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APPENDIX

145

Telnet Log

Serious

a Telnet login

detected

InVT100 Log In

Serious

a VT100 login

detected

API Log In

Serious

a API login detected

Lost Rebuilding/

MigrationLBA

Urgent

Some rebuilding/

migration raidset

member disks

missing before power

on.

Reinserted the missing member

disk back, controller will continue

the incompleted rebuilding/

migration.

Note:

It depends on models, not every model will encounter all events.

Summary of Contents for ER208UT+B

Page 1: ...ELITERAID ER208UT B DETAILED USER S MANUAL v1 0...

Page 2: ...material FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasona...

Page 3: ...16 2 2 2 Start up VT100 Screen 17 2 3 Web browser based RAID manager 20 2 4 Configuration Menu Tree 20 3 LCD Configuration Menu 22 3 1 Starting LCD Configuration Utility 22 3 2 LCD Configuration Util...

Page 4: ...ume Set Consistency Check 39 3 7 4 6 Display Volume Set Information 39 3 7 5 Physical Drive Functions 40 3 7 5 1 Display Drive Information 41 3 7 5 2 Create Pass Through Disk 41 3 7 5 3 Modify Pass Th...

Page 5: ...ting Drives as Hot Spares 55 4 3 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration 55 4 4 Using Raid Set Volume Set Function Method 57 4 5 Main Menu 59 4 5 1 Quick Volume Raid Setup 60 4 5 2 Raid Set Functi...

Page 6: ...Priority 88 4 5 5 6 Maximum SATA Mode 89 4 5 5 7 Host NCQ Mode Setting 89 4 5 5 8 HDD Read Ahead Cache 90 4 5 5 9 Volume Data Read Ahead 91 4 5 5 10 Stagger Power On 91 4 5 5 11 Spin Down Idle HDD 92...

Page 7: ...Set Functions 113 5 5 1 Create Volume Set 113 5 5 2 Delete Volume Set 116 5 5 3 Modify Volume Set 117 5 5 3 1 Volume Expansion 117 5 5 3 2 Volume Set Migration 117 5 5 4 Check Volume Set 118 5 5 5 Sto...

Page 8: ...LAN Port 137 Appendix B 139 SNMP Operation Definition 139 Appendix C 141 Technical Support 141 Appendix D 142 Event Notification Configurations 142 A Device Event 142 B Volume Event 143 C RAID Set Ev...

Page 9: ...tor 153 Consistency Check 154 Data Protection 154 Recovery ROM 154 Appendix F 156 Understanding RAID 156 RAID 0 156 RAID 1 157 RAID 10 1E 158 RAID 3 158 RAID 5 159 RAID 6 160 JBOD 160 Single Disk Pass...

Page 10: ...ID Storage Subsystem The RAID conntroller allows easy scalability from JBOD to RAID It can be configured to RAID levels 0 1 10 1E 3 5 6 Single Disk or JBOD The RAID function allows one HDD failure wit...

Page 11: ...ver true hardware RAID Designed and leveraged with Sans Digital s existing high performance solution this controller delivers high capacity performance at the best of cost performance value Hardware R...

Page 12: ...S232 port or Ethernet port Manual configuration and monitoring can be done through the LCD control panel The firmware also contains an embedded terminal emulation via the RS 232 port The firm ware emb...

Page 13: ...t Interface 2 x 3Gbps eSATA and USB 2 0 Disk Interface 8 12 16 x 3 0Gbps SATA ll hot swappable drives Monitors Notification Push Buttons and LCD Display Panel for setup and status Environment and driv...

Page 14: ...control and management of the controller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software Note The RAID controller allows only one method to access menus at a time 2 1 Using l...

Page 15: ...en as the following Function Key De nitions The four function keys at the button of the rear panel perform the following functions Key Function Up Arrow Use to scroll the cursor Upward Rightward Down...

Page 16: ...lation program to the serial port for access ing the text based Setup Menu 2 2 1 RAID Controller RS 232C Port Pin Assign ment To ensure proper communications between the RAID controller and the VT 100...

Page 17: ...n mode all RAID controller moni toring configuration and administration functions can be exer cised from the VT100 terminal There are a wide variety of Terminal Emulation packages but for the most par...

Page 18: ...ate connecting port in your Terminal Click OK Configure the port parameter settings Bits per second 115200 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control None Click OK Step 4 Open the File menu and...

