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SATA RAID Cards USER Manual - Thomas

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2. 1va 0ci92d CULLIN VNI JAFA pe gt Lr Status of BBM e D13 Green lights when BBM activated e D14 Red lights when BBM charging e D15 Green lights when BBM normal Installation 1 Make sure all power to the system is disconnected 2 Connector J1 is available for the optional battery backup module Connect the BBM cable to the 12 pin battery connector on the controller 140 APPENDIX MEN SATA Ports Battery Connector 32 bit PCI Stots 64 bit PCI Slots 3 Integrators may provide pre drilled holes in their cabinet for securing the BBM using its three mounting positions Battery Backup Capacity Battery backup capacity is defined as the maximum duration of a power failure for which data in the cache memory can be maintained by the battery The BBM s backup capacity varied with the memory chips that installed on the SATA RAID control ler Memory Type Battery Backup duration Hours 128MB DDR Low Power 18mA Operation 1 Battery conditioning is automatic There are no manual pro cedures for battery conditioning or preconditioning to be per formed by the user 2 In order to make sure of all the capacity is available for your battery cells allow the battery cell to be fully charged when installed for the first time The first time charge of a battery cell takes about 24 hours to complete p J n 141 APPENDIX
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5. HDD 6 Temp 49 HDD 7 Temp HDD 8 Temp ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 10 System Information Choose this option to display Main processor CPU Instruction cache and data cache size firmware version serial number controller model name and the cache memory size To check the system information move the cursor bar to System Information TE 86 BIOS CONFIGURATION item then press Enter key All relevant controller information will be displayed Raid Set Fun Raid System System Inforr View System Clear Event H Hardware Mo System infor The System Inform Main Processor 500MHz IOP331 CPU ICache Size 32KB CPU DCache Size 32KB Write Back System Memory 128MB 333MHz Firmware Version V1 31 2004 5 31 BOOT ROM Version V1 34 2004 9 29 Serial Number 1100 2116 6633 Controller Name ARC 1120 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 87 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to your operating system The installation procedures use the following terminology Installing operating system on the SATA Volume If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install operating system on a disk drive managed by the SATA RAID Controller The driver installation is a part of the opera
6. TP To sate come OM e sie T CAD Fy one aige t Pete Vig mmc etre nee 130 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP Trap IP Address e SNMP System Configurations About community please refer to Appendix C of SNMP com munity name The system Contact Name and Location that will be shown in the outgoing SNMP Trap e SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Please refer to Appendix D of Event Notification table 6 8 5 NTP Configuration 12 16 24 port The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to Coordinated Universal E Obi Pts E Areca Technolog Corporation Lo TP Sornos Cnm ee d Ine e a cee fee Lame mga awe ecu Time UTC via a Global Positioning Service GPS receiver for example e NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be used in the configuration file Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and re liability Our NTP configuration supports two existing public NTP synchronization subnets 131 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e
7. Changing the Battery Backup Module At some point the LI ION battery will no longer accept a charge properly LI ION battery life expectancy is anywhere from ap proximately 1 to 5 years 1 Shutdown the operating system properly Make sure that cache memory has been flushed 2 Disconnect the battery backup module cable from J2 on the SATA RAID controller 3 Disconnect the battery pack cable from JP2 on the Battery Backup Module 4 Install a new battery pack and connect the new battery pack to JP2 5 Connect the Battery Backup Module to J2 on the SATA RAID controller 6 Disable the write back function from the BIOS or Utility ote Do not remove BBM while system running BBM Specifications Mechanical e Module Dimension W x H x D 37 3 x 13 x 81 6 mm e BBM Connector 2 6 box header Environmental e Operating Temperature Temperature 25 C to 60 C e Humidity 45 85 non condensing e Storage Temperature Temperature 40 C to 85 C e Humidity 45 85 non condensing Electrical e Input Voltage 3 6VDC e On Board Battery Capacity 1100mAH 1 1100mAH 2 e o MX M LL M 142 APPENDIX Appendix C SNMP Operation amp Definition Overview The McRAID manager includes a firmware embedded Simple Net work Management Protocol SNMP agent and SNMP Extension Agent for the SATA RAID controller An SNMP based management application also known as an SNMP manager can monitor the d
8. Logical Disk Array Management RAID 0 Striping Diski Disk2 Disk3 Disk4 e RAID 1 RAID 1 is also known as disk mirroring data written on one disk drive is simultaneously written to another disk drive Read per formance will be enhanced if the array controller can in parallel access both members of a mirrored pair During writes there will be a minor performance penalty when compared to writing to a single disk If one drive fails all data and software applications are preserved on the other drive RAID 1 offers extremely high data reliability but at the cost of doubling the required data stor age capacity But at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity ao AL Bo 51 CO C1 DO 01 Re Logical disk j sad sad Li Lao aan ia Array Management t RAID1 Mirroring Block 0 g Physical Disk DO i D Disk 1 Disk 2 165 APPENDIX RAID 1E RAID 1E is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 combing strip ping with disk mirroring RAID Level 1E combines the fast per formance of Level 0 with the data redundancy of Level 1 In this configuration data is distributed across several disk drives similar to Level 0 which are then duplicated to another set of drive for data protection RAID 1E has been traditionally imple mented using an even number of disks some hybrids can use an odd number of disks as well Illustration is an example of a hybrid RAID 1E array co
9. 2 6 SATA ports tennt Connector FaultLED HDDLED Module Connector Connector Connector eet eu UL uu n t 7 IT USELESS 10 SATA ports Backup Battery Connector Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 7 ARC 1230 1260 12 16 port PCI EXpress SATA RAID Controller 14 SATA ports Connector HDD LED Connector UT uit nu LU UH Wut nu A Nu DLL AULA LLL LAU 10 SATA ports Backup Battery Connector Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 8 ARC 1170 24 port PCI X SATA RAID Controller 20 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Backup Battery Connector LCD UC Module Connector 24 SATA ports Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 9 ARC 1280 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Controller LCD 12C 4 SATA ports Mod Multi Lance Connector we Conneoior 4 SATA ports Multi Lance Connector HDOLED Backup Battery Connector Connector Figure 2 10 ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML 12 16 24 port PCI Ex press SATA RAID Controller 21 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 22 Tools Required An ESD grounding strap or mat is required Also required are stan dard hand tools to open your system s case System Requirement The controller can be installed in a universal PCI slot and requires a motherboard that ARC 11xx series required one of the following e Complies with the PCI Revision 2 3 32 64 bit 33 66MHz 3 3V e Complies with the PCI X 32 64 bit 66 100 133 MHz 3 3V ARC 12xx series requires e Compl
10. DELE No 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it with additional 54 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select Drives For Raid Set Expansion l Ch05 80 0688 1350 RECTE Ch08 80 0GBST380 No ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created To expand a raid set Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears Select the target RAID set by clicking on the appropriate radio button Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Yes key to start the expansion on the RAID set The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets Follow the instruction presented in the volume set Function to modify the volume sets operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions 1 Once the Expand Raid Set process has started user cannot stop it The process must be completed 2 If a disk drive fails during raid set expansion and a hot spare is available an auto rebuild operation will occur after the RAID set expansion completes e Migrating 55 BIOS CONFIGURATION aZ n Mer 7 Raid Set Function The Raid Set Information Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Me
11. Enter the system BIOS setup utility Per manufacture directions and configure it so that the RAID card volume set is once again select ed as the primary boot device or first in the boot device list Q5 What PCI slots are supported by the SATA RAID controllers Answer For all PCI X SATA RAID controllers install card in a 64 bit 133MHz PCI X for the best performance It also can be used in 64 bit 66 MHz slots 32 bit 66MHz PCI slots as well as 32 bit 33MHz slots All PCI X SATA RAID controllers can not work with 5V PCI slot PCI Express SATA RAID controllers require an x8 or x16 slots The card can function in x4 or x1 signal slots if those slots are open at the end to accept larger x8 cards but performance will be reduced in these slower slots Check the Areca FAQ website for motherboard a compatibility list Q6 What is the difference between RAID 6 and RAID 5 Answer RAID 6 allows two drives to fail simultaneously without downtime or data loss However RAID 5 only allows one drive to fail RAID 6 thus provides a much higher level of fault tolerance than RAID 5 It is a perfect solution when data is mission critical Due to this higher level of protection users can set up larger RAID volumes spanning up to 24 physical drives With the ARECA RAID 6 engine RAID 6 and RAID 5 have similar performance in the SATA RAID controller Q7 What products support RAID 6 Answer RAID 6 is available on controller models with the RA
12. Foreground Fast Completion Press Enter key to define fast initialization or Selected the Background Instant Available In the background Ini tialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Fast Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses Initialize the volume set you have just configured If you need to add additional volume set using main menu Create Vol ume Set function 3 6 Using RAID Set Volume Set Function Method 7 In Raid Set Function you can use the Create Raid Set Function to generate a new RAID set In Volume Set Function you can use the Create Volume Set function to generate an associated volume set and and configuration parameters If the current controller has unused physical devices connected you can choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function to define a global hot spare Select this method to con figure new raid sets and volume sets The Raid Set Volume Set Function configuration option allows you to associate volume sets with partial and full RAID sets eS 46 BIOS CONFIGURATION To setup the Hot Spare option choose RAID Set Function from the main menu Select
13. Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info To display volume set information move the cursor bar to the desired volume set number and then press the Enter key The Volume Set Information will be shown You can only view the information of this volume set in this screen not modify it Volume Set Name Volume Set 00 Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Volume Capacity 160 1GB Volume State Normal SCSI CH Id Lun 0 0 0 RAID Level z6 Stripe Size 64K Member Disk 14 Cache Attribute Write Back BET Re IU iiare Enabled 70 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 Physical Drives Physical Drive Infor n View Drive Information Create Pass Through Disk Modify Pass Through Disk Delete Pass Through Disk Identify Selected Drive Hardware Monitor System information Choose this option from the Main Menu to select a physical disk and perform the operations listed above 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information Model Name ST380013AS Serial Number 5JV944ZF Firmware Rev 23 18 Disk Capacity 80 0 GB PIO Mode Mode 4 Current UDMA SATA150 6 Supported UDMA SATA150 6 Device State RaidSet Member Hardware Timeout Count SD System infd Media Errors 8E SMART Read Error Rate 2520051 SMART Spinup Time 173 21 SMART Reallocation Count 200 140 SMART Seek Error Rate 200 51 SMART Spinup Retries 100 51 SMART Calibration Retries 100 51 71 BIOS CONFIGUR
14. check box and click on the Sub mit button in the Quick Create screen the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize Note If volume capacity exceeds 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support No 64bit LBA and For Windows For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip 6 5 RaidSet Functions Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you prefer to customize your system Manual configuration can provide full control of the RAID set settings but it will take longer to com plete than the Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select the Raid Set Function to manually configure the RAID set for the first time or delete and reconfigure existing RAID sets A RAID set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets 6 5 1 Create Raid Set To create a raid set click on the Delete Raid Set link A Select TT c 112 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The Drive For RAID Set screen will be displayed showing the drive s connected to the current controller Click on the selected physical drives within the current raid set The default raid set name will always appear as Raid Set Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button on the screen the RAID set will start to initialize 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set To
15. packaging until you are ready to install it into a computer case e Handle the SATA RAID Controller by its edges or by the metal mounting brackets at its each end e Before you handle the SATA RAID controller in any way touch a grounded anti static surface such as an unpainted portion of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity 2 3 Installation Follow the instructions below to install a SATA RAID controller into your PC Server Step 1 Unpack Unpack and remove the SATA RAID controller from the package Inspect it carefully if anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Step 2 Power PC Server Off Turn off computer and remove the AC power cord Remove the System s cover See the computer system documentation for in struction 23 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 24 Step 3 Install the PCI RAID Cards To install the SATA RAID controller remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCI slot Align the gold fingered edge on the card with the selected PCI expansion slot Press gently but firmly down to ensure that the card is properly seated in the slot as shown in Figure 2 11 Next screw the bracket into the computer chassis ARC 11xx controllers can fit in both PCI 32 bit 3 3V and PCI X slots It can get the best performance installed in a 64 bit 133MHz PCI X slot ARC 12xx controllers require a PCI Express 8X slot J
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17. Cooling Fan failure Check cooling fan of the or speed below enclosure and replace with a new 1700RPM one if required Controller Serious Controller Temp temperature back Recovered tonormal level Hdd Temp Recovered Test Event Urgent Test Event Power On With Warning Raid Power On with Battery Backup batterybackuped Incomplete Serious Some raidset Check disk information to find RAIDDiscovered member disksmissing outwhich channel missing before power on Raid Powered Warning Raid Power On La On 152 APPENDIX Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In a API login detected Lost Rebuilding Urgent Some rebuilding Reinserted the missing member MigrationLBA migrationraidset diskback controller will continued member disks theincompleted rebuilding missingbefore power migration on Note It depends on models not every model will encounter all events 153 APPENDIX Appendix E 154 RAID Concept RAID Set A RAID set is a group of disks connected to a RAID controller A RAID set contains one or more volume sets The RAID set it self does not define the RAID level 0 1 1E 3 5 6 etc the RAID level is defined within each volume set Therefore volume sets are contained within RAID sets and RAID Level is defined within the volume set If physical disks of different capacities are grouped together in a RAID se
18. Funcfian Physical Drives Total 4 Drives Raid System Ful Raid 0 Create Vol Raid Set a Ethernet Configu Raid 1 0 s Yes Eon diei 4 Clear Event Buffq e p No 7 Hardware Monito Raid KC System informati Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare Select Foreground Faster Completion or Background Instant Available for initialization Main V valable Capaciy 160 168 Quick Volume Raid Setup Volume Set Funct Physical Drives Ethernet Configurg Raid1 0 View System Eve Raid 1 0 Foreground Faster Completeion Clear Event Buffel Raid 3 Background Instant Available Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare 3 7 2 Raid Set Function Manual Configuration gives complete control of the RAID set set ting but it will take longer to configure than Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select Raid Set Function to manually con figure the raid set for the first time or delete existing RAID sets and reconfigure the RAID set 52 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set To define a RAID set follow the procedure below 1 Select Raid Set Function from the main menu 2 Select Create Raid Set from the Raid Set Function dialog box 3 A Select SA
19. HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 2 Board Layout Follow the instructions below to install a PCI RAID Card into your PC Server 4 8 SATA ports LCD I2C Module Connector HDDLED connector Fault LED a i connector Backup Battery Connector Figure 2 1 ARC 1110 1120 4 8 port PCI X SATA RAID Controller 4 8 SATA ports LCD I2C Module Connector 1 B HDD LED connector HT n pu Fault LED connector Backup Battery Connector Figure 2 2 ARC 1210 1220 4 8 port PCI Express SATA RAID Con troller pRE 17 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 4 SATA ports Multi LanceConnector Fault LED connector HDDLED LCD I2C connector Module Connector Figure 2 3 ARC 1110ML 1120ML 4 8 port PCI X SATA RAID Con troller LCD I2C Module Connector Backup Battery Connector Figure 2 4 ARC 1210ML 1220ML 4 port PCI Express SAS RAID Controller 18 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 6 SATA ports LCD I2C Connectar Fault LED HDD LED Module Connector Connector Connector e i LEII IU 10 SATA ports Backup Battery Connector Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 5 ARC 1130 1160 12 16 port PCI X SATA RAID Control ler i 4 SATA ports l Backu LCD 12C Battery FaultLED HDDLED Module Multi Lance i r Connector connector connector Connector Connecto Figure 2 6 ARC 1130ML 1160ML 12 16 port PCI X SATA RAID Controller 19 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
20. However the operating system itself may not be capable of ad dressing more than 2 TB See the Areca website for details WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION To create a volume set on a raid set move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Volume Set link This Select The Raid Set To Create On It screen will show all RAID set num bers Click the RAID set number that to be used and then click the Submit button The create new volume set option allows users to select the Vol ume name capacity RAID level strip size SCSI ID LUN Cache mode and tag queuing Pmt res Areca Technology Corporation Dt mtua tomas dti t Paa sae grm Faber atem Line m Baan bens e Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set i You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit e Raid Level Set the RAID level for the volume set Highlight the desired Raid Level and press Enter The available RAID levels for the current volume set are dis played Select a RAID level and press Enter to confirm Capacity The maximum volume size is the default initial setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your application e Greater Two TB Volume Support If volume capacity exceeds 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support No 64bit LBA and For Windows options For more details pleas
21. Modify Password To set or change the SATA RAID controller password select Raid System Function from the menu and click on the Change Pass word link The Modify System Password screen appears The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The pass word option allows user to set or clear the SATA RAID controller s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the SATA RAID controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the SATA RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The SATA E W A IN mnt 133 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION RAID controller will automatically go back to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in ten seconds To disable the password leave the fields blank Once the user confirms the operation and clicks the Submit button the existing password will be cleared Afterwhich no password checking will occur when entering the main menu from the starting screen Oot Pee ee m ORUM Partis 3 i Areca Technology Corporation 4 6 ine 6 8 10 Update Firmware Please refer to the appendix A firmware utility ded To m Gialle Fasten i i E Meca Technology Corporation boom e harto qe tiree TT edem t
22. Monitor System information 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Se Mute Alert Beeper JBOD Fu Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Mute The Alert Beeper function item is used to control the SATA RAID controller Beeper Select yes and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily The beeper will still activate on the next event Lu O v Qu S E L 74 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Suse Change Pass Alert Beeper Setting JBOD RAID Disabled Background Enabled Maximum SA HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Alert Beeper Setting item is used to Disabled or Enable the SATA RAID controller alarm tone generator Select Disabled and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off 3 7 5 3 Change Password Raid System Function id Mute The Alert Beeper iq Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cach
23. SATA Ports t g N 32 bit PCI Stots 3 3V 64 bit PCI Slots 3 3V Figure 2 11 Insert SATA RAID controller into a PCI X slot Step 4 Mount the Cages or Drives Remove the front bezel from the computer chassis and install the Cages or SATA Drives in the computer chassis Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed Be sure that the power is con nected to either the Cage backplane or the individual drives HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2 12 Mount Cages amp Drives Step 5 Connect the SATA cable Model ARC 11XX and ARC 12XX controllers have dual layer SATA internal connectors If you have not yet connected your SATA cables use the cables included with your kit to connect the control ler to the SATA hard drives The cable connectors are all identical so it does not matter which end you connect to your controller SATA hard drive or cage back plane SATA connector Figure 2 13 SATA Cable Si ote The SATA cable connectors must match your HDD cage For example Channel 1 of RAID Card connects to channel 1 of HDD cage channel 2 of RAID Card connects to channel 2 of HDD cage and follow this rule HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5 2 Connect the Multi lance cable Model ARC 11XXML has multi lance internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Multi lance connector SFF 8470 backplane M
