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INTRODUCTION

the controller.

1.1 System Architecture

Host

RAID SubSystem

Controller board

SATAll Drives

(Max 5)

ARC-5030

IDE-RAID-IDE

1.1.1 Ultra ATA/133 & SATA 1.0 Host Interface

The IDE/SATA to SATA ll controller board’s host interface appears

to the host system as an Ultra ATA/133 & SATA 1.0 target device.

The Ultra ATA/133 can support transfer rates up to 133MB per

second. The SATA can support transfer rates up to 150MB per

second. Both Ultra ATA/133 and SATA 1.0 can concurrently access

different volume sets (logical drives).

1.1.2 Ultra 320 Host Interface

The SCSI to SATA ll controller board’s host interface appears to

the host system as an Ultra 320 target device. The Ultra 320 can

support transfer rates up to 320MB per second.

1.1.3 Serial ATA ll Drive Interface

The controller board communicates directly with the array’s 5

Serial ATA ll drives via a built-in SATA interface. When the host is

directly controlling the drives. The RAID subsystem uses the RAID

subsystem SATA ll I/O controller chip on each SATA channel to

allow the controller to simultaneously communicate with the host

ARC-6020

SCSI-RAID-IDE

Ultra 320 Host Interface

Host

RAID SubSystem

Controller board

SATAll Drives

(Max 5)

Ultra ATA/133

& SATA 1.0 Host Interface

Summary of Contents for ARC-5030 Series

Page 1: ...chnology Corporation COPYRIGHT 2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First Edition All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners No por tion of this document may be reproduced altered adapted or tra...

Page 2: ...material FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reason...

Page 3: ...ization 16 1 3 3 2 Array Roaming 17 1 3 3 3 Online Capacity Expansion 17 1 3 3 4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration 19 1 3 3 5 Online Volume Expansion 19 1 4 High availability 20 1 4 1 Global...

Page 4: ...g the controller s serial port 48 3 4 1 1 Start up Web Browser based RAID Management for Local Administration 49 3 4 1 1 1 For Windows 49 3 4 1 1 2 For Linux 52 3 4 1 2 Start up Web Browser based RAID...

Page 5: ...er Mode ARC 5030 70 4 8 3 1 13 Max Sync Rate ARC 6020 70 4 8 3 2 Delete Volume Set 70 4 8 3 3 Modify Volume Set 71 4 8 3 3 1 Volume Set Migration 72 4 8 3 4 Check Volume Set Consistency 72 4 8 3 5 Sto...

Page 6: ...5 Main Menu 90 5 5 1 Quick Volume RAID Setup 91 5 5 2 Raid Set Function 94 5 5 2 1 Create Raid Set 94 5 5 2 2 Delete Raid Set 95 5 5 2 3 Expand Raid Set 96 Migrating 97 5 5 2 4 Activate Incomplete Ra...

Page 7: ...5 4 2 1 For ARC 6020 120 5 5 4 2 2 For ARC 5030 121 5 5 4 3 Modify Pass Through Disk 122 5 5 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk 122 5 5 4 5 Identify Selected Drive 123 5 5 5 Raid System Function 123 5 5 5 2...

Page 8: ...nu 144 6 7 Quick Create 144 6 8 Raid Set Functions 145 6 8 1 Create Raid Set 145 6 8 2 Delete Raid Set 146 6 8 3 Expand Raid Set 146 6 8 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set 147 6 8 5 Create Hot Spare 148 6...

Page 9: ...vent 169 6 11 9 Clear Events Buffer 170 6 11 10 Modify Password 170 6 11 11 Upgrade Firmware 170 6 11 12 Restart Controller 170 6 12 Information Menu 171 6 12 1 RaidSet Hierarchy 171 6 12 2 System Inf...

Page 10: ...eb Browser Manager 179 Appendix C 181 Connector and Pin Definitions 181 ARC 5030 Controller Backplane Diagram 181 ARC 6020 Controller Backplane Diagram 183 Appendix D 185 SNMP Operation Definition 185...

