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XEVO 2.2

Software Manual

June 2022

Summary of Contents for XEVO 2.2

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Page 3: ...ions viii 1 XEVO Overview 1 1 1 XEVO Functionality List 1 1 2 Terminology 4 2 Getting Started 7 2 1 Discover the Storage System 7 2 2 Initial Setup 9 3 XEVO User Interface 10 3 1 XEVO Web UI Overview 10 3 2 Accessing the Management USB LCM 12 4 Dashboard Tab and QSLife 16 4 1 Dashboard Overview 16 4 2 Introduce QSLife Functions 21 5 Storage Tab 22 5 1 RAID and RAID EE Summary 22 5 2 Storage Inform...

Page 4: ... 52 8 Analysis Tab 64 8 1 Analysis Features 64 8 2 Array Analysis 64 9 System Tab 66 9 1 Arrays Information 66 9 2 Configure System Settings 70 9 3 Configure Data Port Settings 73 9 4 Maintenance 77 9 5 Data Encryption 85 10 Messages Tab 86 10 1 Log Center 86 10 2 Configure Notification Settings 87 11 Support and Other Resources 91 11 1 Getting Technical Support 91 11 2 Documentation Feedback 92 A...

Page 5: ...Pool Details 28 Figure 5 2 List Disk Groups 32 Figure 5 3 List Volumes 35 Figure 6 1 iSCSI Host Group Details 43 Figure 6 2 FC Host Group Details 44 Figure 6 3 List Host Profile 46 Figure 6 4 List Connected Volumes 47 Figure 7 1 Protection Group 52 Figure 7 2 Protection Group with Snapshot Plan 54 Figure 7 3 List Snapshot Tasks 54 Figure 7 4 Snapshot Center 56 Figure 7 5 Protection Group with Repl...

Page 6: ...General Storage Parameters 25 Table 5 5 Thick Provisioning Pool Parameters 25 Table 5 6 Thin Provisioning and Auto Tiering Pool Parameters 26 Table 5 7 SSD Cache Parameters 26 Table 5 8 Volumes Parameters 27 Table 5 9 Descriptions of Pool Columns 28 Table 5 10 Descriptions of Disk Group Columns 32 Table 5 11 Descriptions of Volume Columns 35 Table 6 1 Descriptions of Host Group Columns 44 Table 6 ...

Page 7: ...rformance data contained herein was determined in a controlled environment Therefore the results obtained in other operating environments may vary significantly Some measurements may have been made on development level systems and there is no guarantee that these measurements will be the same on generally available systems Furthermore some measurements may have been estimated through extrapolation...

Page 8: ...ion and configuration storage area network management and relevant protocols Related Documents There are related documents which can be downloaded from the website QIG Quick Installation Guide Hardware Manual Compatibility Matrix White Papers Application Notes Technical Support Do you have any questions or need help trouble shooting a problem Please contact QSAN Support we will reply to you as soo...

Page 9: ...ttention to important safety and operational information INFORMATION INFORMATION provides useful knowledge definition or terminology for reference TIP TIP provides helpful suggestions for performing tasks more effectively CAUTION CAUTION indicates that failure to take a specified action could result in damage to the system Conventions The following table describes the typographic conventions used ...

Page 10: ... variable which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system Example copy source file target file square brackets Indicates optional values Example a b indicates that you can choose a b or nothing braces Indicates required or expected values Example a b indicates that you must choose either a or b vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or argum...

Page 11: ...d by the flash based array system 1 1 XEVO Functionality List XEVO provides the following functionality for administrator management Dashboard Provide hardware alert and system alert Display array capacity information and storage overview Monitor storage array performance by latency IOPS and throughput Monitor and optimize drives performance and longevity Monitor drive usage and learn SSD usage ef...

Page 12: ...s Volume QoS Quality of Service Host Management Support host groups to bind hosts and volumes Obtain host connectivity information Configure iSCSI target with CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol and mutual CHAP authentication List iSCSI sessions Protection and Data Backup Support protection groups to protect volumes together Enable snapshot space automatically Support writable snapsho...

Page 13: ... Module and flash module are optional add ons Blink UID Unique Identifier LEDs for locating the storage arrays Configure login options Change system name date and time Configuration export and import Configure management IP address DNS and service ports Configure data port settings Configure iSCSI connectivity with IP address link aggregation VLAN Virtual LAN ID and jumbo frame Setup entity name a...

