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Page 2: ... task lists and numerous cross references to help you find the specific information you are looking for The terms Vess R3600 or subsystem are used in examples or descriptions throughout this manual to refer to any of the available Vess R3600 Series models The terms unit or device can refer to any Vess R3600 Series or Vess J3600 Series model i Promise Technology About This Manual ...

Page 3: ...into a rack system WebPAM PROe System Configuration provides a more detailed description of the various menus used for managing the Vess R3600 Series and connected Vess J3600 Series expansion devices Managing with the CLI describes using the CLI to manage the Vess R3600 Series through the network or via serial connection Contacting Technical Support includes how to contact technical support how to...

Page 4: ...avoid them Caution A Caution informs you of possible equipment damage or loss of data and how to avoid them Important An Important message calls attention to an essential step or point required to complete a task including things often missed Note A Note provides helpful information such as hints or alternative ways of doing a task iii Promise Technology About This Manual ...

Page 5: ...entaire Le numéro de modèle réglementaire est différent du nom commercial ou du numéro de modèle du produit Safety precautions Retain and follow all product safety and operating instructions Always refer to the documentation printed or electronic supplied with your product If there is a conflict between this document and the product documentation the product documentation takes precedence Observe ...

Page 6: ... product in a wet location Avoid inserting foreign objects through openings in the product Move products with casters carefully Avoid quick stops and uneven surfaces or These symbols on power supplies or systems indicate that the equipment is supplied by multiple sources of power WARNING To reduce the risk of injury from electric shock remove all power cords to completely disconnect power from the...

Page 7: ...Évitez d insérer des corps étrangers dans les fentes du produit Déplacez les produits avec des roulettes avec précaution Évitez les arrêts brusques et les surfaces inégales ou Ces symboles sur les sources d alimentation ou sur les systèmes indiquent que l équipement est alimenté par plusieurs sources d alimentation AVERTISSEMENT Pour réduire le risque de blessures par électrocution débranchez tous...

Page 8: ...ir specified in the procedures in the product documentation All troubleshooting and repair procedures are detailed to allow only subassembly or module level repair Because of the complexity of the individual boards and subassemblies do not attempt to make repairs at the component level or to make modifications to any printed wiring board Improper repairs can create a safety hazard For floor standi...

Page 9: ...n spécifié dans les procédures de la documentation du produit Toutes les procédures de dépannage et de réparation sont détaillées pour ne permettre que la réparation au niveau du sous assemblage ou du module À cause de la complexité des cartes et des sous assemblages individuels n essayez pas d effectuer des réparations au niveau des composants ou d apporter des modifications à une carte de câblag...

Page 10: ...ndling hot plug power supplies Install the power supply before connecting the power cord to the power supply Unplug the power cord before removing the power supply from the product If the system has multiple sources of power you must unplug all AC power cords from the power supplies to completely disconnect power from the system Batteries WARNING Some PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC products may contain in...

Page 11: ...alimentation Ne modifiez pas la fiche de mise à la terre du cordon d alimentation La fiche de mise à la terre est un élément de sécurité important Branchez le cordon d alimentation sur une prise électrique reliée à la terre qui est facilement accessible tout le temps Alimentations électriques Les sources d alimentation remplaçables à chaud ne sont pas conçues pour être débranchées ou installées lo...

Page 12: ...ccept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation For questions regarding this product go to the PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC Support Center Website http www promise com For questions regarding this FCC SDoC contact us by mail or telephone PROMISE TECHNOLOGY USA 580 Cottonwood Drive Milpitas CA 95035 USA Email sales promise com Class A equipment This equipment has...

Page 13: ...opean Union Regulatory Notice Products bearing the CE marking comply with applicable EU Directives WARNING This equipment is compliant with Class A of EN55032 In a residential environment this equipment may cause radio interference Japan VCCI notice Korea A 급 기기 업무용 방송통신기기 이 기기는 업무용 A 급 으로 전자파적합등록을 한 기기이오니 판매자 또는 사용자는 이점을 주의하시기 바라며 가정 외의 지역에서 사용하는 것을 목적으로 합니다 Taiwan BSMI notices Class A EMI warnin...

Page 14: ... 20 Making Management Connections 22 Serial management connection 23 Network management connection 23 Making Data Connections 25 iSCSI Options 25 1000 BASE T iSCSI SAN connections 25 10G BASE T iSCSI SAN connections 26 SFP Fiber Optic iSCSI 27 SFP Fiber Optic connections 28 Fibre Channel SAN data path 29 Fibre Channel SAN connections 29 Fibre Channel DAS connections 30 Fiber Channel DAS data path ...

Page 15: ...o a Subsystem 52 Dashboard 53 Generating a Service Report 54 Creating a Shared Storage Pool 55 Pool List 57 Extending a Storage Pool with JBOD 57 Creating Spare Drive 58 Creating a Volume 60 Volume List 61 Snapshots 62 Clones 63 Snapshots 64 LUN Mapping and Masking 65 Adding a LUN Map 65 Editing a LUN Map 66 Deleting a LUN Map 67 Enabling and Disabling LUN Masking 67 Creating a NAS Share 68 Viewin...

Page 16: ... 81 To change User Group settings 81 To remove a User Group 81 Domain Configuration 82 Domain Settings 83 To Enable a Domain 83 To Set a Workgroup 83 To Refresh Domain Data 83 ACL Setting 84 Using Windows ACL 86 Management User 90 Adding a New User 91 Changing User Settings 92 Changing User Passwords 92 Deleting a User 93 Setting User Event Subscriptions 93 Device 94 Viewing Subsystem Information ...

Page 17: ... Adding a Fibre Channel or iSCSI Target 112 Viewing Target 113 Deleting an Target 113 Network Management 114 Making Management IP Settings 115 Viewing Management IP Settings 116 Making IO Portal Settings 117 Viewing IO Portal Settings 118 Making Global IP Settings 119 Making Trunk Settings 120 Create IO Trunk 121 Viewing Port Information 122 Making Port Settings 122 Making Maintenance Mode Setting...

Page 18: ... a List of iSCSI CHAPs 132 Adding iSCSI CHAPs 133 Deleting iSCSI CHAPs 133 Making iSCSI CHAP Settings 134 Viewing a List of Logged in Devices 134 Using the Event Viewer 135 Viewing Events 136 Saving Events 136 Clearing Events 136 Managing Users 137 Viewing User Information 137 Creating a User 137 Making User Settings 138 Changing User Passwords 139 Deleting a User 139 Setting User Event Subscripti...

Page 19: ...uled Background Activity 153 Change a Background Activity Schedule 154 Enable Disable Scheduled Background Activity 155 Delete a Scheduled Background Activity 155 Media Patrol 156 Starting Stopping Pausing and Resuming Media Patrol 156 Redundancy Check 157 Starting Stopping Pausing and Resuming Redundancy Check 157 Rebuild 158 Starting a Rebuild 158 Background Synchronization 159 PDM 160 Transitio...

Page 20: ...on 170 Logging Into the CLI 170 Command Table of Contents 171 Table of Supported Commands 173 Notes and Conventions 177 Contacting Technical Support 309 Limited Warranty 313 Disclaimer of other warranties 314 Your Responsibilities 315 Returning the Product For Repair 315 Promise Technology Contents ...

Page 21: ...ud data centers or mid size to large scale surveillance installations that utilize the Vess A Series Storage Appliance for Video Surveillance Features Dynamic storage solution optimized for virtualized environments Unified FC and iSCSI connections for SAN and NAS in the same storage Flexible 1 10G and optional 8 16G FC with 12G 6G SAS and 6G SATA backward compatible Fully tuned RAID expansion for ...

Page 22: ... 4 x 1000BASE T 1 x 1000BASE T Management IO 2 x 10G BASE T 1 16 2 Vess R3600xiD 4 x 1000BASE T 1 x 1000BASE T Management IO 2 x 10G SFP 2 16 2 Vess R3600xiS 4 x 1000BASE T 1 x 1000BASE T Management IO 2 x 10G SFP 1 16 2 Vess R3604fiD 4 x 1000BASE T 1 x 1000BASE T Management IO 4 x 16Gb Fibre Channel 2 16 2 Vess R3604fiS 4 x 1000BASE T 1 x 1000BASE T Management IO 4 x 16Gb Fibre Channel 1 16 2 Mod...

Page 23: ...r device Operational RAID support 0 1 5 6 10 50 60 RAID stripe size 64K 128K 256K 512K 1MB Hot Spare Drives Global Dedicated and Revertible option Specifications Power Supplies CRPS 550W Efficiency 80PLUS Certified Redundant Power Supply Voltage AC 100 240VAC DC 180 320VDC Auto Ranging Current Maximum 8A 100 240VAC full load 8A 180 320VDC full load Power Conversion Efficiency 80 110V 20 load 80 24...

Page 24: ... Shock Operational 5G 11 ms duration Non Operational 30G 11ms duration Vibration Operational 0 2G 5 to 500Hz sine wave 0 41G 3 10 200 500Hz Random Non Operational 1G 5 to 500Hz sine wave 2 256G 5 80 350 500Hz Random Support Warranty Description Support 24 hour 7 days a week 365 days a year e mail and phone support English only 24 hour 7 days a week 365 days a year access to PROMISE support site Fi...

Page 25: ...upplies CRPS 550W Efficiency 80PLUS Certified Redundant Power Supply Voltage AC 100 240VAC DC 180 320VDC Auto Ranging Current Maximum 8A 100 240VAC full load 8A 180 320VDC full load Power Conversion Efficiency 80 110V 20 load 80 240V 20 load Dimensions Height Width Depth 131mm x 446 7mm x 507mm 5 2 x 17 6 x 19 96 Weight Single controller models Dual controller models w o drives w drives 17 72 kg 2...

Page 26: ... Series and Vess J3600 enclosures Front View Vess R3600 and Vess J3600 enclosures feature handles on each side used to secure the enclosure to an equipment rack Front view of Vess R3600 Drive carriers Enclosure Power and Status LEDs Front view of Vess J3600 6 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 27: ...rt using an RJ 11 connector four 1 Gb s iSCSI ports one SAS Expansion port for additional drive enclosures one USB 3 0 port and various LED indicators which are described below Ports on all Vess R3600 Series Port Description 1 1000BASE T IO ports four ports for iSCSI 2 USB 3 0 3 RJ 11 Serial management use DB9 to RJ 11 data cable 4 SFF 8644 mini SAS Expansion JBOD expansion 5 1000BASE T MGMT IO Ne...

Page 28: ...Socket PSU 1 ON Off switch Controller 1 Controller 2 Back view of Vess R3600ti Power Socket PSU 2 ON Off switch Power Socket PSU 1 ON Off switch Controller 1 Controller 2 10G BASE T 2 ports 10G BASE T 2 ports 8 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 29: ... ON Off switch Controller 1 10G SFP 2 ports Controller 2 10G SFP 2 ports Back view of Vess R3604fi Power Socket PSU 2 ON Off switch Power Socket PSU 1 ON Off switch Controller 1 16Gb Fibre Channel 4 ports Controller 2 16Gb Fibre Channel 4 ports 9 Promise Technology Introduction ...

Page 30: ...ts including status LEDs for the SAS ports and the IO module Back view of Vess J3600sD Back view of Vess J3600sS Power Socket PSU 2 ON Off switch Power Socket PSU 1 ON Off switch IO Module 2 IO Module 1 12G bs SAS 2 ports 12G bs SAS 2 ports Power Socket PSU 2 ON Off switch Power Socket PSU 1 ON Off switch IO Module 1 12G bs SAS 2 ports 10 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 31: ...material and workmanship under normal use and service This warranty a applies only to products which are new and in cartons on the date of purchase b is not transferable c is valid only when accompanied by a copy of the original purchase invoice d is not valid on spare parts This warranty shall not apply to defects resulting from a improper or inadequate maintenance or unauthorized modification s ...

Page 32: ...p The main sections in Hardware Setup include the following Unpacking Mounting the Vess enclosure in a rack Installing Physical Drives Making Management Connections Connecting the Power Power on Depending on the details of your order the Vess R3600 Series or Vess J3600 enclosure might be shipped with hard drives installed or it might require that you install hard drives The section Installing Phys...

Page 33: ...o RJ11 serial data cable The Vess J3600 box contains the following items Vess J3600 JBOD Storage Enclosure One Quick Start Guide printed Two 1 5m 4 9 ft Power cord Sliding rail assembly for rack mounting SFF 8644 external SAS cable DB9 to RJ11 serial data cable Warning The electronic components within the Vess enclosure are sensitive to damage from Electro Static Discharge ESD Observe appropriate ...

Page 34: ...talled with screws as instructed The rails available for the PROMISE Vess unit are designed to safely support that PROMISE Vess unit when properly installed Additional loading on the rails is at the customer s risk PROMISE Technology Inc cannot guarantee that the mounting rails will support your PROMISE Vess unit unless you install them as instructed Caution To lighten the enclosure remove the pow...

Page 35: ...ar rail slides inside the front rail The rails are composed of two sliding sections and do not require adjusting screws The front left and front right mounting rail ends are labeled Be sure the front rail support is on the bottom facing inward All rail ends front and rear attach at the outside of the rack posts The guide pins at the rail ends align with the holes in the rack posts Use the attachin...

