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Hot Spare One or more hard disk drives are unused during normal operation and are configured to

be a spare. If an active drive in a SAFE volume fails, the data on the remaining hard

disk drive is duplicated onto the Hot Spare to regain redundancy. All SAFE volumes can

have a designated Hot Spare (SAFE, SAFE and FAST, and SAFE and BIG).

Volume A virtual drive comprised of one or more physical hard disk drives. Once the

end-user creates a volume, the operating system uses and maintains the volume as if it

were a single hard disk drive. This allows software to overcome size restrictions imposed

by physical disk drives.

Daemon Component of the SiI 4726 Manager responsible for status tracking and SAFE volume

rebuilds. See “Manager Client Connection to the Daemon” for further details regarding

the daemon.

3 Installing the SiI 4726

Storage Appliance

This chapter describes how to install the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance and SiI 4726 Manager software.

Prerequisites

The SiI 4726 installation has the following hardware and software prerequisites for the host computer(s)

that will be connected to the SiI 4726 Storage Appliances.

Hardware

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For x86 platforms: An Intel PIII 500MHz equivalent or faster

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For Mac platforms: A Mac G4 500MHz or faster

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CD-ROM drive

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64 MB of RAM minimum

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250 MB of free hard disk space

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Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution with 256 colors

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Mouse or compatible pointing device

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External SATA cable connection between the SiI 4726 Storage Appliance and the host computer