Page 14: ...n of Redundant Array of Independent Disks There are different RAID levels with different degrees of data protection data availability and performance to the host environment Pools A storage pool is a collection of disk drives One pool consists of a set of volumes and owns one RAID level attribute Volumes Each pool can be divided into several volumes The volumes from one pool have the same RAID lev...

Page 15: ... connectors are less bulky Serial data transfer allows the use of longer cables than parallel data connections SSD An SSD Solid State Drive is a solid state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently Thick Provisioning Thick provisioning is allocated upon creation the physical disk drive space and is equal to the user capacity seen by the host serve...

Page 16: ...e Replication Remote replication function prevents primary site failure by replicating data to the remote sites QoS Quality of Service QoS has a control mechanism that provides different priorities to ensure that the performance of the data stream reaches a certain level according to the requirements of the application ...

Page 17: ...he login page of the XEVO web interface 2 1 1 XFinder Utility XFinder utility provides to search QSAN products on LAN You can discover the management IP addresses of the storage systems via this utility Please download XFinder utility from the following website https www qsan com download php In addition XFinder is a java based program It is also a highly portable utility To execute this program J...

Page 18: ...FORMATION XFinder utility works in the following network environments Both the management port of the SAN storage system and the management computer are both on the same subnet domain of the LAN The LAN works with or without DHCP server If the LAN doesn t have a DHCP server it still can work on zero configuration networking The management port will be assigned a fix IP address 169 254 1 234 16 So ...

Page 19: ... com Official Document 9 2 2 Initial Setup The Initial configuration wizard will guide the first time user to initialize and set up the system quickly Here is a video to setup the storage for the first time Please refer to the Setup the Storage through the Quick Installation Wizard Tutorial ...

Page 20: ...nt web user interface open a supported web browser and enter the management IP address or Hostname of the system When the password has been verified the dashboard is displayed Figure 3 1 XEVO Dashboard The XEVO Web UI contains the following tabs Dashboard The Dashboard function tab represents a graphical overview of the array including hardware alert array capacity system alerts storage overview a...

Page 21: ...display the protection groups on the array View and operate the protection groups their snapshot plan and replication plan For more information please refer to chapter 7 Protection Tab Analysis Select the Analysis function tab to display the historical array information including I O performance metrics and storage capacity from various viewpoints For more information please refer to chapter 8 Ana...

Page 22: ...plugging the USB LCM into the system the LCD screen shows the management port IP address and the system model name Figure 3 3 USB LCM Screen To access the LCM options use the ENT Enter button ESC Escape button up and down to scroll through the functions MUTE button to mute the buzzer when the system alarms If there are event logs occurred events will be displayed on the first line of the LCM TIP T...

Page 23: ... are three options of DHCP BOOTP or static IP address Enc Management Show the enclosure data of disk drive temperature fan status and power supply status Reset to Default Reset the system to default settings The default settings are Reset Management Port IP address to DHCP and then fix IP address 169 254 1 234 16 Reset admin s Password to 1234 Reset System Name to model name plus the last 6 digits...

Page 24: ...SB LCM Table 3 2 USB LCM Menu Hierarchy MENU L1 L2 L3 L4 IP Addr QSAN Model System Info Firmware Version n n n RAM Size nnnn MB Reset Shutdown Reset Yes No Shutdown Yes No View IP Setting IP Config Static IP DHCP BOOTP IP Address 192 168 001 234 IP Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 IP Gateway xxx xxx xxx xxx Change IP Config DHCP BOOTP Static IP IP Address Adjust IP address IP Subnet Mask Adjust Submask I...

Page 25: ...echnology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 15 IP Gateway Adjust Gateway IP Apply IP Setting Yes No Enc Management Phy Disk Temp Local Slot n nn C Cooling Local FAN n nnnnn RPM Power Supply Local PSU n status Reset to Default Yes No ...

Page 26: ... the basic information and system health This chapter describes the Dashboard tab and QSLife function 4 1 Dashboard Overview Select the Dashboard tab to show a summary of the overall system It s divided into five blocks in the details pane There are hardware alert array capacity system alert storage overview and performance graphs Figure 4 1 XEVO Dashboard 4 1 1 Hardware Alert The Hardware Alert p...

Page 27: ...cluding used total and the amount of storage occupied by provisioned volumes and snapshots The pane includes the following items Percentage Percentage of the system s storage space occupied by provisioned volumes and snapshots The percentage value is displayed in the circle of the pane Used Storage space occupied by volumes and snapshots Total Total physical usable space on the array Provisioned T...

