Axus ELEGANCY ELA-1400FC-D User manual

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ELEGANCY
ELJ-1400
User’s Guide
Product Name : ELJ-1400
Manual Reversion : 1.0
Release Date : DEC. 2001

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Copyright 2000
All rights Reserved-Printed in Taiwan
Notice
We make no warranties with respect to this documentation either express or implied and
provide it "as it". This includes but is not limited to any implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The information in this document is
subject to change without notice. We assume no responsibility for any errors that may
appear in this document.
Trademarks
Product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be the
trademarks of their respective companies. All trademarks or registered trademarks are
properties of their respective owners.

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General Safety Guidelines
DO NOT place the ELJ-1400 on
uneven or unstable work surfaces.
Seek servicing if the casing has been
damaged.
DO NOT expose ELJ-1400 to
liquids, rain, or moisture.
DO NOT expose ELJ-1400 to dirty
or dusty environments.
DO NOT expose ELJ-1400 to
magnetic field.
DO NOT expose ELJ-1400 to
extreme temperat
ures (below 5”C or
above 45”C) or to direct sunlight.

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About your User’s Guide
Welcome to your ELJ-1400 Storage System User’s Guide. This manual covers everything
you need to know in learning how to install or configure your system on an assumption
that you know the basic concepts of FC-AL storage technology.

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Contents
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
Feature Highlight
Chapter 2. GETTING STARTED
Unpacking & Checking The Equipments
Identifing Parts Of The Elegancy
Front View
Rear View
Drive cartridge
Installing the disk
Installing the disk cartridge
Chapter 3. CONFIGURING THE FIBRE CHANNEL
Cabling
Setting Fibre ID
Chapter 4. ENVIRONMENT MONITORING
I2C monitoring Module
SES monitoring Modules
Chapter 5. HOT SWAP COMPONENTS
Hot Swapping The Disk Drive
Hot Swapping The Power Supply
Hot Swapping The Cooling Fan Module
APPENDIX A. SPECIFICATION

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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
The Elegancy ELJ-1400 is the latest generation full fault-tolerant 19” rackmount
Fibre JBOD storage solution in a dense 3 U height form factor. The dual fibre channel
host interface provides the means of transferring data over long distance with the
error checking at an outstanding rate of 1Gbit/sec. It also provides a full fibre channel
addressing by allowing up to 8 Elegancy ELJ-1400 JBOD ( 8 x 14 disks) to be
daisy-chained together to build a multi-terabyte configuration.
Modular and redundant components make the Elegancy ELJ-1400 easy to expand and
service. With the hot swappable function, you can add or replace disks, cooling Fans,
power modules, SES monitoring modules without shutting down the system,
The Elegancy ELJ-1400 is completely upgradeable to a ELA-1400 active-active Fibre
RAID solution by adding a ELC-1400 1U controller box.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHT
The Elegancy ELJ-1400 is designed to meet today’s demand for higher storage
solutions to cope with the emerging needs of databases, e-mail, web servers and
imaging systems. It provides a maximum data protection and exceptional
performance in a storage subsystem. The ELJ-1400 is equip with easy integration,
smooth data expansion and server migration.
The ELJ-1400 supports the following features:
lFibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop Interface, up to 1Gb/sec.
lSupports up to 14 hot swappable 1-inch half-height disk drivers per shelf.
lJBOD ( just bunch of drivers) support.
l4 U, 19” standard Rackmount system.
lCabless and Passive backplane design.
lRedundant 2+1 power supplies system with PFC (Power Fact Correction)
function.
lRedundant and Hot Swap cooling Fans.
lAuto-sensing FC-AL bypass circuitry.
lRedundant and Hot Swappable SES (SCSI Enclosure Service ) monitoring
module. ( N/A)
lI2C Monitoring module for Infortrend Controller.
lField Upgradable to a ELA-1400 Fibre RAID Subsystem.
lSAN-Ready
lBrowser based RAIDcare GUI monitoring Utility.
lAluminium device cartridge for heat dissipation and emissions protection.

