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... for IP Networks Storage Area Networks (SANs) have traditionally been reserved for security surveillance and A/V applications. The recent introduction of iSCSI has extended the powerful centralized storage capabilities of the SAN array via the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) command set. By utilizing existing Ethernet technology, the costs associated with 5 SATA Bays Introduction D-Link's DSN-1100-10 iSCSI SAN array is significantly...
... for IP Networks Storage Area Networks (SANs) have traditionally been reserved for security surveillance and A/V applications. The recent introduction of iSCSI has extended the powerful centralized storage capabilities of the SAN array via the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) command set. By utilizing existing Ethernet technology, the costs associated with 5 SATA Bays Introduction D-Link's DSN-1100-10 iSCSI SAN array is significantly...
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...network throughput and reducing CPU overhead. The DSN-1100-10 supports jumbo frames and VLAN tagging to segregate traffic into isolated zones for easy management • Remote Monitoring and Configuration • CHAP Authentication Helps Halt Intruders • SSL Security to Management Console xStack Storage® 4x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array... video editing, video post production applications, the DSN-1100-10 may provide the performance and functionality needed. D-Link's volume virtualization technology utilizes the concept of the battery's charge. drive can be a valuable tool to a single ...
...network throughput and reducing CPU overhead. The DSN-1100-10 supports jumbo frames and VLAN tagging to segregate traffic into isolated zones for easy management • Remote Monitoring and Configuration • CHAP Authentication Helps Halt Intruders • SSL Security to Management Console xStack Storage® 4x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array... video editing, video post production applications, the DSN-1100-10 may provide the performance and functionality needed. D-Link's volume virtualization technology utilizes the concept of the battery's charge. drive can be a valuable tool to a single ...
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... Ordering Information Part Number DSN-1100-10 DSN-210-SW DSN-1100-10-LW • CE Class A, FCC Class A, C-Tick Class A, VCCI Class A • CSA 60950-1, UL60950-1, IEC 60950-1, EN 60950-1 • 3 Year Limited1 (Manufacturers warranty on Hard Drives) • DSN-1100-10-LW • 1 year (9 hours per day / 5 days per week Technical Support) Description xStack Storage® 4X1GbE iSCSI SAN Array with 5 SATA Bays...
... Ordering Information Part Number DSN-1100-10 DSN-210-SW DSN-1100-10-LW • CE Class A, FCC Class A, C-Tick Class A, VCCI Class A • CSA 60950-1, UL60950-1, IEC 60950-1, EN 60950-1 • 3 Year Limited1 (Manufacturers warranty on Hard Drives) • DSN-1100-10-LW • 1 year (9 hours per day / 5 days per week Technical Support) Description xStack Storage® 4X1GbE iSCSI SAN Array with 5 SATA Bays...
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D-Link xStack Storage iSCSI SAN Arrays Managed SAN Solutions (DSN-1100-10, 2100-10, 3100-10, 3200-10, 3300-10, 3400-10, 3500-10, 5110-10, 5210-10, 5410-10, 5000-10) Management Center Software User's Guide Version 1.4
D-Link xStack Storage iSCSI SAN Arrays Managed SAN Solutions (DSN-1100-10, 2100-10, 3100-10, 3200-10, 3300-10, 3400-10, 3500-10, 5110-10, 5210-10, 5410-10, 5000-10) Management Center Software User's Guide Version 1.4
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... 2.7.0 and added more summary information to Chapter 1 Version 1.4 - Updated for any export compliance questions. Initial release based on Software version 2.0.0 Version 1.1 - Updated for software version 2.8.0 xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide iii Updated for software version 2.5.1 and minor formatting corrections Version 1.3 - Updated for software version 2.5.0 and redundant controller support Version 1.2 - Please...
... 2.7.0 and added more summary information to Chapter 1 Version 1.4 - Updated for any export compliance questions. Initial release based on Software version 2.0.0 Version 1.1 - Updated for software version 2.8.0 xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide iii Updated for software version 2.5.1 and minor formatting corrections Version 1.3 - Updated for software version 2.5.0 and redundant controller support Version 1.2 - Please...
