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Chapter 3

Configuring Your

Storage System

Inside the included CD in your package are three main folders namely:

StorageSystemConsole

FW_Upgrade

UserManual

You must install at least one hard disk (lowest level tray) before your storage
system can provide services.

A MNAS network consists of a MNAS server and several clients connected via
network links.

MNAS

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Summary of Contents for MNAS-4100

Page 1: ...MNAS 4100 User s Guide April 2006 Preliminary draft only...

Page 2: ...TRADEMARKS All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies NOTE The information in this manual is subject to change without notice...

Page 3: ...200 240 Vac Maximum operating ambient temperature 40 o C degree CAUTION Turn off the system before removing the cabinet cover CAUTION on using the RTC battery Danger of explosion if battery is incorr...

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Page 5: ...System 13 3 Configuring Your Storage System 15 3 1 Installing the Storage System Console 16 3 2 Initializing the Hard Disk s 20 3 3 Starting Web Management 34 3 4 System Management 36 Users Page 36 Sh...

Page 6: ...iv Swapping Hard Disks 74 Transferring Hard Disks to a New Storage System 74 Limited Warranty 77...

Page 7: ...greatly simplified through the Web based User Interface UI Additional features include A single administrative account Support for dynamically increasing logical drive size For example if two hard di...

Page 8: ...m Factor Small Tower Processor Intel IOP 80219 400 MHz System Memory 256 MB of DDR SDRAM up to 512 MB Flash Memory 8 MB Hard Disk Drive Bay Type Up to four 3 5 inch SATA Serial ATA Storage Capacity Us...

Page 9: ...sor Disk Configuration Linear RAID 0 1 5 5 spare 10 Application for NAS Management Data Sharing Protection System OS and Data Backup optional Web User Interface Others English Simplified Chinese multi...

Page 10: ...omponents Ref Component Description Power Button Turns the power on and off soft off Power Indicator Shows the current power status Power On Glows blue when the power is on Standby Glows red when the...

Page 11: ...ws blue to indicate a network connection speed at 1000 Mbps Giga LAN RAID Indicator Shows the current RAID status RAID On Glows blue to indicate RAID function is implemented RAID Fail Glows red to ind...

Page 12: ...6 Front Components Compartment Door Open Ref Component Description Hard Disk Tray Door Handle Opens the hard disk tray...

Page 13: ...7 Right Side Components Ref Component Description Door Lock Locks the hard disk drive compartment door for security...

Page 14: ...Select the voltage matching your area Ventilation Opening Maintain proper operating temperature Do not cover or block the openings Reset Button Allows you to reset the system to the factory default us...

Page 15: ...9 Chapter 2 Setting Up Step 1 Install the Hard Disks 1 Insert the key and turn clockwise to unlock and open the door 2 Slide the latch toward the right to release the handle...

Page 16: ...ay the second hard disk on the second lowest level tray and so forth 3 Pull the handle to slide the hard disk tray forward Then pull the hard disk tray out of the device 4 Unfasten two screws from eac...

Page 17: ...ecure the hard disk in place 6 Keeping the handle in its full open state slide the hard disk tray all the way into the device until the hinge of the handle is inside the device Then close the handle T...

Page 18: ...one end of the Ethernet cable to the network connector on the back of your storage system and the other end to a switch or router Step 3 Connect to Power 1 Before connecting to power set the Voltage...

Page 19: ...13 2 Connect one end of the power cord to your storage system and the other end to a standard electrical outlet 3 To turn on your storage system press the Power button...

Page 20: ...14 Step 4 Configure Your Storage System See the next chapter for the software configuration instructions...

Page 21: ...ckage are three main folders namely StorageSystemConsole FW_Upgrade UserManual You must install at least one hard disk lowest level tray before your storage system can provide services A MNAS network...

Page 22: ...torage System Console before you can perform any system configurations 1 Install the Storage System Console on your computer by double clicking on Setup exe under the StorageSystemConsole folder of yo...

Page 23: ...17 2 The following screen appears Enter the pertinent information then click on Next to continue...

Page 24: ...The following screen appears Select the default destination folder or change it by clicking on Browse Then click on Next to continue 4 The following screen appears Click on Next to start copying the f...

Page 25: ...19 5 The following screen appears To start the Storage System Console click on the radio button besides Launch Storage System Console Then click on Finish to exit the installation...

