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Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide
Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tiger Box1-8B Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Package Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hardware Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Site Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Unpacking Tiger Box1-8B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing Tiger Box1-8B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing The Front Panel Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Connecting The Appliance to The Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Powering On The Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hardware Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Monitoring the System Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Monitoring RAID Drives Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Monitoring Client Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Monitoring Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Post Installation Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Replacing a Failed Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Replacing a Failed Power Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Product Overview ....... . . 3 Tiger Box1-8B Features . - 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
You can find the most up-to-date version of this manual at the following address: • 1 x SAS port for directly connecting expansion chassis http://www.tiger-technology.com/products/tiger-series/tiger-box1/ • Tiger Technology software for shared storage management and diagnostics. • projectStore software for advanced project collaboration. Product Overview Tiger Box1-8B 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. -
Page 4: Package Content
(see “Powering On The Appliance” on page 15). If any of the components listed above is missing from your Important: shipment, please contact your reseller or Tiger Technology support immediately. Check if both warranty stickers at the back of the chassis are Important: intact. - Page 5 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Product Overview: Hardware Overview Front View Rear View The back of the appliance features the following elements: Apart from the 8 drive bays for the drives comprising the shared storage, Tiger Box1- 8B's front panel features the following elements: •...
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Page 6: Site Installation
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Site Installation Clients via 1GbE — patch cable with RJ-45 modular connectors. Cut the straps of the box, cut or remove the tape and open the flaps. Site Installation Unpacking Tiger Box1-8B Do not throw away any of the packaging components, until you Important: ensure that the appliance works properly and there is no need to return any part. - Page 7 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Unpacking Tiger Box1-8B Don’t take out the case with the drives, before you have taken all Take out the cases with the rack rails kit and the cables. Important: drives out one by one. Take out the foam case with the appliance and the bezel, holding it at each side, and place it on a surface, ensuring that the system remains stable.
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Page 8: Installing Tiger Box1-8B
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing Tiger Box1-8B Installing Tiger Box1-8B Holding the appliance, remove the foam protectors. Before installing Tiger Box1-8B in a rack or on a table top, consider the limitations for maximum cable lengths, when deciding on the location of the appliance within your facility. -
Page 9: Installing The Drives
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing the Drives • there must be at least 50cm (19 inches) of clearance at the front and rear of the To install the drives: appliance for installing and replacing the RAID drives, or accessing network cables or Take out a drive carrier from its antistatic bag. - Page 10 Tiger Box1-8B 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 Box1-8B 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. the lever is locked, you must hear a clicking sound.
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Page 12: Installing The Front Panel Bezel
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Installing The Front Panel Bezel To check that the drive carrier is properly installed and makes full contact with the To install the bezel: drive bay, try to pull it out without unlocking the lever. Insert the tabs on each end of the bezel into the flanges on each side of the appliance's front panel. -
Page 13: Connecting The Appliance To The Power
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Connecting The Appliance to The Power Using your index finger, push inward the release latch at each side of the bezel and To remove the bezel, with your index finger push inward the release latches at each slightly push the bezel to the front panel until you hear a clicking sound. - Page 14 Tiger Box1-8B 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. If the appliance is properly connected, the power module LED indicator will start blinking in green.
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Page 15: Powering On The Appliance
To power on the appliance: If you want to connect your Fibre Channel clients using multipathing, prior Important: to connecting them to the appliance, contact Tiger Technology support for instructions. Press once the power button Tiger Box1-8B 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. - Page 16 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box1-8B To connect a computer to the Public port: Plug one end of the fibre optic cable into the SFP socket of the appliance port. Plug one end of the network cable provided in the shipment in the port with label Public port.
- Page 17 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box1-8B the Public port through an Ethernet switch and spare the remaining network ports Plug one end of the cable into the 10GbE port of the appliance. for connecting LAN clients. Do one of the following: Do one of the following: •...
- Page 18 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box1-8B 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.
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Page 19: Hardware Monitoring
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring power failure LED solid power supply error or no power Monitoring the System Activity The LEDs on the front panel of Tiger Box1-8B allow you to monitor the system fan failure LED blinking error or fan failure activity. -
Page 20: Monitoring Client Connectivity
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Hardware Monitoring: Monitoring Client Connectivity 10 GbE Ports has failed and needs to be replaced with the spare drive, following the steps described in “Replacing a Failed Drive” on page 21. You can view the status of your connection through a 10GbE port using the LED indicator above it. -
Page 21: Post Installation Maintenance
Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Press the lever button on the front of the drive carrier to release the lever and gently pull out the drive carrier. Indicator LED color Status Description power module green blinking system is in stand by mode solid system is in normal mode blinking... - Page 22 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: should a power supply module fail, you can replace it while the system is operating. Unplug its power cable from the module's socket. You can replace a failed power module only with a power module of the same model. To replace a failed power module: Find the failed power module (the light of its LED indicator is solid red).
- Page 23 Tiger Box1-8B 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.
- Page 24 Tiger Box1-8B Assembly Guide Post Installation Maintenance: Plug the power cable in the module's socket and power on the appliance.
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