Texas Memory Systems RamSam-210 - Manual (Page 14)

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2.7 Turning on the System
The RamSan-210 will automatically power on when power is connected to the system.
The only time the system will not automatically power on is when a user has initiated a
Manual Shutdown of the system. In the event this has happened, it is necessary to press
the top button on either power supply. Please see 2.6 Connecting the Power Supplies.
2.8 System Initialization
The front panel display shows the current state of the boot process. Once the power is
connected, the system will turn on automatically and the front panel will begin the power
on sequence. The following will happen automatically (this boot sequence can also be
monitored externally through the serial port or Ethernet port):
1. After approximately seven seconds, the RamSan-210 will power-up.
2. You should see “Texas Memory
Systems ” appear on the front panel, as
well as “RamSan-210”. Soon after
that you will see “Booting” and
“Initializing RamSan”.
3. After the firmware has finished booting, the front panel display will indicate
“Bringing Disks Online”. The system disks take approximately 10
seconds each to spin-up.
4. The front panel will indicate
“Restoring” and show a progress bar
and give an estimated time till
completion. Administrators may use this
to determine how much time before the
system is on-line. This information is
also available through the telnet remote
monitoring software in the status
command. This process will take
approximately 2 minutes 15 seconds for every 4 gigabytes of memory in the
system.
5. Once the system has restored data, the system will display “ Status Good” and
show the performance bars for each Fibre Channel port.
The system is now ready for normal operation.
Please see Chapter 7 – Troubleshooting for possible error conditions during start-up.
Please see Chapter 3 – Using the Front Panel for more information on configuring the
Ethernet and monitoring system health.