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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
How This Guide is Organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How This Guide is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Navigating This Document With Adobe Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
About the StorNext M660 Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About the StorNext M660 Metadata Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hardware Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Network Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Base System and Expansion Unit Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
StorNext M660 Gateway Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
StorNext M660 Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Purpose of This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Supported Internet Browsers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Product Safety Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Chapter 2 Hardware Overview 13
StorNext M660 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
StorNext M660 MDC Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
StorNext M660 Metadata Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Determining the Controller Used in the Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
StorNext M660 Metadata Expansion Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
StorNext M660 Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
StorNext M660 Power Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
StorNext M660 SAS Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
StorNext M660 LAN Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
StorNext M660 SAN Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
StorNext M662 Lattus Cabing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Relocating the StorNext M660 System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 3 Basic System Operations 49
Powering On All StorNext M660 System Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Shutting Down All StorNext M660 System Components . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Powering On a Single MDC Node of the StorNext M660. . . . . . . . . . . 54
Shutting Down a Single MDC Node of the StorNext M660 . . . . . . . . . 55
System Serial Numbers and Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Locating the System Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Serial Number Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Locating the Service
Tag Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Before Upgrading Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
TSM Indexing Delay for Large Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Running the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Upgrading Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Upgrade Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Obtain the Firmware Upgrade Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Firmware Upgrade Process and Time Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Upgrade Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Deleting Uploaded Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Converting to HA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Additional Common Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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Changing the MDC VIP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
StorNext Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chapter 4 Contacting Quantum 77
Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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StorNext M660 Metadata Appliance Hardware Guide 1
Chapter 1
Introduction
How This Guide is Organized
This guide describes how to identify and operate the key features of the
hardware components of the StorNext M660.
How This Guide is
Organized
This guide contains the following chapters:
•Chapter 1, Introduction provides an overview of this StorNext M660
Hardware Guide, and also includes document conventions, product
safety statements, a list of related documents, and supported
Internet browsers.
•Chapter 2, Hardware Overview provides an overview of the StorNext
M660 system.
•Chapter 3, Basic System Operations provides basic operating
instructions for the StorNext M660 system.
•Chapter 4, Contacting Quantum- provides information on
contacting Quantum support.

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•About the StorNext M660 Hardware on page 4 –provides an
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•Document Conventions on page 8 –provides information about the
conventions used in the document.
•Supported Internet Browsers on page 9 –provides the location
where the supported Internet Browsers list is located.
•Product Safety Statements on page 9 –provides multi-lingual safety
and regulatory statements.
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About the StorNext M660 Hardware
About the StorNext
M660 Metadata
Appliance
The StorNext M660 Metadata Appliance offers the powerful file-sharing
capabilities of StorNext in an optimized appliance package. The
StorNext M660 comes with a pair of metadata controller (MDCs) nodes
in a High Availability (HA) configuration and a high-performance
metadata array. An optional metadata disk expansion unit adds another
metadata array to the system for additional file systems, performance
and capacity. The appliance comes in two models: the StorNext M661
and M662.
Note: At times this guide uses StorNext M660 as a generic term that
applies to the StorNext M661 and the StorNext M662 models.
When information pertains to a specific StorNext M660 model
only, those differences are noted.
MDCs coordinate SAN file access across clients. Additionally, the
standby node can be used as a distributed data mover (DDM) host using
the included license, or both MDC nodes can be used as LAN client
gateways in non-Lattus systems.
During installation, the StorNext M660 can be configured for use in
different storage environments - in StorNext environments operating as
a StorNext Metadata Controller (MDC) High Availability (HA) pair with
access to both disk and tape libraries, or as a StorNext MDC HA pair
with access to disk, tape, and Lattus storage.
Note: Access to Lattus storage is available on M662Metadata
Appliances only.

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About the StorNext M660 Hardware
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Note: Content in this document applies to both Lattus and non-
Lattus systems unless otherwise noted.
Hardware Specification Each StorNext M660 MDC node contains the following:
• Two redundant, hot-swappable system hard drives in a RAID 1
configuration
• Redundant cooling fans and power
Network Connectivity Here are the quantity and type of network ports available on the
different system models:
• All StorNext M660 models feature one 4-port 8 Gb FC card for SAN
network connectivity.
• The StorNext M661 feature 11 configurable 1GbE Ethernet ports per
node.
• The StorNext M662feature two 10 GbE and seven 1 GbE
configurable Ethernet ports per node.
MDCs coordinate SAN file access across SAN clients. Additionally, the
standby node can be used as a distributed data mover (DDM) host. Both
MDC nodes can be used as StorNext gateways (in non-Lattus systems
only).
Base System and
Expansion Unit
Description
The StorNext M660 comes configured as a Base System with two
Metadata Controller (MDC) nodes which share a common file system
located on a single metadata array for storage.
M660UnitUnitUnitanmetadata arraysystemThe different M660 models
support different numbers of file systems, as described here:
• In M661 and M662 systems: the base system supports up to four
file systems. The base system with the optional expansion unit
supports up to eight file systems.

