Synergy Global Technology RAC281 User Manual Download Page 3

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1

 

RAID introduction.......................................... 5

 

1.1

 

Features........................................................................... 5

 

1.2

 

Terminology ..................................................................... 6

 

1.3

 

RAID levels ...................................................................... 8

 

Chapter 2

 

Getting started ............................................... 9

 

2.1

 

Before starting.................................................................. 9

 

2.2

 

Storage introduction......................................................... 9

 

2.3

 

Management methods ................................................... 10

 

2.3.1

 

Web GUI

...................................................................................................10

 

2.3.2

 

RS-232 serial port

.....................................................................................10

 

2.3.3

 

Remote control – secure shell

.................................................................10

 

2.4

 

Enclosure ....................................................................... 11

 

2.4.1

 

LCM

........................................................................................................... 11

 

2.4.1

 

System buzzer

..........................................................................................13

 

Chapter 3

 

Web GUI guideline....................................... 14

 

3.1

 

S-series GUI hierarchy................................................... 14

 

3.2

 

Login .............................................................................. 15

 

3.3

 

Quick install.................................................................... 16

 

3.4

 

System configuration ..................................................... 17

 

3.4.1

 

System name

............................................................................................18

 

3.4.2

 

IP address

.................................................................................................18

 

3.4.3

 

Password

..................................................................................................19

 

3.4.4

 

Date

...........................................................................................................19

 

3.4.5

 

Mail

........................................................................................................... 20

 

3.4.6

 

SNMP

....................................................................................................... 20

 

3.4.7

 

Event log

...................................................................................................21

 

3.5

 

Volume configuration ..................................................... 21

 

3.5.1

 

Volume relationship diagram

.................................................................. 22

 

3.5.2

 

Physical disk

............................................................................................ 22

 

3.5.3

 

Volume group

.......................................................................................... 24

 

3.5.4

 

User data volume

.................................................................................... 27

 

3.5.5

 

Cache volume

.......................................................................................... 29

 

3.5.6

 

Logical unit number

................................................................................. 30

 

3.5.7

 

Examples

..................................................................................................31

 

3.6

 

Enclosure management ................................................. 40

 

3.6.1

 

SAF-TE configuration

...............................................................................41

 

3.6.2

 

Voltage and Temperature

....................................................................... 42

 

3.6.3

 

Hard drive S.M.A.R.T. function support

.................................................. 43

 

3.6.4

 

UPS

.......................................................................................................... 43

 

3.7

 

System maintenance ..................................................... 45

 

3.7.1

 

Upgrade

................................................................................................... 45

 

3.7.2

 

Info

........................................................................................................... 46

 

3.7.3

 

Shutdown

................................................................................................. 46

 

3.8

 

Logout ............................................................................ 46

 

 

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Summary of Contents for RAC281

Page 1: ...1 SCSI Ultra 320 to SATA II RAID Controller User Manual Version 3 0 JAN 2006 www RackmountMart com email sales RackmountMart com SYNERGY GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY INC 1 888 865 6888 RAC281 RAC361...

Page 2: ...h operation environment is different Information and specification are subject to change without further notice The RAM size of RAC281 RAC361 recommends 512MB or more Please refer to the certification...

Page 3: ...3 Quick install 16 3 4 System configuration 17 3 4 1 System name 18 3 4 2 IP address 18 3 4 3 Password 19 3 4 4 Date 19 3 4 5 Mail 20 3 4 6 SNMP 20 3 4 7 Event log 21 3 5 Volume configuration 21 3 5 1...

Page 4: ...igration and expansion 48 4 3 UDV Extension 50 4 4 Snapshot Rollback optional 51 4 4 1 Create snapshot volume 52 4 4 2 Auto snapshot 53 4 4 3 Rollback 54 4 5 Disk roaming 54 Appendix 55 A Certificatio...

Page 5: ...ace It can be configured to any RAID level It provides reliable data protection for servers and offers a new technology to implement the RAID 6 function The RAID 6 function allows two HDD failures wit...

Page 6: ...isk of one specific volume group VG Volume Group One VG consists of a set of UDVs and owns one RAID level attribute UDV User Data Volume Each VG could be divided into different UDVs The UDVs from one...

Page 7: ...l disks WB Write Back cache write policy Will speed up system write performance but needs to bear the risk where data may be inconsistent between data cache and the physical disks in one short time in...

Page 8: ...er disks RAID 3 needs at least three hard drives RAID 6 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 needs at least four hard drives RAID 0 1 Mirroring of the member RAID 0 volumes RAI...

Page 9: ...esses subnet mask and default gateway 2 2 Storage introduction Storage has two ends in the connection These ends are the initiator and the target The initiator Requests or initiates any SCSI communica...

Page 10: ...RS 232 serial port Use NULL modem cable to connect console port Default baud rate 115200 8 bits 1 stop bit and no parity Terminal type vt100 Login name admin Default password 1234 2 3 3 Remote control...

