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RocketStor 6628T
User Manual
Sep. 5, 2017 Revision 1.00 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
Страница 1: ...1 RocketStor 6628T User Manual Sep 5 2017 Revision 1 00 HighPoint Technologies Inc...
Страница 2: ...C Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and i...
Страница 3: ...mes 17 Section 3 Setting up the software for Mac Platforms 20 Driver Installation 20 Section 4 Using the HighPoint RocketStor RAID Manager HRM 24 How to Login to the HRM 24 Navigating the HRM 25 Overv...
Страница 4: ...Scheduler 47 How to Create a New Verify Task 47 Section 5 Troubleshooting 48 Handling Critical Arrays 48 Rebuilding Stops Due to Bad Sectors 49 Critical array becomes disabled when you removed faulty...
Страница 5: ...3 40Gb s Cable 2 meters 1x UL Power Cord 32x 3 5 HDD mounting screws 32x 2 5 SSD mounting screws 1x Quick Installation Guide Before getting started check to see if any items are missing damaged or inc...
Страница 6: ...dundant RAID Levels RAID 1 5 6 10 50 NVRAM with Write Journaling enhances RAID integrity Disk Format compatible 512 512e 4Kn Larger than 2 TB Drive and RAID Array support Spin down Massive Arrays of I...
Страница 7: ...nt Active LED Solid Flash Blue HDD Access Indicator Disk Status LED Solid Flash Red Device Failure Rebuilding Indicator Power LED Solid Blue Power on Indicator Panel Layout Rear View System Requiremen...
Страница 8: ...turn on the RocketStor 6628T using the power switch on the rear panel switch to the I position to power on the RocketStor6628T 3 RocketStor 6628T is designed to be powered on and powered off simultan...
Страница 9: ...most recent performance stability and compatibility improvements Drivers are updated regularly at www highpoint tech com 1 Obtain the latest driver software for the RocketStor 6628T from our website...
Страница 10: ...of Devices and Printers Click Device Manager 7 Note Alternatively you can search for Device Manager in your start menu search bar 8 Under Other Devices right click on RAID controller and click Update...
Страница 11: ...11 9 When prompted select browse my computer for driver software 10 Locate the driver files you downloaded and select them 11 Press next and follow the on screen instructions...
Страница 12: ...right of Devices and Printers Click Device Manager 5 Note Alternatively you can search Device Manager using your start menu search bar 6 Click the Storage controllers tab If the driver is installed it...
Страница 13: ...Control Panel 5 Click Hardware and Sound 6 Under Devices and Printers Click Device Manager 7 Note Alternatively you can search Device Manager in your start menu search bar 8 Click the Storage controll...
Страница 14: ...ardware and sound Under Devices and Printers Click Device Manager Note Alternatively you can search Device Manager in your start menu search bar 2 Click the Storage controllers tab 3 Right click Rocke...
Страница 15: ...dded to the interface update to the latest version at http highpoint tech com USA_new series rs6628t download htm 1 Locate the HRM Setup on our website and download the HRM package Extract the content...
Страница 16: ...of the host device To obtain your IP address 1 Open a command prompt window on the host computer 2 Type ipconfig 3 Look for the section that contains your network adapter information 4 Take Note the I...
Страница 17: ...tion and search for Disk Management Search results may show Create and format hard disk partitions 2 Alternatively Go to Control Panel 3 Under Administrative Tools click Create and format hard disk pa...
Страница 18: ...18 4 Once initialized right click the unallocated disk space for your disk 5 click New Simple Volume 6 Follow the instructions on screen to receive a drive letter...
Страница 19: ...19 7 Once finished the drive will appear in your OS with the letter you assigned Figure 3 Disk formatted as NTFS and assigned drive letter D...
Страница 20: ...status will change to Not Initialized right click the disk again to initialize it Section 3 Setting up the software for Mac Platforms Driver Installation 1 Once downloaded locate the folder you downl...
Страница 21: ...21 3 Follow the on screen instructions 4 Reboot computer...
Страница 22: ...ghPoint RocketStor RAID Manager HRM software 1 Download the HRM from HighPoint Website http highpoint tech com USA_new series rs6628t download htm 1 Extract the package and double Click the Installati...
Страница 23: ...ing these disks to create arrays 8 After the new RAID volume has been configured OS X will display a pop up window Click the Initialize button to start Disk Utility Select Erase to format the RAID vol...
Страница 24: ...in page either by Double clicking on the HighPoint RocketStor RAID Manager icon created on your desktop Opening your preferred web browser and typing http localhost 7404 in the address bar There is no...
Страница 25: ...w general system overview Tab Name Function Over View View Enclosure and Storage Properties Quick Config A quick configuration wizard to create a new RAID array Advanced Config Manage and create RAID...
Страница 26: ...top left of the page is a drop down menu that allows you to select which controller you want to manage if you have multiple HighPoint controllers connected Enclosure Properties 1 Log into the HRM 2 Se...