Page 36: ...nds attach to the outside of each post 3 Place the Vess onto the rails At least two persons are required to safely lift the system Lift the Vess itself Do not lift the system by its brackets Warning Two persons are needed to safely place the unit onto the rails DO NOT lift the unit by the handles 16 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 37: ... mount outside the rack post Mounting rails mount outside the rack post System installed in rack Vertical rack post Secure to rack 4 Secure the enclosure to the rack Use screws and nuts to lock the unit in to place in the rack 17 Promise Technology Hardware Setup ...

Page 38: ...ed The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level Level Number of Drives Level Number of Drives RAID 0 1 or more RAID 6 4 to 32 RAID 1 2 only RAID 10 4 or more RAID 5 3 to 32 RAID 50 6 or more RAID 60 8 or more Must be an even number of drives Caution The Vess R3600 Series and Vess J3600 JBOD support disk drive hot swapping To avoid hand contact with an electrical hazard d...

Page 39: ...below shows how drive slots are numbered on the Vess R3600 Series and Vess J3600 models Slot numbering is reflected in the WebPAM PROe and CLI user interfaces Be sure to install all of the drive carriers into the Vess R3600 and Vess J3600 enclosure to ensure proper airflow even if you do not populate all the carriers with physical drives 19 Promise Technology Hardware Setup ...

Page 40: ...ended Cautions Swing open the drive carrier handle before you insert the drive carrier into the enclosure To avoid hand contact with an electrical hazard remove only one drive carrier a time Important SATA drives require a SAS to SATA adapter available from PROMISE Technology at http www promise com SAS drives do not require adapters 20 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 41: ...TA adapter mounting screws go through the bottom of the carrier 3 5 inch drive mounting screws go through the sides of the carrier 6 Insert the screws through the proper holes in the carrier and into the drive or adapter Use the screws supplied with the shipment or the SAS to SATA adapter Install four screws per drive Install two screws per adapter Snug each screw Be careful not to over tighten 7 ...

Page 42: ...tion For the initial setup it is necessary to establish the network management connection use the MGMT IO port on both controllers for system management The Vess R3600 Series also features a Serial management port for system management using a terminal emulation program and the Vess R3600 Command Line Interface CLI The hardware connections for both methods are described in this section Note The Ve...

Page 43: ...PC or server Network management connection Each Vess R3600 Series controller has a 1000BASE T Ethernet port labeled MGMT IO used for management via network connection To establish the management path network connection 1 Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to the network connector or standard NIC in the Host PC attach the other end of the Ethernet cable to a port on a standard network switch 2 Att...

Page 44: ...eries subsystem share the same Virtual IP address The default Virtual IP address 10 0 0 1 applies to the RJ 45 network port MGMT IO on both controllers If you change the Virtual IP address the change applies to both network management ports 24 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 45: ...ss R3604fi four 1000BASE T ports Vess R3600ti four 1000BASE T plus two 10G BASE T ports Vess R3600xi four 1000BASE T plus two 10G SFP ports 1000 BASE T iSCSI SAN connections All Vess R3600 models include four 1GbE IO ports For the 1000BASE T iSCSI storage network Connect suitable network cables Cat 5e or Cat 6 Ethernet cable between the one or both 1GbE IO ports on one or both controllers to the 1...

Page 46: ...t suitable network cables Cat 6 or Cat 7 Ethernet cable between the one or both 10G ports on one or both controllers to the 10G network switch used for the iSCSI SAN If you have multiple Vess R3600ti subsystems repeat the cabling setup procedure as required 26 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 47: ...600xi controller requires the following items An SFP connection in each host PC or server An SFP transceiver for every SFP port in the connection subsystem switch HBA An SFP switch not required for direct attached connection Fiber Optic cabling LC LC 62 5 125μm MMF 27 Promise Technology Hardware Setup ...

Page 48: ...tiple Vess R3600xi subsystems host PCs or servers repeat the steps as required For Direct Attached SFP Fiber Optic storage 1 Connect Fiber Optic cable to the Fiber Optic port on the host PC or server 2 Connect the other end of the Fiber Optic cables to the SFP Fiber Optic port on the Vess R3600xi controller Important For a list of supported HBAs switches and SFP transceivers download the latest co...

Page 49: ...direct attached connection Fiber Optic cabling Fibre Channel SAN connections For the 16Gb Fibre Channel storage area network SAN 1 For servers equipped with Fibre Channel HBA cards connect Fiber Optic cables between the Fibre Channel ports in both host PCs or servers and the ports on a Fibre Channel network switch 2 Connect Fiber Optic cables between the Fibre Channel port on the Vess R3604fi cont...

Page 50: ...ystem Fiber Optic cabling LC LC 62 5 125μm MMF Fibre Channel DAS connections For 16Gb Fibre Channel direct attached storage DAS 1 For each attached server or host PC connect Fiber Optic cable to the Fibre Channel port on the host PC or server 16Gb SFP transceivers are recommended for best performance 2 Connect the other end of the Fiber Optic cable to a 16Gb Fibre Channel port on one of the Vess R...

Page 51: ... cables to perform these tasks To add Vess J3600 Series units 1 Connect the SAS expansion port on the left controller of the RAID subsystem to the SAS port on the left I O module of the first Vess J3600 unit 2 Connect the SAS expansion port on the right controller of the RAID subsystem to the SAS data port on the right I O module of the first Vess J3600 unit 3 Connect any remaining Vess J3600 unit...

Page 52: ...of left controller on the uppermost Vess J3600sSD in the rack 2 Connect SAS Port 2 of the left controller on the same Vess J3600sSD to the SAS Port 1 of the left controller on the next Vess J3600sSD in the stack 3 In the same manner connect the SAS ports of the right controllers on the Vess R3600sD to the right controllers of the Vess J3600sSD in the stack 4 Connect the remaining Vess J3600sSD enc...

Page 53: ...le Controller Expansion with Vess R3600 1 Connect the SFF 8644 SAS port in the host Vess R3600 system to SAS Port 1 on the uppermost Vess J3600sS unit in the rack 2 Connect SAS Port 2 on the same Vess J3600sS to the SAS Port 1 on the next Vess J3600sS in the stack 3 Connect the remaining Vess J3600sS enclosures in the same manner 33 Promise Technology Hardware Setup ...

Page 54: ...hen starting the system Make sure the power switch on each power supply is in the On position If you are using Vess J3600 JBOD enclosures power these units on BEFORE powering on the Vess R3600 enclosure To power on the Vess J3600 toggle the power switch on each PSU to the ON position See Vess R3600 Power Supply Components on page 39 for PSU description To power on the Vess R3600 subsystem press th...

Page 55: ... Green continuously Controller Activity LED flashes Green when there is controller activity System Heartbeat LED blinks Green once per second for five seconds then goes dark for ten secondes then repeats the same pattern Also on the front panel there are two LEDs on each drive carrier These report the presence of power and a physical drive and the current condition of the drive See table on next p...

Page 56: ...mber Critical Red Offline Controller 1 Activity Off Controller not present Steady Blue Any FC or Network port is linked with no I O activity Blinking Blue I O running Controller 2 Activity Off Controller not present Steady Blue Any FC or Network port is linked with no I O activity Blinking Blue I O running Heartbeat Off System power off Blinking Blue Blinks once per two second interval for dual co...

Page 57: ...nction Red Critical 3 I O module 1 activity Off No I O Steady Blue No I O and SAS expansion port is linked Blink Blue I O Running 4 I O module 2 activity Off No I O Steady Blue No I O and SAS expansion port is linked Blink Blue I O Running 5 Heartbeat Off System Power Off Blink Blue IOM FW works Dual IOM blink every 2 sec single IOM blink every 4 sec Reserved 4 5 3 1 2 37 Promise Technology Hardwa...

Page 58: ...er belongs to an array or it is assigned as a spare drive The Vess spins up hard disk drives sequentially to minimize power draw during start up After a few moments The Power Activity LED displays blue when a physical drive is present The Drive Status LED displays green when the physical drive is configured as a member of a disk array or as a spare When the physical drive is unconfigured the LED i...

Page 59: ...r Switch LED Off Not detected Green Normal Red Failed Fan Status LED Off Not detected Green Normal Failed Vess R3600 Power Supply Components The LEDs on the rear panel of the Vess R3600 include a single status LED on each power supply These PSU status LED will light green to indicate normal operation A red LED indicates a problem or unit failure See the table below for more detailed PSU LED inform...

Page 60: ...oning normally Controller status LEDs display green continuously Ethernet LEDs display green or flash depending on your network connection The SAS Expansion LEDs display green or flash during port activity Please refer to table on next page for LED description 40 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 61: ...displays the current operational status of the controller A steady unblinking green light indicates the controller is operational This will blink green when using the controller locator feature A blinking amber light indicates a problem Steady red light indicates controller failure A flashing red light means the controller is in Maintenance Mode offline while in Maintenance Mode 10G Port LED Behav...

Page 62: ...CT Green LED 16 Gbps On Flash Flash in sequence Off Off On Flash when active Green LED 8 Gbps Off On Flash when active Off Green LED 4 Gbps On Flash when active Off Off All Fibre Channel port LED indicators will be dark when the system is powered off If all three indicators for a port flash simultaneously then there is no SFP transceiver installed or the wrong type of transceiver is installed or t...

Page 63: ...tatus Description IOM status LED Off Off Green Ready Red FW is not Ready SFF 8644 SAS Expansion Port Link status LED Off Link down On Steady Green Link up Blinking Green Activity The table below describes behavior of the LED indicators on the Vess J3600 controller 43 Promise Technology Hardware Setup ...

Page 64: ...rator s default password 1 Verify that the Vess has fully booted 2 For one of the RAID controllers locate the password reset switch See illustration below 3 Insert a pin or a straightened paper clip into the opening and momentarily depress password reset switch You only need to press the reset switch on one RAID controller The next time the Administrator logs in use the default password password I...

Page 65: ...r interface The menus submenus and other configuration information includes the following Logging into WebPAM PROe Viewing the Storage Network Dashboard Creating a Shared Storage Pool Creating a Volume Creating a NAS Share Management User Device Managing Initiators Managing iSCSI Connections Using the Event Viewer Managing Users Managing Background Activities 45 Promise Technology Management with ...

Page 66: ...s an IP address 10 0 0 1 your entry looks like this https 10 0 0 1 3 When the login screen appears Type administrator in the User Name field Type password in the Password field Click the Login button The User Name and Password are case sensitive 4 Optional Choose a display language from the drop down menu WebPAM PROe displays in English and Simplified Chinese 5 Click the Login button After login t...

Page 67: ... change the display language 1 Click Logout at the top right corner of the screen The Login screen appears 2 Click the Language drop down menu and highlight the language you prefer Login language selection menu 3 Reenter your user name and password 4 Click the Login button WebPAM PROe opens in the language you chose 47 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 68: ... left corner of WebPAM PROe window Displays other PROMISE RAID systems on your network Enables direct login to other PROMISE RAID systems The main information and configuration menus are as follows Dashboard tab Subsystem Health quick summary Capacity Utilization summary Performance graphic summary Pool tab Create New Pool button Setup Wizard Pool List including Extend or Delete existing pool Cach...

Page 69: ...Port Trunk Portal and Global setting FC Management Information and configuration for FC including Node Port Statistics Logged in initiator Logged in target Devices on fabric SFP iSCSI Management Information and configuration for iSCSI including Target Session iSNS Chap Logged in devices Administration tab Events Management User Service Performance Monitor Image Version License Firmware Update Back...

Page 70: ...indow Click the Logout icon in the upper right corner of the GUI Clicking Logout brings you back to the Login Screen After logging out you must enter your user name and password in order to log in again Web PAM PROe Main menu Dashboard 50 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 71: ...file The Confirmation dialog menu appears to continue importing the license file you must confirm that you want to install the file by typing Confirm and clicking on the Confirm button When the license is installed you can go to the License menu to view the status of the license Please note the licensed services are not guaranteed to work normally when trial license or extended trial licensed expi...

Page 72: ...e WebPAM PROe window Logging onto a Subsystem To log onto a subsystem in the list click on the IP address of that subsystem Caution The new subsystem displays in the same browser tab Click your browser s back button to return to the original subsystem Discovery menu in Main menu 52 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 73: ...ormance and network bandwidth used Capacity Utilization A graph and numerical list of total available storage capacity used capacity size of existing volumes storage used for snapshots and free capacity Performance A graphic summary of Bandwidth in MB s and I Os per second 53 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 74: ...xt to the Events Alarm icon It looks like a download icon Information for the report is gathered and compiled This action takes up to a few minutes depending on the report size of your RAID system 2 In the Save File dialog click the Save button The report saves to your Host PC as a compressed HTML file 3 Double click the downloaded file to decompress it 4 Double click the report to open it in your...

Page 75: ... and SAN simultaneously You can even allocate a portion of a disk pool for NAS Share and another portion for SAN volumes After logging in the Dashboard appears Since the device is not yet configured there will be little information in the Dashboard The Dashboard is described in a later section once there is meaningful information to present To begin setting up the pool you can click on the link in...