Page 11: ...s function description Alarm Mute Mute alarm when error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or shutdown controller Quick Install Three steps to create a volume Please refer to section 3 3 for operation in web...

Page 12: ...xxxxx MB Apply The Config cYes Nod IP Config Static IP IP Address 192 168 000 001 IP Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 View IP Setting IP Gateway 192 168 000 254 DHCP cYes Nod IP Address Adjust IP address IP...

Page 13: ...re describing on the following 1 The system buzzer will alarm 3 seconds when system boots up successfully 2 The system buzzer will alarm continuously when there are error level events happened in the...

Page 14: ...spares Dedicated spares More information Volume group Create Delete More information Rename Migrate User data volume Create Delete Attach LUN Snapshot More information Rename Extend Set read write mod...

Page 15: ...dialog to authenticate Login name admin Default password 1234 After login the selections listed on the left can be operated Figure 3 2 1 There are three indicators at the top right corner 1 Voltage l...

Page 16: ...ct Quick install then choose the RAID level to set Please refer to Figure 3 3 1 After choosing the RAID level click it will be linked to another page required to set up the Bus ID SCSI ID LUN Figure 3...

Page 17: ...ta volume with the UDV name QUICK20680 named by the system itself with the total available volume size 608256MB 3 4 System configuration System config selection is for the setup of System name IP addr...

Page 18: ...18 Figure 3 4 1 3 4 1 System name Select System name to change system name Default system name composed by model name and serial number of this system e g S120 000001 Figure 3 4 1 1 3 4 2 IP address...

Page 19: ...usage There are 2 selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or set static IP Figure 3 4 2 1 3 4 3 Password Select Password is for changing administrator password Figure 3 4 3 1 3 4 4 Date Select...

Page 20: ...ress and need authentication for anti spam Please fill the necessary fields and select Send test mail to check whether the email works fine Figure 3 4 5 1 3 4 6 SNMP Select SNMP to set up SNMP trap fo...

Page 21: ...utton will clear event log Press Mute button will stop alarm if system alerts Figure 3 4 7 1 3 5 Volume configuration Volume config selection is for the setup of volume configurations including Physic...

Page 22: ...logical volume which the users could access by using the SCSI commands 3 5 2 Physical disk Enter Physical disk to view the status of hard drives inserted in the system The following are operation tip...

Page 23: ...global spare disk Slot 7 has been set as dedicated spare disk of VG named VG R5 Slot 8 is a free disk PD column description Slot The position of hard drives The number of slot begins from left to righ...

Page 24: ...ot be used It may be caused by an uncompleted VG set or hot plug this disk in the running time In order to protect the data in the disk the status changes to reserve It can be reused after setting it...

Page 25: ...group name The blue square button next to the Name is Rename function Total MB Total capacity of this volume group Free MB Free capacity of this volume group PD The number of physical disks which the...

Page 26: ...el which this volume group is using The blue square button next to the RAID level is Migrate function Click Migrate can add disk s to do expansion or change the RAID level of the Volume group VG opera...

Page 27: ...initializing to 53 UDV column description No Number of this user data volume The blue square button in below to the UDV No is More Information indication It shows the details of the User data volume...

Page 28: ...lume is using LUN Number of LUN s that data volume is attaching Snapshot MB The user data volume size that used for snapshot The blue square button next to the snapshot is Resize function to decide th...

Page 29: ...cally and cannot be deleted The size of global cache is base on the RAM size It will be total memory size minus that system uses Figure 3 5 5 1 CV column description No Number of this Cache volume The...

Page 30: ...gical unit function to view the status of attached logical unit number of each UDV Figure 3 5 6 1 LUN operations description ATTACH Attach a logical unit number to a user data volume DETACH Detach a l...

Page 31: ...e VG each UDV uses global cache volume Global cache volume has been created after system boots up So it doesn t do anything about CV Then set a global spare disk The last delete all of them Step 1 Cre...

Page 32: ...eate UDV User Data Volume To create a data user volume please follow the procedures Figure 3 5 7 3 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Click 3 Input a UDV name choose a VG Name and input a size...

Page 33: ...R5 2 is initialing about 91 There is no LUN attached Step 3 Attach LUN to UDV There are 2 methods to attach LUN to UDV 1 In Volume config User data volume press 2 In Volume config Logical unit press T...

Page 34: ...the row then click to set as global spares 3 There is a GS icon shown up at status 1 column Figure 3 5 7 7 Figure 3 5 7 7 Slot 5 has been set as global spare disk Step 5 Done They can be used as SCSI...

Page 35: ...k There will pop up a confirm page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The UDVs have been deleted Step 8 Delete VG Volume Group To delete the volume group please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Volume gro...

Page 36: ...execute the data transaction Each CV could own the different cache memory size If there is no special request in UDVs it will use global cache volume Or it can be created a dedicated cache for indivif...

Page 37: ...Fill in the size and click 5 Done A new dedicated cache volume has been set 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 ref...

