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1. 27 3 1 Connecting the iSCSI RAID Subsystem to the Network sss 27 D2 PONCO Ngee 2 33 DISK Dive Instala ON ereere cease secs ceret EAE 28 3 3 1 Installing a SAS Disk Drive in a Disk Tray sss 28 3 32 Installing a SATA Disk Drive Dual Controller Mode in a Disk Tray uu 31 od JSCSEIDIIOGIUCHIOD aed nti ern nen E edu eee UIS eer ced 34 Chapter 4 Quick SebilD asia iecore ooo oie ee ene ee pend 36 e User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem ZI Marnagermient nterface Ssss aperte ote eerte etti ee dace Suse n eR ue Sede tod obses abd seco EEA 36 ALL Sena Console POP nsare Um m 36 4 1 2 Remote Control Secure Shell sessssessssesssssssssssesssssssesssessesssesssesssssssesssessessssssesseseseesssessssesseess 36 NR LCD Comro Module LEM erreser EU OO eC Tn NTE 37 ALA A 0 m 39 4 2 How to Use the System QuICKIY ou ccccssssssesesesssessssesesessesssssssscsssesessssessesssesssesesesessesesesesesesessesesesesseseess 41 A RA MEE Oe dini 1H ORO 41 4 2 Volume Creation WIZAI QQ cessesesssssssssssssessssssssessesssessesessesssessessesssnsssssssssssessssssesessesssessssessessseesssesseess 44 Chapter 5 Configuration secre eee cnc sectecesecnectunsecerseaeecsetearsctenansavscsaesastecectevescoenstees 47 5 1 Web GUI Management Interface Hierarchy
2. 122 SNMP mer 122 oA OREP OPONA Nt 124 Lem User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 7 Troubleshooting ccccsssssscccsssssccccssssscccessssseccesssssccsessssececesssees 134 LL System DUZZOI gr 134 FAM eni S72 14 0 1a REO OO RENE 134 70 8 lt 1 qe eee 142 EEG Ue de uA qu ER m m 142 D 3dMNErosem IS CSLIDRESED a ede taut savant tees Rec uu ER eU s DEE DM EEIE E 146 User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Preface About this manual This manual provides information regarding the quick installation and hardware features of the RAID subsystem This document also describes how to use the storage management software Information contained in the manual has been reviewed for accuracy but not for product warranty because of the various environment OS settings Information and specifications will be changed without further notice This manual uses section numbering for every topics being discussed for easy and convenient way of finding information in accordance with the user s needs The following icons are being used for some details and information to be considered in going through with this manual NOTES These are notes that contain useful information and tips that the user must give attention
3. Da JBOD name is UT FAILURE m tem NORMAL e System maintenance events INFO System shutdown System shutdown INFO System reboot System reboot wo suma Seen eon fon ter so shutdown mo NN RUN shutdown pe aa NN shutdown System shutdown via LCM shutdown reboot reboot m pre perena reboot INFO FW upgrade start System firmware upgrade starts a 1 FW upgrade System firmware upgrade succeeds success WARNING FW upgrade failure System firmware upgrade is failed EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem ERROR IPC FW upgrade System firmware upgrade timeout on another timeout controller INFO Config imported lt string gt config imported e HAC events A eee VEN Reon oco NN changed to controller number Pa Controller lt number gt forced to adopt write through through mode on failover Restore CTR cache Controller lt number gt restored to previous caching mode mode on failback VN nl F s dl failover process VN bl ea failback process INFO j CrTRinserted Controller number is inserted into system CTR memory NG Memory size mismatch LN EE 5 5 c NN Sync synchronization completed e Clone events Type o INFO VDclonestarted VD name starts cloning process INFO _ VD clone finished VD name finished cloning process WARNING VD clone failed The cloning in VD name failed INFO J V
4. EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem 21 iSCSI initiator install finish iSCSI Initiator Properties ign e Setup MPIO 22 Please run MPIO with below path Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 23 Click tab of Discover Multi Paths 24 Choose checkbox of Add support for iSCSI devices MPIO Properties 25 Reboot Reboot Required EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem e MC S 26 If running MC S please continue 27 Select one target name click Properties 28 Click MCS to add additional connections iSCSI Initiator Properties ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 devO ctr2 Connected User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 29 Click Add 30 Click Advanced Multiple Connected Session MCS E MCS policy Round Robin Description The round robin policy attempts to evenly distribute incoming requests to all processing paths This session has the Following connections Source Portal Target Portal Type 192 168 15 44 37565 192 168 15 10 Connected Active Weight n a To add a connection click Add To remove a connection select the connection above and then EE click Remove To edit the path settings For the MES policy select a Edit
5. Threshold The setting will be effective after enabling schedule clone Clone Configuration Snapshot space Threshold Restart the task an hour later if failed ELM User Manual 107 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The threshold setting will monitor the usage amount of snapshot space When the used snapshot space achieves its threshold system will automatically take a clone Snapshot and start VD clone process The purpose of threshold could prevent the incremental copy fail immediately when running out of snapshot space For example the default threshold is 50 The system will check the snapshot Space every hour When the snapshot space is used over 50 the system will synchronize the source VD and target VD automatically Next time when the rest Snapshot space has been used 50 in other words the total snapshot space has been used 75 and the system will synchronize the source VD and target VD again Restart the task an hour later if failed The setting will be effective after enabling schedule clone Clone Configuration Snapshot space 2 Threshold 50 Restart the task an hour later if failed When running out of snapshot space the VD clone process will be stopped because there is no more available snapshot space If this option has been checked system will clear the snapshots of clone in order to release snapshot space automatically and the VD clone will restart the task after an h
6. Menu driven front panel display User Manual og iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Features Front end 4 x 10Gb ports support independent access fail over and load balancing 802 3ad port trunking LACP Supports iSCSI jumbo frame Supports Microsoft Multipath I O MPIO Supports RAID levels 0 1 0 1 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 and JBOD Local N way mirror Extension to RAID 1 level N copies of the disk Global and dedicated hot spare disks Write through or write back cache policy for different application usage Supports greater than 2TB per volume set 64 bit LBA support Supports manual or scheduling volume snapshot up to 32 snapshots Snapshot rollback mechanism On line volume migration with no system down time Online volume expansion Instant RAID volume availability and background initialization Supports S M A R T NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin up capable drives EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 1 1 Technical Specifications puse EN Spe EN F RAID Controller iSCSI SAS a A Tee I epe E L DT ee ee a queer m MEME mene yU En ee ee Peery eee ae en ae ee ae processor Typa a ee ee H M EL d e aa oO s PT m ar ae E mp ace NN Battery Backup optional Hot Pluggable BBN a ere Management Port support enn 3 e ees I F or aa SSS urone E 9 Ves O L RAID leve D S 0 E ooo 6 a0 0 50 60 and 3800 TREES d NEN eed Supports Microsoft Mult
7. System information Download Mute Clear Browse the firmware to upgrade User Manual M iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Firmware sync gt Synchronize the slave controller s firmware version with hronization the master s Reset to factor gt Sure to reset to factory default y default Import and Import Export Import file export Reboot and shu gt Reboot Shutdown tdown Quick installation Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Confirm Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Confirm 48 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 2 System Configuration System configuration is designed for setting up the System setting Network setting Login setting Mail setting and Notification setting ellie Network setting Login setting Mail setting Notification setting 5 2 1 System Setting System setting can be used to set system name and date Default System name is composed of model name and serial number of this system Srecu Network setting Login setting Mail setting Notification setting Setup system name and date You can set up the current date time and time zone manually or synchronize time from NTP Network Time Protocol server System name System name EP 3164D Ga53 Date and time Change date and time System indication Turn on the system indication led Check Change date and time to set up the current date time an
8. Target Quick Connect Discovered targets Refresh ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 dev0 ctri Connected ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 dev0 ctr2 Connected To connect using advanced options select a target and then Connect click Connect To completely disconnect a target select the target and Disconnect then click Disconnect For target properties including configuration of sessions select the target and click Properties For configuration of devices associated with a target select Devices the target and then click Devices More about basic iSCSI connections and targets OK Cancel Apply 36 Done the iSCSI device disconnect successfully User Manual
9. The iSCSI RAID subsystem supports graphical user interface GUI to operate the system Be sure to connect the LAN cable The default IP setting is DHCP open the browser and enter http 192 168 10 50 Please check the DHCP address first on LCM Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog window for authentication User name admin Default password 00000000 Welcome to EP 3164D Gas3 User name Password English After login you can choose the function blocks on the left side of window to do configuration eii System configuration i iSCSI configuration d al Volume configuration a mi Enclosure management Aid Maintenance fe Quick installation amp Volume creation wizard User Manual 39 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem There are seven indicators at the top right corner RAID light Green gt RAID works well Red gt RAID fails Temperature light Green gt Temperature is normal Red gt Temperature is abnormal Voltage light Green gt voltage is normal Red voltage is abnormal UPS light Green gt UPS works well Red UPS fails Fan light Green Fan works well Red gt Fan fails Power light Green gt Power works well Red gt Power fails Dual controller light Green gt Both controller1 and controller2 are present and well Orange gt The system is degraded and there is only 1 controller alive and well Return t
10. There are four iSCSI data ports on each controller Four data ports are set with static IP I P settings User can change IP address by moving the mouse to the gray button of LAN port click IP settings for iSCSI ports There are 2 selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or static IP iSCSI IP address You can check DHCP to acquire IP address from DHCP server or check Static to setup IP address O DHCP e Static Address 192 168 2 63 Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 192 168 2 254 Default gateway Default gateway can be changed by moving the mouse to the gray button of LAN port click Become default gateway There is only one default gateway User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem MTU Jumbo frame MTU Maximum Transmission Unit size can be enabled by moving mouse to the gray button of LAN port click Enable jumbo frame Maximum jumbo frame size is 3900 bytes WARNING The MTU size of network switch and HBA on host must be enabled Otherwise the LAN connection will not work properly Multi homed Trunking LACP The following is the description of multi homed trunking LACP 1 Multi homed Default mode Each of iSCSI data port is connected by itself and is not set to link aggregation and trunking This function is also for Multipath functions Selecting this mode can also remove the setting of Trunking LACP at the same time 2 Trunking defines t
11. Cheetah NS ST3400755SS 400GB 10000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M F W 0002 16M F W 0004 16MB F W 0004 16MB F W 0005 16MB F W 0005 SAS 2 5 Vendor Mode ee M 10K 3 ST9300603SS 300GB 10000RPM SAS 2 0 6 0Gb s 16M F W 0003 User Manual 143 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 15K 2 ST9146852SS 147GB 15000RPM SAS 2 0 6 0Gb s 16M F W 0002 Constellation ST9500430SS 500GB 7200RPM SAS 2 0 6 0Gb s 16M F W 0001 SATA 3 5 Vendor MEN Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 HDS722580VLSA80 80GB 7200RPM SATA 8M Hitachi Deskstar E7K500 HDS725050KLA360 500GB 7200RPM SATA II 16M Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HDS728040PLA320 40GB 7200RPM SATA II 2M Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 HDT725032VLA360 320GB 7200RPM SATA II 16M Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 500GB 7200RPM SATA II 16M F W K2A0AD1A Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 HDE721010SLA330 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32MB NCQ F W ST60A3AA a oe A7K2000 HUA722020ALA330 2TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32MB NCQ F W JKAOA20N Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y080MO 80GB 7200RPM SATA 8M Maxtor DiamondMax 11 6H500F0 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M Samsung SpinPoint P80 HDSASP0812C 80GB 7200RPM SATA 8M Seagate Barracuda 7200 7 ST380013AS 80GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M Seagate Barracuda 7200 7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M Barracuda 720
12. ctr2 4 Choose the same target VD and click Next QReplica Select target LUN VD name size GB Vendor Model serial Revision Proware prolPS 21040013 78902298 200 5 A new target will be added in this replication job as a redundancy path Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical ut ENSE No VD name Current owner Target Name Target IP LUN Name Size MB Size C 1 source Controller 1 ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 dev0 ctr 192 168 15 1 1 target 307200 300 iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 dev0 ctr2 192 168 15 3 1 Create Configuration User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem e Configure the replication job to run by schedule 1 Click Schedule in the operation menu of the replication job Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit SE ETT i No VD name Current owner Target Name source Controller 1 ign 1997 05 tw com proware pro ign 1997 05 tw com proware pro Stop Refresh Delete multi path schedule Delete 2 The replication job can be scheduled to run by day by week or by month The execution time can be configurable per user s need QReplica Set QReplica schedule Set QReplica schedule Scheduled time 00 00 Back up everyday Back up on a selected day in a w
13. ELT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 3 3 Node Node can be used to view the target name for iSCSI initiator The iSCSI RAID Subsystem supports up to 32 multinodes There are 32 default nodes created for each controller NIC Entity property Node Session CHAP account Show information for Controller 1 v 12 3 next gt last gt gt ID Auth Name Portal Alias 0 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev0 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 1 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev1 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 2 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev2 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 3 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev3 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 4 None ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff3014d8 dev4 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 5 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev5 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 6 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff3014d8 dev6 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 T None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev7 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 8 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev8 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 9 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev9 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 10 None ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff3014d8 dev10 ctr 192 1
14. VD 01 is attached to LUN O and every host can access VD 02 is attached to LUN 1 and only initiator node which is named iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win r6qrvqjd5bm7 can access LUN operations description Attach Attach a logical unit number to a Virtual disk Detach Detach a logical unit number from a Virtual disk The matching rules of access control are inspected from top to bottom in sequence For example there are 2 rules for the same VD one is LUN O0 and the other is iqn host1 LUN 1 The other host ign host2 can login successfully because it matches rule 1 The access will be denied when there is no matching rule 78 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 4 6 Example The following is an example for creating volumes Example 1 is to create two VDs and set a global spare disk e Example 1 Example 1 is to create two VDs in one RG each VD uses global cache volume Global cache volume is created after system boots up automatically So no action is needed to set CV Then set a global spare disk Eventually delete all of them Step 1 Create RG RAID group To create the RAID group please follow these steps 1 Select Volume configuration RAID group Click Create 3 Input an RG Name choose a RAID level from the list click Select PD to choose the RAID PD slot s then click OK Create RAID group Name RG R5 RAID level RAIDS RAID PD slot 1
15. last gt gt Item PSU 3 3V R6R PSU 5V R6R PSU 12V R6R 1 0V Onboard 1 8V Onboard 3 3V Onboard 5V Onboard 12V Onboard Location 1 R6R R6R R amp R R6R R6R Location 2 Location 3 Location 4 Location 5 R6R R6R R6R Location S R6R Location 6 Location T p an Aa a e oe Location 8 a Location 10 R6R Location 11 R6R Location 12 R6R 2 next gt last gt gt Value Status 3 38 V 510 V 1231V 101 V 1 84 V 3 36 V 512V 12 27 V 26 0 C EI User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Enclosure management S M A R T can display S M A R T information of all PDs including Local and all SAS JBODs Hardware monitor UPS SES SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology S M A R T A diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance S M A R T provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure Show information for JBOD 1 proIPS EP 3164JD S656 v1 0 1 5001378004850190 v Local Slot HDD type JBOD 2 proIPS EP 3164JD S656 v1 0 1 5001378004B50380 Seek error rate Spin up retries Calibration retries Temperature C 1 SATA2 z p ou AproIPS EPIO A 6588 v1 0 MARO 0 9004B901E0 oou 100 0 100 0 28 3 SATA2 200 51 160 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 33 4 SATA2 200 51 141 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 29 5 SATA2 200 51
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17. 1 2 Remote Control Secure Shell SSH secure shell is required for remote login The SSH client software is available at the following web site SSHWinClient WWW http www ssh com Putty WWW http www chiark greenend org uk Host name 192 168 10 50 Please check your DHCP address for this field Login name admin Default password 00000000 NOTE This iSCSI RAID Series only support SSH for remote j control For using SSH the IP address and the password is required for login EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA I RAID Subsystem 4 1 3 LCD Control Module LCM After booting up the system the following screen shows management port IP and model name 192 168 10 50 iSCSI Model Press Enter button the LCM functions System I nfo Alarm Mute Reset Shutdown Quick Install Volume Wizard View IP Setting Change IP Config and Reset to Default will rotate by pressing 4 up and v down When there is WARNING event or ERROR event occurred LCM default filter the LCM shows the event log to give users more detail from front panel The following table is the function description of LCM menus System I nfo Displays System information Alarm Mute Mute alarm when error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or shutdown controller Quick three steps to create a volume Please refer to next chapter for operation in web UT Volume Wizard Smart steps to create a volume Please refer to next c
18. 4 Place the hard drive in the disk tray Turn the disk tray upside down Align the four screw holes of the SAS disk drive in the four Hole A of the disk tray To secure the disk drive into the disk tray tighten four screws on these holes of the disk tray Note in the picture below where the screws should be placed in the disk tray holes Tray Hole A NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly User Manual 29 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 Slide the tray into a slot 6 Press the lever in until you hear the latch click into place The HDD Fault LED will turn green when the subsystem is powered on and HDD is good 7 If necessary lock the Disk Tray by turning the Lock Groove EE User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 3 2 Installing a SATA Disk Drive Dual Controller Mode in a Disk Tray 1 Remove an empty disk tray from the subsystem 2 Prepare the dongle board and two screws EE a Mji per ati z emeen E Mua 3 Place the dongle board in the disk tray Turn the tray upside down Align the two screw hole of the dongle board in the two Hole D of the disk tray Tighten two screws to secure the dongle board into the disk tray User Manual Eu iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Tray Hole D NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly 4 Place the SATA disk drive into the disk tray Slide the disk drive towards the dongle boar