24. are installed and operational in your system 102 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION The following details are the installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller for Mac ArcHttp software 1 Run the archttp64 using Terminal app by using the following command Usage sudo archttp64 TCP_PORT Parameters TCP_PORT value 1 65535 If TCP_PORT assigned Archttp will start from this port Otherwise it will use the setting in the archttpsrv conf or default 81 This is the port address assigning for the first adapter Such as sudo archttp64 1553 2 Archttp server console started Controller card detected then ArcHttp proxy server screen appears Copyright c 2004 Areca Inc All Rights Reserved Areca HTTP proxy server V1 80 240 for Areca RAID controllers Controller s list Controller 1 PCI Listen to port 1553 Cfg Assistant Listen to port 1554 Binding IP 0 0 0 0 Note IP 0 0 0 0 stands for any ip bound to this host JEJE RE E HEHEEREHE E HEHEHEREE HEHEHERE EE HEHEHEREE E HERE RE Press CTRL C to exit program JEJE RE E HE HERE HE E E HE HEHERE E HEHEHERE EE HEHEHERE EE EE RE Controller 1 Http New client 9 accepted Controller 1 Http New Recv 243 bytes Controller 1 Http Send 174 bytes back to the client 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration The ArcHttp proxy server will automatically assign one additional port for setup its configuration If you want to change the archttp srv conf setting
25. automatically rebuild a system drive when another drive fails The hot spare drive must have at least as mush capacity as the largest disk drive in the array or the rebuild may not start 178 GLOSSARY Hot Spare An extra physical disk drive in a RAID configuration that a controller can use to automatically rebuild a system drive when another drive fails The hot spare drive must have at least as mush capacity as the largest disk drive in the array or the rebuild will not start Hardware RAID versus Software RAID Beyond the different types of RAID there are two implementation forms hardware based and software based Hardware based RAID is obviously implemented at a physical level whereas software based RAID is done using the operating system It is always optimal to have RAID done at a physical hardware level Hot Swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the power is still on and the unit is still operating NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory A memory unit is equipped with a battery so that the data remain even after the main power had been switched off Actually an EEPROM used to store configuration informa tion Parity A technique used to protect a system from data loss due to faults When parity is implemented RAID3 and RAID5 data written is logi cally XOR d together to calculate parity which is stored on the drives along with the data In a system with three drives the
26. changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set Migration status is displayed in the volume status area of the Volume Set Information screen when moving from one RAID level to another when a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set 3 7 3 4 Check Volume Set Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with a dedicated parity disk drive a volume set check entails computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing those results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive To check volume set from Raid Set System Function move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Check Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all Raid Set number items Move the cursor bar to an Raid Set number item and then press the Enter key to show all Volume Set items Select the volume set to be checked from the list and press Enter to select it After completing the selection the confirmation screen appears presses Yes to start the check Volume Set Fun Select Volume To Check ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 3 5 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop all of the Check Volume Set operations 69 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 6 Display Volume Set Info Main Menu Create Volume Set Delete Volume Set
27. data is written to two drives and the calculated parity is stored on a third drive If one drive fails data on the failed drive is reconstructed from other data and parity PCI Express An advanced version of the PCI bus introduced in 2002 Rather than the shared parallel bus structure of PCI PCI Express provides a high m UM 179 GLOSSARY speed switched architecture Each PCI Express link is a serial commu nications channel made up of two differential wire pairs that provide 2 5 Gbits sec in each direction Up to 32 channels may be combined creating a parallel interface of independently controlled serial links PCI X PCI extended an enhanced PCI bus technology is backward compat ible with existing PCI cards PCI and PCI X slots are physically the same PCI cards run in PCI X slots and PCI X cards run in PCI slots at the slower PCI rates First introduced in 1999 PCI X offered increased speed over PCI and has steadily increased to more than 30 times that of the original PCI bus RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks a disk subsystem that is used to increase performance or provide fault tolerance RAID can also be set up to provide both functions at the same time RAID is a set of two or more ordinary hard disks and a specialized disk controller that contains the RAID functionality RAID has been developed initially for servers and st
28. delete a RAID set click on the Deleted Raid Set link The Select The RAID SET To Delete screen is displayed showing all existing RAID sets in the current controller Click the RAID set number you which to delete in the select column on the delete screen Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it n m Areca Technology Corporation Ratt Fw tem t Lal 5d adti Dn Rand os Balest The Bondi ort Fo Poite Lom Lei 5t Seles Basin Xam Semte De qor 113 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 5 3 Expand Raid Set Use this option to expand a RAID set when a disk is added to your system This function becomes active when at least one drive is available tow P mn Areca Technology Corporation namn rme dtii DA Rai m Desi Lai dodet RAM sgesmeten cn i Pond Sero t mter Deer d met pee DV tees et Fm tees fremd beers LI at Teen To expand a raid set click on the Expand Raid Set link Select the target RAID set to be expanded Click the available disk and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click on the Submit button on the screen to add disks to the RAID set 6 5 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set If one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the raid set state will change to Incomplete State If the user wants to continue to power on the SATA RAID controller the user can use the Activate Raid Set option to activ
29. drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4ms to 6ms per step which powers up one drive fo rt m GU ade factnm id Areca Technology Corporation 125 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 126 e Empty HDD Slot LED From firmware version 1 39 date 04 01 2006 and later the firmware has added the Empty HDD Slot LED option to setup the Failed LED light ON or OFF When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this option to OFF Choose this option ON the failed LED light will flash red light if no HDD installed GS Vobseve Set Fue tuam Grm Fenton gt eua A it 8 Areca Technology Corporation Syris Config ations J qi mcal Dres Ofyeterm Controls Pacigreand Tad Preety Qucm ates e HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller However PCI type controllers do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller For this reason HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in the version 1 36 date 2005 05 19 and later It is necessary to enable HDD SMART Status Polling function before SMART information is accessible This function is disabled by default The following screen shot shows how to change
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32. finished creating the current RAID Set To continue defining another RAID set repeat step 3 To begin vol ume set configuration go to step 8 Choose the Volume Set Function from the Main menu Select Create Volume Set and press the Enter key Choose a RAID set from the Create Volume From Raid Set window Press the Enter key to confirm the selection Choosing Foreground Fast Completion or Background Instant Avail ability initiation during Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting for initializa tion complete In Fast Initialization the initialization must be completed before the volume set is ready for system accesses In Fast Initialization initiation is completed more quickly but volume access by the operating system is delayed 11 If space remains in the raid set the next volume set can be configured Repeat steps 8 to 10 to configure another volume set BIOS CONFIGURATION A user can use this method to examine the existing configura tion The modify volume set configuration method provides the same functions as the create volume set configuration method In the volume set function you can use modify volume set to change all volume set parameters except for capacity size 3 7 M
33. message stating Press F6 to specify thrid party RAID con troller will display during this time This must be done or else the Windows installer will not prompt for the driver for from the SATA RAID controller and the driver diskette will not be recog nized 5 The next screen will show Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage device installed in your system Selected specify additional SCSI adapter by pressing S 6 Window will prompt to place the Manufacturer supplied hardware support disk into floppy drive A Insert the SATA RAID series driver diskette in drive A and press Enter 7 Window will check the floppy select the correct card and CPU type for your hardware from the listing and press Enter to install it 8 After Windows scans the hardware and finds the controller it will display Setup will load support for the following Mass Storage devices Windows 2K XP 2K3 ARC1XXO0 SATA PCI X or PCI Express RAID Controller Press Enter to continue and copy the driver files From this point on simply follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure Follow the on screen instruc tions responding as needed to complete the installation 9 After the installation is completed reboot the system to load the new drivers operating system 10 See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID vol ume sets using Storage manager 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to W
34. of the ArcHttp setup When this screen complete you have completed the ArcHttp Proxy Server software setup 4 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation DE 1 99 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Click on the start button in the Windows 2000 XP task bar and then click Program select the McRAID and run ArcHttp proxy server The ArcHttp dialog box appears 1 When you select Controller 01 PCI then click Start button Then web broswer appears 2 If you select Cfg Assistant then click Start button The ArcHttp Configuration apperas please refer to section 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration f ELIT me x 2066 11 16 15 09 94 Serer tated 2906 11 05 OPS V conbobws fand 5 2 For Linux You should have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hard ware and Linux are installed and operational in your system The following details the Linux installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software 1 Insert the SATA RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Linux http directory to local Ex usr local sbin 3 Setting up the archttpsrv conf of ArcHttp configuration For example General Configuration Mail Configuration SNMP Configuration See IL LL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLlZOQELLZZEA 100 ARCHTTP PRO
35. of the driver 3 Re Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SATA RAID Controller and launche the Found New Hardware Wizard J 92 DRIVER INSTALLATION which guides you in installing the SATA RAID driver 4 The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard will pop up and provide a choice of how to proceed Choose Display a list of known drivers for this device so that you can choose a specific driver and click on Next 5 When the next screen queries the user about utilizing the cur rently installed driver click on the Have Disk button 6 When the Install From Disk dialog appears insert the SATA RAID controller driver diskette or the shipping CD ROM and type in or browse to the correct path for the Copy manu facturer s files from dialog box 7 After specifying the driver location the previous dialog box will appear showing the selected driver to be installed Click the Next button 8 The Digital Signature Not Found screen will appear Click on Yes to continue the installation 9 Windows automatically copies the appropriate driver files and rebuilds its driver database 10 The Found New Hardware Wizard summary screen ap pears click the Finish button 11 The System Settings Change dialog box appears Re move the diskette from the drive and click Yes to restart the computer to load the new drivers 12 See Chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes usin
36. on the Areca Raid Controller Second you may also use the Taskbar Start programs Areca Technology Corp ArcSnmpConf menus shown below 147 APPENDIX SNMP community Configurations Please refer to the community name in this appendix SNMP Trap Notification Configruations The Community Name should be the same as firmware embedded SNMP Community The SNMP Trap Notification Configruations include level 1 serious level 2 error level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notification events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID 148 APPENDIX hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your system For the SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt packages Linux SNMP Readme or download from http www areca com tw SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are i
37. serial attachment connector This connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals 36 HARDWARE INSTALLATION The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive Locate status See SFF 8485 for the specification of the SGPIO bus The number of drives supported can be increased by a factor of four by adding similar backplane to maximum of 24 drives 6 backplanes LED Management The backplane may contain LEDs to indicate drive status Light from the LEDs could be transmitted to the out side of the server by using light pipes mounted on the SAS drive tray A small CPLP on the backplane connected via the SGPIO bus to a ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML SATA RAID controller could control the LEDs Activity blinking controller access Fault solid illuminated Drive Locate Circuitry The locate of a drive may be detected by sensing the voltage level of one of the pre charge pins before and after a drive is installed Fault blinking 2 Times Second The following signal defines the SGPIO assignments for the Min SAS 4i connector in ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML PIN Description PIN Description SideBandO SClock Clock Signal SideBand1 SLoad Last clock of a bit stream SideBand4 SDataOut Serial data SideBand5 SDataIn Serial data input bit output bit stream stream The following signal defines the sideband connec
38. should that location prove to have a defect Auto Reassign Sector does not affect disk subsystem performance because it runs as a background task Auto Reassign Sector discontinues when the operating system makes a request Consistency Check A consistency check is a process that verifies the integrity of redundant data For example performing a consistency check of a mirrored drive assures that the data on both drives of the mir rored pair is exactly the same To verify RAID 3 5 or 6 redundan Cy a consistency check reads all associated data blocks computes parity reads parity and verifies that the computed parity matches the read parity Consistency checks are very important because they detect and correct parity errors or bad disk blocks in the drive A consistency check forces every block on a volume to be read and any bad blocks are marked those blocks are not used again This is critical and important because a bad disk block can prevent a disk rebuild from completing We strongly recommend that you run consis tency checks on a regular basis at least once per week Note that consistency checks degrade performance so you should run them when the system load can tolerate it Data Protection BATTERY BACKUP 162 APPENDIX The SATA RAID controllers are armed with a Battery Backup Mod ule BBM While a Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS protects most servers from power fluctuations or failures a BBM provides
39. stripe This is a computationally intensive operation that many modern RAID controllers perform using a dedicated ASIC instead of calculating them in firmware on the main embedded processor s core This dedicated ASIC is often referred to as a XOR engine 182 HISTORY Version History Revision Page Description p 150 153 Revised the controller events 183
40. stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system functions and e Designate drives as hot spares 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID manager automatically using Quick Volume Raid Setup or manually using Raid Set Volume Set Function Each configuration method re quires a different level of user input The general flow of operations for RAID set and volume set configuration is Designate hot spares pass through drives optional Choose a configuration method Create RAID sets using the available physical drives Define volume sets using the space available in the RAID Set Initialize the volume sets and use volume sets as logical drives in the host OS 3 4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID set can be desig nated as a Hot Spare The Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appro priate raid level from which the user can select For the Raid Set Function configuration option the user can use the Create Hot Spare option to define the hot spare disk drive When a Hot Spare disk drive is being created using the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical de vices connected to the current controller appear Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk d
41. the Create Hot Spare and press the Enter key to define the Hot Spare Choose RAID Set Function from the main menu Select Create RAID Set and press the Enter key The Select a Drive For Raid Set window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the SATA RAID controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur rent RAID set It is recommend that you drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the raid set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the raid set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 1 0 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set press Yes to confirm the Create Raid Set function An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanu meric characters to define a unique identifier for this new raid set The default raid set name will always appear as Raid Set Press Enter to finish the name editing Press the Enter key when you are
42. volume Main Menu Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Quick Volume Raid Setup Total 4 Driv4 Raid Set Function Volume Set Funct Physical Drives Raid System Fund Ethernet Configur View System Eve Clear Event Buffe Hardware Monito System informatid No Use 64bit LBA Raid 0 Raid 1 0 Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare BIOS CONFIGURATION e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e LBA 64 This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB such as Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x or latter e For Windows It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Byetes the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works under Windows platform only And it CAN NOT be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip P Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 2 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 230 System informa SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID O 1 5 or 6 log
43. without the written permission of the manufacturer and the author All inquiries should be addressed to Areca Technology Corporation FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against interfer ence in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in ac cordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation Contents 1 Introduction ssssssssss2 s 10 Dl OVERVIEW srinata eR aet A aN EA AETAT SPI E e REN SAADEN 10 1 2 FEATUPES Ss sse e AAA dois wet aw glee versa 12 2 Hardware Installation esee 16 2 1 Before Your begin Installation esee 16 2 2 Board Layout ucc et be ese eei eder a des ee 17 2 3 Installaatio N a inesse dye sk vas eR ERN E ERE S ERU RARE TE CAEAD ses 23 3 McBIOS RAID Manager eese eene nnnm nnns 42 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager eese 42 3 2 McBIOS Configuration Manager s sssssssrsrrsrrrrrssrerrrseerrnses 43 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets sseseess 44 3 4 Designating Dri
44. 2 bit applications do not need to be recompiled and may or may not benefit from the 64 bit extensions The eee 174 APPENDIX application will likely need to be recertified by the vendor to run on the new 64 bit extended O S 3 64 bit O S and 64 bit applications 64 bit Mode This usage requires 64 bit device drivers It also requires applications to be modified for 64 bit operation and then recompiled and vali dated e For more FAQs please visit knowledgebase of Areca website at http faq areca com tw modules smartfaq 175 APPENDIX Appendix H Technical Support Areca Technical Support provides several options for Areca users to access information and updates We encourage you to use one of our electric services for the lastest product information updates and efficient support service If you have decided to contact us please have the following information ready Kindly provide us the product model serial number BIOS driver version and a detailed description of the problem at http www areca com tw support ask_a_question htm Our support team will be glad to answer all your techinical enquires 176 GLOSSARY Glossary 2TB The 32 bit file systems have a maximum limitation of 2 TB per volume set 64 bit versions remove this limitation so if you are building large warehouses you should consider 64 bit versions Array An array is a logical disk comprised of multiple physical hard disks The nu
45. 50 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ e HDD Read Ahead Cache 124 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances e Stagger Power on In a PC system with only one or two drives the power is able to supply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other system components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives New SATA drives have support staggered spin up capabilities to boost reliability Staggered spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the ability to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions Areca has supported the fixed value staggered power up function in its previous version firmware But from firmware version 1 39 and later SATA RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk
46. 6 You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system The following details Solaris installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Solaris http directory to local The next following step is the same with Linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux 5 5 For Mac OS 10 x The McRAID manager interface can be accessed through the built in configuration and administration utility that resides in the con troller s firmware It provides complete control and management of the controller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the CD ROM delivered with SATA card or download from the www areca com tw The firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server 1 Login as root Copy the ArcHttp file to a local directory 1 Insert the SATA RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Mac http directory to local Or 1 Download from the www areca com tw or from the email attachment 2 You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID controller ArcHttp software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and Mac driver
