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FASTORA DAS-315SA Disk Array

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DAS-315SA Disk Array

User Guide

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Page 1: ...FASTORA DAS 315SA Disk Array FASTORA DAS 315SA Disk Array User Guide V 1 02a...

Page 2: ...nst harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used according to the instructions may cause harmful int...

Page 3: ...m It supports not only RAID level 0 1 3 5 10 but also RAID level 6 which increases the data reliability dramatically A compact 3U design built with 15 drive trays for 3 5 disk drive with 1 height prov...

Page 4: ...liability Swappable design for faster and easier maintenance User friendly configuration via RS 232 port or Ethernet 1 3 Unpacking Your FASTORA DAS 315SA Before removing your FASTORA DAS 315SA from th...

Page 5: ...ontainer and packing material for reuse Before you begin to use your FASTORA DAS 315SA read section 1 4 Components of the FASTORA DAS 315SA to learn more about the major components or your DAS system...

Page 6: ...panel LED display panel and rear panel Read this section before you start to use your RAID DAS Subsystem 1 4 1 The Front Panel The front panel of FASTORA DAS 315SA is shown below Figure 1 1 For the s...

Page 7: ...e status Table 1 2 LED Indication Status LED 1 Red continuous flash No hard drive inserted or hard drive failed LED 2 Green blinking Hard drive access read write No flashing nor blinking on both LEDs...

Page 8: ...rial port allowing you to connect to a terminal or a PC This port is designed for debug LAN Web browser RAID management through standard 10 100 Ethernet port Host 1 Host 2 FASTORA DAS 315SA has two ho...

Page 9: ...to the computer using a SCSI adapter install the adapter s in an available slot in the computer prior to beginning FASTORA DAS 315SA installation See your operating system manuals for the configuratio...

Page 10: ...rough standard 10 100 Ethernet port or a terminal to set the host channel ID Refer to Section 3 1 Configuration Methods for more information Be sure to assign an ID that does not conflict with any oth...

Page 11: ...er Cord Before you connect the power cords to the power supplies make sure the power supplies have been firmly seated inside the FASTORA DAS 315SA DAS 2 1 7 Uninterruptible Power Supplies To insure th...

Page 12: ...DAS 315SA Figure 2 2 shows the disk drive and canister of DAS 315SA Figure 2 2 Disk Drive and Canister Please put your hard drive into the canister and then use four screws to fasten the drive on bot...

Page 13: ...ble you to store your data Insert each drive to the drive canister of DAS push the canisters to the end and then push down the drive handle until it is completely locked with the blue drive lock Syste...

Page 14: ...of DAS 315SA Step 2 Place DAS 315SA on a table or shelf close to a power source Step 3 Connect DAS 315SA to the host computer with the RS 232 cable or Fast Ethernet cable Step 4 Connect the power cord...

Page 15: ...e proper screwdrivers to perform the procedure Use the following procedures to install your DAS 315SA into a rack 1 Unpack your DAS 315SA package then remove the rack mount kit from the package You sh...

Page 16: ...n two sides of DAS 315SA with the supplied screws See Figure 2 6 Figure 2 6 3 Attach four supplied brackets with the screws to two medium guide rails Secure the medium guide rails with the supplied sc...

Page 17: ...FASTORA DAS 315SA Disk Array 17 4 Slightly press the black rail release latches See Figure 2 8 on both sides of DAS 315SA while sliding into a rack Figure 2 9 Figure 2 8 Figure 2 9...

Page 18: ...Note To reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to the equipment make sure at least two people load DAS 315SA into the rack 5 Secure the DAS with the supplied screws on the faceplate The rack mo...

Page 19: ...n 1 can be used to support the local terminal access When connecting a terminal to the DAS make sure you have attached the supplied RS 232 cable to the right connector Note that you should set up the...

Page 20: ...still use a PC configured as a terminal running a terminal emulation program Microsoft Windows and Windows 95 both have built in terminal emulation support Please select ANSI terminal as the terminal...

