Lenovo EMC PX4-300D User manual

px4-300d Network Storage
with LifeLine 4.0
User Guide

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CONTENTS
Setting up Your px4-300d Network Storage 1
Setup Overview 2
Set up my px4-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered 3
Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager 3
Discovering the px4-300d without the Internet 3
Setup Page 4
Network Connection 5
Connecting the px4-300d Network Storage to Your Network 5
Connecting the px4-300d 6
Network Settings 6
Manually Configuring Network Settings 7
Bonding NICs 8
VLAN Settings 8
Naming Your px4-300d Network Storage 10
Setting up Active Directory 10
Configuring Your px4-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory 11
Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 12
Customizing the Access to Features on Your px4-300d Network Storage 13
Enabling the Display of Features 13
Enabling Access Permissions to Features 13
Non-Administrator User Log In 14
Obtaining Alerts About Your px4-300d Network Storage 15
Tracing Events on Your px4-300d Network Storage 16
Downloading the complete event log file 16
Obtaining System Status for Your px4-300d Network Storage 17
Space Usage 17
Control Panel 17
Device Information 17
Using Your px4-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones 18
Setting the Display Language for Your px4-300d Network Storage 19
Printing Documents 20
Setting up Personal Cloud, Security, and File Sharing 21
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Sharing Files 22
Sharing Overview 23
Interfaces for Sharing 23
Shares 24
What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 24
Adding Shares 24
Managing Shares 25
Deleting Shares 27
Using Protocols to Share Files 28
What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 28
AFP File Sharing for Macs 28
Bluetooth File Sharing 28
FTP File Sharing 29
NFS File Sharing 29
rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 30
TFTP 30
Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 30
Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 31
WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 31
Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 32
Windows File Sharing 32
Sharing Content through the Home Page 33
Sharing Your Content with the World 33
Adding a Custom Home Page 33
Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 35
How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 35
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 36
Managing Your Content 37
Transferring Content to and from Your px4-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs 38
Copy Jobs Limitations 38
Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 39
Safely removing external storage 39
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 40
Setting QuikTransfer 40
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iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 41
iSCSI Overview 42
Adding iSCSI Drives 43
Enabling iSCSI Drives 43
Connecting to iSCSI Drives 43
Managing iSCSI Drives 44
Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 44
Deleting iSCSI Drives 45
Storage Pool Management 46
Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 47
Storage Pools 47
Volumes 47
Adding and Managing Storage Pools 48
To Add a Data Storage Pool 48
Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 49
To Add a Cache Storage Pool 49
Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 49
Volumes 51
Snapshots 51
Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 52
Restoring a Snapshot 52
Deleting a Snapshot 52
Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 52
Make the Snapshot Read-only 52
Changing Expose Mode 52
Adding and Managing Volumes 53
Deleting a Storage Pool 55
Changing RAID Protection Types 56
Drive Management 57
Managing Drives 58
Setting Write Caching 58
Applying Global Drive Management Settings 58
Drive Status 59
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Backing up and Restoring Your Content 60
Backup and Restore Overview 61
Backup of Data through RAID Protection 61
Backing up to and Restoring from Your px4-300d Network Storage 62
Backing up Macs with Time Machine 62
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 62
Copy Jobs Overview 63
Backing up Your px4-300d Network Storage 64
Copy Jobs 64
From: Settings 65
To: Settings 66
Setting a Schedule 66
Backing up with Mozy Backup 67
Restoring Files with Mozy Backup 68
Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 68
Backing up with Amazon S3 69
Restoring Files with Amazon S3 69
Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 69
Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 69
Securing Your px4-300d Network Storage and Contents 70
What Is Security and Do I Need It? 71
Enabling Security and Creating an Administrator User 72
Disabling Security 72
Limiting Access to Your Content by Creating Users 73
Users 74
Users and Groups Overview 74
Adding Users 74
Managing Users 75
Deleting Users 76
Groups 77
Groups Overview 77
Adding Groups 77
Managing Groups 77
Deleting Groups 78
Using Active Directory Domain to Manage Users and Groups 79
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Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 79
Managing Users and Groups with Active Directory 79
Deleting Active Directory Users and Groups 80
Managing Your px4-300d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 81
Managing Your px4-300d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 81
Remote Access: Accessing Your px4-300d Network Storage From Anywhere in the World 83
Remote Access Overview 84
Enabling Remote Access 85
Basic Option: Completing the Enable Remote Access Process 85
Premium Option: Completing the Enable Remote Access Process 85
Accessing Your px4-300d Network Storage Remotely 87
Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the
World 88
What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 89
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 89
Is My Content Secure? 90
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Setup Overview 91