Page 76: ...ced features such as Snapshot Clone Replicate Migrate Standard Cannot use advanced management features Media Type HDD or SSD RAID Level RAID0 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 Stripe Size 64 KB 128 KB 256 KB 512 KB and 1 MB Sector Size 512 B 1 KB 2 KB and 4 KB Preferred Controller Click on the Submit button to create the pool Important Once the pool is created these parameters cannot be edited or changed Choose ...

Page 77: ...op up menu Type confirm and click the Confirm button to remove the pool The drives in that pool revert to unassigned available status Extending a Storage Pool with JBOD A storage pool can be extended if there are physical disks available in the original enclosure or in a Vess J3600 JBOD connected via SAS cable to the Vess R3600 head unit If you plan to expand capacity using JBODs it is necessary t...

Page 78: ...click Create a Spare Drive Click to select an available hard disk the selected disk become darker in color to indicate selection Change the following spare drive options as desired Revertible reverts back to spare drive status after RAID is repaired or restored Type Global available for any pool on the system or Dedicated assigned to specific pool Media HDD or SSD must be same as pool Click on the...

Page 79: ...view information about a spare drive To delete a spare drive select it in the list and click on the Delete button You will need to confirm that you want to delete the spare drive in a pop up menu Type confirm and click the Confirm button to remove the spare drive The drive status reverts to an unassigned available drive View spare drives 59 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 80: ...u click the Create New Volume button and Create Volume menu appears In the Create Volume menu enter a name for the new volume and click the Enable Thin Provisioning option if you plan to use thin provisioning on this pool Next enter a value for the volume capacity note that you need to specify TB or GB in a separate pull down menu Click on the Submit button to create the new volume This volume sho...

Page 81: ... it To view more detailed information for a volume you can either click the gear icon for the volume and select the Detail option or click on the volume name in the left panel under Overview Use the individual volume menu to link to the Snapshot and Clone menus Volume List Individual volume information 61 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 82: ...n the time of the snapshot and the current time Snapshots and clones are a quick and low cost in terms of capacity used means of backing up a volume for the purpose of recovery To create a volume snapshot click on the volume name in the left panel click the Snapshot Clone button you will see the Snapshot Clone list then click the Create Snapshot button In the Create Snapshot menu enter a name for ...

Page 83: ... that has a clone you must first delete the clone To create a snapshot clone first create the snapshot select it in the Snapshot Clone list click on the Create Clone button In the Create Clone menu enter a name for the clone and click the Submit button Create Clone 63 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 84: ...ou are required to confirm that you want to rollback using the snapshot in a pop up menu Type confirm and click on the Confirm button to proceed with the rollback Remember any changes in the volume that have occurred since the snapshot will be lost Rollback Snapshot 64 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 85: ...tiator the initiator must have been previously added to the initiator list See Adding a Fibre Channel or iSCSI Initiator on page 110 To add a LUN map 1 Click the Volume tab 2 Click on LUN Mapping Masking 3 Click the LUN Mapping button See sample menu on next page 4 In the LUN Mapping menu the Initiators appear on the left side with volumes including snapshots and clones on the right Use this menu ...

Page 86: ...on and select the Modify option 5 To remove a volume from an initiator click to select a Volume on the left side and use the arrow transfer button to remove the volume from the initiator To add a volume Click the box to select an ID number of existing volumes in the right side and use the arrow transfer button to assign the volume to the preferred initiator 6 Click the Submit button The modified L...

Page 87: ...d confirm in the field provided and click the Confirm button Enabling and Disabling LUN Masking Disabling LUN masking allows all initiators to access all LUNs in your data storage However disabling LUN masking does not delete existing LUN maps These actions require Administrator or Super User privileges To enable or disable LUN masking 1 Click the Volume tab 2 Click on LUN Mapping Masking 3 Click ...

Page 88: ...ick on the Create New NAS Share button A new menu appears 2 Choose the Pool Name used for the new NAS share from the pull down menu 3 Enter a name for the NAS Share 4 You have the option to Enable Thin Provisioning default is not enabled Note that if you cannot use Thin Provisioning if you intend to use the Maximum available capacity for the NAS share And if you do enable it the NAS Share Capacity...

Page 89: ...nd so on are written to the intent log Always ensures that every share transaction is written and flushed to stable storage by a returning system call This value has a significant performance penalty Disabled means that synchronous requests are disabled Share transactions are only committed to stable storage on the next transaction group commit which might be after many seconds This value gives th...

Page 90: ...ayed includes NAS Share ID Pool Name Recsize Used Capacity Preferred Controller ID Time Machine status Logbias NFS Mount Point Written Size after Last Snapshot The Latest Snapshot Clone NAS Share Name Thin Provision status Mounted Status Total Capacity Share Protocol Enabled Compression Sync Mode 70 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 91: ...n at the top of the list or click on the Gear icon and select the Enable or Disable option A pop up menu will ask you to confirm the protocol enable or disable action Likewise to access the Settings menu for any listed protocol select the protocol in the list and click on the Settings button or click on the Gear icon for the protocol and select the Settings option The Settings menu for selected pr...

Page 92: ...f you want to enable the SMB networking protocol Click to remove the checkmark to disable SMB Workgroup Enter a name for the Workgroup for the server user group Default is WORKGROUP Description Enter a description for the Samba server setup Windows ACL If you will use ACL enable it here by selecting the Yes radio button See Click the Save button to change the SMB settings for the NAS share SMB Set...

Page 93: ...port number used for FTP on the NAS share Default is port 21 Client Code Type Select the language input used for FTP commands Protocol Type Choose SFTP Standard FTP FTP over SSL Explicit or FTP over SSL Implicit Command Port 990 Maximum Download Rate KB s Use to limit FTP download speed Default is no limit Maximum Upload Rate KB s Use to limit FTP upload speed Default is no limit Click the Save bu...

Page 94: ... to disable NFS Mounted Port Change the port number used for mounting NFS serivce on the NAS share Default is port 56789 Count Change the count used for NFS service 8 16 32 64 or 128 Default is 32 Click the Save button to change the NFS settings for the NAS share Additional information listed in the NFS Settings menu includes port numbers for the port mapper nfsd rpc statd and rpc lockd NFS Settin...

Page 95: ...the Enable box to checkmark the box if you want to enable the HTTP service Click to remove the checkmark to disable HTTP service HTTP Change the port number used for mounting HTTP serivce on the NAS share Default is port 8088 HTTPS Change the port number used for HTTPS service Default is 8089 HTTP Settings 75 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 96: ...the arrow symbols near the bottom of the menus to change the display previous page next page first and last page Use Page Capacity to determine how many rows of user or group information are displayed on the page The Search function is used to locate a user by name To search a name type the name in the entry field and press Enter For each of the user actions listed here first click to check the bo...

Page 97: ...in in the Retype Password entry fields 3 Click the Submit button To remove a NAS User 1 Click the Delete button 2 Click the Confirm button Add NAS Users Local users can be added individually or many users can be added at once For multiple users an index number is added to the user name for the quantity of users being added Add New User NAS User 77 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 98: ...ck the Submit button to apply and save the settings The newly created user appears listed in the NAS User list To add a multiple users for the NAS There are two ways to add multiple users One option is to use the procedure described below to use an automatically indexed user name ex user01 user02 user03 Alternatively you can create and edit a csv file to and upload the file and apply the settings ...

Page 99: ...2 Open the file you just downloaded and edit the information to change user names add more users etc 3 Repeat the procedure from the beginning but this time choose the Upload option in the menu and click Next 4 Locate the edited csv file and click the Next button 5 Review the new user data in the final menu click Submit to create the new group of users To remove Multiple Users from the NAS Users l...

Page 100: ...Use Page Capacity to determine how many rows of user or group information are displayed on the page The Search function is used to locate a group by name To search a name type the name in the entry field and press Enter Using the NAS Group list In NAS configuration NAS Account NAS Group Use the list of current groups to view members information change groups settings or to delete the group To View...

Page 101: ...the Type pull down menu toggles the menu between User Group 2 Click the Delete button 3 Click the Confirm button Add User Group and choose members 1 Use the Type pull down menu toggles the menu between User Group 2 Click the New Group Create button 3 Enter a Group Name and click the boxes to select member local users from the list 4 Click the Submit button to create the local user group Modify NAS...

Page 102: ...n a Domain on the network using Windows Active Directory LDAP or Open Directory Important Make sure network settings support joining the AD Domain Also time settings need to be consistent with the AD server Domain Settings 82 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 103: ...controller iv Enter the Administrator Account and Password v Click the Apply button to join the domain AD domain uses default permission Use AD RAID storage GUI to set Permission or ACL To Enable a Domain In NAS configuration Account Domain then click to check the Enable box button To Set a Workgroup 1 In NAS configuration Account Domain 2 Enter a Workgroup Name 3 Click the Save button To Refresh ...

Page 104: ...s click on the Clear button to set the ACL rules to default setting Access permission is listed after rules are added To change the ACL configuration for the NAS share click on the ACL Settings button The Apply Onto pull down menu is used to apply the rule to the entire NAS Share This folder and its subfolders or to a selected folder in the NAS Share This folder only Click on Save to apply the new...

Page 105: ...ll down menu to select Everyone User or Group then check a box for the appropriate rule to Deny Access Read Only or Read Write ACL Settings for NAS Account Group ACL Settings for NAS Account Users 85 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 106: ...ck on the Settings button 2 Click on the Yes radio button for Windows ACL 3 Click on the Save button Windows ACL is enabled for the NAS Share ACL can now be configured via the default NAS administrator admin using a Windows computer In the administrator s Windows system 1 Open the Network folder SMB Settings 86 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 107: ...ck on the node you want to configure for ACL scroll down to select Properties 3 In the Properties menu under the Group or user names list click on the Edit button 87 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 108: ...4 Click on the Add button 5 In the Select Users or Groups menu enter the user name to add to the ACL users list and click on Check Names button 88 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 109: ...he list syntax IP address user name Click the OK button to return to the Properties menu 7 The newly created user appears in the Group or user names list Click OK to exit the menu 89 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 110: ...figuration changes according to the privilege level configured for the user Only Super user level management users can add remove or modify users Note that the Administrator has Super user level privilege Management User list 90 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 111: ...to disable this User account 7 Click the Submit button The user is added to the list User Privileges Level Meaning View Allows the user to See all status and settings but not to make any changes Maintenance Allows the user to perform maintenance tasks including Media Patrol and Redundancy Check Power Allows the user to create but not delete pools and volumes change RAID levels change stripe size c...

Page 112: ...ings dialog box enter a new Display Name or User Email address Choose a new Privilege level from the drop down menu 5 Click the Save button Changing User Passwords This action requires Administrator or Super User privileges To change a user s password 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Management User tab 3 In the Management User menu choose the user and click the Change Password button 4 ...

Page 113: ...er list click the Gear icon for the user to configure and choose the Event Subscription option 3 Make settings changes as required For the Enable Event Notification box check to enable for this user uncheck to disable Click to change the priority options for each category of event 4 Click the Submit button Note The Administrator account cannot be deleted and the privilege level cannot be changed D...

Page 114: ...o view subsystem information click the Device menu tab The list of subsystems and host controllers is displayed in Device Overview Subsystem information includes Alias if assigned Model WWN World Wide Name Serial number Redundancy status Redundancy Type System date and time Time Zone Vendor Device Overview 94 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 115: ...option Subsystem Controller 1 or Controller 2 5 Click the Restart button 6 Type the word confirm in the field provided 7 Click the Confirm button When the controller shuts down your WebPAM PROe connection is lost 8 Wait at least two minutes 9 In your browser click Logout in the WebPAM PROe Header then log in again If you cannot log in immediately wait 30 seconds and try again 95 Promise Technology...

Page 116: ...rovided 7 Click the Confirm button When the controller shuts down your WebPAM PROe connection is lost Important If your RAID subsystem manages JBOD expansion units you must follow the proper startup procedure Restarting the Subsystem after a Shutdown To start the RAID subsystem 1 Press the Power button on the front left side of the device being restarted 2 Wait at least two minutes 3 Open your bro...

Page 117: ...d to check status of the subsystem and its components Choose the Front View Back View and Internal View click button in Back View menu Hover the cursor over different components to see a summary of the status for that component Device Front View 97 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 118: ...Device Back View Hover the cursor over a component to see a status summary Click this to see internal view Device Internal View 98 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 119: ...connected There are three methods Individual Subsystem A single subsystem JBOD Expansion Managed through one subsystem or head unit RAID Subsystem Cascading Managed through one subsystem or head unit To view enclosure topology 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Topology icon The topology or data connections of your system displays 99 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 120: ...ealthy Threshold Voltage Sensors for Controllers and PSUs including Sensor Type Current Voltage and Healthy Threshold Viewing Power Supply Status To view the status of the power supplies and the fans that cool those power supplies 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Component List icon 3 Click the Enclosure and click the View button to view detailed information in a new menu 4 Scroll down to view t...

