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Storage Subsystem Guide 1
Audience
1 About This Guide
Thisguideprovidesanoverviewofthestoragesubsystemssupportedforuse
withtheSGI
®
InfiniteStorageNASServer(IS‐NASServer).Thisguidealso
providesinformationandinstructionsformanagingthestoragesubsystems
attachedtoyourIS‐NASServer.
Licensekeysarerequiredtoenabletheusageofstoragesubsystems,andare
alsousedtocontroltheavailabilityofsomesystemfeaturesandfunctionality.
Formore
informationonlicenses,refertotheSystemAdministrationGuideor
contactSGIGlobalServices.
Audience
ThisguideiswrittenforstorageadministratorsofSGIInfiniteStorageNAS
Serversystems.Itiswrittenwiththeassumptionthatthereaderhasagood
workingknowledgeofstoragesubsystems(RAIDarrays),networking
conceptsandpractices,computers,andcomputersystems.
Chapter Descriptions
Thefollowingtopicsarecoveredinthisdocument:
•Chapter1:ʺAboutThisGuideʺ
Providesanintroductiontothisguide,listsotherdocumentation
resourcesavailableforthisproduct,andexplainstheconventionsusedin
thisdocument.
•Chapter2:ʺTheSGIInfiniteStorageNASStorageSystemʺ
Providesanoverviewofthemajorelementsof
theNASstorageserver
system,includingthepartsofthesystem,tieredstorage,andsupported
storagesubsystems.
•Chapter3:ʺConfiguringSGIInfiniteStorageArraysʺ
Describesthestoragecharacteristicsandmanagementtasks,and
monitoringoptionsofthesupportedstoragesubsystems.
•Chapter4:ʺSystemDrivesandSystemDriveGroupsʺ
Providesinformationaboutall
aspectsofsystemdrives,andsystemdrive
groups.