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Page 1: ...JetStor SAS 712U Series User Manual JetStor SAS 712U JetStor SAS 712U 10G JetStor SAS 712U 10G Version 8 20 February 2013...

Page 2: ...transmitted without written permission from Advanced Computer Network Corporation Trademarks All products and trade names used in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respectiv...

Page 3: ...you have basic knowledge of Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID Storage Area Network SAN Network Attached Storage NAS Internet SCSI iSCSI Serial attached SCSI SAS Serial ATA SATA technology CAU...

Page 4: ...Indicates required or expected values Example a b indicates that you must choose either a or b vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments Slash Indicates al...

Page 5: ...overloading of the circuits might have on overcurrent protection and supply wiring Appropriate consideration of equipment nameplate ratings should be used when addressing this concern 5 Reliable Earth...

Page 6: ...93 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 6 SAS 712 U Series User Manual CAUTION Risk of explosion if battery is replaced by incorrect type Dispose of used batteries according to the...

Page 7: ...11 PRODUCT OVERVIEW 11 Model Comparison 11 Package Contents 12 HARDWARE 12 Front View 12 Disk Drive Assembly 13 Rear View 14 RAID CONCEPTS 15 RAID Levels 15 NAS CONCEPTS 15 ISCSI CONCEPTS 16 Chapter 2...

Page 8: ...PERATION TAB SUMMARY 38 Overview 38 Utilization 39 MENU FILE 40 Download MIB File 40 Download System Information 40 Import Account Information 40 Export Account Information 41 MENU CONFIGURATION 41 SU...

Page 9: ...8 FTP 78 WebDAV 80 iSCSI 80 Connection 80 Directory Services 82 Backup 84 Amazon S3 84 Replication 86 AntiVirus 87 Settings 88 Report 90 SUBMENU ENCLOSURE 90 Hardware monitor 90 UPS 90 MENU VIEW 92 SU...

Page 10: ...hat Linux 6 99 Open Solaris 10 11 99 NFS AND VSHPERE5 99 AFP AND MAC OS X 100 Apple Time Machine support 101 FTP 102 Method 1 Using command line shell 102 Method 2 Using FTP client application 103 WEB...

Page 11: ...xible intelligent network attached storage NAS solution for virtualized server environments and the growing demand for data storage JetStor storage systems can provide non stop service with a high deg...

Page 12: ...he following items JetStor storage system x1 HDD trays x12 Power cords x2 RS 232 cables x1 CD x1 Rail kit x1 set Keys screws for drives and rail kit x1 packet Hardware This section provides basic info...

Page 13: ...bly Remove a drive tray Then install a HDD To install SAS SATA drives align the edge of the SAS SATA drive to the back end of tray the backplane can directly connect to SAS SATA drives SAS SATA Drive...

Page 14: ...g accessed or no drive in the tray 3 Tray removal handle 4 Latch to release the tray and tray handle Rear View JetStor SAS 712U Series 712U 6 x GbE ports This table describes the rear components Numbe...

Page 15: ...A description of supported RAID levels follow Type Description Min No of Drives RAID 0 Disk striping 1 RAID 1 Disk mirroring over two disks 2 RAID 5 Striping with interspersed parity over the member d...

Page 16: ...cal disks and available to be formatted with a file system and mounted iSCSI Concepts iSCSI Internet SCSI is a protocol which encapsulates SCSI Small Computer System Interface commands and data in TCP...

Page 17: ...ts or initiates any iSCSI communication It requests all SCSI operations like read or write An initiator is usually located on the host side either an iSCSI HBA or iSCSI SW initiator The target is the...

Page 18: ...inistrator The plan should include network information for all network ports If using static IP addresses please prepare a list of the static IP addresses the subnet mask and the default gateway Switc...

Page 19: ...Copyright 1993 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 19 SAS 712 U Series User Manual System Installation and Deployment JetStor SAS 712U Series 712U 712U 10G 712U 10G...

Page 20: ...orms a booting process which takes a few minutes Power Off the System If it becomes necessary to power down the system it is recommended using a normal controlled shutdown form through either the LCM...

Page 21: ...dvanced functions and it s also highly portable software by using Java based programming There are no additional installation and server hardware requirements and you can easily access all your storag...

