Reference Guide

Table of contents
Revisions .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Documentation resources ............................................................................................................................................... 4
2 Tuning the Dell SD7000-S Physical Servers for performance ............................................................................................. 5
2.1 Configuring LSI RAID controller for performance ....................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Using the MegaCLI RAID to configure LSI RAID controller ........................................................................................ 5
2.2.1 Patrol Read feature settings .............................................................................................................................................. 5
3 Configuring Connectors .............................................................................................................................................................. 6
3.1 Network tuning for 10 Gb Ethernet ................................................................................................................................ 6
3.2 Adding Connectors for increased performance ......................................................................................................... 6
4 Maintaining the Scality RING ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.1 Detecting disk errors and replacing disks ...................................................................................................................... 7
4.1.1 To replace a disk .................................................................................................................................................................. 7
4.1.2 To replace an SSD ............................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.1.3 To change a disk as soon as failure is detected ........................................................................................................... 7
4.2 Backing up and restoring configuration files ............................................................................................................... 8
4.3 Adding Scality RING capacity ........................................................................................................................................... 8
4.3.1 To add a new disk to expand storage ............................................................................................................................ 8
4.3.2 To add Physical Servers to increase Scality RING capacity ....................................................................................... 9
4.4 Joining nodes to the Scality RING .................................................................................................................................. 9
4.5 Removing storage nodes .................................................................................................................................................. 9
4.6 Updating firmware and patches .................................................................................................................................... 10
4.7 Upgrading Scality software ............................................................................................................................................ 10
4.7.1 Sites located in private networks .................................................................................................................................. 10
5 Getting Help .................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
5.1 Contacting Dell .................................................................................................................................................................. 11
5.2 Locating Service Tag ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3 Quick Resource Locator .................................................................................................................................................. 11
5.4 Contacting Scality ............................................................................................................................................................. 12
3 Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING Best Practices Guide | A00.