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WARNING

SMART Failure

JBOD <number> disk <slot>: Failure to get S.M.A.R.T information

INFO

Dedicated spare 

configured

JBOD <number> PD <slot> has been configured to RG <name> as a dedicated spare disk.

INFO

Global spare 
configured

JBOD <number> PD <slot>d has been configured as a global spare disk.

WARNING

PD read error 
occurred

Read error occurred at LBA <address>-<address> of JBOD <number> PD <slot>.

WARNING

PD write error 
occurred

Write error occurred at LBA <address>-<address> of JBOD <number> PD <slot>.

INFO

PD freed

JBOD <number> PD <slot> has been removed from RG <name>.

• System maintenance events

Level

Type

Description

INFO

System shutdown

System shutdown.

INFO

System reboot

System reboot.

INFO

FW upgrade start

Firmware upgrade start.

INFO

FW upgrade success

Firmware upgrade success.

WARNING

FW upgrade failure

Firmware upgrade failure.

C. Installation steps for large volume (TB)

Introduction:

Sans Digital AR108X SAS RAID are capable of supporting large volumes (>2TB) on all product lines. 

When connecting controllers to 64bit OS installed host/server, the host/server is inherently capable for 

large volumes from the 64bit address. On the other side, if the host/server is installed with 32bit OS, 

user has to change the block size to 1KB, 2KB or 4KB to support volumes up to 4TB, 8TB or 16TB, 

for the 32bit host/server is not LBA (Logical Block Addressing) 64bit supported. For detail installation 

steps, please refer to following steps below.

Step 1:

 Configure target

1. Prepare the hard drivers which capacity is over 2TB totally. Follow the example in chapter 3 to create 

 

    a VG/UDV. Then attach LUN.

       

Tips : If the OS is 64bit, user can set the block size to any available value. If the OS is 32bit, user must change 

 

                 the block size to larger values than 512B. There will be a confirmation pop-up message when VD size is 

 

                 over 2TB.

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Advanced operation

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Page 1: ...QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE v1 0 ACCURAID AR108X...

Page 2: ...ces separately For any questions for Sans Digital s products or latest product information manuals or firmware contact info sansdigital com and we will respond shortly Attention Sans Digital will prov...

Page 3: ...T ESC 5 HDD Status Indicator 6 Tray Lock 7 Button for Tray Clamp Rear View Contents of Product Package Description Qty AR108X Device 1 AC Power Cable 1 Mini SAS to Mini SAS Cable 1 RS 232 Cable 1 Quic...

Page 4: ...ironment Detector Yes Fan Temperature Cooling Fan DC 12V 4cm 7200 rpm Power Supply AC 100 240V Built in Power Supply DC 12V 5V 200W Support O S Windows Mac Linux Certifications CE FCC 3 Messages of LE...

Page 5: ...ng a fixed IP make sure the fixed IP Address doesn t conflict with other IP Addresses Use a ping to check if the IP Address conflicts with other IPs 2 RAID Finder The RAID Finder software can easily f...

Page 6: ...anual 2 Please select Quick Install to configure your prefer RAID mode For further information please refer to the user manual 3 After configuration you can check the related information through Volum...

Page 7: ...I hierarchy 17 3 2 Login 17 3 3 Quick install 18 3 4 System configuration 20 3 4 1 System name 20 3 4 2 IP address 20 3 4 3 Language 21 3 4 4 Login config 21 3 4 5 Password 22 3 4 6 Date 22 3 4 7 Mail...

Page 8: ...t export 45 3 7 6 Shutdown 46 3 8 Logout 46 Chapter 4 Advanced operation 47 4 1 Rebuild 47 4 2 VG migration and expansion 48 4 3 UDV Extension 50 4 4 Disk roaming 51 Appendix 52 A Certification list 5...

Page 9: ...tion data availability and performance to host environment PD The Physical Disk belongs to the member disk of one specific volume group VG Volume Group A collection of removable media One VG consists...

Page 10: ...erface SAS Serial Attached SCSI iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface FC Fibre Channel S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology WWN World Wide Name HBA Host Bus Adapter SA...

Page 11: ...olume relationship diagram This is the volume structure of Sans Digital designed It describes the relationship of RAID components One VG Volume Group consists of a set of UDVs User Data Volume and own...