47. 60 1170 DIMM DIMM DIMM 1110ML 1120ML 1130ML 1160ML 1160ML2 1210 1210ML 1220 1220ML 1230 1260 14 INTRODUCTION 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML 1280 RAID processor IOP341 15 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 Hardware Installation This section describes the procedure for installing the SATA RAID con trollers 2 1 Before Your begin Installation Thank you for purchasing the SATA RAID Controller as your RAID data storage and management system This user guide gives you a simple step by step instructions for installing and configuring the SATA RAID Controller To ensure personal safety and to protect your equipment and data please read the information carefully in pack content list before you begin installing Package Contents If any items listed in your package is missing please contact your local dealer before proceeding with installation disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included ARC 11xx Series SATA RAID Controller 1 x PCI X SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag 4 8 12 16 24 x SATA interface cables one per port 1 x Installation CD 1 x User Manual ARC 11xxML 12xxML Series SATA RAID Controller e 1 x PCI X SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag e 1 x Installation CD e 1 x User Manual ARC 12xx Series SATA RAID Controller 1 x PCI Express SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag 4 8 12 16 24 x SATA interface cables one per port 1 x Installation CD 1 x User Manual 16
48. ARC 12xx Series of high performance Serial ATA RAID controllers support a maximum of 4 8 12 16 or 24 SATA II peripheral devices depending on model on a single controller The ARC 11xx series for the PCI X bus and the ARC 12xx Series for the PCI Express bus When properly configured these SATA controllers provide non stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use of RAID technology and can also provide advanced array management features The 4 and 8 port SATA RAID controllers are low profile PCI cards ideal for 1U and 2U rack mount systems These controllers utilize the same RAID kernel that has been field proven in Areca existing external RAID controllers allowing Areca to quickly bring stable and reliable RAID controllers to the market Unparalleled Performance The SATA RAID controllers provide reliable data protection for desktops workstations and servers These cards set the stan dard with enhancements that include a high performance Intel I O Processor a new memory architecture and a high performance PCI bus interconnection The 8 12 16 24 port controllers with the RAID 6 engine built in can offer extreme availability RAID 6 functionality This engine can concurrently compute two parity blocks with per formance very similar to RAID 5 The controllers by default support 256MB of ECC SDRAM memory The 12 16 24 port controllers sup port one DDR333 SODIMM socket that allows for upgrading up to 1GB of memory T
49. ATION When you choose this option the physical disks connected to the SATA RAID controller are listed Move the cursor to the de sired drive and press Enter to view drive information 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk iea Pass Through Disk Assim ES ORS Create Pass Through Cache Mode i Write Back Hardware RES TeT ES Enabled System infq ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw A Pass Through Disk is not controlled by the SATA RAID con troller firmware and thus cannot be a part of a volume set The disk is available directly to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating sys tem is on a disk not controlled by the SATA RAID controller firm ware The SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode and Tag Queuing must be specified to create a pass through disk 3 7 4 3 Modify a Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify Pass Through Disk Attributes To select and modify a Pass Through Disk from the pool of Pass Through Disks move the cursor bar to the Physical Drive Function menu and select the Modify Pass Through Drive option and then press the Enter key The Physical Drive Function menu will show all Raid Pass Through Drive number options Move the cursor bar to the desired item and then press the Enter key to show all Pass Through Disk Attributes Select the parameter from the list to be changed and them press
50. Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding Disk Hot Swap Online Background Rebuilding and Instant Availabil ity Background Initialization During the controller firmware flash upgrade process it is possible that an error results in corruption of the controller firmware This could result in the device becoming non functional However with our Redundant Flash image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crashes Easy RAID Management The SATA RAID controller utilizes built in firmware with an embed ded terminal emulation that can access via hot key at BIOS boot up screen This pre boot manager utility can be used to simplify the setup and management of the RAID controller The controller firmware also contains a ArcHttp browser based program that can be accessed through the ArcHttp proxy server function in Windows ee eee ES eee 11 INTRODUCTION Linux FreeBSD and more environments This Web browser based RAID management utility allows both local and remote creation and modification RAID sets volume sets and monitoring of RAID status from standard web browsers 1 2 Features Adapter Architecture e Intel IOP 331 I O processor ARC 11xx series e Intel IOP 332 IOP 333 I O processor ARC 12xx series e Intel IOP341 I O processor ARC 12x1ML ARC 1280ML 1280 e 64 bit 133MHz PCI X Bus compatible e PCI Express X8 comp
51. Browser based RAID manager by entering http IP Address in the web browser ote You can find controller Ethernet port IP address in System Information 6 2 SATA RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager The McRAID Storage Manager current configuration screen displays the current configuration of your SATA RAID controller It displays the Raid Set List Volume Set List and Physical Disk List The raid set information volume set information and drive information can also be viewed by clicking on the Raid Set Hierarchy screen The current configuration can also be viewed by clicking on Raid Set Hierarchy in the menu soed Turm m FRA Areca Technology Corporation Ti elm t om V amd Sa em mn J Whe vie al Deos Wadd on IDE Dasi V ahem Von hid m v imme Siate Cee favens mn bm ane i 110 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION To display raid set information move the mouse cursor to the desired raid set number then click it The raid set information will display To display volume set information move the mouse cur sor to the desired Volume Set number then click it The volume set information will display To display drive information move the mouse cursor to the desired physical drive number then click it The drive Information will display 6 3 Main Menu The Main Menu shows all available functions accessible by clicking on the appropriate link Individual Category Quick Functi
52. CD module For this option please reference Chapter 6 Web Browser Based Configuration or LCD configuration menu Step 10 Install the controller driver For a new system e Driver installation usually takes places as part of operating sys tem installation Please refer to Chapter 4 Diver Installation for the detail installation procedure In an existing system e Install the controller driver into the existing operating system 38 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Please refer to the Chapter 4 Driver Installation for the detailed installation procedure Look for newest release versions of drivers please download from http www areca com tw Step 11 Install ArcHttp proxy Server The SATA RAID controller firmware has embedded the web browser RAID manager ArcHttp proxy driver will enable it The browser based RAID manager provides all of the creation management and monitor SATA RAID controller status Please refer to the Chapter 5 for the detail ArcHttp proxy server installation For SNMP agent function please refer to Appendix C Step 12 Determining the Boot sequences The SATA RAID controller is a bootable controller If your system already contains a bootable device with an installed operating sys tem you can set up your system to boot a second operating sys tem from the new controller To add a second bootable controller you may need to enter setup and change the device boot sequence so that the SATA RAID con
53. DD unstable Device Failed HDD failure Replace HDD PCI Parity Error Serious PCI Parity error If only happen once it maybe caused by noise If always happen please check power supply or contact to us Device Urgent HDD SMART failure Replace HDD Failed SMART 150 APPENDIX PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Created Created PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Modified Modified PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Deleted Deleted B Volume Event level Meaning Volume Degraded Replace HDD Failed Volume Urgent Failed Volume revived Revived Abort Warning Initialization been abort Initialization Stop Initialization 151 APPENDIX C RAID Set Event Create RaidSet New Raidset created ho Delete RaidSet Raidset deleted ae sl Expand RaidSet Raidset expanded Li Rebuild RaidSet Raidset rebuilding mE RaidSet Urgent Raidset degraded Replace HDD Degraded D Hardware Monitor Event DRAM 1 Bit ECC DRAM 1 Bit ECC error Check DRAM DRAM Fatal Urgent DRAM fatal error Check the DRAM module and Error encountered replace with new one if required Controller Over Urgent Abnormally high Check air flow and cooling fan of Temperature temperature detected theenclosure and contact us on controller over 60 degree Hdd Over Temperature Abnormally high Check air flow and cooling fan of temperaturedetected theenclosure on Hdd over 55 degree Fan Failed Urgent
54. ID 6 engine installed 172 APPENDIX Q8 What operating systems are supported Answer The SATA RAID controllers support Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux and FreeBSD For specific OS versions see http www areca com tw for more information Q9 Will ARECA submit the Linux code to kernel org Answer Yes ARECA Serial ATA Il RAID the lastest driver has been integrated directly into the Linux kernel 2 6 19 allowing future versions of Linux operating systems to support Areca s entire fam ily PCI X and PCI Express series of high performance SATA Il RAID controllers Q10 What is the warranty period Answer Like all ARECA External RAID controllers the PCI X or PCI Express SATA RAID controller is backed by a 3 year warranty Q11 Which O S Operating System will support X86 64 bit processors Answer The following O S vendors have announced product support for AMD64 and Intel EM64T Contact each vendor for more details The following is our currently supported OS and version for 64 bit pro cessor We will support others shortly after other versions release Microsoft Production support will be available in e Windows XP Professional x64 Edition e Windows Server 2003 64 Bit Edition Red Hat Production support will be available in e Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 2 173 APPENDIX SuSE Production support will be available in e SLES9 F
55. Module Connector Connector Connector Cathode Side EH Figure 2 21 ARC a m 1130 1160 1230 1260 global LED connection for Computer Case il HARDWARE INSTALLATION Global Activity LED Indicator Cathode Side Fault LED Connector LCD I2C Module Connector Figure 2 22 ARC 1170 global LED connection for Computer Case LCD I2C Module Connector HDD LED connector Cat vede Side Fault LED connector Cathode Side Figure 2 23 ARC 1280 global LED connection for Computer Case LCD inc Module Connector Global Fault Activity Cache write pending LEO Connector Cathode Side Figure 2 24 ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML global LED Fault LED Connector connection for Computer LE i e HOD LED Connector Cathode Side 32 HARDWARE INSTALLATION B Individual LED indicator connector Connect the cables for the drive activity LEDs and fault LEDs be tween the backplane of the cage and the respective connector on the SATA RAID controller The following describes the fault activity LED LED Normal status Problem Indication Activity LED When the activity LED is illu minated there is I O activity on that disk drive When the LED is dark there is no activ Fault LED Figure 2 25 ARC 1110 1120 1210 1220 ity on that disk drive When the fault LED is solid illuminated there is no disk present and When the f
56. P address is in the same range as the default router address and that it is unique to your private network However it is highly recommend to use DHCP if that option is available on your network An IP address alloca tion scheme will reduce the time it takes to set up client com puters and eliminate the possibilities of administrative errors and duplicate addresses To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to the Main menu Ethernet Configuration Function item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to Local IP Address item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting in the SATA RAID controller You can then reassign the static IP address of the controller Local IP gare rege 100 Hb2 168 001 10 System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 6 3 Ethernet Address A MAC address stands for Media Access Control address and is unique to every single ethernet device On an Ethernet LAN it s the same as your Ethernet address When you re connected to a local network from the SATA RAID controller Ethernet port a correspondence table relates your IP address to the SATA RAID controller s physical MAC address on the LAN Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Se mabe Physical Ethernet Configuration Raid Sys DHCP Func
57. SATA RAID Cards ARC 1110 1120 1130 1160 1170 4 8 12 16 24 port PCI X SATA RAID Controllers ARC 1110ML 1120ML 1130ML 1160ML 4 8 port Infinband connector and 12 16 port Multi lane connector PCI X SATA RAID Controllers ARC 1210 1220 1210ML 1220ML 1230 1260 1280 4 8 12 16 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Controllers ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML 12 16 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Controllers USER Manual Version 3 4 Issue Date June 2007 Microsoft WHQL Windows Hardware Compatibility Test ARECA is committed to submitting products to the Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs WHQL which is required for participation in the Windows Logo Program Successful passage of the WHQL tests results in both the Designed for Windows logo for qualifying ARECA PCI X and PCI Express SATA RAID controllers and a listing on the Microsoft Hard ware Compatibility List HCL Copyright and Trademarks The information of the products in this manual is subject to change without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual All brands and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners This manual contains materials protected under International Copyright Conventions All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying
58. TA Drive For Raid set window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the current controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the current RAID Set Repeat this step the user can add as many disk drives as are available to a single RAID set When finish selecting SATA drives for RAID set press the Esc key A Create Raid Set confirmation screen appears select the Yes option to confirm it Maj n Mer CIBUM Raid Set Function Ch05 80 0GBST380013AS Ch08 80 0GBST380013AS Harea System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 4 An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for the RAID Set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set E Va in Mey pm Raid Set Function eA OA ARROTAOANADAS Edit The Raid Set Name 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set To erase and reconfigure a RAID set competely you must delete it and re create the raid set first To delete a raid set select the raid set number that user want to delete in the Select Raid Set to Delete screen The Delete Raid Set dialog box appears then press Yes key to delete it Warning data on RAID set will be lost if this option is used Maja Me c mE EUM Raid Set Function Create Raid Set Delete Paid Cat Select Raid Set To Delete e o BERLINE
59. Time Zone Time Zone conveniently runs in the system tray and allows you to view the date and time in various locations around the world easily You are also able to add your own personal locations to customize Time Zone the way you want with great ease and less hassle e Automatic Daylight Saving Automatic Daylight Saving will normally attempt to automati cally adjust the system clock for daylight saving changes based on the computer time zone This tweak allows you to disable the automatic adjustment 6 8 6 View Events Mute Beeper To view the SATA RAID controller s information click on the Sys tem Information link The SATA Raid controller events Informa tion screen appears Choose this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapse Time and Errors The RAID system does not have a built in real time clock The Time information is the relative time from the SATA RAID controller power on Conk fe oe m ete um 3 md Arceu Technology Corporation Sommier late tm Te Den Fem Tr 6 8 7 Generate Test Event Use this feature is to generate events for testing purposes XM Sv A o O uu Eee 132 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ti Hm Giles Parton 3 d Vreca Technolog Corporation 6 8 8 Clear Events Buffer font Fumo A Cacia huaa 3 id Areea Technology Corporation IL rem mmm i dide Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information 6 8 9
60. Volume Set 00 Raid Level BS Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID zb SCSI LUN z0 Cache Mode Write Back ag Queuing Enabled e Cache Mode User can set the cache mode to either Write Through Cache or Write Back Cache 65 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Tag Queuing Volume Set Function a i Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level HE Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID z9 System informd SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled This option when enabled can enhance overall system perfor mance under multi tasking operating systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SCSI command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using older drives that do not support command tag queuing 3 7 3 2 Delete Volume Set To delete volume set from a RAID set move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Delete Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Func tions menu will show all Raid Set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number then press the Enter key to show all volume sets within that Raid Set Move the cursor to the volume set number that is to be deleted and press Enter to delete it y System in BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 3 Modify Volume Set Volume Se
61. Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 10 HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller However PCI cards do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller For this reason HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in the version 1 36 date 2005 05 19 and later It is necessary to enable HDD SMART Status Polling function before SMART information is accessible This function is disabled by default The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting to enable the Polling function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Tasy HDD SMART Status Polling Maximum SATA 5 HDD Read Ahea Denen Stagger Power o Enabled HDD SMART Status rong Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 11 Controller Fan Detection Included in the product box is a field replaceable passive heatsink to be used only if there is enough airflow to adequately cool the passive heat sink The Controller Fan Detection function is available in the version 1 36 date 2005 05 19 and later for prevent
62. XXFIRM BIN for RAID function up grades Note Please update all Binary Code BIOS BOOT and FIRM before you reboot system Otherwise a mixed firmware package may hang the controller Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager Get the new version firmware for your RAID controller For example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the C drive 137 APPENDIX ai dii Areca Technology Corporation 1 To upgrade the RAID controller firmware move the mouse cursor to Upgrade Firmware link The Upgrade The RAID System Firmware screen appears 2 Click Browser Look in the location to which the Firmware upgrade software was downloaded Select the File name and click Open All files BIOS BOOT FIRM and MBRO can be updated through this function 3 Click Confirm The Operation and press the Submit button 4 The Web Browser begins to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash ROM 5 After the firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware Has Been Updated Successfully 6 After the new firmware has completed downloading find a chance to restart the controller computer for the new firmware to take effect The Web Browser based McRAID Storage Manager can be accessed through the In Band PCI X PCIe bus or Out of Band Lan port The In Band method uses the ArcHttp proxy server to launch the McRAID Storage Manager The Out of Ban
63. XY SERVER INSTALLATION Usage archttp32 TCP_PORT or archttp64 TCP_PORT It depends on your OS version Parameters TCP_PORT value 1 65535 If TCP_PORT assigned Archttp will start from this port Otherwise it will use the setting in archttpsrv conf 4 Runing the ArcHttp file then ArcHttp screen appears Copyright c 2004 Areca Inc All Rights Reserved Areca HTTP proxy server V1 80 240 for Areca RAID controllers Controller s list Controller 1 PCI Listen to port 81 Cfg Assistant Listen to port 82 HGRGER GG GHHGdPHRGGg EEE EE EEEE EE E E E EEEE Press CTRL C to exit program HGRGER E EEEE EEE EEE EE EEEE EE E EE EEEE 3 See the next chapter detailing the McRAID Storage Manager to customize your RAID volume set For Mozilla user Because our management need Java support so user may need upgrade to version 1 6 or later 5 3 For FreeBSD You should have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system The following details FreeBSD installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES FreeBSD http directory to local The next following step is the same with Linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux Ee a a o 101 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 4 For Solaris 10 x8
64. added to a RAID set unused capacity is added to the end of the RAID set Then data 155 APPENDIX 156 on the existing volume sets residing on the newly expanded RAID set is redistributed evenly across all the disks A contigu ous block of unused capacity is made available on the RAID set The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets A disk to be added to a RAID set must be in normal mode not failed free not spare in a RAID set or passed through to host and must have at least the same capacity as the smallest disk capacity already in the RAID set Capacity expansion is only permitted to proceed if all volumes on the RAID set are in the normal status During the expansion process the volume sets being expanded can be accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAID level 1 1E 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set transitions from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the expansion is completed the volume set would then transition to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further transitions to the rebuilding state The expansion process is illustrated as following figure Before Array Expansion Free Space 40GB Volume 1 40GB D Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 120GB The SAS RAID controller redistr
