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Chapter 2: Installing a RAID Controller ........21

Installing a RAID Controller .................................. 21

Installing a RAID Controller .............................. 21

Upgrading a JBOD Array to a RAID Array ........... 22

Equipment and parts necessary for upgrade ....... 22
Upgrading from JBOD to RAID......................... 22

Installing the Battery Backup Unit ......................... 24

Installing the Battery Backup Unit ..................... 24

Chapter 3: Fault Management .........................27

RAID Controller Status LEDs ................................ 27

Fibre Channel Controller LED Definitions ........ 28

Appendix A: RAID Controller Specifications 29

Power ...................................................................... 29

Power Requirements ........................................... 29
Power Connections ............................................. 29
Input Noise.......................................................... 29

Environmental Specifications ................................. 30

MTBF...................................................................... 30

Glossary of Terms..............................................31

Summary of Contents for SANbloc MAN-FC2000-RAID

Page 1: ...P N MAN FC2000 RAID Revision 1 0 January 2001 Corporate Headquarters Eurologic Systems Ltd Maple House South County Business Park Leopardstown Dublin 18 Ireland ...

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Page 3: ... Basic Warranty In the absence of any optional warranty or continuing provisions by formal agreement EUROLOGIC warrants its products in accordance with the schedules listed below Purchaser hereafter mentioned refers at all times to the customer who purchased EUROLOGIC product s SANbloc Warranty Eurologic warrants SANbloc products of its manufacture to be free from defect in material and workmanshi...

Page 4: ...ems not a part of the basic product EUROLOGIC shall have no obligation to make repairs or to cause replacement required through normal wear and tear or necessitated in whole or in part by catastrophe fault or negligence of the user improper or unauthorized use of the product or use of the product in such a manner for which it was not designed or by causes external to the product such as but not li...

Page 5: ...ll become the property of EUROLOGIC and shall be returned to EUROLOGIC at Purchaser s expense All returned material must be accom panied by a Return Materials Authorization RMA number assigned by EUROLOGIC For RMA numbers contact EUROLOGIC Customer Support at Telephone 353 1 2061333 1 800 2184921 U S Customers Fax 353 1 8478723 email rma eurologic com ...

Page 6: ...S FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ALL SUCH OTHER WARRANTIES ARE H E R E B Y D I S C L A I M E D A N D E X C L U D E D B Y E U R O L O G I C T H E S E S TA N D A R D E X P R E S S WARRANTIES ARE IN LIEU OF ALL OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES ON THE PART OF EUROLOGIC FOR D A M A G E S I N C L U D I N G B U T N O T L I M I T E D TO SPECIAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WIT...

Page 7: ...t 10 FCC Statement 10 European Community Statement 11 Chapter 1 Introduction 13 Hardware Information 15 Main Processor 17 Control Store Memory 17 Flash PROM 17 Scalable Cache Memory 17 UART 17 LED Signals 18 Memory Controller Hardware XOR Engine 18 Fibre Channel 18 Controller Board Connectors 18 Power Conversion 18 Battery Backup Unit Board 19 ...

Page 8: ...de 22 Upgrading from JBOD to RAID 22 Installing the Battery Backup Unit 24 Installing the Battery Backup Unit 24 Chapter 3 Fault Management 27 RAID Controller Status LEDs 27 Fibre Channel Controller LED Definitions 28 Appendix A RAID Controller Specifications 29 Power 29 Power Requirements 29 Power Connections 29 Input Noise 29 Environmental Specifications 30 MTBF 30 Glossary of Terms 31 ...

Page 9: ...oc Series only For details relating to the host system refer to the documentation supplied with the host system Conventions Used In This User Guide The following conventions are used throughout this Instal lation Guide Note A NOTE gives general information such as helpful tips and references to related information CAUTION A CAUTION means take care There is a risk of caus ing damage to the equipmen...

Page 10: ...uant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accor dance with the instruction manual may cause harmful inter ference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a reside...

Page 11: ...ly approved by Eurologic Systems Ltd could void the user s authority to operate this equipment European Community Statement This equipment complies with the following European directives EMC Directive 89 336 EEC and amending Directives 92 31 EEC and 93 68 EEC Low Voltage Directive 73 23 EEC ...

Page 12: ...European Community Statement 12 ...

Page 13: ...gured as one or more virtual devices logical units The controller permits continuous access to the data in the event of a disk drive failure The controller also provides continuous access to data in the event of a controller failure This capability comes with a dual active controller system using two FC2500 controllers that share access to the same array of disk drives In the event of a controller...

Page 14: ... The process polls the environment every ten seconds Failures with disk drives are handled by the FC2500 controller firmware with other failures such as fans power supplies and temperature sensors being handled directly by the SES device The FC2500 controller firmware communicates with the SES device via Send Diagnostics and Receive Diagnostics SCSI commands The device elements supported by the SE...

Page 15: ...on 15 Hardware Information This section describes the FC2500 controller hardware Figure 1 1 shows a block diagram describing the controller board functions Each of the controller board components are described here also ...

Page 16: ...L ISP 64 BIT DEVICE PCI Cache SDRAM 1 DIMM 128 256 MB 64 Bit 64 Bit 64 Bit 32 Bit 32 Bit 32 Bit I2 C I2C Host PCI FC_AL ISP Host Hardware XOR ASIC PCI Bridge CS SDRAM 32MB 21285 Footbridge SA110 Main CPU PLD BBU Flash PROM 2MB Flash Emulator Board NVRAM I2 C Controller To DIMM To CS and Cache SDRAM PCI ...

