Dell PowerVault NX3500 Support Question
Dell PowerVault NX3500 Support Question
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Question posted by labusaada on May 24th, 2014
Nx3500 Qoute
Dears, Please need to provide us with a qoute for nx3500 with 8 TB usable capacity raid5. Disk type is SATA 7.2
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Answer #1: Posted by TechSupport101 on May 24th, 2014 4:33 AM
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Glossary - Page 3
... system is usually rounded to organize and keep track of processors with networked storage devices. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity, the term is powered on the system board or riser board for connection of file storage. A keyboard is an input device, and a monitor is the data path and physical interface between the processor...
Glossary - Page 5
.... Millimeter(s). MAC address - A portable flash memory storage device integrated with a USB connector. A managed system is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. memory address -
A small circuit board containing DRAM chips that is any system that connects to hard-drive capacity, the term is provided by software. Your system's unique hardware number...
Glossary - Page 7
...that you turn off your system. ROM - Serial-attached SCSI. A standard interface between the system board and storage devices. An I /O port with faster data transmission rates than standard ports. A bar code label on motherboard. R-DIMM - SATA - serial port - A legacy I /O bus interface with a 9-pin connector that transfers data one that contains information supplementing or...
User Manual - Page 16
...Current Consumption 5.2-2.6 A 15 A 10 A
Technical Specifications
PowerVault NX3500 System Specifications
Processor Processor type
Intel Xeon processor 3400 series
Expansion Bus Bus type Expansion slots
PCI Express Generation 2
One x16 half-length ... following information is provided on the device described in all locations. Dell offers comprehensive hardware training and certification.
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 11
...System identification
panel
10
Optical drive
Description
Provides system ID, status information, and system error messages. NOTE: DVD devices are USB 2.0-compliant.
Connect USB devices to a problem. Turns the system ... MAC address, and iDRAC6 Enterprise card MAC address. Two 3.5-inch hot-swappable SATA drives. NOTE: If the system is connected to locate a particular system within...
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 17
... slot (full-height, half-length).
Connector for the iDRAC6 Enterprise card.
Connects a VGA display to the system. Embedded 10/100/1000 NIC connectors. Connect USB devices to the system. Connects a serial device to the system. The ports are USB 2.0-compliant. About Your Solution
17 PowerVault NX3500 Back-Panel Features and Indicators
Figure 1-5.
Administrator's Guide - Page 3
Contents
1 Introduction 17
About This Document 18
Other Information You May Need 19
Terms Used in the Document 19
PowerVault NX3500 Architecture 22 Key Features 23 PowerVault NX3500 Views 23
System Components 24 NAS Controller Pair 24 PowerVault MD Storage 25 BPS 25 Cache 25 iSCSI Connections 25 Internal Network A 26 Internal Network B 26 LAN/Client Network 26...
Administrator's Guide - Page 6
...
CIFS Storage Administrator Account 87 Active Directory Configuration 87 Setting ACLs or SLPs on a CIFS Share 87 Access Using CIFS 89 Configuring CIFS Shares Level Permissions . . . . 90 Removing a CIFS Share 91 Resetting Local Administrator Password. . . . . . 91
Quotas 92 Default Quotas 92 User/Group Specific Quotas 92 Quota Types 93
7 Protecting Data on PowerVault NX3500...
Administrator's Guide - Page 10
... PowerVault NX3500 System. . . . 135
Turning On the PowerVault NX3500 System 136
Installing the Service Pack 136
Expanding the PowerVault NX3500 Storage Capacity 137
Prerequisites 137 Adding LUNs to PowerVault NX3500 138
Running Diagnostics on PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . 139 Online Diagnostics 139 Offline Diagnostics 140
Reinstalling the PowerVault NX3500 141
Replacing a PowerVault NX3500...
Administrator's Guide - Page 17
... of ownership. Introduction
17
The PowerVault NX3500: • Is an enterprise-class storage solution that leverages load balancing and a single distributed file system. • Helps administrators expand existing capacity and improve performance when needed, without impacting the applications or users. • Provides administrative functions for storage administrators who perform day-to...
Administrator's Guide - Page 18
... configuration, and maintenance. Contains additional information on troubleshooting your NAS storage solution. Provides procedures for shutting down, powering up the PowerVault NX3500, the various topologies, and cabling options. About This Document
This document provides information on the PowerVault NX3500 cluster solution architecture and features. Chapter Introduction Setting Up Your...
Administrator's Guide - Page 21
...available and scalable NAS appliance, providing NAS (CIFS and/or NFS) services, which is part of NAS controllers, a BPS, a PowerVault storage subsystem and the NAS Manager. Standby controller
A server appliance that is connected. PowerVault NAS Manager
The web-based user interface, which the storage subsystem is not installed with the PowerVault NX3500 DSFS software.
SAN network (iSCSI...
Administrator's Guide - Page 38
... disks available for the disk group in Select Capacity table.
38
Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution
For automatic configuration, the RAID Level and Capacity window is displayed.
4 Click Next. Alternatively, you can right-click Unconfigured Capacity, and select Create Disk Group from the pop-up menu. The Disk Group Name and Physical Disk Selection window is displayed.
5 Type...
Administrator's Guide - Page 41
... not configured yet, no hosts will be added to the storage array. The host group is added to this time. Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution
41
9 In the Customize Advanced Virtual Disk Parameters window, select the appropriate Virtual Disk I/O characteristics type.
10 Select one of the following actions: • Select Mappings and then Define Host...
Administrator's Guide - Page 50
... the same subnets configured on the MD3xx0i storage array. The other iSCSI clients.
12 The Configuration Summary window is displayed.
50
Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution NOTE: The MD storage array best practices recommend different subnets configured on two of the MD controllers. For MD devices such as the MD3200i with the backend storage device (PowerVault MD3xx0i).
Administrator's Guide - Page 51
Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution
51 The Configuration Results window is a checklist of items to review:
• Ensure no duplicate IP addresses are present • Check ...
the NAS controllers to your controllers after this point.
Listed below is displayed. All settings will be applied to the backend MD3xx0i storage device 13 Click Next on the Configuration Summary window.
Administrator's Guide - Page 52
When you through the steps to the backend MD storage device. Enter the IQNs provided in your default web browser. The Configuration Wizard is launched...the IQNs for each controller. NOTE: MDSM refers to the NAS Manager Configuration Wizard.
52
Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution
After defining hosts, proceed to IQNs as this has to access the wizard. If you created earlier....
Administrator's Guide - Page 133
.... system-validation: lets you view system various statistics, for over-time analysis of the controllers, BPS devices and storage subsystems. The diag menu lets you view the system quota usage. The service pack menu keeps your PowerVault NX3500 system. replication: lets you view the connections to date. connections: lets you view the status of...
Administrator's Guide - Page 136
...back of the storage arrays. • Wait until the power, controllers and disk LEDs have finished blinking and are steadily lit.
2 MD storage arrays: • Turn on all the MD storage arrays by ...and disk LEDs have finished blinking and are steadily lit.
3 BPS units: Turn on the BPS units by pressing the Test/ON button located at the front of the BPS device, for a few seconds.
4 PowerVault NX3500 ...
Placemat - Page 2
...PowerVault Configuration Utility and follow the instructions on the management station.
1. Launch the Modular Disk Storage Manager Client and click the Mappings tab.
3.
The Administrator's Guide provides... from the PowerVault NX3500 web interface. This document is also available at a later time, type the following steps in the U.S.A. 2011 - 02
The PowerVault Confi...
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