65. ain Menu The main menu shows all functions that are available for executing actions which is accomplished by clicking on the appropriate link Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup The manufacture bob gee ac default password is Volume Set Function Physical Drives set to 0000 this Raid System Function password can be Ethernet Configuration Verity Pass ER ES modified by selecting Hardware Monitor Change Password System infi ti g S in the Raid System Function section ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw option Description of physical disk installed BIOS CONFIGURATION This password option allows user to set or clear the raid controller s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the raid controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the internal RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will only prompt for the password when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The SATA RAID controller will automatically return to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in twenty seconds 3 7 1 Quick Volume RAID Setup Quick Volume RAID Setup is the fastest way to prepare a RAID set and volume set It requires only a few keystrokes to com plete Although disk drives of different capacity may be used in the RAID set it will use t
66. an additional level of protection In the event of a power failure a BBM supplies power to retain data in the RAID controller s cache thereby permitting any potentially dirty data in the cache to be flushed out to secondary storage when power is restored The batteries in the BBM are recharged continuously through a trickle charging process whenever the system power is on The batteries protect data in a failed server for up to three or four days depending on the size of the memory module Under nor mal operating conditions the batteries last for three years before replacement is necessary e RECOVERY ROM The SATA RAID controller firmware is stored on the flash ROM and is executed by the I O processor The firmware can also be updat ed through the PCI X PCIe bus port or Ethernet port if equipped without the need to replace any hardware chips During the con troller firmware upgrade flash process it is possible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller firmware With our Redundant Flash Image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crash 163 APPENDIX Appendix F Understanding RAID RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks It is an array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provides high performance and fault tolerance The SATA RAID control ler implemen
67. and alone disk storage systems RAID is important espe cially when rebuilding data after a disk failure Rebuild When a RAID array enters into a degraded mode it is advisable to rebuild the array and return it to its original configuration in terms of the number and state of working disks to ensure against operation in degraded mode SATA Serial ATA The evolution of the ATA IDE interface that changes the physical architecture from parallel to serial and from master slave to point to point Unlike parallel ATA interfaces that connect two drives one configured as master the other as slave each Serial ATA drive is con nected to its own interface At initial introduction Serial ATA SATA increases the transfer rate to 150 MB sec 1 5Gb s and SATA2 to 300 MB sec 180 GLOSSARY SMART This technology provides users with advanced warning of Disk Drive failures thus enabling the Operating System to warn Users of potential failure S M A R T was included in EIDE drives with the ATA 3 and later specification SNMP Since it was developed in 1988 the Simple Network Management Protocol has become the de facto standard for inter network manage ment Because it is a simple solution requiring little code to imple ment vendors can easily build SNMP agents into their products SNMP is extensible allowing vendors to easily add network management functions to their existing products SNMP also separates the man agement ar
68. ao 1261ML 1280ML Individual ss in LED indicators connector for led jp each channel drive 3 Fault LED Connector Cathode Side ati LU E HDD LED Connector Cathode Side Si Has C IC Connector You can also connect the I C interface to a proprietary SATA backplane enclosure This can reduce the number of activity LED and or fault LED cables The I C interface can also cascade to an other SATA backplane enclosure for the additional channel status display o3 3 Figure 2 30 Activity Fault LED I C connector connected between SATA RAID Controller amp SATA HDD Cage backplane 35 HARDWARE INSTALLATION mes im EE cm FaultLED HDD LED o i EE ELE ELE Connector Connector Dine Connector E I k o LE Figure 2 31 Activity Fault LED I C connector connected between SATA RAID Controller amp 4 SATA HDD backplane Ci Design has supported this feature in its 4 port 12 6336 05A SATA II backplane The following is the I C signal name description for LCD amp Fault Ac tivity LED ACS 12C INT HEADER 4X2 NC4 D2A4n Trin description PIN Description mower 55V LCD Module Interrupt Fault Activity Interrupt LCD Module Serial Data 6 Fault Activity clock Fault Activity Serial Data 8 LCD Module clock D SGPIO bus The preferred I O connector for server backplanes is the Min SAS 4i internal
69. assword dialog screen appears type the user name and password The RAID subsystem controller default user name is admin and the password is 0000 After entering the user name and password press Enter to access the McRAID Storage Manager Theod Leia MEE A UNT mederi im om E 6 1 1 Through Ethernet port Out of Band Areca now offers an alternative means of communication for the PCI X PCIe RAID Adapter McRAID Web Browser based RAID Management program User can access the built in configuration without needing system starting up running the ArcHttp proxy The Web Browser based RAID Management program is an HTML based application which utilizes the browser installed on your remote system To ensure proper communications between the PCI X PCIe RAID controller and Web browser based RAID management Please connect the RAID controller Ethernet LAN port to any LAN switch port 109 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The controller has embedded the TCP IP amp Web Browser based RAID manager in the firmware User can remote manage the RAID controller without adding any user specific software plat form independent via standard web browsers directly connected to the 10 100 Ethernet RJ45 LAN port To configure the External RAID subsystem on a remote machine you need to know its IP Address The IP address will default show in BIOS configuration of Ethernet configuration option Launch your firmware embedded TCP IP amp Web
70. atible e 256MB on board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection 4 8 port e One SODIMM Socket with default 256 MB of DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection upgrade to 1GB 12 16 and 24 port cards onl OR DIMM Socket with default 256 MB of DDR2 533 SDRAM with ECC protection upgrade to 2GB ARC 12xxML ARC 1280 e An ECC or non ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organi zation e Support up to 4 8 12 16 24 SATA II drives e Write through or write back cache support e Multi adapter support for large storage requirements e BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance e BIOS PnP plug and play and BBS BIOS boot specification support e Supports extreme performance Intel RAID 6 functionality e NVRAM for RAID event amp transaction log e Battery backup module BBM ready Depend on mother board RAID Features RAID level 0 1 1E 3 5 6 R6 engine inside and JBOD e Multiple RAID selection e Array roaming e Online RAID level stripe size migration e Online capacity expansion amp RAID level migration simultaneously e Online volume set growth e Instant availability and background initialization e Automatic drive insertion removal detection and rebuilding e Greater than 2TB per volume set for 64 bit LBA E H 12 INTRODUCTION e Redundant flash image for adapter availability e Support S M A R T NCQ and OOB staggered spin up capable driv
71. ault LED is off that disk is pres ent and status is normal When the Identify Drive is selected the selected drive Fault LED will blank LCD I2C When the Fault LED is slow blink ing 2 times sec that indicate disk drive has failed and should be hot swapped immediately When the activity LED is illuminat ed and Fault LED is fast blinking 10 times sec that indicate there is rebuilding activity on the disk drive Cathode Side Anode Side Module Connector Individual LED indica tors connector for each channel drive Fault LED connector HDD LED connector 4 mm 33 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 34 Figure 2 26 ARC 1130 1160 1230 1260 Individual LED indica tors connector for each channel drive Figure 2 27 ARC 1170 Individual LED indicators connector for each chan nel drive Figure 2 28 ARC 1280 Individual LED indicators connector for each chan nel drive Anode Side Cathode Side B noo r7 Fault LED Connector HDDLED Connector M lodule Connector Cathode Side LCD 12C Module Connector fen ch ferre t r2 eme 14 LC Deve 4 Der idi T irte 1 4 i i HOD LEOconnector Cathode Side Fault LED connector Cathode Side L HARDWARE INSTALLATION LCD 12C Module Connector Global Fault Activity Cache write pending LED Connector Figure 2 29 ARC 1231ML ME Cathode si
72. ay Volume Info A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical de vice it is organized in a RAID level within the controller utiliz ing one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set can consume all of the capacity or a portion of the available disk capacity of a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist on a RAID set If multiple volume sets reside on a specified RAID set all 58 BIOS CONFIGURATION volume sets will reside on all physical disks in the RAID set Thus each volume set on the RAID set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the RAID set This is with regards in having more than one volumw set using some of the available disks and another volume set using other disks 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same raid set 2 Up to 16 volume sets can be created by the SATA RAID controller 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2 TB as with other cards that support only 32 bit mode To create a volume set follow the following steps 1 Select the Volume Set Function from the Main menu 2 Choose the Create Volume Set from Volume Set Functions dialog box screen Raid Set 00 Raid Set 01 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 The Create Volume Fro
73. bility and an improved miniport interface Storport better utilizes faster adapters through the use of reduced Delay Procedure Call DPC and improved queue management 4 2 2 Install Windows 2000 XP 2003 on a SATA RAID Volume The following instructions explain how to install the SATA RAID controller Driver For completed details on installing Windows see the Windows User s Manual 4 2 2 1 Installation procedures The following detailed procedure installing the SATA RAID con troller driver while installing Windows 2000 XP 2003 Have your bootable Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 CD ROM and follow the required procedure below to install SATA RAID controller 1 Make sure you follow the instructions in Chapter 2 Hard ware Installation to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to access the McBI OS RAID manager Use the McBIOS manager to create the RAID set and volume set to which you will install Windows For de tails see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID manager Once a volume set is created and configured continue with next step to install the operating system 3 Insert the Windows setup CD and reboot the system to begin the Windows installation ote The computer system BIOS must support bootable from CD ROM DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Press F6 as soon as the Windows screen shows Setup is inspecting your Computer s hardware Configuration A
74. ble to add a single drive and add capac ity and retain fault tolerance Normally expanding a RAID level 1 array would require the addition of two disks A third disk can be added to the existing RAID logical drive and the volume set can then be migrated from RAID level 1 to 5 The result would be parity fault tolerance and double the available capacity without taking the system down A forth disk could be added to migrate to RAID level 6 It is only possible to migrate to a higher RAID level by adding a disk disks in an existing array can t be reconfigured for a higher RAID level without adding a disk Online migration is only permitted to begin It all volumes to be migrated are in the normal mode During the migration process pm J Rm 157 APPENDIX the volume sets being migrated are accessed by the host sys tem In addition the volume sets with RAID level 1 1E 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set transitions from mi grating state to migrating degraded state When the migra tion is completed the volume set transitions to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further transitions to rebuilding state e Online Volume Expansion Performing a volume expansion on the controller is the process of growing only the size of the lastest volume A more flexible optio
75. but uses a second independent distributed parity scheme Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives and then a second set of par ity is calculated and written across all of the drives A0 BO co DO A1 B1 1 Fi C2 D2 E2 F2 EEEE I 1 5 i J j i Array Management E M C Blocks Logical Disk RAID 6 P Q Redundancy A Blocks _B Blocks E Blocks D Blocks F Blocks a J E Physical 3 E Summary of RAID Levels The SATA RAID controller supports RAID Level 0 1 1E 3 5 and 6 The table below provides a summary of RAID levels Features and Performance RAID Description Min Data Data I O Request Level Drives Reli Transfer Rates ability Rate Also known as stripping 1 No data Very Very High for Data distributed across multiple Protec High Both Reads drives in the array There is no tion and Writes data protection 168 Also known as mirroring All data replicated on N sepa rated disks N is almost always 2 This is a high availability solu tion but due to the 100 duplication it is also a costly solution Half of drive capacity in array devoted to mirroring Also known Block Interleaved Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disks Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk Also known Bit Interl
76. button on the screen to delete the hot spares 6 5 7 Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the RAID set update creation period it possibly could disappear due to this abnormal condition TT LL a sid 115 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The RESCUE function can recover the missing RAID set infor mation The RAID controller uses the time as the RAID set signa ture The RAID set may have different time after the RAID set is recovered The SIGANT function can regenerate the signature for the RAID set 6 6 Volume Set Functions A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device It is organized in a RAID level with one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set capacity can consume all or a portion of the disk capacity available in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist on a group of disks in a RAID set Additional volume sets created in a specified RAID set will reside on all the physical disks in the raid set Thus each volume set on the RAID set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the RAID set 116 6 6 1 Create Volume Set 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same raid set 2 Up to 16 volume sets can be created by the SATA RAID control ler 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2 TB because the controller is capable of 64 bit mode
77. chitecture from the architecture of the hardware devices which broadens the base of multi vendor support Volume Set A volume set is a concatenation of storage elements that may be RAID arrays JBODs or simply areas of disks that are not part of RAID ar rays Write back When a cache is operating in write back mode data written into the cache is not immediately written out to its destination in second ary storage unless the heuristics governing the flushing of dirty data demands otherwise This methodology can improve the efficiency of write operations under favorable circumstances However its use can potentially lead to incoherences in a system that is not protected from power fluctuations or other failures Write through When a cache is operating in write through mode data written into the cache is also written to the destination secondary storage devices Essentially write completion does not occur until the data is written to secondary storage Thus the contents of the cache and the secondary storage are always consistent The advantage is that the possibility Caa 181 GLOSSARY of data corruption is greatly reduced The disadvantage is that write through operations are more time consuming XOR Engine All RAID arrays with the exception of RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 1E require parity to be calculated and written to the array in conjunction with data Typically the parity is a simple XOR on the bytes compris ing a
78. con figuration menu press lt ESC gt to skip configuration immediately When activated the McBIOS window appears showing a selection dialog box listing the SATA RAID controllers that are installed in the system The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys are enabled for the windows PERCENT 42 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select An Adapter To Configure 3 14 0 l O DD200000h IRQ 9 Use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the adapter you want to configure While the desired adapter is highlighted press the lt Enter gt key to enter the Main Menu of the McBIOS Configuration Utility Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup The man ufacture Volume Set Function default password is Physical Drives set to 0000 this password can be Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events vinee Te ie Clear Event Buffer LE modified by selecting Hardware Monitor Change Password System information in the Raid System Function section 3 2 McBIOS Configuration manager The McBIOS configuration utility is firmware based and is used to configure raid sets and volume sets Because the utility resides in the SATA RAID controller firmware operation is independent of any operating systems on your computer This utility can be used to e Create RAID sets e Expand RAID sets EEO SOOO 43 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Add physical drives e Define volume sets e Modify volume sets e Modify RAID level
79. d method allows local or remote to access the McRAID Storage Manager from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required Controller with onboard Lan port you can directly plug an Ethernet cable to the controller Lan port then enter the McBIOS management to configure the network setting After network EIC CO enn 138 APPENDIX setting configured and saved you can find the current IP address in the System Information page From a remote pc you can directly open a web browser and enter the IP address Then enter user name and password to login and start your management You can find the firmware update feature in the browser console System Controls 139 APPENDIX Appendix B Battery Backup Module ARC 6120 BAT The SATA RAID controller operates using cache memory The bat tery Backup Module is an add on module that provides power to the SATA RAID controller cache memory in the event of a power failure The Battery Backup Module monitors the write back cache on the SATA RAID controller and provides power to the cache memory if it contains data not yet written to the hard drives when power failure occurs BBM Components L ed SATA RAID Adapter BBM s Connector TITEHIHUT E rm Battery Connector t m s Status of BBM M External RAID Controller BBM s Connector
80. d the SCSI and RAID Controllers section Right click on the ARECA SATA RAID Adapter and select uninstall 4 Click Yes to confirm removing the SATA RAID driver The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed ss 94 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux Before installing the SATA RAID driver to the Linux complete the following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager configuration utility Use the BIOS configuration utility to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a com piled driver available from ARECA you can copy the source from the SATA software CD or download the source from the ARECA website and compile a new driver Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are in cluded on the shipped CD You can download updated versions of compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat or SuSE Linux from the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw Included in these downloads is the Linux driver source which can be used to compile the updated version driver for RedHat SuSE and other versions of Linux Please
81. drive used in a volume set fails then the Global Hot Spare will automatically take its place and he data previously located on the failed drive is reconstructed on the Global Hot Spare For this feature to work properly the global hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces Global Hot Spares only work with RAID level 1 1E 3 5 or 6 volume set You can configure up to three global hot spares with ARC 11xx 12xx The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare disk drive To effectively use the global hot spare feature you must always maintain at least one drive that is marked as a global spare e Hot Swap Disk Drive Support The SATA controller chip includes a protection circuit that supports the replacement of SATA hard disk drives without having to shut down or reboot the system A removable hard drive tray can de liver hot swappable fault tolerant RAID solutions at prices much less than the cost of conventional SCSI hard disk RAID control lers This feature provides advanced fault tolerant RAID protection and online drive replacement Auto Declare Hot Spare If a disk drive is brought online into a system operating in de graded mode The SATA RAID controllers will automatically de clare the new disk as a spare and begin rebuilding the degraded volume The Auto Declare Hot Spare function requires that the smallest drive contained within the volume set in
82. e Mode Capacity Truncation The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The password option allows user to set or clear the password pro tection feature Once the password has been set the user can monitor and configure the controller only by providing the cor EEE 75 BIOS CONFIGURATION 76 rect password This feature is used to protect the internal RAID system from unauthorized access The controller will check the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The system will automatically go back to the initial screen if it does not receive any command in 20 seconds To set or change the password move the cursor to Raid System Function screen press the Change Password item The Enter New Password screen will appear To disable the password only press Enter in both the Enter New Password and Re Enter New Password column The ex isting password will be cleared No password checking will occur when entering the main menu Mai Raid System Function JBOD RAID Function Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache STagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 4 JBOD RAID Function JBOD is an acronym for just a Bunch Of Disks It represents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of
83. e a defect 177 GLOSSARY Battery Backup Module Many modern RAID controllers are armed with a battery backup Mod ule BBM While an UPS protects most servers from power fluctua tions or failures a BBM provides an additional level of protection In the event of a power failure a BBM supplies power to retain data in the RAID controller s cache thereby permitting any potentially dirty data in the cache to be flushed out to secondary storage when power is restored BIOS Basic Input Output System software is stored on a chip and provides an interface between the operating system and the hardware Usually the BIOS is built into a ROM chip installed on the motherboard so that the BIOS will always available and not affected by disk failure Cache Controller memory used to speed up data transfer to and from a disk Consistency Check In RAID check consistency verifies the correctness of redundant data in an array For example in a system with dedicated parity checking consistency means computing the parity of the data drives and com paring the results to the contents of the dedicated parity drive Driver It is a piece of software that is often executed in kernel mode that controls a hardware device Typically drivers provide an interface by which applications can use the device in a uniform and hardware inde pendent manner Hot Spare An extra physical disk drive in a RAID configuration that controller can use to
