AR108X Detailed User`s Manual
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1. Mal SNMP Messenger DHCP C Static Address Mask Gateway DNS MAC HTTP port HTTPS port SSH port System config IP address 10 1 2 1 168 95 1 1 00 13 78 A4 10 63 80 443 c Confirm 2 Please select Quick Install to configure your prefer RAID mode For further information please refer to the user manual 140C System config Volume config Enclosure management Maintenance Logout RAID level Quick install Step1 RAID O 595 GB 3 After configuration you can check the related information through Volume config Physical disk For further information please refer to the user manual 140C Quick install System config logealunt SSS Enclosure management Maintenance Logout Volume config Physical disk Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e Size VG WWN Ps Loes Status 1 2 Speed 1 7 206f001378a40000 465 Good Bao 3 0Gb s 3 e Good E 8 2002001378a41063 297 B ro 3 0Gb s 4 E Good o ic 200c001378240174 148 Hen 3 0Gb s to Disabled spindown Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e 4 After configuring RAID volume please reboot the computer and then format hard drives with the disk management tools on the OS system 7 The AR108X will be ready to use after setting up successfully Contents Chapter 1 RAID mtroducthon ccc cccccceececeeceeaeeeeeeeesseeesaeeeeeeeees2. UDV 01 related to VG RO size is 30GB status is online write back high priority related to 1 LUN with cache volume 663MB 10GB snapshot QSnap space The other UDV is named UDV 02 initializing to 46 UDV column description No Total capacity of user data volume The button below to the size is Extend Name Name of this user data volume The button below the UDV Name is Rename Size GB Total capacity of user data volume The button below to the size is Extend The status of user data volume Online gt user data volume is online Fail user data volume is failed WT gt Write Through WB gt Write Back RO Read Only The button below to the status1 is Set read write mode HI High priority MD MID priority LO LOw priority The button in below to the status2 is Set Priority P user data volume is being initialized R gt user data volume is being rebuilt RAID The levels of RAID that user data volume is using Advanced operation 29 FLUN Number of LUN s that user data volume is attaching The user data volume size that used for snapshot The button next to the snapshot is Resize which decide the size of snapshot The button next to resize is Auto Snapshot GB snapshot which setups the frequency of taking snapshots The number means Free snapshot space
3. 12 80 V 2 5V 2 54 V min 2 45 V max 2 75 V PSU 5V Backplane 5 10 V min 4 70 V max 5 35 V PSU 12V Backplane 12 23 V min 11 40 V max 12 80 V PSU 3 3V Backplane 3 31 V min 3 10 V max 3 55 V Daughter Board 43 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 70 0 C PCI X BRG 33 5 C hyst 0 0 C high 60 0 C Core Processor 46 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 75 0 C Location 1 Backplane 29 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 45 0 C Location 2 Backplane 29 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 45 0 C Location 3 Backplane 29 5 C hyst 0 0 C high 45 0 C PSU1 Backplane good PSU2 Backplane good FAN 1 Backplane good FAN2 Backplane good FAN3 Backplane good Auto shutdown Figure 3 6 2 1 If Auto shutdown has been checked the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range For better data protection please check Auto Shutdown For better protection and avoiding single short periods of high temperature triggering auto shutdown controllers use multiple condition judgments for auto shutdown below are the details of when the Auto shutdown will be triggered Advanced operation 41 1 There are 3 sensors placed on controllers for temperature checking they are on core processor PCI X bridge and daughter board controller will check each sensor for every 30 seconds When one of these sensor is over high temperature v
4. D 3 D 3 D m x X D 3 o lm CO D D D e a 3 D 3 O o D CO D D 3 5 5 5 SAHE viz l l lo O Ead L 12 ale so oT Alec VO Ell E el f lolo WO EM EE E Zeit cys ba ala e S E vio 25 o lt lt S mio ol XE gt gt ep slo Cia ax o LS 2 U D D lt LO 2 S a O U 05 S 5 m 3 5 5 Upgrade SAS SAS Topology mport Export Import file Physical disk Volume group User data volume Logical unit Enclosure management SES Config Hardware Monitor S M A R T Maintenance Reset to default Config Import amp export vizo oo D c lt CY o FO e D alz O EI KA O 3lo PR T sis Wa gt o elo Leg a y s 315 e O o E O d a E y ols 3 Q 512 O D lt o o c D ei a3 a DEN O m x ke O A Q o 3 gt O Sure to logout 3 2 Login Sans Digital AR108X SAS RAID supports graphic user interface GUI to operate the system Be sure to connect the LAN cable The default IP setting is DHCP open the browser and enter http 192 168 0 1 Please check the DHCP address first on LCM Web GUI guideline 17 Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog for authentication Login name admin Default password 1234 After login you can choose the functions which lists on the left side of window to make configuration Quick install System
5. Total snapshot space If the snapshot UDV has been created this column will be the creation time The VG name of the user data volume CV MB The cache volume of the user data volume UDV operations description Attach Attach to a LUN Snapshot Choose a UDV to execute snapshot Create Create a user data volume Delete Delete a user data volume 3 5 4 Cache volume Cache volume can view the status of cache volume The global cache volume is a default cache volume which is created after power on automatically and cannot be deleted The size of global cache is based on the RAM size It is total memory size minus the system usage e CV operations description Create Create a cache volume Delete Delete a cache volume If there is no free space for creating a new dedicated cache volume cut down the global cache size first After resized then the dedicated cache volume can be created al Q Tips The minimum size of global cache volume is 40MB The minimum size of dedicated cache volume is 20MB A 3 5 5 Logical unit number Logical unit can view the status of attached logical unit number of each UDV User can attach LUN by clicking the Atah Host must enter a SAS address for access control or fill in wildcard which means every host can access the volume Choose LUN number and permission then click Confirm i 30 Advanced operation UDV UDV 01 30GB sl Host
6. device 12 RAID introduction 2 3 Management methods There are three management methods to manage Sans Digital AR108X SAS RAID describe in the following 2 3 1 Web GUI AR108X support graphic user interface to manage the system Be sure to connect LAN cable The default setting of management port IP is DHCP and DHCP address displays on LCM user can inspect LCM for IP first then open the browser and type the DHCP address The DHCP address is dynamic and user may need to check every time after reboot When DHCP service is not available controllers use zero configuration Zeroconf to get an IP address Take an example on LCM 192 168 0 1 SANS DIGITAL lt http 192 168 0 1 or https 192 168 0 1 https connection with encrypted Secure Sockets Layer SSL Please be aware of the https is slower than http https is supported on some specified models Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog to authenticate current user Login name admin Default password 1234 Or login with read only account which only allows reading the configuration and cannot change setting Login name user Default password 1234 2 3 2 Console serial port Use NULL modem cable to connect console port The console setting is baud rate 115200 8 bits 1 stop bit and no parity Terminal type vt100 Login name admin Default password 1234 2 3 3 Remote control secure shell SSH secure shell is required for control
7. the values are available in export and not available in import which can avoid confliction date deleting between two controllers That says if one controller already exists valuable data in the disks and user may forget to overwrite it Use import could return to original configuration If the volume setting was also imported user s current data will be overwritten Import Export Import file Browse Import Logical unit only Export Confirm Figure 3 7 5 1 1 Import Import all system configurations excluding volume config 2 Import Logical unit only No system and volume configurations import LUN configurations only 3 Export Export all configurations to a file A Notice Import will import all system configurations excluding volume configuration the current configurations will be replaced Advanced operation 45 3 7 6 Shutdown Shutdown displays Reboot and Shutdown buttons Before power off it s better to execute Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks The step is necessary for data protection Reboot e Shutdown e Figure 3 7 6 1 3 8 Logout For security reason Logout allows users logout when no user is operating the system Re login the system please enter username and password again 46 Advanced operation Chapter 4 Advanced operation 4 1 Rebuild If one physical disk of the VG which is set as protected RAID level e g RAID 3 RAID 5