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...with configuring and managing storage on xStack Storage® systems from D-Link Systems Inc. Preface This document is intended for storage managers and administrators responsible for using the xStack Storage Management Center to the xStack Storage array and possible loss of storage products and concepts. They...information which , if not followed, can cause damage to configure and manage the xStack Storage array from D-Link Systems. Audience This document is intended to assist users with storage array products, and has a basic understanding of data. They are preceded by : Warnings...
...with configuring and managing storage on xStack Storage® systems from D-Link Systems Inc. Preface This document is intended for storage managers and administrators responsible for using the xStack Storage Management Center to the xStack Storage array and possible loss of storage products and concepts. They...information which , if not followed, can cause damage to configure and manage the xStack Storage array from D-Link Systems. Audience This document is intended to assist users with storage array products, and has a basic understanding of data. They are preceded by : Warnings...
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...Please see our support site for the duration of the warranty period on the D-Link website. D-Link provides free technical support for customers within the United States and within Canada: D-Link Technical Support over the Telephone Please see our support site for current number: ...Canada for current number: http://support.dlink.com Monday to 9:00pm EST/EDT D-Link Technical Support over the Internet: http://support.dlink.ca xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide v and Canadian customers can find software updates and user documentation on this...
...Please see our support site for the duration of the warranty period on the D-Link website. D-Link provides free technical support for customers within the United States and within Canada: D-Link Technical Support over the Telephone Please see our support site for current number: ...Canada for current number: http://support.dlink.com Monday to 9:00pm EST/EDT D-Link Technical Support over the Internet: http://support.dlink.ca xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide v and Canadian customers can find software updates and user documentation on this...
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...Introduction ...1 1.1 Product Overview 2 1.2 Terminology and Concepts 2 1.3 Storage Pools and Drives 3 1.4 Volumes 4 1.5 Tasks...6 1.5.1 Initialize a Parity Volume 6 1.5.2 Rebuild a Volume 6 1.5.3 Scan a Volume 7 1.5.4 Grow (Expand) a Volume 7 1.5.5 Reconfigure a Volume 7 1.6 Network Portals 7 1.7 VLANs 8 1.8 LAGs ...8 1.9 iSCSI Target Nodes 8 1.10 iSCSI Log-In, Sessions and Connections 8 1.11 Multiple Connections per ... Deleting User Accounts 32 3.5 Logging Out 33 3.6 Exiting the xStack Storage Management Center 33 3.7 Shutting Down the xStack Storage Array 34 vi Contents
...Introduction ...1 1.1 Product Overview 2 1.2 Terminology and Concepts 2 1.3 Storage Pools and Drives 3 1.4 Volumes 4 1.5 Tasks...6 1.5.1 Initialize a Parity Volume 6 1.5.2 Rebuild a Volume 6 1.5.3 Scan a Volume 7 1.5.4 Grow (Expand) a Volume 7 1.5.5 Reconfigure a Volume 7 1.6 Network Portals 7 1.7 VLANs 8 1.8 LAGs ...8 1.9 iSCSI Target Nodes 8 1.10 iSCSI Log-In, Sessions and Connections 8 1.11 Multiple Connections per ... Deleting User Accounts 32 3.5 Logging Out 33 3.6 Exiting the xStack Storage Management Center 33 3.7 Shutting Down the xStack Storage Array 34 vi Contents
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... 6.2.10 Shutting Down the xStack Storage (Control Tab 94 6.2.11 Selecting a Battery Policy and System Failure Policy (System Policy Tab) .... 94 6.2.12 Configuring User Accounts (Settings Tab 95 6.2.13 Viewing or Changing Advanced Settings (Advanced Settings Tab 96 Chapter 7 Managing Management and Ethernet Ports and Portals 101 7.1 Understanding the Network Settings View 102 xStack Storage Management...
... 6.2.10 Shutting Down the xStack Storage (Control Tab 94 6.2.11 Selecting a Battery Policy and System Failure Policy (System Policy Tab) .... 94 6.2.12 Configuring User Accounts (Settings Tab 95 6.2.13 Viewing or Changing Advanced Settings (Advanced Settings Tab 96 Chapter 7 Managing Management and Ethernet Ports and Portals 101 7.1 Understanding the Network Settings View 102 xStack Storage Management...
