PROMISE Vess A6600P Storage Solutions for IT Cloud Surveillance User Guide

PROMISE Vess A6600P Storage Solutions for IT Cloud Surveillance

Unpacking

The Vess A6600P box contains the following items:

• Vess A6600P
• Screws for disk drives
• Two 1.5m (4.9 ft) power cords
• Sliding rail assembly for rack mounting

Caution
To lighten the enclosure, remove all drive carriers before installing the unit in the rack. Replace the drive carriers after the unit is mounted.

Install in rack

Before installing the Vess A6600P enclosure in the rack, remove the drive carriers with the disks installed to reduce the weight of the enclosure.
Follow these steps to install the enclosure in a rack:

1. Check the fit of the mounting rails in the rack system.

2. Adjust the length of the mounting rails as needed.
   • The rear rail slides inside the front rail. The rail halves are riveted together and use no adjustment screws.
   • The front-left and front-right mounting rail ends are labeled.
   • Be sure the front rail support is on the bottom facing inward.
   • All rail ends, front and rear, attach at the outside of the rack posts.
   • The guide pins at the rail ends align with the holes in the rack posts.
   • Use the attaching screws and flange nuts from your rack system. Tighten the screws and nuts according to instructions for your rack system.
   
   
   Caution
   Two persons are needed to safely place the unit onto the rails.
   DO NOT lift the unit by the handles
   • Place the empty Vess A6600P enclosure onto the rails. At least two persons are required to safely lift the subsystem.
   • Lift the entire empty Vess A6600P enclosure itself. Do not lift the subsystem by the handles on the front.
   

3. Secure the Vess A6600P to the rack.
   • The unit attaches to the rack posts using the included screws and flange nuts. One screw each side, in the upper hole only.
   • Use the attaching screws and flange nuts that came with the Vess A6600P .
   

Installing Disk Drives

The Vess A6600P and subsystems support:

• SATA 3.5-inch hard disks
• SATA 2.5-inch hard disk drives (Optional)
  For a list of supported physical drives, download the latest compatibility list from the Vess Series support page.

Removing the Drive Carrier
The drive carrier accommodates 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives.

Cautions
Swing open the drive carrier handle before you insert the drive carrier into the enclosure.
To avoid hand contact with an electrical hazard, remove only one drive carrier a time.

Installing 3.5” Disk Drive in the Carrier
The instructions below apply 3.5” hard disk drives installed in drive carriers intended for use with models Vess A6600P.

1. Remove a disk drive carrier.

2. Carefully lay the disk drive into the drive carrier at the front, so that the screw holes on the sides line up correctly with the power and data connectors facing away from the carrier handle.

3. Insert the screws through the holes in the drive carrier and into the sides of the disk drive.
   Install only the counter-sink screws supplied with the drive.
   • Install four screws per drive.
   • Snug each screw. Be careful not to over-tighten.

4. Reinstall the drive carrier into the enclosure.
   Repeat steps 1 through 3 until all of your disk drives are installed.

Management I/O Connections

This section describes how to establish a connection and login as the administrator to the operating system. There are two methods to establish the physical connection used for management of the device. Management can be done remotely through the network using text-based command line or debased GUI. Or connect directly to the server with a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
For the initial system configuration, follow the instructions below to connect and keyboard and monitor so you can login to the operating system, then change the network settings for the Ethernet ports to suit your network.

Connections for system management on rear panel:

1. D-Sub VGA port
2. RS232/DB9 serial port
3. Display port
4. HDMI port
5. LAN RJ-45 ports (LAN1/LAN2)
6. USB 3.2 Gen2 ports (4 ports)

First time setup – use keyboard and monitor
Use a USB keyboard and a VGA monitor to establish a direction connection to the Windows operating system. All the I/O ports needed to do this are located on the rear panel. Connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the appropriate port and you will be ready to login after the system has booted up.