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Page 12: ...impact on the existing data and failed drive Data can be reconstructed from the remaining data and parity drives RAID configuration and monitoring can be done through the LCD front control pane optio...

Page 13: ...al drives 1 1 2 Ultra 320 Host Interface The SCSI to SATA ll controller board s host interface appears to the host system as an Ultra 320 target device The Ultra 320 can support transfer rates up to 3...

Page 14: ...and the drives through a high speed 133MHz 64 bit path at a burst rate up to 1000MB S The system s overall performance can support up to Ultra320 SCSI host channels The controller default supports 12...

Page 15: ...r firmware would make the controller inoperable and bring the system down The Redundant Flash provides a unique redundancy feature that helps ensure against controller availabil ity This reduces the r...

Page 16: ...be assigned a RAID 10 level of operation 1 3 3 Easy of Use Features 1 3 3 1 Instant Availability Background Initializa tion RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used immediately after creation because...

Page 17: ...apacity is added to the end of the raid set Then data on the existing volume sets residing on the newly expanded raid set is redistributed evenly across all the disks A contiguous block of unused capa...

Page 18: ...h a different fault tolerance setting if required by the user The RAID subsystem controller redistributes the original volume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance...

Page 19: ...e parity fault tolerance and double the available capacity without taking the system down A forth disk could be added to migrate to RAID level 6 It is only possible to migrate to a higher RAID level b...

Page 20: ...utilities that can be used to repartition disks without data loss Most of these utilities work offline Partition Magic is one such utility 1 4 High availability 1 4 1 Global Hot Spares A Global Hot Sp...

Page 21: ...fault tolerant RAID protection and online drive replacement 1 4 3 Auto Declare Hot Spare If a disk drive is brought online into a system operating in degraded mode ARC 5030 6020 subsystem RAID control...

Page 22: ...r be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the removed drive is replaced and the rebuild operation is completed During the automatic rebuild process system activity will continue as normal...

Page 23: ...disks is increasing every year and so is the potential of problems Usually a drive can internally remap bad sectors without external help using cyclic redundancy check CRC checksums stored at the end...

Page 24: ...ant because a bad disk block can prevent a disk rebuild from completing We strongly recommend that you run consistency checks on a regular basis at least once per week Note that consistency checks deg...

Page 25: ...t the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selected Correct installation of the disk array and the controller requires a proper understand...

Page 26: ...rip ping with disk mirroring RAID Level 10 combines the fast per formanceof Level 0 with the data redundancy of Leve1 1 In this configuration data is distributed across several disk drives similar to...

Page 27: ...provides disk striping and complete data redundancy though a dedicated parity drive RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or on the blocks and then wri...

Page 28: ...e write bottleneck that characterizes RAID 4 and is the primary reason that RAID 5 is more often implemented in RAID arrays 1 7 6 RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability but is not yet widely u...

Page 29: ...k Reads are twice faster than a single disk Write are similar to a single disk 10 Also known Block Interleaved Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disk Parity m...

Page 30: ...D 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk 6 RAID 6 provides highest reliability but not widely used Similar to RAID 5 but does two diffe...

Page 31: ...s Standard mount ing holes are located on both sides of the RAID subsystem There mounting holes accept commonly available No 6 32 coarse thread screws 2 3 Step Action 1 Unpack the RAID subsystem and i...

Page 32: ...ubsystem attachment rails screws etc ATA cables to interconnect the RAID subsystem and system IDE Port ARC 5030 SCSI cable to interconnect RAID subsystem and system SCSI host ARC 6020 Ethernet LAN por...

Page 33: ...RAID subsystem by pulling out on the lever 2 Remove the tray blank from hot swap tray 3 Attach the drive trays power cable to the disk drive first and carefully push drive trays data cable to the dis...

Page 34: ...rews for each side Step 6 Connecting RAID subsystem Power Connect two free power cables to the power connector on the rear side of the RAID subsystem Below is recommended way to con nect module to Pow...

Page 35: ...your system or host adapter By installing HOST SCSI Channel and RAID subsystem using the SCSI cables included in your kits Follow these steps to connect HOST SCSI Channel and RAID sub system 1 The RAI...