Page 21: ...c tests RAID functionality 3 3 2 Operation Mode Operation mode continuously reports the operating status of the DAS and the drives connected to it During normal operation 3 3 3 Configuration Mode Conf...

Page 22: ...FASTORA DAS 315SA Disk Array 22 options allow you to fine tune DAS to your specific configuration...

Page 23: ...id System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Even Buffer Hardware Monitor and System Information Please refer to Table 3 1 for the description of each menu We will navigate the m...

Page 24: ...a customized raid set Volume Set Functions Create a customized volume set Physical Drive Functions View individual disk information Raid System Function Set the raid system configurations Views System...

Page 25: ...315SA Disk Array 25 3 4 1 Hierarchical Structure of Main Menu This part provides a detailed structure of Main Menu You may refer this structure to find the specific functions and configure the settin...

Page 26: ...y system function and Designate drives as hot spares Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure raid sets and volume sets with VT 100 terminal function using Quick Volume Raid Setup autom...

Page 27: ...Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration In Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration it collects a...

Page 28: ...drives RAID 3 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 5 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives and RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Highlight RAID level for the volume set a...

Page 29: ...olume set using main menu Create Volume Set function Using Raid Set Volume Set Function Method In Raid Set Function you can use the Create Raid Set function to generate the new raid set In Volume Set...

Page 30: ...t The Raid Set Name dialog box appears 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...

Page 31: ...cessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Fast Initialization the...

Page 32: ...e following properties 1 All of the physical disk drives are contained in a raid set 2 The raid levels associated with hot spare capacity and stripe size are selected during the configuration process...

Page 33: ...e Enter key to accept this value If it only use part of the raid set capacity you can use the Create Volume Set option to define another volume sets Stripe size This parameter sets the size of the str...

Page 34: ...initialize it Raid Set Function User manual configuration can complete control of the raid set setting but it will take longer to complete than the Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select the Ra...

Page 35: ...window is displayed showing the SATA drive connected to the current controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physica...

Page 36: ...ll always appear as Raid Set Delete Raid Set To change a raid set you should first delete it and recreate the raid set To delete a raid set select the raid set number that user want to delete in the S...

Page 37: ...vailable disk then the Select SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears 2 Select the target Raid Set by clicking on the appropriate radial button Select the target disk by clicking on the appr...

Page 38: ...ill occur after the raid set expansion completes Migrating Migrating occurs when a disk is added to a Raid Set Migration status is displayed in the raid status area of the Raid Set information when a...

Page 39: ...ed in the power off state When one of the disk drive is removed in power off state the raid set state will change to Incomplete State If users want to continue to work when the RAID subsystem is power...

Page 40: ...unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Creat...

Page 41: ...box Press the Enter keys to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Delete Hot Spare to delete the hot spare Raid Set Information To display Raid Set information move the cursor bar to the desired Ra...

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Page 43: ...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 data spread evenl...

Page 44: ...the raid set number and press Enter key The Volume Creation is displayed in the screen 4 A window with a summary of the current volume set s settings The Volume Creation option allows user to select t...

Page 45: ...nitialization screen is presented Select Yes key to start the Fast Initialization of the selected volume set Select No key to start the Normal Initialization of the selected volume set 6 Repeat steps...

Page 46: ...ume set name providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit Capacity The maximum volume size is default in the first setting The capacity can increase or decrease by the UP and DOWN arrow key Ea...

Page 47: ...s Enter The available RAID levels for the current Volume Set are displayed Select a RAID level and press Enter key to confirm Strip Size This parameter sets the size of the segment written to each dis...

Page 48: ...t SCSI Channel dialog box appears select the channel number and press Enter key to confirm it SCSI ID Each SCSI device attached to the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SC...

Page 49: ...DAS 315SA Disk Array 49 SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SCSI host adapter treats each LUN like a SCSI disk Cache Mode User can set the cache mode to Write Through Cache or Write Ba...

Page 50: ...systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SCSI command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using o...

