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202-10406-01
v1.2
October 2008

NETGEAR

, Inc.

350 E Plumeria Drive
San Jose, CA 95134 USA

ReadyNAS Pro
Business Edition User
Guide

Summary of Contents for ReadyNAS Pro Business

Page 1: ...202 10406 01 v1 2 October 2008 NETGEAR Inc 350 E Plumeria Drive San Jose CA 95134 USA ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide...

Page 2: ...and Vfg 46 1992 The operation of some equipment for example test transmitters in accordance with the regulations may however be subject to certain restrictions Please refer to the notes in the operati...

Page 3: ...umber Publication Date October 2008 Product Family Network Storage Product Name ReadyNAS Pro Network Attached Storage System Business Edition Home or Business Product Business Language English Publica...

Page 4: ...v1 2 October 2008 iv...

Page 5: ...ible 1 3 Introducing the Status Displays Ports and Drive Bay 1 4 Front and Side Panel 1 4 Drive Bay 1 5 Rear Panel 1 6 Choosing a Location for a ReadyNAS Pro 1 7 Initial Setup 1 7 Default IP Address L...

Page 6: ...20 Setting Up Printers 2 22 Print Shares over CIFS SMB 2 22 IPP Printing 2 22 Managing Print Queues 2 23 Adjusting System Settings 2 24 Clock System Time and NTP Options 2 24 Alerts Alert Contacts Ale...

Page 7: ...pshots 4 8 Backing Up the ReadyNAS to a USB Drive 4 12 Chapter 5 Optimizing Performance Performance 5 1 Adding a UPS for Performance 5 2 Power Management 5 3 Disk Spin Down Option 5 3 Power Timer 5 4...

Page 8: ...October 2008 Shutdown 6 8 Appendix A Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems MAC OS X A 1 AFP over Bonjour A 2 AFP over AppleTalk A 3 MAC OS 9 A 5 Accessing Shares from Linux Unix A 7 Appendix B Relat...

Page 9: ...Typographical Conventions This manual uses the following typographical conventions Formats This manual uses the following formats to highlight special messages Italic Emphasis books CDs file and serv...

Page 10: ...individual chapters How to Print This Manual To print this manual you can choose one of the following options according to your needs Printing a page from HTML Each page in the HTML version of the ma...

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Page 12: ...ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide xii About This Manual v1 2 October 2008...

Page 13: ...p form factor the ReadyNAS Pro products support up to six SATA I or SATA II hard drives via six lockable hot swappable disk trays Three USB 2 0 ports enable the connection of USB drives or printers Ba...

Page 14: ...mplexities yet still provides volume management features previously available only in enterprise level storage solutions X RAID Simplifies Redundancy To maintain redundancy from disk failure X RAID re...

Page 15: ...ancy Again this process can take 30 minutes to several hours Both processes occur in the background so you can continue using the ReadyNAS as usual Once you have done this for all disks in the system...

Page 16: ...Ports and Drive Bay This section introduces the ReadyNAS Pro display ports and drive bay Front and Side Panel 1 OLED display including the disk activity status light 2 CPU exhaust vent 3 Power button...

Page 17: ...Drive Bay 1 Drive bay door 2 Six disk bays 3 Disk tray pop out button 4 Disk tray pop out latch 5 Disk tray 6 Disk tray lock 7 Recessed disk tray latch lock release Figure 1 2 Note If you set the tray...

Page 18: ...ecessed button which provides access to the diagnostic startup menu Normal Factory Restore which erases all data OS Reinstall Tech Support remote diagnostics Skip Volume Check Memory Test 5 LAN1 and L...

Page 19: ...rature operating limits are not likely to be exceeded For information on the recommended operating temperatures refer to Appendix A Default Settings and Technical Specifications Initial Setup Follow t...

Page 20: ...gear1 case sensitive The RAIDar Setup Utility The RAIDar utility enables easy setup and management of all your ReadyNAS units It discovers the units in the network and makes it easy to see the status...

Page 21: ...nagement console operates in two modes Setup Wizard mode and Advanced Control mode When the unit is in its factory default state FrontView is in Setup Wizard mode Use the wizard to perform the initial...

