About This Guide; Introduction; Enclosure User Interfaces - Seagate RealStor 5005 Series Hardware Installation

About this guide

Introduction

This guide provides information about initial hardware setup, and removal and installation of customer-replaceable units
(CRUs) for the Seagate RealStor™ 5005/4005 Series controller enclosures, which can be used with J1212/J1224
expansion enclosures. In controller enclosures, controller modules can be purchased with either of two types of host
interface: SAS or FC/iSCSI. An FC/iSCSI controller module's host ports use converged network adapters, and is informally
referred to as a converged network controller (CNC):
• FC/iSCSI controller enclosure:
Qualified Fibre Channel SFP option supporting (8/16Gb)
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Qualified Internet SCSI (10GbE) SFP option
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Qualified Internet SCSI (1Gb) Copper RJ-45 SFP option
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• SAS (12Gb) controller enclosure
The 5005 and 4005 are SBB-compliant (Storage Bridge Bay) enclosures designed to meet NEBS Level 3 requirements.
These enclosures support large form factor disks or small form factor disks in either a 2U12 or 2U24 chassis. These
chassis form factors support controller enclosures and expansion enclosures.
The 5005/4005 Series controller enclosures can optionally be cabled to supported expansion enclosures for adding
storage.
IMPORTANT: Product configuration characteristics for controller and optional expansion enclosures:
• 5005/4005 Series and optional J1224/J1212 products use the same 2U24 and 2U12 chassis form factor.
• 5005 and 4005 provide four host ports per controller I/O module (SBB RAID canister).
• 5005/4005 Series models are configured with two controller modules per enclosure.
• Optional J1224/J1212 models are configured with two expansion I/O modules (SBB expansion canisters) per enclosure.
These enclosures support virtual storage, which uses paged-storage technology. For virtual storage, a group of disks with
an assigned RAID level is called a disk group.

Enclosure user interfaces

The 5005/4005 Series enclosures support applications for configuring, monitoring, and managing the storage system.
The web-based application GUI and the command-line interface are briefly described:
• Storage Management Console (SMC) is the web interface for the enclosure, providing access to all common
management functions for virtual storage.
• The command-line interface (CLI) enables you to interact with the storage system using command syntax entered via
the keyboard or scripting.
NOTE: For more information about enclosure user interfaces, see the following:
• Storage Management Guide or online help
The guide describes the Storage Management Console GUI.
• CLI Reference Guide
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