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Summary of Contents for EP-3164D-GAS3

Page 1: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual Revision 1 1 ...

Page 2: ...mponents 17 2 1 2 Front View 17 2 1 2 1 Disk Trays 18 2 1 2 2 LCD Front Panel 19 2 1 2 Rear View 21 2 2 Controller Module 22 2 2 1 Controller Module Panel 22 2 3 Power Supply Fan Module PSFM 24 2 3 1 PSFM Panel 24 2 4 Checklist before Starting 25 Chapter 3 Getting Started with the Subsystem 27 3 1 Connecting the iSCSI RAID Subsystem to the Network 27 3 2 Powering On 27 3 3 Disk Drive Installation ...

Page 3: ... Management Interface Hierarchy 47 5 2 System Configuration 49 5 2 1 System Setting 49 5 2 2 Network Setting 50 5 2 3 Login Setting 51 5 2 4 Mail Setting 52 5 2 5 Notification Setting 53 5 3 iSCSI Configuration 54 5 3 1 NIC 55 5 3 2 Entity Property 58 5 3 3 Node 59 5 3 4 Session 62 5 3 5 CHAP Account 63 5 4 Volume Configuration 64 5 4 1 Physical Disk 64 5 4 2 RAID Group 67 5 4 3 Virtual Disk 70 5 ...

Page 4: ... Home 95 5 7 2 Logout 95 5 7 3 Mute 95 Chapter 6 Advanced Operations 96 6 1 Volume Rebuild 96 6 2 RG Migration 98 6 3 VD Extension 100 6 4 Snapshot Rollback 101 6 4 1 Create Snapshot Volume 102 6 4 2 Auto Snapshot 103 6 4 3 Rollback 104 6 5 Disk Roaming 105 6 6 VD Clone 106 6 7 SAS JBOD Expansion 112 6 7 1 Connecting JBOD 112 6 7 2 Upgrade Firmware of JBOD 116 6 8 MPIO and MC S 117 6 9 Trunking an...

Page 5: ...SCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 5 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 134 7 1 System Buzzer 134 7 2 Event Notifications 134 Appendix 142 A Certification list 142 B Microsoft iSCSI initiator 146 ...

Page 6: ...anual Copyright No part 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 consent Trademarks All products and trade names used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Changes The material in this document is for...

Page 7: ...e allowed ambient temperature 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 enclosure Outlets must be accessible to the equipment All external connections should be made using shielded cables and as much as possible should not be performed by bare h...

Page 8: ... following NOTE If any damage is found contact the dealer or vendor for assistance iSCSI RAID Subsystem Unit Two 2 power cords Two 2 Ethernet LAN cables Two 2 LC LC Fibre Optical Cables Two 2 External null modem cable One 1 Controller Module Plate Cover One 1 PSFM Plate Cover User Manual ...

Page 9: ... architecture by powerful 64 bit RAID processor Unsurpassed Data Availability The RAID 6 capability provides the highest level of data protection Supports snapshot on the box w o relying on host software Supports Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services VSS Exceptional Manageability Menu driven front panel display Management GUI via serial console SSH telnet Web and secure web HTTPS Event not...

Page 10: ...r Extension to RAID 1 level N copies of the disk Global and dedicated hot spare disks Write through or write back cache policy for different application usage Supports greater than 2TB per volume set 64 bit LBA support Supports manual or scheduling volume snapshot up to 32 snapshots Snapshot rollback mechanism On line volume migration with no system down time Online volume expansion Instant RAID v...

Page 11: ...onnection Yes RAID level 0 1 0 1 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 and JBOD Logical volume Up to 1024 iSCSI Jumbo frame support Yes Supports Microsoft Multipath I O MPIO Yes 802 3ad Port Trunking LACP Support Yes Host connection Up to 32 Host clustering Up to 16 for one logical volume Manual scheduling volume snapshot Up to 32 Hot spare disks Global and dedicated Host access control Read Write Read Only Online Vo...

Page 12: ...ys 16 Tray Lock Yes Disk Status Indicator Access Fail LED Backplane SAS SATA II Single BP of PS Fan Modules 500W x 2 w PFC of Fans 4 Power requirements AC 90V 264V Full Range 10A 5A 47Hz 63Hz Relative Humidity 10 85 Non condensing Operating Temperature 10 C 40 C 50 F 104 F Physical Dimension 566 L x 482 W x 131 H mm Weight Without Disk 22 5 Kg ...

Page 13: ...f RAID 10 with 2 cells 4 cells In the 2 cell case PD 0 1 2 3 forms one RAID 1 subgroup and PD 4 5 6 7 forms another RAID 1 subgroup In the 4 cells the 4 subgroups are PD 0 1 PD 2 3 PD 4 5 and PD 6 7 WT Write Through cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored in non volatile media Each data is synchronized in both da...

Page 14: ...regation Control Protocol MPIO Multi Path Input Output MC S Multiple Connections per Session MTU Maximum Transmission Unit CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol An optional security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI data ports iSNS Internet Storage Name Service SBB Storage Bridge Bay The objective of the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group SBB is to crea...

Page 15: ...or data redundancy Requires N 2 drives to implement because of two dimensional parity scheme 4 0 1 Mirroring of the two RAID 0 disk arrays This level provides striping and redundancy through mirroring 4 10 Striping over the two RAID 1 disk arrays This level provides mirroring and redundancy through striping 4 30 Combination of RAID levels 0 and 3 This level is best implemented on two RAID 3 disk a...

Page 16: ...ists of a set of VDs Virtual Disk and owns one RAID level attribute Each RG can be divided into several VDs The VDs in one RG share the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity All VDs share the CV Cache Volume to execute the data transaction LUN Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier in which users can access through SCSI commands RG PD 2 PD 3 DS PD 1 VD 1 VD 2 QSnap VD RAM Cach...

Page 17: ...I GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 17 Chapter 2 Identifying Parts of the RAID Subsystem The illustrations below identify the various parts of the subsystem 2 1 Main Components 2 1 2 Front View ...