Page 36: ...and RAID subsystem LED LED Normal Status Problem Indication Power LED LCD panel Bright Green This LED does not light up after power switched on BUSY LED LCD panel Blink yellow during host computer ac...

Page 37: ...be configured via a VT 100 compatible terminal or a PC running a VT 100 terminal emulation program The provided interface cable converts the RS232 signal of the 10 pin header connector on the RAID sub...

Page 38: ...ebuild operation is completed Step 10 Turn on the host computer Power Safety checks the installation and reinstall the computer cover Connect all power code Turn on the AC power switch at the rear of...

Page 39: ...replace the Hot Swap drive Step a Gently pull out the HDD tray When a HDD error occurs the HDD LED indicator lights up Am ber Remove the drive tray you wish to replace from the RAID sub system by fir...

Page 40: ...s firmware They provide complete control and management of the controller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software Note The internal RAID subsystem allows only one meth...

Page 41: ...indication or menus The LCD screen displays up to two lines at a time of menu items or other information The Initial screen as the following Key Function Up Arrow Use to scroll the cursor Upward Right...

Page 42: ...enu 3 2 1 RAID Subsystem RS 232C Port Pin Assign ment To ensure proper communications between the RAID subsystem and the VT 100 Terminal Emulation Please configure the VT100 terminal emulation setting...

Page 43: ...2 Start up VT100 Screen By connecting a VT100 compatible terminal or a PC operating in an equivalent terminal emulation mode all RAID subsystem monitoring configuration and administration functions ca...

Page 44: ...your Termi nal Click OK Step 3 Select an appropriate connecting port in your Terminal Click OK Configure the port parameter settings Bits per second 115200 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow con...

Page 45: ...le CD VT100 utility Using the controller s serial port RAID subsystem now offers an alternative means of communication for the internal RAID Subsystem Bootable CD VT 100 emulation program The traditio...

Page 46: ...CD ROM Insert the RAID subsystem CD ROM into the system CD ROM drive and power on the system The ROM DOS Startup Menu appears and follows the step to setup the ROM DOS VT 100 terminal emulation parame...

Page 47: ...rate 115200 F3 Parity NONE F4 Data bits 8 F5 Stop bits 1 ESC or F10 Exit Communications Setup Step 2 Press the ESC key to go back to the previous screen Step 3 After you have finished the VT100 Termi...

Page 48: ...ug and play the web browser RAID manager in the remote station The provided LAN interface cable connects the RAID con troller s LAN port into a LAN port from your local network Use only shield cable t...

Page 49: ...stalling screen may look different but the areca http proxy server installation is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at CD R...

Page 50: ...doesn t want to launch the web browser goes to step 9 The Parameters for the General Setting 1 TCP Port value 1 65535 2 RAID Connected to value 1 10 where 1 for COM1 2 for COM2 and so on 3 BaudRate v...

Page 51: ...ssword press Enter to start up the Areca Http Proxy Server Note It is strongly recommended to modify the password after the first login 7 The Storage Console current configuration screen displays the...

Page 52: ...tp 6666 1 115200 on command line and enter to execute it 2 Execute the Areca Http Proxy Server by entering http IP Address in the Netscape browser provided with Linux Note that Linux prompts you to lo...

Page 53: ...tem without adding any user specific software platform independent via standard web browsers directly connected to the 10 100 Ethernet RJ45 LAN port To configure Internal RAID subsystem on a local or...

Page 54: ...CONFIGURATION METHOD 54 Note Ethernet Configuration Alert By Mail Config and SNMP Config can only be set in the web based configuration U320 SCSI Target configuration available on 6020 only...

Page 55: ...ate the controller The LCD provides a system of screens with areas for information status indication or menus The LCD screen displays up to two lines at a time of menu items or other information The L...

Page 56: ...vious screen 4 3 LCD Configuration Utility Main Menu Options Select an option and the related information or submenu items dis play beneath it The submenus for each item are explained on the section 4...

Page 57: ...1 Designate hot spares pass through optional 2 Choose a configuration method 3 Create raid set using the available physical drives 4 Define volume set using the space in the raid set 5 Initialize the...