19. Confirm SNMP allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses Default community name is set as public User can choose the event log levels and default setting only enables INFO event log in SNMP There are many SNMP tools The following web sites are for your reference SNMPc http www snmpc com Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net Using Messenger user must enable the service Messenger in Windows Start gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Services gt Messenger and then event logs can be received It allows up to 3 messenger addresses User can choose the event log levels and default setting enables the WARNING and ERROR event logs User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Using System log server user can choose the facility and the event log level The default port of syslog is 514 The default setting enables event level INFO WARNING and ERROR event logs There are some syslog server tools The following web sites are for your reference WinSyslog http www winsyslog com Kiwi Syslog Daemon http www kiwisyslog com Most UNIX systems have built in syslog daemon Event log filter setting can enable event level on Pop up events and LCM Buzzer setting can disable buzzer The system buzzer features are described as follows 1 The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully 2 The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error
20. EDMA fail ERROR SATA remap mem Failed to remap SATA memory io spcae fail E User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem ERROR SATA PRD mem Failed to init SATA PRD memory manager fail ERROR SATA revision id Failed to get SATA revision id fail ERROR SATA set reg fail Failed to set SATA register ERROR SATA init fail Core failed to initialize the SATA adapter ERROR SATA diag fail SATA a i diagnostics failed ERROR Mode ID fail SATA SATA Mode ID failed ID failed ERROR SATA chip count SATA Chip count error error I NFO SAS port reply SAS HBA port number reply terminated error abnormally bins 5 eo o UM reply error me ee ume eme abnormally me exerum Sensory reply error e EMS events INFO Powerinstall___ _ Power lt string gt is installed INFO Powerrestore Power lt string gt is restored to work WARNING Powerdetect PSUsignaldetection sstring INFO Fanrestoree Fan sstring is restored to work INFO Franinstall Fan string isinstaled Fan lt string gt is over speed Shutdown auto shutdown immediately CTR shutdown reason Overheated lt string gt Panes aru eer Yate nen pee tie eS value WARNING Voltage level 1 System voltage lt string gt is higher lower ERROR Voltage level 2 System voltages lt string gt failed shutdown will auto shutdown immediately CTR
21. Logical unit Show PD for Show size unit as MB MB Slot size MB RG Status Health Usage 1 285912 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk 2 238219 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk 3 feet RG R5 Online Good RAID disk 4 238219 RG R5 Online Good Dedicated spare 5 238219 Online Good Free disk b 285912 Online Good Free disk f fo2r Online Good Free disk 230219 Online Good Free disk PD column description The position of hard drives The button next to the number of slot shows the functions which can be executed Size GB MB Capacity of hard drive RGName Related RAID group name User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The status of hard drive Online gt the hard drive is online Rebuilding gt the hard drive is being rebuilt Transition gt the hard drive is being migrated or is replaced by another disk when rebuilding occurs Scrubbing gt if the hard drive is being scrubbed RAID Disk This hard drive has been set to RAID Free disk This hard drive is free for use Dedicated Spare This hard drive has been set to the dedicated spare of the RG Global Spare This hard drive has been set to a global spare of all RGs Serial Hard drive serial number Type Hard drive type SATA gt SATA disk The health of hard drive Good gt the hard drive is good Failed gt the hard drive is failed Error Alert S
22. Manual 133 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 7 1 System Buzzer The system buzzer features are listed below 1 The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error occurred The alarm will be stopped after error resolved or be muted 3 The alarm will be muted automatically when the error is resolved E g when RAID 5 is degraded and alarm rings immediately user changes adds one physical disk for rebuilding When the rebuilding is done the alarm will be muted automatically 7 2 Event Notifications PD events INFO PDinserted Disk slot is inserted into system WARNING PDremoved X Disk slot is removed from system ERROR Disk slot is disabled ERROR HDD IO timeout Disk slot gets no response VENE a ic sors a TE ro started VIN GNE o NN finished process WARNING PD upgrade failed PD lt string gt upgrade firmware failed e HW events WARNING ECCsingle Single bit ECC error is detected at address INFO ECCdimm ECCmemoryisinstalled INFO ECCnoe Non ECC memory isinstalled SCSI bus reset Received SCSI Bus Reset event at the SCSI Bus number ERROR SCSI host error SCSI Host allocation failed ERROR SATA enable Failed to enable the SATA pci device device fail ERROR SATA EDMA mem Failed to allocate memory for SATA
23. Offline gt The virtual disk is offline Initiating gt The virtual disk is being initialized User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Rebuild The virtual disk is being rebuilt Migrate gt The virtual disk is being migrated Rollback gt The virtual disk is being rolled back Parity checking The virtual disk is being parity check Type The type of virtual disk RAID gt the virtual disk is normal BACKUP gt the virtual disk is for clone usage The target name of virtual disk The clone schedule of virtual disk The health of virtual disk Optimal gt the virtual disk is working well and there is no failed disk in the RG Degraded gt At least one disk from the RG of the Virtual disk is failed or plugged out Failed gt the RAID group disk of the VD has single or multiple failed disks than its RAID level can recover from data loss Partially optimal gt the virtual disk has experienced recoverable read errors Ratio of initializing or rebuilding RAID level Number of LUN s that virtual disk is attached to Snapshot The virtual disk size that is used for snapshot The number GB MB means Used snapshot space Total snapshot space The unit can be displayed in GB or MB Snapshot Number of snapshot s that have been taken RGname The RG name of the virtual disk User Manual i
24. R Link Port Master Slave LED Cache Dirty LED SAS Expansion Port Controller Status LED Access LED UPS Port LAN1 RS 232 Port n Link LED m ET j Note Only data port LANI1 is available in default system configuration Data port LAN2 is optional It can be purchased separately for upgrade ag User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 1 Uninterrupted Power Supply UPS Port APC Smart UPS only The subsystem may come with an optional UPS port allowing you to connect an APC Smart UPS device Connect the cable from the UPS device to the UPS port located at the rear of the subsystem This will automatically allow the subsystem to use the functions and features of the UPS 2 R Link Port Remote Link through RJ 45 Ethernet for remote management The subsystem is equipped with one 10 100 Ethernet RJ45 LAN port for remote configuration and monitoring You use web browser to manage the RAID subsystem through Ethernet 3 LAN Ports Gigabit The subsystem is equipped with two LAN data ports LAN1 and LAN2 for iSCSI connection Link LED Orange gt Asserted when a 1G link is established and maintained Blue gt Asserted when a 10G link is establish and maintained Access fail LED Yellow Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity Red gt Asserted when the link can t establish 4 Controller Health LED Green gt Co
25. Ra RG name RG R6 Capacity 0 GB Stripe height KB 64 Block size B 517 e Read Write C Write through cache Write back cache Priority Bg rate a I2 Readahead Enabled AV media mode Disabled x Erase None Type BACKUP B f High priority Middle priority Low priority ETTS User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 Here are the objects a Source VD and a Target VD Before starting clone process it needs to deploy the VD Clone rule first Click Configuration Show size unit as G5 Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG OP SourceVD_R5 20 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Online Optimal RAID5 0 0 0 0 RG R5 OP TargetVD_R6 20 WB HI 4 BACKUP N A N A Online Optimal RAD6 0 0 0 0 RG R6 Create Configuration 4 There are three clone configurations describe on the following Clone Confiquration Snapshot space 2 m Threshold 50 Restart the task an hour later if failed L Snapshot space Clone Configuration Snapshot space Threshold Restart the task an hour later if failed This setting is the ratio of source VD and snapshot space The default ratio is 2 to 1 It means when the clone process is starting the system will automatically use the free RG space to create a snapshot space which capacity is double the source VD
26. The step is necessary for data protection Reboot Shutdown User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 7 Home Logout Mute In the right upper corner of web UI there are 3 individual icons Home Logout and Mute 5 7 1 Home Click Home to return to home page 5 7 2 Logout For security reason please use Logout to exit the web UI To re login the system please enter username and password again 5 7 3 Mute Click Mute to stop the alarm when error occurs User Manual 95 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 6 Advanced Operations 6 1 Volume Rebuild If one physical disk from a RG which is set to a protected RAID level e g RAID 3 RAID 5 or RAID 6 failed or has been unplugged removed the status of RG is changed to degraded mode The system will search detect spare disk to rebuild the degraded RG to become normal complete It will detect dedicated spare disk as rebuild disk first then global spare disk The iSCSI RAID subsystem supports Auto Rebuild The following is the scenario Take RAID 6 for example 1 When there is no global spare disk or dedicated spare disk in the system controller will be in degraded mode and wait until A there is one disk assigned as spare disk or B the failed disk is removed and replaced with new clean disk then the Auto Rebuild starts The new disk will be a spare disk to the original RG automatically If t
27. U O A E E E E eee 92 5 6 4 Firmware Synchronization sssesssesssesssesssenssesssesssenssenssensstnsesnssensesnseensennstensrosstossrnsseesntesntesntesntessresneess 93 309 Resetto Factory Del MU ies an notre EEEE 93 200 Impor and EXORDIO ERE TENES thes GIUM DEESSET UD 94 67 Rebootand SIT WE acento tU pnm pIau E aA DM roe 94 37 HOME Logoul MUTO E 95 SN Meque T m 95 JV MMBVosrie 95 9 3 Hesse eR E MEUM UR DM EE 95 Chapter 6 Advanced Operations ecce eee eese esee eene esee enne eeana 96 GL Volume loo 96 O REM T 10 0 E mm 98 o0 XDUEXUSDSIOTI outta E DUE ONU eee DNE Et mater etree Te 100 64 Snapshot OMA CN PN c 101 6 4 1 Create Snapshot VOLURTIBs oerte tpe be retirer on tutis etse reete deest teovedetaseceeaeeushcesieecet 102 DA AWT a O us meter Ce nt an deett tit uu e Ue MD tI er ere 103 ME lec epee omen 104 OS DEK eomm 105 Oo VECON aee E E A T NEA ENEE E 106 OJ SAS JBOD EAN ON cue oeste Tar REEE E cen dud Pob E EE a AANER 112 DL Cne n JBOLD E E A E E E E UM 112 6 72 Upgrade Firmware of JBOLD net an NRS 116 oo MAO ana MO oeie O EE N A EAE E S 117 OS Hg 1 4 fale ana LACR ean E E E E R 119 SAI NDS Eefeue c E T EEE A 121 OLO PEO I Oo tee nrt Te nteerr cere were eee eee eee tte wee rrere te teen enero 121 OZ culo
28. VDerase started VD name starts erasing process e Snapshot events iid jeen aa NN name PRE E NN n overflow pae meses ea eee been reached INFO Snap delete The snapshot VD name has been deleted ERE o NN deleted to obtain extra snapshot space INFO j Snaptake Asnapshoton VD name has been taken e eme muere mme number MB mo C RENE dn NN started started ES Snapshot rollback of VD lt name gt has been finished finished Snap quota The quota assigned to snapshot lt name gt is reached reached INFO Snap clear space The snapshot space of VD lt name gt is cleared e iSCSI events tevel Tye _ _Beseription LOS T M iSCSI login iSCSI SS EE from lt IP gt succeeds accepted ee ae NN rejected string ea di MN lt string gt ETT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem e Battery backup events INFO BBM start syncing Abnormal shutdown detected start flushing battery backed data lt number gt KB WENN o e backed data finished INFO BBMinstaled Battery backup module is detected INFO BBM status good Battery backup moduleisgood BBM status Battery backup module is charging charging WARNING INFO BBMenabled Battery backup feature is string INFO BBM inserted Battery backup module is inserted INFO BBMremoved X Battery backup module is remove
29. connection above and then click Edit OK Cancel Apply Add Connection Target name ign 1997 05 Ew com proware proips 000902299 devo ctrl Connect Cancel 31 Select Initiator IP and Target portal IP and then click OK 32 Click Connect 33 Click OK EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Advanced Settings Microsoft iscstintiator 192 168 16 45 Da 192 168 16 11 3260 v CHAP helps ensure connection security by providing authentication between a target and af imiator ame Target secret Perform mutual authentication Tio use mutual CHAP either specily an initiator secret on the Configuration page or use RAWLS Use RADIUS to generate user authentication credentials E Use RADIUS to authenticate target credentials Multiple Connected Session MES Ea Round Robin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fm 192 188 15 44 192 1568 15 10 Connected Active 192 188 156 44 192 1568 15 11 Connected Active 34 Done User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem e Disconnect 35 Select the target name click Disconnect and then click Yes iSCSI Initiator Properties Ea Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then click Quick Connect
30. disk Seagate 5QE5FK6D SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 16 465 r6 3 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WMAYP0015624 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled ET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Enclosure management Hardware monitor can display the hardware status of SAS JBODs PCat UPS SES SMART Show information for JBOD 1 proIPS EP 3164 D 5656 v1 0 1 5001378004B50190 Controller 1 50013780049007BD 1 2 next gt last gt gt Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Item PSU 3 3V R6R PSU 5V R6R PSU 12V R6R 1 0V Onboard 1 8V Onboard 3 3V Onboard 5V Onboard 12V Onboard Location 1 R6R Location 2 R6R Location 3 R6R Location 4 R6R Location 5 R6R Location amp R6R Location 7 R6R Location 8 R6R Location 3 R6R Location 10 R5R Location 11 R6R Location 12 R6R Value Status 3 36 V 510 V 12 31 V 0 99 V 1 84 V 3 34 V 510 V 12 27 V 26 0 C t prev 12 next gt last gt gt Controller 2 500137800490057D 1 2 next gt last gt Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temper
31. drive 2 There is a hidden web page for JBOD firmware upgrade Please login first to management Web UI as admin and then add this URL to the browser http Management IP jbod upg php for example http 192 168 10 50 jbod upg php FOLLOW THE STEPS TO UPGRADE THE FIRMWARE OF JBOD Step 1 Choose a JBOD Step 2 Browse the firmware to upgrade Browse Step 3 Make sure Step 1 amp 2 is correct then Confirm Confirm 3 Choose the JBOD which you want to upgrade 4 Click Browse to select the JBOD firmware file previously saved in local hard drive Click Confirm 5 After finished upgrading the system must be rebooted manually to make the new firmware take effect 116 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 8 MPIO and MC S These features come from iSCSi initiator They can be setup from iSCSI initiator to establish redundant paths for sending I O from the initiator to the target 1 MPIO In Microsoft Windows server base system Microsoft MPIO driver allows initiators to login multiple sessions to the same target and aggregate the duplicate devices into a single device Each session to the target can be established using different NICs network infrastructure and target ports If one session fails then another session can continue processing I O without interruption to the application MPIO session between mibiator and target Session Session Session Session Session S
32. fan s rotational speed Fan Fail LED is below 1500RPM this LED will turn red and an alarm will sound If temperature irregularities in the system occurs HDD slot temperature over 65 C Controller temperature over 70 C this LED will turn RED and alarm will sound An alarm will sound warning of a voltage Voltage Warning LED abnormality and this LED will turn red Q This LED will blink blue when the RAID Activity LED subsystem is busy or active Over Temperature LED EE User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 2 1 2 Rear View Controller Module 1 Controller Module 2 Power Supply Module Power Supply Module2 Fan 1 Fan 2 Fan 3 Fan 4 1 Controller Module The subsystem has one or two controller modules 2 Power Supply Unit 1 2 Two power supplies power supply 1 and power supply 2 are located at the rear of the subsystem Each PSFM has one Power Supply and two Fans The PSFM 1 has Power 1 Fan 1 and Fan 2 The PSFM 2 has Power 2 Fan 3 and Fan 4 Turn on the power of these power supplies to power on the subsystem The power LED at the front panel will turn green n If a power supply fails to function or a power supply was not turned on the Power fail LED will turn red and an alarm will sound User Manual 21 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 2 2 Controller Module RAID Controller Module 2 2 1 Controller Module Panel BBM Status LED BBM Status Button
33. has been plugged out the system will turn to degraded In this stage I O will force to write through for protecting data and the ownership of RG will switch to good one For example if controller 1 which owns the RG1 fails accidently the ownership of RG1 will be switched to controller 2 automatically And the system and data can keep working well After controller 1 is fixed or replaced The current owner of all RGs will be asigned back to their prefered owner Ec User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 Lockdown Dual controller mode The firmware of two controllers is different or the size of memory of two controllers is different In this stage only master controller can work and I O will force to write through for protecting data 4 Single Single controller mode In the stage the controller must stay in slot A Dongle boards for SATA drives are not necessary The differences between single and degraded are described on the following There is no error message for inserted one controller only I O will not force to write through And there is no ownership of RG Single controller mode can be upgraded to dual controller mode please contact the distributor for upgradable In addition iSNS server is recommended It s important for keeping I O running smoothly when RG ownership is switching or single controller is failed Without iSNS server when controller 1 fails the running I O from host to controller 1 may fail bec
34. op SourceVD_R5 20 TargetVD_R6 N A initiating Optimal 33 1 op TargetVD_R6 20 BACKUP N A N A Online Optimal 0 User Manual 109 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 10 After initiating the snapshot space it will start cloning Show size unit as GB z Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG oP SourceVD R5 20 WB HI 4 RAID TargetVD R6 N A Cloning Optimal 37 RAID5 0 1 41 1 RG R5 op TargetVD_R6 20 WB HI 4 BACKUP N A N A Online Optimal RAID6 0 0 0 0 RG R6 11 Click Schedule clone to set up the clone by schedule Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone schedule 20 WB HI 4 BACKUP NIA N A Clear clone Start clone set property Attach LUN Detach LUN Set snapshot space Cleanup snapshot Take snapshot Auto snapshot List snapshot More information 12 There are Set Clone schedule and Clear Clone schedule in this page Please remember that Threshold and Restart the task an hour later if failed options in VD configuration will take effect after clone schedule has been set Clone Set Clone schedule O Set Clone schedule Scheduled time 00 00 amp Back up everyday C Back up on a selected day in a week C 6 1 C Thur 6 Frida e C Back up on the ist day in a month C Clear Clone schedule ETT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subs
35. that both systems have the same firmware version or newer 2 All physical disks of related RG should be moved from system 1 to system 2 together The configuration of both RG and VD will be kept but LUN configuration will be cleared in order to avoid conflict with system 2 User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 6 VD Clone The user can use VD clone function to backup data from source VD to target VD set up backup schedule and deploy the clone rules The procedures of VD clone are on the following 1 Copy all data from source VD to target VD at the beginning full copy 2 Use snapshot technology to perform the incremental copy afterwards Please be fully aware that the incremental copy needs to use snapshot to compare the data difference Therefore the enough snapshot space for VD clone is very important The following contents will take an example of a RAID 5 virtual disk SourceVD Raid5 clone to RAID 6 virtual disk TargetVD Raid6 e Start VD clone 1 Create a RAID group RG in advance Show size unit as GB Total GB PD VD status Name oP RG R5 Free GB 531 Online 931 Online Health RAID Current owner Preferred owner RAID 5 Controller 1 Controller 1 RAID 6 Controller 1 Controller 1 oP RG R6 2 Create two virtual disks VD SourceVD R5 and TargetVD R6 The raid type of backup target needs to be set as BACKUP Create Name TargetvD
36. to download the Microsoft iSCSI software initiator 4585 b385 befd 1319f825 amp DisplayLang en Please refer to Appendix D for Microsoft iSCSI initiator installation procedure 2 Linux iSCSI initiator is also available For different kernels there are different iSCSI drivers If you need the latest Linux iSCSI initiator please visit Open iSCSI project for most update information Linux iSCSI sfnet and Open iSCSI projects merged in April 11 2005 Open iSCSI website http www open iscsi org Open iSCSI README http www open iscsi org docs README Features http www open iscsi org cai bin wiki pl Roadma Support Kernels http Google groups http groups google com group open iscsi threads qvc z2 http groups google com group open iscsi topics Open iSCSI Wiki http www open iscsi org cgqi bin Wiki pl 3 ATTO iSCSI initiator is available for Mac Website http www attotech com xtend html 4 Solaris iSCSI Initiator Version Solaris 10 u6 10 08 User Manual 35 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 4 Quick Setup 4 1 Management I nterfaces There are three management methods to manage the iSCSI RAID subsystem described as follows 4 1 1 Serial Console Port Use NULL modem cable to connect console port The console settings are on the following Baud rate 115200 8 bits 1 stop bit no parity and no flow control Terminal type vt100 Login name admin Default password 00000000 4