84. e attached to pin sets 1 and 2 This allows automatic controller configuration of the LED output If the logi cal level is different between the fist 2 sets of the HDD LED header LED attached to Set 1 but not Set 2 the controller will assign the first HDD LED header as the global indicator connector Otherwise each LED output will show only individual drive status The SATA RAID controller provides four kinds of LED status connec tors A Global indicator connector which light up when any drive is ac tive B Individual LED indicator connector for each drive channel C PC connector for SATA proprietary backplane enclosure D SGPIO connector for SAS Backplane enclosure HARDWARE INSTALLATION The following diagrams and description describes each type of con nector Note A cable for the global indicator comes with your computer system Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them A Global Indicator Connector If the system use only a single global indicator attach the global indicator cable to the two pins HDD LED connector The following diagrams show the connector and pin locations LCD I2C Module Connector Global Activity LED Indicator Figure 2 20 ARC m 1110 1120 1210 1220 global LED connection HDD LED for Computer Case connector x Fault LED connector ja Global Activity LED Indicator LCD 12C Fault LED HDD LED
85. e download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip 117 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Initialization Mode Press Enter key to define fast initialization or Selected the Background Instant Available When background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete when Fast Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses e Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID level 0 1 1E 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance espe cially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer does random reads more often select a smaller stripe size Note RAID level 3 can t modify stripe size Cache Mode The SATA RAID controller supports Write Through Cache and Write Back Cache e SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun SCSI Channel The SATA RAID controller function is simulated as a SCSI RAID controller The host bus is represented as a SCSI channel Choose the SCSI Channel SCSI ID Each SCSI device attached t
86. e highlight bar to the Create Driver Disk entry and press Enter 5 The screen queries the SATA RAID controller support driver database and displays a list of available drivers Move the highlight bar to the correct driver entry and press Enter to select 6 The next screen will show Please insert a formatted dis kette into drive A Press any key to continue Insert the formatted diskette in drive A and press any key to continue 7 The window will display the driver building message Now is writing to Cylinder as it copies the image file from the CD ROM to Driver Diskette 8 The Write Complete message will display when the driver diskette ready The driver diskette is now made Proceed to the following instruc tion for installation procedures 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows The SATA RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Windows 2003 64 bit for AMD Opteron is also supported The SATA RAID controllers support SCSI Miniport and StorPort Drivers for Windows Server 2003 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows Server 2003 pmE M b n 89 DRIVER INSTALLATION The Storport driver is new to Windows Server 2003 Storport im plements a new architecture designed for better performance with RAID systems and in Storage Area Network SAN environments Storport delivers higher I O throughput enhanced managea
87. e the RAID set After the user completes this function the Raid State will change to De graded Mode Dow Fem m Areca Technology Corporation D idi Tin TP at t Dh tame e em frm aher I L Y hats mm 114 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION To activate the incomplete the RAID set click on the Activate Raid Set link A Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is displayed showing all raid sets existing on the current controller Click the RAID set number to activate in the select column Click on the Submit button on the screen to activate the raid set that had a disk removed or failed in the power off state The SATA RAID controller will continue to work in degraded mode 6 5 5 Create Hot Spare hows mem m il Areca Technology Corporation Bodo Pm tee e feles The ED Debes For Het Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button in the screen to create the hot spares The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare 6 5 6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target Hot Spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Sub mit
88. east 3 physical drives RAID 1E requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 5 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Highlight the desired RAID level for the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm BIOS CONFIGURATION The capacity for the current volume set is entered after highlighting the desired RAID level and pressing the Enter key The capacity for the current volume set is displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to set the capacity of the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm The available stripe sizes for the current volume set are then displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the current volume set stripe size and press the Enter key to confirm This parameter specifies the size of the stripes written to each disk in a RAID O 1 5 or 6 Volume Set You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size provides better read performance especially when the computer preforms mostly sequential reads However if the computer preforms random read requests more often choose a smaller stripe size 5 When you are finished defining the volume set press the Enter key to confirm the Quick Volume And Raid Set Setup function
89. eaved Par ity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disks Parity data consumes the capacity of 1 disk drive Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk Lower than RAID 1 1E 6 Also known Block Interleaved Distributed Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disk Parity data con sumes the capacity of 2 disk drive Higher than a single drive APPENDIX Reads are higher than a single disk Writes similar toa single disk Transfer rates more similar to RAID 1 than RAID 0 Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are twice as fast as a single disk Write are similar to a single disk Reads are twice as fast as a single disk Writes are similar to a single disk Reads are close to being twice as fast as a single disk Writes are similar to a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are Slower than a single disk 169 APPENDIX 170 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability Similar to RAID 5 but does two different parity com putations RAID 6 offers fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5 Parity data consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives highest reliabil ity Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower tha
90. enu and click on the System Controls link The Sys tem Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the EtherNet Config item then press Enter key to select the desired function Ot Pee ee pm iiti Areca Technolog Corporation Fiber O mta Pe a Ore d Tien Ihs omm Costal 6 8 3 Alert by Mail Configuration 12 16 24 port To configure the SATA RAID controller e mail function move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show all items Move the cur sor bar to the Alert By Mail Config item then select the desired function This function can only be set via web based configura tion The firmware contains a SMTP manager monitoring all system events Single or multiple user notifications to be sent via Plain English e mails with no software required 129 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ODubibur es d reca Technology orporation 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration 12 16 24 port To configure the raid controller SNMP function click on the Sys tem Controls link The System Controls menu will show available items Select the SNMP Configuration item This function can only set via web based configuration The firmware SNMP Agent Manager monitors all system events and the SNMP function becomes functional with no Agent soft ware required nek Feet m ORUM fusus E Areca Technolog Corporation A dania Pa m
91. es Monitors Notification e System status indication through LED LCD connector HDD activity fault connector and alarm buzzer e SMTP support for email notification e SNMP agent supports for remote SNMP Manager e I2C Enclosure Management Ready IOP331 332 333 e I2C amp SGPIO Enclosure Management Ready IOP341 RAID Management e Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM e Ethernet port support on 12 16 24 port In Band Manager e Hot key boot up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS e Support controller s API library allowing customer to write its own AP e Support Command Line Interface CLI e Browser based management utility via ArcHttp proxy server e Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility e Disk Stress Test DST utility for production in Windows Out of Band Manager e Firmware embedded browser based RAID manager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port for 12 16 24 port Adapter e Support controller s API library for customer to write its own AP for 12 16 24 port Adapter e Push Button and LCD display panel option Operating System e Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 e Red Hat Linux e SuSE Linux e FreeBSD e Novell Netware 6 5 e Solaris 10 X86 X86 64 e SCO Unixware 7 1 4 e Mac OS 10 X no bootable For latest supported OS listing visit http www areca com tw PEEEEXE M 13 INTRODUCTION 1110 1120 1130 11
92. es the drive and look at it The SMART can often predict a problem before failure occurs The controllers will recognize a SMART error code and notify the administer of an impending hard drive failure e Auto Reassign Sector Under normal operation even initially defect free drive media can develop defects This is a common phenomenon The bit density and rotational speed of disks is increasing every year and so are the potential of problems Usually a drive can internally remap bad sectors without external help using cyclic redundancy check CRC checksums stored at the end of each sector SATA drives perform automatic defect re assignment for both read and write errors Writes are always completed if a location to be written is found to be defective the drive will automatically OO LLL 161 APPENDIX relocate that write command to a new location and map out the defective location If there is a recoverable read error the cor rect data will be transferred to the host and that location will be tested by the drive to be certain the location is not defective If it is found to have a defect data will be automatically relocated and the defective location is mapped out to prevent future write attempts In the event of an unrecoverable read error the error will be re ported to the host and the location will be flagged as being po tentially defective A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation
93. figured and the volume set units initialized by the controller before they are ready to use by the system You must have administrative level permissions to install Areca Mac Driver amp Software You can install Driver amp Software on your Power Mac G5 or MacPro as below 1 Insert the Areca Mac Driver amp Software CD that came with your Areca External SATA RAID Adapter 2 Double click on the following file that resides at lt CD ROM gt packages MacOS to add the installer on the Finder a install mraid mac dmg For Power Mac G5 b install mraid macpro dmg For MacPro 3 Launch the installer by double clicking the install mraid mac or install mraid macpro virtual volume on the Finder 4 Follow the installer steps to install Areca driver archttp64 and arc cli utility at the same time 5 Reboot your Power Mac G5 or MacPro system DRIVER INSTALLATION Normally archttp64 and arc_cli are installed at the same time you install the driver for your Areca external SATA RAID adapter Once archttp64 and arc_cli have been installed the background task au tomatically starts each time you start your computer There is one MARID icon showing on your desktop This icon is for you to start up the McRAID storage manager by archttp64 and arc_cli utility Please refer to the Mac manual file on the software CD CD ROM gt DOCS directory 4 7 Driver Installation for UnixWare 7 1 4 Please refer to the readme txt file on the so
94. for TCP IP and SNMP services The ARECA SNMP Extension Agent file is ARCSNMP DLL Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the ARECA SNMP Extension Agent installa tion is essentially the same 1 Insert the SATA RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 145 APPENDIX 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at lt CD ROM gt packages windows http setup exe on the CD ROM If SNMP service was not installed please install SNMP service first Pier cong m 3 Click on the Setup file then the Welcome screen appears 4 Click the Setup file and then the install the program screen appears Follow the on screen prompts to complete Areca SNMP Extension Agent installation p PIDE cae ome 146 APPENDIX 5 A Progress bar appears that measures the progress of the ARECA SNMP Extension Agent setup When this screen complete you have completed the ARECA SNMP Extension Agent setup bee bee rem ehh ree ree rho rte ren rd rn ennemi m 6 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box of the installation program is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation ard We eget to tethers Saws anne d P Starting SNMP Trap Notification Configruations To start SNMP Trap Notification Configruations There have two methods First double click
95. fs tet bated Nell ii Hort galt ti D 93 e pa uy 130 n E99 eg LH RAID3 Bit Interleaved Parity E 1 B H Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 e RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with parity at byte level In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk If one drive in the system fails the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the same time greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system This relieves the write bottleneck that characterizes RAID 4 and is the primary reason that RAID 5 is more often implemented in RAID arrays two co po i ci mis 82 D2 E2 ATS js Jen Je hcl e o n bn dong bl RAID 5 Block Interleaved Logical Disk Array d Management Ditributed Parity A Blocks 8 Blocks C Blocks D Blocks j Blocks Physical Disk i i i i i Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 167 APPENDIX e RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability but is not yet widely used It is similar to RAID 5 but it performs two different parity com putations or the same computation on overlapping subsets of the data RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for dis tributed parity data RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5
96. ftware CD or a manual from website http www areca com tw 4 8 Driver Installation for NetWare 6 5 Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD or a manual from website http www areca com tw 97 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation Overview After hardware installation the SATA disk drives connected to the SATA RAID controller must be configured and the volume set units initialized before they are ready to use The user interface for these tasks can be accessed through the built in configuration and administration utility that resides in the controller s firmware It provides complete control and management of the con troller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software In addition a software utility to configure the SATA RAID is provided on the CD ROM delivered with SATA controller This CD ROM contains the software utility that can monitor test and support the SATA RAID controller The software utility and McRAID storage manager can con figure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server The following table outlines their functions Configuration Utility Operating System supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux FreeBSD Via Archttp proxy server NetWare UnixwWare Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin portal to Windows 2000 XP 2003 scan for multiple RAID uni
97. g Storage manager 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator The following steps show how to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000 XP 2003 This RmR 93 DRIVER INSTALLATION procedure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your sys tem 1 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Ad ministrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to assign a disk drive letter 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000 XP 2003 To remove the SATA RAID controller driver from the Windows sys tem follow the instructions below 1 Ensure that you have closed all applications and are logged in with administrative rights 2 Open Control Panel and start the Add Remove Program icon and uninstall and software for the SATA RAID controller 3 Go to Control Panel and select System Select the Hardware tab and then click the Device Manager Button In Device Man ager expan
98. g Volume Sets Available to Windows System 93 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000 XP 2003 94 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux ceeee meme 95 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD ceennnmemen menn 95 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10 enm 96 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac 10 X ssseenn memes 96 4 7 Driver Installation for UnixWare 7 1 4 97 4 8 Driver Installation for NetWare 6 5 scsseseen mme 97 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation 98 5 FOR WINdOWS tassios zevsuessversidexex re s ETEEUrE CR XYSR YR EPOR RE SX RW TER 99 5 2 OM EIntec SCG SO AES at Meer M Mee HUE IT 100 5 3 FOr FreeBSD feierte edv ti undo aa v e cua e dg e ule 101 5 4 For Solaris 10 X86 ecrit it nr PC P lr EN 102 5 5 For Mac OS 10 56 coss e auo p aden setts visting aed daa EO E YRER MEE 102 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration ree eem Ra Rex na 103 6 Web Browser based Configuration 107 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager eee 107 e Another method to start up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local Administration eem nne 108 6 1 1 Through Ethernet port Out of Band ss 109 6 2 SATA RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager 110 6 3 Main Menu ava osse evuscicu eret iter roach advo a Edd e VOR 111 6 4 Quick FUR CON wi uscire cie le ert e a T pu ne cua 111 6 5 RaidSet Functions
99. ged contact your local dealer e Min SAS 4i cable SFF 8087 Signal Figure 2 18 Min SAS 4i cable SFF 8087 28 HARDWARE INSTALLATION name m Tv pm SCS foo n6 oi 8 3 separa n6 Sebna s 8 HDD R24 HDD T2 HDD R3 Table 1 Min SAS 4i cable SFF8087 pin assignment Step 5 6 Connect the Min SAS 4x to Min SAS 4x cable Model ARC 1280ML 12X1ML have external Min SAS 4x SFF 8088 connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Min SAS 4x connector backplane External Min SAS 4x cables are not included in the ARC 1280ML 12X1ML package HARDWARE INSTALLATION 30 If you have not yet connected your Min SAS 4x cables use the cables included with your enclosure to connect your controller to the Min SAS 4x backplane This type of cable will depend on what enclosure you have The above diagram shows one example picture of Min SAS 4x cable Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Step 6 Install the LED cable optional ARC 1XXX Series Fault Activity Header Intelligent Electronics Schematic Open Collector Low Open Collector Low N ARC 1XXX ARC 1170 1280 12x0ML The intelligent LED controller outputs a low level pulse to deter mine if status LEDs ar
100. he 12 16 24 port controllers support one DDR2 533 DIMM socket that allows for upgrading up to 2GB of memory The controllers use Marvell 4 8 channel SATA PCI X controller 10 INTRODUCTION chips which can simultaneously communicate with the I O proces sor and read or write data on multiple drives Unsurpassed Data Availability As storage capacity requirements continue to rapidly increase us ers require greater levels of disk drive fault tolerance which can be implemented without doubling the investment in disk drives RAID 1 mirroring provides high fault tolerance However half of the drive capacity of the array is lost to mirroring making it too costly for most users to implement on large volume sets due to dobuling the number of drives required Users want the protection of RAID 1 or better with an implementation cost comparable to RAID 5 RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data The 8 12 16 24 port RAID controllers provide RAID 6 functionality to meet these demanding requirements The SATA RAID controllers also provide RAID levels 0 1 1E 3 5 or JBOD configurations Its high data availability and protection is derived from the following capabilities Online RAID Capacity Ex pansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migration Dynamic Volume Set Expansion Global Online Spare Automatic Drive Failure Detection
101. he capacity of the smallest disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the RAID set The Quick Vol ume RAID Setup option creates a RAID set with the following properties 1 All of the physical drives are contained in one RAID set 2 The RAID level hot spare capacity and stripe size options are selected during the configuration process 3 When a single volume set is created it can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in this RAID set 4 If you need to add an additional volume set use the main menu Create Volume Set function The total number of physical drives in a specific RAID set deter mine the RAID levels that can be OP nee within the RAID Raid Set Function Volume Set Functi Physical Drives Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION Set Select Quick Volume RAID Setup from the main menu all possible RAID level will be displayed on the screen If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Suppor Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Ie Use 64bit LBA Volume Set Functi 5 Total 4 Drive r Physical ives 4 Dd Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 View S
102. ibutes the original volume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance configuration The unused capacity on the expand RAID set can then be used to create an additional volume set with a different fault tolerance setting if required by the user APPENDIX After Array Expansion Adding One Disk Free Space 80GB Volume 1 40GB D Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 160GB The SAS RAID controller redistributes the original volume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance configuration The unused capacity on the expand raid set can then be used to create an additional volume sets with a different fault tolerance setting if user need to change e Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities a system with Areca online RAID level stripe size migration allows a simplified upgrade to any supported RAID level without having to reinstall the operating system The SATA RAID controllers can migrate both the RAID level and stripe size of an existing volume set while the server is online and the volume set is in use Online RAID level stripe size mi gration can prove helpful during performance tuning activities as well as when additional physical disks are added to the SATA RAID controller For example in a system using two drives in RAID level 1 it is possi
