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RM16_EX8

User

Guide

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RM16_EX8

SATA RAID Cards

USER Manual

Version: 1.00
Issue Date: July, 2008

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Page 1: ...1 RM16_EX8 User Guide v1 0 DATOptic com RM16_EX8 SATA RAID Cards USER Manual Version 1 00 Issue Date July 2008 ...

Page 2: ...surpassed Data Availability The RM16_EX8 with drive RAID controllers provide RAID 6 functionality to meet these demanding requirements The RM16_EX8 raid engine also provide RAID levels 0 1 10 1E 3 5 6 Single Disk or JBOD configurations Its high data availability and protection is derived from the following capabilities Online RAID Capacity Expansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migr...

Page 3: ...et for 64 bit LBA Redundant flash image for adapter availability Support SMART NCQ and OOB staggered spin up capable drives Monitors Notification System status indication through system and HDD LED LCD display and alarm buzzer SMTP support for email notification SNMP agent supports for remote SNMP manager Management Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM or via remote Ethernet Hot key boot up RM1...

Page 4: ...se read the information carefully in pack content list before you begin installing Package Contents If any items listed in your package is missing please contact your local dealers before proceeding with installation disk drives and additional disk mounting tray are not included RM16_EX8 RAID system 1 x RM16_EX8 Sixteen SATA drives RAID 3U rack mount 16x RM16_EX8 SATA tray with or without HDD depe...

Page 5: ...mage to the electronic components on this SATA RAID controller To avoid damage caused by electrostatic discharge observe the following precautions Before you handle the RM16_EX8 internal components in any way touch a grounded anti static surface such as an unpainted portion of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity Installation Tools The following items m...

Page 6: ...cord Remove the system s cover See the computer system documentation for detail instruction Install the PCI Express adapter Cards To install the PCI Express adapter remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCI Express slot on computer system Align the gold fingered edge on the card with the selected PCI expansion slot Press gently but firmly down to en...

Page 7: ...HDD 5 HDD 6 HDD 7 HDD 8 HDD 9 HDD 10 HDD 11 HDD 12 HDD 13 HDD 14 HDD 15 HDD 16 5 Connect the PCI Express x8 lane cable Connect an included PCI Express x8 cable between RM16_EX8 and host computer make sure the latches are secured to the PCI Express connectors on RM16_EX and computer system To host picturre and to System picture 6 Power up the System Check the installation thoroughly reinstall the c...

Page 8: ... a boot disk The RM16_EX8 raid engine is a bootable controller If your system already contains a bootable device with an installed operating system you can set up your system to boot a second operating system from the new controller To add a second bootable controller you may need to enter setup of M B BIOS and change the device boot sequence so that the RM16_EX8 raid engine in the list If the sys...

Page 9: ...indows 2000 XP 2003 Vista CD and follow the required procedure below to install SATA RAID controller 1 Make sure you follow the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to access the RM16_EX8 BIOS RAID manager Use the RM16_EX8 BIOS RAID manager to create the RAID set and volume set to...

Page 10: ...nue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass through disks accessible to Windows This procedure assumes that the RM16_EX8 raid engine hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your system 1 Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk Administrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Ad...

Page 11: ...ears click the Finish button 10 The System Settings Change dialog box appears Remove the diskette from the drive and click Yes option to restart the computer to load the new drivers 11 See Chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes using RM16_EX8 RAID Web storage manager 12 See section 3 2 1 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System to initialize the RM16_EX8 ...

Page 12: ...can be used to compile the updated version driver for RedHat SuSE and other versions of Linux Please refer to the readme txt file on the included CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to FreeBSD Before installing the RM16_EX8 driver to FreeBSD complete following...

Page 13: ...software The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the CD ROM delivered with SATA card or download from the www areca com tw The firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server 1 Login as root Copy the ArcHttp file to a local directory 1 Insert the SATA RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy CD ROM PACKAGES Mac http director...

Page 14: ...u want to change the archttpsrv conf setting up of ArcHttp configuration For example General configuration Mail Configuration and SNMP Configuration Please start Safari Browser http localhost Cfg Assistant Such as http localhost 1554 The ArcHttp configuration starts Configure General Configuration and submit After ArcHttp has successfully submitted the Archttp console restarts 1 Insert the include...

Page 15: ... archttp64 or arc_cli individual item that resides at CD ROM packages MacOS Arc cli performs many tasks at the command line You can download arc cli manual from Areca website or software CD CDROM DOCS directory Driver Installation for UnixWare 7 1 4 Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD or a manual from website http www areca com tw Driver Installation for NetWare 6 5 Please refer...

