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Creating a Storage Configuration

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Figure 4.25 WebBIOS Span Definition Screen

Under the heading Array With Free Space, hold <Ctrl> while you
select a drive group of three or more drives, and click

Add to SPAN

The drive group you select displays in the right frame under the
heading Span.

10. Hold <Ctrl> while you select a second drive group of three or more

drives, and click

Add to SPAN

Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span.

11. Click

Next

The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears, as shown in

Figure 4.26

You use this screen to select the RAID level, stripe size, read policy,
and other attributes for the new virtual drive(s).

12. Hold <Ctrl> while you select two 3-drive drive groups in the

Configuration panel on the right.

Summary of Contents for ThinkServer RD230

Page 1: ...ThinkServer RD230 RD240 and TD230 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide ...

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Page 3: ...ThinkServer RD230 RD240 and TD230 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide ...

Page 4: ...S NOTICE If products data computer software or services are delivered pursuant a General Services Administration GSA contract use reproduction or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in Contract No GS 35F 05925 Note Before using this information and the product it supports be sure to read and understand the following v The Important Notices that comes with your product v The Safety Info...

Page 5: ...ion This document has the following chapters and appendixes Chapter 1 Overview describes the SAS Serial ATA SATA II and Solid State Disk SSD technologies configuration scenarios and Technical Support information Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID describes RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID functions and benefits RAID components RAID levels and configuration strategies In addition it defin...

Page 6: ...apply saved configurations to a controller Chapter 9 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices explains how the MegaRAID Storage Manager software monitors the status of storage configurations and devices and displays information about them Chapter 10 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager maintenance functions for virtual drives and other storage ...

Page 7: ...2 0 Support 1 5 1 7 Configuration Scenarios 1 6 1 7 1 Valid Drive Mix Configurations with HDDs and SSDs 1 8 Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID 2 1 RAID Description 2 1 2 2 RAID Benefits 2 1 2 3 RAID Functions 2 1 2 4 Components and Features 2 2 2 4 1 Physical Array 2 2 2 4 2 Virtual Drive 2 2 2 4 3 RAID Drive Group 2 3 2 4 4 Fault Tolerance 2 3 2 4 5 Consistency Check 2 5 2 4 6 Copyback 2 5 2 4 7 Back...

Page 8: ... 2 5 3 RAID 0 2 18 2 5 4 RAID 1 2 19 2 5 5 RAID 5 2 20 2 5 6 RAID 6 2 21 2 5 7 RAID 00 2 22 2 5 8 RAID 10 2 24 2 5 9 RAID 50 2 25 2 5 10 RAID 60 2 26 2 6 RAID Configuration Strategies 2 28 2 6 1 Maximizing Fault Tolerance 2 28 2 6 2 Maximizing Performance 2 30 2 6 3 Maximizing Storage Capacity 2 32 2 7 RAID Availability 2 33 2 7 1 RAID Availability Concept 2 33 2 8 Configuration Planning 2 34 2 8 ...

Page 9: ...ng the Security Key Identifier Security Key and Passphrase 4 59 4 5 2 Changing the Security Key Identifier Security Key and Pass Phrase 4 64 4 5 3 Disabling the Drive Security Settings 4 71 4 5 4 Importing Foreign Configurations 4 73 4 6 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 4 74 4 6 1 Viewing and Changing Controller Properties 4 74 4 6 2 Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties 4 78 4 6 3 V...

Page 10: ... 4 9 Set Time and Date on Controller 5 10 5 4 10 Display Time and Date on Controller 5 11 5 5 Patrol Read Related Controller Properties 5 11 5 5 1 Set Patrol Read Options 5 11 5 5 2 Set Patrol Read Delay Interval 5 12 5 6 BIOS Related Properties 5 12 5 6 1 Set or Display Bootable Virtual Drive ID 5 13 5 6 2 Select BIOS Status Options 5 13 5 7 Battery Backup Unit Related Properties 5 13 5 7 1 Displ...

Page 11: ...ters 5 27 5 10 4 Manage Virtual Drives Initialization 5 27 5 10 5 Manage a Consistency Check 5 28 5 10 6 Manage a Background Initialization 5 28 5 10 7 Perform a Virtual Drive Reconstruction 5 29 5 10 8 Display Information about Virtual Drives and Drives 5 29 5 10 9 Display the Number of Virtual Drives 5 29 5 11 Drive Related Options 5 30 5 11 1 Display Drive Information 5 30 5 11 2 Set the Drive ...

Page 12: ... 5 38 Chapter 6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation 6 1 Overview 6 1 6 1 1 Creating Storage Configurations 6 1 6 1 2 Monitoring Storage Devices 6 2 6 1 3 Maintaining Storage Configurations 6 2 6 2 Hardware and Software Requirements 6 2 6 3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager 6 3 6 3 1 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows 6 3 6 3 2 Installing MegaRAID Sto...

Page 13: ... Chapter 7 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus 7 1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software 7 1 7 2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window 7 4 7 2 1 Physical Logical View Panel 7 5 7 2 2 Properties Operations Panels 7 6 7 2 3 Event Log Panel 7 7 7 2 4 Menu Bar 7 8 Chapter 8 Configuration 8 1 Creating a New Storage Configuration 8 2 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings 8 2 8 1 2 Creating a Virtu...

Page 14: ...ystem Events and Storage Devices 9 1 Monitoring System Events 9 1 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications 9 3 9 2 1 Setting Alert Delivery Methods 9 5 9 2 2 Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events 9 6 9 2 3 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events 9 7 9 2 4 Entering or Editing the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server 9 9 9 2 5 Authenticating a Server 9 10 9 2 6 Saving Backup Con...

Page 15: ... 10 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations 10 1 Initializing a Virtual Drive 10 1 10 2 Running a Consistency Check 10 2 10 3 Scanning for New Drives 10 3 10 4 Rebuilding a Drive 10 3 10 5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing 10 4 10 6 Upgrading the Firmware 10 5 Appendix A Events and Messages Appendix B Glossary Appendix C Notices ...

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Page 17: ...finition Screen 4 10 4 5 WebBIOS Virtual Drive Definition Screen 4 11 4 6 RAID 0 Configuration Preview 4 14 4 7 WebBIOS Disk Group Definition Screen 4 15 4 8 WebBIOS Virtual Drive Definition Screen 4 16 4 9 RAID 1 Configuration Preview 4 19 4 10 WebBIOS Disk Group Definition Screen 4 20 4 11 WebBIOS Virtual Drive Definition Screen 4 21 4 12 RAID 5 Configuration Preview 4 24 4 13 WebBIOS Disk Group...

Page 18: ...e 4 63 4 37 Confirm Enable Drive Security Screen 4 64 4 38 Encryption Settings Screen 4 65 4 39 Change Security Settings Introduction 4 66 4 40 Change Security Settings Security Key ID 4 67 4 41 Change Security Settings Security Key 4 68 4 42 Authenticate Drive Security Key 4 69 4 43 Change Security Settings Pass Phrase 4 70 4 44 Confirm Change Drive Security Settings 4 71 4 45 Encryption Settings...

Page 19: ...Group 0 8 13 8 9 Span 0 and Span 1 of Drive Group 0 8 14 8 10 Virtual Drive Settings Window 8 15 8 11 New Virtual Drive 0 8 16 8 12 Create Virtual Drive Summary Window 8 17 8 13 Drive Security Settings Menu 8 19 8 14 Enable Drive Security Introduction Screen 8 20 8 15 Enter Security Key ID Screen 8 21 8 16 Enter Security Key Screen 8 22 8 17 Enable Drive Security Enter Pass Phrase Screen 8 23 8 18...

Page 20: ...cation Configuration Screen 9 4 9 4 Alert Notification Delivery Methods Dialog Box 9 6 9 5 Change Individual Events Dialog Box 9 7 9 6 Change Individual Events Severity Level Menu 9 8 9 7 Mail Server Options 9 9 9 8 Email Settings 9 12 9 9 Controller Information 9 14 9 10 Drive Information 9 15 9 11 Patrol Read Configuration 9 17 9 12 Virtual Drive Properties 9 20 9 13 Enclosure Information Graphi...

Page 21: ...figuration 2 35 3 1 Terminology used in FDE 3 2 4 1 WebBIOS CU Toolbar Icons 4 4 4 2 Controller Properties Menu Options 4 76 4 3 Additional Drives Required for RAID Level Migration 4 93 5 1 Command Line Abbreviations 5 5 5 2 Conventions 5 5 5 3 Controller Parameters 5 6 5 4 Number of Controllers Supported 5 7 5 5 Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild 5 7 5 6 Cache Flush on Selected Controller 5 7 5 ...

Page 22: ...Data from File 5 24 5 33 Manage Foreign Configuration Information 5 25 5 34 Delete Specified Virtual Drives 5 25 5 35 Display Free Space 5 25 5 36 Display Virtual Drive Information 5 26 5 37 Change Virtual Drive Cache and Access Parameters 5 26 5 38 Display Virtual Drive Cache and Access Parameters 5 27 5 39 Manage Virtual Drive Initialization 5 27 5 40 Manage Consistency Check 5 28 5 41 Manage Ba...

Page 23: ...roller s 5 34 5 59 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices 5 35 5 60 Display Enclosure Information 5 35 5 61 Flash Firmware with ROM File 5 36 5 62 Flash Firmware in Mode 0 with ROM File 5 36 5 63 Display PHY Connection Information 5 37 5 64 Start Diagnostics Setting 5 37 5 65 Start Battery Test 5 37 5 66 Start NVRAM Diagnostic 5 38 5 67 Display MegaCLI Version 5 38 5 68 Display Help for MegaCLI...

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Page 25: ...tions Section 1 1 SAS Technology Section 1 2 Serial attached SCSI Device Interface Section 1 3 Serial ATA II Features Section 1 4 Solid State Drive Features Section 1 5 Dimmer Switch Feature Section 1 6 UEFI 2 0 Support Section 1 7 Configuration Scenarios Section 1 8 Technical Support 1 1 SAS Technology The MegaRAID SAS RAID controllers are high performance intelligent PCI Express to SCSI Serial A...

Page 26: ... requirements across midrange and enterprise class server platforms Lenovo offers a family of MegaRAID SAS RAID controllers addressing the needs for both internal and external solutions The SAS controllers support the ANSI Serial Attached SCSI standard version 1 1 In addition the controller supports the SATA II protocol defined by the Serial ATA specification version 1 0a Supporting both the SAS a...

Page 27: ...rements when compared to parallel SCSI SAS controllers leverage a common electrical and physical connection interface that is compatible with Serial ATA technology The SAS and SATA II protocols use a thin 7 wire connector instead of the 68 wire SCSI cable or 26 wire ATA cable The SAS SATA II connector and cable are easier to manipulate allow connections to smaller devices and do not inhibit airflo...

Page 28: ...weight and size for low capacity SSD drives The features and operations on SSD drives are the same as for hard disk drives HDD Note MegaRAID implements support for only those SATA SSD drives which support ATA 8 ACS compliance You can choose whether to allow a virtual drive to consist of both SSD devices and HDDs For a virtual drive that consists of SSDs only you can choose whether to allow SAS SSD...

Page 29: ...itch reduces the power consumption of the devices connected to a MegaRAID controller This helps to share resources more efficiently and lower costs With Dimmer Switch any unconfigured drive connected to a MegaRAID controller is spun down after 30 minutes of inactivity reducing its power usage Spun down drives are spun up automatically when you create a configuration using those drives 1 6 UEFI 2 0...

Page 30: ...nd I2 C bus Side bands of both types of internal SAS connectors support the SFF 8485 SGPIO interface Midrange internal SAS configurations This configuration is like the internal SATA II configurations but with high end disks This configuration is more suitable for low range to midrange servers High end external SAS SATA II configurations This configuration is for both internal connectivity and ext...

Page 31: ...M SRAM I2C UART ThinServerSASx12 SAS SATA II Drives PCI Express Interface SAS SATA Drives SAS SATA II Drives SAS SATA II Drives SAS SATA II Drives 8 SRAM SRAM SDRAM Peripheral Bus 72 bit DDR DDR2 with ECC Interface PCI Express to SAS ROC SAS RAID Controller Expander a ThinkServer SASx12 expander that is connected to SAS disks SATA II disks or both Figure 1 2 Example of a ThinkServer SAS RAID Contr...

Page 32: ...virtual drives and allow HDD and SSD mixing The valid drive mix configurations are based on manufacturer settings Note Only one of the valid configurations listed in Table 1 1 is allowed based on your controller card manufacturing setting Note The valid drive mix also applies to hot spares For hot spare information see Section 2 4 13 Hot Spares page 2 11 Table 1 1 Valid Drive Mix Configurations Va...

Page 33: ...AID drive group appears to the host computer as a single storage unit or as multiple virtual units I O is expedited because several drives can be accessed simultaneously 2 2 RAID Benefits RAID drive groups improve data storage reliability and fault tolerance compared to single drive storage systems Data loss resulting from a drive failure can be prevented by reconstructing missing data from the re...