Page 22: ...the right give a quick glimpse of the system device status Move the mouse pointer over the status light to display device information or click a status light to display the status in more detail Above...

Page 23: ...tains the following sections Customizing Network Settings Updating the Admin Password Selecting Services for Share Access Understanding Volume Management Setting Up Printers Adjusting System Settings...

Page 24: ...R advises that you set the lease time on the DHCP server router to a value of at least a day Otherwise you might notice that the IP address of the unit changes even when it has been powered down for o...

Page 25: ...ork teaming provides a way to aggregate the two network interfaces into a single logical teamed or bonded interface The teamed interface allows for fail over support and can provide for enhanced aggre...

Page 26: ...interface fails another interface takes over the MAC address of the failed receiving interface Adaptive Load Balancing Includes Transmit Load Balancing plus Receive Load Balancing for IPV4 traffic an...

Page 27: ...Edition on your network You can use the hostname to address the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition in place of the IP address when accessing the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition from Windows or over OS X usi...

Page 28: ...translates host names into IP addresses If you selected the DHCP option in the Ethernet or Wireless tab the Domain Name Server fields are automatically populated with the DNS settings from your DHCP...

Page 29: ...Manual Routing Table The Route tab allows you to specify a manual routing table for each Ethernet interface You can use this option to optimize performance For example you could configure a manual rou...

Page 30: ...or erase the data on the ReadyNAS As a safeguard you are requested to enter a password recovery question the expected answer and an e mail address If in the future you forget the password you can go...

Page 31: ...ng services that allow your workstation clients to transfer files to and from the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition using built in file manager over network file protocols supported by the client operatin...

Page 32: ...to a specified share you can transparently force access to http readynas_ip to http readynas_ip share This is useful if you do not want to expose your default share listing page to outsiders All you...

Page 33: ...ia adapters and networked DVD players that support the UPnP AV protocol or are Digital Living Network Alliance DLNA standard compliant The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition comes with a reserved media sha...

Page 34: ...nect to FrontView IPP printing and AFP services OS X has built in Bonjour support and you can download Bonjour for Windows from Apple s website UPnP provides a means for UPnP enabled clients to discov...

Page 35: ...d disks could be described as a backup solution using two or more disks that each store the same data so that data is not lost as long as one disk survives For example a two disk RAID 1 volume can sus...

Page 36: ...est possible media streaming performance With a one disk X RAID2 volume the volume is non redundant and has the capacity of the single disk By adding a second disk the capacity remains the same but th...

Page 37: ...finish rebuilding and after new redundant space becomes available your volume will automatically expand to utilize the new capacity Volume Management for Flex RAID If you want to reconfigure the defa...

Page 38: ...AID level RAID level determines how the redundancy capacity utilization and performance are implemented for the volume Typically in a configuration of three or more disks RAID level 5 is recommended I...

Page 39: ...added Use RAIDar to reconnect to the NAS device RAID Settings After you have added a volume you can return to the Volume tab and click the RAID Settings tab to display the current RAID information and...

Page 40: ...ur data back to the new RAID volume Not so with X RAID2 Simply add the third disk using the ReadyNAS hot swap trays If you are adding multiple disks at the same time or if your ReadyNAS is not hot swa...

Page 41: ...can expand to additional disks by doing the same thing as the 2nd disk replace with a larger disk allow the disk to sync and reboot Volume Maintenance ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition includes two volume...

Page 42: ...ces they appear appended by an increasing device number for example USB_HDD_2 If the device contains multiple partitions the partitions are listed beneath the main device entry Partitions on the stora...

Page 43: ...me Name and Access Rights Persistence Across Mount Dismounts The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition attempts to remember the name as long as there is a unique ID associated with the USB device so that the...

Page 44: ...Business Edition can act as a print server for up to two USB printers for your Windows or Mac clients To set up a printer in Windows 1 Click Browse in RAIDar or simply enter hostname in the Windows E...

Page 45: ...atures bonjour Managing Print Queues From time to time printers might run out of ink or paper or simply jam up forcing you to deal with the print jobs stuck in a queue The ReadyNAS Pro Business Editio...