37. to in going through with the subsystem operation I MPORTANT These are the important information that the user must remember WARNI NG These are the warnings that the user must follow to avoid unnecessary errors and bodily injury during hardware and software operation of the subsystem CAUTI ON These are the cautions that user must be aware to prevent damage to the equipment and its components Copyright No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written consent Trademarks All products and trade names used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Changes The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice po User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Before You Begin Before going through with this manual you should read and focus to the following Safety guidelines Notes about the subsystem s controller configuration and the product packaging and delivery are also included Safety Guidelines To provide reasonable protection against any harm on the part of the user and to obtain maximum performance user is advised to be aware of the following safety guidelines particularly in handling hardware components Upon receiving of the product Place
38. unit Insert the other end into a Gigabit BASE T Ethernet connection on your network hub or switch You may connect the other network ports if needed For remote management of iSCSI RAID subsystem use another network cable to connect the R Link port to your network 3 2 Powering On 1 Plug in the power cords into the AC Power Input Socket located at the rear of the subsystem AC Power Input Socket Coche Oriy f Master Sane PS una 9 0 Q cv tas a EIU ANM AC C Qe o le Power On Off Switch NOTE The subsystem is equipped with redundant full range power supplies with PFC power factor correction The system will automatically select voltage 2 Turn on each Power On Off Switch to power on the subsystem 3 The Power LED on the front Panel will turn green User Manual 27 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 3 Disk Drive Installation This section describes the physical locations of the hard drives supported by the Subsystem and give instructions on installing a hard drive The subsystem supports hot swapping allowing you to install or replace a hard drive while the subsystem is running 3 3 1 Installing a SAS Disk Drive in a Disk Tray 1 Unlock the Disk Trays using a flat head screw driver by rotating the Lock Groove Disk Tray is unlocked Tray Open Button 3 Pull out an empty disk tray EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem
39. write VD R5 1 Read write VD R5 1 is attached to LUN O VD R5 2 is attached LUN 1 NOTE The matching rules of access control are from top to bottom in sequence User Manual ram iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Step 4 Set global spare disk To set global spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration Physical disk 2 Check the gray button next to the PD slot click Set Global spare 3 Global spare icon is shown in Usage column Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Show PD for Local Show size unit as MB Size MB RG Health Status Vendor Usage Serial Type Write cache Standby Readahead 1 285912 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WXLY 08094604 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Enabled Command queuing 238219 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk Seagate 5QE3MPBG SATA Enabled Disabled Enabled Enabled ho 3 78277 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk Hitachi PFDB30S2US713M SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Enabled 238219 Onine Good Global spare 9SFOM2FT SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled eret Online Good Free disk Hitachi VDKA1BTACBWWUE SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Set Dedicated spare Online Good Free disk WDC WD WXLY 08093882 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled e Online Good Free disk Hitachi PFDB30S4R6HVKM SATA2 Enabled Disable
40. 0 C N A 2 next gt last gt gt Status Status Auto shutdown If Auto shutdown has been checked the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem If Auto shutdown has been checked the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range For better data protection please check Auto Shutdown For better protection and avoiding single short period of high temperature triggering auto shutdown the RAID controller evaluates multiple conditions for triggering auto shutdown Below are the details of when the Auto shutdown will be triggered 1 There are several sensors placed on systems for temperature checking System will check each sensor for every 30 seconds When one of these sensor is over high temperature threshold for continuous 3 minutes auto shutdown will be triggered immediately 2 The core processor temperature limit is 80 C The iSCSI NIC temperature limit is 65 C The SAS expandor and SAS controller temperature limit is 65 C 3 If the high temperature situation doesn t last for 3 minutes system will not trigger auto shutdown 5 5 2 UPS UPS is used to set up UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply Hardware monitor UPS SES S M AR T The system supports and communicates with smart UPS of APC Choose Smart UPS for APC None for oth
41. 0 8 ST3400832AS 400GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M NCQ Barracuda 7200 9 ST3500641AS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M NCQ Barracuda 7200 11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ Barracuda 7200 11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ Barracuda 7200 11 ST31500341AS 1 5TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ F W SD17 NL35 2 ST3400633NS 400GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M NL35 2 ST3500641NS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M Barracuda ES ST3500630NS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M Barracuda ES ST3750640NS 750GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M Barracuda ES 2 ST31000340NS 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M F W SNO6 SV35 5 ST3500410SV 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M NCQ F W CV11 Constellation ES ST31000524NS 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M NCQ F W SN11 Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 8M Caviar SE WD1600JD 160GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5G s 8M Caviar RE2 WD4000YR 400GB 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 16M NCQ Caviar RE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M RE2 WD4000YS 400GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M RE2 WD5000ABYS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M NCQ RE2 GP WD1000FYPS 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M F W 03 00C05 igital RE4 WD2002FYPS 2TB IntelliPower SATA 3 0Gb s 64M NCQ F W 144 User Manual Seagate Seagate Seagate Seagate Seagate eagate eagate eagate eagate Seagate Seagate Seagate uuu D Uu ct D 3 J te CU D W
42. 1 Create Snapshot Volume To take a snapshot of the data please follow the procedures 1 JOP 1 SnapVD 01 0 Delete pace i Select Volume configuration Virtual disk Move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Set snapshot space Set up the size for snapshot The minimum size is suggested to be 20 of VD size then click OK It will go back to the VD page and the size will show in snapshot column It may not be the same as the number entered because some size is reserved for snapshot internal usage There will be 2 numbers in Snapshot MB column These numbers are Used snapshot space and Total snapshot space There are two methods to take snapshot In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Take snapshot Or in Volume configuration Snapshot click Take snapshot Enter a snapshot name then click OK A snapshot VD is created Select Volume configuration Snapshot to display all snapshot VDs related to the VD Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk ESIEISSICEE Logical unit Linked snapshot for VD Show size unit as Health LUN Created time Used GB Exposure Right No N A N A Mon Mar 22 16 59 21 2010 Rollback Auto snapshot Take snapshot Cleanup snapshot Move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the Snapshot VD number cli
43. 100 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 27 7 SATA2 114 6 97 0 100 36 83 30 100 97 N A 33 8 SATA2 200 51 141 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 30 9 SATA2 200 51 100 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 28 12 SATA2 200 51 137 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 29 13 SATA2 200 51 100 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 29 15 SATA2 108 6 97 0 100 36 87 30 100 97 N A 33 16 SATA2 200 51 137 21 200 140 200 0 100 0 100 0 30 SAS JBOD expansion has some constraints as described in the followings 1 User can create RAID group among multiple chassis enclosures the maximum number of disks in a single RAID group is 32 2 Global spare disk can support all RAID groups which can be located in the different chassis enclosure 3 When support SATA drives for the redundant JBOD model the SAS SATA Bridge board is required The SATA Dongle board does not apply to this model 4 The following table is the maximum JBOD numbers and maximum HDD numbers with different chassis enclosures can be cascaded Dual controller Single controller t t RAI D Storage Dual JBOD System A T JBOD 24 bays no 4 4 Max HDD no 120 108 JBOD 16 bays no 6 Max HDD no 112 JBOD 12 bays no 8 Max HDD no 112 User Manual 115 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 7 2 Upgrade Firmware of J BOD To upgrade the firmware of JBOD subsystem please follow the steps 1 Please prepare download the new JBOD firmware file and save in local hard
44. 125 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 2 The backup VD needs to be attached to a LUN ID first before creating replication job Attach a logical unit number to a virtual disk VD target 300 GB jm Host Target o LUN LUN O vw Permission ORead only Read write og cae e Create replication job on the source subsystem 1 If the license key is activated on the subsystem correctly a new QReplica tab will be added on the Web UI Click Create to create a new replication job Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit eis cis No QReplica task now Configuration EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 2 Select the source VD which will be replicated to the target subsystem and click Next GOReplica Select source VD Size GB Status RAID s amp L UIN Fonapshoat RG e sourcevD R5 20 Online RAID5 0 creation please refer for the section of Configure the snapshot space below for solution NOTE If the message displays that there is not enough space for 3 Enter the IP address of iSCSI port on controller 1 of the target subsystem Click Next to continue QReplica Select target IP 192 168 15 1 User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 4 The QReplica uses standard iSCSI protocol for data replication User has to log on the iSCSI node to create the iSCSI connection for the data transmis
45. 2 3 D Online Good RAID 5 Step 3 Done View Physical disk page 64 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Physical Disk mum RAD group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Show PD for Local Show size unit as GB Y Slot Size GB RG Status Health Usage Vendor Serial Type Write cache Standby Readahead Command queuing 1 279 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WXLY 08094604 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 2 232 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk Seagate 5QE3MPBG SATA Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 3 T6 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk Hitachi PFDB30S2US713M SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 4 232 RG R5 Online Good Dedicated spare Seagate 9SFOM2FT SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 5 232 Online Good Free disk Hitachi VDK41BT4CBWWUE SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 6 279 Online Good Free disk WDC WD WXLY 08093882 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 7 76 Online Good Free disk Hitachi PFDB30S4R6HVKM SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 8 232 Online Good Free disk Seagate 9SFOPBQV SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Physical disks in slot 1 2 3 are created for a RG named RG R5 Slot 4 is set as dedicated spare disk of the RG named RG R5 The others are free disks Step 4 The unit of size can be changed from GB to MB It will display the capacity of hard drive in MB mUELeEd RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot
46. 23 Select PD Preferred owner Auto ad LL Write Cache Enable Standby Disabled Readahead Enabled Command queuing Enabled E OK I Cancel 4 Check the outcome Click OK if all setups are correct User Manual 79 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 Done An RG Physical disk iS e ECT Show size unit as Name Total GB has been created Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Free GB PD VD Status Health RAID Current owner Preferred owner Online Good RAID 5 Controller 1 Controller 1 A RAID 5 RG named RG R5 with 3 physical disks is created The total size is 152GB Because there is no related VD free size still remains 152GB Step 2 Create VD Virtual disk To create a data user volume please follow these steps i 4 Select Volume configuration Virtual disk Click Create Input a VD name choose the RG when VD will be created enter the VD capacity select the stripe height block size read write mode set priority modify Bg rate if necessary and finally click OK Create Name RG name Capacity Stripe height KB Block size B Read Write Priority Bg rate Readahead AV media mode Erase Type VD R5 1 RG R5 30 5312 C Write through cache Write back cache f High priority Middle priority C Low priority 4 Enabled B Di
47. 53 Network setting Address 192 168 10 176 Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway DNS HTTP port 80 HTTPS port 443 SSH port 22 iSCSI IP address Address 192 168 1 63 Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 192 168 1 254 Volume setting RAID level RAID 0 on Local enclosure Valume size GB 611 Cancel lt lt Back Finish Step 6 Done User Manual 43 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 4 2 2 Volume Creation Wizard Volume create wizard has a smarter policy When the system is inserted with some HDDs Volume create wizard lists all possibilities and sizes in different RAID levels it will use all available HDDs for RAID level depends on which user chooses When system has different sizes of HDDs e g 8 200G and 8 80G it lists all possibilities and combination in different RAID level and different sizes After user chooses RAID level user may find that some HDDs are available free status It gives user 1 Biggest capacity of RAID level for user to choose and 2 The fewest disk number for RAID level volume size E g user chooses RAID 5 and the controller has 12 200G 4 80G HDDs inserted If we use all 16 HDDs for a RAID 5 and then the maximum size of volume is 1200G 80G 15 By the wizard we do smarter check and find out the most efficient way of using HDDs The wizard only uses 200G HDDs Volume size is 200G 11 2200G the volume size is bigger and fully uses HDD capacity Step 1 Select
48. 68 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 11 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fffS014d8 dev11 ctr 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 1 2 3 next gt last gt gt CHAP CHAP is the abbreviation of Challenge Handshake Authorization Protocol CHAP is a strong authentication method used in point to point for user login It s a type of authentication in which the authentication server sends the client a key to be used for encrypting the username and password CHAP enables the username and password to transmitting in an encrypted form for protection To use CHAP authentication please follow these steps 1 Select one of 32 default nodes from one controller 2 Check the gray button of OP column click Authenticate 3 Select CHAP Authenticate Choose authentication method CHAP is a strong authentication method used in point to point for user login Authentication User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 4 Click OK NIC Entity property Mode Session CHAF account Show information for Controller 1 lt first lt prev 1 213 ce 3 ip 5 Goto iSCSI configuration CHAP account page to create CHAP account next gt last gt gt iqn 1887 05 tw com_proware proips ff90 14d8 dev0 ctr1 iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips 90 14d8 dev1 ctr1 iqn 1897 05 tw com_proware proips ff90 14d8 dev2 ctr1 iqn 1387 05 tw com proware proips fif30 14d8 d
49. 7 05 54 22 Mar 2010 17 05 40 22 Mar 2010 17 05 12 22 Mar 2010 17 05 12 8 next gt last gt gt Content CTR1 admin login from 192 166 1047 via Web Ul CTR1 admin login from 182 168 10 154 wa Web Ul CTR1 admin login from 182 168 10 47 via Web Ul TR1 Assign PD 4 to Global Spare Disks CTR2 Assign FD 4 to Global Spare Disks GIRI RG RG K5 has been created CTR1 RG RG E5 has been deleted CTR1 VD VD 02 has been deleted CTR1 RG RG RO has been deleted CTR1 VD SnapVD 02 has been deleted CTR1 VB SnapVD 01 has been deleted CTR1 VD VD 01 has been deleted CTR1 VD SnapVD 01 has been created CTR1 VD SnapVD 01 has been deleted CTR1 VD SnapVD 01 has been created CTR1 VD SnapVD 02 has been created CTR1 VD SnapVD 01 has been deleted CTR1 A snapshot on VD VD 01 has been taken CTR1 The snapshot space of VD VD 02 is cleared CTR1 VD SnapVD 02 has been deleted en C es mm mm m me me mme me me e me me e 0 0 Me 0 0 M ee M 8 next gt last gt gt The event log is displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first page The event logs are actually saved in the first four hard drives each hard drive has one copy of event log For one controller there are four copies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there is are failed disk s NOTE Please plug in any of the first four hard drives then event logs can be saved and displaye
50. 97 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16 104 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16 100 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16 99 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16 103 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 6 System Maintenance Maintenance allows the operations of system functions which include System information to show the system version and details Event log to view system event logs to record critical events Upgrade to the latest firmware Firmware synchronization to synchronized firmware versions on both controllers Reset to factory default to reset all controller configuration values to factory settings I mport and export to import and export all controller configuration to a file and Reboot and shutdown to reboot or shutdown the system SECs Event log Upgrade Firmware synchronization Reset to factory default Import and export Reboot and shutdown 5 6 1 System I nformation System information can display system information including CPU type installed system memory firmware version serial numbers of dual controllers backplane ID and system status Item Information CPU type XSC3 IOP8134x Family rev 9 v5l System memory ECC Unbuffered DDR II 2048MB Firmware version EP 3164D GAS3 2 0 0p1 build 201011181200 Serial number 001378B502F0 Controller 1 5001378003905F98 Controlle
51. AN1 and LAN2 are set to Trunking mode To remove Trunking LACP setting check the gray button of LAN port click Delete link aggregation Then it will pop up a message to confirm Ping host User can ping the corresponding host data port from the target click Ping host Please input the host IP 192 168 1 2 Start Stop Reply from 192 168 1 2 time clmz al Reply from 192 168 1 2 time clmz Reply from 192 168 1 2 time clmz Reply from 192 168 1 2 time clmz Reply from 192 168 1 2 time lt lms Reply from 192 168 1 2 time lt lms A user can ping host from the target to make sure the data port connection is well User Manual 57 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 3 2 Entity Property Entity property is used to view the entity name of the iSCSI RAID subsystem and setup iSNS IP for iSNS Internet Storage Name Service iSNS protocol allows automated discovery management and configuration of iSCSI devices on a TCP IP network Using iSNS it requires that an iSNS server be setup in the SAN Add an iSNS server IP address into iSNS server lists in order that iSCSI initiator service can send queries MIC e Node Session CHAP account Setup the entity name and iSNS IP ISNS protocol allows automated discovery management and configuration of iSCSI devices on a TCP IP network Add an iSNS service can send queries Entity name iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 ISNS IP
52. After power comes back UPS will start working and notify system to boot up OFF will not The status of UPS Detecting Running Unable to detect UPS Communication lost UPS reboot in progress UPS shutdown in progress Batteries failed Please change them NOW Battery Level Current percentage of battery level User Manual 87 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 5 3 SES SES represents SCSI Enclosure Services one of the enclosure management standards SES configuration can enable or disable the management of SES Hardware monitor UPS EESESEAM SMART SCSI Enclosure Services SES One of the enclosure management standards Please enable or disable the management of SES Hast Target LUN Enable SES in LUN O and can be accessed from every host The SES client software is available at the following web site SANtools http www santools com 5 5 4 Hard Drive S M A R T Support S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance S M A R T provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure S M A R T measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and inspects the properties of hard drives which are close to be out of tolerance The advanced notice of possible hard drive failure can allow users to back up hard drive o