Page 19: ...H Emulation VT100 Telnet terminal VT100 Back scroll buffer lines 500 Click OK Now the VT100 is ready to use After you have finished the VT100 Terminal setup you may press X key in your Terminal to lin...

Page 20: ...avoid radiated emission that may cause interruptions To ensure proper communications between the RAID controller and Web browser based RAID management Please connect the RAID controller Ethernet LAN p...

Page 21: ...CONFIGURATION METHOD 21 Note Ethernet Configuration Alert By Mail Config and SNMP Config can only be set in the web based configuration...

Page 22: ...s The LCD screen displays up to two lines at a time of menu items or other information The LCD display back panel function keys are the primary user interface for the RAID controller Except for the Fi...

Page 23: ...thernet LAN setting Show System Events Record all system events in the buffer Clear All Event Buffers Clear all event buffer information Hardware Monitor Information Show all system environment status...

Page 24: ...t Spare Disk option and then press ENT The first unused physical device con nected to the current RAID controller appears Press UP DOWN buttons to scroll the unused physical devices and select the tar...

Page 25: ...ns to select the current volume set stripe size and press ENT key to confirm it This parameter specifies the size of the stripes written to each disk in a RAID 0 1 10 or 5 volume set You can set the s...

Page 26: ...lected physical drive with the current raid set Recommend use drives has same capacity in a specific raid set If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the raid set will se...

Page 27: ...y for the volume set Using the UP DOWN buttons to set the volume set capacity and press ENT to confirm it 12 When you finished defining the volume set press ENT to confirm the Cre ate function 13 Pres...

Page 28: ...the rmware which allows you to scroll through various menus and submenus and select among the predetermined con guration options This function provides an easy way to enter the Quick Volume Raid Setup...

Page 29: ...are selected during the configuration process 3 A single volume set is created and consumed all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this RAID set 4 If you need to add additional volume set...

Page 30: ...procedure refer to this chapter section 3 6 3 7 3 Raid Set Functions User manual configuration can complete control of the raid set setting but it will take longer time to complete than the Quick Vol...

Page 31: ...buttons to choose the Delete Raid Set op tion Using UP DOWN buttons to select the raid set number that user want to delete and then press ENT to accept the raid set number The confirmation screen app...

Page 32: ...ble disk then the Select Drive IDE Channel x appears Using up and down arrow to select the target disk and then press ENT to select it Press ENT to start expanding the existed raid set The new add cap...

Page 33: ...ares 3 7 3 7 Delete Hot Spare Disk To delete hot spare press UP DOWN buttons to choose the Delete Hot Spare Disk option Using UP DOWN buttons to select the hot spare number that user want to delete an...

Page 34: ...ns to select the Volume Set Func tions option and then press ENT to enter further submenus All volume set submenus will be displayed 3 7 4 1 Create Raid Volume Set To create a volume set Please refer...

Page 35: ...aid level 0 1 10 1E 3 5 or 6 3 7 4 1 3 Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID 0 1 10 or 5 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 3...

Page 36: ...A1 For channel 1 host USB USB host channel can access to the volume set 3 7 4 1 6 Drive Number eSATA0 host system with port multiplier function the host port can support up to 8 volume sets any Drive...

Page 37: ...the workload The RAID controller allows user to choose the SATA Mode slowest to fastest SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ 3 7 4 1 8 Capacity The maximum volume size is default in the first setti...

Page 38: ...delete volume set function The double confirmation screen appears then press ENT to make sure of the delete volume set function 3 7 4 3 Modify Volume Set Attribute Use this option to modify volume se...

Page 39: ...ion status is displayed in the volume state area of the Display Volume Set Information 3 7 4 4 Check Volume Set Consistency Use this option to check volume set consistency To check vol ume set consist...

Page 40: ...Mode and Current SATA All value cannot be modifying by this option 3 7 5 Physical Drive Functions Choose this option from the main menu to select a physical disk and to perform the operations listed...

Page 41: ...3 7 5 2 Create Pass Through Disk Disk is no controlled by the RAID controller firmware and thus cannot be a part of a raid set The disk is available to the op erating system as an individual disk It i...

Page 42: ...de All value can be modified by user UP DOWN buttons to select attribute Press ENT to modify the default value Using the up and down arrow buttons to select attribute value and press ENT to accept the...

