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1. Gigabit Ethernet port connect on both controllers to Metadata and Management network To complete the Metadata and Management network connection the minimum requirements are e Each client computer must have a Gigabit Ethernet connection e A Gigabit Ethernet network switch e Cabling Cat 5E minimum Cat 6 preferred CONNECT DEVICES TO METADATA AND MANAGEMENT NETWORK To establish the Metadata and Management path 1 On the VTrak A3800 connect Ethernet cables between the Management ports on both RAID controllers and a network switch 2 Connect an Ethernet cable from the dedicated Metadata Gigabit Ethernet port on all SAN clients to the network switch 21 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies FIBRE CHANNEL DATA CONNECTIONS Each VTrak A3800 controller is equipped with four 8Gb Fibre Channel ports The controllers function as an Active Active redundant pair in regards to the Fibre Channel data paths therefore I O performance to the SAN increases as more ports are used VTrak controller Fibre Channel SFP sockets i010 lt lt SAS EXP a UPS Mgmt 115208 8N ee The Fibre Channel data path minimum requirements are e AFibre Channel HBA or controller in each client that will be attached to the SAN e For optical Fibre Channel configurations one optical cable and two SFPs per VTrak port that will be connected to either a Fibre Channel switch when there are more clients than available ports or
2. IOIOI SAS EXP a ee e mamman ae aa UPS control Management USB Fibre Channel Ports 1 4 SAS Expansion amp Metadata Serial port Connection Port Description The mini D9 connector is used with an optional cable for monitoring a connected Uninterruptible Power Supply Metadata and The RJ 45 Gigabit Ethernet port on each controller provides the Metadata Management communications network connection as well as the management connection to the web and command line interface used to manage the VTrak system and SAN Both controllers of the dual controller models must have their ports connected to the Metadata network as they are operating as a redundant pair Serial port The RJ 11 serial management port provides an out of band local management connection to the VTrak system using the RJ11 to DB9 adapter which is included in the accessory kit USB ports The two USB 2 0 ports provide a convenient way to save OPAS information to a USB device which can be used by PROMISE Technical Support for any required support activities Fibre Channel ports The four Fibre Channel sockets accept copper or optical SFPs to provide the data paths for the SAN The controllers perform load balancing across any connected Fibre Channel ports to provide maximum performance and high availability SAS Expansion port The VTrak includes SAS Expansion capability for added storage capacity Up to nine VTrak x30 Expansion units can b
3. SOROA SiNiO Cline aera aoa NeW Oars SWiOm Cs a1 INOW Wei SS WO Cea ar ae 187 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies pdm Usage pdm a lt action gt d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt pdm a start d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt p lt Pdld gt pdm a stop d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt pdm a pause d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt pdm a resume d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt Summary The pdm command activates Predictive Data Migration PDM PDM replaces a suspect physical drive such as a drive with a PFA condition with a different drive The replacement drive can be an unconfigured drive a global spare or a dedicated spare to this disk array During PDM the data on the suspect drive is transferred to the replacement drive while the logical drive remains online After PDM the replacement drive becomes part of the disk array The suspect drive become unconfigured and any PFA condition remains on it This command starts stops pauses and resumes a PDM and monitors the progress of a running PDM A PFA drive cannot be used until you clear the PFA condition To clear the PFA conditon of a physical drive please refer to phydrv command Note that the destination drive must be the Same media type HDD or SSD as the other physical drives in the disk array Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays the active and paused PDMs and their status start Starts a manua
4. System This is also where you can Delete Format and run a Check File System To expand an existing file system click on the option This takes you to the a menu used to create new LUNs and LUN Groups The process and menu are similar to LUN creation procedure used in the File System Setup Wizard File System Detail File Syst a DataFS1 DataFS1 Free 3 17 TB Detail Storage VidFS1 Free 951 79 GB Basic Information Status Capacity Mount Point Quota Inode Ratio Data Block Size Journal Size LUN Group b Client Computer List Quota Folder 7 Running Free 3 17 TB g Total 3 17 TB Yo fsmnt DataFS 1 Enabled Inode ratio 1 7 Total 71303168 Data block size 32 KB Total 652762764 Available 85 64 MB 1 Information viewed in the File System Detail includes Status Current status of File System ___ Mount Point Root directory for File System Quota Status of quota function enabled or disabled 2777064 69 Gear icon A VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies STOPPING A FILE SYSTEM In order to remove or format an File System or to run a check and repair it is necessary to first stop running the File System To stop an File System perform these steps i 2 3 Go to File System gt Detail menu tab Click on the Gear icon and select the Stop option A pop up menu warns that there might be client systems using the File System Cli
5. and the whole files are distributed to all LUNs e Stripe Files are striped across all LUNs This is the fastest method e Fill Files are stored in the first LUN when that LUN is full the next LUN is used and so on This is the most space efficient method Click on the information icon for any individual LUN to view details about that LUN LUN Group information includes File System LUN Group Name Storage Usage Stripe Size and Allocation Size Individual LUN information includes LUN ID LUN Type LUN Status LUN Group Name Capacity Total Available and Usage 12 Web based Management Fite System Quota MANAGEMENT The VTrak A Class supports use of an external LDAP server for limiting the total amount of storage consumed administered on an individual user basis quota users or by quota user groups Quota limits are applied across an entire file system placing a hard limit on the total storage capacity allowed and the total number of files allowed REQUIREMENTS FOR QUOTA CONFIGURATION Quotas must first be enabled during the creation of a file system or in the Detail tab of the File System menu The file system must be stopped to enable Quotas see File System Detail Then perform the following tasks Enable LDAP see LDAP Settings this requires a Check Quota function to be run To run a Quota Check click on the Gear icon in the Quota menu and select Quota Check Create Quota Users and User Grou
6. lt LdldList gt m lt LunMap gt lunmap a delld i lt Initiatorld gt lt LdldList gt lunmap a add i lt Initiatorld gt n lt Name gt lt LdldList gt m lt LunMap gt lunmap a del i lt Initiatorld gt lunmap a enable lunmap a disable 175 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Summary The lunmap command displays information about the current LUN mapping and masking LMM table information and enables you to add modify and delete LMM entries LMM can be enabled or disabled Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays the current LMM table enable Enables LMM disable Disables LMM add Adds an LMM entry and its LUN maps to the table del Deletes an LMM entry from the table addld Adds or modifies an LUN map for an existing LMM entry delld Deletes a LUN map for an existing LMM entry mod Specifies LUN mapping type r lt Ctrlld gt Specifies the Ctrl ID for a port based LMM entry Valid only for Fibre Channel host interface p lt Portld gt Specifies the Port ID for a port based LMM entry Valid only for Fibre Channel host interface i lt Initiatorld gt Specifies the initiator ID for an initiator based LMM entry For a list option it is the starting index 0 2047 May be used with c option C lt Count gt Specifies the number of LMM entries to be listed Only used with a list option n lt Name gt Specifies the initiator name 176 Man
7. v lun a mov n lt FS Name gt lt node gt lt lun gt g lt LUN Group id gt Summary Manage LUNs Including transfer a data type LUN to another LUN group in a running status file system List the properties of all LUNs in a file system Options a lt action gt Specifies which action to perform list List the properties of all LUNs mov Move a data type LUN to another LUN group in a running status file system n lt FS Name gt Specify the file system Name which you want to operate on Supports string up to 31 character long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores t lt type gt Specify the type of LUN which you want to list all Default free Free LUN used Used LUN 77 lt option gt lt value gt Specify the LUNs information These options are separated by a comma node Node id which LUN belongs to lun LUN id 172 Management with CLI g lt LUN Group id gt Specify the LUN group id the LUN move to C lt count gt Count of LUNs Only valid with a list V Verbose mode Used with a list Examples l un ay last v lun l node 1 lun 1 lan t Tiree Tun nao Turns armon NA Sl Ae iO Ge le un a Ce lun h 173 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies lungroup Usage lungroup a lt action gt n lt FS Name gt i lt LUN group id gt s lt list of settings gt Summary Used to manage LUN groups as well as to list the properties of al
8. 2 Log into WebPAM PROe as the Administrator or a Super User Go to Administrator gt User Management gt User Management menu tab Click on the Gear icon for the menu and select the Add New User option Enter a user name in the Name field Enter a password for this user in the New Password and Retype Password fields Check the Enabled box to enable this user on this subsystem Enter a display name in the Display Name field A display name is optional Choose a privilege level from the Privilege drop down menu For a Super User you can enter a Surname and User Email address These are used for emailed alert notifications See Notification Setup section below 10 Click the Save button 91 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Mopbiry MANAGEMENT USER SETTINGS To change the privilege settings or other settings except the user name and password for a user 1 2 Log into WebPAM PROe as the Administrator or a Super User Go to Administrator gt User Management gt User Management menu tab Click on the Gear icon for the user in the list Modify option Change the privilege or other settings as preferred Click the Save button DELETE MANAGEMENT USER SETTINGS To remove a management user iF 2 3 4 Log into WebPAM PROe as the Administrator or a Super User Go to Administrator gt User Management gt User Management menu tab Click on the Gear icon for the user in the list Delete option Ty
9. Affinity N A CREATING A DATA FOLDER To create a user data folder 1 Goto File System gt Folder menu tab administrator Access By NA 2 Click on the Gear icon and select the Add Folder option 3 Give the folder a name and click on the Save button Use the folder to control user access This menu is also used to set access permissions Set Access PERMISSION To set access permission for a folder 1 Create a folder on the File System see above 2 Click on the Gear icon and select the Access Settings option 3 Click on Add New Access a new menu appears 4 Choose Users or User Groups from the list to allow access permission for the folder To create users and user groups go to the User Management menus in the Administration directory 5 Click on the Done button Web based Management SAN DETAIL Manage the SAN including port management device upgrades and background activities as well as basic SAN management adding or removing clients and nodes and viewing the SAN topology in the SAN menus This is also the menu used to shutdown a VTrak node refresh LUN Mapping and Masking or to restore the VTrak to its factory default settings SAN Detail information display menu P RO M I S E Dashboard File System SAN Administration amp administrator TECHNOLOGY INC VTrak h VTrak Node 2 VTrak Node 1 ee Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Management Firmware Update Background Act
