3Ware 9500S-8 - Escalade RAID Controller User Manual Download

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3ware

Serial ATA RAID Controller

Supports the 9000 Series

PN 720-0104-00
April, 2004

User Guide

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Page 1: ...3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller Supports the 9000 Series PN 720 0104 00 April 2004 User Guide...

Page 2: ...of 3ware Inc 455 West Maude Ave Sunnyvale CA 94085 Trademarks 3ware Escalade and 3DM are all registered trademarks of 3ware Inc The 3ware logo 3BM StorSwitch TwinStor and R5 Fusion are all trademarks...

Page 3: ...9000 series RAID controllers However some version 2 features are only available for 9000 series controllers Two levels of access are provided user and administrator Users have view only access they c...

Page 4: ...be viewed in different browsers the format and style of the 3DM browser windows illustrated in this chapter are examples only Screenshots were taken in Internet Explorer The actual look of the windows...

Page 5: ...3ware RAID controller works with Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 The latest service packs should be installed for any Windows release To install 3DM on a Windows system 1 Insert the 3D...

Page 6: ...Security Configuration screen You can change this setting later within 3DM 6 On the E mail Notification Preferences screen see Figure 11 use the fields to specify initial email settings Note If you d...

Page 7: ...reen and Finish when you reach the last screen 3DM Installation gives you the option of starting 3DM and opening the browser window 8 If you elect to launch the web interface a Security Alert may appe...

Page 8: ...enu choose Control Panels Add or Remove Programs In the Add or Remove Programs control panel select 3DM and click Change Remove Installing 3DM for Linux or FreeBSD You can install 3DM from the command...

Page 9: ...o provide additional information the name of the mail server the user name for the person who will send the E mail notification typically the local host name and the user name for the person who will...

Page 10: ...nt dev cdrom mnt 3 Change the directory and run the uninstall script For FreeBSD replace linux with freebsd in the path shown in this step cd mnt packages 3dm2 linux x86 install 3dm u Note that if you...

Page 11: ...tically after installation and upon bootup To start 3DM manually 1 Login as root 1 Afterwards type For Red Hat Linux etc rc d init d 3dm start For SuSE Linux etc rc d 3dm start 2 Open your browser and...

Page 12: ...m you can contact your network administrator or from a Windows command prompt type ipconfig From a Linux command prompt type ifconfig Logging In When you first view 3DM in a browser you must log in be...

Page 13: ...be compatible with the driver that is loaded a firmware flash upgrade may be required Figure 13 3DM Main Screen The menu bar across the top of the screen gives you access to other pages in 3DM You ca...

Page 14: ...unit write cache and policies that affect all units managed by the controller tasks that can be scheduled rebuild verify and self test and maintenance of individual units Unit configuration can also...

Page 15: ...ller and associated drives Automatic refreshes can also be set For details see Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes on page 43 Note If you click Refresh on the browser window you will be taken back...

Page 16: ...ve Information page Controller Settings Page Lets you view and change settings that affect the units on the current controller To see this page choose Management Controller Settings from the menu bar...

Page 17: ...pendently of each other The default password for both the User and Administrator is 3ware Passwords are case sensitive You can only change passwords if you are logged in as Administrator If you change...

Page 18: ...for alarms with severity of Error only For more information about events and alarms see Viewing Alarms on page 107 Event notification is initially set up during 3DM installation but can be changed on...

Page 19: ...n confirms that remote access has been enabled or disabled Setting the Incoming Port You can set the port which 3DM uses to listen for incoming messages If you are not sure which port would be the bes...

Page 20: ...sion 2 are only available for the 9000 series because they require that the firmware contain associated capabilities When this is the case a message appears in the 3DM page indicating that the feature...

Page 21: ...ntroller Details Page Unit Information Page Unit Details Page Drive Information Page SMART Details About Drive at Particular Port Page Controller Settings Page Scheduling Page Maintenance Page Alarms...

Page 22: ...version 1 x Model The model name of the controller The model number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller Serial The serial number of the controller The serial number...

Page 23: ...irmware version running on the controller Driver The driver version being used to interact with the controller BIOS The BIOS version on the controller Monitor The Monitor version on the controller Thi...