Page 121: ... locate an enclosure 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Component List icon 3 Click the Enclosure you want then click the Locate button The enclosure LEDs blink for one minute 101 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 122: ...tops rotation Coercion Check the box to enable or uncheck to disable Coercion Method Choose a method from the drop down menu GBTruncate 10GBTruncate GrpRounding TableRounding Write Back Cache Flush Interval Enter a value into the field 1 to 12 seconds Enclosure Polling Interval Enter a value into the field 15 to 255 seconds Adaptive Writeback Cache Check the box to enable or uncheck to disable Hos...

Page 123: ...SI Protocol Supported Part Number Hardware Revision Cache Usage Percentage Host Cache Flushing Boot Loader Build Date Firmware Build Date Software Build Date Viewing Controller Information To view controller information 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Component List icon 3 Click the controller you want then click the View button Basic controller information includes 103 Promise Technology Manag...

Page 124: ...ache Power Saving Idle Time Power Saving Stopped Time SSD Trim Support Slot 1 Memory Size Slot 2 Memory Size M 2 Device Size 1 ALUA Flash Type NVRAM Type Preferred Cache Line Size Coercion Method SMART Polling Interval Enclosure Polling Interval Forced Read Ahead Power Saving Standby Time Cache Line Size Pseudo Device Type Items with an asterisk are adjustable under Controller Settings 104 Promise...

Page 125: ...u disable the buzzer it is disabled for all events To stop the buzzer from sounding you can use either the Mute Alarm button located on the front of the subsystem hardware or follow the instructions below Silencing the Buzzer To silence the buzzer you can press the Mute Alarm button on the front of the Vess enclosure hardware located on the left side under the power button and USB ports Or click o...

Page 126: ...ion includes Physical Drive ID ID number of the physical drive Operational Status OK is normal Stale PFA Dead Model Number Make and model of the drive Drive Interface Type SATA or SAS Location Enclosure number and slot number Configuration Status Pool number or spare number Physical Capacity Total capacity in TB Managing Physical Drives 106 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 127: ...ck the boxes to enable uncheck to disable For SATA drives Enable Write Cache Enable Read Look Ahead Cache DMA Mode use pull down menu to select option Medium Error Threshold Default is 64 range is 0 4294967294 For SAS drives Enable Write Cache Enable Read Look Ahead Cache Enable Read Cache Medium Error Threshold 5 Click the Save button 107 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 128: ...ation about a specific UPS unit 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the UPS icon UPS information includes UPS ID Status Model Battery Capacity Backup capacity expressed as a percentage Run Time Remaining 108 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 129: ... into the Threshold fields Running Time Remaining Threshold Actual time below this value resets adaptive writeback cache to writethrough Default is 5 minutes range is 3 20 minutes For UPS units with network cards type the IP addresses or DNS names in fields UPS 1 and UPS 2 See Note 2 5 Press Submit to save your settings Note 1 Vess R3600 supports multiple UPS units using network or USB connections...

Page 130: ...he Device tab 2 Click the Initiator icon 3 Click the Add Initiator button 4 Choose the network Type FC or iSCSI 5 Input the initiator name in the fields provided A Fibre Channel initiator name is the World Wide Port Name of the initiator composed of a series of eight two digit hexadecimal numbers The iSCSI initiator name is composed of a single text string 6 Click the Submit button The initiator i...

Page 131: ...om Vess R3600 s initiator list Viewing Initiators The Vess R3600 s initiator list displays initiators available for mapping to a LUN or logical drive You must add initiators to the Vess R3600 s initiator list to make them available for mapping to a LUN To view a list of initiators 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Initiator icon The list of initiators appears Initiator information includes ID Ini...

Page 132: ...he list 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Target icon 3 Click the Add Target button 4 Input the target name in the fields provided A Fibre Channel target name is the World Wide Port Name of the target composed of a series of eight two digit hexadecimal numbers The iSCSI target name is composed of a single text string 5 Click the Submit button The target is added Manageing Targets Add Target 112 P...

Page 133: ... target is removed from Vess R3600 s target list Viewing Target The Vess R3600 s target list displays targets available for mapping to a LUN or logical drive You must add targets to the Vess R3600 s target list to make them available for mapping to a LUN To view a list of targets 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Target icon The list of targets appears Target information includes ID Target 0 Targ...

Page 134: ... IP settings physical port settings management and IO port settings including the option to allow IO on management ports By default Subsystem Management is enabled Management Portal list 114 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 135: ...sable a management portal configuration click to select it and click on the Disable button To enable a management portal configuration click to select it and click on the Enable button 3 To change IP setting for Subsystem Management or Controller Management IP click to select the configuration you want to change and click on the Modify button Check the Enable DHCP box to enable a DHCP server to ma...

Page 136: ...IP settings 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Network Management tab expand Portal and click on Management Portal 3 To view IP setting for Subsystem Management or Controller Management IP click to select the configuration you want to view and click on the View button View Subsystem Management IP Configuration 116 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 137: ...ck to select the configuration you want to change and click on the Modify button Check the Enable DHCP box to enable a DHCP server to make the IO port network settings DHCP is currently supported in IPv4 only For manual network settings type the IO Port IP address subnet mask and gateway IP address into the fields provided Enter a TCP Port Number or use the default 3260 4 Click the Save button IO ...

Page 138: ...o view IO port IP settings 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Network Management tab expand Portal and click on IO Portal 3 To change IO Portal settings click to select the configuration you want to view and click on the View button IO Portal Information 118 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 139: ...e the Default Route option that best suits the application used Subsystem Management IP Controller Management IP or IO Portal Check the Auto DNS box to use the DNS administered by DHCP This requires DHCP be enabled in the Management Portal IP Settings If you are not using DHCP specify a DNS IP Address and a Secondary DNS IP Address optional Optional Check Wake On LAN if you want to enable this fea...

Page 140: ...the portals on the IO ports that will make up the IO Trunk To delete IO Portals on ports to be used for the IO Trunk 1 Click the Device tab Network Management Portal 2 Click the IO Portal or Management Portal menu link 3 Click to select the ports to be used for the Trunk 4 Click the Delete button It is necessary to confirm that you want to delete the portals 5 In the new menu type Confirm and clic...

Page 141: ...o first delete all the portals on the IO ports that will make up the IO Trunk To delete IO Portals on ports to be used for the IO Trunk 1 Click the Device tab Network Management Trunk 2 Click the Add Trunk button 3 Click to select the ports to be used for the Trunk 4 Click to select the Trunk Type Balance XOR LACP or Active Standby 5 Choose the Controller where the Trunk is created and determine w...

Page 142: ...n and click on View Making Port Settings To view physical port information for IO or Management ports 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Network Management tab expand Port and click on Management Port or IO Port 3 Select the port to change settings and click on Modify 4 Click to enable or disable Jumbo Frame on the port 5 Click the Save button Management Port Information 122 Promise Technology Ves...

Page 143: ...IP address subnet mask gateway IP address and DNS server IP address into the fields provided 7 Click the Submit button Making Maintenance Mode Port Settings The IP settings of management ports are also configured in Network Management To make physical management port settings 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Management Portal icon 3 Under Static IP click on the gear icon and choose the Modify op...

Page 144: ...node information 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the FC Management tab 3 Click the Node tab Node information includes Worldwide Node Name WWNN Maximum Frame Size Supported Fibre Channel Class Supported Speed Fibre Channel Node Information 124 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 145: ...rt Name Number Of Current Aliases Fabric WWNN Link Type Configured Topology Making Fibre Channel Port Settings To make Fibre Channel port settings 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the FC Management tab 3 Click the Port tab 4 Click the gear icon in the list of FC ports and select the Modify option 5 Make these changes as required Choose a configured link speed from the drop down menu The choices are ...

Page 146: ... and choose NL Port topology you create a Public Loop attached topology Example 2 If you have a Point to Point attached topology you made a direct connection no Fibre Channel switch and selected N port topology Note In some cases HBA settings to N Port only work if connected to the switch Refer to your HBA manual for more information Fibre Channel Node Information 126 Promise Technology Vess R3600...

Page 147: ...into the Vess R3600 The device list includes Fibre Channel ports Fibre Channel switches if attached Fibre Channel initiators To view a list Fibre Channel logged in devices 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Fibre Channel Management icon 3 Click the Logged In Device tab To add a Fibre Channel initiator in the list select it and click on the Add to Initiator List button This is the method described ...

Page 148: ...iewing Fibre Channel SFPs The term SFP refers to Small Form Pluggable transceivers used in Fibre Channel ports The SFPs convert electrical signals to optical signals and send them over the Fibre Channel fabric where another transceiver converts the optical signal back to an electrical signal again To view a list Fibre Channel SFPs 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the Fibre Channel Management icon 3 ...

Page 149: ... a solicited data sequence in bytes Data Digest Adds a data digest CRC Header Digest Enables the use of header digest CRC Data PDU in Order Enables placement of data in PDU order Data Sequence in Order Enables placement of data in sequence order Default Time to Wait After a dropped connection the number of seconds to wait before attempting to reconnect Default Time to Retain Number of seconds afte...

Page 150: ...ication Enable Uni directional CHAP Authentication 6 Click the Save button Viewing a List of iSCSI Sessions To view a list of iSCSI sessions 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the iSCSI Management icon 3 Click the Session tab iSCSI session information includes ID ID number of the session Controller ID Controller 1 or 2 Target Alias Alias of the target Initiator Alias Part of the IQN IO Portal ID ID nu...

Page 151: ...k the iSCSI Management icon 3 Click the Session tab 4 Click the iSCSI session you want and click the Delete button 5 Type confirm in the field provided then click the Confirm button Viewing iSCSI iSNS Information To view information about iSNS 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the iSCSI Management icon 3 Click the iSNS tab The information includes IO Portal ID Type Controller Status Server IP Server ...

Page 152: ...le Server Port 1 65535 Server IP IO Portal ID 7 Click the Submit button Viewing a List of iSCSI CHAPs To view a list of iSCSI CHAPs 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the iSCSI Management icon 3 Click the CHAP tab CHAP information includes ID ID number of the CHAP Type Peer or local Peer is one way or uni directional Local is two way or bi directional Name User assigned name of the CHAP 132 Promise Te...

Page 153: ...rectional Enter a secret of 12 to 16 characters in the Secret field Enter the secret again in the Retype Secret field 6 Click the Submit button The new CHAP is added to the list Deleting iSCSI CHAPs To delete an iSCSI CHAP 1 Click the Device tab 2 Click the iSCSI Management icon 3 Click the CHAP tab 4 Click the CHAP you want then click the Delete button 5 Type CONFIRM into the popup menu and click...

Page 154: ...n the Name field Enter the current secret in the Current Secret field Enter a new secret of 12 to 16 characters in the Secret field Enter the new secret again in the Retype Secret field 6 Click the Save button Viewing a List of Logged in Devices Logged in devices refers to all iSCSI devices currently logged into the Vess R3600 The device list includes To view a list of logged in devices 1 Click th...

Page 155: ...rted Event Severity Levels Level Description Fatal Non recoverable error or failure has occurred Critical Action is needed now and the implications of the condition are serious Major Action is needed now Minor Action is needed but the condition is not a serious at this time Warning User can decide whether or not action is required Information Information only no action is required 135 Promise Tech...

Page 156: ...and down arrow keys to scroll through the log Choose the page size and event log page you want to view Saving Events This feature saves a plain text file of runtime events to your host PC or server using your browser To save the Events log 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Events icon 3 Click the Save button 4 Follow your browser s procedure to save the event file to the desired location ...

Page 157: ...the Management User tab 3 Click the Add New User button 4 In the Add User dialog box enter the information in the fields provided Name This is the user s login name Display Name Password Retype Password User Email Required for event notification Enable this user Check box to enable the user Click to remove check to disable Privilege Use pull down menu to select View Maintenance Power or Super user...

Page 158: ...ings of other users and delete disk arrays and logical drives The default administrator account is a Super User Making User Settings This action requires Administrator or a Super User privileges To make user settings 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Management User tab 3 In the User list click the user you want then click the gear icon and select the Modify option 4 Make settings changes...

Page 159: ... in the fields provided New Password Retype Password 5 Click the Save button Deleting a User This action requires Administrator or Super User privileges To delete a user 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the User Management icon 3 In the User list click the user you want then click the Delete button 4 In the Confirmation box type the word confirm in the field provided and click the Confirm bu...

Page 160: ...user subscription requires Administrator or Super User privileges To set a user event subscription 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Management User tab 3 In the User list click the user you want then click the Subscription button 4 Make settings changes as required For the Enable Event Notification box check to enable for this user uncheck to disable Click to change the priority options ...

Page 161: ...lick the Administration tab 2 Click the Services icon 3 Click the gear icon for Email service and select the Start option Viewing Services This feature displays all software services running on the RAID subsystem To view the list of software services 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon The Services list displays the Status and Start Type of the services available These services...

Page 162: ...P authentication is enabled Authentication Password Required if SMTP authentication is enabled Sender From Address The sender s name shown on notification messages Email Subject The subject line of the notification message 5 To enable SSL for the connection to the Email server check the Enable SSL box 6 To send a test email one time check the Send a Test Email box 7 Click the Save button 8 Type CO...