Page 26: ...en appears As soon as you start the Console it automatically scans the network for storage systems This might take a few minutes As soon as the scan is complete the left pane displays a tree view of a...

Page 27: ...21 3 The following screen appears Enter the default user name admin and default password storage 4 Click on Log In...

Page 28: ...22 5 The following screen appears Click on Scan...

Page 29: ...23 6 The following screen appears Click on Browse to select the firmware file under the FW_Upgrade folder of your included CD...

Page 30: ...24 7 Click on Upload and the following screens would appear in sequence...

Page 31: ...25 8 The system will reboot...

Page 32: ...nsole by clicking on Start then Programs then Storage System Console Wait awhile as it scans the network for storage systems The following screen appears Click on Discover Storage Systems 10 The follo...

Page 33: ...27 11 The following screen appears Enter the Storage system name then click on Next 12 The following screen appears Set the Date Time and Time zone then click on Next...

Page 34: ...28 13 The following screen appears Set the network settings then click on Next...

Page 35: ...mode then click on Next NOTE Your MNAS uses RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks technology to manage up to four hard disks Refer to the later section Disk Configurations see page 63 to learn mor...

Page 36: ...rs Select the Number of disks to back up then click on Next NOTE The backup software is optional if the storage system does not contain the backup software and you do not plan to use the backup featur...

Page 37: ...31 16 The following screen appears Enter the capacity of the disks to back up then click on Next...

Page 38: ...t the amount percentage of disk space to be allocated for shared folders and backups then click on Finish 18 On the next dialog box click on OK to confirm setup information will be written to the syst...

Page 39: ...33 19 The system will reboot...

Page 40: ...can is complete the left pane displays a tree view of all the storage systems it found The following screen appears 2 In the left pane select the name of the storage system that you want to manage for...

Page 41: ...35 3 The following screen appears Input the default user name admin and the default password storage 4 Then click on Log In Refer to the next section on performing various system management tasks...

Page 42: ...ious section on accessing Web Management Users Page Displays a list of all currently configured users and lets you add modify and remove users This area also lets you add modify and remove groups User...

Page 43: ...37 2 Click on Add and the following screen appears allowing you to specify the type of user Windows Mac OS X or Linux Other Mac you want to add...

Page 44: ...38 3 Click on Next and the following screen appears You must provide the requested user information For Windows Mac OS X user CIFS...

Page 45: ...or Linux other Mac user NFS 4 Click on Done and the new user would be added Repeat the above steps until you have added all the users that you want to add at this time you can always add more users la...

Page 46: ...40 Groups Placing users into groups makes it easier to give several users access to the same shared folder at once 1 Click on Groups on the Users page The following screen appears...

Page 47: ...41 2 Click on Add and the following screen appears Enter a group name and add all or selected users to this group You can also remove all or selected users from a group...

Page 48: ...configured and shared folders and lets you add shared folders change which users can access them and remove them 1 Click the Shared Folders button on your homepage The following screen appears 2 Selec...

Page 49: ...43 3 Click on Assign Access and the following screen appears For Windows Mac OS X user CIFS...

Page 50: ...44 For Linux other Mac user NFS 4 You can Add specify as Read Only or Read Write users groups to as well as Remove existing users groups from Shared Folders 5 Click on OK...

Page 51: ...he backup software skip this section and proceed to the next section Advanced Page The Backups page displays a list of all computer disk backups that currently exist and lets you change the recovery d...

Page 52: ...hange Password Deleting a Backup 1 Select the radio button next to the disk whose backups you want to delete in the second Select column 2 Click on Delete Backup 3 When prompted to confirm the deletio...

Page 53: ...s you to set up the storage system to notify up to three people via email if a problem occurs for example if one of the disks fails or if insufficient space is available for creating new files or perf...

Page 54: ...Click the Advanced button on your homepage The following screen appears 2 Enter the information about your email server and up to three email addresses that should receive the notification 3 Click on...

Page 55: ...is installed on your storage system It also allows you to upgrade it if a newer firmware become available 1 Click on Firmware and the following screen appears For additional security you must enter y...

Page 56: ...ackage such as D fs20060921 pkg or click Browse and select the file from the displayed list 3 In the Administrator password text box enter the password that you use for logging in to the Storage Syste...

