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Contents

Introduction and General Information

Intended Audience.............................................................................................................. 13

RAID Levels ....................................................................................................................... 13

RAID 0 - Data Striping ............................................................................................... 13

RAID 1 - Disk Mirroring .............................................................................................. 14

RAID 4 - Data Striping with a Dedicated Parity Drive ................................................. 15

RAID 5 - Data Striping with Striped Parity.................................................................. 16

RAID 10 - Combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 .......................................................... 17

Chaining ............................................................................................................................. 18

Configuring a Chaining Set Using StorCon ................................................................ 18

Configuring a Chaining Set Using .............................................................. 18

Levels of Drive Hierarchy Within the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 Firmware ................... 19

Level 1....................................................................................................................... 19

Level 2....................................................................................................................... 19

Level 3....................................................................................................................... 19

Level 4....................................................................................................................... 20

Transparency of Host Drives .............................................................................................. 20

Using CD-ROMs, DATs, Tapes, etc........................................................................... 21

Getting Started

What is the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 Firmware? ....................................................... 23

Standard Firmware .................................................................................................... 23

RAID Hardware Installation and Setup ............................................................................... 24

Minimum Hardware Requirements............................................................................. 24

Install a High Profile Backplate to the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 ........................ 24

Installing and Removing the SDRAM ......................................................................... 24

Installing the SDRAM ........................................................................................ 24

Removing the SDRAM ...................................................................................... 24

Install the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 in the Intel Server Board............................ 24

Attach SCSI Cables ................................................................................................... 25

Programming the FLASH Memory ............................................................................. 25

Recover the Firmware in the FLASH Memory ................................................... 26

SCSI Termination ...................................................................................................... 27

Termination ....................................................................................................... 27

Choosing a Configuration .......................................................................................... 28

How Many Hard Disk Drives Should Be Integrated Into the Disk Array?............ 28

What Level of Redundancy is Needed? ............................................................ 28

Are Hot Fix Drives Needed?.............................................................................. 29

Intel RAID Controller Hardware Features................................................................... 29

Architecture Features (HW)............................................................................... 29

SCSI Technology .............................................................................................. 30

Electrical Characteristics ................................................................................... 30

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

Summary of Contents for SRCU31

Page 1: ...Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 User s Guide Order Number A78134 001...

Page 2: ...rpose merchantability or infringement of any patent copyright or other intellectual property right Intel products are not designed intended or authorized for use in any medical life saving or life sus...

Page 3: ...ID Controller SRCU31 Firmware 23 Standard Firmware 23 RAID Hardware Installation and Setup 24 Minimum Hardware Requirements 24 Install a High Profile Backplate to the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 24 I...

Page 4: ...Install the Operating System choose from either Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux 7 1 42 Installing Windows 2000 42 Installing Red Hat Linux 7 1 43 Alternative Method to Creating an Intel RAID Controller...

Page 5: ...the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 CD ROM 61 5 Installing Novell Netware Pre Installation Requirements Checklist 63 Minimum Hardware Requirements 63 Minimum Software Requirements 63 New Installation of...

Page 6: ...StorCon Features 77 StorCon Is 77 Loading StorCon 78 Loading the StorCon Program Under NetWare 78 Loading StorCon on a Fileserver 78 Loading StorCon on a Workstation 78 Loading the StorCon Program Und...

Page 7: ...rray Drives 113 Keyboard Commands 113 Change Drive Name 114 Expand Array Drive 114 Add RAID 1 Component 115 Replace Array Component 115 Remove RAID 1 Component 115 Remove Array Drive 115 Add Hot Fix D...

Page 8: ...nnel Settings 136 Rescan ID s 136 Hot Plug Add Disk 136 Direct Access Devices 137 The SCSI Parameter Initialize 139 Synchronous Transfer 139 Disconnect 140 Tagged Queues 140 SCSI Read Cache SCSI Write...

Page 9: ...ty 164 RAID Configuration Service 164 RAID Mail Utility 167 9 Getting Help World Wide Web 171 Telephone 171 In U S and Canada 171 In Europe 171 In Asia Pacific Region 172 In Japan 172 In Latin America...

Page 10: ...ormation 89 21 Hard Disk Drive Last Status 90 22 Save Information 91 23 Screen Service Messages and Async Events 92 24 Select Host Drive 93 25 Choose Type 95 26 Create Host Drive Confirmation 95 27 Ha...