Page 163: ... the popup menu and click the Confirm button To start the SLP service after stopping it 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Services icon 3 Click the gear icon for SLP service and choose the Start option Restarting SLP Service To restart the SLP service 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon 3 Click the gear icon for SLP service and select the Restart option 4 Type CONFIRM ...

Page 164: ...service connects the WebPAM PROe interface to the RAID subsystem though your browser Stopping Webserver Service To stop the Webserver service 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon 3 Click the gear icon for Webserver service and select the Stop option 4 Type CONFIRM in the popup menu and click the Confirm button To start the Webserver service after stopping it 1 Click the Administ...

Page 165: ...e settings 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon 3 Click the gear icon for SLP service and select the Settings option 4 Make settings changes as required Choose a startup type Automatic default Starts and runs with the subsystem Manual You start the service when you need it Session Time Out Default is 24 minutes 5 Click the Save button 6 Type CONFIRM in the popup menu and click t...

Page 166: ...k the Confirm button To start SSH service after stopping it 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Services icon 3 Click the gear icon for SSH service and select the Start option 4 Type CONFIRM in the popup menu and click the Confirm button Restarting SSH Service To restart SSH service 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon 3 Click the gear icon for SSH service and select the ...

Page 167: ... is 4 Maximum number is 4 Session Time Out Default is 24 minutes 5 Click the Save button 6 Type CONFIRM in the popup menu and click the Confirm button SSH Public Key Management To change SSH service settings 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon 3 Click the gear icon for SSH service and select the SSH Public Key Management option 4 In the SSH Public Key Management menu make setti...

Page 168: ...u and click the Confirm button To start SNMP service after stopping it 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Services icon 3 Click the gear icon for SNMP service and select the Start option 4 Type CONFIRM in the popup menu and click the Confirm button Restarting SNMP Service To restart SNMP service 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Service icon 3 Click the gear icon for SNMP service ...

Page 169: ...ettings include Security User Name Choose an Authentication Protocol MD5 SHA Enter an Authentication Password and Retype Authentication Password Choose a Privacy Protocol Enter an Privacy Password and Retype Privacy Password 5 Click on Submit button to apply new settings Note that the Context Engine ID is listed in this menu 149 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 170: ...troller Pool Volume NAS Share Clone Physical Drive Management Port IO Port and FC Port Go to Administrator Performance Monitoring and choose which menu you want to view from the expanded list For some charts additional parameters can be selectively viewed Adding a menu to Favorites page To add a menu to the Favorites page in Performance Monitoring open the performance menu you want to add choose t...

Page 171: ...To remove a chart from the Favorite menus click on Remove this chart Favorite Performance Monitoring menus display 151 Promise Technology Management with WebPAM PROe ...

Page 172: ...ackground activity affects I O performance View Current Background Activities To view a list of current background activities 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Background Activities tab The list of background appears Currently running activities show a progress bar View Scheduled Background Activities To view a list of scheduled background activities 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click...

Page 173: ...t to disable 7 Choose a Start Time from the drop down menus The menus have a 24 hour clock 8 Choose a Recurrence Pattern option daily weekly or monthly For the Daily option enter an interval in the Every field For the Weekly option enter an interval in the Every field and choose one or more days of the week For the Monthly option choose Day of the Month option then choose a number from the drop do...

Page 174: ...menus The menus have a 24 hour clock Choose a Recurrence Pattern option daily weekly or monthly For the Daily option enter an interval in the Every field For the Weekly option enter an interval in the Every field and choose one or more days of the week For the Monthly option choose the Day of the Month option or the day of the week option and choose the day from the drop down menu Choose a Start F...

Page 175: ...urrently scheduled background activities appears 4 Click the background activity and click the Settings button 5 Uncheck the Enable This Schedule box to disable this schedule Check the box to enable this schedule 6 Click the Save button Delete a Scheduled Background Activity To change an existing scheduled background activity 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Background Activities tab The...

Page 176: ... and Resuming Media Patrol To make Media Patrol settings 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Background Activities tab The list of background appears 3 To begin Media Patrol click the Start button To Pause a running Media Patrol click on the Gear icon and select Pause click Resume to continue the Media Patrol To Stop a running Media Patrol click on the Gear icon select Stop Stopping Media P...

Page 177: ...check boxes to select the pools to run Redundancy Checks Note that you can also enable disable Auto Fix and Pause on Error for each pool 4 To begin Redundancy Check on existing pools click the Start button To Pause a Redundancy Check for a pool click on the Gear icon for the pool and select Pause click Resume to continue the Redundancy Check To Stop a running Redundancy Check click on the Gear ico...

Page 178: ...acity and the Auto Rebuild function is DISABLED you must replace the failed drive with an unconfigured physical drive then perform a Manual Rebuild Starting a Rebuild Rebuilding a disk pool is only available if the status of a pool has been determined to be degraded or critical 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Background Activities icon The list of background activities appears 3 Choose ...

Page 179: ...tion Rate setting click on Global Background Activities Settings to view the Background Activities Settings menu then click the Synchronization Rate drop down menu and choose a rate Low Fewer system resources to Synchronization more to data read write operations Medium Balances system resources between Synchronization and data read write operations High More system resources to Synchronization few...

Page 180: ...a read write operations 2 Highlight the current values in the block threshold fields and input new values Reassigned Block Threshold range is 1 to 512 blocks Error Block Threshold range is 1 to 2048 blocks 3 Click the Submit button Transition Transition is the process of replacing a revertible spare drive that is currently part of a disk array with an unconfigured physical drive or a non revertibl...

Page 181: ...k the boxes beside the settings you want to reset to default value see Factory Default Settings by type table below Note that you have the option to select all firmware or all software settings to factory default or choose each setting to reset individually for both categories 4 Click the Submit button 5 In the Confirmation box type the word confirm in the field provided and click the Confirm butt...

Page 182: ...Settings iSCSI Settings Management Network Settings Physical Drive Settings Subsystem Settings BGA Scheduler Settings Service Settings Web Server Settings SNMP Settings SSH Settings Email Settings NTP Settings User Settings UPS Settings Syslog Settings Time Zone Settings NAS Settings 162 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 183: ...ion and settings from one Vess R3600 RAID subsystem export it and then import it to automatically configure your other Vess R3600 RAID subsystems To export a user database 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Import Export tab 3 Click the Export option 4 Choose User Database radio button in the Type menu 5 Click the Submit button Note The user database file is not designed to be opened or ed...

Page 184: ...ID subsystem To export a user database 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Import Export tab 3 Click the Export option 4 Choose the radio button Configuration Script NAS Configuration or NAS Account in the Type menu 5 Click the Submit button 164 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 185: ... 2 Click the Import Export icon 3 Click the Import option 4 Choose User Database radio button from the Type menu 5 Click the Upload button and navigate to the user database file and click the OK button 6 Click the Next button The system verifies that the file is a valid user database and displays any errors or warnings 7 Click the Submit button to continue 8 In the Confirmation box type the word c...

Page 186: ...e Vess E5000 RAID subsystem export it and then import it to automatically configure your other Vess E5000 RAID subsystems To import a configuration script 1 Click the Administration tab 2 Click the Import Export icon 3 Click the Import option 4 Choose radio button Configuration Script NAS Configuration or NAS Account in the Type menu 5 Click the Choose File button and navigate to the configuration...

Page 187: ...click the Open button TFTP Server Enter the TFTP Server host name or IP address port number and file name 4 Optional Check the Non disruptive Image Update NDIU box NDIU updates the RAID controllers and I O modules one at a time enabling I O operations continue during the firmware update Updates with this option take a longer period of time to complete Only dual controller models support this featu...

Page 188: ...han two minutes 2 Click Logout in the WebPAM PROe Header then log in again If you cannot log in wait 30 seconds and try again 3 In your browser click Logout in the WebPAM PROe Header then log in again If you cannot log in immediately wait 30 seconds and try again Product Registration Access the Product Registration menu located in the Administration tab to register your Vess product If you do not ...

Page 189: ... of the syntax and function of each command and its parameters CLI management can be done remotely using an SSH based terminal simulation program or connect directly to the device using the serial port For convenience a table of contents page 171 for the commands is included to jump to a specific command description 169 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 190: ...Enter The default user name is administrator 2 At the Password prompt type the password and press Enter The default password is password The CLI screen appears Then do the following actions 1 Change your terminal emulation program settings to match the following specifications Bits per second 115200 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control none 2 Start your PC s terminal VT100 or ANSI emul...

Page 191: ...e 206 domain 207 encldiag 210 enclosure 211 event 213 export 214 factorydefaults 215 fc 217 folder 219 group 221 import 223 initiator 224 iscsi 226 isns 230 license 232 logout 233 lunmap 233 maintenance 236 migrate 237 mp 239 nasconfig 240 nasshare 241 net 243 ntp 247 Command Table of Contents 171 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 192: ...ota 270 replication 271 rb 274 rc 275 sasdiag 276 sc 277 session 278 shutdown 279 smart 280 snapshot 281 spare 283 stats 285 subscription 286 subsys 290 swmgt 292 sync 295 target 296 topology 297 transit 298 trunk 299 tz 301 volume 302 ups 305 user 306 172 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 193: ...ound activities Enable or disable relevant background activities Modify the background task rate for each of the background tasks bgasched View status of all current background activities Enable or disable relevant background activities Modify the background task rate for each of the background tasks buzz View buzzer status enable disable and turn on off buzzer cache View or edit cache information...

Page 194: ... host interface product only isns View or edit iSNS information and settings iSCSI host interface product only license View license information logout Logout session for the current user lunmap View the LUN mapping and masking table Enable or disable LUN mapping and masking on iSCSI and Fibre Channel host interface product Add delete or modify a LUN mapping and masking entry maintenance Enter or e...

Page 195: ... Protocol settings ptiflash Update system software and firmware through tftp server quota List set cancel or refresh the Quota settings on NAS Share rb View rebuild status and progress Start stop pause or resume a rebuild process rc View redundancy check status and progress Start stop pause or resume redundancy check replication View volume replication status Start or stop replication sasdiag SAS ...

Page 196: ...e a target entry topology View SAS topology the physical connections and device information For products that support multiple enclosures only transit View transition status and progress Start stop pause or resume a transition process trunk List modify create and delete trunk information and settings iSCSI host interface product only tz View and modify timezone information ups View or modify UPS i...

Page 197: ...That action will display full context sensitive help for the specific command Each command when used alone such as array will display a summary of relevant information If more information is desired the v verbose mode can be used This will provide information for all relevant aspects of that command Usage terminology is as follows square braces depict an optional switch arrow braces depict user in...

Page 198: ...ile Note that only one set operation is allowed at the same time on different UIs Options a action Which action to perform list Default List ACL settings clear clear acl settings set set acl settings cancel cancel the acl settings operation hold by others refresh refresh acl settings f full path Full path of folder or file s option value Used to specify what settings to change Only valid for set a...

Page 199: ...pe acl acl settings unset deny ro rw windows Following settings are valid for windows acl setting template Specify the ACL template name traverse Traverse folder execute file ACL allow deny list List folder read data ACL allow deny r_attr Read attributes ACL allow deny 179 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 200: ...ow deny create_f Create folders append data ACL allow deny w_attr Write attributes ACL allow deny w_ext_attr Write extended attributes ACL allow deny delete_s Delete subfolders and files ACL allow deny delete Delete ACL allow deny 180 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 201: ...ny v Verbose mode Used with a list Examples acl a list f FS ns acl a list f FS ns a txt acl a clear f FS ns acl a set f FS ns s role user name testa acl ro acl a cancel f FS ns acl a refresh f FS ns Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info 181 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 202: ...indows acl template Options a action Which action to perform list Default List windows acl template add Add windows acl template mod Mod windows acl template del Del windows acl template n template name Specify the windows acl template s option value Used to specify the windows acl template settings Optional desc Description of the template traverse Traverse folder execute file ACL allow deny Defa...

Page 203: ...llow deny Default create Create files write data ACL allow deny Default create_f Create folders append data ACL allow deny Default w_attr Write attributes ACL allow deny Default w_ext_attr Write extended attributes ACL allow deny Default delete_s Delete subfolders and files ACL allow deny Default 183 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 204: ... list acltmpl a add n aaa s traverse allow list allow r_attr allow r_ext_attr allow create allow create_f allow w_attr allow w_ext_attr allow delete_s allow delete allow r_perm allow chg_perm allow take_own allow acltmpl a mod n aaa s traverse allow list allow r_attr allow acltmpl a del n aaa Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info 184 Promise Technology Vess R360...

Page 205: ... protocol mod modify allow share ip for NFS protocol del delete allow share ip for NFS protocol clear clear allow share ip for NFS protocol t type Storage type If not specified for list action nasshare d ID The storage ID i index Used to specify the allow ip entry index Only valid for modify or delete action s option value Used to specify allow share ip settings for NFS protocol ip IP address perm...

Page 206: ...wip a add t nasshare d 2 s ip 10 0 0 1 permission ro squash root allowip a mod t nasshare d 2 i 1 l ip 10 0 0 1 permission rw squash noroot allowip a del t nasshare d 2 i 1 allowip a clear t nasshare d 2 Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info 186 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 207: ...econditioning of a battery attempts to fully discharge and then recharge it In addition the battery will be reconditioned automatically once per month a action Which action to perform list Default List information for all batteries or a specific battery unit recondition Recondition a specific battery b battery ID Used to specify which battery in a given enclosure battery battery a recondition b 1 ...