Page 22: ...Click JetCentral to download JetCentral software for installation Click Java to download JRE Java Runtime Environment Software Installation and Deployment There are standalone and client Server modes...

Page 23: ...e installed in one host For the client server mode both JetCentral client and server program can be installed in one host or can be divided into several hosts JetCentral server program is installed in...

Page 24: ...s User Manual 2 Check the License Agreement and then click Next button 3 Select Standalone or Client Server mode and then click Next button 4 If you select Standalone mode change the location if neces...

Page 25: ...ter Network Corp All Rights Reserved 25 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 5 It s Client Server mode Select to install Server or Client Application or both Change the location if necessary otherwise click N...

Page 26: ...utton The JetCentral software contains the following items JetCentral Server It s a Windows based program It s available in Client Server mode JetCentral Client It s a Java based program JRE Java Runt...

Page 27: ...functions System it displays a list of JetStor products in the network environment And Login operation to every JetStor storage Account it can manage users groups and their privileges for client side...

Page 28: ...es User Manual Take an example of getting the authorization to a system 1 Select a group name 2 Click Access button It will pop up a window Multi select the systems to be controlled by the group membe...

Page 29: ...log box for authentication Enter the JetCentral server IP address account and password which are created in JetCentral server The initial default for admin login is on the following Server 127 0 0 1 T...

Page 30: ...on Tabs There are three operation tabs above the operation area Click it can switch the operation area Indication and Icons In Summary tab There are up to six indicators at the top right corner Operat...

Page 31: ...is displayed It will scan all JetStor storages in the same LAN segment and display in Managed Product Area Click the storage IP which you want to manage It will pop up an authentication dialog The in...

Page 32: ...p to six indicators at the top right corner In Configuration tab a chassis graphic is displayed below Move the cursor over the graphics A mouse over tip will pop up to briefly describe each part the c...

Page 33: ...n tabs above the operation area Click it can switch the operation area Intuitive Graph In configuration tab there are two graphs of the front and rear panel Mouse over the component will display the i...

Page 34: ...Network Time Protocol server When it is done click Next button 3 Setup a pool Select a RAID level from the drop down list Click Next button The wizard will automatically provide a list of valid RAID l...

Page 35: ...5 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 4 At the confirmation message click Finish button 5 After completion it will create a pool which includes two file systems and one volume 6 The Public folder shares CIFS...

Page 37: ...perties Delete ZFS Select ZFS Options Create Edit Delete Take snapshot Auto snapshot Snapshot Select ZFS Options Take snapshot LUN Select volume Options Attach Detach Configuration Accounts Users Opti...

Page 38: ...and shutdown Reboot Shutdown Authentication Account Password Wizard Quick setup Help About About JetCentral Operation Tab Summary The menu View Summary or Summary tab of the operation area is for acce...

Page 39: ...Voltage indicator Green Voltage values are normal Red Voltage values are out of range UPS indicator Green UPS is functioning or no UPS is connected Red UPS connection has failed Fan indicator Green F...

Page 40: ...tion The Download system information will download a compressed file to your local drive It contains event logs debug information and system configuration data Please send this compressed file to us w...

Page 41: ...s function will export the local account information in a pure text file Password will not be exported and it will be replaced by an x You may select the drive and path you want to save the informatio...

Page 42: ...le in this dialog System name To change the System name highlight the old name and type in a new one System indication Enable it to turn on the system LED for locating this system in the racks Buzzer...

Page 43: ...t is done click OK button Mail Setting The Mail setting icon is used to enter up to three mail addresses for receiving the event notifications Fill in the necessary fields and click Send test mail to...

Page 44: ...The options available in this dialog Messenger You must enable the Messenger service in Windows Start Control Panel Administrative Tools Services Messenger It allows up to three Messenger addresses Y...

Page 45: ...ternet SNMPc http www snmpc com Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net When it is done click OK button System Log Server The System Log Server icon is used to setup alerts via the syslog protocol The...

Page 46: ...Setting The menu Configuration System Network setting or Network setting tab of the operation area is for accessing the Management network port and LAN ports It is used to change IP addresses of netwo...

Page 47: ...No CIFS Yes Yes NFS Yes Yes AFP Yes Yes WebDAV No Yes iSCSI Yes Yes Link aggregation No Yes This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description Name Management port or LAN ports LAG Link...