103. ical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB 63 BIOS CONFIGURATION e SCSI Channel Main Menu Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level Dub Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID ex SCSI LUN BED Cache Mode Write Back RES Kev ure Enabled The SATA RAID controller function simulates a SCSI RAID con troller The host bus represents the SCSI channel Choose the SCSI Channel A Select SCSI Channel dialog box will appears select the channel number and press the Enter key to confirm it i Volume Creation j Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level e Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled e SCSI ID Each device attached to the SATA card as well as the card it self must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI chan nel can connect up to 15 devices It is necessary to assign a 64 BIOS CONFIGURATION SCSI ID to each device from a list of available SCSI IDs i Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 2e Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID zu SCSI LUN Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled e SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SCSI controllers treat each LUN as if it were a SCSI disk Main Menu Volume Set Function i Volume Creation Volume Name
104. id set 1 Click on the Modify Volume Set link 2 Click the volume set check box from the list that you wish to modify Click the Submit button The following screen appears Use this option to modify the volume set configuration To modify volume set attributes from Raid Set System function move the cursor bar to the volume set attribute menu and click it The modify value screen appears Move the cursor to an attribute item and then click the attribute to modify the value After you complete the modification click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button to complete the action The user can modify all values except capacity 119 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 120 To Expand an existing volume noticed e Only the last volume can expand capacity e When expand volume capacity you can t modify stripe size or modify raid revel simultaneously e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size e After volume expansion the volume capacity can t be decreased For Greater 2TB expansion e If your system installed in the volume do not expanded the volume capacity greater 2TB currently OS can t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device e Expanded over 2TB used LBA64 mode Please make sure your OS supports LBA 64 before expand it 6 6 3 1 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another a volume set
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106. ies with the PCI Express X8 The SATA RAID controller may be connected to up to 4 8 12 16 or 24 SATA II hard drives using the supplied cables Optional cables are required to connect any drive activity LEDs and fault LEDs on the enclosure to the SATA RAID controller Installation Tools The following items may be needed to assist with installing the SATA RAID controller into an available PCI expansion slot e Small screwdriver e Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Information To ensure personal safety as well as the safety of the equipment e Always wear a grounding strap or work on an ESD protective mat e Before opening the system cabinet turn off power switches and unplug the power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers HARDWARE INSTALLATION arning High voltages may be found inside computer equipment Be fore installing any of the hardware in this package or remov ing the protective covers of any computer equipment turn off power switches and disconnect power cords Do not re connect the power cords until you have replaced the covers Electrostatic Discharge Static electricity can cause serious damage to the electronic com ponents on this SATA RAID controller To avoid damage caused by electrostatic discharge observe the following precautions e Do not remove the SATA RAID controller from its anti static
107. immediately af ter creation because they do not create parity data However RAID 3 5 and 6 volume sets must be initialized to generate parity information In Backgorund Initialization the initializa tion proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requir ing a reboot and without waiting for initialization to complete Furthermore the volume set is protected against disk failures while initialing If using Foreground Initialization the initializa tion process must be completed before the volume set is ready for system accesses e Array Roaming The SATA RAID controllers store RAID configuration information on the disk drives The controller therefore protect the configu ration settings in the event of controller failure Array roaming allows the administrators the ability to move a completele RAID set to another system without losing RAID configuration infor mation or data on that RAID set Therefore if a server fails the RAID set disk drives can be moved to another server with an Areca RAID controller and the disks can be inserted in any order e Online Capacity Expansion Online Capacity Expansion makes it possible to add one or more physical drives to a volume set without interrupting server op eration eliminating the need to backup and restore after recon figuration of the RAID set When disks are
108. indows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator 91 DRIVER INSTALLATION Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass through disks accessible to Windows This proce dure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your system 1 Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk Administrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the disk drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to give a disk drive letter 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Win dows 2000 XP 2003 Installation In this scenario you are installing the controller in an existing Windows system To install the driver 1 Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 the Hardware Installa tion Chapter to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the Mc BIOS based configuration utility Use the configuration utility to create the raid set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager Once a volume set is created and configured continue with installation
109. ing the Buzzer warning When using the passive heatsink disable the Controller Fan Detection function through this BIOS setting The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting to disable the beeper function This function is not available in the Web Browser setting EIC 80 BIOS CONFIGURATION Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Maximum SA 3 HDD Read Ah Disabled Stagger Powe Empty HDD sl B HDD SMART Status Polling Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 12 Disk Write Cache Mode User can set the Disk Write Cache Mode to Auto Enabled or Disabled Enabled increases speed Disabled increases reliabil ity Raid System Function Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 13 Capacity Truncation SATA RAID controllers use drive truncation that drives from dif ferent vendors It is more likely to be usable as spares for one another Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capac O e l ICH oneese nat 81 BIOS CONFIGURATION ity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and No Truncation Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendor
110. is 90 Celsius degree and the controller safe range is 70 Celsius degree If any sensor detects over the safe ranges on these temperatures you will get a warning event eoi Tu m idi reca Fechnologs Corporation L o lm APPENDIX Appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process Since the SATA RAID controller features flash firmware it is not necessary to change the hardware flash chip in order to upgrade the RAID firmware The user can simply re program the old firm ware through the In Band PCI X PCIe bus or Out of Band Enther net port McRAID Storage manager New releases of the firmware are available in the form of a DOS file on the shipped CD or Areca s web site The files available at the FTP site for each model contain the following files in each version ARCXXXNNN BIN Software Binary Code where XXXX refers to the model name and NNNN refers to the software code type ARCXXXBIOS BIN PCI card BIOS for system board using ARCXXXBOOT BIN RAID controller hardware initialization ARCXXXFIRM BIN RAID kernel program ARCXXXMBRO BIN Master Boot Record for supporting Dual Flash Image in the SATA II RAID controller README TXT contains the history information of the software code change in the main directory Read this file first to make sure you are upgrading to the proper binary file Select the right file for the upgrade Normally user upgrades the ARCXXXBIOS BIN for system M B compatibility and ARCX
111. isk array An example of An SNMP management application is Hewlett Packard s Open View The SNMP Extension Agent can be used to augment the SATA RAID controller if you are already running an SNMP management application at your site SNMP Definition SNMP an IP based protocol has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager and the managed devices have the SNMP agent loaded Management data is organized in a hierarchical data structure called the management Information Base MIB These MIBs are defined and sanctioned by various industry associa tions The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli ance with these MIBs so that inter vendor interoperability can be achieved If a vendor wishes to include additional device informa tion that is not specified in a standard MIB then that is usually done through MIB extensions 143 APPENDIX MIB Compilation and Definition File creation Before the manager application accesses the SATA RAID controller it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management applica tion s database of events and status indicator codes This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID MIB file into the trap
112. l be displayed at the button line 60 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Volume Name Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level PE Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Tag Queuing Enabled The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit e Raid Level Volume Set Function al Create n EAEE Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 25 Capacity n Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID B 0 1 SCSI LUN zW Cache Mode Tag Queuing Set the RAID level for the volume set Highlight Raid Level and press lt Enter gt The available RAID levels for the current volume set are dis played Select a RAID level and press the Enter key to confirm 61 BIOS CONFIGURATION 62 e Capacity The maximum available volume size is the default value for the first setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your ap plication The capacity value can be increased or decreased by the UP and DOWN arrow keys The capacity of each volume set must be less than or equal to the total capacity of the RAID Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level i Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID ERO SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back LEKENE Enabled set on which it resides If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB
113. ll show all items then select the desired func tion e System Beeper Setting The Alert Beeper function item is used to Disabled or Enable the SATA RAID controller alarm tone generator e Background Task Priority The Raid Rebuild Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The SATA RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild priority ultraLow Low Normal High to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately For high array performance specify a Low value e JBOD RAID Configuration JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disks It repre sents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of par titions on the disk The OS can see all disks when this option is selected It is necessary to delete a RAID set if the disks in that set are to be convereted to JBOD mode e Maximun SATA Supported The SATA RAID controller can support up to SATA II which runs up to 300MB s NCQ is a command protocol in Serial ATA that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives It allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynamically rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The RAID subsystem allows user to choose the SATA Mode slowest to fastest SATA150 SATA1
114. lowing components e A supported Web browser which should already be installed on the system e Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SATA RAID system Refer to Chapter 5 Archttp Proxy Server Installation e Remote and managed systems must have a TCP IP connection For windows if there is no volume set created by the MC BIOS manager Archttp program can not find raid card It will show 0 controllers found From the version 1 71 of the Archttp and the version 1 20 00 13 of the driver users no longer need to have a valid raid volume created in order to managed controller To configure the internal SATA RAID controller You need to know its IP Address 1 Launch your McRAID Storage Manager by entering http Computer IP Address port number in the web browser 2 When connection is established the System Login screen appears The SATA RAID controller default User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 e Another method to start up McRAID Storage Man ager from Windows Local Administration Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server installa tion is essentially the same 1 To start the McRAID Storage Manager for browser based management selecting Controller 01 PCI and then click the Start Button WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The Enter Network P
115. m RAID Set dialog box will be ap peared This screen displays the existing arranged RAID sets Select the RAID set number and press the Enter key The Vol ume Creation dialogue is displayed in the screen 4 A window with a summary of the current volume set s set tings The Volume Creation option allows user to select the volume name capacity RAID level strip size Disk Info Cache mode and tag queuing The user can modify the default val ues in this screen the modification procedures are in section 3 5 3 3 Ee E iunii OA AAi k LLLAALLZZ S 59 BIOS CONFIGURATION Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level m5 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 210 SCSI LUN z0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 5 After completing the modification of the volume set press the Esc key to confirm it An Initialization screen is presented e Select Foreground Faster Completion for Faster Initializa tion of the selected volume set e Select Background Instant Available for Normal Initializa tion of the selected volume set Volume Name Yama Cat Hn Raid Level Initialization Mode Capacity l Foreground Faster Completion Stripe Size Background Instant Available SCSI Channel SCSI ID 210 SCSI LUN z0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 6 Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create additional volume sets 7 The initialization percentage of volume set wil
116. mber Disks 14 Raid State Migrating Total Capacity 160 1GB Free Capacity 144 1GB Min Member Disk Size 40 0GB Member Disk Channels 1234 Migration occurs when a disk is added to a RAID set Migration status is displayed in the raid status area of the Raid set infor mation screen when a disk is being added to a Raid set Migrat ing status is also displayed in the associated volume status area of the Volume Set Information when a disk is added to a RAID set 3 7 2 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set The following screen is shows Raid Set Information after one of its disk drive was removed in the power off state Maj n Mer Bii Raid Set Function Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Member Disks 14 Raid State Migrating Total Capacity 160 1GB Free Capacity 144 1GB Min Member Disk Size 40 0GB Member Disk Channels 1234 When one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the Raid set state will change to Incomplete State If a user wants to continue to work while the SATA RAID controller is powered on the user can use the Activate Raid Set option to active the RAID set After user selects this function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode SS SUSU 56 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 5 Create Hot Spare Maja Me ii Raid Set Function os concer 0 em i Ch08 80 0GBST380q Raid Set Information No Haroweresvromr System information When you choose the Create Hot Spa
117. mber of hard disks in an array is dictated by the type of the array and the number of spares that may be assigned to it Arrays are also sometimes referred to as containers Furthermore whether an array can be built using part of the space on a disk as opposed to being forced to use the whole disk depends upon the implementation Arrays are typically used to provide data redundancy and or enhanced I O performance ATA Acronym for AT Bus Attachment a standard interface to IDE hard disks Western Digital s IDE disk interface was standardized by ANSI to form the ATA specification using a 16 bit ISA bus Auto Reassign Sector SATA drives perform automatic defect re assignment for both read and write errors Writes are always completed if a location to be writ ten is found to be defective the drive will automatically relocate that write command to a new location and map out the defective location If there is a recoverable read error the correct data will be transferred to the host and that location will be tested by the drive to be certain the location is not defective if it is found to have a defect it will be automatically relocated to a new location and the defective location mapped out In the event of an unrecoverable read error the error will be reported to the host and the location flagged as potentially defec tive A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location hav
118. mprised of five disks A B C D and E In this configuration each strip is mirrored on an adjacent disk with wrap around In fact this scheme or a slightly modified version of it is often referred to as RAID 1E and was originally proposed by IBM When the number of disks comprising a RAID 1E is even the striping pattern is identical to that of a traditional RAID 1E with each disk being mirrored by exactly one other unique disk Therefore all the characteristics for a traditional RAID 1E apply to a RAID 1E when the latter has an even number of disks Areca RAID 1E offers a little more flexibility in choosing the number of disks that can be used to constitute an array The number can be even or odd ena med Array Management uu e RAID 3 RAID 3 provides disk striping and complete data redundancy though a dedicated parity drive RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or on the blocks and then writes the blocks to all but one drive in a ZY 166 APPENDIX the array The parity data created during the exclusive or is then written to the last drive in the array If a single drive fails data is still available by computing the exclusive or of the contents cor responding strips of the surviving member disk RAID 3 is best for applications that require very fast data transfer rates or long data blocks jae A1 a A3 B0 B1 8283 CO ca ITE Logical Disk
119. n a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk APPENDIX Appendix G General Troubleshooting Tips Most of controller errors are traceable to external factors such as conflicts with other installed cards motherboard incompatibility bad or incorrectly configured drives loose cables improper control ler installation or other installation errors To troubleshoot SATA RAID controller problems try to simplify your hardware configuration by removing some other devices from the system and then adding them back one at a time For the latest information on SATA RAID Controllersand new drivers on the Areca website at http www areca com tw The following general guidelines are for some specific error conditions Q1 The BIOS Message of the SATA RAID controller never appears on the screen Answer 1 Ensure the controller is inserted correctly into the PCI slot 2 Ensure 3 3 volts are being supplied to the PCI slot Q2 How many SATA RAID controllers can be installed into a computer system Answer Up to 4 RAID controllers in a system are supported Q3 When I power on system the controller beeps What does that means Answer That beep while power on means controller received bus reset signal from host One beep means one bus reset signal the beep amounts and interval may vary with motherboard BIOS 171 APPENDIX Q4 The boot device cannot found Answer
120. n is for the array to concatenate an additional drive into the RAID set and then expand the volumes on the fly This happens transparently while the volumes are online but at the end of the process the operating system will detect free space at after the existing volume Windows NetWare and other advanced operating systems sup port volume expansion which enables you to incorporate the additional free space within the volume into the operating sys tem partition The operating system partition is extended to incorporate the free space so it can be used by the operating system without creating a new operating system partition You can use the Diskpart exe command line utility included with Windows Server 2003 or the Windows 2000 Resource Kit to ex tend an existing partition into free space in the dynamic disk Third party software vendors have created utilities that can be used to repartition disks without data loss Most of these utilities work offline Partition Magic is one such utility High availability Global Hot Spares A Global Hot Spare is an unused online available drive which is ready for replacing the failure disk The Global Hot Spare is one 158 APPENDIX of the most important features that SATA RAID controllers provide to deliver a high degree of fault tolerance A Global Hot Spare is a spare physical drive that has been marked as a global hot spare and therefore is not a member of any RAID set If a disk
121. nm 6 9 Information 134 6 9 1 RaidSet Hierarchy Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller current raid set current volume set and physical disk configuration Please reference the this chapter Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 9 2 System Information To view the SATA RAID controller s information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the System Information link The SATA RAID controller Information screen appears Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller s information The controller name firmware version serial number main pro cessor CPU data Instruction cache size and system memory size speed appear in this screen r E reca Technology Corporation X sic ene ate 135 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 136 6 9 3 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller s hardware monitor information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click the Hardware Monitor link The Hardware Information screen appears The Hardware Monitor Information provides the temperature and fan speed I O Processor fan of the SATA RAID controller The ARC 1231 1261 1280 1280ML card interface lists two tem peratures One for the I O processor and the other one for the controller The I O processor temperature is a new feature which detects by a thermal sensor under the IOP341 The processor safe range
122. nstalled and operational in your system For the SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt packages FreeBSD SNMP Readme or download from http www areca com tw 149 APPENDIX Appendix D Event Notification Configurations The controller classifies disk array events into four levels depending on their severity These include level 1 Urgent level 2 serious level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notificational events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator The following lists sample events for each level A Device Event Event evel Meaning cioe Reading Error Warning HDD reading error Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable Writing Error Warning HDD writing error Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable ATA Ecc Error Warning HDD ECC error Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable Change ATA Warning HDD change ATA Check HDD connection Mode mode Time Out Error Warning HDD Time out Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or H