Page 58: ...acity Designating Drives as Hot Spares will also combine with raid level in this setup The volume set default settings will be The default setting values can be changed after configuration is complete...

Page 59: ...lable stripe sizes for the current volume set are displayed 4 Using UP and DOWN arrow key to select the current volume set stripe size and press Enter key to confirm it This parameter specifies the si...

Page 60: ...ociate the selected physical drive with the current raid set Recommend use drives has same capacity in a specific raid set If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the rai...

Page 61: ...UP DOWN to select attribute value and press the Enter to ac cept the default value 11 After user completes modifying the attribute press the ESC to enter the select Capacity for the volume set Using t...

Page 62: ...rives of different capacity may be used in the raid set it will use the smallest capacity of the disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the raid set The Quick Volume And Raid Setup option cr...

Page 63: ...procedure references to this chapter section 4 6 4 8 2 Raid Set Function User manual configuration can complete control of the raid set setting but it will take longer time to complete than the Quick...

Page 64: ...lows the user to add disk drives to the raid set that was created To expand existed raid set press UP DOWN to choose the Expand Existed Raid Set option Using UP DOWN to select the raid set number that...

Page 65: ...the function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode 4 8 2 5 Create Hot Spare Disk Please refer to this chapter section 4 5 Designating Drives as Hot Spares 4 8 2 6 Delete Hot Spare Disk To delete...

Page 66: ...ter further submenus All volume set submenus will be displayed 4 8 3 1 Create Raid Volume Set To create a volume set Please reference this chapter section 4 7 Using Raid Set and Volume Set Functions T...

Page 67: ...LCD CONFIGURATION MENU 67 and Volume Set Functions to complete the create volume set function Figure 4 8 3 1 1 ARC 5030 Figure 4 8 3 1 2 ARC 6020...

Page 68: ...espe cially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer does random reads more often select a small stripe size 4 8 3 1 4 Volume Name The default volume n...

Page 69: ...must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A Wide SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices RAID subsystem is as a large SCSI device We should assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs 4 8 3 1 9 SCSI LUN ARC...

Page 70: ...Volume Set Press UP DOWN to choose the Delete Existed Volume Set op tion Using UP DOWN to select the raid set number that user want to delete and press Enter Scrolling the UP DOWN to select the volume...

Page 71: ...nd press Enter Press Enter to select the existed volume set attribute The vol ume set attributes screen shows the volume set setting configu ration attributes that was currently being configured The a...

Page 72: ...irmation screen appears press Enter to start the check volume set consistency 4 8 3 5 Stop Volume Set Consistency Check Use this option to stop volume set consistency check To stop volume set consiste...

Page 73: ...m the Main Menu to select a physical disk and to perform the operations listed below To enter a Physical Drive Functions press Enter to enter the main menu Press UP DOWN to select the Physical Drive F...

Page 74: ...LCD CONFIGURATION MENU 74 Figure 4 8 4 2 ARC 6020...

Page 75: ...IO Mode Current UDMA Supported UDMA and Device State 4 8 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk is no controlled by the RAID subsystem firmware and thus cannot be a part of a raid set The disk is available to t...

Page 76: ...Modify Pass Through Drive option and then press Enter key The Select Drive Func tion menu will show all Pass Through Drive number items Using UP DOWN to select the Pass Through Disk that user wants t...

Page 77: ...d disk HDD LED Indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Drive function is selected To identify selected drive from the physical drive pool press UP DOW...

Page 78: ...ill still activate on the next event 4 8 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting The Alert Beeper function item is used to Disabled or Enable the RAID subsystem controller alarm tone generator Using the UP DOWN to s...

Page 79: ...030 JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk It represents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of partitions on the disks For the ARC 5030 it can only see the first two disks when you...

Page 80: ...ordered along with the necessary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The RAID subsystem allows user to choose the SATA Mode SATA150 SAT150 NCQ SAT300 SATA300 NC...

Page 81: ...to the main server chassis The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller For this reason HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature funct...