Page 11: ...hysical Configuration Menu 127 73 Logical Configuration Menu 127 74 Refresh Rate Settings Dialog 127 75 Logical Configuration Menu 128 76 Select Controller 129 77 Sockets 129 78 Physical Configuration...

Page 12: ...29 4 SCSI Controller Technology 30 5 Electrical Specifications 30 6 Environmental Specifications 30 7 Supported SCSI Hard Disk Drive Standards 31 8 Disk Volume and Array Limitations 33 9 Operational S...

Page 13: ...me with the OS Read and adhere to all warnings cautions and notices in this guide and the other documents in the user documentation set supplied with this product Read and adhere to the computer syste...

Page 14: ...n performance and data integrity With Disk Mirroring Figure 2 two hard disk drives are mirrored on one I O channel RAID 1 represents an easy and highly efficient solution for data security and system...

Page 15: ...available Missing data is recalculated from existing data and parity information Unlike in RAID 1 only the capacity of one hard disk drive is needed for redundancy For example in a RAID 4 disk array w...

Page 16: ...multi tasking and multi user environment the response time is very good RAID 5 offers the same level of security as RAID 4 When one hard disk drive fails all data is still fully available Missing data...

Page 17: ...ike RAID 4 and RAID 5 there is no need to calculate parity information RAID 10 disk arrays offer good performance and data security Figure 5 As in RAID 0 optimum performance is achieved in highly sequ...

Page 18: ...NING Using logical drives of the type chain as components of array drives is not recommended WARNING Disk Chaining does not offer any form of data protection Configuring a Chaining Set Using StorCon 1...

Page 19: ...fication even if the SCSI ID or the controller is changed For reasons of data coherency this information is extremely important for any drive construction consisting of more than one physical drive Le...

Page 20: ...e Within StorCon each level of hierarchy has its own menu Level 1 Configure Physical Devices Level 2 Configure Logical Drives Level 3 Configure Array Drives Level 4 Configure Host Drives Generally eac...

Page 21: ...st drive SCSI devices of this kind are either operated through the Advanced SCSI programming Interface ASPI MS DOS Windows Novell NetWare or OS 2 or are directly accessed from the operating system UNI...

Page 22: ...22 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide...

Page 23: ...ns for example for Windows NT the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 is a pure hardware RAID solution All Intel RAID Controllers are equipped with hardware that is well suited for disk arrays The Intel RAID...

Page 24: ...2 in the open position position 2 insert the DIMM into the DIMM connector the DIMM and connector are keyed to ensure proper insertion CAUTION Align the DIMM carefully so as not to damage the conductor...

Page 25: ...he SCSI cable to the SCSI drives or drive enclosure 5 Replace the system cover and reconnect power cord s Attach SCSI Cables 1 Connect one end of the SCSI cable to the internal or external SCSI connec...

Page 26: ...onents and disconnect their power cords c Remove the cover from the system to gain access to the PCI slots d Disconnect the SCSI drives from the adapter card e Remove the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31...

Page 27: ...ve the system cover c Remove the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 from your system d On jumper block J7A1 move jumper from position 1 2 to position 2 3 Reinstall the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 in the PC...

Page 28: ...isk Drive Requirements RAID Level Disk Array Type Minimum Number of Hard Disk Drives Required RAID 0 Data Striping 2 RAID 1 Disk Mirroring 2 RAID 4 Data Striping with Parity Drive 3 RAID 5 Data Stripi...

Page 29: ...erred to as hot spare as an immediately available and auto replacing drive is the most effective way to keep the TWR as short as possible Only a Hot Fix drive can ensure optimal disk array security an...

Page 30: ...form factors Supported Hard Disk Drive Technology The Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 supports up to 15 different SCSI devices single hard disk drives drive enclosures controllers CD ROM s tapes etc In c...

Page 31: ...was not defined in the original SCSI standards for this speed If all devices on the bus support LVD then 12 meters operation is possible at this speed However if any device on the bus is single ended...

Page 32: ...devices this doesn t cover specific vendors and models SAF TE Processors Tape Backups CD ROMs Scanners Compatible Intel RAID Controllers This Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 is compatible with other Inte...