Page 34: ... Selecting a host controller to work on 2 4 Components and Features RAID levels describe a system for ensuring the availability and redundancy of data stored on large disk subsystems See Section 2 5 RAID Levels for detailed information about RAID levels The following subsections describes the components of RAID drive groups and RAID levels 2 4 1 Physical Array A physical array is a group of drives...

Page 35: ...two drive failures Each spanned RAID 10 virtual drive can tolerate multiple drive failures as long as each failure is in a separate drive group A RAID 50 virtual drive can tolerate two drive failures as long as each failure is in a separate drive group RAID 60 drive groups can tolerate up to two drive failures in each drive group Note RAID level 0 is not fault tolerant If a drive in a RAID 0 drive...

Page 36: ...s new drives In addition the firmware dynamically adds the enclosure and its contents to the management entity currently in use Multipathing provides the following features Support for failover in the event of path failure Auto discovery of new or restored paths while the system is online and reversion to system load balancing policy Measurable bandwidth improvement to the multi path device Suppor...

Page 37: ... to copy data from a source drive of a virtual drive to a destination drive that is not a part of the virtual drive Copyback is often used to create or restore a specific physical configuration for a drive group for example a specific arrangement of drive group members on the device I O buses Copyback can be run automatically or manually Typically when a drive fails or is expected to fail the data...

Page 38: ...threshold and the other failed c If you add a hot spare assume a global hot spare during a copyback operation the copyback is aborted and the rebuild operation starts on the hot spare 2 4 7 Background Initialization Background initialization is a consistency check that is forced when you create a virtual drive The difference between a background initialization and a consistency check is that a bac...

Page 39: ...oller Property Related Options or Section 9 5 Running a Patrol Read 2 4 9 Disk Striping Disk striping allows you to write data across multiple drives instead of just one drive Disk striping involves partitioning each drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size from 8 KB to 1024 KB These stripes are interleaved in a repeated sequential manner The combined storage space is composed of str...

Page 40: ... 10 Disk Mirroring With mirroring used in RAID 1 and RAID 10 data written to one drive is simultaneously written to another drive The primary advantage of disk mirroring is that it provides 100 percent data redundancy Because the contents of the disk are completely written to a second disk data is not lost if one disk fails In addition both drives contain the same data at all times so either disk ...

Page 41: ...or one drive failure without duplicating the contents of entire drives RAID 6 uses distributed parity and disk striping also but adds a second set of parity data so that it can survive up to two drive failures Figure 2 3 Example of Distributed Parity RAID 5 Table 2 1 Types of Parity Parity Type Description Dedicated The parity data on two or more drives is stored on an additional disk Distributed ...

Page 42: ... you do not lose the whole drive group Figure 2 4 Example of Disk Spanning Note Spanning two contiguous RAID 0 virtual drives does not produce a new RAID level or add fault tolerance It does increase the capacity of the virtual drive and improves performance by doubling the number of spindles 2 4 12 1 Spanning for RAID 00 RAID 10 RAID 50 and RAID 60 Table 2 2 describes how to configure RAID 00 RAI...

Page 43: ...e and marked ready awaiting removal once the rebuild to a hot spare begins You can make hot spares of the drives that are not in a RAID virtual drive You can use the RAID management software to designate the hot spare to have enclosure affinity meaning that if there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration the hot spare will be used first on the backplane side that it resides ...

Page 44: ...ace a failed drive on both channels 2 4 13 2 Dedicated Hot Spare A dedicated hot spare can be used to replace a failed drive only in a selected drive group One or more drives can be designated as a member of a spare drive pool The most suitable drive from the pool is selected for fail over A dedicated hot spare is used before one from the global hot spare pool Hot spare drives can be located on an...

Page 45: ...ls If a hot spare is not available the failed drive must be replaced with a new drive so that the data on the failed drive can be rebuilt The failed drive is removed from the virtual drive and marked ready awaiting removal when the rebuild to a hot spare begins If the system goes down during a rebuild the RAID controller automatically restarts the rebuild after the system reboots Note When the reb...

Page 46: ...commended The default rebuild rate is 30 percent 2 4 16 Hot Swap A hot swap is the manual replacement of a defective drive unit while the computer is still running When a new drive has been installed a rebuild will occur automatically if The newly inserted drive is the same capacity as or larger than the failed drive It is placed in the same drive bay as the failed drive it is replacing The RAID c...

Page 47: ... A drive that is part of a virtual drive but which has invalid data as far as the RAID configuration is concerned Note When a virtual drive with cached data goes offline the cache for the virtual drive is discarded Because the virtual drive is offline the cache cannot be saved Table 2 3 Drive States Cont State Description Table 2 4 Virtual Drive States State Description Optimal The virtual drive o...

Page 48: ...throughput especially for large files in an environment that does not require fault tolerance RAID 1 uses mirroring so that data written to one drive is simultaneously written to another drive This is good for small databases or other applications that require small capacity but complete data redundancy RAID 5 uses disk striping and parity data across all drives distributed parity to provide high ...

Page 49: ...apacity Note Having virtual drives of different RAID levels such as RAID 0 and RAID 5 in the same drive group is not allowed For example if an existing RAID 5 virtual drive is created out of partial space in an array the next virtual drive in the array has to be R5 only RAID 60 a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 6 uses distributed parity with two independent parity blocks per stripe in each RAID set...

Page 50: ...D controller can use both SAS drives and SATA drives to read or write the file faster RAID 0 involves no parity calculations to complicate the write operation This makes RAID 0 ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance Table 2 5 provides an overview of RAID 0 Figure 2 5 provides a graphic example of a RAID 0 drive group Figure 2 5 RAID 0 Drive Group Exam...

Page 51: ...ID 5 the parity information is written to all drives RAID 5 is best suited for networks that perform a lot of small input output I O transactions simultaneously Table 2 6 RAID 1 Overview Uses Use RAID 1 for small databases or any other environment that requires fault tolerance but small capacity Strong Points Provides complete data redundancy RAID 1 is ideal for any application that requires fault...

Page 52: ...w write request rates Strong Points Provides data redundancy high read rates and good performance in most environments Provides redundancy with lowest loss of capacity Weak Points Not well suited to tasks requiring lot of writes Suffers more impact if no cache is used clustering Drive performance will be reduced if a drive is being rebuilt Environments with few processes do not perform as well bec...

Page 53: ...drives are denoted by Q The P drives follow the RAID 5 parity scheme Table 2 8 RAID 6 Overview Uses Use for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates Strong Points Provides data redundancy high read rates and good performance in most environments Can survive the loss of two drives...

Page 54: ...SAS drives and SATA drives to read or write the file faster RAID 00 involves no parity calculations to complicate the write operation This makes RAID 00 ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance Table 2 6 provides an overview of RAID 00 Figure 2 6 provides a graphic example of a RAID 00 drive group Segment 1 Segment 6 Segment 2 Segment 7 Segment 3 Segmen...

Page 55: ...iped across drive groups to increase performance by enabling access to multiple drive groups simultaneously Each spanned RAID 10 virtual drive can tolerate multiple drive failures as long as each failure is in a separate drive group If there are drive failures less than total drive capacity is available Configure RAID 10 by spanning two contiguous RAID 1 virtual drives up to the maximum number of ...

Page 56: ...h data storage that needs 100 percent redundancy of mirrored drive groups and that also needs the enhanced I O performance of RAID 0 striped drive groups RAID 10 works well for medium sized databases or any environment that requires a higher degree of fault tolerance and moderate to medium capacity Strong Points Provides both high data transfer rates and complete data redundancy Weak Points Requir...

Page 57: ...ive failures can be tolerated only one drive failure can be tolerated in each RAID 5 level drive group Table 2 11 provides an overview of RAID 50 Figure 2 11 RAID 50 Level Virtual Drive Table 2 11 RAID 50 Overview Uses Appropriate when used with data that requires high reliability high request rates high data transfer and medium to large capacity Strong Points Provides high data throughput data re...

Page 58: ...RAID 6 level drive group Table 2 12 RAID 60 Overview Uses Provides a high level of data protection through the use of a second parity block in each stripe Use RAID 60 for data that requires a very high level of protection from loss In the case of a failure of one drive or two drives in a RAID set in a virtual drive the RAID controller uses the parity blocks to recreate all of the missing informati...

Page 59: ...writes A RAID 60 virtual drive has to generate two sets of parity data for each write operation which results in a significant decrease in performance during writes Drive performance is reduced during a drive rebuild Environments with few processes do not perform as well because the RAID overhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes RAID 6 costs more because of...

Page 60: ... Table 2 13 RAID Levels and Fault Tolerance RAID Level Fault Tolerance 0 Does not provide fault tolerance All data is lost if any drive fails Disk striping writes data across multiple drives instead of just one drive It involves partitioning each drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size RAID 0 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance 1 ...

Page 61: ... storage space into stripes that can vary in size RAID 00 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance 10 Provides complete data redundancy using striping across spanned RAID 1 drive groups RAID 10 works well for any environment that requires the 100 percent redundancy offered by mirrored drive groups RAID 10 can sustain a drive failure in each mirrored ...

Page 62: ...rhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes 6 RAID 6 works best when used with data that requires high reliability high request rates and high data transfer It provides high data throughput data redundancy and very good performance However RAID 6 is not well suited to tasks requiring a lot of writes A RAID 6 virtual drive has to generate two sets of parity data ...

Page 63: ...tes and high data transfer It provides high data throughput data redundancy and very good performance Spanning increases the capacity of the virtual drive and improves performance by doubling the number of spindles The system performance improves as the number of spans increases The maximum number of spans is eight As the storage space in the spans is filled the system stripes data over fewer and ...

Page 64: ... it requires extra capacity because it uses two parity blocks per stripe This makes RAID 60 more expensive to implement 00 RAID 00 striping in a spanned drive group involves partitioning each drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size The combined storage space is composed of stripes from each drive RAID 00 provides maximum storage capacity for a given set of drives 10 RAID 10 requires...

Page 65: ...or RAID levels 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 Note If a rebuild to a hot spare fails for any reason the hot spare drive will be marked as failed If the source drive fails both the source drive and the hot spare drive will be marked as failed A cold swap requires that you power down the system before replacing a defective drive in a disk subsystem 2 7 1 2 Rebuilding If a drive fails in a drive group that is co...

Page 66: ...that can be supported Only one RAID level can be assigned to each virtual drive 2 8 2 Drive Group Purpose Important factors to consider when creating RAID drive groups include availability performance and capacity Define the major purpose of the drive group by answering questions related to these factors such as the following which are followed by suggested RAID levels for each situation Will this...

Page 67: ...6 Factors to Consider for Drive Group Configuration Requirement Rank Suggested RAID Level s Storage space RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 00 Data redundancy RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 RAID 60 Drive performance and throughput RAID 0 RAID 00 RAID 10 Hot spares extra drives required RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 RAID 60 ...

Page 68: ...2 36 Introduction to RAID ...

Page 69: ... remove a drive from its storage system or the server it is housed in the data on that drive is encrypted and useless to anyone who attempts to access without the the appropriate security authorization With the FDE feature data is encrypted by the drives You can designate which data to encrypt at the individual virtual disk VD level Any encryption solution requires management of the encryption key...

Page 70: ...p You need to provide the controller with a lock key if the controller is replaced or if you choose to migrate secure virtual disks To do this you must back up the security key Passphrase An optional authenticated mode is supported in which you must provide a passphrase on each boot to make sure the system boots only if the user is authenticated Firmware uses the user passphrase to encrypt the sec...

Page 71: ...entifier for you You can use the default or enter your own identifier Security Key A key based on a user provided string The controller uses the security key to lock and unlock access to the secure user data This key is encrypted into the security key blob and stored on the controller If the security key is unavailable user data is irretrievably lost You must take all precautions to never lose the...

Page 72: ...ier security key and pass phrase security will be enabled on the controller 3 4 2 Change Security You can change the security settings on the controller and you have the option to change the security key identifier security key and pass phrase If you have previously removed any secured drives you still need to supply the old security key to import them There are three procedures you can perform to...

Page 73: ... You have the option to add a pass phrase or change the existing one To change the pass phrase enter the new pass phrase To keep the existing pass phrase enter the current pass phrase If you choose this option you must enter the pass phrase whenever you boot your server This procedure updates the existing configuration on the controller to use the new security settings 3 4 3 Create Secure Virtual ...

Page 74: ... import the existing configuration to the RAID controller or clear the configuration so you can create a new one See Section 4 5 4 Importing Foreign Configurations for the procedure used to import a foreign configuration in WebBIOS or Section 8 2 4 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration for the procedure in MegaRAID Storage Manager To import a foreign configuration you must first enable sec...

Page 75: ...ncerned about data theft or other security issues you might already invest in drive disposal costs and there are benefits to using FDE over other technologies that exists today both in terms of the security provided and time saved If the encryption key on the drive changes the drive cannot decrypt the data on the platters effectively erasing the data on the disks The National Institute of Standard...