Page 18: ...or this slot If hard drive is defective or failed the LED is Red LED is off when there is no hard drive Lock Indicator Every Disk Tray is lockable and is fitted with a lock indicator to indicate whether or not the tray is locked into the chassis or not Each tray is also fitted with an ergonomic handle for easy tray removal When the Lock Groove is horizontal this indicates that the Disk Tray is loc...

Page 19: ...sing the LCD panel press the Select button to login and configure the RAID subsystem Parts Function Up and Down Arrow buttons Use 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 you have selected Exit button EXIT Press this button to return to the pr...

Page 20: ...n fails or the fan s rotational speed is below 1500RPM this LED will turn red and an alarm will sound Over Temperature LED If temperature irregularities in the system occurs HDD slot temperature over 65 C Controller temperature over 70 C this LED will turn RED and alarm will sound Voltage Warning LED An alarm will sound warning of a voltage abnormality and this LED will turn red Activity LED This ...

Page 21: ...ly 2 are located at the rear of the subsystem Each PSFM has one Power Supply and two Fans The PSFM 1 has Power 1 Fan 1 and Fan 2 The PSFM 2 has Power 2 Fan 3 and Fan 4 Turn on the power of these power supplies to power on the subsystem The power LED at the front panel will turn green If a power supply fails to function or a power supply was not turned on the Power fail LED will turn red and an ala...

Page 22: ...ystem 22 User Manual 2 2 Controller Module RAID Controller Module 2 2 1 Controller Module Panel Note Only data port LAN1 is available in default system configuration Data port LAN2 is optional It can be purchased separately for upgrade ...

Page 23: ...nd LAN2 for iSCSI connection Link LED Orange Æ Asserted when a 1G link is established and maintained Blue Æ Asserted when a 10G link is establish and maintained Access fail LED Yellow Æ Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity Red Æ Asserted when the link can t establish 4 Controller Health LED Green Æ Controller status normal or in th...

Page 24: ... a Power On Fail Indicator showing the Power Status LED indicating ready or fail Each fan within a PSFM is powered independently of the power supply within the same PSFM So if the power supply of a PSFM fails the fan associated with that PSFM will continue to operate and cool the enclosure When the power cord connected from main power source is inserted to the AC Power Inlet the power status LED b...

Page 25: ...heck Certification list in Appendix A to confirm the hardware setting is fully supported Read the latest release note before upgrading Release note accompanies with its released firmware A host with a 10GbE NIC or 10GbE iSCSI HBA CAT 5e or CAT 6 network cables for management port FC cable for iSCSI data ports Prepare storage system configuration plan Prepare management port and iSCSI data ports ne...

Page 26: ...CSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 26 User Manual For better data service availability all the connections among host servers GbE switches and the dual controllers are recommended as redundant as below ...

Page 27: ... your network hub or switch You may connect the other network ports if needed For remote management of iSCSI RAID subsystem use another network cable to connect the R Link port to your network 3 2 Powering On 1 Plug in the power cords into the AC Power Input Socket located at the rear of the subsystem NOTE The subsystem is equipped with redundant full range power supplies with PFC power factor cor...

Page 28: ...ions on installing a hard drive The subsystem supports hot swapping allowing you to install or replace a hard drive while the subsystem is running 3 3 1 Installing a SAS Disk Drive in a Disk Tray 1 Unlock the Disk Trays using a flat head screw driver by rotating the Lock Groove 2 Press the Tray Open button and the Disk Tray handle will flip open 3 Pull out an empty disk tray Tray Open Button ...

Page 29: ...lign the four screw holes of the SAS disk drive in the four Hole A of the disk tray To secure the disk drive into the disk tray tighten four screws on these holes of the disk tray Note in the picture below where the screws should be placed in the disk tray holes NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly Tray Hole A ...

Page 30: ...ser Manual 5 Slide the tray into a slot 6 Press the lever in until you hear the latch click into place The HDD Fault LED will turn green when the subsystem is powered on and HDD is good 7 If necessary lock the Disk Tray by turning the Lock Groove ...

Page 31: ... a Disk Tray 1 Remove an empty disk tray from the subsystem 2 Prepare the dongle board and two screws 3 Place the dongle board in the disk tray Turn the tray upside down Align the two screw hole of the dongle board in the two Hole D of the disk tray Tighten two screws to secure the dongle board into the disk tray ...

Page 32: ...GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 32 User Manual NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly 4 Place the SATA disk drive into the disk tray Slide the disk drive towards the dongle board Tray Hole D ...

Page 33: ...sk drive in the four Hole C of the disk tray To secure the disk drive into the disk tray tighten four screws on these holes of the disk tray Note in the picture below where the screws should be placed in the disk tray holes NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly 6 Insert the disk tray into the subsystem Tray Hole C ...

Page 34: ...tems Microsoft Windows Linux Solaris etc within the SAN network IP SANs also include mechanisms for security data replication multi path and high availability Storage protocol such as iSCSI has two ends in the connection These ends are the initiator and the target In iSCSI we call them iSCSI initiator and iSCSI target The iSCSI initiator requests or initiates any iSCSI communication It requests al...

Page 35: ...ilyID 12cb3c1a 15d6 4585 b385 befd1319f825 DisplayLang en Please refer to Appendix D for Microsoft iSCSI initiator installation procedure 2 Linux iSCSI initiator is also available For different kernels there are different iSCSI drivers If you need the latest Linux iSCSI initiator please visit Open iSCSI project for most update information Linux iSCSI sfnet and Open iSCSI projects merged in April 1...

Page 36: ...ity and no flow control Terminal type vt100 Login name admin Default password 00000000 4 1 2 Remote Control Secure Shell SSH secure shell is required for remote login The SSH client software is available at the following web site SSHWinClient WWW http www ssh com Putty WWW http www chiark greenend org uk Host name 192 168 10 50 Please check your DHCP address for this field Login name admin Default...

