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Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Site Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hardware Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Post Installation Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Initial Setup of the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Tiger Box1 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
Product Overview • Tiger Store software for shared storage management and diagnostics. Tiger Box1 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: Package Content
Technology at support@tiger.technology.com Hardware Overview The pictures used to illustrate the product in this manual may differ from the Note: Tiger Box1 appliance you have received depending on the model and firmware version. Technical Characteristics It must contain the following:... -
Page 5: Site Installation
• depending on the configuration you have purchased client connectivity through: • 8/16Gb FC ports; • 10Gb Ethernet ports; Apart from the 4 drive bays for the drives comprising the shared storage, Tiger Box1's • 1Gb Ethernet ports; front panel features the following elements: •... - Page 6 Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Unpacking Tiger Box1 It is advisable to keep all packaging components until the warranty of Cut the straps of the box, cut or remove the tape and open the flaps. Tip: your appliance expires.
- Page 7 Take out the cases with the rack rails kit and the cables. place it on a surface, ensuring that the system remains stable. Tiger Box1 weighs approximately 20kg. Attempting to move it Important: without assistance could cause personal injury. Request assistance and use...
- Page 8 Installing Tiger Box1 on a Table Top If you do not plan to install your Tiger Box1 in a rack, and you opt for tabletop installation, ensure that: • the surface is clean and in a safe location;...
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Page 9: Installing The Drives
Each disk is installed in a hot-swappable drive carrier. You can replace a failed hard disk, while Tiger Box1 is operating and no data on the storage will be lost (see “Replacing a Failed Drive” on page 21). For safety reasons, the drives in the carriers are shipped separately and you should install them yourself in the appliance. - Page 10 Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing the Drives Press upwards the lever release button on the front of the drive carrier. Find the label on the drive that specifies its corresponding drive bay. The lever opens.
- Page 11 Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing the Drives Slide the drive carrier into the corresponding slot until the lever makes contact Push the lever up to finish sliding the drive carrier into the drive bay. To ensure that with the enclosure.
- Page 12 Repeat the above steps for each drive in the kit. Installing The Front Panel Bezel Tiger Box1 is shipped with a bezel that should cover the front panel. You can install/remove the bezel at any time without having to turn off Tip: or dismount the appliance from the rack.
- Page 13 Connecting The Appliance to The Power Your Tiger Box1 is shipped to you with two power supply modules, installed in the rear of the appliance. These modules supply redundant power to Tiger Box1 - should a power supply module fail, you can replace it while the system is operating (see “Replacing a Failed Power Module”...
- Page 14 Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Connecting The Appliance to The Power To connect the appliance to the power supply: Connect the power cord to the power outlet. Plug the power cord in the power socket of the power supply module.
- Page 15 Press once the power button Tiger Box1 also allows you to team the ports of a single 1/10GbE NIC (the Ethernet Wait until the power status LED at the front becomes solid green. switch or the client computer NIC must support link aggregation). Besides allowing a...
- Page 16 To connect a SAN computer: Plug one end of the network cable into one of the available network ports of the appliance. Your Tiger Box1 shipment doesn't include fibre optic and copper Fibre Channel Note: cables. The FC ports are with optical SFPs.
- Page 17 To connect a LAN computer via 1GbE port: Your Tiger Box1 shipment doesn't include twisted pair cables. Note: To connect a LAN computer via 10GbE port: Your Tiger Box1 shipment doesn't include copper and fibre optic cables. Note:...
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Page 18: Hardware Monitoring
Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Hardware Monitoring Plug one end of the cable into the network port of the appliance. To connect a computer to the Admin port: Plug one end of the network cable provided in the shipment in the port with label Admin port. - Page 19 LED blinking error or fan failure The LEDs on the front panel of Tiger Box1 allow you to monitor the system activity. You can monitor the system activity without removing the front panel bezel: power status LED stand by...
- Page 20 Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Monitoring Client Connectivity Monitoring Client Connectivity 10 GbE Ports You can view the status of your connection through a 10GbE port using the LED You can monitor the connectivity of SAN/LAN clients using the LED indicators on the indicator above it.
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Page 21: Post Installation Maintenance
Post Installation Maintenance Replacing a Failed Drive You can replace a failed hard disk, while Tiger Box1 is operating and no data on the storage will be lost. If your order includes a spare drive, it is shipped to you pre-... - Page 22 RAID drive fails in the future. Replacing a Failed Power Module Your Tiger Box1 is shipped to you with two power supply modules, installed in the rear of the appliance. These modules supply redundant power to Tiger Box1 - should a power supply module fail, you can replace it while the system is operating.
- Page 23 Tiger Box1 Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Holding the lever of the power module with your index finger, push the side tab to Slide in the new power module and hear the side tab click into the bay. the right and slide out the unit from the appliance.
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Page 24: System Restore
Initial Setup of the Appliance Before you begin work with the product on a Tiger Box1 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 25 IP address of the Public port. During the initial setup of Tiger Box1, 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 26 “Configure the IP Addresses of the Appliance” on page 27. 1.21.32.1 Tiger Box1 supports teaming of the ports of each network card. If you choose to team the ports of a network card, all its ports will be accessible through just one IP address.
- Page 27 IP Addresses Limitations When assigning IP addresses to the network ports of Tiger Box1, make sure that you avoid the following IP addresses as they are either link-local addresses or are in use by Tiger Box1 services: •...
- Page 28 Appliance specify router and DNS server details. To ensure the normal work of Tiger Box1, 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 29 When the appliance is online again, accesses to files/folders on the shared volumes are authenticated against the specified Active Directory domain. By default, Tiger Box1 is configured to operate in workgroup environment - the appliance is pre-configured as a member of the WORKGROUP workgroup and any To set workgroup environment for Tiger Box1: user that can connect to it, has access to all resources on the shared volumes.
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