Page 76: ...a instantly so the new drives can be used If there is a need to return a disk for warranty activity If the drive is beginning to show SMART predictive failure alerts you might want to return the drive for replacement If so the drive needs to be effectively erased if there is sensitive data Occasionally a drive is in such bad condition that standard erasure applications do not work If the drive sti...

Page 77: ...g System Event Information Section 4 8 Managing Configurations 4 1 Overview The WebBIOS CU enables you to create and manage RAID You can use the WebBIOS CU to do the following tasks Create drive groups and virtual drives for storage configurations Display controller virtual drive drive and battery backup unit BBU properties and change parameters Delete virtual drives Migrate a storage configuratio...

Page 78: ...al drives and drive groups 4 2 Starting the WebBIOS CU Follow these steps to start the WebBIOS CU and access the main screen 1 When the host computer is booting hold down the Ctrl key and press the H key when the following text appears on the screen Copyright Lenovo Corporation Press Ctrl H for WebBIOS The Controller Selection screen appears 2 If the system has multiple SAS controllers select a co...

Page 79: ...t are connected to the controller In addition the screen indentifies drives that are foreign or missing Note In the list of virtual drives the drive nodes are sorted based on the order in which you added the drives to the drive group rather than the physical slot order that displays in the physical trees Note The minimum screen resolution for WebBIOS is 640x480 To toggle between the physical view ...

Page 80: ...he top of the WebBIOS CU has the following buttons as listed in Table 4 1 Here is a description of the options listed on the left of the main WebBIOS CU screen Table 4 1 WebBIOS CU Toolbar Icons Icon Description Click this icon to return to the main screen from any other WebBIOS CU screen Click this icon to return to the previous screen that you were viewing Click this icon to exit the WebBIOS CU ...

Page 81: ...e virtual drives initialize drives and perform other tasks For more information see Section 4 6 2 Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties Drives Select this option to view the Drives screen where you can view drive properties create hot spares and perform other tasks For more information see Section 4 6 3 Viewing Drive Properties Configuration Wizard Select this option to start the Configura...

Page 82: ...4 2 Using Automatic Configuration Section 4 4 3 Using Manual Configuration 4 4 1 Selecting the Configuration with the Configuration Wizard Follow these steps to start the Configuration Wizard and select a configuration option and mode 1 Click Configuration Wizard on the WebBIOS main screen The first Configuration Wizard screen appears as shown in Figure 4 2 Figure 4 2 WebBIOS Configuration Wizard ...

Page 83: ...ears the existing configuration New Configuration Clears the existing configuration and lets you create a new configuration Add Configuration Retains the existing storage configuration and adds new drives to it this does not cause any data loss 3 Click Next A dialog box warns that you will lose data if you select Clear Configuration or New Configuration The WebBIOS Configuration Method screen appe...

Page 84: ... 4 4 3 Using Manual Configuration 4 4 2 Using Automatic Configuration Follow these instructions to create a configuration with automatic configuration either with or without redundancy 1 When WebBIOS displays the proposed new configuration review the information on the screen and click Accept to accept it Or click Back to go back and change the configuration RAID 0 If you select Automatic Configur...

Page 85: ...ion 4 4 3 7 Using Manual Configuration RAID 50 Section 4 4 3 8 Using Manual Configuration RAID 60 4 4 3 1 Using Manual Configuration RAID 0 RAID 0 provides drive striping across all drives in the RAID drive group RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer excellent performance RAID 0 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance RAID 0 als...

Page 86: ...s click the Reclaim button Figure 4 4 WebBIOS Disk Group Definition Screen 3 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 4 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 5 This screen lists the possible RAID levels for the drive group Use this screen to select the RAID level stripe size read policy and other attributes for the new virtua...

Page 87: ...ller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the stripe size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 Kbytes A larger stripe size produces higher read performance If your computer regula...

Page 88: ... this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction This is...

Page 89: ...kground initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in megabytes Normally ...

Page 90: ...hange the configuration 10 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 2 Using Manual Configuration RAID 1 In RAID 1 the RAID controller duplicates all data from one drive to a second drive RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity It is appropriate for small data...

Page 91: ... the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Disk Groups panel on the right as shown in Figure 4 7 If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button Note A RAID 1 virtual drive can contain up to 16 drive groups and 32 drives in a single span Other factors such as the type of controller can limit the number of drives You must use two drives in each RAID 1 drive group in the spa...

Page 92: ...ists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 1 Stripe Size The stripe size specifies the length of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size ...

Page 93: ...ed in sequential sectors If the read requests are random the controller reverts to Normal no read ahead Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode WThru In Writethrough mode ...

Page 94: ...ve cache policy as is This drive policy is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this c...

Page 95: ...figuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 3 Using Manual Configuration RAID 5 RAID 5 uses drive striping at the block level and parity In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all drives It is best suited for networks that perform a lot of small input output I O transactions simultaneously RAID 5 provides data redundancy high read rates and good performance in most environments It also ...

Page 96: ...ect Manual Configuration and click Next the Disk Group Definition screen appears You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups 1 Hold Ctrl while you select at least three ready drives in the Physical Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Disk Groups panel on the right as shown in Figure 4 10 If you need to undo...

Page 97: ...xplanations of the virtual drive options RAID Level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 5 Stripe Size The stripe size specifies the length of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive...

Page 98: ...accessing random data Adaptive When Adaptive read ahead is selected the controller begins using read ahead if the two most recent drive accesses occurred in sequential sectors If the read requests are random the controller reverts to Normal no read ahead Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to th...

Page 99: ... Enable Enable the drive cache Disable Disable the drive cache NoChange Leave the current drive cache policy as is This drive policy is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes S...

Page 100: ...he previous screens and change the configuration 10 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 4 Using Manual Configuration RAID 6 RAID 6 is similar to RAID 5 drive striping and distributed parity except that instead of one parity block per stripe there are two With two independent parity blocks RAID 6 can survive the loss ...

Page 101: ...l drive fail two drive rebuilds are required one for each drive These rebuilds do not occur at the same time The controller rebuilds one failed drive and then the other failed drive When you select Manual Configuration and click Next the drive Group Definition screen appears You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups 1 Hold Ctrl while selecting at least three ready drives in the D...

Page 102: ...en 3 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG for each 4 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 14 Use this screen to select the RAID level stripe size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives ...

Page 103: ...roller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the stripe size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 Kbytes A larger stripe size produces higher read performance If your computer regu...

Page 104: ... in sequential sectors If the read requests are random the controller reverts to Normal no read ahead Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode WThru In Writethrough mode th...

Page 105: ...rive cache policy as is This drive policy is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this...

Page 106: ...ave the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 5 Using Manual Configuration RAID 00 A RAID 00 drive group is a spanned drive group that creates a striped set from a series of RAID 0 drive groups It breaks up data into smaller blocks and then stripes the blocks of data to RAID 00 drive groups The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter which is 64 Kbytes RAID 00 doe...

Page 107: ...es click the Reclaim button 3 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 0 drive group An icon for the next drive group appears in the right panel 4 Hold Ctrl while you select more ready drives in the Drives panel to create a second RAID 0 drive group 5 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a second drive group configuration in the Disk Groups panel as shown in Figure 4 20 If you need to undo the changes...

Page 108: ...elected all the drives you want for the drive groups 8 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and then click Accept DG for each selection 9 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 21 This screen shows the drive group holes that you can select to add to a span ...

Page 109: ...he heading Span 11 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group and then click Add to SPAN 12 Repeat step 10 until you have selected all of the drive groups that you want 13 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 22 You use this screen to select the RAID level stripe size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives 14 Hold Ctrl while you sele...

Page 110: ...AID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the stripe size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 Kbytes A larger stripe size produces higher read performance If your compu...

Page 111: ... reverts to Normal no read ahead Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when...

Page 112: ... This setting is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This setting is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select S...

Page 113: ...figuration 20 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 6 Using Manual Configuration RAID 10 RAID 10 a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 has mirrored drives It breaks up data into smaller blocks then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 1 drive group Each RAID 1 drive group then duplicates its data to its other drive The...

Page 114: ...To Array to move the drives to a proposed two drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button 3 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 1 drive group An icon for the next drive group displays in the right panel 4 Click on the icon for the next drive group to select it 5 Hold Ctrl while selecting two more ready drives in the D...

Page 115: ...u have selected all the drives you want for the drive groups 8 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and click Accept DG for each 9 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 21 This screen displays the drive group holes you can select to add to a span ...

Page 116: ...econd drive group with two drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 12 If there are additional drive groups with two drives each you can add them to the virtual drive 13 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 22 You use this screen to select the RAID level stripe size read policy and other attributes for the new virtu...

Page 117: ...om the defaults listed on the screen as needed Here are brief explanations of the virtual drive options RAID Level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 10 Stripe Size The stripe size specifies the length of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 6...

Page 118: ...accessing random data Adaptive When Adaptive read ahead is selected the controller begins using read ahead if the two most recent drive accesses occurred in sequential sectors If the read requests are random the controller reverts to Normal no read ahead Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to th...

Page 119: ...nable Enable the drive cache Disable Disable the drive cache NoChange Leave the current drive cache policy as is This drive policy is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Sel...

Page 120: ...If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 7 Using Manual Configuration RAID 50 RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 5 RAID 50 uses both distributed parity and drive striping across multiple drive groups It provides high data throughput data redundancy and very good performance It is best implemented on two...

Page 121: ...ray to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Disk Groups panel on the right If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button 3 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 5 drive group An icon for a second drive group displays in the right panel 4 Click on the icon for the second drive group to select it 5 Hold Ctrl while selecting at least three more ready drives in the Driv...

Page 122: ...tion Screen 7 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and click Accept DG for each 8 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 25 This screen displays the drive group holes you can select to add to a span ...

Page 123: ...der the heading Span 10 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group of three or more drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 11 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 26 You use this screen to select the RAID level stripe size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drive s 12 Hold Ctrl while you sel...

Page 124: ...AID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the stripe size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 Kbytes A larger stripe size produces higher read performance If your compu...

Page 125: ...e policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transac...

Page 126: ...ecify the background initialization status No Leave background initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in megaby...

Page 127: ...t to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 4 3 8 Using Manual Configuration RAID 60 RAID 60 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 6 and includes both parity and drive striping across multiple drive groups RAID 6 supports two independent parity blocks per stripe A RAID 60 virtual drive can survive the loss of two drives in each of the RAID 6 sets without losing data RAID 60...

Page 128: ...rl while selecting at least three ready drives in the Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Disk Groups panel on the right If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button 3 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 6 drive group An icon for a second drive group displays in the right panel 4 Click on the icon for the second d...

Page 129: ...ition Screen 7 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and click Accept DG for each 8 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 29 This screen displays the drive group holes you can select to add to a span ...

Page 130: ...r the heading Span 10 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group of three or more drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 11 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 4 26 You use this screen to select the RAID level stripe size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drive s 12 Hold Ctrl while you selec...

Page 131: ... RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the stripe size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 Kbytes A larger stripe size produces higher read performance If your com...

Page 132: ...policy for this virtual drive WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transacti...

Page 133: ... initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in megabytes Normally this would be the full size for RAID 60 shown in ...

Page 134: ...n 18 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 5 Selecting Full Disk Encryption Security Options The Full Disk Encryption FDE feature provides the ability to encrypt data and use disk based key management for the data security solution This solution protects your data in case of theft or loss of physical drives This section de...

Page 135: ...tion Settings on the main WebBIOS screen The Encryption Settings screen appears as shown in Figure 4 32 Figure 4 32 Encryption Settings Screen 2 To enable the drive security settings select Enable drive security and click Accept The Enable Drive Security Introduction screen appears as shown in Figure 4 34 This screen lists the actions you can perform editing the security key identifier editing the...

Page 136: ...4 60 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Figure 4 33 Enable Drive Security Introduction Screen 3 Click Next The screen used to create a security key identifier appears as shown in Figure 4 34 ...

Page 137: ... Options 4 61 Figure 4 34 Enable Drive Security Enter Security Key ID Screen 4 Accept the default security key ID or enter a new security key ID 5 Click Next The Enable Drive Security Enter Security Key screen appears as shown in Figure 4 35 ...

Page 138: ... confirm The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted 7 Click Next The Enable Drive Security Enter Pass Phrase screen appears as shown in Figure 4 37 You have the option to provide a pass phrase for additional...

Page 139: ... The pass phrase is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Non US keyboard users must be careful not to enter DBCS characters in the pass phrase field or security key field Firmware works only with the ASCII character set 1...

Page 140: ...you will lose access to your data Be sure to record your security key information You might need to enter the security key to perform certain operations 4 5 2 Changing the Security Key Identifier Security Key and Pass Phrase If you selected disk based encryption when you made the RAID configuration the drive security will be enabled Perform the following steps to change the encryption settings for...

Page 141: ...ive security settings select Change drive security settings and click Accept The Change Security Settings Introduction screen appears as shown in Figure 4 39 This screen lists the optional actions you can perform editing the security key identifier editing the security key and adding or changing the pass phrase ...