Creating LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 92
Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 93
Router Port Forwarding 93
Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 94
Enabling Internet Access to the px4-300d 94
Changing Personal Cloud Settings 94
Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 95
Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 96
Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 97
Disconnecting Trusted Devices 97
Deleting Trusted Devices 97
Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 98
Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 99
Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 100
Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 101
Sharing Content Using Social Media 102
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 103
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Facebook 104
Flickr 105
YouTube 106
Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 107
Media Management 108
Media Management Overview 109
Scanning for media content 109
Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 110
Sharing Media Content over the Internet 111
Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 111
Media Aggregation 112
Enabling Media Aggregation 112
Social Media Sharing 113
Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 114
Example: Setting up iTunes 114
Example: Setting up Xbox 360 114
Photos 115
Photos Overview 115
Streaming Pictures 115
Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 115
Automatically Resizing Your Photos 115
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 116
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 116
Music 117
Music Overview 117
Streaming Music 117
Torrents 118
Torrent Overview 118
Enabling Torrent Downloads 118
Deleting torrent jobs 118
Configuring Your Router for Torrent Downloads 118
Torrent Active Folders 119
Configuring a Torrent Active Folder 119
Videos 121
Video Capabilities Overview 121
Streaming Movies 121
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Video Surveillance 121
Name 122
Space 122
Model 122
Action 122
Adding Applications to Your px4-300d Network Storage 125
Application Overview 126
Application Installation 127
Application Manager 128
Starting or stopping an application 128
Adding applications 128
Removing applications 128
Upgrading Your px4-300d Network Storage 129
Software Updates 130
Auto-update process: installing a device software update 130
Manual update process: installing a device software update 130
Backing up and Recovering Your px4-300d Network Storage Settings 132
Backing Up Your px4-300d Network Storage Settings 133
Backing up Device Configuration 133
Restoring a Configuration Backup 133
Hardware Management 134
About the px4-300d Network Storage Components 135
Front Panel 135
Drive Bay Access 136
Rear Panel 137
Default Settings 137
Energy Saving 138
Power Down Drives 138
Brightness 138
Wake On LAN 138
Creating A Power Schedule 138
Factory Reset 139
UPS Management 140
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Troubleshooting Routers 141
Enabling the DMZ 141
Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 142
Bridging the Secondary Router 142
Bridging the Primary Router 142
Additional Support 144
How to Get Help 145
Support 146
Legal 147
Safety Information 148
Open Source 149
Warranty Information 150
Limited Warranty Notice 150
Limited Warranty for Iomega Products 150
Regulatory Information 151
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 151
Canadian Verification 151
European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 152
Important WEEE Information 152
European Union RoHS 152
India RoHS 152
Lithium Battery – California Perchlorate Information 152
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 153
Recycling and environmental information 153
Export classification notice 153
Copyright and Trademark Information 154
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Setting up Your px4-300d
Network Storage
Setting up Your px4-300d Network Storage 1
CHAPTER 1

Setup Overview
Setup with your px4-300d Network Storage is easy. Remove it from the box, connect it to your network
switch or hub, and then power it up. Launch a web browser and enter the setup URL identified in the Quick
Start Guide. LenovoEMC Setup launches and displays a message that your px4-300d is online and ready
to use.
You then can install client software that includes:
●LenovoEMC Storage Manager
●Twonky Media Server for media aggregation
LenovoEMC Storage Manager is a management tool that helps you discover your px4-300d on your
network to simplify access to content on your px4-300d from your computer. It also allows you to add your
computer as a trusted device to a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud. Refer to LenovoEMC Storage Manager
online help for additional information. Twonky Media Server consolidates all media files on devices on your
network and presents them in a unified view.
From LenovoEMC Setup, you can optionally create a Personal Cloud or begin using your px4-300d by
clicking Manage My Device.
By default, the px4-300d will attempt to acquire an IP address from DHCP, If there is not a DHCP
server available on the network, the px4-300d will use an IP address in the self-assigned APIPA
range (169.254.x.x).
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Set up my px4-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered
If your px4-300d is not discovered when you enter the URL identified in your Quick Start Guide, you have
two ways of discovering it.
Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager
You can install LenovoEMC Storage Manager from the Setup Portal, which helps you discover your px4-
300d on your network.
Discovering the px4-300d without the Internet
You can access your px4-300d device without internet access as described by these methods for
Windows PCs or Macs:
●Windows 7 and Vista — Click Start, Computer, Network. You should see your px4-300d listed
under Other Devices. You can then double-click the device icon to access the px4-300d
Management Console.