Page 37: ...il from front panel The following table is the function description of LCM menus System Info Displays System information Alarm Mute Mute alarm when error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or shutdown controller Quick Install Quick three steps to create a volume Please refer to next chapter for operation in web UI Volume Wizard Smart steps to create a volume Please refer to next chapter for operation in ...

Page 38: ...RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 1 Use default algorithm Volume Size xxx GB Apply The Config cYes Nod JBOD x cd RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 1 new x disk cd xxx BG Adjust Volume Size Apply The Config cYes Nod View IP Setting IP Config Static IP IP Address 192 168 010 050 IP Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 IP Gateway 192 168 010 254 Change IP Config DHCP cYes Nod Static IP IP Addres...

Page 39: ...l user interface GUI to operate the system Be sure to connect the LAN cable The default IP setting is DHCP open the browser and enter http 192 168 10 50 Please check the DHCP address first on LCM Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog window for authentication User name admin Default password 00000000 After login you can choose the function blocks on the left side of window t...

Page 40: ...ht x Green Æ voltage is normal x Red Æ voltage is abnormal UPS light x Green Æ UPS works well x Red Æ UPS fails Fan light x Green Æ Fan works well x Red Æ Fan fails Power light x Green Æ Power works well x Red Æ Power fails Dual controller light x Green Æ Both controller1 and controller2 are present and well x Orange Æ The system is degraded and there is only 1 controller alive and well Return to ...

Page 41: ...els 0 1 3 5 6 0 1 Quick installation will occupy all residual RG space for one VD and it has no space for snapshot and spare If snapshot is needed please create volumes manually and refer to Section 4 4 for more detail If some physical disks are used in other RGs Quick installation cannot be run because the operation is valid only when all physical disks in this system are free Step 1 Click Quick ...

Page 42: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 42 User Manual Step2 Confirm the management port IP address and DNS and then click Next Step 3 Set up the data port IP and click Next ...

Page 43: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 43 Step 4 Set up the RAID level and volume size and click Next Step 5 Check all items and click Finish Step 6 Done ...

Page 44: ...After user chooses RAID level user may find that some HDDs are available free status It gives user 1 Biggest capacity of RAID level for user to choose and 2 The fewest disk number for RAID level volume size E g user chooses RAID 5 and the controller has 12 200G 4 80G HDDs inserted If we use all 16 HDDs for a RAID 5 and then the maximum size of volume is 1200G 80G 15 By the wizard we do smarter che...

Page 45: ...Manual 45 Step 2 Please select the combination of the RG capacity or Use default algorithm for maximum RG capacity After RG size is chosen click Next Step 3 Decide VD size User can enter a number less or equal to the default number Then click Next ...

Page 46: ...ID Subsystem 46 User Manual Step 4 Confirmation page Click Finish if all setups are correct Then a VD will be created Step 5 Done The system is available now NOTE A virtual disk of RAID 0 is created and is named by system itself ...

Page 47: ...nt Æ Create Modify user information Delete Volume configuration Physical disk Æ Set Free disk Set Global spare Set Dedicated spare Upgrade Disk Scrub Turn on off the indication LED More information RAID group Æ Create Migrate Activate Deactivate Parity check Delete Set preferred owner Set disk property More information Virtual disk Æ Create Extend Parity check Delete Set property Attach LUN Detach...

Page 48: ...ave controller s firmware version with the master s Reset to factor y default Æ Sure to reset to factory default Import and export Import Export Import file Reboot and shu tdown Æ Reboot Shutdown Quick installation Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Confirm Volume creation wizard Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Confirm ...

Page 49: ...on setting 5 2 1 System Setting System setting can be used to set system name and date Default System name is composed of model name and serial number of this system Check Change date and time to set up the current date time and time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP Network Time Protocol server Click Confirm in System indication to turn on the system indication LED Click again to tur...

Page 50: ...twork setting is for changing IP address for remote administration usage There are 2 options DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server and static IP The default setting is DHCP User can change the HTTP HTTPS and SSH port number when the default port number is not allowed on host server ...

Page 51: ...the same time 1 Auto logout The options are 1 Disable 2 5 minutes 3 30 minutes 4 1 hour The system will log out automatically when user is inactive for a period of time 2 Login lock Disable Enable When the login lock is enabled the system allows only one user to login or modify system settings Check Change admin password or Change user password to change admin or user password The maximum length o...

Page 52: ... address and need authentication for anti spam Please fill the necessary fields and click Send test mail to test whether email functions are available or working User can also select which levels of event logs are needed to be sent via Mail Default setting only enables ERROR and WARNING event logs Please also make sure the DNS server IP is well setup so the event notification mails can be sent suc...

Page 53: ...er can choose the event log levels and default setting only enables INFO event log in SNMP There are many SNMP tools The following web sites are for your reference SNMPc http www snmpc com Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net Using Messenger user must enable the service Messenger in Windows Start Æ Control Panel Æ Administrative Tools Æ Services Æ Messenger and then event logs can be received It...

Page 54: ...evel on Pop up events and LCM Buzzer setting can disable buzzer The system buzzer features are described as follows 1 The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully 2 The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error level event happened The alarm will be stopped after mute 3 The alarm will be muted automatically when the error situation is resolved E g when RAID 5 is ...

Page 55: ...re multiple data ports setting up in link aggregation or trunking mode all the data ports share single address There are four iSCSI data ports on each controller Four data ports are set with static IP IP settings User can change IP address by moving the mouse to the gray button of LAN port click IP settings for iSCSI ports There are 2 selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or static IP De...

Page 56: ...function is also for Multipath functions Selecting this mode can also remove the setting of Trunking LACP at the same time 2 Trunking defines the use of multiple iSCSI data ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any single port 3 LACP The Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP is part of IEEE specification 802 3ad that allows bundling several physical ports together to f...

Page 57: ...To remove Trunking LACP setting check the gray button of LAN port click Delete link aggregation Then it will pop up a message to confirm Ping host User can ping the corresponding host data port from the target click Ping host A user can ping host from the target to make sure the data port connection is well ...

