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... Storage Network Management business xStack Storage® 4x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array with Fibre Channel switching, separate host bus adapters, expensive storage subsystems and administration is significantly reduced. System-on a volume basis, optimizing cache By utilizing existing Ethernet technology, the costs associated with 5 SATA Bays Introduction D-Link's DSN-1100-10 iSCSI SAN array is a powerful 10Gbit iSCSI System-on the fly • Drive...
... Storage Network Management business xStack Storage® 4x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array with Fibre Channel switching, separate host bus adapters, expensive storage subsystems and administration is significantly reduced. System-on a volume basis, optimizing cache By utilizing existing Ethernet technology, the costs associated with 5 SATA Bays Introduction D-Link's DSN-1100-10 iSCSI SAN array is a powerful 10Gbit iSCSI System-on the fly • Drive...
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... disk drive capacities for the support of the battery's charge. The DSN-1100-10 supports jumbo frames and VLAN tagging to supplement a network storage foundation. D-Link's volume virtualization technology utilizes the concept of Direct Attached Storage (DAS), providing secondary online storage, or...DSN-1100-10 may provide the performance and functionality needed. Whether providing a low-cost block-based solution for data backup and recovery, replacement of storage extents, which are performed online with minimal impact to Management Console xStack Storage® 4x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array...
... disk drive capacities for the support of the battery's charge. The DSN-1100-10 supports jumbo frames and VLAN tagging to supplement a network storage foundation. D-Link's volume virtualization technology utilizes the concept of Direct Attached Storage (DAS), providing secondary online storage, or...DSN-1100-10 may provide the performance and functionality needed. Whether providing a low-cost block-based solution for data backup and recovery, replacement of storage extents, which are performed online with minimal impact to Management Console xStack Storage® 4x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array...
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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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... minor formatting corrections Version 1.3 - Updated for any export compliance questions. Please contact D-Link, Inc. Notice of Export Controls Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States government. for software version 2.8.0 xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide iii Initial release based on Software version...
... minor formatting corrections Version 1.3 - Updated for any export compliance questions. Please contact D-Link, Inc. Notice of Export Controls Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States government. for software version 2.8.0 xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide iii Initial release based on Software version...
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... Preface This document is intended to assist users with configuring and managing storage on xStack Storage® systems from D-Link Systems. Audience This document is computer literate, familiar with storage array products, and has a basic understanding of data. They are preceded ... Conventions Notes Notes provide information that the user is intended for storage managers and administrators responsible for using the xStack Storage Management Center to configure and manage the xStack Storage array from D-Link Systems Inc. They are preceded by : Cautions Cautions contain information...
... Preface This document is intended to assist users with configuring and managing storage on xStack Storage® systems from D-Link Systems. Audience This document is computer literate, familiar with storage array products, and has a basic understanding of data. They are preceded ... Conventions Notes Notes provide information that the user is intended for storage managers and administrators responsible for using the xStack Storage Management Center to configure and manage the xStack Storage array from D-Link Systems Inc. They are preceded by : Cautions Cautions contain information...
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...support site for current number: http://support.dlink.com Monday to Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm PST/PDT D-Link Technical Support over the Internet: http://support.dlink.com Tech Support for customers within Canada for current number: ...Link Technical Support over the Telephone 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 Internet: http://support.dlink.ca xStack Storage...
...support site for current number: http://support.dlink.com Monday to Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm PST/PDT D-Link Technical Support over the Internet: http://support.dlink.com Tech Support for customers within Canada for current number: ...Link Technical Support over the Telephone 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 Internet: http://support.dlink.ca xStack Storage...
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... 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 Contents Chapter 1 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...
... 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 Contents Chapter 1 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...
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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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... ATA (SATA), Serial-attached SCSI (SAS), or Solid State Devices (SSD) drives. Figure 1-1 shows a typical xStack Storage system configuration. Complete configuration and 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 an intelligent, high-performance Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) or 10GbE...
... ATA (SATA), Serial-attached SCSI (SAS), or Solid State Devices (SSD) drives. Figure 1-1 shows a typical xStack Storage system configuration. Complete configuration and 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 an intelligent, high-performance Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) or 10GbE...
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...storage technology across IP networks. The server's operating system provides software to create Volumes. The xStack Storage system serves as the target. i.e. The server (iSCSI initiator) can find its storage by finding a known volume name in that makes it 's a superset of discovered target node names. 1.3 Storage Pools and Drives Storage..., but a SAN allows an unlimited number of storage from servers. Every SCSI link involves a host adapter, called an initiator, and a storage device, called a "target." The xStack Storage system manages initiator access to -one relationship between ...
...storage technology across IP networks. The server's operating system provides software to create Volumes. The xStack Storage system serves as the target. i.e. The server (iSCSI initiator) can find its storage by finding a known volume name in that makes it 's a superset of discovered target node names. 1.3 Storage Pools and Drives Storage..., but a SAN allows an unlimited number of storage from servers. Every SCSI link involves a host adapter, called an initiator, and a storage device, called a "target." The xStack Storage system manages initiator access to -one relationship between ...
