This workshop is designed to provide the system support engineer (SSE) with the knowledge and skills necessary to install, configure, maintain, diagnose, and repair data failures associated with the SGI's InfiniteStorage NEXIS product line which is a hi-performance Network Attached Storage System (NAS).

NEXIS provides a universal data access point by connecting a high-performance storage system to an Ethernet network using NFS, CIFS, SAMBA, or FTP protocols to serve clients (UNIX, Windows, Apple, etc.) in a heterogeneous environment. Network Load Balancing software maximizes performance across multiple Ethernet connections on the Data Manager(s). NEXIS Data Managers (Linux servers) can be set-up in a clustered configuration to maintain high reliability and availability. NEXIS scalability is achieved by adding additional disks to an existing storage system or by connecting additional storage systems together through a storage area network (SAN).

At workshop completion, the student will be able to install, configure, and maintain SGI supported NEXIS configurations by using the Appliance Manager and storage utilities such as SMWEGUI and SMEEGUI.

Topics Covered

• Review of NEXIS hardware component functions
• Cabling supported NEXIS configurations
• Installing and licensing applicable Appliance Manager and support software
• Configuring the storage system with Appliance Manager GUI
• Configuring Ethernet load balancing
• Exporting filesystems to client machines
• Monitoring filesystem attributes with Appliance Manager

Prerequisites

• Student must be an SGI employee or SGI-approved service provider
• Non-GCS service personnel must possess a maintenance agreement
• Familiarity with XVM Volume Managers
• Familiarity with IRIX and Linux Operating Systems
• SGI InfiniteStorage (IS) series storage system experience
• SGI Storage Area Network (SAN) experience
• SGI Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) Data Migration facility (DMF) experience recommended but not required.