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Voyager 3000 User Guide

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Table 2-1 SCSI ID switch settings for the second backplane in a VRA-3002 configuration.

DPS1 Sw1
(ID Bit0)

DPS1 Sw2
(ID Bit1)

DPS1 Sw3
(ID Bit2)

DPS1 Sw4
(ID Bit3)

Bay 0 Device SCSI ID

Off

Off

Off

Off

0

On

Off

Off

Off

1

Off

On

Off

Off

2

On

On

Off

Off

3

Off

Off

On

Off

4

On

Off

On

Off

5

Off

On

On

Off

6

On

On

On

Off

7

Off

Off

Off

On

8

On

Off

Off

On

9

Off

On

Off

On

10

On

On

Off

On

11

Off

Off

On

On

12

On

Off

On

On

13

Off

On

On

On

14

On

On

On

On

15

DPS1 Sw5
(ID Bit0)

DPS1 Sw6
(ID Bit1)

DPS1 Sw7
(ID Bit2)

DPS1 Sw8
(ID Bit3)

Bay 4 Device SCSI ID

Off

Off

Off

Off

0

On

Off

Off

Off

1

Off

On

Off

Off

2

On

On

Off

Off

3

Off

Off

On

Off

4

On

Off

On

Off

5

Off

On

On

Off

6

On

On

On

Off

7

Off

Off

Off

On

8

On

Off

Off

On

9

Off

On

Off

On

10

On

On

Off

On

11

Off

Off

On

On

12

On

Off

On

On

13

Off

On

On

On

14

On

On

On

On

15

Cabling and Termination Issues

SCSI requires that cable lengths be no greater than 6 metres at 5MHz clock rates and no
greater than 3 metres at 10MHz clock rates when used in SCSI -2 single ended mode.
Differential mode allows cable lengths of up to 25 metres. See the note below for Ultra SCSI.
This is summarised in Table 2-2.

Summary of Contents for Voyager 3000

Page 1: ...Voyager 3000 SCSI RAID Storage Array User s Manual MAN VRA3000UG 1 Revision A4_1 10 November 1997 ...

Page 2: ...rackmount systems in 19 racks 2 1 Ambient Temperature 2 1 Air Flow 2 1 Mechanical Loading 2 1 Electrical Considerations 2 2 Grounding 2 2 Setting the host SCSI Ids 2 3 Setting the target SCSI Ids 2 3 Setting the target SCSI Ids on a VRA 3001 system 2 3 Setting the target SCSI Ids on a VRA 3002 system 2 5 Cabling and Termination Issues 2 8 Components 2 9 Power Supplies 2 9 Devices 2 9 Power Option ...

Page 3: ...17 View and Edit SCSI Drives 4 17 View and Edit SCSI Channels 4 18 View and Edit Configuration Parameters 4 20 View and Edit Peripheral Devices 4 21 System Functions 4 21 Down Loading New Firmware 4 21 View System Information 4 22 Quick Installation 4 22 Chapter Five 5 1 Front Panel Operation 5 1 Creating a New Logical Drive 5 1 Viewing Disks Assigned to a Logical Drive 5 2 Assigning a Spare Drive...

Page 4: ... plate 2 12 Figure 2 15 Rear view of ACM assembly 2 13 Figure 3 1 Single shelf EMU configuration 3 2 Figure 3 2 Dual shelf EMU configuration 3 2 Figure 3 3 Location of EMU within the shelf 3 3 Figure 3 4 EMU PCB layout 3 3 Figure 3 5 Connecting the EMUs together 3 7 Figure 4 1 Front view of controller within a canister 4 1 Figure 4 2 Logical View of VOYAGER 3001 4 2 Figure 4 3 Windows Program Mana...

Page 5: ... LUN mapping 4 15 Figure 4 30 Selecting a partition for LUN mapping 4 15 Figure 4 31 Mapping Logical Volume 0 Partition 1 to Channel 2 LUN 1 4 15 Figure 4 32 Logical mapping of all partitions 4 16 Figure 4 33 List and status of drives on system 4 16 Figure 4 34 Scanning SCSI drives 4 16 Figure 4 35 View and edit scsi drives 4 17 Figure 4 36 View and edit SCSI channels 4 18 Figure 4 37 View and edi...