●Windows XP — If you have not enabled UPnP Discovery, click Start, Help and Support. In the
Help and Support browser, search for UPnP and follow the steps from “Install the UPnP
framework”. After UPnP is enabled, open Windows Explorer and in the Folders view, expand My
Network Places. You should see your px4-300d listed. You can then double-click the device icon
to access the px4-300d Management Console.
●Mac — Browse to your px4-300d through Finder, Shared, All and use Go, Connect to Server to
connect to Shares on your px4-300d.
Setting up Your px4-300d Network Storage
Set up my px4-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered 3

Setup Page
The Setup page opens when you first access the px4-300d Network Storage from the Home Page or the
LenovoEMC Storage Manager. On this page, you can configure some basic device features by clicking the
appropriate link. The current setting of the feature displays above the link. You can also configure all
features shown on the Setup page by accessing the specific features directly.
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Network Connection
Connecting the px4-300d Network Storage to Your Network
First, check the package contents.
Verify that the box contains the following items:
1. px4-300d (models may vary)
2. Power Adapter and Cord
3. Quick Start Guide
4. Ethernet Cable
Package contents may vary.
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Connecting the px4-300d
Initial Setup
If you have purchased more than one px4-300d, complete all steps on one device before setting up
additional devices.
1. Use the included network cable to connect the px4-300d to your network router, switch or directly
to a computer.
2. Connect the included power adapter to the back of the px4-300d and a power socket or
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).
3. Your px4-300d should power on automatically.
4. From a computer on your network, open a web browser and go to http://setup.lenovoemc.com to
set up your px4-300d on your network. For best results, use a computer that is connected to the
same subnet or network segment as the px4-300d.
You can access the px4-300d Management Console directly by entering the IP address or model
name of your px4-300d in your computer’s web browser. To use the model name on a Mac, add
.local after the name in the browser (for example, px4-300d.local).
5. OPTIONAL: if desired, install the LenovoEMC Storage Manager and Media Aggregation software.
If you install LenovoEMC Storage Manager, its icon will appear in the System Tray (Windows) or
Menu Bar (Mac). The LenovoEMC Storage Manager will automatically scan your network and
connect to available Shares.
If you receive a message from your operating system's firewall alerting you of network activity, be
sure to unblock communications.
Mac Users: Shares on the px4-300d will mount and appear on the Mac Desktop.
PC Users: Shares on the px4-300d will automatically be assigned a drive letter and will be
available in the Network Drives section under My Computer.
Network Settings
The Network page of your px4-300d is where you make changes to set up network connectivity. The
Network page displays your current network settings and enables those settings to be modified. On this
page, you can identify your DNS servers and WINS servers and how your system's IP address is
determined. Most system IP addresses and other network settings can normally be configured
automatically.
Manually Configuring Your Network
If you are comfortable with network technology and want to configure the network, refer to Manually
Configuring Network Settings.
Bonded NICs
If your px4-300d has multiple network interface cards (NICs), you can bond those NICs. Refer to Bonding
NICs.
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Enabling Jumbo Frames for Each NIC
You can enable jumbo frames for each NIC in your px4-300d by expanding the Information section for a
NIC and entering a jumbo frame size in the Jumbo Frame field. If you do not want jumbo frame support,
leave the field blank. Jumbo frame support is useful for transferring large files, such as multimedia files,
over a network. Jumbo frame support increases transfer speed by placing large files in fewer data packets.
It also reduces the demand on the device hardware by having the CPU process more data in fewer data
packets.
Jumbo frame support should only be enabled if you are sure your network is jumbo-frame compatible and
all network devices have been configured to support jumbo frames. It is recommended that you confirm all
network interface cards (NICs) are configured to support jumbo frames before enabling this feature.
VLAN
Each NIC in your px4-300d can be added to up to four Virtual LANs (VLAN). For more information on
adding a NIC to a VLAN, refer to VLAN Settings.
Manually Configuring Network Settings
There are various settings in the network setup that you can manually configure.
1. Click Modify network settings.
2. Uncheck Automatically configure DNS, WINS, and all IP addresses (DHCP).
3. DNS Servers — enter the IP addresses of the DNS (Domain Name System) servers. DNS is
used for translating the domain name to IP addresses.
4. WINS Servers — enter the IP addresses of the WINS server.
5. From the Bonding Mode drop-down menu, choose one of the following:
●Transmission Load Balance — increases bandwidth by distributing the load across multiple
NICs.