Page 24: ...t on the menu bar and provides summary information about each unit To see details about a particular unit click the link in the Unit column Unit The unit number assigned to the unit by the firmware Fo...

Page 25: ...or Verifying the percentage complete is also shown Unit Details Page Figure 18 Unit Details Page The Unit Details page appears when you click an ID number on the Unit Information page Because it is a...

Page 26: ...g Verifying Degraded or Inoperable missing drives When a unit is Rebuilding Initializing or Verifying the percentage complete is also shown Capacity The total capacity of the unit capacities of subuni...

Page 27: ...of each one To see the SMART data for a drive click the link in the Port column Port The port to which the drive is connected Model The model of the drive Capacity The physical capacity of the drive N...

Page 28: ...to customer support Note In most cases the status of the drive will not correspond to the status of the unit shown on the Unit Information page SMART Details About Drive at Particular Port Page Figur...

Page 29: ...ed by the controller 9000 series controllers show separate settings for Rebuild Rate and Verify Rate as shown in Figure 21 7000 and 8000 series controllers show only one setting for Task Rate it appli...

Page 30: ...3DM lists each unit on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar and shows you whether the policies are currently enabled or disabled for each unit This section does not appear fo...

Page 31: ...Spin up Number of drives that will spin up at the same time when the controller is powered up This setting only applies when the feature is supported by the disk drives and has been enabled in 3BM Del...

Page 32: ...Page Figure 22 Scheduling Page For 9000 series controllers the Scheduling page appears when you choose Management Scheduling from the menu bar The Scheduling page is not available for 7000 and 8000 se...

Page 33: ...f a unit to the times you specify so that the task does not interfere with peak I O times If all 7 schedule slots are filled you must first remove one or more schedule times before you can add another...

Page 34: ...rs In severe cases the UDMA mode may be downgraded from ATA 150 to ATA 133 to ATA 100 to 66 to 33 This check is also done every time the system is booted UDMA mode does not apply to SATA Check SMART T...

Page 35: ...lable drives Rescan Controller Use the Rescan Controller button to have 3DM scan the available drives in the controller and update the list of available drives shown This is useful in variety of maint...

Page 36: ...ves that complete the unit the inoperable unit will become a valid unit Note In 8000 series controllers only JBOD units can be removed and rescanned while keeping the data intact Clicking Rescan Contr...

Page 37: ...y unplug it In the Unit Maintenance section this link is only provided for drives that can be safely removed without creating an inoperable unit For example a RAID 5 missing 2 or more drives or a RAID...

Page 38: ...appears Initialization can be paused however through Scheduling Initialization follows the Rebuild schedule so turning on scheduling for Rebuild will pause initialization as well For more information...

Page 39: ...t is mounted For example if you want to remove unit 0 and you know that 0 corresponds to dev sdb you should unmount all partitions for sdbx where x is the number of the parti tion umount dev sdbx For...

Page 40: ...ing system is notified that the unit was deleted In Linux the device node associated with this unit is removed In Windows the Device Manager will reflect the changes under the disk drives icon Availab...

Page 41: ...ions see Available RAID Configurations on page 9 When you are configuring a RAID 50 with twelve drives an additional field appears in which you select the number of drives per subunit 3 4 or 6 Figure...

Page 42: ...ese check boxes let you set the policies for the unit These policies can also be set and changed on the Controller Settings page For details about these policies see Unit Policies on page 54 Note If t...

Page 43: ...or CLI but not both Whichever issues an alarms command first determines which can see alarm data Clear Alarms The Clear Alarms button removes all alarms shown in the list Sev Shows the severity of th...

Page 44: ...luding email notification for alarms passwords page refresh frequency whether remote access is permitted and the incoming port for 3DM to listen for requests The initial settings for most of these pre...

Page 45: ...ssage using the saved e mail settings Password Use the fields in this section to set the passwords for the User and Administrator When 3DM is first installed the default password for both is 3ware Cha...

Page 46: ...s to access 3DM from a remote computer Incoming Port Listening Port This field specifies the HTTP port to be used by 3DM when listening for communications The default port setting is 888 If you change...

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