Page 142: ...4 39 Change Security Settings Introduction 3 To access the option to use the existing security key identifier or enter a new security key identifier click Next The Change Security Settings Security Key ID screen appears as shown in Figure 4 41 ...

Page 143: ...ty key ID or enter a new security key ID The options are Use the existing security key identifier Current security key identifier Enter a new security key identifier New security key identifier 5 Click Next The Change Security Settings Security Key screen appears as shown in Figure 4 41 You have the option to use the existing security key or enter a new one ...

Page 144: ...key you can create a new drive security key or click Suggest to fill the new security key Enter the new drive security key again to confirm The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted 8 Click Next If you ente...

Page 145: ...the security key can hold up to 32 characters The key must be at least eight characters After you enter the correct security key the wizard returns to the Change Security Settings Security Key screen 10 Click Next The Change Security Settings Pass Phrase screen appears as shown in Figure 4 44 You have the option to provide a pass phrase for additional security ...

Page 146: ... eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Non US keyboard users must be careful not to enter DBCS characters in the pass phrase field or security key field Firmware works only with the ASCII character set 13 Click Accept If you entered a new a pass phrase the...

Page 147: ...rent security key is not needed WebBIOS saves the changes to the security settings and returns you to the main menu If the current security key is needed the Authenicate Drive Security Settings screen displays 4 5 3 Disabling the Drive Security Settings Perform the following steps to disable the drive security settings Note If you disable the drive security settings you cannot create any new secur...

Page 148: ...in WebBIOS screen The Encryption Settings screen appears as shown in Figure 4 45 Figure 4 45 Encryption Settings 2 To disable the drive security settings select Disable drive security and click Accept The Confirm Disable Drive Security screen appears as shown in Figure 4 47 ...

Page 149: ...bled A foreign configuration is a RAID configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system You can use the WebBIOS utility to import the existing configuration to the RAID controller or clear the configuration so you can create a new one See Section 4 8 3 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration for the procedures used to import or clear a fo...

Page 150: ...WebBIOS CU to view and change the properties for controllers virtual drives drives and BBUs 4 6 1 Viewing and Changing Controller Properties WebBIOS displays information for To view the properties for the currently selected controller click Controller Properties on the main WebBIOS screen There are three Controller Properties screens Figure 4 47 shows the first screen Figure 4 47 First Controller ...

Page 151: ...already defined on this controller and the number of drives connected to the controller If a background initialization is in progress you can click Background Init Progress to determine its state of completion Click Next to view the second Controller Properties screen as shown in Figure 4 48 Figure 4 48 Second Controller Properties Screen Click Next to view the third Controller Properties screen a...

Page 152: ...kup This entry indicates whether the selected controller has a BBU If present you can click Present to view information about the BBU For more information see Section 4 6 4 Viewing and Changing Battery Backup Unit Information Set Factory Defaults Use this option to load the default MegaRAID WebBIOS CU settings The default is No Cluster Mode Use this option to enable or disable Cluster mode The def...

Page 153: ...ed Connector 1 Identifies where the chain of enclosures is connected to the RAID controller Coercion Mode Drive coercion is a tool for forcing drives of varying capacities to the same size so they can be used in a drive group The coercion mode options are None 128MB way and 1GB way The default is None Note The number you choose depends on how much the drives from vari ous vendors vary in their act...

Page 154: ...he default is Disabled Drive Powersave Drive Powersave conserves energy by placing certain unused drives into powersave mode Use this field to choose whether to allow unconfigured drives to enter powersave mode When this option is selected unconfigured drives may be spun down When not selected these drives are not spun down The controller will automatically spin up drives from powersave mode whene...

Page 155: ...Using Manual Configuration To change any of these policies make a selection from the drop down menu and click Change The Operations panel lists operations that can be performed on the virtual drive To perform an operation select it and click Go Then choose from the following options Select Del to delete this virtual drive For more information see Section 4 8 2 Deleting a Virtual Drive Select Locat...

Page 156: ...an change the virtual drive configuration by adding or removing a drive or by changing the RAID level Caution Before you change a virtual drive configuration back up any data on the virtual drive that you want to save To remove a drive from a virtual drive select the drive in the small panel beneath the Remove drive option Then select Remove drive and click Go at the bottom of the panel See Sectio...

Page 157: ...tate If the drive state is Online the following operations appear Select MakeDriveOffline if you want to force the drive offline Note If you force offline a good drive that is part of a redundant drive group with a hot spare the drive will rebuild to the hot spare drive The drive you forced offline will go into the Unconfigured Bad state Access the BIOS utility to set the drive to the Unconfigured...

Page 158: ... will be used first on the backplane side that it resides in Select Prepare for Removal to prepare the drive for removal from the enclosure The Prepare for Removal feature is different from spinning a drive down into powersave mode because it also involves flagging the drive as ready to remove Therefore if you choose to prepare a drive for removal Ready to Remove displays in the device tree for th...

Page 159: ... to view the second Controller Properties screen The second Controller Properties screen appears as shown in Figure 4 53 The Battery Backup field at the top left of the screen indicates whether the iBBU is present Figure 4 53 Second Controller Properties Screen 3 Click Present in the Battery Backup field ...

Page 160: ...ry Module properties are view only and are self explanatory In the lower right corner of the screen are the auto learn options A learning cycle is a battery calibration operation performed by the controller periodically to determine the condition of the battery You can change the learn delay interval the length of time between automatic learning cycles and the auto learn mode Note Lenovo recommend...

Page 161: ...re tracks the time since the last learning cycle and performs a learn cycle when due BBU Auto Learn Disabled Firmware does not monitor or initiate a learning cycle You can schedule learning cycles manually BBU Auto Learn Warn Firmware warns about a pending learning cycle You can initiate a learning cycle manually After the learning cycle is complete firmware resets the counter and warns you when t...

Page 162: ...ion Screen The right side of the screen is blank until you select an event to view The First Sequence and Last Sequence fields in the upper left of the screen show you how many event entries are currently stored To view event information follow these steps 1 Select an Event Locale from the menu For example select Enclosure to view events relating to the drive enclosure 2 Select an Event Class Info...

Page 163: ...configurations 4 8 1 Running a Consistency Check You should periodically run a consistency check on fault tolerant virtual drives A consistency check verifies that the redundancy data is correct and available for RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 and RAID 60 drive groups To do this follow these steps 1 On the main WebBIOS CU screen select a virtual drive 2 Click Virtual Drives 3 When the Virtua...

Page 164: ...e virtual drive 4 8 3 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration A foreign configuration is a storage configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system In addition if one or more drives are removed from a configuration by a cable pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the R...

Page 165: ...are OEM names and will vary from one installation to another Click Preview if you want to preview the foreign configuration The preview screen appears as shown in Figure 4 57 Click Clear if you want to clear the configuration and reuse the drives for another virtual drive Click Cancel to cancel the importation or preview of the configuration ...

Page 166: ...n Cable Pull and Drive Removal Scenarios If one or more drives are removed from a configuration by a cable pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller Use the Foreign Configuration Preview screen to import or clear the foreign configuration in each case The import procedure and clear procedure are described in Sec...

Page 167: ... virtual drives See Section 4 8 1 Running a Consistency Check for more information about checking data consistency 3 Scenario 3 If all of the drives in a virtual drive are removed but at different times and re inserted the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration If you select Import all drives that were pulled before the virtual driv...

Page 168: ...se the last 448 Mbytes of your data will be overwritten and the data lost If your IR virtual drive has only 64 Mbytes for metadata at the end of the drive you cannot import the virtual drive into MegaRAID You need to use another upgrade method such as backup restore to the upgraded virtual drive type In order to import an IR virtual drive into a MegaRAID system use the Foreign Configuration Previe...

Page 169: ... to RAID 6 RAID 6 to RAID 0 RAID 6 to RAID 5 Table 4 3 lists the number of additional drives required when you change the RAID level of a virtual drive Follow these steps to migrate the RAID level Caution Back up any data that you want to keep before you change the RAID level of the virtual drive 1 On the main WebBIOS CU screen select a virtual drive Table 4 3 Additional Drives Required for RAID L...

Page 170: ...t a new RAID level from the drop down menu on the right The available RAID levels are limited based on the current RAID level of the virtual drive plus the number of drives available 6 When you have made your selections click Go at the bottom of the right panel 7 When the message appears confirm that you want to migrate the RAID level of the virtual drive A reconstruction operation begins on the v...

Page 171: ...he 32 bit instructions 32 bit applications that were validated on an x64 system such as the Intel Markette system can use the 32 bit instructions also This chapter has the following sections Section 5 1 Product Overview Section 5 2 Novell NetWare SCO Solaris FreeBSD and DOS Operating System Support Section 5 3 Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions Section 5 4 Controller Property Related Optio...

Page 172: ...ts Display ongoing progress for operations on drives and virtual drives Change properties for the virtual drives and drives for the controller and other storage components Set retrieve and verify controller default settings Change the firmware on the controllers Monitor the RAID storage systems Support RAID levels 0 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 depending on the RAID controller Create and use scripts with th...

Page 173: ...using one command Exit with predefined success or failure exit codes Scan preview and import foreign configurations Set predefined environment variables such as the number of controllers and virtual drives Display firmware event logs Display help for how to use the command line options Display battery unit properties Display enclosure properties Display and set connector mode on supported controll...

Page 174: ...table file on a floppy drive The image filename is MegaCLI image The floppy disk is provided so that you can distribute MegaCLI and install the executable file later as needed For the Solaris operating system Lenovo provides an executable file that you can execute from any folder No installation is required For the Novell NetWare operating system Lenovo provides an executable file MegaCLI nlm that...

Page 175: ...iations Abbreviation Description WB WriteBack write policy WT WriteThrough write policy ADRA Adaptive Read Ahead read policy RA Read Ahead read policy NORA Normal Read policy No read ahead DIO Direct I O cache policy CIO Cached I O cache policy Table 5 2 Conventions Convention Description Specifies or meaning you can choose between options aN N specifies the controller number for the command a0 1 ...

Page 176: ...re In the case of a physical device directly connected to the SAS port on the controller with no enclosure involved the format of S can be used where S means the port number on the controller For devices attached through the backplane the firmware provides an enclosure device ID and MegaCLI expects the user input in the format of E S In the following sections only the format E S is used in the com...

Page 177: ...rive s If the MegaRAID system must be powered down rapidly you must flush the contents of the cache memory to preserve data integrity Description Displays information about the controller including cluster state BIOS alarm firmware version BIOS version battery charge counter value rebuild rate bus number device number present RAM memory size serial number of the board and SAS address Table 5 3 Con...

Page 178: ...splay the list of properties you can set for the controller s Description Flushes the controller cache on the selected controller s Table 5 6 Cache Flush on Selected Controller Cont Table 5 7 Set Controller Properties Convention MegaCli AdpSetProp CacheFlushInterval val RebuildRate val PatrolReadRate val BgiRate val CCRate val ReconRate val SpinupDriveCount val SpinupDelay val CoercionMode val Clu...

Page 179: ...ECC single bit error bucket Values 0 to 65535 AbortCCOnError AlarmEnbl Set alarm to Enabled AlarmDsbl Set alarm to Disabled AlarmSilence Silence an active alarm SMARTCpyBkEnbl Enable copyback operation on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology SMART errors Copyback is initiated when the first SMART error occurs on a drive that is part of a virtual drive AutoDetectBackPlaneDsbl Detect au...

Page 180: ... EccBucketLeakRate EccBucketCount AlarmDsply AbortCCOnError AutoDetectBackPlaneDsbl CopyBackDsbl LoadBalanceMode SMARTCpyBkEnbl SSDSMARTCpyBkEnbl MaintainPdFailHistoryEnbl EnblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs EnblSSDPatrolRead NCQDsply UseFDEOnlyEncrypt WBSupport AutoEnhancedImportDsply PrCorrectUncfgdAreas aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the properties on the selected controller s EccBucketCount Count of...

Page 181: ...depend on the virtual drive configuration and the type of errors Patrol Read affects performance the more iterations there are the greater the impact 5 5 1 Set Patrol Read Options Use the command in Table 5 13 on the selected controller s to set the Patrol Read options Table 5 11 Set Time and Date on Controller Convention MegaCli AdpSetTime yyyymmdd HH mm ss aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets the tim...

Page 182: ...r s This means that Patrol Read does not start automatically it has to be started manually by selecting the Start command Start Starts Patrol Read for the selected controller s Stop Stops Patrol Read for the selected controller s Info Displays the following Patrol Read information for the selected controller s Patrol Read operation mode Patrol Read execution delay value Patrol Read status SSDPatro...

Page 183: ...as bootable so that during the next reboot the BIOS will look for a boot sector in the specified virtual drive Identifies the physical drive in the virtual drive by enclosure and slot to use to boot from Get Displays the bootable virtual drive ID Table 5 16 Options for BIOS Status Convention MegaCli AdpBIOS Enbl Dsbl Dsply SOE BE aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets BIOS options The following are the s...

