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Media Management 109 Media Management Overview 110 Scanning for media content 110 Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 111 Sharing Media Content over the Internet 112 Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 112 Media Aggregation 113 Enabling Media Aggregation 113 Social Media Shar...

Setting up Your px4-300r Network Storage Array Setting up Your px4-300r Network Storage Array 1 CHAPTER 1

Set up my px4-300r Network Storage Array if it's not discovered If your px4-300r is not discovered when you enter the URL identified in your Quick Start Guide, you have two ways of discovering it. Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager You can install LenovoEMC Storage Manager from the Setup Por...

Network Connection Connecting the px4-300r Network Storage Array to Your Network First, check the package contents. Verify that the box contains the following items: 1. px4-300r (models may vary) 2. Power Cables 3. Quick Start Guide 4. Ethernet Cable 5. Rail Kit (models may vary) Package contents ma...

Connecting the px4-300r Initial Setup If you have purchased more than one px4-300r, complete all steps on one device before setting up additional devices. 6. Make sure at least one hard drive is installed in the px4-300r. 7. Use the included network cable to connect the px4-300r to your network hub ...

Enabling Jumbo Frames for Each NIC You can enable jumbo frames for each NIC in your px4-300r by expanding the Information section for a NIC and entering a jumbo frame size in the Jumbo Frame field. If you do not want jumbo frame support, leave the field blank. Jumbo frame support is useful for trans...

VLAN: For information on adding a NIC to a VLAN (Virtual LAN), refer to VLAN Settings . Bonding NICs: For information on bonding multiple network interface cards (NICs), refer to Bonding NICs . Bonding NICs Bonding network interface cards (NICs) is a way to provide redundancy for your px4-300r on th...

5. Click Apply to save your changes. Deleting a VLAN In the VLAN Settings section click Delete to delete the VLAN. Setting up Your px4-300r Network Storage Array Network Connection 9

Naming Your px4-300r Network Storage Array You can provide a meaningful name for your px4-300r using the Device Identification page. This page in the px4-300r Management Console enables you to change the Storage Device Name, the Storage Device Descriptive Name, and the Workgroup Name. Change any of ...

Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains By enabling Active Directory trusted domains on your px4-300r, you enable the importing of users and groups from other trusted domains to your px4-300r device. Those users and groups from other domains will then have access to features on your px4-300r, incl...

Customizing the Access to Features on Your px4-300r Network Storage Array An administrator user can customize the look of the px4-300r Management Console using Feature Selection (FS). Using FS, an admin can enable the display of certain features and disable others. In addition, an admin can provide ...

Non-Administrator User Log In Non-administrator users can log in to a px4-300r with feature access enabled. When these non-admin users access a px4-300r, they first see the Login screen where they enter their login credentials. After logging in, the px4-300r Management Console displays with those fe...

Tracing Events on Your px4-300r Network Storage Array The Event Log page displays only the 1000 most recent events logged to the px4-300r. A complete event log, however, is available for download. The following icons indicate the severity of each status message: ● INFORMATIONIdentifies that a change...

Obtaining System Status for Your px4-300r Network Storage Array The System Status page displays space usage information and status information about your px4-300r Network Storage Array. It also provides a control panel that enables you to: ● Blink the lights ● Restart ● Shut down Space Usage The Spa...

Sharing Overview Your px4-300r Network Storage Array is set up for storing, retrieving, and accessing files among users, client computers, and applications. File sharing is accomplished by creating Shares; setting up security, which includes creating users; setting up media services; and configuring...

Shares What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? Shares are folders that contain all types of content, including documents, pictures, and music files. Shares can be unsecured, which means that anyone who has access to your network can access the content in these Shares. Shares can als...

Managing Shares You can change Share information, change access permissions, make a Share an Active Folder, use Share volumes, and modify a Share volume. If available, you can also enable NFS secured access. Changing Share Information 1. Modify the existing name for the Share. 2. Choose whether to e...

down menu. 5. If you are creating a new volume, enter a name for the volume in the Volume text box. 6. Enter a size for the volume. You cannot reduce this size later. 7. Click O K. 8. In the Information section, click Apply to save your changes. Modifying a Share Volume 1. Click Change volume alloca...

