MANUAL FANTEC MR
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1. DISKPART gt select volume 2 olume 2 is the selected volume 5 Type extend DISKPART gt extend DiskPart successfully extended the volume 6 Type exit to quit Diskpart exe ISKPART gt exit eaving DiskPart The volume size will be updated to reflect the expanded physical storage capacity while maintaining all of the existing data that is stored on the volume The result of extending the hard disk partition volume is illustrated below Before extend P pick 1 IDE EEE Basic My BIG Disk E 303 41 GH 132 66 GB NTFS 152 67 GB Online Healthy Urallocated 2 At a command prompt type diskpart amp P Disk 1 EEES Basic My AIG Disk E 305 33 GB 305 313 GB NTFS Onbne Healthy Note Before the hard drive partition volume has been extended the 152 67GB Unallocated was not accessible for data usage After using the disk part utility to extend the hard drive partition volume capacity the Windows host side matches the virtual hard drive partition volume created in the SteelVine Manager 5 Package contens FANTEC MR 35DU3 User manual AC Cable USB Cable2. Under the material transmission The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter with purple light The material transmission completes when LED sends the blue light Under the material transmission The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter with purple light The material transmission completes when LED sends the blue light Under the material transmission condition LED glitters with purple light while operating different HDD The material transmission completes when LED sends blue light Under the material transmission The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter with purple light The material transmission completes when LED sends the blue light Switch on power then insertion HD or two HD have a damage in the situation under the different working pattern the LED condition HDD1 normal HDD2 is unusual otherwise also establishes PATTERN HDD carries on the self checking Material transmission RAIDO RAID1 JBOD BIG HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Selfchecking completes when the HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continues glittering in turn with blue amp red lights HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Selfchecking completes when the HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continues glittering in turn with blue amp red lights HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Selfchecking completes when the HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD
3. 2 LED continues glittering in turn with blue amp red lights HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Selfchecking completes when the HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continues glittering in turn with blue amp red lights Under the material transmission condition The HDD1 LED glitters with purple light and the HDD2 LED glitters in turn with blue amp red lights The material transmission completes when HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continue glittering in turn with blue amp red lights Under the material transmission condition The HDD1 LED glitters with purple light and the HDD2 LED glitters in turn with blue amp red lights The material transmission completes when HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continue glittering in turn with blue amp red lights Under the material transmission condition The HDD1 LED glitters with purple light and the HDD2 LED glitters in turn with blue amp red lights The material transmission completes when HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continue glittering in turn with blue amp red lights Under the material transmission condition The HDD1 LED glitters with purple light and the HDD2 LED glitters in turn with blue amp red lights The material transmission completes when HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continue glittering in turn with blue amp red lights Attention 1 If you use two HDD simultaneously
4. FANTEC MR 35DU3 USER MANUAL 2 Operation 2 1 USB Interface 2 1 1 JBOD Modus 2 1 2 BIG Modus 2 1 3 RAIDO FAST MOQUS es aiva aada innu jut otlane kadi aaa Ed tanniini 2 14 RAIBISAFE MO aasa kilda ula 2 1 5 T ahiloniBdg VOlUMO E nooe RP 4 Features 4 1 High speed external storage solution Superspeed USB 3 0 5 0Gby s 4 2 Serial ATA HDD Acd FOME WORKING OO OM NETT 4 4 Support system Windows XP VISTA 7 8 MAC OS 9 0 und h her 4 4 1 System Expansion for WINDOWS nne aata da akt di 5 Package contents 1 Product Introduction SATA 2x HDD TO USB 3 0 5 0G interface Front h B bi Bs 0 je Back ET fantec rece E L Sarasa MEEL A ee TTT E fantec Mr AG 100v DAD a 2 Operation FF fantec o zo DO Ez The Hard Disk Installation Sway from side to side the lock e and pull the doorknob to insert 1 or 2 hard disk Close the doorknob and the installation will be completed The step will be represented in terms of following graphs Note Sway from side to side the lock at the instructed point e which you could open the doorknob to install unload the hard disk In Contrast when you sway from qp side to side the lock at the instructed point then you may not open it IN Connect to the computer host through USB and turn on the power AC H Turn the swit
