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freeStor Xpand 1500C

15-bay Ultra SCSI 320 to SATA-II RAID Disk

Array Subsystem

USER’S MANUAL

P/N: DA-1500C

Rev. 1.0

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Page 1: ...freeStor Xpand 1500C 15 bay Ultra SCSI 320 to SATA II RAID Disk Array Subsystem USER S MANUAL P N DA 1500C Rev 1 0...

Page 2: ...r entity of such modifications Copyright 2006 freeStor Xpand and the freedom9 company logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Freedom9 Inc All rights reserved No part of this document may be p...

Page 3: ...ITIAL CONFIGURATION 16 3 3 1 DESIGNATING DRIVES AS HOT SPARES OPTIONAL 17 3 3 2 USING QUICK VOLUME RAID SETUP CONFIGURATION 17 3 3 3 USING RAID SET VOLUME SET FUNCTION 18 3 4 QUICK VOLUME RAID SETUP 1...

Page 4: ...FFER 40 3 13 HARDWARE MONITOR 40 3 14 SYSTEM INFORMATION 41 4 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION VIA WEB INTERFACE 42 4 1 MAIN MENU 42 4 2 INITIAL CONFIGURATION 43 4 2 1 DESIGNATING DRIVES AS HOT SPARES OPTIONAL 43...

Page 5: ...CONFIGURATION 58 4 7 6 VIEW EVENTS MUTE BEEPER 58 4 7 7 CLEAR EVENTS BUFFER 59 4 7 8 MODIFY PASSWORD 59 4 7 9 UPGRADE FIRMWARE 60 4 7 10 RESTART CONTROLLER 61 4 8 INFORMATION 61 4 8 1 RAID SET HIERAR...

Page 6: ...5 6 10 and JBOD providing enhanced performance and redundancy Supports up to 15 hard drives to fulfill your storage needs Hot swappable design offers nonstop operation 2 Ultra320 SCSI channels provid...

Page 7: ...ty and retain fault tolerance by adding another drive With the addition of the third disk you have the option of adding this disk to your existing RAID set and migrating from RAID 1 to RAID 5 The resu...

Page 8: ...d process system activity will continue as normal however the system performance and fault tolerance will be negatively impacted Note The hot spare drive must be the same size as or larger than the di...

Page 9: ...its front panel LED display panel and rear panel It is recommended that you read this section before installing or using the disk array 2 1 1 Front Panel The front panel of the freeStor Xpand 1500C is...

Page 10: ...does not have a power button When the power cords are unplugged you need to wait at least 5 seconds before powering on unit again This was designed to prevent the hard drives from being corrupted 2 1...

Page 11: ...from the chassis 2 Unscrew the placeholder tray from the railings Figure 2 4 There are two screws on each side Figure 2 4 Drive Canister 3 Place the drive where the placeholder used to be and screw t...

Page 12: ...r your computer it must be installed prior to connecting the computer to the disk array For optimal performance the SCSI port should support a 64 bit Ultra320 SCSI interface Once the port has been ins...

Page 13: ...ation that the connection has been setup properly on the screen If you do not see anything on the screen check that you are using ANSI or VTERM emulation and press the tab key or Ctrl D to refresh the...

Page 14: ...s of the following menus Quick Volume RAID Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Even Buffer Hardware Monitor...

Page 15: ...3 3 Initial Configuration You can configure raid sets and volume sets automatically by using the Quick Volume Raid Setup feature or manually by using the Raid Set Function option First create hot spa...

Page 16: ...Set 00 SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN 0 0 0 Cache Mode Write back Tag Queuing Yes Max Sync Rate Depends on host adapter setting The default setting values can be changed after configuration is complet...

Page 17: ...lly create RAID sets and volume sets giving you greater control over the number of drives to use in a RAID set and the size and number of volume sets to create in each RAID set 1 Choose Raid Set Funct...

Page 18: ...the Initialization selection screen 13 When prompted with the Fast Initialization prompt select Yes to use Fast Initialization To use Normal initialization select No Normal Initialization takes longe...

Page 19: ...ATA Drive For Raid Set window Figure 3 4 will displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the current controller Press the up and down arrow keys to highlight the a drive and then press Enter to ad...

