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SiI 4726 Manager User’s Guide Version 2.6 Document Number: MAN-002000-000

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 4 SiI 4726 storage policies The following terms represent SiI 4

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 5 Volume A virtual drive comprised of one or more physical hard

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 6 2 Installing the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance This chapter des

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 7 Install the SiI 4726 hardware In order to run the SiI 4726 Ma

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 8 MS Windows 1. Plug the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance into an AC

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 9 Mac OS X 1. Plug the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance into an AC p

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 10 5. Verify that all five drives are visible in their pre-con

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 11 3 Getting Started This chapter explains how to start the Si

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 12 3. Select menu options or click toolbar buttons and follow

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 13 4. A notice appears as the launch sequence attempts to star

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page ii Copyright © 2006, Silicon Image, Inc. All rights reserved.

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 14 A Look at the SiI 4726 Status Window The Status window displ

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 15 Table 2 File Menu on the Status Window File Menu Item Descr

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 16 4 Basic Configuration This chapter describes the Basic Conf

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 17 Table 5 Sections of the Basic Configuration Wizard Wizard Se

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 18 Configure Volumes Note: Use the Disk Management utility prov

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 19 3. Select a storage policy in the Storage Policy frame. Ta

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 20 4. When prompted to acknowledge that the configuration chan

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 21 5 Advanced Configuration This section describes how to use

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 22 A Look at the Advanced Configuration Wizard The Advanced Con

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 23 Table 9 Sections of the Advanced Configuration Wizard Sectio

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page iii Contents About this guide...

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 24 Table 11 Command Buttons on the Advanced Configuration Wizar

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 25 Configure Multiple Volumes The Advanced Configuration Wizard

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 26 2. Click To Advanced Mode to open the Advanced Configuratio

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 27 3. Select the “Delete all volumes” from the toolbar. 4. W

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 28 5. Select “Create a new volume” from the toolbar. Click C

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 29 6. Select SAFE (RAID 1) as the Storage Policy. Click on th

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 30 9. Click the Create a New Volume toolbar button. Light sol

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 31 10. Select the FAST radio button in the Storage Policy sect

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 32 14. Click the Create a New Volume toolbar button. 15. Sele

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 33 18. Click the Write Configuration for System to a File tool

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page iv Why Advanced Configuration? ...

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 34 Manage Configuration Files The Basic Configuration Wizard pr

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 35 Save a configuration file 1. Select Configure Box from the

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 36 6 Partitioning Configured Volumes This chapter explains how

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 37 2. From the Computer Management window select Disk Manageme

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 38 4. Click Next to start the Partition Wizard. 5. Select th

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 39 6. Specify the partition size. By default, the partition oc

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 40 8. Select file system and name the partition and click Next

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 41 Mac OS X 1. Launch Disk Utility from Application > Utili

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 42 8. Click Partition to acknowledge the warning. Disk Utilit

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 43 7 Administering the SiI 4726 This chapter explains how to

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page v MS Windows...

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 44 Manage Client Connection to the Daemon The SiI 4726 Manager

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 45 8 Configure SAFE Volume Rebuild Storage Policy This SiI 47

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 46 In this example, the daemon started a rebuild of Volume #1 a

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 47 2. Select one of the following policy options: • The Manua

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 48 9 Email Notification The Email Notification feature allows

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 49 Setting-up Email Notification 1. The box available for the

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 50 c. The message information can be customized to suit the en

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 51 Receiving an Email Notification When one of the conditions/s

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 52 10 Install New Firmware & Software Firmware Update Note

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 53 2. Select the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance that requires a f

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page vi Figures Figure 1: Basic SiI 4726 operation ...

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 54 Install New SiI 4726 Manager Software Before the end-user in

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 55 5. Click OK to confirm the complete removal of the SiI 4726

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 56 11 Editing the UserConfig.xml The UserConfig.xml file is us

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 57 The ‘StatusScreenTitleBar’ is where the end-user can change

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 58 Creating a Splash Screen The end-user can further customize

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 59 12 Monitor and Troubleshooting This chapter describes Stat

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 60 Monitor temperature The SiI 4726 Storage Appliance uses the

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 61 Review Event Logs Event logs are helpful for troubleshooting

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 62 Front Panel LED Indicators Each disk drive and the host conn

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 63 Troubleshooting Problem Resolution LEDs Green “OK” LED does

About this guide This guide describes how to configure the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance for the optimum allocation of available disk storage space for y

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 2 1 Introducing the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance This chapter in

Document Number: MAN-002000-000 Version 2.6 Sil 4726 Manager User’s Guide Page 3 How the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance operates The SiI 4726 arch