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lExpandale system, up to 8 enclosure for very high capacity configuration.
CHAPTER 2. GETTING STARTED

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UNPACKING & CHECKING THE EQUIPMENT
Before unpacking the ELJ-1400, prepare a clean, stable surface to put on the
contents of your ELJ-1400 shipping container . Altogether, you should find the
following items in the package :
Remove all the items from the container. If anything is missing or broken, please
inform your dealer. It is advice to keep the packaging, as you might ever need to
ship your ELJ-1400 or send it in for service, you will need the shipping container.
IDENTIFYING PARTS OF THE ELEGANCY
The illustrations below identify the various features of the system . Get yourself to
familiar with these terms as it will help you in further reading the sections.
FRONT VIEW
REAR VIEW
Disk Cartridge
Release-button
Latch
Device Status Indicator

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1. Fibre Channel Interface Module A.
2. Power Module 1.
3. Power Module 2.
4. Power Module 3.
5. Power Switch
6. Fibre Channel Interface Module B.
7. Blower A.
8. SES Module or I 2C module
9. Power Inlet
10. Fibre ID setting switch
11. Power Extended Connector for ELC-1400
12. Blower B.
13. Secondary SES monitoring Module.
Disk Cartridge
The Elegancy ELJ-1400 includes 14 hot swappable disk cartridges. The following
section describes how to install disks into ELJ-1400 subsystem.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. 11.
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Location of devices in ELJ-1400
Latch
LOCK
UNLOCK
Device Status Indicator
LED Colors Indicate
Green HDD On Line
Slot14
Slot13
Slot12
Slot11
Slot10
Slot8
Slot9
Slot7
Slot6
Slot5
Slot4
Slot3
Slot2
Slot1
Device Status Indicator
Latch
Release button
Hard disk driver
Handle

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Green &
Flash
HDD Access
Red HDD Error
Installing the disk
1. Insert HDD into the cartridge.
2. Fasten the screws to mount the drive in the disk cartridge. Make sure the drive
is properly tightened
Installing the disk cartridge
1. Make sure the handle is up and the latch is on the position of unlock .
2. Gently slide the disk cartridge to the end of the slot then firmly push until the
face plate of the disk cartridge is flush with the front panel of the ELJ-1400.
3. Push down the handle to secure the disk cartridge into the ELJ-1400
NOTE: If the ELJ-1400 is powered up, the disk LED will turn from red to
green to indicate that power has been applied to the disk drawer.
4. Slide the latch to the position of lock.

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CHARPER 3. CONFIGURING THE FIBRE CHANNEL
This Chapter provides a detail information for the cabling of ELJ-1400 and the
device ID setting.
Cabling
The Fibre channel Interface module at the rear panel provide the connectivity
between the host computer and disk drives by a DB9 connector on a Fibre channel
cable. Each and every ELJ-1400 install 2 Fibre channel Interface module as the
standard, representing that there is a full redundancy and hot swappable for the Fibre
channel Loop. In a daisy chain configuration, up to 8 of ELJ-1400 can be connected
on the loop.
Port A In/Out
Port A In/Out Port B In/Out Port B In/Out
0-7 Thumbwheel
ID switch 0-15 Thumbwheel ID
switch
Host Computer
Loop A.
Loop B.
Loopback Plug .
Loopback Plug .

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Setting Fibre ID
There are two thumbwheel switches located on the rear panel. These switches set the
drive IDs within the enclosure. 0-7 thumbwheel switch, control the drive ID
addresses which is multiplied by 16, the 0-15 thumb wheel switch is using to set the
offset to the 0-7 thumb wheel switch. The Slot 0 starting address is set by both
switches. The default setting for both switches is “0”. Following show the slot
numbering sequence and the default ID setting.
Slot number and default ID mapping.
0-15 Thumbwheel ID switch
012345678910
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15
0012345678910
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0
Drive ID address Switch Setting ( Slot 0 Starting)
0-7 Thumbwheel ID Switch
Slot14 ID13
Slot13 ID12
Slot12 ID11
Slot11 ID10
Slot10 ID9
Slot8 ID7
Slot9 ID8
Slot7 ID6
Slot6 ID5
Slot5 ID4
Slot4 ID3
Slot3 ID2
Slot2 ID1
Slot1 ID0