10. Examples I el Ele yicleur SUES el r e rS epr bee Cem vole teulllice e Ss cores Sc eb ll 147 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies fc Usage fc a lt action gt t lt Type gt i lt Ctrlld gt p lt Portld gt v fc a mod t lt Type gt i lt Ctrild gt p lt Portld gt s slist of settings gt fc a reset i lt Ctrlld gt p lt Portld gt Summary The fc command is used to view and modify Fibre Channel information and settings Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Gives summary information about Fibre Channel status mod Modify Fibre Channel settings reset Reset Fibre Channel port s t lt type gt Specifies what type of information to display or modify node Display Fibre Channel node information port Default Specifies Fibre Channel port as the device type to display or modify information SFP Display port SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable information stats Display port statistics information loggedininitiators Display port logged in initiators information loggedintargets Display port logged in targets information 148 allinitiators i lt ctrild gt p lt port id gt 3 S lt option gt lt value gt linkspeed 2gb 4gb 8gb auto topology nlport nport auto hardalpa 0 255 V Examples Fe fey Upor v Management with CLI Display initiator list from fibre switch Controller Id Default to be all av
11. Goto SAN gt Detail menu tab 2 Click on the Gear icon 3 Select the Restore Factory Default Settings option A confirmation is required 4 Settings are restored to factory default It takes a few minutes to complete RerFresH LUN MAPPING AND MASKING To refresh LUN Mapping and Masking 1 Goto SAN gt Detail menu tab 2 Click on the Gear icon and select the Refresh LMM option 3 Click on the Save button 76 Web based Management LUN Create LUNs and view information about individual LUNs and physical drives on any VTrak node in the LUN menu Choose a VTrak node in the left panel to see the LUN menu for that unit This menu is also used for the physical drive location features SAN LUN menu VTrak Node 1 Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Management Firmware Update Background Activities A View information about physical drives in each LJN You can also click on the gear icon on the right side to create new LUN to s al Name Status Raid Level Capacity Filesystem LUNO 8 Used RAID 135 97 GB DataF 51 LUM O Used RAIDS 3 17 TB DataF 51 LUNA O Used RAID 135 97 GB WidFS LUNG Ovsed RAIDS 951 51 GB WidFS1 PBRS Ook T 135 37 GE PD 12 Oo F jams G6 PO 13 Ook a 135 97 GB PO 14 Ook iad ISE FG ifs Ook P IESi ISE PO 16 Ook Ta Jaaa IBE PO 17 Ook m Has GE Lid Lid Q i 9 PD 16 Ook Jams ISE CREATE A New LUN To a new LUN on any VTrak node 1 Goto SAN gt LUN m
12. Management with CLI Examples Sail el MOC SS idelitesniow Salil Samra adam e node d 1p 192 loo ko e 1p Wo7 Locomia syelgie cla base aie OE Sela el Js 1 san a del Sie node 1i 1177 san a del t node 1i 1 f sas Usage sas a lt action gt t lt Type gt i lt Ctrlld gt p lt Portld gt v sas a mod t lt Type gt i lt Ctrlld gt p lt Portld gt s lt list of settings gt Summary The sas command is used to view and modify SAS host port info and settings on SAS host interface product only Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Gives summary information about SAS host port status mod Modify SAS host port settings clear Clear port statistics information t lt type gt Specifies what type of information to display or modify port Default Specifies SAS host port as the device type to display or modify information stats Display or clear port statistics information 199 VTrak A Class Product Manual Initiator phystats i lt ctrild gt p lt port id gt S lt option gt lt value gt cablesignalstrength Promise Technologies Display initiator list connected to subystem Display PHY level statistics information Controller Id Default to be all available controllers for listing if i is not specified Default to be controller 1 for modifying if i is not specified Port number Default to be all ports if p is not specifie
13. Please follow the instructions to install the Linux Client Software 34 Setup Mac INSTALLATION The following MAC OS versions are supported e 10 8 Mountain Lion e 10 7 Lion Open a browser and enter the virtual management IP Address of the VTrak A Class system 10 0 0 1 Additional information on the IP Addresses can be found in Specifications on page 13 Download the VTrakFS Client application for your client using one of the methods listed in Installing the Client Application Software on page 34 then go to the download location and double click the file to uncompress it Opening the folder note that there are folders for the supported Operating System versions Note You can identify your OS version by selecting the About This Mac option in the Apple menu Open the folder that corresponds to the version for your workstation Double click on the Install FSClient Mac x x X pkg file and follow the installation instructions Note that it will be necessary to restart the computer after installing the client application After the Mac client is added to the SAN use the client application to mount the new SAN volume it will be found in the Applications Utilities folder See Using FS Client Software on page 57 for more details on adding an A Class SAN server and mounting a VTrakFS volume on your client workstation 35 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies WINDOWS INSTALLATION T
14. VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies ACCESSING THE USER INTERFACE To access the VTrak A Class browser based management GUI just open a browser and enter the IP Address of the VTrak A Class to access it For a new VTrak A Class the default IP Address is 10 0 0 1 and the User Name and Password are administrator and password click the Login button to continue PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC VTrak A Class Download the TrakFS Client software to be installed on your client machine Client Download As mentioned earlier you will be guided through a series of Setup Wizards to configure the VTrak A Class for use Service License Agreement The first time you access the management GUI you will be prompted to Agree to the terms of the Promise Terms of Service License Agreement 38 Setup Network Setup Next is the Network Setup dialog where you can change the IP Address and other network parameters of the A Class or skip this step leaving the default values Note that if you change the IP Address you will be prompted to confirm this action as you will have to point your browser at that address to log back in again To ensure that the VTrak A Class has internet access you may have to check with your network administrator for some of the necessary configuration information Date and Time Next is the Date and Time Setup dialog where you can set the correct time date and time zone After saving any changes yo
15. emerg Examples Soie EO Promise Technologies Syslog severity level according to the standard syslog specification in RFC5424 Send the logs with debug and more severe severity Send the logs with info and more severe severity Send the logs with notice and more severe severity Send the logs with warning and more severe severity Send the logs with error and more severe severity Send the logs with critical and more severe severity Send the logs with alert and more severe severity Only send the logs with emergency severity syslog a addserver s server 192 168 252 252 port 514 severity crror syslog a mMmodseryver i 7 ssa Sever wey info syslog a delserver 1 4 224 Management with CLI topology Usage topology a lt action gt v Summary Used to view the enclosure SAN topology the physical connections and all client and storage systems included in the SAN For products that support multiple enclosures only Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays topology information V View complete information about topology Examples COPO TOG 225 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies transit Usage transit a lt action gt d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt transit a start d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt p lt Pdld gt transit a stop d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt transit a pause d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt transit a resume d lt
16. enable disable Port number if using HTTPS Turn on or off authentication enable disable Old password of user cim when changing password New password of user cim when changing password Used to specify trap sink index for snmp public key index for ssh or recipient index for netsend Only valid for modify or delete trap 219 VTrak A Class Product Manual webserver SILCUICS Sia Sine SCOPRE NE MOSNI NMO e mod n netsend add n netsend del n netsend Examples Swmgt SWE T SWM A SWM e SWM A Swm aA InCo SWMT a SWMT a SaO e e Promise Technologies aul omaLlic i 1 p recipientserver 192 168 1 1 messagefilter p recipientserver 192 168 1 1 messagefilter info a ML add n ssh p filename key pub server 192 168 1 1 OMe ine a o Ole eaa e or ech Clee wa Sila a yl For adding multiple trapsinkserver SNMP Swe ce add n Snp PaA t rapo nikser yee LO OS al erapr inro D rapon koar yor o hoo e er apl er rica For adding multiple reciprentserver Netsend swmgt a add n netsend p recipientserver 192 168 1 1 messagefilter info p recipientserver 192 168 2 1 messagefilter critical 220 Management with CLI sink or recipient delete public key p lt option gt lt value gt Used to specify trap sinks for snmp public key for ssh or recipients for netsend Multiple p option can be entered with a add option for trap sink or
17. for any VTrak node To view the Events displays 1 Go to Administrator gt Events link in left panel 2 Choose to view either the Runtime Events tab or the NVRAM Events tab 3 Choose the VTrak node to display events for that VTrak one VTrak is displayed at a time from pull down menu In the bottom of the menu you can choose how many rows to display in the page one event per row and go to a previous older page of displayed events SAVE Event LOG To save an event log 1 Go to Administrator gt Events link in left panel 2 Click on the Gear icon and choose the Save Event Log option 3 Choose a location for the zipped file and click Save Notice that the file is named according to the date CLEAR Event LOG To clear an event log 1 Go to Administrator gt Events link in left panel 2 Click on the Gear icon and choose the Clear Event Log option requires confirmation 3 Type CONFIRM in the pop p menu and click the Confirm button FILTER Event LOG To filter events displayed according to severity key word or time period 1 Go to Administrator gt Events link in left panel 2 Click on the Gear icon and choose the Filter option 3 Choose the filter options severity date Keyword in the pop up menu 4 Click on the Filter button 97 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Propuct REGISTRATION AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT It is necessary to activate the product license and keep it up to d
18. subscription a disable subscription a mod u lt username gt s lt list of settings gt subscription a test u lt username gt Summary Subscription is used to enable or disable event notification for a specific user specify events of interest as well as to modify the levels of severity Users with superuser privilege can create subscription for all users Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays information of event subscription mod Modify a exist event subscription enable Enable event notification disable Disable event notification test Send a test email to the email address of specific user u lt username gt Specifies the username event subscription belongs to Default Assumes to the username of current logged in t lt type gt Specifies what type of event subscription 211 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Only used for verbose list action shortcut event subscription by shortcut If the parameter has no value it means that the severity level of underling items are different enclosure event subscription by enclosure raid event subscription by RAID core host event subscription by host interface drive event subscription by drive interface other event subscription by other S lt option gt lt value gt The following are for shortcut type event subscription If parameters for shortcut type and corresponding underling items are both in
19. 1 Port 1 2 Port 2 3 Port 3 4 Port 4 V Verbose mode Used with a list Examples net o one e Sine Oil je E R E ice co MiMvinSieiroig lt jeer sys 183 VTrak A Class Product Manual ntp Usage ntp a lt action gt ntp a list Promise Technologies ntp a mod s lt list of settings gt ntp a test t lt time server gt ntp a sync Summary The ntp command enables a user to view NTP status add an NTP server modify NTP settings test the NTP server connection and synchronize subsystem time with the NTP server Options a lt action gt list mod test sync S lt option gt lt value gt ntp enable disable timezone Which action to perform Default Displays NTP information Change the settings for NTP Test time server Sync time with time server Used to specify what options to change Enable and disable ntp service Specific to the timezone 184 server1 dst enable disable dststarttime dstendtime t lt time server gt Management with CLI The timezone s range is 12 13 Specific to the time servers a max of 3 servers Enable and disable Daylight Saving Time Used to specify the DST start time The format is Month WeekOfMonth DayOfWeek Month range is Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec WeekOfMonth range is 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last DayOfWeek range is Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur
20. Fri Sat Used to specify the DST end time The format is Month WeekOfMonth DayOfWeek Month range is Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec WeekOfMonth range is 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last DayOfWeek range is Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Specifies the time server to test Used with a test Returns only failure reports 185 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples Queso del Sakae ntp a mod s serverl ABC 123 XYZ adds a NTP server ntp a mod s ntp enable timezone 8 serverl ABC 123 XYZ dst enable dststarttime Mar 2nd Sun dstendtime Nov l1st Sun Nee cues ea ke AIC al 3 O QUE Ss ele 9e 186 Management with CLI password Usage password u lt username gt t lt type gt Summary Allows a user to change their password A normal non super user user will never use the u option as they are allowed only to change their password For any user who wants to change its own password it will be first prompted for their old password before inputting their new password For a super user the u option can be used to change the password of other users When changing the password another management user the old password is not required Maximum password length is 31 characters no spaces Options u lt username gt Specifies the user name t lt type gt Specifies the type of user mgmt Default Local management user Examples password
21. GREEN when there is activity on the controller remains dark when there s no activity System Heartbeat Blinks GREEN once per second for five seconds goes dark for ten seconds then blinks GREEN once per second for five seconds again Introduction Disk Carrier LEDs front of every carrier lt lt Drive Status lt lt Power Activity o 0 PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC Drive CARRIER LEDs Drive Status Lights steady GREEN when a drive is installed and configured belongs to an array or designated as a spare A steady AMBER light means the drive is rebuilding Steady RED indicates drive failure or critical error meaning the drive should be replaced This light is dark when no drive is present or if the installed drive is not yet configured Power Activity This lights steady BLUE when a drive is present it remains dark if no drive is installed A flashing BLUE light indicates there is activity on the drive Flashing and blinking are not the same thing Flashing means the on and off interval is longer Note Read the Hardware Setup section for LED behavior during boot up and operation VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Rear of VT RAK A3800 The rear of the VTrak A Class Series enclosure provides access to the power supply units which include the cooling fans and the system controller s The controller s have a standard RJ 45 Gigabit Ethernet port for Metadat
22. ID on which background synchronization is running Examples Sue sync SLs Oa elke Ibs 222 syslog Usage Management with CLI syslog a lt action gt i lt index gt s lt settings gt Summary To configure the settings for syslog remote servers Options a lt action gt listserver addserver delserver modserver index Which action to perform Default Displays the current settings of the remote syslog servers Add a new remote syslog server Delete an existing remote syslog server Modify the settings of an existing remote syslog server The index of remote syslog servers ranging from 1 to 4 This option is valid when modifying an existing remote syslog server settings or when deleting a server S lt option gt lt value gt The settings of one remote syslog server It s valid only when adding a server or modifying the settings server port protocol Server IP or domain name of the remote syslog server This setting is valid only when adding the server The UDP or TCP port number If not specified 514 is used by default Networking protocol When adding a server if this setting is not specified udp is used by default When modifying a server settings if this setting is not specified it means no change to the protocol 223 VTrak A Class Product Manual udp udp6 tcp tcp6 severity debug info notice warning error critical alert
23. INSTALLATION This chapter presents the basics on unpacking the VTrak A3800 and mounting it in an equipment rack connecting it to the SAN Metadata network and the Fibre Channel data network and connecting the power It also describes how to power on the system and what to look for while it is powering up The sections in Hardware Setup include the following e Unpacking the VTrak e Rack mounting the VTrak enclosure e Metadata and Management network connections e Connecting a VIrak JBOD e Connecting the enclosure power e Turning on the VTrak The VTrak A3800 is shipped with hard drives installed so this chapter does not cover installing hard drives Please see Appendix A for a description on how to remove and install hard disks Note To avoid the possibility of injury or damage to the unit you may want to remove the drive carriers from the enclosure before installing it in to a rack in order to reduce the weight 15 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies UNPACKING THE V TRAK After opening the VTrak A Class box you will have to remove the mounting rails protective cover and accessory boxes before you can remove the upper shipping foam spacers The accessory box contains the following items One printed Quick Start Guide One DVD containing the Product Manual Two 1 5m 4 9 ft power cables Two adjustable rack mounting rail assemblies Two DB9 to RJ 11 s
24. Only for local management user name Specifies the user s display full name for management user email Specifies an email address for the user Only for local management user V Verbose mode Used with a list Examples DS Se USaie accel l MeiwuSser So View S meme Nemec email MyEmail yourcompany com Tao o SaSewowcs 8s Retype password Icyou Saisewowels sas Retype Password user a mod u olduser p super s status disable name OldUser user a del u baduser 231 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies zoning Usage zoning a lt action gt g lt group id gt i lt ctrl id gt zoning a mod g lt froup id gt i lt ctrl id gt s lt list of settings gt Summary The zoning command allows a user to view and modify zoning membership table and permission table Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays memembership table and permission table mod Modify permission table g lt group id gt Specifies first group id i lt ctrl id gt Specifies controller id for permission table S lt option gt lt value gt group Specifies second group id for permission table permission Enable disable this permission table Examples zoning zoning a mod i 1 g 17 s group 10 permission enable 232 Management with CLI help Usage a lt action gt u lt username gt p lt privilege gt s lt opti
25. SSDs in the same disk array If your system has both type of drives it will create separate disk array logical drive sets for each type of physical drive Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform auto Automatic configuration with no options Creates an optimized disk array One or more logical drives are created automatically expr Express configuration RAID level is dependant on the options chosen r lt y n gt Selects the redundancy option p lt y n gt Selects the performance option 129 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies C lt y n gt Selects the capacity option S lt y n gt Includes a spare drive in the array Note Requires 5 or more unconfigured physical drives t lt App Type gt Specifies the intended application for this array video Sequential large block reads data Random read write mix small to medium sized IO log Sequential small block write other Random read write mix small to medium sized IO fileserver Random read write mix small to medium sized IO lt num of LDs gt Specifies how many logical drives to include in the configuration Array capacity is divided evenly among the logical drives Examples Comey es ane COMIC F ame Xe 2 Oa On Sr lee aaa 130 Management with CLI ctrl Usage ctrl a lt action gt i lt ctrild gt c lt ctrl count gt v ctrl a mod i lt ctrlld gt s lt list of settings gt ctrl a cle
26. Technologies Examples bgasched Doac nee anode Ane lao Sears arsao ken eid li8 oe ie bgasched a add t mp s recurtype monthly daypattern dow wom 2nd dow Sun month 1 3 6 endon 10 bgasched a add t sc s recurtype weekly dow Mon Wed Fri starttime 12 0 Omencen in iy 200 4 124 Management with CLI buzz Usage buzz a lt action gt buzz a list buzz a enable buzz a disable buzz a on buzz a off Summary The buzz command displays the status of the buzzer and enables disables turns on or turns off the buzzer Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default List the status of the buzzer enable Enable the buzzer disable Disable the buzzer on Turn on the buzzer off Turn off the buzzer 125 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies checktable Usage checktable t lt table Type gt lt Ldld gt Summary The checktable command displays the error check tables of a logical drive Options t lt tableType gt Specifies which error table to display The default displays all tables rct Displays the read check table wet Displays the write check table ibt Displays the inconsistent block table lt Ldld gt Specifies the logical drive ID Examples checktable 1 10 t rct checktable 1 10 126 Management with CLI clone Usage clone a lt action gt lt SourceLdld gt d lt TargetLdld gt r clone a start
27. a Red Disk Status LED on the front of the VTrak as well as in the virtual device that appears in the Device menu A warning also appears in the Alerts listed in the Dashboard Device menu in Web GUI SAN gt Device iIrak Node 1 Detail LUN Spare Drive Device FC Management Network Management Firmware Update Background Actnaties ot 235 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies REPLACING HARD Drives The drive carrier accommodates 3 5 inch drives Cautions Swing open the drive carrier handle before you insert the drive carrier into the enclosure To avoid hand contact with an electrical hazard remove only one drive carrier a time 1 Press the drive carrier release button The handle springs open 2 Grasp the handle and gently pull the empty drive carrier out of the enclosure Drive carrier front view Disk carrier release button PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC 3 Remove the four screws holding the failed hard drive in the carrier and remove the drive 4 Carefully lay the new drive into the carrier with the power and data connectors facing away from the carrier handle 236 Installing Physical Drives 5 Position the drive in the carrier so the mounting holes line up The 3 5 inch drive mounting screws go through the sides of the carrier Drive carrier bottom view 6 Insert the screws through the proper holes in the carrier and into the drive e Install four screws per drive e Snu
28. add or modifying mod an array Options are comma separated A user specified array name Up to 32 characters alpha numeric characters blank spaces and underscores Beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded Enables or disables Media Patrol for this array 110 pdm lt option gt lt value gt lt LD ID list gt ID Alias Raid 10 1e 50 6 60 Capacity 77 Management with CLI enable The default is enable disable Enables or disables PDM for this array enable The default is enable disable Specifies logical drive settings when adding a logical drive to an existing array addid or during array creation add Options are comma separated Specifies a list of Logical Drive IDs Requires the a delld option Assigns a specific ID to an array Overrides automatic ID assignment Valid values are 0 255 A user specified name for the logical drive Specifies logical drive RAID level Striping Mirroring on two drives Parity requiring 3 or more drives Mirroring on even number of drives Extended mirroring requiring 2 or more drives Striping on multiple RAID 5 requiring 6 or more drives Allow two drive failure requiring 4 or more drives Striping on multiple RAID 6 requiring 8 or more drives Specifies logical drive capacity Can be specified in megabytes mb gigabytes gb or terabytes tb up to 2 decimal places If not specified all available capacity
29. and is used when the controller goes into maintenance mode 13 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Voltage 100 240 VAC Auto Ranging Maximum Current 10 A 100 VAC 5A 200 VAC Power Conversion gt 80 110V gt 20 load gt 80 240V gt 20 load Efficiency Temperature Range Operational 5 to 35 C Non Operational 40 to 60 C Humidity Operational 10 to 90 Non Condensing Operational 5 to 95 Non Condensin on Acoustic Noise Levels 55 dB Typical 65 dB Maximum Operational 5G 11 ms duration Non Operational 10G 11ms duration Vibration Operational 0 3G 5 to 500 Hz Non Operational 1G 5 to 500 Hz CE FCC Class A UL cUL TUV BSMI Class A VCCI Class A CB KCC NOM GOST R IRAM C Tick S Mark Environmental Standards RoHS GreenPC WEEE Power Supply Dual 750W 100 240 VAC auto ranging 50 60 Hz dual hot swappable and redundant with PFC N 1 design Safety Dimensions H x W x D 17 4 x 44 7 x 50 7 cm 6 9 x 17 6 x 19 96 in 54 2 kg 119 5 Ibs with drives Warranty and Support Warranty Three year complete system limited warranty with advanced parts replacement optional extended warranty onsite parts replacement program PROMISE Service Plus optional in some regions Support 24 7 e mail and phone support English only 24 7 access to Promise support site drivers firmware and compatibility lists 14 Z Hardware Installation HARDWARE
