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Remove the controller board from the module case.

6.

Remove the four hex nut screws.

7.

Replace the controller board.

2.2 Power Supply / Fan Module

Every EP-2126-SA3 contains

two 300W Power Supply / Fan Modules

. All PSFMs

are inserted into the rear of the chassis.

2.2.1 PSFM Panel

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Summary of Contents for EP-2126-SA3

Page 1: ...EP 2126 SA3 SCSI TO SATA II RAID SUBSYSTEM Installation and User Manual Revision 1 0...

Page 2: ...rt of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written con...

Page 3: ...e 18 2 3 1 Disk Drive Status Indicators 18 2 3 2 Lock Indicator 19 2 3 3 Disk Drive Installation 19 2 4 LCD Display Panel 21 2 4 1 LCD Display Panel LEDs 21 2 4 2 LCD Front Panel Function Keys 22 2 5...

Page 4: ...ings 60 7 5 3 Delete Volume 61 7 6 Selecting Changing a Sparing disk 61 8 Channel Management 62 8 1 Multiple SCSI Format Support 62 8 2 Host SCSI ID Selection 62 8 3 Configuring Channel Options 62 9 S...

Page 5: ...e Before plugging in any power cords cables and connectors make sure that the power switches are turned off Disconnect first any power connection if the power supply module is being removed from the e...

Page 6: ...power cords One external serial cable One external UPS cable One RJ 45 Ethernet cable Two external SCSI cables Two Active Terminators Installation Reference Guide Spare screws etc If any of these item...

Page 7: ...and background initialization Supports hot spare and automatic hot rebuild Local audible event notification alarm Real time drive activity and status indicators Java based browser type GUI management...

Page 8: ...ng sections of this manual 1 1 1 Front View The front section consists of the Drive Carriers and the Smart LCD Panel 1 1 2 Rear View The rear view consists of the two Power Supply Fan Modules and the...

Page 9: ...OTE The modules of the enclosure are interchangeable with other Epica products 1 3 Technical Specifications RAID Controller U320 SCSI to SATA II Host Bus Interface Ultra 320 SCSI Drive Bus Interface S...

Page 10: ...wer Supplies Two 2 300W Power Supplies with PFC Cooling Fans 2 UPS Connection Yes Environment Monitor Monitor Temperature Fan Power Supply and Voltage Power Requirements AC 90V 264V Full Range 6A 3A 4...

Page 11: ...with two 68 pin SCSI connectors at the rear of the subsystem for SCSI in and out 2 Uninterrupted Power Supply UPS Port The subsystem may come with an optional UPS port allowing you to connect a UPS d...

Page 12: ...utton When the audible alarm is sounding press this button to mute the audible alarm 6 Hard Contact Relay 2 1 2 Controller Module Installation In this section you will be shown how to install the Cont...

Page 13: ...of the controller module 1 Loosen the thumb screws Raise the controller handle and pull out the controller module until it moves out of the slot 2 Release the memory module lock and remove the memory...

Page 14: ...the module case 6 Remove the four hex nut screws 7 Replace the controller board 2 2 Power Supply Fan Module Every EP 2126 SA3 contains two 300W Power Supply Fan Modules All PSFMs are inserted into the...

Page 15: ...When the power cord connected from main power source is inserted to the AC Power Inlet the power status LED becomes RED When the switch of the PSFM is turned on the LED will turn GREEN When the Power...

Page 16: ...e the Power Supply handle IMPORTANT To secure the Power Supply to the enclosure tighten the thumb screws d Connect the Power Supply cord from the power source to the AC Power Inlet IMPORTANT For safet...

Page 17: ...er Supply Fan Module from the enclosure 2 Unscrew 6 screws 2 from left side 2 from right side and 2 from top cover 3 Pull up the top cover 4 Disconnect the fan cable 5 Unscrew the 4 screws of the powe...

Page 18: ...cator lights One indicator light is used for Power On Error When this light is GREEN the power is on and everything is functioning normally When the Power On Error light is ORANGE then an error has oc...

Page 19: ...es the physical locations of the hard drives supported by the subsystem and give instructions on installing a hard drive The subsystem supports hot swapping allowing you to install or replace a hard d...

Page 20: ...on the bottom part to secure the drive in the disk tray e Slide the tray into a slot until it reaches a full stop The HDD status LED will turn green if subsystem is on f Press the lever in until you...

Page 21: ...larm will sound Fan Fail LED Turn RED when fan 1 2 speed is lower than 2000 RPM Over Temperature LED If system temperature is over 70o C or disk temperatures exceed 55o C the temperature LED will turn...

Page 22: ...the Up or Down arrow keys to go through the information on the LCD screen This is also used to move between each menu when you configure the subsystem Select button This is used to enter the option y...

Page 23: ...ontent of the Rail Box is complete 2 x Rack Rails 2 x Inner Brackets 4 x M5 P0 8 L 25mm Long Screws 8 x M5 0 8 L 8 0mm Round Head Screws 12 x M4 0 7 L 6 0mm Flat Head Screws NOTE To lighten the weight...

