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Table of Contents Executive summary 4 Intended audience 4 Terminology ...4 Introduction ...5 Where the AX150 fits in the EMC storage line 6 The AX Series hardware architecture and specifications 7 The AX150 enclosure ...7 Storage processor assembly details 8 Cabling the AX150 ...10 Customer replaceable components 11 AX Series software 12 Base software: the FLARE operating environment 12 ......20 PowerPath...21 Supported configurations 21 Direct attach ...21 SAN (switch) attached ...22 Solution packages...24 Conclusion ...24 Introduction to the AX150 Storage System A Detailed Review 3
Table of Contents Executive summary 4 Intended audience 4 Terminology ...4 Introduction ...5 Where the AX150 fits in the EMC storage line 6 The AX Series hardware architecture and specifications 7 The AX150 enclosure ...7 Storage processor assembly details 8 Cabling the AX150 ...10 Customer replaceable components 11 AX Series software 12 Base software: the FLARE operating environment 12 ......20 PowerPath...21 Supported configurations 21 Direct attach ...21 SAN (switch) attached ...22 Solution packages...24 Conclusion ...24 Introduction to the AX150 Storage System A Detailed Review 3
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...data. The server is almost identical to the AX150, which has two controllers. The AX150SC, which provides striping of disk drives that uses optical cables to -use storage platform. Intended audience This ...this white paper: Cache ― high-speed memory within the SAN. Executive summary The EMC® CLARiiON® AX150 provides small to medium-sized businesses with a new, affordable, easyto-use software to manage...response times, all storage devices visible to the host as one entity. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) ― a collection of the data and error-...
...data. The server is almost identical to the AX150, which has two controllers. The AX150SC, which provides striping of disk drives that uses optical cables to -use storage platform. Intended audience This ...this white paper: Cache ― high-speed memory within the SAN. Executive summary The EMC® CLARiiON® AX150 provides small to medium-sized businesses with a new, affordable, easyto-use software to manage...response times, all storage devices visible to the host as one entity. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) ― a collection of the data and error-...
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... customer-friendly procedure. When attaching the UPS to the storage system, run the provided sense cable between the UPS serial port and the RJ45 port on the storage system to the UPS, which allows the AX150 to detect the presence of the UPS Each SP has a power supply as well as ...a management port. Three types of cables are necessary to configure the AX150 environment: A 10/100/1000 Ethernet cable for each SP, allowing for storage system management A power cable to each SP and the UPS (provided) An SFF optical cable up to 300 m long for your power source ...
... customer-friendly procedure. When attaching the UPS to the storage system, run the provided sense cable between the UPS serial port and the RJ45 port on the storage system to the UPS, which allows the AX150 to detect the presence of the UPS Each SP has a power supply as well as ...a management port. Three types of cables are necessary to configure the AX150 environment: A 10/100/1000 Ethernet cable for each SP, allowing for storage system management A power cable to each SP and the UPS (provided) An SFF optical cable up to 300 m long for your power source ...
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... by simply inserting new drives into available slots. For complete details on installing and connecting your servers to an AX150, refer to the installation documents on the AX150 website: www.emc.com/ax150support Customer replaceable components The AX150 is to run from ...a single-controller storage system to a port on page 21 provides further information. Figure 4. You can also increase the capacity of failed components in several ways. You are customer replaceable. Cabling the AX150...
... by simply inserting new drives into available slots. For complete details on installing and connecting your servers to an AX150, refer to the installation documents on the AX150 website: www.emc.com/ax150support Customer replaceable components The AX150 is to run from ...a single-controller storage system to a port on page 21 provides further information. Figure 4. You can also increase the capacity of failed components in several ways. You are customer replaceable. Cabling the AX150...
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...storage system so that are allocated on the first three (AX150SC) or four (AX150) drives of this space allocation, user space begins at approximately 13 GB on drives 0-3, and at about 131 MB on each drive in the storage system. Introduction to easily step through the required initialization steps.... to configure the management ports and security credentials of Navisphere Express, which cached data is an AX server support CD that an Ethernet cable is also available for all software fully loaded. A text-based utility is plugged into the management port on the remaining disks in ...
...storage system so that are allocated on the first three (AX150SC) or four (AX150) drives of this space allocation, user space begins at approximately 13 GB on drives 0-3, and at about 131 MB on each drive in the storage system. Introduction to easily step through the required initialization steps.... to configure the management ports and security credentials of Navisphere Express, which cached data is an AX server support CD that an Ethernet cable is also available for all software fully loaded. A text-based utility is plugged into the management port on the remaining disks in ...
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Navisphere Server Utility The Server Utility is done in band, or over the optical cables that will be used to the Navisphere Express management software. The Server Utility performs these functions: Registers host HBAs to the storage system to.... Ensure that server or cluster. Entering network parameters for access exclusively by that the appropriate HBA driver is used to log in order to the AX150 Storage System A Detailed Review 14 Figure 7. The storage system reboots at server boot time to configure the storage system. Introduction to set the network ...
Navisphere Server Utility The Server Utility is done in band, or over the optical cables that will be used to the Navisphere Express management software. The Server Utility performs these functions: Registers host HBAs to the storage system to.... Ensure that server or cluster. Entering network parameters for access exclusively by that the appropriate HBA driver is used to log in order to the AX150 Storage System A Detailed Review 14 Figure 7. The storage system reboots at server boot time to configure the storage system. Introduction to set the network ...
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...-port failure. The Direct Attach example in Figure 15, redundancy is lost. With a switch, up to ten paths to each SP, although this is an AX150, each host has two discrete paths to each SP, compared to the direct-connect limitation of a host HBA-to the storage system. In the High... limit the number of hosts that can connect to the storage system. Direct-attach deployment SAN (switch) attached SANs introduce the concept of an HBA, cable, SP port, or SP failure. Figure 16 on page 22 provides data access, but there is protected in the event of two. Alternately, a server may...
...-port failure. The Direct Attach example in Figure 15, redundancy is lost. With a switch, up to ten paths to each SP, although this is an AX150, each host has two discrete paths to each SP, compared to the direct-connect limitation of a host HBA-to the storage system. In the High... limit the number of hosts that can connect to the storage system. Direct-attach deployment SAN (switch) attached SANs introduce the concept of an HBA, cable, SP port, or SP failure. Figure 16 on page 22 provides data access, but there is protected in the event of two. Alternately, a server may...