Page 6: ...2 1 SCSI ID switch settings for the second backplane in a VRA 3002 configuration 2 8 Table 2 2 Cable Lengths Vs Transfer Rates 2 9 Table 2 3 Device carrier Device Part Numbers 2 10 Table 2 4 Power Option Board Switch Definitions 2 10 Table 3 1 EMU Switch Settings 3 4 Table 3 2 ID settings for the EMU 3 4 Table 3 3 Power Sequencing Signals 3 5 Table 3 4 Read Only Memory locations within the EMU 3 5...

Page 7: ...vii Scope This manual details the installation and configuration of Eurologic s Voyager 3000 RAID storage arrays ...

Page 8: ... that the information in this manual is accurate and complete However EUROLOGIC shall not be liable for any technical or editorial errors or omissions made herein or for incidental special or consequential damage of whatsoever nature resulting from the furnishing of this manual or operation and performance of equipment in connection with this manual All Trademarks acknowledged ...

Page 9: ...ser freight prepaid GENERAL TERMS The above warranties shall not apply to expendable components such as fuses bulbs and the like nor to connectors adapters and other items 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 ...

Page 10: ...OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ALL SUCH OTHER WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED BY EUROLOGIC THESE STANDARD EXPRESS WARRANTIES ARE IN LIEU OF ALL OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES ON THE PART OF EUROLOGIC FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPECIAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT ...

Page 11: ... in the single and dual tower configurations and horizontally in the case of rackmounted systems The Voyager 3000 includes an integrated RAID controller which is independent of the host system and only requires a host SCSI bus for connectivity The Voyager 3000 tower configurations are Table 1 1 Voyager 3000 Tower configurations Model Number Description VRA 3001T XX Y Single tower RAID 6 storage ba...

Page 12: ... SCSI bus is available at the host side which will connect to the host interface of the controller A maximum external cable length between the VRA 3001T XX Y and the host system is two metres in fast wide single ended mode Figure 1 1 shows the VRA 3001T XX Y configured as a single tower unit connected to a single host system The drives are connected to the RAID controller via two drive interfaces ...

Page 13: ...3 VRA 3002T XX Y This is a twin tower RAID configuration made up of a single controller and 13 drives as shown in Figure 1 3 Figure 1 2 Internal bus configuration of VRA 3001T XX Y Figure 1 3 VRA 3002T XX Y Twin Tower ...

Page 14: ...e cable is then routed to the top four drives in the second shelf These drives are set up as SCSI Ids 3à6 The second channel is connected to the bottom three drives in the first shelf which are configured as SCSI Ids 0à2 and looped to the second shelf to connect to the bottom three drives which are set up at SCSI Ids 3à5 Refer to Figure 1 4 for a schematic view of the interconnects Each of the sys...

Page 15: ...binet limitations Figure 1 5 shows three systems mounted in a standard 19 cabinet Each shelf is similar in configuration to the VRA 3001T XX Y described earlier and is made up of six storage bays a single host connection and one RAID controller The shelves take 3 U of cabinet space Each system is connected to a shelf via its own SCSI bus Figure 1 5 VRA 3001R FW Y example configuration ...

Page 16: ...e integrated into a standard 19 rackmount system The system is made up of twin shelves 13 storage bays a single host connection and one RAID controller Figure 1 6 shows two hosts connected to two VRA 3002R XX Y systems In this and the previous case the hosts are completely separate entities and do not share the data in any way Figure 1 6 VRA 3002R FW Y example configuration ...

Page 17: ...ice carrier is the basic building block of the series The device carriers are of high quality anodised metal construction This allows for rapid heat dissipation and conforms to the stringent requirements of CE UL and FCC standards Figure 1 7 shows the device carrier Cooling All models feature two Advanced Cooling Modules ACMs per shelf The modules are mounted at the rear of the unit One ACM is cap...