30. command for performing advanced configuration and maintenance tasks on disk arrays This command is used to list create modify delete and locate disk arrays Also to add and delete logical drives Note that you cannot mix Hard Disk Drives HDD and Solid State Drives SSD in the same disk array 109 VTrak A Class Product Manual Options a lt action gt list add addid delld mod del locate accept p lt PD ID list gt S lt option gt lt value gt alias mediapatrol Promise Technologies Specifies the action to perform Default Displays a summary of all arrays a specified number of arrays or a specific array Adds creates an array This action might also be used to create logical drives at the same time Adds creates a logical drive to an existing array Deletes a logical drive from an array Modifies array settings Deletes an array and all its associated logical drives Locates an array Accepts the condition of an incomplete array The condition that will cause the array to report as incomplete is a Missing Drive i e when one or more drives are missing in the array Specifies physical drives to be used in an array with a add option PD IDs are specified individually or separated by comma Sequential group of physical drives are specified by placing a between numbers such as 1 6 This will include physical drives 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 Specifies array settings when creating
31. detail All file systems OK es een er a a ae 3 17 TB 951 51 gt B i Click on a virtual file system graphic to view lt 6 the File System menu Detail tab s 1 Datars VidF S1 Trak node s OK Expand below arrow to see detail All YTrak nodes OKI Download the Y TrakFS Client software to be installed on your client machine esmi En a Click on the Client Download button to get the latest cli ent software for Mac OS X Windows or Linux clients 61 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Dashboard menu VTrak storage node quick view PROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC File system OKI Expand belom arrow to see detail All file systems OKI Y Irak nodes OKI Expand below arrow ta see detail All VTrak nodefs OF r el he Click on a virtual VTrak graphic to go eee eee lt lt to the SAN menu Detail tab VTrak Mode 1 Trak ASsoof VTrak Node 2 Trak E830f Download the VTrakFS Client sottveare to be installed on your client machine Client Download v The web interface uses color to indicate general status of files systems and devices A Green color icon or a Green check mark icon indicate normal function An Amber color icon or an Amber apostrophe mark indicates a problem or warns of a pending problem x A Red icon or Red X mark indicates a failure or severe malfunction 62 Web
32. drive to the nearest 10 billion byte boundary Truncates the drive using an intelligent algorithm Allows the maximum amount of usable space Truncates the drive using a pre defined coercion table Enables or disables polling drive SMART status 1 1440 Sets the time interval in number of minutes to poll the drive SMART status 1 12 Sets the time interval in seconds to flush the controller writeback cache Uses the DDF area on the physical drives of the disk array Uses the NVRAM on the controller Sets interval in seconds to poll enclosure SEP information Enables or disables adaptive writeback cache Writeback logical drives will change the write policy based on 132 Management with CLI the availability of protection If BBU or UPS is available the write policy is retained as Writeback otherwise the policy is switched to Writethru disable hostcacheflushing enable disable forcedreadahead enable disable commonwwnn enable disable alua enable disable t lt condition type gt V The write policy of the writeback logical drives are not changed irrespective of the availability of BBU or UPS Subsystems only To enable or disable host cache flushing Note that this is for high availability products only Enables or disables forced read ahead caching Enables or disables common WWNN For high availability products only All controllers report one common WWNN Eac
33. for both performance and space utilization on a file system used for video and audio applications These cannot be changed later If you are going to change them make sure you carefully consider how the new settings will affect the performance and efficiency of storage utilization Please read the discussion in Advanced Configuration Options for the File System on page 68 You can also choose to Enable Quota to use quotas for user groups or individual users on the file system This can be changed after the file system has been created it requires stopping the file system Click on Next to continue 52 Setup 2 Now create Volume Groups made up of LUNs These are used for the Meta Group which contains Metadata for the SAN file system and at least one Data Group which contains at least one LUN used by client systems for data storage About Loge ig SC OY N De Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC Alert info v No configured file system in the E Nae subsystem 0 file system is present cea Expand below arrow to see detai Filesystem Setup Wizard Create Volume Groups and assign LUNs to those Volume Groups You can also create LUNs if necessary If no LUNs are listed on the right click on the Create New LUN button and choose unassigned drives for the new LUN in the Create New LUN menu that appears and click the Submit button To assign a LUN to a volume group highlight a Meta Group or Data Grou
34. gt u lt user name gt g lt group name gt S lt list of limit settings gt fsquota a mod n lt FSName gt u lt user name gt g lt group name gt S lt list of limit settings gt fsquota a del n lt FSName gt u lt user name gt g lt group name gt Summary Use this to display quota information and to add modify or delete quota information Options a lt action gt Specify which action to perform list Default List quota information add Set quota information for a file system mod Modify quota information del Delete quota information n lt FSName gt File system name Use command fs to display all available file systems u lt user name gt Specifies the user name to which the quota will apply The user name must be configured on the internal or an external LDAP server 160 g lt group name gt S lt option gt lt value gt Management with CLI Specifies the group name to which the disk quota will apply The Group name must be configured on an internal or external LDAP The server group name cannot be set together with user name Used to specify settings for a disk or file quota This is used when adding add or modifying mod a disk or file limit or a grace period diskgracetime for soft limit These options are separated by a comma diskhard filehard V Disk hard limit which cannot be violated The value of limit can be specified in me
35. hybrid RAID Levels when RAID Level is changed Specifies the new logical drive stripe size This is currently not supported and is ignored 181 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples migrate d l Mik Cita eta ok Sika eels leno Sr et Sd ly caw aciwse y OG mp Usage mp a lt action gt Summary The mp command activates Media Patrol Media Patrol searches the physical drives for media errors When an error is found Media Patrol attempts to repair the error If it fails to correct the error Media Patrol attempts to remap the sector Note Sector remapping is not currently supported You can start stop pause or resume Media Patrol and monitor its progress and status Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays the status and progress of Media Patrol start Starts Media Patrol stop Stops Media Patrol pause Pauses Media Patrol resume Resumes a paused Media Patrol Examples mp MOT ESEO mp a resume 182 Management with CLI net Usage net a lt action gt p lt Portld gt v Summary Net is used to display the TCP IP specific information for the Ethernet ports Information such as IP addresses and subnetmask can be displayed Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays a list of IP configurations for all or the specified ports p lt port ID gt To specify which Ethernet port to view or change settings
36. is used for this logical drive 111 VTrak A Class Product Manual Stripe WritePolicy writethru writeback ReadPolicy readahead readcache nocache Axle PreferredCtrlld C lt array count gt lt Ld count gt t lt condition type gt Promise Technologies Specifies logical drive stripe size Options include 64KB 128 KB 256 KB 512 KB and 1024 KB If not specified the default 64KB is used Specifies logical drive write policy Writes are not cached Writes are cached Specifies logical drive read policy Reads extra data to help reduce read times of sequential data Cache reads the data in case the same request is made again No caching algorithm A member element when creating a RAID10 or RAID50 or RAID60 RAID10 have 2 axles RAID50 and RAID60 may have up to 16 axles with up to 16 drives per axle Subsystems only Specifies which controller is preferred for LUN affinity of the LD Valid value is 1 or 2 If value is no value is specified LUN affinity is auto balanced Specifies the number of arrays to give a summary of when used with the a list option For example array a list c3 will give a summary for the first 3 arrays on that controller Specifies the number of logical drives to be created with the a add option With the c option all the logical drives have same settings but only one l option value can be specified Specifies the type of incomplete condition to accep
37. of this group have the corresponding privilege when they log in NOTIFICATION SETUP Event alerts can be sent via email for up to date monitoring off site logging of system events To setup event notifications 1 Log into WebPAM PROe as the Administrator or a Super User 2 Goto Administrator gt Notification Setup link in left panel 3 Enter the SMTP Server IP address the email Sender Address and subject line for emails sent in the appropriate fields If the SMTP server requires authentication enable Require SMTP Authentication and enter the Username and Password in the appropriate entry fields 4 Click the Save button 5 Click the Send Test Email button to verify the configuration is working 94 Web based Management SAVING A SERVICE REPORT A Service Report is a detailed report covering the configuration and status of all components of the VTrak A Class Node A support technician or field engineer might request a service report for the purpose of diagnosis and troubleshooting To save a service report file 1 Log into WebPAM PROe as the Administrator or a Super User 2 Go to Administrator gt Report link in left panel Information for the report is gathered and compiled This action takes up to a few minutes 3 Determine where you want to store the file on the Host PC then click the Save button in the pop up menu The report saves to your Host PC as a compressed HTML file 95 VTrak A Class Product Man
38. procedure that checks the magnetic media on each disk drive Media Patrol checks are enabled by default on all disk arrays and spare drives Media Patrol is concerned with the media itself not the data recorded on the media If Media Patrol encounters a critical error it triggers PDM if PDM is enabled on the disk array RunnING MEDIA PATROL To run Media Patrol on a VTrak node 1 Goto SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Choose the VTrak node you want to run Media Patrol on in the left panel 3 Click on the Play icon blue triangle inside blue circle to start Media Patrol A progress bar will display under Current Running Background Activity showing how much of the Media Patrol session is completed To stop pause or resume a Media Patrol session that is running 1 Goto SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Choose the VTrak node you want in the left panel 3 To the right of the Media Patrol progress bar under Current Running Background Activity click on the Gear icon to display the Stop Pause and Resume options 4 Choose the action you want to take from the list No confirmation is required Note Media Patrol is enabled by default To disable Media Patrol use the Background Activities Settings menu 85 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies INITIALIZATION Technically speaking Initialization is a foreground activity as you cannot access a logical drive while it is initiating Initialization
