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Tiger Box Assembly Guide
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Site Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Post Installation Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Initial Setup of the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Tiger Box Assembly Guide Product Overview ....... . . 3 Site Installation . - Page 2 TO THE TIGER TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, Tiger Technology reserves the right to revise and improve its products as it sees fit. SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This publication describes the state of this product at the time of its publication, and may not reflect the product at all times in the future.
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Page 3: Product Overview
• 1 x SAS port for directly connecting Tiger Box expansion chassis. Tiger Box is a state of the art, high performance shared storage system that offers the simplicity of NAS and the performance characteristics of a true SAN. The compact •... - Page 4 “Installing and Removing The Front Panel Bezel” on page 7. • 1 x 1.80m UTP network cable • 1 x system restore USB flash drive • 1 x Tiger Box reset tool (used for pressing the shut down and reset buttons at the front of the appliance).
- Page 5 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Product Overview: Hardware Overview Rear View Apart from the 16 drive bays for the drives comprising the shared storage, Tiger Box's front panel features the following elements: The back of the appliance features the following elements: •...
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Page 6: Site Installation
Installing Tiger Box on a Table Top one). If you do not plan to install your Tiger Box in a rack, and you opt for tabletop Take out the two foam protectors and take the appliance out of the box and place it installation, ensure that: on a surface, ensuring that the system remains stable. - Page 7 Installing and Removing The Front Panel Bezel Tiger Box is shipped with a bezel, which covers the front panel. The bezel features an advanced protection filter that prevents dust from accumulating in the RAID drives and the enclosure.It is advisable to clean the bezel filter every 3 months. For steps about removing and cleaning the bezel, refer to “Cleaning the Bezel Filter”...
- Page 8 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing and Gently pull away the bezel from the front panel of the appliance. To install the bezel: Insert the tabs on each end of the bezel into the flanges on each side of the...
- Page 9 Connect the power cord to the power outlet. Connecting The Appliance to The Power Your Tiger Box is shipped to you with two power supply modules, installed in the rear of the appliance. These modules supply redundant power to Tiger Box - should a power supply module fail, you can replace it while the system is operating (see “Replacing a Failed Power Module”...
- Page 10 Press the Reset button on the front panel of the appliance. Cabling Tiger Box Tiger Box features a Public network port for connection to a computer, from which to perform the initial setup of Tiger Box and assign IP addresses to all available network Powering On The Appliance ports.
- Page 11 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box Tiger Box also allows you to team the ports of a single 1/10GbE NIC (the Ethernet To connect a computer to the Public port: switch or the client computer NIC must support link aggregation). Besides allowing a...
- Page 12 To connect a LAN computer via 10GbE port: Note: Your Tiger Box shipment doesn't include copper and fibre optic cables. Plug one end of the cable into the 10GbE port of the appliance. Do one of the following: •...
- Page 13 To connect a computer to the Admin port: Plug one end of the network cable provided in the shipment in the port with label Note: Your Tiger Box shipment doesn't include twisted pair cables. Admin port. Plug one end of the cable into the network port of the appliance.
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Page 14: Hardware Monitoring
Public port Monitoring the System Activity offline or no activity The LEDs on the bezel of Tiger Box allow you to monitor the system activity. You can Appliance HDD LED green blinking appliance system drive... - Page 15 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Monitoring Power Supply FC ports 1 GbE Ports Your configuration can include 8Gb or 16Gb FC cards. The FC cards are set up to work You can view the status of your connection through an 1 GbE port using the LED in auto mode i.e.
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Page 16: Post Installation Maintenance
Tiger Box Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Take the filter off by hand and wash it under running water, then leave it to dry. green solid power supply is on solid power supply is plugged in and turned off, or the system is off amber but in an abnormal state. - Page 17 Install the bezel (see steps on page 8). Replacing a Failed Drive You can replace a failed hard disk, while Tiger Box is operating and no data on the storage will be lost. If your order includes a spare drive, it is shipped to you pre- installed in a drive carrier and is ready to replace the one that has failed.
- Page 18 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Replacing a Failed Drive Press the lever release button on the front of the drive carrier. Find the label on the drive that specifies its corresponding drive bay and then slide the drive carrier into the corresponding slot until the lever makes contact with the enclosure.
- Page 19 RAID drive fails in the future. Replacing a Failed Power Module Your Tiger Box is shipped to you with two power supply modules, installed in the rear of the appliance. These modules supply redundant power to Tiger Box - should a power supply module fail, you can replace it while the system is operating.
- Page 20 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: To replace a failed power module: Lift the lever of the power module and pushing to the right the tab of the module with the finger, slide out the unit from the appliance.
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Page 21: System Restore
Initial Setup of the Appliance Before you begin work with the product on a Tiger Box appliance, you need to perform its initial setup. The initial setup includes the following procedures: • Configure the IP address of each network port of the appliance (see “Configure the IP Addresses of the Appliance”... - Page 22 IP address of the Public port. During the initial setup of Tiger Box, you can change the IP address of the Public port and of all other network ports of the appliance (except the Admin port), letting all computers on the same network (with or without the Tiger Client software installed) access Tiger Store’s web...
- Page 23 “Configure the IP Addresses of the Appliance” on page 24. In a web browser, type the preset IP address of the appliance for the Admin port: Tiger Box supports teaming of the ports of each network card. If you choose to team 1.21.32.1 the ports of a network card, all its ports will be accessible through just one IP address.
- Page 24 IP Addresses Limitations When assigning IP addresses to the network ports of Tiger Box, make sure that you avoid the following IP addresses as they are either link-local addresses or are in use by...
- Page 25 Appliance specify router and DNS server details. To ensure the normal work of Tiger Box, you should set the time and date of the (optional, to assign additional IP address) Click the + button and add an additional appliance as soon as you turn it on. It is advisable to use the same date and time IP address and subnet mask for the same network port.
- Page 26 Select The Deployment Environment of Tiger Box Click Apply. By default, Tiger Box is configured to operate in workgroup environment - the In the left pane, select System and then Maintenance. appliance is pre-configured as a member of the WORKGROUP workgroup and any In System Reset drop down box, select Full System Reboot and then click Full user that can connect to it, has access to all resources on the shared volumes.
- Page 27 Tiger Box Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Appliance: To set workgroup environment for Tiger Box: In the left pane of the web interface, click System and then Settings. In Domain Info, click No domain. The domain controller may require that you authenticate yourself as a user authorized to remove computers from the domain.
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