5. I to notify you that a rebuild is in progress Although the volume remains available during the rebuild process the volume is susceptible to data loss through damage to the remaining drive until redundancy is restored at the end of the rebuild and verification process Host access takes precedence over the rebuild process If you continue to use the SAFE volume during the rebuild the rebuild process will take a longer time to complete and the host data transfer performance will also be affected Virtual SAFE san Capacity is the same Virtual SAFE EJ Capacity is the smaller TG A IA A 2 2 n t volume j as one hard drive volume 120 GB of unequal hard drives Steel Vine Port 0 Port 1 Egual hard drives Unegual hard drives Figure 5 SAFE storage policy sample configuration 4 4 Support system Windows 2000 XP VISTA and MAC OS 9 0 or above version 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows Overview This appendix describes the procedures needed with Microsoft Windows for expanding file systems that have been created on volumes that have increased in size while preserving all of your existing data After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be recognized by the Windows file system A command line utility named Disk part exe Disk Partition enables you to manage hard disk partitions and volum
6. Y Logos dive un Click Disks Management plan Right pop up The additional disks H and the additional disks I menus choose Delete disk segmentation Click Segmentation additional disks followed by a clew to operate 2 1 2 BIG Mode The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB amp Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch to BIG and press RESETswitch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices Click My Computer right clicking pop up menu click Options manage popup computer management plan was pop up as follow L Comte dd cet T fi m ll ee ll ms Er Peel ieepiiler benip m el a Sarees ani Arcana Er E Roos Ru T e qx Lac dee Click Disks Management plan Right pop up the additional disks H menus choose Delete disk segmentation Click Segmentation additional disks followed by a clew to operate IN 2 1 3 RAIDO FAST Mode The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB amp Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch RAIDO to and press RESET switch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices and increased 1 drive If not drive there then the hard disk drive management will re zoning which format At the moment you can Operate the disk Re zoning which drives formatted as follows All i
7. and discover that the LED1 or LED2 glittering with blue amp red lights in turn for a long time Please check and see if the HDD has installed correctly 2 If you simultaneously use two HDD and the HDD damaged under RAIDO JBOD and BIG pattern the data on the HDD will lose Under the RAID1 pattern you may consider to take out the damaged HDD and replace formatted HDD instead The 5744 software REBUILDING function will start recovering and the data will be recovered 2 1 USB Interface 2 1 1 JBOD Mode The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB amp Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch to and press switch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices and increased 2 drives If not drive there then the hard disk drive management will re zoning which format At the moment you can Operate the disk Re zoning which drives formatted as follows All information will be eliminated when Format hard drives Click right clicking pop up menu click Options computer management plan was pop up as follow amp 0 Popup ej Computer Management gt NN AMT Took S Evert Viewer SJ Ror aa dae me and Appi alors a Shot my By Reuse Sorge Disk Defragmenter Disk Management HA Services and Acct stirs New Volume 1 4 53 GB NTFS 453 Online ait hey v gt Mj Pamay pation Y tutended patton
