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About this guide
About this guide
Introduction
This guide provides information about initial hardware setup, and removal and installation of customer-replaceable units
(CRUs) for the Seagate 5005/4005 Series controller enclosures, which can be used with J1212/J1224/J1284 expansion
enclosures. In controller enclosures, controller modules can be purchased with either of two types of host interface: SAS
or FC/iSCSI. An FC/iSCSI controller module’s host ports use converged network adapters, and is informally referred to as
a converged network controller (CNC):
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FC/iSCSI controller enclosure:
Qualified Fibre Channel SFP option supporting (8/16Gb)
Qualified Internet SCSI (10GbE) SFP option
Qualified Internet SCSI (1Gb) Copper RJ-45 SFP option
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SAS (12Gb) controller enclosure
The 5005 and 4005 are SBB-compliant (Storage Bridge Bay) enclosures. These enclosures support large form factor
disks or small form factor disks in 2U12, 2U24 and 5U84 chassis. These chassis form factors support controller enclosures
and expansion enclosures.
The 5005/4005 Series controller enclosures can optionally be cabled to supported expansion enclosures for adding
storage. See also
“Connecting the controller enclosure and optional expansion enclosures” (page 57)
for maximum
configuration information.
IMPORTANT:
Product configuration characteristics for controller and optional expansion enclosures:
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5005/4005 Series supports 2U and 5U chassis form factors that are configurable as either an RBOD or an EBOD.
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5005/4005 Series provides four host ports per controller I/O module (SBB RAID canister).
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5005/4005 Series models are configured with two controller modules per enclosure.
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5005/4005 Series supports intermixing of 2U12 and 2U24 EBODs; however, 2U EBODs and 5U84 EBODs cannot be
intermixed within the same storage system.
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Optional J1224/J1212/J1284 models are configured with two expansion I/O modules (SBB expansion canisters) per
enclosure.
These enclosures support virtual storage, which uses paged-storage technology. For virtual storage, a group of disks with
an assigned RAID level is called a disk group.
Enclosure user interfaces
The 5005/4005 Series enclosures support applications for configuring, monitoring, and managing the storage system.
The web-based application GUI and the command-line interface are briefly described:
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Storage Management Console (SMC) is the web interface for the enclosure, providing access to all common
management functions for virtual storage.
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The command-line interface (CLI) enables you to interact with the storage system using command syntax entered via
the keyboard or scripting.
NOTE:
For more information about enclosure user interfaces, see the following:
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Storage Management Guide or online help
The guide describes the Storage Management Console GUI.
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CLI Reference Guide