Page 17: ...ogrammed in manufac turing but can be updated via firmware download utilities In the event that a Flash PROM loses all of its contents including its download utilities a Flash Emulator board can be attached to the controller and the Flash PROM can be restored by running code on the Emulator Board Scalable Cache Memory The FC2500 RAID controller implements scalable data cache memory on the controll...

Page 18: ...ere to the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Direct Disk Attach Profile One host ISP supports full duplex F ports IP Class 2 and Multiple Target IDs MTIDs the two remaining ISPs provide the disk inter faces Controller Board Connectors The controller board has two 72 pin edge connectors one at the front and one at the rear of the board The connectors provide electrical connection to three fibre channel...

Page 19: ...ntent for an extended period The BBU is designed to work with SDRAM memory and supports both the processor control store and ASIC cache memory SDRAM The BBU logic detects power loss on the controller and switches the SDRAM to a self refresh mode while transparently switching the power input from 5V to battery The BBU can sustain memory content for at least 72 hours1 under typical operating conditi...

Page 20: ...Hardware Information 20 ...

Page 21: ...stall a RAID controller follow this procedure The RAID controller is located in the rear of the enclosure Follow this procedure to install the RAID controller Installing a RAID Controller 1 Remove the blank if there is one installed 2 Gently insert the RAID controller into the slot see Figure 2 1 3 Secure in place using the two fixing screws torque setting 0 3Nm 4 Connect the cables as described i...

Page 22: ...perly earthed grounding wire Phillips head screw driver FC2500 RAID Controller 2 controllers if dual controller operation is required DB9 host cable to connect RAID controller to host hub switch 2 host cables for dual controller configurations Upgrading from JBOD to RAID CAUTION Before beginning the upgrade ensure that anti static precautions are taken The minimum requirement is an anti static wri...

Page 23: ...ver 5 If you are upgrading to a dual RAID configuration then repeat steps 2 through 4 to install the second RAID controller 6 Attach the host cable s to the DB9 connector on the RAID controller and attach the other end of the cable to your HBA hub switch refer to Chapter 3 Cabling and Configuration of the SANbloc Series Installation Guide for more details 1 2 1 2 0 I 0 I RAID Controller Installed ...

Page 24: ...Backup Unit The battery backup unit BBU for the RAID controller is installed on the ACM unit see Figure 2 2 Figure 2 2 Location of Battery Backup Unit on ACM Follow this procedure to install the Battery Backup Unit BBU 1 Remove the ACM from the enclosure by loosening the two ACM screws and using the handle slide the ACM out of the encloure 2 Lay the ACM on a flat surface as in Figure 2 2 above 3 O...

Page 25: ...vided and connect it to the BBU connector see Figure 2 3 5 Press the BBU into position and secure it by ensuring the four tabs click into place 6 Replace the ACM in the enclosure and tighten the ACM screws to complete the installation Feed cable through hole provided and attach to the connector BBU Tabs Tabs BBU Connector ...

Page 26: ...Upgrading a SANbloc JBOD Array to a RAID Array 26 ...

Page 27: ...ES firmware process handles all enclosure fault management The process polls the environment every ten seconds The controller firmware communicates with the SES device via Send Diagnostics and Receive Diagnostic SCSI command RAID Controller Status LEDs The main parts of the RAID Controller are shown in Figure 3 1 Figure 3 1 FC2500 RAID Controller DB9 Host connector HSSDC Disk Enclosure Expansion L...

Page 28: ...roller Not Ready Amber ON Controller not ready LED2 Controller Ready Green Normally ON controller booted successfully LED3 FC Host port active Green ON activity on host port OFF no activity on host port LED4 Controller partner failed Amber ON partner controller detected as failed LED5 Cache Dirty Amber Indicates status of cache memory LED6 FC Device Port s Active Green ON activity on device ports ...

Page 29: ...s Power requirement 5 1V 5 2 5 Amps average Controller operating limits 5V 5 CAUTION The controller will continue operation within the input limits shown The controller is designed to continue opera tion outside of these limits but may begin automatic shutdown processes if input power does not meet this requirement Power Connections GND Ground connection for the power supply VCC 5 1V 5 3 5 Amos pe...

Page 30: ...nvironmental specifications MTBF The table below provides the MTBF values for the RAID Controller Operating Non Operating Storage Shipping Temperature 0o C to 40o C 20o C to 70o C Humidity 10 to 90 10 to 90 Altitude To 10 000ft 3 048 m To 50 000ft 15 240 m RAID Controller Power on Hours 167 365 Hr at 55oC ...

Page 31: ...ws a surviving controller to take over resources of a failed controller This failover process is transparent to the host Duplex See dual active mode Fail over A process whereby a controller puts its partner controller in reset and assumes its duties Failed controller A controller that has been determined to be malfunctioning by its partner FC_AL Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop A direct attachment AN...

Page 32: ...ler however the term master identifies C0 or the pri mary controller the term slave identifies C1 or the secondary con troller Partner controller The other controller in a dual active controller pair PCB Printed Circuit Board PON Power ON A condition where the controller detects 5V power has reached a level suitable for operation Primary Secondary Controller See Master Slave RAID Redundant Array o...

Page 33: ... the controller s customer data storage area Each system drive has the attributes of capacity RAID level cache write policy and LUN affinity SD System Drive System drive affinity System drive affinity is an attribute assigned to a system drive that determines whether that system drive is accessible via all host ports on a single controller accessible via a single host port on a single controller o...

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