Installation of Maxdata Belinea b.book in NAS

[Allison]

In many companies, Network Attached Storage (NAS) expands the storage capacity on the network without much effort. The NAS system Maxdata Belinea b.book of four SATA hard disks in RAID is to combine flexibility and performance at an affordable price. So it is very much common in companies even the idea is bit older. I am here to check some notes related to the installation of Maxdata Belinea b.book in NAS. So please provide some help about it, so I can do some try-outs in my company.

[Rover]

Due to ever increasing volumes of data in networks is the storage capacity to quickly close. How this can easily expand from impending collapse? Network Attached Storage Appliances promise a remedy Immediate provision of space in the network via Plug & Play with minimal configuration and low cost are the advertised strengths of the devices. NAS appliances are ideal for example if someone wants the server itself cumbersome expand hard drive capacity. Additional space is connected to a NAS system in minutes, without having to stop the network operation or shut down the server. The existing network environments adapt to the NAS Appliances to: DHCP or static IP addresses, Windows, Linux, Unix, or Apple clients accept the device at first. The administration of NAS appliances via any Web browser in the network environment. Clear finishes allow the user management, configuring your existing storage volumes and more. The ease of use without hand book study is among the appliances in the foreground.

[ComPaCt]

Especially for small and medium sized enterprises in the Maxdata Belinea b book. The focus of the NAS system is according to the manufacturer to user friendliness and flexibility. In addition, the b.center high performance clubs at a reasonable price. In the chic black mini tower case built Maxdata four hot-swappable, removable framework for embedded SATA II hard drives in the 3.5-inch format. The b.center provides the manufacturer with 500 GB, 1, 2 or 4 TB of storage capacity. During the 500-GB NAS two 250-gigabyte hard drives are installed, the other models have four drives. Prices start at around 620 euros (500 GB) and go up to about 1930 € for the b.center with 4 TB. We tested Belinea b book 1 TB for 800 euro uses four Seagate Barracuda ES ST3250820NS. Maxdata therefore specifically selected for continuous operation specified disks. Afterward, the four SATA II drives available on AMD M690 chipset. The chip controls no RAID functionality; Maxdata therefore supports the software RAID functionality of the operating system. The b.center supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6 The required computing power takes over the Belinea b.center an AMD Sempron LE-1200 with 2.1 GHz clock frequency. The CPU is 1GB of DDR2 memory support.

[Shanbaag]

The operating system Maxdata Universal Storage Server calls for an Open-E solution. From a small board with flash memory, which is on an internal USB port on the system board is connected, the OS is loaded from storage Open-E. Connection to the network by b.center Maxdatas Belinea over a Gigabit Ethernet port. Four USB ports and an eSATA port allows the operation of external hard drives to the b book to incorporate additional storage space. Maxdatas NAS Appliance also supports iSCSI connectivity. Included with the ReadyNAS NV + is next to the IEC connector and a network cable, the multilingual Quick Start Guide. A user can be on the manufacturer's Web site, found in the web management of the NAS, the corresponding link. Maxdata Belinea b. book granted to a period of three years.

[Xena]

The Belinea b book is a quick guide to include in the network at. This is more confusing than helpful: the beginning is talk of installing a USB module, whatever it meant. This is followed by activation of the remote, as the manual indicates. And on the console screen to the network settings of the NAS will be displayed. Prior to the complete confusion of the apparent universal description to jump to item 3 of the Quick Start: In the Web browser of a client of the predefined IP b.center enter with http://192.168.0.220/. However, a client is needed, which is located in the same subnet "192.168.0.xxx". After the temporary change of the client subnet to 192.168.0.xxx you get into the web management of b.center. For the initial configuration of the NAS this temporary IP change in environments with static IPs is unfortunately necessary. There are more convenient solutions from the competition.

[joel84]

The clearly designed web management Maxdata summarizes the tab "setup" all the functions for the basic configuration together. Is such in the sub-folder "Network" the naming of the NAS and the click on "eth0" (via PCI slots with additional Ethernet interfaces expandable) the IP setting to DHCP or static. In our network with static IPs with subnet 192.168.0.xxx fit the preset b.center. In the next sub-folder "Administrator" can make the access password and the E-mail notification of errors and remote settings. Now comes the sub-folder "software RAID "to create a RAID installed the four 250-Gbyte hard drives . For this purpose, identify which disks the RAID level selected and specified. Belinea can choose between RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6 As further options, the block size and the parity behavior are determined. The creation of the software RAID-5 will take about two hours, then stand 698.66 GB available. to create a RAID6 level was also nearly two hours. The usable capacity is 465.77 GB then. Finalizes the setup with the optional UPS configuration, and the time setting. Different languages for the web management, the user may also select still.

[Preetish]

After RAID creation in the tab "Setup" to create logical drives. This is done in the web management of b.center the tab "Configuration". Here is selected by clicking on the sub-folder "Volume Manager" has already been created according to the first RAID group. Now is the b.center the choice between a normal and dynamic volume available. After completion, the free space for any new NAS , iSCSI volumes or snapshots to be divided "volumes. The RAID level of an existing RAID can only be changed with the loss of all data and somewhat cumbersome. So first, the threads will be deleted on the RAID volume. These are only deleted when it is accessed via an SSH client remotely on the NAS. The web management is not possible to delete a volume. Maxdata recommended for remote access in PDF Software Manual "Putty" as a client when Windows is used. Forecasts must be set up in the web management access to the Remote Console yet. SSH connection can then access the console of the NAS. Now here is the deletion of existing volumes. After a required reboot may be in the Web Management have finally created a new RAID. The pre-determined shares, and user or snapshot settings must be defined as the first setup again - overall a very complex procedure. Practically, the simple expansion of space is the b.center. Are the four interchangeable frame embedded in 3.5-inch SATA - hard drive more out, so do not have USB ports, or eSATA port external hard drives can be connected. These external drives can be assigned to the terminal separate shared folder / user.