8. Do one more time to create another UDV Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot VG CV E No Name GB Status 1 2 3 E RAID LUN GB name MB 1 UDV R5 1 50 B ws BHI 0 00 0 00 O e a e Ur 4 RAIDS 0 e e vG 5 120 2 UDY R5 2 64 O we B HI 0 00 0 00 n 2 e Ld a 01 0 RAIDS D e vG 5 120 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 3 5 6 4 Figure 3 5 6 4 Create UDVs named UDV R5 1 and UDV R5 2 Regarding to VG R5 the size of UDV R5 1 is 50GB the size of UDV R5 2 is 64GB The status of these UDVs are online write back high priority with cache volume 120MB UDV R5 1 is initialing about 4 There is no LUN attached Step 3 Attach LUN to UDV There are 2 methods to attach LUN to UDV 1 In Volume config User data volume press ta gt 2 In Volume config Logical unit press ts gt The procedures are as follows UDV UDV R5 1 50GB sl Host 2 LUN 0 IB Permission C Read only Read write Back Confirm Figure 3 5 6 5 Advanced operation 33 1 Select a UDV 2 Enter Host name which is an initiator node name for access control or fill in wildcard which means every host can access to this volume Choose LUN and permission then click W Confirm e 3 Done Attach Detach a Host LUN Permission UDY name Session O 0 Read write UDV R5 1 2 E 5006058000482220 al Read write UDW R5 2 al o At
9. R5 2 uses dedicated cache volume 20MB UDV R5 2 is initialing about 5 Create Delete i No Size UDY name 1 40 Global 2 20 8 UDV R5 2 Free 603 MB Create Delete Figure 3 5 6 12 Figure 3 5 6 12 In Volume config Cache volume UDV named UDV R5 2 uses dedicated cache volume 20MB Step 4 Attach LUN to UDV Please refer to Step 3 of Example 1 to attach LUN Step 5 Set dedicated spare disk To set dedicated spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select a VG from the list then select the free disk s Click Dedicated spares to set the dedicated spare for the VG 3 The DS icon is shown in the column of status 1 38 Advanced operation Select E Free disks e Global spares e Dedicated spares e Size YG Slot WWN GB aet Status 1 2 Speed O 2007001378a40040 38 VG R5 Good B8 ro 1 5Gb 2 Good e 2017001378a202d9 38 VG R5 enm B np 1 5Gb 3 Good O m 2018001378a202d9 38 VG R5 nmm A ro 1 5Gb 2019001378a202d9 38 VG R5 Good A RD 1 5Gb 3 Good O e 201a001378a202d9 38 VG R5 emm B8 ps 1 5Gb o 20c4001378000108 38 Good B FR 1 5Gb P 4 201c001378a202d9 38 Good O FR 1 5Gb 8 Good O 201b001378a202d9 38 O FR 1 5Gb gt Figure 3 5 6 13 Figure 3 5 7 13 Slot 5 has been set as dedicated spare disk of VG named VG R5 Step 6 Done The PDs can be used as SCSI disks Delete UDVs
10. Status Indicator OTray Lock OButton for Tray Clamp Rear View RS232 UPS PR 5 e Power Switch 2 Power Connector amp Cooling Fan ap LAN GUI rs232 ups vinisas Contents of Product Package ECT n AC Power cae 1 Mini SAS to Mini SAS Cabe 1 IRezxcae 1 Quick instalaton Gude 1 ep sereus 1 ees Please make sure that related accessories and the product body are not damaged or missing If you have any questions please contact Sans Digital 2 Product Specifications Support HDD 8x2 5 SATA 3 0 Gb s Maximum Capacity of A Single HDD Total Maximum Capacity 8TB under RAID O mode RAID Level RAIDO 1 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 JBOD Hot Swappable Auto rebuilding LCD Display GUI WEB LED Indicators Buzzer 3 Messages of LED Indicator Hard Drive LED Indicators Falre Red LED Indicators on the Front Panel rae Re 4 Hardware Installation 1 Take the tray out and install the hard disk onto the tray Make sure the hard disk is firmly fixed to the tray with the screws to ensure no damage is caused by vibrations er e geren 2 Refit the hard drive tray into the AR108X Please note that AR108X DO NOT support SAS HDD 3 Connect the SAS port Gigabit LAN or RS 232 port and finally connect the power cord 4 Please use Serial Attached SCSI SAS Host Bus Adapters with mini SAS interface and firmly fix it on the
11. and VG please follow the steps Step 7 Detach LUN from UDV Please refer to Step 6 of Example 1 to detach LUN Step 8 Delete UDV User Data Volume Please refer to Step 7 of Example 1 to delete UDV Step 9 Delete VG User Data Volume Please refer to Step 8 of Example 1 to delete VG Step 10 Free dedicated spare disk To free dedicated spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select the dedicated spare disk by clicking the checkbox in the row then click Baas to free disk Step 11 Delete dedicated cache volume To delete the cache volume please follow the procedures Advanced operation 39 1 Select Volume config Cache volume 2 Select a CV by clicking the checkbox in the row 3 Click Delete There will pop up a confirmation page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The CV has been deleted A Notice Global cache volume cannot be deleted Step 12 Done all volumes have been deleted 3 6 Enclosure management Enclosure management allows managing enclosure information including SES config Hardware monitor S M A R T and UPS For the enclosure management there are many sensors for different purposes such as temperature sensors voltage sensors hard disks fan sensors power sensors and LED status Due to the different hardware characteristics among these sensors they have different polling intervals Below is the de
12. button in the Size column next the number 3 Change the size The size must be larger than the original and then click CORA to start extension 4 Extension starts If UDV needs initialization it will display an I in Status 3 and complete percentage of initialization in R Volume config User data volume Extend Size 10 Free 71 GB lt lt Back o Confirm Figure 4 3 1 Volume config User data volume Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot VG CV No Name en Status 1 2 3 5 RAID LUN Geet Get 1 UDV RO 10 i Gwe Oh 0 00 0 00 Oni a S gt EM x Or 58 RAID 5 0 e e VG RO 100 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete o Figure 4 3 2 Figure 4 3 2 Extend UDV RO from 5GB to 10GB ar Q Tips The size of UDV extension must be larger than original A A Notice UDV extension cannot be executed during rebuild or migration 50 Advanced operation 4 4 Disk roaming Physical disks can be re sequenced in the same system or move all physical disks from system 1 to system 2 This is called disk roaming Disk roaming has some constraints as described in the followings 1 Check the firmware of two systems first It is better that both systems have the same firmware version or newer 2 All physical disks of related VG should be moved from system 1 to system 2 together The configuration of both VG and UDV will be kept but LUN configuration will be cleared i
13. iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI data ports iSNS Internet Storage Name Service 1 3 RAID levels RAID1 Disk mirroring over two disks RAID 1 needs atleast wo hard drives RAID 3 Striping with parity on the dedicated disk RAID 3 needs at least three hard drives Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks RAID 3 needs at least three hard drives 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 needs at least four RAID 6 hard drives RAID 0 1 e of the member RAID 0 volumes RAID 0 1 needs at least four hard Striping over the member RAID 1 volumes RAID 10 needs at least four hard poe drives IRAID30 RAID30 Striping over the member RAID 3 volumes RAID 30 needs at least six hard drives RAID50 RAID50 Striping over the member RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 needs at least six hard drives Striping over the member RAID 6 volumes RAID 60 needs at least eight hard Eo drives JBOD JBOD The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks JBOD needs at least one hard drive 1 4 Volume relationship diagram Global CV Dedicated CV rl ri ND cade E MN PD 1 PD 2 PD 3 DS This is the volume structure of Sans Digital designed It describes the relationship of RAID components One VG Volume Group consists of a set of UDVs User Data Volume and owns one RAID level attribute Each VG can be divided into several UDVs The UDVs in one VG share the same RAID level b
14. of global cache volume is 40MB The minimum size of dedicated cache volume is 20MB Step 2 Create VG Volume Group Please refer to Step 1 of Example 1 to create VG Step 3 Create UDV User Data Volume Please refer to Step 2 of Example 1 to create UDV To create a UDV with dedicated cache volume please follow the below procedures Name UDV R5 2 VG name VG 5 CV No Dedicated 20 MB sl Capacity GB 64 Stripe height KB 64 y Block size B 512 m Read Write C Write through cache write back cache Priority High priority Middle priority C Low priority lt lt Back Confirm Figure 3 5 6 10 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Click Create e 3 Enter a UDV name choose a VG Name and select Dedicated cache which is created at Step 1 Enter the size of UDV decide the stripe height block size read write mode and set priority then click i Confirm e f 4 Done A UDV using dedicated cache has been created Advanced operation 37 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot VG CV No Name GB Status 1 2 3 RAID LUN GB name MB 1 UDW R5 1 50 B wb B HI 0 00 0 00 Online RW o o e NE a 5 RAID 5 1 e e wG 5 40 2 UDV R5 2 64 B ws OHI 0 00 0 00 E e dns ge a G 1 5 RAIDS 0 e e vG 5 20 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 3 5 6 11 Figure 3 5 6 11 UDV named UDV R5 1 uses global cache volume 40MB and UDV
15. there is no VG or only VG of RAID 0 and JBOD Because these RAID levels cannot be set as dedicated spare disk 3 These three functions Free disks Global spares and Dedicated spares can make multiple selections 4 The instructions of the web pages e g volume config of VG UDV CV LUN pages are the same as previous steps Select y Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e Size VG O Slot WWN GB Gd Status 1 2 Speed 8 1 2071001378a8a002 74 VG RO Bund a 3 0Gb asa x RD i 8 207c001378 Good b e c a8a002 74 VG RO a A np 3 0G 3 Good b 207b001378a8a002 74 VG RO anm A RD 3 06 r 4 Good b 2073001378a8a002 74 VG RO a A np 3 0G 5 Good O 2079001378a8a002 74 amas A rn 3 0Gb E 207d001378a8a002 74 VG R6 Baad a 3 0Gb asa E a RD d e 7 f Good h m 206f001378a8a002 74 VG R6 mem A np 3 06 O 5 2070001378a8a002 74 VG R6 pase a 3 0Gb asa E RD d O gt 2078001378a8a002 74 VG R6 Bund a 3 0Gb asa RD i 10 Good 2072001378a8a002 74 mmm O rn 3 0Gb H 2073001378a8a002 74 VG R6 Bue a 3 0Gb asa DS T2 Good 8 a 2074001378a8a002 74 emm O FR 3 0Gb 13 Good 8 2075001378a8a002 74 amm B FR 3 0Gb 14 Good 8 d 2076001378a8a002 74 mm O rn 3 0Gb 15 Good 8 e 2077001378a8a002 74 amm B FR 3 0Gb 16 Good 20f5001378a8a002 74 amm O rn 3 0Gb Auto spindown Disabled Select y Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e Figure 3 5 1 1 Figure 3 5 1 1 Phys
