Overland Storage REO 9000 - Manual (Page 5)

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Setup Guide Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1 Reviewing REO 9000 Concepts and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Important Concepts to Understand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Internet SCSI (iSCSI) Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Fibre Channel (FC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) Backup Capabilities . . . . . . . . . 13
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Tape Emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Logical Volume Management (LVM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Reviewing Pre-Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
iSCSI Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Setting the SCSI Time-Out Value in Windows Environments . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2 Setting Up the REO 9000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Preparing the REO Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Positioning the REO Appliance in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing the Disk Carriers and Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting the REO Appliance to the Management LAN. . . . . . . 26
Connecting the REO Appliance to the Network . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting External Devices to the REO Appliance . . . . . . . . . 28
Attaching the Power Cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 3 Using the REO SoftKey to Start the REO 9000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Understanding What the REO SoftKey Is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Backing Up Your REO SoftKey (Pre-Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . 32
Editing the Configuration File
(for a non-DHCP or UNIX Management System) . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting the REO SoftKey to the REO Appliance . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4 Configuring the Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Mapping a Network Drive to the REO Appliance (Windows Only). . . . 39
Tracking Configuration Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Verifying that the Gateway Address and
Management Port are Correctly Configured . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Configuring the GbE Data Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Entering the Fibre Channel Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Entering the System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuring Logon Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58