Page 43: ...ons to select the disk that user want to identify and press ENT The selected disk Fault LED indicator will flash 3 7 6 Raid System Functions To enter a Raid System Functions press ENT to enter the mai...

Page 44: ...LCD CONFIGURATION MENU 44 Figure 3 7 6 1...

Page 45: ...the RAID controller password press the UP DOWN buttons to select Change Password option and then press ENT to accept the selection The New Password screen appears and enter new password that user wan...

Page 46: ...NCQ is a command protocol in Serial ATA that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives It allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support...

Page 47: ...nt value for the controllers depends on your application Aggressive read ahead is optimal for sequential access but it degrades random access 3 7 6 10 Stagger Power On Control In a PC system with only...

Page 48: ...light ON or OFF When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this op tion to OFF Choose option ON the EliteRAID RAID control ler will light the Fault LED if no HDD insta...

Page 49: ...the other 123 4 GB Multiples Of 1G truncates the fractional part This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Disabled It does not truncate the capacity 3...

Page 50: ...of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to minimize the work necessary to administer a large IP network...

Page 51: ...f the RAID controller press the UP DOWN buttons to select Ethernet Configuration function and press ENT Using UP DOWN buttons to select Local IP Adress then press ENT It will show the default address...

Page 52: ...nts To view the RAID controller events press ENT to enter the main menu Press UP DOWN buttons to select the Show System Events option and then press ENT The system events will be displayed Press UP DO...

Page 53: ...o browse all the system information buttons to browse all the hardware information The hardware information provides the temperature fan speed chassis fan and voltage of the RAID controller All items...

Page 54: ...drives Update firmware Modify system function and Designate drives as hot spares Keyboard Navigation The following definition is the VT 100 RAID configuration utility key board navigation Key Function...

Page 55: ...n be created when you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the appro...

Page 56: ...or the current volume set are displayed 4 Using up and down arrow key to select the current volume set stripe size and press Enter key to confirm it This parameter specifies the size of the stripes wr...

Page 57: ...e sets The Raid Set Volume Set Function configuration option allows you to associate volume set with partial and full raid set Note User can use this method to examine the existing configura tion Modi...

Page 58: ...s Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for a raid set The default raid set name will always appear as Raid Set Press Enter to finish the name editing 7 Press Enter key w...

Page 59: ...ume set Physical Drives View individual disk information Raid System Function Setting the raid system configuration Ethernet Configuration Ethernet LAN Setting View System Events Record all system eve...

Page 60: ...eds a few keystrokes to complete it Although disk drives have different capacity may be used in the raid set it will use the smallest capacity of disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the r...

Page 61: ...No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation LBA 64 This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity supports up to 512TB This option works on different OS which sup...

Page 62: ...gital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware...

Page 63: ...y configure the raid set for the first time or delete ex isted raid set and re configure the raid set A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your computer does mostly sequ...

Page 64: ...sor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Conf...

Page 65: ...re Rescue Raid Set Raid Set Information Create Raid Set Select IDE Drives For Raid Set Ch01 80 0GBST380013AS Ch02 500 1GBST380023AS Ch03 500 1GBST450013AS Ch04 500 1GBST895013AS Ch05 500 1GBST665013AS...

Page 66: ...id Set Function Raid Set Function Create Raid Set Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set Offline Raid Set Activate Raid Set Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare Rescue Raid Set Raid Set Information Expand Raid...

Page 67: ...t Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Raid Set Function Raid Set Function Create Raid Set Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set Offline Raid Set Activate...

Page 68: ...Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Fun...

Page 69: ...aid Set Offline Raid Set Activate Raid Set Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare Rescue Raid Set Raid Set Information Delete Hot Spare Select Drives HotSpare Drive To Be Deleted Ch04 400 1GBST380013AS Ch0...

Page 70: ...ist on a group of disks in a raid set Additional volume sets created in a specified Raid Set will reside on all the physical disks in the raid set Thus each volume set on the raid set will have its da...

Page 71: ...lume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set Stop Volume Check Display Volume Info Create Volume Set Create Volume From Raid Set Raid Set 01 2 2 Disks Normal Raid Set 01 2 2 Disks Normal 4 5 3 1 Create...

Page 72: ...sets 7 The initialization percentage of volume set will be displayed at the button line 4 5 3 1 1 Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set 00 You can rename the volume set...

Page 73: ...ode Write Back SATA Xfer Mode SATA300 NCQ Volume Name EliteRAID VOL 00 Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup...

