Nexsan UNITY5000, Hardware Reference Manual

Page 1: ...UNIFIED HYBRID STORAGE Nexsan Unity UNITY5000 Hardware Reference Guide Nexsan 900 E Campbell CA 95008 p 866 263 9726 www nexsan com Firmware Version Unity1 4 ...

Page 2: ...he user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense Electromagnetic Emissions FCC Class A EN 55022 Class A EN 61000 3 2 3 3 CISPR 22 Class A ICES 003 Electromagnetic Immunity EN 55024 CISPR 24 EN 61000 4 2 EN 61000 4 3 EN 61000 4 4 EN 61000 4 5 EN 61000 4 6 EN 61000 4 8 EN 61000 4 11 Safety CSA EN IEC UL 60950 1 Compliant UL or CSA Listed USA and Canada CE Marking Europe RoHS R...

Page 3: ...xsan v Related documentation vi Nexsan UNITY vi Nexsan E Series vi Safety notices vii Chapter 1 UNITY5000 hardware 1 UNITY5000 Front and rear views 2 UNITY5000 Front panel LEDs 3 Control panel LEDs 3 Drive carrier LEDs 4 UNITY5000 General specifications 5 Glossary 6 Index 17 Contents Nexsan Unity www nexsan com iii ...

Page 4: ...gs that must be entered by the user in the command line interface or in text fields in the graphical user interface GUI is in monospace bold System messages and non interactive items in the graphical user interface GUI are in italic References to Software User Guides are in italic Notes Tips Cautions and Warnings Note Notes contain important information present alternative procedures or call atten...

Page 5: ...E mail support nexsan com Nexsan Canada 1405 Trans Canada Highway Suite 300 Dorval QC H9P2V9 Canada Support Canada 1 866 463 9726 Nexsan Shipping 302 Enterprise Street Suite A Escondido CA 92029 USA Nexsan UK Units 33 35 Parker Centre Mansfield Road Derby DE21 4SZ United Kingdom Support Europe 44 0 1332 291600 Contents Nexsan Unity www nexsan com v ...

Page 6: ...an Unity Snapshots and Replication Guide Nexsan Unity Expander Unit Reference Guide Nexsan Unity VMware Best Practices Guide Nexsan Unity NFS Interoperability Nexsan Unity Networking Best Practices Guide Nexsan E Series Nexsan E Series E18 E18X Quick Start Guide Nexsan E Series E18 E18V Installation and Maintenance Manual Nexsan E Series E18X E18XV Installation and Maintenance Manual Nexsan E Seri...

Page 7: ...ght and lift with your legs When installing the system as a rack mounted component ensure that all Nexsan supplied mounting fixtures are secure All bolts and screws should be fully tightened Failure to comply with this may result in the unit not being fully supported in the rack and could lead to the product falling from the rack causing personal injury or falling onto other rack components Ensure...

Page 8: ... a dedicated management IPMI network interface The UNITY5000 is available in these configurations Nexsan NST5100 Nexsan NST5110 NAS CIFS NFS support only Nexsan NST5120 Block iSCSI support Nexsan NST5130 Block iSCSI and NAS CIFS NFS support Nexsan NST5300 Nexsan NST5310 NAS CIFS NFS support only Nexsan NST5320 Block iSCSI support Nexsan NST5330 Block iSCSI and NAS CIFS NFS support This section inc...

Page 9: ...etwork interface on some NST5000 models Bottom port LAN1 Management and IPMI interfaces on all models 4 KVM connections 5 Storage connectivity Single SAS port PCIe to Serial Attached SCSI HD Mini SAS host bus adapter 6 Network connectivity 10GbE dual port network PCIe card with RJ 45 interfaces or 10GbE dual port network PCIe card with SFP SR interfaces or GigE dual port network PCIe card with RJ ...

Page 10: ... side of the chassis This table describes what each LED indicates when illuminated and any corrective action you may need to take Table 1 2 UNITY5000 control panel LEDs LED Description Power Indicates power is being supplied to the system s power supply units This LED is illuminated when the system is operating Heartbeat Indicates that power is being supplied to the server board This LED flashes a...

Page 11: ...e that the chassis covers are installed 3 Verify that the heat sinks are installed properly Drive carrier LEDs Each drive carrier on the Unity appliance s chassis has two LEDs a green LED on the left to indicate activity and a red LED on the right to indicate status Table 1 3 UNITY5000 drive carrier LEDs LED Description Green When illuminated the green LED on the drive carrier indicates the drive ...

