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Infortrend

External RAID Controller & Subsystem

Generic Operation Manual

Revision 1.61

Firmware Version: 3.31

Содержание External RAID Controller & Subsystem Infortrend

Страница 1: ...Infortrend External RAID Controller Subsystem Generic Operation Manual Revision 1 61 Firmware Version 3 31...

Страница 2: ...n First Published 2003 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced transmitted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in an...

Страница 3: ...n the U S and other countries All other names brands products or services are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies RMA Policy Please visit our websites www infortrend com...

Страница 4: ...12 What is a logical volume 12 Spare drives assigned to a logical volume 14 Limitations 15 Partitioning partitioning the logical drive or partitioning the logical volume 15 Different write policies w...

Страница 5: ...d Edit Event Logs 7 Chapter 5 LCD Keypad Operation 5 1 Power on RAID Enclosure 1 5 2 Caching Parameters 1 Optimization Modes 1 Optimization Mode and Stripe Size 2 Optimization for Random or Sequential...

Страница 6: ...s Primary ID Drive Channel 27 Setting a SCSI Channel s Secondary ID Drive Channel 28 Setting Channel Bus Terminator 28 Setting Transfer Speed 29 Setting Transfer Width 30 Viewing and Editing SCSI Tar...

Страница 7: ...e Capacity 6 Assign Spare Drives 7 Disk Reserved Space 7 Logical Drive Assignments 7 Write Policy 7 Initialization Mode 8 Stripe Size 8 7 5 Creating a Logical Volume 10 7 6 Partitioning a Logical Driv...

Страница 8: ...port 32 Maximum Tag Count 32 Data Rate 32 7 13 System Functions 34 Mute Beeper 34 Change Password 34 Changing the Password 35 Setting a New Password 35 Disabling the Password 36 Reset Controller 36 Sh...

Страница 9: ...ne Failing Drive 2 Replace after Clone 2 Perpetual Clone 3 9 1 2 S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology 5 Configuration Procedure 7 Enabling the S M A R T Feature 7 Examining Whet...

Страница 10: ...A Channel Bus 10 9 B Controller Failover and Failback 10 11 C Active to Active Configuration 10 11 D Traffic Distribution and Failover Process 10 12 Symptoms 10 13 Connection 10 13 10 2 Preparing Cont...

Страница 11: ...hronization on Write Through 10 35 Chapter 11 Record of Settings 11 1 View and Edit Logical Drives 1 Logical Drive Information 1 Partition Information 2 11 2 View and Edit Logical Volumes 3 Logical Vo...

Страница 12: ...4 Fibre Channel Support 5 S M A R T Support 6 Redundant Controller 6 Data Safety 7 System Security 8 Environment Management 9 SAF TE S E S support 9 User Interface 10 RAIDWatch on board 10 RS 232C Te...

Страница 13: ...IP 3 6 NPC Onboard 3 9 Chapter 4 LCD Screen Messages Page number View and Edit Event Logs 4 7 Chapter 5 Chapter 7 Starting RAID via the LCD Panel Terminal Emulation Page number LCD Terminal Starting...

Страница 14: ...els 5 25 7 25 Viewing and Re defining Channel Mode 5 25 7 25 Setting Channel ID Host Channel 5 26 7 26 Viewing channel ID 5 26 7 26 Adding a Channel ID 5 26 7 26 Deleting a Channel ID 5 27 7 27 Settin...

Страница 15: ...ibre Loops 8 12 Multi host Access Control LUN Filtering 8 14 Creating LUN Masks 8 15 WWN Name List 8 16 Logical Unit to Host LUN Mapping 8 16 LUN Mask ID Range Configuration 8 18 Filter Type Include o...

Страница 16: ...Configuration Using Manual Setting 10 21 Starting the Redundant Controllers 10 22 Creating Primary and Secondary IDs 10 22 Assigning a Logical Drive Logical Volume to the Secondary Controller 10 23 Ma...

Страница 17: ...d RS 232 Firmware Download C 1 Redundant Controller Rolling Firmware Download C 1 Redundant Controller Firmware Sync version C 2 Upgrading Firmware Using In band SCSI RAIDWatch Manager C 2 Establish t...

Страница 18: ...0 10 Table 10 2 ID Mapping Status Controller Failed 10 10 List of Figures Chapter 1 Figure 1 1 Logical Drive 1 1 Figure 1 2 NRAID 1 3 Figure 1 3 JBOD 1 3 Figure 1 4 RAID 0 1 4 Figure 1 5 RAID 1 1 4 Fi...

Страница 19: ...15 Figure 8 4 LUN Filtering Configuration Sample 8 20 Chapter 9 Figure 9 1 SCSI ID LUNs 9 11 Chapter 10 Figure 10 1 Redundant Controller Configuration Flowchart 10 2 Figure 10 2 Dual Controller Using...

Страница 20: ...inning of this chapter we raise some basic questions of which the user should know the answers prior to creating a RAID Chapter 3 teaches the user how to configure the RS 232C terminal emulation inter...

Страница 21: ...y Version 1 0 initial release Version 1 1 added redundant controller configuration Version 1 2 Added host side and drive side SCSI parameters added S M A R T with implemented Fault Prevention methods...

Страница 22: ...ctional items Added firmware features available from revision 3 25 Version 1 61 Added features available by revision 3 31 Removed Appendix E Moved array expansion to Chapter 12 Added variable stripe s...

Страница 23: ...endent physical drives The logical drive appears to the host as a contiguous volume the same as a local hard disk drive does The following section describes the different methods to create logical arr...

Страница 24: ...eral blocks when reading writing to several drives in parallel With RAID storage speed increases as more drives are added as the channel bus allows Provides fault tolerance by mirroring or parity oper...

Страница 25: ...D 1 0 1 R High W Medium R Medium W Low RAID 3 R High W Medium R Medium W Low RAID 5 R High W Medium R High W Low NRAID Disk Spanning Figure 1 2 NRAID NRAID stands for Non RAID The capacity of all the...

Страница 26: ...D 0 RAID 0 provides the highest performance but no redundancy Data in the logical drive is striped distributed across several physical drives RAID 1 Disk Mirroring Figure 1 5 RAID 1 RAID 1 mirrors the...

Страница 27: ...that has been selected for the logical drive RAID 3 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity Disk Figure 1 7 RAID 3 RAID 3 performs Block Striping with Dedicated Parity One drive member is dedicated to sto...

Страница 28: ...d automatically starts to rebuild Figure 1 10 Global Spare Global Spare Drive not only serves one specified logical drive When a member drive from any of the logical drive fails the Global Spare Drive...

Страница 29: ...Drives 1 and 2 are 4 GB drives It is not possible for the 4 GB Global Spare Drive to join Logical Drive 0 because of its insufficient capacity However using a 9GB drive as the Global Spare drive for a...

Страница 30: ...a configurable period of time from 1 to 999 seconds Flash All SCSI Drives The Read Write LEDs of all connected drives will light for a configurable period of time If the LED of the defective drive di...

Страница 31: ...empt to rebuild unless the user applies a forced manual rebuild When the Periodic Auto Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time is Enabled i e a check time interval has been selected the controller will d...

Страница 32: ...ler will search for a Global Spare If there is a Global Spare logical drive rebuild will be automatically conducted Figure 1 14 Manual Rebuild I If none of the spares are available the controller will...

Страница 33: ...drive failures and rebuild to be concurrently conducted on more than one of its members Drives newly swapped must be scanned and set as Local Spares These drives will be used for rebuild at the same...

Страница 34: ...ned logical volume as one single physical drive The benefits of using a logical volume have been achieved by 1 Extending the MTBF mean time between failure by using more redundancy drives spare drives...

Страница 35: ...chance of encountering points of failure a Higher Redundancy Configuration A has one dedicated spare while Configuration B allows the configuration of four spares In Configuration B the risk of simul...

Страница 36: ...dundancy drive Configuration C One logical volume with 4 logical drives Logical Volume RAID 5 Logical Drive RAID 5 Logical Drive RAID 5 Logical Drive RAID 5 Logical Drive CH1 CH1 ID0 CH1 ID1 CH1 ID2 C...

Страница 37: ...e logical drive or partitioning the logical volume Once a logical drive has been divided into partitions the logical drive can no longer be used as a member of a logical volume The members of a logica...