Page 18: ...ides in easy to update Flash Memory Up to 32 Mbytes of intelligent Read Ahead Write Back cache Front panel LCD and push buttons for configuration and message display RS 232 interface for monitoring and configuration via a terminal Power Supplies The VOYAGER 3000 uses two high performance power supply units per backplane A single power supply is rated at 180 Watts Each power supply is rated at grea...

Page 19: ...lt tolerance by mirroring or parity operation RAID 0 Block Striping Data is broken into logical blocks the size of a SCSI disk block and striped across several drives Table 1 5 RAID 0 layout Drive 0 Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 RAID 1 0 1 Mirroring and Striping Copy of the same data is recorded into sets of striping drives In the event...

Page 20: ...ord access speed In this case we can process multiple I O requests simultaneously Parity information is interleaved across the drive array In the event of failure original data is regenerated from the parity information Table 1 8 RAID 5 layout Drive 0 Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 B0 B1 B2 P B3 B4 C0 C1 C2 C3 P C4 D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 P E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 F0 p F1 F2 F3 F4 G0 G1 Required Num...

Page 21: ...following guidelines be complied with to ensure the safe and efficient operation of VOYAGER 3000 rackmount computer equipment Eurologic s rackmount systems may be installed in closed or open rackmount systems by observing the environmental electrical and mechanical precautions listed Ambient Temperature Installation of rackmount systems in standard 19 cabinetry may lead to a differential between t...

Page 22: ...any other electrical devices installed in the cabinet to arrive at a total power consumption figure In addition surge currents must be catered for Disk devices normally consume twice the amount of current at start up time as they do during steady state operation Grounding Eurologic recommends that all rackmounted shelves be grounded to a common point in the cabinet in a radial topology as shown in...

Page 23: ...are factory set when the system is shipped and should not normally be altered Setting the target SCSI Ids on a VRA 3001 system There are two single switches mounted on the backplane and they are used to set the SCSI IDs of both target buses The switches which are accessible from the rear of the units sets the base SCSI ID s for each bus To access the switch perform the following sequence of steps ...

Page 24: ...nscrewing the large single screw swinging back and unclipping the snap on wiring connector 3 Remove the shield by unscrewing the large flathead screw from the cowl Figure 2 3 Rear view of single tower showing host connections Figure 2 4 Rear view showing ACMs cowl and shield ...

Page 25: ...ll cause the drives to occupy SCSI Ids 3à5 Figure 2 6 shows both target buses set to a base address of 0 This is the factory default setting and should not normally be altered Setting the target SCSI Ids on a VRA 3002 system The first shelf right hand side when viewed from the rear in the VRA 3002 is configured the same as the VRA 3001 shelves The second shelf is configured as two separate busses ...

Page 26: ...ault setting for the devices in the second backplane is set to be at a base address of 3 As there are four switches the switch positions are arranged to allow 16 possible Ids from 0 à 15 Switch positions 5 8 are used to set the starting address of the fifth device on the bus bay 4 and in a similar manner devices in bays 6 7 and 8 will also be automatically incremented The default setting for the s...

Page 27: ...e in bay 3 SW 5 of DPS1 corresponds to the L S B of the device in bay 4 whilst SW 8 corresponds to the MSB of the ID of the device in bay five Table 2 1 shows the switch settings along with their corresponding Ids the default6 settings are shown in bold text 6 There is normally no need to change the factory default settings Figure 2 8 SCSI ID Switch DPS1 ...

Page 28: ...1 Sw5 ID Bit0 DPS1 Sw6 ID Bit1 DPS1 Sw7 ID Bit2 DPS1 Sw8 ID Bit3 Bay 4 Device SCSI ID Off Off Off Off 0 On Off Off Off 1 Off On Off Off 2 On On Off Off 3 Off Off On Off 4 On Off On Off 5 Off On On Off 6 On On On Off 7 Off Off Off On 8 On Off Off On 9 Off On Off On 10 On On Off On 11 Off Off On On 12 On Off On On 13 Off On On On 14 On On On On 15 Cabling and Termination Issues SCSI requires that ca...