16. to 1 UDV Another is a RAID 6 with 4 physical disks named VG R6 mo Number of volume group The button next to the No is More Information indication It shows the details of the volume group Name J Volume group name The button next to the Name is Rename PD_ Thenumberofphysicaldisksin volume group The status of volume group Online volume group is online Fail volume group is fail suus DG DeGraded mode This volume group is not completed The reason could be lack of one disk or disk failure Status2 R Rebuild This volume group is doing rebuilding Status 3 m Migration This volume group is doing migration 28 Advanced operation The RAID level of the volume group The button next to the RAID level is Migrate Click Migrate can add disk s to do expansion or change the RAID level of the Volume group VG operations description Create a volume group Delete a volume group 3 5 3 User data volume User data volume can view the status of each user data volume Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot YG Cv a No Name GB Status 1 2 3 SE RAID LUN GB name ME 1 UDW 01 30 O ws BH HI 9 99 10 00 D e 4 Online RAIDO 1 s ag VGRO 663 2 UDV 02 20 B ws OHI 10 00 10 00 Online E 8 m 8 Gi 46 RAID6 1 e e VG R6 663 ttach Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 3 5 3 1 Figure 3 5 3 1 Create a UDV named
17. 108X SAS RAID are capable of supporting large volumes gt 2TB on all product lines When connecting controllers to 64bit OS installed host server the host server is inherently capable for large volumes from the 64bit address On the other side if the host server is installed with 32bit OS user has to change the block size to 1KB 2KB or 4KB to support volumes up to 4TB 8TB or 16TB for the 32bit host server is not LBA Logical Block Addressing 64bit supported For detail installation steps please refer to following steps below Step 1 Configure target 1 Prepare the hard drivers which capacity is over 2TB totally Follow the example in chapter 3 to create a VG UDV Then attach LUN ar Q Tips If the OS is 64bit user can set the block size to any available value If the OS is 32bit user must change S the block size to larger values than 512B There will be a confirmation pop up message when VD size is over 2TB 56 Advanced operation 2 LBA 64 support Y Choose OK if using OS such as xi Windows 64 bits Windows Server 2003 SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x FreeBSD 5 2 1 or latter Choose Cancel It will change the sector size to 4K The maximun capacity is up to 16 TB This volume can not be Dynamic Disk Figure C 1 Figure D 1 choose OK for 64bit OS choose Cancel for 32bit OS this step will change block size to 4K automatically 2 Click the button e in No column to see More information Lo
18. 2 LUN 0 e Permission C Read only Read write lt lt Back Confirm Figure 3 5 5 1 Attach Detach Host LUN Permission UDV name Session O e 0 Read write UDW 01 2 Ci 5006058000482220 al Read write UDW 01 1 o Attach Detach Figure 3 5 5 2 Figure 3 5 4 2 LUN status for AR108X has one SAS channel LUN operations description Attach Attach a logical unit number to a user data volume Detach a logical unit number from a user data volume The matching rules of access control are inspected from top to bottom in sequence For example there are 2 rules for the same UDV one is LUN 0 the other is SAS address1 LUN 1 The other host SAS address2 can login successfully because it matches the rule 1 The access will be denied when there is no matching rule 3 5 6 Examples The followings are examples for creating volumes Example 1 is to create two UDVs sharing the same CV global cache volume and set a global spare disk Example 2 is to create two UDVs One shares the global cache volume and the other uses dedicated cache volume Set a dedicated spare disk Example 1 Example 1 is to create two UDVs in one VG each UDV uses global cache volume Global cache volume is created after system boots up automatically So no action is needed to set CV Then set a global spare disk Eventually delete all of them Step 1 Create VG Volume Group To create the volume group please follow the proced
19. 2 is to create two UDVs in one VG One UDV shares global cache volume the other uses dedicated cache volume First dedicated cache volume should be created it can be used in creating UDV Eventually delete them Each UDV is associated with one specific CV cache volume to execute the data transaction Each CV could have different cache memory size If there is no special request in UDVs it uses global cache volume Or user can create a dedicated cache for indivifual UDV manually Using dedicated cache volume the performance would not be affected by other UDV s data access The total cache size depends on the RAM size and then set all cache size as global cache automatically To create a dedicated cache volume first step is to cut down global cache size for the dedicated cache volume Please follow the procedures Step 1 Create dedicated cache volume Create Delete No Size UDY name 1 40 O Global 2 20 C e Empty Free 603 MB Create Delete Figure 3 5 6 9 36 Advanced operation 1 Select Volume config Cache volume 2 If there is no free space for creating a new dedicated cache volume Firstly decrease the global cache size by clicking the button e in size column After resizing click CO to return to the cache volume page 3 Click cete e to enter the setup page 4 Fill in the size and click SCH D 5 Done A new dedicated cache volume has been set Vo The minimum size
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21. 4 3 LED The LED features are listed below 1 Marquee Disk Status Disk Rebuilding LED The Marquee Disk Status Disk Rebuilding LEDs are displayed in the same LEDs The LEDs indicates different functions in different stages Web GUI guideline 15 1 Marquee LEDs When system powers on and successfully boots up the Marquee LED is on until the system boots successful 2 Disk status LEDs the LEDs reflect the disk status for the tray Only On Off situation 3 Disk rebuilding LEDs the LEDs are blinking when the disks are under rebuilding 2 Disk Access LED Hardware activated LED when accessing disks 10 3 Disk Power LED Hardware activated LED when the disks are plugged in and powered on 4 System status LED Used to reflect the system status by turning on the LED when error occurs or RAID malfunction happens 5 Management LAN port LED GREEN LED is for LAN transmit receive indication ORANGE LED is for LAN port 10 100 LINK indication 6 BUSY LED Hardware activated LED when the front end channel is busy 7 POWER LED Hardware activated LED when system is powered on 16 Web GUI guideline Chapter 3 Web GUI guideline 3 1 AR108X Series GUI hierarchy The below table is the hierarchy of web GUI Quick Install gt o D O e D po N e P D jo C2 O o J zh 3 3 System Config 5 5 m 5 5 3 Language Stef k fal Bell ed Sa l2 ER bd oleo leiols n sto s
22. E2177 ACCURAID ARIO8X QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE v1 0 About this manual Thank you for using products from Sans Digital This manual will introduce to you the Sans Digital AccuRAlD series products and help you understand the operations of the RAID system The information stated in this manual was thoroughly confirmed before publication however the specifications for the shipping production will be standard For any product specification or related updates please go directly to www sansdigital com Sans Digital will not issue notices separately For any questions for Sans Digital s products or latest product information manuals or firmware contact info sansdigital com and we will respond shortly Attention Sans Digital will provide technical support and customer service only for customers purchasing products directly from our company For general consumers or other users who did not purchase product from us directly please contact your dealer for a faster response and optimal support If you did not purchase products from Sans Digital directly please do not contact us directly because your questions may not be replied to The content concerning products in this manual is copyrighted by Sans Digital AR108X SW HW Quick Installation Guide 1 Product Diagrams and Contents of Product Package Front View LCD Display Power LED Indicator PWR Alarm LED Indicator ALARM OG Functional Button UP DOWN ENT ESC HDD
23. ID level The controller provides reliable data protection for servers and RAID 6 The RAID 6 allows two HDD failures without causing any impact on the existing data Data can be recovered from the existing data and parity drives Data can be recovered from the rest disks drives 1 2 Terminology The document uses the following terms RAID is the abbreviation of Redundant Array of Independent Disks There are different RAID levels with different degree of the data protection data availability and performance to host environment PD The Physical Disk belongs to the member disk of one specific volume group Volume Group A collection of removable media One VG consists of a set of UDVs VG l and owns one RAID level attribute UDV User Data Volume Each VG could be divided into several UDVs The UDVs from one VG share the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity Cache Volume Controller uses onboard memory as cache All RAM except for the CV ege l part which is occupied by the controller can be used as cache Logical Unit Number A logical unit number LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit GUE Graphic User Interface RAID width copy and row are used to describe one VG RAID width E g RAID copy RAID row RAID cell in one row One 4 disk RAID 0 volume RAID width 4 RAID copy 1 RAID row 1 One 3 way mirroring volume RAID wi
