NEXSAN
UNITY3300 Storage System
Quick Start Guide
This document provides installation steps for racking, cabling, and setting up the
UNITY3300 Storage System and the UNITY US316 Storage Expansion.
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Taking delivery
Your Unity shipment includes the UNITY3300
Storage System, and optionally one UNITY
US316 Storage Expansion. Check to ensure
that no damage has been sustained to the
packaging in transit. If any of the Unity
storage components
Item
Name
1
Power supply unit
2
Fan assembly
3
On-board 10GbE LAN ports (2 per
node)
4
KVM connections
5
Storage connectivity
Optional connectivity to Hosts
6
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appear damaged, please contact your reseller
immediately.
Hardware overview
The main components of the UNITY3300 are
shown in these diagrams.
UNITY3300 front view
UNITY3300 rear view
Description
1200W Redundant Power Supplies with PMBus
4x 80mm and 4x 40mm PWM cooling fans
Redundant cooling
Right port: Primary data network interface (nx0 - optional)
Left port: Management Interface (nx99) and IPMI interface
If you are using a 1GbE port for the management
NOTE:
interface, these ports will be used for data, with the left port
still being used for the IPMI interface.
USB, VGA, and serial connections for remote console access
to the Unity Storage System
Dual port SAS PCIe to HD Mini-SAS
You can use these slots for additional host connections, which
can be any of these supported NICs:
Pair of 10GbE NIC with dual RJ-45
Pair of 10GbE NIC with dual SFP+
Pair of 1GigE, Quad-port NIC, RJ-45
Pair of 1GigE, Dual-port NIC, RJ-45
Pair of 32Gb Fibre Channel - dual-port
Pair of 16Gb Fibre Channel - dual-port
Pair of 8Gb Fibre Channel - dual-port
Pair of 40GbE NIC with dual QSFP Connectivity
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