Page 33: ...ID Array Host Drives Can span across both channels Can not span across RAID Arrays Table 8 Disk Volume and Array Limitations Adapter Device Limitations Per Adapter Per RAID Channel Per RAID Array Per...

Page 34: ...eady State The disk array is fully operational when in the Ready state All redundant information is present that is a hard disk drive can fail without impairing the functionality of the disk array Thi...

Page 35: ...Getting Started 35 Figure 7 Operational State Diagram for RAID 4 5...

Page 36: ...se carriers are often unintelligent and do not communicate with the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 or server though they can display the hard disk drive s temperature or the status of its built in fan T...

Page 37: ...tc to the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 and the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 driver The hot fix drive is assigned to an array drive There are two types of hot fix drives Private hot fix drive Available...

Page 38: ...power off 3 Insert the Intel RAID controller into an available PCI slot Attach SCSI Cables 1 Connect one end of the SCSI cable to the internal or external SCSI connector located on the Intel RAID Con...

Page 39: ...can be used for new host drives 6 Use the arrow keys and the space bar to select the number of hard disk drives that you want to be part of the array these hard disk drives become marked with an For t...

Page 40: ...0 The new host drive is created Press F10 to refresh and begin the build process Its status is still build since the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 synchronizes both drives NOTE The array build will con...

Page 41: ...om system to system Refer to the system documentation for details The example below refers to the Intel server board STL2 1 During POST press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup Utility 2 Navigate to the Boot...

Page 42: ...he Operating System choose from either Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux 7 1 Installing Windows 2000 Install Windows 2000 IMPORTANT When the blue setup screen first appears hit F6 key 1 Boot the system wi...

Page 43: ...type linux dd 3 When prompted insert the Red Hat Linux driver diskette 4 Continue with the Linux OS installation Install the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 StorCon Monitoring Utility As necessary refer...

Page 44: ...ROM drive 2 Insert a blank floppy diskette in the drive 3 Go to the directory windows win2000 In this directory you will find four files and two directories Copy all files and only the winnt directory...

Page 45: ...lot Configuration menu 1 Select the Configure Physical Devices while in the Advanced Setup mode 2 Highlight the SAF TE processor and press Enter 3 Select the Enclosure Slot Configuration option 4 The...

Page 46: ...46 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide...

Page 47: ...S on either a RAID volume or single disk that is attached to and configured on the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 that you are installing OR Install the OS on either an IDE hard disk drive or a SCSI har...

Page 48: ...ntroller SRCU31 and to set up a RAID volume NOTE Prior to installing Windows NT disable the Delayed Write Cache of the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 CAUTION To avoid this problem and prevent the risk o...

Page 49: ...repare the operating system for the installation of the RAID Software Suite Install the operating system software using one of the scenarios boot diskettes or CD ROM below that matches the installatio...

Page 50: ...Reboot and continue with the GUI based portion of the installation 6 After the operating system is completely installed go to Chapter 7 Loading StorCon to complete the installation Installing an OS o...

Page 51: ...d press S to specify additional storage devices and install the driver 5 Continue with the Windows installation 6 After the operating system is completely installed go to Chapter 7 Loading StorCon to...

Page 52: ...U31 8 Replace the computer s cover reconnect all power cords and reboot the computer 9 Log into NT with administrative user rights 10 Insert the Windows 2000 CD ROM The Windows 2000 upgrade utility wi...

Page 53: ...31 Install the Windows 2000 driver if prompted to If a Driver Install Wizard starts follow the driver installation procedures 4 Reboot if prompted 5 Once the new Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 is functi...

Page 54: ...te CD ROM in CD ROM drive 2 If the CD does not start automatically then run the autorun exe file 3 Click OS Diskette and then click Windows Select the appropriate Windows version 4 A command prompt wi...

Page 55: ...0 redhat tgz Remote RAID Configuration Service with start stop script for Red Hat Linux version 1 10 Assumptions About Path Names Since the user may have received StorCon on the CD ROM or as a downloa...

Page 56: ...x Installation CD ROMs Root access on the Linux server Installing Red Hat Linux 7 x on a RAID Volume Host Drive To install Red Hat Linux 7 x on to a host drive first create the appropriate driver disk...

Page 57: ...D ROM drive and use the following procedure a Mount the CD ROM by typing the following command mount dev cdrom mnt cdrom b Copy the driver sources to usr src linux drivers scsi c Enter the following c...

