VVDN DT4CP-2U Quick Start Manual

DT4CP-2U Storage Server

Quick Start Guide

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The Open Server

The Open server provides an established framework to demonstrate the accelrated communication
process.It provide the solution for communication with higher network connectivity and powerful security
using encryption methodology.It offering powerful unified communication using scale-out and storage
option. The storage appliance is designed to provide features that include data compression, de­duplication and encryption.

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29-April-2015

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2U Quick Start Guide -Initial Draft

VVDN

29-April-2015

A0-01

Updated:

(i) NOR FLASH
(ii) Rear View

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Table of contents

1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................. 5

SYSTEM BOARD INTERFACE ............................................................................................................................. 5 1.1

TOP VIEW WITHOUT ADD ON CARD: ............................................................................................................... 5 1.2

TOP VIEW : ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3

REAR VIEW: ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.4

FRONT VIEW: ................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.5

PCIE AND SAS INTERFACE: ............................................................................................................................. 9 1.6

SD CARD: ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.7

POWER ORING CARD: .................................................................................................................................... 11 1.8

BOM DETAILS ............................................................................................................................................... 12 1.9

2 BLOCK DIAGRAM ........................................................................................................................................ 13

3 BOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER (BMC) .................................................................................... 14

PREPARING BOARD: ....................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1

FEATURES ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 3.2

UPGRADING IMAGE ON BMC ......................................................................................................................... 14 3.3

3.3.1 Create tftp server ................................................................................................................................. 14

3.3.2 Network Configuration ........................................................................................................................ 15

STEPS TO FLASH THE IMAGE ON BMC ............................................................................................................ 15 3.4

4 T4240MFCS ................................ ................................................................ ................................ ...................... 16

PREPARING BOARD ................................................................................................................................ ........ 16 4.1

FEATURES ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 4.2

PORT MAP ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 4.3

NOR FLASH ................................................................................................................................................. 18 4.4

SWITCH SETTING FOR SERVER1 AND SERVER2 FOR NOR FLASH .................................................................... 19 4.5

NOR FLASH ................................................................................................................................................. 19 4.6

SWITCH SETTINGS AND SET UP CONFIGURATION ............................................................................................ 20 4.7

4.7.1 Switch Default settings (SD Card boot) ............................................................................................... 21

PROGRAM SD CARD ....................................................................................................................................... 22 4.8

SD CARD IMAGE UPGRADE ............................................................................................................................. 23 4.9

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1 Introduction

The Dual T4240 Storage server product will be built with Dual T4240 which is a communication
processor from Freescale. The T4240 QorIQ multicore processor combines 12 dual-threaded e6500
Power Architecture® processor cores for a total of 24 threads with high-performance datapath
acceleration logic and network and peripheral bus interfaces required for networking, telecom/datacom,
data center, storage applications, and wireless infrastructure applications. A Dual T4240 based Data
center Storage appliance, offering a powerful unified communication solution with up to 80G of external
network connectivity, SRIO inter-chip connectivity and multiple SAS HDD’s and PCIe based SSD’s. The
storage appliance is designed to provide features that include data compression, de-duplication and
encryption. The use case is Storage Virtualization as a Software Defined Storage (SDS) appliance.

System Board Interface 1.1

The figure shows the top view of T4240mfcs system board interface.

Top View without Add On Card: 1.2

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Button

0-3 sec

3-6 sec (Fast
blink power led)

6-9 sec

9-12 sec (Slow
blink power led)

Power

No Action

Power off/on right
T4240

No Action

Power off/on left
T4240

Reset

No Action

Reset right T4240

No Action

Reset left T4240

Front View: 1.5

Power button Sequence:

Press Power button, for right t4240 power off or power on release power button when power led is
blinking fast (3-6 seconds).

Press Power button, for left t4240 power off or power on release power button when power led is blinking
slow (9-12 second)

Reset button Sequence:

Press Reset button, for right t4240 reset release reset button when power led is blinking fast (3-6
seconds).

Press Reset button, for left t4240 reset release power button when power led is blinking slow (9-12
second)

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