Страница 38: ...orm RAID expansion on a logical volume expand each member logical drive then perform RAID Expansion on the logical volume Steps to expand a Logical Volume 1 Expand each member logical drive 2 Expand t...

Страница 39: ...ogical drives of different levels Multi level RAID systems 1 RAID 0 1 this is a standard feature of Infortrend RAID controllers It brings the benefits of RAID 1 high availability and RAID 0 enhanced I...

Страница 40: ...ugh the decision making 1 How many physical drives do you have When initially creating the drive groups you should know how many drives you have in your RAID system or in the JBOD attached to the RAID...

Страница 41: ...plication to another The application can be a SQL server Oracle server Informix or other data base server of a transaction based nature Applications like video playback and video post production editi...

Страница 42: ...sis users are not encouraged to make a change to the default values For example smaller stripe sizes are ideal for I Os that are transaction based and randomly accessed However using the wrong stripe...

Страница 43: ...Medium W Low RAID 5 R High W Medium R High W Low Logical Volume Depends on its members see above Depends on its members 8 Any spare drives Swap Drive Rebuild Spare Drive Rebuild Spare drives allow for...

Страница 44: ...ity 1 Use the LCD panel terminal program or the RAIDWatch manager to start configuring your array 2 When powered on the controller scans all the hard drives that are connected through the drive channe...

Страница 45: ...itions 5 The next step is to make logical drives or storage partitions available through the host ports When associated with a host ID or LUN number each capacity volume appears as one system drive Th...

Страница 46: ...Logical Unit Number Each cabinet host ID can have up to 32 drawers LUNs Data can be made available through one of the LUNs of a host ID Most host adapters treat a LUN like another device 2 3 2 Groupin...

Страница 47: ...ails Spares are not applicable to logical drives that have no data redundancy NRAID and RAID 0 Figure 2 6 Partitions in Logical Configurations You may divide a logical drive or logical volume into par...

Страница 48: ...purposes 1 Mapping a logical configuration to IDs LUNs on different host channels allows two host computers to access the same array This method is applicable when the array is shared in a clustering...

Страница 49: ...matic Logical Drive Rebuild Spare Drive Enabled when Spare Drive is available RAID 1 Local Spare RAID 3 Local Spare RAID 5 Local Spare Global Spare S M A R T Disabled Detect Only Perpetual Clone Clone...

Страница 50: ...and SES Device Check Time 5 Disabled to 60 seconds Periodic Auto Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time Disabled 5 to 60 seconds Number of Host LUN Connection 32 1 to 1024 Tag per Host LUN Connection 32...

Страница 51: ...e 256MB 64KB backward compatible Array assignment Primary controller Secondary controller Array partitioning 1 Up to 64 Others Password N A User Defined Password Validation Timeout 1 to Always Check C...

Страница 52: ...rovided inside your enclosure The Null Modem has the serial signals swapped for connecting to a standard PC serial interface The following are guidelines on using the serial port The serial port s def...

Страница 53: ...ct the baud rate then press ENT for 2 seconds to confirm the selected baud rate Set identical baud rate to your RAID array and your terminal computer The following baud rates are available 2400 4800 9...

Страница 54: ...enu Ctrl L The controller will refresh the screen information IMPORTANT If the RS 232C cable is connected while the controller is powered on press Ctrl L to refresh the screen information The initial...

Страница 55: ...ement computer if you access the software using the controller Ethernet port In order to simplify the installation process system firmware already contains important software agents User s configurati...

Страница 56: ...21 and above 3 25 onwards has embedded NPC Notification Processing Center support 2 Management Station Pentium or above compatible or equivalent PC running Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 Solaris 7 8 SPARC...

Страница 57: ...signals for connecting to a standard PC serial interface For more details please refer to the descriptions above in section 3 1 2 Create a Reserved Space on Drives Create one or more logical drives an...

Страница 58: ...ENTER on the chip hardware address and then select Set IP Address Provide the IP address NetMask and Gateway values accordingly PING the IP address from your management computer to make sure the link...

Страница 59: ...Run time environment from the CD If the management station is a P4 based computer it is required to install Java JRE version1 3 1 6 Reset the RAID subsystem using the Reset command for the configurati...

Страница 60: ...hown below SNMP_TRAP ENABLED 0 1 on 0 off SEVERITY 1 COMMUNITY public RECEIVER1 XXX XXX XXX XXX 2 2 specifies the level of events to be received by this receiver EMAIL ENABLED 0 SEVERITY 1 SUBJECT Eve...

Страница 61: ...ls 3 sends only the most serious events SUBJECT add a topic to email This can be used to specify the location of the RAID system if there are many SENDER_MAIL_BOX a valid email address to be used as t...

Страница 62: ...ach block indicates 256Kbytes of data throughput 4 2 Quick Installation Screen Press ENT to create a logical drive the controller will start initialization of one logical drive with all the connected...

Страница 63: ...has been created with Optimization for Sequential I O but the current setting is Optimization for Random I O OR The logical drive has been created with Optimization for Random I O but the current set...

Страница 64: ...gical volume Logical Volume ID The unique ID number of the logical volume controller random generated Logical Volume Status xxxMB The capacity of this logical volume DRV X The number of member logical...

Страница 65: ...LG x RB Rebuilding LG x SB Local Spare Drive GlobalSB Global Spare Drive NEW DRV New drive BAD DRV Failed drive ABSENT Drive does not exist MISSING Drive missing drive was once there SB MISS Spare dri...

Страница 66: ...ple SCSI ID s applied Host Channel mode only ID number Primary Controller is using this SCSI ID for host LUN mapping NA No SCSI ID applied Drive Channel mode only Secondary Controller SCSI ID Mapping...

Страница 67: ...ther Voltage Monitor or Temperature Monitor Select Temperature and Voltage Monitor by pressing Enter Press or to browse through the various voltage and temperature statuses View and Edit Peripheral De...

Страница 68: ...s Press ENT for two seconds to enter the Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit Event Logs then press ENT Press or to browse through the existing event log items To delete a specified item and all...

Страница 69: ...rite parameters They are the Optimization for Random I O and the Optimization for Sequential I O Limitations There are limitations on the use of optimization modes 1 You can select the stripe size of...

Страница 70: ...er The size of each I O can be 128K 256K 512K or up to 1MB The efficiency of these applications is measured in MB Sec When an array works with applications such as video or image oriented applications...

Страница 71: ...che Enable Disable As one of the submenus in Caching Parameters this option controls the cached write function Press ENT to enable or disable Write Back Cache Press ENT for two seconds to confirm The...

Страница 72: ...change the Caching Parameters you must reset the controller for the changes to take effect In the Redundant Controller configuration write back will only be applicable when there is a synchronized ca...

Страница 73: ...ive Information by pressing ENT Use or to navigate through the screens The Revision Number of the selected SCSI drive will be shown Press to see other information Other information screens include Ser...

Страница 74: ...Press ENT then use or to browse through the available drives Press ENT again to select deselect the drives An asterisk mark will appear on the selected drive s To deselect a drive press ENT again on t...

Страница 75: ...ault value Choices are 256MB and 64KB With 64KB logical drives are backward compatible to RAID controllers running earlier firmware versions Press ENT and use the or keys to choose the size you prefer...

Страница 76: ...value for stripe size is determined by controller Optimization Mode and the RAID level chosen for an array Opt for Sequential I O Opt for Random I O RAID0 128 32 RAID1 128 32 RAID3 16 4 RAID5 128 32 W...

Страница 77: ...NRAID or RAID 0 is selected initialization time is short and completes almost immediately The logical drive s information displays when the initialization process is completed If On line mode is adopt...

Страница 78: ...ected press ENT for two seconds to continue Two submenus will appear Initialization Mode Array initialization can take a long time especially for those comprised of large capacity Setting to Online me...

Страница 79: ...y controller IDs assigned to IO channels the assignment menus should appear as listed on the right If settings related to redundant controllers have not been accomplished you may find the option after...

Страница 80: ...yed as the first partition partition 0 Press ENT for two seconds to change the size of the first partition Use or to change the number of the flashing digit see the arrow mark then press ENT to move t...

Страница 81: ...ollers controllers might occupy ID 6 and ID 7 Please check your system Hardware Manual for details on preserved IDs Press or to select a configured host ID and then press ENT for two seconds to confir...

Страница 82: ...to enter the Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit SCSI Drives then press ENT SCSI drive information will be displayed on the LCD Press or to select a drive that is stated as NEW DRV or USED DRV...

