Quantum StorNext G300 Site Planning Manual

StorNext G300 Gateway

Appliance Site Planning

Guide

G300 Gateway Appliance

Contents

Product Overview................................... 1

Included With Your StorNext G300

Gateway Appliance ................................ 2

Installation Requirements...................... 2

Rack Compatibility............................. 2

StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance

Setup.................................................. 2

Installation and Integration Services . 2

Hardware Description ............................ 3

Service .................................................... 6

StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance

Warranty ............................................ 6

Service Package Upgrades ................. 6

StorNext G300 Shipping Information.... 7

StorNext G300 Specifications ................ 7

EMI Certification ................................ 7

Physical Characteristics ...................... 7

Environmental Specifications ............ 9

Quantum Customer Suport ................. 10

Product Overview

The StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance combines industry-proven
Quantum hardware and StorNext software into one convenient, out-of­the-box solution. Your StorNext G300 system software has been pre­installed and is ready to operate with a minimum of additional
configuration required at time of installation. This guide provides an
overview of site characteristics, physical requirements, and environmental
specifications essential for the installation of the StorNext G300 Gateway
Appliance.

Note: Make sure to take the online training for the StorNext G300

Gateway Appliance in order to make the best use of your product.
The online training is available at

ServiceandSupport/StorageCareLearning/Index.aspx

www.quantum.com/

www.quantum.com

G300 Gateway Appliance Site Planning Guide

Included With Your StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance

The StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance is fully configured to your specifications and pre­tested in the factory. Every StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance configuration arrives with
all necessary parts included. Each system comes with an accessory kit containing rack­mount hardware and ships with StorNext G300 Gateway software installed from the
factory.

Installation Requirements

Rack Compatibility Nearly all standard four-post EIA 19” server racks are compatible with the StorNext

G300 Gateway Appliance rack mount kits. See Physical Characteristics
system rack space requirements.

on page 7 for

StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance Setup

Installation and Integration Services

After the system has been installed and configured, you are ready to use your StorNext
G300 Gateway Appliance.

Required Network Information

• DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is not supported. You must provide a
static IP address at the time of installation.

• The default IP Address is: 10.1.1.1

Installation and integration of the StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance will be performed
by Quantum Professional Services. Phone support for the installation process is available
via the Quantum support number for your area. Quantum World Wide phone support is
as follows

Americas:

800-284-5101 (toll free) or 949-725-2100

Europe, Middle East and Africa:

00800-4-782-6886 (toll free) or [phone]

Asia Pacific:

[phone] (toll free) or [phone]

2 Included With Your StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance

Hardware Description

The StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance ships with two 3.5” 500GB 7.2K RPM SATA hard
disk drives (HDD) in a 1+1 RAID 1 configuration for the G300 platform software.

StorNext G300 Gateway servers include the following components:

• Two 2.4 GHz 6-core CPUs

• 24 GBs of memory (12GB/CPU)

• Redundant cooling fans and power

Note: The server ships with one 2-port 8 GB FC PCIe card in slot 4; two embedded 1

StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance models differ with regard to type and number of
Ethernet expansion cards.

• G301 ships with two 4-port 1 GbE Ethernet PCIe expansion cards in slots 1 and 2.

G300 Gateway Appliance

GbE Ethernet ports; and two expansion PCIe Ethernet cards that differ
depending on the StorNext G300 model.

G301 Gateway Appliance Ports

Figure 1 G301 Port Numbers

• G302 ships with one 2-port 1 GbE Ethernet PCIe expansion card in slot 1, and one 2­port 10 GbE Ethernet PCIe expansion card in slot 2.

For the StorNext G301 Gateway Appliance, the MDC network is always a bonded
(bond0) network. Physical ports 3 and 4 are dedicated to the MDC network. Ports 5
through 10 are dedicated to the LAN client network. The LAN client network is either
bonded (bond1) or configured as individual network interfaces. When bonded, the
G301 Gateway’s LAN client network includes the on-board embedded Ethernet port 2
for a total of 7 network ports (see Ta b l e 1

See Figure 1
(fiber channel ports denoted in green) for the G301 Gateway Appliance.

below to view port assignments (ethernet ports denoted in yellow) and

on page 4 for port descriptions).

Hardware Description 3