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Tiger Technology Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Manual

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Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Site Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Post Installation Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Initial Setup of the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Tiger Box 3U16 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.

  • Page 3: Product Overview

    Product Overview • 2 x SAS ports for directly connecting Tiger Box expansion chassis. Tiger Box 3U16 is a state of the art, high-performance shared storage system that • Tiger Store software for shared storage management and diagnostics. offers the simplicity of NAS and the performance characteristics of a true SAN. The...
  • Page 4 Product Overview: Package Content Package Content Important: If any of the components listed above is missing from your shipment, please contact your reseller or Tiger Technology support The package you have received weighs approximately 40 kg (88 lbs) and has the immediately.
  • Page 5 Tiger Box 3U16 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: •...

  • Page 6: Site Installation

    Install Tiger Box on a Table Top System Restore USB Flash Drive and the spare RAID drive (if your order includes If you do not plan to install your Tiger Box 3U16 in a rack, and you opt for tabletop one).
  • Page 7 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Install/ • the appliance is not in close proximity to devices that emit strong electromagnetic To remove the bezel: waves; Loosen the thumb screws on either side of the bezel. Install/Remove The Front Panel Bezel Tiger Box is shipped with a bezel, which covers the front panel.
  • Page 8 Screw the two thumb screws on either side clockwise. Connecting The Appliance to The Power Your Tiger Box 3U16 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 9 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Powering On The Appliance To connect the appliance to the power supply: If the appliance is properly connected, the power module LED indicator will display solid green light. If there's problem with the module installation, its LED Plug the power cord in the power socket of the power supply module.
  • Page 10 Press the Reset button on the front panel of the appliance. Cabling Tiger Box Tiger Box 3U16 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 ports.
  • Page 11 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box To connect a computer to the Public port: If your fiber-optic cable has protective caps, remove them. Plug one end of the network cable provided in the shipment in the port with label Plug one end of the fiber-optic cable into the SFP socket of the appliance port.
  • Page 12 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box • Plug other end of the network cable in the port of the network card of the client To connect a LAN computer via 1GbE port: computer. Note: Your Tiger Box shipment does not include twisted pair cables.

  • Page 13: Hardware Monitoring

    Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring 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. Monitoring the System Activity The LEDs on the bezel of Tiger Box allow you to monitor the system activity.
  • Page 14 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Important: To diagnose RAID drive failure, it is advisable to regularly check IPMI port activity LED green blinking there is activity on the the RAID status in the Storage page of Tiger Store’s web UI (refer to the Tiger IPMI port Store Administration Guide).
  • Page 15 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Monitoring Power Supply Monitoring Power Supply activity LED green blinking The adapter is sending or (left indicator) receiving network data at up to You can monitor the activity of the power modules using their LED indicator: 10Gbps.

  • Page 16: Post Installation Maintenance

    Install the bezel (see steps on page 8). Replacing a Failed Drive You can replace a failed hard disk, while Tiger Box 3U16 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 17 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: To replace a failed RAID disk with the spare drive: Press the lever release button on the front of the drive carrier. Important: To prevent electrostatic discharge (ESD), touch grounded metal before touching any of the appliance components. You can also prevent ESD when inserting the drive carrier into the enclosure, by holding the appliance enclosure with the other hand.
  • Page 18 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Find the label on the drive that specifies its corresponding drive bay and then slide Push the lever to finish sliding the drive carrier into the drive bay. To ensure that the drive carrier into the corresponding slot until the lever makes contact with the the lever is locked, you must hear a clicking sound.
  • Page 19 RAID drive fails in the future. Replacing a Failed Power Module Your Tiger Box 3U16 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 3U16 Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Lift the lever of the power module and pushing to the right the tab of the module Slide in the new power module and hear the side tab click into the bay.

  • Page 21: System Restore

    Later on you can change any of the settings that you have settings. specified during the initial setup from any computer that has access to Tiger Store’s Follow the instructions below or contact Tiger Technology support for assistance at: web interface. support@tiger-technology.com You can perform the initial setup of the appliance in the web interface of your storage server.
  • Page 22 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Make sure the IP address of your computer is on the same subnet as the Public port Set the IP address of the computer on which you will connect to the Admin port to (set it to 172.16.100.101, for example).
  • Page 23 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Press Enter. Additionally, Tiger Box allows you to assign two or more IP addresses to the same network card, thus making it accessible from networks on different subnets. The web interface of Tiger Store loads.
  • Page 24 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the • Select Use as a team, and then click Apply. interconnected in a LAN, you can simply assign an IP address to the Public port in the same subnet. When a LAN client can reach the appliance both through the Public port and another...
  • Page 25 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the In the tile of the respective port or team, enter the IP address and subnet mask. In the left pane of Tiger Store’s web interface, click System and then Settings. In Appliance Name, enter a new name of the appliance and click Apply.
  • Page 26 Tiger Box 3U16 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Click Set Date and Time. In System Reset drop down box, select Full System Reboot and then click Full system reboot. Select The Deployment Environment of Tiger Box When the appliance is online again, accesses to files/folders on the shared volumes are authenticated against the specified Active Directory domain.