8. ch to RAIDO LED will keep bright and the host will be entering the RAIDO active status Turn the switch to RAID1 RAID1 LED keep bright and the host will be entering the RAID1 active status Turn the switch to JBOD JBOD LED keep bright and the host will be entering the JBOD active status Turn the switch to BIG BIG LED will keep bright the host will be entering the BIG active status Hard disk LED B B 2 sends blue light and has long lasting bright light which indicates the hard disk connection is correct Hard disk LED B S sends the pink light and does not stop glittering which indicates the hard disk performing wrong material transmission Hard disk LED B 1 B sends red light and does not stop glittering which indicates the hard disk connection error I2 LED condition switch on power and insert two HD in terms of different working pattern PATTERN HDD carries on the self checking Material transmission RAIDO RAID1 JBOD BIG HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light HDD1 and HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue amp red lights Self checking completes when LED sends blue light
9. d by a clew to operate 90 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes This section explains how to partition volumes after configuring them in the SteelVine Manager GUI You must partition volumes for the host computer s operating system before you can store data on the volumes Refer to the operating system s documentation for further guidance Partition a Volume MS Windows Important Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined SteelVine Storage Reference Design partitions If no hard disk drives are connected to the SteelVine Storage Processor the SteelVine Processor device the Not Initialized disk with no capacity allocated to it will appear Do not initialize or modify that device 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Manage from the pop up window E Cempucr Newgen n Eb h F k Cherri ai t L pl s uw Ener x E So tate gi kaa a a omm tum n S ete oer p Pn 5 a g Pe ee E A 7 n m Jj Cem Poen Han etes Diem Lace Leer ord Seo Lus arse Herbs Drs Fse rerangg Lee ard kr kr eae Crete Recent zj iera Comets oe AE Powerade A hein Pii Bell ap zn Vrae Rs LR E eee faci are de tact rum dco dt ren 1 ima ki e I i eg ani HI pns Every disk should appear with the word Basic a size value that shows the available storage capacity and a status of Online Dynamic or Not Initialized If the disk app
10. e B me e Dre Al Die B Figure 2 BIG storage policy sample configuration It is also possible to create a BIG volume using only a single hard disk drive connected to Port 0 and then increase the storage capacity of the volume later by adding another hard disk drive to Port 1 and pressing the Mode Change pushbutton The new disk blocks of Port 1 will be concatenated to the end of the disk blocks of Port 0 and any data that is stored on the existing BIG volume will be preserved However it is not possible to expand an existing BIG volume by adding another hard disk drive to Port O and still preserve any existing data on that volume JBOD The JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks storage policy enables each hard drive to be seen separately as one drive if using a USB host connection JBOD storage policy is available in the SteelVine Manager for a standalone non cascaded Storage Processor or the top level node of a cascaded configuration but not for subordinate nodes Even though you can use the switch to select JBOD mode In a JBOD configuration the SteelVine Storage Reference Design directly exposes each physical drive Figure 3 JBOD storage policy sample configuration FAST RAIDO The FAST storage policy distributes access across all hard disks also called striping equivalent to RAID 0 FAST presents the best data speed but no data redundancy FAST storage policy accelerates hard disk operating speed by using many disks in
11. e ee peu reads Eng pam mare pn aane nk ra mrs othe CARAS Dy Senn cow shas fron a pam pasion Th ji tree nio Fa uirum sanos voccs Fa ers ey panin rara mud can a I EET 6 Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next Mir Partiler Wa Speci Falken din Lheoos k piten oe hal oo benes he AA qne Tries ELA Masai rici spega ac megas MET 4353 Manu dich it gn ME H Pain pigeon teri EE 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next Mrs Partier Wirard Aan Dere Lelie Fata Fa sais oan paon anaya biss jie mm des path do jp priar fr fun we cra eve wt J fount inthe tlcerg secte HIPS bodas C ILI m uerum ee m dire pure 8 Name and format the partition and click 9 Review the file system settings and click to create the logical partition Mac OS X Important Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and drag the old drive to the trash to un mount previously defined SteelVine Storage Reference Design partition If no hard drives are connected to the Storage Appliance the SteelVine Processor disk 8 0 GB Config Disk Media will appear Do not remove or modify that partition After you configure and partition the new volumes restore the backed up data to the new configuration 1 Launch Disk Utility from the Application gt Utilities folder 2 Select a configured disk and click the Partition tab This procedure illustrates the BIG Storage Policy config