Страница 83: ...CD Rebuild Settings Press ENT for two seconds to enter the Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit Config Parms then press ENT Press or to select Disk Array Parameters then press ENT Press or to se...

Страница 84: ...Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit Logical Drives then press ENT Press or to select the logical drive then press ENT Press or to select View SCSI Drives then press ENT Press or to scroll thro...

Страница 85: ...est of the drive space will be automatically allocated to the last partition as diagrammed below Figure 5 1 Drive Space Allocated to the Last Partition WARNING Whenever there is a partition change dat...

Страница 86: ...odic Drive Check Time 2 Periodic Auto Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time These two configuration options can be found under View and Edit Configuration Parameters Drive Side SCSI Parameters Press EN...

Страница 87: ...data writes this function can be manually performed to ensure that parity errors can be mended From the Main Menu press or to select View and Edit Logical Drives If you have more than one logical driv...

Страница 88: ...n one logical drive use the or keys to select the logical drive you want to scan and then press ENT Press or to select Media Scan and then press ENT Press ENT again to display the first configuration...

Страница 89: ...k cache setting is configurable on a per array basis Setting to the default value means the array setting is coordinated with the controller s general setting The controller s general setting option c...

Страница 90: ...ough SCSI Commands Pass through SCSI commands facilitate functions like downloading firmware for drives or devices not controller firmware setting SCSI drive mode parameters or monitoring a SAF TE S E...

Страница 91: ...y write commands to drive media do so at their own risk 5 11 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives Scanning New SCSI Drive Press ENT for two seconds to enter the Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit S...

Страница 92: ...ion will be displayed Press or to select a SCSI drive then press ENT Press or to select Identify Drive then press ENT to continue Press or to select Flash All Drives Flash Selected Drive or Flash All...

Страница 93: ...ode Press ENT for two seconds to enter the Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit SCSI Channels then press ENT Channel information will be displayed Press or to browse through the information of a...

Страница 94: ...D then press ENT Press or to browse through the existing ID settings Press ENT on any to continue Adding a Channel ID Press ENT on a host channel on Set SCSI Channel ID and then on an existing ID Pres...

Страница 95: ...nual that came with your system For controllers connected through back end PCBs firmware can detect its board type and automatically apply the preset IDs There is no need to set IDs for these models I...

Страница 96: ...CSI Channel Sec Ctlr ID then press ENT Press or to select a new ID then press ENT for two seconds to confirm Setting Channel Bus Terminator Press ENT for two seconds to enter the Main Menu Press or to...

Страница 97: ...us mode is also available in this option setting In Ultra Ultra Wide SCSI the maximum synchronous speed is 20 8Mhz Press ENT for two seconds to enter the Main Menu Press or to select View and Edit SCS...

Страница 98: ...r Width then press ENT The current mode will be displayed Press ENT to continue Press ENT again for two seconds IMPORTANT Every time you change the SCSI Transfer Width you must reset the controller fo...

Страница 99: ...he maximum synchronous clock of this SCSI target choose Max Synchronous Xfer Clock then press ENT The current clock setting will be displayed on the LCD Press or to change the clock then press ENT for...

Страница 100: ...ct Support then press ENT The current clock setting will be displayed on the LCD Press ENT for two seconds to change the setting Maximum Tag Count Press or to select a SCSI target then press ENT Choos...

Страница 101: ...his SCSI drive Restore to Default Setting Press or to select a SCSI target then press ENT Choose Restore to Default Setting then press ENT Press ENT again for two seconds to restore the SCSI target s...

Страница 102: ...atch Manager is used the user can only configure and monitor the RAID controller by providing the correct password IMPORTANT The controller requests a password whenever user is entering the main menu...

Страница 103: ...n the fist flashing digit for two seconds when requested to enter a new password The existing password will be deleted No password checking will occur when entering the Main Menu from the Initial scre...

Страница 104: ...exist for the controller to write NVRAM content onto it From the main menu choose System Functions Use arrow keys to scroll down and select Controller Maintenance Save NVRAM to Disks then press ENT P...

Страница 105: ...press ENT Use or to choose to display the embedded controller logo or any given name on the LCD initial screen Password Validation Timeout Choose View and Edit Configuration parameters Controller Par...

Страница 106: ...em during the controller failback failover processes 3 MAC addresses for the controller s Ethernet port that should be taken over by a surviving controller in the event of controller failure Controlle...

Страница 107: ...eric representatives Date and Time Use your arrow keys to scroll down and select Date and Time by pressing ENT Use your arrow keys to select and enter the numeric representatives in the following orde...

Страница 108: ...ting Yes IMPORTANT Do not switch the controller s and or disk drive s power off during the Drive Low level Format If any power failure occurs during a drive low level format the formatting must be sta...

Страница 109: ...ished with configuration select Execute Drive Testing and press ENT to proceed The Read Write test progress will be indicated as a percentage You may press ESC and select Read Write Test later and pre...

Страница 110: ...fer rate indicator Cache Status Indicates current cache status Write Policy Indicates current write caching policy Date Time Current system date and time generated by controller real time clock PC Gra...

Страница 111: ...ully charged will be indicated by five plus mark When initializing or scanning an array the controller displays progress percentage on the upper left corner of the configuration screen i indicates arr...

Страница 112: ...Terminal Screen Messages 6 3 The controller will start initialization and automatically map the logical drive to LUN 0 of the first host channel...

Страница 113: ...ical Drive Status Column 1 GOOD The logical drive is in good condition DRV FAILED A drive member failed in the logical drive CREATING Logical drive is being initiated DRV ABSENT One of its member driv...

Страница 114: ...are available for the specific logical drive FL Number of Failed member s in the logical drive Name Logical drive name user configurable 6 5 Logical Volume Status LV Logical Volume number P0 Logical V...

Страница 115: ...e of logical drive x Status Global The SCSI drive is a Global Spare Drive INITING Processing array initialization ON LINE The drive is in good condition REBUILD Processing Rebuild STAND BY Local Spare...

Страница 116: ...or on the Primary controller SID IDs managed by the Secondary Controller Multiple IDs were applied Host Channel mode only ID number Host channel Specific IDs managed by the Secondary Controller for ho...

Страница 117: ...hronous clock M The default setting of the SCSI channel is MHz in Synchronous mode Async The default setting of the SCSI channel is Asynchronous mode empty The default SCSI bus synchronous clock has c...

Страница 118: ...m main menu View and Edit Peripheral Devices and press ENTER From the submenu choose Controller Peripheral Device Configuration View Peripheral Device Status then press ENTER The current specimens of...

Страница 119: ...logs To view the events logs on screen choose from main menu view and edit Event logs by pressing ENTER The controller can store up to 1000 event logs for use in modifying the configuration with refe...

Страница 120: ...cursor bar through menu items then press ENTER to choose the terminal emulation mode and ESC to return to the previous menu screen 7 2 Caching Parameters Optimization Modes Mass storage applications...

Страница 121: ...Os can be rapidly processed Due to its transaction based nature these applications do not read or write a bunch of data in a sequential order Access to data occurs randomly The transaction size usual...

Страница 122: ...default value should be sufficient for most applications Opt for Sequential I O Opt for Random I O RAID0 128 32 RAID1 128 32 RAID3 16 4 RAID5 128 32 Optimization for Random or Sequential I O Choose O...

Страница 123: ...MPORTANT The original 512GB threshold on array optimization mode is canceled If the size of an array is larger than 16TB only the optimization for sequential I O can be applied Logical drives of this...

Страница 124: ...cal drive have different block numbers capacity the smallest block number will be taken as the maximum capacity to be used in every drive Therefore use drives of the same capacity You may assign a Loc...

Страница 125: ...r on the drive and then pressing ENTER An asterisk mark will appear on the selected physical drive s To deselect the drive press ENTER again on the selected drive The mark will disappear Use keys to s...

Страница 126: ...y configuration and RAIDWatch program Do not change the size of reserved space unless you want your array to be accessed by controllers using older firmware Logical Drive Assignments If you use two co...

Страница 127: ...to an incongruous value can severely drag the performance This option should only be changed when you can be sure of the performance gains it might bring you The default value is determined by contro...

Страница 128: ...ckground while you can start using the array or continue configuring your RAID system When a fault tolerant RAID level RAID 1 3 or 5 is selected the controller will start initializing parity Use the E...

