Owners Manual

Preface

This manual describes how to maintain the hardware for PS6000 storage arrays.

Each array contains hot-swappable power supply and cooling modules, eight or

sixteen RAID-protected disks, and dual hot-swappable control modules.

With one or more PS Series arrays, you can create a PS Series group—a self-

managing, iSCSI storage area network (SAN) that is affordable and easy to use,

regardless of scale.

Audience

This manual is designed for the administrators responsible for maintaining

PS6000 hardware. Administrators are not required to have extensive network or

storage system experience. However, it may be useful to understand:

• Basic networking concepts

• Current network environment

• User disk storage requirements

• RAID configurations

• Disk storage management

Note: Although this manual provides examples of using PS Series arrays in some

common network configurations, detailed information about setting up a

network is beyond its scope.

Organization

This manual is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, Basic Storage Array Information, describes the array front and

back panels, how to interpret LEDs, how to use an electrostatic wrist strap,

and how to shut down and restart an array.

• Chapter 2, Maintaining Disks, describes how to install and remove disks.

• Chapter 3, Maintaining Control Modules, describes how to install and

maintain control modules and replace the micro SD card. It also describes the

best way to connect network cables to control modules for high performance

and availability.

• Chapter 4, Maintaining Power Supply Modules, describes how to install and

remove the modules that provide power and cooling to the array.