Page 74: ...Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Volume Set Function V...

Page 75: ...e Creation Volume Name ARC 5060 VOL 00 Raid Level 5 Capacity 1000 0GB Stripe Size 64K Host Channel SATA 139 Drive Number 1 Cache Mode Write Back SATA Xfer Mode SATA300 NCQ Stripe Size 64k Select Strip...

Page 76: ...rrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Funct...

Page 77: ...ueue where outstanding commands can be dynamically rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The RAID controller all...

Page 78: ...Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info Create Volume Set Create Volume From Raid Set Raid Set 01 Raid Set 00 Volume Creation Volume Name EliteRAID VOL 00 Raid Level 5 Capacit...

Page 79: ...or create another volume set The Modify Volume Set function can support the volume set expansion function To expand volume set capacity value from raid set system function move the cursor bar to the...

Page 80: ...ay the properties of the selected Volume set 4 5 3 3 2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another a volume set strip size changes or when a dis...

Page 81: ...tion screen ap pears presses Yes to start check 4 5 3 5 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop all the Check Volume Set function 4 5 3 6 Display Volume Set Info To display volume set informatio...

Page 82: ...elected Drive View Drive Information Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Func...

Page 83: ...t The Drive Ch03 400 1GB Free ST380013AS Ch04 500 1GB Free ST895013AS Ch03 500 1GB Free ST450013AS Pass Through Disk Attribute Host Channel SATA Drive Number 2 Cache Mode Write Back SATA Xfer Mode SAT...

Page 84: ...through Disk item then press Enter key The Delete Pass Through confirmation screen will appear and press Yes key to delete it Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans D...

Page 85: ...sor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function 4 5 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper The Mute The Alert Beeper function item is used to control the RAID controller beeper Select the Ye...

Page 86: ...r No Yes 4 5 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting The Alert Beeper Setting function item is used to control the RAID controller beeper Select Disabled and press Enter key in the dialog controller to turn the beep...

Page 87: ...main menu from the starting screen 4 5 5 4 JBOD RAID Function JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk A group of hard disks in a RAID controller are not set up as any type of RAID configuration A...

Page 88: ...Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration...

Page 89: ...drive The SATA drive channel can support up to SATA ll which runs up to 300MB s NCQ is a command protocol in Serial ATA that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives It allows multiple...

Page 90: ...and Sili conimage SATA controller ICH Intel ICH series SATA controller Marvell6145 Marvell 6145 SATA controller nVidia Nvida SATA controller 4 5 5 8 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enab...

Page 91: ...ange Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority Maximum SATA Mode Host NCQ Mode Setting HDD Read Ahead Cache Volume Data Read Ahead Stagger Power On Spin Down Idle HDD Empty HDD Slot LED HDD...

Page 92: ...and Sili conimage SATA controller ICH Intel ICH series SATA controller Marvell6145 Marvell 6145 SATA controller nVidia Nvida SATA controller 4 5 5 8 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enab...

Page 93: ...Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configu...

Page 94: ...ation Terminal Port Config Update Firmware Shutdown Controller Restart Controller HDD SMART Status Polling HDD SMART Stautus Polling Disabled Enabled Disabled 4 5 5 13 HDD SMART Status Polling HDD SMA...

Page 95: ...oller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System...

Page 96: ...ller Terminal Port Config Terminal Port Config 1200 Stop Bits 1 bit Baud Rate 115200 Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For...

Page 97: ...tion item and then press the Enter key The Raid system Function menu appears on the screen Press Enter key to select Shutdown Controller item The shutdown controller confirmation screen appears Select...

Page 98: ...Slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Auto Activate Raid Set Capacity Truncation Terminal Port Config Update Firmware Shutdown Controller Restart Controller Restart Controller Restart Controller 1200 No...

Page 99: ...er a large IP network To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to the main menu Ethernet Configuration function item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configu...

Page 100: ...RAID controller You can reassign the IP address of the controller Arrow Key Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Sans Digital RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Rai...

Page 101: ...onfiguration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Ethernet Configuration Ethernet Configuration DHCP Function Enabled Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 HTTP Port Nu...

Page 102: ...Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Ethernet Configuration Ethe...

Page 103: ...sical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information View System Events Time Device Event Type ElapseTime Errors 2004 1 1...