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Page 17: ...unction to identify disk drives blinking Fault LED System Controls Setting the raid system configuration Information Viewing RAID set information volume set information current configuration and drive information Please below for more detail of each category 1 Quick Function Note In Quick Create your volume set is automatically configured based on the number of disks in your system Use the Raid Se...

Page 18: ...n on the delete screen Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it 3 Expand Raid Set Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it with additional disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created To expand a RAID set Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an ...

Page 19: ...lick the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button on the screen to delete the hot spares Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the RAID set update creation period it possibly could disappear due to this abnormal condition The RESCUE function can recover the missing RAID set information The RAID controller uses the time as the RAID set signature The RAID set may have ...

Page 20: ...for the volume set Highlight the desired RAID Level and press Enter key The available RAID levels for the current volume set are displayed Select a RAID level and press Enter to confirm Capacity The maximum volume size is the default initial setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your application Greater Two TB Volume Support If volume capacity exceeds 2TB controller will show the Greate...

Page 21: ...The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SCSI command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using older SATA drives that do not support command tag queuing Delete Volume Set To delete a volume set from RAID set move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Delete Volume Set link The Select The Raid...

Page 22: ... set Migration status is displayed in the volume state area of the Volume Set Information screen Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a RAID set 1 Click on the Check Volume Set link 2 Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check Tick on Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For exa...

Page 23: ...o physically locate the intended disk when Identify Selected Drive is selected To identify the selected drive from the drives pool click Identify Selected Drive The Select The IDE Device For Identification screen appears mark the check box for the SATA device from the drive pool After completing the selection click on the Submit button to identify selected drive System Controls System Config To se...

Page 24: ... or two drives the power is able to supply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup 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 the host to stagger the spin up of the drives New SATA drives...

Page 25: ...ultiples Of 1G truncates the fractional part This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity 6 8 2 Ethernet Configuration Ethernet Port Support Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration A customer doesn t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP ...

Page 26: ...Ethernet Port Support The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to Coordinated Universal Time UTC via a Global Positioning Service GPS receiver...

Page 27: ...om unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The RM16_EX8 controller will automatically go back to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in 5 minutes Do not use spaces when you enter the password If spaces are used it will lock out the user To disable the password leave the fields blank Once the user confirm...

Page 28: ...ion provides the temperature and fan speed I O Processor fan of the RM16_EX8 controller The interface lists two temperatures one for the I O processor and the other one for the controller The I O processor temperature is a new feature which detects by a thermal sensor under the IOP341 The processor safe range is 90 Celsius degree and the controller safe range is 70 Celsius degree If any sensor det...

Page 29: ...ease update all Binary Code BIOS BOOT FIRM and MBR0 before you reboot system Otherwise a mixed firmware package may hang the controller Upgrading Firmware Through RM16_EX8 RAID Storage Manager Get the new version firmware for your SATA RAID controller For example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the C drive 1 To upgrade the RAID controller firmware move the mouse cursor to Upgra...

Page 30: ...ity put on the CD ROM Firmware directory You can run the nflash to get more detailed information about the command usage Typical output looks as below Note Areca SAS and SATA ll RAID controller firmware version 1 43 date Feb 2007 and later has supported the ATA 8 spec for HDD microcode download allowing customer using nflash DOS utility or web browser to upgrade ATA 8 spec for microcode download s...

Page 31: ...ge of a battery cell takes about 24 hours to complete Changing the Battery Backup Module At some point the LI ION battery will no longer accept a charge properly LI ION battery life expectancy is anywhere from approximately 1 to 5 years 1 Shutdown the operating system properly Make sure that cache memory has been flushed Capacity Memory Type Battery Backup duration Hours 128MB DDR Low Power 18mA 5...

Page 32: ...p with power recovered BBM Specifications Mechanical Module Dimension W x H x D 37 3 x 13 x 81 6 mm BBM Connector 2 6 box header Environmental Operating Temperature Temperature 25O C to 60O C Humidity 45 85 non condensing Storage Temperature Temperature 40O C to 85O C Humidity 45 85 non condensing Electrical Input Voltage 3 6VDC On Board Battery Capacity 1100mAH 1 1100mAH ...

Page 33: ...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 successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID MIB file into the traps database SNMP Installation The installation of the SNMP manager is accomplished in several phases Starting the firmware embedded SNMP community configuration Instal...