Page 58: ...subsystem and setup iSNS IP for iSNS Internet Storage Name Service iSNS protocol allows automated discovery management and configuration of iSCSI devices on a TCP IP network Using iSNS it requires that an iSNS server be setup in the SAN Add an iSNS server IP address into iSNS server lists in order that iSCSI initiator service can send queries ...

Page 59: ...ation Protocol CHAP is a strong authentication method used in point to point for user login It s a type of authentication in which the authentication server sends the client a key to be used for encrypting the username and password CHAP enables the username and password to transmitting in an encrypted form for protection To use CHAP authentication please follow these steps 1 Select one of 32 defau...

Page 60: ...t page to create CHAP account Please refer to next section for more detail 6 Check the gray button of OP column click User 7 Select CHAP user s which will be used It s a multi option it can be one or more If choosing none CHAP cannot work 8 Click OK 9 In Authenticate of OP page select None to disable CHAP ...

Page 61: ... 3 Choose the portals for the controller 4 Click OK to confirm Rename alias User can create an alias to one device node 1 Check the gray button of OP column next to one device node 2 Select Rename alias 3 Create an alias for that device node 4 Click OK to confirm 5 An alias appears at the end of that device node NOTE After setting CHAP the initiator in host server should be set the same CHAP accou...

Page 62: ...roller Target Name 4 InitialR2T Initial Ready to Transfer 5 Immed data Immediate data 6 MaxDataOutR2T Maximum Data Outstanding Ready to Transfer 7 MaxDataBurstLen Maximum Data Burst Length 8 DataSeginOrder Data Sequence in Order 9 DataPDUInOrder Data PDU in Order 10 Detail of Authentication status and Source IP port number Check the gray button of session number click List connection It will list ...

Page 63: ...tion This iSCSI RAID subsystem allows creation of many CHAP accounts To setup CHAP account please follow these steps 1 Click Create 2 Enter User Secret and Confirm secret again Node can be selected here or later If selecting none it can be enabled later in iSCSI configuration Node User 3 Click OK 4 Click Delete to delete CHAP account ...

Page 64: ... are operational tips 1 Check the gray button next to the number of slot it will show the functions which can be executed 2 Active function can be selected and inactive functions show up in gray color and cannot be selected For example set PD slot number 8 to dedicated spare disk Step 1 Check the gray button of PD 8 select Set Dedicated spare it will link to next page Step 2 Maybe there are some e...

Page 65: ...pare disk of the RG named RG R5 The others are free disks Step 4 The unit of size can be changed from GB to MB It will display the capacity of hard drive in MB PD column description Slot The position of hard drives The button next to the number of slot shows the functions which can be executed Size GB MB Capacity of hard drive RG Name Related RAID group name ...

Page 66: ...verable read errors Usage RAID Disk This hard drive has been set to RAID Free disk This hard drive is free for use Dedicated Spare This hard drive has been set to the dedicated spare of the RG Global Spare This hard drive has been set to a global spare of all RGs Vendor Hard drive vendor Serial Hard drive serial number Type Hard drive type SATA Æ SATA disk SATA2 Æ SATA II disk SAS Æ SAS disk Write...

Page 67: ... 2 RAID Group RAID group can view the status of each RAID group create and modify RAID groups The following is an example to create a RG Step 1 Click Create enter Name choose RAID level click Select PD to select PD assign the RG s Preferred owner Then click OK The Write Cache option is to enable or disable the hard drives write cache option The Standby option is to enable or disable the hard drive...

Page 68: ... a RAID 5 with 3 physical disks named RG R5 Step 3 Done View RAID group page RG column description The button includes the function which can be executed Name RAID group name Total GB MB Total capacity of this RAID group This unit can be displayed in GB or MB Free GB MB Free capacity of this RAID group This unit can be displayed in GB or MB PD The number of physical disks in RAID group ...

Page 69: ...The default owner is controller 1 Preferred owner The preferred owner of the RAID group The default owner is controller 1 RG operations description Create Create a RAID group Migrate Migrate a RAID group Please refer to next chapter for more detail Activate Activate a RAID group it can be executed when RG status is offline This is for online roaming purpose Deactivate Deactivate a RAID group it ca...

Page 70: ... 3 Virtual Disk Virtual disk can view the status of each Virtual disk create and modify virtual disks The following is an example to create a VD Step 1 Click Create enter Name select RAID group from RG name enter required Capacity GB MB change Stripe height KB change Block size B change Read Write mode set virtual disk Priority select Bg rate Background task priority and change Readahead option if...

Page 71: ... disk The unit can be displayed in GB or MB Write The right of virtual disk x WT Æ Write Through x WB Æ Write Back x RO Æ Read Only Priority The priority of virtual disk x HI Æ HIgh priority x MD Æ MiDdle priority x LO Æ LOw priority Bg rate Background task priority x 4 3 2 1 0 Æ Default value is 4 The higher number the background priority of a VD is the more background I O will be scheduled to ex...

Page 72: ...al disk is working well and there is no failed disk in the RG x Degraded Æ At least one disk from the RG of the Virtual disk is failed or plugged out x Failed Æ the RAID group disk of the VD has single or multiple failed disks than its RAID level can recover from data loss x Partially optimal Æ the virtual disk has experienced recoverable read errors R Ratio of initializing or rebuilding RAID RAID...

Page 73: ...d Bg rate Right options WT Æ Write Through WB Æ Write Back RO Æ Read Only Priority options HI Æ HIgh priority MD Æ MiD priority LO Æ LOw priority Bg rate options 4 3 2 1 0 Æ Default value is 4 The higher number the background priority of a VD has the more background I O will be scheduled to execute Read ahead Enabled Æ Enable disk read ahead Default Disabled Æ Disable disk read ahead AV media mode...

Page 74: ...on by schedule Set snapshot space Set snapshot space for executing snapshot Please refer to next chapter for more detail Cleanup snapshot Clean all snapshot VD related to the Virtual disk and release snapshot space Take snapshot Take a snapshot on the Virtual disk Auto snapshot Set auto snapshot on the Virtual disk List snapshot List all snapshot VD related to the Virtual disk More information Sho...