Page 28: ... number under the item is the count of total volumes in the system 4 1 5 Performance Graphs The Performance Graphs pane displays the performance charts in real time The performance graphs include the Latency IOPS and Bandwidth graphs Latency The Latency graph displays the average time it takes the array to process a read write or read write I O request The blue line represents the average read tim...

Page 29: ... incoming data appears along the right side of each graph as older numbers drop off the left side Click the I O Type drop down arrow in the bottom left corner of the window to filter the performance metrics of read write or read write By default the performance graphs display performance metrics for the past 1 hour Click the Zoom drop down arrow in the bottom right corner of the window to view per...

Page 30: ...igure 4 3 Upper Right Corner Icons The options are available in these icons QSLife Click the icon in the upper right corner to popup a window for QSLife functions About the QSLife please refer to the chapter 4 2 Introduct QSLife Functions for more details Task Monitoring Click the icon at the top right corner to popup a window It displays the task monitoring of the system The example shows that th...

Page 31: ... username in the upper right corner to list the drop down options to execute the system functions 4 2 Introduce QSLife Functions QSLife Intelligent Disk Drive Analyzer is based on QSAN s native SSD technology and offers users a specified technology to analyze the SSD activity and uses a unique algorithm to help to keep an eye on the health and other information of drives For detailed information p...

Page 32: ...age pool Table 5 1 RAID Level Summary 1 RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 N WAY MIRROR Min Drives 1 2 3 4 3 Fault Tolerance No protection One drive failure One drive failure Two drive failures N 1 drive failures Read Performance Very Good Very Good Very Good Very Good Very Good Write Performance Excellent Good Good Fair to Good Fair Capacity N drive quantity M drive capacity G subgroups N x M e g...

Page 33: ...ve failure in each sub group One drive failure in each sub group One drive failure in each sub group One drive failure in each sub group Two drive failures in each sub group Read Performance Excellent Excellent Very Good Very Good Very Good Write Performance Very Good Very Good Good Good Fair to Good Capacity N drive quantity M drive capacity G subgroups N 2 x M e g 8 drives 2 x 1TB 4TB G x M e g ...

Page 34: ... g 2 RAID 6 S spares G 1 G 8 drive failure e g 2 subgroups RAID 50 S spares 2xG 1 2xG 8 drive failures e g 2x2 RAID 60 S spares Read Performance Very Good Very Good Very Good Very Good Write Performance Good Fair to Good Good Fair to Good Capacity N drive quantity M drive capacity G subgroups N 1 S x M e g 10 drives 1 2 spares x 1TB 7TB N 2 S x M e g 10 drives 2 2 spares x 1TB 6TB N G S x M e g 10...

Page 35: ...re quantity in a disk group 8 Maximum disk drive quantity in a pool 256 Maximum pool quantity per system 64 Maximum disk capacity support Largest disk capacity on the market FW 2 0 0 16 TB1 FW 2 0 0 1 In XEVO FW 2 0 0 or earlier the maximum disk capacity can only support 16 TB Table 5 5 Thick Provisioning Pool Parameters ITEM VALUE Maximum addressable capacity of a disk group 1 280 TB calculated b...

Page 36: ... 0 1 024 TB FW 1 2 0 Provisioning granularity 1 GB 2 These parameters are available in XEVO firmware 1 2 0 3 Auto tiering is only available for hybrid storage models optional and not included in the default package Table 5 7 SSD Cache Parameters ITEM VALUE Maximum SSD cache4 pool quantity per system either dual controller or single controller 4 Maximum SSD quantity in an SSD cache pool 8 Maximum a...

Page 37: ...ssable volume capacity of a thin provisioning pool 1 024TB3 FW 2 0 0 256TB FW 2 0 0 5 These parameters are available in XEVO firmware 2 0 0 5 3 Configure Storage Pools Select the Storage tab to manage the storage pools In this tab you can create modify delete or view the status of all pools 5 3 1 Create a Pool Here is an example to create a pool Please refer to the Create a RAID Pool Tutorial TIP ...

Page 38: ... Figure 5 1 Thin Provisioning Pool Details This table shows the pool descriptions Table 5 9 Descriptions of Pool Columns COLUMN NAME DESCRIPTION Pool The pool name Capacity The bar color Green Bar Fewer than 90 used space Orange Bar 90 100 used space Red Bar 100 used space The number in the bar Used space Actual space The 2nd bar is only visible when the pool type is thin provisioning Actual used ...