Page 104: ...8 Celsius Power 12V 12 220 Power 5 V 4 999 Power 3 3V 3 344 SATA PHY 2 5V 2 512 DDR ll 1 8V 1 792 PEX8505 1 5V 1 504 CPU 1 2V 1 200 4 5 8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire event...

Page 105: ...unction Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information System Information The System Information Main Processor 400MHz 88F5182 CPU ICache Size 32KB CP...

Page 106: ...5 1 Firmware embedded TCP IP web browser based RAID manager using the controller s 10 100 LAN port To ensure proper communications between the RAID controller and Web browser based RAID management Pl...

Page 107: ...me set information and drive information can also be viewed by clicking on the RaidSet Hierarchy screen The current configuration can also be viewed by clicking on RaidSet Hierarchy in the menu To dis...

Page 108: ...ion View the controller information The RaidSet Hierarchy can also view through the RaidSet Hierarchy item 5 2 1 Main Menu The main menu shows all function that enables the customer to execute actions...

Page 109: ...s to manu ally configure the RAID set for the first time or deletes existing RAID set and reconfigures the RAID set A RAID set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets 5 4 1 Create Raid...

Page 110: ...en Tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it 5 4 3 Expand Raid Set Use this option to expand a RAID set when a disk is added to your RAID controller T...

Page 111: ...te the raid set click on the Activate Raid Set link Then Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is displayed showing all raid set existing in the current controller Click the raid set number you which...

Page 112: ...screen to delete the hot spares 5 4 8 Rescue RaidSet When the system is power off in the RAID set update period it may be disappeared in this abnormal condition The RESCUE function can recover the mi...

Page 113: ...es for the EliteRAID RAID controller 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same raid set 2 Up to 16 volumes per RAID controller port multiplier SATA host 8 volumes without port mul...

Page 114: ...ate volume size to fit your application Volume Initialization Mode Press Enter key to define Foreground Initialization Background Initialization or No Init To Rescue Volume When Foreground Initializat...

Page 115: ...rial ATA hard drives It allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynamically reschedu...

Page 116: ...9 15 for Reserved USB2 0 host system the host port can support up to 16 volume sets Drive number from 0 to 15 Assign the drive value from number 0 Up to 16 volumes can support on each EliteRAID RAID s...

Page 117: ...odify all values except the capacity 5 5 3 1 Volume Expansion Use this raid set expands to expand a raid set when a disk is added to your system The expand capacity can use to enlarge the volume set s...

Page 118: ...dSet Hierarchy in the main menu 5 5 5 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop the Check Volume Set function 5 6 Physical Drive Choose this option from the Main Menu to select a physical disk and...

Page 119: ...lect the drive which you want to modify then click on the Submit button The Enter Pass Through Disk Attribute screen appears modify the drive attribute values as you want After you complete the se lec...

Page 120: ...Drive link The Select The IDE Device For Identification screen appears tick on the IDE de vice from the drives pool and Flash method After completing the selection click on the Submit button to ident...

Page 121: ...kground tasks appropriately For high array performance specify a Low value Terminal Port Configuration Speed setting values are 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 and 115200 Stop Bits values are 1...

Page 122: ...ay command tag queuing CTQ works in SCSI command set based disk drives NCQ algorithms allow I O operations to be performed out of order to optimize and leverage disk read write head positioning and ul...

Page 123: ...iple disk drives in a storage controller It gives the host the ability to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the...

Page 124: ...ng vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides thr...

Page 125: ...n a computer network When using the Internet s set of protocols TCP IP in order for a computer system to communicate to another computer system it needs a unique IP address Without DHCP the IP address...

Page 126: ...em events and user can select either single or multiple user notifications to be sent via Plain English e mails with no software required When you open the mail configuration page you will see followi...

Page 127: ...m the web setting with no Agent software required Please refer to Appendix D SNMP operation Definition for more detail information about the SNMP trap and definition SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the...

Page 128: ...he time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to...

Page 129: ...eat ease and less hassle Automatic Daylight Saving The Automatic Daylight Saving will normally attempt to automatically adjust the system clock for daylight saving changes based on the computer time z...

Page 130: ...ents buffer information 5 7 9 Modify Password To set or change the RAID controller password move the mouse cursor to System Controls screen and click on the Change Password link The Modify System Pass...

Page 131: ...uthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The RAID controller will automatically go back to the initial screen when it does not re...

Page 132: ...Volume Sets 5 8 2 System Information To view the RAID controller information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the System Information link The Raid Controller Information screen appe...