12. ears as Unknown right click the disk icon and select Write Signature A window opens with the selected disk all Unknown disks may appear in this window Make sure the box next to each disk is checked and click OK The disk should now be marked as a Basic disk If a disk appears as Dynamic right click the disk icon and select Revert to Basic Disk Within a few seconds the disk should be marked as a Basic disk If a disk is marked Not Initialized right click the disk icon and select Initialize Disk An additional dialog box appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the SteelVine Processor Disk item and click OK Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a Basic disk 3 Right click the configured disk s unallocated space and select New Partition If the New Partition option is not available select the disk and initialize it first To do this right click on the disk item and select Initialize Disk Welkome to the Sew Partithon Wizard Bas mgm bands quas apa q pa n g basan edm A bono ciel m riim OA i pum irag wA ir tmi ud lo sz lows a M Der ki ji nii inm mb lp cre rs Hal 5 Select the Primary or Extended option and click Next Instead of Basic a disk could appear Unknown Piss Darse Wir ar Sokol Paetos cse Fhar aen hoea pen ef pa a prey metered red ngead Taha 2 pr ing ede Bh LE gt P ru Gano Freins panna Aru prid
13. es This utility is included as part of Windows XP Professional Edition Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista For Windows 2000 or Windows XP Home Edition you must download the disk part utility from Microsoft s website Additional third party products such as Norton Partition Magic are available to perform similar volume management activities but those products are very sophisticated and are not included in this manual 16 Procedure Before you can use DiskPart exe commands on a hard drive disk partition volume you must first list and then select the partition volume to extend their capacity to match the virtual hard drives created in the SteelVine Manager GUI 1 Open a command prompt window by clicking Start Run then entering cmd m C WINDOWS system32 cmd exe joj x rorof 1 177 71 NNI 2 1 Mi resolt Cort ett Window KF Copyright 1985 208 2 Ata command prompt type diskpart gt diskpart icrosoft DiskPart version 5 1 3565 opuright C 1999 2403 Microsoft Corporation Mm computer CYPRESSGC ISKPART gt m 3 Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the computer DISKPART gt list volume Volume 88 Ltr Label DUD ROM Volume 1 G NIFS Partition 37 GB Healthy Uolume 2 T My BIG Disk NIPS Partition 153 GB Healthy 4 Type select volume lt volume number gt where lt volume number gt is number of the volume that you want to extend In this case that will be 2
14. hen you need to change different mode BIG JBOD RAIDO FAST RAID1 SAFE you must press the RESET button so that the enclosure can distinguish the exact mode 3 If you require a faster data transfer RAIDO FAST MODE will be suggested to use 4 If you require a higher data security RAID1 SAFE MODE will be suggested to use 5 f you require a bigger hard disk capacity BIG MODE will be suggested to use 4 Features 4 1 High speed external storage solution USB 3 0 5 0 Gb s The FANTEC MR 35DU3 provides the following Serial Advanced Technology Attachment SATA features Automatic negotiation between SATA I 1 5Gbps and SATA II 3 0 Gbps Serial ATA 2 5 specification compliance Gen2m Serial ATA Port Multiplier 1 1 specification compliance For detailed information about SATA technology refer to the following specifications online Serial ATA High Speed Serialized AT Attachment Revision 1 0a Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1 0a Revision 1 1 Serial ATA II Port Multiplier Revision 1 1 The Serial ATA web site is http www serialata org USB Features The FANTEC MR 35DU3 provides the following Universal Serial Bus USB features USB 1 0 and USB 2 0 specification compliance For detailed information about USB technology refer to the following specifications online Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 1 1 Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2 0 The USB Organization web site is http www u
15. nformation will be eliminated when Format hard drives Click My Computer right clicking pop up menu click Options manage popup computer management plan was pop up as follow IJ gum Fa Spee Cham Verine Bas CE re ALI A EA Le den Click Disks Management plan Right pop up the additional disks H menus choose Delete disk segmentation Click Segmentation additional disks followed by a clew to operate JA 2 1 4 RAID1 SAFE Modus The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB amp Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch to RAID1 and press RESET switch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices and increased 2 drives If not drive there then the hard disk drive management will re zoning which format At the moment you can Operate the disk Re zoning which drives formatted as follows All information will be eliminated when Format hard drives Click My Computer right clicking pop up menu click Options manage popup computer management plan was pop up as follow Pie ver ani Appicanona Lai een ae et TRaemdlckhr 8 ZR ang ee ga 14809 Cet Col eee io Sey ptt Ceres pam Lope Click Disks Management plan Right pop up The additional disks H and the additional disks F menus choose Delete Disk Segmentation Click Segmentation additional disks followe
