Lenovo px12-400r User manual

px12-400r Network Storage
with LifeLine 4.0
User Guide

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CONTENTS
Setting up Your px12-400r Network Storage 1
Setup Overview 2
Set up my px12-400r Network Storage if it's not discovered 3
Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager 3
Discovering the px12-400r without the Internet 3
Setup Page 4
Network Connection 5
Connecting the px12-400r Network Storage to Your Network 5
Connecting the px12-400r 6
Network Settings 6
Manually Configuring Network Settings 7
Bonding NICs 8
Adding New NICs to Your px12-400r Network Storage 8
VLAN Settings 9
Naming Your px12-400r Network Storage 10
Setting up Active Directory 10
Configuring Your px12-400r Network Storage to Use Active Directory 11
Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 12
Customizing the Access to Features on Your px12-400r 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 px12-400r Network Storage 15
Tracing Events on Your px12-400r Network Storage 16
Downloading the complete event log file 16
Obtaining System Status for Your px12-400r Network Storage 17
Space Usage 17
Control Panel 17
Device Information 17
Using Your px12-400r Network Storage in Various Time Zones 18
Setting the Display Language for Your px12-400r 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 32
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 px12-400r Network Storage with Copy Jobs 38
Copy Jobs Limitations 38
Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 39
Safely removing external storage 39
iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 40
iSCSI Overview 41
Adding iSCSI Drives 42
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Enabling iSCSI Drives 42
Connecting to iSCSI Drives 42
Managing iSCSI Drives 43
Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 43
Deleting iSCSI Drives 44
Storage Pool Management 45
Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 46
Storage Pools 46
Volumes 46
Adding and Managing Storage Pools 47
To Add a Data Storage Pool 47
Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 48
To Add a Cache Storage Pool 48
Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 48
Volumes 50
Snapshots 50
Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 51
Restoring a Snapshot 51
Deleting a Snapshot 51
Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 51
Make the Snapshot Read-only 51
Changing Expose Mode 51
Adding and Managing Volumes 52
Deleting a Storage Pool 54
Changing RAID Protection Types 55
Adding New Drives to Your px12-400r Network Storage 56
Drive Management 57
Managing Drives 58
Setting Write Caching 58
Applying Global Drive Management Settings 58
Drive Status 59
Backing up and Restoring Your Content 60
Backup and Restore Overview 61
Backup of Data through RAID Protection 61
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Backing up to and Restoring from Your px12-400r Network Storage 62
Backing up Macs with Time Machine 62
Copy Jobs Overview 62
Backing up Your px12-400r Network Storage 63
Copy Jobs 63
From: Settings 64
To: Settings 65
Setting a Schedule 65
Backing up with Mozy Backup 66
Restoring Files with Mozy Backup 67
Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 67
Backing up with Amazon S3 68
Restoring Files with Amazon S3 68
Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 68
Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 68
Securing Your px12-400r Network Storage and Contents 69
What Is Security and Do I Need It? 70
Enabling Security and Creating an Administrator User 71
Disabling Security 71
Limiting Access to Your Content by Creating Users 72
Users 73
Users and Groups Overview 73
Adding Users 73
Managing Users 74
Deleting Users 75
Groups 76
Groups Overview 76
Adding Groups 76
Managing Groups 76
Deleting Groups 77
Using Active Directory Domain to Manage Users and Groups 78
Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 78
Managing Users and Groups with Active Directory 78
Deleting Active Directory Users and Groups 79
Managing Your px12-400r Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 80
Managing Your px12-400r Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 80
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Remote Access: Accessing Your px12-400r Network Storage From Anywhere in the World82
Remote Access Overview 83
Enabling Remote Access 84
Basic Option: Completing the Enable Remote Access Process 84
Premium Option: Completing the Enable Remote Access Process 84
Accessing Your px12-400r Network Storage Remotely 86
Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the
World 87
What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 88
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 88
Is My Content Secure? 89
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Setup Overview 90
Creating LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 91
Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 92
Router Port Forwarding 92
Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 93
Enabling Internet Access to the px12-400r 93
Changing Personal Cloud Settings 93
Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 94
Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 95
Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 96
Disconnecting Trusted Devices 96
Deleting Trusted Devices 96
Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 97
Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 98
Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 99
Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 100
Sharing Content Using Social Media 101
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 102
Facebook 103
Flickr 104
YouTube 105
Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 106
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Media Management 107
Media Management Overview 108
Scanning for media content 108
Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 109
Sharing Media Content over the Internet 110
Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 110
Media Aggregation 111
Enabling Media Aggregation 111
Social Media Sharing 112
Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 113
Example: Setting up iTunes 113
Example: Setting up Xbox 360 113
Photos 114
Photos Overview 114
Streaming Pictures 114
Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 114
Automatically Resizing Your Photos 114
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 115
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 115
Music 116
Music Overview 116
Streaming Music 116
Torrents 117
Torrent Overview 117
Enabling Torrent Downloads 117
Deleting torrent jobs 117
Configuring Your Router for Torrent Downloads 117
Torrent Active Folders 118
Configuring a Torrent Active Folder 118
Videos 120
Video Capabilities Overview 120
Streaming Movies 120
Video Surveillance 120
Name 121
Space 121
Model 121
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Action 121
Adding Applications to Your px12-400r Network Storage 124
Application Overview 125
Application Installation 126
Application Manager 127
Starting or stopping an application 127
Adding applications 127
Removing applications 127
Upgrading Your px12-400r Network Storage 128
Software Updates 129
Auto-update process: installing a device software update 129
Manual update process: installing a device software update 129
Backing up and Recovering Your px12-400r Network Storage Settings 131
Backing Up Your px12-400r Network Storage Settings 132
Backing up Device Configuration 132
Restoring a Configuration Backup 132
Hardware Management 133
About the px12-400r Network Storage Components 134
Front Panel 134
Drive Bay Detail 135
Rear Panel 136
Energy Saving 137
Power Down Drives 137
Wake On LAN 137
Creating A Power Schedule 137
Factory Reset 138
UPS Management 139
Adding New Drives to Your px12-400r Network Storage 140
Adding New NICs to Your px12-400r Network Storage 141
Troubleshooting Routers 142
Enabling the DMZ 142
Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 143
Bridging the Secondary Router 143
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Bridging the Primary Router 143
Additional Support 145
How to Get Help 146
Support 147
Legal 148
Safety Information 149
Open Source 150
Warranty Information 151
Limited Warranty Notice 151
Limited Warranty for Iomega Products 151
Regulatory Information 152
Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement 152
Canadian Verification 152
European Union conformity 152
Important WEEE Information 153
European Union RoHS 153
India RoHS 153
Lithium Battery – California Perchlorate Information 153
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 153
Recycling and environmental information 153
Export classification notice 154
Copyright and Trademark Information 155
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