Page 12: ... 615 mm Weight NST5100 NST5100X 84 lbs NST5300 68 lbs 38 1 Kg 30 1 Kg Advanced power and cooling units Power supply 1 200W Power consumption varies depending on the number and size of drives running fans and room temperature Input voltage 100 240V AC input voltage 11 5A 100V 5 5A 240V AC input frequency 50 60 Hz AC input amperage 11 4 5 Amp DC output voltage 12V 100A 240V 5Vsb 6A 240V 4A 100V DC o...

Page 13: ... or only the changes since the last replication in the case of an incremental update Because the asynchronous data replication function takes a snapshot of the source data on the primary system the data always remains accessible to clients during replication Additionally the asynchronous data replication function keeps track of data transfers during replication by checkpointing the data stream If ...

Page 14: ...rectory service is the software system that stores organizes and provides access to information in a directory A directory service called a naming service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses With the name service type of directory a user does not have to remember the physical address of a network resource providing a name will locate the resource Each resource...

Page 15: ...rrent standard connection type for storage area networks SANs Despite its name Fibre Channel signaling can run on both twisted pair copper wire and fiber optic cables Fibre Channel port Any entity that actively communicates over a Fibre Channel network Usually implemented in a device such as disk storage or a Fibre Channel switch Depending on the system the Fibre Channel ports on Nexsan storage un...

Page 16: ...y wide deployment on the Internet Technically it is not a protocol in itself rather it is the result of simply layering the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP on top of the SSL TLS protocol thus adding the security capabilities of SSL TLS to standard HTTP communications I I O Input Output The communication between an information processing system such as a computer or a Nexsan storage system s Contr...

Page 17: ... 0 to 255 Each target on the is identified by a unique addressing method IQN iSCSI Target public alias This is a symbolic name that you can assign to a target on the The public alias is seen by some iSCSI initiators it can help you identify the target The public alias for a storage pool s default target that is the target that the creates for a storage pool when you first add a LUN to the storage ...

Page 18: ...ge It provides connection failover and load balancing benefits to strengthen the stability of a network storage environment N NAS Network attached storage File level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to clients on the network Network attached storage uses specialized hardware software or both and is often a specialized device built from the ground up for s...

Page 19: ...ber of domains that are required for your network You can use OUs to create an administrative model that you can scale to any size A user can have administrative authority for all OUs in a domain or for a single OU An administrator of an OU does not have to have administrative authority for any other OUs in the domain P PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express A computer expansion card stand...

Page 20: ...tuations where additional fault tolerance is required We recommend adding Nexsan FASTier cache devices to a RAID 6 implementation to improve write performance Random access memory RAM A memory chip that allows stored data to be accessed at any time in any order Commonly used in computers as main operating memory Values in randomaccess memory are often volatile information is lost if power is remov...

Page 21: ...etwork Use this sharing method if your environment consists mainly of Windows based systems SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol The SNMP agent included in the allows you to send SNMP traps to a Network Management Station such as HP OpenView or CA Unicenter when a Critical Error and or Warning event is generated by a source component of the SSD Solid State Disk A high performance storage device...

Page 22: ...locate disk space to a client system initiator connected to the a LUN on the With Thin Provisioning you can flexibly allocate disk space on an LUN to the client system initiator in order to expand the storage capacity available to the client system at any time Thin Provisioning allows you to specify the size of the virtual volume that initiators on the network see when they connect to a LUN irresp...

Page 23: ...l area Typically a WAN consists of two or more local area networks LANs Wizard A graphical user interface type that presents a user with a sequence of dialog boxes that lead the user through a series of well defined steps Glossary Nexsan Unity Hardware Reference Guide www nexsan com 16 ...

Page 24: ...nt panel LEDs 3 Front view 2 G General specifications 5 N NFS sharing vi 1 NST5000 Front panel LEDs 3 Hardware configurations 1 Rear components 2 Storage connectivity 3 P Power failure LED 3 Power LED 3 Power units 5 R Rail kit mounting 5 Rear view 2 S Specifications 5 V Voltage 5 Index Nexsan Unity Hardware Reference Guide www nexsan com 17 ...

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