Page 184: ...18 to display complete information about the status of the BBU such as temperature and voltage for the selected controller s Table 5 17 Display BBU Information Convention MegaCli AdpBbuCmd aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays complete information about the BBU such as status capacity information design information and properties Table 5 18 Display BBU Status Information Convention MegaCli AdpBbuCmd...

Page 185: ...Gas Gauge Status Fully Discharged Yes No Fully Charged Yes No Discharging Yes No Initialized Yes No Remaining Time Alarm Yes No Remaining Capacity Alarm Yes No Discharge Terminated Yes No Over Temperature Yes No Charging Terminated Yes No Over Charged Yes No Additional status information displays differently for iBBU and BBU For iBBU Relative State of Charge xx Charger System State xx Charger Syst...

Page 186: ...ty Info for Adapter x Relative State of Charge xx Absolute State of Charge xx Remaining Capacity xx mAh Full Charge Capacity xx mAh Run Time to Empty xxx Min Average Time to Empty xxx Min Average Time to Full xxx Min Cycle Count xx Max Error xx Table 5 20 Display BBU Design Parameters Convention MegaCli AdpBbuCmd GetBbuDesignInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays information about the BBU design...

Page 187: ...e selected controller s after reading from the file Table 5 21 Display Current BBU Properties Convention MegaCli AdpBbuCmd GetBbuProperties aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays current properties of the BBU The information displays in the following formats BBU Properties for Adapter x Auto Learn Period xxx Sec Next Learn Time xxxx Sec Learn Delay Interval xx Hours Auto Learn Mode Warn via Event Dis...

Page 188: ... s after reading from the file The information displays in the following formats autoLearnPeriod 1800Sec nextLearnTime 12345678Sec Seconds past 1 1 2000 learnDelayInterval 24hours Not greater than 7 days autoLearnMode 0 0 Enabled 1 Disabled 2 WarnViaEvent 1 NOTE You can change only two of these parameters learnDelayInterval and autoLearnMode Table 5 25 Event Log Management Convention MegaCli AdpEv...

Page 189: ...oller shutdown GetSinceReboot Displays all of the events since last controller reboot IncludeDeleted Displays all events including deleted events GetLatest Displays the latest number of events if any exist The event data will be writtent to the file in reverse order Clear Clears the event log for the selected controller s GetCCIncon Table 5 25 Event Log Management Cont Table 5 26 Set BBU Terminal ...

Page 190: ...to create a new drive group and if desired one hot spare drive If it is not possible to use all of the free drives the command will abort with a related error level If there are drives of different capacities the largest drive is used to make the hot spare Note A virtual drive cannot have both SAS drives and SATA drives Therefore if the remaining free drives are SAS and SATA a drive group cannot b...

Page 191: ...ad Selects read policy Direct Cached Selects cache policy CachedBadBBU NoCachedBadBBU Specifies whether to use write cache when the BBU is bad Hsp Specifies drive to make the hot spare with Force Specifies that drive coercion is used to make the capacity of the drives compatible Drive coercion is a tool for forcing drives of varying capacities to the same capacity so they can be used in a drive gr...

Page 192: ...pe size If multiple size options are specified CT configures the virtual drives in the order of the options entered in the command line The configuration of a particular virtual drive will fail if the remaining capacity of the drive group is too small to configure the virtual drive with the specified capacity This option can also be used to create a configuration on the free space available in the...

Page 193: ...h as the type of controller that limit the number of drives you can use RAID 10 requires an even number of drives as data from one drive is mirrored to the other drive in each RAID 1 drive group You can have an even or odd number of spans Multiple drive groups are specified using the ArrayX E0 S0 option Note that X starts from 0 not 1 All of the drive groups must have the same number of drives At ...

Page 194: ...e existing configuration Table 5 30 Clear Existing Configuration Cont Table 5 31 Save Configuration on the Controller Convention MegaCli CfgSave f FileName aN Description Saves the configuration for the selected controller s to the given filename Table 5 32 Restore Configuration Data from File Convention MegaCli CfgRestore f FileName aN Description Reads the configuration from the file and loads i...

Page 195: ...ed on the controller If the security key is unavailable user data is irretrievably lost You must be careful to never lose the security key Preview Provides a preview of the imported foreign configuration The foreign configuration ID FID is optional Dsply Displays the foreign configuration Import Imports the foreign configuration The FID is optional Clear FID Clears the foreign configuration The FI...

Page 196: ...ame RAID level RAID level qualifier capacity in megabytes state stripe size number of drives span depth cache policy access policy and ongoing activity progress if any including initialization background initialization consistency check and reconstruction Table 5 37 Change Virtual Drive Cache and Access Parameters Convention MegaCli LDSetProp WT WB Immediate RA NORA ADRA Cached Direct CachedBadBBU...

Page 197: ...ptive read ahead Selects read policy Access RW RO Blocked Displays access policy DskCache Displays drive cache policy Table 5 39 Manage Virtual Drive Initialization Convention MegaCli LDInit Start Fast Full Abort ShowProg ProgDsply Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Allows you to select the following actions for virtual drive initialization Start Starts the initialization writing 0s on the ...

Page 198: ... the virtual drive s ShowProg Displays a snapshot of an ongoing CC ProgDsply Displays ongoing CC progress The progress displays until at least one CC is completed or a key is pressed Table 5 41 Manage Background Initialization Convention MegaCli LDBI Enbl Dsbl GetSetting ShowProg ProgDsply Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Manages background initialization options The following are the bac...

Page 199: ...o a new RAID level Rx Changes the RAID level of the virtual drive when you start reconstruction You might need to add or remove a drive to make this possible Start Add PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 Adds listed drives to the virtual drive and starts reconstruction on the selected virtual drive Start Rmv PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 Removes one drive from the existing virtual drives and starts a reconstruction ShowPro...

Page 200: ...ption Displays the number of virtual drives attached to the controller The return value is the number of virtual drives Table 5 44 Display Number of Virtual Drives Cont Table 5 45 Display Drive Information Convention MegaCli PDInfo PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Provides information about the drives connected to the enclosure and controller slot This includes information such as th...

Page 201: ...red Good Convention MegaCli PDMakeGood PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 Force aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state to Unconfigured Good Force Force the drive to the Unconfigured Good state Table 5 49 Change Drive State Convention MegaCli PDHSP Set Dedicated ArrayN Array0 1 EnclAffinity nonRevertible Rmv PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state as it relates to hot sp...

Page 202: ...alization This option is useful for running the application through scripts ProgDsply Displays the ongoing clear progress The routine continues to display the initialization progress until at least one initialization is completed or a key is pressed Table 5 51 Rebuild a Drive Convention MegaCli PDRbld Start Stop ShowProg ProgDsply PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Manages a drive rebu...

Page 203: ...Locate Drive and Activate LED Convention MegaCli PDLocate PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Locates the drive s for the selected controller s and activates the drive activity LED Table 5 53 Mark Configured Drive as Missing Convention MegaCli PDMarkMissing PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Marks the configured drive as missing for the selected controller s Table 5 54 Displ...

Page 204: ... removal The firmware will spin down this drive The drive state is set to unaffiliated which marks it as offline even though it is not a part of configuration The Undo option undoes this operation If you select undo the firmware marks this drive as unconfigured good Table 5 57 Display Number of Drives Attached to an Controller Convention MegaCli PDGetNum aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the tot...

Page 205: ... the ROM file specified at the command line for the selected controller s Table 5 59 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices Convention MegaCli PdFwDownload PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 f filename aN a0 1 2 aAll Description Flashes the firmware with the file specified at the command line Firmware files used to flash the physical drive can be of any format The CLI utility assumes that you provide a valid ...

Page 206: ... application to flash the firmware even if the check word on the file does not match the required check word for the controller This option flashes the firmware only if the existing firmware version on the controller is lower than the version on the ROM image If you specify NoVerChk also the application flashes the controller firmware without checking the version of the firmware image The version ...

Page 207: ...15 3 Start NVRAM Diagnostic Use the command in Table 5 66 to start the controller NVRAM diagnostic for a set amount of time This option is for DOS only Table 5 63 Display PHY Connection Information Convention MegaCli PHYInfo phyM aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays PHY connection information for physical PHY M on the controller s Table 5 64 Start Diagnostics Setting Convention MegaCli AdpDiag val ...

Page 208: ...ription Starts the NVRAM diagnostic Read Reads the content in NVRAM and writes the data to file filename Write Reads data from file filename and writes to NVRAM Clear Writes 0 to NVRAM at the specified range from start offset to end offset StartOffset EndOffset Specifies the start offset and or end offset in NVRAM If you do not use the StartOffset and EndOffset options the default StartOffset is 0...

Page 209: ... Configuring a CIM Provider Section 6 6 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent Section 6 7 MegaRAID Storage Manager Support and Installation on Solaris 10 6 1 Overview MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to configure monitor MegaRAID Storage Manager graphical user interface GUI makes it easy for you to create and manage storage configurations 6 1 1 Creating Storage Configurations MegaR...

Page 210: ...ers virtual drives and drives on the workstation or server that you are monitoring System errors and events are recorded in an event log file and are displayed on the screen Special device icons appear on the screen to notify you of drive failures and other events that require immediate attention 6 1 3 Maintaining Storage Configurations You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to perform syst...

Page 211: ...e on a system running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista 1 Insert the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installation CD in the CD ROM drive If necessary find and double click the setup exe file to start the installation program 2 When the Welcome screen appears click Next If MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already installed on this system then an upg...

Page 212: ... can use this version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software to view or change storage configurations If you select Only for current user the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcuts and associated icons will be available only to the user with this user name 6 Click Next to continue 7 On the next screen accept the default Destination Folder or click Change to select a different destination folder Click Ne...

Page 213: ... Storage Manager software on a server Select Custom Installation if you want to select individual program components 9 Click Next to continue If you selected Custom Installation as your setup option the second Setup Type screen appears as shown in Figure 6 3 If you select Complete as your setup option the Installation Wizard is ready to install MSM To begin installation click on Install on the nex...

Page 214: ...h as MSM GUI and monitor configurator Use this mode when you want to manage and monitor servers remotely When you install MSM in Client mode on a laptop or a desktop you can log in to a specific server by providing the IP address Select Server to install only those components required for remote server management To begin installation click on Install on the next screen that appears Select StandAl...

Page 215: ...l the program 13 When the final Configuration Wizard screen appears click Finish If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software the server screen will appear as shown in Figure 6 5 The server screen will not list...

Page 216: ...ller tar gz file using the following command tar zxvf MSM_linux_installer tar gz A new disk directory is created 3 Go to the new disk directory 4 In the disk directory find and read the readme txt file 5 To start the installation enter the following command csh install sh a If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered fr...

Page 217: ...the features of the product 2 Client Components Only The storelib feature of the product are not installed in this type of installation As a result the resident system can only administer and configure all of the servers in the subnet but it cannot serve as a server 3 StandAlone Only the networking feature is not installed in this case so the resident system is not a part of the network This means...

Page 218: ...AID Storage Manager software is already installed on the system and it is a newer version than the version you are trying to install Exiting installation This is the message that appears when the installation is complete RPM installation failed This message indicates that the installation failed for some reason Additional message text explains the cause of the failure 6 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager ...

Page 219: ...e you stop the MSM Framework service To stop the Monitor service run the following command etc init d mrmonitor stop 6 4 3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Support on the VMWare ESX Operating System This section outlines the product requirements needed to support the VMWare ESX operating system Classic VMWare includes a Service Console that is derived from the Linux 2 4 kernel but with reduced ...

Page 220: ...ration of the ESXi Host Assignment of a ESXi hostname Even if it is not relevant for your network you need a FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name ESXi console Configuration of a virtual network environment You can use the already existing Vswitch which has a VMkernel port already attached for the communication Alternatively you can build a new Vswitch without a link to the Host network card Which one ...

Page 221: ...internal zone and make sure that the FQDN of the ESXi server can be resolved Example local lenovo com and 192 19 221 186 Case 2 Your network does not have a DNS server Edit your file C windows system32 drivers etc hosts and add another entry IP of the ESXi Host FQDN of the ESXi Host 192 19 221 186 local lenovo com 5 Final Steps Reboot the VM and start MegaRAID Storage Manager The ESXi server shoul...

Page 222: ...6 14 MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation Figure 6 6 Host ESXi Server Name You can now enter the user name and password to log in on the ESXi Host as shown in Figure 6 7 ...

Page 223: ...RAID Storage Manager Support and Installation on VMWare 6 15 Figure 6 7 Login on the Host Server After you log in you can view the drives connected to the controller the physical view as shown in Figure 6 8 ...

Page 224: ...6 16 MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation Figure 6 8 Physical View Click the Logical tab to view the virtual drives connected to the controller the logical view as shown in Figure 6 9 ...

Page 225: ...nstallation and configuration There is no active event notification for example by popup or email There is no status information for the controller There is no user authentification Events are collected as long as MSM runs on the Client MSM responds more slowly For more details on these limitations see Section 6 4 3 3 Differences in MSM for VMware ESXi ...