Using Protocols to Share Files What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? Your px4-300r Network Storage Array uses communication protocols to mount file systems and allow files to be transferred between client computers and the px4-300r. The px4-300r includes the following protocols fo...

To change any Bluetooth settings, click . FTP File Sharing On the Protocols page, click the switch to turn on FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and allow access to your px4-300r Network Storage Array. Click to select either FTP or secure FTP (SFTP) or both. You must enable security to apply SFTP. If you ...

Access to Shares through NFS and User Permissions When you access your px4-300r through NFS, the access permissions to content on the px4-300r are controlled by Host-Based Access Control rules on your client computer, not by user access permissions on your px4-300r. This means that any valid user on...

WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a protocol that provides web-based access to Shares on the px4-300r. With WebDAV enabled on the px4-300r, you can view, add, or delete files through your WebDAV client using either HTTP for unencryp...

Sharing Content through the Home Page Sharing Your Content with the World When you set up the Home Page of your px4-300r Network Storage Array, you are presenting content to anyone who accesses your px4-300r. That content includes a slideshow and unsecured Shares. You can manage the look of the Home...

Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once You can send content to multiple people at once using an email distribution active folder. You can configure a Share as an Email Active Folder so that when you add files to that Share, they are automatically sent to the recipients on the email...

Transferring Content to and from Your px4-300r Network Storage Array with Copy Jobs You can transfer content to and from your px4-300r using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy Jobs copies files from one storage device to another, either by a set schedule or immediately by the user. An example of a Copy Job...

Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device You can transfer content to your px4-300r Network Storage Array from external USB storage devices. The External Storage page displays a list of externally connected storage devices. You can connect supported external storage to your px4-300r using o...

One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device One touch transfer of content is created on the QuikTransfer page. On the QuikTransfer page, you can set the default destination Share for any automatically created QuikTransfer Copy Jobs. QuikTransfer automatically copies all files from any USB ex...

iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 41 CHAPTER 3

Adding iSCSI Drives To add an iSCSI drive: 1. From the px4-300r Management Console, click iSCSI. 2. When the iSCSI page opens, click the switch to enable the feature. 3. Click Add an iSCSI drive. 4. If your px4-300r has multiple Storage Pools, select the desired Storage Pool from the drop-down menu....

Managing iSCSI Drives Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive After you add an iSCSI drive, you create a list of CHAP users that have access to an iSCSI drive. These users are independent from the users you create on your px4-300r when you enable security . Adding iSCSI CHAP users does not enable ...

Storage Pool Management Storage Pool Management 46 CHAPTER 4

Understanding How Your Content Is Stored Content on your px4-300r Network Storage Array is stored in Shares and iSCSI volumes. To access content in Shares, your client computer uses network protocols , such as AFP and Windows File Sharing. The px4-300r's file system maintains the physical location o...

Adding and Managing Storage Pools A Storage Pool is a grouping of drives with a certain storage size and an assigned data protection. A Storage Pool has a minimum of one drive. By default, your px4-300r Network Storage Array has one Storage Pool. You can create either a data Storage Pool or a cache ...

Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool A cache Storage Pool is a pool of solid-state drives designed to increase read and write performance on your px4-300r Network Storage Array. You create a cache Storage Pool and then associate a volume on a data Storage Pool to the cache pool. You can c...

Volumes Snapshots Snapshots Overview A snapshot is a backup of a source volume at a certain point in time. The snapshot can be taken while the px4-300r is actively writing to the source volume, which means you do not have to stop your px4-300r from writing to the volume. After a snapshot is taken, y...

● Specify when to take a snapshot, for example, every hour, four hours, or once a day. ● Enter a start time, or click to use the sliders. ● Select the days you want to take a snapshot, or select All Days to take a snapshot every day. ● Enter the number of snapshots to save. ● Enter a size for the sn...

Adding and Managing Volumes A volume is a single accessible storage area with an allocated size. You can create volumes after creating Storage Pools. Shares in Volumes All Shares on the px4-300r Network Storage Array are added to volumes, and the size of the Share is limited by the free space of the...