Page 75: ...hot Step 1 Create snapshot space In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Set snapshot space Step 2 Set snapshot space Then click OK The snapshot space is created VD 01 snapshot space has been created snapshot space is 15GB and used 1GB for saving snapshot index Step 3 Take a snapshot In Volume configuration Snapshot click Take snap...

Page 76: ...e two snapshots in VD 01 Snapshot VD SnapVD 01 is exported as read only SnapVD 02 is exported as read write Step 5 Attach a LUN for snapshot VD Please refer to the next section for attaching a LUN Step 6 Done Snapshot VD can be used Snapshot column description The button includes the functions which can be executed Name Snapshot VD name Used GB MB The amount of snapshot space that has been used Th...

Page 77: ...of snapshot x Read write Æ The snapshot VD can be read write x Read only Æ The snapshot VD is read only LUN Number of LUN s that snapshot VD is attached Created time Snapshot VD created time Snapshot operation description Expose Unexpose Expose unexpose the snapshot VD Rollback Rollback the snapshot VD Delete Delete the snapshot VD Attach Attach a LUN Detach Detach a LUN List LUN List attached LUN...

Page 78: ...ached to LUN 0 and every host can access VD 02 is attached to LUN 1 and only initiator node which is named iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win r6qrvqjd5m7 can access LUN operations description Attach Attach a logical unit number to a Virtual disk Detach Detach a logical unit number from a Virtual disk The matching rules of access control are inspected from top to bottom in sequence For example there are...

Page 79: ... Global cache volume is created after system boots up automatically So no action is needed to set CV Then set a global spare disk Eventually delete all of them Step 1 Create RG RAID group To create the RAID group please follow these steps 1 Select Volume configuration RAID group 2 Click Create 3 Input an RG Name choose a RAID level from the list click Select PD to choose the RAID PD slot s then cl...

Page 80: ...VD free size still remains 152GB Step 2 Create VD Virtual disk To create a data user volume please follow these steps 1 Select Volume configuration Virtual disk 2 Click Create 3 Input a VD name choose the RG when VD will be created enter the VD capacity select the stripe height block size read write mode set priority modify Bg rate if necessary and finally click OK 4 Done A VD has been created ...

Page 81: ...e configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Attach LUN 2 In Volume configuration Logical unit click Attach The steps are as follows 1 Select a VD 2 Input Host name which is a FC node name for access control or fill in wildcard which means every host can access to this volume Choose LUN and permission and then click OK 3 Done VD R5 1 is attache...

Page 82: ...bal spare disk GS Step 5 Done LUNs can be used as disks To delete VDs RG please follow the steps listed below Step 6 Detach LUN from VD In Volume configuration Logical unit 1 Check the gray button next to the LUN click Detach There will pop up a confirmation page 2 Choose OK 3 Done Step 7 Delete VD Virtual disk To delete the Virtual disk please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration V...

Page 83: ... on this RG must be deleted first 3 Check the gray button next to the RG number click Delete 4 There will pop up a confirmation page click OK 5 Done The RG has been deleted NOTE The action of deleting one RG will succeed only when all of the related VD s are deleted in this RG Otherwise it will have an error when deleting this RG Step 9 Free global spare disk To free global spare disks please foll...

Page 84: ...status Due to the different hardware characteristics among these sensors they have different polling intervals Below are the details of polling time intervals 1 Temperature sensors 1 minute 2 Voltage sensors 1 minute 3 Hard disk sensors 10 minutes 4 Fan sensors 10 seconds When there are 3 errors consecutively controller sends ERROR event log 5 Power sensors 10 seconds when there are 3 errors conse...

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Page 86: ...e sensor is over high temperature threshold for continuous 3 minutes auto shutdown will be triggered immediately 2 The core processor temperature limit is 80 The iSCSI NIC temperature limit is 65 The SAS expandor and SAS controller temperature limit is 65 3 If the high temperature situation doesn t last for 3 minutes system will not trigger auto shutdown 5 5 2 UPS UPS is used to set up UPS Uninter...

Page 87: ...n to value setting status the system will shutdown Setting delay to 0 will disable the function Shutdown UPS Select ON when power is gone UPS will shut down by itself after the system shutdown successfully After power comes back UPS will start working and notify system to boot up OFF will not Status The status of UPS Detecting Running Unable to detect UPS Communication lost UPS reboot in progress ...

Page 88: ...ers chances to take actions before possible drive failure S M A R T measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and inspects the properties of hard drives which are close to be out of tolerance The advanced notice of possible hard drive failure can allow users to back up hard drive or replace the hard drive This is much better than hard drive crash when it is writing data or rebuilding...

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Page 90: ...nfiguration values to factory settings Import and export to import and export all controller configuration to a file and Reboot and shutdown to reboot or shutdown the system 5 6 1 System Information System information can display system information including CPU type installed system memory firmware version serial numbers of dual controllers backplane ID and system status Status description Normal...

Page 91: ... logs Click Mute button to stop alarm if system alerts The event log is displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first page The event logs are actually saved in the first four hard drives each hard drive has one copy of event log For one controller there are four copies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there is are failed disk s NOTE P...

Page 92: ...message Upgrade system now If you want to downgrade to the previous FW later not recommend please export your system configuration in advance click Cancel to export system configuration in advance then click OK to start to upgrade firmware When upgrading there is a progress bar running After finished upgrading the system must reboot manually to make the new firmware took effect NOTE Please contact...

Page 93: ...ade the firmware of slave controller to master ones no matter what the firmware version of slave controller is newer or older than master In normal status the firmware versions in controller 1 and 2 are the same as below figure 5 6 5 Reset to Factory Default Reset to factory default allows user to reset controller to factory default setting Reset to default value the password is 00000000 and IP ad...

Page 94: ...d overwrite it Use import could return to original configuration If the volume setting was also imported user s current volumes will be overwritten with different configuration 1 Import Import all system configurations excluding volume configuration 2 Export Export all configurations to a file WARNING Import will import all system configurations excluding volume configuration the current configura...