Page 82: ...op Bits values are 1 bit and 2 bits To set or change the RAID subsystem COMA configuration press the UP DOWN to select COMA Configuration and then press the ENT to accept the selection The baud rate s...

Page 83: ...s buffer information To clear all event buffers press Enter to enter the main menu Press UP DOWN to select the Clear all Event Buffers option and then press Enter The confirmation message will be disp...

Page 84: ...ter to enter the main menu Press UP DOWN to select the Show System Information option and then press Enter All major controller system information will be displayed Press UP DOWN to browse all the sys...

Page 85: ...drives Update firmware Modify system function and Designate drives as hot spares Keyboard Navigation The following definition is the VT 100 RAID configuration utility key board navigation Key Function...

Page 86: ...the Cre ate Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the...

Page 87: ...at least 5 physical drives Highlight RAID level for the volume set and press Enter key to confirm 3 Set the capacity size for the current volume set After Highlight RAID level and press Enter key The...

Page 88: ...olume Set Function Method In Raid Set Function you can use the Create Raid Set function to generate the new raid set In Volume Set Function you can use the Create Volume Set function to generate its a...

Page 89: ...ysical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives 5 After adding physical drives to the current raid set as desired press Yes to confirm the Create Raid Set function 6 An Edit The Raid Se...

Page 90: ...up Create a default configuration which based on numbers of physical disk installed Raid Set Function Create a customized raid set Volume Set Function Create a customized volume set Physical Drives Vi...

Page 91: ...te it Although disk drives of different capacity may be used in the raid set it will use the smallest capacity of disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the raid set The Quick Volume RAID Se...

Page 92: ...erformance especially Arrow Key Move cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Ra...

Page 93: ...ormation Quick Volume Raid Setup Total 4 Drives Raid 0 Raid 10 Raid 10 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid 6 Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Spare Raid 5 Available Capacity 160 1GB Selected Capacity 160 1GB Sel...

Page 94: ...onitor System information Raid Set Function Raid Set Function Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set Activate Raid Set Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare Raid Set Information Create Raid Set 5 5 2 1 Create Ra...

Page 95: ...ault raid set name will always appear as Raid Set Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid...

Page 96: ...cape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configurati...

Page 97: ...d Set Information Raid Set Information The Raid Set Information Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Member Disks 4 Raid State Migrating Total Capacity 160 1GB Free Capacity 144 1GB Min Member Disk Size 40 0GB M...

Page 98: ...rmation Create Hot Spare Select Drives For HotSpare Max 3 HotSpare Supported Ch08 80 0GBST380013AS Ch03 80 0GBST380013AS Are you Sure No Yes 5 5 2 5 Create Hot Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spa...

Page 99: ...y Raid Set information move the cursor bar to the desired Raid Set number then press Enter key The Raid Set Information will show as above You can only view the information of this Raid Set Arrow Key...

Page 100: ...f data performance and protection of a Volume Set A Volume Set capacity can consume all or a portion of the disk capacity available in a Raid Set Mul tiple Volume Sets can exist on a group of disks in...

Page 101: ...w with a summary of the current volume set s set tings The Volume Creation option allows user to select the Volume name capacity RAID level strip size SCSI ID LUN Cache mode and tag queuing User can m...

Page 102: ...zation Mode Background Instant Available Foreground Faster Completion 6 Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create additional volume sets 7 The initialization percentage of volume set will be displayed at the butt...

Page 103: ...city can also increase or decrease by the UP and DOWN arrow key Each volume set has a selected capacity which is less than or equal to the total capacity of the raid set on which it resides 5 5 3 1 1...

Page 104: ...o each disk in a RAID 0 1 or 5 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB 5 5 3 1 1 5 SCSI Channel Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X R...

Page 105: ...as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices The SATA RAID controller is as a lots of large SCSI device We should assign an ID from a list o...

Page 106: ...row Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Ra...

Page 107: ...nc Rate 320MB sec Max Sync Xfer Rate Async 20 MB Sec 40 MB Sec 80 MB Sec 320MB Sec 160 MB Sec 5 5 3 1 2 For ARC 5030 The following steps is the volume set features for ARC 5030 1 Volume sets of differ...

