SimpliVity OmniCube CN-2000 Operating manual
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SimpliVity OmniCube CN-2000, CN-2200,
CN-3000, and CN-5000 Hardware
Installation and Maintenance Guide
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Patents
SimpliVity OmniCube® and OmniStack® products are covered by various United States and foreign
patents and pending patent applications.
Patents include:
US8478799; US9032183; US9367551; US9436748; US2013/0290263; US2013/0024615;
US2012/0331029; US2015/0242315; US2016/0200927; CNZL201080033630.9; CA 2,840,178;
JP 2014-517025; DK2433226; EP2433226; FI2433226; FR2433226; DE2433226; IT2433226;
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HK1196886; AU WO2012/177461; BR WO2012/177461; CA WO2012/177461; CN103703464A;
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WO2016/115219; CA WO2013/126680; CA WO2016/115219; CN104221014A; EP2817743;
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Customer support
To contact SimpliVity Customer Support, visit https://support.simplivity.com. When contacting a
representative, you need to know the serial number of your OmniStack server to verify your service
subscription.
SimpliVity uses OmniWatch to automatically monitor the health of your OmniStack equipment and
have it send us notifications of any alerts or errors.
January 2017
760-000194 Rev A
Intended audience 3
Intended audience
This document is intended for users of SimpliVity OmniStack products who want to install, manage, and
monitor their hyperconverged IT infrastructure. This information is intended for system administrators
experienced in hypervisor technology, virtual machine management, and data center operations.
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SimpliVity documentation conventions
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General formatting
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Command Line formatting
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command --option variable
where
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■--option is a command option and should be typed exactly as shown.
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Contents 6
Contents
Chapter 1: Hardware overview................................................................................................. 8
Hardware components........................................................................................................................ 8
About the front panel components................................................................................................8
About the back panel components............................................................................................. 10
Environmental and technical specifications...................................................................................... 12
Enclosure size and weights........................................................................................................ 12
Power and thermal...................................................................................................................... 13
Temperature and humidity...........................................................................................................14
Vibration and shock.....................................................................................................................14
Altitude and airborne contaminants............................................................................................ 14
Agency compliance standards.................................................................................................... 14
About hardware upgrades.................................................................................................................15
About firmware revisions...................................................................................................................15
Chapter 2: Install the server hardware..................................................................................16
About electrostatic discharge............................................................................................................ 16
Unpack the shipping carton.............................................................................................................. 16
Shipping carton contents.............................................................................................................18
Hardware not supplied in the shipping carton............................................................................ 18
Install the server enclosure in a rack............................................................................................... 20
Mount the enclosure in the rails....................................................................................................... 21
Connect the network cables............................................................................................................. 22
Connect the power cables................................................................................................................ 23
Organize the cables.......................................................................................................................... 24
Power on the system........................................................................................................................ 24
Attach the OmniCube bezel..............................................................................................................24
Detach the OmniCube bezel.......................................................................................................26
Chapter 3: Configure the IPMI port for remote management............................................. 27
Connect to IPMI and launch the Virtual Console............................................................................. 28
IPMI configuration requirements....................................................................................................... 29
Chapter 4: Server troubleshooting........................................................................................ 30
About diagnostic indicators............................................................................................................... 30
About drive monitoring...................................................................................................................... 31
About front drive numbering....................................................................................................... 32
About power supply monitoring........................................................................................................ 33
About Accelerator card monitoring................................................................................................... 34
Accelerator card is not detected................................................................................................. 35
Revert an Accelerator card to its backup firmware.................................................................... 36
About network interface monitoring.................................................................................................. 36
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Chapter 5: Drive maintenance................................................................................................39
Drive maintenance guidelines........................................................................................................... 39
Remove a drive................................................................................................................................. 40
Install a drive.....................................................................................................................................41
Chapter 6: Power supply maintenance................................................................................. 43
About power supply maintenance guidelines................................................................................... 43
Remove a power supply................................................................................................................... 43
Install a power supply....................................................................................................................... 44
Chapter 7: About network cabling options...........................................................................46
About the 10GbE-only network configuration................................................................................... 46
About the direct-connected network configuration............................................................................47
About the switch-connected network configuration.......................................................................... 48
Appendix A: SimpliVity terminology......................................................................................50
Chapter 1: Hardware overview 8
Chapter 1: Hardware overview
This section contains the following topics:
•Hardware components
•Environmental and technical specifications
•About hardware upgrades
•About firmware revisions
The foundation of the SimpliVity architecture is two or more high-performance and highly-available
OmniCube servers. An OmniCube server provides computing, storage, networking, and other
resources to the virtual machines (VM) in the Federation.
After installing the hardware in a rack and connecting power and network cables, you can deploy each
OmniCube server into a SimpliVity Federation. As your capacity and performance needs increase, you
can add more OmniCube servers for easy, on-demand scalability, with no disruption to users.
Hardware components
Each OmniCube model provides different hardware configurations for storage, compute, and memory.
About the front panel components
The front panel of each OmniCube server provides system controls, diagnostic indicators, USB and
video ports, and contains a different number of solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD).
Figure 1: OmniCube CN-5000 front panel
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Figure 2: OmniCube CN-2000 and CN-3000 front panel
Figure 3: OmniCube CN-2200 front panel
Table 1: Front panel component descriptions
Callout Component Description
1 Power button Controls power to the system and indicates whether
there is power to the system. If the indicator is green, the
system is receiving power.
2 Diagnostic indicators Shows hardware error conditions.
3 System identification button System identification button and system identification
connector.
The system identification button helps you locate a
system within a rack. If you push the system identification
button on the back panel or the front panel, the system
identification buttons on the front panel and the back
panel flash blue. Push a system identification button a
second time to stop it from flashing.
The system identification connector, located to the right
of the system identification button, connects the optional
system status indicator assembly through the optional
cable management arm.
4 Retention latches Locks the enclosure in the rack. You can push a latch to
release the enclosure and slide it out.
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Callout Component Description
5 Storage The disk drives have power (top) and activity (bottom)
LED indicators. Labels indicate the type (SAS or SATA)
and capacity of each drive. For rotational drives, the
rotation speed (rpm) is indicated.
The system models contain different drive configurations:
■ CN-5000: Contains 24 2.5" drives. Drives 0 to 5 are
SSDs. Disks 6 to 23 are HDDs.
■ CN-2000 and CN-3000: Contains 12 3.5" drives.
Drives 0 to 3 are SSDs and drives 4 to 11 are HDDs.
■ CN-2200: Contains 10 3.5" drives. Drives 0 and 1 are
SSDs and drives 2 to 9 are HDDs. Drives 10 and 11
are empty.
If you pull the system enclosure from the rack, the drive
numbering scheme is described on a label attached to
the top of the enclosure.
6 Video input Enables you to connect a monitor as part of a keyboard,
video, and mouse (KVM) setup, for local administration.
7 USB connector USB 2.0-compliant connector. Enables you to connect
a USB device, such as a keyboard, as part of a KVM for
local administration.
8 Service tag Provides identification information that you can use when
contacting Customer Support.
About the back panel components
The back panel of an OmniCube server contains the Accelerator, network ports, rear boot drives, and
the power supplies.
Figure 4: Back panel of an OmniCube server with a single CPU
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