Page 24: ...eat Steps 1 to 3 for the other inner bracket on the left side 5 Loosen eight M4 screws on each of the rack rails Make the necessary adjustment on the length of the rack rails to conform to the depth o...

Page 25: ...rack rail to the rack post Front Left and Rear Left Take note of the positioning of the M5 screws in the holes 8 Carefully insert the RAID system into the cabinet Make sure the inner brackets align wi...

Page 26: ...26 Front View Rear View 9 Use two M5 long screws to fix the RAID system in the cabinet 10 Insert the disk trays with disk drives if they were removed prior to installation...

Page 27: ...32 Port phone jack type 4 Connect the other end of the external serial cable to the RS 232 Port DB9 type on your host system 5 The package comes with two external SCSI cables For every pair of host ch...

Page 28: ...e host computer as a single logical drive Five types of array architectures RAID 1 through RAID 6 were originally defined each provides disk fault tolerance with different compromises in features and...

Page 29: ...ta storage efficiency and performance of any array type The disadvantage is that if one drive in a RAID 0 array fails the entire array fails RAID 1 also known as disk mirroring is simply a pair of dis...

Page 30: ...d spindle drives are required for RAID 3 arrays in order to avoid performance degradation with short records RAID 5 arrays with small stripes can yield similar performance to RAID 3 arrays Under RAID...

Page 31: ...ID 3 does not allow overlapping of multiple I O operations and requires synchronized spindle drives to avoid performance degradation with short records RAID 5 with a small stripe size offers similar p...

Page 32: ...level provides striping and redundancy through mirroring 4 30 Combination of RAID levels 0 and 3 This level is best implemented on two RAID 3 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays 6 50...

Page 33: ...t have their terminators disabled Proper termination allows data and SCSI commands to be transmitted reliably on the SCSI bus The host adapter and the SCSI devices attached to it must be properly term...

Page 34: ...system 4 3 4 Disk Failure Detection The subsystem can automatically detect disk failures It monitors disk activities including the elapsed time on all commands issued to the disks as well as parity e...

Page 35: ...s VT100 terminal connected through the controller s serial port Front panel touch control keypad Java based proRAID management IMPORTANT The subsystem allows you to access the utility using only one m...

Page 36: ...of the monitor port is 115200 baud rate 8 data bit non parity 1 stop bit and no flow control 5 After connecting and powering on the terminal Press l key to enter password screen The preset password i...

Page 37: ...d item Ctrl Q key to exit a selection or Logout Arrow keys to move in among fields or Traverse Menu Tab key to move to the next default value VT100 terminal configuration Utility Main Menu Options Sel...

Page 38: ...can be performed through the LCD Display front panel function keys except for the Firmware update The LCD provides a system of screens with areas for information status indication or menus The LCD scr...

Page 39: ...39 The following tree diagram is a summary of the various configurations and setting functions that can be accessed through the LCD panel menus...

Page 40: ...e all these systems when you login to the ProRAID Manager The IP Address section lists the RAID systems connected to the network This section describes the steps that you need to take to get ProRAID M...

Page 41: ...ep 5 Select install path to your web sub directory 5 Setup ProRAIDMgr Server IP Address then press Next Use Default IP Address Use ProRAIDMgr Detecting IP Address Setup IP Address Manually Type IP Add...

Page 42: ...lly installed Press Finish Reboot the Windows 8 Starting ProRAIDMgr a Click Desktop ProRAIDMgr Home short cut icon to start b Open the browser with Java support IE5 0 and NC6 0 or up are recommended T...

Page 43: ...cd install_dir Step 6 tar xvzf proraidmgr tar gz Step 7 cd install_dir proware Step 8 install sh Step 9 Create an alias named proRAIDMgr in your web server config file ex etc httpd httpd conf and lin...

Page 44: ...n proRAID Manager in the first time System will display a security warning Before clicking Start button users may want to verify whether the downloaded applet is signed by Proware Technology Inc Norma...

Page 45: ...ve several subsystems connected to the intranet you can see all these systems in left tree panel when you login to the ProRAID Manager 6 Double click the server name to enter server information page t...

Page 46: ...the mouse cursor to Server Name screen and click on the Change Password button The Modify Password screen appears The password option allows user to set the proRAIDMgr s password protection feature Cl...

Page 47: ...connector of the RAID subsystem to SCSI Fibre connector of Server system This option is for viewing only Win32 driver letter or physicaldriveX Linux scsi generic device sgX FreeBSD daX Solaris Sparc...

Page 48: ...e sender e mail address 2 SMTP server Enter the IP address of the SMTP server 3 Port Enter the port number The default setting of port is 25 4 Account Enter the username 5 Password Enter the password...