24. M INFO FT WARNING M ERROR lv lt lt Back Confirm Figure 3 4 11 2 The event log is displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first page The event logs are actually saved in the first four hard drives each hard drive has one copy of event log For one controller there are four copies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there is are failed disk s Tips Please plug in any of the first four hard drives then event logs can be saved and displayed in next system a boot up Otherwise the event logs would be disappeared 3 5 Volume configuration Volume config is designed for setting up the volume configurations including Physical disk Volume group User data volume Cache volume and Logical unit Physical disk Volume group User data volume Cache volume Logical unit 3 5 1 Physical disk Hard disks to store data Sets of physical disks with RAID functions Slices of volume groups Dedicated or global cache space for user data volume Target volumes for hosts access Figure 3 5 1 Physical disk to view the status of hard drives in the system The following are operation tips 1 Multiple selection Select one or more checkboxes in front of the slot number Or select the checkbox at the top left corner which will select all slots Check again will select none Advanced operation 25 2 The list will disappear if
25. NN D E F 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy EN Op 2939 2 G 3 20 GB UDF Healthy Figure C 6 6 The new disk is ready to use the available size 2 72TB Elo Ek yew Favores Tos pp Address My Computer Hard Disk Drives Local Disk C Local Disk 19 5 GB 17 0 GB se Local Disk D Local Disk 19 5 GB 16 2 GB ss Local Disk E Local Disk se Local Disk F Local Disk 18 0 GB 16 4 GB lt Local Disk 2 72 TB 2 72 TB Devices with Re Free Space 2 72 TB Total Size 2 72 TB Hz Floppy A LL EN_05_2939 2 G CD Drive 3 20 GB 0 bytes Figure C 7 A Notice If user setups 512B block size for VD and the host server OS is 32bit in the last step of formatting disk user will find OS can not format the disk sector after 2048GB 2TB 7 Wrong setting result OS can not format disk sector after 2048GB 2TB A AE es D E F 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy New Volume H 2048 00 GB NTFS 744 99 GB K OS cannot format this area Healthy Unallocated CD ROM 0 DVD EN OS 2939 2 G 3 20 GB 3 20 GB UDF Online Healthy Figure C 8 System information Sans Digital AccuRAID Series AR108X SAS RAID Advanced operation 59
26. UNs by clicking the checkbox in the row and then click detach There will pop up a confirmation page 2 Choose OK 3 Done Step 7 Delete UDV User Data Volume To delete the user data volume please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Select UDVs by clicking the checkbox in the row 3 Click Delete e There will pop up a confirmation page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The UDVs are deleted Vo When deleting UDV the attached LUN s related to this UDV will be detached automatically Step 8 Delete VG Volume Group To delete the volume group please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Volume group 2 Select a VG by clicking the checkbox in the row make sure there is no UDV on this VG otherwise the UDV s on this VG must be deleted first Advanced operation 35 3 Click Delete e There will pop up a confirmation page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The VG is deleted Kl Tips The action of deleting one VG will succeed only when all of the related UDV s are deleted in this VG Otherwise it will encounter an error when deleting the VG Step 9 Free global spare disk To free global spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select the global spare disk by clicking the checkbox in the row then click Free disks _e to free disk Step 10 Done all volumes have been deleted Example 2 Example
27. al shutdown detected start flushing battery backuped data lt number gt KB CA CTE EEES ro P6Ndetoced Bateybacupmoseisdeeced ro fesmsooa Bateybacupmodweisgoo INFO_____ B8Mischarging Baer backup moue is eraran U OO e JBOD events INO O Disk inserted JBOD number disk slot is inserted into system WARNING JBOD number disk slot is removed from system mro lesen moo rumoer enseredntoaystem Advanced operation 55 WARNING SMART Failure JBOD lt number gt disk slot Failure to get S M A R T information ld SES JBOD number PD slot has been configured to RG lt name gt as a dedicated spare disk configured pde dade JBOD number PD lt slot gt d has been configured as a global spare disk configured wanne oem Read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD number PD slot occurred WARNING isi SS Write error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD lt number gt PD lt slot gt INFO o O PD freed JBOD lt number gt PD lt slot gt has been removed from RG lt name gt e System maintenance events INO oOo o System shutdown System shutdown System reboot System reboot FW upgrade success Firmware upgrade success FW upgrade failure Firmware upgrade failure INFO Oo FW upgrade start Firmware upgrade start C Installation steps for large volume TB Introduction Sans Digital AR
28. alue for continuous 3 minutes auto shutdown will be triggered immediately 2 The core processor temperature limit is 85 C The PCI X bridge temperature limit is 80 C The daughter board temperature limit is 80 C 3 If the high temperature situation doesn t last for 3 minutes controller will not do auto shutdown 3 6 3 Hard drive S M A R T support SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance S M A R T provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure S M A R T measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and inspects the properties of hard drives which are close to be out of tolerance The advanced notice of possible hard drive failure can allow users to back up hard drive or replace the hard drive This is much better than hard drive crash when it is writing data or rebuilding a failed hard drive S M A R T can display S M A R T information of hard drives The number is the current value the number in parenthesis is the threshold value The threshold values of hard drive vendors are different please refer to vendors specification for details S M A R T only supports SATA drive SAS drive does not have It will show N A in this web page Enclosure management S M A R T Slot Read error up Reallocated sector Seek error Spin up Calibration Temperature status rate count rate retr
29. ault as DHCP setting Reset to Default Default IP address 192 168 10 50 DHCP Default subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Default gateway 192 168 10 254 14 Getting started The following is LCM menu hierarchy Alarm Mute AYes Nov Reset Shutdown Rom Shutdown AYes Nov RAID 0 RAID 1 Volume Size RAID 3 xxx GB Adjust Volume Size Quick Install RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 1 Apply The Config AYes NoV xxx GB Sans Digital Static IP AT IP Address l 192 168 010 050 View IP Setting IP Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 IP Gateway 192 168 010 254 DHCP AYes NoV IP Address Adjust IP address Change IP Config IP Subnet Mask Adjust Submask IP Static IP IP Gateway Adjust Gateway IP Apply IP Setting AYes NoV Reset to Default AYes No V DD A Notice Before power off it is better to execute Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks 2 4 2 System buzzer The system buzzer features are listed below 1 The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully 2 The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error occurred The alarm will be stopped after error resolved or be muted 3 The alarm will be muted automatically when the error is resolved E g wnen RAID 5 is degraded and alarm rings immediately user changes adds one physical disk for rebuilding When the rebuilding is done the alarm will be muted automatically 2
30. click Confirm e to go back to setup page When doing migration to lower RAID level such as the original RAID level is RAID 6 and user wants to migrate to RAID O the controller will evaluate whether this operation is safe or not and appear a message of Sure to migrate to a lower protection array to give user warning Double check the setting of RAID level and RAID PD slot If there is no problem click amp Next gt gt e Finally a confirmation page shows the detail of RAID info If there is no problem click Confirm e to start migration Controller also pops up a message of Warning power lost during migration may cause damage of data to give user warning When the power is abnormally off during the migration the data is in high risk Migration starts and it can be seen from the status 3 of a VG with a running square and an M In Volume config User data volume it displays an M in Status 4 and complete percentage of migration in R Advanced operation Name VG R RAID Level RAIDS sl RAID PD slot 12345 Select PD e Back Next gt gt Figure 4 2 1 Volume config Volume group Create Delete Total Free O No Name GB cB PD UDV Status 1 2 3 RAID 1 VG RO gt Oni RAID 5 O r 76 71 3 1 unm On z Create e Delete Figure 4 2 2 Figure 4 2 2 A RAID 0 with 2 physical disks migrates to RAID 5 with 3 physical disks Volume co