Page 58: ...difficult Non Direct Access Devices like CD ROMs Streamers DATs etc do NOT require a reservation CAUTION The reservation of SCSI devices is only possible with not initialized SCSI devices Use StorCon...

Page 59: ...scanning order of PCI controllers according to the system BIOS max_ids x x number of target IDs per SCSI channel accelerates the boot process rescan Y rescan all SCSI channels Ids rescan N scan only...

Page 60: ...the archive file and rename gunzip d usr sbin storcon 2 02 gz mv usr sbin storcon 2 02 usr sbin storcon Using StorCon Monitoring Utility To run the StorCon utility type storcon at any prompt Select t...

Page 61: ...comments in etc srcd conf for details SRCD Installation Instructions from the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 CD ROM 1 Copy the srcd archive to etc may be srcd 1 10 redhat tgz cp mnt cdrom linux install...

Page 62: ...62 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide...

Page 63: ...dentifies the minimum hardware and software required to successfully install the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 and the accompanying RAID Software Suite Minimum Hardware Requirements Computer with CD RO...

Page 64: ...e NOT bootable so you must have a bootable DOS partition installed on the target hard disk drive and have the appropriate DOS driver for the CD ROM 3 At the driver summary menu select modify drivers 4...

Page 65: ...Load NWCONFIG NLM For 5 x and above 6 Insert the driver diskette into drive A 7 Do one or both of the following to install the desired packages you do not need to reinstall the driver package if you...

Page 66: ...x 4 Press F10 to accept the selected item 5 NetWare will copy the necessary files automatically load STORCON NLM and modify the AUTOEXEC NCF file to load STORCON NLM for each subsequent restart of the...

Page 67: ...offers the option of adjusting the number of write I Os which are loaded on the mass storage subsystem To gain optimum performance and speed from modern high performance disk controllers the amount o...

Page 68: ...for differentiation for example with the name autonet ncf Installing NetWare 4 1 Wrong Drive Name The following problem often occurs when installing NetWare 4 1 server While copying the module cdrom...

Page 69: ...Controller SRCU31 or Adaptec Last Status Information All Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 Controllers temporarily store the status information from all hard disk drives that are connected to that control...

Page 70: ...ation between the tape device for example DAT DLT and the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 takes place through the ASPI interface For this purpose the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 ASPI Manager aspitran ds...

Page 71: ...el RAID Controller SRCU31 the accompanying RAID Software Suite Minimum Hardware Requirements Computer with CD ROM drive not attached to the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 Computer must be on the support...

Page 72: ...SRCU31 Has Already Been Configured for UnixWare In this case you only have to add an additional entry for the new Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 This is carried out by the command etc scsi pdiadd d DRQ...

Page 73: ...ork Information Services NIS package By default the installation will configure the system as an NIS client See the system administrator for configuration of the NIS services NOTE Installation of this...

Page 74: ...his will help determine the order of the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31s and which host adapter number is assigned to them by UnixWare UnixWare Bus Number Target ID and LUN Target IDs and LUNs for Non D...

Page 75: ...0b0t0d0s0 dev rsrch c0 HA b0 Bus number t0 Target ID 0 d0 LUN 0 s0 UnixWare partition All new SCSI devices are automatically recognized and a corresponding special device file is generated Host drives...

Page 76: ...76 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide...

Page 77: ...ures are only available from the BIOS Flash RAM version of the StorCon to prevent users from experiencing unrecoverable events StorCon Features Diagnosis and configuration functions Online capacity ex...

Page 78: ...n on a Fileserver NOTE The Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 NetWare driver and the auto loading module CTRLTRAN must have been previously loaded on the fileserver Use the following command to load StorCon...

Page 79: ...2000 see Figure 10 Click Next to continue the installation 8 Choose Destination Location Use the default directory for installation and click Next 9 Select the Program Folder Use default Program Grou...

Page 80: ...80 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide Figure 9 Component Selection Windows NT Figure 10 Component Selection Windows 2000...

Page 81: ...d are logged in with administrative rights 2 Open the Control Panel and launch the Add Remove programs icon 3 Select the RAID Software Suite and click Change Remove for Windows 2000 or Add Remove for...