Страница 129: ...to proceed A prompt Create Logical Volume will appear Select Yes and press ENTER Select one or more logical drive s available on the list The same as creating a logical drive the logical drive s can...

Страница 130: ...gical Volume ID P0 Logical Volume 0 managed by the primary controller S0 Logical Volume 0 managed by the secondary controller ID Unique ID for the logical volume randomly generated by the controller S...

Страница 131: ...eed The remaining size will be automatically allotted to the next partition Choose Yes to confirm when prompted to the Partition Logical Volume message Press ENTER to confirm Follow the same procedure...

Страница 132: ...r Choose a host ID by pressing ENTER Several details are noticeable here 1 A logical group of drives logical drive logical volume previously assigned to the primary controller can not be mapped to a s...

Страница 133: ...hen prompted to Map Host LUN press ENTER to proceed For access control over Fibre network find in Chapter 8 details about Create Host Filter Entry 5 When prompted to Map Logical Volume select Yes to c...

Страница 134: ...spare should have a capacity equal or larger than all physical drives in a RAID system 1 Choose View and Edit SCSI Drives on the main menu press ENTER Move the cursor bar to a SCSI drive that is not a...

Страница 135: ...bal Spare Drive When prompted to Add Global Spare Drive choose Yes 7 9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drive and Drive Members Choose View and Edit Logical Drives in the main menu The array status will be...

Страница 136: ...o the Last Partition As illustrated above the capacity of the deleted partition will be added to the last partition WARNING As long as a partition has been changed it is necessary to reconfigure all h...

Страница 137: ...in the system a failed drive should be immediately replaced by a drive known to be good Once the failed drive is replaced the rebuild process can be manually initiated If you want the controller to au...

Страница 138: ...of a selected array This function compares and recalculates parity data to correct parity errors Choose the logical drive that you want to regenerate the parity for and then press ENTER Choose Regene...

Страница 139: ...etermines how much system resources will be used for drive scanning and recalculating process 2 Iteration Count The iteration setting determines how many times the scan is performed If set to the cont...

Страница 140: ...h to delete then press ENTER Select Yes to delete the LUN mapping or No to cancel Edit Host ID WWN Name List This is a specific item used for systems communicating over Fibre host loops Please refer t...

Страница 141: ...is a spare drive or a member of a logical drive such a destructive command may cause a data inconsistency When a drive device is mapped to a host SCSI ID so that Pass through SCSI Commands can be used...

Страница 142: ...r Fault Bus configuration Identifying Drive Move the cursor bar to the drive you wish to identify then press ENTER Choose Identify SCSI drive then choose flash all drives to flash the read write LEDs...

Страница 143: ...l Spare Drive or Global Spare Drive then press ENTER Choose Delete Global Local Spare Drive then press ENTER again Choose Yes to confirm NOTE The spare drive you deleted or any drive you replaced from...

Страница 144: ...exibility is added for all channels can be configured as host or drive Choose View and Edit SCSI Channels in the main menu Channel status displays Redefining Channel Mode For Fibre and SCSI based cont...

Страница 145: ...Secondary Controller s ID to NA In dual controller mode you need to set an ID for the Secondary controller on each of your drive channels Press ENTER on one of the existing IDs Choose Add Channel SCS...

Страница 146: ...channel is 7 If only one controller exists you must set the Secondary Controller s ID to NA If a secondary controller exists you need to set a secondary ID on host and drive channels Multiple target...

Страница 147: ...f the secondary controller s drive channel Choose an ID The dialog box Change Secondary Controller SCSI ID will appear Select Yes then press ENTER Setting Channel Terminator Choose the channel you wis...

Страница 148: ...ar Choose Yes to confirm IMPORTANT Every time you change the SCSI Transfer Speed you must reset the controller for the changes to take effect Setting the Transfer Width Move the cursor bar to a channe...

Страница 149: ...NOTE It is only recommended to alter the SCSI target settings when adjustments should be made to specific devices on a drive channel You may change the SCSI parameters for specific drives when mixing...

Страница 150: ...ENTER A dialog box will appear on the screen Enter the clock then press ENTER Maximum Transfer Width Choose Maximum Xfer Width then press ENTER Choose Yes in the dialog box to confirm the setting Pari...

Страница 151: ...NTER A list of available tag count numbers will appear Move the cursor bar to a number then press ENTER Choose Yes in the dialog box that follows to confirm the setting IMPORTANT Disabling the Maximum...

Страница 152: ...ves can reach around 30MB sec sustained read This is still far below the bandwidth of a drive channel bus Setting the SATA ATA bus speed to a lower value can get around some problems but will not beco...

Страница 153: ...eper has been activated choose Mute beeper then press ENTER Choose Yes and press ENTER in the next dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily for the current event The beeper will still be activate...

Страница 154: ...ntroller password and vice versa Changing the Password To set or change the controller password move the cursor bar to Change Password then press ENTER If a password has previously been set the contro...

Страница 155: ...To reset the controller without powering off the system move the cursor bar to Reset Controller then press ENTER Choose Yes in the dialog box that follows then press ENTER The controller will now rese...

Страница 156: ...ter a name in the dialog box that prompts then press ENTER LCD Title Display Controller Name Choose View and Edit Configuration Parameters Controller Parameters then press ENTER Choose to display the...

Страница 157: ...your configuration data onto it From the main menu choose system functions Use arrow keys to scroll down and select controller maintenance save NVRAM to disks then press ENTER Choose Yes to confirm A...

Страница 158: ...on timeout from one minute to always check The always check timeout will disable any configuration change made without entering the correct password Controller Unique Identifier Enter any hex number b...

Страница 159: ...ontroller failover failback processes 3 MAC addresses for the controller s Ethernet port that should be taken over by a surviving controller in the event of controller failure In redundant mode config...

Страница 160: ...controller uses GMT Greenwich Mean Time a 24 hours clock To change the clock to your local time zone enter the hours later than the Greenwich mean time following a plus sign For example enter 9 for J...

Страница 161: ...the utility is to performed on then press ENTER Select View drive information then press ENTER SCSI Drive Utilities From the View and Edit SCSI Drives menu select the drive that the utility is to perf...

Страница 162: ...cess the formatting must be performed again when power resumes All data stored in disk drives will be destroyed during the low level format The disk drive on which a low level disk format will be perf...

Страница 163: ...lowing options 1 Auto Reassign Bad Block 2 Abort When Error Occurs 3 Drive Test for Read Only Read and Write When finished with configuration select Execute Drive Testing and press ENTER to proceed Th...

Страница 164: ...tion 8 5 Summary 8 2 Major Concerns Things you should know before proceeding with configuration 8 3 Supported Features List of functionality supported by controller FC chips 8 4 Configuration Samples...

Страница 165: ...ection between Controllers Cabling between controllers hardware link through a common backplane Fibre hub or switch for SAN applications and for those models that do not have by pass chips Channel Mod...

Страница 166: ...Fibre Operation 8 3 performance 2 Host side dual loop is passively supported and requires the support of multi path software on the host computer...

Страница 167: ...ured for the connection to host or drive 2Gbit Fibre Channel 1 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FC AL 2 working draft rev 6 4 2 Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attach FC FLA working draft rev 2 7 3 Fibre Chann...

Страница 168: ...drive enclosure has been set to a neutral status physical IDs will be automatically assigned to drives In band Fibre and S E S Support SCSI Pass through commands are supported over host and drive loop...

Страница 169: ...NTER A dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the change Primary and Secondary Controller IDs Select a channel by highlighting its status bar and press ENTER Each drive channel should be assigne...

Страница 170: ...oller Cache Coherency Channel RCC Channel A host channel can be selected and converted into a communications channel To convert a drive channel change it into host mode and then select RCCOM Details c...

Страница 171: ...hat follows Each port name should then be assigned a nickname for ease of identification This is especially the case when multiple filtering entries must be defined for granting or denying access to a...

Страница 172: ...manually to a device other than an ID provided otherwise The set slot number and the add drive entry functions are reserved for Infortrend s Fault bus operation View Drive Information If the selected...

Страница 173: ...edundant controller system can be connected to the FL_ports on an FC switch and then the host computers connect to its F_ports View and Edit Drive Side Parameters 2 Drive Side Dual Loop Fibre drives a...

Страница 174: ...Controller Unique Identifier is required for operation with the Redundant Controller Configuration The controller will automatically notify users to enter a unique identifier when the first logical d...

