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Diamond Storage Array

VT-Class

Installation and Operation Manual

© 2005 ATTO Technology Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their
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Summary of Contents for Diamond Array VT

Page 1: ...05 ATTO Technology Inc All rights reserved All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the expres...

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Page 4: ...ape configuration Configuration examples 3 1 Diamond VT Components 7 Floor model Rack mount model 3 2 Diamond VT Physical Setup 9 Floor Model Rack Mount General Instructions 3 2 1 Connecting a Fibre C...

Page 5: ...its Partitions Zoning Tape Volumes Tape Drives Move Medium Rebuild Configuration Advanced Restart Help 6 0 CLI Interface via ASCII based Commands 27 6 1 Summary of CLI Commands 29 6 2 General Use Comm...

Page 6: ...tStopBits 6 6 Maintenance Services Commands 38 FcScsiBusyStatus FirmwareRestart MaxEnclTempAlrm MinEnclTempAlrm ResolveLUNConflicts RestoreConfiguration SaveConfiguration SpeedWrite Temperature Zmodem...

Page 7: ...InquiryData LUNInfo LUNState MediumType PartitionInfo QuickTape RAID5ClearData RAID5ClearDataStatus RAIDInterleave RAIDHaltRebuild RAIDManualRebuild RAIDRebuildState RAIDRebuildStatus RAIDResumeRebuil...

Page 8: ...dating Firmware 55 Updating firmware via the RS 232 serial port Updating firmware via the optional Ethernet card 9 0 Diagnostics Upgrade and Maintenance 57 9 1 Troubleshooting 61 Windows 2000 special...

Page 9: ...Returns iv Driveinfo VirtualDriveInfo Appendix D Sample Zoning Command Sequences ix Appendix E Specifications xii Environmental and physical Rack Mount Dimensions Floor Mount Dimensions Appendix F Pro...

Page 10: ...ies or typographical errors Manufacturer expressly disclaims liability for any error in this information and for damages whether direct indirect special exemplary consequential or otherwise that may r...

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Page 12: ...ce and capacity of the Diamond VT cabinet as technology progresses by simply replacing disk drive sleds and host interface cards The Diamond VT is operating system independent and supports all popular...

Page 13: ...supplies capable of 85 264 V rated 100 240V AC operation 340 watts each UL TUV and CE marked and compliant Internal thermal and power management Redundant hot swappable power supplies with integrated...

Page 14: ...nce storage solution Using this technology we are able to provide a storage array that delivers faster sustained data transfer rates as well as impressive I Os per second at a new price point in the s...

Page 15: ...lementation of the standard SCSI protocol controlled by the Virtual Device Manager The VDM adds capabilities such as RAID data management services enclosure management services serverless backup data...

Page 16: ...nection to a PC or regular network cable from a network device to the RJ45 Ethernet port on the Ethernet management card on the front of the Diamond VT Step 2a set up the Ethernet connection The Diamo...

Page 17: ...tual Tapes using the following format set QuickTape RAID5 RAID10 tape volumes tape drives enabled Barcode Prefix Hot Spares are not available for all Virtual Tape configurations You must designate ena...

Page 18: ...s for each power supply Below the management system card are individual disk drive sleds which also have LEDs for each drive s status Each sled contains two hard drives Up to 24 hard drives may be ins...

Page 19: ...d drive cabinet and power supply cooling Correct operation is displayed by a LED at the top of each panel The blowers are held in place by removable screws The power supplies for the Diamond VT are ac...

Page 20: ...ure is kept below 30 C for best operation Each side of the rack mount Diamond VT chassis has three pairs of mounting holes One is located near the front of the rack one near the unit s center of gravi...

Page 21: ...s the stand by power switch for each power supply to the ON position When the green power LED on the back of the unit is lit the power supply is fully operational and delivering power to the system Th...

Page 22: ...units to be daisy chained together See Exhibit 3 2 1 2 Autoconfiguration The Diamond VT automatically determines if the Array HICs are in loop or point to point topologies If you wish to see how the...

Page 23: ...Fibre Channel physical connections depending on which Fibre Channel connection mode has been selected point to point mode loop mode daisy chain no connection possible loop mode loop mode loop mode loo...

Page 24: ...nector and the next device on the SCSI bus 3 The SCSI Host Interface Card has a rotary binary coded hex switch which allows you to set the SCSI ID of the HIC Be sure the selected ID is different from...

Page 25: ...14 SCSI connections...

Page 26: ...pendent ExpressNAV contains all the current capabilities of the CLI in a user friendly GUI console A menu on each page provides access to information and configuration operations Refer to ATTO Express...

Page 27: ...ll the SNMP server that something has happened Exhibit 4 0 1 The POST information displayed after boot of the Diamond VT Initialization Complete Diamond Storage Array c 2004 ATTO Technology Incorporat...

