User`s guide

Document Number: MAN-0057XX-000 Version 1.0
Status-Only Mode
This mode allows you to use the SteelVine Storage Reference Design with the SteelVine
Manager GUI to monitor the status of the appliance (i.e., temperature, fan speeds, storage
capacity, and RAID mode of the desired hard drive), but not make Storage Policy configuration
changes through the GUI. To select a storage policy in this mode the first time that the product
is used, ensure that the hard disk drives are installed, set the rotary switch on the back of the
SteelVine Storage Reference Design to the desired Storage Policy (not the GUI selection) and
turn on the power. To change the storage policy thereafter, set the rotary switch to the desired
position and press the recessed Mode Change push-button to create the new virtual volume(s).
Note that creating new virtual volumes will destroy any existing data that existed on the previous
volume.
GUI Mode
This mode allows you to use the SteelVine Manager GUI to configure the Storage Policy and
other settings as well as monitor the status of the appliance (i.e., temperature, fan speeds, storage
capacity, and RAID mode of the desired hard drive). To select this mode the first time that the
product is used, ensure that the hard disk drives are installed, set the rotary switch on the back of
the SteelVine Storage Reference Design to the GUI position and turn on the power. In this
mode, no virtual volume(s) will be created until the storage policy and volume selections are
made through the GUI. To change from GUI mode to some other fixed storage policy thereafter,
set the rotary switch to the desired position and press the push-button to create the new virtual
volume(s).
SteelVine Storage Policies
You can configure the SteelVine Storage Reference Design to use any of the following Storage
Policies to map the appliance’s physical hard drives to virtual drives that are visible to the host
computer. The virtual drives are called volumes in the GUI. The host operating system treats
each volume as if it were a single physical drive. This virtualization allows you to overcome
restrictions that are imposed by physical hard drives, such as speed, storage capacity or data
storage reliability.
BIG
The BIG storage policy concatenates a series of physical hard drives as a single large volume;
resulting in a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly
connected hard drives. SteelVine BIG storage policy delivers maximum storage space without a
single large capacity and costly hard drive.
Any node within a cascaded configuration can be set to BIG. For more information about
Cascading refer to Page 12.
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