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ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual
Creating a custom setup
If the application setups do not suit your needs, you
may use
Custom Setup
to configure the FastStream.
1
After choosing
Custom Setup
button, the
RAID Setup Wizard
page appears. Click on
Next
.
For SC 8250 Only, Skip to
2
Decide if all drives are to be available to both
ports.
• If
you
select
Yes
, the same node name is
assigned to both ports and multipathing is
supported.
• If
you
select
No
, different node names are
assigned to each FC port.
• The choice you make establishes the access
for all RAID Groups attached to this
FastStream.
3
Select a RAID level. Refer to
If you selected
RAID 1 with Multiple Mirrors
,
type in the number of mirrors (copies) of the
original data you want to maintain in the box
provided.
4
Type a unique name for your RAID Group in the
box provided on the page under the
Step 3
heading.
5
Click
Next
.
6
If an SES enclosure is found and it has drives
associated with it, choose a method for
selecting drives from the following:
a. Use all drives in an enclosure for your RAID
Group
b. Use all drives in an enclosure for your RAID
Group plus one for a Dedicated Hot Spare
c. Select your own drives
7
Click on the
System Scan
button to discover
the drives available for RAID configuration.
8
When the scanned drives box is populated,
click on the boxes representing the drives for
the RAID Group named in Step 4.
9
Click
Next
.
10 The
Partition
wizard appears.
• A RAID Group may have several Terabytes
of total data capacity because of the size of
the included drives. Partitions allow you to
break up large RAID Groups into smaller,
more manageable groups.
• Most host systems can address only 2 TB per
LUN. Partitioning increases storage
efficiency by providing more LUNs without
using lower capacity RAID Groups.
• Partitioning allows the creation of multiple
logical volumes.
Note
If you don't want to use partitions, click on the
Single Partition
button.
a. Enter the desired partition size from the
available RAID Group capability.
b. Click
Create
.
c. Repeat entering the partition size and
clicking on
Create
as often as you need to
partition the remaining capacity. Whenever
you have completed designating partitions,
click on the
All Unused
button to put all the
remaining capacity into one partition.
11 Click
Next
. The storage capacity is allocated.
12 RAID partitions are mapped onto the Fibre
Channel network as FC LUNs for the SC 5550
and 8550. For the SC 8250, RAID partitions are
mapped to one of the SAS host connectors,
and it is mapped to all four PHYs in the
connector. Select the method you wish to use
to map the partitions.
• If you select
Auto
, all mapping for all RAID
Groups attached to this FastStream is
changed, destroying any previous mapping.
• If you do not wish to change the mapping of
your other RAID Groups, select
Manual
.
Manual mapping allows you to make LUN
assignments for each RAID partition in the
selected RAID Group.
a. From the RAID Configuration page
presented, under
Select the mapping
method,
click the
Manual
radio button.