Managing Drives The Drive Management page provides settings for managing storage and lets you apply global settings for drives on your px4-300r Network Storage Array. Setting Write Caching Select a value for disk write caching. Write caching is a mechanism that attempts to separate the fast processi...

5. Check Enable periodic consistency check to enable a monthly parity or mirror consistency check. The check helps to prevent a single drive failure from becoming a two-drive failure, resulting in data loss. The check runs for several hours and can affect performance of the px4-300r. If you do not w...

Backing up and Restoring Your Content Backing up and Restoring Your Content 60 CHAPTER 6

Backup and Restore Overview Your px4-300r Network Storage Array provides many ways to back up and restore content. To back up content to and restore content from your px4-300r, you can use: ● Time Machine ● Copy Jobs To back up and restore your px4-300r, you can use the following features and applic...

Backing up to and Restoring from Your px4-300r Network Storage Array Backing up Macs with Time Machine You can use Time Machine to back up a Mac client computer to the px4-300r network storage device. Follow the instructions below to set up Time Machine backups to your px4-300r: 1. Connect your Mac ...

Copy Jobs Overview You can back up content to and from your px4-300r Network Storage Array using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy Jobs copies files from one storage device to another, either by a set schedule or immediately by the user. An example of a Copy Job scenario is if you keep pictures from your ...

Backing up Your px4-300r Network Storage Array Copy Jobs Transferring Content to and from Your px4-300r Network Storage Array with Copy Jobs You can transfer content to and from your px4-300r using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy Jobs copies files from one storage device to another, either by a set sche...

Managing Copy Jobs From the Copy Jobs page, you can add, start, stop, delete, or monitor Copy Jobs. After you have added Copy Jobs, the Copy Jobs page displays a list of Copy Jobs. The information section includes the name of each Copy Job, date and time it last ran, and its next scheduled time. Fro...

8. In the Mozy Backup Settings dialog box, select one of the following: ● Automatic Backup — to generate an automatic backup anytime you add a new file or change an existing file to your selected Shares or folders. ● Scheduled Backup — to set up a scheduled backup. 9. If you are creating a scheduled...

2. In the Avamar Settings pop-up window, enter the following information and click Apply to save your settings: ● Server Address — the Avamar server IP address or hostname. ● Client Domain — the registered domain name from the Avamar server. Backing up with Amazon S3 The Amazon S3 online storage ser...

Securing Your px4-300r Network Storage Array and Contents Securing Your px4-300r Network Storage Array and Contents 70 CHAPTER 7

Enabling Security and Creating an Administrator User With security turned on, only administrator users can view or change settings on the px4-300r, including creating or deleting users and Shares. When you create users, you limit access to your px4-300r to specific people, and when you secure Shares...

Users Users and Groups Overview When security is enabled, the Users & Groups page displays all users and groups on the px4-300r Network Storage Array and enables administrators to add and modify users and groups. Non-administrator users can be added to limit access to Share content. Additional a...

● Send a Personal Cloud invitation — click this link to invite a user to join your Personal Cloud on the px4-300r. This opens the Send a Personal Cloud Invitation dialog box where you create an invitation by entering a user's email address along with any additional comments. A user then receives the...

● Allow this user to add trusted devices to my Personal Cloud — check this box to allow a user to join a trusted device to a Personal Cloud. A trusted device is a machine, either a computer or another px4-300r, that belongs to an added user. Only trusted devices that belong to users that have been a...

Groups Groups Overview Groups consist of one or more users, and administrators can grant each group rights to Shares on the px4-300r Network Storage Array. Users can belong to more than one group. The Groups page enables administrators to create one or more groups, and grant each group rights to Sha...

Removing a User from the Group 1. Open a group to display users belonging to it. 2. To remove a user from the group, click the next to that user. When the Remove user pop-up window appears, click Yes to remove the user. Changing Access Permissions 1. To refresh the list of users, click above the tab...

Using Active Directory Domain to Manage Users and Groups Active Directory Users and Groups Overview On the Users and Groups page, administrator users can import users and groups from an Active Directory (AD) server and grant them access rights to Shares on the px4-300r Network Storage Array. In addi...