Page 95: ...ner of web UI there are 3 individual icons Home Logout and Mute 5 7 1 Home Click Home to return to home page 5 7 2 Logout For security reason please use Logout to exit the web UI To re login the system please enter username and password again 5 7 3 Mute Click Mute to stop the alarm when error occurs ...

Page 96: ...ld be marked as RS reserved and the system will not start auto rebuild If this disk is not belonging to any existing RG it would be FR Free disk and the system will start Auto Rebuild If user only removes the failed disk and plugs the same failed disk in the same slot again the auto rebuild will start running But rebuilding in the same failed disk may impact customer data if the status of disk is ...

Page 97: ...ed parity over the member disks RAID 5 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging RAID 6 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 allows two hard drives failure or unplugging If it needs to rebuild two hard drives at the same time it will rebuild the first one then the other in sequence RAID 0 1 Mirroring of RAID 0 volumes RAID 0 1 allows two hard drive failures or unplugging ...

Page 98: ...examples as following The below operations are not allowed when a RG is being migrated System would reject these operations 1 Add dedicated spare 2 Remove a dedicated spare 3 Create a new VD 4 Delete a VD 5 Extend a VD 6 Scrub a VD 7 Perform another migration operation 8 Scrub entire RG 9 Take a snapshot 10 Delete a snapshot 11 Expose a snapshot 12 Rollback to a snapshot IMPORTANT RG Migration can...

Page 99: ... evaluate whether this operation is safe or not and appear a warning message of Sure to migrate to a lower protection array 4 Double check the setting of RAID level and RAID PD slot If there is no problem click OK 5 Finally a confirmation page shows the detail of RAID information If there is no problem click OK to start migration System also pops up a message of Warning power lost during migration...

Page 100: ...xt to the VD number click Extend 3 Change the size The size must be larger than the original and then click OK to start extension 4 Extension starts If VD needs initialization it will display an Initiating in Status and complete percentage of initialization in R NOTE The size of VD extension must be larger than original IMPORTANT VD Extension cannot be executed during rebuild or migration ...

Page 101: ...be attached to a LUN provisioned to a host as a disk like other ordinary VDs in the system Rollback restores the data back to the state of any time which was previously captured in case for any unfortunate reason it might be e g virus attack data corruption human errors and so on Snap VD is allocated within the same RG in which the snapshot is taken we suggest to reserve 20 of RG size or more for ...

Page 102: ...ed snapshot space and Total snapshot space 4 There are two methods to take snapshot In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Take snapshot Or in Volume configuration Snapshot click Take snapshot 5 Enter a snapshot name then click OK A snapshot VD is created 6 Select Volume configuration Snapshot to display all snapshot VDs related t...

Page 103: ...onfiguration Snapshot click Cleanup 11 Cleanup snapshot will delete all snapshots related to the VD and release snapshot space 6 4 2 Auto Snapshot The snapshot copies can be taken manually or by schedule such as hourly or daily Please follow the procedures 1 There are two methods to set auto snapshot In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD numb...

Page 104: ...ck to original VD Please follow the steps 1 Select Volume configuration Snapshot 2 Mouse moves to the gray button next to the Snap VD number which user wants to rollback the data click Rollback 3 Done the data in snapshot VD will rollback to original VD Rollback has some constraints as described in the following 1 Minimum RAM size required for enabling rollback is 1GB 2 When making a rollback the ...

Page 105: ... same system or move all physical disks from system 1 to system 2 This is called disk roaming System can execute disk roaming online Please follow these steps 1 Select Volume configuration RAID group 2 Check the gray button next to the RG number click Deactivate 3 Move all PDs related to the RG to another system 4 In the web GUI of the other system check the gray button next to the RG number click...

Page 106: ...snapshot technology to perform the incremental copy afterwards Please be fully aware that the incremental copy needs to use snapshot to compare the data difference Therefore the enough snapshot space for VD clone is very important The following contents will take an example of a RAID 5 virtual disk SourceVD_Raid5 clone to RAID 6 virtual disk TargetVD_Raid6 Start VD clone 1 Create a RAID group RG i...

Page 107: ...4 There are three clone configurations describe on the following x Snapshot space This setting is the ratio of source VD and snapshot space The default ratio is 2 to 1 It means when the clone process is starting the system will automatically use the free RG space to create a snapshot space which capacity is double the source VD x Threshold The setting will be effective after enabling schedule clon...

Page 108: ...ally Next time when the rest snapshot space has been used 50 in other words the total snapshot space has been used 75 and the system will synchronize the source VD and target VD again x Restart the task an hour later if failed The setting will be effective after enabling schedule clone When running out of snapshot space the VD clone process will be stopped because there is no more available snapsh...

Page 109: ...lick Confirm 7 Now the clone target TargetVD_R6 has been set 8 Click Start clone the clone process will start 9 The default setting will create a snapshot space automatically which the capacity is double size of the VD space Before starting clone system will initiate the snapshot space ...

Page 110: ...will start cloning 11 Click Schedule clone to set up the clone by schedule 12 There are Set Clone schedule and Clear Clone schedule in this page Please remember that Threshold and Restart the task an hour later if failed options in VD configuration will take effect after clone schedule has been set ...

Page 111: ...ying to start clone it will get a warning message This is not enough of snapshot space for the operation At this time the user needs to clean up the snapshot space in order to operate the clone process Each time the clone snapshot failed it means that the system loses the reference value of incremental data So it will start a full copy at next clone process When running out of snapshot space the f...

Page 112: ...ontroller When connecting a dual JBOD controller which can be detected in RAID Subsystem management GUI it will be displayed in Show PD for under Volume configuration Physical disk menu For example Local JBOD 1 JBOD 2 etc Local means disks located in local RAID subsystem JBOD 1 means disks located in first JBOD subsystem and so on The hard drives in JBOD can be used as local disks ...

Page 113: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 113 Enclosure management Hardware monitor can display the hardware status of SAS JBODs ...