Page 226: ...iders instrumentation to Management Brokers CIM Object Manager CMPI standardizes Manageability Instrumentation which allows you to write and build instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments on one platform 6 4 3 3 Differences in MSM for VMware ESXi The following are some of the differences in the MSM utility when you manage a VMWare server 1 The following limitations apply to th...

Page 227: ...in the event logger dialog System log does not display The Save log feature is not supported however the Save Log as Text is still supported The View Log option allows you to view the logs saved in a text file on the event logger dialog The event descriptions might not be identical to a normal MSM Client because the descriptions come from the firmware through the provider There is no filtering of ...

Page 228: ...re MSM is installed 6 It takes a while to discover the CIMOM servers If you start the MSM client immediately after you install MSM or restart Framework service you will not be able to discover any hosts in the network 7 The VMWare ESX3i does not support the heartbeat mechanism to let MSM know whether VMWare ESX3i is still connected When the connection to the remote VMWare ESX3i is lost MSM does no...

Page 229: ...sysfs so libsysfs so 1 Note If the so files are not present in the usr lib directory create a link with the existing version of the library For example if libcrypto so 6 is present and libcrypto so is not create the link as follows ln s libcrypto so 6 libcrypto so 4 Note On a 64 bit operating system the system libraries will be present in usr lib64 directory by default However for supporting CIM P...

Page 230: ...the changes to take effect a Type the following command to get the pid for inetd ps grep inetd b Type the following command to kill the inetd process Kill 9 inetd pid c Type the following command to restart the inetd daemon inetd 4 Type the following command to use scp to copy storelib from a remote machine to the following path lib dir scp user ip path to storelib libstorelib so 2 53 lib libstore...

Page 231: ...providers which interact with the hardware and a CIM client where the administrator manages the system SFCB supports Common Manageablity Programming Interface CMPI style providers CMPI defines a common standard used to interface Manageability Instrumentation providers instrumentation to Management Brokers CIM Object Manager CMPI standardizes Manageability Instrumentation which allows you to write ...

Page 232: ... Provider is no longer on the system Note tog pegasus binaries such as cimmof cimprovider and wbemexec should be in PATH variable of etc profile and hence should be defined in all environments of the system For Pegasus version 2 5 x perform the following steps 1 After you install the ThinkServer SAS Pegasus provider verify that usr lib Pegasus providers directory If these files are not present cop...

Page 233: ...tem 1 Go to Control Panel Add Remove Program 2 Remove the ThinkServer WMI SAS Provider Package This step removes all of the necessary files uninstalls the MOF and unregisters the COM dll The SAS Provider is no longer on the system 6 6 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent A Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP based management application can monitor and manage devices through SNMP extension...

Page 234: ...ck whether there is any pass command that starts with 1 3 6 1 4 1 3582 OID in snmpd conf If so delete all of the old pass commands that if an earlier version of ThinkServer SNMP Agent was installed The snmpd conf file structure should be the same as ThinkServer_mrdsnmpd conf For reference a sample conf file ZThinkServer_mrdsnmpd conf 2 To run an SNMP query from a remote machine add the IP address ...

Page 235: ...get the SNMP trap from local machine by issuing the following command snmptrapd P F 02 2h 02 2j TRAP w q from A v n Note To receive a trap in a local machine with Net SNMP version 5 3 you must modify the snmptrapd conf file generally located at var net snmp snmptrapd conf Add disableAuthorization yes in snmptrapd conf and then execute sudo snmptrapd P F 02 2h 02 2j TRAP w q from A v n Note It is a...

Page 236: ...on 6 6 2 4 Starting Stopping and Checking the Status of the ThinkServer SAS SNMP Agent Section 6 6 2 5 Configuring snmpd conf Section 6 6 2 6 Configuring SNMP Traps Section 6 6 2 7 Uninstalling the SNMP Package 6 6 2 1 Prerequisites This package requires that you have Solaris System Management Agent installed on the Solaris machine 6 6 2 2 Installation SNMP on Solaris To install SNMP for Solaris p...

Page 237: ...e status of the Solaris System Managment Agent net snmpd daemon Start svcadm enable svc application management sma default Stop svcadm disable svc application management sma default Restart svcadm restart svc application management sma default Status svcs svc application management sma default Note Online indicates that the SMA is started Disabled indicates that the SMA is stopped The following co...

Page 238: ... ipaddress under SECTION Access Control Setup in the etc sma snmp snmpd conf file as shown in the following excerpt SECTION Access Control Setup This section defines who is allowed to talk to your running SNMP Agent rocommunity a SNMPv1 SNMPv2c read only access community name arguments community default hostname network bits oid rocommunity snmpclient 172 28 157 149 b Add a readwrite community nam...

Page 239: ...g steps etc init d ThinkServer_mrdsnmpd stop 2 Edit the etc ThinkServer_mrdsnmp sas sas_TrapDestination conf Agent Service needs the IP addresses to sent trap The trap destination may be specified in this file or using snmpd conf file Following indicators can be set on TrapDestInd to instruct the agent to pick the IPs as the destination 1 IPs only from snmpd conf 2 IPs from this file only 3 IPs fr...

Page 240: ...er to retrieve the SAS data it is assumed that you have compiled ThinkServer AdapterSAS mib file already The ThinkServer AdapterSAS mib file is available under ProgramFiles Lenovo Corporation SNMPAgent SAS directory 3 Use a trap utility to get the traps Note Before you install the Agent make sure that SNMP Service is already installed in the system 6 6 3 2 Installing SNMP Service for Windows If yo...

Page 241: ...ch you want the traps to be sent with the community name 6 7 MegaRAID Storage Manager Support and Installation on Solaris 10 This section documents the installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager on the Solaris 10U5 and U6 both x86 and x64 operating system 6 7 1 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Solaris 10 Follow these steps to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system runn...

Page 242: ...e located in opt MegaRaidStorageManager directory Step 2 When prompted by the uninstallation scripts select Y to complete the installation Note To shut down MSM Framework service run svcadm disable t MSMFramework It is advisable to stop Monitor service before stopping MSM Framework service To stop Monitor service run svcadm disable t MSMMonitor Note To start the Framework service run svcadm enable...

Page 243: ... your operating system environment To start MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Microsoft Windows system select Start Programs MegaRAID Storage Manager StartupUI or double click the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcut on the desktop Note If a warning appears stating that Windows Firewall has blocked some features of the program click Unblock to allow MegaRAID Storage Manager software to start The...

Page 244: ...subnet type in the box at the bottom of the screen the IP address of a server in the desired subnet where the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running and click Update If you check the Connect to remote server at IP address box you can also access a standalone remote installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software if it has a network connection Note For the VMWare CIMOM the server button doe...

Page 245: ...ed to both view the current configuration and change the configuration Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the configuration Note When connected to VMWare system the Server Login screen shows only one label for access Full Access Multiple users can have full access to the VMWare server 5 Enter your user name and password and click Login Note If the computer is networked this is t...

Page 246: ...ve chosen the main MegaRAID Storage Manager window appears 7 2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window which is shown in Figure 7 3 Figure 7 3 Main MegaRAID Storage Manager Window The following topics describe the panels and menu options that appear on this screen ...

Page 247: ...dentifies the MegaRAID controller such as the MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP controller so that you can easily differentiate between multiple controllers Each controller has one or more ports Drives and other devices are attached to the ports The Logical view shows the hierarchy of controllers virtual drives and drive groups that are defined on the system Drives also appear in the Logical view so you can se...

Page 248: ...ow has either two tabs or three tabs depending on which kind of device you select in the left panel The Properties tab displays information about the selected device For example if you select a controller icon in the left panel the Properties tab lists information about the controller such as the controller name NVRAM size and device port count For more information see Section 9 3 Monitoring Contr...

Page 249: ...ies as shown in Figure 7 3 New event log entries appear during the session Each entry has an ID an error level indicating the severity of the event the timestamp and date and a brief description of the event For more information about the event log see Section 9 1 Monitoring System Events For more information about the event log entries see Appendix A Events and Messages ...

Page 250: ...torage Manager window For example the Scan for Foreign Config option is available only when a controller is selected The options also vary depending on the current state of the selected device For example if you select an offline drive the Make Drive Online option appears in the Operations menu You can view the Operations selections on the main window on the Operations tab in the right panel If an...

Page 251: ...elp to view the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help file You can select Help About to view version information for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software Note When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help you may see a warning message that Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content If this warning appears click on the active content warning bar and enable the act...

Page 252: ...7 10 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ...

Page 253: ...tor privileges This chapter explains how to use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to perform the following configuration tasks Section 8 1 Creating a New Storage Configuration Section 8 2 Selecting Full Disk Encryption Security Options Section 8 3 Adding Hot Spare Drives Section 8 4 Changing Adjustable Task Rates Section 8 5 Changing Power Settings Section 8 6 Changing Virtual Drive Properties Sec...

Page 254: ...ual Drive Using Advanced Configuration 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings This section describes the virtual drive settings that you can select when you use the advanced configuration procedure to create virtual drives You should change these parameters only if you have a specific reason for doing so It is usually best to leave them at their default settings Initialization state Initialization...

Page 255: ...ad ahead capability Adaptive read ahead When selected the controller begins using read ahead if the two most recent drive accesses occurred in sequential sectors If the read requests are random the controller reverts to No read ahead Write policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive Write back In this mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the contr...

Page 256: ... disk cache Unchanged the default Leave the current disk cache policy unchanged 8 1 2 Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration Simple configuration is the quickest and easiest way to create a new storage configuration When you select simple configuration mode the system creates the best configuration possible using the available drives Note You cannot created spanned drives using the si...

Page 257: ...5 Select the controller node and select Operations Create Virtual Drive in the menu bar as shown in Figure 8 1 Figure 8 1 Virtual Drive Creation Menu The dialog box for the configuration mode simple or advanced appears as shown in Figure 8 2 ...

Page 258: ...8 6 Configuration Figure 8 2 Virtual Drive Creation Mode 2 Click Simple and press Next The Create Virtual Drive screen appears as shown in Figure 8 3 ...

Page 259: ...red as RAID 0 The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level that you select The RAID levels that you can choose depend on the number of drives available To learn more about RAID levels see Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID 4 Click the box next to Assign a hot spare if you want to assign a hot spare drive to the virtual drive Hot spares are drives that are available to replace failed dri...

Page 260: ...ate 7 Select the capacity for the virtual drives Each virtual drive has the same capacity 8 Click Next The Create Virtual Drive Summary window appears as shown in Figure 8 4 This window shows the selections you made for simple configuration Figure 8 4 Create Virtual Drive Summary Window 9 Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete th...

Page 261: ...on gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive In addition you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced configuration mode This example shows the configuration of a spanned drive gr...

Page 262: ...8 10 Configuration Figure 8 5 Virtual Drive Creation Menu The dialog box shown in Figure 8 6 appears ...

Page 263: ...Creating a New Storage Configuration 8 11 Figure 8 6 Virtual Drive Creation Mode 10 Click Advanced and press Next The Create Drive Group Settings screen appears as shown in Figure 8 7 ...

Page 264: ... 50 or 60 The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 In addition it supports independent drives configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00 The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level you select RAID levels you can choose depend on the number of drives available To learn more about RAID levels see Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID b Scroll down the menu for the Drive security me...

Page 265: ...o add them to the drive group The selected drives appear under Span 0 below Drive Group 0 as shown in Figure 8 8 Figure 8 8 Span 0 of Drive Group 0 d Click Create Span to create a second span in the drive group e Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add to add them to the drive group f The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0 as shown in Figure 8 9 ...

Page 266: ...pears as shown in Figure 8 10 The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed out until you create the virtual drive Note The parameters in the Virtual drive settings window display in disabled mode grayed out for SAS Integrated RAID IR controllers because these parameters do not apply to SAS IR controller...

Page 267: ...ettings for more information about the virtual drive settings 13 Click Create Virtual Drive The new virtual drive appears under the drive group as shown in Figure 8 12 The options Update Virtual Drive and Remove Virtual Drive are now available Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive settings and Remove Virtual Drive allows you to delete the virtual drive ...

Page 268: ...16 Configuration Figure 8 11 New Virtual Drive 0 14 Click Next The Create Virtual Drive Summary window appears as shown in Figure 8 12 This window shows the selections you made for advanced configuration ...

Page 269: ...ter the configuration is completed a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully If more drive capacity exists the dialog box asks whether you want to create more virtual drives If no more drive capacity exists you are prompted to close the configuration session 16 Select Yes or No to indicate whether you want to create additional virtual drives If you select Yes the ...

Page 270: ...reign configuration 8 2 1 Enabling Drive Security Perform the following steps to enable drive security To do this you create a security key identifier security key and optional passphrase 1 Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and click a controller icon 2 Right click on the controller icon to display the menu of operations available 3 Select Change...