Page 29: ...vices or less Ultra SCSI single ended 1 8 Metres 20 MHz greater than 4 devices Ultra SCSI single ended 25 Metres SCSI 2 Differential mode Components Power Supplies The Power Supplies are housed in removal canisters and are supplied as such To replace a power supply simply press the button as shown in Figure 2 9 and withdraw the carrier The PSU is hot pluggable7 Refer to the heading on page 2 14 fo...

Page 30: ...th SCSI buses The default setting is off SW1 2 and SW1 3 are used to provide Termination Power and will normally be set to on SW1 1 is used to delay the spin up cycle and is normally set to on The power sequence delay will cause the second group of drives the bottom 3 drives in each shelf to spin up after the first group of drives in the case of a single power supply In the case of dual power supp...

Page 31: ...ng the piggy backed channel cards reveals the topography of the main board as shown in Figure 2 12 SIMM Installation Note the following guidelines with regards to DRAM Minimum DRAM required is 4 MBytes installed in SIMM socket EDO RAM is recommended for enhanced performance Figure 2 11 RAID Controller Figure 2 12 Main board access Power Socket Channel 0 CPU Simm Module ...

Page 32: ... Then push towards the back until the hooks on both sides of the socket snap into place 2 as shown below Advanced Cooling Modules The Advanced Cooling Modules are accessed from the rear of the cabinet The ACMs are supplied as complete units Do not attempt to disassemble beyond the FRU level To remove an ACM perform the following sequence of steps 1 Remove the back face plate by removing the two lo...

Page 33: ... button is not fully extended it may be necessary to apply additional pressure SCA devices are hot swappable within the system The only requirement is that there must be no I O activity to the device being removed If the drive has failed and has been dropped by the controller then no I O will take place to that unit and swapping is permissible This conforms to case 4 of Hot Plugging as defined in ...

Page 34: ...function decreases This will prevent undesirable surges If removing and replacing the same PSU please ensure that at least one minute has elapsed between removal and re insertion which will allow components to cool to ambient temperature Controller Insertion and Removal To insert the controller push the device firmly into the device bay slot Do not attempt to slam it into position To remove refer ...

Page 35: ...devices Monitor UPS status and presence Indicates error conditions visually and audibly Adjustable over temperature warning Stores insertion counts for all removable devices PSU Fan or SCSI Device Communication via serial RS232 port or via I2 C bus Fully compatible with Eurologic s Vision software The EMU is a flexible unit which may be configured in a variety of ways It connects to a host system ...

Page 36: ... the I2 C Master via RS232 serial link Data from the second EMU is requested via the I2 C bus and is passed to the Host via the RS232 link The I2 C Master has sufficient memory to store global system information and its own status information the slave will store its own status information An unique I2 C address is assigned to each EMU with the address 0 reserved for the master The EMU currently h...

Page 37: ...the rear of the device shelf A magnified view of the EMU is shown in Figure 3 3 A view of the PCB layout is shown in Figure 3 4 The switch settings for the Dip Switches shown in Figure 3 4 above are given in Table 3 1 Figure 3 3 Location of EMU within the shelf Figure 3 4 EMU PCB layout ...

Page 38: ... 2 ID settings for the EMU SW1 SW2 SW3 EMU ID Off Off Off 0 Master Off Off On 1 Off On Off 2 Off On On 3 On Off Off 4 On Off On 5 On On Off 6 On On On 7 SW4 is used to enable drive spindle synchronization SW5 and SW6 are used to control drive spinup sequencing If SW6 is set off then SW5 will control drive sequencing If SW5 is off then power up sequencing is disabled If SW5 is set to on then power ...

Page 39: ...wn in Table 3 4 and Table 3 5 Data Name Number of Information Bytes EMU Part No 4 bytes EMU Firmware Rev 2 bytes EMU Serial No 4 bytes EMU Power Cycle Count 2 bytes Status Byte 2 bytes EMU Available 2 bytes EMU Attention 2 bytes Local Temp 2 bytes EMU Data 8 bytes Fan Insertion Count 2 bytes per Fan PSU Insertion Count 2 bytes per PSU SCSI Device Insertion Count 2 bytes per SCSI Devices Data Name ...