Page 51: ...the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Delete Volume Set item then press Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all Raid Set item Move the cursor bar to an RAID Set number then press...

Page 52: ...move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Modify Volume Set item then press Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all Raid Set number items Move the cursor bar to...

Page 53: ...ed to a raid set Check Volume Set Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity volume set check means computing the par...

Page 54: ...ng the selection the confirmation screen appears presses Yes to start check Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop all the Check Volume Set function Display Volume Set Info To display Volume Se...

Page 55: ...hen press Enter key The Volume Set Information will show as following You can only view the information of this Volume Set Physical Drive Choose this option from the Main Menu to select a physical dis...

Page 56: ...ical disks in the RAID subsystem are listed Move the cursor to the desired drive and press Enter The following appears Create Pass Through Disk Disk is no controlled by the RAID subsystem firmware and...

Page 57: ...or bar to the Physical Drive Function menu and select the Modify Pass Through Drive option and then press Enter key The Physical Drive Function menu will show all Raid Pass Through Drive number option...

Page 58: ...ting the selected disk when the Identify Selected Device is selected Raid System Function To set the raid system function move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the Raid System Function item...

Page 59: ...he Alert Beeper The Mute The Alert Beeper function item is used to control the RAID subsystem Beeper Select the Yes and press Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily The beeper...

Page 60: ...ord The password is used to protect the internal RAID subsystem from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The RAID subsyst...

Page 61: ...nction The Raid Rebuild Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The RAID subsystem allows user to choose the rebuild priority low normal high t...

Page 62: ...ebuild Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The RAID subsystem allows user to choose the rebuild priority low normal high to balance volume...

Page 63: ...ndix B firmware utility for updating firmware Note 1 The Bootable CD VT100 utility connected through the controller s serial port cannot support the update firmware feature 2 2 User can update the fir...

Page 64: ...pears on the screen Press Enter key to go into the Reset Controller item The Reset Controller confirmation screen appears Select Yes key to reset entire RAID system Note It can only work properly at H...

Page 65: ...stribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to elimin...

Page 66: ...urations automatically please do An IP address allocation scheme will reduce the time it takes to set up client computers and eliminate the possibilities of administrative errors To manually configure...

Page 67: ...address and is your computer s unique hardware number On an Ethernet LAN it s the same as your Ethernet address When you re connected to the Internet from the RAID controller Ethernet port a correspo...

Page 68: ...ts link then press the Enter key The RAID subsystem events screen appear Choose this option to view the system events information Time Device Event type Elapse Time and Errors The RAID system does not...

Page 69: ...ion provides the temperature fan speed chassis fan and voltage of the internal RAID subsystem The temperature items list the current states of the controller board and backplane All items are also unc...

Page 70: ...3V Power Supply 3 3V 3 0V or 3 6V CPU Core Voltage 1 5V 1 35V or 1 65V System Information Choose this option to display Main processor CPU Instruction cache and data cache size firmware version seria...

Page 71: ...res If you need to boot the operating system from a RAID system you must first create a RAID volume by using front panel touch control keypad Bootable CD VT 100 utility at X86 based system Web Browser...

Page 72: ...P Address is 192 168 1 100 or you may change the IP Address in the terminal console Note that you must be logged in as administrator with local admin rights on the remote machine to remotely configure...

Page 73: ...will automatically add the spare disk drive with the raid level for user to select For the Raid Set Function configuration users can use the Create Hot Spare option to define the hot spare disk drive...

Page 74: ...ith different capacities in an array all the drives in the raid set is treated as though they have the capacity of the smallest drive in the raid set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array...

Page 75: ...ting system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Fast Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed bef...

Page 76: ...a specific raid set If you use drives with different capacities in an array all the drives in the array is treated as though they have the capacity of the smallest drive in the array The numbers of ph...

Page 77: ...n from the Main menu Select the Create Volume Set and press Enter key 10 Choose one raid set from the Create Volume From Raid Set window Press Enter key to confirm it 11 The Volume Creation screen sho...