Page 271: ...controller After you create a security key you have the option to create secure virtual drives using the security key First create the security key identifier The identifier appears whenever you have to enter the security key If you have more than one security key the identifier helps you determine which security key to enter Next create a security key You need the security key to perform certain ...

Page 272: ...l security If you create a passphrase you must enter it whenever you boot your server Figure 8 14 Enable Drive Security Introduction Screen 4 On the introduction screen click Next The Enter Security Key ID screen appears as shown in Figure 8 15 ...

Page 273: ...curity key identifier or enter a new security key identifier Note If you create more than one security key it is highly recommended that you change the security key identifier Otherwise you cannot differentiate between the security keys 6 Click Next The Enable Security Key ID screen appears as shown in Figure 8 16 ...

Page 274: ...record your security key information You might need to enter the security key to perform certain operations The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Note Non US keyboard users must be careful not to enter ...

Page 275: ...ty 10 Enter a passphrase in the Pass phrase field and then enter the passphrase in the Confirm field The passphrase is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Warning messages appear if there is a mismatch between the charac...

Page 276: ...a Be sure to record your security key You might need to enter the security key to perform certain operations Figure 8 18 Confirm Create Security Key Screen 12 Confirm that you want to enable drive security on this controller and have recorded the security settings for future reference MSM enables drive security and and returns you to the main menu 8 2 2 Changing the Security Key Identifier Securit...

Page 277: ...n 2 Right click on the controller icon to display the menu of operations available 3 Select Change Drive Security Change Security Settings as shown in Figure 8 19 Note You can also access the drive security settings menu by clicking the Operations menu on the menu bar and selecting Change Drive Security Change Security Settings Figure 8 19 Change Drive Security Menu ...

Page 278: ...s screen lists the actions you can perform which include editing the security key identifier security key and the passphrase Figure 8 20 Change Security Settings Introduction Screen 4 On the introduction screen click Next The Change Security Settings Security Key ID screen appears as shown in Figure 8 21 ...

Page 279: ...security key identifier or enter a new security key identifier Note If you change the security key it is highly recommended that you change the security key identifier Otherwise you will not be able to differentiate between the security keys 6 Click Next The Change Security Settings Security Key screen appears as shown in Figure 8 22 ...

Page 280: ...ey to perform certain operations The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Note Non US keyboard users must be careful not to enter DBCS characters in the security key field Firmware works with the ASCII cha...

Page 281: ...y Settings Pass Phrase Screen 10 If you choose to click the option to use a passphrase in addition to the security key 11 If you chose to use a passphrase either enter the existing passphrase or enter a new passphrase and enter the passphrase again to confirm The text box for the passphrase can hold up to 32 characters The key must be at least eight characters The next screen that appears describe...

Page 282: ...l still need to enter the passphrase when you import them Otherwise you will not be able to access the data on those drives Note If there are any secure drive groups on the controller you cannot delete the security key and a warning screen appears In order to delete the security key you must first delete the virtual drives on all of the secure drive groups Perform the following steps to disable dr...

Page 283: ...Selecting Full Disk Encryption Security Options 8 31 Figure 8 25 Change Drive Security Menu The Confirm Disable Drive Security screen appears as shown in Figure 8 26 ...

Page 284: ...log to enter the security key and unlock the configuration The import dialog appears next for you to select to import a foreign drive In addition if one or more drives are removed from a configuration by a cable pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller You can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager to import the fore...

Page 285: ...ly the unconfigured drives Drives that have existing configurations including foreign configurations will not appear To use drives with existing configurations you must first clear the configuration on those drives Perform the following steps to import or clear a configuration 1 Enable drive security to allow importation of locked foreign drives See Section 8 2 1 Enabling Drive Security for the pr...

Page 286: ...e pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or drive removals Use the Foreign Configuration Preview screen to import or clear the foreign configuration in each case Note If you want to import the foreign configuration in any of the following scenarios you should...

Page 287: ...mes and re inserted the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration If you select Import all drives that were pulled before the virtual drive became offline will be imported and then automatically rebuilt Automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives 4 Scenario 4 If the drives in a non redundant virtual drive are removed the ...

Page 288: ...ive state drive capacity and drive manufacturer 2 In the right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window select the Operations tab 3 Select Make Dedicated Hotspare or Make Global Hotspare as shown in Figure 8 28 Figure 8 28 Creating a Global Hot Spare 4 If you selected Make Dedicated Hotspare select a drive group from the list that appears in the right frame The hot spare will be dedicated to t...

Page 289: ...e the defaults foreground tasks will run more slowly and it may seem that the system is not responding If you lower the task rates below the defaults rebuilds and other background tasks may run very slowly and may not complete within a reasonable time If you decide to change the values record the original default value here so you can restore them later if necessary Rebuild Rate ____________ Backg...

Page 290: ...r fast initialization and Check Consistency Rate for consistency checks Each task rate can be set from 0 to 100 The higher the number the faster the activity will run in the background possibly impacting other system tasks 4 Click Go to accept the new task rates 5 When the warning message appears click OK to confirm that you want to change the task rates ...

Page 291: ...on the Power Settings field does not display Follow these steps if you need to change the powersave setting 1 Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select a controller icon 2 In the right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window select the Operations tab and select Power Settings Figure 8 29 displays the Operations menu and the Power Settings...

Page 292: ...these steps 1 Click the Logical view tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window 2 Select a virtual drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window 3 In the right panel select the Operations tab and then select Set Virtual Drive Properties A list of Virtual Drive Properties appears in the right panel as shown in Figure 8 30 Figure 8 30 Set Virtual Drive Propert...

Page 293: ...ID 10 or RAID 50 or RAID 60 virtual drive You cannot change a RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration if two or more virtual drives are defined on a single drive group The Logical view tab shows which drive groups and drives are used by each virtual drive 8 7 1 Accessing the Modify Drive Group Wizard Note The Modify Drive Group Wizard was previously known as the Reconstruction Wizard Perform ...

Page 294: ...8 42 Configuration Figure 8 31 Data Backup Warning 4 Select Confirm at the warning and click Yes The Modify Drive Group Wizard screen appears as shown in Figure 8 32 ...

Page 295: ...uration Section 8 7 4 Changing the RAID Level of a Virtual Drive 8 7 2 Adding a Drive or Drives to a Configuration Caution Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you add a drive to it Follow these steps to add a drive or drives to a configuration with the Modify Drive Group Wizard 1 Access the Modify Drive Group Wizard screen as shown in Section 8 7 1 Accessing the Modify Drive Gr...

Page 296: ...tion cannot be aborted and asks whether you want to continue 7 Click Yes to accept and complete the addition of the drives to the drive group 8 7 3 Removing a Drive from a Configuration Caution Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you remove a drive from it Follow these steps to remove a drive from a RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration with the Modify Drive Group Wizard Note T...

Page 297: ...Group Wizard 2 On the Modify Drive Group Wizard screen select the RAID level that you want to change the drive group to 3 Click Next on the Modify Drive Group Wizard menu as shown in Figure 8 32 The Summary screen appears This screen displays the current settings and the settings after the RAID level is changed 4 Review the configuration information 5 Click Finish A confirmation message appears It...

Page 298: ...elect a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window 2 On the menu bar select Operations Configuration Save Configuration to file The Save dialog box appears 3 In the Save dialog box type a name for the configuration file or accept the default name hostname cfg 4 Click Save to save the configuration file 8 10 Clearing a Storage Configuration from a Controller You must c...

Page 299: ...on a new controller you can add a saved configuration to the controller Caution When you add a saved configuration to a replacement controller be sure that the number and capacity of the drives connected to the controller are exactly the same as when the configuration was saved To add a saved configuration follow these steps 1 Select a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Mana...

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Page 301: ... Monitoring Virtual Drives Section 9 7 Monitoring Enclosures Section 9 8 Monitoring Battery Backup Units Section 9 9 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes 9 1 Monitoring System Events MegaRAID Storage Manager software monitors the activity and performance of all controllers in the system and the storage devices connected to them When an event occurs such as the creation of a new virtual drive or...

Page 302: ...cription You can click an event to display the same information in a window For a list of all events see Section Appendix A Events and Messages Table 9 1 Event Severity Levels Severity Level Meaning Information Informational message No user action is necessary Warning Some component might be close to a failure point Critical A component has failed but the system has not lost data Fatal A component...

Page 303: ...e current log information You have the option of saving the log first 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications The Alert Notification Configuration feature allows you to control and configure the alerts that MegaRAID Storage Manager software sends when various system events occur To access this screen select Tools Configure Configure Alerts on the main menu screen as shown in Figure 9 2 Figure 9 2 Aler...

Page 304: ...elect the methods for the delivery of alerts Change the severity level of events Save an xml backup file of the entire alert configuration Load all of the values from a previously saved backup into the dialog to edit or send to the monitor Note When you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session will be lost You can select the Mail Server tab to perform the following ...

Page 305: ...alues from a previously saved backup into the dialog to edit or send to the monitor Note When you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session will be lost 9 2 1 Setting Alert Delivery Methods You can select the methods used to send alert deliveries such as by popup email system log or MSM log You can select the alert delivery methods for each event severity level Infor...

Page 306: ... 2 2 Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events You can change the alert delivery options for an event without changing the severity level 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alerts Setting tab The the Alerts Setting portion of the screen appears as shown in Figure 9 3 2 Click Change Individual Events The Change Individual Events dialog box appears as shown in Fi...

Page 307: ...Delivery Methods heading 4 Select the desired alert delivery methods for the event 5 Press ESC to return to the Alerts Notification Configuration screen 6 Click OK This saves all of the changes made to the event 9 2 3 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events To change the event severity level for a specific event perform the following steps Note See Table 9 1 for details about the severit...

Page 308: ...ndividual Events dialog box appears as shown in Figure 9 5 The dialog box shows the events by their ID number description and severity level 3 Click an event in the list to select it The current alert delivery methods appear for the selected event 4 Click the Severity cell for the event The Event Severity drop down menu appears for that event as shown in Figure 9 6 Figure 9 6 Change Individual Eve...

Page 309: ...diting the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server You can use the Alerts Notification Configuration screen to enter or edit the sender e mail address and the SMTP server 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Mail Server tab The Mail Server options appear as shown in Figure 9 7 Figure 9 7 Mail Server Options 2 Enter a new sender email address in the Sender email address field or...

Page 310: ...ter a user name in the User name field 3 Enter the password in the Password field 4 Click OK 9 2 6 Saving Backup Configurations You can save an xml backup file of the entire alert configuration This includes all the settings on the three tabs 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alert Setting tab Mail Server tab or Email tab 2 Click Save Backup The drive directory appears 3 ...

Page 311: ...format 4 Click Open The drive directory disappears 5 Click OK The backup configuration is saved and the Alerts Notification Configuration screen closes 9 2 8 Adding Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications The Email tab portion of the Alerts Notification Configuration screen shows the email addresses of recipients of the alert notifications MegaRAID Storage Manager sends alert notifica...

Page 312: ...ients of Alert Notifications Use the Email tab portion of the Alerts Notification Configuration screen to send test messages to the email addresses that you added for the recipients of alert notifications 1 Click the E mail tab on the Event Notification Configuration screen The E mail section of the screen appears as shown in Figure 9 8 2 Click an email address in the Recipient email addresses fie...

Page 313: ...Remove button which was grayed out is now active 3 Click Remove The email address is deleted from the list 9 3 Monitoring Controllers When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running you can see the status of all controllers in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window If the controller is operating normally the controller icon looks like this If the controller has failed a small red ...

Page 314: ...or more information see Section 8 4 Changing Adjustable Task Rates page 8 37 The BBU Present field indicates whether a battery backup unit is installed The Alarm Present and Alarm Enabled fields indicate whether the controller has an alarm to alert the user with an audible tone when there is an error or problem on the controller There are options on the controller Properties tab for silencing or d...

Page 315: ...con looks like this If the drive has failed a small red circle appears to the right of the icon like this See Section 7 2 1 Physical Logical View Panel for a complete list of device icons To display complete drive information click a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and click the Properties tab in the right panel Figure 9 10 shows the Properties panel for a drive...

Page 316: ...es do not blink 4 To stop the drive light from blinking select Stop Locating Physical Drive and click Go All of the drive properties are defined in the Glossary To display a graphical view of a drive click a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and click the Graphical View tab In Graphical View the drive s storage capacity is color coded according to the legend shown...

Page 317: ... the patrol read settings follow these steps 3 Click the Logical tab 4 Click a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window 5 Select the Operations tab in the right panel and select Set Patrol Read Properties as shown in Figure 9 11 Figure 9 11 Patrol Read Configuration 6 Select an Operation Mode for a patrol read The options are ...

Page 318: ...fault values to achieve the best system performance If you decide to change the values record the original default value here so you can restore them later if necessary Patrol Read Frequency ___________________ Continuous Patrolling Enabled Disabled Patrol Read Task Rate ___________________ 10 Optional Select Continuous Patrolling if you want patrol read to run continuously in the background inste...