Page 46: ...n is required to ensure proper file timestamps You can access the Clock screen by selecting System Clock from the main menu The Select Timezone section and the Select Current Time section of the Clock...

Page 47: ...e to enter a primary e mail address and a backup one if possible Some e mail addresses can be tied to a mobile phone This is a great way to monitor the device when you are away from your desk Settings...

Page 48: ...can leave the Community field set to public or specify a private name if you have opted for a more segregated monitoring scheme 3 Enter a host name or an IP address in the Trap destination field This...

Page 49: ...you were unable to receive the test message from the Alerts Settings tab it might have been blocked by the firewall In that case specify an appropriate SMTP server in this tab Internet Service Provid...

Page 50: ...lient uses different character encoding from the NAS character encoding specified in Unicode the NAS FTP server will convert it if you select the Enable character encoding conversion for FTP clients c...

Page 51: ...GEAR update server If you wish to continue click Perform System Update After the update image has been downloaded you will be asked to reboot the system The update process updates only the firmware im...

Page 52: ...e upgrade Configuring Automatic Update Settings If you do have a reliable Internet connection you can enable the automatic update check and download options in the Settings tab If you select the Autom...

Page 53: ...data that you wish to keep prior to clicking Perform Factory Default If you select this option you are asked to confirm the command by typing FACTORY Configuration Backup Backup and restore ReadyNAS c...

Page 54: ...to download a zip archive of the requested files Use the Restore tab to brows for a configuration backup you would like to restore You can also use this feature to replicate a standard configuration...

Page 55: ...System Business Edition in your network is described in this chapter This chapter contains the following sections Understanding Disk Share Security Access Modes Setting Up User and Group Accounts Cha...

Page 56: ...s and or groups you wish to offer access As an example you might want to restrict company financial data to just users belonging to one particular group In this security mode the administrator need to...

Page 57: ...trol over how much disk space is allocated for each user or group Each user is given a home share on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device that the user can use to keep private data such as backups...

Page 58: ...p field in the User section The name can be the workgroup name that is already used on your Windows network 3 Click Apply to save your changes Domain Security Mode If you choose the Domain security mo...

Page 59: ...e Accounts tab screen if you have the Display users from trusted domains option enabled If you wish you can assign a disk quota to the domain users and groups If e mail addresses are specified users a...

Page 60: ...set the Group ID or GID of the group that you are adding You can leave this field blank and let the system automatically assign this value unless you wish to match your GID to your NFS clients After a...

Page 61: ...th account defaults Group members are optional Examples of acceptable formats are as follows note that you can omit follow on commas and fields if you wish to accept the system defaults for those fiel...

Page 62: ...sk quota limit If you do not wish to assign a disk quota enter 0 If you wish to add a large number of users select Import user list from the pull down menu Here you can upload a CSV Comma Separated Va...

Page 63: ...assigned automatically and has a default quota wilma imhiswif ourgroup wilma bedrock com 225 50 In this example user wilma has a password imhiswif belongs to the group ourgroup receives e mail notifi...

Page 64: ...formation stored on a volume and administer who has access to that information For example generic policies and forms like blank expense reports everyone should be able to access compared with sensiti...

Page 65: ...he share 2 Select Add Shares Enter the share name and description Once you finish adding the shares refer to Chapter 5 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System for instructions on how to access the...

Page 66: ...this share is read write Read Access with exceptions Either 1 access to this share is read only and allowed only for specified hosts 2 access is read only except for one or more users or groups that a...

Page 67: ...fers slightly from service to service For instance if you wish to allow read only access to all and read write access only user fred and group engr you would set the following Default Read only Write...

Page 68: ...prevent users from seeing To hide a share select the Hide this share check box Users who have access to this share must specify the path explicitly For example to access a hidden share enter host shar...

Page 69: ...veryone Permission for newly created folders is read write for everyone If the default does not satisfy your security requirement you can change it here Opportunistic locking often referred to as oplo...

Page 70: ...d permission for existing files and folders option performs a one time change Depending on the size of the share this can take a while to finish You can also grant rename and delete privilege to non o...

Page 71: ...the file manager displays options for creating modifying and deleting files as follows Figure 3 21 Figure 3 22 Note Files created under the Web file manager can be deleted only under this file manage...