Page 40: ...erpreting the EMU LED Feedback When a failure occurs an audible alarm will sound from the buzzer and the EMU LED will flash at regular intervals Table 3 7 shows how to recognize failures No of Flashes Interpretation 1 Fan One Failure 2 Fan Two Failure 3 Fan Three Failure 4 Fan Four Failure 5 Alarm Temperature 5 Critical Temperature reached or exceeded If a device failure occurs then the bottom lig...

Page 41: ...ted on the chain will be seen by the system as slaves The EMUs should be daisy chained together using the EMU cable provided 3 connectors The top connector of the EMU cable should be attached to the 3 pin connector on the EMU The middle connector of the EMU cable should be connected to the next shelf on the chain To the bottom connector on the EMU cable connect the second EMU cable provided Connec...

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Page 43: ...lowed with background rebuilding of the data The controller also supports spare drive operation All these failure recovery procedures are transparent to the host system The controller is housed in a removable device canister which allows for minimum Mean Time to Repair MTTR periods It is configured as one host bus with up to two target buses of 3 7 drives on each bus The controller hardware is pre...

Page 44: ...ble 4 1 RS232 Terminal Settings Parameter Value Baud Rate 9600 Data Bits 8 Stop Bits 1 Parity None Emulating a Monitor If you do not have a dedicated monitor at your disposal you can still access the VOYAGER 3000 monitor utility by using a PC and communications software to emulate a monitor In this example we will use the Microsoft Windows V3 X11 Terminal program 11 Windows 95 users can use HyperT...

Page 45: ...dows open the Accessories window and double click on the Terminal icon Before you can view the monitor utility you will have to configure the software to emulate a monitor Start by clicking on Settings Terminal Emulation Select the DEC VT 100 emulation Figure 4 3 Windows Program Manager Figure 4 4 Windows Terminal Program Main Menu ...

Page 46: ...e next step is to set up the terminal preferences De select Use Function Arrow and Ctrl Keys for Windows check box as shown in Figure 4 7 Figure 4 5 Setting Windows Terminal Emulation Figure 4 6 Setting Windows Terminal Preferences ...

Page 47: ...on Xoff The VOYAGER 3000 monitor utility provides complete control over the configuration and operation of the controller You may also use the utility to view the status of the controller s RAID sets and monitor the progress of create operations It is also possible to use the monitor utility to view the I O performance of the system Use the arrow keys to navigate through the Figure 4 7 Windows Ter...

Page 48: ...grouping connected drives into 8 logical drives each operating on the same or different RAID levels The logical drive can be further divided into a maximum of 8 Partitions using terminal commands During operation the host sees the logical drive or partition as one single drive A total of 8 logical units is possible In this example we will show how to create a RAID level 5 set using a single tower ...

Page 49: ...th 6 disk drives The first task is to create a RAID set which is a logical drive as far as the host is concerned This logical drive will appear as a normal disk to the Operating System and will behave similar to any other disk with the added benefits of enhanced reliability and performance Prior to creating the RAID set verify that the configuration as seen by the RAID controller Figure 4 10 Initi...

Page 50: ...ws six drives connected to the two target buses Each target bus is identified by its channel number as shown in the second column of Figure 4 12 In our example there are six Seagate drives of 4095 MB capacity We will create a RAID level five set on the three drives connected to channel zero and we will create a RAID level one set on drives 0 and 1 of channel one In addition we will create a Global...

Page 51: ...nd press the e key A list of drives which are available for RAID set inclusion appears as shown in Figure 4 15 The drives can be tagged for inclusion by positioning the cursor on each drive and selecting by pressing the e key This will mark them by inserting an asterisk character beside the drive s entry in the table The example shown in Figure 4 16 includes three drives which will participate in ...

Page 52: ...ty which is 4095MB To alter the capacity press the e key and type in the desired value Figure 4 17 shows the dialogue for entering the drive capacity Pressing the v key will bring up the dialogue shown in Figure 4 18 Select Yes and press the e key The status of the RAID set creation is shown to the user Figure 4 16 Selecting drives for inclusion in a RAID set Figure 4 17 Setting the maximum drive ...