39. settings used for the Automatic option are best suited for audio and video applications 67 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Journal Size The Journal is a type of circular log maintained on the disk used by the file system to store what is going to change in the metadata before being written to the Meta Data LUN Journaling is used on a file system for faster recovery in the event of a system crash or power failure Recovery is faster because a journal eliminates the need to check the entire file system when it is restarted The VTrak File System uses dedicated blocks on the Meta Data LUN for the Journal Journal Size is one of the advanced configuration settings available to be set by the administrator This cannot be changed once the file system has been created It is important for the overall performance of the file system to have a journal that is neither too small nor too large When a larger log size is chosen recovery time will be proportionately longer and the file system may consume more system resources such as memory during normal operation affecting performance On the other hand if it is too small the journal data will be insufficient to serve its primary function of helping to enable fast recovery A Journal Size between 64MB default value and 512MB should prove acceptable for performance If the administrator prefers to use a value larger than this recommended range testing should be conducted to determine ho
40. size gt p lt pattern gt init a stop lt Ldld gt init a pause lt Ldld gt init a resume l lt Ldld gt Summary The init command starts stops pauses and resumes a logical drive initialization A full initialization writes to the entire logical drive space and can takes several minutes depending on the size of the logical drive A quick initialization writes to the first and last few megabytes of the logical drive Typically a quick initialization is completed in a few minutes Options a lt action gt list start stop pause resume lt LD ID gt q lt size gt Specifies the action to perform Displays a list of the initialization processes in progress or paused and their status The default action Start an initialization Stop an initialization Pause an initialization Resume an initialization Specifies the logical drive to be initialized 1 1024 Specifies the amount of data in megabytes MB for a quick initialization 163 VTrak A Class Product Manual p lt pattern gt f Examples dene Igal Or el Seo Promise Technologies Specifies the pattern for a full initialization The pattern can range from 1 to 128 bytes HEX string and is padded to even number of bytes such as fff padded to Offf Pattern is not supported for quick initialization Force starting initialization even if logical drive wasused by file system Only valid f
41. the a list option For example fs a list c3 displays a summary for the first 3 file systems on the Media Data Controller S lt option gt lt value gt blocksize The data block size of a file system The size can be 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB The default is 256KB Optional for adding file system It cannot be modified after creation of the file system journalsize Specify the space allowed for journal in the journal device LUN Meta Data LUN used by the file system The size can be 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB The default is 64MB Optional for adding file system It cannot be modified after creation of the file system rgsize The resource group size of file system The size is n blocksize where the valid value of n can be 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB The default is 256KB blocksize Optional for adding file system It cannot be modified after creation of the file system 152 inoderatio winacl enable disable posixacl enable disable quotas enable disable g lt option gt lt value gt name allocsize Management with CLI Specify the ratio of inode and other metadata in the meta LUN The ratio can be 1 3 1 7 1 15 1 31 1 63 The default ratio is 1 7 Optional for adding file system It cannot be modified after creation of t
42. understand that once a file system has been created its structural elements such a the size of the Journal or Block Size cannot be changed If you are planning to change the configurable file system settings Block Size Journal Size or Inode Ratio from the default values that are automatically generated it is important to understand how these changes might impact the efficiency of storage space utilization and I O performance 65 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies WHat is METADATA Metadata is a data structure that is internal to the file system It assures that data on the disk is accessible and organized Basically it is data about the data The Journal and Inode entries are important components of metadata All file systems whether shared or not use metadata in some form The structure of metadata is one of the main distinguishing characteristics of a file system and is one of the main reasons some file systems are more efficient than others or better suited for specific applications It is extremely important to maintain metadata intact because otherwise all data on the file system will become inaccessible To ensure metadata integrity it is best to create a RAID 1 mirrored RAID so there are always two copies available if one disk fails or has errors This is how the Meta Data LUN is created for the Automatic Configuration option where HDD 1 and HDD 2 are configured in a RAID 1 for the Meta Data LUN If you are using t
43. version and build information of running images of all controllers or the specified controller t Indicates that TFTP get method is to be used to obtain the file from a TFTP server 192 S lt servername ipaddress gt f lt filename gt p lt port number gt e lt encl id gt i lt ctrl id gt V Management with CLI Specifies the hostname or IP address of the TFTP server which contains the image file Specifies the filename of the flash image Include the folder name if the flash image is placed under a folder on the TFTP server see e g for details A flash image could be either a controller flash image or a physical drive firmware update image Specifies the port number of the TFTP server If no port number is given the default value that will be used is 69 Specifies the Enclosure ID Only used with a versioninfo option If not specified default value is all enclosures Specifies the Controller ID Only used with a versioninfo option Enclosure id is required when controller id is specified If not specified default value is all controllers Verbose mode Only used with a versioninfo option To show the version and build information of all the flash images of all controllers or the specified controller 193 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies d lt device id gt Specifies the physical drive IDs Only for physical drive firmware update If not s
44. view the progress of defragmentation or fragmentation level calculation For frag level calculation is background activities after it finished the calculation result file will be exported to a TFTP server s f p options are needed for start fragmentation level calculation Options a lt action gt list start calculation stop t lt type gt defrag frag n lt FSName gt Specify which action to perform Default Displays defragmentation progress or frag level calculation Start file system defragmentation or fragmentation level Stop file system defragmentation or fragmentation level calculation Specify fragmentation or defragmentation type Only valid for start action Default Defragmentation Fragmentation level calculation File System Name 135 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Supports string up to 31 character long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores d lt dir file gt The directory or file path in the file system which you want to operate on Must lead at slash f lt file name gt Specifies the name of fragmentation level calculation result file Only valid for start fragmentation type operation S lt TFTP server gt Specifies tftp server s IP or host name the calculation result file exported to Only valid for start fragmentation type operation p lt port num gt The port number of the TFTP server Default is
45. will be fragmented When many files are fragmented this can degrade performance So having a block size that is smaller than most of the files on the file system can result in greater fragmentation and reduce I O throughput Performance is also impacted because the file must be allocated across many blocks an operation that uses processing resources In another example we can use values that are the reverse of the previous example with a 4KB file on a file system with a 1MB block size In this case there is an inefficiency of the disk space allocation since there is 1020K of unused space on the block So if most files are smaller than the block size much of the disk space can be wasted but the file is not fragmented or allocated across many blocks so performance is not affected The larger block size means there will be fewer allocations using less file system overhead in the form of metadata and less fragmentation since the large files are more likely to be allocated on contiguous blocks If a small block size is used for large files the large files will be allocated to many more blocks requiring more metadata entries and will be more likely to be fragmented not placed contiguously on the disk However using a large block size for applications that generally use small sized files results in inefficient use of disk space Note The default file system configuration settings for the Advanced file system creation option and the configuration
46. 00 Ports Auto Auto 26 01 00 01 05 38 02 00 Port4 Auto Auto 26 O00 00 01 05 38 02 00 Controller 2 Ports Port ID Configured Link Speed Topology yyy PH Time Last Reset Fort Auto Auto 26 O7 00 01 05 38 02 00 Port Auto Auto 26 06 00 01 05 38 02 00 Ports Auto Auto 26 05 00 01 05 38 02 00 CONFIGURE FC SETTINGS To change Link Speed or Topology settings of an FC port on any VTrak node 1 Go to SAN gt FC Management menu tab 2 Move your cursor over the listed port you want to configure 3 Click on Note icon select the Link Speed and Topology setting for the port 4 Click on the Save button 80 Web based Management VTRak Network MANAGEMENT The Network Management menu is used to configure settings for the Management Port and Maintenance Mode IP settings Select a VTrak node from the left panel to see the Network Management menu for that unit VTrak Network Management menu Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Management Configure IP Address between physical network por and maintenance mode Virtual Management Port Protocol Family Status DHCP IP Address Link Status IPy4 Enable Enable m2 Tee amg Sr Jp Maintenace Mode Controller 1 Ports Port ID Status Protocol Family IP Address Forti Enable IPvd LIME el Controller 2 Ports Port ID Status Protocol Family IP Address Parti Enable IPv4 NOLL e CONFIGURE MANAGEMENT Port IP SETTINGS To configure settings for Maintenance Mode or Virtual Management P
47. 69 y Examples defrag n defrag a defrag a defrag a Only valid for starting fragmentation type operation Execute start command in non interactive mode Only valid for start action mot q ay md SLawit Sa eel So Y Site Sa Si ot irecg a si wesu les log e 1227 hos 1 o 6 Sibojo ian Sl 4 136 Management with CLI directory Usage directory a lt action gt n lt FSNAME gt Summary Show the directories in the file system with less than 3 depth It can be used to list directory info in running status file system Options a lt action gt Specify which action to perform list Defaults List the directories info in file system n lt FSNAME gt Name of the file system Supports string up to 31 character long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores Examples Cae Cw Oty in el 137 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies enclosure Usage enclosure a lt action gt v enclosure a mod e lt encl id gt s lt list of settings gt enclosure a locate e lt encl id gt t lt FRU type gt f lt FRU id gt Summary The enclosure command provides status and information about the various components of the enclosure unit It is also sets temperature threshold values for JBOD enclosures and displays Vendor Provided Data VPD Options f lt FRU id gt Specifies id of FRU to locate Requires a locate option Valid values are 1 and 2 V Verbose mode Req
48. 97 Propuct REGISTRATION AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT 98 ONLINE License UPDATE AND VTRAK REGISTRATION 98 Access THE License UPDATE Wizarp 98 REGISTERING THE VTRAK A CLASS 99 CREATE A Promise ID 100 Managing with the CLI 102 Mak na A SERIAL ConnecTion 102 Locaine Into THE CLI 103 TABLE oF SupporTED Commanns 104 TABLE OF SUPPORTED CommaNps ConTINUED 105 TABLE OF SUPPORTED CommANDs ConTINUED 106 TABLE OF SUPPORTED Commanps ConTINUED 107 NOTES AND CONVENTIONS 108 Appendix A 234 NSTALLING PHYSICAL DRIVES 234 NumeeR oF Drives RequireD 234 RepLacinc Harb Drives 236 Introduction INTRODUCTION The VTrak Class A Series is a SAN file system centralized high availability SAN management platform and scalable network storage system all in a single enclosure It is used to provide shared high speed data access for Mac Linux and Windows clients with minimal setup and administration And it can be easily expanded to large scale operation with VTrak x30 Expansion systems and or additional VTraks without sacrificing I O performance availability or data security The VTrak A Series is ideally suited for shared digital media production applications and high demand high availability corporate data storage applications VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies VTrak A Class Network File System direct connection to workstations Gigabit Ethernet Switch Fibre Channel Gigabit Ethernet Switch VTrak A3800f Fib
49. Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt Summary The transit command starts stops pauses and resumes a transition and monitors the progress of a running transition Transition is an operation to replace a revertible spare drive currently used in a disk array with an new physical drive so the reveritible spare can be restored to spare drive status The destination drive can be an unconfigured drive a non revertible global spare or a non revertible spare dedicated to the array During transition the data on the revertible spare is transferred to the destination drive while the disk array remains online After transition the destination drive becomes the part of the array and the revertible spare is a spared drive once again Note that the destination drive must be the same media type HDD or SSD as the other physical drives in the disk array 226 Options a lt action gt list start stop pause resume d lt DA ID gt S lt sequence Num gt p lt PD ID gt Examples Cran Lic Management with CLI Specifies the action to perform Default Displays the running and paused transitions and their status Starts a manual transition Stops a transition Pauses a transition Resumes a paused transition Specifies the id of disk array which contains the revertible spare drive Specifies the sequence number of the revertible spare drive in the array Specifies the physical drive ID of the destination drive tr
50. ECTING THE ENCLOSURE POWER 29 CHECKING A Fite System 71 OpTIonaAL UPS SeriAL CoNNECTION 29 Client Computer List 71 VTRAK List 71 TURNING ON THE VT RAK 30 View CLIENT COMPUTER INFORMATION 71 Fite System STORAGE 72 Fite System Quota MANAGEMENT 73 REQUIREMENTS FOR QUOTA CONFIGURATION 73 AbDD QUOTA CONFIGURATION 73 Fite System FOLDER 74 CREATING ADATAFoLDER 74 Set Access Permission 74 SAN DetaiL 75 Create VTRAK Nope ALIAs 76 SHuTDOWN VTRAK Node 76 Restore VTRAK DeFAuLt SetTiNGs 76 RerresH LUN Mappina AND MASKING 76 LUN 77 Create A NEw LUN 77 LUN DETAIL INFORMATION 78 Locate A Puysicat Drive 78 Device 78 Locate A VTRAK None 79 FC Manacement 80 ConFicure FC SETTINGS 80 VTRAK Network Manacement 81 ConFIGURE MANAGEMENT Port IP SETTINGS 81 Firmware UPGRADE 82 BACKGROUND Activities 83 View Current Status oF BACKGROUND Activities 83 Manace Backcrounp Activities Settincs 84 Menia Parros 85 Runninc Menia PatRoL 85 INITIALIZATION 86 ResuiLo PHYSICAL Drive 87 PDM 88 BACKGROUND SYNCHRONIZATION 88 REDUNDANCY CHECK 88 Apministration 89 User MANAGEMENT 90 MaAnaAceEment User Privitece Levets 90 Appinc MANAGEMENT USERS 91 Mooiry MANAGEMENT USER SETTINGS 92 DeLeTE MANAGEMENT User SETTINGS 92 MANAGEMENT User Event SUBSCRIPTION SETTINGS 92 LDAP Settincs 93 NotiFication Setup 94 SAVING A Service Report 95 Product Manual Contents PERFORMANCE MONITORING 96 EVENTS 97 Save Event LoG 97 CLEAR Event Loa 97 Fitter Event Loc
51. Fibre Channel Link Lights steady GREEN for valid Fibre Channel link If there is no link this top LED lights steady RED Fibre Channel Speed Fibre Channel port speed is indicated by which indicator is lit One of the three speed LED lights steady GREEN for the corresponding speed 2 4 or 8Gb s The 8Gb s indicator is the bottom most LED Controller Status Lights steady GREEN for normal operation Steady RED indicates the controller unit has failed Flashing RED indicates the controller is in maintenance mode Note If one controller is in maintenance mode the other controller status LED will light steady AMBER Steady AMBER indicates there is no fail over controller available SAS Link Act Lights steady GREEN for a valid blinks GREEN when there is data activity on the connection Battery Backup Lights steady GREEN when the battery is healthy Lights steady AMBER BBU when there is a battery problem Lights steady RED when the battery has failed If this LED is RED or AMBER replace the BBU module Power Supply Status Lights steady GREEN when the PSU function is normal Steady AMBER indicates a problem and Steady RED means the unit has failed 11 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies PORTS AND CONNECTIONS All connections for the data path and the management and Metadata communication network are located on the controller or controllers on the rear of the VTrak Close up view of VTrak A3800 Controller
52. IENT SOFTWARE The recommended first step in creating the A Class SAN is installing the client application on all of the clients that will be using the SAN as this will make it easier to discover and add to the SAN After installation is completed client computers that are physically connected to the Metadata communications network and Fibre Channel data network can be added to the SAN and the client application can be used to mount the SAN volume on the client system INSTALLING THE CLIENT APPLICATION SOFTWARE There are two methods that can be used to download the SAN client software for supported Windows Mac or Linux versions 1 Point your browser to the IP address of the A Class and click on the Client Download button on the Login page 2 Log in to the A Class management GUI click the Administrator tab and select the Client Software option then click the Download button for the appropriate client version The installation procedures for the clients are typical for the OS used but once the client application is installed the user interface and how the client application is used are nearly identical Client software installation for Windows and Mac is a simple process just open the installation file follow the instructions and click through each installation menu Then click on the desktop shortcut to see the client GUI described below The Linux client installation uses RPM files in a script run as the root user from a command line
53. Ka M PROMISE i E E i PROMISE E PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC y gt PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC TECHNOLOOY INC mL PROMISE os oan TECHNOLOGY INC PROMISE PROMISE TECHNO A T 7 recHNoUr gi i e e PROMISE ie i l ber i ey O retard i a i TECHNOLOGY INC Power and Status LEDs VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Front Paner LEDs Front Panel LEDs Right side a CCLELe PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC _ _ 7 PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC Power p lt _ FRU Status el N Logical Drive Status PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC n m p PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC p Controller 1 Activity wal lt Controller 2 Activity gt N System Heartbeat u M PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC n o p ViIrak E83o0f DL E OO E CD OO Ol eset PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC _ ____ Front LED BEHAVIOR Lights steady GREEN to indicate the system is powered on Remains dark when not powered on Lights steady GREEN when healthy lights AMBER when there is a problem lights RED if the enclosure has failed If this LED is RED or AMBER check the LEDs on the back of the VTrak Logical Drive Status Lights GREEN when healthy lights RED if any RAID volume is offline lights AMBER for critical state of any logical drive Controller 1 amp 2 Activity Blinks
54. LUN group lt option gt lt value gt Specify LUN information A complete file system consists of a meta data LUN and at least one data LUN 154 Management with CLI The following options are separated by comma node Node id which free LUN belongs to lun Free LUN id list type LUN type optional data Default data LUN meta meta data LUN group Specify LUN group name valid only for data LUN f Force delete Only valid for a del and dellun action Make sure the status of file system is not running before deleting a file system or deleting the meta LUN y Execute delete command in non interactive mode Only a super user has the privilege to do this Only valid for del dellg and dellun action V Verbose mode Used with a list 155 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples GS ioe eis a I tS gt a add n tsl s s blecksize 5IZKB yoOurnalsaze LOMB amoderatio l 15 winacl enable posixacl enable quotas enable rgsize 18 g name datagroup allocsize 512KB 1 node 1 lun 0 type meta l node 1 lun 1 3 group datagroup tse a rede le news Yo 7 name Catkagroup7 ablocsize IMBy VayouEe sitrlpe stripesize 16MB fos a eden ners ill node 7 hun U 27 group datagroup2 ue el Seeiee in ie ll foa Stop ne isl 1 See bene eye ae dl hse a ern nets ls mode un 0 fs a dello nsrsl gq name vgl eee cb E e fs a mod n f
55. NSTALLATION 36 OTHER Features 4 Linux INSTALLATION 37 VTrak A Ctass Propuct License 5 ACCESSING THE User InterFace 38 Propuct REGISTRATION 5 CHANGE NETWORK SETTINGS 40 HARDWARE 6 CHANGE DATE AND TIME SETTINGS 41 Front of VTrak A3800 6 License Activation 42 Front Paner LEDs 8 Activate License MANUALLY 43 Front LED BEHAVIOR 8 ACTIVATE LICENSE AUTOMATICALLY 45 Drive Carrier LEDs 9 TRIAL VERSION LICENSE 46 Rear oF VTrak A3800 10 Usine THE SAN Serup Wizarp 47 CONTROLLER AND Power Suppty LEDs 11 Usine THE Fite System SetuP WIZARD 49 PORTS AND CONNECTIONS 12 Automatic Fite System CONFIGURATION 50 SPECIFICATIONS 13 Apvancen Five System CONFIGURATION 52 Hardware Installation 15 Usine FS CLIENT SOFTWARE 57 UnpackinG THE VTRAK 16 Winpows FSCuient Users 58 RAck MOUNTING THE VTRAK ENCLOSURE 17 Web based Management 59 MOUNTING THE ENCLOSURE IN A RACK 18 NAVIGATING THE INTERFACE 60 METADATA AND MANAGEMENT NETWORK CONNECTIONS 21 View SAN Topotocy 63 CONNECT DEVICES TO METADATA AND MANAGEMENT NETWORK 21 Fite System MANAGEMENT 64 FIBRE CHANNEL DATA CONNECTIONS 22 PLANNING AND CREATION OF THE FILE System 65 Direct ATTACHEDSAN 23 Whaat is Metapata 66 CONNECT TO FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK 23 ADVANCED CONFIGURATION OPTIONS FOR THE FILE SYSTEM 67 No Sinate Point of Faure 24 Fite System DETAIL 69 NSPF FIBRE CHANNEL DATA PATH 25 StoppinG AFite System 70 SERIAL CABLE MANAGEMENT CONNECTION 26 Devetinc AFite System 70 Connectinc A VTrak JBOD 27 FormatrtinG A Fite System 70 CONN
56. OUND Activities SETTINGS The parameters listed in the Background Activities menu are configured in the Background Activities Settings menu To change Background Activities settings 1 Goto SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Choose the VTrak node you want to upgrade in the left panel 3 Click on the Gear icon and select the Settings option The following settings can be configured Rebuild Rate High Medium Low Background Synchronization Rate High Medium Low Logical Drive Initialization Rate High Medium Low Redundancy Check Rate High Medium Low Migration Rate High Medium Low PDM Rate High Medium Low Transition Rate High Medium Low Reassigned Block Threshold Error Block Threshold Enable Media Patrol enabled by default Enable Auto Rebuild enabled by default Background Activities Settings menu Background Activities Settings pe surat eA Gal fen Rate si Drive Initialization Redundancy Check Rate Migration Rate PDM Rate Transition Rate BBM Threshold 1 2048 1024 blocks ar ee i gt Tiga blocks Enable Media Patrol Enable Auto Rebuild If any Background Activities are currently running they appear listed in the menu with a progress bar showing the percentage of completion Note that some Background Activities cannot be run simultaneously and might be automatically paused while one of the activities is in progress 84 Web based Management Menia PATROL Media Patrol is a routine maintenance
57. Place the VTrak onto the rails e Atleast two persons are required to safely lift the system Lift the VTrak itself Do not lift the system by its brackets Placing the VTrak system onto the rack rails VTrak system Handles poponun pouen D S 0 Q 0 Q 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 o 0 Q Rails installed and tightened 19 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies 4 Secure the enclosure to the rack Use the included screws and flange nuts to lock the unit in to place in the rack Secure to rack Screws and flange nuts attach the VTrak to the rack posts System installed in rack Handles mount outside the rack post 20 Hardware Installation METADATA AND MANAGEMENT NETWORK CONNECTIONS This section describes how to establish the network connection used for SAN management and for sharing the Metadata used for the network file system The network fabric used for this purpose is Gigabit Ethernet All client computers and all VTraks used on the SAN must be connected to this network using Gigabit Ethernet connections All cabling should be Category 6 Category 5E at a minimum The Metadata server functions as Active Stand by Active Passive with dual controllers for built in redundancy Both controllers should be connected to the Metadata and Management network Controller Metadata and Management interface Mant s IONOI SAS EXP
58. SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC File System x Filesystem Setup Wizard Create Yolume Groups and assign LUNs to those Volume Groups You can also create LUNs if necessary If no LUNs are listed on the right click on the Create New LUN button and choose unassigned drives for the new LUN in the Create New LUN menu that appears and click the Submit button To assign a LUN to a volume group highlight a Meta Group or Data Group in the list that you wantto assign check the box of one of the listed LUNs on the right then click the Assign button to assign the selected LUN Name Detail Name Capacity Y Meta_Group Vtrak1 LUNO 3 87 TB x WY Data_Group1 4 x Vtrak1 LUN1 79 74 TB gt x If you want to create another Data LUN Group click the Create LUN Group button to add and name a new LUN group To remove a group click on the red X for that group in the list When the newly created LUNs are assigned to LUN groups click the Next button to view a summary of the File System that will be created 39 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies 7 If you are satisfied with the File System configuration as shown in the summary click on the Submit button to begin file system creation and formatting PROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC File System About Logout Filesystem Setup Wizard Please review the File System configuration and click the Submit button to create a File System with
59. TB VTrak Node 1 gt Enclosure 1 SBB SAS 4U 24Bay Head Unit Submit Cancel 5 From the File System Setup Wizard click on Create New LUN again and continue to create LUNs as needed Filesystem Setup Wizard Create Volume Groups and assign LUNs to those Yolume Groups You can also create LUNs if necessary If no LUNs are listed on the right click on the Create New LUN button and choose unassigned drives for the new LUN in the Create New LUN menu that appears and click the Submit button To assign a LUN to a volume group highlight a Meta Group or Data Group in the list that you wantto assign check the box of one of the listed LUNs on the right then click the Assign button to assign the selected LUN D x Create New LUN LUH Hame LUN1 Select Physical Drives PD3 PD4 PD5 PD6PD 7 PD8PD9PD10 PD11 PD12 PD 13 PD14 f RAID Level RAIDGO y Capacity 55 72 TB VTrak Node 1 gt Enclosure 1 SBB S4S 4U 24Bay Head Unit a a Di iA lla ee Ce O aom a ee oe Submit Cancel 54 Setup 6 Back in the File System Setup Wizard click and highlight the Meta Group on the left then use the checkbox to select which LUN will be assigned to that group from the LUN list on the right Click the Assign button and that LUN should appear under the Meta Volume Group Repeat this task for the Data Group so that at least one LUN is assigned About Logout OIRO Dashboard File System
60. Trak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies No SINGLE Point OF FAILURE To create a high availability Fibre Channel SAN that has redundant data paths from the SAN to the clients you can configure the Fibre Channel data paths with no single point of failure NSPF To do this you will require e Two Fibre Channel switches e Dual port Fibre Channel HBAs or controllers in each client e Two Fibre Channel cables from each client with the appropriate SFPs at each end e Aminimum of one Fibre Channel cable from each VTrak controller to each Fibre Channel switch with the appropriate SFPs at each end Fibre Channel NSPF configuration 0 eerettettersterteettenterterrett Ie poooooooooo0o00000000000000000000000000 oooooo000000000000000000000000000 PpPooogphooooo0o00000 O0000000 Oy a Gy a 4 DDI LZ ONANAN Lz 5 i Se N ll 24 Hardware Installation NSPF FIBRE CHANNEL DATA PATH To establish the data path Referring to the diagram Fibre Channel NSPF configuration on page 24 follow these steps to create a Fibre Channel SAN configuration that will not have a single point of failure for the data paths 1 Starting with the VTrak controller on the left connect one or two Fibre Channel cables to one Fibre Channel switch 2 From the VTrak controller on the right connect one or two Fibre Channel cables to the other Fibre Channel switch 3 Connect one Fibre Channel port of each clie
61. VTrak A Class Series Product Manual Version 1 0 2013 PROMISE Technology Inc All Rights Reserved VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies A l A A Warning This is A Class A product In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures Warning The electronic components within the Vess enclosure are sensitive to damage from Electro Static Discharge ESD Observe appropriate precautions at all times when handling the Vess or its subassemblies Warning Turn off the power and disconnect the power cord before servicing this device il Product Manual Also included are four levels of notices Warning A Warning notifies you of probable equipment damage or loss of data or the possibility of physical injury and how to avoid them Caution A Caution informs you of possible equipment damage or loss of data and how to avoid them Important An Important message calls attention to an essential step or point required to complete a task including things often missed Note A Note provides helpful information such as hints or alternative ways of doing a task ill Vess A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies CONTENTS SAN and File System Setup 33 SAN CLIENT SOFTWARE 34 Introduction 1 INSTALLING THE CLIENT APPLICATION SOFTWARE 34 Kev Apvantaces 3 Mac INSTALLATION 35 FILE SysTEM FEATURES 3 Winpows I
62. a communications and management an RS 232 serial management port using an RJ 11 connector four Fibre Channel data ports per controller using standard SFP sockets a SAS Expansion port for additional drive enclosures a battery backup module that protects the controller write cache and various LED indicators which are described below Rear panel view Controller 1 Controller 2 SAS EXP c2 FC3 p s Sr gt ES q XS O EAN K W X a i SPE EE AIEE ln he IE N eure diii Power Supply Power Supply PSU 1 ON Off Switch PSU 2 ON Off Switch Note Read the Hardware Setup section for detailed instructions on how to connect the VTrak to the Fibre Channel and Metadata communications network and to connect the power supplies and power on the unit 10 Introduction CONTROLLER AND Power SuppLy LEDs Dirty Cache Controller Status Battery Backup l SAS Link Fibre Channel Link and Speed T a E A E ERRER NREER TENSE T EEEF I ENEE JL E Mgmt 10101 lt SAS EXP Power Supply Status one ee aaa Je SU Controller Description LED Dirty Cache This flashes long blinks on and off AMBER when normal lights steady AMBER when the cache is dirty unsaved data in the RAID cache Note If the Dirty Cache LED lights steady AMBER do not remove the battery backup module If you initiate a locate controller command this blinks GREEN along with the Controller Status LED
63. a wee LY SUS CEL Pelton a Gls aolke u a dmn Srat or 214 Management with CLI subsys Usage subsys a lt action gt v subsys a mod s lt list of settings gt subsys a lock r t lt number of minutes gt subsys a unlock f subsys a chklock Summary The subsys command displays and changes subsystem settings and locks the subsystem so that only you can make modifications Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays information for the specified subsystem mod Modifies subsystem settings lock Locks the subsystem so other users cannot apply changes Other users must wait for you to unlock the system or for your lock to expire unlock Clears a subsystem lock chklock Checks the status of the lock S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies which subsystem settings to change alias User specified name for the subsystem Up to 48 characters alpha numeric characters blank spaces and underscores Beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded 215 VTrak A Class Product Manual t lt number of mins gt f Examples sulsos ys sulosysS W Sus y s Ssulos ys Susy Ss Ssulos y s Sus y s Promise Technologies Specifies the number minutes to lock the subsystem Requires the a lock option Default is 30 minutes Renews the lock timer Requires the a lock and t lt number of mins gt options Specifies a forced unlock Requires super us
64. abled For high availability products only 0 4294967294 Medium error threshold If the threshold is reached the physical drive is marked as dead The default value is 0 indicating that physical drive is not marked as dead for medium errors For high availability products only Verbose mode Used with a list phydrv a mod s writecache enable rlacache enable phydrv a oriline pI Diny diay say oOniines pac 191 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies ping Usage ping lt ipaddress gt Summary This is the standard Ping command to check connectivity to an IP address or IP domain ptiflash Usage ptiflash a lt action gt t s lt ServerlP gt f lt FileName gt p lt PortNum gt e lt encl id gt i lt ctrl id gt d lt pd id gt I y v Summary This is the flash utility for the controller and physical drives It is used to flash images such as firmware or software for controllers and drive firmware image for physical drives For embedded in order to update the flash image the user must have a TFTP server setup that is accessible from the enclosure s management port and the flash image located on the TFTP server For in band the flash image located on the local host must be accessible Please note that only one flash process should be running at one time a lt action gt Which action to perform start Default To start the flash process versioninfo To get the
65. address assigned to the VTrak from the DHCP pool of available IP addresses on your network The following network settings can be configured Virtual Management Port This is the IP address used for Meta Data communications All FS Clients IP Address must be on the same subnet with this IP address Controller 1 Port IP Address This is the IP address used for Maintenance Mode port on Controller 1 Controller 2 IP Address and Controller 2 All FS Clients must be on the same subnet with this IP address Subnet Mask Make sure the FS Clients are using the same Subnet Mask Gateway IP Address This and the DNS IP address are required for Internet access Use the Internet gateway IP address for your network DNS IP Address This is required for Internet access Can use an internal or external DNS server 40 Setup CHANGE DATE AND TIME SETTINGS After the Network Setup menu the Date and Time Setup menu appears It is not necessary to change these in order to continue with the setup procedure But you can use this opportunity to enter the time date and time zone Click Skip or the Done button to continue to the License Wizard menu Date and Time Setup Date 2013 05 21 Time 09 57 12 Time Zone GMT Casablanca Dublin Edinburgh London Lisbon Monrovia 41 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies LICENSE ACTIVATION There are various options to activate the product license You can act
66. agement with CLI For Fibre Channel host interface the name is the initiators WWWPN in hex format such as aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 For SAS host interface the name is the SAS address such as aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 For slot based LUN mapping the first byte is the slot ID Example for slot 2 the name is 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 lt Ld ID list gt Specifies the logical drive IDs 0 1023 m lt LUN map list gt Specifies the LUN mapping values 0 1023 Please check the maximum number of LUNs supported by host OS S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies settings for LMM entry Modifies an LMM entry type initiator For initiator based LUN mapping target For target based LUN mapping port For port based LUN mapping Examples JEGhahaqetey aL t nmap a Tunmap ad omeo a omea e a Cees add onc io eE E eo ie de rTMS ea enclose addo P nea a ronm Sse e an E O eee Or Il 177 VTrak A Class Product Manual logdrv Usage Promise Technologies logdrv a lt action gt lt Ldld gt c lt Ld count gt v logdrv a locate lt LdID gt logdrv a mod I lt Ldld gt s slist of Id settings gt Summary The logdrv command displays information about the logical drives and changes logical drive settings Options a lt action gt list mod locate carrier I lt LD ID gt C lt LD count gt S lt option gt lt value gt alias WritePolicy Specifi
67. ailable controllers for listing if i is not specified Default to be controller 1 for modifying if i is not specified Port Id Default to be all ports for listing if p is not specified Default to be port 1 for modifying if p is not specified Specifies Fibre Channel settings to change Fibre Channel link speed 2 GB s 4 GB s 8 GB s Automatic Fibre Channel topology method NL Port N Port Automatic Hard Arbitrated Loop Physical Address ALPA Value 255 will disable hard ALPA Verbose mode Used with a list TO armod eE pore pee SS nk o p d o ma ae hese e a a2 149 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies fs Usage fs a lt action gt n lt FS Name gt c lt count gt v fs a add n lt FS Name gt s lt list of fs settings gt lt list of LUN settings gt g lt list of LUN Group settings gt fs a addlun n lt FS Name gt l slist of LUN settings gt fs a addlg n lt FS Name gt g lt list of LUN Group settings gt fs a mod n lt FS Name gt s slist of fs settings gt fs a start n lt FS Name gt fs a stop n lt FS Name gt fs a format n lt FS Name gt fs a del n lt FS Name gt f y fs a dellun n lt FS Name gt I lt list of LUN settings gt f y fs a dellg n lt FS Name gt g lt list of LUN Group settings gt y 150 Summary Management with CLI Used to create and manage th