Page 108: ...modification procedures are at 5 5 3 1 2 1 to 5 5 3 1 2 9 section Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volum...

Page 109: ...aster Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled IDE Xfer Mode ATA133 Volume Name Volume Set 00 Fast Initialization No Yes Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Techn...

Page 110: ...L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration V...

Page 111: ...Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Volume Set Function Volume Set Function Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info Create Volume S...

Page 112: ...bled IDE Xfer Mode ATA150 Drive Select 0 Master Select IDE Drv 1 Slave 2 Reserved 3 Reserved 4 Reserved 5 Reserved 6 Reserved 7 Reserved 8 Reserved 9 Reserved 10 Reserved 11 Reserved 12 Reserved 13 Re...

Page 113: ...uing Enabled Tagged Command Queuing Disabled Enabled Note Because OS drive doesn t support this function yet therefore it needs special driver to support this fuction Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Selec...

Page 114: ...0 ATA 66 and ATA 33 Mode 5 5 3 2 Delete Volume Set To delete Volume set from raid set system function move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Delete Volume Set item then pr...

Page 115: ...id Set system function move the cur sor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Modify Volume Set item then press Enter key The Volume Set Func tions menu will show all Raid Set number ite...

Page 116: ...Set 00 As shown in the above can be modified at this screen Choose this option to display the properties of the selected Volume set For ARC 5030 Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Dr...

Page 117: ...ther a Volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a Raid Set Migration status is displayed in the volume status area of the Volume Set Information when one RAID level to another a Volume...

Page 118: ...function 5 5 3 6 Display Volume Set Info Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Fun...

Page 119: ...nc Volume Name Volume Set 00 5 5 4 Physical Drives Choose this option from the Main Menu to select a physical disk and to perform the operations listed below Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Esc...

Page 120: ...chnology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event...

Page 121: ...e operating system is on a disk not controlled by the RAID subsystem firmware The SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Tag Queuing and Max Sync Rate items detail descriptioini can reference the Cr...

Page 122: ...arameter from the list you which to change press Enter key to modify it 5 5 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation...

Page 123: ...013AS Ch01 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk HDD LED Indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Devi...

Page 124: ...autus Polling Capacity Truncation Terminal Port Config Update Firmware Restart Controller Alert Beeper Setting 5 5 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X...

Page 125: ...the starting screen 5 5 5 4 JBOD RAID Configuration JBOD RAID Configuration For ARC 5030 JBOD is an acronym for just a Bunch Of Disk It represents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of...

Page 126: ...n HDD SMART Stautus Polling Capacity Truncation Terminal Port Config Update Firmware Restart Controller JBOD RAID Function 5 5 5 5 Raid Rebuild Priority Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L...

Page 127: ...estart Controller Maximum ATA Mode 5 5 5 6 Maximum SATA Mode Within the subsystem the SCSI chip acts as a target and 5 SATA ll bus are connected to the drive The 5 SATA drive channel can support up to...

Page 128: ...artup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other system components This damage can be avoided by allowing th...

Page 129: ...rver chassis The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller For this reason HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in the vers...

Page 130: ...Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and No Truncation Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from differ ent vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5...

Page 131: ...Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function E...

Page 132: ...ter key to select Restart Controller item The Restart Controller confirmation screen appers Select Yes key to restart entire Raid System Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Red...

Page 133: ...itration and QAS Normal arbitration is mandatory and requires the detection of a BUS FREE phase on the SCSI bus before starting QAS is optional and when enabled requires the initiation and detection o...

Page 134: ...Physical Drives Raid System Function U320 SCSI Target Config Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Ethernet Configuration Ethernet Configura...

Page 135: ...hernet LAN it s the same as your Ethernet address When you re connected to the Internet from the RAID controller Ethernet port a corre spondence table relates your IP address to the RAID controller s...

Page 136: ...Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information View System Events Time Device Event Type ElapseTim...

Page 137: ...PM 3013 Power 12V 11 977 Power 5V 4 892 Power 3V 3 296 Power 1 5V 1 520 5 5 11 System Information Choose this option to display Main processor CPU Instruction cache and data cache size firmware versio...