Page 78: ...Users can use this method to examine the existing configuration Modify volume set configuration method provides the same functions as create volume set configuration method In volume set function you...

Page 79: ...et Information will show in the screen To display volume set information move the mouse cursor to the desired Volume Set number then click it The volume set Information will show in the screen To disp...

Page 80: ...y Raid Level and Stripe Size Raid Set Functions Create a customized raid set Volume Set Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter Physical Drives Create pass...

Page 81: ...raid level stripe size and capacity A hot spare option is also created depending upon the existing configuration Check the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button in the Quick Create scr...

Page 82: ...and reconfigures the raid set A raid set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets Create Raid Set To create a raid set click on the Delete Raid Set link A Select The SATA Drive For RAID...

Page 83: ...een Check the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it Expand Raid Set Use this option to expand a raid set when a disk is added to your system This function is...

Page 84: ...fter user complete the function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode To activate the incomplete the raid set click the Activate Raid Set link A Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is display...

Page 85: ...all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Select the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button...

Page 86: ...is organized in a RAID level with one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set capacity can consume all or a portion of the...

Page 87: ...e of a single volume set is 2 TB To create volume set from raid set system move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Create On It screen w...

Page 88: ...to each disk in a RAID 0 1 0 1 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your comput...

Page 89: ...l The RAID subsystem only supports one SCSI Channel SCSI ID Each SCSI device attached to the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A Wide SCSI channel can conne...

Page 90: ...set number and check the Confirm The Operation and then click on the Submit button to show all volume set item in the selected raid set Select a volume set number check the Confirm The Operation and t...

Page 91: ...value After you complete the modification tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button to complete the action User can modify all values except the capacity Volume Set Migration M...

Page 92: ...se this option to verify the correctness pf the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity volume set check means computing the parity of the data disk drives and com...

Page 93: ...Pass Through link The relative setting function screen appears Disk is no controlled by the internal RAID subsystem firmware and thus cannot be a part of a volume set The disk is available to the oper...

Page 94: ...the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar to click Modify Pass Through link The Select The Pass Through Disk For Modification screen appears select Pass Through Disk from the pass through...

Page 95: ...ction Identify Selected Drive To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk LED will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Drive is selected To identify th...

Page 96: ...e RAID subsystem controller alarm tone generator RAID Rebuild Priority The Raid Rebuild Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The RAID subsys...

Page 97: ...r WAN with no software or patches required DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol that lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol...

Page 98: ...ill show all items Move the cursor bar to the EtherNet Config item then press Enter key to select the desired function Alert By Mail Configuration To configure the raid controller email function move...

Page 99: ...stem controller s information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the View Events Mute Beeper link The Raid Subsystem events Information screen appears Choose this option to view the s...

Page 100: ...he password option allows user to set or clear the raid subsystem s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the raid subsystem by providing t...

Page 101: ...eared No password checking will occur when entering the main menu from the starting screen Update Firmware Please reference the appendix B firmware utility Restart Controller Please reference the appe...

Page 102: ...ursor to the main menu and click System Information link The Raid Subsystem Information screen appears Use this feature to view the raid subsystem controller s information The controller name firmware...

Page 103: ...nformation provides the temperature fan speed chassis fan and voltage of the internal RAID subsystem All items are also unchangeable The warning messages will indicate through the LED and alarm buzzer...

Page 104: ...ch drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using older SCSI drives that do not support command tag queuing Max Sync Rate The RAID subsystem supports...

Page 105: ...tor Information provides the temperature fan speed chassis fan and voltage of the internal RAID subsystem The temperature items list the current states of the controller board and backplane All items...

Page 106: ...t application at your 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 mana...

Page 107: ...ile with the management application MIB Compilation and Definition File creation Before the manager application accesses the RAID controller user needs to integrate the MIB into the management applica...

Page 108: ...e placed in a specific directory on the network management station running the management application The MIB file must be manually copied to this directory For example SNMAP Management Application MI...