Page 53: ...rst logical volume pressing e will bring up a dialogue box asking to Create logical Drive answering YES to this prompt brings up a screen similar to that in Figure 4 20 Select the RAID Level 1 option and press e A list of the available drives appears as shown in Figure 4 21 The drives are selected as before by selecting drive 0 and drive 1 in turn and pressing e to place an asterix in the Slot fie...

Page 54: ...ive that is accessible to all the logical volumes on the Voyager 3000 system This means that if a drive fails in either of the two RAID sets created in the examples above the global spare will take over for the failed drive In this example a Global Spare will be created on drive 2 of channel 1 To assign the Global Spare select the View and edit SCSI drives option and select the drive drive 2 of ch...

Page 55: ...ption from the menu shown in Figure 4 24 Answer YES to the dialogue and the logical drive partition table will appear as shown in Figure 4 25 Press the e key and enter the desired capacity of the first partition Repeat this for the remaining partitions In the example shown in Figure 4 26 the logical volume has been divided up into five partitions each having varying capacities Figure 4 24 Allocati...

Page 56: ...s LUNs so that they will be visible from the host system This is done by selecting View and Edit Host LUNs from the Main Menu Answer YES to the prompt In our case we are using SCSI channel 2 as our host channel so this appears for mapping as shown in Figure 4 27 Pressing e will bring up the LUN partition table as shown in Figure 4 28 Figure 4 27 Mapping Host LUNs Figure 4 28 LUN Partition table ...

Page 57: ... as in Figure 4 30 Figure 4 31 shows the first partition of logical volume zero being mapped to the host channel as LUN one Partitions across LUNs do not have to be contiguous Figure 4 32 shows a mapping table with the first two LUNs assigned to the first two partitions of logical volume zero and the next two LUNs assigned to the two partitions of logical volume one The next three LUNs are assigne...

Page 58: ...ion is used to cause the system to scan for new SCSI drives It is normally used when new drives are inserted via a Hot Swap operation From the main menu select View and Edit SCSI Drives and a screen similar to that in Figure 4 33 will be seen Select the drive to be scanned by using the Up and Down arrows to highlight it and pressing e A screen like that in Figure 4 34 will appear Figure 4 32 Logic...

Page 59: ...tion allows you to delete a logical drive The drives that were part of a deleted Logical drive are then available for use again 3 Partition Logical Drive this option allows you to partition the logical volumes for the host CPU s use See page 4 13 for more details on partitioning a logical volume 4 Logical Drive Name this option allows you to enter a name for the Logical Drive or to change the exis...

Page 60: ...oggle Failure Signal this option allows the user to either switch On or Off the failure LEDS on the front of the carrier for the purpose of testing the failure LED s View and Edit SCSI Channels From the Main Menu select View and edit SCSI channels A screen similar to that in Figure 4 36 will appear Select the channel to be viewed and the following options will be presented 1 Channel Mode 2 SCSI ID...

Page 61: ...nnect Support 6 Maximum Tag Count 7 Resume to Default Settings 1 Slot Number this option allows the user to assign a slot number to the drive in the ID chosen 2 Maximum Sync Xfer Clock this option allows the user to set the maximum synchronous transfer speed in 4ns units 3 Maximum Xfer Width this option allows the user to set the maximum transfer width for data at either narrow or wide 4 Parity Ch...

Page 62: ...s the user to set up and configure a modem on the system Selecting the Caching Parameters option allows the user to enable or disable Write Back Caching It also allows the user to set the optimization to either Random or Sequential I O This will enhance the performance of the system 14 Selecting the Drive Side SCSI Parameters allows the user to enable disable SCSI motor spin up Enable Disable SCSI...

Page 63: ...lows the user to silence the alarm which is activated during fault conditions 2 Change Password this option allows the user to set security options which denies access to the RS 232 interface Use the Enter key to select this field Pressing Enter prompts the user to enter the old password followed by two prompts to enter the new password 3 Reset Controller this option allows the user to reset the c...

