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Version 1.1 July 2009

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  • Page 1 Galaxy Aurora Series ® RAID Storage System Configuration and System Integration Guide Version 1.1 July 2009...
  • Page 2 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...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    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 ..............................4...
  • Page 4 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 ................21 2.1.2...

  • Page 5: Copyright 2009

    Rorke Data and the Rorke Data logo are registered trademarks of Rorke Data, Inc. Rorke Data and other names prefixed with “Aurora” and “Galaxy” are trademarks of Rorke Data, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both. Infiniband is a registered trademark of System I/O, Inc.

  • Page 6: Safety Precautions

    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...

  • Page 7: Conventions

    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 Conventions Naming...

  • Page 8: Galaxy® Aurora Eos Updates

    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®...
  • Page 9 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...

  • Page 10: Introduction 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...

  • Page 11: Basic Features And Advantages

    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 1.1.2 Basic Features and Advantages Galaxy®...

  • Page 12: Model Variations

    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 Model Variations 1.2.1 Galaxy®...

  • Page 13: Product Description

    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...
  • Page 14 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 A) Upper Power Supply Module...

  • Page 15: Component Specifications

    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 module itself, or the AC outlet.

  • Page 16: Raid Storage Specifications

    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 ...

  • Page 17: Mounting / Securing Aurora

    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 Advanced management functions available via Windows Terminal Service Optional SAN Management Software...

  • Page 18: Installation Sequence

    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 equipment in this environment is 122°F (50°C).
  • Page 19 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: Section 1 Intro and Overview...
  • Page 20 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...
  • Page 21 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 ...

  • Page 22: Basic Setup

    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 2 Basic Setup...

  • Page 23: Installing Drives Into The Aurora Figure 2.2

    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 Power LED.

  • Page 24: Configuration Setup

    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 Connect the second power cord to a second active powered AC outlet (preferably at the same source as the first one), then connect the other end to the second power supply module on the...
  • Page 25 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 from your client.

  • Page 26: Installing San Management On Aurora Clients

    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 Setup the IP address to :192.168.1.2...
  • Page 27 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 StorNext GUI appears: Clik the ‘Download Client Software’...
  • Page 28 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 must know your OS version for the next screen: The appropriate StorNext zipped driver is sent to your client and will be saved on your client...
  • Page 29 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 Navigate to your desktop and clik on the driver zip file to unzip it.
  • Page 30 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 Select the ‘Custom’...
  • Page 31 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 Clik next to bring up the ‘Finish’...
  • Page 32 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 Clik on the ‘FS Name Servers’...
  • Page 33 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 Go back to the same location: Start / Programs /Stornext / Stornext client configuration This time you can see that the MDC StorNext file system is being seen by your client since the...
  • Page 34 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 example we picked ‘E’...

  • Page 35: Remote Administration

    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 Clik OK and a reboot message window appears.
  • Page 36 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 http://192.168.1.129:10000 You will see a login window.

  • Page 37: Aurora Gui Or Command Line Menu

    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 Management...
  • Page 38 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 your local computer you enter the GUI through the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
  • Page 39 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 consecutive.
  • Page 40 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 screen is used to perform a number of utility functions as described below.
  • Page 41 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 middle table displays or clears the error log.
  • Page 42 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 At the top of the screen, the RAID name is shown, along with the amount of cache assigned to it, the capacity of the RAID, the RAID level, number of devices, and overall status.
  • Page 43 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 Start of LUN1 (Offset) --------------------...
  • Page 44 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 LUN Details Module Index...
  • Page 45 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 next to Adapters at the bottom.
  • Page 46 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 Modern hard drives have sensors within them that can log and detect problems, which may cause the drive to prematurely fail.
  • Page 47 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 Device: Shows the manufacturer, model number, and firmware revision for the device.
  • Page 48 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 twice, and it happened to be in the cache of the drive, then the drive would not have to read it again from the disks, so in general, this number would be the...
  • Page 49 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 write the sector more than once, based on a verify failure).
  • Page 50 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 3.3V –...
  • Page 51 ADAPTER Details Module Config NumaRAID Network Management Ports Port Name Current IP DHCP IP Address Netmask 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...

  • Page 52: Troubleshooting Aurora

    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 4 Troubleshooting Guide...

  • Page 53: Gui Status Indicators

    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...

  • Page 54: Using Gui For Fan Problems

    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 details button for Infiniband / Networking is cliked the reason for the critical condition is shown in the next screen.

  • Page 55: Using Gui For Power Supply Problems

    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 Clik the details for FAN and this display screen shows which fan to replace inside the Aurora: Using GUI for Power Supply problems...

  • Page 56: Using Gui For Raid Problems

    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 Clik the Power Details button: Using GUI for RAID problems...
  • Page 57 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 Clik on the details button for the RAID system and a display will show which drive is bad and needs replacement.

  • Page 58: Using Gui To View Or Email Logs

    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 Call your vendor for a replacement drive module.

  • Page 59: Further Technical Help

    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 Further Technical help There are more technical documents available for Aurora that go into more depth that are...

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