Page 39: ...rebuilt Controller The current running controller of the pool Actual Space Total capacity of the pool Available Space Available capacity of the pool Provisioning Type The provisioning type of the pool Thick Provisioning Thin Provisioning Auto Tiering Thin Provisioning Auto Tiering Thick Provisioning The type is thick provisioning transferred to auto tiering Click the icon beside the pool name to l...

Page 40: ...Read ahead When enabling the disk read ahead the system will preload data to disk buffer based on previously retrieved data This feature will efficiently improve the performance of sequential data retrieved Disk Command Queuing When enabling the disk command queuing the system will send multiple commands to a disk at once to improve performance Disk Standby Only visible for hybrid storage models C...

Page 41: ...y Only visible when the pool type is thin provisioning or auto tiering 1 Click the Thin Provisioning Policy option to change policy of the thin provisioning pool 2 There are 2 levels of threshold percentage and the default values defined The threshold percentage can be changed when the usage of the pool capacity reaches the threshold 3 After change the thin provisioning policies click the Apply bu...

Page 42: ...e shows the disk group descriptions Table 5 10 Descriptions of Disk Group Columns COLUMN NAME DESCRIPTION The status of the disk group Green Color Normal The disk group is good Orange Color Abnormal The pool is unhealthy and incomplete The cause may be a disk loss or failure Red Light Warning The disk group has failed No The number of the disk group ...

Page 43: ...l Tutorial Delete Disk Groups 1 Check the disk group checkboxes which you want to delete 2 Click the icon to continue Then click the Apply button to confirm and delete CAUTION If the pool contains only one disk group it cannot be deleted If the disk group is being used and not empty it also cannot be deleted Click the icon beside the number of the disk group to list the drop down options These opt...

Page 44: ... when a pool is being migrated The capacity after migration must be larger than the current capacity A traditional RAID level can be migrated to RAID EE level but RAID EE level can be migrated to RAID EE level only TIP There are some operation limitations when a pool is being migrated The System would reject these operations Add a dedicated spare Remove a dedicated spare Create a new volume Delete...

Page 45: ...orial 5 3 4 List and Configure Volumes Click the Volumes pane to list all volumes in the pool Figure 5 3 List Volumes This table shows the volume descriptions Table 5 11 Descriptions of Volume Columns COLUMN NAME DESCRIPTION The status of the disk group Green Color Normal The volume is good Orange Color Abnormal The pool is unhealthy and incomplete The cause may be a disk loss or failure Red Light...

Page 46: ...is being relocated EE Rebuilding The volume is being RAID EE rebuilt Snapshot space Used snapshot space Total snapshot space The first capacity is current used snapshot space and the second capacity is reserved total snapshot space Capacity Total capacity of the volume Usage This option is only visible when the pool type is thin provisioning or auto tiering Total usage of the volume Available This...

Page 47: ...or Protection Groups it will display the above dialog asking you how to handle the items you would like to delete INFORMATION There are four relationships shown after the volume name none The volume does not exist in the Host Groups nor Protection Groups H The volume exists in the Host Groups P The volume exists in the Protection Groups P H The volume exists both in the Host Groups and Protection ...

Page 48: ...erties 1 Click the Properties option to change the volume properties 2 Volume advanced settings can be configured optionally Priority The options are High Medium and Low The priority compares to other volumes Set it as High if the volume has many I O Background I O Priority The options are High Medium and Low It will influence volume initialization rebuild and migration Cache Mode The options are ...

Page 49: ...ata being retrieved is sequential 3 After change the volume properties click the Apply button to take effect Snapshot Center About the snapshot center please refer to the chapter 7 2 4 Snapshot Center section for more details Edit LUN 1 Click the Edit LUN option to change the LUN Logical Unit Number 2 Select the LUN with the drop down options The options are LUN 0 to LUN 254 except the LUNs which ...

Page 50: ...isk roaming The system can execute disk roaming online Please follow these steps 1 Select the Storage tab selects a pool Click the icon beside the pool name and then click the Deactivate option 2 Click the Apply button to apply The Status changes to Offline 3 Move all member disks of the pool to another system 4 In the Storage tab select the pool Click the icon beside the pool name and then click ...

Page 51: ... in SSDs temporary where they are write far more quickly than to the HDD volume And then the write data will be flushed to the HDD volume at the appropriate time It may take risk of losing data during the period that the write data is stored in SSD cache if the SSD cache pool is corrupted The write data has not yet written back to the HDD volume So the read write cache pool needs data protection t...