Page 49: ...nable Event Notification to select the desired function When an abnormal condition occurs HD Bad Block RAID Erase Disk Fail RAID Scrub proRAIDMgr Start Up Disk Insert RAID Initialize RAID Check RAID R...

Page 50: ...evel is particularly suited to mission critical applications such as accounting systems 7 1 1 RAID Considerations 7 1 1 1 How Many Disks Are Available The number of physical disks that are available w...

Page 51: ...tem If a disk fails in any RAID in the system the Global Spare disk can be used to rebuild the degraded RAID NOTE A Spare Disk must have capacity equal to or greater than the capacity of the disks in...

Page 52: ...e Ready Need to Rebuild Initializing Rebuilding Expanding Verifying Cloning Fail If the RAID is rebuilding initializing expanding checking or cloning the progress of the task will be displayed e g Ini...

Page 53: ...ped BS The Maximum number of Bad Sector which is 10 000 Block Size User can use this option to create the volume over 2TB For windows version 1K 2K and 4K For 64bit LBA mode 512 bytes Due to LSI chip...

Page 54: ...use cursor to Storage Manager link and click on the New Array button On this screen you can configure your RAID using the drop down lists to select the relevant parameters that define your RAID A New...

Page 55: ...ccessible only after initialization is completed and volume can then be added With background initialization an array will be accessible during initialization and volume can be created immediately 8 I...

Page 56: ...cess has been done 10 When creating your RAID you must consider which Sparing Strategy you want to implement To set the hot spare function move the mouse cursor to select RAID Model in the left tree n...

Page 57: ...fails in any RAID in the system the Global Spare disk can be used to rebuild the degraded RAID A Local Spare Drive is a spare disk that is only available to the RAID in which it was created If a disk...

Page 58: ...ray 7 3 2 Rebuilding an Array Rebuilding an Array means a Spare Drive has taken over a failed disk drive and parity is being re generated on the Spare Drive An Array can also be rebuilt by replacing t...

Page 59: ...RAID 0 During a RAID Verify the system reads each stripe and checks for valid parity The system will over write correct parity if any stripes were found with invalid parity The verifying percentage c...

Page 60: ...hange Settings You can change any of the settings for your RAID from this screen as follows 1 Double clicking a highlighted RAID in the Array List screen Or select the RAID you wish to modify from the...

Page 61: ...on to save the settings 7 6 Selecting Changing a Sparing disk To Select change a sparing disk move the mouse cursor to select RAID Model in the left tree node and choose Slot List tab Then click on th...

Page 62: ...omputer when they are attached to a host adapter via the SCSI bus Each SCSI device and the host adapter itself must have a SCSI ID number Ultra 320 LVD SCSI 0 to 15 The ID defines each SCSI device on...

Page 63: ...for a wide bus throughput is double transfer rate because each transfer is of 16 bits two bytes e g Select 160MB sec as synchronized speed and enable wide option then max transferred speed should be 3...

Page 64: ...eature to view the raid subsystem information The model connection port firmware version serial number disk channel type host channel type host channel number slot number CPU speed memory speed instal...

Page 65: ...By Host to select the desired function By Host By Arrays 9 4 Controller Log The controller Log screen displays a table of the events that have occurred on the system To view controller Log information...

Page 66: ...en appears The Hardware Monitor Information provides the power supply status fan speed temperature and voltage of the internal RAID subsystem All items are also unchangeable The warning messages will...

Page 67: ...ugh and Write Back cache type Write Back allows temporary saving of data in the volatile cache memory and data are acknowledged to have been received once it reaches the cache memory Write Through all...

Page 68: ...ration Warning Array initialization failed Warning Array rebuild failed Warning Array expansion failed Warning Array parity checking failed Warning Disk clone failed Warning Mirror disk clone failed W...

Page 69: ...nu Then click on the Use local time setting or Sync with a NTP server to select the desired function Use local time setting Default If this option is selected you have to sync RTC after restarting RAI...

Page 70: ...on function move the mouse cursor to select Hardware Monitor in the left tree node and choose Mail Notification tab The Raid System Mail Notification Function menu will show all items Select the desir...

Page 71: ...P Function menu will show all items Click on Edit button to select the desired function 10 5 Restart The feature allows you to restart the controller Select RAID Model in the left tree node and choose...

Page 72: ...the RAID controller through a terminal To upgrade the firmware please follow the steps below 1 Shut down the host computer system 2 Start a terminal connection to the disk array and access the Menu a...

Page 73: ...nsfer Open Send File 6 Click Browse Look in the location where the Firmware upgrade software is located Select the File and click open 7 Select Ymodem under Protocol YMODEM as the file transfer protoc...

Page 74: ...grade the RAID subsystem firmware move the cursor to RAID Model in the left tree node and choose System tab Click on Updating ROM button to upgrade firmware The Upgrade Firmware screen appears 2 Click...

Page 75: ...75 APPENDIX Menu Diagram The following tree diagram is a summary of the various configurations and setting functions that can be accessed through the proRAIDMgr...

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