Management Path – network connection
There are two 1G network ports on the rear panel for connection to an Ethernet network.
To connect the server to a local Ethernet for management, follow these steps:

1. Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to the network connector in the Host PC.
   Attach the other end of the Ethernet cable to one of the ports on the standard network switch.

2. Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to one of the ports on the standard network switch.
   Attach the other end of the Ethernet cable to an Ethernet port (1000 BASE-T) on the back of the server.

Connect power and power on

Insert one power cable into the power receptacle for each power supply unit (PSU) and connect the each PSU to a suitable power source. The PSUs for the enclosure use an N+1 arrangement. The Vess A6600P is equipped with two PSUs.

Power On
With the power supplies connected, the system can now be powered on.
To power on the subsystem, press the power button on the front left bracket facing.
Then observe the LEDs on the right front bracket facing.

Front panel LED behavior The table below describes LED behavior when boot-up is finished and the system is functioning normally.

problem (LD offline, fan malfunction, voltage out of range, system temperature alert), blinks RED for HDD high temperature alert remains dark when not ready.
Global RAID

Status

| Lights GREEN when healthy or RED if any RAID volume is offline, ORANGE for critical state of any logical drive, or when the system is rebuilding.
Global HDD

Activity

| Blinks BLUE to indicate one or more drives are being accessed, remains dark when no drives are being accessed.
System Heartbeat| Flashes BLUE at regular intervals to indicate the firm- ware and software are operating normally.
OPAS USB| Lights GREEN if an OPAS device (USB disk) is de- tected, RED if the OPAS operation has failed, blinks GREEN when an OPAS operation is in progress

Disk Drive LEDs

There are two LEDs on each Drive Carrier. They report activity of the drive, and the drive’s current condition.
The Activity LED flashes BLUE during drive activity.
The Disk Status LED displays GREEN when a drive is configured and working properly. When the lights are RED the HDD
requires manual replacement. When ORANGE is observed it indicates background RAID activity on this particular HDD. It is just
a status notification and no user action is required.

PSU LEDs
After powering on the subsystem, check the LEDs on each power supply on the back of the device. These LEDs will light GREEN to indicate normal operation. A RED or ORANGE LED indicates a problem or unit failure.

Create Logical Drives

This section describes how to complete the final task for initial setup, to configure logical drives (LD). Double click the WebPAMPROe GUI link icon on the desktop to launch the default browser and go to the login page.
When the log-in screen appears:

• Type administrator in the User Name field.
• Type password in the Password field.
• Click the Login button.
  The User Name and Password are case sensitive
  After sign-in, the Vess Management GUI opening screen appears. If there are any unconfigured physical drives in the enclosure, an Array Configuration menu also appears.

Choose a Language
1. Select the Language to use for the interface from the menu header in the Login screen.
2. Click the language you prefer. The Vess Management GUI user interface displays in the chosen language.

Creating Logical Drives
On a newly activated Vess A6600P system, there are no disk arrays or logical drives. To create a logical drive:

1. Log in to Web PAM PROe. If there are no arrays configured, you will be automatically directed to the Disk Array Configuration menu.
   

2. The Disk Array Configuration menu offers three options for configuration. Choose one of the options:
   • Automatic Configuration – Creates a new disk array following a default set of parameters. Makes one logical drive automatically. Also makes a hot spare drive for all RAID levels except RAID 0, if at least four unconfigured physical drives are available.
   • Express Configuration – You choose the parameters for a new disk array by specifying the characteristics you want. You can create multiple logical drives at the same time, however they will all be identical. You can choose to make a hot spare drive for all RAID levels except RAID 0, if at least four unconfigured physical drives are available
   • Advanced Configuration– You directly specify all parameters for a new disk array. Makes one logical drive automatically. You can create additional logical drives at a later time, if additional configurable capacity is available. Does not make a hot spare drive.

3. Click the Next button and follow the in-screen instructions to complete the Array setup.

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