Page 52: ...requirements It also includes the ability to define rules and policies that dictate if and when data can be moved between the tiers and in many cases provides the ability to pin data to tiers permanently or for specific periods of time For detailed information please refer to the Auto Tiering White Paper from QSAN website ...

Page 53: ...d examples 6 1 Configure Host Groups Select the Hosts tab to manage the host groups In this tab you can create modify delete or view the status of all host groups 6 1 1 Create a Host Group Here is an example to create a host group Please refer to the Create a Host Group and Map LUN Tutorial 6 1 2 List and Configure Host Groups All host groups are listed in the Host Groups pane You can click one of...

Page 54: ...Group Columns COLUMN NAME DESCRIPTION Protocol The protocol of the host group IQN iSCSI protocol WWN Fibre channel protocol Volumes The quantity of the connected volumes Hosts The quantity of the hosts Enabled Data Ports The quantity of the enabled data ports CTRL Controller 1 or 2 Target Name Target name of iSCSI or FC Alias Alias name Slot 1 Port icons in slot 1 Slot 2 Port icons in slot 2 Onboa...

Page 55: ...lick the Apply button to confirm and delete Edit Host 1 Click the Edit Host option to edit the host group 2 If editing the protocol of iSCSI IQN select the IQNs and click the button or the button to make them effective or not 3 Click the Apply button to edit CAUTION Any changes may cause the connection to be lost or the data in transit lost 4 If editing the protocol of FC WWN select the WWNs and c...

Page 56: ...racters Valid characters are a z 0 9 3 Click the Rename button to rename Rename Alias 1 Click the Rename Alias option to add or change the alias 2 Enter a new Alias If you want to remove an alias clear out the current name The maximum length of the volume name is 223 characters Valid characters are a z 0 9 3 Click the Rename button to rename 6 1 3 List and Configure Host Profile Click the Host Pro...

Page 57: ...me is 32 characters Valid characters are A Z a z 0 9 _ 3 Click the Rename button to rename Sessions 1 Click the Sessions option to display the host sessions in the host group 2 Click the Close button to close the window 6 1 4 List and Configure Connected Volumes Click the Connected Volumes pane to list all connected volumes in the host group Figure 6 4 List Connected Volumes This table shows the c...

Page 58: ...UN Logical Unit Number Volume Type The type of the volume RAID Volume Backup Volume Read only Volume The options are available in this pane Connect Volumes Here is an example to add volumes to the host group 1 Click the icon in the Connected Volumes pane to pop up a window 2 The Select Volumes boxes are divided into two sides The left side is an ineffective list and the right side is effective 3 S...

Page 59: ...characters are A Z a z 0 9 _ 6 Click the Apply button to create a CHAP account 7 A CHAP account has been created If necessary click the icon to create others 8 If the CHAP accounts are useless check the account checkboxes which you want to delete and then click the icon to delete 9 Click the OK button to close the window 10 The CHAP Settings boxes are divided into two sides The left side is an ine...

Page 60: ...e settings In addition to the basic functions of snapshots local cloning and remote replication there are new designs and are described below 7 1 1 About Snapshot Enable Snapshot Space Automatically A volume snapshot is based on copy on write technology Snapshots require more space to hold differential data When the schedule function is enabled all volumes belonging to the protection group will au...

Page 61: ...to use native remote replication function upon the corresponding Operating System to prevent the situation e g vSphere Replication VR so that the cached data can be seamlessly replicated to the target site 7 1 2 About Local Clone It does easily deploy the local clone without doing configurations In a protection group select a new and empty target pool the system will send the configurations of sou...

Page 62: ...s tab you can create modify delete or view the status of all protection groups Figure 7 1 Protection Group INFORMATION A protection group includes one of a Snapshot Plan and or either one of Replication Plan for Local or Remote 7 2 1 Create a Protection Group Here is an example to create a protection group and setup a remote replication task with schedule Please refer to the Create a Protection Gr...

Page 63: ...ne of them to display the details Click the icon beside the protection group name to list the drop down options Rename 1 Click the Rename option to rename the host group 2 Enter a new Group Name The maximum length of the volume name is 32 characters Valid characters are A Z a z 0 9 _ 3 Click the Rename button to rename Protection Plan Setting Click the Protection Plan Setting option to change the ...

Page 64: ... snapshot tasks Figure 7 3 List Snapshot Tasks The options are available in this tab Add Volumes Here is an example to add volumes in the protection group 1 Click the icon in the Snapshot Task tab to pop up a window 2 The Select Volumes boxes are divided into two sides The left side is an ineffective list and the right side is effective 3 Select volumes and click the button or the button to make t...