Page 20: ...l appear as Raid Set Figure 3 5 Edit RAID Set Name 3 5 2 Delete RAID Set To change a RAID set you need to first delete it and then recreate it To delete a RAID set select the RAID set you wish to dele...

Page 21: ...to add disk drives to an existing RAID set Figure 3 7 Expand RAID Set To expand a RAID set 1 Select Expand Raid Set from the Raid Set Function menu If there is an available disk the Select SATA Drives...

Page 22: ...e mode are inactive and cannot be accessed To activate a RAID set in Incomplete mode use the Activate Incomplete Set option to change it to Degraded mode 3 5 5 Create Hot Spare The Create Hot Spare op...

Page 23: ...Information will show as in Figure 3 10 Figure 3 10 RAID Set Information 3 5 8 Migrating Migrating status occurs when a disk is added to a RAID Set The Migrating status is displayed in the RAID State...

Page 24: ...a portion of the disk capacity available in a RAID Set Multiple Volume Sets can exist on a group of disks in a RAID Set The following is the volume set features for the freeStor Xpand 1500C Volume set...

Page 25: ...d Select a RAID level and press Enter to confirm Strip Size This parameter sets the size of the segment written to each disk for RAID 0 1 1 0 5 or 6 You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 K...

Page 26: ...can use the newly created volume immediately For Fast Initialization the initialization must be completed before the volume set is ready to use Figure 3 14 Fast Initialization Prompt 9 Repeat steps 2...

Page 27: ...yed Select the desired RAID Set then press Enter In the RAID Set select the desired Volume Set to modify and press Enter You will be presented with the configuration screen Figure 3 16 Highlight the p...

Page 28: ...RAID Set then press Enter to show all of the Volume Set items Select the Volume Set from the list you wish to check and press Enter The confirmation screen appears select Yes to being the check Figur...

Page 29: ...D set 3 7 Physical Drive The Physical Drive option Figure 3 19 allows you to manage the physical disk drives in the freeStor Xpand 1500C Figure 3 19 Physical Drive 3 7 1 View Drive Information When yo...

Page 30: ...e Set for descriptions of the parameters listed on this page Figure 3 21 Figure 3 21 Create Pass Through Disk 3 7 3 Modify Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify the Pass Through Disk settings of...

Page 31: ...order to identify a physical drive the selected disk HDD LED Indicator will light up when the Identify Selected Device option is selected and the drive is selected 3 8 RAID System Function The RAID S...

Page 32: ...d to protect the system from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The unit will automatically go back to the initial scree...

Page 33: ...when you want to change the option from RAID to JBOD Figure 3 26 Figure 3 26 RAID JBOD Function 3 8 5 Background Task Priority The Background Task Priority option Figure 3 27 is a relative indication...

Page 34: ...ve truncation so that drives from different vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in re...

Page 35: ...Transfer from the menu and select Send File Figure 3 29 Other programs will use a different method to initiate a file transfer Figure 3 29 Send File Select Zmodem as the protocol then click Browse and...

Page 36: ...7 Figure 3 30 Protocol Selection You will see a progress bar as the upload proceeds Figure 3 31 Figure 3 31 Upload Progress Once the upload has completed select Yes to begin programming the memory Fig...

Page 37: ...rol of the SCSI bus to allow that SCSI device to initiate or resume a task There are two methods that a SCSI device may use to arbitrate for the SCSI bus normal arbitration and QAS Normal arbitration...

Page 38: ...lts unless you are familiar with networking technology The ports that can be changed are for HTTP access Telnet access and outbound SMTP 3 10 4 Ethernet Address Displays the MAC Media Access Control a...

Page 39: ...chassis fan and voltage of the freeStor Xpand 1500C The temperature item lists the current state of the controller board and backplane All items are read only Warning messages will be indicated throu...

Page 40: ...ormation The System Information option Figure 3 38 displays the main processor CPU instruction cache and data cache size firmware version serial number controller model name and the cache memory size...

Page 41: ...w if you changed these settings via the terminal interface use the new settings to connect to the disk array Description Value IP Address 192 168 1 100 User Name admin Password 0000 An example of how...

Page 42: ...You can configure raid sets and volume sets automatically by using the Quick Create feature or manually by using the Raid Set Function option First create hot spares if desired then select the method...