Page 64: ...bout the system as shown in Figure 4 40 Quick Installation This option is used to create a controller default RAID set in our example with 6 drives we will generate a RAID 5 set with a spare drive Firstly select Quick Installation from the Main Menu and answer YES to the prompt The system will then prompt for a RAID level In this example we will select RAID level 5 Spare as shown in Figure 4 41 Af...

Page 65: ...el 0 1 Press ENT for two seconds Quick Logical Drive Install 2 Press ENT The LCD will display the number of drives and the first possible Set TDRV 4 with LG Level RAID5 RAID level 3 Press t or s to select the RAID level then press ENT for two seconds The controller Init please wait controller will then start initialization The RAID levels available are as follows 1 Drive NRAID Disk Spanning 2 Driv...

Page 66: ...ENT for 2 seconds to start initialization LG 0 4008MB 10 Init Please Wait The LCD will display the logical drive information after completing initialization Example showing LG 0 Logical drive 0 RAID5 RAID 5 operation DRV 5 5 physical drives FL 0 No failed drives SB 0 No spare drive Note if NRAID or RAID 0 is selected then initialization will be finished almost immediately 8 Press t or s to select ...

Page 67: ...s and press ENT View and Edit Logical Drives 3 Press t or s to select logical drive and press ENT LG 0 RAID5 DRV 5 4008M FL 0 SB 0 4 Press t or s to select Set LG x Spare drive then press ENT Set LG 0 Spare drive Press t or s to select the drive and press ENT Mapping a Logical Drive to a Host Channel and LUN 1 Press ENT for two seconds for the Main Menu 2 Press t or s to select View and Edit Logic...

Page 68: ...ost or drive Deleting a LUN definition 1 Press ENT for two seconds for the Main Menu 2 Press t or s to select View and Edit SCSI Channels and press ENT View and Edit SCSI Channels 3 Press t or s to select channel and press ENT CHL 0 Host ID 0 SXF 10M Example showing CHL 0 Channel 0 Host Set as host interface SXF 10M 10 MBps transfer rate 4 To set the SCSI channel ID press t or s to select Set SCSI...

Page 69: ... on again by executing Reset This Controller via LCD interface etc for this to take effect 7 To delete a LUN definition repeat Step 2 and 3 press t or s to select View and CHL 0 LUN 0 LG 0 Delete SCSI LUN and press ENT Press t or s to select the LUN number to be deleted and press ENT Delete this LUN Definition To confirm deletion press ENT for two seconds To cancel press ESC Channel Terminator Set...

Page 70: ...Supply Units To use this option 1 Press ENT for two seconds for the Main Menu 2 Press t or s to select Edit Drive Spin up and press ENT Edit Drive Spin up 3 Press ENT for two seconds to change from enable to disable or vice versa Disable Drive Disk Spin up The controller must be reset e g by powering off then on again by executing Reset This Controller via LCD interface etc for this to take effect...

Page 71: ... seconds for the Main Menu 2 Press t or s to select Reset This Controller and press ENT Reset This Controller 3 Press ENT for two seconds to confirm reset Confirm Reset This controller Serial Number 1 Press ENT for two seconds for the Main Menu 2 Press t or s to select Serial Number and press ENT Serial Number XXXXXXXX The serial number of the unit will be displayed on the LCD panel Download Firmw...

Page 72: ...r Guide 5 8 Have the host communication program send the file containing the data to be downloaded using ZMODEM protocol When downloading is complete the controller will automatically reset and engage the new firmware ...

Page 73: ... different RAID operation Partitions 8 per logical drive No of LUNs 8 per channel Control Front panel or via RS 232 terminal SCSI connectors 8 Bit Wide 68 pin header host side SCSI cabling Single ended Controller Voltage 5 Volts Controller Current 1 5 Amp Operating Temperature 5 to 40 C Non Operating Temp 40 C to 66 C Transportation and short term storage Relative Humidity 10 96 non condensing Ope...

Page 74: ...ager 3000 User Guide ii Power consumption Single tower 130 Watts Twin tower 260 Watts Rack 130 Watts Internal host cable length 1 Metre Power Supply Rating 180W continuous MTBF for Controller 500 000 hours ...

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