Page 72: ...d only html files including index htm and index html can be viewed using any web browser FTP FTPS To access the share via FTP in Share security mode log in as anonymous and use your e mail address for...

Page 73: ...r name and password that is specific only for rsync access The user account you specify does not need to exist on the ReadyNAS or a domain controller Here is an example of a way for a Linux client to...

Page 74: ...or playback 1 Multiple players can be connected to the ReadyNAS and can play the media files concurrently Make sure that you enable the appropriate service in the Services tab before invoking the serv...

Page 75: ...urity mode Allow upload resumes This allows users to finish uploading a file to the FTP share if the connection had been previously interrupted Without this option enabled if the connection is dropped...

Page 76: ...the FTP share access options Change the Share Access Restrictions to allow FTP access to the share according to the user permissions you require Remote HTTP Access 1 Go to Services Standard File Prot...

Page 77: ...re enabling port forwarding of this port on the router SSL key host This field lets you configure the hostname used for the ReadyNAS to generate its SSL certificate and then create a new SSL certifica...

Page 78: ...to the share according to the user permissions you require 3 Enable WebDAV support WebDAV is an HTTP connection method that can allow drag and drop file transfers similar to what users may experience...

Page 79: ...ly from the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition without the need for a client based backup application With the flexibility to support incremental backups over CIFS SMB NFS and rsync protocols and full back...

Page 80: ...ated files as well as all index file links to web page image files FTP site Select this if you wish to back up an FTP site or a path from that site NFS server Select this option if you wish to back up...

Page 81: ...amples of an NFS path myserver mypath 192 168 0 101 mypath myfolder Examples of a Rsync path myserver mymodule mypath 192 168 0 101 mymodule mypath Examples of a local path myfolder media Videos My Fo...

Page 82: ...NAS Pro Business Edition system an NFS server or a rsync server Note that you can select rsync for a remote ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition if it is configured to serve data over rsync Step 3 Choose Bac...

Page 83: ...ckup is performed between the full backup cycles Backups of a Web or FTP site only have the option to do a full backup every time 2 Send a backup log Backup logs can be sent to the users on the Alert...

Page 84: ...attempts to maintain original file ownership whenever possible however this might cause problems in Share Security mode when backup files are accessed To work around this you have the option of autom...

Page 85: ...lly start the backup job The status changes when the backup starts when an error is encountered or when the job has finished 5 Select the View Log link to check a detailed status of the backup 6 Click...

Page 86: ...at job log You can then make appropriate changes or adjustments to the job Snapshots The Volume screen allows you to schedule and take snapshots You can visualize a snapshot as a frozen image of a vol...

Page 87: ...ime of 00 00 ReadyNAS will take one snapshot at midnight A start time of 00 00 and an end time of 23 00 will set snapshots to be taken between midnight and 11 pm the next day at the interval you speci...

Page 88: ...r in your browse list alongside the original shares except the snapshot share names have snap appended to the original share names For example a snapshot taken of a share backup is available as backup...

Page 89: ...ou are constantly getting snapshot invalidation alerts you might want to either increase the frequency of the snapshot or consider increasing the reserved snapshot space To do this or to eliminate you...

Page 90: ...Edition the Backup button is associated with the USB Port at the front of the system By default the Backup button copies the data from the Backup share onto the USB disk connected to the USB port at...

Page 91: ...ilize an Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS before enabling that option NETGEAR recommends that you select the Disable journaling only if the NAS has UPS protection Without battery backup there is a sma...

Page 92: ...option allows for fast write performance by enabling aggressive write back caching over CIFS Do not enable this option in multi user application environments such as Quick Books where synchronized wr...

Page 93: ...rs disk spin down power timer time off time on UPS event and wake on LAN power management options to reduce system power consumption both while the system is in use and when it is not in use Disk Spin...

Page 94: ...in Down option If you use this option the ReadyNAS is shut down automatically when a battery low condition is detected on a UPS connected to another ReadyNAS This is useful when a UPS is shared by mul...

Page 95: ...Status The Status menu contains links to the Health screen and Logs screen that provide system status information Health The Health screen displays the status of each disk and the fan temperature and...

