Updates to the User Guide
5.As required for your configuration, connect the Fibre Channel or 10 GigE port or the SCSI connector on the nTier700 rear panel to a physical storage device (a tape library, a standalone tape drive, or another nTier appliance).
Interface Type | Connect the cable from your nTier700 to... |
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Fibre Channel | The Fibre Channel network switch where the physical storage device is |
| connected. |
| Important: The Fibre Channel connection to the physical storage device must |
| use a different Fibre Channel port than the Fibre Channel connection from the |
| backup server to the nTier700. |
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SCSI bus | The SCSI connector on your physical SCSI device (for example, a tape library or |
| tape drive). |
| Important: If you connect a SCSI device to the nTier700 while it is powered on, |
| you must reboot the nTier700 before the SCSI device will be recognized. Refer |
| to the Spectra nTier700 Backup and Archive Appliance User Guide for instructions. |
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10 Gigabit Ethernet | If you plan to replicate the data on your nTier700 to another nTier appliance |
(10 GigE) | over a 10 GigE network, connect both appliances to a 10 GigE network using |
| one of the ports on the optional 10 GigE NIC installed in each appliance. |
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6.Power on the system.
Press the power button on the left side of the front panel. A blue LED indicates that the power is on, as shown in Figure 8.
Power button
Figure 8 The location of the power button.
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Release Notes | 90990009 |
