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ATTO Technology Inc.

ATTO FibreBridge

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4500C/R/D

Installation and Operation Manual

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holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written
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10/03 Document Control Number: PRMA-0262-000

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Summary of Contents for FibreBridge 4500C

Page 1: ...3 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 express...

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Page 3: ...ATTO FibreBridge 4500R D characteristics 7 Dimensions Cooling and airflow Power Fibre Channel ports SCSI ports Ethernet port Serial port Reset button LED indicators Mounting on a rack 2 3 Connecting...

Page 4: ...er Ethernet 4 1 Command line use and guidance 21 4 1 1 General use commands 22 Help Menu RestoreConfiguration SaveConfiguration SerialNumber VerboseMode 4 1 2 Diagnostic commands 23 ClearEvent DispEve...

Page 5: ...lDriveResponse 4 1 5 Fibre Channel configuration commands 31 BootFibreDelay BootScan BootScanPorts DispFcPortDB FcAck0 FcClass2 FcConnMode FcFairArbFcFullDuplex FcHard FcHardAddress FcInitiator FcPort...

Page 6: ...t based CLI interface 39 4 3 ATTO BridgeTools provides graphical interface 40 4 4 In band CLI uses SCSI over Fibre port 41 5 Enhancing performance 43 6 Updating firmware 44 7 Serverless backup support...

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Page 8: ...library standalone disk drives or JBOD SANs maintain greater fault tolerance and load balancing by supporting server clustering and failover the ability for one server to take over for another in the...

Page 9: ...that emits light when current passes through it Visible LEDs are used as indicator lights on all sorts of electronic devices LUN Logical Unit Number a SCSI or Fibre Channel identifier of a device NL p...

Page 10: ...o provide the most versatile connectivity options available Each product has been engineered to address specific customer needs New capabilities are integrated into products throughout the FibreBridge...

Page 11: ...er rate per sec 1 Gigabit 2 Gigabit 2 Gigabit 2 Gigabit 2 Gigabit 1 Gigabit 1 Gigabit SCSI ports 1 2 2 2 2 4 2 SCSI bus number 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 1 SCSI negotiation max capability Ultra2 Ultr...

Page 12: ...terfaces per PICMG 2 0 R3 0 31 connector Type A 7x25 154 pin plus 21 keying pins for power ground and power OK LEDs 32 connector Type B 7x22 154 pin plus 0 keying pins for power ground and I2bus I2bus...

Page 13: ...ternal self diagnostic test indicating the FibreBridge is ready to operate Fault indicates if there is a problem with the FibreBridge If the fault LED blinks in a consistent pattern contact ATTO Techn...

Page 14: ...utput voltage 12V at 0 4 amps 5 at 3 0 amps 3 3V at 7 amps Power draw 2 amps at 110V Fibre Channel ports Each Fibre Channel port can connect the FibreBridge to either a Fabric or Arbitrated Loop 1 062...

Page 15: ...1 25 inch 31 7 mm hole pattern The ATTO FibreBridge 4500R weighs about 10 pounds Be careful when installing it a rack Always stack the rack from the bottom up to ensure a stable and safe rack Minimum...

Page 16: ...wer devices to one SCSI port and connect faster devices on another port on your FibreBridge The FibreBridge supports a wide variety of SCSI storage devices including stand alone drives removable drive...

Page 17: ...iber optic The FibreBridge 4500C R D uses an SC fiber optic cable connector The type of cable to use varies depending upon the application environment and distance The following tables illustrate the...

Page 18: ...Menu contains most commands available through CLI but in a hierarchal format It follows a standard menu choice model The initial display after powering up the unit or restarting the firmware will con...

Page 19: ...43 Build 002R Power On Self Test Completion Status GOOD 64 Megabytes of RAM Installed 3 1 0624 Gb s Fibre Channel Interfaces 4 LVD SCSI Interface Ports Interface 0 World Wide Name 20 00 00 10 86 10 00...

Page 20: ...hard and soft addressing Soft addressing allows the loop initialization master to assign the FibreBridge a unique AL_PA during the loop initialization process The AL_PA assigned cannot be determined...

Page 21: ...ved to take over for it Internal devices and external SCSI devices are presented as LUNs to the Fibre Channel host using route mapping Each Fibre Channel port has its own Fibre Channel node name and p...

Page 22: ...le for devices available for devices FC fp0 WWN0 NN0 PN0 FC fp1 WWN1 NN1 PN1 FC fp 2 PN2300001086xxxxxx SCSI sb 0 FibreBridge 4500 set AddressMap C FC fp 0 PN 2100001086xxxxxx FC fp 1 PN 2200001086xxx...