1. To add permissions to a Share, click Add access permissions. 2. From the Add Access Permissions pop-up window, select a Share or Shares for the user or group to access. Select the checkbox in the title bar to select all the Shares listed. 3. Click Apply to save your changes. 4. In the table listi...

Managing Your px4-300r Network Storage Array with Local and Active Directory Users Managing Your px4-300r Network Storage Array with Local and Active Directory Users You can configure your px4-300r Network Storage Array to allow both local users and groups and Active Directory (AD) users and groups ...

Creating Local Users and Groups in Active Directory Mode After an AD or local administrator logs in to the px4-300r, that user can create additional local users and groups on the px4-300r. The Users and Groups page lists all local and AD users and groups on the px4-300r. 1. On the Users and Groups p...

Remote Access: Accessing Your px4-300r Network Storage Array From Anywhere in the World Remote Access: Accessing Your px4-300r Network Storage Array From Anywhere in the World 84 CHAPTER 8

Enabling Remote Access Follow this procedure to enable remote access: 1. Enable security if it is not yet enabled. 2. On the Remote Access page, click the switch to Enable. Your px4-300r begins to automatically configure remote access. First, your internet connection is tested. If the connection is ...

Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the World Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the World 89 CHAPTER 9

What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? LenovoEMC Personal Cloud turns your px4-300r Network Storage Array into a hub for sharing files and backing up data among computers anywhere in the world. A Personal Cloud can exist on your px4-300r Network Storage Array, or on another LenovoEMC network device. Whe...

Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud In most cases, your px4-300r Network Storage Array attempts to automatically configure your router. However, if it cannot, a message displays that your router is not configured for port forwarding, and you must manually configure your router to f...

Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud As a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud administrator, you can manage various settings on your Personal Cloud to ensure that it functions as efficiently as possible. Settings include specifying an email address when sending invitations. When data is traveling through ...

Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud As LenovoEMC Personal Cloudadministrator, you can manage trusted devices on your Personal Cloud. Trusted devices can be disconnected, or you can completely delete a trusted device from the Personal Cloud. Disconnecting Trusted Devices Click My Personal Cl...

Facebook Facebook is a social network to connect with friends and family. You can configure a Share as a Facebook Active Folder so that photos and movies added to that Share are automatically uploaded to your Facebook account. Refer to Managing Shares on page 25 for more information on managing Shar...

Flickr Flickr is a photo sharing network for sharing photos with friends and family. You can configure a Share as a Flickr Active Folder so that images and albums added to that Share are automatically uploaded to your Flickr account. Refer to Managing Shares on page 25 for more information on managi...

YouTube YouTube is a social media site to share video content. You can configure a Share as a YouTube Active Folder so that videos added to that Share are automatically uploaded to your YouTube account. Refer to Managing Shares on page 25 for more information on managing Shares and Active Folders. I...

Media Management Overview The px4-300r has a built-in media server that, when turned on, scans for media content in specific Shares that have media sharing enabled. Any media content contained in these specific Shares are accessible to any user on your network with a media player, even if the Share ...

Sharing Media Content over the Internet There are two methods for sharing media content on your px4-300r with anyone on the internet. You can enable internet access on the Media Server page. Alternatively, you can enable internet access by configuring your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud . Enabling Interne...

Media Aggregation If you have multiple Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) servers in your network that have media content, you can combine all media content into one view by enabling aggregation on your px4-300r. When you enable aggregation, all media content on DLNA servers is available for pla...

Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures The Media Server supports playback of videos, music and pictures from any UPnP AV (Universal Plug and Play Audio Visual) network media players, such as Playstation3, Windows Media Player, or Xbox 360. You can play back all your media files from your individual h...

Photos Photos Overview Your px4-300r has multiple ways to manage your pictures. Your px4-300r can: ● Stream pictures that are in Shares with media sharing enabled ● Display pictures on the Home Page in a slideshow ● Automatically resize pictures ● Transfer pictures from your digital camera ● Upload ...

4. Select Photo Resize from the drop-down menu. 5. You can set a size for your pictures. Select 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or enter a Custom Resolution for resizing images. The resized photos are saved to a folder on the Share named by the photo size you choose, such as 800x600. 6. You can keep a c...

