Lenovo px2-300d User manual

px2-300d Network Storage
with LifeLine 4.0
User Guide

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CONTENTS
Setting up Your px2-300d Network Storage 1
Setup Overview 2
Set up my px2-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered 3
Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager 3
Discovering the px2-300d without the Internet 3
Setup Page 4
Network Connection 5
Connecting the px2-300d Network Storage to Your Network 5
Connecting the px2-300d 6
Network Settings 6
Manually Configuring Network Settings 7
Bonding NICs 8
Adding New NICs to Your px2-300d Network Storage 8
VLAN Settings 9
Naming Your px2-300d Network Storage 10
Configuring Your px2-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory 11
Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 11
Customizing the Access to Features on Your px2-300d 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 px2-300d Network Storage 15
Tracing Events on Your px2-300d Network Storage 16
Downloading the complete event log file 16
Obtaining System Status for Your px2-300d Network Storage 17
Space Usage 17
Control Panel 17
Device Information 17
Using Your px2-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones 18
Setting the Display Language for Your px2-300d Network Storage 19
Printing Documents 20
Setting up Personal Cloud, Security, and File Sharing 21
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Sharing Files 23
Sharing Overview 24
Interfaces for Sharing 24
Shares 25
What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 25
Adding Shares 25
Managing Shares 26
Deleting Shares 28
Using Protocols to Share Files 29
What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 29
AFP File Sharing for Macs 29
Bluetooth File Sharing 29
FTP File Sharing 30
NFS File Sharing 30
rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 31
TFTP 31
Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 31
Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 32
WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 32
Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 33
Windows File Sharing 33
Sharing Content through the Home Page 34
Sharing Your Content with the World 34
Adding a Custom Home Page 34
Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 36
How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 36
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 37
Managing Your Content 38
Transferring Content to and from Your px2-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs 39
Copy Jobs Limitations 39
Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 40
Safely removing external storage 40
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 41
Setting QuikTransfer 41
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iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 43
iSCSI Overview 44
Adding iSCSI Drives 45
Enabling iSCSI Drives 45
Connecting to iSCSI Drives 45
Managing iSCSI Drives 46
Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 46
Deleting iSCSI Drives 47
Storage Pool Management 49
Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 50
Storage Pools 50
Volumes 50
Adding and Managing Storage Pools 51
To Add a Data Storage Pool 51
Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 52
To Add a Cache Storage Pool 52
Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 52
Managing Drives 54
Setting Write Caching 54
Applying Global Drive Management Settings 54
Drive Status 55
Volumes 56
Snapshots 56
Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 57
Restoring a Snapshot 57
Deleting a Snapshot 57
Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 57
Make the Snapshot Read-only 57
Changing Expose Mode 57
Adding and Managing Volumes 58
Deleting a Storage Pool 60
Changing RAID Protection Types 61
Drive Management 63
Managing Drives 64
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Setting Write Caching 64
Applying Global Drive Management Settings 64
Drive Status 65
Backing up and Restoring Your Content 67
Backup and Restore Overview 68
Backup of Data through RAID Protection 68
Backing up to and Restoring from Your px2-300d Network Storage 69
Backing up Macs with Time Machine 69
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 69
Copy Jobs Overview 70
Backing up Your px2-300d Network Storage 71
Copy Jobs 71
From: Settings 72
To: Settings 73
Setting a Schedule 73
Backing up with Mozy Backup 74
Restoring Files with Mozy Backup 75
Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 75
Backing up with Amazon S3 76
Restoring Files with Amazon S3 76
Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 76
Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 76
Securing Your px2-300d Network Storage and Contents 77
What Is Security and Do I Need It? 78
Enabling Security and Creating an Administrator User 79
Disabling Security 79
Limiting Access to Your Content by Creating Users 80
Users 81
Users and Groups Overview 81
Adding Users 81
Managing Users 82
Deleting Users 83
Groups 84
Groups Overview 84
Adding Groups 84
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Managing Groups 84
Deleting Groups 85
Using Active Directory Domain to Manage Users and Groups 86
Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 86
Managing Users and Groups with Active Directory 86
Deleting Active Directory Users and Groups 87
Managing Your px2-300d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 88
Managing Your px2-300d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 88
Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the
World 91
What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 92
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 92
Is My Content Secure? 93
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Setup Overview 94
Creating LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 95
Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 96
Router Port Forwarding 96
Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 97
Enabling Internet Access to the px2-300d 97
Changing Personal Cloud Settings 97
Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 98
Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 99
Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 100
Disconnecting Trusted Devices 100
Deleting Trusted Devices 100
Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 101
Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 102
Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 103
Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 104
Sharing Content Using Social Media 105
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 106
Facebook 107
Flickr 108
YouTube 109
Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 110
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Media Management 111
Media Management Overview 112
Scanning for media content 112
Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 113
Sharing Media Content over the Internet 114
Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 114
Media Aggregation 115
Enabling Media Aggregation 115
Social Media Sharing 116
Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 117
Example: Setting up iTunes 117
Example: Setting up Xbox 360 117
Photos 118
Photos Overview 118
Streaming Pictures 118
Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 118
Automatically Resizing Your Photos 118
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 119
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 119
Music 120
Music Overview 120
Streaming Music 120
Torrents 121
Torrent Overview 121
Enabling Torrent Downloads 121
Deleting torrent jobs 121
Configuring Your Router for Torrent Downloads 121
Torrent Active Folders 122
Configuring a Torrent Active Folder 122
Videos 124
Video Capabilities Overview 124
Streaming Movies 124
Video Surveillance 124
Name 125
Space 125
Model 125
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Action 125
Adding Applications to Your px2-300d Network Storage 129
Application Overview 130
Application Installation 131
Application Manager 132
Starting or stopping an application 132
Adding applications 132
Removing applications 132
Upgrading Your px2-300d Network Storage 133
Software Updates 134
Auto-update process: installing a device software update 134
Manual update process: installing a device software update 134
Backing up and Recovering Your px2-300d Network Storage Settings 137
Backing Up Your px2-300d Network Storage Settings 138
Backing up Device Configuration 138
Restoring a Configuration Backup 138
Hardware Management 139
About the px2-300d Network Storage Components 140
Front Panel 140
Drive Bay Access 141
Rear Panel 141
Default Settings: 142
Energy Saving 143
Power Down Drives 143
Brightness 143
Wake On LAN 143
Creating A Power Schedule 143
Factory Reset 144
UPS Management 145
Adding New NICs to Your px2-300d Network Storage 146
Troubleshooting Routers 147
Enabling the DMZ 147
Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 148
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Bridging the Secondary Router 148
Bridging the Primary Router 148
Additional Support 151
How to Get Help 152
Support 153
Legal 155
Safety Information 156
Open Source 157
Warranty Information 158
Limited Warranty Notice 158
Limited Warranty for Iomega Products 158
Regulatory Information 159
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 159
Canadian Verification 159
European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 160
Important WEEE Information 160
European Union RoHS 160
India RoHS 160
Lithium Battery – California Perchlorate Information 160
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 161
Recycling and environmental information 161
Export classification notice 161
Copyright and Trademark Information 162
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