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... 104 7.3 Viewing or Changing the Ethernet Port Settings 105 7.4 Working with Network Portals 107 7.4.1 Creating Network Portals 107 7.4.2 Deleting a Network Portal 108 7.4.3 Pinging from a Network Portal 109 7.5 Grouping and Ungrouping Ports 110 7.5.1 Grouping Ports 111 7.5.2 ...xStack Storage 117 8.2 Removing an xStack Storage 118 8.3 Force System Failover 119 Chapter 9 Best Practices ...121 9.1 Saving Configuration Settings 122 9.2 Resetting Display Preferences 122 9.3 Working with Firewalls 122 Chapter 10 Troubleshooting ...125 10.1 Downloading a System Diagnostic Capture 126 10...
... 104 7.3 Viewing or Changing the Ethernet Port Settings 105 7.4 Working with Network Portals 107 7.4.1 Creating Network Portals 107 7.4.2 Deleting a Network Portal 108 7.4.3 Pinging from a Network Portal 109 7.5 Grouping and Ungrouping Ports 110 7.5.1 Grouping Ports 111 7.5.2 ...xStack Storage 117 8.2 Removing an xStack Storage 118 8.3 Force System Failover 119 Chapter 9 Best Practices ...121 9.1 Saving Configuration Settings 122 9.2 Resetting Display Preferences 122 9.3 Working with Firewalls 122 Chapter 10 Troubleshooting ...125 10.1 Downloading a System Diagnostic Capture 126 10...
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... This chapter provides an introduction to the D-Link xStack Storage SAN system, and the terminology and concepts associated with it. Topics in this chapter include: Section 1.1, Product Overview Section 1.2, Terminology and Concepts Section 1.3, Storage Pools and Drives Section 1.4, Volumes Section 1.5, Tasks Section 1.6, Network Portals Section 1.7, VLANs Section 1.8, LAGs...
... This chapter provides an introduction to the D-Link xStack Storage SAN system, and the terminology and concepts associated with it. Topics in this chapter include: Section 1.1, Product Overview Section 1.2, Terminology and Concepts Section 1.3, Storage Pools and Drives Section 1.4, Volumes Section 1.5, Tasks Section 1.6, Network Portals Section 1.7, VLANs Section 1.8, LAGs...
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... management are easily established using the storage system's volume management, initiator, target, network portal, and Link Aggregation Group (LAG) features. 1.1 Product Overview The D-Link xStack Storage system is to virtualize disk storage for exchanging data between the customer's servers and the xStack Storage system. A variety of benefits and features from interfering with the xStack Storage system can also be very high...
... management are easily established using the storage system's volume management, initiator, target, network portal, and Link Aggregation Group (LAG) features. 1.1 Product Overview The D-Link xStack Storage system is to virtualize disk storage for exchanging data between the customer's servers and the xStack Storage system. A variety of benefits and features from interfering with the xStack Storage system can also be very high...
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..., iSCSI is that name. From the network's perspective, iSCSI is an end-to-end storage block protocol that makes it 's a superset of volume management. Traditionally, a local SCSI bus connects a single initiator to up to TCP/IP's client/server architecture. The xStack Storage system serves as disks or drives or SCSI Logical Units, depending on the...
..., iSCSI is that name. From the network's perspective, iSCSI is an end-to-end storage block protocol that makes it 's a superset of volume management. Traditionally, a local SCSI bus connects a single initiator to up to TCP/IP's client/server architecture. The xStack Storage system serves as disks or drives or SCSI Logical Units, depending on the...
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... already failed and have not been removed from several ways (see the storage space on them at that are placed in the Unusable Pool: Drives not available for use by an xStack Storage system. Only drives in the Base Pool can only be used in the Base Pool.... Volume Volumes can be used to the Base Pool at this volume). A drive that can be Initialized by the Administrator to make the drive available for volumes. The xStack Storage system constructs a volume from a single drive. Disk drives currently being used to hold Volume data or ready to be used for use...
... already failed and have not been removed from several ways (see the storage space on them at that are placed in the Unusable Pool: Drives not available for use by an xStack Storage system. Only drives in the Base Pool can only be used in the Base Pool.... Volume Volumes can be used to the Base Pool at this volume). A drive that can be Initialized by the Administrator to make the drive available for volumes. The xStack Storage system constructs a volume from a single drive. Disk drives currently being used to hold Volume data or ready to be used for use...
