ICP GDT RS Series, User Manual

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troller. Thus, the host is significantly offloaded. In addition, this hardware-implemented
solution guarantees the highest achievable security. The controller-BIOS provides a com-
plete PCI compatible INT13 interface and expands the respective functions of the system
BIOS. It also ensures that operating systems using the INT13 (i.e. MS-DOS, OS/2) can be
booted directly from a SCSI device / RAID Array Drive connected to the ICP Controller. Ac-
cording to the various product expansion levels of the RS/RN Series, two different firmware
levels are available. Installed upon delivery are the
Standard Firmware (RAID 0, 1) in GDT7118RN, GDT7128RN
GDT6118RS, GDT6128RS
GDT7123RN
RAIDYNE® Firmware (RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 10) in GDT7518RN, GDT7528RN,
GDT7538RN, GDT6518RS,
GDT6528RS, GDT6538RS
GDT7523RN, GDT7543RN,
GDT7563RN
Cluster
RAIDYNE® Firmware
(RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 10) in GDT7618RN, GDT7628RN,
GDT7638RN,
GDT7623RN, GD7643RN
GDT7663RN
A controller originally equipped with the Standard Firmware can be easily upgraded by the
user with the RAIDYNE® Firmware. The Standard Firmware offers the RAID Levels 0 and 1.
As controllers have the RAIDYNE-Firmware, RAID Levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 10 and security features
such as
Hot Fix or Hot Plug become available. RAIDYNE® is also capable of performing an
online capacity expansion of an existing array by adding one ore more new hard disks.
During expansion the array is fully operational. Another feature of RAIDYNE® is the online
RAID Level Migration of an existing array, e.g., from RAID 0 to RAID 5.
GDT76x8RN controllers are equipped with the "Cluster RAIDYNE®" firmware, which not
only includes all necessary functions for supporting the Microsoft® Cluster Server®
(MSCS), and Novell Orion® , but also Linux Clustering solutions. There is an optional
"Cluster Module" to upgrade GDT75xyRNs to GDT76x8RNs.
A.5.7 Configuration and Monitoring utilities “ICP RAID Console” and “ICP
RAID Navigator” Program ICPCON
These two configuration and monitoring programs are very flexible software tools that offer
many different configuration, diagnosis and monitoring functions during full-operation
conditions. ICPCON has a character-oriented user surface and is ideally suitable for Net-
Ware and all types of UNIXes including Linux. ICPCON is also available at system boot
level as a rom resident tool (press <CTRL><G>). ICP RAID Navigator has a Windows NT
compliant graphical user interface (GUI) and can be operated under Windows
95/98/NT/2000. Booth tools can be used on the fileserver, or remotely from an authorized
workstation. The main functions are:
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Confiuguration of Disk Arrays (also with EXPRESS function)
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Monitoring the disk subsystem performance (KB/sec and I/Os per sec.)
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Online configuration of the cache memory
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Online check of the parity information of RAID 4 and RAID 5 Array Drives
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Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration of existing Array Drives
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Hot Plug and Hot Fix
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Remote Operation (IPX, NetBIOS, TCP/IP), Messaging