Identify Your Configuration; Installing The Storage System - Hitachi AMS 2100 Getting Started Manual

3. Identify your configuration

The base unit can be used in a direct-connect point-to-point or switch
configuration.
Installing the storage systems
The following sections describe how to install your storage system. AMS
2100 and 2300 storage systems are delivered in a pretested configuration,
with the trays positioned in a certain location. When the site team installs
the storage system, the team should arrange the trays as they were tested
(a piece of paper supplied with the storage systems shows the tested tray
locations). If the trays are not installed in the proper location, they generate
HDD identification error messages I6G100 at power up. However, if the site
team performs an installation from scratch using maintenance mode (soft
reset) from the Web, it does not matter how the trays are arranged.
Modular deployments require configuration attention to ensure that the
storage infrastructure and ecosystem components interoperate correctly
with Hitachi AMS storage systems and software. There are many component
variations, and the Hitachi compatibility and interoperability matrix can be
used as a reference when constructing configurations that are supported
end to end by Hitachi AMS storage systems. To view the matrix, please
visit: http://www.hds.com/products/interoperability/?_p=v.
Servers
Figure 1-1: Example of a Direct-Connect Configuration
Switch
Servers
Servers
Figure 1-2: Example of a Switch Configuration
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2300 Family Base Unit
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2300 Family Base Unit
Switch
Management
Console
Management
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