Page 34: ...onfigurations Please refer to the community name in this appendix SNMP Trap Notification Configurations The Community Name should be the same as firmware embedded SNMP community The SNMP Trap Notification Configruations include level 1 Serious level 2 Error level 3 Warning level 4 Information The level 4 covers notification events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebu...

Page 35: ...35 RM16_EX8 User Guide v1 0 DATOptic com procedure please refer to CD ROM packages FreeBSD SNMP Readme or download from http www areca com tw ...

Page 36: ...ning HDD change ATA mode Check HDD connection Time Out Error Warning HDD time out Keep Watching HDD status maybe it caused by noise or HDD unstable Device Failed Urgent HDD failure Replace HDD PCI Parity Error Serious PCI parity error If only happen once it may be caused by noise If always happen please check power supply or contact to us Device Failed SMART Urgent HDD SMART failure Replace HDD A ...

Page 37: ... Warning Raidset expanded Rebuild RaidSet Warning Raidset rebuilding RaidSet Degraded Urgent Raidset degraded Replace HDD D Hardware Monitor Event Event Level Meaning Action DRAM 1 Bit ECC Urgent DRAM 1 Bit ECC error Check DRAM DRAM Fatal Error Urgent DRAM fatal error encountered Check the DRAM module and replace with new one if required Controller Over Temperature Urgent Abnormally high temperatu...

Page 38: ...ck disk information to find out which channel missing HTTP Log In Serious a HTTP login detected Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In Serious a API login detected Lost Rebuilding MigrationLBA Urgent Some rebuilding migration raidset member disks missing before power on Reinserted the missing member disk back controller will continue the...

Page 39: ...disk capacity in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist in a RAID set For the SATA RAID controller a volume set must be created either on an existing RAID set or on a group of available individual disks disks that are about to become part of a RAID set If there are pre existing RAID sets with available capacity and enough disks for the desired RAID level then the volume set can be created in th...

Page 40: ...nfiguration of the RAID set When disks are added to a RAID set unused capacity 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 capacity is made available on the RAID set The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets A disk to be added to a R...

Page 41: ...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 by adding a disk disks in an existing array can t be reconfigured for a higher RAID level without adding a disk Online migration is only permitted to begin If all volumes to be migrated are in the normal mode During the migration ...

Page 42: ...e Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare disk drive To effectively use the global hot spare feature you must always maintain at least one drive that is marked as a global spare Important The hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces Hot Swap Disk Drive Support The SATA controller chip includes a protection circuit that supports the replace...

Page 43: ...ller devotes to a background operation such as rebuilding or migrating The SAS RAID controller allows user to choose the task priority Ultra Low 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 to balance volume set access and background tasks appropriately For high array performance specify an Ultra Low value Like volume initialization after a volume rebuilds it does not require a system reboot High Reliability Hard D...

Page 44: ...eck forces every block on a volume to be read and any bad blocks are marked those blocks are not used again This is critical and important 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 degrade performance so you should run them when the system load can ...

Page 45: ...oncepts APPENDIX 166 RAID 0 RAID 0 also referred to as striping writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer the best highspeed data throughput RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array Disk striping enhances performance because multiple drives are acce...

Page 46: ... or of the contents corresponding strips of the surviving member disk RAID 3 is best for applications that require very fast data transfer rates or long data blocks APPENDIX 168 RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with parity at byte level In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk If one driv...

Page 47: ...then a second set of parity is calculated and written across all of the drives 1 Also known as mirroring All data replicated on N separated disks N is almost always 2 This is a high availability solution but due to the 100 duplication it is also a costly solution Half of drive capacity in array devoted to mirroring 2 Lower than RAID 6 Higher than RAID 3 5 Writes similar to a single disk Reads are ...

Page 48: ...arity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk 3 Lower than RAID 1 10 6 Higher than a single drive Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are close to being twice as fast as a single disk Writes are similar to a single disk 5 Also known Block Interleaved Distributed Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disk Parity...

Page 49: ...r to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Appendix G Technical Support Areca Technical Support provides several options for Areca users to access information and updates We encourage you to use one of our electric services for the lastest product information updates and efficient support service If you have decided to contact us please have the following information ready Kindly provide us ...

Page 50: ...16_EX8 User Guide v1 0 DATOptic com through CLI 3 5 P 10 35 Deleted ARC 1110ML 1120ML 1210ML 1220ML Added ARC 1201 3 5 p 78 p 126 Added volume data read ahead function in BIOS and web browser Version History ...

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