Page 12: ...y 7 Setup the hardware connection before power on servers and Sans Digital RAID Subsystem Connect SAS cables console cable and management port cable in advance 2 2 Storage introduction For AR108X Seri...

Page 13: ...the https is slower than http https is supported on some specified models Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog to authenticate current user Login name admin Default password 1...

Page 14: ...LCM default filter the LCM shows the event log to give users more detail from front panel The following table is function description Alarm Mute Mute alarm when error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or sh...

Page 15: ...to flush the data from cache to physical disks 2 4 2 System buzzer The system buzzer features are listed below 1 The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully 2 The system buzze...

Page 16: ...ivated LED when accessing disks IO 3 Disk Power LED Hardware activated LED when the disks are plugged in and powered on 4 System status LED Used to reflect the system status by turning on the LED when...

Page 17: ...indown Volume group Create Delete More information Rename Migrate User data volume Attach Snapshot Create Delete More information Rename Extend Set read write mode Set priority Resize Snapshot space A...

Page 18: ...voltage Red represents abnormal voltage 4 UPS light Green means UPS works well Red represents UPS failure 5 Fan light Green means Fan works well Red represents fan failure Only for backplane solution...

Page 19: ...for a RAID 5 and then the maximum size of volume is 1200G 80G 15 By the wizard we do smarter check and find out the most efficient way of using HDDs The wizard only uses 200G HDDs Volume size is 200G...

Page 20: ...change the system name Default system name is composed of the model name and serial number of this system e g S500C A00001 Figure 3 4 1 1 3 4 2 IP address IP address can change IP address for remote...

Page 21: ...uto logout time The single admin can prevent multiple users access the same controller at the same time 1 Auto logout The options are 1 Disable 2 5 minutes 3 30 minutes 4 1 hour The system will log ou...

Page 22: ...rver Figure 3 4 6 1 3 4 7 Mail Mail can enter at most 3 mail addresses for receiving the event notification Some mail servers would check Mail from address and need authentication for anti spam Please...

Page 23: ...sses Default community setting is public User can choose the event log levels and default setting only enables INFO event log in SNMP Figure 3 4 8 1 There are many SNMP tools The following web sites a...

Page 24: ...efault setting enables event level INFO WARNING and ERROR event logs Figure 3 4 10 1 There are some syslog server tools The following web sites are for your reference WinSyslog http www winsyslog com...

Page 25: ...ies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there is are failed disk s Tips Please plug in any of the first four hard drives then event logs can be saved and displayed in ne...

Page 26: ...res can make multiple selections 4 The instructions of the web pages e g volume config of VG UDV CV LUN pages are the same as previous steps Figure 3 5 1 1 Figure 3 5 1 1 Physical disks of slot 1 2 3...

Page 27: ...he running time In order to protect the data in the disk the status changes to reserve It can be reused after setting it to FR manually Status 2 R Rebuild The hard drive is doing rebuilding M Migratio...

Page 28: ...the volume group Name Volume group name The button next to the Name is Rename Total GB Total capacity of this volume group Free GB Free capacity of this volume group PD The number of physical disks i...

Page 29: ...V 02 initializing to 46 UDV column description No Total capacity of user data volume The button below to the size is Extend Name Name of this user data volume The button below the UDV Name is Rename S...

Page 30: ...status of cache volume The global cache volume is a default cache volume which is created after power on automatically and cannot be deleted The size of global cache is based on the RAM size It is tot...

Page 31: ...will be denied when there is no matching rule 3 5 6 Examples The followings are examples for creating volumes Example 1 is to create two UDVs sharing the same CV global cache volume and set a global s...

Page 32: ...outcome Click if all setups are correct 5 Done A VG has been created Figure 3 5 6 2 Figure 3 5 6 2 Creating a RAID 5 with 4 physical disks named VG R5 The total size is 114GB Because there is no rela...

Page 33: ...3 5 6 4 Create UDVs named UDV R5 1 and UDV R5 2 Regarding to VG R5 the size of UDV R5 1 is 50GB the size of UDV R5 2 is 64GB The status of these UDVs are online write back high priority with cache vol...

Page 34: ...UDV R5 1 is attached to LUN 0 UDV R5 2 is attached LUN 1 Tips The matching rules of access control are from top to bottom in sequence Step 4 Set global spare disk To set global spare disks please fol...

Page 35: ...data volume please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Select UDVs by clicking the checkbox in the row 3 Click There will pop up a confirmation page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The...