●Link Aggregation — increases bandwidth by distributing the load across multiple ports in a
switch. Link Aggregation requires an 802.3ad compatible switch.
●Failover — provides recovery from a failure, so if one NIC should fail, your system still has
network connectivity with the other NIC.
6. To connect your px4-300d to a proxy server, check Use proxy settings and enter proxy IP
address, port number, and the proxy username and password.
7. Click Apply to save your settings.
8. If a DHCP server is unavailable for a network interface card (NIC), the device could auto-assign
an IP address, or you can uncheck the Automatically acquire network address (DHCP)
checkbox found in the Information section of a NIC.
9. You can change the following settings in the Information section:
●IP Address — the static IP address of the px4-300d. Use an available IP address in the range
used by the LAN.
●Subnet Mask — the subnet that the IP address belongs to. The default value is 255.255.255.0.
●Gateway — enter the gateway IP address in this field.
10. Click Apply to save your settings.
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VLAN: For information on adding a NIC to a VLAN (Virtual LAN), refer to VLAN Settings.
Bonding NICs: For information on bonding multiple network interface cards (NICs), refer to Bonding
NICs.
Bonding NICs
Bonding network interface cards (NICs) is a way to provide redundancy for your px4-300d on the network.
If one NIC should fail, your px4-300d will remain accessible on the network if that NIC is bonded to others.
Depending on the bonding mode selected, it can also increase bandwidth. See Manually Configuring
Network Settings for information on bonding mode options and how to change the bonding mode.
You can bond two or more network interface cards (NICs) in your px4-300d by selecting the NICs and
clicking Apply.
Use the following procedure to bond NICs.
1. On the Network page, expand the NIC number and then expand the Bond Network Interface
section.
2. Check the checkboxes next to the NICs that you want to bond to the selected NIC. For example, if
you selected NIC 1, and your configuration includes four NICs, you could bond NIC 1 to NIC 2, 3,
and/or 4.
3. Click Apply to save your settings.
4. The section updates and displays the NICs that are bonded to the selected NIC.
Unbonding NICs
1. To unbond a NIC, uncheck the box next to the bonded NIC.
2. Click Apply to save your settings.
VLAN Settings
A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is a network of devices that are joined into one broadcast domain,
even if the devices are not physically connected to each other. VLANs are useful for creating smaller
networks within a larger LAN; for example, a legal department in a company might be on its own VLAN
because it has sensitive documents that only certain personnel should have access to. The smaller
networks that VLANs create do not require any additional physical resources, such as additional cabling.
Your px4-300d Network Storage can be configured to support VLANs by connecting the corresponding
physical NIC to the trunk port of an L2/L3 switch.
VLAN is configured for each NIC, but it is not supported on bonded NICs. If a NIC is bonded, you must
unbind it first to configure it for a VLAN.
Adding a VLAN
1. To add a VLAN, expand the VLAN Settings section of a NIC.
2. Click Add VLAN.
3. Enter a VLAN ID value between 2 and 4094. You can enter up to 4 VLAN IDs for each NIC. A
VLAN can obtain its network settings from DHCP, or you can uncheck DHCP and enter the IP
address, subnet mask, and gateway manually.
4. Refer to Network Settings on page 6 for information about jumbo frames.
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5. Click Apply to save your changes.
Deleting a VLAN
In the VLAN Settings section click Delete to delete the VLAN.
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Naming Your px4-300d Network Storage
You can provide a meaningful name for your px4-300d using the Device Identification page. This page in
the px4-300d Management Console enables you to change the Storage Device Name, the Storage Device
Descriptive Name, and the Workgroup Name.
Change any of these by editing the text fields. Click Apply to save your changes.
●Device Name: Enter a name for the px4-300d device. Use a name that will help you identify it on
your network.
●Device Descriptive Name: Enter a descriptive name for the px4-300d device. This name can
provide additional detail that identifies the device. If you leave this field blank, the default device
name is used.
●Workgroup Name: Enter a workgroup name for the px4-300d device if you need to change the
default name. The workgroup name identifies a group of computers that share information with
each other. Change the workgroup name only if you explicitly define a workgroup on your network.
Most users won't need to change the workgroup name, unless they have explicitly defined a
different workgroup on their other computers.
Renaming the px4-300d will require a device restart.
Setting up Active Directory
If your px4-300d supports Active Directory, you configure AD on the Device Identification page. Refer to
Configuring Your px4-300d for Active Directory.
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