Page 82: ...l Loading the StorCon Program Under Windows 95 98 The StorCon program for Windows 95 98 is part of the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 System CD ROM To load the program under Windows 95 98 type the follo...

Page 83: ...el as components always sets up the drive of a given level of hierarchy The structure of the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 firmware has four different levels of hierarchy Level 1 where the Physical Dev...

Page 84: ...0 Data Striping 2 RAID 4 Data Striping with parity drive 3 RAID 5 Data Striping with striped parity 3 RAID 10 Combined RAID 0 and RAID 1 4 After loading StorCon the screen in Figure 12 appears press F...

Page 85: ...suitable servers which have SPX IPX protocol Enter user name and password as appropriate Figure 13 Remote Machine Select Controller After the login procedure StorCon displays a list of Intel RAID Cont...

Page 86: ...and Express Setup modes Monitor Menu The monitor menu has the following menu options See Figure 15 Use View Statistics to supervise the performance of the different components of the RAID subsystem Vi...

Page 87: ...ew Statistics menu Figure 16 displays the performance of the drives and their corresponding level of hierarchy The throughput of the drives is displayed in KB s KiloBytes per second and I O s I Os per...

Page 88: ...sts can be serviced out of the cache for example without triggering an immediate disk I O Use Sample Rate to choose the interval at which the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 delivers new measurements Dep...

Page 89: ...fects and Last Status Figure 20 Hard Disk Drive Information The Retries Counter The Retries counter records the number of retries to a hard disk drive the counter is incremented by one unit whenever t...

Page 90: ...ever a defective block is being accessed the read write actuator has to move to an alternate position and this requires extra time The Grown Defects Counter The Grown Defects counter records the numbe...

Page 91: ...its devices in an ASCII file See Figure 22 Such system information documentation would be helpful should you require support Figure 22 Save Information At the end of this protocol is a chronological...

Page 92: ...stallation of new host drives NOTE Creation of a host drive as Single Disk RAID0 RAID1 or RAID10 is non destructive so that the partition table of the new drive which could have conceivably been used...

Page 93: ...existing host drives In a new system this list shows no host drive entries In the example in Figure 24 one host drive is available and it is a RAID 5 array drive with approximate 17 GB capacity The st...

Page 94: ...state after its first configuration and until you quit StorCon Should an error occur while the array is in the build state the array returns to idle The exception is that if during build mode the ded...

Page 95: ...all channels for free hard disk drives for example hard disk drives which are not yet part of a host drive and displays these units in a list see Figure 25 Use the arrow up and down keys to move the s...

Page 96: ...y drive in the future Figure 28 Drive Status After leaving StorCon or after pressing F10 for refresh the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 begins the build process on the new host drive In our example it c...

Page 97: ...on of a host drive in the host drive list highlight the host drive and confirm with Enter Then type in the new position and press Enter Remove Host Drives Removing a host drive results in the loss of...

Page 98: ...ike FDISK StorCon can handle primary partitions extended partitions and logical drives within the extended partitions Add Hot Fix Drive Add Hot Fix Drive allows you to add a hot fix drive to an existi...

Page 99: ...but no longer redundant Figure 30 Array Drive Summary After pressing any key StorCon displays a list of array drives which are candidates for online automatic repair NOTE Array drives that are in the...

Page 100: ...ent into the array drive See Figure 34 Figure 34 Add Disk to Array Confirmation When clearance is given the state of the array drive changes to Rebuild for example the missing data is reconstructed ou...

Page 101: ...f host drives between Intel RAID Controller SRCU31s is very easy and secure even if the SCSI IDs and channels are changed Simply connect the hard disk drives to the new Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 an...

Page 102: ...hannel Off On SCSI termination of the channel On Chn SCSI A Termination Auto SCSI termination according to occupied connectors SCSI ID 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Possible SCSI IDs for the channel Firmware Update...

Page 103: ...hot plug allows a defective drive to be simply removed from the subsystem and the replacement unit installed in its place Both the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 and the subsystem control this process...

Page 104: ...ded for auto hot pluggable subsystems Only with these systems can a secure auto hot plug be guaranteed For non intelligent subsystems we recommend only the best quality components disk shuttles cables...

Page 105: ...This menu option displays a list of I O channels SCSI or Fibre Channel and available devices See Figure 41 Scroll the list with the cursor up down keys The first column displays the I O channel SCSI s...

