Lenovo Iomega storcenter ix12-300r User manual

Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r

with LifeLine 4.0

User Guide

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CONTENTS
Setting up Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 1
Setup Overview 2
Set up my Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r if it's not discovered 3
Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager 3
Discovering the ix12-300r without the Internet 3
Setup Page 4
Network Connection 5
Network Settings 5
Manually Configuring Network Settings 5
Bonding NICs 6
VLAN Settings 7
Naming Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 8
Setting up Active Directory 8
Configuring Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r to Use Active Directory 9
Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 10
Customizing the Access to Features on Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 11
Enabling the Display of Features 11
Enabling Access Permissions to Features 11
Non-Administrator User Log In 12
Obtaining Alerts About Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 13
Tracing Events on Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 14
Downloading the complete event log file 14
Obtaining System Status for Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 15
Space Usage 15
Control Panel 15
Device Information 15
Using Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r in Various Time Zones 16
Setting the Display Language for Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 17
Printing Documents 18
Setting up Personal Cloud, Security, and File Sharing 19
Sharing Files 20
Sharing Overview 21
Interfaces for Sharing 21
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Shares 22
What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 22
Adding Shares 22
Managing Shares 23
Deleting Shares 25
Using Protocols to Share Files 26
What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 26
AFP File Sharing for Macs 26
Bluetooth File Sharing 26
FTP File Sharing 27
NFS File Sharing 27
rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 28
TFTP 28
Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 28
Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 29
WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 30
Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 30
Windows File Sharing 30
Sharing Content through the Home Page 31
Sharing Your Content with the World 31
Adding a Custom Home Page 31
Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 33
How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 33
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 34
Managing Your Content 35
Transferring Content to and from Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r with Copy Jobs 36
Copy Jobs Limitations 36
Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 37
Safely removing external storage 37
iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 38
iSCSI Overview 39
Adding iSCSI Drives 40
Enabling iSCSI Drives 40
Connecting to iSCSI Drives 40
Managing iSCSI Drives 41
Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 41
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Deleting iSCSI Drives 42
Storage Pool Management 43
Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 44
Storage Pools 44
Volumes 44
Adding and Managing Storage Pools 45
To Add a Data Storage Pool 45
Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 46
To Add a Cache Storage Pool 46
Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 46
Volumes 48
Snapshots 48
Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 49
Restoring a Snapshot 49
Deleting a Snapshot 49
Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 49
Make the Snapshot Read-only 49
Changing Expose Mode 49
Adding and Managing Volumes 50
Deleting a Storage Pool 52
Changing RAID Protection Types 53
Drive Management 54
Managing Drives 55
Setting Write Caching 55
Applying Global Drive Management Settings 55
Drive Status 56
Backing up and Restoring Your Content 57
Backup and Restore Overview 58
Backup of Data through RAID Protection 58
Backing up to and Restoring from Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 59
Backing up Macs with Time Machine 59
Copy Jobs Overview 59
Backing up Your Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r 60
Copy Jobs 60
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