Page 36: ...s dedicated cache volume First dedicated cache volume should be created it can be used in creating UDV Eventually delete them Each UDV is associated with one specific CV cache volume to execute the da...

Page 37: ...size of dedicated cache volume is 20MB Step 2 Create VG Volume Group Please refer to Step 1 of Example 1 to create VG Step 3 Create UDV User Data Volume Please refer to Step 2 of Example 1 to create...

Page 38: ...V named UDV R5 2 uses dedicated cache volume 20MB Step 4 Attach LUN to UDV Please refer to Step 3 of Example 1 to attach LUN Step 5 Set dedicated spare disk To set dedicated spare disks please follow...

Page 39: ...ata Volume Please refer to Step 7 of Example 1 to delete UDV Step 9 Delete VG User Data Volume Please refer to Step 8 of Example 1 to delete VG Step 10 Free dedicated spare disk To free dedicated spar...

Page 40: ...ge sensors hard disks fan sensors power sensors and LED status Due to the different hardware characteristics among these sensors they have different polling intervals Below is the detail polling time...

Page 41: ...and temperature Figure 3 6 2 1 If Auto shutdown has been checked the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range For better data protection please check A...

Page 42: ...ve failures in advance S M A R T provides users 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 h...

Page 43: ...hutdown Setting delay to 0 will disable the function Shutdown UPS Select ON when power is gone UPS will shutdown by itself after the system shutdown successfully After power comes back UPS will start...

Page 44: ...n in advance click Cancel to export system configuration in advance then click OK to start to upgrade firmware Figure 3 7 1 1 Figure 3 7 1 2 When upgrading there is a progress bar running After finish...

Page 45: ...are available in export and not available in import which can avoid confliction date deleting between two controllers That says if one controller already exists valuable data in the disks and user may...

Page 46: ...cute Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks The step is necessary for data protection Figure 3 7 6 1 3 8 Logout For security reason Logout allows users logout when no user is operatin...

Page 47: ...t customer data if the status of disk is unstable Sans Digital suggests all customers not to rebuild in the same failed disk 2 When there is enough global spare disk s or dedicated spare disk s for th...

Page 48: ...any hard drive failures or unplugs 4 2 VG migration and expansion To migrate the RAID level please follow below procedures 1 Select Volume config Volume group 2 Decide VG to be migrated click the butt...

Page 49: ...ger or equal to the original VG It does not allow expanding the same RAID level with the same hard disks of original VG During the setting migration if user doesn t setup correctly controller will pop...

Page 50: ...ion To extend UDV size please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Decide which UDV to extend click the button in the Size column next the number 3 Change the size The size...

Page 51: ...ts as described in the followings 1 Check the firmware of two systems first It is better that both systems have the same firmware version or newer 2 All physical disks of related VG should be moved fr...

Page 52: ...ST380013AS 80GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M Seagate Barracuda 7200 7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M NCQ Seagate Barracuda 7200 8 ST3400832AS 400GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M NCQ Seagate Barracuda 7...

Page 53: ...rk INFO Fan installed Fan number is installed ERROR Fan not present Fan number is not present WARNING Thermal warning System temperature location is a little bit higher ERROR Thermal critical System O...

Page 54: ...DV name has been LUN attached INFO LUN attachment failed Failed to attach LUN to UDV name INFO LUN detached UDV name has been detached INFO LUN detachment failed Failed to attach LUN from bus number S...

Page 55: ...t LBA address address of PD slot ERROR PD write error occurred Write error occurred at LBA address address of PD slot INFO PD freed PD slot has been removed from VG name INFO VG imported Configuration...

Page 56: ...e failure C Installation steps for large volume TB Introduction Sans Digital AR108X SAS RAID are capable of supporting large volumes 2TB on all product lines When connecting controllers to 64bit OS in...

Page 57: ...Configure host server 1 Follow the installation guild provided by HBA vendor install HBA driver properly For iSCSI models please install the latest Microsoft iSCSI initiator from the link below http w...

Page 58: ...igure C 3 3 Convert to GPT disk for over 2TB capacity For more detail information about GPT please visit http www microsoft com whdc device storage GPT_FAQ mspx Figure C 4 4 Format the disk Figure C 5...

Page 59: ...for VD and the host server OS is 32bit in the last step of formatting disk user will find OS can not format the disk sector after 2048GB 2TB 7 Wrong setting result OS can not format disk sector after...

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