Page 65: ...g box Then click the Apply button to confirm and ungroup Snapshot Center Click the icon beside the volume name to list the drop down options About the Snapshot Center option please refer to the chapter 7 2 4 Snapshot Center section for more details 7 2 4 Snapshot Center Snapshot Center is a center for managing all snapshot functions It can enable and expand the snapshot space It also can take roll...

Page 66: ... TIP The recommended minimum capacity is set to 20 of the volume Volumes in the thin provisioning pool will automatically reserve 20 of the capacity for the snapshot space However volumes in the thick provisioning pool are not preserved You have to enable the snapshot space manually There are two tabs One is the Snapshots tab to display all volume snapshots the other is the Deleted Snapshots tab o...

Page 67: ...pshot Center Delete the Snapshot 1 In the Snapshots tab check the snapshot checkbox which you want to delete 2 Click the icon and then pop up a confirm dialog box 3 Click the Delete button to confirm to delete the snapshot Rollback the Snapshot 1 In the Snapshots tab check the snapshot checkbox which you want to rollback 2 Click the icon and then pop up a confirm dialog box 3 Click the Apply butto...

Page 68: ...ng Snapshots The options are available in the Deleted Snapshots tab Rescue the Snapshot 1 In the Deleted Snapshots tab check the snapshot checkbox which you want to rescue 2 Click the icon and then pop a confirm dialog box 3 Click the Rescue button to rescue the deleted snapshot and it will be back to the snapshot volumes Destroy the Snapshot 1 In the Deleted Snapshots tab check the snapshot check...

Page 69: ...protection group with replication plan local is shown here Figure 7 5 Protection Group with Replication Plan Local Replication Tasks At the Protection Volumes pane click the Replication Tasks tab to list all replication tasks Figure 7 6 List Replication Tasks The options are available in this tab Add Volumes Here is an example to add volumes in the protection group ...

Page 70: ...art Task 1 Select a volume and then click the icon to replicate the volume immediately 2 The progress bar displays the current status Stop Task 1 Click the icon of the volume to stop the replication task TIP The Replicate Now button will replicate all volumes in the protection group And click the icon of the volume will replicate the volume only Ungroup 1 Check the volume checkboxes which you want...

Page 71: ... plan remote is shown here Figure 7 7 Protection Group with Replication Plan Remote Replication Tasks At the Protection Volumes pane click the Replication Task tab to list all replication tasks Figure 7 8 List Replication Tasks The options are available in this tab Start Task 1 Select a volume and then click the icon to replicate the volume immediately 2 The progress bar displays the current statu...

Page 72: ...rt and enter a Target IP Address 4 If the connection is not stable click the icon to reconnect the connection 5 Click the Apply button to take effect Snapshot Center Click the icon beside the volume name to list the drop down options About the Snapshot Center option please refer to the chapter 7 2 4 Snapshot Center section for more details 7 2 7 Traffic Shaping The traffic shaping function can hel...

Page 73: ...re Manual Protection Tab 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 63 example of switching a local clone to a remote replication plan Please refer to the Local to Remote Tutorial ...

Page 74: ...tatistic on the array 8 1 Analysis Features XEVO provides QReport to help you analysis the status of your business usage The system generates performance and capacity analytics as far back as 1 year It eases the effort of IT managers by exporting a report to analyze the storage usage and allows IT generalists to make a better resource arrangement faster than ever and easier 8 2 Array Analysis Sele...

Page 75: ...nitoring and Capacity Analysis Here is an example to generate an analysis report Please refer to the Generate Analysis Report Tutorial INFORMATION XEVO maintains a rolling one year history of data The granularity of the historical data increases with age Older data points are spaced further apart in time than the nearest data points ...

Page 76: ...ystem tab and the Arrays subtab to displays array health status 9 1 1 List Arrays All arrays including head and expansion units are listed in the left pane You can click one of them to display the details There are front and rear pictures in the right pane You can move your mouse over the system components and watch the status of disks controllers management ports data ports fan modules power supp...

Page 77: ...expansion unit fails or they have been plugged out Please replace or insert a good controller Serial Number The seiral number of the array System Controller The status of system availability Dual Controller Active Active Dual controllers and expansion units are in normal stage Dual Controller Degraded In dual controller mode one controller or one of expansion unit fails or they have been plugged o...