Page 48: ...P BOOTP and specify a Static IP address The default setting is DHCP IPv6 Settings There are three options Automatic DHCP and Static for specifying IPv6 address The default is Automatic DNS If necessar...

Page 49: ...logical channel This increases the bandwidth and provides automatically failover when link status fails on a port Balance alb Adaptive load balancing includes balance tlb plus receives load balancing...

Page 50: ...need to set this value Using the default will do just fine TIP If network ports are assigned with VLAN ID before creating aggregation takes place aggregation will remove VLAN ID You need to repeat the...

Page 51: ...ement CIFS NFS FTP iSCSI remote replication SSH and LDAP There will be no DNS information coming from DHCPv6 server Submenu Storage The menu Configuration Storage or Configuration tab of the operation...

Page 52: ...en set as dedicated spare of a pool SSD HDD or SSD Vendor Hard drive vendor Serial Hard drive serial number Type Hard drive rate SAS 6Gb s SAS 3Gb s SATA 6Gb s SATA 3Gb s SATA 1 5Gb s Write cache Hard...

Page 53: ...hard drive vendors are different please refer to hard drive vendors specification for details S M A R T only supports SATA drives SAS drives do not have this function and will show N A in the web pag...

Page 54: ...SSD drives as SSD read cache to the pool Add disks Write cache Assign SSD drives as SSD write cache to the pool Add disks Dedicated spare Assign drives as dedicated spare to the pool Free disks Set th...

Page 55: ...y The default value is Disabled Readahead It s to enable or disable the read ahead function The default value is Enabled Command queuing It s to enable or disable the hard drives command queue functio...

Page 56: ...with 2 disks 2 We need to expand the capacity of Pool 1 by adding another RAID set a RAID 5 with 4 disks Go to Pool tab Select the pool you want to expand Right click to bring out function menu and se...

Page 57: ...e RAID set slot column it shows the RAID set members of Pool 1 How to set Dedicated spare disk Dedicated spare disk is applied to specific storage pool Make sure you have free hard drives for this Go...

Page 58: ...only SSD drive with coded JetStor string can be used as SSD cache 2 Go to Add disks Read cache Select the SSD drive s you want to use for read cache Only qualified SSD drives will be listed for user s...

Page 59: ...Column Name Description Name The name of the file system or volume Type File system or volume Quota GB The Quota of the file system or volume Reserved GB Reserved capacity of the file system or volume...

Page 60: ...lt value Zero Reclaim when the data block contains all zeros no physical space will be consumed The block will be marked specifically Generic Zero Reclaim This is JetStor patent filing technology that...

Page 61: ...e it will take up 20MB space The value of three means that it will take up extra double space to store the same data in the same storage pool Users will not be able to see the actual extra copies They...

Page 62: ...ems and volumes in the same pool Dedup Ratio Data size before dedup Data size after dedup From the screenshot in step 1 above 7564MB 7GB is the data size after dedup With a dedup ratio of 3 it means t...

Page 63: ...3 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 63 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 2 Map the share in Windows as a network drive And check the drive property 3 Copy several bitmap files that are ove...

Page 64: ...the network drive property again The actual space taken is less than 20MB which means Compression is functioning Enterprise features Thin provisioning Dynamic allocating space to store user data Appl...

Page 65: ...use thin provisioning 1 Create a filesystem with thin provisioning turned ON The Size option will be grey out Because the upper size limit is the available size of the storage pool there is no quota...

Page 66: ...or Configuration Snapshot tab of the operation area provides functions to manage snapshot activities such as take snapshot rollback clone delete or view the status of the snapshots Snapshot can only b...

Page 67: ...k the Take snapshot button 2 Use the drop down list to select a ZFS name 3 Enter a Snapshot name for the snapshot 4 Click OK button LUN The menu Configuration Storage LUN or Configuration LUN tab of t...

Page 68: ...er from the drop down list 5 Select the LUN number from the drop down list 6 Choose the Permission level 7 Click OK button The matching rules of access control are determined by the time the attaching...

Page 69: ...unt This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description User name The account name Group The user belongs to the groups Quota GB User quota space Used The percentage of the quota usage Em...

Page 70: ...er assigned ID has a range 1000 60000 TIP The password is required to be at least 12 and up to 16 alphanumeric characters This is because of UnifiedAUTH mechanism that will integrate with iSCSI CHAP a...