Page 38: ...V using dedicated cache has been created Figure 3 5 7 11 Figure 3 5 6 11 UDV named UDV R5 1 uses global cache volume 40MB and UDV R5 2 uses dedicated cache volume 20MB UDV R5 2 is initialing about 17...

Page 39: ...en set as dedicated spare disk of VG named VG R5 Step 6 Done They can be used as SCSI disks Delete UDVs VG please follow the steps Step 7 Detach LUN from UDV Please refer to Step 6 of Example 1 to det...

Page 40: ...config Cache volume 2 Select a CV by clicking the checkbox of the row 3 Click There will pop up a confirm page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The CV has been deleted Step 12 Done all volumes have been deleted 3 6...

Page 41: ...ement standards Enter SAF TE config function can enable or disable the management of SAF TE from buses Figure 3 6 1 1 Figure 3 6 1 1 Enable SAF TE in Bus 0 SCSI ID 15 and LUN 0 The SAF TE client softw...

Page 42: ...e function to view the information of current voltage and temperature Figure 3 6 2 1 for S50C S100C Figure 3 6 2 2 for S60C S120C If Auto shutdown has been checked the system will shutdown automatical...

Page 43: ...decided if they are moving out of tolerance Knowing that each hard drive is going to fail and doing something about it is infinitely better than having one crash in the middle of writing data Backing...

Page 44: ...mart UPS for APC None for other vendors or no UPS Shutdown Battery Level When below the setting level the system will issue shutdown Setting level to 0 will be disabled Shutdown Delay s If power failu...

Page 45: ...are Info to show the system version and Shutdown to either reboot or shutdown the system Figure 3 7 1 3 7 1 Upgrade Enter Upgrade function to upgrade firmware Please prepare new firmware file named xx...

Page 46: ...t will display REBOOT and SHUTDOWN buttons Before power off it s better to press SHUTDOWN to flush the data from cache to physical disks Figure 3 7 3 1 3 8 Logout For security reason Logout function w...

Page 47: ...two have the same meaning The following table is the relationship between RAID levels and rebuild RAID 0 Disk striping No protection VG will fail if any hard drive fails or plugs out RAID 1 Disk mirro...

Page 48: ...two hard drives fail or plug out but at the different array RAID 50 Striping over the member RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 allows two hard drives fail or plug out but at the different array RAID 60 Striping...

Page 49: ...ume config User data volume it will display a M in Status 4 and complete percentage of migration in R Figure 4 2 1 Figure 4 2 2 Figure 4 2 2 A RAID 0 with 2 physical disks migrates to RAID 5 with 3 ph...

Page 50: ...The size must larger than the original then click to start extension 4 Extension starts If UDV needs initialized it will display an I in Status 3 and complete percentage of initialization in R Figure...

Page 51: ...ot in order to avoid virus intrusion or files deletion by accident Snapshot uses the same disk space of associated VG we suggest to leave 20 of VG size or more for snapshot space Please refer to Figur...

Page 52: ...same as the number entered because some space is reserved for snapshot internal usage There will be 2 numbers in Snapshot MB column These numbers mean Free snapshot space and Total snapshot space 4 C...

Page 53: ...cuting migration of related VG snap UDV will fail 6 Snap UDV cannot be extended 4 4 2 Auto snapshot The snapshot copies can be taken manually or by schedule such as hourly and daily Please follow the...

Page 54: ...nnections from original UDV to snap UDV and then start rollback 3 During rollback data from snap UDV to original UDV the original UDV can be accessed and the data in it shown just like finished rollba...

Page 55: ...DDR333 Reg ECC Unigen UG764D7588KZ DH 512MB DDR333 Reg ECC Unigen UG7128D7588LZ DH 1GB DDR333 Reg ECC Unigen UG732D6688KS DH 256MB DDR333 UB Unigen UG764D6688LS DH 512MB DDR333 UB Trenscend 256MB DDR3...

Page 56: ...Caviar RE2 WD4000YR 400GB 7200RPM SATA 16M NCQ B Event notifications PD S M A R T events Level Type Description Info Disk inserted Info Disk slot is inserted Info Disk removed Info Disk slot is remove...

Page 57: ...stem voltages failed The system will do the auto shutdown immediately Warning Voltage warning Warning System voltage is a little bit higher lower Info PSU restore Info Power number is restored to work...

Page 58: ...l to create UDV name Info UDV Deleted Info UDV name has been deleted Info UDV Attached OK Info UDV name has been LUN attached Warning UDV Attached Fail Warning Fail to attach LUN to UDV name Info UDV...

Page 59: ...y for UDV name Info High priority UDV Info UDV name is set to high priority Info Mid Priority UDV Info UDV name is set to mid priority Info Low Priority UDV Info UDV name is set to low priority Snapsh...

Page 60: ...with Ultra 320 speed Workaround solution Turning off Packetized and QAS in Adaptec SCSI BIOS and setting the speed to 160 sec 3 When attached two LUNs or more Dell PowerEdge 800 server with Ultra 320...

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