Page 109: ...ebuild 131 rsDegraded 132 rsNoEvent 133 Reserved 134 255 Traps 256 383 are VolumeSet Traps vsInitializing 256 vsRebuilding 257 vsMigrating 258 vsChecking 259 vsCompleteInit 260 vsCompleteRebuild 261 v...

Page 110: ...scsiParity 513 scsiModeChange 514 scsiTotals 515 Reserved 516 639 Traps 640 676 Hardware Monitor Traps hwSdram1BitEcc 640 hwSdramMultiBitEcc 641 hwTempController 642 hwTempBackplane 643 hwVoltage15 64...

Page 111: ...tage15_R 662 hwVoltage3_R 663 hwVoltage5_R 664 hwVoltage12_R 665 hwVoltage1_3_R 666 hwVoltage2_5_R 667 hwVoltage1_25_R 668 hwPower1Failed_R 669 hwFan1Failed_R 670 hwPower2Failed_R 671 hwFan2Failed_R 6...

Page 112: ...Berkeley David Patterson Garth Gibson and Randy Katz RAIDs were conceived to overcome the data reliability problems associated with disk storage subsystems while increasing various performance aspect...

Page 113: ...o other shortcomings of RAID are shared with disk drives in general seek and latency Seek is the time it takes to move the read write R W heads to the location of the data and latency is the time it t...

Page 114: ...having twice the disks required to store the data and does little to enhance performance A 4 RAID 2 Each disk in the array contributes one bit of the data transfer word e g a 32 bit word requires 32 d...

Page 115: ...osition is not known without more information In error correction in which bit line is in error is known parity may be generated for all lines except the one in error recreating the failed bit stream...

Page 116: ...Data transfer rates are the same per data file as single disk transfer rates but multiple as many as there are data disks files may be simultaneously read This generates a high read transaction rate...

Page 117: ...o all disks always with the corresponding data files on other disks This change allows multiple writes to take place as long as they don t collide at a particular disk e g in an eight disk RAID 5 envi...

Page 118: ...Numbers in parenthesis indicate how many possible concurrent operations of that type are possible if more than 1 RAID type Read transaction rate Write transaction rate Transfer rate per read Transfer...

Page 119: ...pplies with load sharing RAID Level 0 1 10 3 5 30 50 Multiple RAID Sets Yes Online Capacity Expansion Yes Rebuild Hot Spare Drives Automatically and transparently Drive Hot Swap Yes Drive Insertion or...

Page 120: ...e These files must be extracted from the compressed file and copied to one directory in drive A or C Establishing the Connection for the RS 232 and Ethernet port The firmware can be downloaded to the...

Page 121: ...ew version firmware for your RAID controller For Example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the c 1 From the Main Menu scroll down to Raid System Function 2 Choose Update Firmware Upd...

Page 122: ...2 4 Select ZMODEM modem under Protocol ZMODEM as the file transfer protocol of your terminal emulation software 5 Click Browse Look in the location where the Firmware upgrade software is located Selec...

Page 123: ...STORA DAS 315SA Disk Array 123 6 Click Send Send the Firmware Binary to the controller 7 When the Firmware completes downloading the confirmation screen appears Press Yes to start program the flash RO...

Page 124: ...w Start Updating Firmware Please Wait 9 The Firmware upgrade will take approximately thirty seconds to complete 10 After the Firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware Has Been Up...

Page 125: ...125 restart the controller for the new firmware to take effect NOTE The user has to reconfigure all of the settings after the firmware upgrade is complete because all of the settings will default to...

Page 126: ...1 To upgrade the RAID subsystem firmware move the mouse cursor to Upgrade Firmware link The Upgrade The Raid System Firmware screen appears 2 Click Browse Look in the location where the Firmware upgr...

Page 127: ...Been Updated Successfully 5 After the new firmware completes download user should find a chance to restart the controller for the new firmware to take effect NOTE The user has to reconfigure all of t...

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