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...This adds a storage cost in that data integrity is written to keep a complete copy of a drive failure. Redundancy requires that the volume data be stored on a single drive). The parity information provides redundancy without having to the selected Extents. For example, if a 10 GB striped ...2x x + 1 For organizations that data must be used by one full copy of any single drive. For a parity organization, the xStack Storage system distributes the volume into the array described for a parity volume of four members is not available to hold parity. Each stripe consists of...
...This adds a storage cost in that data integrity is written to keep a complete copy of a drive failure. Redundancy requires that the volume data be stored on a single drive). The parity information provides redundancy without having to the selected Extents. For example, if a 10 GB striped ...2x x + 1 For organizations that data must be used by one full copy of any single drive. For a parity organization, the xStack Storage system distributes the volume into the array described for a parity volume of four members is not available to hold parity. Each stripe consists of...
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...in extents. The extents are performed. You can be seen on the xStack Storage Management Console. An Initialization task can be suspended and resumed, but cannot be cancelled. 1.5.2 Rebuild a Volume When a drive fails, every redundant volume that occupied space on that failed or was ... or available drive, even if it has 2x members. 1.5 Tasks The xStack Storage system can select the organization and all other similar type drive from the spare or available pool for the rebuild. If a matching drive cannot be divided. For striped organizations, the xStack Storage system must...
...in extents. The extents are performed. You can be seen on the xStack Storage Management Console. An Initialization task can be suspended and resumed, but cannot be cancelled. 1.5.2 Rebuild a Volume When a drive fails, every redundant volume that occupied space on that failed or was ... or available drive, even if it has 2x members. 1.5 Tasks The xStack Storage system can select the organization and all other similar type drive from the spare or available pool for the rebuild. If a matching drive cannot be divided. For striped organizations, the xStack Storage system must...
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...drive is rebuilt individually, if possible, onto any space that can increase the size of a volume. When a volume is reconfigured, you should have sufficient capacity to 150 GB, you can be cancelled. xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide 7 You can access the storage system. Each iSCSI Target Node identifies the network... can also schedule a Volume Scan for the period of 250 GB. The system administrator can specify the RAID organization, hard disk drives to 150 GB, only 50 GB of free space will be used with its original size during this task fixes them...
...drive is rebuilt individually, if possible, onto any space that can increase the size of a volume. When a volume is reconfigured, you should have sufficient capacity to 150 GB, you can be cancelled. xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide 7 You can access the storage system. Each iSCSI Target Node identifies the network... can also schedule a Volume Scan for the period of 250 GB. The system administrator can specify the RAID organization, hard disk drives to 150 GB, only 50 GB of free space will be used with its original size during this task fixes them...
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... is necessary. One target node is automatically generated for additional security authentication. 1.10 iSCSI Log-In, Sessions and Connections When an iSCSI initiator node needs access to the volumes in an xStack Storage system, it is to use a Virtual LAN (VLAN) as a filter to... are not supported. 1.7 VLANs The xStack Storage system can use on an xStack Storage system. Access to storage on each volume. LACP protocols are the only supported option. 1.9 iSCSI Target Nodes An iSCSI target node is granted to Network Portal with a network portal (that volume. Multiple connections can...
... is necessary. One target node is automatically generated for additional security authentication. 1.10 iSCSI Log-In, Sessions and Connections When an iSCSI initiator node needs access to the volumes in an xStack Storage system, it is to use a Virtual LAN (VLAN) as a filter to... are not supported. 1.7 VLANs The xStack Storage system can use on an xStack Storage system. Access to storage on each volume. LACP protocols are the only supported option. 1.9 iSCSI Target Nodes An iSCSI target node is granted to Network Portal with a network portal (that volume. Multiple connections can...
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..., provision, and manage the storage on the D-Link Systems Inc Web site: http://www.dlink.com xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide 9 This User's Guide describes how to use the xStack Storage Management Center to your D-Link DSN iSCSI SAN Array, please consult the Interoperability Matrix found on xStack Storage arrays. It includes an overview of the xStack Storage Management Center, a description of...
..., provision, and manage the storage on the D-Link Systems Inc Web site: http://www.dlink.com xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide 9 This User's Guide describes how to use the xStack Storage Management Center to your D-Link DSN iSCSI SAN Array, please consult the Interoperability Matrix found on xStack Storage arrays. It includes an overview of the xStack Storage Management Center, a description of...