ensure ease of replacement. All Storage Service Processors have built
in hardware and software support for the Sun StorEdge Remote Response utility.
The Storage Service Processor supports health monitoring and fault mitigation
independent of the customer's server. There is no data path connectivity, thus the
unit is not a mission-critical component.
Customers use a web interface or a command-line interface to perform functions on
the Storage Service Processor.
2.1.2

Customer Management Connection

The customer management connection is a dedicated Ethernet connection that
connects to the designated Storage Service Processor. Each Storage Service Processor
serves as the master for collecting data from its Sun StorEdge 6320 system. This
connection is also referred to as the customer LAN. If more than one Sun StorEdge
6320 system is connected to the customer management connection, alert traffic will
be passed across the LAN. The traffic consists of monitoring data that reflects the
overall health as well as specific alerts that may occur within the Sun StorEdge 6320
system.
2.1.3

Storage Devices

The Sun StorEdge 6020 arrays provide backend data storage inside the Sun StorEdge
6320 system. Each Sun StorEdge 6020 array supports 36-Gbyte, 73-Gbyte, or 146-
Gbyte disk drives.
In factory-configured systems, the Sun StorEdge 6020 arrays are configured with one
storage pools per Sun StorEdge 6020 tray. Each tray contains a full-capacity RAID 5
(6 or 13 disks) storage pool with a segment size of 16 Kbytes and is configured with
one standby hot spare.
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