Page 57: ...t date and time You can also change the administrator name and password to use for logging in to the Storage System Manager 1 Click on System and the following screen appears NOTE Changing the Storage...

Page 58: ...ddress Enter the name or IP address of the Network Time Protocol server from which the storage system should adjust its time You can use a NTP server name only if it is resolvable Administrator name P...

Page 59: ...s that were set when you initially configured the storage system only the first Ethernet port was configured during setup the second uses its default settings unless you change them here 1 Click on Ne...

Page 60: ...torage system 1 Click on Disks and the following screen appears NOTE The color indicated on the Hotplug Indicator column is as follows RED cannot hotswap hard drive data will be loss GREEN can hotswap...

Page 61: ...ion message appears click on OK The Disk Configuration page appears the options that appear on this page vary depending on the number of hard disks that are currently installed in the system If you ha...

Page 62: ...action If you are adding disks wait until the disk LED is green before you click on Scan To accept the default disk configuration which will provide the best level of data protection available for th...

Page 63: ...lect the total number of disks that you plan to back up to this storage system If some computers have multiple disks be sure to select the total number of disks that you plan to back up For example if...

Page 64: ...ty of drives group box IMPORTANT If your storage system does not contain the backup software and you do not plan to add it in the future select 0 click on Next and go directly to step 10 7 In each tex...

Page 65: ...9 When the confirmation message appears click on OK The following screen appears showing the progress of the process When this process is complete the storage system restarts 10 Close the Storage Syst...

Page 66: ...problems that you might encounter 1 Click on System Log and the following screen appears The date and time of the event the type of event I for informational E for error W for warning and C for criti...

Page 67: ...ars allowing you to shutdown the storage system CAUTION Make sure no one is backing up a disk or using a shared folder before you shut down the storage system 2 To ensure that you do not shut down the...

Page 68: ...t the functionality of storage system in the next startup 3 5 Logging Out of Web Management 1 To log out of the Web Management system click on the Logout button on your homepage 2 When the confirmatio...

Page 69: ...orage system has only one disk you must use a linear configuration However you can use a linear configuration for two three or four disks as well RAID 0 Instead of writing all the data to one disk in...

Page 70: ...wo disks is used for data and the larger of the two disks is used as the mirror If one disk fails the other disk continues to make its data available RAID 10 RAID 10 is similar to RAID 1 but rather th...

Page 71: ...tains the parity information needed to reconstruct either of the other two In this way if any of the three disks fails it can be reconstructed when a new disk is installed in the storage system If you...

Page 72: ...D 5 4 1 Adding hard disks The effect of adding hard disks to your storage system varies depending on the disk configuration you chose when you configured the system and the current state of the existi...

Page 73: ...ning all your existing data In a degraded state you can add a disk to a RAID at any time and the new disk will be rebuilt to replace the disk that was removed or failed CAUTION If the RAID has failed...

Page 74: ...isk to the storage system click on Add New Disk If the information on this page is not correct click on Scan to scan the storage system again and update the page You can also click on Shut Down to shu...

Page 75: ...t state of the disk configuration To add the disk to the storage system but not add it to the RAID at this time click on Ignore The Disks page lists the disk that is part of the storage system but its...

Page 76: ...sole or refresh the browser window The Disk Change Notification page appears 3 Click on Add New Disk to add the disk to the storage system The Disks page shows the progress of the rebuilding progress...

Page 77: ...iguration all the disks are YELLOW Removing any one of them will cause the RAID to be degraded but all the data will still be available However after you remove one disk all the other disks become RED...

Page 78: ...integrity of the data cannot be guaranteed However if you replace the removed disks with new disks you must reconfigure your disks CAUTION Reconfiguring your disks will delete all the data on your sto...

Page 79: ...the opposite order that you removed them To return to the Storage System Console and continue to operate in a degraded mode click on Continue Responding to RAID Failure When disk removal failure caus...

Page 80: ...our disks and the system will function as it previously did when you restart it NOTE For RAID 5 spare if you swap the disks when the storage system is running one of the swapped disks must be the spar...

Page 81: ...install the Console on a computer in the same subnet as the storage system and use the Console to access it 5 If the firmware in the flash memory of the new unit differs from the firmware on the hard...

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