123. o the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices The SATA RAID controller is a large SCSI device Assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SCSI controllers treat each LUN like a SCSI disk Tag Queuing The Enabled option is useful for enhancing overall system performance under multi tasking operating systems The Com mand Tag Drive Channel function controls the SCSI com mand tag queuing support for each drive channel This func Es 118 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION tion should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using older SCSI drives that do not support command tag queuing 6 6 2 Delete Volume Set To delete a volume set from RAID set move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Delete Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Delete screen will show all RAID set numbers Click a raid set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Submit button to show all volume set items in the selected raid set Click a volume set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Submit button to delete the volume set tows fee ee m V Areca Technology Corporation dh om mme B A skaer ot Pees bs Sedet Thr Volume Set Te Drbe 6 6 3 Modify Volume Set To modify a volume set from a ra
124. on Create a default configuration which is based on the number of physical disks installed it can modify the volume set Capacity Raid Level and Stripe Size RaidSet Functions Create a customized raid set VolumeSet Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter Physical Drives Create pass through disks and modify the existing pass through drives parameters Also provides the function to identify disk drives blinking LED System Controls Setting the raid system configuration Information Viewing the controller information The Raid Set Hierarchy can be viewed through the RaidSet Hierarchy item 6 4 Quick Function et mm h Cem m Areca Technology Corporation PE ndr dme imm dm tee ftri d futes Quick Cover Fond V cdm Sn Worse t enm ed Tad md m Tnm nm LIT WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Note In Quick Create your volume set is automatically configured based on the number of disks in your system Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you prefer to cus tomize your system The number of physical drives in the SATA RAID controller deter mines the RAID levels that can be implemented with the RAID set You can create a raid set associated with exactly one volume set The user can change the RAID level stripe size and capacity A hot spare option is also created depending upon the existing configura tion Click the Confirm The Operation
125. oration Oi ateme ioe tee Oe 9 d Ens mmm Chrona meris Ld 6 8 2 Ethernet Configuration 12 16 24 port Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration A customer doesn t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working The firm ware embedded Web Browser based RAID manager can access it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol that lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol configurations on a computer network When using the Internet s set of protocols TCP IP in order for a computer system to communicate to another com puter system it needs a unique IP address Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system PEE M 8e 128 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to eliminate the work necessary to administer a large IP network To configure the raid controller Ethernet port move the cursor bar to the main m
126. partitions on the disk The operating system can see all disks when the JBOD option is selected It is necessary to delete any RAID set s on any disk s if switching from a RAID to a JBOD con figuration BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 5 Background Task Priority Mal _ Raid kaid Rebuild Priority Mute DI UltraLow 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The SATA RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild prior ity ultralow low normal high to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately 3 7 5 6 Maximum SATA Mode E Raid System Function Maximum SATA Mode SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The SATA RAID controller can support up to SATA II which runs up to 300MB s twice as fast as SATA150 NCQ is a command protocol in Serial ATA that can only be implemented on na tive Serial ATA hard drives It allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where out
127. re option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller will result in the following Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare The create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare 3 7 2 6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target Hot Spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Press the Enter keys to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Delete Hot Spare window to delete the hot spare Maja Me Meo Raid Set Function ate Raid Set Raid Se Select The HotSpare Device To be Deleted I ChO5 80 0GBST3800 Ch08 80 0GBST380q BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 7 Raid Set Information To display Raid Set information move the cursor bar to the de sired RAID set number then press the Enter key The Raid Set Information will display You can only view information for the RAID set in this screen Maja Me pc Raid Set Function The Raid Set Information Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Member Disks 14 Raid State Normal Total Capacity 320 1GB Free Capacity 320 1GB Min Member Disk Size 80 0GB Member Disk Channels 1458 3 7 3 Volume Set Function Main Menu Create Volume Set Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Displ
128. reeBSD Production support will be available in e FreeBSD 5 3 Q12 Is it possible to write software that will run on Intel s processors with Intel EM64T and AMD s 64 bit capable processors Answer Yes in most cases even though the hardware microarchitecture for each company s processor is different the operating system and software ported to one processor will be likely to run on the other processor due to the close similarity of the instruction set architec tures However Intel processors support additional features like the SSE3 instructions and Hyper Threading Technology which are not supported on non Intel platforms As such we believe devel opers will achieve maximum performance and stability by design ing specifically for Intel architectures and by taking advantage of Intel s breadth of software tools and enabling services Q13 How will Intel EM64T work and what software is there to take advantage of 64 bit extensions Answer Platforms with Intel EM64T AMD64 can be run in three basic ways note a 64 bit capable BIOS is required for all three scenari OS 1 32 bit O S and 32 bit applications Legacy Mode No software changes are required however the user gets no benefit from Intel EM64T or AMD64 2 64 bit O S and 32 bit applications Compatibility Mode This usage requires all 64 bit device drivers In this mode the O S will see the 64 bit extensions but the 32 bit application will not Existing 3
129. refer to the readme txt file on the included ARECA CD ROM or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to FreeBSD Before installing the SATA RAID driver to Free BSD complete following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID Manager configuration utility Use the BIOS configuration 95 DRIVER INSTALLATION 96 utility to create the raid set and volume set For details see Chap ter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The supplied CD ROM that came with the SATA RAID controller includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4 x 4 2 and on wards and 5 x 5 2 and onwards To check if a more current ver sion driver is available please see the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw Please refer to the readme txt file on the SATA RAID controller software CD ROM or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10 Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD ora manual from website http www areca com tw 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac 10 x After hardware installation the SATA disk drives connected to the Externl SATA RAID Adapter must be con
130. rive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare HET u j m 44 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Con figuration Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration collects all available drives and includes them in a RAID set The RAID set you create is associated with exactly one volume set You will only be able to modify the default RAID level the stripe size and the capacity of the new volume set Designating drives as Hot Spares is also possible in the raid level selection option The volume set default settings will be Parameter Setting SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN 0 0 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Yes The default setting values can be changed after configuration is complete Follow the steps below to create arrays using the RAID Set Volume Set method 1 Choose Quick Volume Raid Setup from the main menu The available RAID levels with hot spare for the current volume set drive are displayed 2 It is recommend that you drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the raid set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the raid set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 1 Spare requires at l
131. rm The Operation and click on the Submit button to complete the selection action 6 7 3 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar to the main menus and click the De lete Pass Through link After you complete the selection mark the checkbox for Confirm The Operation and click the Submit button to complete the delete action m A Areca Technology Corporation X dii c e haters The Pace Tisch Tesh To uito 6 7 4 Identify Selected Drive To prevent removal of the wrong drive the selected Fault LED will blink so as to physically locate the intended disk when Identify Selected Drive is selected To identify the selected drive from the drives pool click Identify Selected Drive The Select The IDE Device For Identification screen appears mark the checkbox for the IDE device from the drive pool and select the Flash method After completing the se lection click on the Submit button to identify selected drive poss Fem m i Areca Technology Corporation T dro mme ID stamme rt Fe tee Parot ad Dores Ps Wat Mote tes Dasa be le Lent iw dem m i rmm dw me ow 123 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 System Controls 6 8 1 System Config To set the raid system function move the cursor to the main menu and click the Raid System Function link The Raid System Function menu wi
132. s chances are that the capacity varies slightly For exam ple one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 10G uses the same capac ity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 1G uses the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity Mute The AM Truncate Disk Capacity Alert Beepe Change Pa To Multiples of 10G JBOD RAID To Multiples of 1G Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 6 Ethernet Configuration 12 16 24 port Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration It is not necessary to create reserved disk space on any hard disk for the Ethernet port and HTTP service to function these func tions are built into the controller firmware 82 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor Sy
133. s database Event Configuration Performance 2 SNMP Agent SNMP Installation n The installation of the SNMP manager is accomplished in several phases e Starting the Firmware embedded SNMP community configura tion e Installing the SNMP Extension Agent on the server e Installing the SNMP Manager software on the client e Placing a copy of the management information base MIB in a directory which is accessible to the management application e Compiling the MIB description file with the management appli cation E 144 APPENDIX Starting the SNMP function setting Boma Fre Suas idi Areca Technology Corporation LIE LLLI Cheer i mtd e Community Name Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type in the community names of the SNMP agent Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Windows You must have the administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hard ware and Windows are both installed and operational in your sys tem To enable the SNMP agent for Windows configure Windows
134. site http www arec com tw 41 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The system mainboard BIOS automatically configures the following SATA RAID controller parameters at power up e I O Port Address e Interrupt channel IRQ e Adapter ROM Base Address Use McBIOS to further configure the SATA RAID controller to suit your server hardware and operating system 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager This section explains how to use the McBIOS Setup Utility to con figure your RAID system The BIOS Setup Utility is designed to be user friendly It is a menu driven program residing in the firm ware which allows you to scroll through various menus and sub menus and select among the predetermined configuration options When starting a system with an SATA RAID controller installed it will display the following message on the monitor during the start up sequence after the system bios startup screen but before the operating system boots ARC 1xxx RAID Ctrl DRAM 128 MB Channels 8 BIOS V1 00 Date 2004 5 13 F W V1 31 Date 2004 5 31 I O Port F3000000h IRQ 11 BIOS ROM mapped at D000 0h p No BIOS disk Found RAID Controller BIOS not installed pp Press lt Tab F6 gt to enter SETUP menu 9 second s left lt ESC to Skip gt The McBIOS configuration manager message remains on your screen for about nine seconds giving you time to start the config ure menu by pressing Tab or F6 If you do not wish to enter
135. standing commands can EEC 77 BIOS CONFIGURATION be dynamically rescheduled or re ordered along with the neces sary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed por tions of the workload The SATA RAID controller allows the user to choose the SATA Mode SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances HDD Read Ahead Cache d Enabled Disable Maxtor Disabled AM g imum ode d Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 8 Stagger Power On In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can sup ply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power sup ply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other system components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives New SATA drives have support staggered spin up capabilities to boost reliability Staggered spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the abil ity
136. stem information 3 7 6 1 DHCP Function DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol allows network ad ministrators centrally manage and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol addresses on a computer network When using the TCP IP protocol Internet protocol it is necessary for a computer to have a unique IP address in order to communi cate to other computer systems Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to minimize the work necessary to administer a large IP network To manually BIOS CONFIGURATION configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to the Main menu Ethernet Configuration Function item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to DHCP Function item then press Enter key to show the DHCP setting Select the Disabled or Enabled option to enable or disable the DHCP function If DHCP is disabled it will be necessary to manually enter a static IP address that does not conflict with other de vices on the network 3 7 6 2 Local IP address If you intend to set up your client computers manually no DHCP make sure that the assigned I
137. strip size changes or when a disk is added to a raid set Migration status is displayed in the vol ume status area of the RaidSet Hierarchy screen when one RAID level to another a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set Poes fw e fi Areca Technology Corporation OF AA PI stammen F a es Orie t ims I I LI WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 4 Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a raid set 1 Click on the Check Volume Set link 2 Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check Tick on Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity vol ume set check means computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing the results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive The checking percentage can also be viewed by click ing on RaidSet Hierarchy in the main menu 6 6 5 Stop VolumeSet Check Poet E m id Areca Technology Corporation v m Pea TE t Use this option to stop the Check Volume Set function 6 7 Physical Drive Choose this option to select a physical disk from the Main Menu and then perform the operations listed below 121 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 7 1 Create Pass Through Disk To create pass through disk move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on
138. t ing system installation Installing SATA RAID controller into an existing operating system The computer has an existing operating system installed and the SATA RAID controller is being installed as a secondary controller Have all required system hardware and software components on hand before proceeding with the setup and installation Materials required e Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux FreeBSD or more installa tion CD ROM e SATA RAID Controller Diver CD ROM e SATA RAID controller 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskettes The CD ROM disc shipped with the SATA RAID controller is a self booting CD In order to created driver diskettes for Windows Linux FreeBSD or more installation drivers your system is re quired to support booting from the CD ROM If you do not have the CD ROM disc with the package contact your local dealer or you can also download the latest version drivers for Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux freeBSD and more from the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw 88 DRIVER INSTALLATION The following steps are required to create the driver diskettes 1 The computer system BIOS must be set to boot up from the CD ROM 2 Insert the SATA Controller Driver CD disc into the CD ROM drive 3 The system will boot up from CD ROM Drive to create the driv er diskettes select the SATA RAID controller Driver Diskette Make Utility and a screen with several choices will be displayed 4 Move th
139. t then the capacity of the smallest disk will become the effective capacity of all the disks in the RAID set Volume Set Each volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device in other words a single large virtual hard disk A volume set will use a specific RAID level which will require one or more physical disks depending on the RAID level used RAID level refers to the level of performance and data protection of a volume set The capacity of a volume set can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist in a RAID set For the SATA RAID controller a volume set must be created either on an existing RAID set or on a group of available individual disks disks that are about to become part of a RAID set If there are pre existing RAID sets with available capacity and enough disks for the desired RAID level then the volume set can be created in the existing RAID set of the user s choice RAID Set 1 3 Individual Disks Free Space Volume 1 RAID 5 Volume 0 1E Disk 0 Disk1 Disk 2 APPENDIX In the illustration volume 1 can be assigned a RAID level 5 of operation while volume 0 might be assigned a RAID level 1E of operation Alterantively the free space can be used to create vol ume 2 which could then be set to use RAID level 5 Ease of Use Features e Foreground Availability Background Initialization RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used
140. t Function Create Volume Set Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check d Display Volume Info Halrervver TOTS System information Use this option to modify volume set configuration To modify volume set values from RAID set system function move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Modify Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Vol ume Set Functions menu will show all RAID set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number item then press the Enter key to show all volume set items Select the volume set from the list to be changed press the Enter key to modify it Main Menu Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 26 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 210 System inform SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled As shown volume information can be modified at this screen Choose this option to display the properties of the selected vol ume set all values can be modified except the capacity 67 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Volume Growth Use this option to expand a raid set when a disk is added to the system The additional capacity can be used to enlarge the volume set size or to create another volume set The Modify Volume Set Function can support the volume set expansion function To expand the volume set capacity from the Raid Set System Function move the cursor bar
141. talled in a server RAID enclosure with a Multi lance connector SFF 8470 backplane Multi lance cables are not included in the ARC 12XXML package If you have not yet connected your Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cables buy the Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cables to fit your enclosure And connect your controller to the Multi lance connector backplane The type of cable will depend on what enclosure you have The following diagram shows one example picture of Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cable Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Figure 2 16 Min SAS 4i to Multi lance 27 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5 5 Connect the Min SAS 4i to Min SAS 4i cable Model ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML have Min SAS 4i internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Min SAS 4i internal connector backplane Min SAS 4i cables are not included in the ARC 12XXML package This Min SAS 4i cable has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive Locate status Please see page 52 for the details of the SGPIO bus Figure 2 17 Min SAS 4i to Min SAS 4i Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If anything is missing or dama
142. the Create Pass Through link The rela tive setting function screen appears A pass through disk is not controlled by the SATA RAID controller firmware it cannot be a part of a volume set The disk is available to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating system is on a disk not controlled by the RAID firm ware The user can also select the cache mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI channel SCSI_ID SCSI_LUN for this volume Tow fee em m id Areca Technology Corporation ond domes Y at Cp E Laces Fors Tirvmph Dek Aras 6 7 2 Modify Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify the Pass Through Disk Attribute The user can modify the cache mode Tagged Command Queuing and SCSI channel ID LUN on an existing pass through disk To modify the pass through drive attribute from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar and click on the Modify Pass Through link The Select The Pass Through Disk For Modi fication screen appears mark the checkbox for the Pass Through Disk from the pass through drive pool and click on the Submit button to select drive tos P em MER dii Areca Technology Corporation baes s Trough Pme oerte 122 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION When the Enter Pass Through Disk Attribute screen appears modify the drive attribute values as you want After you complete the selection mark the checkbox for Confi