Music Music Overview If you have music files in media-sharing enabled folders on your px4-300r, those music files can be streamed by a DLNA player running on a computer on the network. Streaming Music The px4-300r has a built-in media server that, when turned on, scans for music in specific folders ...

Torrents Torrent Overview Torrent downloads allow you to share files using a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. With torrent download enabled, you can download files using the torrent protocol to your px4-300rand then those files can be uploaded by other torrent users. After you have added torrent ...

● Device IP Address 192.168.1.1 ● Port name HTTP ● Port number Set to the same port value set on the Torrent Download page. ● Protocol TCP Torrent Active Folders Sharing Torrent Downloads with Other Peers Torrent downloads allow you to share files using a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. With Tor...

Videos Video Capabilities Overview Your px4-300r Network Storage Array has multiple ways to manage your videos. Your px4-300r can: ● Stream movies that are in Shares with media sharing enabled ● Upload videos that are added to Shares associated with social media sites Streaming Movies The px4-300r N...

Manually Adding a Video Camera Follow the instructions below to add your video camera, set a retention policy for your saved recordings, and schedule your video surveillance recordings. 1. On the Video Surveillance page, click Add Video Camera. 2. In the Video Camera Information section, enter the f...

Click Apply to save your changes. If you select Maximum days to save recordings, enter a value in days. If you select Maximum space for recordings, enter a value in gigabytes. Setting this value too high may consume all available space, while setting this value too low may cause recordings to be del...

Application Manager The Application Manager page allows you to add applications to your px4-300r from an installation file located on your computer. For each application installed you may have the option to uninstall, start, and stop the application. This page shows the applications which came prein...

Software Updates The Software Updates page identifies the px4-300r software status and provides the ability to update the software for the px4-300r. Auto-update process: installing a device software update 1. In the table listing the current software installed on your px4-300r, click in the Action c...

Backing Up Your px4-300r Network Storage Array Settings The Configuration Backup and Restore page allows you to back up and restore system configuration information. Backing up a configuration saves various system properties, including users, groups, device identification, and Share names and permis...

About the px4-300r Network Storage Array Components This topic describes the front and rear panel components of the px4-300r. Front Panel Status Indicators, Buttons and Ports 1. Power Button and Indicator — Press and release to power the px4-300r on or off. The power button is illuminated when the p...

3. LCD Display — Scroll through the display screen to view the device name, free disk space, IP address, and date and time. You can initiate a QuikTransfer Copy Job from the LCD and view or dismiss any errors or warnings on the px4-300r without having to turn on your computer. 4. Select or Cancel Bu...

Default Settings IP Address — If no DHCP server is found on your network the px4-300r will get a self-assigned IP address in the 169.254.x.x range. Device Name — The default name for your px4-300r Network Storage Array is px4-300r. If there are more than one px4-300r on your network, a number is add...

Energy Saving The Energy Saving page provides power settings for the px4-300r. Power Down Drives Click the Power Down Drives drop-down menu to select how much idle time should be allowed to elapse before the px4-300r powers down the drives. Drives automatically power back up when the px4-300r access...

Troubleshooting Routers If you encounter a problem while connecting or using your px4-300r, check the topics listed below for possible solutions. If you have properly set port forwarding on your router and remote access still does not work, you may have multiple routers on your network. In this situ...

Warranty Information Limited Warranty Notice Lenovo Network Storage products are covered by the terms of the Lenovo Limited Warranty, version L505-0010-02 08/2011. Read the Lenovo Limited Warranty (LLW) at http://www.lenovo.com/warranty/llw_02/. You can view the LLW in a number of languages from thi...

Regulatory Information This topic provides regulatory information for various countries. Manufacturer/Responsible Party LenovoEMC, Ltd., 4059 South 1900 West, Roy, UT 84067 EU Representative Lenovo, Einsteinova 21, 851 01 Bratislava, Slovakia Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement T...

Export classification notice This product is subject to the United States Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and has an Export Classification Control Number (ECCN) of 5A992.c It can be re-exported except to any of the embargoed countries in the EAR E1 country list. Legal Regulatory Information ...