Page 28: ...Buffer command to LUN 0 A Write Buffer command must be accompanied by an ASCII buffer representing the CLI command string such as set DiamondName Omega1 LUN 0 executes the command line and create fee...

Page 29: ...amond VT Goal reserve the Diamond VT for an in band CLI command SCSI cdb Reserve LUN 0 SCSI success Goal retrieve the Diamond VT temperature via in band CLI 1 Issue the command SCSI cdb WriteBuffer LU...

Page 30: ...able must be no longer than three meters 2 Boot the computer used to manage the Diamond VT 3 Start a terminal emulator program such as Windows HyperTerminal Set the emulator to use the COM port with c...

Page 31: ...20 Serial port access...

Page 32: ...ress from the default by first accessing the serial connection and using the CLI You may change the IP address to a network specific value or if the local network uses DHCP you may enable automatic IP...

Page 33: ...s 12 Load the Diamond MIB ATTODIAMOND 13 When requested enter the Diamond VT IP address as the Remote SNMP Agent 14 The SNMP management software contacts the agent in the Diamond VT The screen display...

Page 34: ...ick on the Security tab 4 Click on the Custom Level button 5 Click on Microsoft VM Java permissions 6 Ensure Disable Java is not selected 7 Click on the Miscellaneous tab 8 Click on Metarefresh Openin...

Page 35: ...ect the item you wish to view Submit button same as typing all CLI commands and saveconfiguration norestart options Parameter name Red print provides link to help text Information required to perform...

Page 36: ...t and SNMP Protocols on page 21 for more information Fibre Channel Manages the Fibre Channel port Data rate Full duplex mode Connection mode See Connecting a Fibre Channel Array on page 11 for more in...

Page 37: ...um operating temperature Identify Diamond Restore defaults Refer to Maintenance Services Commands on page 38 for details Advanced Input any CLI command available through the Diamond VT while in Expres...

Page 38: ...nfiguration command or by using a separate FirmwareRestart command A number of set commands may be issued before the SaveConfiguration command Responses to set commands are either an error message or...

Page 39: ...r they represent Fp Fibre Channel port number 0 fp 1 Fl Fibre Channel LUN 0 fl 24 where 0 represents the Diamond VT unit and 1 24 represent the disk drives device_lun The LUN of the RAID drive used in...

Page 40: ...41 DriveCopyResume DriveCopyResume 2 2 41 DriveCopyStatus DriveCopyStatus 39 DriveInfo DriveInfo 3 2 39 DriveSledPower On set DriveSledPower 9 1 off 41 DriveWipe DriveWipe 2 2 42 ECC Enabled set ECC...

Page 41: ...nterleave 128 get RAIDInterleave 43 RAIDManualRebuild RAIDManualRebuild 2 3 43 RAIDRebuildState set RAIDRebuildState 2 OK 40 RAIDRebuildStatus get RAIDRebuildStatus 40 RAIDResumeRebuild RAIDResumeRebu...

Page 42: ...Temperature 40 VerboseMode Enabled get VerboseMode 32 VirtualDriveInfo virtualdriveinfo active 40 Zmodem zmodem receive 38 ZoneAddDevice zoneadddevice zone1 2 44 ZoneAddHost zoneaddhost zone1 20 00 0...

Page 43: ...ady will be displayed after the return for the modification You may make several changes through commands and SaveConfiguration before implementing a restart but once you have restarted the Diamond al...

Page 44: ...get IPAddress Requires a SaveConfiguration command IPDHCP Selecting DHCP allow the Diamond Storage Array to request an IP address from the network It requires that the Diamond be attached to a networ...

Page 45: ...he number of minutes of inactivity which will elapse before a telnet session automatically times out Limits 1 1440 minutes Default disabled Set syntax set TelnetTimeout 1 1440 disabled Get syntax get...

Page 46: ...yntax set FcFrameLength 512 1024 2048 Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command Get syntax get FcFrameLength FcFullDuplex Enable to allow full duplex Fibre Channel communication between the Diamond...

Page 47: ...ctions set FcScsiBusyStatus busy qfull Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command Get syntax get FcScsiBusyStatus FcWWName Sets or view the Word Wide Name WWPN of the referenced Fibre Channel port T...

Page 48: ...abled Default disabled Set syntax set SerialPortEcho enabled disabled Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command Get syntax get SerialPortEcho SerialPortHandshake Describes which handshaking method...

Page 49: ...Configuration If the restart option is selected the Diamond will cycle its power The norestart option will save changes without restarting Please note certain modifications require a SaveConfiguration...

Page 50: ...D FcNodeName Returns the Fibre Channel node name stored in NVRAM for this Fibre Channel port the same as the World Wide Name for port 0 Get syntax get FcNodeName FcPortInfo Retrieves information about...