Page 208: ...n Specifies the action to perform list Default List the BBM information clear Clears the BBM list For configured SATA drives only p PdId Specifies the physical drive id For the a list option the default is all physical drives For the a clear option you must specify a physical drive id Examples bbm p 1 bbm a clear p 3 188 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 209: ...ve disable Auto transition means transitioning is initiated on a used revertible spare in the following condition 1 When the rebuild has been completed using the revertible spare and 2 When an unconfigured drive is inserted into the slot of the dead drive which the was part of the array or When a non revertible spare has been inserted or created and is applicable to the array This option affects a...

Page 210: ...h redundancy check will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 low medium high syncrate Synchronization rate determines the rate at which synchronization will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 low medium high bga bga a mod s rebuildrate high Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info Examples 190 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 211: ... modify or delete date and time of the scheduled activities Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays information of BGA scheduler add Create a new BGA scheduler If exists RC scheduler cannot add RC scheduler with all pools The max number of RC scheduler is 2 Only 1 for other schedulers mod Modify a exist scheduler Can not change poolid param of an exist RC scheduler to all po...

Page 212: ...here hour s range is 0 23 minute s range are 0 59 The default is 20 00 for MP 22 00 for RC and SC 02 00 for others recurtype Specifies recurrence type of scheduler The default is monthly for br type weekly for others daily weekly monthly recurInterval Specifies recurrence Interval This option is for Daily and Weekly recurrence type For Daily type the range is 1 255 For Weekly type the range is 1 5...

Page 213: ...type scheduler dom Day of month dow Specific day of week dom Day of Month for dom daypattern type The range is 1 31 The default is 1 wom Week ordinal for dow daypattern type The range is 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last The default is 1st month Months The range are 1 12 divided by space or The default is 1 12 startfrom Start day of range of occurrence in the following format yyyy mm dd where month s range is ...

Page 214: ...inconsistent data enable The default is enable disable pause Pause on error enable disable The default is disable poolid The list of PoolID For add action if the option is not specified assumed to for all pools For multiple value divided by space or v Verbose mode Used with a list 194 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 215: ...p s recurtype monthly daypattern dow wom 2nd dow Sun month 1 3 6 endon 10 bgasched a add t sc s recurtype weekly dow Mon Wed Fri starttime 12 00 endon 2020 01 01 Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info Examples 195 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 216: ... status of the buzzer and enables disables turns on or turns off the buzzer Options a action Specifies the action to perform list Default List the status of the buzzer enable Enable the buzzer disable Disable the buzzer on Turn on the buzzer off Turn off the buzzer 196 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 217: ...cache Note that a pool can be assigned to either SSD or Memory media type write cache Options a action Which action to perform list List cache info add Add read write cache using SSD PDs At least 2 SSD PDs required for write cache mod Modify SSD PDs or assigned pools used for read write cache del Delete read write cache using SSD PDs remove Remove assigned pool s from cache t type To specify type ...

Page 218: ...he assigned pools Only valid for a add mod remove action v Verbose mode Used with a list cache cache a add t read p 1 i 1 cache a add t write p 1 2 i 0 cache a mod t read p 1 2 i 1 cache a mod t write m ssd p 1 2 i 0 1 cache a mod t write m memory i 3 cache a remove t read cache a remove t write m memory i 3 cache a remove t write m ssd cache a del t read cache a del t write Examples 198 Promise T...

Page 219: ... a CHAP record mod Modify an existing CHAP record To change CHAP secret use this operation without specifying s del Delete a CHAP i chap ID Used when viewing modifying or deleting a CHAP record to uniquely identify the CHAP record which to manipulate s option value name Specifies chap name type Specifies chap type Could be local or peer peer A peer CHAP record is one that the initiator must know w...

Page 220: ...e clonename clone a mod i clone id s name newclonename clone a del i clone id clone a export i clone id clone a unexport i clone id clone a mount i clone id clone a unmount i clone id Summary The clone command allow user to view add delete a clone Can export or uexport a clone if it s type is volume Can mount or unmount a clone if it s type is nasshare 200 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 ...

Page 221: ...pe only mount Mount a clone For nasshare type only unmount Unmount a clone For nasshare type only promote Promote a clone i clone id Specify clone id d snapshot id S pecify snapshot id s option value name Name to clone accept double bytes f Force delete the clone v Verbose mode Used with a list y Enable non interactive mode clone clone a add d 1 s name abc clone a mod i 1 s name abc clone a export...

Page 222: ...on the controller i ctrl ID Controller ID that information or settings are for For high availability products controller ID is required when setting alias of controller c ctrl count Controller count Used if the user wants information for multiple controllers s option value Used to specify which settings to change alias A user specified name used to identify a controller It can be up to 47 characte...

Page 223: ...re dual controllers enable disable coercionmethod The method of coercion GBTruncate Truncates the drive to the nearest 1 billion byte boundary 10GBTruncate Truncates the drive to the nearest 10 billion byte boundary GrpRounding Truncates the drive using an intelligent algorithm This allows the maximum amount of usable space while at the same time attempting to keep drives in the same size group th...

Page 224: ...or UPS is available the write policy is retained as Writeback otherwise the policy is switched to Writethru disable The write policy of the writeback logical drives are not changed irrespective of the availability of BBU or UPS hostcacheflushing To enable or disable host cache flushing When enabled SYNCHRONIZE CACHE SCSI command from host is supported For high availability products only enable dis...

Page 225: ...time interval in number of minutes Valid values are 0 never 15 30 60 1 hour 1440 24 hours VAAIsupport To enable or disable VAAI support enable disable pseudodevicetype pseudo device type das DAS ctrl Storage controller device t condition type Used to specify the type of condition to clear It is valid only when the command action is clear watermark Watermark the only supported condition for now It ...

Page 226: ...e Used to specifies date in the following format yyyy mm dd where month s range is 1 12 and day s range is 1 31 t time Used to specifies time in the following format hh mm ss where hour s range is 0 23 minute s and seconds range are 0 59 ctrl ctrl v ctrl l ctrl a mod i 1 s alias ctrl1 coercion enable ctrl a mod s powersavingstoppedtime 180 Examples date date a mod d 2004 02 25 t 14 50 05 Examples ...

Page 227: ... domain by existing domain settings Valid for already joined into domain mode check Show Key Distribution Center info for Windows AD or domain name for LDAP t type Domain server type ad Windows AD ldap LDAP od MAC OD l option value Specify the LDAP domain setting used to get domain name for LDAP type or specify windows AD domain name to get the kdc Only valid for a check operation domain Domain na...

Page 228: ...e DN value security LDAP security type none Default tls ssl usersuffix LDAP user suffix value grpsuffix LDAP group suffix value username AD LDAP OD Domain join user name for AD or root DN for LDAP OD password AD LDAP OD Domain join password clear Clear acl quota setting directly or not Only valid for enable and disable action no default yes v Verbose mode Used with a list 208 Promise Technology Ve...

Page 229: ...0 84 2 46 security none basedn dc test dc com username admin password password usersuffix ou People grpsuffix ou Group domain a check t ad l domain 2008ad com domain a check t ldap l server 10 84 2 71 security tls basedn dc test dc com domain a disable domain a refresh Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info Examples 209 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 230: ...s PSU usage PSU power on time Options a action Which action to perform list Display enclosure diagnosis information e enclosure ID Used to specify enclosure ID t diagnose type Used to specify type of diagnosis all Default Display the all enclosure diagnosis information psu Display the PSU Usage Info powerontime Display the enclosure element power on time information 210 Promise Technology Vess R36...

Page 231: ...r to modify settings when coupled with the s switch locate Allows the user to locate an enclosure by flashing LEDs e encl id Enclosure ID The default value is 1 if unspecified For list action the default is for all enclosures if unspecified i sensor id IOM Sensor ID For controller temperature warning 1 6 and critical threshold If unsepecified only the IOM sensor 1 4 will be set the IOM sensor 2 3 ...

Page 232: ...r IOM sensor 2 5 81 88 For IOM sensor 3 6 t FRU type Used with action locate to indicate which type of FRU to locate If t is not specified it indicates to locate the enclosure ctrl To locate controller cooling To locate cooling unit It only works with SAS type enclosure psu To locate power supply unit It only works with SAS type enclosure f FRU id Used with action locate and t FRU type option to i...

Page 233: ...s specified clear Clear events for a specified location i sequence ID Specifies a specific event by its sequence number This is a starting point Requires the a list option You can use the c option c event count Specifies the number of events to retrieve when displaying events b Used to specify events created after latest boot time Used with a list v Verbose mode Requires the a list option event ev...

Page 234: ...ort System service report file in compressed HTML format nasconfig NAS configuration nasaccount NAS account f file name Specifies the name of the file to be exported x file ext Specifies the type of the file txt Saves service report as a text file html Saves service report as a compressed HTML file default s TFTP server Specifies tftp server s IP or host name p port num The port number of the TFTP...

Page 235: ...all All settings allfw All firmware settings allsw Subsystems only All software settings The following are individual Firmware settings bga Background activity settings ctrl Controller settings encl Enclosure settings including temperature thresholds buzzer etc fc fc port settings Fibre Channel host interface product only iscsi iSCSI settings restore operation applies to port and iSNS erase operat...

Page 236: ...ollowing are individual Software settings bgasched bga scheduler settings service service startup type settings webserver web server settings snmp snmp settings ssh ssh settings email email settings ntp ntp settings tz Time zone settings user user settings ups ups manager configuration settings syslog syslog settings nas nas settings Only valid when nas feature is enabled 216 Promise Technology Ve...

Page 237: ... Specifies what type of information to display or modify node Display Fibre Channel node information port Default Specifies Fibre Channel port as the device type to display or modify information SFP Display port SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable information stats Display port statistics information loggedininitiators Display port logged in initiator information loggedintargets Display port logged in...

Page 238: ...ot specified s option value Specifies Fibre Channel settings to change linkspeed Fibre Channel link speed 4gb 4 GB s 8gb 8 GB s 16gb 16 GB s auto Automatic topology Fibre Channel topology method nlport NL Port nport N Port auto Automatic hardalpa Hard Arbitrated Loop Physical Address ALPA 0 255 Value 255 will disable hard ALPA v Verbose mode Used with a list 218 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess ...

Page 239: ...folder with specified path del Delete folder or file with specified path mod Modify folder or file with specified path refresh Refresh the folder with specified path p path Specify the foler or file path c count Specify the count of folder and files under specified path Used with list action n page number Specify the page number to display Used with list action t type Specify the path type Valid f...

Page 240: ...nable or disable Valid for folder type enable disable v Verbose mode Used with a list folder a list p FS ns1 c 10 folder a add p FS ns1 nnn s owner aaa folder a del p FS ns1 nnn t folder folder a mod p FS ns1 nnn t folder s owner aaa recursive enable folder a refresh p FS ns1 nnn Examples 220 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 241: ...elete an existing group Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the group info If no group name specified all groups will be displayed add Add group mod Modify group description del Delete group adduser Add user to group deluser Delete user from group refresh Refresh group g group name Specify the group name when add the group u user name Specify the user name belonged to th...

Page 242: ...group group a add g gname group a mod g gname s desc group a del g gname group a adduser g gname u a group a refresh Examples 222 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 243: ... file s TFTP server Specifies tftp server s IP or host name f file name Specifies the name of the file to import p port num The port number of the TFTP server Default is 69 i Get format validation information about imported file only File is not really applied to subsystem yet This option is applicable for userdb file only l Do not use tftp server import t userdb s 192 168 10 168 f userdb xml impo...

Page 244: ... about the current initiator list as well as to add or delete an initiator Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the current initiator list add Add an initiator to the list del Delete an initiator from the list i Index 0 2047 Used to specify the index of the initiator For a list option it is the starting index and may be used with c option For other options it is the speci...

Page 245: ...ich kind of initiator to add fc For a Fibre Channel host interface iscsi For an iSCSI host interface n Name Used to specify the name of the initiator For an iSCSI host interface product the name should be the initiator s iSCSI name e g iqn vendorcompany com For a Fibre Channel host interface product the name should be the initiator s WWPN in hex format e g aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 225 Promise Techn...

Page 246: ...ary information about iSCSI status add Add iSCSI portal mod Modify iSCSI settings del Delete iSCSI target portal or session t type Specifies the type of information For list action the default is target if unspecified For modify action the default is global iSCSI setting if the type is unspecified target Specifies iSCSI target as the device type to display add modify or delete information port Spe...

Page 247: ...used with a list option m portal interface type Valid for add iSCSI portal type phy Default vlan trunk s option value Specifies which iSCSI type settings to change The following are for target settings Requires t target and n target id options alias Target alias Can up to 31 characters long containing alphanumeric characters blank spaces and underscores The beginning and ending blank spaces will b...

Page 248: ...iator to have a CHAP secret to log in Can be configured only when modify a target enable disable The following setting applies to sessions and targets Requires t session and r controller id i session id options or t target and i target id keepalive Keeps an iSCSI session alive For global setting enable omit t and i options disable The following settings apply to ports Requires t port and r control...

