Table Of Contents - American Megatrends StorTrends 2200 User Manual

Table of Contents

Revision History ............................................................................................................................ ii
Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................... iii
Limited Warranty ........................................................................................................................ xiii
Web Site ................................................................................................................................. xiii
Disclaimer .................................................................................................................................. xiv
Chapter 1 StorTrends Storage Appliance Configuration .................................................. 1
Conceptual Illustration ................................................................................................................. 1
Connect to the StorTrends Storage Appliance .......................................................................... 2
Step One: Power your system on ................................................................................................ 2
Step Two: Get the IP address ...................................................................................................... 2
Step Three: Connecting to the StorTrends storage appliance from another system .................. 3
Step Four: Logging on to the StorTrends storage appliance ....................................................... 4
Using the Quick and Easy Setup Wizard .................................................................................... 5
Setting up Email Alert Settings .................................................................................................... 5
Step One: Quick Start Setup Wizard ........................................................................................... 7
Step Two: RAID Level .................................................................................................................. 8
Step Three: SAN or NAS or Both ................................................................................................. 9
Step Four: Allocating Space ...................................................................................................... 10
Step Five: Summary View .......................................................................................................... 11
Step Six: All Done No Errors ...................................................................................................... 13
Using the Advanced Setup Wizard ............................................................................................ 14
Step One: Advanced Wizard ...................................................................................................... 14
Step Two: Create a New Storage Pool ...................................................................................... 15
Step Three: Select Pool ............................................................................................................. 16
Select the Disks ...................................................................................................................... 16
Set the RAID Levels ............................................................................................................... 17
Type in your Storage Pool's name ......................................................................................... 17
Step Four: Configure SAN Volume ............................................................................................ 18
Enter Volume Name ............................................................................................................... 19
Enter Volume Size .................................................................................................................. 19
Select Thin or Exact Provisioning .......................................................................................... 20
Select SAN as the Dialect Type ............................................................................................. 21
Create Target and Target Name ............................................................................................ 21
Step Five: Configure NAS Volume ............................................................................................ 22
Enter Volume Name ............................................................................................................... 23
Enter Volume Size .................................................................................................................. 23
Select Thin or Exact Provisioning .......................................................................................... 23
Select NAS as the Dialect Type ............................................................................................. 24
Create Share and Share Name .............................................................................................. 24
Step Six: Summary View and Status ......................................................................................... 25
Step Seven: All Done No Errors ................................................................................................ 26
Chapter 2 Managing the StorTrends Storage Appliance ................................................ 27
Overview .................................................................................................................................... 27
Connecting to the StorTrends storage appliance from another system .................................... 27
Logging on to the StorTrends storage appliance ....................................................................... 28
ManageTrends Hardware Health Information ............................................................................ 29
ManageTrends Management Tree ............................................................................................ 30
Help, About and Sign Out Icons................................................................................................. 30
Preface iii