Page 114: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 114 User Manual ...

Page 115: ...e located in the different chassis enclosure 3 When support SATA drives for the redundant JBOD model the SAS SATA Bridge board is required The SATA Dongle board does not apply to this model 4 The following table is the maximum JBOD numbers and maximum HDD numbers with different chassis enclosures can be cascaded RAID Storage System Dual controller Dual JBOD Single controller Single JBOD 24 bays 16...

Page 116: ... hidden web page for JBOD firmware upgrade Please login first to management Web UI as admin and then add this URL to the browser http Management IP jbod_upg php for example http 192 168 10 50 jbod_upg php 3 Choose the JBOD which you want to upgrade 4 Click Browse to select the JBOD firmware file previously saved in local hard drive Click Confirm 5 After finished upgrading the system must be reboot...

Page 117: ...es into a single device Each session to the target can be established using different NICs network infrastructure and target ports If one session fails then another session can continue processing I O without interruption to the application 2 MC S MC S Multiple Connections per Session is a feature of iSCSI protocol which allows combining several connections inside a single session for performance ...

Page 118: ...within a single iSCSI session to manage load balance and failover Notice that iSCSI connections and sessions are different than TCP IP connections and sessions The above figures describe the difference between MPIO and MC S There are some considerations when user chooses MC S or MPIO for multipathing 1 If user uses hardware iSCSI off load HBA then MPIO is the only one choice 2 If user needs to spe...

Page 119: ...sending LACP packets to the peer Theoretically LACP port can be defined as active or passive iSCSI controller implements it as active mode which means that LACP port sends LACP protocol packets automatically Please notice that using the same configurations between iSCSI controller and gigabit switch The usage occasion of LACP A It s necessary to use LACP in a network environment of multiple switch...

Page 120: ...GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 120 User Manual IMPORTANT Before using trunking or LACP he gigabit switch must support trunking or LACP and enabled Otherwise host cannot connect the link with storage device ...

Page 121: ...al Controllers 6 10 1 Perform I O Please refer to the following topology and have all the connections ready To perform I O on dual controllers server host should setup MPIO MPIO policy will keep I O running and prevent fail connection with single controller failure ...

Page 122: ...re four statuses described on the following It can be found in System maintenance System information 1 Normal Dual controller mode Both of controllers are functional 2 Degraded Dual controller mode When one controller fails or has been plugged out the system will turn to degraded In this stage I O will force to write through for protecting data and the ownership of RG will switch to good one For e...

Page 123: ...the following There is no error message for inserted one controller only I O will not force to write through And there is no ownership of RG Single controller mode can be upgraded to dual controller mode please contact the distributor for upgradable In addition iSNS server is recommended It s important for keeping I O running smoothly when RG ownership is switching or single controller is failed W...

Page 124: ... and download it to the RAID subsystem to activate the QReplica function Each license key is unique and dedicated to a specific subsystem It means that the license key for subsystem A cannot be used on another subsystem To obtain the license key please contact sales for assistance Setup the QReplica port on the source subsystem The QReplica uses the last iSCSI port on the controller to replicate t...

Page 125: ...ting can be reverted by select Disable QReplica in the operation menu Create backup VD on the target subsystem 1 Before creating the replication job on the source subsystem user has to create a virtual disk on the target subsystem and set the type of the VD as Backup ...

Page 126: ...D needs to be attached to a LUN ID first before creating replication job Create replication job on the source subsystem 1 If the license key is activated on the subsystem correctly a new QReplica tab will be added on the Web UI Click Create to create a new replication job ...

Page 127: ...icated to the target subsystem and click Next NOTE If the message displays that there is not enough space for creation please refer for the section of Configure the snapshot space below for solution 3 Enter the IP address of iSCSI port on controller 1 of the target subsystem Click Next to continue ...

Page 128: ...s standard iSCSI protocol for data replication User has to log on the iSCSI node to create the iSCSI connection for the data transmission Enter the CHAP information if necessary and select the target node to log no Click Next to continue 5 Choose the backup VD and click Next ...

Page 129: ...new replication job is created and listed on the QReplica page Run the replication job 1 Click the OP button on the replication job to open operation menu Click Start to run the replication job 2 Click Start again to confirm the execution of the replication job ...

Page 130: ...the replication job from the Status information and the progress is expressed by percentage Create multi path on the replication job 1 Click the Create multi path in the operation menu of the replication job 2 Enter the IP of iSCSI port on controller 2 of the target subsystem ...

Page 131: ...to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 131 3 Select the iSCSI node to log on and click Next 4 Choose the same target VD and click Next 5 A new target will be added in this replication job as a redundancy path ...

Page 132: ...pshot space is not configured on the source VD in advance the subsystem will allocate snapshot space for the source VD automatically when the replication job is created The default snapshot space allocated by the subsystem is double size of the source VD If the free space of the RG which the source VD resides in is less than double size of the source VD the replication job will fail and pops up th...

Page 133: ...o prevent the incremental copy fail immediately when running out of snapshot space For example the default threshold is 50 and the system will check the snapshot space every hour When the snapshot space is used over 50 the subsystem will automatically replicate data from the source VD to the target VD Next time when the rest snapshot space has been used over 50 in other words the total snapshot sp...

Page 134: ...em ERROR HDD read error Disk slot read block error ERROR HDD write error Disk slot write block error ERROR HDD error Disk slot is disabled ERROR HDD IO timeout Disk slot gets no response INFO PD upgrade started PD string starts upgrading firmware process INFO PD upgrade finished PD string finished upgrading firmware process WARNING PD upgrade failed PD string upgrade firmware failed HW events Leve...

Page 135: ...ERROR Fan fail Fan string is not functioning INFO Fan install Fan string is installed ERROR Fan not present Fan string is not present ERROR Fan over speed Fan string is over speed WARNING Thermal level 1 System temperature string is higher ERROR Thermal level 2 System Overheated string ERROR Thermal level 2 shutdown System Overheated string The system will auto shutdown immediately ERROR Thermal l...