Page 71: ...al groups and domain groups are displayed separately by selecting the drop down list This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description GID Group ID user assigned range 1000 60000 Group...

Page 72: ...Directory or LDAP as directory service you may see the domain groups as below Please be aware that no modification add delete edit can be made to domain groups This can only be done on the AD server o...

Page 73: ...te folder Create folder on the file system Delete file system Delete the file system Take snapshot Take a snapshot on the file system Auto snapshot Set auto snapshot on the file system Add share Add s...

Page 74: ...lect a Pool 4 Select Type Property Compression type Sync and No of data copies 5 Enter the Size for the file system or volume 6 Click OK button Take an example of sharing a file system 1 Click the Add...

Page 75: ...Allow a group of computers that are in a certain IP range to access the share The number 1 31 in the drop down list represent the network mask value It stands for the total number of binary 1 in the n...

Page 76: ...P WebDAV The status of CIFS NFS AFP Green light the data service is enabled Red light the data service is disabled The drop down option by clicking mouse right button is available on the share Remove...

Page 77: ...efault is Welcome to CIFS server Maximum length is 256 characters Workgroup Default is Workgroup Maximum length is 16 characters WINS server 1 IP address WINS Server IP Address Default is empty If it...

Page 78: ...to setup AFP protocol The AFP is a network protocol that offers file sharing services for Mac computers Starting this service will open the following ports on the JetStor unified storage system TCP 5...

Page 79: ...6 Clients The maximum number of simultaneous clients default is 20 range is 1 4096 Connections The maximum number of connections per IP address default is 32 range is 1 32 Login attempts The maximum n...

Page 80: ...ervice will open the following ports on the JetStor unified storage system TCP 80 httpd Click Change button to enable disable the WebDAV protocol iSCSI The iSCSI Internet SCSI tab is used to setup iSC...

Page 81: ...host computer name Initiator IP It displays the host computer IP Target Name It displays the controller name InitialR2T InitialR2T Initial Ready to Transfer is used to turn off either the use of a uni...

Page 82: ...es the users from memorizing different account password sets for different data services The benefits are Easier use of all data services Simplified management Only one directory service can be enable...

Page 83: ...omatically Or you may set the duration in minutes for how often U400Q U600Q should synchronize with the AD server TIP In order to make sure you can successfully login Active Directory server please ma...

Page 84: ...dc your domain Using previous example The Admin DN should be put in is cn Administrator dc aaa dc bbb dc com TIP Please contact your LDAP server administrator for the correct login parameters for Base...

Page 85: ...rt the task Stop Stop the task Schedule Schedule the task Take an example of adding a task 1 Click Add by clicking mouse right button 2 Enter the Job name select the Local path and enter the folder 3...

Page 86: ...created If you experience slow system performance please reduce the replication tasks 1 to Many replication tasks is not supported The same replication source cannot coexist in different tasks The ma...

Page 87: ...s The menu Configuration Services AntiVirus or AntiVirus tab of the operation area is for accessing the Settings and Report option tabs JetStor unified storage provides 24 7 around the clock protectio...

Page 88: ...n result in the report and informs the user that the write is complete Settings ICAP is a lightweight protocol developed to allow scanning and modification of web content passing through a web proxy B...

Page 89: ...ed 89 SAS 712 U Series User Manual Click Change button to change the settings Enter the settings of AntiVirus server IP The default port number o ICAP is 1344 The other fields are optional Add the exc...

Page 90: ...format as log ModelName SerialNumber Date Time txt Submenu Enclosure The menu Configuration Enclosure is for accessing the Hardware monitor and UPS options Hardware monitor Go to Configuration Enclosu...

Page 91: ...Options Description UPS Type Select UPS Type None No UPS or other vendors Smart UPS APC UPS Megatec UPS Megatec UPS Shutdown battery level When below the setting level the system will shutdown Settin...

Page 92: ...and Utilization option tabs Please see Operation Tab Summary at the beginning section of this chapter for more details Event The menu View Event or Event log tab of the operation area provides a log o...

Page 93: ...expander options System The menu Maintenance Upgrade firmware System is used to upgrade controller firmware Please prepare new controller firmware file named xxxx bin in local hard drive then click Br...

