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Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Site Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Post Installation Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Initial Setup of the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Summary of Contents for Tiger Technology Tiger Box 4U24
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Tiger Box 4U24 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
• Tiger Store software for shared storage management and diagnostics. Product Overview Tiger Box 4U24 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... - 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 (88.7 lbs) and has the immediately.
- Page 5 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Product Overview: Hardware Overview Front View Rear View Note: Your Tiger Box appliance is shipped to you with its front panel bezel already installed and to view the front panel you need to remove the bezel, following the steps in “Install/Remove The Front Panel Bezel”...
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Page 6: Site Installation
Cut the straps of the box, cut or remove the tape and open the flaps. If you do not plan to install your Tiger Box 4U24 in a rack, and you opt for tabletop Take out the rack-mount rails kit. - Page 7 Tiger Box is shipped with a bezel, which covers the front panel. Your Tiger Box 4U24 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 8 Press the Reset button on the front panel of the appliance. Cabling Tiger Box Tiger Box 4U24 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 9 Tiger Box 4U24 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 10 Tiger Box 4U24 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.
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Page 11: Hardware Monitoring
Tiger Box 4U24 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 12 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: You can monitor the activity of the RAID drives using the LED indicators on the top information LED solid an overheat condition of each HDD carrier: has occurred slow blinking fan failure, check for an (once a second) inoperative fan.
- Page 13 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Monitoring Power Supply port using the LED indicators above it. If the FC port LED’s light is off the port is amber solid Operating as a Gigabit inactive. speed LED connection (1000 Mbps).
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Page 14: Post Installation Maintenance
Post Installation Maintenance Replacing a Failed Drive You can replace a failed hard disk, while Tiger Box 4U24 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 15 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: 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 16 RAID drive fails in the future. Replacing a Failed Power Module Your Tiger Box 4U24 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.
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Page 17: System Restore
Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide System Restore: System Restore To replace a failed power module: Push back the lever of the power module to lock it. Find the failed power module (the light of its LED indicator is amber). Unplug its power cable from the module's socket. -
Page 18: Initial Setup Of The Appliance
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 19 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Tip: Once you finish the initial setup and set another IP address to the Public port, Tiger Box appliances shipped before 01 November 2016) or 1.2.3.4 (for Tiger Box you can revert back to your old IP address.
- Page 20 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Click Manage and type the password for the web interface. you have manually specified. Should you decide to team the ports again, you will have to specify the IP address manually again.
- Page 21 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Public port — 1GbE port designed to connect the appliance to your corporate To assign an IP address to a network port: network and provide it with access to shared resources and the Internet and also used In the left pane of Tiger Store’s web interface, click System and then IP...
- Page 22 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the Note: If you rename a Tiger Box appliance after client computers have already added To specify the time and date settings of the appliance: it to their storage servers list, you may have to manually edit the appliance’s name In the left pane of the web interface, click System and then Settings.
- Page 23 Tiger Box 4U24 Assembly Guide Initial Setup of the To set domain environment for Tiger Box: To set workgroup environment for Tiger Box: 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.
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