Страница 175: ...identifier can also be accessed from View and Edit Configuration Parameters Controller Parameters Controller Unique ID Controller Communications over Fibre Loops Controllers running firmware version 3...

Страница 176: ...automatically distributed over all drive loops As displayed above channel s selected as the communications paths will be displayed as channel number C connected or channel number D disconnected If cha...

Страница 177: ...ol RAID Storage Host A Host E Host C Host B Host D SAN Storage Pool LUN0 LUN1 LUN2 LUN3 LUN4 LUN5 RAID based mapping provides the centralized management for host storage access It is derived from the...

Страница 178: ...ost computers to drives There can be many host computers connected across a storage network and a system administrator may want to make each storage unit available for certain host systems while forbi...

Страница 179: ...means selecting either the Primary or the Secondary controller I O path WWN Name List Before mapping host LUNs you may add host adapter port names to a WWN name list to combine with a nickname given...

Страница 180: ...ate a logical unit with it When a logical unit is selected you may choose to Map Host LUN or Create Host Filter Entry If you select to map the logical unit directly to a host LUN without LUN masking t...

Страница 181: ...ual ly add host filter entry Pressing ENTER on Add from current device list will bring forth a list of port names detected on host loops If you have a name list pre configured port names will appear w...

Страница 182: ...e or Exclude Filter entry can serve both ends to include or exclude certain adapters from data access Include If a node s a workstation or a server WWN falls in an ID range specified as Include the no...

Страница 183: ...hosts can be mapped with completely different logical drives logical volumes logical partitions even when they address the same channel target ID and LUN When completed with configuring LUN mask pres...

Страница 184: ...select a configured logical unit a logical drive logical volume or one of its logical partitions to create the entry The entry submenu will appear 3 Enter and modify the Host ID Host ID Mask Filter Ty...

Страница 185: ...0x F111 Mask 0x FFFE Filter Type Include Access Mode Read Only It means P0 of LD1 is Read Only for Host A and B Entry 4 LD1 P0 ID 0x F222 Mask 0x FFFF Filter Type Include Access Mode Read Write It mea...

Страница 186: ...being recurrently notified of drive bad block reassignments may be the most common omen for a drive about to fail In addition to the S M A R T related functions as will be discussed later in this sect...

Страница 187: ...ill be redefined as an used drive System administrators may replace the used drive with a new one and then configure the new drive as a spare drive Locate the logical drive to which the specific membe...

Страница 188: ...eted users will be notified by the following message Perpetual Clone The standby spare will clone the source drive member drive with predicted errors or any selected drive without substituting it The...

Страница 189: ...view the progress You may identify the source drive and choose to View clone progress or Abort clone if you happen to have selected the wrong drive The cloning progress will be completed by a notifica...

Страница 190: ...he attributes the drive can monitor which are selected by the device manufacturer based on the attribute s ability to contribute to the prediction of degrading or fault conditions Although attributes...

Страница 191: ...standby drive If the drive with predicted errors fails the clone drive will take over immediately Under the circumstance that the problematic drive is still working and another drive in the same logi...

Страница 192: ...CSI Parameters Drive Predictable Failure Mode SMART choose one from Detect Only Detect Perpetual Clone and Detect Clone Replace Examining Whether Your Drives Support S M A R T To see if your drive sup...

Страница 193: ...ted TEST If this error message appears it means your drive supports S M A R T features 8 Otherwise you may simply refer to related documentation or contact drive manufacturer for information about whe...

Страница 194: ...drive with a spare drive You may enter the View and Edit SCSI Drive menu and click on the spare drive either a local or a global one Choose from the menu items if you want to know about the status of...

Страница 195: ...Drive or Global Spare Drive 5c When a drive a logical drive member detects the predictable drive failure the controller will clone the drive with a spare drive After the clone process is finished it w...

Страница 196: ...e SCSI ID Most SCSI host adapters treat an LUN like another SCSI device The same holds true for a Fibre channel host interface 32 LUN s are supported with each host ID 9 2 1 Host side SCSI Parameters...

Страница 197: ...I O tags to the controller and the controller is too busy to process all the host might start to send less than 8 tags during every certain period of time since then This setting ensures that the con...

Страница 198: ...the following Host side SCSI configurations Maximum Queued I O Count LUNs per Host SCSI ID Num of Host LUN Connect Tag per Host LUN Connect Peripheral Dev Type Parameters and Cyl Head Sector Mapping...

Страница 199: ...le media LUN 0 s only and All undefined LUNs Please refer to the table of peripheral device setting for details concerning various operating systems Peripheral Device Type For connection without a pre...

Страница 200: ...require different adjustments Look at the table below to find the proper settings for your host operating system References to Peripheral Device Qualifier and Device Support for Removable Media are al...

Страница 201: ...For Sun Solaris the cylinder cannot exceed 65535 so user can choose cylinder 65535 the controller will automatically adjust the head sector count then the OS can read the correct drive capacity Pleas...

Страница 202: ...Infortrend 9 17 Configuring Sector Ranges Head Ranges Cylinder Ranges Selecting Sector Ranges Selecting Head Ranges Selecting Cylinder Ranges...

Страница 203: ...when powered on These hard drives can be configured so that drives will not spin up at the same time when the enclosure is powered on There are 3 methods for spinning up the hard drive s motor Spin u...

Страница 204: ...hen the controller is powered up it will send a SCSI bus reset command to the SCSI bus When disabled it will not send a SCSI bus reset command on the next power up When connecting more than one host c...

Страница 205: ...value the drive will be considered as a failed drive When the drive itself detects a media error while reading from the drive platter it usually retries the previous reading or re calibrates the head...

Страница 206: ...roller supports tag command queuing with an adjustable maximum tag count from 1 to 128 The default setting is Enabled with a maximum tag count of 32 Choose Maximum Tag Count then press ENTER A list of...

Страница 207: ...your RAID enclosure being monitored via SAF TE S E S use this function to decide at what interval the controller will check the status of these devices Choose Periodic SAF TE and SES Device Check Tim...

Страница 208: ...the controller checks to see whether a failed drive has been swapped When a logical drive s member drive fails the controller will detect the failed drive at the selected time interval Once the faile...

Страница 209: ...interval Drive removal will be detected even if a host does not attempt to access data on the drive If the Periodic Drive Check Time is set to Disabled the default setting is Disabled the controller...

Страница 210: ...oss 4 Power supply Failure 5 Fan Failure 6 Temperature Exceeds Threshold Note the thresholds on temperature refer to those set for RAID controller board temperature View Peripheral Device Status Selec...

Страница 211: ...oller Electronics Select the device interface then select individual module to check its status Controller Auto Shutdown Event Trigger Option Select View and edit Peripheral Devices on the main menu a...

Страница 212: ...Parameters Select View and edit Configuration parameters on the main menu and press ENTER Choose Disk Array Parameters then press ENTER again The Disk Array Parameters menu will appear Rebuild Priori...

Страница 213: ...es Performs Verify after Write during rebuild process Verification on LD Normal Drive Writes Performs Verify after Write during normal I Os Each method can be enabled or disabled individually Hard dri...

Страница 214: ...increasing demands on signal quality combining controllers using the cabling method may not all work well Depending on enclosure design signal paths for communications may have been strung between con...

Страница 215: ...Infortrend s dual controller configurations come with pre set IDs for users ease of configuration It is however always best to check these IDs before proceeding with configuration 10 1 2 Consideratio...

Страница 216: ...is channel 0 Channel 0 is also the default for host interface therefore avail other channel s for host connection by changing its channel mode See Chapter 7 for details about channel mode configuratio...

Страница 217: ...ve Loops Drive RCC Configure all drive loops into the Drive RCC mode to let them share the communications traffic The controllers can automatically distribute the communications traffic across all dri...

Страница 218: ...process is the same using single or redundant controllers Logical units can be manually assigned to different controllers to facilitate the active active configuration There is no limitation on drive...

Страница 219: ...diagrammed below or use the entire logical drive as a single partition with or without the support of one or several spare drives Figure 10 4 Partitioning of Logical Units RAID 5 8GB RAID 0 6GB Logic...

Страница 220: ...not available The configuration procedure will be discussed in section 10 3 Mapping A logical unit made available through a Primary ID will be managed by the Primary controller and that through a Sec...

Страница 221: ...system to completely hang up Having two controllers working together will guarantee that at least one controller will survive the catastrophes and keep the system working This is the logic behind hav...

