mLogic mRack DIT, Manual

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Page 2: ...LLC All rights reserved mLogic mRack DIT are registered trademarks of mLogic LLC 1 mRack DIT is a 1U rack mountable hybrid RAID and LTO tape archiving solution designed to support today s digital wor...

Page 3: ...olt port 2 Two Thunderbolt cables included 3 Six Hard Drives or SSD s for RAID operation not included 4 Compatible tape backup archive software Note If running a system with Thunderbolt 3 it is necess...

Page 4: ...3 Unpack your mRack DIT 12 M3x4mm screws...

Page 5: ...A C Power Jack 2 6 Bay Hardware RAID 3 Power Button 1 RAID Power Indicator 5 Cartridge Unload button 6 LTO Power Indicator 4 LTO Tape Drive 7 LTO Single Character Display SCD and Green Ready light 7 W...

Page 6: ...card the screws as they will be use to mount the HDD SSD Discard plastic insert Mount the drives using the included M3x4 screws ONLY Carefully insert the populated drive trays into mRack DIT Engage la...

Page 7: ...IT as shown above Connect the free ends of the cables to Thunderbolt Bus 1 and Thunderbolt Bus 2 on your Mac as shown above mRack DIT features two distinct Thunderbolt buses one for the RAID and one f...

Page 8: ...o the power recepticle on the rear of mRack DIT and plug the other end in to a power outlet 1 Connect the included Thunderbolt cables to the mRack DIT as shown above Connect the free end of the cable...

Page 9: ...on the mLogicDITv2 dmg package to start the installer Click the Continue button and follow the prompts to install the driver Please note that a restart will be required Note The mRack DIT Driver and R...

Page 10: ...ck on the mLogicWebGUIv2 dmg package to start the installer Click the Continue button and follow the prompts to install the RAID Management GUI 9 Installing the mRack DIT driver and RAID Management GU...

Page 11: ...imately 12 seconds The system is ready when the Green Ready Light on the LTO is steady on Note If mRack DIT is powered on with a tape cartridge installed in the LTO drive the system will perform a muc...

Page 12: ...displayed under the SAS entry as shown below If the mLogic SAS Controller is not displayed make sure you have installed the mLogicDITv2 dmg driver Once mRack DIT is powered on it takes approximately...

Page 13: ...e and protects data in the event of a single drive failure Storage capacity of five drives RAID 6 Data Striping with Double Parity Increases performance and protects data in the event one or two drive...

Page 14: ...Configure the RAID continued 4 Launch the mLogic RAID Management GUI The following window will appear 13...

Page 15: ...continued 5 Click on Create Array Select the RAID level from the dropdown menu as shown below 14 Note Choose the appropiate RAID level for your workflow You can set up multiple RAID sets of different...

Page 16: ...Configure the RAID continued 6 Select Quick Init Click on Select All to enable all drives to be part of the RAID Click on the Create button 15...

Page 17: ...Configure the RAID continued 7 A window like the following will appear Click Close 8 The RAID set will now be displayed as shown below 16...

Page 18: ...Configure the RAID continued 9 The following Window will be displayed Click on the Initialize button 10 Select mRack VD0 0 Media and click on Erase 17...

Page 19: ...Configure the RAID continued 11 Enter a name and click on the Erase button 12 Click on Done button 18...

Page 20: ...Configure the RAID continued 13 The following Window will be displayed The RAID is now formatted and will mount on the desktop You are ready to go 19...

Page 21: ...mode to ensure your Mac does not go to sleep when archiving content macOS systems can corrupt an LTO tape cartridge if the system goes to sleep or hibernates while an offload is in process To turn off...

Page 22: ...application that you are running to unload the LTO tape cartridge This ensures that the application has finished writing data to the tape before the cartridge is unloaded 1 2 During the unload process...

Page 23: ...hard disk We recommend the applications listed below to assist with the backup archive process In addition to creating searchable indexes and verifying archives these applications optimize how data i...

Page 24: ...ndicate that cleaning is required To clean insert the included cleaning cartridge in to the LTO drive Cleaning is performed automatically When the cleaning is finished the cartridge is unloaded and th...

Page 25: ...read write to the current and previous LTO generation and read two generations back LTO Tape Cartridges 2500GB Ultrium6 1500GB Ultrium5 LTO 6 Read Write Read Write LTO 7 Read Write 6000GB Ultrium7 Rea...

Page 26: ...b m a D E L t l u a F n e e r g D E L y d a e R D C S e d o M f f O n O k n a l B l a n o i t a r e p O Activity tape movement in Operational mode f f O g n i h s a l F k n a l B g n i h s a l F f f...

Page 27: ...d Displaying an error code Flashing green once per second Off Off Off Off On or off Off Off Off Off Off On or off Off Off Off Off Off On or off Off Off Off If the drive contains a cartridge when the d...

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Page 29: ...te the code on the SCD then go to Appendix C Flashing amber Off Displaying The drive needs to be cleaned Flashing amber twice per second The drive detected an error and is performing firmware recovery...

Page 30: ...rror Code Cause and Action Temperature problem The tape drive detected that the recommended operating temperature was exceeded Complete one or more of these actions Ensure that the cooling fan is rota...

Page 31: ...ltrium 1 2 3 and 4 cartridges are not supported in mRack DIT LTO 7 models Ultrium 1 2 and 3 cartridges are not supported in mRack DIT LTO 6 models Drive does not accept an expired Cleaning Cartridge M...

Page 32: ...rive See Cleaning Cartridge on page 12 Write operation to a write protected cartridge was attempted includes any attempt to overwrite a WORM protected tape Ensure that the tape cartridge is the correc...

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