Страница 27: ...the controller Configured the amount of space used for creating arrays Free total amount of unused space RAID Array total amount of the configured RAID array Logical Device total amount of logical dev...
Страница 28: ...ou can edit delete and maintain your RAID configurations as well as review the Physical Device information The Advanced Config tab has the following functions Create Array Spare Pool Logical Device Re...
Страница 29: ...ing RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 5 Rotating Parity bit Singe parity RAID 6 Rotating Parity bit Dual parity RAID 10 Striping Mirrored array RAID 50 Stripping RAID 5 array Each RAID level has its pros and cons...
Страница 30: ...on the disk will be set to 0 Foregoing initialization means the array will still be created and you can still write new data onto the array But when your array requires rebuilding residual data left b...
Страница 31: ...he first drive is 6 TB the second is 4 TB and the third drive is 2 TB After creating a RAID level 5 using all three drives and maximum capacity the first drive will have 4 TB the second 2 TB and the t...
Страница 32: ...utomatically be added to an array whenever there is a disk failure This feature minimizes the chances of a data loss by reducing the time an array is in the critical status Obtaining Logical Device In...
Страница 33: ...33 Array Information Clicking on the maintenance button will show you the Array information box Different array statuses Normal critical disabled will have different maintenance options...
Страница 34: ...ected RAID array Unplug powers off the selected RAID array once powered off the physical disks can be safely removed from the RAID controller Verify verifies the integrity of the RAID array Change Cac...
Страница 35: ...named Add Disk replaces the Verify Disk option Once the array status changes to critical the faulty disk will be taken offline and you can either Reinsert the same disk Insert new disk Reinserting the...
Страница 36: ...data will be inaccessible Rebuilding will not trigger since the RAID array does not have enough parity data to rebuild Your options in Maintenance are Delete Unplug Verify Delete will delete the array...
Страница 37: ...different RAID level to Migrate For example if you want to change a RAID 0 array you will need to select a different RAID level such as RAID 5 or 6 Select the same RAID level to Expand For example if...
Страница 38: ...ange the status to migrating Physical Device Information Location which controller and port the drive is located in Model model number of the drive connected Capacity total capacity of the drive Max F...
Страница 39: ...on box under the physical tab Model Model number of the physical drive Capacity Total capacity of the physical drive Revision HDD device firmware revision number Read Ahead Enable Disable Disk read ah...
Страница 40: ...information or update the BIOS Firmware Email Notification Setting up the event notification via SMTP Email server The following topics are covered under email SMTP Setting Adding Recipients You can...
Страница 41: ...will change to 465 Note After you click Change Setting the password box will become blank How to Add Recipients You can add multiple email addresses as receivers of a notice 1 Type the email of the re...
Страница 42: ...in password remote log in availability and the port number Restrict to localhost access default Enabled Remote access to the controller will be restricted when enabled other users in your network will...
Страница 43: ...ninstalling HRM then reinstalling this will remove the password requirement and allow you create a new one under the Setting tab For Windows Users 1 Open file explorer 2 Navigate to C Windows 3 Delete...
Страница 44: ...gs Rebuild Priority default Medium You can specify the amount of system resources you want to dedicate to rebuilding the array There are 5 levels of priority Lowest Low Medium High Highest Event Tab T...
Страница 45: ...s Storage Health Inspector Scheduling SHI outputs information collected using SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology Hard Drive Technology The data provided on this tab helps you to a...
Страница 46: ...menu on the top left 3 Click the SHI tab 4 Click Enable to enable SMART monitoring Disabling SMART monitoring You have the option the disable SMART monitoring on each individual disk To disable 1 Clic...
Страница 47: ...Schedule a task 5 Select the array you want to schedule the verify task 6 Type the name in Task Name entry box 7 Choose whether you want to schedule 8 One time verify task on specific date YYYY MM DD...
Страница 48: ...our existing data 2 Identify which disk is faulty You can refer to the LED lights on the enclosure Refer to the HRM Logical tab and Event tab 3 Re insert the faulty disk or replace with a new disk The...
Страница 49: ...sk If this is the case you may have removed the wrong disk When you remove the wrong disk from a critical array the array status may become disabled Data is inaccessible for disabled arrays Follow the...
Страница 50: ...submit the Configuration Record Table 1 HRM Icon Guide Critical missing disk A disk is missing from the array bringing it to critical status The array is still accessible but another disk failure cou...
Страница 51: ...e is a spare drive it will automatically replace any failed drive part of an array Normal The array status is normal Initializing The array is initializing either foreground or background initializati...
Страница 52: ...its capacity or migrating to a different raid level Status will display Expanding Migrating OCE ORLM stopped The Expansion Migrating process has been stopped The status will display Need Expanding Mig...
Страница 53: ...city of all drives in the array minus two Fast database and application servers which need performance and data protection RAID 5 Disk Striping with Rotating parity 3 67 87 High read performance and m...
Страница 54: ...a general guideline for selecting hard drives operating in a RAID environment Regular desktop grade drives are highly not recommended for RAID use http highpoint tech com PDF Compatibility_List Rocket...