Page 138: ...1 Firmware embedded TCP IP web browser based RAID manager using the controller s 10 100 Ethernet LAN port To ensure proper communications between the RAID subsystem and Web browser based RAID managem...

Page 139: ...he space in the raid set 5 Initialize the volume set and use volume set in the HOST OS 6 3 Designating Drives as Hot Spares All unused disk drive that is not part of a raid set can be created as a Hot...

Page 140: ...4 physical drives RAID 5 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Highlight RAID level for the volume set and press Enter key to confirm 3 Set the ca...

Page 141: ...reate Raid Set function to generate the new raid set In Volume Set Function you can use the Create Volume Set function to generate its associated volume set and parameters If the current controller ha...

Page 142: ...ives 5 After adding physical drives to the current raid set as desired press Yes to confirm the Create Raid Set function 6 An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanu meric char...

Page 143: ...accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Fast Initialization...

Page 144: ...he raid system configurations Information View the controller information The Raid Set Hier archy can also view through the RaidSet Hierarchy item 6 6 1 Main Menu The Main Menu shows all function that...

Page 145: ...id Set Func tion to manually configure the raid set for the first time or deletes existing raid set and reconfigures the raid set A raid set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets 6 8...

Page 146: ...screen Tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it To expand a raid set click on the Expand Raid Set link Select the target raid set which you want to e...

Page 147: ...After user com plete the function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode To activate the incomplete the raid set click on the Activate Raid Set link A Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is di...

Page 148: ...fine a global hot spare 6 8 6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target Hot Spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit but ton in...

Page 149: ...each volume set on the raid set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the raid set 6 9 1 Create Volume Set 6 9 1 1 For ARC 6020 The following is the volume set features for the ARC...

Page 150: ...ncrease or decrease by the UP and DOWN arrow key Raid Level Set the RAID level for the Volume Set Highlight Raid Level and press Enter The available RAID levels for the current Volume Set are dis play...

Page 151: ...umber A Wide SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices The RAID sub system is as a large SCSI device We should assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most...

Page 152: ...crease or decrease by the UP and DOWN arrow key Raid Level Set the RAID level for the Volume Set Highlight Raid Level and press Enter The available RAID levels for the current Volume Set are dis playe...

Page 153: ...fferent volume sets if user Host Channel Mode 0 for Parallel ATA host channel and 1 for Serial ATA host channel The volume set initially defines for Parallel ATA host channel now user wants to change...

Page 154: ...lume Set To modify a volume set from a raid set 1 Click on the Modify Volume Set link 2 Tick on the volume set from the list that you wish to modify Click on the Submit button The following screen app...

Page 155: ...ursor bar to the volume set Volume capacity item and entry the capacity size Tick on the Confirm The Opera tion and click on the Submit button to complete the action The volume set start to expand 6 9...

Page 156: ...data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity vol ume set check means computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing the results to the contents of the dedicated pari...

Page 157: ...l SCSI_ID SCSI_LUN for this volume 6 10 1 2 For ARC 5030 To create pass through disk move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the Create Pass Through link The relative setting function scre...

Page 158: ...Modification screen appears tick on the Pass Through Disk from the pass through drive pool and click on the Submit button to select drive The Enter Pass Through Disk Attribute screen appears modify t...

Page 159: ...ntify the selected drive from the drives pool move the mouse cursor bar to click on Identify Selected Drive link The Select The SATA Device For identification screen appears tick on the SATA device fr...

Page 160: ...D Configuration JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk It repressents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of partitions on the disks For the ARC 5030 6020 it can see the five indivi...

Page 161: ...is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the ability to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready a...

Page 162: ...e capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and No Truncation Multiples Of 10G If...

Page 163: ...nal Port Configuration Speed setting values are 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 and 115200 Stop Bits values are 1 bit and 2 bits Note Parity value is fixed at None Data Bits value is fixed at 8...

Page 164: ...useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the abil ity to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the op...

Page 165: ...formation is ac cessible This function is disabled by default Disk Capacity Truncation Mode ARECA RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from differing vendors are more likely to be able...

