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Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Site Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Post Installation Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Initial Setup of the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Product Overview ..... . 3 Site Installation ......6 Hardware Monitoring . - 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
Product Overview Tiger Serve 2U is a state of the art, high availability shared storage manager. Once connected to the shared storage via Fibre Channel, the compact rack-mountable appliance acts as a metadata controller to the shared storage volumes and lets SAN... -
Page 4: Package Content
• 1 x CD with instructions. dimensions: Important: If any of the components listed above is missing from your shipment, please contact your reseller or Tiger Technology support immediately. Hardware Overview Note: The pictures used to illustrate the product in this manual may differ from the Tiger Serve appliance you have received depending on the model and firmware version. -
Page 5: Front View
Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Product Overview: Hardware Overview Front View Rear View Tiger Serve's front features the front panel bezel flanges, the cooling fans and the The back of the appliance features the following elements: controls of each server node: •... -
Page 6: Site Installation
Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Site Installation • fibre optic cable with LC connectors for SFP+ transceiver or copper cable with Take out the rack-mount rails kit box and the box with documentation CD, system SFP+ transceiver. restore USB flash drive and the power and network cables. - Page 7 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing Tiger Serve Take out the two foam chassis protectors and take the appliance out of the box and Take out the front panel bezel. place it on a surface, ensuring that the system remains stable.
- Page 8 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing The Front Panel Bezel To install Tiger Serve in a rack: • the appliance is installed off the floor (dust that accumulates on the floor is drawn into the interior of the appliance by the cooling fans. Excessive dust inside the Loosen and remove the nuts holding the side protectors to the appliance and appliance can cause overheating and component failures);...
- Page 9 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Connecting To install the bezel: Screw the two thumb screws on either side clockwise. Insert the tabs on each end of the bezel into the flanges on each side of the appliance's front panel.
- Page 10 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Powering On The Appliance Powering On The Appliance To connect the appliance to the power supply: Plug the power cord in the power socket of the power supply module. Powering on the appliance means to power up at least one of the server nodes installed in it.
- Page 11 Fibre Channel switch). Important: If you want to connect the appliance through the Fibre Channel ports using multipathing, prior to connecting it, contact Tiger Technology support for instructions. The appliance can connect to client computers via 1GbE and/or 10GbE. When a client computer is connected to the appliance via 10GbE (directly or using an Ethernet switch), there’s no need to connect that computer through the Public port as well.
- Page 12 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Serve 2U Plug one end of the fiber-optic cable into the SFP socket of the FC port. Remove the protective black cap from the 10GbE port. Do one of the following: If your fiber-optic cable has protective caps, remove them.
- Page 13 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Serve 2U Plug one end of the cable into the 10GbE port of the appliance. Plug one end of the network cable into the Public port of the appliance. Do one of the following: Plug other end of the network cable in the port of the Ethernet switch that interconnects computers on the network.
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Page 14: Hardware Monitoring
Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring fan failure LED blinking Overheat or fan failure. Audible Alarm The appliance sounds an audible alarm (beeping) in one of the following cases: power status LED Power is off •... -
Page 15: Post Installation Maintenance
Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Monitoring Power Supply 10 GbE Ports You can view the status of the appliance’s connection through a 10GbE port using the You can monitor the activity of the power modules using their LED indicator: LED indicator above it. - Page 16 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: To remove the bezel: Gently pull away the bezel from the front panel of the appliance. Loosen the thumb screws on either side of the bezel. To clean the bezel filter: Remove the bezel (see steps on page 16).
- Page 17 Install the bezel (see steps on page 9). Installing and Uninstalling the Server Nodes Usually Tiger Serve 2U is shipped to you with both server nodes pre-installed in the chassis. The steps below will guide you in case you need to replace a failed server node or install a new server node to allow for Tiger Serve’s failover capability.
- Page 18 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: To install a server node: Open the side levers at a 90° angle and slide the server node into the corresponding drawer until it makes contact with the enclosure. Unscrew the screws of the server drawer protector and remove it.
- Page 19 Push the levers to the sides clicking sound. Proceed with cabling the server node (see “Cabling Tiger Serve 2U” on page 11) and Important: Take care not to press any of the buttons, ports or adapters. powering it on (see “Powering On The Appliance” on page 10).
- Page 20 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Open the side levers at 90° angle. Holding the levers, with both index fingers press the two side tabs.
- Page 21 Replacing a Failed Power Module Your Tiger Serve 2U is shipped to you with two power supply modules, installed in the rear of the appliance. These modules supply redundant power to Tiger Serve - should a power supply module fail, you can replace it while the system is operating. You can replace a failed power module only with a power module of the same model.
- Page 22 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Press the tab of the module to release it and holding the lever, slide it out of the Insert the new power module until it makes full contact with the enclosure and you appliance.
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Page 23: System Restore
• Set the environment in which Tiger Serve operates - workgroup or Active Directory domain (see “Select The Deployment Environment of Tiger Serve” on page 28). Important: If your Tiger Serve 2U appliance features two server nodes, in order to synchronize the settings specified during the initial setup between the server nodes,... - Page 24 Tiger Client software installed) access Tiger Store’s web interface. For Tiger Serve 2U appliances with two server nodes, as long as both nodes are online, regardless of whose IP address you have entered, the web UI displays the cluster view of the interface i.e.
- Page 25 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the of each network port must be on the same LAN as the Tiger Client that will • Select Use as a team, and then click Apply. communicate with the appliance through this port. For more information, refer to “Configure the IP Addresses of the Appliance”...
- Page 26 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the You must set an IP address for each network port through which the appliance is • IPMI addresses in the range 1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255 connected to Tiger Clients (directly or via an Ethernet switch) - the Public port and all To assign an IP address to a network port in cluster view: other available network ports or port teams.
- Page 27 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the availability of the appliance, you must manually configure the IP addresses of one node, while the other node is offline (or not available), it is advisable to manually or both nodes in the node view of the respective node.
- Page 28 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the To specify the time and date settings of the appliance: To set domain environment for Tiger Serve: In the left pane of the web interface, click System and then Settings. In the left pane of the web interface, click System and then Settings.
- Page 29 Tiger Serve 2U Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the To set workgroup environment for Tiger Serve: 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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