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Chapter 4. Environment Monitoring
The ELJ-1400 supports two type of monitoring module, one is the SES monitoring
module, another is I2C module, this chapter covers all the information require for
both modules :
I2C monitoring module :
The I2C monitoring module is an interface that enables the communications between
the ELJ-1400 and the RAID controller. It utilizes the I2C as the physical interface,
and proprietary software protocols for Inter-communication. If there is more than
one JBOD enclosures that are daisy chained together, then use the I2C DB9
connector to daisy chained all I2C modules to provide the monitoring of all
enclosures in one. To avoid a I2C ID conflict occurs, every enclosure must set as a
different ID numbers.
Switch 1 Switch 2 Switch 3 ID Number
OFF OFF OFF 0
ON OFF OFF 1
OFF ON OFF 2
ON ON OFF 3
OFF OFF ON 4
ON OFF ON 5
OFF ON ON 6
ON ON ON 7
SES Monitoring Module
N/A
ON
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CHAPTER 5. HOT SWAP COMPONENTS
The BROWNIE™ supports the hot-swappable disk cartridges, power supply
modules and cooling fan unit. The following sections describe how to use the hot
swap feature.
Hot Swapping the Disk Drive
To hot swap a disk, perform the following steps ( Refer “Installing the disk” ).
1. Slide the latch to the position of unlock.
2. Open the cartridge handle by sliding the release button and wait for the drive to
spin down (The disk LED on the drive bay will turn from green to red indicate
the disk is powered down.).
3. Lift the handle to disengage the disk cartridge from the slot.
4. Gently pull the disk cartridge out of the slot.
5. Replace the HDD.
6. Holding the cartridge handle, insert the cartridge into the bay along the plastic
guides until the handle begins to close.
7. Push down the handle to secure the cartridge into the ELEGANCYsystem.
8. Slide the latch to the position of lock.
The drive is now replaced. Once the drive has powered on, it will be added to the
RAID configuration automatically.
Hot Swapping the Power Supply
Once the power supply has defective, the LED on front panel will turn from green to
Red and the power supply buzzer will sound.
To hot swap a power supply module perform the following steps.
1. Push the reset button to stop the audible alarm on the rear panel.
2. Unscrew the defective power module unit.
3. Pull the handle to disengage the module from the power supply base.
4. Slide the module out completely from the power supply base.
5. Insert the new power supply module.
NOTE: Use the handle to slide the module in to the base until it engages to the base.
6. The LED will turn bright green to indicate it has powered on.

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Hot Swapping The Cooling Fan Module
Once the system cooling fans module has defective, the LCD on front panel will
display “Fail Fan” and audible alarm will be sound.
To hot swap a system cooling fan module perform the following steps.
1. Release the thumb screws on the fan module, the Fan fail LED on the module
should be turn bright red.
2. Slide the module out completely from the cooling Fan module base.
3. Replace with a new Fan module and insert it into the cooling fan module base.
4. The error message on LCD will be turn to normal and the audible alarm will be
stopped automatically after above processes.
5. Fasten the thumb screws.
Screw
Power “Alarm” Reset
Button
Power Status Indicator
Green : Power Okay
Red : Power Fail

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Fan Fail LED
Thumb screw

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APPENDIX A. SPECIFICATION
Specifications
ELA-1400FC-D
ELA-1400FC-R
ELJ-1400FC
ELC-1400FC
RAID Controller
RAID Level
0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, NRAID, JBOD
Catch Memory
Up to 1GB maximum cache size on single
SDRAM DIMM socket with ECC support
per controller board
LUN Support
Multiple host support and host-LUN
mapping for multiple server environments,
up to 8 logical drives of variable RAID
levels
Online Raid expansion
Online RAID expansion, add drive or
replace drives with drive of larger capacity
Redundant controller
Support optional active/active redundant
dual controllers
Fault Detection,
Monitor and Recovery
Auto rebuilding, background rebuilding,
hot spare drive operation, disk hot
swapping, memory parity check
Same no Same
Host Interface Up to two Fibre Channel interfaces,
100MB/s each, 200MB/s total
Media Interface Adapter (MIA) support
Same Same Same
Disk Drive Interface Dual, independent Fibre Channel
Interfaces, 100MB/s each.
With optional daughter board support up to
four Fibre Channel interface.
Same Dual,
independent Fibre
Channel
Interfaces,
100MB/s each.
Same
Number of FCAL Disk
drive 40Pin SCA-2 HDD x 14 bays, 1” HDD supported Same Same No
I2C interface (default) Same Same SameMonitoring System
SES (SCSI Enclosure services) Compliant
enclosure Monitoring (optional) Same Same No
Cooling System 2 x Blower Module Same Same Same
Power System 2+1 Power Module, 600w+300w (3 bays)
Input: 90~230 VAC; 50~60HZ
Output: +5V 60A, +12V 30A
Same Same Power supply
from
ELJ-1400FC
Redundant and Hot
Swappable parts Disk Drives, Cooling Modules,
Up to two FCAL loop modules,
Power Supply modules,
Raid Controllers
Same Disk Drives,
Cooling Modules,
Up to two FCAL
loop modules,
Power Supply
modules.
Cooling Modules,
Raid Controllers
Failure Notification Fault LED indicators
Audible alarms
Monitoring system notification
Same Same Same
Dimensions Height: 133.35mm(3U)
Width: 446mm
Depth: 500mm
H x W xD
527x241x483
(unit: mm)
H x W x D
133x445x483
(unit:mm)
H x W x D
44x445x483
(unit:mm)
Operating Environment Temperature: 5¡CC~ 40¡CC
Relative Humidity: 10% ~ 90% (none
condensing)
Same Same Same
*Specification subject to change without notice, all trademarks or registered trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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