Page 106: ...pens the Configure Disk menu Here all relevant adjustments and modifications concerning the physical drives can be carried out NOTE If you create new host drives with the Express Setup function the St...

Page 107: ...allows up to 160 MB s If a SCSI cable does not permit a certain transfer rate the transfer rate can be reduced to a value that permits trouble free data transfer Lowering the transfer rate may also b...

Page 108: ...upon delivery Last Status The Last Status gives detailed information on the last failure of a hard disk drive The information is only present until the next hard reset of the system and may help for d...

Page 109: ...re the subsystem more precisely its intelligence the so called SEP SAF TE Enclosure Processor See Figure 45 NOTE Non initialized disks cannot be configured as no RAID configuration information can be...

Page 110: ...110 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide Figure 47 Block Diagram of a SAF TE Subsystem...

Page 111: ...l drive of the type Disk it only consists of one single hard disk drive If a logical drive consists of more hard disk drives it is of the type Chain concatenation of several hard disk drives F3 loads...

Page 112: ...18 GB drive must have at least that capacity Figure 51 Drive Size If you select two or more physical drives with the space bar and press Enter StorCon suggests the creation of a logical drive of the...

Page 113: ...array drives with different RAID levels simultaneously Obviously the number of hard disk drives will limit the number of parallel arrays that can be used Figure 52 Select Array Drive NOTE A RAID 1 com...

Page 114: ...evel of an array drive RAID 0 to RAID 4 and vice versa RAID 0 to RAID 5 and vice versa Expansion Expansion of the capacity of an array drive NOTE If the entire hard disk capacity is not used when conf...

Page 115: ...e the array drive is without redundancy The replacement logical drive has to have at least the same capacity as the failed one The replacement is carried out either with StorCon or StorCon After insta...

Page 116: ...age capacity of 3300MB A hot fix drive for this array must have at least 1100MB of storage capacity NOTE To avoid wasting valuable storage capacity it is recommended that all logical drives forming an...

Page 117: ...he data present on the other logical drives of the array drive and the parity data The Parity Verify function allows you to check the consistency of an array drive s parity data The verification may t...

Page 118: ...Array Drive window appears StorCon lists all logical drives which are free not yet part of an array or host drive The selection bar is moved with the arrow up down keys and a logical drive is selected...

Page 119: ...rives with 0 and no further parity calculation is necessary This build method is pretty fast but the build must be successfully finished before you can leave StorCon otherwise the build mode is automa...

Page 120: ...ure For the purpose of the following considerations we define the term time without redundancy TWR as the time it takes to replace a failed hard disk drive assuming there is no hot fix drive installed...

Page 121: ...to introduce new capacity Figure 64 Host Drive Configuration Change Drive Name Use this command to change the name of a host drive The host drive name serves to identify a host drive within StorCon a...

Page 122: ...unction reverses the Split Host Drive option Only host drives which belong to the same array drive or logical drive can be merged Since the new host drives have a larger capacity StorCon has to write...

Page 123: ...parity data of RAID 4 and RAID 5 array drives Online capacity expansion of array drives Split and merge host drives Hot Plug Replace a failed member of an array drive Hot Fix Configure a spare disk fo...

Page 124: ...r of the toolbar or drag and drop the toolbar back under the menu bar You can also place the toolbar on the bottom of the StorCon window Table 18 Toolbar Icons Icon Opens Closes Description Select Con...

Page 125: ...is currently placed on The status bar can be displayed or hidden by selecting Status Bar from the View menu Figure 66 Status Bar Window Menu Commands These commands allow you to arrange the windows i...

Page 126: ...Menu View Menu Commands Use the items in this menu to open or close the windows of the main components of StorCon or change the appearance of the main window Figure 70 View Menu The Chart Menu The ch...

Page 127: ...Logical Configuration window Figure 72 Physical Configuration Menu Figure 73 Logical Configuration Menu Set the refresh rate for the Physical or the Logical Configuration windows This is the rate that...

Page 128: ...refreshes Select Controller The Select Controller window is used to select an Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 for all further actions within StorCon See Figure 75 Figure 75 Logical Configuration Menu Se...

Page 129: ...Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 and then the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 itself Double click on the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 to select or deselect The selected protocol system and Intel RAID Control...

