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Summary of Contents for Rorke Data Galaxy Aurora LS Series
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Galaxy Aurora LS Series ® RAID Storage System Configuration and System Integration Guide Version 2.1 February 2011...
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A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Rorke Data Inc 7626 Golden Triangle Drive Eden Prairie MN 55344-3732 952 829 0300 Sales@rorke.com techsupport@rorke.com...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Table of Contents Copyright 2009 ..............................
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 2.1.1 Indicators and switch descriptions Figure 2.1 ................
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Chassis Status Indicators ........................
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Changing Passwords ...........................
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Safety Precautions Precautions and Instructions...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Galaxy®...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E This page left blank intentionally Section 1 Intro and Overview...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Section 1 Introduction and Overview...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 12 Drive SAS controller 64 bit Linux based OS...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Product Description 1.3.1 Description of Physical Components...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Figure 1.3.1c Q R S T U V...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E These precautions and directions should be used only as an information source for planning your Aurora LS deployment.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 4.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Kit Contents: the rack mounting kit include: Installing the Rack Rails...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Section 1 Intro and Overview...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Installing the System into the Rack You should now have rails attached to both the chassis and the rack unit.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 2.1.3 Connecting Cables Figure 2.3 See the illustration for the cable locations and connectivity.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 2.2 Configuration Setup 2.2.1 Setting up Ethernet Connectivity on a Windows Client...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 2.2.3 Linux Client RAID Connections and LUN Preparation After Fibre channel HBA drivers are installed and loaded (which is not covered in this manual),...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E [mklabel], it gives a warning about an existing label –...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The amount of time it takes to create the file system will vary, depending on the file system chosen, the LUN capacity, the drive speeds, connection type, etc.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 2.2.4 Windows Client RAID Connections and LUN Preparation After the Fibre channel HBA drivers are installed and loaded (which is not covered in this...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The Computer Management window will open - On the left side of the screen, left-click on Disk Management under Storage.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The Disk Management window will open.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E This will open the New Simple Volume Wizard.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The ‘assign drive letter’...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E On the same window left-click on the “Perform a quick format,”...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E When the partitioning is finished, the New Simple Volume Wizard will close, and you will be returned to the Disk Management screen.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 2.2.5 Apple OSX Client RAID Connections and LUN Preparation Refer to the Fibre channel HBA installation instructions to install your HBA and drivers into...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The next column to the right will populate, showing the contents of the Applications folder.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Apple Disk Utility will open - You will see the LUN listed on the left –...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Drag down to set the number of partitions to 1 Partition, then release the mouse button: Click in the white text area next to Name:, and type a name for the volume:...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E A popup warning will appear.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Remote Administration 2.3.1 Using a Browser and Logging into the Aurora LS...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Section 3 Aurora LS Management...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The initial web admin page opens.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Main GUI Screen: On the upper left is a link called Module Config - this is used to enable or disable the ability to...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 3.1.2 RAID Creation, Status, and other RAID configuration information...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E You can see the RAID Name was set to SubZero, the Cache size was set to 4000 Megabytes (4GB), the RAID Level was set to RAID 6, the First Slot (Starting drive number) was set to 0,...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 3.1.6 CONFIG Details...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E A trace file contains internal diagnostic information, which can be used by the programmers for troubleshooting.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E To return to the Main GUI screen, by clicking the Return to NumaRAID Main GUI Page link at the bottom of the Config Details screen.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E In this case, prior to getting to this screen, we specified that we wanted the last 25 commands, and that commands were shown.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Below these is a button which allows you to switch back to the data/text display.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 3.1.9 PARAM Details...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Stripes Required in Memory before Read Ahead Allowed: This is the amount of sequential data that must be read in order to trigger the read-ahead cache above.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E lower gives up some of the cache to the non-real-time users.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The Display button on the bottom of the table, displays the diagnostic message log.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 3.1.10 DATARATE Details...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E There are 6 sets of graphs in each set.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The second set of 6 charts shows response times: In this set of graphs, going across, we don’t see the actual time as in the first set of graphs,...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The third set of graphs shows transfer sizes: This set of charts is showing the number of commands, versus the transfer size at the bottom.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 3.1.11 SLOT Details...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Overall Health: Indicates the drive Health at the time this command was executed.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The next section shows the Error Counter log.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Section 3 Management...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Top LED Blue when drive is good Bottom LED Red when drive is bad...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Using GUI for FAN problems The fan(s) in the power supply (or power supply modules) are temperature-controlled.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Air Intakes/Exhaust: These should be periodically cleaned, as their blockage could generate unnecessary heat inside the array.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E if there’s rust on the outside, electronic components on the inside could also be rusting –...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E SATA/SAS (On-board): We do use the on-board SAS/SATA controller(s) for our products.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Drive Backplane problems In general, there’s two kinds of drive backplanes we use.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E 4.15 Fibre Host connectivity issues Of all of the possible cables in Aurora LS’s RAID system, by far, the most delicate are Fibre...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Going clockwise from the upper left, you have to have a RAID in order to create a LUN.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E indicate a link at the speed of the client’s adapter.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E The main IPMI window should appear as follows: You can get into the IPMI card at any time.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Monitor Sensors will bring up the following window: You are interested in the items which are red on the left.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E (default password is rdserdse).
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Section 5 Application / Technical / Customer Notes...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Left-click on Accessories: Section 5 Application / Technical Notes...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Section 5 Application / Technical Notes...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Left-click on Command Prompt: Section 5 Application / Technical Notes...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E This will open a command prompt window, which looks as follows: From the command prompt, type:...
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Type: [Ctrl-F].
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Left-click on the Find Next button: The computer will search for the text specified.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Press [enter].
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E You will know the search is complete when the following pop-up window appears: When it is finished, left-click on the OK button, and close the Registry Editor, then...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Additional Administration Functions Webmin has a number of additional functions which can provide additional functionality to the...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E IP Address Firewall It is possible to set webmin to deny or allow specific IP addresses access to the array.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Default to NumaRAID GUI after Login You can set Webmin, so that the NumaRAID GUI is always the first thing which appears after...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Find the IP Addresses of Other NumaRAID(s) on the Network If you are logged into one NumaRAID array, and want to find out the addresses of other...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Left-click on the option within this group, called Change Passwords.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Once you have seen the data, you will get option buttons at the bottom to run a Short Self- Test, Extended Self-Test, or a Data Collection test.
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G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Although you do not have to log out of the array, it is better if you do, as the logging in/out are logged by Webmin.
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Fibre Channel Switch Zoning With Fibre Channel, complexities are shifted from the client to the switch (if you are using a...
G A L A X Y ® A U R O U R A C O N F I G U R A T I O N A N D S Y S T E M I N T E G R A T I O N G U I D E Infiniband Switch Configurations Quick note about Infiniband switches: Infiniband switches are not the same as Fibre Channel...
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