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StorNext M660
Gateway Licensing
There are several items to note about the Gateway Appliance license
used on the StorNext M662 Metadata Appliance with Gateway
functionality enabled:
• The StorNext StorNext M662 Metadata Appliance with Gateway
functionality enabled has a “per Gateway” DLC license model. This
license allows you to add clients without having to purchase
additional individual licenses.
• For new customers with no existing StorNext components, the
license comes from the factory pre-installed, but must first be
enabled for use on StorNext M662 Metadata Appliances.
Note: Do not enable gateway functionality for StorNext M662
Metadata Appliances connected to Lattus systems. While there
are no functional issues in enabling the LAN gateway
functionality within a Lattus environment, observed
throughput when moving data to Lattus through the 10GbE
ports will be slower than expected if this feature is enabled.
• If you choose to install the StorNext M662 Metadata Appliance with
Gateway functionality enabled into the same StorNext network as a
customer-configured DLC gateway, you will be limited to the
existing DLC client license count.
• To determine whether the Gateway license is enabled, look for a
green check next to the Gateway Licensed MDClicense on the
License page in the GUI of the M662 Metadata Appliance.
StorNext M660
Documents
A complete list of documentation for the StorNext M660 Metadata
Appliance is located on the following web page:
http://www.quantum.com/snmdcdocs

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Purpose of This Guide
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Purpose of This Guide
This guide describes how to identify and operate the key features of the
hardware components of the StorNext M660.
Notes, Cautions, and
Warnings
The following describes important information about Notes, Cautions,
and Warnings used throughout this guide.
Note
Note: Emphasizes important information related to the main topic.
Consequences if not followed:
There are no hazardous or damaging consequences.
Caution
Caution: Indicates potential hazards to equipment or data.
Consequences if not followed:
Failure to take or avoid this action could result in loss of data or
harm to equipment.
Warning
WARNING: Indicates potential hazards to personal safety.
Consequences if not followed:
Failure to take or avoid this action could result in physical harm to
the user or hardware.

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Document Conventions This guide uses the following document conventions to help you
recognize different types of information.
When a step includes substantial supporting information, the following
document conventions are used to differentiate the supporting
information from the procedural content:
Hardware Conventions
Software Conventions
Conventions
Right side of the system — Refers to the right side as you face the
component being described.
Left side of the system — Refers to the left side as you face the
component being described.
Conventions Examples
For all UNIX-based
commands, the #prompt is
implied, although it is not
shown.
TSM_control stop
is the same as
# TSM_control stop
For all UNIX-based
commands, words in
italic
are variables and should be
replaced with user-defined
values.
cvaffinity filename
where filename is a variable
and should be replaced with
a user-defined value.
User input is shown in bold
font.
./install.stornext
Computer output and
command line examples are
shown in monospace font.
./install.stornext
User input variables are
enclosed in angle brackets.
http://<ip_address>/cgi-
bin/stats

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Supported Internet Browsers
The Internet browser software is not supplied with the StorNext M660;
you must obtain and install it independently. Refer to the
Quantum
StorNext Compatibility Guide
for the complete list of browsers
supported by StorNext.
Product Safety Statements
Quantum will not be held liable for damage arising from unauthorized
use of the product. The user assumes all risk in this aspect.
This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and
regulatory requirements. Be aware that improper use may result in
bodily injury, damage to the equipment, or interference with other
equipment.
For UNIX and Linux
commands, the command
prompt is implied.
TSM_control stop
is the same as
# TSM_control stop
File and directory names,
menu commands, button
names, and window names
are shown in bold font.
/data/upload
Menu names separated by
arrows indicate a sequence
of menus to be navigated.
Utilities > Firmware
Conventions Examples

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WARNING: Before operating this product, read all instructions and
warnings in this document and in the system, safety, and
regulatory guide.

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Chapter 2
Hardware Overview
This chapter contains the following sections:
•StorNext M660 Components
•StorNext M660 Connectivity on page 34
•Relocating the StorNext M660 System on page 47
StorNext M660 Components
The StorNext M660 Metadata Appliance consists of the following
components:
•StorNext M660 MDC Nodes
•StorNext M660 Metadata Array

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Figure 1 shows the StorNext M660 Base System with optional expansion
unit.
Figure 1 StorNext M660 Base
System Components (Front)
StorNext M660 MDC
Nodes
The two StorNext M660 MDC Nodes are servers that provide storage
and control for the StorNext M660 platform software (host OS and
StorNext software). The MDC Nodes contain redundant hard drives in a
RAID 1 configuration, ensuring high availability of the system software.