Page 319: ...n Degraded mode for example if a drive has failed a small yellow circle appears to the right of the icon A red circle indicates that the Virtual Drive has failed and data has been lost When the Logical tab is selected the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window shows which drives are used by each virtual drive The same drive can be used by multiple virtual drives To display complete virt...

Page 320: ... change the read policy write policy and other virtual drive properties by selecting Operations Set Virtual Drive Properties If the drives in the virtual drive are in an enclosure you can identify them by making their LEDs blink To do this follow these steps 1 Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel 2 Click the Operations tab in the right panel 3 Select Locate Virtual Drive and click Go ...

Page 321: ...dicates that some of the capacity is used by another virtual drive In a RAID 10 RAID 50 or RAID 60 configuration two drive groups are used by one virtual drive 9 7 Monitoring Enclosures When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running you can see the status of all enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel If an enclosure is operating normally the icon look...

Page 322: ...us The information on the right shows you the status of the temperature sensors fans and power supplies in the enclosure 9 8 Monitoring Battery Backup Units When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running you can monitor the status of all of the BBUs connected to controllers in the server If a BBU is operating normally the icon looks like this If it has failed a red dot appears next to the icon ...

Page 323: ... The BBU properties such as the battery type temperature and voltage appear as shown in Figure 9 14 Figure 9 14 Battery Backup Unit Information The BBU properties include the following The number of times the BBU has been recharged Cycle Count The full capacity of the BBU plus the percentage of its current state of charge and the estimated time until it will be depleted ...

Page 324: ...learn cycles enable automatic learn cycles To choose manual battery learn cycles disable automatic learn cycles If you enable automatic learn cyles you can delay the start of the learn cycles for up to 168 hours 7 days If you disable automatic learn cycles you can start the learn cycles manually and you can choose to receive a reminder to start a manual learn cycle 9 8 1 1 Setting Learn Cycle Prop...

Page 325: ...tic learn cycles and click Go You can delay the start of the next learn cycle by up to 7 days 168 hours using the Delay next learn cycle field 6 To disable automatic learn cycles click Disable automatic learn cycles and click Go You can start the learn cycles manually In addition you can check the box next to the field Remind me when to start a learn cycle to receive a reminder to start a manual l...

Page 326: ...shown in Figure 9 15 4 Click Start Learn Cycle and click Go Another method to use the BBU operations is to right click the BBU icon to open the operations menu and select Start Learn Cycle 9 9 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes MegaRAID Storage Manager software allows you to monitor the progress of rebuilds and other lengthy processes in the Group Show Progress window Open this window shown i...

Page 327: ...oreground initialization of a virtual drive Rebuild see Section 10 4 Rebuilding a Drive Modify Drive Group see Section 8 7 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Consistency check see Section 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications The drive group modification process cannot be aborted To abort any other ongoing process click the Abort button next to the status indicator Click Abort All to abort all o...

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Page 329: ...or Missing Section 10 6 Upgrading the Firmware 10 1 Initializing a Virtual Drive To initialize a virtual drive after completing the configuration process follow these steps 1 Select the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and click the icon of the virtual drive that you want to initialize 2 Select Group Operations Initialize The Group Initialize dialog box appears ...

Page 330: ...rives It is especially important to do this if you suspect that the virtual drive data might be corrupted Be sure to back up the data before running a consistency check if you think the data might be corrupted To run a consistency check follow these steps 1 Select Group Operations Check Consistency The Group Consistency Check window appears 2 Select the virtual drives that you want to check or cli...

Page 331: ...0 or RAID 50 virtual drive fails the system is protected from data loss A RAID 6 virtual drive can survive two failed drives A failed drive must be replaced and the data on the drive must be rebuilt on a new drive to restore the system to fault tolerance You can choose to rebuild the data on the failed drive if the drive is still operational If hot spare drives are available the failed drive is re...

Page 332: ...ow Progress 10 5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing If a drive is currently part of a redundant configuration and you want to use it in another configuration you can use MegaRAID Storage Manager commands to remove the drive from the first configuration When you do this all data on that drive is lost To remove the drive from the configuration without harming the data on the virtual drive follow thes...

Page 333: ...sily upgrade the controller firmware To do this follow these steps 1 In the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window click the icon of the controller you need to upgrade 2 In the right panel click the Operations tab and select Flash Firmware 3 In the right panel click Browse to locate for the rom update file 4 After you locate the file click OK MegaRAID Storage Manager software displays t...

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Page 335: ...vel that indicates the severity of the event as shown in Table A 1 Table A 2 lists all of the MegaRAID Storage Manager event messages The event message descriptions include placeholders for specific values that are determined when the event is generated For example in message No 1 in the Event Messages table s is replaced by the firmware version which is read from the firmware when the event is ge...

Page 336: ...cache discarded due to memory battery problems 0x000b Fatal Unable to recover cache data due to configuration mismatch 0x000c Information Cache data recovered successfully 0x000d Fatal Controller cache discarded due to firmware version incompatibility 0x000e Information Consistency Check rate changed to d 0x000f Fatal Fatal firmware error s 0x0010 Information Factory defaults restored 0x0011 Infor...

Page 337: ... Information Test event s 0x002c Information Time established as s d seconds since power on 0x002d Information User entered firmware debugger 0x002e Warning Background Initialization aborted on s 0x002f Warning Background Initialization corrected medium error s at lx 0x0030 Information Background Initialization completed on s 0x0031 Fatal Background Initialization completed with uncorrectable erro...

Page 338: ...zation progress on s is s 0x0046 Information Fast initialization started on s 0x0047 Information Full initialization started on s 0x0048 Information Initialization complete on s 0x0049 Information LD Properties updated to s from s 0x004a Information Drive group modification complete on s 0x004b Fatal Drive group modification of s stopped due to unrecoverable errors 0x004c Fatal Reconstruct detecte...

Page 339: ... at lx 0x0062 Information Rebuild aborted by user on s 0x0063 Information Rebuild complete on s 0x0064 Information Rebuild complete on s 0x0065 Critical Rebuild failed on s due to source drive error 0x0066 Critical Rebuild failed on s due to target drive error 0x0067 Progress Rebuild progress on s is s 0x0068 Information Rebuild resumed on s 0x0069 Information Rebuild started on s 0x006a Informati...

Page 340: ...x007d Critical SAS topology error Index not found 0x007e Critical SAS topology error SMP function failed 0x007f Critical SAS topology error SMP CRC error 0x0080 Critical SAS topology error Multiple subtractive 0x0081 Critical SAS topology error Table to table 0x0082 Critical SAS topology error Multiple paths 0x0083 Fatal Unable to access device s 0x0084 Information Dedicated Hot Spare created on s...

Page 341: ...formation Battery relearn postponed 0x009d Information Battery relearn will start in 4 days 0x009e Information Battery relearn will start in 2 day 0x009f Information Battery relearn will start in 1 day 0x00a0 Information Battery relearn will start in 5 hours 0x00a1 Information Battery removed 0x00a2 Information Current capacity of the battery is below threshold 0x00a3 Information Current capacity ...

Page 342: ...0b7 Critical Enclosure s firmware mismatch 0x00b8 Warning Enclosure s sensor d bad 0x00b9 Critical Enclosure s phy d bad 0x00ba Critical Enclosure s is unstable 0x00bb Critical Enclosure s hardware error 0x00bc Critical Enclosure s not responding 0x00bd Information SAS SATA mixing not supported in enclosure Drive s disabled 0x00be Information Enclosure SES hotplug on s was detected but is not supp...

Page 343: ...ed to normal 0x00d1 Information BBU Retention test was initiated on previous boot 0x00d2 Information BBU Retention test passed 0x00d3 Critical BBU Retention test failed 0x00d4 Information NVRAM Retention test was initiated on previous boot 0x00d5 Information NVRAM Retention test passed 0x00d6 Critical NVRAM Retention test failed 0x00d7 Information s test completed d passes successfully 0x00d8 Crit...

Page 344: ... certified drive 0x00ed Information Dirty cache data discarded by user 0x00ee Information Drives missing from configuration at boot 0x00ef Information Virtual drives VDs missing drives and will go offline at boot s 0x00f0 Information VDs missing at boot s 0x00f1 Information Previous configuration completely missing at boot 0x00f2 Information Battery charge complete 0x00f3 Information Enclosure s f...

Page 345: ...d in a different enclosure 0x0107 Warning Foreign configuration table overflow 0x0108 Warning Partial foreign configuration imported PDs not imported s 0x0109 Information Connector s is active 0x010a Information Board Revision s 0x010b Warning Command timeout on PD s CDB s 0x010c Warning PD s reset Type 02x 0x010d Warning VD bad block table on s is 80 full 0x010e Fatal VD bad block table on s is f...

Page 346: ... Information Redundant enclosure EMM s removed for EMM s 0x0124 Warning Patrol Read can t be started as PDs are either not ONLINE or are in a VD with an active process or are in an excluded VD 0x0125 Information Copyback aborted by user on PD s and src is PD s 0x0126 Critical Copyback aborted on hot spare s from s as hot spare needed for rebuild 0x0127 Warning Copyback aborted on PD s from PD s as...

Page 347: ...yed 0x013b Warning Drive security key from escrow is invalid 0x013c Information VD s is now secured 0x013d Warning VD s is partially secured 0x013e Information PD s security activated 0x013f Information PD s security disabled 0x0140 Information PD s is reprovisioned 0x0141 Information PD s security key changed 0x0142 Fatal Security subsystem problems detected for PD s 0x0143 Fatal Controller cache...

Page 348: ... Information PD s rebuild not possible as HDD SSD mix is not supported in a drive group 0x014e Information Copyback cannot be started on PD s from s as HDD SSD mix is not supported in a drive group 0x014f Information VD bad block table on s is cleared 0x0150 Caution SAS topology error 0x lx Table A 2 Event Messages Cont Number Type Event Text Sheet 13 of 13 ...

Page 349: ... background initialization of virtual drives will be carried out BIOS Basic Input Output System The computer BIOS is stored on a flash memory chip The BIOS controls communications between the microprocessor and peripheral devices such as the keyboard and the video controller and miscellaneous functions such as system messages cache Fast memory that holds recently accessed data Use of cache memory ...

Page 350: ... a usable capacity of 4 088 Mbytes each for use in a drive group in a storage configuration coercion mode A controller property indicating the capacity to which drives of nominally identical capacity are coerced forced to make them usable in a storage configuration consistency check An operation that verifies that all stripes in a virtual drive with a redundant RAID level are consistent and that a...

Page 351: ...to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction default write policy A virtual drive property indicating whether the default write policy is Write Through or Write Back In Write Back mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction In Write Through mode the controller s...

Page 352: ...ted the prepare for removal operation drive subsystem A collection of drives and the hardware that controls them and connects them to one or more controllers The hardware can include an intelligent controller or the drives can attach directly to a system I O bus controller drive type A drive property indicating the characteristics of the drive fast initialization A mode of initialization that quic...

Page 353: ...controller property indicating the number of host data ports currently in use host system Any computer system on which the controller is installed Mainframes workstations and standalone desktop systems can all be considered host systems hot spare A standby drive that can automatically replace a failed drive in a virtual drive and prevent data from being lost A hot spare can be dedicated to a singl...

Page 354: ...m one controller and attaching them to another one The firmware on the new controller will detect and retain the virtual drive information on the drives mirroring The process of providing complete data redundancy with two drives by maintaining an exact copy of one drive s data on the second drive If one drive fails the contents of the other drive can be used to maintain the integrity of the system...

Page 355: ...read operations are run on a computer system product info A drive property indicating the vendor assigned model number of the drive product name A controller property indicating the manufacturing name of the controller RAID A group of multiple independent drives that provide high performance by increasing the number of drives used for saving and accessing data A RAID drive group improves input out...

Page 356: ...lete data redundancy RAID 60 A combination of RAID 0 and RAID 6 that uses data striping across two drive groups with parity data It provides high data throughput and complete data redundancy RAID 60 can survive the failure of two drives in each RAID set in the spanned drive group RAID level A virtual drive property indicating the RAID level of the virtual drive raw capacity A drive property indica...

Page 357: ...s in the drive group that can be used to rebuild a failed drive The redundant data can be parity data striped across multiple drives in a drive group or it can be a complete mirrored copy of the data stored on a second drive A redundant configuration protects the data in case a drive fails in the configuration revertible hot spare When you use the Replace Member procedure after data is copied from...

Page 358: ...e writes data to drives one through five without repeating any of the drives The amount of space consumed by a stripe is the same on each drive Striping by itself does not provide data redundancy Striping in combination with parity does provide data redundancy subvendor ID A controller property that lists additional vendor ID information about the controller uncorrectable error count A controller ...

Page 359: ...rdance with policies set up by the controller These policies include the amount of dirty clean cache lines the number of cache lines available and elapsed time from the last cache flush write policy See Default Write Policy write through In Write Through Caching mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data and has com...

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Page 361: ...ion Lenovo may make improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this publication at any time without notice The products described in this document are not intended for use in implantation or other life support applications where malfunction may result in injury or death to persons The information contained in this document does not affect or change Lenovo produc...

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