Страница 222: ...SCSI Fibre channels assigned to drive connections There are two logical drives Logical drive 0 is assigned to the Primary controller mapped to the Primary ID and logical drive 1 assigned to the Secon...

Страница 223: ...ller Failed Channel ID Status Target Chip 0 Primary ID Active Pri Controller channel 0 Failed 0 1 Secondary ID Standby becomes Active Sec Controller channel 0 1 Secondary ID Active Sec Controller chan...

Страница 224: ...m vendor should be able to provide an appropriate replacement controller Auto Failback Once the failed controller is removed and a replacement controller is installed the existing controller will ackn...

Страница 225: ...raffic Distribution Logical Drive 0 Logical Drive 1 Host LUN Mapping ID0 LUN PID ID1 LUN SID Logical Drive Assignment Primary Secondary Drive Channel 2 3 When creating a logical unit users will be pro...

Страница 226: ...s original status and any replacement combined afterwards will assume the role of the Secondary Symptoms LCD on the failed controller is off LCD on the surviving controller displays controller failure...

Страница 227: ...ecially when write back caching is preferred If controllers are running in write back mode a battery module is recommended for each controller Use the default channel CH 0 for the SentinelRAID control...

Страница 228: ...I ID Add Delete Channel SCSI ID Primary Secondary Controller Add SCSI ID from the list Reset the controller for the configuration to take effect 5 Create Logical Configurations of Drives and assign ea...

Страница 229: ...w Host interface Host channel Primary Secondary Drive channel Primary Secondary SCSI 0 1 7 6 Fibre 112 113 119 120 SCSI IDs 8 PID and 9 SID are the recommended defaults to the drive channels of the SC...

Страница 230: ...et the other act as a standby Active to Standby Configuration By assigning all the logical configurations of drives to one controller the other controller will stay idle and becomes active only when i...

Страница 231: ...Infortrend 10 18 operating in write back mode it is recommended to install a battery module to each controller...

Страница 232: ...rollers should be established 4 Configure your SCSI Fibre channels as host or drive The default configuration for SCSI channel termination is enabled Please refer to Appendix D of your controller Hard...

Страница 233: ...CD Press ENT to proceed Autoconfig The message Enable Redundant Ctlr Autocfg will appear Use or to scroll through the available options Primary Secondary or Autocfg then press ENT for two seconds to s...

Страница 234: ...e Set Peripheral Device Entry then press ENT Choose Redundant Ctlr Function__ and then press ENT Note The current setting will be displayed on the LCD If this controller has never been set as a redund...

Страница 235: ...cel on its LCD A few seconds later the LCD display on the Secondary controller will be similar to the LCD display on the Primary controller The upper right corner of LCD will then be displaying a P or...

Страница 236: ...ct after controller reset Assigning a Logical Drive Logical Volume to the Secondary Controller A logical drive logical volume or any of its logical partitions can be assigned to the Primary or Seconda...

Страница 237: ...se or to choose mapping Logical Drive Logical Volume or Physical Drive to host LUN If the logical unit has been partitioned map each partition to different ID LUNs Use or to choose a LUN number and pr...

Страница 238: ...placed Remove the failed controller after the working controller has taken over For a controller with hot plug capability all you have to do is to remove the failed controller The replacement controll...

Страница 239: ...d it will assume the role of the Secondary controller 10 3 2 Via Terminal Emulation Redundant Configuration Using Automatic Setting Power on Controller 1 Make sure Controller 2 is powered off Enter th...

Страница 240: ...to FFFFF then press ENTER to proceed The value you enter for controller unique ID should be different for each controller Power off controller 1 and then power on controller 2 Set controller 2 to Auto...

Страница 241: ...gh the available options Primary Secondary or Autoconfigure Press ENTER on Primary Power off controller 1 then power on controller 2 Set controller 2 to Secondary as described above Power off controll...

Страница 242: ...l be automatically assigned to the Primary controller It can be assigned to the Secondary controller if the host computer is also connected to the Secondary controller Access View and Edit Logical Dri...

Страница 243: ...is evident from the View and Edit Logical Drives screen S0 indicates that the logical drive is logical drive 0 assigned to the Secondary Controller Mapping a Logical Drive Logical Volume to the Host...

Страница 244: ...y controller NOTE Some operating systems SCO UnixWare and OpenServer for example will not attempt to retry accessing the hard disk drives while the controller is taking over 10 3 3 When and How Is the...

Страница 245: ...initialize the replacement controller execute the Deassert Reset on Failed Controller function If the replacement has been initialized normally you may proceed to examine the system status From the ma...

Страница 246: ...oller It may take a while for the controllers to finish re initialization and assuming their load 2 Failover by Forcing controller failure Select View and Edit Peripheral Devices Set Peripheral Device...

Страница 247: ...session with a secondary controller No configuration change can be done through a secondary controller Remote Redundant Controller This is an advanced option reserved for system integrators Cache Syn...

Страница 248: ...RAID in the event of a disaster The following tables are provided as a model for recording the configuration data As a general rule the configuration data in the NVRAM should be saved to disk or as a...

Страница 249: ...Infortrend 11 2 LN SB FL NAME Disk reserved space Partition Information LG Partition Size MB LG Partition Size MB...

Страница 250: ...Record of Settings 11 3 11 2 View and Edit Logical Volumes Logical Volume Information LV ID Size LD Stripe size Partition Information LV Partition Size MB LV Partition Size MB...

Страница 251: ...ppings Host Channel Pri Sec Controller SCSI ID LUN Logical Drive Logical Volume Partition Size Host ID WWN Name List Host ID WWN Name List Access Restriction Setting Logical Drive Logical Volume Parti...

Страница 252: ...Record of Settings 11 5 Host Filter Entries LUN LV LD DRV Partition Size MB RAID LV LD Partition Host ID WWN Host ID WWN Mask Filter Type Access Mode Name...

Страница 253: ...Infortrend 11 6 11 4 View and Edit SCSI Drives Slot Chl ID Size MB Speed LG DRV Global Spare Local Spare Vendor Product ID LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG...

Страница 254: ...nnels Chl Mode Host Drive Primary Controller SCSI ID s Secondary Controller SCSI ID s Default Sync Clock Default Wide Terminator Diff Enable Disable Current Sync Clock Current Width Parity Check View...

Страница 255: ...Direct to Port Through Network Terminal Emulation Enabled Disabled Ethernet Configuration IP address __________ NetMask __________ Gateway __________ PPP Configuration PPP Access Name __________ PPP A...

Страница 256: ...Peripheral Device Type Device Qualifier Removable media LUN applicability Host Cylinder Head Sector Mapping configuration Cylinder Head Sector Fibre Connection Options __________ Drive Side SCSI Param...

Страница 257: ...nabled Disabled Redundant Controller Parameters Redundant Controller Communication Channel __________ Secondary controller RS 232 Enabled Disabled Cache synchronization on write through Enabled Disabl...

Страница 258: ...Peripheral Device Active Signal Power Supply Fail Signal Active High Active Low Fan Fail Signal Active High Active Low Temperature Alert Signal Active High Active Low UPS Power Fail Signal Active High...

Страница 259: ...for CPU temperature Upper ________ Lower ________ Thresholds for Board Temperature Upper ________ Lower ________ 11 8 Save NVRAM to Disk Restore from Disk Update Firmware Date Save NVRAM to Disk or F...

Страница 260: ...Capacity Configuration procedure of the Expand function for logical drive 12 5 Expand Logical Volume Configuration procedure of the Expand function for logical volume 12 6 Configuration Example Volum...

Страница 261: ...city will be increased to 144GB in two separate partitions one is 108GB and the other 36GB 2 Size of the New Drive A drive used for adding the capacity should have the same capacity as that of the arr...

Страница 262: ...pacity in a logical unit 2 Capacity is increased by using member drives of larger capacity see Copy and Replace in the discussion below Data is recalculated and distributed to drive members or members...

Страница 263: ...to get a clear idea Figure 12 2 Expansion by Adding Drive RAID levels supported RAID 0 3 and 5 The new partition must be made available through a host ID LUN Add Drive Procedure First select from the...

Страница 264: ...ection Available drives will be listed Select one or more drive s to add to the target logical drive by pressing ENTER The selected drive will be indicated by an asterisk mark Press ESC to proceed and...

Страница 265: ...ost LUN the original capacity is 9999MB its host LUN mapping remains unchanged and the added capacity appears as the second partition IMPORTANT Expansion by adding drives can not be canceled once star...