Page 133: ...chassis fan and voltage of the RAID control ler All items are also unchangeable The warning messages will indicate through the LCM LED and alarm buzzer Item Warning Condition Enclosure Board Temperat...

Page 134: ...RAID kernal program EliteRAIDMBR0 BIN Master Boot Record for supporting Dual Flash Image in the EliteRAID RAID controller README TXT it contains the history information of the firmware change Read th...

Page 135: ...he bin file from your OEM s web site onto the c 1 From the Main Menu scroll down to Raid System Function 2 Choose the Update Firmware The Update The Raid Firm ware dialog controller appears 3 Go to th...

Page 136: ...d Select the File name 6 Click Send to send the Firmware Binary to the controller 7 When the Firmware completes downloading the confirmation screen appears Press Yes to start program the flash ROM 8 W...

Page 137: ...t the new version firmware for your RAID controller For exam ple download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the c Note 1 The user doesn t need to reconfigure all of the settings after the fir...

Page 138: ...ton 4 The Web Browser begins to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash ROM 5 After the firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware has Been Up...

Page 139: ...r site SNMP Definition SNMP an IP based protocol has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager and the managed devices have the...

Page 140: ...known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successfu...

Page 141: ...urage you to use one of our web site services which provide product information updates for the most efficient service and support If you decide to contact us please have the information such as Produ...

Page 142: ...ent Level Meaning Action Device Inserted Warning HDD inserted Device Removed Warning HDD removed Reading Error Warning HDD reading error Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unsta...

Page 143: ...lume deleted Modify Volume Warning Volume modified Volume Degraded Urgent Volume degraded Replace HDD Volume Failed Urgent Volume failure Failed Volume Revived Urgent Failed Volume revived Abort Initi...

Page 144: ...roller over 60 degree Check air flow and cooling fan of theenclosure and contact us Hdd Over Temperature Urgent Abnormally high temperature detected on Hdd over 55 degree Check air flow and cooling fa...

Page 145: ...In Serious a API login detected Lost Rebuilding MigrationLBA Urgent Some rebuilding migration raidset member disks missing before power on Reinserted the missing member disk back controller will cont...

Page 146: ...host system as a single logical device in other words a single large virtual hard disk A volume set will use a specific RAID level which will require one or more physical disks depending on the RAID l...

Page 147: ...ainst disk failures while initialing If using Foreground Initialization the initializa tion process must be completed before the volume set is ready for system accesses Online Array Roaming The RAID s...

Page 148: ...e volume sets being expanded can be accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAID level 1 10 1E 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case...

Page 149: ...expanding a RAID level 1 array would require the addition of two disks A third disk can be added to the existing RAID logical drive and the volume set can then be migrated from RAID level 1 to 5 The...

Page 150: ...partition is extended to incorporate the free space so it can be used by the operating system without creating a new operating system partition You can use the Diskpart exe command line utility inclu...

Page 151: ...D subsystem chip includes a protection circuit that sup ports the replacement of SATA hard disk drives without having to shut down or reboot the system A removable hard drive tray can deliver hot swap...

Page 152: ...will automatically restart the system and rebuilding process if the system is shut down or powered off ab normally during a reconstruction procedure condition When a disk is hot swapped although the s...

Page 153: ...and look at it The SMART can often predict a problem before failure occurs The controllers will recognize a SMART error code and notify the administer of an impending hard drive failure Auto Reassign...

Page 154: ...and verifies that the computed parity matches the read parity Consistency checks are very important because they detect and correct parity errors or bad disk blocks in the drive A consistency check fo...

Page 155: ...APPENDIX 155 Redundant Flash Image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crash...

Page 156: ...d the disks physical configuration transparent to the host operating system This means that the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selec...

Page 157: ...if the array controller can in parallel access both members of a mirrored pair During writes there will be a minor performance penalty when compared to writing to a single disk If one drive fails all...

Page 158: ...trip is mirrored on an adjacent disk with wrap around Sans Digital RAID 10 offers a little more flexibility in choosing the number of disks that can be used to constitute an array The number can be ev...

Page 159: ...edicated parity disk If one drive in the system fails the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the s...

Page 160: ...d parity scheme Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives and then a second set of parity is calculated and written across all of the drives JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks A group of hard di...

Page 161: ...s sub divided and distributed across all disks Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk 3 Single disk failure 3...

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