![]() We highly recommend to register your product in order to obtain support.ġ1. The serial number is printed on the compliance label at the bottom of the device. Select an option based on you preference. You can either register the Drobo 5C or skip the step and register it later. The Drobo Dashboard application launches and you will be prompted to register your Drobo 5C. After the installation is complete, be sure that the Launch Drobo Dashboard checkbox is selected and then, click the Finish button.ġ0. In some Windows operating systems, the Windows Access Control dialog box appears, asking if you want to allow changes to your computer. Once you reach the installation page, click the Install button.Ĩ. Follow the instructions of the Installation Wizard by clicking the Next button after each page.ħ. The Drobo Dashboard Installer (or Installation Wizard) will appear.Ħ. Select the language of your choice and click OK.Ĥ. A pop up will appear asking you to choose the language for installation. After downloading, double-click the Drobo Dashboard Installer to launch it.ģ. Go to the Start Drobo 5C page and download the Drobo Dashboard installation file for Windows.Ģ. Overall, the B800i is an easy-to-use, easy-to-install and easy-to-manage SAN with exceptional flexibility and expansion potential.To install the Drobo Dashboard on a Windows machine:ġ. As larger drives become available Drobo should be able to handle those as well. Since Drobo supports all current SATA drives, a B800i can currently be expanded to 24TB using eight 3TB drives. You don't have another drive of the same capacity? No problem, you can add a larger drive or, if you have enough free disk space, even a smaller drive. Replacing a failed drive is simplicity itself – press the lever below the drive (a red LED indicates which drive has failed) to eject the drive then hold the lever down to insert a new drive. If not, Drobo will continue operating without protection until the failed drive is replaced. If you have enough disk space Drobo will rebuild itself using the existing drives and still provide the protection level you have chosen. LEDs tell you if capacity is low or if a drive has failed (and which one) and if a rebuild is in progress. Other than initial volume configuration nearly all functions can be handled from the front of the Drobo itself. Thin provisioning allows you to create volumes larger than existing disk space and add capacity as needed. Drobo allows you to add and remove drives, change disk capacity and change the protection level pretty much at will without affecting operation. What the B800i provides that competitors don't is an amazing amount of flexibility. With a list price of $3,499 without drives the B800i isn't cheap, but pricing is in line with other iSCSI SANs of similar capacity. Better support for Linux, with something equivalent to Drobo Dashboard.Port aggregation, to allow both iSCSI ports to connect in parallel to improve performance. ![]() ![]() In some cases rebuild took less time, in others more.Ī few improvements, SSG-NOW would like to see in the B800i: During the rebuild Drobo Dashboard displays the amount of time the rebuild is expected to take, but we did not find this to reflect the actual rebuild time. Under normal loads the impact should be fairly negligible. In testing, the performance impact during rebuild was approximately in the 40% range under heavy I/O load. The rebuild time is usually several hours, but the system still functions properly during the rebuild process, albeit with reduced performance. When drives fail or are removed LEDs on the Drobo, as well as the display on Drobo Dashboard, indicate that a failure has occurred and that a rebuild is in progress. It survived the removal of a drive in single-drive protection mode and survived the removal of two drives in dual-drive protection mode. In our limited testing the B800i worked as advertised. Recently, SSG-NOW tested the Drobo B800i, an iSCSI SAN for small and mid-sized businesses.
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