16. parallel Hard drive data segments are written to different disks simultaneously which increases performance while sacrificing data redundancy To implement the FAST storage policy the SteelVine Storage Processor creates a single virtual volume that is striped across both hard drives with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of both hard disk drives Virtual FAST KS Capacity 15 Drive A volume e plus Drive B Steel Vine Port 0 Port 1 le pet t Striping across disks Figure 4 FAST storage policy sample configuration SAFE RAID1 The SAFE storage policy stores all data in duplicate on separate drives to protect against data loss due to drive failure One drive mirrors the other at all times equivalent to RAID 1 Every write operation goes to both drives SAFE provides the highest level of data protection for critical data that you cannot afford to lose if a hard drive fails but halves the amount of storage capacity because all data must be stored twice The resulting storage capacity of the virtual SAFE volume will be equivalent to the size of one hard drive if both drives are the same or the smaller of the two drives if they are different If one drive fails the SAFE volume is still usable but it is in a vulnerable state because its mirrored hard drive is inaccessible When the offline drive comes back online the appliance begins a rebuild process immediately to restore data redundancy A message box appears in the GU
17. sb org 4 2 Serial ATA HDD Populated with two Serial ATA SATA hard disk drives HDDs each unit can manage as much as 4 000 gigabytes i e 4 terabytes of data depending on the capacity of the hard disk drives that are installed By combining multiple units in a daisy chained hierarchy structure you can increase the total storage capacity of your system 4 3 4 Arbeits Modis BIG JBOD RAIDO FAST RAID1 SAFE You can configure the FANTEC MR 35DU3 to use any of the following Storage Policies to map the appliance s physical hard drives to virtual drives that are visible to the host computer The virtual drives are called volumes in the GUI The host operating system treats each volume as if it were a single physical drive This virtualization allows you to overcome restrictions that are imposed by physical hard drives such as speed storage capacity or data storage reliability BIG The BIG storage policy concatenates a series of physical hard drives as a single large volume resulting in a seamless expansion of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly connected hard drives SteelVine BIG storage policy delivers maximum storage space without a single large capacity and costly hard drive Hard drive A and B are concatenated into a single virtual volume in the Figure below with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of each of the physical hard drives A and B Virtual BIG KZ Capacity is Drive A volume 1 plus Driv
18. uration which concatenates the capacity of all hard drives connected to the SteelVine Storage Reference Design aan External Disk O Media td 3 Untitlod mar Mac 05 Extended our E L Patim RAD Re Cj 149 1 GS WDC WD1600 Macintosh HD 4 Volume Scheme L3 405 8 GB External Disk 1 Partiton 4 me My BIG Di Sha a A install mac Us Y Usk My BIG Disk To Create a volume thar can amp erve as a Mac OS G start up disk select Mac OS 9 Drivers installed se 5 A dar hy External Disk 0 Media ri a d me 260 118 700 032 Byres n SCS atus gt Re wri a 5 Fone Ex atu er eames uted gt oo tian ID sce Tapu ID 16 Logical Unir 9 3 Select 1 Partition from the Volume Scheme drop down list 4 Enter a name for the volume in the Name field such as My BIG disk 12 5 Select Mac OS Extended journaled from the Format drop down list 6 Specify the size of the partition in the Size field 7 Click the Partition button 8 Click Partition to acknowledge the warning mn brrr alim t ete PRLS ES O lii nen ra r TIR Disk Utility mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the desktop The icon is labeled with the partition name 3 Note 1 If this product is in use for the first time or the mode BIG JBOD RAIDO FAST RAID1 SAFE is changed we must initialize and format the HDD before All information will be eliminated when format hard drives 2 W
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