53. C high 465 0 C 36 0 C BPL lt lt first lt prev 1 2 next gt last gt gt Voltage Voltage Voltage Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Power Supply z first lt prey 1 PSU 45V PSU 412V PSU 3 3V Location 01 Location 02 Location 03 Location 04 Location 05 Location 06 Location 07 Location 06 Location 09 Location 10 Location 11 Location 12 Location 13 Location 14 Location 15 Location 16 PSU1 5 05 V min 4 60 V max 5 40 V 12 35 V min 11 04 V max 12 96 V 3 34 V min 3 04 V max 3 56 V 26 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 460 0 C 28 5 C hyst 40 0 C high 60 0 C 27 5 C hyst 40 0 C high 460 0 C 27 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 460 0 C 26 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 460 0 C 26 5 C hyst 0 0 C high 60 0 C 27 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 460 0 C 27 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 60 0 C 24 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 460 0 C 24 5 C hyst 40 0 C high 60 0 C 25 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 60 0 C 25 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 60 0 C 24 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 60 0 C 24 0 C hyst 0_0 C high 460 0 C 24 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 460 0 C 24 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 60
54. CSI configuration Node User Create Create a CHAP user To create a CHAP user account enter User Secret and Confirm secret One or multiple nodes can be selected here ar later If selecting none it can be enabled in iSCSI configuration Mode User User max 223 Secret 9469006008885 min 12 max 16 Confirm ITITITITIITTIT min 12 max 16 Node lll gt D co Ch in amp Whe a 3 Click OK NIC Entity property Node Session ifia vedi Challenge Handshake Authorization Protocol CHAP A type of authentication in which the authentication server sends the client a key to be used for encrypting the username and password CHAP enables the username and password to be transmitted in an encrypted form for protection Create 4 Click Delete to delete CHAP account User Manual 63 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 4 Volume Configuration Volume configuration is designed for setting up the volume configuration which includes Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot and Logical unit Bee ees RAD group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit 5 4 1 Physical Disk Physical disk can be used to view the status of hard drives in the system The following are operational tips 1 Check the gray button next to the number of slot it will show the functions which can be executed 2 Active f
55. Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools 11 Click gt Discovery tab gt Discover Portal iSCSI Initiator Properties A 12 Input the IP address of controller1 Discover Target Portal EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 13 Click Discover Portal iSCSI Initiator Properties ay m L PTT 14 Input IP address of controller2 Discover Target Portal User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 15 Please connect ctrl1 iSCSI Initiator Properties MINICK Bonnet Hua Ald uve i t E ct Inactive 16 Choose checkbox of Enable multipath path Connect To Target 152 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem 17 Please select the IP address for Initiator amp Target of controller1 Advanced Settings 2 xl cee c Connect using Local adapter MicrosoftiSCsI Initiator v 9215815001 gl CRC Checksum Data digest Header digest Enable CHAP log on CHAP Log on information CHAP helps ensure connection security by providing authentication between a target and an initiator To use specify the same name and CHAP secret that was configured on the target for this initiator The name will default to the Initiator Name of the system unless another name is specified Name ign 1991 05 com microsoft win jbbvoqgk5e 1 Target secret F Perform mutual authentication To use mutual CHAP either sp
56. D Status Health RAID Current owner Preferred owner oP RG RO R5 1396 1386 Migrating Good RAID 5 Controller 1 Controller 1 A RAID O with 3 physical disks migrates to RAID 5 with 4 physical disks Show size unit as G5 Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG OP VD RO R5 10 WB HI 4 RAID NIA NIA Migrating Optimal 3 RAID5 0 0 0 0 RG RO R5 User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 3 VD Extension To extend VD size please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration Virtual disk 2 Check the gray button next to the VD number click Extend 3 Change the size The size must be larger than the original and then click OK to start extension Extend Ta extend VD size the input size must be larger than the original size Size 20 GB Free 1386 GB 4 Extension starts If VD needs initialization it will display an Initiating in Status and complete percentage of initialization in R Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG OP VD RO R5 20 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Initiating Optimal 46 RAID5 0 0 0 0 RG RO R5 NOTE The size of VD extension must be larger than original IMPORTANT VD Extension cannot be executed during rebuild or migr
57. Dcloneaborted The cloning in VD name was aborted INFO j VDcloneset The clone of VD lt name gt has been designated INFO j VDclonereset The clone of VD name is no longer designated WARNING Auto clone error Auto clone task lt string gt Auto clone no snap Auto clone task Snapshot name is not found for VD name User Manual 141 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA I RAID Subsystem Appendix A Certification list e iSCSI Initiator Software OS Software Release Number Microsoft Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Release v2 08 Windows System Requirements 1 Windows 2000 Server with SP4 2 Windows Server 2003 with SP2 3 Windows Server 2008 with SP2 The iSCSI Initiators are different for different Linux Kernels 1 For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Kernel 2 4 install linux iscsi 3 6 3 tar 2 For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Kernel 2 6 use the build in iSCSI initiator iscsi initiator utils 4 0 3 0 4 in kernel 2 6 9 3 For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Kernel 2 6 use the build in iSCSI initiator iscsi initiator utils 6 2 0 742 0 5 el5 in kernel 2 6 18 ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator v3 10 System Requirements 1 MacOSX v10 5 or later For ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator it is not free Please contact your local distributor e 10GbE iSCSI HBA card Vendor Mode RENE Chelsio S310E CR C 10GbE Storage Accelerator PCI Express 8x 10GbE 1 port SFP e 10Gb
58. Delete Auto snapshot Take snapshot Cleanup snapshot User Manual 75 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Step 4 Expose the snapshot VD Check the gray button next to the Snapshot VD number click Expose Enter a capacity for snapshot VD If size is zero the exported Snapshot VD will be read only Otherwise the exported snapshot VD can be read written and the size will be the maximum capacity to read write Set quota Size 14 GB v Available 14 GB Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk rudi Logical unit Linked snapshot for VD VD 01 Show size unit as Used sB Health Exposure Right LUN Created time snapVD 01 0 Mon Mar 22 16 58 21 2010 onapVD 02 Mon Mar 22 17 05 40 2010 Rallback Delete iC Auto snapshot Take snapshot Cleanup snapshot Attach This is the list of snapshots in VD 01 There are two snapshots in VD 01 Snapshot VD SnapVD 01 is exported as read only 5napVD 02 is exported as read write Step 5 Attach a LUN for snapshot VD Please refer to the next section for attaching a LUN Step 6 Done Snapshot VD can be used Snapshot column description HEN The button includes the functions which can be executed Name Snapshot VD name Used GB The amount of snapshot space that has been used The unit MB can be displayed in GB or MB The status of snapshot N A The snapshot is normal Replicated The snapshot is fo
59. E NIC Vendor CMe SD EIE ZZZEEEENENMNMN Intel E10G42AFDA 10 Gigabit AF DA Intel 82598EB 10GbE controller PCI Express 8x 10GbE 2 ports SFP Intel E10G42BFSR Ethernet Server Adapter X520 SR2 Intel 82599ES 10GbE controller PCI Express 8x 10GbE 2 ports LC Fiber Optic 10 Gigabit CX4 Intel 82598EB 10GbE controller PCI Express 8x 10 GbE 2 ports CX4 ET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem e 10GbE GBIC Vendor Model Avago AFBR 703SDZ 10 Gb s SFP transceiver 850nm Finisar FTLX8571D3BCV 10 Gb s SFP transceiver 850nm e 10GbE Switch Dell PowerConnect 8024F 24x SFP 10Gb with 4x Combo Ports of 10GBASE T Nn 2910al 24G J9145A 4x 10GbE J9149A CX4 Ports 24x 10 100 1000 Ports BLADE RackSwitch G8124 10G 24 x SFP 10Gbps Ports e Hard drive SAS drives are recommanded on dual controller system For SATA drivers QSATA boards are required SAS 3 5 Vendor S i Me Hitachi Ultrastar 15K147 HUS151436VLS300 36GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M Hitachi Ultrastar 15K300 HUS153073VLS300 73GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M F W A410 eagate Cheetah 15K 4 ST336754SS 36 7GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 8M Seagate Cheetah 15K 5 ST373455SS 73 4GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M B 15K 5 ST3146855SS 146 8GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M 15K 6 ST3450856SS 450GB 15000RPM SAS 3 0Gb s 16M F W 003 Seagate
60. ISCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAI D Subsystem User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Table of Contents Prea CO E E E E 6 Before YOU BEGI n enira N AEE E EEE AEN ee ee ee 7 saroy delne meno AE MID E 7 Controller ConfigurationS RR R u u 7 Packaging Shipment and Delivery 7 s eeeeeeeeeetntetntetnnnnnntetnte tete tete tete tete toto toto etna 7 Chapter 1 InuodUCcHODL iieeoeteceiedio citeriore eames canes esses esses tet duae a EEr eid EE 9 LL WSU ANI Gell OS GUNN AOSV MN 11 I MEI es E E E aedecesvene at cat 13 Lo RAID LEVE eea A E E A A E E E E 15 14 Volume Relationship DiaQrarn ccccesscsssssessessssscsssssessescsssessssessssssssecsssesssesesssssssssesscessseeeseseeassesssseseaeees 16 Chapter 2 Identifying Parts of the RAID Subsystem 17 AL Main Components NINE NECI Tisana ee 17 ee PORN N a nee E E E E T E 17 DMM DKT E a E E A E E easeces 18 2122 ECD FON PAN eieae e eren e e e EAE EE adiri ctor 19 LL ROG VOW ee E E E ees 21 VPE CORTON MOGU are E E E E E E A 22 22 1 Controller Module Panel csssssssssssssesssessssssssssssssssesssssssesesssssssesssessssessssssessssessesessessseesssesessseessees 22 2 3 Power Supply Fan Module PSFM cieett tto ttt intr eret ttes na tores tte e beer E T 24 Zo SUE TCI M 24 PE MESI ed iore Meciaitio EM 25 Chapter 3 Getting Started with the Subsystem
61. M A R T error alert Read Errors gt the hard drive has unrecoverable read errors SATA2 gt SATA II disk SAS gt SAS disk Hard drive write cache is enabled or disabled The default is enabled Standby HDD auto spindown function to save power The default value is disabled Readahead Readahead function of HDD Default value is enabled Command Command Queue function of HDD Default value is enabled Queuing User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem PD operations description Set Free disk Make the selected hard drive to be free for use Set Global Set the selected hard drive to global spare of all RGs Spare Set Dedicated Set hard drive to dedicated spare of selected RGs Spares Upgrade Upgrade hard drive firmware Turn on off Turn on the indication LED of the hard drive Click again to the indication turn off LED More Show hard drive detail information information 5 4 2 RAID Group RAID group can view the status of each RAID group create and modify RAID groups The following is an example to create a RG Step 1 Click Create enter Name choose RAID level click Select PD to select PD assign the RG s Preferred owner Then click OK The Write Cache option is to enable or disable the hard drives write cache option The Standby option is to enable or disable the hard drives auto spindown function when this option is en
62. SCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem VD operations description Create Create a virtual disk Extend Extend a Virtual disk capacity Parity check Execute parity check for the virtual disk It supports RAID 3 5 6 30 50 60 Regenerate parity Yes gt Regenerate RAID parity and write No gt Execute parity check only and find mismatches It will stop checking when mismatches count to 1 10 20 100 Set property Change the VD name Right Priority and Bg rate Right options WT gt Write Through WB gt Write Back RO gt Read Only Priority options HI gt HIgh priority MD gt MID priority LO gt LOw priority Bg rate options 4 3 2 1 0 gt Default value is 4 The higher number the background priority of a VD has the more background I O will be scheduled to execute Read ahead Enabled Enable disk read ahead Default Disabled Disable disk read ahead AV media mode Enabled Enable AV media mode for optimizing video editing Disabled Disable AV media mode Default Type RAID the virtual disk is normal Default Backup gt the virtual disk is for clone usage User Manual IPM iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem sede severus suere Set snapshot Set snapshot space for executing snapshot Please refer space to next chapter for more detail snapshot release snapshot space More Show Virtual d
63. Start QReplica Sure to start QReplica for task 1 User Manual 129 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 User can monitor the replication job from the Status information and the progress is expressed by percentage Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Meee No VD name Current owner Target Name Target IP LUN Name Size MB Size GB Status ign 1997 1 source Controller 1 05 tw com proware proips 192 168 15 1 1 target 307200 300 Replicating 0 000902298 dev0 ctr1 Create Configuration e Create multi path on the replication job 1 Click the Create multi path in the operation menu of the replication job Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Current owner No VD name Target Name Target IP ign 1997 source Controller 1 05 tw com proware proips 132 158 15 1 000802238 dev0 ctr1 Start Stop Refresh Delete multi path schedule Delete 2 Enter the IP of iSCSI port on controller 2 of the target subsystem QReplica Select target IP 192 168 15 3 OO ere Cancal E User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 Select the iSCSI node to log on and click Next QReplica Get login information Choose authentication method No Authentication method max 223 min 12 max 16 Select a target node Name iqn 1397 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 dev
64. Volume create wizard and then choose the RAID level After the RAID level is chosen click Next Volume creation wizard Step 1 List all possibilities RAID level and maximam size Please select the preferred RAID level RAID enclosure Local RAID level RAID 0 1395 GB RAID 0 1395 GB RAID 1 279 GB RAID 3 1163 GB RAID 5 1163 GB RAID 6 930 GB RAID 0 1 697 GB rr User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Step 2 Please select the combination of the RG capacity or Use default algorithm for maximum RG capacity After RG size is chosen click Next Volume creation wizard Step 2 Choose default algorithm for maximum RG capacity Possible combinations for the preferred RAID level are listed check Customization to choose the preferred option Hint Maximum physical disks for one RG is 32 Q Use default algorithm 9 Customization F v RAID group new 1 disk 76 GB new 1 disk 76 GB new 1 disk 232 GB new 1 disk 279 GB new 2 disk 152 GB new 2 disk 465 GB new 2 disk 558 GB new 3 disk 229 GB new 3 disk 697 GB new 4 disk 305 GB new 4 disk 830 GB new 5 disk 382 GB new 5 disk 1163 GB new 6 disk 458 GB new 6 disk 1395 GB new 7 disk 535 GB new 8 disk 611 GB Cancel Step 3 Decide VD size User can enter a num
65. W ct cr D 33 J g ia uo zr Yio D Uu ct D S J a ct m D oiu etier D D 25 gu a a cr Q O O U Im O O N TI UJ lt Uu Im O O O G UJ NI N O O J U lt Un gt gt O G og Uu UJ NA E Z O O 0 MD NIH ct ct ctr 0 jo 3 33 J YY oOo ala ct ct cr v vov 7J m CJ iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem LL LL 04 05G04 IL ILL EE LEDL LC uER F W 04 01G01 F W 01 01D01 F W 01 01V01 F W 01 01S01 Westem Digital Raptor WD360GD 36 7GB 10000RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M Westem Digital VelcoiRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 16M F W 04 04V01 SATA 2 5 Vendor CMe OO O O ST9500530NS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3 0Gb s 32M F W SNO2 User Manual 1445 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem B Microsoft iSCSI initiator Here is the step by step to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI initiator This example is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 e Connect 1 Run Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2 Input IP address or DNS name of the target And then click Quick Connect iSCSI Initiator Properties Fa Targets Discovery Favorite Targets volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address ar DNS name of the target
66. abled and hard drives have no access after certain period of time the hard drives automatically spin down The Readahead option is to enable or disable the read ahead function The Command queuing option is to enable or disable the hard drives command queue function User Manual 67 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Create RAID group Name RG R RAID level RAID 0 z RAID PD slot 1234 Select PD Preferred owner Auto Write Cache Enabled Standby Disabled Readahead Enabled B Step 2 Confirm page Click OK if all setups are correct Show size unit as GB Preferred owner Name Total GB Free GB FD VD Status Health RAID Current owner OP RG R 1862 1862 4 Online Good RAID 0 Controller 1 Controller 1 Controller 1 Controller 1 Deactivate Parity chec Delete Set preferred owner Set disk property More information There is a RAID 0 with 4 physical disks named RG RO The second RAID group is a RAID 5 with 3 physical disks named RG R5 Step 3 Done View RAID group page RG column description BEEN The button includes the function which can be executed Total GB MB Total capacity of this RAID group This unit can be displayed in GB or MB Free GB MB Free capacity of this RAID group This unit can be displayed in GB or MB PD The number of physical disks in RAID group E Us
67. age protocol such as iSCSI has two ends in the connection These ends are the initiator and the target In iSCSI we call them iSCSI initiator and iSCSI target The iSCSI initiator requests or initiates any iSCSI communication It requests all SCSI operations like read or write An initiator is usually located on the host server side either an iSCSI HBA or iSCSI SW initiator The iSCSI target is the storage device itself or an appliance which controls and serves volumes or virtual volumes The target is the device which performs SCSI commands or bridges it to an attached storage device iSCSI targets can be disks tapes RAID arrays tape libraries and etc Host 1 initiator Host 2 initiator iSCSI HBA iSCSI device 1 iSCSI device 2 target target 34 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The host side needs an iSCSI initiator The initiator is a driver which handles the SCSI traffic over iSCSI The initiator can be software or hardware HBA Please refer to the certification list of iSCSI HBA s in Appendix A OS native initiators or other software initiators use the standard TCP IP stack and Ethernet hardware while iSCSI HBA s use their own iSCSI and TCP IP stacks on board Hardware iSCSI HBA s would provide its initiator tool Please refer to the vendors HBA user manual Microsoft Linux and Mac provide software iSCSI initiator driver Below are the available links 1 Link
68. and sessions The above figures describe the difference between MPIO and MC S There are some considerations when user chooses MC S or MPIO for multipathing 1 If user uses hardware iSCSI off load HBA then MPIO is the only one choice 2 If user needs to specify different load balance policies for different LUNs then MPIO should be used 3 If user installs anyone of Windows XP Windows Vista or Windows 7 MC S is the only option since Microsoft MPIO is supported Windows Server editions only 4 MC S can provide higher throughput than MPIO in Windows system but it consumes more CPU resources than MPIO ETT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 9 Trunking and LACP Link aggregation is the technique of taking several distinct Ethernet links to let them appear as a Single link It has a larger bandwidth and provides the fault tolerance ability Beside the advantage of wide bandwidth the I O traffic remains operating until all physical links fail If any link is restored it will be added to the link group automatically The iSCSI subsystem implements link aggregation as LACP and Trunking 1 LACP IEEE 802 3ad The Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP is a part of IEEE specification 802 3ad It allows bundling several physical ports together to form a single logical channel A network switch negotiates an automatic bundle by sending LACP packets to the peer Theoretically LACP port can be defined as active or passi
69. and then click Quick Connect Target 192 168 15 10 Quick Connect Discovered targets Refresh To connect using advanced options select a target and then Dannar click Connect To completely disconnect a target select the target and aeaa then click Disconnect For target properties including configuration of sessions Properties select the target and click Properties For configuration of devices associated with a target select Dantes the target and then click Devices More about basic iSCSI connections and targets OK Cancel Apply 146 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem 3 Click Done Quick Connect Targets that are available Far connection at the IP address or DNS name that you provided are listed below IF multiple targets are available vou need to connect to each target individually Connections made here will be added to Ehe list of Favorite Targets and an attempt to restore them will be made every time this computer restarts Discovered targets Connected Progress report Immediate Login Succeeded Persistent Login Failed target will not be available after system reboot Crimes Done iSCSI Initiator Properties Fa Targets Discovery Favorite Targets volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address ar DNS name of the target and then click Qu