31. contig Volume contig Enclosure management Maintenance Logout Figure 3 2 1 There are six indicators at the top right corner for backplane solutions and cabling solutions have three indicators at the top right corner Figure 3 2 2 1 B RAID light Green means RAID works well Red represents RAID failure 2 n Temperature light Green means normal temperature Red represents abnormal temperature 3 Voltage light Green means normal voltage Red represents abnormal voltage 4 UPS light Green means UPS works well Red represents UPS failure 9 ES Fan light Green means Fan works well Red represents fan failure Only for backplane solution 6 D Power light Green means Power works well Red represents power failure Only for backplane solution 3 3 Quick install It is easy to use Quick install to create a volume Depending on how many physical disks or how many residual spaces on created VGs are free the system will calculate maximum spaces on RAID levels 0 1 3 5 6 0 1 Quick install will occupy all residual VG space for one UDV and so it will have no space left for snapshots and spares If snapshot is needed please create volumes manually and refer to next chapter for more detail about snapshots 18 Web GUI guideline Quick Install has a smarter policy When the system is inserted with some HDDs Quick Install lists all possibilities and sizes in different RAID levels and it will use all a
32. d the system allows only one user to login or modify system settings System contig Login config Auto logout Disable Bl See CH Enable Figure 3 4 4 1 Web GUI guideline 21 3 4 5 Password Password can change administrator password The maximum length of admin password is 12 characters F System config Password Old password Password Confirm Figure 3 4 5 1 3 4 6 Date Date can set up the current date time and time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP Network Time Protocol server Now poor 16 16 18 Time zone Asia Taipei Setup date and time manually Date DO j 8 W Time 16 BN 53 C NTP Server Figure 3 4 6 1 3 4 7 Mail Mail can enter at most 3 mail addresses for receiving the event notification Some mail servers would check Mail from address and need authentication for anti spam Please fill the necessary fields and click Send test mail to test whether email functions are available Users can also select which levels of event logs are needed to be sent via Mail Default setting only enables ERROR and WARNING event logs 22 Web GUI guideline System config Mail Mail from address malmantcontroller Mail to address 1 Send events 1 INFO l WARNING ERROR M Mail ta address 2 Send events 2 IMFO WARNING Mo ERROR M Mail ta address 3 Send events 3 INFO l WARNING M ERROR M SMTP relay IT SMTP ser
33. dth 1 RAID copy 3 RAID row 1 One RAID 10 volume over 3 4 disk RAID 1 volume RAID width 1 RAID copy 4 RAID row 3 Write Through cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored in non volatile media Each data is synchronized in both data cache and accessed physical disks Write Back cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is signaled as soon as the data is in cache and actual writing to non volatile media occurs at a later time lt speeds up system write performance but needs to bear the risk where data may be inconsistent between data cache and the physical disks in one short time interval RO oo o Set the volume to be Read Only Dedicated Spare disks The spare disks are only used by one specific VG Others could not use these dedicated spare disks for any rebuilding purpose Global Spare disks GS is shared for rebuilding purpose If some VGs need to use the global spare disks for rebuilding they could get the spare disks out from the common spare disks pool for such requirement po DeGraded mode Not all of the array s member disks are functioning but the array is able to respond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks SAS senal AtachedSCS WWN World Wide Name HBA Host Bus Adapter 222222222222 SES SCSI Enclosure Services 222222 control access to an
34. e Healthy System re Boot 17 01 GB 16 32 GB 19 53 GB 16 40 GB OMB 87 o 83 Yo 100 95 90 o O 95 P 3 GB B e 095 O O 0 5 0 F 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy Advanced operation 57 2 3 4 58 Initialize the disk HE R Oe D E F 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy Disk 1 LC 19 53 GB FAT32 Healthy System Unknown 2792 99 GB Initialize Disk Not Initialized Properties JCD ROMO Help DVD 3 20 GB UDF Healthy 3 20 GB Online Figure C 3 Convert to GPT disk for over 2TB capacity For more detail information about GPT please visit http www microsoft com whdc device storage GPT FAQ mspx s ni ICH D E F 13 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy System Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy lt PDisk 1 Basic RR 2792 92 GB Cowert to Dynamic Disk 744 96 GB Online Convert to GPT Disk Unallocated eo romo Properties DVD 3 20 GB Online Hep Figure C 4 Format the disk F 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy 2792 88 GB Unallocated Sor IS DVD EN OS 2939 2 G 3 20 GB UDF Healthy Figure C 5 Advanced operation LC 19 53 GB FAT32 Healthy System New Yolume H 2792 87 GB NTFS Healthy EN AO A
35. eeeens 9 1 1 A 9 1 2 el tee te o 9 1 3 AB AE RR A PR UE A 10 1 4 Volume relationship CAO FAM er 11 Chapter 2 Getting starte 12 2 1 A eee EE 12 2 2 o A 12 2 9 Management iet E 13 2 3 1 o AP PP e O E E ENEA T 13 2 9 2 Console serial POR MMC P 13 210i Remote control secure shell 7 aer at attin exo bla pRR Erit HAM S PARRA E NER PAR LUE RGB BRL HR eR RA 19 2 4 qus 14 2 4 1 rep sa T 14 2 4 2 ss P 15 2 4 3 i i C Pu m 15 Chapter 3 Web GUI guideline cc cccccceceeeeeeeeeeeaeeeesseeeesseeeeesneeeeeas 17 3 1 En e 17 3 2 Bele T to mr 17 3 3 Sto aE UE 18 3 4 System COMM OU e DE 20 3 4 1 System Name du ee UU qM MM IMMUNE ME 20 3 4 2 AA E D 20 3 4 3 E te EE 21 3 4 4 Login ooi A o iaansbmnaganaanmabaassante 21 3 4 5 o AA A A A 22 3 4 6 BR E o O e E O A 22 3 4 7 Md eemeaneess 22 3 4 8 c E 29 3 4 9 Massen Sn A IA 24 3 4 10 Systemi oo AP a e A 24 3 4 11 o A A 24 du Volume CONMOET e T 25 3 5 1 PUYSICAL OS M MENT Tc 25 3 9 2 Viel Tue ME 28 3 9 9 User data URN RT 29 3 5 4 Cache VON 30 3 0 0 Logical u
36. ical disks of slot 1 2 3 4 are created for a VG named VG RO Physical disks of slot 6 7 8 9 are created for a VG named VG R6 Slot 11 is set as dedicated spare disk of VG named VG R6 The others are free disks 26 Advanced operation PD column description The position of hard drives The number of slot begins from left to right at the front side The button next to the number of slot is More Information It shows the details of the hard drive WWN X World Wide Name Size GB Capacity of hard drive Related volume group name The status of hard drive GOOD gt the hard drive is good DEFECT gt the hard drive has the bad blocks FAIL gt the hard drive cannot work in the respective volume RD RAID Disk This hard drive has been set to RAID FR gt FRee disk This hard drive is free for use DS Dedicated Spare This hard drive has been set to the dedicated spare of the VG GS gt Global Spare This hard drive has been set to a global spare of all VGs RS ReServe The hard drive contains the VG information but cannot be used It may be caused by an uncompleted VG set or hot plug of this disk in the running time In order to protect the data in the disk the status changes to reserve It can be reused after setting it to FR manually R Rebuild The hard drive is doing rebuilding M gt Migration The hard drive is doing mig
37. ies retries C 1 203 63 253 63 253 0 253 157 253 223 41 Good 2 100 16 107 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 31 Good 3 100 16 104 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 32 E 4 70 6 96 0 100 36 75 30 100 97 31 Be 5 100 16 102 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 32 um 6 203 63 253 63 253 0 253 157 253 223 28 ae 7 94 16 99 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 31 m 8 200 51 171 21 200 140 200 51 100 51 100 51 30 A Figure 3 6 3 1 3 6 4 UPS UPS can set up UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply 42 Advanced operation UPS Type None sl Shutdown Battery Level s El Shutdown Delay 5s o IH Shutdown UPS OFF rl Status Battery Level 96 Confirm Figure 3 6 4 1 Currently the system only supports and communicates with smart UPS of APC American Power Conversion Corp UPS Please review the details from the website http www apc com First connect the system and APC UPS via RS 232 for communication Then set up the shutdown values when power is failed UPS in other companies can work well but they have no such communication feature Select UPS Type Choose Smart UPS for APC None for other vendors or no UPS Type UPS Shutdown When below the setting level system will shutdown Setting level to 0 will Battery Level 96 disable UPS Shutdown If power failure occurred and system can not return to value setting status the Delay s system will shutdown Setting delay to 0 will disable the function Select ON when p
38. it is less or equal to maximum volume size Then click cts gt Step 3 Confirm page Click Confirm e if all setups are correct Then a UDV will be created Done You can start to use the system now Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot YG Cv No Name GB Status 1 2 3 Hd RAID LUN GB Ge MB 1 UICK68809 609 no Gwe OHI 0 00 0 00 O 8 2 a Eis e RAID O 1 e e QUICK45427 663 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 3 3 2 Figure 3 3 2 A RAID 0 user data volume with the UDV name QUICK68809 named by system itself with the total available volume size 609GB Web GUI guideline 19 3 4 System configuration System config is designed for setting up the System name IP address Language Login config Password Date Mail SNMP Messenger System log server and viewing the Event log System name IP address Language Login config Password Messenger System log server Event log 3 4 1 System name System name for identification Internet Protocol IP address for remote administration Language preference for WebUI Configuration for auto logout and login lock Administrator s password System time for event log Alert by e mail Alert via Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers Alert to remote system log server System event l