Page 51: ...abbreviation representing the product name The remaining six digits are the individual unit s number Get syntax get SerialNumber SledFaultLED Changes the state of the selected sled LED to the indicate...

Page 52: ...rea Enter the sled number 1 12 and drive number 1 2 Immediate command ClearDiskReservedAreaData sled number drive number DriveCopy Copies a drive from the source disk to the destination disk Parameter...

Page 53: ...ut all LUNs logical unit numbers or detailed information about a specific LUN Do not specify a LUN to get information about all LUNs Specify a LUN to get detailed information about that individual LUN...

Page 54: ...in 512 byte blocks between members of a RAID group SPAN indicates that the interleave size between drives in the group is the minimum drive size of all members in the group RAIDInterleave options are...

Page 55: ...7 Default 0 Set syntax set TapeVolumeBlockSize 0 127 Requires a SaveConfiguration command Get syntax get TapeVolumeBlockSize TapeVolumeInfo Displays information about the named Tape Volume including V...

Page 56: ...oneInfo ZoneRemoveDevice Removes one or more LUNs devices from an existing zone To complete this procedure the ZoneState command must be entered as enabled to activate the zone before using the ZoneCo...

Page 57: ...46 CLI configure drives...

Page 58: ...D Level 5 RAID Level 5 increases reliability while using fewer disks than mirroring by using parity redundancy Distributed parity on multiple drives provides the redundancy to rebuild a failed drive f...

Page 59: ...efault sector interleave in RAID Level 10 is 128 blocks 64k The default sector interleave in RAID Level 5 is 256 blocks 128k The CLI command RAIDInterleave allows you to change the size of the sector...

Page 60: ...rmat set QuickTape RAID5 RAID10 tape volumes tape drives enabled Barcode Prefix Hot Spares are not available for all Virtual Tape configurations You must designate enabled to allow Hot Spare sleds or...

Page 61: ...es are handled as sleds not as individual drives the Hot Spare sled replaces the Faulted sled in the Virtual Device a rebuild will automatically start after the Hot Spare is switched into the Virtual...

Page 62: ...ld Wide Port Name in a Fibre Channel environment It appears as host_name in this manual The device portion defines the LUN s participating in the zone It appears as device_lun in this manual The port...

Page 63: ...iguration changes require planning and preparation independent of whether any zones are enabled Such changes affect data integrity and any write to an incorrect LUN may result in data corruption Degra...

Page 64: ...sts and ports you want to include in the zone ZoneAddDevice zone_name device_lun ZoneAddHost zone_name host_name ZoneAddPorts zone_name port_number 7 Enable the zone type ZoneState zone_name enabled 8...

Page 65: ...act on the Diamond VT but results after an operating system or application have written to the drives are unpredictable Incorrect Zone entries can include mis specification of resources to a zone Veri...

Page 66: ...mond flash ima filename or click the browse button to find it 6 Click Send File 7 The Diamond should acknowledge receiving the file and display a message not to interrupt power for 90 seconds 8 If upg...

Page 67: ...he userID 7 Press Enter at the password prompt 8 Type put ima The Diamond should acknowledge receiving the file and display a message not to interrupt power for 90 seconds 9 If upgrading the firmware...

Page 68: ...ill flash simultaneously twice in a row If the system is fully operational the ready LED will be lit and the unit is ready to be accessed If the POST fails the System Fault LED will be lit and an erro...

Page 69: ...agement card LED will go on It may take up to 30 seconds for the system to note these changes System Fault LED and Error Codes If a serious hardware or software error occurs in the Diamond VT the Syst...

Page 70: ...of the disk drives on a dual disk drive assembly reports a disk error of any kind the amber disk fault LED will come on The disk fault LED can be activated by minor issues such as a disk drive writing...

Page 71: ...60 Monitoring reporting...

Page 72: ...are displayed at power up Command Line Interface messages ERROR Wrong Missing Parameters Check Help for the correct input and retype command ERROR Invalid Command Type help for command list Check Hel...

Page 73: ...sing any hubs or switches To determine if the problem exists with the Host Interface Card or the connection Swap the cable from one HIC to the other HIC If the LED is now green swap the GBIC and cable...

Page 74: ...NAV pages take you through this process easily the following instructions are based on the CLI commands Use these instructions as a guide in ExpressNAV 2 Type RestoreConfiguration default to reset the...

Page 75: ...ngth 2048 FcFullDuplex Enabled FcHard Disabled FcHardAddress 0x03 IdentifyDiamond Disabled IdeTransferRate 4 IPAddress 10 0 0 1 IPDHCP Disabled IPGateway 0 0 0 0 IPSubnetMask 255 255 255 0 MaxEnclTemp...

Page 76: ...30 seconds and then re inserted or replaced the replaced drives are labeled degraded when you check the Array s status by typing RAIDRebuildStatus If you enable AutoRebuild the array rebuilds the deg...