70. as been renamed to name VD read only Cache policy of VD name has been set as read only VD write back Cache policy of VD name has been set as write back VD write through Cache policy of VD name has been set as write through INFO VDextend Size of VD name extends INFO VD attach LUN OK VD name has been LUN attached INFO VD attach LUN fail Failed to attach LUN to VD name INFO VD detach LUN OK VD name has been detached dll Laid Failed to attach LUN from bus number SCSI ID number lun number INFO VDinitstarted VD name starts initialization INFO VDinit finished VD name completes initialization WARNING VD init failed Failed to complete initialization of VD name INFO VD rebuild started VD name starts rebuilding INFO VD rebuild finished VD name completes rebuilding WARNING VD rebuild failed Failed to complete rebuild of VD name INFO q VD migrate started VD name starts migration VD migrate VD lt name gt completes migration finished ERROR VD migrate failed Failed to complete migration of VD name INFO VD scrub started Parity checking on VD name starts ETT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem me eem E ae lt address gt parity data inconsistency f
71. ation 100 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 4 Snapshot Rollback Snapshot on the box captures the instant state of data in the target volume in a logical sense The underlying logic is Copy on Write moving out the data which would be written to certain location where a write action occurs since the time of data capture The certain location named as Snap VD is essentially a new VD which can be attached to a LUN provisioned to a host as a disk like other ordinary VDs in the system Rollback restores the data back to the state of any time which was previously captured in case for any unfortunate reason it might be e g virus attack data corruption human errors and so on Snap VD is allocated within the same RG in which the snapshot is taken we suggest to reserve 20 of RG size or more for snapshot space Please refer to the figure below for the snapshot concept EP 31640 G4S3 series EP 3164D GA 53 series EP 3164D GA S3 series Working X Volume Pri e Snapshot Voluma zpmj Fecal Enters Transactional Consishency M5 Exc hanga Server MS Exchange Serer cere wo wt bs Snapshot Copy Snapshot Copy BPO 15 mi ea 2 0 PM ire PH ieee ed Phi IMPORTANT Snapshot rollback features need at least 1 GB controller cache RAM Please also refer to RAM certification list in Appendix A User Manual 101 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 4
72. ature Temperature Temperature 1 ltem PSU 3 3V R6R PSU 5V R6R PSU 12V R6R 1 0V Onboard 1 8V Onboard 3 3V Onboard 5V Onboard 12V Onboard Location 1 R6R Location 2 R6R Location 3 R6R Location 4 R6R Location 5 R6R Location 6 R6R Location 8 R6R Location S R6R Location 10 R6R Location 11 R5R Location 12 R6R Location 7 R6R 2 next gt last gt gt Value Status 3 36 V 540V 12 31 V 1 01 V 1 84 V 3 36 V 512V 1227 V 26 0 C User Manual 113 Hardware monitor Show information for iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem UPS ses SMART JBOD 1 proIPS EP 3164JD 5656 v1 0 1 5001378004850190 Controller 1 50013780049007BD lt lt first lt prev Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Power Supply Power Supply Cooling Cooling Cooling Cooling lt lt first prev 1 1 Item RER RER RER Location 14 Location 13 R6R Location 15 Location 16 Onboard 1 Onboard 2 Onboard 3 PSU 1 PSU 72 FAN 1 FAN 2 FAN 3 FAN 4 2 4380 RPM 4380 RPM 4440 RPM 3970 RPM Controller 2 500137800490057D Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature 1 1 2 next gt
73. ause the time which host switches to the new portal is slower than I O time out With iSNS server this case would not happen X NOTE iSNS server is recommended for dual controller system User Manual 123 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 11 QReplica Optional QReplica function will help users to replicate data easily through LAN or WAN from one Subsystem to another The procedures of QReplica are on the following 1 Copy all data from source VD to target VD at the beginning full copy Use Snapshot technology to perform the incremental copy afterwards Please be fully aware that the incremental copy needs to use snapshot to compare the data difference Therefore the enough snapshot space for VD clone is very important e Activate the license key User needs to obtain a license key and download it to the RAID subsystem to activate the QReplica function Each license key is unique and dedicated to a specific subsystem It means that the license key for subsystem A cannot be used on another subsystem To obtain the license key please contact sales for assistance e Setup the QReplica port on the source subsystem The QReplica uses the last iSCSI port on the controller to replicate the data When the iSCSI is configured as QReplica port it is no longer available for the host to connected as iSCSI port until it is configured as the normal iSCSI port again 1 In the operation menu of the last iSCSI port on the controller
74. ber less or equal to the default number Then click Next Volume creation wizard Step 3 Decide VD size Enter a number less or equal to the default number Volume size GB 553 User Manual 45 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Step 4 Confirmation page Click Finish if all setups are correct Then a VD will be created Volume creation wizard Confirm Please confirm the setting and click Finish to create a new virtual disk RAID level RAID 0 RAID group new rq Volume size GB 558 Step 5 Done The system is available now Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R 96 RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG oP QUICK71147 1862 WB HI 4 RAID NIA NIA Online Optimal RAIDO 1 0 0 0 QUICK42321 NOTE A virtual disk of RAID O is created and is named by system itself 46 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 5 Configuration 5 1 Web GUI Management I nterface Hierarchy The below table is the hierarchy of the management GUI System configuration System setting Network settin g Login setting Mail setting Notification setting iSCSI configuration NIC Entity property Node Session CHAP account Volume configuration Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk vvv Vv gt Snapshot gt Logical unit Enclosure management Hardware monitor UPS SES S M A R T System i
75. between data cache and the physical disks in one short time interval Set the volume to be Read Only Dedicated Spare disks The spare disks are only used by one specific RG Others could not use these dedicated spare disks for any rebuilding purpose Global Spare disks GS is shared for rebuilding purpose If some RGs need to use the global spare disks for rebuilding they could get the spare disks out from the common spare disks pool for such requirement User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem DeGraded mode Not all of the array s member disks are functioning but the array is able to respond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks se seanss 0 LN ITI NN pea HN sm seem oo Pme Mete wes eaa 0 CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol An optional security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI data ports I nternet Storage Name Service Storage Bridge Bay The objective of the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group SBB is to create a specification that defines mechanical electrical and low level enclosure management requirements for an enclosure controller slot that will support a variety of storage controllers from a variety of independent hardware vendors IHVs and system vendors Dongle board is for SATA II disk connection to the backplane User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 1 3 RAID Level
76. cache Disabled Disable disk write cache User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Standby options Disabled gt Disable spindown 430 sec 1min 5 min 30 min gt Enable hard drive auto spindown to save power in the period of time Read ahead Enabled Enable disk read ahead Default Disabled Disable disk read ahead Command queuing Enabled Enable disk command queue Default Disabled Disable disk command queue More Show RAID group detail information information 5 4 3 Virtual Disk Virtual disk can view the status of each Virtual disk create and modify virtual disks The following is an example to create a VD Step 1 Click Create enter Name select RAID group from RG name enter required Capacity GB MB change Stripe height KB change Block size B change Read Write mode set virtual disk Priority select Bg rate Background task priority and change Readahead option if necessary Erase option will wipe out old data in VD to prevent that OS recognizes the old partition There are three options in Erase None default erase first 1GB or full disk Last select Type mode for normal or clone usage Then click OK Create Name VD 01 RG name Capacity 30 ce v Stripe height KB 64 Block size B 512 Read Write C Write through cache Write back cache 2 Priority High priority Middle pri
77. ck Expose Enter a capacity for snapshot VD If size is zero the exposed Snapshot VD will be read only Otherwise the exposed snapshot VD can be read written and the size will be the maximum capacity to read write Attach a LUN for snapshot VD Please refer to the previous chapter for attaching a LUN Done It can be used as a disk ETT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Eeue Logical unit Linked snapshot for VD Show size unit as LUN Created time Used GB Health 1 snapvD 01 Good Yes Read only 0 Mon Mar 22 16 53 21 2010 Read write Mon Mar 22 17 05 40 2010 Exposure Right Rollback Delete Attach Auta snapshot Take snapshot Cleanup snapshot This is the snapshot list of VD 01 There are two snapshots Snapshot VD SnapVD 01 is exposed as read only SnapVD 02 is exposed as read write 10 There are two methods to clean all snapshots In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Cleanup snapshot Or in Volume configuration Snapshot click Cleanup 11 Cleanup snapshot will delete all snapshots related to the VD and release snapshot space 6 4 2 Auto Snapshot The snapshot copies can be taken manually or by schedule such as hourly or daily Please follow the procedures 1 There are two methods to set auto snapsho
78. d JBOD events en ee eee eee eee LN EN NE started firmware process e e 5 iil finished firmware process Paane o aae agg ene anaa n failed m pe ee lt name gt mo pe NN system Pes eee ee Teo system INFO JBODinserted JBOD lt name gt is inserted into system WARNING JBOD removed X JBOD name is removed from system WKN 55 Drop Exceed Condition occurred for attribute string VIENNE S M A R T information Wd Loren NN dedicated spare disk of RG name WERE Lodi Disks address of JBOD name PD slot Config write error occurred at LBA address address of JBOD name PD slot anne rosie or o lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt add 6r nas AS lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem pe erat Ree eae aaa process m ee NN completed scrubbing process i ee O MN FAIL INNEN dE NORMAL WARNING FAN fail Cooling fan of string in JBOD name is FAIL WINE dil NORMAL NE 5C c MN name is WARN OVER anne r 5 c wid name is WARN UNDER WEN 5 iid name is CRIT OVER d NEN 5 c GM name is CRIT UNDER INFO Volt recovery Voltage of lt string gt in JBOD lt string gt is NORMAL pem wr Temperature of string read as string in JBOD name is OT WARNING a JBOD name is UT WARNING t JBOD name is OT FAILURE
79. d ag User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 Turn the disk tray upside down Align the four screw holes of the SATA disk drive in the four Hole C of the disk tray To secure the disk drive into the disk tray tighten four screws on these holes of the disk tray Note in the picture below where the screws should be placed in the disk tray holes snauuaaaa RaRuu uuu aWdk Tray Hole C BEB BBB RBBB BBP NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly 6 Insert the disk tray into the subsystem User Manual 33 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 4 iSCSI Introduction iSCSI Internet SCSI is a protocol which encapsulates SCSI Small Computer System Interface commands and data in TCP IP packets for linking storage devices with servers over common IP infrastructures iSCSI provides high performance SANs over standard IP networks like LAN WAN or the Internet IP SANs are true SANs Storage Area Networks which allow few of servers to attach to an infinite number of storage volumes by using iSCSI over TCP IP networks IP SANs can scale the storage capacity with any type and brand of storage system In addition using any type of network Ethernet Fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet and combining operating systems Microsoft Windows Linux Solaris etc within the SAN network IP SANs also include mechanisms for security data replication multi path and high availability Stor
80. d Enabled Disabled aaan Online Good Free disk Seagate 9SFOPBQV SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled More information Slot 4 is set as global spare disk GS Step 5 Done LUNs can be used as disks To delete VDs RG please follow the steps listed below Step 6 Detach LUN from VD In Volume configuration Logical unit Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Permission VD name 5ession Read write VD R5 1 Read write Session 1 Check the gray button next to the LUN click Detach There will pop up a confirmation page 2 Choose OK 3 Done Step 7 Delete VD Virtual disk To delete the Virtual disk please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration Virtual disk 2 Check the gray button next to the VD number click Delete There will pop up a confirmation page click OK me User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 Done Then the VDs are deleted y Step 8 Delete RG RAID group NOTE When deleting VD the attached LUN s related to this VD will be detached automatically To delete the RAID group please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration RAID group Select a RG which is no VD related on this RG otherwise the VD s on this RG must be deleted first 3 Check the gray button next to the RG number click Delete 4 There will pop up a confirmation page c
81. d in next system boot up Otherwise the event logs would disappear User Manual rna iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 6 3 Upgrade Upgrade can upgrade firmware Please prepare new firmware file named xxxx bin in local hard drive then click Browse to select the file Click Confirm it will pop up a message Upgrade system now If you want to downgrade to the previous FW later not recommend please export your system configuration in advance click Cancel to export system configuration in advance then click OK to start to upgrade firmware Browse the firmware to upgrade Browse 9 Uperade system now If you want to downgrade to the previous EW later please export your system configuration first Cancel When upgrading there is a progress bar running After finished upgrading the system must reboot manually to make the new firmware took effect NOTE Please contact your vendor for the latest firmware EI User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 6 4 Firmware Synchronization Firmware synchronization can synchronize the firmware version when controller 1 and controller 2 s firmware are different It will upgrade the firmware of slave controller to master ones no matter what the firmware version of slave controller is newer or older than master In normal status the firmware versions in controller 1 and 2 are the same as below figure The fi
82. d time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP Network Time Protocol server Click Confirm in System indication to turn on the system indication LED Click again to turn off User Manual 49 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 2 2 Network Setting Network setting is for changing IP address for remote administration usage There are 2 options DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server and static IP The default setting is DHCP User can change the HTTP HTTPS and SSH port number when the default port number is not allowed on host server System setting BREWS Login setting Mail setting Notification setting Setup MAC address DNS and ports You can check DHCP to acquire IP address fram DHCP server or check Static to setup IP address MAC address MAC address 00 13 78 B5 03 80 Address Q DHCP o Static Address 192 168 10 176 Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway DNS DNS Port HTTP port an HTTPS port 443 SSH port 22 E User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 2 3 Login Setting Login setting can set single admin auto logout time and Admin User password The single admin can prevent multiple users access the same controller at the same time 1 Auto logout The options are 1 Disable 2 5 minutes 3 30 minutes 4 1 hour The system will log out automatically when user is inactive for a period of time 2 Login lock Disable Enable When the l
83. e user can not set dedicated Spare disk to RAID 0 amp JBOD Sometimes rebuild is called recover they are the same meaning The following table is the relationship between RAID levels and rebuild RAID O Disk striping No protection for data RG fails if any hard drive fails or unplugs Disk mirroring over 2 disks RAID 1 allows one hard drive fails or unplugging Need one new hard drive to insert to the system and rebuild to be completed N way Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the disk N way mirror mirror allows N 1 hard drives failure or unplugging Striping with parity on the dedicated disk RAID 3 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks RAID 5 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 allows two hard drives failure or unplugging If it needs to rebuild two hard drives at the same time it will rebuild the first one then the other in sequence RAID 0 1 Mirroring of RAID 0 volumes RAID 0 1 allows two hard drive failures or unplugging but at the same array RAID 10 Striping over the member of RAID 1 volumes RAID 10 allows two hard drive failure or unplugging but in different arrays RAID 30 Striping over the member of RAID 3 volumes RAID 30 allows two hard drive failure or unplugging but in different arrays RAID 50 Striping over the member of RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 allows two hard dr
84. eady to Transfer Immed data Immediate data p DIUTIUS Ier DataPDUInOrder Data PDU in Order TSIH target session identifying handle MaxDataOutR2T Maximum Data Outstanding Ready to Transfer MaxDataBurstLen Maximum Data Burst Length DataSeginOrder Data Sequence in Order 10 Detail of Authentication status and Source IP port number Display iSCSI session and connection information including other items Show information for Controller 1 v No TSIH Initiator name UMENIE 05 com microsoft sdfs 56745d1467 Target name iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips 0x0001 Z f79014d8 dev0 ctr1 InitialR2T Immed data MaxOutR2T MaxDataBurstLen DataSeglnOrder DataPDUlnOrder Check the gray button of session number click List connection It will list all connection s of the session Connection Initiator IF Initiator name 192 168 1 59 iqn 1991 05 com_microsoft sdfs 56 745d 1467 MaxRecvDataSegLen Authentication 16364 MaxTransDataSegLen EL User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 3 5 CHAP Account CHAP account is used to manage CHAP accounts for authentication This iSCSI RAID subsystem allows creation of many CHAP accounts To setup CHAP account please follow these steps 1 Click Create 2 Enter User Secret and Confirm secret again Node can be selected here or later If selecting none it can be enabled later in iS
85. ecify an initiator secret on the Gonfiguration page or use RADIUS Use RADIUS to generate user authentication credentials Use RADIUS to authenticate Ear 18 Please connect ctrl2 iSCSI Initiator Properties X Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then dick Quick Connect Quick Gonnect To connect using advanced options select a target and then dick Connect To completely disconnect a target select the target and then dick Disconnect For target properties induding configuration of sessions select the target and dick Properties For configuration of devices associated with a target select the target and then dick Devices o em om User Manual 153 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 19 Choose checkbox of Enable multipath path Connect To Target 20 Please select the IP address for Initiator amp Target of controller2 Advanced Settings CHAP helps ensure connection security by providing authentication between a target ana animator Mame Target secrecy Perform mutual authentication Tio Use mutual GHAR either specity an initiator secret om the Gontiquration page or use RWIS ml Use RADIUS to generate user authentication credentials Use RADIUS to authenticate target credentials
86. ecomes RED When the switch of the PSFM is turned on the LED will turn GREEN When the Power On Fail LED is GREEN the PSFM is functioning normally EE7I User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem NOTE Each PSFM has one Power Supply and two Fans The PSFM 1 has Power l1 Fan 1 and Fan 2 The PSFM 2 has Power 2 Fan 3 and Fan 4 When the Power Supply of a PSFM fails the PSFM need not be removed from the slot if replacement is not yet available The fan will still work and provide necessary airflow inside the enclosure NOTE After replacing the Power Supply Fan Module and turning on the Power On Off Switch of the PSFM the Power Supply will not power on immediately The Fans in the PSFM will spin up until the RPM becomes stable When Fan RPM is already stable the RAID controller will then power on the Power Supply This process takes more or less 30 seconds This safety measure helps prevent possible Power Supply overheating when the Fans cannot work 2 4 Checklist before Starting Before starting check or prepare the following items M Check Certification list in Appendix A to confirm the hardware setting is fully Supported I Read the latest release note before upgrading Release note accompanies with its released firmware I A host with a LOGbE NIC or 10GbE iSCSI HBA M CAT 5e or CAT 6 network cables for management port FC cable for iSCSI data ports I Prepare storage system configuration plan P