39. lers to remote login The SSH client software is available at the following web site SSHWinClient WWW http www ssh com Putty WWW http www chiark greenend org uk Host name 192 168 0 1 Please check your DHCP address for this field Login name admin Default password 1234 Getting started 13 al Q Tips AR108X only support SSH for remote control For using SSH the IP address and password are T required for login 2 4 Enclosure 2 4 1 LCD Display There are four buttons to control Sans Digital LCM LCD Control Module including A up V down ESC Escape and ENT Enter After booting up the system the following screen shows management port IP and model name 192 168 0 1 SANS DIGITAL Press ENT the LCM functions Alarm Mute Reset Shutdown Quick Install View IP Setting Change IP Config and Reset to Default will rotate by pressing A up and V down When there is WARNING or ERROR occurred LCM default filter the LCM shows the event log to give users more detail from front panel The following table is function description Mute alarm when error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or shutdown controller Quick steps to create a volume Please refer to next chapter for operation in web Ul View IP Setting Display current IP address subnet mask and gateway address from DHCP server or static IP Reset to default will set password to default 1234 and set IP address to def
40. n order to avoid conflict with system 2 Advanced operation 51 Appendix A Certification list e SAS HBA card LSI Logic SAS3442X PCI X 3 Gb s 1 external x4 SFF 8470 1 internal x4 SFF 8484 LSI Logic SAS3442E R PCI Express 3 Gb s 1 external x4 SFF 8470 1 internal x4 SFF 8484 LSI Logic SAS3800X PCI X 3 Gb s 2 external x4 SFF 8470 LSI Logic SAS3801E PCI Express 3 Gb s 2 external x4 SFF 8088 mini SAS e Hard drive Supports SATA II disks 52 Advanced operation B Event notifications e PD events INO o Disk inserted Disk slot is inserted into system WARNING Disk slot is removed from system ERROR HDD failure Disk slot is disabled e HW events EE mo Es Een mro EEN ETT mro CE EE e EMS events mmm mo foreman poneren OOOO WARNING Advanced operation 53 e RMS events Level Type Description INFO Console Login username login from IP or serial console via Console UI INO o Console Logout username logout from IP or serial console via Console UI INO o Web Login username login from IP via Web UI INO o Web Logout username logout from IP via Web UI e LVM2 events AA INFO FER KEEN WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING 54 Advanced operation ERROR VG failed VG lt name gt is failed ERROR UDV failed UDV name is failed Battery backup events A A WEE INFO BBMsyncdata Abnorm
41. nfig User data volume Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot VG CV No Name Ges Status 1 2 3 RAID LUN Ge G De 1 UDV RO 5 Online H wp BHI 0 00 0 00 O e unnm UM 12 RAIDS 0 e VG RO 100 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 4 2 3 Figure 4 2 3 A RAID 0 migrates to RAID 5 the complete percentage is 12 To do migration the total size of VG must be larger or equal to the original VG It does not allow expanding the same RAID level with the same hard disks of original VG During the setting migration if user doesn t setup correctly controller will pop up warning messages Below is the detail of messages 1 Invalid VG ID Source VG is invalid 2 Degrade VG not allowed Source VG is degraded 3 Initializing rebuilding operation s going Source VG is initializing or rebuilding Advanced operation 49 4 Migration operation s going Source VG is already in migration 5 Invalid VG raidcell parameter Invalid configuration E g New VG s capacity Old VG s capacity New VG s stripe size lt Old VG s stripe size Or New VG s configuration Old VG s configuration 6 Invalid PD capacity New VG s minimum PD capacity Old VG s minimum PD capacity A Notice VG Migration cannot be executed during rebuild or UDV extension 4 3 UDV Extension To extend UDV size please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Decide which UDV to extend click the
42. nit O A O CP OE PPC Tr 30 3 5 6 o A e oO OPE A IA 31 3 6 Enclosure managemen Eurasia tran ar a tii ea 40 3 6 1 SES CONNU O M 40 3 6 2 ee i e e TEEN 41 3 6 3 Hard drive S M A R T ENEE oceania ios 42 3 6 4 E a OE mw E 42 3 7 ele ne 43 3 4 1 a e UM 44 3 7 2 a e EEN 44 Sec co EEN 45 3 7 4 Reset Eelere ee EE 45 Jof 19 CONTO import amp OW a ecdesiae a 45 3 7 6 o E o O In 46 3 8 Ls A o A 46 Chapter A Advanced operation cccccccccecccseeeeceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessneeeas 47 4 1 aol eee ee eee 47 4 2 VG migrati n and KE e e 48 4 3 UDV E KONSI portante 50 4 4 DEK TOAN e TTD 51 O A 52 A Certification OU 52 B Event o A e 53 Chapter 1 RAID introduction 1 1 Features AR108X series features Front end 1 Serial Attached SCSI 3Gbps 4 lanes wide port for SAS host connectivity RAID 6 60 ready e Snapshot without relying on host software only for specified models e SATA II drive backward compatible One logic volume can be shared by as many as 8 hosts Host access control Configurable N way mirror for high data protection On line volume migration with no system down time HDD S M A R T enabled for SATA drives Global dedicated cache configurable by volume AR108X series connects to the host system in SAS interface It can be configured to any RA
43. og to record critical events Figure 3 4 1 System name allows you to change the system name Default system name is composed of the model name and serial number of this system e g S500C A00001 d System config System name System name 3 4 2 IP address Sa00C 400001 Figure 3 4 1 1 IP address can change IP address for remote administration usage There are 2 options DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or static IP The default setting is DHCP User can change the HTTP HTTPS and SSH port number when the default port number is not allowed on host server 20 Web GUI guideline F System config IP address DHCP Static Address Mask Gateway DNS MAC 00 13 78 00 00 DB HTTP port HTTPS port 55H port El Bl 443 Figure 3 4 2 1 3 4 3 Language Language can set the language shown in Web UI The option Auto Detect will be detected by browser for language setting System config Language Language a eee E English Simplified Chinese Figure 3 4 3 1 3 4 4 Login config Login config can set single admin and auto logout time The single admin can prevent multiple users access the same controller at the same time 1 Auto logout The options are 1 Disable 2 5 minutes 3 30 minutes 4 1 hour The system will log out automatically when user is inactive for a period of time 2 Login lock Disable Enable When the login lock is enable
44. ok at block size is 512B for 64bit OS setting 4K for 32bit OS setting Step 2 Configure host server 1 Follow the installation guild provided by HBA vendor install HBA driver properly For iSCSI models please install the latest Microsoft iSCSI initiator from the link below http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilylD 12cb3c1a 15d6 4585 b385 befd1319f825 amp DisplayLang en Step 3 Initialize Format Mount the disk 1 Go to Start Control Panel Computer Management gt Disk Management it displays a new disk m Computer Management Im File Action view Window Help eem mg mE d e E Computer Management Local n System Tools EICH Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy System 19 52 GB I ce ei Event Viewer 3 D Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy Boot 19 52 GB Mo E Shared Folders amp 9 E Partition Basic Healthy 19 53 GB Ei Local Users and Groups La Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 18 08 GB E q Performance Logs and Alert jew os 2939 2 G Partition Basic UDF Healthy 3 20 GB P te Device Manager a Sy Sorge E E Removable Storage M Disk Defragmenter I ES Disk Management re ESA Services and Applications Disk 1 Unknown 7 7 2792 99 GB 2792 99 GB Suk Frielel Not Initialized Unallocated New Disk zCD ROM 0 DVD EN OS 29392 G 3 20 GB UDF Healthy 3 20 GB Online Figure C 2 EBDisk 0 Basic C 76 68 GB 13 53 GB FAT32 Be E GB FAT32 Onlin
45. or RAID 6 is FAILED or has been unplugged removed then the status of VG is changed to degraded mode the system will search detect spare disk to rebuild the degraded VG to a complete one It will detect dedicated spare disk as rebuild disk first then global spare disk Sans Digital AR108X SAS RAID supports Auto Rebuild The following is the scenario Take RAID 6 for example 1 When there is no global spare disk or dedicated spare disk in the system controller will be in degraded mode and wait until A there is one disk assigned as spare disk or B the failed disk is removed and replaced with new clean disk then the Auto Rebuild starts The new disk will be a spare disk to the original VG automatically If the new added disk is not clean with other VG information it would be marked as RS reserved and the system will not start auto rebuild If this disk is not belonging to any existing VG it would be FR Free disk and the system will start Auto Rebuild If user only removes the failed disk and plugs the same failed disk in the same slot again the auto rebuild will start running Rebuilding in the same failed disk may impact customer data if the status of disk is unstable Sans Digital suggests all customers not to rebuild in the same failed disk 2 When there is enough global spare disk s or dedicated spare disk s for the degraded array controller starts Auto Rebuild immediately And in RAID 6 if there is another disk failu