Page 249: ...DHCP on the portal enable disable iptype The IP address type of portal 4 IPv4 6 IPv6 primaryip The primary IP address of portal Use when DHCP is disabled primaryipmask The primary IP mask of portal Use when DHCP is disabled gateway Specify the gateway tcpport Specify the tcp port number porttype The port type used to create portal Only valid for m phy or vlan interface type io mgmt attribute The p...

Page 250: ...si a del t session i 2 r 1 iscsi a mod s keepalive enable iscsi a mod t target i 1 s alias vendorNode iscsi a add t portal r 1 p 1 m phy s iptype 4 dhcp enable porttype io iscsi a add t portal r 1 p 2 m vlan s iptype 4 dhcp enable vlantag 4 porttype io iscsi a add t portal m trunk s iptype 4 dhcp enable trunkid 0 Examples 230 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 251: ...t to iSNS through If t is not specified the default value is Mgmt port portal iSCSI portal For iSCSI host interface product only mgmt Management port For embedded only g portal id Portal ID s option value Used to specify what options to change isns Enable and disable iSNS enable disable serverip iSNS server ip address serverport iSNS server port number The default value is 3205 1 65535 231 Promise...

Page 252: ...icense file Options a action Specify which action to perform list Default Displays imported license info license license a list Type more at the end of each command to display info page by page Type grep word1 word2 at the end of each command to display filtered info Examples 232 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 253: ...e t type p SourceType l LdIdList m LunMap lunmap a del i InitiatorId lunmap a enable lunmap a disable Summary The lunmap command displays information about the current LUN mapping and masking LMM table information and enables you to add modify and delete LMM entries LMM can be enabled or disabled logout Usage logout Summary The logout command is used to logout the current user from the session 233...

Page 254: ... initiator based LMM entry For a list option it is the starting index May be used with c option c Count Specifies the number of LMM entries to be listed Only used with a list option t type When used with the a add option this option specifies which kind of initiator to add fc iscsi n Name Specifies the initiator name For iSCSI host interface the name is the initiator s iSCSI name such as iqn vendo...

Page 255: ...le lunmap a add i 0 p volume l 0 1 m 0 1 p source type Specifies the source type volume snapshot clone l Source ID list 0 1023 Specifies the source IDs m LUN map list 0 1023 Specifies the LUN mapping values Please check the maximum number of LUNs supported by host OS 235 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 256: ...command instructs the selected RAID controller to enter maintenance mode Note To bring the RAID controller out of maintenance mode enter the command shutdown a restart Options a action Which action to perform enter Default Enter maintenance mode i CtrlId Controller id 236 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 257: ...sallowed to do any operations Note Snapshot and clone of source volume will not be migrated They won t be reserved after migration Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the migration in progress start Start a specific migration progress stop Stop the migration i ID Source volume ID t location Destination location local Default remote p pool ID Destination pool ID s option ...

Page 258: ...ion subsystem wwn It s optional when start remote migrate v Verbose mode Used with a list y Enable non interactive mode migrate migrate a start i 1 t local p 0 migrate a start i 2 t remote p 0 s srcip 10 0 0 1 dstip 10 0 0 2 migrate a stop i 1 migrate a stop t remote i 1 Examples 238 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 259: ...o reassign the sector Note Support for reassignment of sectors is not currently supported MP will allow the user to start stop pause or resume a media patrol as well as to check on the progress and status Options a action Which action to perform list Default Display the status and progress of media patrol start Start media patrol stop Stop media patrol pause Pause media patrol resume Resume a paus...

Page 260: ...ws the user to list reset or restore NAS configuration Options a action Which action to perform list Default List NAS settings reset Reset NAS all setting restore Restore NAS setting f file name Specify which file to restore to Only valid for restore action v Verbose mode Used with a list 240 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 261: ...ummary The nasshare command allow user to view add delete modify mount and un mount NAS share Options a action Specifies which action to perform list Default List NAS share information add Add a NAS share del Delete an existing NAS share mod Change the settings for a NAS share mount Mount NAS share unmount Un mount NAS share p pool id The disk pool ID Valid values are 0 255 Only valid for add or l...

Page 262: ...ity of the pool For mod action it means to extend capacity of the NAS share It must be larger than original capacity recsize NAS share record size 4KB to 1MB default is 128KB For richmedia it is 1MB sync Sync mode standard Default always disabled logbias Slog behavior latency Default throughput thinprov Thin provision supported or not enable disable v Verbose mode Used with a list y Enable non int...

Page 263: ...ortal m c ctrl ID f protocol family s list of settings net a enable t port net a enable t portal m c ctrl ID f protocol family Summary Net is used to display the TCP IP specific information for the management port and portal Information such as IP addresses and subnetmask can be displayed or changed Support for DHCP and DNS can be configured here as well Most often this command will be used during...

Page 264: ...aintenance mode c ctrl ID Specifies the controller ID When the action is to modify setting and c is not specified the value is default to be the current controller id p port ID Specifies the port ID f protocol family To specify which protocol family will be modified enabled or disabled ipv4 Default IPv4 ipv6 IPv6 y Execute command in non interactive mode Only valid for disable mod action s option ...

Page 265: ...ires t portal option primarydns Set an IP address of the primary DNS server secondarydns Set an IP address of the secondary DNS server autodns Obtain DNS from DHCP server Only valid when DHCP is enabled on the default route portal enable disable defaultroute Default route on which portal type floatingip staticip ioportal ctrl1portalid Default route portal ID on controller1 Valid for defaultroute a...

Page 266: ...192 168 1 10 ipmask 255 255 255 0 net a mod t portal s autodns enable wol disable net a mod t port c 1 p 1 s jumboframe enable wol Enable or disable Wake On LAN support enable disable The following settings apply to port Requires t port c controllerr id and p port id options jumboframe Enable or Disable the jumbo frame of the port enable disable v Verbose mode Used with a list 246 Promise Technolo...

Page 267: ...NTP server Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays NTP information mod Change the settings for NTP test Test time server sync Sync time with time server s option value Used to specify what options to change ntp Enable and disable ntp service enable disable server1 Specific to the time servers server2 server3 t time server Specifies the time server to test Used with a test Re...

Page 268: ...p w wwn Summary This command allows the user to list add modify or delete pair Options a action Which action to perform list Default List pair information add Add pair mod mod pair del del pair r remote ip Remote subsys ip w wwn Remote subsys wwn pair a list pair a add r 10 20 30 40 pair a mod w 1000 2000 3000 4000 Examples 248 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 269: ...can be used to change the password of other users When changing the password of another user the old password is not required Maximum password length is 31 characters no spaces Options u username Whose password to change Current management user is the default t type Specified the user type mgmt Default Change management user password snmp Change snmp user password nas Change nas user password p pr...

Page 270: ...user t nas new password Retry password pcie Displays a list of PCIE slot information Examples pcie Usage pcie a list h Summary This command will display PCIE slot information for the controllers Options a action Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays a list of PCIE slot info 250 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 271: ...g on After PDM the destination drive becomes part of the pool the PFA drive will become unconfigured and PFA condition will remain on The PFA drive cannot be used for further configuration until the PFA condition is cleared by the user To clear the PFA condition of a physical drive please refer to phydrv command with option a clear Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the...

Page 272: ...l as to allow the user to add modify or delete date and time of the periodic snapshot tasks a action Which action to perform list Default Displays information of periodic snapshot add Create a new periodic snapshot task The max number of periodic snapshot task is 64 mod Modify a exist periodic snapshot task del Delete a exist periodic snapshot task By default all the snapshots generated by the tas...

Page 273: ...ith a del action s option value Used to specify periodic snapshot task settings status Specifies status type of task enable disable Default recurtype Specifies recurrence type of task daily Default weekly interval Specifies the minutes between two snapshot copies This option is valid for Daily recurrence type The range is 5 10 15 30 60 120 240 360 480 720 1440 Default is 60 dow Day of Week This is...

Page 274: ...ecurrence type The range is 0 23 keepnum Keep the number of periodic snapshot copies v Verbose mode Used with a list periodsnap a add t volume d 1 s recurtype daily interval 60 starthour 1 endhour 22 keepnum 5 periodsnap a mod i 1 s status disable periodsnap a del i 1 Examples 254 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 275: ...e in extreme conditions It will almost always cause data corruption Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays all physical drives in the enclosure their make model number and array they belong to Their status is also shown mod Allows the user to make modifications to the physical drive settings locate Allows the user to flash an LED for physically identifying the location of t...

Page 276: ...ata SATA related setting s writecache rlacache dmamode The SATA settings apply to all SATA physical drives sas SAS related setting s writecache rlacache readcache The SAS settings apply to all SAS physical drives all Apply to both SATA and SAS drives where is applicable s option value Used to specifies which physical drive settings to change alias A user specified name used to identify a physical ...

Page 277: ...e s enable disable temppollint Drive temperature polling interval in seconds 15 255 If value is 0 polling is disabled For high availability products only mediumerrorthreshold 0 4294967294 Medium error threshold If the threshold is exceeded the physical drive will be marked as dead The default value is 0 indicating that physical drive will not be marked as dead for medium errors 257 Promise Technol...

Page 278: ...0 udma0 Ultra DMA Mode 0 udma1 Ultra DMA Mode 1 udma2 Ultra DMA Mode 2 udma3 Ultra DMA Mode 3 udma4 Ultra DMA Mode 4 udma5 Ultra DMA Mode 5 udma6 Ultra DMA Mode 6 mdma0 Multi DMA Mode 0 mdma1 Multi DMA Mode 1 mdma2 Multi DMA Mode 2 The following settings are only for SAS drives readcache Applied to SAS drive only Enables or disables read cache on the physical drive s enable disable v Verbose mode ...

Page 279: ... p 8 phydrv a online p 8 phydrv a clear p 8 ping Usage ping t PortType l CtrlId p PortId i ipAddr DestinationId d DestinationType Summary Allows the user to ping another network device from the management port or FC port to verify that the device is able to be seen by the enclosure 259 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 280: ...interface product only mgmt Management port For embedded only fc FC port FC host interface product only l CtrlId Controller id It is required when port type is fc p port ID Physical port id Port id is required when port type is fc i IP address DestinationId IP address to ping destination identifier for fc port d Destination Type The type of destination for the ping It is required when port type is...

Page 281: ... Options a action Specifies which action to perform list Default Displays a summary of all or a specific or a specified number of pools mod Modify pool name add Create new Pool by specific drives RAID level and so on del Delete an existing pool expand Expand pool The pool created by external drive can expand only with external drive The pool created by HDD physical drive can expand with external d...

Page 282: ... 5 6 s option value Used to specify settings for an pool This is used when creating add or modifying mod an pool These options are separated by commas name A user specified name used to identify an pool It can be up to 32 characters long containing alpha numeric characters blank spaces and underscores The beginning and ending blank spaces will be discarded Valid for add or mod action type Used to ...

Page 283: ...ed Only valid for add action with physical drive type sector Used to specify the desirable sector size The possible parameters are 512B 1KB 2KB and 4KB It must not be greater than the Stripe size It will be auto adjusted not to exceed the max supported sector size of the controller please see controller info If not specified for advanced type the default 4KB will be used for standard type the defa...

Page 284: ...d Valid for add or mod action optimizedapptype Optimized application type richmedia others f Force delete the pool v Verbose mode Used with a list action y Enable non interactive mode pool v i 1 pool a add s name MyAxxx type advanced raid 5 t pd p 1 3 5 9 pool a add s name MyAxxx t ed p 1 2 pool a mod i 1 s name xxx pool a del i 3 pool a expand i 1 t pd p 1 3 5 10 s axle 4 pool a expand i 2 t ed p...

Page 285: ...or protocol status on share disk mod modify global protocol service settings reset reset protocol settings of global protocol service If n not specified it means all services enable enable global protocol service or protocol settings on the share disk snapshot or clone disable disable global protocol service or protocol settings on the share disk snapshot or clone t type nasshare snapshot clone d ...

Page 286: ...of passive connection port charset Character set type utf8 ja_jp ko_kr zh_cn zh_tw dwrate Download rate of all user uprate Upload rate of all user followings are valid for NFS type port Mountd port 1024 65533 Default as 56789 count Number of NFS server It can be 8 16 32 64 or 128 Default as 32 following are valid for SMB type desc Description displayed via SMB workgroup SMB workgroup name displaye...

Page 287: ...ttpsport HTTPS connection port Default is 8089 v Verbose mode Used with a list y Enable non interactive mode protocol a list protocol t nasshare d 2 protocol t nasshare d 2 n ftp protocol a reset n ftp protocol a enable n ftp protocol a enable t nasshare d 2 n ftp protocol a disable t nasshare d 2 n ftp protocol a mod n smb s workgroup testgrp Examples 267 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 288: ...ocess should be running at one time Options a action Which action to perform start Default To start the flash process versioninfo To get the version and build information of running images of all controllers or the specified controller t Indicates that TFTP get method is to be used to obtain the file from a TFTP server s servername ipaddress Specifies the hostname or IP address of the TFTP server ...