87. eek Back up on the ist day in a month Clear QReplica schedule e Configure the snapshot space The QReplica uses Snapshot help user to replicate the data without stop accessing to the source VD If the snapshot space is not configured on the source VD in advance the subsystem will allocate snapshot space for the source VD automatically when the replication job is created The default snapshot space allocated by the subsystem is double size of the source VD If the free space of the RG which the source VD resides in is less than double size of the source VD the replication job will fail and pops up the error message To prevent this problem user has to make sure the RG has enough free space for the snapshot space of source VD or user has to configure the snapshot space of the source VD manually before the replication job is created EZ User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 1 To configure the snapshot space settings of QReplica click the configuration button Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit No OReplica task now Create Configuration There are three settings in the QReplica configuration menu OReplica Configuration Snapshot space Threshold Restart the task an hour later if failed L OK Cancel The Snapshot space specifies the ratio of snapshot space allocated to the source VD automatically when the snapshot space is not config
88. er Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The number of virtual disks in RAID group The status of RAID group Online gt the RAID group is online Offline gt the RAID group is offline Rebuild gt the RAID group is being rebuilt Migrate gt the RAID group is being migrated Scrubbing gt the RAID group is being scrubbed The health of RAID group Good gt the RAID group is good Failed gt the hard drive is failed Degraded gt the RAID group is not completed The reason could be lack of one disk or disk failure RAID The RAID level of the RAID group Current The owner of the RAID group The default owner is Owner controller 1 Preferred The preferred owner of the RAID group The default owner owner is controller 1 RG operations description Create a RAID group Migrate a RAID group Please refer to next chapter for more detail Activate a RAID group it can be executed when RG status is offline This is for online roaming purpose Deactivate Deactivate a RAID group it can be executed when RG status is online This is for online roaming purpose Parity check Regenerate parity for the RAID group It supports RAID 3 5 6 30 50 60 Delete a RAID group Set preferred Set the RG ownership to the other controller owner Set disk Change the disk status of write cache and standby property Write Cache options Enabled Enable disk write
89. er vendors or no UPS UPS type None Shutdown battery level 9 0 0 Shutdown delay 5 0 F Shutdown UPS on Status Battery level Currently the system only supports and communicates with APC American Power Conversion Corp smart UPS Please review the details from the website http www apc com First connect the system and APC UPS via RS 232 for communication Then set up the Shutdown values shutdown battery level when power is failed UPS in other companies can work well but they have no such communication feature with the system ET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Hardware monitor W A SES S M ART The system supports and communicates with smart UPS of APC Choose Smart UPS for APC None for other vendors or no UPS UPS type Smart UPS Shutdown battery level 95 5 Shutdown delay 5 30 B Shutdown UPS on Status Running Battery level UPS Type Select UPS Type Choose Smart UPS for APC None for other vendors or no UPS Shutdown When below the setting level system will shutdown Battery Level Setting level to 0 will disable UPS 90 Shutdown If power failure occurred and system cannot return to Delay s value setting status the system will shutdown Setting delay to O will disable the function Select ON when power is gone UPS will shut down by itself after the system shutdown successfully
90. es 1 Select Volume configuration RAID group 2 Check the gray button next to the RG number click Migrate 3 Change the RAID level by clicking the down arrow to RAID 5 There will be a pup up which indicates that HDD is not enough to support the new setting of RAID level click Select PD to increase hard drives then click OK to go back to setup page When doing migration to lower RAID level such as the original RAID level is RAID 6 and user wants to migrate to RAID O system will evaluate whether this operation is safe or not and appear a warning message of Sure to migrate to a lower protection array Migrate Name RG RO gt R5 RAID level RAID PD slot 1234 Select PD OK Cancel 4 Double check the setting of RAID level and RAID PD slot If there is no problem click OK 5 Finally a confirmation page shows the detail of RAID information If there is no problem click OK to start migration System also pops up a message of Warning power lost during migration may cause damage of data to give user warning When the power is abnormally off during the migration the data is in high risk 6 Migration starts and it can be seen from the status of a RG with Migrating In Volume configuration Virtual disk it displays a Migrating in Status and complete percentage of migration in R96 Show size unit as 5B Total GB Free GB V
91. ession 1 i H i 1 SCSI layer H SCSlilayer i H 1 iSCSI layer iSCSiilayer L f i d d SSS SS i i SS SS SS eS c c SS i SS i c c dS HE E L oL oL LE oL LR oL oL LR oL oL oL LE LR oL oL Lb E LR IL 2 MC S MC S Multiple Connections per Session is a feature of iSCSI protocol which allows combining several connections inside a single session for performance and failover purposes In this way I O can be sent on any TCP IP connection to the target If one connection fails another connection can continue processing I O without interruption to the application User Manual 117 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Tage SCSIllayer SCSlIllayer iSCSI layer iSCSI layer SGS iScsl iSc i layer layer layer TCPAR TCP AB TCP IP Difference MC S is implemented on iSCSI level while MPIO is implemented on the higher level Hence all MPIO infrastructures are shared among all SCSI transports including Fiber Channel SAS etc MPIO is the most common usage across all OS vendors The primary difference between these two is which level the redundancy is maintained MPIO creates multiple iSCSI sessions with the target storage Load balance and failover occurs between the multiple sessions MC S creates multiple connections within a single iSCSI session to manage load balance and failover Notice that iSCSI connections and sessions are different than TCP IP connections
92. ev3 ctr1 iqn 1897 05 tw com proware proips fif30 14d8 devd ctr1 Please refer to next section for more detail 6 Check the gray button of OP column click User 7 Select CHAP user s which will be used It s a multi option it can be one or more If choosing none CHAP cannot work User Select CHAP user s select CHAP user s which will be used for this node it can be one or more If choosing none CHAP will not work ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev0 ctri Node Liser chap1 chap2 8 Click OK 192 168 1 1 3260 132 168 2 1 3260 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 182 168 1 1 3260 132 168 2 1 3260 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 9 In Authenticate of OP page select None to disable CHAP E User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem Change portal Users can change the portals belonging to the device node of each controller Check the gray button of OP column next to one device node Select Change portal Choose the portals for the controller Click OK to confirm pU DE Change portal Assign or change LAN portal Select LAN portal for the selected iSCSI node RARE port v 192 168 1 1 3260 LAN 1 DHCP No Jumbo frame Disabled 192 168 2 1 3260 LAN 2 DHCP No Jumbo frame Disabled OK Cancel Rename alias User can create an alias to one device n
93. event notification Some mail servers would check Mail from address and need authentication for anti spam After information is set you can click Send test mail to test whether email functions are available Mail Mail from address mailman EP 3164D GAS3 Mail to address 1 Send events1 CI INFO v WARNING v ERROR Mail to address 2 Send events CI INFO v WARNING v ERROR Mail to address 3 Send events3 LJ INFO v WARNING v ERROR L SMTP relay EL User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 2 5 Notification Setting Notification setting can be used to set up SNMP trap for alerting via SNMP pop up message via Windows messenger not MSN alert via syslog protocol and event log filter System setting Network setting Login setting Mail setting i Gites Iu SNMP SNMP trap address 1 SNMP trap address 2 SNMP trap address 3 Community public MIB file download Download Send events CI INFO v WARNING v ERROR Messenger v Messenger IP Computer name 1 Messenger IP Computer name 2 Messenger IP Computer name 3 Send events CI INFO v WARNING v ERROR System log server v Server IP hostname UDP Port 514 Facility User Event level CI INFO v WARNING v ERROR Event log filter Pop up events CJ INFO C WARNING ERROR Show on LCM CI INFO v WARNING v ERROR Buzzer w Always disable buzzer F
94. global INFO CV boot global The global cache is ok create global pro Rees FE Taer OS of RG lt name gt INFO PD global spare X Assign PD slot to Global Spare Disks dE 67 NN address of PD slot ans omeo 5o NN address of PD slot Scrub wrong parity The parity data inconsistency is found at LBA inn o CN VD name Wd NEM E pag E ee recovered recovered when checking parity on VD name Vd MEE cor wr rion data address address when checking parity on User Manual 137 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem o VD name Scrub parity The parity at LBA address address is recovered regenerated when checking parity on VD name INFO PDfred PD lt slot gt has been freed from RG name INFO RGimported Configuration of RG lt name gt has been imported INFO RGrestored Configuration of RG lt name gt has been restored INFO VDrestored Configuration of VD lt name gt has been restored INFO PD scrub started PD slot starts disk scrubbing process INFO Disk scrub finished PD slot completed disk scrubbing process VEN das 77 e a oe included is created pe ae REN chassis is created INFO RGsizeshrunk X Thetotalsize of RG name shrunk ___ INFO VDerase finished VD lt name gt finished erasing process WARNING VD erase failed The erasing process of VD name failed INFO
95. hapter for operation in web UI View IP Setting Display current IP address subnet mask and gateway Change IP Config Set IP address subnet mask and gateway There are 2 selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or set static IP Reset to Default Reset to default sets password to default 00000000 and set IP address to default as DHCP setting User Manual 37 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The following is LCM menu hierarchy Bu NN X X X System Info RAM Size xxx MB Alarm Mute AYes Nov A a m Reset Shutdown 4 Yes Shutdown NEN Nov RAID O RAID 1 RAID 3 Appl Quick Install RAID 5 Pp A Yes The RAID 6 Config Nov RAID 0 1 g xxx GB Local RAID O RAID 1 Use Volume RAID 3 default Size RAID 5 algorithm xxx GB RAID 6 RAID 0 1 Volume Wizard JBOD x 4v proIPS RAID 0 Apply Av RAID 1 new x Adjust The RAID 3 disk 4v Volume Config RAID 5 xxx BG Size AYes RAID 6 Nov RAID 0 1 Static IP IP Address 192 168 010 050 255 255 255 0 192 168 010 254 A Yes ocr Now a Address address Adjust IP Subnet Mask uin Static IP uia Gateway rr a Setting No v Ooo o y O Change IP Config Reset to Default 4 Yes No v EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem CAUTION Before power off it is better to execute Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks 4 1 4 Web GUI
96. he new added disk is not clean with other RG information it would be marked as RS reserved and the system will not start auto rebuild If this disk is not belonging to any existing RG it would be FR Free disk and the system will start Auto Rebuild If user only removes the failed disk and plugs the same failed disk in the same Slot again the auto rebuild will start running But rebuilding in the same failed disk may impact customer data if the status of disk is unstable It is recommended for users not to rebuild in the failed disk for better data protection 2 When there is enough global spare disk s or dedicated spare disk s for the degraded array the system starts Auto Rebuild immediately And in RAID 6 if another disk failure occurs during rebuilding the system will start the above Auto Rebuild process as well Auto Rebuild feature only works when the status of RG is Online It will not work at Offline status Thus it will not conflict with the Roaming 3 In degraded mode the status of RG is Degraded When rebuilding the status of RG VD will be Rebuild the column R in VD will display the ratio in percentage After completing the rebuilding process the status will become Online RG will become complete or normal 96 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem NOTE Set dedicated spare is not available if there is no RG or if RG is set to RAID O or JBOD becaus
97. he use of multiple iSCSI data ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any single port 3 LACP The Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP is part of IEEE specification 802 3ad that allows bundling several physical ports together to form a single logical channel LACP allows a network switch to negotiate an automatic bundle by sending LACP packets to the peer The advantages of LACP are 1 increase in bandwidth and 2 failover when link status fails on a port Trunking LACP setting can be changed by clicking the button Aggregation Aggregation Select NICs to have multiple cable parts to be aggregated together to form a single pseudo cable port Aggregation Trunking OLACP Address 192 168 2 63 Mask J55 255 255 0 Gateway 192 168 2 254 NIC V LAN1 TH LAN2 OK Cancel There are 2 iSCSI data ports Select at least two NICs for link aggregation ET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem NIC Entity property Node Session CHAP account Show information for Name LAG LAG No DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway Jumbo frame MAC address Link LAN1 Trunking 0 No 192 168 2 63 2552552550 192 168 2254 Disabled 00 13 78 b5 03 68 Down 00 13 78 b5 03 88 192 168 2 254 Disabled 255 255 255 0 Trunking 192 168 2 63 Delete link aggregation IP settings for iSCSI ports Become default gateway Enable jumbo frame For example L
98. ick Connect Target Quick Connect Discovered targets Refresh ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips 000902298 devO ctrl Connected To connect using advanced options select a target and then Cannat click Connect To completely disconnect a target select the target and Biante then click Disconnect For target properties including configuration of sessions Properties select the target and click Properties For configuration af devices associated with a target select Devies the target and then click Devices More about basic iSiC5I connections and targets OK Cancel Apply 4 It can connect to an iSCSI disk now User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem e MPIO Service 5 Please run Server Manager with below path Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools 6 Click Feature and select Add Features E Server Manager View the status of features installed on this server and add or remove features jj Configuration 84 Storage Features Summary Features Summary Help Features 0 of 42 installed ams Add Features a Remove Features SY Last Refresh Today at 4 04PM Configure refresh Ej 7 Please choose the checkbox of Multipath I O Add Features Wizard Select one or more features to install on this server Confirmation Features Description Progress _ NET Framework 3 5 1 Features Multipath 1 0 along with the M
99. icrosoft Device Specific Module DSM or a third party DSM provides supportfor using multiple data paths to a storage device on Windows _ Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS _ BitLocker Drive Encryption _ BranchCache _ Connection Manager Administration Kit Desktop Experience O O DirectAccess Management Console Failover Clustering _ Group Policy Management L_ Ink and Handwriting Services _ Internet Printing Client _ Internet Storage Name Server _ LPR Port Monitor _ Message Queuing V O Multipath I O Network Load Balancing _ Peer Name Resolution Protocol C Quality Windows Audio Video Experience _ Remote Assistance Remote Differential Compression More about features lt Previous net gt Install Cancel ETT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 8 Install Add Features Wizard an Confirm Installation Selections 1 This server might need to be restarted after the installation completes Multipath 1 0 9 Installation succeeded Add Features Wizard A Windows automatic updating is not enabled To ensure that your newly installed role or feature is automatically updated turn on Windows Update in Control Panel Multipath 1 0 Installation succeeded User Manual 149 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem e Starting iSCSI Initiator 10 Please run iSCSI initiator with below path
100. ipath 1 O ves LI ME 802 3ad Port Trunking LACP Support dE Host connection Up to 32 F Host clustering Up to 16 for one logical volume I me temamgwlume uz qaem aaa aaa Pree ere 2 qwe qr eee 3 m H ei n EE LL ve LC E EENEEMEENN ee meal contigurabte stripe size ves e E El a SS S p pM disk iui a icrosoft Windows Volume 2 nagow Copy Ser VICES roe ee Supports CHAP authentication Yes s s TENT o T E User Manual pro iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Snapshot rollback mechanism support me Platform Rackmount Form Factor O T edd ue er ee ee 7 of Hot Swap Trays 16 ey Lak ete m a eee a ae ne ee ee eee eer i ee Pere mE i ue S aa a EE a aae OEE WM anne M M O 4 of Fans hdd lb DH MERE 3 7 PS ci swerrequirements AC SOV 264V Full Range 10A 5A 47Hz i abr e d Relative Humidity 10 85 Non condensing FOVERE an Iri Respon anes i k Rer T UTPyT eT e RE Weight Without Disk a 5 I eh MO MXN PUSH RR RUE ETE User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 1 2 Terminology The document uses the following terms Redundant Array of Independent Disks There are different RAID levels with different degree of data protection data availability and performance to host environment The Physical Disk belongs to the member disk
101. isk detail information information EE7I User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 4 4 Snapshot Snapshot can view the status of snapshot create and modify snapshots Please refer to next chapter for more detail about snapshot concept The following is an example to take a snapshot Step 1 Create snapshot space In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Set snapshot space Step 2 Set snapshot space Then click OK The snapshot space is created n Maximum 1832GB Minimum 2GB GB 1832GB Show size unit as GB v Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG OP VD 01 30 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Online Optimal RAIDO 0 1 15 0 RG RO p VD 02 20 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Online Optimal RAID5 0 0 0 0 RG R5 VD 01 snapshot space has been created snapshot space is 15GB and used 1GB for Saving snapshot index Step 3 Take a snapshot In Volume configuration Snapshot click Take snapshot It will link to next page Enter a snapshot name Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk snapshot Logical unit Linked snapshot for VD VD 01 Show size unit as LUN Created time Used GB Health OP L snapVD 01 0 Mo N A N A Mon Mar 22 16 53 21 2010 Exposure Right Rollback l
102. ive failures or unplugging but in different arrays RAID 60 Striping over the member of RAID 6 volumes RAID 40 allows four hard drive failures or unplugging every two in different arrays JBOD The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks No data protection RG fails if any hard drive failures or unplugs User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 2 RG Migration To do migration the total size of RG must be larger or equal to the original RG It does not allow expanding the same RAID level with the same hard disks of original RG Take examples as following Raid 0 300GB At least add two free disk become raid 6 n Ee REM EE HDD HDD HDD 100GB 100G IUe 100GB 100GB 100GB Raid 5 200GB 241 At least add one free Raid 6 200GB 242 disk become raid 6 HDD HDD HDD 100GB X 100GB 100GB HDD HDD HDD 100GB 100GB 100GB The below operations are not allowed when a RG is being migrated System would reject these operations Add dedicated spare Remove a dedicated spare Create a new VD Delete a VD Extend a VD Scrub a VD Perform another migration operation Scrub entire RG Take a snapshot Delete a snapshot Expose a snapshot 12 Rollback to a snapshot E MD PIN E Su e eH IMPORTANT RG Migration cannot be executed during rebuild or VD extension ET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem To migrate the RAID level please follow below procedur
103. layed in Show PD for under Volume configuration Physical disk menu For example Local JBOD 1 JBOD 2 etc Local means disks located in local RAID subsystem JBOD 1 means disks located in first JBOD subsystem and so on The hard drives in JBOD can be used as local disks uis RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit QReplica JBOD 1 proIPS EP 3164JD S6S6 v1 0 1 5001378004B50190 Show size unit as GB v Local Show PD for Slot prolPs Serial Type Write cache Standby Readahead Command queuing 1 gg SPS SO Onne Good RAID disk WDC WD WXMMESORW2O3 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 3 465 r6 3 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WCASY3223587 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 4 465 r6 3 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WMAYP0015736 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 5 558 r50 1 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WXM1E6070999 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 7 232 Online Good Free disk Seagate 9QE6T6EDW SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 8 465 r6 3 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WMAYP0015949 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 9 558 r50 1 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WXM1E6070513 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 12 465 r6 3 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WMAYP0014684 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 13 558 r50 1 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WXM1E6071038 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 15 232 Online Good Free
