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Acer Altos® NAS 700
Solution Guide
Basic Setup
This solution guide will show you how
to set up and configure the Acer Altos
NAS 700 appliance.
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Abstract Acer Altos NAS 700 is a Solution based on Acer Storage Center (ASC) Software Version 4.0. ASC provides vital storage services—virtualization, mirroring, capacity expansion, scalability, TimeMark/TimeView, and more--through a software-optimized solution that runs on existing industry standard hardware. The Acer Altos NAS 700 appliance offers: NAS capability for file sharing with quota management. SAN/IP connection for database/application servers Storage Virtualizat
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.................................................................................... 1 Who should read this Guide 1 Contents of this Guide 1 Course Goals 2 Prerequisites 2 Overview of the ACER Altos NAS 700 Appliance 2 ACER ASC EXPRESS BASICS .............................................................. 3 What is ACER ASC Express ? 3 What is an ASC Network 5 ASC Components 7 ASC Management Console 7 ASC NAS Clients 7 SYSTEM SPECIFICATION .......................
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Server statistics 46 Save & Restore an ASC Server configuration 47 Save configuration 47 Restore configuration 48 Licensing 49 Set Server Properties 50 Manage Administrators accounts & Password 54 Manage accounts 54 Change your administrator password 55 System Maintenance 56 Network configuration 56 Physical resource 59 Prepare devices to become logical resources 60 SCSI aliasing 61 Rename a SCSI device 61 Rescan adapters 62 Import a disk 63 SCSI device throughput 63 Logical
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Add/delete/display/rescan ASC Servers 96 Add/delete/expand a virtual drive 98 ASC SAN Client on Windows NT/2000/2003 99 ASC SAN Client Monitor 99 Refresh the Monitor display 100 Stop and start the client 101 Connect/Disconnect a server 101 Add an ASC Server 102 Delete a Server 104 Organize Servers 105 Set dependent services to start after ASC services 106 Register tape devices for use with backup software 107 Register disks for drive priority 107 Filter Event Viewer information and
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To use the auditing feature: 146 NAS properties 147 NAS file information 152 NAS utilities 153 Expand a NAS Resource 153 Access Control Lists (ACLs) 154 Using ACL attributes 154 Requirements 155 Back up/restore extended attributes on Linux 156
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INTRODUCTION This solution guide discusses the installation, configuration, management troubleshooting and the benefits provided by the Acer Altos NAS 700 appliance. The Altos NAS 700 appliance is a highly flexible and scalable Network Attached Storage solution. It improves storage utilization compared to D.A.S (direct attached storage). It offers storage centralized management and reduces the Total cost of Ownership. Who should read this Guide This configuration guide is intended f
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Course Goals Enable engineers and partners to fully implement an ACER Altos NAS 700 Appliance. Prerequisites Learners should meet the following prerequisites before installing a NAS 700 appliance (or equivalent experience): • Acer Server Product Training (or knowledge about the current Acer Server product range and technology) • Acer RAID Workshop (or work experience with Server RAID Adapter and RAID technology) • Fibre Channel technology basics • Linux basic knowledge or exp
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ACER What is ACER ASC Express ? ASC EXPRESS BASICS The explosion of data in today’s networked computing environments stresses the abilities of many Information Technology groups while the demand to store and access data doubles each year. Since information, and the storage infrastructure that holds it, are critical to a company’s success, the management of the storage becomes a serious issue, where reliability, availability and improved disaster recovery are all key factors. Documents
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ASC offers enterprises an easy way to purchase, implement, and support new or existing enterprise SANs, while containing the costs associated with the ownership and management of storage solutions. Building an ASC storage network puts enterprise class storage services at your fingertips, allowing you to do more with less. Provides total freedom in storage connectivity: Fibre Channel, IP/iSCSI, SCSI, JBOD, RAID, and tape/library. Because ASC scales easily and encompasses all protocols a
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What is an ASC Network The ASC Storage Network can be either a dedicated storage network, just like traditional Fibre Channel SANs, or it can be embedded into the existing LAN for small or low impact applications. Acer recommends that a separate network segment be dedicated to the Storage Network; this flexibility allows the building and testing of different topologies, the scaling of the Storage Network, and the sharing of networking resources to suit the varied requirements of differe
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(depending upon specific configurations, typically up to 16 devices per bus). For maximum throughput, ASC supports multiple SCSI busses and/or adapters. For SAN/IP Clients (non-Fibre Channel Clients), ASC packages the storage ™ requests into IP packets using Acer’s SAN/IP protocol. Requests made to the client’s virtual adapters are converted to SAN/IP packets. The ASC Server receives the SAN/IP packets and converts them to SCSI commands. The ASC Server then responds with the storag
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ASC Components The primary components of the ASC Storage Network are the ASC Server, ASC Console, ASC SAN Clients and the ASC NAS Clients. These components all sit on the same network segment, the storage network. ASC Server The ASC Server is a dedicated network storage server. The ASC Server is attached to the physical SCSI and/or Fibre Channel storage devices on one or more SCSI or Fibre Channel busses. The job of the ASC Server is to communicate data requests between the clients
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SYSTEM SPECIFICATION In this part, it will cover the detailed specification summary of all important components that make up the Acer Altos NAS 700 Appliance. ACER Altos NAS700 Appliance Features High density computing in a competitive world calls for a server that can keep up and still stay cool in a rack. It's your life in the business fast lane that insists on reliability, performance, and space to move. The Altos NAS 700 appliance is based on the ACER ALTOS G710 server that offer
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necessary, at the Altos NAS, this centralizes and therefore simplifies the backup management. It is also cost-effective as there is no need for backup agent on each application server. • Tower or 5HE rackable chassis to slip into a rack. • 8x DIMM slots offer up to 16 GB of registered ECC DDR333 RAM. • Up to two Intel® 2.8 GHz Xeon™ Processors at 533 MHz FSB with Hyper- Threading technology for blistering processing power. • 1+1 redundant, hot-swappable 550 Watts power supplie
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ACER ASC Express Features • Up to 730 GB internal storage / Up to 2 TB with external storage enclosure. • Mirroring: Protects against device/cabinet/frame level failure for any Acer Altos NAS 700 managed disk • Snapshot/Timemark: Max 4 times of incremental backup scheduled through the day that provide easy data restoration without having to access tape, with limited utilization of time and space . • NAS: Provides storage via CIFS and NFS to Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and
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Qlogic 2340 (Optional Fibre Channel HBA Controller) The Qlogic QLA234x controllers bring the latest in Fibre Channel 2 (FC2) technology, doubling speeds from 1Gbps to 2Gbps. The Controller provides multipath and failover capability (when using QLA 2340 or two QLA 2342 Controllers). Each Controller provides an LC cable connector to easily connect to Fibre channel Switches or directly to the Altos S700F or S205F Storage. • Single-integrated Fibre Channel controller (LC connector) for a
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INSTALLATION AND General Installation Sequence CONFIGURATION 1) Install the HBA in your ALTOS NAS 700 appliance 2) Connect your ASC NAS 700 appliance to your storage network 3) Linux 7.3 installation through a: a. Recovery image b. Manual installation 4) ASC Server installation 5) ASC Management Console installation 6) ASC SAN Client installation 7) Configure ASC SAN Resources 8) Assign a SAN Resource to one or more client. Installing HBA into the Altos NAS 700 Before you can s