Page 23: ...ailover port in AddressMap B mode In the chart at right the SCSI device on SCSI bus 0 at SCSI address of ID 0 LUN 0 is being mapped to Fibre Port 0 on the FibreBridge at Fibre Channel LUN 4 Note two S...

Page 24: ...command Tier 1 2 The FibreBridge determines via its internal database whether there are conflicting concurrent reservations from Fibre Channel hosts for the target SCSI device 3 If there is a conflict...

Page 25: ...o FibreBridge1 for a SCSI target 2 FibreBridge 1 determines that no reservation conflict exists at Tier 1 3 The FibreBridge records the initiator ID WWN in its internal database 4 Fibre Bridge 1 sends...

Page 26: ...nstructions to how to install and operate the program In band SCSI commands Write Buffer and Read Buffer may be issued to the FibreBridge to manage configuration via two mechanisms In band CLI over SC...

Page 27: ...e desired FibreBridge Name The name can be no more than eight characters Choose a meaningful name to make identification of the unit easier To save the configuration 1 At the Main Menu select Save Res...

Page 28: ...of a parameter or configuration setting It may require a SaveConfiguration command and a restart of the system before it is implemented The restart can be accomplished as part of the SaveConfiguratio...

Page 29: ...asking you to confirm the restart You can override this request by indicating the override value on the command line You may make several changes through commands and SaveConfiguration before implemen...

Page 30: ...el controls what report level events display 0x01 Info general information 0x02 Warning unexpected situation condition 0x04 Critical operation limited curtailed 0x08 Failure hard failure 0x10 Other 0x...

Page 31: ...Name Reports the Word Wide Name WWN of the Fibre Channel interface Each FC port has an individual and unique WWN The least significant 6 bits of the WWN are used as the Ethernet MAC address Limits Fab...

Page 32: ...file stored in persistent memory If no file is present ATTO is returned The file contains all the CLI commands that can be used to override the factory default settings of the FibreBridge Updates may...

Page 33: ...DataDirection SCSI type VendID ProdId xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DataDir XCError Retrieves any SCSI sense data returned by an Extended Copy command because of an error Limits CmdNumber is the data returned by...

Page 34: ...ture of the FibreBridge rises above the maximum MaxEnclTempAlrm thermal control event handling occurs Limits valid entries are between 0 and 70 degrees and above the current minimum enclosure temperat...

Page 35: ...uration SpeedWriteDefault Specifies the state of SpeedWrite for any SCSI devices mapped manually or via an AutoMap operation If enabled any new SCSI device will use SpeedWrite performance enhancement...

Page 36: ...eset Resets the specified SCSI bus Actions ScsiPortReset sb Information none ScsiPortResetOnStartup Specifies whether the SCSI port should be reset on power up or not Limits enabled disabled Default e...

Page 37: ...pecify the SCSI bus target and LUN of a mapped device or specify all to set or get the state of all currently mapped SCSI devices Limits enabled disabled Actions set SpeedWrite sb st sl all enabled di...

Page 38: ...ction set BootScanPorts fp all auto Information get BootScanPorts SaveConfiguration DispFcPortDB Displays the contents of the specified FC port s internal port database which contains Fibre Channel ad...

Page 39: ...f hard addressing is enabled When an optional address is not present the current value is displayed Limits Each port has individual hard address value Default 3 Fibre port 0 4 port 1 5 port 2 0 hard i...

Page 40: ...he FB4500 for that port The get form reports all FibreBridgeTargetLUNs currently NOT disabled Specifying a port returns the status of that port Action set FibreBridgeTargetLUN fp fl disabled Informati...

Page 41: ...ocal ASCII terminal or terminal emulator echo settings should be set to disabled while using SerialPortEcho enabled Default enabled Actions setSerialPortEcho enabled disabled Information get SerialPor...

Page 42: ...Actions Exit Information none IPAddress Sets displays the current FibreBridge IP address Limits If IPDHCP is enabled see below get command reports current IP address assigned by DHCP server Default I...

Page 43: ...PortList command before issuing an AutoMap command because AutoMap will ignore devices attached to a non operational SCSI busses and will assign devices to a non operational Fibre Channel port if spec...

Page 44: ...the recover mode must be past the index of the failed FC port Force will create one of three types of simulated port failure on the specified active FC port for testing and demonstration loopdown loss...

Page 45: ...ine fp fl Information get RouteOffline fp Returns fp fl sb st sl Going offline Offline RouteOnline Sets a route to online or reports its status A port being used as a failover port in AddressMap B mod...