104. led Disabled Enabled Disabled 8 232 Online Good Free disk Seagate 9SFOPBQV SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Step 1 Click Quick installation menu item Follow the steps to set up system name and date time Quick installation Step 1 System setting System name System name EpP 3164D Gas3 Date and time Change date and time 01073719 10334 Cancel User Manual alo iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Step2 Confirm the management port IP address and DNS and then click Next Quick installation Step 2 Network setting MAC address Cancel MAC address 00 13 78 B5 03 80 DHCP Static Address 192 168 10 176 Mask 2525 255 255 0 Gateway HTTP port HTTPS port SSH port Step 3 Set up the data port IP and click Next Quick installation Step 3 ISCSI IP address O DHCP Static Address 192 168 1 63 Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 192 168 1 234 EFT User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem Step 4 Set up the RAID level and volume size and click Next Quick installation Step 4 Volume setting RAID enclosure RAID level RAID 0 611 GB RAID 0 611 GB RAID 1 76 GB RAID 3 535 GB RAID 5 535 GB RAID 6 458 GB RAID 04 1 305 GB Step 5 Check all items and click Finish Quick installation Confirm System name System name EP 3164D GaS
105. level event happened The alarm will be stopped after mute 3 The alarm will be muted automatically when the error situation is resolved E g when RAID 5 is degraded and alarm sounds immediately after user changes adds one physical disk for rebuilding and when the rebuilding is done the alarm will be muted automatically 5 3 iSCSI Configuration iSCSI configuration is designed for setting up the Entity Property NIC Node Session and CHAP account Entity property Node Session CHAP account EI User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 3 1 NIC NIC function is used to change the IP addresses of iSCSI data ports The iSCSI RAID subsystem has two 10GbE ports on each controller to transmit data Each of them must be assigned to one IP address in multi homed mode unless the link aggregation or trunking mode has been selected When there are multiple data ports setting up in link aggregation or trunking mode all the data ports share single address NIC Entity property Node Session CHAP account Show information for Controller 1 Mame LAG LAG No DHCP IF address Netmask Gateway Jumbo frame MAC address Enabled 00 13 78 b5 03 88 D own 132 168 1 254 255 255 255 132 168 1 63 Mao 192 168 2653 2552552550 192 1682254 Enabled 00 13 78 b5 03 83 IP settings for iS CSI ports Become default gateway Disable jumbo frame
106. lick OK 5 Done The RG has been deleted NOTE The action of deleting one RG will succeed only when all of the related VD s are deleted in this RG Otherwise it will have an error when deleting this RG Step 9 Free global spare disk To free global spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration Physical disk 2 Check the gray button next to the PD slot click Set Free disk Step 10 Done all volumes have been deleted User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 5 Enclosure Management Enclosure management allows managing enclosure information including SES configuration Hardware monitor S M A R T and UPS For the enclosure management there are many sensors for different purposes such as temperature sensors voltage sensors hard disks fan sensors power sensors and LED status Due to the different hardware characteristics among these sensors they have different polling intervals Below are the details of polling time intervals Temperature sensors 1 minute Voltage sensors 1 minute Hard disk sensors 10 minutes Fan sensors 10 seconds When there are 3 errors consecutively controller sends ERROR event log 5 Power sensors 10 seconds when there are 3 errors consecutively controller sends ERROR event log 6 LED status 10 seconds Dou Hardware monitor UPS SES S M AR T 5 5 1 Hardware Monitor Hardware
107. monitor can view the information of current voltages and temperatures EFI User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem Hardware monitor UPS SES S M A R T Show information for Controller 1 Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Controller 2 Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Voltage Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Item Onboard 1 2V Onboard 43 3V Onboard 45V Onboard 4 12V Onboard 41 8V Core Processor iSCSI NIC SAS Controller SAS Expander Onboard 1 2V Onboard 3 3V Onboard 5V Onboard 12V Onboard 1 5V Core Processor iSCSI NIC SAS Controller SAS Expander Value 1 20 V min 1 08 V max 1 32 V 3 36 V min 3 04 V max 3 56 V 5 14 V min 4 60 V max 5 40 V 112 35 V min 411 04 V max 412 36 V 1 52 V min 1 62 V max 1 98 V 44 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 480 0 C C 32 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 65 0 C 30 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 465 0 C 35 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 65 0 t Value 1 22 V min 1 08 V max 1 32 V 3 41 V min 3 04 V max 3 56 V 5 19 V min 4 60 V max 5 40 V 412 38 V min 11 04 V max 12 96 V 1 84 V min 1 62 V max 1 98 V 39 5 C hyst 0 0 C high 480 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 65 0 C hyst 40 0 C high 465 0 C 32 0 C hyst 40 0
108. n and hard drive status is good HDD Fault LED for this slot If hard drive is defective or failed the LED is Red LED is off when there is no hard drive Lock I ndicator Every Disk Tray is lockable and is fitted with a lock indicator to indicate whether or not the tray is locked into the chassis or not Each tray is also fitted with an ergonomic handle for easy tray removal When the Lock Groove is horizontal this indicates that the Disk Tray is locked When the Lock Groove is vertical then the Disk Tray is unlocked Disk Tray is unlocked Disk Tray is locked EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem 2 1 2 2 LCD Front Panel Smart Function Front Panel The smart LCD panel is an option to configure the RAID subsystem If you are configuring the subsystem using the LCD panel press the Select button to login and configure the RAID subsystem Use the Up or Down arrow keys to go through Up and Down the information on the LCD screen This is also Arrow buttons VW used to move between each menu when you configure the subsystem This is used to enter the option you have Select button calectad Press this button to return to the previous menu Exit button EXIT User Manual Ia iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Environment Status LEDs Power LED Power Fail LED Fan Fail LED Over Temperature LED Voltage Warning LED Activity LED When a fan fails or the
109. nformation Event log Upgrade System name Date and time System indication MAC address Address DNS Port Login configuration Admin password User password Mail SNMP Messenger System log server Event log filter Show information for Controller 1 Controller 2 Aggregation IP settings for iSCSI ports Become default gateway Enable jumbo frame Ping host Entity name iSNS IP Show information for Controller 1 Controller 2 Authenticate Change portal Rename alias User Show information for Controller 1 Controller 2 List connection Delete Create Modify user information Delete Set Free disk Set Global spare Set Dedicated spare Upgrade Disk Scrub Turn on off the indication LED More information Create Migrate Activate Deactivate Parity check Delete Set preferred owner Set disk property More information Create Extend Parity check Delete Set property Attach LUN Detach LUN List LUN Set clone Clear clone Start clone Stop clone Schedule clone Set Snapshot space Cleanup snapshot Take snapshot Auto snapshot List snapshot More information Set snapshot space Auto snapshot Take snapshot Export Rollback Delete Cleanup snapshot Attach Detach Session Controller 1 BPL Controller 2 Auto shutdown UPS Type Shutdown battery level Shutdown delay Shutdown UPS Enable Disable S M A R T information Only for SATA hard drives
110. ntroller status normal or in the booting Red gt Other than above status 5 Master Slave LED Green gt Master controller Off gt Slave controller 6 Dirty Cache LED Orange gt Data on the cache waiting for flush to disks Off gt No data on the cache 7 BBM Status LED Green gt BBM installed and powered Off gt No BBM 8 BBM Status Button When the system power is off press the BBM status button if the BBM LED is Green then the BBM still has power to keep data on the cache If not then the BBM power is ran out and cannot keep the data on the cache anymore User Manual 23 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 2 3 Power Supply Fan Module PSFM The RAID subsystem contains two 500W Power Supply Fan Modules All the Power Supply Fan Modules PSFMs are inserted into the rear of the chassis 2 3 1 PSFM Panel AC Power Input Socket Power On Off Switch Power On Fail Indicator The panel of the Power Supply Fan Module contains the Power On Off Switch the AC Inlet Plug and a Power On Fail Indicator showing the Power Status LED indicating ready or fail Each fan within a PSFM is powered independently of the power supply within the same PSFM So if the power supply of a PSFM fails the fan associated with that PSFM will continue to operate and cool the enclosure When the power cord connected from main power source is inserted to the AC Power Inlet the power status LED b
111. nts of the shipping carton are all there and in good condition Exterior damage to the shipping carton may indicate that the contents of the carton are damaged If any damage is found do not remove the components contact the dealer where you purchased the subsystem for further instructions User Manual Iran iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The shipping package contains the following iSCSI RAID Subsystem Unit Two 2 power cords Two 2 Ethernet LAN cables Two 2 LC LC Fibre Optical Cables Two 2 External null modem cable One 1 Controller Module Plate Cover One 1 PSFM Plate Cover User Manual NOTE If any damage is found contact the dealer or vendor for assistance EG User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 1 Introduction The iSCSI RAI D Subsystem Unparalleled Performance amp Reliability Front end 4 x 10Gb iSCSI Supports 802 3ad port trunking Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP High data bandwidth of system architecture by powerful 64 bit RAID processor Unsurpassed Data Availability The RAID 6 capability provides the highest level of data protection Supports snapshot on the box w o relying on host software Supports Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services VSS Exceptional Manageability Menu driven front panel display Management GUI via serial console SSH telnet Web and secure web HTTPS Event notification via Email and SNMP trap
112. o home page Logout the management web UI Mute alarm beeper EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 4 2 How to Use the System Quickly 4 2 1 Quick Installation It is easy to use Quick installation to create a volume It uses all available physical disks to create a RG the system will calculate maximum spaces on RAID levels 0 1 3 5 6 0 1 Quick installation will occupy all residual RG space for one VD and it has no space for snapshot and spare If snapshot is needed please create volumes manually and refer to Section 4 4 for more detail If some physical disks are used in other RGs Quick installation cannot be run because the operation is valid only when all physical disks in this system are free Slot Size GB RG Status Health Usage Vendor Serial Type Write cache Standby Readahead Command queuing 1 279 Online Good Free disk WDC WD WXLY 08094604 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 2 232 Online Good Free disk Seagate 5QE3MPBG SATA Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 3 76 Online Good Free disk Hitachi PFDB30S2US713M SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 4 232 Online Good Free disk Seagate 9SFOM2FT SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 5 232 Online Good Free disk Hitachi VDKA1BTACBWWUE SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 6 279 Online Good Free disk WDC WD WXLY 08093882 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 7 76 Online Good Free disk Hitachi PFDB30S4R6HVKM SATA2 Enab
113. ode Check the gray button of OP column next to one device node Select Rename alias Create an alias for that device node Click OK to confirm An alias appears at the end of that device node Ul BR WN LZ Rename Add or change iSCSI alias The iSCSl alias is used as an additional descriptive name for an initiator and target Alias dev ctr1i Lok Cancel NIC Entity property Node Session CHAP account Show information for Controller 1 v 1 2 3 next gt last gt gt ID Auth Name Portal Alias 0 CHAP ign 1997 05 tw com_proware proips ff9014d8 dev0 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 dev0 ctr1 1 CHAP iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev1 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 2 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff9014d8 dev2 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 3 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff3014d8 dev3 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 4 None iqn 1997 05 tw com proware proips fff3014d8 dev4 ctr1 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 2 1 3260 NOTE After setting CHAP the initiator in host server should be set the same CHAP account Otherwise user cannot login User Manual nus iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 3 4 Session Session can display iSCSI session and connection information including the following items Host Initiator Name Controller Target Name InitialR2T Initial R
114. of one specific RAID group Raid Group A collection of removable media One RG consists of a set of VDs and owns one RAID level attribute Virtual Disk Each RD could be divided into several VDs The VDs from one RG have the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity 0 LUN Logical Unit Number A logical unit number LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit Graphic User Interface RAID cell When creating a RAID group with a compound RAID level such as 10 30 50 and 60 this field indicates the number of Subgroups in the RAID group For example 8 disks can be grouped into a RAID group of RAID 10 with 2 cells 4 cells In the 2 cell case PD 0 1 2 3 forms one RAID 1 subgroup and PD 4 5 6 7 forms another RAID 1 subgroup In the 4 cells the 4 subgroups are PD 0 1 PD 2 3 PD 14 5 and PD 6 7 Write Through cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored in non volatile media Each data is synchronized in both data cache and accessed physical disks Write Back cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is signaled as soon as the data is in cache and actual writing to non volatile media occurs at a later time It speeds up system write performance but needs to bear the risk where data may be inconsistent
115. ogin lock is enabled the system allows only one user to login or modify system settings System setting Network setting IEEE Mail setting Notification setting Setup Login configuration and password lf Auto logout time is set the system will log out automatically when user is inactive for a period of time When the login lack is enabled the system allows only one user to login or modify system settings Login configuration Login lock Admin password Change admin password User password Change user password Check Change admin password or Change user password to change admin or user password The maximum length of password is 12 characters User Manual ra iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 2 4 Mail Setting Mail setting can accept at most 3 mail to address entries for receiving the event notification Some mail servers would check Mail from address and need authentication for anti spam Please fill the necessary fields and click Send test mail to test whether email functions are available or working User can also select which levels of event logs are needed to be sent via Mail Default setting only enables ERROR and WARNING event logs Please also make sure the DNS server IP is well setup so the event notification mails can be sent successfully System setting Network setting Login setting EYEE e Notification setting Enter at most 3 mail addresses for receiving the
116. ontroller failure APC Smart Met cable RS 232 cable Console RS 232 SAS cable User Manual a21 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 10 2 Ownership When creating RG it will be assigned with a prefered owner the default owner is controller 1 To change the RG ownership please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume configuration RAID group 2 Check the gray button next to the RG name click Set preferred owner 3 The ownership of the RG will be switched to the other controller Physical disk aA I T 2M Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Show size unit as GB Name Total GB Free GB PD VD Status Health RAID Current owner Preferred owner RAID 0 Controller 1 Controller 1 Migrate Deactivate Delete Set disk property More information Physical disk EA e Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Show size unit as GB Name Total GB Free GB PD VD Status Health RAID Current owner Preferred owner oP RG RO 305 305 4 0 Online Good RAIDO Controller 2 Controller 2 Create The RG ownership is changed to the other controller 6 10 3 Controller Status There are four statuses described on the following It can be found in System maintenance System information 1 Normal Dual controller mode Both of controllers are functional 2 Degraded Dual controller mode When one controller fails or
117. ority Low priority Bg rate a E Readahead Enabled B AV media mode Disabled Erase Type Lok Cancel 70 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Step 2 Confirm page Click OK if all setups are correct Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG OP VD 01 30 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Online Optimal RAIDO 0 0 0 0 RG R0 initiating Delete Set property pn Attach LUN Set clone Set snapshot space More information Create a VD named VD 01 from RG RO The second VD is named VD 02 it s initializing Step 3 Done View Virtual disk page VD column description EN The button includes the functions which can be executed Name Virtual disk name Size GB Total capacity of the virtual disk The unit can be displayed MB in GB or MB The right of virtual disk WT gt Write Through WB gt Write Back RO gt Read Only Priority The priority of virtual disk HI gt HIgh priority MD gt MiDdle priority LO gt LOw priority Background task priority 4 3 2 1 O gt Default value is 4 The higher number the background priority of a VD is the more background I O will be scheduled to execute The status of virtual disk Online The virtual disk is online
118. ound ee Rd 5o do an address parity data inconsistency found INFO RG migrate started RG name starts migration RG migrate RG lt name gt completes migration finished INFO RG move started RG lt name gt starts move 0 INFO RG move finished RG name completes move INFO VD move started VD lt name gt starts move INFO VD move finished VD lt name gt completes move INFO RGactivated RG lt name gt has been manually activated INFO RGdeactivated RG lt name gt has been manually deactivated INFO VD rewrite started Rewrite at LBA address of VD lt name gt starts VD rewrite finished Rewrite at LBA lt address gt of VD lt name gt completes WARNING VD rewrite failed Rewrite at LBA address of VD lt name gt failed _ WARNING RGdegraded RG name is in degraded mode WARNING VD degraded VD name is in degraded mode I O failure for stripe number address in VD name Wd ME oe NM error address address of VD name eae gees ees e NN error lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt read error lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt write error lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt Config read fail Config read failed at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of PD lt slot gt of PD lt slot gt adjust
119. our This task will start a full copy 5 After deploying the VD clone rule the VD clone process can be started now Firstly Click Set clone to set the target VD at the VD name SourceVD R5 Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone schedule Extend 20 WB HI 4 BACKUP N A WJA Parity check Delete Set property Attach LUN Set snapshot space More information ETTS User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 Select the target VD Then click Confirm Select target VD Select target VD TargetVD_R 7 Now the clone target TargetVD_R6 has been set Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone schedule OP sourceVD R5 20 WB HI 4 RAID TargetVO_ R6 N A OP TargetvD R6 20 WB HI 4 BACKUP WIA NIA 8 Click Start clone the clone process will start Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone schedule 20 WB HI 4 BACKUP NA WA Parity check schedule clone n Delete Set property Attach LUN Detach LUN Set snapshot space L Ieanup 2napenot More information 9 The default setting will create a snapshot space automatically which the capacity is double size of the VD space Before starting clone system will initiate the snapshot space Show size unit as GB Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Schedule Status Health R LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG
120. r 2 50013780033070D68 Backplane ID R amp R Status Normal Status description Normal Dual controllers are in normal stage Degraded One controller fails or has been plugged out Lockdown The firmware of two controllers is different or the size of memory of two controllers is different Single Single controller mode E User Manual 5 6 2 Event Log iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Event log can view the event messages Check the checkbox of INFO WARNING and ERROR to choose the level of event log display Click Download button to save the whole event log as a text file with file name log ModelName SerialNumber Date Time txt Click Clear button to clear all event logs Click Mute button to stop alarm if system alerts select event level of displayed event lag INFO WARMING INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO Tue 23 Mar 2010 10 38 41 Tue 23 Mar 2010 03 02 08 Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon Mon 22 Mar 2010 18 08 14 22 Mar 2010 17 17 43 22 Mar 2010 17 17 48 22 Mar 2010 17 13 51 22 Mar 2010 17 13 10 22 Mar 2010 17 13 06 22 Mar 2010 17 12 15 22 Mar 2010 17 12 09 _ 22 Mar 2010 17 12 03 22 Mar 2010 17 12 09 22 Mar 2010 17 06 44 22 Mar 2010 17 06 33 22 Mar 2010 17 06 12 22 Mar 2010 17 06 02 22 Mar 2010 1