Страница 266: ...sting data in the array is copied onto the new drives and then the original members can be removed When all the member drives have been replaced execute the Expand logical drives function to make use...

Страница 267: ...as the source drive status indicated as ON LINE by pressing ENTER a table of available drives will prompt Select a new drive to copy the capacity of the source drive The channel number and ID number o...

Страница 268: ...ch member drive has the capacity of 1 Gigabyte Copy and Replace has been performed on the logical drive and each of its member drives has been replaced by a new drive with the capacity of 2 Gigabytes...

Страница 269: ...Choose Yes to confirm and proceed Upon completion you will be prompted by the notification message Press ESC to return to the previous menu screen The total capacity of logical drive has been expande...

Страница 270: ...xpand Logical Volume To expand a logical volume expand its logical drive member s and then perform expand logical volume When prompted by Expand Logical Volume Choose Yes to confirm and the process wi...

Страница 271: ...support this feature The volume set expansion formats the new area without affecting existing files on the original volume 2 The system drive boot drive of a Windows NT 2000 system can not be expanded...

Страница 272: ...rmation about this drive in the Windows 2000 Server s Computer Management Storage Disk Management Place the cursor on Disk 1 right click your mouse and select Properties You will see that the total ca...

Страница 273: ...the menu select Partition Logical Drive You will see that the 25GB logical drive is composed of a 17GB partition and an 8 4GB partition Follow the directions in chapter 5 and chapter 7 to map the new...

Страница 274: ...Server s Disk Management There now exists a Disk 2 with 8 3GB of free space You may use the rescan disks command to bring up the new drive Select an existing volume Disk1 and then right click on the...

Страница 275: ...will display that volume set of Drive E has been extended into a spanned volume by the 8 3GB in Disk2 Logical Drive E is now composed of two partitions with a total volume of 2500MB To see this hold d...

Страница 276: ...Array Expansion 12 17 Drive E now has a capacity of about 25GB...

Страница 277: ...roll to select an undefined Logical Drive number LG 0 LG 7 TDRV 7 Create LG Level NRAID RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 Select Physical Drive C I MB NEW DRV Vendor ID Available Physical Drive s TDRV Creat...

Страница 278: ...ction ID Selection Map Pri Ctlr CH ID Map Sec Ctlr CH ID CH ID LUN Not Mapped Map Host LUN LV LD PART MB Partition Selection CH ID LUN Mapto LV LD PRT CH ID LUN Mapto LV LD PRT Edit Existing LUN Mappi...

Страница 279: ...ogical Drive Add Local Spare Drive Successful Add Global Spare Drive Successful Scan Channel ID Scanning for SCSI Drive Delete Spare Drive Delete Spare Drive Successful Slot Assignment Set to Add Chan...

Страница 280: ...lr Select a Channel ID Add Channel SCSI ID Delete Channel SCSI ID Primary Controller Secondary Controller Add CHL ID Secondary Ctlr Change Setting Do Reset Ctlr Delete ID 1 Secondary Ctlr Change Setti...

Страница 281: ...ion No Device 0x7f Direct access 0 Sequential 1 Processor 3 CD ROM 5 Scanner 6 MO Device 7 Storage Array c Unknown 0x1f Connected Support Not Connected Enabled Disabled All Undefined LUN Undefined LUN...

Страница 282: ...troller Logo Passwd Validation Timeout Disabled Enter Ctlr Name Controller Password set Disable 1 2 5 min Always Ctlr Unique ID 1 to 65535 must be different for each controller SDRAM ECC Enable Disabl...

Страница 283: ...wn This Controller ShutdownComplete Reset Ctlr Save NVRAM to Disks Restore NVRAM from Disks Save NVRAM to Disks Restore NVRAM from Disks The Download Firmware and Advanced Maintenance Functions are no...

Страница 284: ...drive identification Unique controller randomly generated logical drive ID Logical drive name user configurable Maximum number of partitions for each logical drive 128 through OEM iappend exe program...

Страница 285: ...status Advanced Features Media Scan Supported Verify written data on drives to avoid bad blocks from causing data inconsistency Transparent reset of hung HDDs Supported Auto cache flush on critical c...

Страница 286: ...stable up to 128 for each drive Host side Maximum Queued I O count User adjustable up to 1024 Maximum concurrent Host LUN connection User adjustable up to 64 Number of Tags Reserved for each Host LUN...

Страница 287: ...mand queuing RAID Expansion On line RAID Expansion Supported Mode 1 RAID Expansion add Drive Supported Multiple drives can be added concurrently Mode 2 RAID Expansion Copy and Replace drives Supported...

Страница 288: ...DB 9 Copper MIA compliant a converter or extender is necessary Point to point and FC AL protocol User configurable LUN Filtering RAID Based Mapping Host LUN mapping with user configurable Filter entry...

Страница 289: ...ode Yes with synchronized cache connection between controllers Automatic Failover Yes for all PowerPC controllers user s interaction necessary Automatic Failback Yes for all PowerPC controllers user s...

Страница 290: ...l firmware and all Infortrend external RAID controllers support redundant controller function Redundant Controller rolling firmware upgrade Firmware upgrade can be downloaded to the primary controller...

Страница 291: ...iling drive to a backup drive manually Automatic Shutdown on over temperature condition Controller automatically starts a shutdown sequence upon the detection of high ambient temperature for an extend...

Страница 292: ...E S E S device to host channel for use with Host based SAF TE S E S Monitor Supported Dual LED drive status indicators Supported Both single LED and dual LED drive status indicators are supported SAF...

Страница 293: ...nstinct operation Buzzer alarm Warns user when any failure or critical event occurs Remote Manageability Modem Support The COM 1 port of the controller can be connected to a MODEM for remote manageabi...

Страница 294: ...ata and mode parameters support Special mode parameters Error handling page Enable Disable retry Caching page Enable Disable Read Write caching SMART enable parameters Geometry saved on format command...

Страница 295: ...d It contains the most up to date information which is very important to the firmware upgrade and usage These files must be extracted from the compressed file and copied to a directory in boot drive N...

Страница 296: ...ORTANT Allow the downloading process to finish Do not reset or turn off the computer or the controller while it is downloading the file Doing so may result in an unrecoverable error that requires the...

Страница 297: ...oller panel or the RAID view icon on the control bar The RAID view window will appear Choose Controller Download and click among the selections Download FW BR Firmware and Boot Record 2 Provide the bo...

Страница 298: ...ontroller Download and click among the selections Download FW Firmware If both boot record and firmware are desired to upgrade choose Download Firmware 2 Provide the firmware filename to the RAIDWatch...

Страница 299: ...ot Record and Firmware 5 Set ZMODEM as the file transfer protocol of your terminal emulation software 6 Send the Boot Record Binary to the controller In HyperTerminal go to the Transfer menu and choos...

Страница 300: ...nload Firmware 4 Set ZMODEM as the file transfer protocol of your terminal emulation software 5 Send the Firmware Binary to the controller In Hyper Terminal select Send file If you are not using Hyper...

Страница 301: ...controller unit regardless of the controller s current status The software program is Java based and is usually bundled with RAIDWatch manager Associated details can be found in the RAIDWatch user s...

Страница 302: ...et ALERT Unexpected Drive Not Ready 1112 CHL _ ID _ SCSI Drive ALERT Drive HW Error _ 1113 CHL _ ID _ SCSI Drive ALERT Bad Block Encountered _ _ 1114 CHL _ ID _ SCSI Target ALERT Unit Attention Receiv...

Страница 303: ...G _ Logical Drive NOTICE Starting Expansion 2188 Expansion of Logical Drive _ Completed 2189 LG _ Logical Drive NOTICE Starting Add SCSI Drive Operation 218a Add SCSI Drive to Logical Drive _ Complete...

Страница 304: ...Power Supply _ Not Present 3f21 Peripheral Device ALERT high low threshold Power Supply _ Voltage Detected _ 3f24 Peripheral Device ALERT UPS _ AC Power Failure Detected 3f24 Peripheral Device ALERT U...

Страница 305: ...evice Not installed 3f21 SES C_ I_ Current sensor _ Vendor descriptor strings Device Unknown Status 3f21 SES C_ I_ Current sensor _ Vendor descriptor strings Device Not Available General Peripheral De...