Page 94: ...dress DHCP Reboot and Shutdown The menu Maintenance Reboot and shutdown is used to reboot or shutdown the system Before powering off the system it is highly recommended to execute Shutdown function to...

Page 95: ...ring of Chapter 4 CIFS and Windows There are several ways to access a network share in Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems It all follows Windows UNC Universal Naming Convention format Syntax N...

Page 96: ...account and password Please put in your account and password When the authentication is clear the share is ready for you to use as follows Method 2 The command line input from Start button Click Star...

Page 97: ...etwork share from JetStor unified storage to a drive letter The network share will be automatically mapped the next time you boot your Windows Step 1 Open a Windows Explorer from Start button or by pr...

Page 98: ...nections cannot be established the system will automatically try to establish the connection using version 3 protocol Before using the NFS shares please make sure the NFS settings of the shares are pr...

Page 99: ...S share name mount point For example mount 192 168 8 180 SQL_DB2 mnt nas Open Solaris 10 11 Open Solaris 10 11 will use NFS version 4 as default Use the following syntax to mount an NFS share mount F...

Page 100: ...ser Manual AFP and Mac OS X In Finder go to Go and select Connect to Server Put in the network port IP address that you want to access Click Connect It will bring up a window requesting account and pa...

Page 101: ...here you go The share is ready for you to access Apple Time Machine support It s very easy and straight forward to use Apple Time Machine with JetStor unified storage Simply follow the same instructio...

Page 102: ...ed in almost all operating systems You may use FTP function through command line shell FTP client or web browsers Method 1 Using command line shell In Windows XP or Windows 7 open a command line windo...

Page 103: ...supports the following operating systems 32bit Windows Windows XP SP2 Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 SP1 64bit Windows operating systems have issues to support WebDAV service We recommend using 3...

Page 104: ...al Method 1 Windows 7 using Map Network Drive wizard From Windows Explorer go to Tools and select Map Network Drive From Network and Sharing Center in the Control Panel go to Tools and select Map Netw...

Page 105: ...ll Rights Reserved 105 SAS 712 U Series User Manual When the wizard appears click Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents and pictures Follow the instructions and click Next Sel...

Page 106: ...Network Corp All Rights Reserved 106 SAS 712 U Series User Manual In Internet or network address input put in the WebDAV share in the following syntax http IP address 50000 WebDAV share Please make s...

Page 107: ...User Manual Put in the required account and password information You may name the network location Here we simply use the default as 192 168 122 112 You may access the web folder now Method 2 Using 3...

Page 108: ...p by step instructions of how to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI initiator This example is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Connect to iSCSI Ta...

Page 109: ...ghts Reserved 109 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 4 It can connect to an iSCSI disk now Setup MPIO 1 If running MPIO please continue 2 Click Discovery tab to connect the second path 3 Click Discover Port...

Page 110: ...ed Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 110 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 4 Click OK button 5 Click Targets tab select the second path and then click Connect button 6 Enable Enable multi path chec...

Page 111: ...d 111 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 7 Done it can connect to an iSCSI disk with MPIO Setup MC S 1 If running MC S please continue 2 Select one target name click Properties button 3 Click MCS button to...

Page 112: ...l Rights Reserved 112 SAS 712 U Series User Manual 6 Select Initiator IP and Target portal IP and then click OK button 7 Click Connect button 8 Click OK button 9 Done Disconnect 1 Select the target na...

Page 114: ...number LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit GUI Graphic User Interface RO Set the volume to be Read Only DS Dedicated Spare d...

Page 116: ...07 SaveAs 107 Event Log Filter 60 Event Log Filter 60 Explorer Add Share 87 Attach LUN 87 Auto Shanpshot 87 Create 87 Create folder 87 Delete File System 87 Delete Volume 87 Detach LUN 87 Edit file sy...

Page 117: ...Change 92 NTP Network Time Protocol 48 57 O Overview 52 P PCP Priority Code Point 64 Physical Disk Set Free Disk 66 Pool Create 68 Delete 68 Expand 68 Set home directory 68 Q JetCentral Client 40 Eve...

Page 118: ...Corp All Rights Reserved 118 SAS 712 U Series User Manual V VLAN ID 64 W Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning 94 Web UI Web User Interface 34 WebDAV 94 Change 95 Wizard 47 Z ZFS Auto snapshot 73...

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