Page 96: ...Logs Select Status Logs to access the Clear Logs screen The Clear Logs screen provides information about the status of management tasks including a timestamp The Download All Logs link is available in...

Page 97: ...k model Contact the disk vendor and arrange to have the disk replaced if the disk is still under warranty A disk RMA from the vendor requires that you provide the serial number of the disk To locate t...

Page 98: ...Pro Business Edition User Guide 6 4 Managing Levels of Service v1 2 October 2008 2 Press the button under the failed disk The latch pops out 3 Pull out the disk tray and remove the screws Figure 6 5 F...

Page 99: ...n on the power on the ReadyNAS The RAID volume automatically resynchronizes with the new disk in the background The process takes several hours depending on disk size During the resync process the Rea...

Page 100: ...Memory Test Perform a memory diagnostic Typically if you find that a configuration change makes the unit inaccessible you can use option 3 to set the unit back to a factory default state Use the OS R...

Page 101: ...for 30 seconds while powering on the device until the Boot Menu prompt appears on the OLED then release the reset switch 3 Push the Backup button on the front panel to scroll through the menu to the...

Page 102: ...ither a full file system check or a quota check on the next boot Both these options can take several minutes to several hours depending on the size of your volume and the number of files in the volume...

Page 103: ...ms This appendix presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS device can be accessed by the various MAC operating systems MAC OS X To access the same share over AFP with OS X select Network from th...

Page 104: ...ver Bonjour To access the AFP share advertised over Bonjour on Mac OS X select Network from the Finder Go menu to see a listing of available networks Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS...

Page 105: ...ct the share you want to access and click OK AFP over AppleTalk If you chose to advertise your AFP service over AppleTalk a listing of available networks is displayed Open the My Network folder to dis...

Page 106: ...are security mode you need to specify only the user name and password if you have set up a password for your share If you have not set up a user name enter the share name in place of the user name In...

Page 107: ...onnect When you are prompted to log in enter the share name and password if the ReadyNAS is configured for Share security mode otherwise enter a valid user account and password otherwise and click Con...

Page 108: ...eadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide A 6 Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems v1 2 October 2008 You should see the same files in the share that you do in Windows Explorer Figure A 10 Figure A 11...

Page 109: ...ix A Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems for instructions on accessing shares from various versions of the MAC OS Figure A 12 Note The ReadyNAS does not support NIS as it is unable to correlate NI...

Page 110: ...ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide A 8 Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems v1 2 October 2008...

Page 111: ...ment Link Internet Networking and TCP IP Addressing http documentation netgear com reference enu tcpip index htm Wireless Communications http documentation netgear com reference enu wireless index htm...

Page 112: ...ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide B 2 Related Documents v1 2 October 2008...

Page 113: ...general settings 2 25 setting contacts 2 25 Apple File Protocol See AFP AppleTalk AFP A 3 B Backup Button programming 4 7 Backup Jobs adding new 4 1 configuring 4 1 editing 4 8 options 4 5 scheduling...

Page 114: ...2 14 2 15 adding a volume 2 16 deleting a volume 2 15 frame size 2 5 FrontView accessing 1 9 FTP 2 10 backup jobs 4 2 FTP FTPS accessing shares 3 18 G group accounts setting up 3 5 groups accounts cr...

Page 115: ...in user 2 8 performance fine tuning 5 1 settings jumbo frames 2 5 Power Management 5 3 Power Timer 5 4 print queues managing 2 23 Printers setting up 2 22 USB 2 22 Printing CIFS SMB 2 22 IPP 2 22 R RA...

Page 116: ...iTunes Stream Server 2 11 multi media 2 11 SlimServer 2 11 UPnP AV 2 11 Support 1 ii T trusted domains 3 5 U UBB 1100 backup 4 12 Unicode 2 28 HTTP 2 28 WebDAV 2 28 updating remote method 2 29 updati...

Page 117: ...on User Guide Index 5 v1 2 October 2008 2 6 workgroup name 3 3 setup 3 4 X X RAID 2 15 adding a second disk 2 18 adding more disks 2 18 RAID Level X 2 14 redundancy overhead 1 3 using hot swap trays 2...

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