Страница 306: ...age 0 3fa4 Peripheral Device NOTICE UPS _ AC Power Back On Line 3fa4 Peripheral Device NOTICE UPS _ Battery Back On Line SES Devices 3f21 SES C_ I_ Power Supply _ Power Supply Failure Detected 3f22 SE...

Страница 307: ...t Happens One channel has failed What to Do Check if cable connectors are firmly seated and SCSI buses are properly terminated With Fibre channels disconnection may happen on the host side hub or swit...

Страница 308: ...t to Do Notification 2 Line LCD Controller Initialization Completed Terminal 0181 Controller Initialization Completed Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Controller initialization compl...

Страница 309: ...arning Notification What Happens Firmware configuration data previously saved to disk is restored What to Do 2 Line LCD NVRAM Restore from File is Completed Terminal 0189 NVRAM Restore from File is Co...

Страница 310: ...ID _ SCSI Target ALERT Gross Phase Signal Error Detected Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Drive side SCSI phase signal abnormality detected What to Do Press ESC to clear the message...

Страница 311: ...drive side cable termination or drive canister connection 2 Line LCD C _ I _ Data Overrun Underrun Terminal 1107 CHL _ ID _ SCSI Target ALERT Data Overrun Underrun Detected Event Type Alert Warning No...

Страница 312: ...ing Notification What Happens Drive Side SCSI drive unrecoverable hardware error reported What to Do Replace hard drive and the rebuild may begin with a hot spare or a replacement drive 2 Line LCD C _...

Страница 313: ...e_key Sense_code Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Drive side block reassignment failed Drive will be considered failed What to Do Press ESC to clear this error message 2 Line LCD C _...

Страница 314: ...lure Detected Starting Clone Terminal 1142 SMART CH _ ID _ Predictable Failure Detected Starting Clone Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens SMART errors detected a spare is conducted to...

Страница 315: ...ay have failed or disconnected What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD Chl _ Fibre Channel Loop Failure Detected Terminal 113f CHL _ ALERT Fibre Channel Loop Failure Detected Event Type A...

Страница 316: ...ification 2 Line LCD C _ Fibre Chl Loop Connection Restored Terminal 113f CHL _ NOTICE Fibre Channel Loop Connection Restored Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Fibre loop connection r...

Страница 317: ...of the following reasons 1 The rebuild has been canceled by user 2 The drive used for rebuild might have failed during rebuild 3 Bad blocks are encountered on another member drive during the rebuild...

Страница 318: ...on a Good GD logical drive 2 Line LCD C _ I _ Clone Failed Terminal 2111 LG_ Logical Drive ALERT CHL _ ID _ Clone Failed Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens The clone drive operation h...

Страница 319: ...Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD LG _ Starting Parity Regen Terminal 2185 LG _ Logical Drive NOTICE Starting Parity Regeneration Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Start r...

Страница 320: ...he expansion by adding new drive is completed What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD LG _ Add SCSI Drive Paused Terminal 218b LG _ Logical Drive NOTICE Add SCSI Drive Operation Paused Ev...

Страница 321: ...lied to clone a faulty member according to the preset scheme What to Do Press ESC to clear the message When cloning is completed carefully identify and replace the faulty drive 2 Line LCD C _ I _ Clon...

Страница 322: ...lure Detected _ Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens The cooling fan has failed What to Do Contact your system supplier for further diagnosis 2 Line LCD SAF TE_ Elevated Temperature Aler...

Страница 323: ...rent_voltage Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens The detected main circuit board temperature is higher or lower than the preset thresholds What to Do Check the enclosure ventilation con...

Страница 324: ...heral Device ALERT 5V upper lower threshold Voltage Detected _ Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens The detected 5V voltage source is now higher or lower than the preset voltage threshol...

Страница 325: ...LCD High Low _ Temperature_ Detected Terminal 3F23 Peripheral Device ALERT high low threshold Temperature_ Detected _ F C Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Critical high or low tempe...

Страница 326: ...setting and contact your system supplier 2 Line LCD High Low Power Supply_ Voltage Detected Terminal 3f21 Peripheral Device ALERT high low threshold Power Supply_ Voltage Detected Event Type Alert Wa...

Страница 327: ...Event Messages D 27...

Страница 328: ...I_ Power Supply_ Vendor descriptor strings Device Unknown Status Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Device reports unknown status strings What to Do Check loop connection and contact y...

Страница 329: ..._ Cooling element_ Device Not Available Terminal 3f22 SES C_I_ Cooling element_ Vendor descriptor strings Device Not Available Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Device missing What t...

Страница 330: ...ES C_I_ UPS_ Vendor descriptor strings Device Not Supported Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Voltage monitor detects the abnormal voltage has back to the normal range What to Do Pres...

Страница 331: ...1 SES C_I_ Voltage Sensor_ Vendor descriptor strings Device Not Installed Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD _ _ Voltage Sensor_ De...

Страница 332: ...lert Warning Notification What Happens What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD _ _ Current Sensor_ Device Unknown Status Terminal 3f21 SES C_I_ Current Sensor_ Vendor descriptor strings D...

Страница 333: ...fication What Happens What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD Cooling Fan Failure Detected Terminal 3f22 Cooling Fan Failure Detected Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Wh...

Страница 334: ...els _ Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Temperature back to non critical level What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD SAF TE_ Power Supply Back On Line Terminal 3fa1 SAF...

Страница 335: ...r the message 2 Line LCD 3 3V Back to Non Critical Terminal 3fa1 3 3V high low Voltage Back within Acceptable Limits Event Type Critical Warning Notification What Happens 3 3V voltage source back with...

Страница 336: ...ature back to non critical levels What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD Temperature_ is present Terminal 3fa3 NOTICE Temperature_ is present Event Type Alert Warning Notification What H...

Страница 337: ...tification What Happens Power supply_ detected What to Do Press ESC to clear the message 2 Line LCD UPS_ AC Power Back On Line Terminal 3fa4 Peripheral Device NOTICE UPS_ AC Power Back On Line Event T...

Страница 338: ...I_ Cooling element_ Cooling Fan Failure Detected Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Contact your system provider for an immediate replacement of fan modules What to Do Contact your sys...

Страница 339: ...ing Fan_ Failure Detected Terminal 3f22 Cooling Fan_ Failure Detected Event Type Alert Warning Notification What Happens Cooling fan failure detected What to Do Contact your system provider for an imm...

Страница 340: ...9 Automatic Shutdown B 8 B Background firmware download B 2 Bad block auto reassignment B 7 Basic RAID Management B 1 Battery Support 10 17 Baud rate 3 1 beeper mute 5 34 7 34 C Cache Dirty Percentag...

Страница 341: ...Logical Drive Shutdown B 3 Copy and Replace Drives 12 7 Creating a Logical Drive LCD 5 6 Creating a Logical Drive terminal 7 5 Creating a Logical Volume LCD 5 10 Creating a Logical Volume terminal 7 1...

Страница 342: ...8 Fibre Channel Parameters 2 10 Fibre Chip 8 4 Fibre Connection Options 8 10 Filter Type Include or Exclude 8 18 flash memory C 1 flashing all SCSI drives 1 8 flashing selected SCSI drives 1 8 Forcin...

Страница 343: ...8 20 8 22 B 5 LUN mappings viewing and deleting LCD 5 22 LUN mappings viewing and deleting terminal 7 21 LUN Mask ID Range Configuration 8 18 LUN explained 2 7 9 11 LUNs per Host SCSI ID 9 13 M Main M...

Страница 344: ...a Logical Drive Logical Volume terminal 7 11 partitioning the logical volume 1 15 partitions mapping them to LUNs 2 9 pass through SCSI commands LCD 5 22 Pass through SCSI Commands terminal 7 21 passw...

Страница 345: ...configuration SCSI interface 10 2 redundant controller 10 23 10 29 assigning logical drives to secondary redundant controller automatic configuration of 10 20 10 26 redundant controller explained 10...

Страница 346: ...g 7 27 SCSI Motor Spin Up 9 18 SCSI Parameters 2 10 SCSI Reset at Power Up 9 19 SCSI target drive channel viewing and editing 5 30 SCSI target drive channel LCD 5 30 Secondary Controller 10 16 Seconda...

Страница 347: ...Drive Side Parameters Fibre 8 10 View and Edit Event Logs LCD 4 7 View and Edit Fibre Channel 8 6 View and Edit Fibre Drive 8 8 View and Edit Host Side Parameters Fibre 8 9 View Channel WWN 8 7 View...

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