46. ower is gone UPS will shutdown by itself after the system shutdown successfully After power comes back UPS will start working and notify system to boot up OFF will not The status of UPS Detecting Running Unable to detect UPS Communication lost UPS reboot in progress UPS shutdown in progress Batteries failed Please change them NOW Battery Level Current percentage of battery level 3 7 System maintenance Maintenance allows operation of the system functions including Upgrade to the latest firmware Info to show the system version Reset to default to reset all controller configuration values to factory settings Config import 8 export to import and export all controller configuration except VG UDV setting and LUN setting and Shutdown to either reboot or shutdown the system Advanced operation 43 Upgrade Remote upload firmware Info System information SAS SAS topology Reset to default Reset to factory default Config import amp export Import export configurations Shutdown Reboot or shutdown system Figure 3 7 1 3 7 1 Upgrade Upgrade can upgrade firmware Please prepare new firmware file named xxxx bin in local hard drive then click Browse to select the file Click Conim e it will pop up a message Upgrade system now If you want to downgrade to the previous FW later not recommend please export your sys
47. ration 3 0G From SATA ATAPI standard if the disk can support ATAPI IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen 2 signaling speed 3 0Gbps 1 5G From SATA ATAPI standard if the disk can support ATAPI IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen 1 signaling speed 1 5Gbps Unknown gt The disk doesn t support above command so the speed is defined as unknown PD operations description Free disks Make the selected hard drive to be free for use Global spares Set the selected hard drive s to global spare of all VGs Dedicated spares Set hard drive s to dedicated spare of selected VGs In this page Sans Digital SAS RAID also provides HDD auto spindown down to save power The default setting is disabled User can set up in physical disk page too Auto spindown Disabled Select y Free disks e Global spares e Dedicated spares e Figure 3 5 1 2 Advanced operation 27 d Volume config Physical disk Auto spindown Auto spindovn Figure 3 5 1 3 3 5 2 Volume group Volume group can view the status of each volume group e VG column description Create Delete o 8 No Name p jen PD UDV Status 1 2 3 RAID 1 E 297 267 4 1 Online RAID O 2 E 148 128 4 1 E ESCH Create o Delete e Figure 3 5 2 1 Figure 3 5 2 1 There is a RAID 0 with 4 physical disks named VG RO total size is 297GB free size is 267GB related
48. re occurs during rebuilding controller will start the above Auto Rebuild process as well Auto Rebuild feature only works at that the status of VG is Online It will not work at Offline Thus it will not conflict with the Roaming 3 In degraded mode the status of VG is Degraded When rebuilding the status of VG UDV will be Rebuild the column R in UDV will display the ratio in percentage After complete rebuilding the status will become Online VG will become completely one e Tips Set dedicated spare is not available if there is no VG or only VG of RAID 0 JBOD because user can Q not set dedicated spare disk to RAID 0 amp JBOD D Sometimes rebuild is called recover they are the same meaning The following table is the relationship between RAID levels and rebuild RAID 0 Disk striping No protection for data VG fails if any hard drive fails or unplugs Disk mirroring over 2 disks RAID 1 allows one hard drive fails or unplugging Need one new hard drive to insert to the system and rebuild to be completed e Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the disk N way mirror allows N 1 hard N way mirror drives failure or unplugging Advanced operation 47 Striping with parity on the dedicated disk RAID 3 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks RAID 5 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging 2 dimensional parity p
49. rotection over the member disks RAID 6 allows two hard RAID 6 drives failure or unplugging If it needs to rebuild two hard drives at the same time it will rebuild the first one then the other in sequence Mirroring of RAID O volumes RAID 0 1 allows two hard drive failures or RAID 0 1 unplugging but at the same array Striping over the member of RAID 1 volumes RAID 10 allows two hard drive failure RAID 10 Mas or unplugging but in different arrays Striping over the member of RAID 3 volumes RAID 30 allows two hard drive failure RAID 30 E or unplugging but in different arrays Striping over the member of RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 allows two hard drive RAID 50 l s failures or unplugging but in different arrays Striping over the member of RAID 6 volumes RAID 40 allows four hard drive RAID 60 l l Gu failures or unplugging every two in different arrays The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks No data protection VG fails if any hard drive failures or unplugs 4 2 VG migration and expansion To migrate the RAID level please follow below procedures 1 2 3 48 Select Volume config Volume group Decide VG to be migrated click the button BE inthe RAID column next the RAID level Change the RAID level by clicking the down arrow R ID5 zl There will be a pup up which shows if the HDD is not enough to support the new setting of RAID level click Selet PD e to increase hard drives then
50. slot of the computer Then please install the driver of adapter and connect AR108X to miniSAS card with SAS cable Then the hardware installation is complete 5 After the installation is complete you can turn on the power of the computer and log into system through LAN port or RS232 port and perform related configuration and application The default account password is admin 1234 IP address is 192 168 0 1 5 The Methods of Setting AR108X Three setting methods are shown as follows please choose one for setting AR108X 1 Graphical User Interface GUI Sans Digital AR108X supports GUI for system management Please make sure that related network ports are connected For connection through the network port if using a fixed IP make sure the fixed IP Address doesn t conflict with other IP Addresses Use a ping to check if the IP Address conflicts with other IPs 2 RAID Finder The RAID Finder software can easily find the IP Address of AR108X installed in the network and help the process of getting on to the login screen You can insert the disc and go to RAID Finder folder under Management Software and click RAlDFinder jar to perform the installation Complete the installation and run the software which will automatically search for AR108X in the network and display any related information Click and select the device IP address and the software will automatically open the browser and display the login screen Enter the account and pas
51. sword to login system to configure settings The default account password is admin 1234 A Notice RAID Finder is a java application Before started please go to www java com for downloading free java runtime environment 3 RS 232 Port You can manage and configure the system through RS 232 directly or if you forget the initially configured IP Address you can use RS 232 port to enter the system for configuration For further information please refer to user manual aa Properties mes COM1 Properties l Connect To Settings Por Settings Function arrow and ctrl keys act as Terminal keys O Windows keys lonkpacedey sende Bits per second 11 5200 m Cl Del Ctl H Space Ctri H Dasa bits Emulation DE x Par Telnet terminal ID VT100 Stop bits Backscroll buffer lines 1500 C Play sound when connecting or disconnecting C Allow remote host initiated file transfers Input Translation ASCII Setup Res ore Defaults Flow control mmm 6 After choosing the configuration method please set RAID mode by following the following steps Then format the hard drives with the disk management tool on the OS system 1 You could change IP as DHCP or STATIC IP for login GUI For further information please refer to the user manual 140C Quick install System name IP address Language Login config Password Date
52. tach Detach Figure 3 5 6 6 Figure 3 5 6 6 UDV R5 1 is attached to LUN 0 UDV R5 2 is attached LUN 1 al Q Tips The matching rules of access control are from top to bottom in sequence E Step 4 Set global spare disk To set global spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select the free disk s by clicking the checkbox in the row then click global spares 3 GS icon is shown in status 1 column Global spares e to set as Select E Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e m Slot WWN pes me Status 1 2 Speed 1 D 2007001378240040 38 VG R5 ze Ar 1 5Gb 2 m 2017001378a202d9 38 VG R5 Zich A ro 1 5Gb 3 Good Oo e 2018001378a202d9 38 VG RS pa A ro 1 5Gb 4 Good 2019001378a202d9 38 VG R5 DM A ro 1 5Gb 5 Good e 201a001378a202d9 38 ERN A cs 1 5Gb 6 Good D 20c4001378000108 38 dada B FR 1 5Gb 7 Good D e 201c0013783202d9 38 Bech B FR 1 5Gb 8 Good 201b001378a202d9 38 TM B rn 1 5Gb 34 Advanced operation Figure 3 5 6 7 Figure 3 5 6 7 Slot 5 is set as global spare disk Step 5 Done They can be used as SCSI disks Delete UDVs VG please follow the steps listed below Step 6 Detach LUN from UDV In Volume config Logical unit Attach Detach vi Host LUN Permission UDV name Session Iv i Read write UDV R5 1 2 v 5006058000482220 1 Read write UDV R5 2 1 Attach Detach Figure 3 5 6 8 1 Select L