121. r clone or OReplica usage Abort gt The snapshot is over space and abort User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem The health of snapshot Good The snapshot is good Failed gt The snapshot fails Exposure Snapshot VD is exposed or not The right of snapshot Read write gt The snapshot VD can be read write Read only gt The snapshot VD is read only LUN Number of LUN s that snapshot VD is attached Created time Snapshot VD created time Snapshot operation description Expose Expose unexpose the snapshot VD Unexpose Rollback Rollback the snapshot VD Delete the snapshot VD List LUN List attached LUN s User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 4 5 Logical Unit Logical unit can view create and modify the status of attached logical unit number s of each VD User can attach LUN by clicking the Attach Host must enter with an iSCSI node name for access control or fill in wildcard which means every host can access the volume Choose LUN number and permission and then click OK Attach Attach a logical unit number to a virtual disk VD VD 01 30 GB Host Target o F LUN CLUN o Permission C Read only Read write oK Cancel Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot ASe e Permission VD name Session Read write VD 01 Read write VD 02
122. r replace the hard drive This is much better than hard drive crash when it is writing data or rebuilding a failed hard drive S M A R T can display S M A R T information of hard drives The number is the current value the number in parenthesis is the threshold value The threshold values of hard drive vendors are different please refer to vendors specification for details S M A R T only supports SATA drive SAS drive does not have It will show N A in this web page ET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Hardware monitor UPS SES METERS Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology 5 M A R T A diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance S M A R T provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure Show information for Local Reallocated sector seek err Spin up Calibration Temperature N A N A NIA k N A N A N A N A N A Hardware monitor UPS SES SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology S M A R T A diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance S M A RT provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure Show information for E Local Reallocated sector ek error in up Calibration Temperature 100 16 101 24 b 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16 104 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16 38 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 N A 100 16
123. repare management port and iSCSI data ports network information When using static IP please prepare static IP addresses subnet mask and default gateway I lOGbE LAN switches recommended Or 10GbE LAN switches with VLAN LACP Trunking optional CHAP security information including CHAP username and secret optional MI Setup the hardware connection before power on servers Connect console cable management port cable and iSCSI data port cables in advance In addition installing an iSNS server is recommended Power on first and then power on hosts and iSNS server Host server is suggested to logon the target twice both controller 1 and controller 2 and then MPIO should be setup automatically NANA NOTE iSNS server is recommended for dual controller system User Manual 25 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem For better data service availability all the connections among host servers GbE switches and the dual controllers are recommended as redundant as below D 1 l Clustering i Host Server Host Server l GbE switch OLI OLI OL controller 1 controller 2 EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 3 Getting Started with the Subsystem 3 1 Connecting the iSCSI RAI D Subsystem to the Network To connect the iSCSI unit to the network insert the network cable that came with the unit into the network port LAN1 at the back of iSCSI
124. rmware versions are the same between two controllers Confirm 5 6 5 Reset to Factory Default Reset to factory default allows user to reset controller to factory default setting Sure to reset to factory default Reset to default value the password is 00000000 and IP address to default DHCP User Manual 93 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 6 6 Import and Export I mport and export allows user to save system configuration values export and apply all configuration import For the volume configuration setting the values are available in export and not available in import which can avoid confliction date deleting between two controllers which mean if one system already has valuable volumes in the disks and user may forget and overwrite it Use import could return to original configuration If the volume setting was also imported user s current volumes will be overwritten with different configuration Import Export import 7 Import file 1 Import Import all system configurations excluding volume configuration Export Export all configurations to a file WARNING Import will import all system configurations excluding volume configuration the current configurations will be replaced 5 6 7 Reboot and Shutdown Reboot and shutdown displays Reboot and Shutdown buttons Before power off it s better to execute Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks
125. s The subsystem can implement several different levels of RAID technology RAID levels Supported by the subsystem are shown below Block striping is provide which yields higher performance than with individual drives There 1 is no redundancy Drives are paired and mirrored All data is 100 1 duplicated on an equivalent drive Fully 2 redundant N way Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the N mirror disk 3 Data is striped across several physical drives 3 Parity protection is used for data redundancy 5 Data is striped across several physical drives 3 Parity protection is used for data redundancy Data is striped across several physical drives Parity protection is used for data redundancy Requires N 2 drives to implement because of two dimensional parity scheme Mirroring of the two RAID O disk arrays This level provides striping and redundancy through mirroring Striping over the two RAID 1 disk arrays This level provides mirroring and redundancy through striping Combination of RAID levels O and 3 This level is best implemented on two RAID 3 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID O and RAID 5 RAID 50 includes both parity and disk striping across multiple drives RAID 50 is best implemented on two RAID 5 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays RAID 60 provides the features of both RAID O and RAID 6 RAID 60 includes both pari
126. sabled None RAID F Done A VD has been created E User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 5 Repeat steps 1 to 4 to create another VD Show size unit as GB Name Size GB Write Priority Bg rate Type Clone Schedule Status Health R 96 RAID LUN Snapshot space GB Snapshot RG op VD R5 1 50 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A initiating Optimal 9 RAID5 0 0 0 0 RG R5 op VD R5 2 64 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Initiating Optimal 0 RAID5 0 0 0 0 RG R5 Two VDs VD R5 1 and VD R5 2 were created from RG RG R5 The size of VD R5 1 is 50GB and the size of VD R5 2 is 64GB There is no LUN attached Step 3 Attach LUN to VD There are 2 methods to attach LUN to VD 1 In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Attach LUN 2 In Volume configuration Logical unit click Attach The steps are as follows Attach Attach a logical unit number to a virtual disk VD VD R5 1 50 GB Host Target LUN LUN 0 Permission Read only Read write 1 Selecta VD Input Host name which is a FC node name for access control or fill in wildcard which means every host can access to this volume Choose LUN and permission and then click OK 3 Done Physical disk RAID group Virtualdisk Snapshot MESTERI Permission VD name S5ession Read
127. select Enable QRepica to set this port as the QReplica port The last iSCSI port on controller 2 will also be set as the QReplica port automatically at the same time Entity property Node Session CHAP account Show information for Controller i Name LAG LAGWNo DHCP IF address Netmask OP LAN1 Mo N A No 192 168 1 1 2552552550 Mo 19216821 255 255 255 0 Link aggregation or Multi homed IP settings for iSC 5l ports Become default gateway Enable jumbo frame ETE User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA IIl RAID Subsystem 2 The setting can be reverted by select Disable QReplica in the operation menu Entity property Node Session CHAF account Show information for Controller 1 Name LAG LAG No DHCP IP address Netmask LANI No N A No 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 0 QREP N A N A No 19216821 255 255 255 0 e Create backup VD on the target subsystem 1 Before creating the replication job on the source subsystem user has to create a virtual disk on the target subsystem and set the type of the VD as Backup es Name target RG name target se Capacity 300 GB vw Stripe height KB 5i w Block size B 512 e Read Write Owrite through cache S9write back cache Priority High priority Middle priorit OLow priority Bg rate 4 we Readahead Enabled w AV media mode Disabled Erase None a Type aa User Manual
128. shutdown reason Voltage abnormal lt string gt INFO J UPSOK JSuceessfuly detect UPS O Z o Z o o WARNING UPS fail Failed to detect UPS ERROR UPS AC loss AC loss for system is detected UPS Power Low The system will auto shutdown immediately Wd ocu Condition occurred for attribute string WARNING SMART fail Disk slot Failure to get S M A R T information User Manual 135 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem WARNING RedBoot failover RedBoot failover event occurred Watchdog Watchdog timeout shutdown occurred Shutdown Watchdog reset Watchdog timeout reset occurred e RMS events fe Sen ee tence eee Console UI pe ean aE mre via Console UI INFO Web Login X lt username gt login from IP via Web UI INFO Web Logout username logout from IP via Web Ul INFO Logcear All event logs are cleared WARNING Send mailfail Failed to send event to email e LVM events o INFO RGcreate OK RG name has beencreated INFO RGcreatefail Failedto create RG name INFO RGdelte RG name hasbeendeleted INFO RGrename RG lt name gt has been renamed as name INFO VDcreateOK VD name has been created INFO VDcreatefail Failedto create VD name INFO VDdelette VD lt name gt hasbeendeleted VD rename Name of VD name h
129. sion Enter the CHAP information if necessary and select the target node to log no Click Next to continue QReplica Get login information Choose authentication method ia No Authentication method max 223 min 12 max 16 Select a target node Name ign 1997 05 tw com proware proips 0009802288 dev0 ctr1 5 Choose the backup VD and click Next QReplica Select target LUN size GB Vendor Model serial Revision Proware prolPS 2104001378902298 200 128 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 A new replication job is created and listed on the QReplica page Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit No VD name Current owner Target Name Target IP LUN Name Size MB Size GB Status iqn 1997 1 source Controller 1 05 tw com proware proips 192 168 15 1 1 target 307200 300 Online 000902298 dev0 ctr1 Create Configuration e Run the replication job 1 Click the OP button on the replication job to open operation menu Click Start to run the replication job Physical disk RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit QReplica Target Name ign 1997 Controller 1 05 tw com_proware proips 000302238 dev0 ctr1 Mo VD name Current owner stop Refresh Create multi path Delete multi path schedule Delete 2 Click Start again to confirm the execution of the replication job
130. t In Volume configuration Virtual disk move the mouse pointer to the gray button next to the VD number click Auto snapshot Or in Volume configuration Snapshot click Auto snapshot 2 The auto snapshot can be set monthly weekly daily or hourly 3 Done It will take snapshots automatically User Manual I iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Auto snapshot VD RO gt R5 Months to take snapshots Weeks to take snapshots Days to take snapshots Hours to take snapshots v All 01 Mlo2 v 03 v o4 o5 los v 07 v a8 Wos v 10 v 11 v 12 all FIiFI2Fr alja4 5 C All C Sun O mon FL Tue L Wed thu U Fri O sat All Coo O01 O0 02 003 o4 O05 O o6 Doz 1o8 Flos E110 Oi Mai Mt mi Nis 118 E117 O is O t9 20L 121L 122L123 Le emen It will take snapshots every month and keep the last 32 snapshot copies x NOTE Daily snapshot will be taken every 00 00 Weekly snapshot will be taken every Sunday 00 00 Monthly snapshot will be taken every first day of month 00 00 6 4 3 Rollback The data in snapshot VD can rollback to original VD Please follow the steps 1 Select Volume configuration Snapshot Mouse moves to the gray button next to the Snap VD number which user wants to rollback the data click Rollback 3 Done the data in snapshot VD will rollback to original VD Rollback has some constraints as described in
131. the following 1 Minimum RAM size required for enabling rollback is 1GB When making a rollback the original VD cannot be accessed for a while At the same time the system connects to original VD and snapshot VD and then starts rollback 104 User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 3 During rollback data from snapshot VD to original VD the original VD can be accessed and the data in VD just like it has finished rollback At the same time the other related snap VD s cannot be accessed 4 After rollback the other snapshot VD s after the VD which is doing rollback will be deleted file system for flushing data from cache to disks in OS first System Oo IMPORTANT Before executing rollback it is better to dismount the sends pop up message when user executes rollback function 6 5 Disk Roaming Physical disks can be re sequenced in the same system or move all physical disks from system 1 to system 2 This is called disk roaming System can execute disk roaming online Please follow these steps Select Volume configuration RAID group Check the gray button next to the RG number click Deactivate Move all PDs related to the RG to another system In the web GUI of the other system check the gray button next to the RG number click Activate 5 Done KR WN e Disk roaming has some constraints as described in the following 1 Check the firmware of two systems first It is better
132. the product in its proper location To avoid unnecessary dropping out make sure that somebody is around for immediate assistance 4 It should be handled with care to avoid dropping that may cause damage to the product Always use the correct lifting procedures Upon installing of the product Ambient temperature is very important for the installation site It must not exceed 30 C Due to seasonal climate changes regulate the installation site temperature making it not to exceed the allowed ambient temperature Before plugging in any power cords cables and connectors make sure that the power switches are turned off Disconnect first any power connection if the power supply module is being removed from the enclosure 4 Outlets must be accessible to the equipment All external connections should be made using shielded cables and as much as possible should not be performed by bare hand Using anti static hand gloves is recommended In installing each component secure all the mounting screws and locks Make sure that all screws are fully tightened Follow correctly all the listed procedures in this manual for reliable performance Controller Configurations This RAID subsystem supports dual controller configuration Packaging Shipment and Delivery Before removing the subsystem from the shipping carton you should visually inspect the physical condition of the shipping carton Unpack the subsystem and verify that the conte
133. ty and disk striping across multiple drives RAID 60 is best implemented on two RAID 6 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 1 4 Volume Relationship Diagram LUNI 1 LUN2 2 Volume This is the design of volume structure of the iSCSI RAID subsystem It describes the relationship of RAID components One RG RAID group consists of a set of VDs Virtual Disk and owns one RAID level attribute Each RG can be divided into several VDs The VDs in one RG share the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity All VDs share the CV Cache Volume to execute the data transaction LUN Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier in which users can access through SCSI commands EET User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem Chapter 2 Identifying Parts of the RAI D Subsystem The illustrations below identify the various parts of the subsystem 2 1 Main Components 2 1 2 Front View Smart LCD Panel Drive Carriers Slot 4 Slot 3 Slot2 Slot 8 Slot 7 Slot6 Slot 12 Slot 14 Slot 107 Slot NEN Slot 16 Slot 15 Slot 14 Slot 13 User Manual DUE iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 2 1 2 1 Disk Trays HDD Status Indicator Activity LED Fault LED HDD Activity LED This LED will blink blue when the hard drive is being accessed Green LED indicates power is o
134. unction can be selected and inactive functions show up in gray color and cannot be selected For example set PD slot number 8 to dedicated spare disk Step 1 Check the gray button of PD 8 select Set Dedicated spare it will link to next page Dees RAID group Virtual disk Snapshot Logical unit Show PD for Local Show size unit as GB Slot Size GB RG Status Health Usage Vendor Serial Type Write cache Standby Readahead Command queuing 1 279 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk WDC WD WXLY 08094604 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 2 232 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk Seagate 5QE3MPBG SATA Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 3 76 RG R5 Online Good RAID disk Hitachi PFDB30S2US713M SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Online Good Free disk Hitachi VDK41BT4CBWWUE SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Set Dedicated spare Online Good Free disk WDC WD WXLY08093882 SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled sieut Online Good Free disk Hitachi PFDB30S4R6HVKM SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled mnm Online Good Freedisk Seagate 9SF PBQV SATA2 Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled More information Step 2 Maybe there are some existing RGs which can be assigned dedicate spare disk Select which RG will be assigned then click Submit Set Dedicated spare Mo ame Tatal Free PD VD Status Health RAID o 1 RG R5 152 45
135. ured in advance The default ratio is 2 to 1 It means when the replication job is creating the subsystem will automatically use the free space of RG to create a snapshot space which size is double of the source VD The Threshold setting will monitor the utilization of snapshot space When the used snapshot space achieves the threshold the subsystem will automatically take a new snapshot and start the replication job The purpose of threshold is to prevent the incremental copy fail immediately when running out of snapshot space For example the default threshold is 50 and the system will check the snapshot space every hour When the snapshot space is used over 50 the subsystem will automatically replicate data from the source VD to the target VD Next time when the rest snapshot space has been used over 50 in other words the total snapshot space has been used over 75 the subsystem will start the replication job again The Restart the task an hour later if failed setting is used when running out of snapshot space the replication job will stop because there is no more available snapshot space If this option has been check the subsystem will automatically clear the snapshots to release snapshot space and the replication job will restart the task after an hour I MPORTANT These two settings Threshold and Restart the task an hour later if failed will take effect only when the replication job is configured to run by schedule User
136. ve iSCSI controller implements it as active mode which means that LACP port sends LACP protocol packets automatically Please notice that using the same configurations between iSCSI controller and gigabit switch The usage occasion of LACP A It s necessary to use LACP in a network environment of multiple switches When adding new devices LACP will separate the traffic to each path dynamically 2 Trunking Non protocol Defines the usage of multiple iSCSI data ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any single port The usage occasion of Trunking A This is a simple SAN environment There is only one switch to connect the server and storage And there is no extra server to be added in the future B There is no idea of using LACP or Trunking uses Trunking first C There is a request of monitoring the traffic on a trunk in switch User Manual 119 iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA I RAID Subsystem Application server f IMPORTANT Before using trunking or LACP he gigabit switch must support trunking or LACP and enabled Otherwise host cannot connect the link with storage device EU User Manual iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 10 Dual Controllers 6 10 1 Perform l O Please refer to the following topology and have all the connections ready To perform I O on dual controllers server host should setup MPIO MPIO policy will keep I O running and prevent fail connection with single c
137. ystem e Run out of snapshot space while VD clone While the clone is processing the increment data of this VD is over the snapshot space The clone will complete but the clone snapshot will fail Next time when trying to start clone it will get a warning message This is not enough of snapshot space for the operation At this time the user needs to clean up the snapshot space in order to operate the clone process Each time the clone snapshot failed it means that the system loses the reference value of incremental data So it will start a full copy at next clone process When running out of snapshot space the flow diagram of VD clone procedure will be like the following UC VD Clone Schedule clone Check threshold Manually start every hour clone by user Run out of Run out of snapshot space snapshot space Auto delete old Manually release clone snapshot snapshot space Auto restart an Restart clone hour later by user Start clone process with fully copy v pene gt User Manual ao iSCSI GbE to SAS SATA II RAID Subsystem 6 7 SAS JBOD Expansion 6 7 1 Connecting J BOD iSCSI RAID controller suports SAS JBOD expansion to connect extra SAS dual JBOD controller When connecting a dual JBOD controller which can be detected in RAID Subsystem management GUI it will be disp

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