Page 78: ...l mechanism When the UID LEDs are turn on they are light blue color located on the right panel of front view and both controllers of rear view Click it again to turn off the UID LEDs 9 1 3 Disk Information Move your mouse over the disk and the disk information will appear in a popup box Disk Identification The disk Identifier LED helps users to easily identify the disk location Click the icon on t...

Page 79: ...Life Remaining The life remaining of the disk drive Disk Type The type of the disk drive Free Disk This disk drive is free for use RAID Disk This disk drive has been set to a pool Global Spare This disk drive has been set as global spare of whole system Pool Name Which pool the disk drive belongs to Capacity The capacity of the disk drive Speed The type of the disk drive NVMe SSD SAS HDD NL SAS HD...

Page 80: ...t Global Disk button to set it up Set Free Disk Click the Set Free Disk button appears if the disk drive is a global spare disk You can set it as a free disk Click the Set Free Disk button to set it up 9 1 4 Rear Component Information Move your mouse over the rear components in the array the component information will appear in a popup box You can watch the information of controllers management po...

Page 81: ...f the other account belongs to the Administrators group login 9 2 2 General Settings Click the General Settings pane to setup the system name data and time and configure the login options System Name Change the system name highlight the old name and type in a new one Maximum length of the system name is 32 characters Valid characters are A Z a z 0 9 _ Date and Time Change the current date time and...

Page 82: ... are available for exporting to prevent conflicts and overwriting existing data they cannot be imported Export Select the Export Mode for exporting system or volume configurations then click the Export button to save a file Import Import all system configurations excluding volume configuration CAUTION The Import option will import all system configurations excluding volume configuration The curren...

Page 83: ...ment port Type The option can change IP address for remote administration usage There are three options for DHCP BOOTP or Static IP Address DNS Server Address DNS Domain Name System provides a means to translate FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name to IP address Some notification services need DNS setting Enter an IP address of DNS server here Service Ports Uncheck to disable the service ports of HTTP...

Page 84: ... ports where they are located onboard or host cards The columns display information of an connected or disconnected icon CTRL Controller Interface name Location Port Status LAG Link Aggregation IP address Gateway IP address VLAN ID Virtual LAN ID Jumbo Frame status and MAC address Click the icon beside the interface to list the drop down options These options are available in the iSCSI ports Set I...

Page 85: ...Fill in VLAN ID and Priority settings to enable VLAN Set Jumbo Frames Click the Set Jumbo Frames option to set the MTU Maximum Transmission Unit size The jumbo frame size could be set as 4000 or 9000 bytes Jumbo Frame is disabled by default Ping Host Click the Ping Host option to verify the port connection from a target to the corresponding host data port Input the host s IP address and click Star...

Page 86: ...WPN World Wide Node Name World Wide Port Name Loss of Signal Loss of Sync Link Failure and Invalid CRC Click the icon beside the interface to list the drop down options These options are available in the Fibre Channel ports Change Link Speed Click the Change Link Speed option to change the link speed of fibre channel Set the link speed of fibre channel The options are Automatic default to 32Gb s R...

Page 87: ...kage Click the button to download system information for service Change Operation Mode This option can be modified to operate in dual controller or single controller mode here If the system installed only one controller switch this mode to Single Controller and then click the Apply button After changing the operation mode the system must reboot manually to take effect CAUTION If you try to increas...

Page 88: ...is a progress bar running After finished upgrading the system must reboot manually to make the new firmware take effect Synchronization If the firmware versions between two controllers are different it will display a warning message Click the Synchronize button to synchronize and force a reboot Expansion Unit Firmware Update To upgrade expansion unit firmware first select an expansion unit Then ot...

Page 89: ...time You need to set one disk to idle and then update the disk firmware After completion perform pool rebuild and then execute the next disk firmware update These steps will avoid the risk of data loss Instant Erase For more information please refer to the SED and ISE White Paper from QSAN website 9 4 4 Power Settings Click the Power Settings pane to configure the boot options and UPS Uninterrupti...

Page 90: ...will accept a magic packet from the management port to power on the system TIP To execute wake on LAN function MAC address of management port is needed For the information of MAC address please refer to the chapter 9 2 4 Configure Management Port page Enable Wake on SAS Check to enable the wake on SAS feature If the wake on SAS feature is enabled and the expansion units QSAN XD5300 series are conn...

Page 91: ...Please enter community if select SNMP v1 or v2c If select SNMP v3 it needs more options for authentication Please enter a username check to use authentication if necessary select an authentication protocol and enter an authentication password check to use privacy if necessary the privacy protocol supports DES and enter a privacy password If Communication Type selects Serial UPS Manufacturer Select...