53. tail polling time intervals 1 Temperature sensors 1 minute 2 Voltage sensors 1 minute 3 Hard disk sensors 10 minutes 4 Fan sensors 10 seconds When there are 3 errors consecutively controller sends ERROR event log 5 Power sensors 10 seconds when there are 3 errors consecutively controller sends ERROR event log 6 LED status 10 seconds SES config Access control for SES management Hardware monitor System monitored voltage temperature and battery backup module S M A R T Self monitoring analysis and reporting technology for physical disks E K wn Uninterruptible power supply Figure 3 6 1 3 6 1 SES configuration SES represents SCSI Enclosure Services one of the enclosure management standards SES config can enable or disable the management of SES 40 Advanced operation Enable Disable IT Host LUN Permission UDY name 0 Read write SES Enable Disable Figure 3 6 1 1 Figure 3 6 1 1 Enable SES in LUN 0 and can be accessed from every host The SES client software is available at the following web site SANtools http www santools com 3 6 2 Hardware monitor Hardware monitor can view the information of current voltage and temperature Enclosure management Hardware monitor Item Information 1 5V 1 52 V min 1 44 V max 1 63 V 3 3V 3 28 V min 3 10 V max 3 55 V 5V 5 02 V min 4 80 V max 5 35 V 12V 12 08 V min 11 40 V max
54. tem configuration in advance click Cancel to export system configuration in advance then click OK to start to upgrade firmware Browse the firmware to upgrade Browse Export config Confirm Figure 3 7 1 1 K Uperade system now Tf you want to downgrade to the previous FW later please export your system config first Cancel Figure 3 7 1 2 When upgrading there is a progress bar running After finished upgrading the system must reboot manually to make the new firmware took effect al Q Tips Please contact with tech sansdigital com for latest firmware A 3 7 2 Info Info can display system information including firmware version CPU type installed system memory and controller serial number 44 Advanced operation 3 7 3 SAS SAS can display SAS addresses NO Device SAS address 1 SAS Initiator 500605B000482224 Figure 3 7 3 1 3 7 4 Reset to default Reset to default allows user to reset controller to the factory default setting Sure to reset to factory default Confirm Figure 3 7 4 1 Reset to default value the password is 1234 and IP address as below Default IP address 192 168 0 1 Default subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Default gateway 192 168 10 254 3 7 5 Config import amp export Config import amp export allows user to save system configuration values export and apply all configuration import For the volume configuration setting
55. tem log server Server IP hostname Port a14 Facility Local4 Event level INFO I WARNING IV ERROR IV Figure 3 4 10 1 There are some syslog server tools The following web sites are for your reference WinSyslog http www winsyslog com Kiwi Syslog Daemon http www kiwisyslog com Most UNIX systems build in syslog daemon 3 4 11 Event log Event log can view the event messages Click Filter button to choose the level of display event log Click Download button will save the whole event log as a text file with file name log ModelName SerialNumber Date Time txt e g log S500C A00001 20070801 120000 txt Click Clear button will clear event log Click Mute button will stop alarm if system alerts 24 Advanced operation Filter Download e Mute Clear INFO Wed 08 Aug 2007 18 04 25 CST UD QUICK68809 has been created INFO Wed 08 Aug 2007 18 04 25 CST VG QUICK45427 has been created INFO Wed 08 Aug 2007 18 01 17 CST admin login from 192 168 10 121 via Web UI Figure 3 4 11 1 For customizing your own display of event logs there are three display methods on Web Ul Console event log page popup windows on Web UI and on LCM The default setting of these three displays is WARNING and ERROR event logs displayed on Web UI and LCM The default setting disabled the popup function Show events INFO T WARNING M ERROR M Pop up events INFO WARNING ERROR I Show on LC
56. ures Advanced operation 31 Name WG 5 RAID Level RAIDS sl RAID PD slot 1234 Select PD e Back Next gt gt Figure 3 5 6 1 1 Select Volume config Volume group 2 Click Create e 3 Enter a VG Name choose a RAID level from the list click Select PD e to choose the RAID PD slot s then click M Sc 4 Check the outcome Click confirm e if all setups are correct 5 Done AVG has been created Create Delete D No Name pe phos PD sUDV Status 1 2 3 RAID D im inc 114 114 4 o galne s Create Delete e Figure 3 5 6 2 Figure 3 5 6 2 Creating a RAID 5 with 4 physical disks named VG R5 The total size is 114GB Because there is no related UDV free size still remains 114GB Step 2 Create UDV User Data Volume To create a user data volume please follow the procedures Name UDW R5 1 VG name vG 5 sl CV No Global 120MB sl Capacity GB 50 Stripe height KB 64 sl Block size B 512 g Read Write C write through cache write back cache Priority High priority C Middle priority C Low priority lt lt Back Confirm Figure 3 5 6 3 32 Advanced operation 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Click TOC gt 3 Enter a UDV name choose a VG Name and enter a size of UDV decide the stripe high block size read write mode and set priority then click CA H Die 4 Done A UDV has been created 5
57. ut may have different volume capacity Each UDV will be associated with one specific CV Cache Volume to execute the data transaction Each CV can have different cache memory size by user s modification setting LUN Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier in which users can access through SCSI commands RAID introduction 11 Chapter 2 Getting started 2 1 Before starting Before starting prepare the following items 1 Check Certification list in Appendix A to confirm the hardware setting is fully supported 2 Aserver with a SAS HBA 3 SAS cables 4 CAT 5e or CAT 6 network cables for management port 5 Prepare storage system configuration plan 6 Management port network information When using static IP please prepare static IP addresses subnet mask and default gateway 7 Setup the hardware connection before power on servers and Sans Digital RAID Subsystem Connect SAS cables console cable and management port cable in advance 2 2 Storage introduction For AR108X Serial attached SCSI offers advantages over older parallel technologies The cables are thinner and the connectors are less bulky Serial data transfer allows the use of longer cables than parallel data transfer SAS device 1 target Figure 2 2 1 The target is the storage device itself or an appliance which controls and serves volumes or virtual volumes The target is the device which performs SCSI command or bridge to an attached storage
58. vailable HDD for RAID level depending on whichever the user chooses When system has different sizes of HDDs e g 8 200G and 8 80G it lists all possibilities and combinations of different RAID levels and different sizes After the user chooses a RAID level users may find there are still some HDDs are available free status This results from using a smarter policy designed by Sans Digital It gives the user 1 Biggest capacity of RAID level for user to choose and 2 The fewest disk number for RAID level volume size E g user chooses RAID 5 and the controller has 12 200G 4 80G HDDs inserted If we use all 16 HDDs for a RAID 5 and then the maximum size of volume is 1200G 80G 15 By the wizard we do smarter check and find out the most efficient way of using HDDs The wizard only uses 200G HDDs Volume size is 200G 11 2200G the volume size is bigger and fully uses HDD capacity Step 1 Select Quick install and then choose the RAID level After RAID level is chosen click Next gt gt Then it will link to next page Quick install 5tep1 RAID Of 609 GB RAID 1 76 GB RAID 3 571 GB RAID 5 571 GB RAID 6 533 GB Figure 3 3 1 Step 2 Please select a LUN number Access control of host would show as a wildcard which means every host can access to this volume In this page the Volume size can be changed Default value is the maximum volume size To adjust the size be sure
59. ver Authentication None r Account Password Confirm Send test mail C Figure 3 4 7 1 3 4 8 SNMP SNMP can set up SNMP trap for alerting via SNMP It allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses Default community setting is public User can choose the event log levels and default setting only enables INFO event log in SNMP System contig SNMP SNMP trap address 1 SNMP trap address 2 SNMP trap address 3 Community public Send events INFOM WARNING ERROR Figure 3 4 8 1 There are many SNMP tools The following web sites are for your reference SNMPc http www snmpc com Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net Web GUI guideline 23 3 4 9 Messenger To use Messenger the user must enable the service Messenger in Windows Start Control Panel Administrative Tools Services Messenger and then event logs can be received It allows up to 3 messenger addresses User can choose the event log levels and default setting enables the WARNING and ERROR event logs System config Messenger Messenger IPfhostname 1 Messenger IPfhostname 2 Messenger IP hostname 3 Send events INFO l WARNING IY ERROR M Figure 3 4 9 1 3 4 10 System log server Using System log server users can choose the facility and the event log level The default port of syslog is 514 The default setting enables event level INFO WARNING and ERROR event logs i System config Sys
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