Page 130: ...fibre channel busses of the selected Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 and the devices connected with these busses Click on the physical configuration icon to open the window See Figure 79 for an example o...

Page 131: ...formation on a controller see the first controller settings dialog in Figure 81 Right click on the icon to Change Settings Save Information or do a Firmware Update These configuration setting selectio...

Page 132: ...are available under DOS without loading a special driver Memory Test Configures the strategy and duration of the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 cache memory test during the boot phase A more intensive...

Page 133: ..._PFW 009 which indicates the version stepping Download the packed files which contain the latest programs drivers for the operating system used on the system Observe the following order when carrying...

Page 134: ...represented in the physical configuration window in Figure 79 and in Table 21 Each processor controls one I O channel Table 21 I O Processor Icons Item Description SCSI processor SE single ended SCSI...

Page 135: ...own in Table 22 to get channel information on a processor see the channel info dialog in Figure 82 Right click on the icon to Change Settings Rescan ID s or do a Hot Plug Add Disk See Figure 82 These...

Page 136: ...ssor fibre channel Rescan ID s This function allows you to rescan one or all ID s terms_scsi_id of the selected SCSI channel It displays an overview of all powered SCSI devices which are currently con...

Page 137: ...r subsystems which are designed and certified for hot plugging of hard disk drives WARNING If the new plugged in hard disk contains valid host drive or array drive information they will be deleted whe...

Page 138: ...hysical drive information see Figure 83 Right click on the icon to open SCSI Parameter Initialize Format Disk Check Surface Deinitialize Disk Progress Information Lock Disk Unlock Disk and Hot Plug Re...

Page 139: ...cal Configuration Synchronous Transfer Different to the older asynchronous transfer mode synchronous transfer offers higher transfer rates on the SCSI bus The maximum synchronous data transfer rate de...

Page 140: ...Tagged Queues This feature enables modern hard disk drives to receive several commands at one time and then process them in an optimized order A few mainly older drives do not support this feature You...

Page 141: ...array drives or host drives These devices are controlled by a software driver for example an ASPI module the operating system or by an application Non direct access devices cannot be initialized or co...

Page 142: ...device To change the logical configuration of a drive click the right mouse button on the desired drive or select an option from the configuration menu Drive types are described below Host Drives NOT...

Page 143: ...Storage Console Plus 143 Table 26 Array Drive Icons Icon Description RAID 4 5 10 Right click to select a drive option RAID 1 RAID 0...

Page 144: ...con Description Right click to select drive option Physical Drives Physical drives are hard disk drives Setting changes are not possible here If you want to change the settings you must do so in the p...

Page 145: ...the lowest number Name The name of the host drive A host drive is automatically given a name during the configuration It can be renamed by selecting the menu Drive Name logical_name of the menu list...

Page 146: ...error more than one drive failed not operational rebuild one drive is being integrated build initial preparation of the array idle new defined array before build process has started or expand one or s...

Page 147: ...s no longer available for the others Hot fix drives can also be configured as private hot fix drives A private hot fix drive can only be used by the array drive it was configured for Clicking with the...

Page 148: ...a is read from the master and written to the added logical drive the slave One master may have several slaves RAID 4 5 Component As a member of a RAID 4 or RAID 5 array a logical drive can be the mast...

Page 149: ...ailable physical drives Under the drives you can see their physical coordinates channel ID LUN the manufacturer and the vendor unique name On the right side you see a list of all possible host drive t...

Page 150: ...s distributed over all drives parity striping This option verifies online the parity information of the selected RAID 4 or RAID 5 array drive If this option is selected for several array drives the pr...

Page 151: ...lculate is completed the array drive s state changes again into ready with the addition of patch This notification has no relevance to the operation of the array drive but is a reminder that the parit...

Page 152: ...he state must be ready The data on the array drive remain intact and are not affected by the expansion The additional capacity is introduced as a new host drive If a logical drive fails during the exp...

Page 153: ...possible to add more than one drive at a time If no physical drives are offered you have to use the Hot Plug Add Disk function first to add new drives You can open the progress information window to...

Page 154: ...fix drive you can select a physical drive from the box that shows all suitable drives Figure 93 Add Hot Fix Drive The capacity of the hot fix drive has to be larger or equal than the capacity of the c...

Page 155: ...drive from the selected array drive Hot Fix Pool Access Click the right mouse button on the array drive icon Enable or disable the access of an array drive to the pool hot fix terms_hot_fix of hot fix...