Page 92: ...tery level of the UPS UPS Manufacturer The manufacturer of the UPS UPS Model The model of the UPS 9 4 5 Rescue Click the Rescue pane to allow users to reset the system configurations back to the factory default settings clean all configurations of the expansion enclosure ID and restore the volume configuration from the volume creation history Reset to Factory Defaults Click the Reset to Defaults b...

Page 93: ...ider before making this reset Clean Expansion Enclosure ID Click the Clean button to clean all configurations of expansion enclosure ID A clean will cause the system shutdown and then you have to start manually INFORMATION The XCubeDAS XD5300 series features the seven segment LED display for users to easily identify a specific XCubeDAS system The enclosure ID is assigned by head unit XCubeSAN seri...

Page 94: ...y the same sequence as the original Otherwise data recovery will fail The volume restoration does not guarantee that the lost data can be restored Please get help from an expert before executing this function TIP When attempting data recovery the same volume configurations as the original must be set and all member disks must be installed by the same sequence as original Otherwise data recovery wi...

Page 95: ... specific system If the license is active the status will show as Enable After enabling the license the system must reboot manually to take effect Trial License This option enables trial license Click the Request License button to download the file and register on our website in a few clicks then you will get a 30 day trial license via email After getting the license key click the icon to select i...

Page 96: ...re four copies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there are failed disks If there are no disk drives in the first four slots the event logs will keep in memory temporary and will disappear after system reboots The event logs record all system events Each event has time frame that identifies the type of event that occurred and has one of the following severities Erro...

Page 97: ... displayed in next system boot up Otherwise the event logs cannot be saved 10 2 Configure Notification Settings Select the Messages tab the Settings subtab to configure the notification settings via Email Alert and SNMP 10 2 1 Email Settings Click the Email pane to be used to enter up to three email addresses for receiving the event notifications SMTP Settings SMTP Server Enter the IP address or F...

Page 98: ...ich levels of event logs which you would like to receive The default setting only includes Warning and Error event logs TIP Please make sure the IP address of DNS server is well setup in Management Port So the event notification emails can be sent successfully Please refer to the Configure Management Port section for more details When finished click the Send Test Email Apply button to take effect ...

Page 99: ...process is done the alarm will be muted automatically 10 2 3 SNMP Settings Click the SNMP pane to be used to setup SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol traps for alerting with event logs and also setup SNMP server settings for client monitoring SNMP Trap Enable SNMP Trap Check to enable SNMP trap to send system event logs to SNMP trap agent The default SNMP trap port is 162 You can check or unc...

Page 100: ...eset settings Download MIB Files SNMP MIB File Click the Download button to save the SNMP MIB file which can be imported to the SNMP client tool to get system information You can view fan voltage and system status via SNMP MIB iSCSI MIB File Click the Download button to save the iSCSI MIB file which can be imported to the SNMP client tool to get network information You can view iSCSI traffic via i...

Page 101: ...lease use the following information Via the Web https www qsan com technical_support Via Telephone 886 2 77206355 Service hours 09 30 18 00 Monday Friday UTC 8 Via Skype Chat Skype ID qsan support Service hours 09 30 02 00 Monday Friday UTC 8 Summer time 09 30 01 00 Via Email support qsan com Information to Collect Product name model or version and serial number Operating system name and version F...

Page 102: ...e the default download location of your web browser 11 2 Documentation Feedback QSAN is committed to providing documentation that meets and exceeds your expectations To help us improve the documentation email any errors suggestions or comments to docsfeedback qsan com When submitting your feedback include the document title part number revision and publication date located on the front cover of th...

Page 103: ... of a set of volumes and owns one RAID level attribute Volume Each pool could be divided into several volumes The volumes from one pool have the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity LUN Logical Unit Number A logical unit number LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit WebUI Web User Interface WT Write Through c...

Page 104: ...be Read Only GS Global Spare disks It is shared for rebuilding purpose If some RAID groups need to use the global spare disks for rebuilding they could get the spare disks out from the common spare disks pool for such requirement DG DeGraded mode Not all of the array s member disks are functioning but the array is able to respond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks SCSI Sma...

Page 105: ...C SW Switched Fabric iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol MPIO Multipath 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 SAS Serial...

Page 106: ...e Manual Appendix 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 96 Dual Controller Terminology ITEM DESCRIPTION 6G MUX Bridge board is for SATA II disk to support dual controller mode ...

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