Page 289: ...equired when controller id is specified If not specified default value is all controllers v Verbose mode Only used with a versioninfo option To show the version and build information of all the flash images of all controllers or the specified controller n Start the flash process image update in NDIU mode This mode is applicable only if the system is in redundant state Default mode of flash is DIU ...

Page 290: ...tion Specifies which action to perform list Default Displays the quota information set Set quota setting refresh Refresh Quota by given NAS Share Clone ID cancel Cancel the Quota settings operation hold by others t type Storage type If not specified for list action nasshare d storage id NAS Share ID s option value Only valid for set action role Role type user group name User name or group name bas...

Page 291: ...ptions a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the replication status start Start a specific replication status stop Stop the replication pause Pause the replication resume Resume a paused replication t location Replication location Only valid for a stop action local Default remote quota a list d 1 t nasshare quota a set d 1 t nasshare s role user name a limit 1Gb quota a set d 1 t ...

Page 292: ...tion volume ID p pool id Destination pool ID Only valid for a start specified s option value Used to specify replication settings Only valid for a start specified name Destination volume name mode mode method Only valid for remote replication active passive Default active active syncmode sync mode method async semi sync sync Default period Period of sync cycle Unit is hour s 0 always sync 1 2 4 6 ...

Page 293: ... wwn Only valid for remote replication v Verbose mode Used with a list y Enable non interactive mode replication a list replication a start t local i 1 p 0 s name test syncmode async replication a start t remote i 1 p 0 s name test syncmode async mode active passive srcip 10 20 30 1 dstip 10 20 30 2 replication a stop i 2 t remote replication a pause i i t remote replication a resume i 1 t remote ...

Page 294: ...running Rebuild Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the current active and their status es start Starts a manual rebuild stop Stops a rebuild pause Pauses a rebuild resume Resumes a paused rebuild l Pool ID Specifies which Pool to perform rebuild action on s sequence Num Specifies the sequence number of the physical drive that was marked offline and will used for the reb...

Page 295: ...rt Starts a Redundancy Check stop Stops a Redundancy Check pause Pauses a Redundancy Check resume Resumes a paused Redundancy Check l Pool ID Specifies the Pool ID on which to run redundancy check n Do not fix inconsistent data Specifying this option will cause redundancy check to run without correcting inconsistent data All inconsistency errors found will still be reported p Pause on error This o...

Page 296: ...ver Display SMP general discovery information errorlog Display error log on a certain expander clearerrlog Clear error log on a certain PHY l PHY Location The location where PHY resides If l is not specified the default value is expander expander c2cport e Enclosure ID Used to specify which enclosure ID i Expander ID Used to specify which expander ID p PHY ID Used to specify which PHY ID you wish ...

Page 297: ... sc a start i SpareId Summary The sc command starts a Spare Check and monitors the status of a running Spare Check Options a action Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays Spare Check status start Starts the Spare Check i Spare ID Specifies the spare ID on which to run Spare Check Valid value range is 0 255 sc sc a start i 3 Examples 277 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 298: ...Examples session session Usage session session h this command Summary This command lists the current active sessions 278 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 299: ...ed to shutdown or restart a controller or subsystem Options a action Which action to perform shutdown To shutdown the controller or subsystem restart To restart the controller or subsystem i ctrlId Controller ID or subsystem If i is not specified the default value is subsystem 1 Controller 1 2 Controller 2 subsys Subystem 279 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 300: ...tus of S M A R T diagnostic for phydrv drive s enable Enable S M A R T disable Disable S M A R T p PdId Specifies physical drive ID of the destination drive If not specified the destination drive will be all physical drives v Verbose mode Used with a list Summary S M A R T diagnostic for physical drives 280 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 301: ... to perform list Default List snapshot information add add a snapshot mod modify name of snapshot del delete a snapshot export export a snapshot which is based on volume type unexport Un export a snapshot mount mount a snapshot which is based on nasshare type unmount Un mount a snapshot which is based on nasshare type rollback Rollback a snapshot i snapshot ID Snapshot ID t type Source type volume...

Page 302: ...e v Verbose mode Used with a list y Enable non interactive mode snapshot a list snapshot a add t volume d 1 s name testname snapshot a mod i 1 s name testname snapshot a del i 1 snapshot a export i 1 snapshot a unexport i 1 snapshot a mount i 1 snapshot a unmount i 1 snapshot a rollback i 1 Examples 282 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 303: ...in one of the assigned pools the dedicated spare will not replace that drive This feature can used for prioritizing pools which may have a greater need to survive disk failures Options a action Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays a list of hot spare drives add Adds new hot spare drives del Deletes a hot spare drive i Spare Id Specifies the ID of the spare drive p PD ID Specifies ...

Page 304: ...y replace drives from pools in which the spare is associated with Drives that are being replaced must be of the same size or smaller r revertible Whether the spare drive is revertible or commited y Revertible n Committed v Verbose mode Used with a list spare spare a add p 14 t g spare a del i 0 Examples 284 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 305: ...s the statistics count to zero Options a action Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays the statistics clear Resets the statistics count to zero t type Specifies the device type ctrl Controller phydrv Physical drive all All the above options i devId Specifies the device ID Default is the first available device ID c Count Specifies the device count Default is all devices Used with a l...

Page 306: ...ls of severity Users with superuser privilege can subscript for all users Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays information of event subscription mod Modify a exist event subscription enable Enable event notification disable Disable event notification test Send a test email to the email address of specific user u username Specifies the username event subscription belongs t...

Page 307: ...losure shortcut event subscription by enclosure raid shortcut event subscription by raid core host shortcut event subscription by host interface drive shortcut event subscription by drive interface other shortcut event subscription by other The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major Followings for enclosure type event subscription battery battery event subscri...

Page 308: ... enclosure smart SMART event subscription of enclosure sync Synchronization event subscription of enclosure subsys Subsystem event subscription of enclosure pdm Predictive Data Migaration event subscription of enclosure sc Spare Check event subscription of enclosure The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major Followings for host type event subscription hictrl H...

Page 309: ...er The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major v Verbose mode Used with a list subscription a list t shortcut v subscription a mod u administrator s enclosure info subscription a mod s bbu critical subscription a disable u administrator Examples 289 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 310: ...cified subsystem mod Modifies subsystem settings lock Locks the subsystem so other users cannot apply changes No changes can be made to subsystem settings by other users until the lock expires or the system is unlocked unlock Clears a subsystem lock chklock Checks the status of the lock s option value Specifies which subsystem settings to change alias A user specified name to identify the subsyste...

Page 311: ...ng will only be available when redundancy type is active active The default value is enable if not specified enable disable t number of mins Used with a lock Number of minutes to lock the subsystem Default is 30 minutes r Renew the lock timer Used with a lock and t f Force unlock Only super user has the privilege to do it v Verbose mode Used with a list 291 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 312: ... a software component stop Stop a software component restart Restart a software component mod Change a component s startup type when system boots add Add trap sink for snmp public key for ssh or recipient for netsend del Delete trap sinks for snmp public key for ssh or recipients for netsend n component name Specifies the component name to view setting modify start or stop email Email notification...

Page 313: ...rver IP address or SMTP server name serverport SMTP server port number authentication SMTP server authentication no yes username Username if using SMTP authentication password Password if using SMTP authentication senderaddr Sender s email address subject Email subject webserver settings sessiontimeout Session time out in minutes Maximum 1440 ssh settings port Port number for ssh daemon sessiontim...

Page 314: ... sink delete public key p option value Used to specify trap sinks for snmp or public key for ssh Multiple p option can be entered with a add option for trap sink trapsinkserver Trap sink IP address or trap sink server name For snmp only trapfilter Trap filter level It implies the level and above For snmp only info warning minor major critical fatal filename Ssh public key file name For ssh only se...

Page 315: ... Pool to perform sync action on For adding multiple trapsinkserver SNMP swmgt swmgt n webserver swmgt a start n snmp swmgt a stop n snmp swmgt a mod n snmp t automatic swmgt a add n ssh p filename key pub server 192 168 1 1 comment root server swmgt a del n ssh i 1 Examples swmgt a add n snmp p trapsinkserver 192 168 1 1 trapfilter info p trapsinkserver 192 168 2 1 trapfilter critical sync Example...

Page 316: ... Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays the current target list add Add a target to the list del Delete a target from the list i Index Used to specify the index of the target n Name Used to specify the target s WWNN in hex format e g aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 target target a add n aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 target a del i 1 Examples 296 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 P...

Page 317: ...osures topology the physical connections and devices For products that support multiple enclosures only Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays topology information v View complete information about topology 297 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 318: ...e dedicated spare to the pool During transition the data on the revertible spare is transferred to the destination drive while IO is going on After transition the destination drive becomes the part of the pool the revertible spare becomes available for later use Options a action Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays the running and paused transitions and their start Starts a manual...

Page 319: ...ction Specifies the action to perform add Create a new trunk list Displays trunk information mod Modify an existing trunk setting del Delete a trunk i trunk id Port trunk identifier 0 7 s option value Used to specify which trunk settings to change ctrlid Controller ID of Port masterport Master port of the Trunk Range Port ID slaveport List of ports aggregated in this trunk excluding the master por...

Page 320: ...wn as Dynamic Link Aggregation mode It creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex settings This mode requires a switch that supports IEEE 802 3ad Dynamic link active_standby Only one slave in the bond isactive A different slave becomes active if and only if the active slave fails This mode provides fault tolerance trunk a add s ctrlid 1 masterport 2 slaveport 3 4 trunk a del i...

Page 321: ...time zone for the controllers Options a action Which action to perform list Default Displays current or all the time zone info mod Modify the time zone s option value zone Specifies which city name to use it can check from detail all time zone info d Detail all time zone info Used with a list 301 Promise Technology Managing with CLI ...

Page 322: ...ttings del delete a volume export export a volume unexport un export a volume p pool ID Pool ID Only valid for add or list action i volume ID volume ID c volume count Specify the number of volumes to be created when used with the a add option If this c option is used all the volumes will be created with the same settings s option value Used to specify what options to change Only valid for add or m...

Page 323: ...e default 8KB will be used Only valid for add action sector Sector size of the volume The possible parameters are 512B 1KB 2KB and 4KB If not specified the default 512B will be used Only valid for add action sync Sync mode of the volume standard always Defaults disabled logbias Slog behavior If not specified for block size is 64KB or 128KB the default thoughtput will be used For other block size v...

Page 324: ... 1 volume a list p 2 volume a add p 2 s name test capacity 20GB block 8KB sector 512B volume a add p 2 s name testvol capacity 10GB c 5 volume a mod i 2 s name mytest volume a del i 2 volume a export i 2 volume a unexport i 2 Examples 304 Promise Technology Vess R3600 Vess J3600 Product Manual ...

Page 325: ...sed to specify what options to change detection Detection mode setting auto Default Whenever a UPS is detected it changes the detection mode to enable enable Monitors UPS UPS Settings changes reports warnings and logs events disable Monitors Serial UPS only ups1 UPS1 IP address or Domain Name ups2 UPS2 IP address or Domain Name rtr Running time remaining threshold in minute The valid value range i...

Page 326: ...er Maintenance and View If a password is not specified when the user account is created there will be no password when you log in Maximum password length is 31 characters no spaces For SNMP user only permission READ_ONLY is supported now The minimum length of password is 8 characters Maximum password length is 31 characters no spaces Use the password command to change a password Options a action W...

Page 327: ...ax control power Poweruser cannot modify users nor delete configs maintenance Maintenance user can only perform background tasks view View user can only view f Force delete a user s option value name Specifies the user s display full name email Specifies an email address for the user Management user settings status Enable disable this user s account Default is enable SNMP user settings To provide ...

Page 328: ... the primary group name which the user belongs to department User department phone User phone v Verbose mode Used with a list user user a add u newuser p view s name NewUser email MyEmail yourcompany com Input password Retype password user a add t snmp u snmpuser s auth md5 priv des Input auth password Retype auth password Input priv password Retype priv password user a add t nas u nasuser s email...

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Page 333: ...only to products which are new and in cartons on the date of purchase b is not transferable c is valid only when accompanied by a copy of the original purchase invoice d Is not valid on spare parts This warranty shall not apply to defects resulting from a improper or inadequate maintenance or unauthorized modification s performed by the end user b operation outside the environmental specifications...

Page 334: ...ary the terms of this limited warranty PROMISE s sole responsibility with respect to any product is to do one of the following a replace the product with a conforming unit of the same or superior product b repair the product PROMISE shall not be liable for the cost of procuring substitute goods services lost profits unrealized savings equipment damage costs of recovering reprogramming or reproduci...

Page 335: ...ess Daytime phone number Description of the problem Copy of the original purchase invoice The technician helps you determine whether the product requires repair If the product needs repair the technician issues an RMA Return Merchandise Authorization number Important Obtain an RMA number from Technical Support before you return the product and write the RMA number on the label The RMA number is es...

Page 336: ...vered under the Limited Warranty When repairing returned product s PROMISE may replace defective parts with new or reconditioned parts or replace the entire unit with a new or reconditioned unit In the event of a replacement the replacement unit is under warranty for the remainder of the original warranty term from purchase date or 30 days whichever is longer PROMISE pays for standard return shipp...

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