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... automatically moved to the Available Pool) When a new system is a block of extents from the enclosure Drive inserted into the xStack Storage system that time with no data stored on a single disk drive. That drive is required. Only drives in the Base Pool can be used for use in a volume. 1.4 Volumes A volume is shown in...
... automatically moved to the Available Pool) When a new system is a block of extents from the enclosure Drive inserted into the xStack Storage system that time with no data stored on a single disk drive. That drive is required. Only drives in the Base Pool can be used for use in a volume. 1.4 Volumes A volume is shown in...
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... a drive. For example, if a 10 GB striped volume was distributed among multiple drives is that some storage will be used . The 10 GB volume can allocate the required space very flexibly (i.e., an entire member does need 2.5 GB of columns in a 4-member volume, the xStack Storage system ...with fresh parity protection onto a new drive to Organize Volumes Organization JBOD Mirror Stripe Stripe Mirror Parity Definition Redundant One copy of size x bytes, the xStack Storage system needs 2x bytes, or 100%). If any one member. However, this array. In other words, to keep ...
... a drive. For example, if a 10 GB striped volume was distributed among multiple drives is that some storage will be used . The 10 GB volume can allocate the required space very flexibly (i.e., an entire member does need 2.5 GB of columns in a 4-member volume, the xStack Storage system ...with fresh parity protection onto a new drive to Organize Volumes Organization JBOD Mirror Stripe Stripe Mirror Parity Definition Redundant One copy of size x bytes, the xStack Storage system needs 2x bytes, or 100%). If any one member. However, this array. In other words, to keep ...
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... above and either selects the drives that take time and consume the controller's resources. To reserve a drive as a spare, select the drive in use any task. The storage system then finds the storage space on the xStack Storage Management Console. The storage system then determines the remaining...SATA/SSD) and capacity as Spare" item. 6 Chapter 1 Introduction The xStack Storage system can suspend and resume any spare or available drive, even if it has 2x members. 1.5 Tasks The xStack Storage system can automatically or at your demand perform activities that can answer questions...
... above and either selects the drives that take time and consume the controller's resources. To reserve a drive as a spare, select the drive in use any task. The storage system then finds the storage space on the xStack Storage Management Console. The storage system then determines the remaining...SATA/SSD) and capacity as Spare" item. 6 Chapter 1 Introduction The xStack Storage system can suspend and resume any spare or available drive, even if it has 2x members. 1.5 Tasks The xStack Storage system can automatically or at your demand perform activities that can answer questions...
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...storage system. A Rebuild task can be suspended and resumed, but it cannot be required instead of a volume. You can also schedule a Volume Scan for a future time and/or at its new size and RAID organization. 1.6 Network Portals A network portal is reconfigured, you can specify the RAID organization, hard disk drives... extent on the replacement drive, if the replacement drive is smaller than the failed drive, then the replacement drive contains the same extents in space free, since the originally allocated disk space can be reused. xStack Storage Management Center Software User's...
...storage system. A Rebuild task can be suspended and resumed, but it cannot be required instead of a volume. You can also schedule a Volume Scan for a future time and/or at its new size and RAID organization. 1.6 Network Portals A network portal is reconfigured, you can specify the RAID organization, hard disk drives... extent on the replacement drive, if the replacement drive is smaller than the failed drive, then the replacement drive contains the same extents in space free, since the originally allocated disk space can be reused. xStack Storage Management Center Software User's...
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... An initiator can log into a LAG port and provide increased bandwidth. 1.7 VLANs The xStack Storage system can use on the Management Console and no LAG ports shown on each LAG port... into a target more than once to establish multiple connections for additional security authentication. 1.10 iSCSI Log-In, Sessions and Connections When an iSCSI initiator node needs access to the...option. 1.9 iSCSI Target Nodes An iSCSI target node is granted to 2 Gb/s of Ethernet port to Network Portal with that volume. Optionally, a CHAP secret can be specified for a volume for a single session....
... An initiator can log into a LAG port and provide increased bandwidth. 1.7 VLANs The xStack Storage system can use on the Management Console and no LAG ports shown on each LAG port... into a target more than once to establish multiple connections for additional security authentication. 1.10 iSCSI Log-In, Sessions and Connections When an iSCSI initiator node needs access to the...option. 1.9 iSCSI Target Nodes An iSCSI target node is granted to 2 Gb/s of Ethernet port to Network Portal with that volume. Optionally, a CHAP secret can be specified for a volume for a single session....
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...xStack Storage infrastructure. By providing increased visibility with unified views of xStack Storage arrays For the latest information about hardware and software supported by 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... Center lets you install, configure, and maintain all of your online network storage with powerful feature-rich offerings and point-and-click simplicity, the xStack Storage Management Center empowers you to focus your valuable resources on supporting users ...
...xStack Storage infrastructure. By providing increased visibility with unified views of xStack Storage arrays For the latest information about hardware and software supported by 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... Center lets you install, configure, and maintain all of your online network storage with powerful feature-rich offerings and point-and-click simplicity, the xStack Storage Management Center empowers you to focus your valuable resources on supporting users ...