User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Setting up Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Setup Overview
- Set up my px6-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered
- Setup Page
- Network Connection
- Connecting the px6-300d
- Naming Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Configuring Your px6-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory
- Customizing the Access to Features on Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Obtaining Alerts About Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Tracing Events on Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Obtaining System Status for Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Using Your px6-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones
- Setting the Display Language for Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Printing Documents
- Setting up Personal Cloud, Security, and File Sharing
- Sharing Files
- Sharing Overview
- Shares
- Using Protocols to Share Files
- What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files?
- AFP File Sharing for Macs
- Bluetooth File Sharing
- FTP File Sharing
- NFS File Sharing
- rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers
- TFTP
- Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool
- Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https)
- WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS
- Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System
- Windows File Sharing
- Sharing Content through the Home Page
- Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once
- Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview
- Managing Your Content
- Transferring Content to and from Your px6-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs
- Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device
- One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device
- iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- Storage Pool Management
- Drive Management
- Backing up and Restoring Your Content
- Securing Your px6-300d Network Storage and Contents
- Remote Access: Accessing Your px6-300d Network Storage From Anywhere in the W...
- Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the ...
- What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ?
- Is My Content Secure?
- LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Setup Overview
- Creating LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud
- Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud
- Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Sharing Content Using Social Media
- Media Management
- Adding Applications to Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Upgrading Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Backing up and Recovering Your px6-300d Network Storage Settings
- Hardware Management
- Additional Support
- Legal
- Safety Information
- Open Source
- Warranty Information
- Regulatory Information
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement
- Canadian Verification
- European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive
- Important WEEE Information
- European Union RoHS
- India RoHS
- Lithium Battery – California Perchlorate Information
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice
- Recycling and environmental information
- Export classification notice
- Copyright and Trademark Information
Understanding How Your Content Is Stored
Content on your px6-300d Network Storage is stored in Shares and iSCSI volumes. To access content in
Shares, your client computer uses network protocols, such as AFP and Windows File Sharing. The px6-
300d's file system maintains the physical location of content that resides in volumes used for Shares.
Block-level data is stored in iSCSI drives. File systems for iSCSI volumes are maintained by the
connected host computer and not the px6-300d.
Shares reside on volumes, which along with iSCSI volumes, reside in Storage Pools. Volumes allow you
to partition space in Storage Pools, and Storage Pools group multiple physical drives together into a single
logical unit to provide redundancy, availability and capacity. All the drives in a Storage Pool must be the
same size and should have the same protection (for example, RAID 1 RAID 5).
All disks within a single Storage Pool must meet the following requirements:
● Same manufacturer
● Same rotational speed
● Same capacity
Mixed disk configurations may result in unpredictable device behavior and will not be supported. If
you need technical assistance, please be prepared to backup your data and remove any
unsupported drives or configurations.
Storage Pools
A Storage Pool is a grouping of drives with a certain storage size and an assigned data protection. A
Storage Pool has a minimum of one drive. By default, your px6-300d has one Storage Pool.
Storage Pool Data Protection
For each Storage Pool, you can select its type of protection. Protection type determines how data is
replicated across a Storage Pool and determines the amount of space used for data protection and
storage. The drives in your px6-300d are protected using a built-in, pre-configured technology that
redundantly stores data across the drives, so that if a single drive fails, in most cases, you will not lose any
data. This technology, known as RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), enables a series of
drives to act together as a single storage system. If you create multiple Storage Pools, you can assign
different RAID types to each Storage Pool.
For more information on selecting RAID types, refer to Changing RAID Protection Types.
Volumes
A Volume is a single storage area. A volume can be comprised of one or more hard drives. In a single-
volume system, the volume consists of the entire storage space. Shares reside in volumes. iSCSI drives
also reside in volumes.
Storage Pool Management
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