Page 166: ...ctly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patch es required DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol that lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the assig...

Page 167: ...tem events and user can use the SNMP function from the web setting with no Agent software required 6 11 4 Alert By Mail Config To configure the raid controller email function move the cursor bar to th...

Page 168: ...ed Universal Time UTC via a Global Positioning Service GPS receiver for example NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be us...

Page 169: ...the computer time zone This tweak allows you to disable the automatic adjustment 6 11 7 View Events Mute Beeper To view the RAID subsystem controller s information move the mouse cursor to the main me...

Page 170: ...is used to protect the internal RAID subsystem from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The RAID subsystem will automatic...

Page 171: ...en appears Use this feature to view the raid subsystem controller s informa tion The controller name firmware version serial number main processor CPU data instruction cache size and system memory siz...

Page 172: ...Warning Condition Controller Board Temperature 60O C Backplane Temperature 55O C Controller Fan Speed 1900 RPM Power Supply 12V 10 5V or 13 5V Power Supply 5V 4 7V or 5 3V Power Supply 3 3V 3 0V or 3...

Page 173: ...nd JBOD Multiple RAID selection Online Array roaming Online RAID level stripe size migration Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously Online Dynamic Volume set capacity expans...

Page 174: ...dows Linux and FreeBSD system Firmware embedded manager via RS 232 port platform independent Firmware embedded web browser based RAID manager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via LAN port p...

Page 175: ...A 1 9 header Ethernet LAN connector Environmental Operating Temperature Temperature 5 C to 40 C Humidity 15 80 non condensing Storage Temperature Temperature 40 C to 70 C Humidity 5 90 non condensing...

Page 176: ...tablishing the Connection for the RS 232 The firmware can be downloaded to the RAID subsystem controller by using an ANSI VT 100 compatible terminal emulation program or HTTP web browser management Yo...

Page 177: ...subsystem controller For Example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the c 1 From the Main Menu scroll down to Raid System Function 2 Choose the Update Firmware The Update The Raid Fi...

Page 178: ...ed Select the File name 6 Click Send Send the Firmware Binary to the controller 7 When the Firmware completes downloading the confirmation screen appears Press Yes to start program the flash ROM 8 Whe...

Page 179: ...for your RAID subsystem controller For Example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the c 1 To upgrade the RAID subsystem firmware move the mouse cur sor to Upgrade Firmware link The U...

Page 180: ...egins to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash ROM 5 After the firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware has Been Updated Successfully Note...

Page 181: ...r 2 JP2 Ethernet Lan port 3 J3 J4 DC Power Input Connector 4 CON1 SATA Host Channel Adapter Port 5 JP4 LCD Module Connector 6 JP1 RS232 Connector 7 IDE1 PATA Host Channel Adapter Port Pin Pin Name Des...

Page 182: ...n Pin Pin Name Pin Description 1 N C 2 RXD0 3 TXD0 4 N C 5 GND 6 N C 7 RTS0 8 CTS0 9 N C 10 N C DC Cooling Fan Power Connector J5 J6 RS232 Connector JP1 Pin Pin Name Pin Description 1 VCC 2 LAN TPIP 3...

Page 183: ...ector Output 3 J1 J2 DC Power Input Connector 4 JP2 Ethernet Lan port 5 J3 J4 DC Power Input Connector 6 J5 J6 DC Cooling Fan Power Connector 7 JP4 LCD Module Connector Pin Pin Name Description 1 5V 5...

Page 184: ...D0 4 Short to pin1 pin6 5 GND 6 Short to pin1 pin4 7 Short to pin8 8 Short to pin7 9 N C 10 N C RS232 Connector JP1 Pin Pin Name Pin Description 1 VCC 2 LAN TPIP 3 LAN TPIN 4 GND 5 LAN SPP 6 LAN LINK...

Page 185: ...r site SNMP Definition SNMP an IP based protocol has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager and the managed devices have the...

Page 186: ...s known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successf...

Page 187: ...vide product information updates for the most efficient service and support If you decide to contact us please have the information such as Product model and serial number BIOS and driver version and...

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