Page 156: ...master and slave Remove a RAID 1 Component Remove a Mirror Drive Click the right mouse button on the logical drive icon Here you can remove a drive from a RAID 1 array drive If the array drive is in...

Page 157: ...tch ready patch This indicates that the original array drive For example the parity information was recalculated or the array drive has been patched from the error state into the fail state This may b...

Page 158: ...cess has begun the array drive assumes the build state While the array drive is in the build state redundancy information is calculated and stored to the components of the array drive The disk array w...

Page 159: ...ast status physical_drive_laststat from the physical drive information to analyze the cause of the drive failure Additionally check for retries terms_retry and or reassigns terms_grown_defect A drive...

Page 160: ...n add drives by dragging and dropping them from the physical and logical configuration windows into the statistics window To change the layout of the lines adjust the scales of the axis or remove driv...

Page 161: ...senting the severity of the event The second column lists how often the event occurred Note that some events may occur often The next column lists the date and the time when the event occurred The las...

Page 162: ...vents StorCon Help StorCon includes an online help function You can choose the Help menu or the pointer with the question mark to obtain online help for an icon or function There is also an index whic...

Page 163: ...Storage Console Plus 163 Figure 104 StorCon Help...

Page 164: ...guration Service open the Control Panel Start Settings Control Panel and double click on the RAID Configuration Service icon See Figure 105 The Poll Interval determines the time between two message ac...

Page 165: ...Plus 165 Figure 105 RAID Configuration Services In the IOCTLSrv property sheet you can add remove users which have remote access to the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 via StorCon Passwords are encrypted...

Page 166: ...166 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide Figure 106 RAID Configuration Service Add Remove Users...

Page 167: ...RAID Mail Utility 2 In the RAIDMail box left box in Figure 107 select RAIDMail Settings 3 Configure the RAID Mail Utility right box in Figure 107 Figure 107 RAID Mail If you select Local System all m...

Page 168: ...168 Intel RAID SRCU31 Users Guide Figure 108 Log File Name Figure 109 Workstation Names...

Page 169: ...e Plus 169 Figure 110 illustrates a typical message generated by RAID Mail Utility The Mail option allows the interfacing to a standard mailing system like Microsoft Outlook or Exchange Figure 110 RAI...

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Page 171: ...icable credit card exchange rate plus applicable VAT Intel reserves the right to change pricing for telephone support at any time without notice Or contact the local dealer or distributor For an updat...

Page 172: ...003 Vietnam 632 6368416 IDD via Philippines In Japan 0120 868686 Domestic 81 298 47 0800 Outside country In Latin America Brazil 0021 0811 408 5540 Mexico 001 800 628 8686 Colombia 980 9 122 118 Costa...

Page 173: ...0950 UL 60950 3rd Edition US Canada EN 60 950 European Union IEC 60 950 International CE Low Voltage Directive 73 23 EEC European Union GOST R 50377 92 Russia Product EMC Compliance FCC ICES 003 Class...

Page 174: ...arked with the following regulatory markings CULus Listing Marks CE Mark FCC Marking Class A Australia C Tick Mark Taiwan BSMI Marking Class A Russia GOST R Marking Korea RRL MIC Mark In addition the...

Page 175: ...tions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interferen...

Page 176: ...ndard entitled Digital Apparatus ICES 003 of the Canadian Department of Communications CE Declaration of Conformity Europe This product has been tested in accordance to and complies with the Low Volta...

Page 177: ...e with this device If the equipment has more than one interface connector do not leave cables connected to unused interfaces unless otherwise instructed to do so in the user s manual Changes or modifi...

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Page 179: ...CU31 cannot be run until the OS is up and running BIOS Boot Messages When booting the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 the boot message in Figure 111 appears In this example an Intel RAID Controller SRCU3...

Page 180: ...ter can access To determine which physical PCI slot this corresponds to consult the PCI computer system manual DPMEM B at 0xFA0000000 0xFA003FF INT A IRQ 11 DPMEM stands for Dual Ported Memory The Int...

Page 181: ...he controller s SCSI channels Press Ctrl G to enter INTEL R Storage Console After pressing Ctrl G the message Please wait appears The I O bus scan is completed and the built in StorCon configuration p...

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