143. the BIOS setting to enable the Polling function WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION rok ut pg a Prnt s aid Areca Technology Corporation mM we toma C rmn e e Disk Write Cache Mode A user can set the Disk Write Cache Mode to Auto Enabled or Disabled LI e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode SATA RAID controllers use drive truncatio from differing vendors that are more likely to be used as spares for each other Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and No Truncation Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For exam De an 127 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ple one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 10G uses the same capac ity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 1G uses the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity o 7 2 bet m Raitt 3 J Areca Technology Corp
144. the Enter key to modify it 72 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk Select The Drive Delete Pass Through dl Ch01 80 0GB Pass Hardware Monitor System information J To delete a Pass through drive from the Pass through drive pool move the cursor bar to the Physical Drive Function menu and select the Delete Pass Through Drive item then press the Enter key The Delete Pass Through confirmation screen will appear select Yes to delete it 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive Physical Drive Information Ciia Select The Drive tif Ch01 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS Ch04 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS Ch05 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS Ch08 80 0GB Pass Throught ST380013AS System information You can used the Identify Drive feature to prevent removing the wrong drive the selected drive Fault LED will blank when the Identify Drive is selected 73 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 Raid System Function To set the raid system function move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the Raid System Function item and then press Enter key The Raid System Function menu will show multiple items Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware
145. tion Enable UMS Local IPAddress _ 192 168 001 100 MIRE Ethernet Address 00 04 D9 7F FF FF Clear Evd Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 7 View System Events To view the SATA RAID controller s information move the cur sor bar to the main menu and select the View Events link then press the Enter key The SATA RAID controller s events screen will appear Quick Volume Raid Setup Time Device Event Type ElapseTime Errors 2004 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2004 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2004 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On BIOS CONFIGURATION Choose this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapsed Time and Errors The RAID system does not have a real time clock The Time information is the rela tive time from the SATA RAID controller powered on 3 7 8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer 3 7 9 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller s hardware monitor information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click the Hardware Monitor link The Hardware Information screen appears The Hardware Monitor Information provides the temperature and fan speed I O Processor fan of the SATA RAID controller Fan Speed RPM 2178 Battery Status Not Installed HDD 1 Temp HDD 2 Temp View System HDD 43 Temp 48 Clear Event HDD 4 Temp HDD 5 Temp
146. tion in the main menu to define additional volume sets Available Capacity 160 1GB Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function l Selected Capacity 160 1GB Volume Set Functi Tota 4 Drives Physical Drives Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 O View System Ever Raid 1 0 Spare Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Stripe size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID O 1 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you Main M Available Capacity 180 168 Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Selected Capacity 160 1GB Volume Set Functi Total 4 Drives Physical Drives Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 Select Strip Size View System Eve Raid 1 0 Spare Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare BIOS CONFIGURATION are certain that your computer performs random reads more of ten select a smaller stripe size Press the Yes key in the Create Vol Raid Set dialog box the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize it Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Selected Capacity 160 1GB Volume Set
147. tivity will contin ue as normal however the system performance and fault toler ance will be affected e Adjustable Rebuild Priority Rebuilding a degraded volume incurs a load on the RAID sub system The SATA RAID controllers allow the user to select the rebuild priority to balance volume access and rebuild tasks ap propriately The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a background operation such as rebuilding or migrating The SAS RAID controller allows user to choose the task priority Ultra Low 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 to bal 160 APPENDIX ance volume set access and background tasks appropriately For high array performance specify an Ultra Low value Like volume initialization after a volume rebuilds it does not require a system reboot Important The hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces High Reliability e Hard Drive Failure Prediction In an effort to help users avoid data loss disk manufacturers are now incorporating logic into their drives that acts as an early warning system for pending drive problems This system is called S M A R T The disk integrated controller works with multiple sensors to monitor various aspects of the drive s performance determines from this information if the drive is behaving normally or not and makes available status information to RAID controller firmware that prob
148. to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions EEI EM Sn 78 BIOS CONFIGURATION Areca has supported the fixed value staggered power up func tion in its previous version firmware But from firmware version 1 39 and later SATA RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4ms to 6ms per step which powers up one drive Raid System Function Stagger Power On Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 9 Empty HDD slot HDD From firmware version 1 39 date 04 01 2006 and later the firmware has added the Empty HDD Slot LED option to setup the Failed LED light ON or OFF When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this option to OFF Choose this option ON the failed LED light will flash red light if no HDD installed Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Aead Cache STagger Power on HDD SMART Status Poll Controller Fan Detection Disk
149. to the Volume Set Vol ume Capacity item and entry the capacity size Select Confirm The Operation and select on the Submit button to complete the action The volume set starts to expand Volume Set Name Volume Set 00 Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Volume Capacity 160 1GB Volume State Migration SCSI CH Id Lun 0 0 0 RAID Level Stripe Size Member Disk Cache Attribute Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw To Expand an existing volume noticed e Only the last volume can expand capacity e When expand volume capacity you can t modify stripe size or modify raid revel simultaneously e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size e After volume expansion the volume capacity can t be decreased For Greater 2TB expansion e If your system installed in the volume don t expanded the volume capacity greater 2TB currently OS can t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device e Expanded over 2TB used LBA64 mode Please make sure your OS supports LBA 64 before expand it EEEEEEELLIIIILIIGIIIIIIILIIIUUIULULULLUXIUuSLILLLLLULEL SU UAEuLILULAL WnAO LUWULLL L OOLL HLL L A AAAVA L AyALOOPAAAA eULILL IoUACAACCG CSGp w OOAuP 68 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another when a volume set strip size
150. tor which can work with Areca sideband cable SDatain4 SB5 SB6 F Reserved SDataOut 4 SB4 gpg SB2 f Ground Ground 4 SB3 le 5 SB1 EF SLoad Reserved 4 SB7 8 7 SBO f SClock Sideband Pin Definitions 37 HARDWARE INSTALLATION The sideband header is located at backplane For SGPIO to work properly please connect Areca 8 pin sideband cable to the sideband header as shown above See the table for pin definitions Step 7 Re check the SATA HDD LED and Fault LED Cable connections Be sure that the proper failed drive channel information is dis played by the Fault and HDD Activity LEDs An improper connec tion will tell the user to Hot Swap the wrong drive This will remove the wrong disk one that is functioning properly from the controller This can result in failure and loss of system data Step 8 Power up the System Check the installation thoroughly reinstall the computer cover and reconnect the power cord cables Turn on the power switch at the rear of the computer if equipped and then press the power button at the front of the host computer Step 9 Configure volume set The SATA RAID controller configures RAID functionality through the McBIOS RAID manager Please refer to Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID manager for the detail regarding configuration The RAID controller can also be configured through the McRAID storage manager soft ware utility with ArcHttp proxy server installed through on board Lan port or L
151. troller heads the list If the system BIOS setup does not allow this change your system may not be con figurable to allow the SATA RAID controller to act as a second boot device Summary of the installation The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for SATA RAID controller These procedures include hardware installa tion the creation and configuration of a RAID volume through the McBIOS OS installation and installation of SATA RAID controller software 39 HARDWARE INSTALLATION The software components configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server Configuration Utility Operating System supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux Free Via Archttp proxy server BSD NetWare UnixWare Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin portal to Windows 2000 XP 2003 scan for multiple RAID units in the net work Via ArcHttp proxy server SNMP Manager Console Integration Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux and FreeBSD Launch McRAID Storage Manager See Chapter 6 Install OS Install Create Bootable RAID Volume using McBIOS gt Vela o ArcHttp Proxy RAID Manager EN Server See Chapter 2 See Chapter 3 See Chapter 4 See Chapter 5 SNMP Management Install SAP Console Monitor Integration See Appendix C See Utility McRAID Storage Manager Before launching the firmware embedded web server McRAID stor age manager
152. ts in the net work Via ArcHttp Proxy Server From version 1 6 and later the HTTP management software ArcHttp runs as a service or daemon and have it automatically start the proxy for all controllers found This way the controller can be managed re motely without having to sign in the server The HTTP management software ArcHttp also has integrated the General Configuration Mail Configuration and SNMP Configuration Those can be configured in lo cal or remote standard web browser If your controller have onboard LAN port you don t need to install ArcHttp proxy Server you can use McRAID Storage Manager directly ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 1 For Windows You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hard ware and Windows are installed and operational in your system Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your instala tion screen may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server instal lation is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Windows http setup exe on the CD ROM 3 The screen shows Preparing to install Follow the on screen prompts to complete ArcHttp Proxy Server software installation A program bar appears that measures the progress
153. ts several levels of the Berkeley RAID technology An appropriate RAID level is selected when the volume sets are defined or created This decision should be based on the desired disk capacity data availability fault tolerance or redundancy and disk performance The following section discusses the RAID levels supported by the SATA RAID controller The SATA RAID controller makes the RAID implementation and the disks physical configuration transparent to the host operating system This means that the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selected Correct installation of the disk array and the control ler requires a proper understanding of RAID technology and the concepts e RAID O RAID O also referred to as striping writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer the best high speed data throughput RAID O breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array Disk strip ing enhances performance because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously the reliability of RAID Level 0 is less because the entire array will fail if any one disk drive fails due to a lack of re dundancy the reliability of RAID Level 0 is less because the entire array will fail if any one disk drive fails 164 APPENDIX AO A1 A2 A3 BO B1 B2 B3 CO C1 C2 C3 EIOZ
154. ulti lance cables are not included in the ARC 11XXML package If you have not yet connected your Multi lance cables use the cables included with your enclosure to connect your controller to the Multi lance connector backplane This type of cable will depend on what enclosure you have The following diagram shows one ex ample picture of Multi lane cable Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If any thing is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Figure 2 14 Multi Lance Cable Step 5 3 Connect the Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA cable Model ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML have Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a standard SATA connector backplane Min SAS 4i to SATA cables are included in the ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML package The following diagram shows the picture of MinSAS 4i to 4 SATA cables Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer 26 HARDWARE INSTALLATION wer a Sideband cable oo hec wu Figure 2 15 Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA lt s For Sideband cable signal Please refer to page 51 for SGPIO bus Step 5 4 Connect the Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cable Model ARC 1231ML 1261ML 1280ML have Min SAS 4i internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These controllers can be ins
155. up of ArcHttp configuration For example General configuration Mail Configuration and SNMP Configuration please start Web Browser by entering http Computer IP Address cfg port number 103 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION The ArcHttp configuration starts e General Configuration ARCHTTP Configurations jener ul Configu wien oog Binding IP 0 0 0 0 You can choose either local adminstration or remote adminstration to connect web browser Binding IP 127 0 0 1 Using local adminstration to connect web browser Binding IP 192 166 0 44 Using remote adminstration to connect web browser HTTP Port Value 1 65535 Display HTTP Connection Information To Console Select Yes to show Http send bytes and receive bytes information in the console Scanning PCI Device Select Yes for ARC 1XXX series adapter Scanning RS 232 Device No Scanning Inband Device No e Mail Configuration When you open the mail configuration page you will see following settings SMTP server IP Address Enter the SMTP server IP address which is not MCRAID manager IP Ex 192 168 0 2 Sender Name Enter the sender name that will be shown in the out going mail Ex RaidController 1 Mail address Enter the sender email that will be shown in the out going mail but don t type IP to replace domain name DE M 104 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Ex RaidController_1 areca com tw Account enter the valid account if
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157. ves as Hot Spares seseeeennn 44 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration 45 3 6 Using RAID Set Volume Set Function Method 46 3 7 Main Menu c cete docete ve ivt vex cue teo YE eee redness 48 3 7 1 Quick Volume RAID Setup eeeeeem mmn 49 3 7 2 Raid Set Function ceessesseeeseee eene menn 52 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set sessesseeeeeen nennen nnn 53 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set sssseseeeeeen nennen nnns 54 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set cssesssseseeeee nennen nnns 54 MIQrAtiNnG ETE 55 3 7 2 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set cccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeaes 56 3 7 2 5 Create Hot Spare ereraa vt itte vetet ede oed 57 3 7 2 6 Delete Hot Spare cssseseeseeeneen nene nnns 57 3 7 2 7 Raid Set Information eeeeeseeeeeenen nnn 58 3 7 3 Volume Set Function eeesseseseeeen enm 58 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set ssesseeeseee nennen 59 e Volume Na Merirauma iari ppn nnn seas share anna nens 61 xi CI EESTI EE 61 Capacity 1a eere aea ER bx wow aed 62 Stripe Siza osoren eet ette Ivrea dv RI E TEC TEE EE RA ty 63 SCSI Channel tute eue xpi y vi xe p ek T las Ta earn a 64 s SCSP ID angie a Ae cass av vais seve ue OR ED Yen E cra dr oie ss 64 SCSI LUN ec ve en dx onn Re ree xb er Y REN e PEE ATAD PIE 65 o Tora r duoro Em 65 3 7 3 2 Delete Volume Set sssesseeeeee nennen 66
158. which the failure occurred In the normal status the newly installed drive will be reconfigured an online free disk But the newly installed drive is automatically assigned as a hot spare if any hot spare disk was used to rebuild and without new installed drive replaced it In this condition the eee 159 APPENDIX Auto Declare Hot Spare status will disappeared if the RAID sub system has since powered off on The Hot Swap function can be used to rebuild disk drives in ar rays with data redundancy such as RAID level 1 1E 3 5 and 6 Auto Rebuilding If a hot spare is available the rebuild starts automatically when a drive fails The SATA RAID controllers automatically and trans parently rebuild failed drives in the background at user definable rebuild rates If a hot spare is not available the failed disk drive must be re placed with a new disk drive so that the data on the failed drive can be automatically rebuilt and so that fault tolerance can be maintained The SATA RAID controllers will automatically restart the system and the rebuild process if the system is shut down or powered off abnormally during a reconstruction procedure condition When a disk is hot swapped although the system is functionally operational the system may no longer be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the removed drive is replaced and the rebuild operation is completed During the automatic rebuild process system ac
159. y which is ac cessible via the browser installed on your operating system The Web Browser based McRAID Storage Manager is a HTML based application which utilizes the browser IE Netscape and Mozilla etc installed on your monitor station It can be accessed through the In Band PCI X PCIe bus or Out of Band ethernet port The In Band method via archttp proxy server to launch the Web Browser based McRAID Storage Manager The firmware em bedded Web Browser based McRAID storage manager allows local or remote to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required The firmware contains SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either single or multiple user notifications to be sent via LAN with Plain Eng lish e mails The firmware embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required e Create RAID set e Expand RAID set e Define volume set e Add physical drive e Modify volume set e Modify RAID level stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system function e Update firmware and e Designate drives as hot spares 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager With the McRAID Storage Manager you are able to locally man age a system containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows 107 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 108 or Linux and a supported browser A locally managed system requires all of the fol
160. you can to install the ArcHttp proxy server on your server system or through on board Lan port if equipped If you need additional information about installation and start up of this function see the McRAID Storage Manager section in Chapter 6 SNMP Manager Console Integration e Out of Band Using Ethernet port 12 16 24 port Control ler Before launching the firmware embedded SNMP agent in the sever you need first to enable the fireware embedded SNMP agent function on your SATA RAID controller If you need EEE 40 HARDWARE INSTALLATION additional information about installation and start up this function see the section 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration 12 16 24 port e In Band Using PCI X PCIe Bus 4 8 12 16 24 port Controller Before launching the SNMP agent in the sever you need to en able the fireware embedded SNMP community configuration first and install Areca SNMP extension agent in your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up the function see the SNMP Operation amp Installation section in the Appendix C Single Admin Portal SAP Monitor This utility can scan for multiple RAID units on the network and monitor the controller set status It also includes a disk stress test utility to identify marginal spec disks before putting the RAID unit into a production environment For additional information see the utility manual in the packaged CD ROM or download it from the web
161. your SMTP mail server need au thentication Password Enter the valid password if your SMTP mail server need authentication MailTo Name Enter the alert receiver name that will be shown in the outgoing mail Mail Address Enter the alert receiver mail address Ex admin areca com tw ARCHTTP Configurations Evew Nono men cali om men Note Please make sure you have completed mail address before you submit mail configurations e SNMP Trap Configuration Please refer to the 6 8 4 SNMP configuration 12 16 24 port section 105 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION ARCHTTP Configurations Configure Configuration and submit After ArcHttp configurations have successfully submitted the Archttp console restarts again Note Event Notification Table refer to Appendix D After you confirm and submit configurations you can use Generate Test Event feature to make sure these settings are correct 106 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 Web Browser based Configuration Before using the McRAID firmware based browser utility do the ini tial setup and installation of this product If you need to boot up the operating system from a RAID volume set you must first create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Storage Manager Please refer to section 3 3 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration for information on creating this initial volume set The McRAID storage manager is firmware based utilit
162. ystem Eve Raid 1 0 Spare Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e LBA 64 This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB such as Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x or latter e For Windows It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Bytes the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works under Windows platform only And it CAN NOT be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip LUUL SSS 50 BIOS CONFIGURATION A single volume set is created and consumes all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this raid set Define the capacity of volume set in the Available Capacity popup The default value for the volume set which is 100 of the available capacity is displayed in the selected capacity To enter a value less than the available capacity type the new value and press the Enter key to accept this value If the volume set uses only part of the RAID Set capacity you can use the Create Volume Set op

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