Page 43: ...4 physical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives RAID 1 0 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Select the RAID type you would like to use 3 The maximum capacity for the volume...

Page 44: ...ing max SCSI speed and SCSI Channel ID LUN These parameters are discussed in detail below The volume name can be up to 15 alphanumeric characters The default is Volume Set It is recommended that you u...

Page 45: ...her volume set Note You can use this method to view existing RAID sets and Volume sets and make any modifications to them or delete them as desired In the volume set section you can use the Modify Vol...

Page 46: ...box and click Submit to delete it 4 4 3 Expand RAID Set Use the Expand RAID Set option Figure 4 3 to add disk drives to an existing RAID set To expand a RAID set click on Expand Raid Set Select the R...

Page 47: ...that the drive belongs to will have a status of Incomplete when the disk array is powered on RAID sets in Incomplete mode are inactive and cannot be accessed To activate a RAID set in Incomplete mode...

Page 48: ...nt controller will be displayed Select the disk s you want to make hot spares check the Confirm The Operation checkbox and click Submit Figure 4 5 Create Hot Spare 4 4 6 Delete Hot Spare The Delete Ho...

Page 49: ...the properties for the new volume set The properties are as follows Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set You can rename the volume set name providing it does not exceed...

Page 50: ...The initialization percentage of the volume set will be displayed at the button line 4 5 2 Delete Volume Set To delete a Volume Set from a RAID set click Volume Set Functions and then click Delete Vo...

Page 51: ...checkbox and click the Submit button Figure 4 9 Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity volume set check can comp...

Page 52: ...ves in the freeStor Xpand 1500C 4 6 1 Create Pass Through Disk A Pass Through Disk is a disk that is not controlled by the freeStor Xpand 1500C and thus cannot be a part of a RAID Set or Volume Set Th...

Page 53: ...tion checkbox and click Submit to save the new settings 4 6 3 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a Pass Through Drive from the Pass Through Drive pool click Physical Drives and then Delete Pass Throug...

Page 54: ...menu allows you to manage the settings of the freeStor Xpand 1500C unit 4 7 1 System Configuration The System Configuration page Figure 4 11 allows you to set many settings for the freeStor Xpand 1500...

Page 55: ...Max SATA Mode Supported Select the hard drive access speed choose from SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ HDD Read Ahead Cache Can either enable or disable read ahead cache Recommended is enable...

Page 56: ...you change these settings from the defaults unless you are familiar with networking technology The ports that can be changed are for HTTP access Telnet access and outbound SMTP Make the required chan...

Page 57: ...which alerts should be sent See Appendix D for a list of SNMP traps and definitions 4 7 6 View Events Mute Beeper To view the freeStor Xpand 1500C s system event information click System Controls in t...

Page 58: ...sword is used to protect the system from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The unit will automatically go back to the i...

Page 59: ...e the firmware on the freeStor Xpand 1500C select the Upgrade Firmware option Figure 4 16 Click Browse and find the new firmware file on your local drive Check the Confirm the Operation checkbox and c...

Page 60: ...o the menu item RAID System Function item and then press Enter Move the cursor to Reset Controller and press Enter When the confirmation screen appears select Yes to reset the system Note This feature...

Page 61: ...e controller board and backplane All items are read only Warning messages will be indicated through the LED and alarm Figure 4 17 Hardware Monitor Item Warning Condition Controller Board Temperature 1...

Page 62: ...Checking 263 vsCreate 264 vsDelete 265 vsModify 266 vsDegraded 267 vsFailed 268 vsRevived 269 vsTotals 270 Reserved 271 383 Traps 384 511 are IDE Device Traps pdAdded 384 pdRemoved 385 pdReadError 386...

Page 63: ...wer4Failed 657 hwFan4Failed 658 hwUpsPowerLoss 659 hwTempController_R 660 hwTempBackplane_R 661 hwVoltage15_R 662 hwVoltage3_R 663 hwVoltage5_R 664 hwVoltage12_R 665 hwVoltage1_3_R 666 hwVoltage2_5_R...

Page 64: ...0 1 10 3 5 6 Multiple RAID Sets Yes Online Capacity Expansion Yes Rebuild Hot Spare Drives Automatically and transparently Drive Hot Swap Yes Drive Insertion or removal Automatic detection and rebuild...

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