Page 136: ...has been deleted INFO VD rename Name of VD name has been renamed to name INFO VD read only Cache policy of VD name has been set as read only INFO VD write back Cache policy of VD name has been set as write back INFO VD write through Cache policy of VD name has been set as write through INFO VD extend Size of VD name extends INFO VD attach LUN OK VD name has been LUN attached INFO VD attach LUN fai...

Page 137: ...able read error Recoverable read error occurred at LBA address address of VD name WARNING Recoverable write error Recoverable write error occurred at LBA address address of VD name ERROR Unrecoverable read error Unrecoverable read error occurred at LBA address address of VD name ERROR Unrecoverable write error Unrecoverable write error occurred at LBA address address of VD name ERROR Config read f...

Page 138: ...VD name starts erasing process Snapshot events Level Type Description WARNING Snap mem Failed to allocate snapshot memory for VD name WARNING Snap space overflow Failed to allocate snapshot space for VD name WARNING Snap threshold The snapshot space threshold of VD name has been reached INFO Snap delete The snapshot VD name has been deleted INFO Snap auto delete The oldest snapshot VD name has bee...

Page 139: ...m RG name INFO PD inserted JBOD name disk slot is inserted into system Warning PD removed JBOD name disk slot is removed from system ERROR HDD read error JBOD name disk slot read block error ERROR HDD write error JBOD name disk slot write block error ERROR HDD error JBOD name disk slot is disabled ERROR HDD IO timeout JBOD name disk slot gets no response INFO JBOD inserted JBOD name is inserted in...

Page 140: ...ead as string in JBOD name is OT WARNING WARNING Therm warn UT Temperature of string read as string in JBOD name is UT WARNING WARNING Therm fail OT Temperature of string read as string in JBOD name is OT FAILURE WARNING Therm fail UT Temperature of string read as string in JBOD name is UT FAILURE INFO Therm recovery Temperature of string in JBOD name is NORMAL System maintenance events Level Type...

Page 141: ...ERROR CTR timeout Controller number gets no response ERROR CTR lockdown Controller number is locked down ERROR CTR memory NG Memory size mismatch ERROR CTR firmware NG Firmware version mismatch ERROR CTR lowspeed NG Low speed inter link is down ERROR CTR highspeed NG High speed inter link is down ERROR CTR backend NG SAS expander is down ERROR CTR frontend NG FC IO controller is down INFO CTR rebo...

Page 142: ...ernel 2 6 9 3 For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Kernel 2 6 use the build in iSCSI initiator iscsi initiator utils 6 2 0 742 0 5 el5 in kernel 2 6 18 Mac ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator v3 10 System Requirements 1 Mac OS X v10 5 or later For ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator it is not free Please contact your local distributor 10GbE iSCSI HBA card Vendor Model Chelsio S310E CR C 10GbE Storage Accelerator ...

Page 143: ...5000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M F W A410 Seagate Cheetah 15K 4 ST336754SS 36 7GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 8M Seagate Cheetah 15K 5 ST373455SS 73 4GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M Seagate Cheetah 15K 5 ST3146855SS 146 8GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M Seagate Cheetah 15K 6 ST3450856SS 450GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M F W 003 Seagate Cheetah NS ST3400755SS 400GB 10000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M Seagate Barracuda ES 2 ST31000640SS ...

Page 144: ...T3500641AS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M NCQ Seagate Barracuda 7200 11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ Seagate Barracuda 7200 11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ Seagate Barracuda 7200 11 ST31500341AS 1 5TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ F W SD17 Seagate NL35 2 ST3400633NS 400GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M Seagate NL35 2 ST3500641NS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M Seagate Ba...

Page 145: ...CQ F W 01 01D01 Westem Digital RE4 WD1003FBYX 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 64M NCQ F W 01 01V01 Westem Digital RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 64M NCQ F W 01 01S01 Westem Digital Raptor WD360GD 36 7GB 10000RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M Westem Digital VelcoiRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M F W 04 04V01 SATA 2 5 Vendor Model Seagate Constellation ST9500530NS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 3...

Page 146: ...re is the step by step to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI initiator This example is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Connect 1 Run Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2 Input IP address or DNS name of the target And then click Quick Connect ...

Page 147: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 147 3 Click Done 4 It can connect to an iSCSI disk now ...

Page 148: ...AID Subsystem 148 User Manual MPIO Service 5 Please run Server Manager with below path Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools 6 Click Feature and select Add Features 7 Please choose the checkbox of Multipath I O ...

Page 149: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 149 8 Install 9 Installation succeeded ...

Page 150: ...ubsystem 150 User Manual Starting iSCSI Initiator 10 Please run iSCSI initiator with below path Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools 11 Click Æ Discovery tab Æ Discover Portal 12 Input the IP address of controller1 ...

Page 151: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 151 13 Click Discover Portal 14 Input IP address of controller2 ...

Page 152: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 152 User Manual 15 Please connect ctrl1 16 Choose checkbox of Enable multipath path ...

Page 153: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 153 17 Please select the IP address for Initiator Target of controller1 18 Please connect ctrl2 ...

Page 154: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 154 User Manual 19 Choose checkbox of Enable multipath path 20 Please select the IP address for Initiator Target of controller2 ...

Page 155: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 155 21 iSCSI initiator install finish Setup MPIO 22 Please run MPIO with below path Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools ...

Page 156: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 156 User Manual 23 Click tab of Discover Multi Paths 24 Choose checkbox of Add support for iSCSI devices 25 Reboot ...

Page 157: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 157 MC S 26 If running MC S please continue 27 Select one target name click Properties 28 Click MCS to add additional connections ...

Page 158: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 158 User Manual 29 Click Add 30 Click Advanced 31 Select Initiator IP and Target portal IP and then click OK 32 Click Connect 33 Click OK ...

Page 159: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem User Manual 159 34 Done ...

Page 160: ...iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 160 User Manual Disconnect 35 Select the target name click Disconnect and then click Yes 36 Done the iSCSI device disconnect successfully ...

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