Page 77: ...ee ATTO ExpressNAV Browser based Interface on page 23 3 Use the VirtualDriveInfo and TapeVolumeInfo commands to identify a Tape Volume associated with the RAID group you wish to rebuild 4 Go to the Mo...

Page 78: ...remove a disk drive sled while the Diamond VT is powered on See the instructions in Hot Swap Operating Instructions on page 69 for details Management card To remove a management card power down both...

Page 79: ...P according to manufacturer s instructions loosening the screws at the top and bottom of the card then carefully pulling out the unit Exhibit 10 4 A power supply pulled out from a rackmount Diamond St...

Page 80: ...nterface mode 2 The fault LED should be blinking on the disk drive sled to be replaced If it is not type set SledFaultLED n on The LED of the drive you want n will light 3 Determine the Drive Sled Num...

Page 81: ...s lit Note It takes up to 30 seconds for the system to recognize the insertion or removal of a power supply and change the LED on the system management board The CLI will issue messages about the chan...

Page 82: ...ple FC AL loops can be connected via a fabric switch topology to extend the range SAN technology A Storage Area Network SAN is a shared storage architecture SANs connect computers and storage devices...

Page 83: ...node in FC arbitrated loop or fabric loop originator an initiating device a component which originates a command partition a continuous range of addresses in a storage subsystem that appear as a logic...

Page 84: ...k drives are used in the enormous PC marketplace and an estimated 85 of all disk drives sold today contain an ATA interface Shipments of ATA drives are expected to grow rapidly over the next five year...

Page 85: ...s Read 00000000 00000000 Write 00000000 00000000 Errors 00000000 DriveInfo RAID10 3 Drive 1 Drive 2 Sled Capacity Errors TYPE VDID Capacity Errors TYPE VDID 1 76292MB 0 RAID10 56 76292MB 0 RAID10 56 2...

Page 86: ...0 16 JBOD ONLINE 76292MB 0 V80DTDLCXAI0000 17 JBOD ONLINE 76292MB 0 V80EE4PCXAI0000 18 JBOD ONLINE 76292MB 0 V80CLN4CXAI0000 19 JBOD ONLINE 76292MB 0 V80D15GCXAI0000 20 JBOD ONLINE 76292MB 0 V80DTDRCX...

Page 87: ...RAID5 ONLINE 293227MB 0 V80ED9GC5AN0000 LunInfo 4 RAID5 SerialNumber V80ED9GC5AN0000 Virtual Drive ID 62 Capacity 293227 MB 0x00023cb5a00 blocks Operations Blocks Read 00000000 00000000 Write 0000000...

Page 88: ...city Serial Number RAID5 59 4 ONLINE 305165MB V80EE4YC5AN RAID5 60 1 ONLINE 305167MB V80DTCWC5AN RAID5 61 1 ONLINE 305167MB V80D44LC5AN RAID5 62 1 ONLINE 293227MB V80ED9GC5AN VirtualDriveInfo active 5...

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Page 90: ...into the Active Configuration ZoneClearAll Clears any previously defined zones ZoneCommit Sets the new zoning configuration ZoneClearAll Clears any previously defined zones from the planned configurat...

Page 91: ...ZoneAddHost zone_2 20 00 00 60 32 01 02 12 Adds host 2 WWPN to zone_2 ZoneAddHost zone_2 20 00 00 10 10 10 86 01 Adds metadata controller host WWPN to zone_2 ZoneAddDevice zone_2 1 2 Adds LUN 1 and L...

Page 92: ...ost 2 WWPN to zone_1 ZoneAddDevice zone_1 1 2 Adds LUN 1 and LUN 2 to zone_1 ZoneAddPort zone_1 0 LUN 1 and LUN 2 will be available through HIC 0 for only the hosts in zone_1 ZoneCreate zone_2 Creates...

Page 93: ...C Storage temperature 25 60o C AC input voltage 100 240V rated 50 60 Hz Rack Mount Dimensions Height 131mm 5 16 3U Width 447mm 17 60 Depth 585mm 23 03 Approximately 39 kg 86 pounds fully loaded with 2...

Page 94: ...lines connected to it no lines outside the building proper The Diamond VT must be provided with adequate air flow To reduce the risk of damage the ambient temperature of the inlet air should not excee...

Page 95: ...ptical LCLC 2 Gb FC CBL LCLC 010 Cable 3 meter SCSI VHDC CBL V68E 003 Cable 30 meter Fibre Channel 1Gb FC CBS FCFI 030 CPCI Filler panel 3U CPCI PANL 003 Blower assembly DBLA A001 000 Drive card dummy...

Page 96: ...s product s will be the customer s responsibility This warranty is made in lieu of any other warranty express or implied Manufacturer disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for...

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