Page 46: ...ame No ellipses follow this is the last choice If you wish to change the you type in your response to Enter FibreBridge Name Max of 8 characters In the FibreChannel Configuration Menu choosing Port Co...

Page 47: ...ents you with the applicable configuration options The ATTO BridgeTools program currently supports Sun Solaris 8 MAC OS 10 1 and Windows 95 98 ME NT and 2000 Communicate with the FibreBridge either th...

Page 48: ...l not be allowed to modify the FibreBridge configuration If you try the results buffer of the ServicesLUN will return Process X has the configuration reserved ID of this session Y Ready 2 The initiato...

Page 49: ...et is always 0 Exhibit 4 4 1 The SCSI command process reserve the FibreBridge send the command release the FibreBridge Initiator Host FibreBridge Goal reserve the FibreBridge for an in band CLI comman...

Page 50: ...prove the performance of FCP WRITE commands to SCSI devices attached to the FibreBridge Using the CLI command SpeedWrite you can specify the SCSI bus target and LUN of a mapped device or specify all t...

Page 51: ...age file IMA Note the JAR file can be uncompressed using any utility that supports the zip format 2 Load a Terminal Program such as Hyper Terminal 3 Set the terminal and the FibreBridge for the highes...

Page 52: ...FibreBridge implementation supports World Wide Name N_Port ID and WWN plus N_Port ID descriptor types Segment Descriptors describe the data to copy and how much of it to copy The two most common types...

Page 53: ...nded Copy command as specified by the CmdNumber 4 Type get XCError CmdNumber to retrieve any SCSI sense data returned by an Extended Copy command because of an error as specified by the CmdNumber Exhi...

Page 54: ...et errorlog clear 24 EthernetSpeed Auto set ethernetspeed 100 35 Exit exit 35 FcAck0 Disabled set fcack0 enabled 31 FcClass2 Disabled set fcclass2 enabled 31 FcConnMode loop get fcconnmode 31 37 FcFai...

Page 55: ...7 ScsiPortResetOnStartup Enabled set scsiportresetonstartup 2 disabled 29 ScsiPortSelTimeout 256ms set scsiportseltimeout 2 128 29 ScsiPortSyncTransfer Enabled set scsiportsynctransfer 0 disabled 29 S...

Page 56: ...iii ATTO Technology FibreBridge 4500 Installation and Operation Manual Appendix A Board layouts The FibreBridge 4500R D C is available in HVD or LVD configurations...

Page 57: ...iv Appendix A...

Page 58: ...Ready get RouteOnline 0 3 fp fl sb st sl On Offline 0 3 3 0 0 Online Ready RouteDisplay 0 3 6 fp fl sb st sl On Offline 0 3 3 0 0 Online xx xx 0 7 0 Reserved xx xx 1 7 0 Reserved xx xx 2 7 0 Reserved...

Page 59: ...x Offline 2 0 0 2 0 Online 2 1 1 2 0 Online 2 2 2 2 0 Online 2 3 3 2 0 Online 2 4 xx xx xx Offline 2 5 xx xx xx Offline 2 30 xx xx xx Offline 2 31 xx xx xx Offline xx xx 0 7 0 Reserved xx xx 1 7 0 Res...

Page 60: ...device offline FC 0 Lun 1 Setting device offline FC 0 Lun 2 Setting device offline FC 0 Lun 7 Setting device offline FC 1 Lun 0 Setting device offline FC 1 Lun 1 Setting device offline FC 1 Lun 2 Sett...

Page 61: ...viii Appendix B...

Page 62: ...eption which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Move the receiving antenna Relocate the bridge with respect...

Page 63: ...oard FibreBridge 4500 FCBR 4500 CH0 Fibre Channel to HVD Ultra SCSI Bridge CPCI Board FCBR 4500 CL0 Fibre Channel to LVD Ultra2 SCSI Bridge CPCI Board Desktop Rackmount FibreBridge 1180 FCBR 1180 DLC...

Page 64: ...HSSDC Copper Fibre Channel Cable Unequalized 10m Cables Optical CBL FCFI 005 5 Meter Cable Duplex 50 Micron Multi mode FC Optical CBL FCFI 010 10 Meter Cable Duplex 50 Micron Multi mode FC Optical CB...

Page 65: ...stern Standard Time 8 00 a m to 8 00 p m or by fax and web site 24 hours a day ATTO Technology Inc 155 CrossPoint Parkway Amherst New York 14068 716 691 1999 voice 716 691 9353 fax http www attotech c...

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