68. and line editing In addition the up and down arrow keys allow scrolling through the command history buffer If you need context sensitive help type one of the following commands e lt command gt h e lt command gt e help lt command gt That action will display full context sensitive help for the specific command Each command when used alone such as array will display a summary of relevant information If more information is desired the v verbose mode can be used This will provide information for all relevant aspects of that command Usage terminology is as follows e square braces depict an optional switch e lt arrow braces gt depict user input e Type more at the end of each command to display info page by page 108 Management with CLI about Usage about Summary Displays utility information array Usage array a lt action gt d lt Dald gt c lt array count gt v array a add s lt list of array parameters gt d lt Dald gt p lt Pdld list gt c lt Ld count gt I lt list of Ld parameters gt array a mod d lt Dald gt s lt list of array settings gt array a del d lt Dald list gt array a locate d lt Dald gt array a accept d lt Dald gt t lt condition type gt array a addid d lt Dald gt c lt Ld count gt I lt list of Id settings gt array a delld I lt Ldld list gt Summary The array command is the main
69. ansiti omorarea I Se AO trancit ano bOOe dOS 227 VTrak A Class Product Manual ups Usage ups a lt action gt ups a list v Promise Technologies ups a mod s lt list of settings gt Summary The ups command allows a user to view and modify ups status and settings Network UPS is Supported for IPv4 protocol only Options a lt action gt list mod S lt option gt lt value gt detection auto enable disable ups1 ups2 Which action to perform Default Displays all current UPS status Change the settings for UPS Used to specify what options to change Detection mode setting Default Whenever a UPS is detected it changes the detection mode to enable Monitors UPS UPS Settings changes reports warnings and logs events Monitors Serial UPS only UPS1 IP address or Domain Name UPS2 IP address or Domain Name 228 rtr Ir wt V Examples Wo hv ups a mod s upsl 192 Management with CLI Running time remaining threshold in minute The valid value range is 3 20 Critical loading ratio threshold in percentage The valid value range is 1 100 Warning temperature threshold in Celsius The valid value range is 32 42 Verbose mode Used with a list e Se A Sree o 229 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies user Usage user a lt action gt u lt username gt t lt type gt
70. ar i lt ctrlld gt t lt condition type gt Summary The ctrl command displays controller information and changes controller settings Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Lists controller information mod Changes controller settings clear Clears controller conditions i lt ctrl ID gt Specifies the controller ID C lt ctrl count gt Controller count Required for information on multiple controllers S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies which settings to change alias A user specified name for the controller Up to 48 characters long alpha numeric characters blank spaces and underscores The beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded coercion Enables or disables disk coercion Disk coercion will truncate the size of the physical drives Makes different size drives appear to be the same size For example a 90 1 GB drive would appear as the same size as an 89 8 GB drive Important when using drives of different manufacturers for rebuilds or as hot spares 131 VTrak A Class Product Manual enable disable coercionmethod GB Truncate 10GBTruncate GrpRounding TableRounding smart enable disable smartpollinginterval cacheflushinterval ddf nvram enable disable pollinterval adaptivewbcache enable Promise Technologies The method of coercion Truncates the drive to the nearest 1 billion byte boundary Truncates the
71. as been completed using the revertible spare and 2 When an unconfigured drive is inserted into the slot of the dead drive which the was part of the array When a non revertible spare has been inserted or created and is applicable to the array This option affects all arrays on the subsystem enable disable 118 mediapatrol enable disable ReassignedBlock ErrorBlock lt bg task gt lt rate gt rebuildrate low medium high pdmrate low medium high Management with CLI Verifies the media of the array and or spares to find bad blocks on physical disks before you use that block This feature is enabled and disabled for individual arrays on a per array basis 1 512 Threshold value to trigger PDM when re assign map exceeds the threshold value 1 2048 Threshold value to trigger PDM when number of medium error on the PD exceeds the threshold value Background task rates determine what percentage of the IO load on the controller will be dedicated to the background task A lower number means the task takes longer to complete a higher number will cause the task to complete faster all other things being equal Rebuild rate determines the rate at which rebuild will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 PDM rate determines the rate at which PDM will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 119 VTrak A Class Product Manual transitionrate low medium high syncrate low mediu
72. ate in order to create and use the shared network file system or file systems with the VTrak A Class Product Registration is not required but is strongly encouraged Registering the new VTrak helps the PROMISE support staff to improve service quality If you chose to skip registration when first setting up the VTrak please take a few minutes to follow the steps below and register your VTrak and other PROMISE systems that have not yet been registered ONLINE LICENSE UPDATE AND VTRAK REGISTRATION The VTrak A Class offers the option of activating and updating the product license online In order to use the online update option or to register the VTrak thorough the management user interface the system must be able to connect to the Internet If you have not yet change the network settings for Internet connection go to SAN gt Network Management and change the Virtual Management Port settings for IP address Gateway and DNS to allow an Internet connection See VTrak Network Management on page 81 ACCESS THE LICENSE UPDATE WIZARD If you chose to skip the license activation in the initial setup use the License Update procedure to activate the license The file system wizard used to create the network file system is not available until the license is activated To use the License Update Wizard 1 Go to Administrator gt Product link in left panel 2 Click on the Gear icon and choose the Update License or Activate License option The Upda
73. ay information Create edit or delete logical drives in an existing array To physically locate an array in an enclosure Accept an incomplete array condition ass View create or delete associations between logical drives battery View battery information or to recondition a battery bb View or clear the BBM defect list of the specified configured physical drive a View status of all current background activities Enable or disable relevant background activities Modify the background task rate for each of the background tasks bie ew bz sons raised anau onat iuz tne vow pc ve coe sts anaes tn sopa one For express or automatic configuration pierce eS Note Commands are NOT case sensitive 104 Management with CLI TABLE OF SUPPORTED COMMANDS CONTINUED View or edit system time date o start or stop defragmentation ee enclosure via LEDs exert Subsitons ony Bportes to emoe TTP est View or edit fc information and settings Fibre Channel host interface product only Create view or edit file system information and configuration settings Use to view or edit file system check or repair settings and to start or stop file system checking View or start file system quota check Import files or license from remote TFTP host View logical drive initialization status and progress Start stop pause or resume an initialization or a quick initialization Note Commands are NOT case sensitive fsquota Vi
74. based Management View SAN Topotocy Use the Topology display to view a summary status and virtual representation of all client computers represented by the type of operating system and VTrak nodes in a single graphical display To view the Topology menu 1 Goto the SAN menus any tab 2 Click on the Topology link in lower part of the left panel Topology display Administrator GetHelp About Logout PROMISE Dashboard Configuration File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC Topology View Options 0 100 Shows VTraks 9 new 1 LJ Computers 17 new 3 SS Switch 1 Topology VTraks Dec 26 2011 18 00 UTC Add Remove VTrak Computer Computers 63 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Fite SYSTEM MANAGEMENT A primary function of the VTrak A Class Storage Appliance is to create and maintain a distributed file system or systems for users and applications on client computers connected to the SAN For convenience the file system or systems collectively will be referred to variously as the SAN File System or simply File System throughout this document The File System is a fundamental component of the shared high speed expandable storage network managed by the VTrak A Class Storage Appliance File System management includes management of metadata files and file system journal data These files are stored on a LUN Group dedicated for this purpose Metadata is info
75. be guided by a series of wizards through all of the tasks necessary to set up the SAN and File System This chapter describes the Setup Wizards in greater detail that the A Class Quick Start Guide QSG and includes the installation and usage of the VTrakFS Client application software It also includes information on A Class product registration which is not required to start using the SAN but is strongly recommended to improve your experience The A Class Setup Wizards are presented to you sequentially the first time you log in to the management GUI but you can opt to skip them and access them at any time from the tool menus The VTrak A Class Setup Wizards include the following e License Activation Wizard Use this to register the VTrak and activate the license e SAN Setup Wizard Use this to add client computers and other VTrak storage subsystems and associated JBOD enclosures that will make up the SAN e File System Setup Wizard Use this to configure one or more SAN file systems use for client storage Configure the SAN FS or multiple SAN FS optimized for the applications that will use them Note When you login for the first time you are presented with the Network Settings menu Use this to enter new settings for the Virtual Management Port in order to allow Internet access for the VTrak This is necessary if you plan to automatically activate the product license 33 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies SAN CL
76. ck on the OK button to stop running the File System DELETING A FILE SYSTEM To delete a File System follow these steps E 2 3 Stop running the File System see above Click on the Gear icon and select the Delete File System option A pop up menu that asks for confirmation that you want to continue to delete the File System Type confirm and click on the Confirm button to delete the File System When the File System is removed all the physical drives used for it become available to be used in a new File System FORMATTING A FILE SYSTEM To format a File System follow these steps E 2 Stop running the File System see above Click on the Gear icon and select the Format option A pop up menu that asks for confirmation that you want to continue to format the File System Type confirm and click on the Confirm button to begin formatting the File System 70 Web based Management CHECKING A FILE SYSTEM To run a check of a File System follow these steps 1 Stop running the File System see above 2 Click on the Gear icon and select the Check File System option 3 A pop up menu that asks for confirmation that you want to continue to format the File System Type confirm and click on the Confirm button to begin running a check of the File System This menu includes the option to repair the File System after the checking is finished CLIENT COMPUTER LIST Scroll down in the File System Detail menu to see a
77. connected directly to each client port Optional data path equipment e One or more Fibre Channel switches with sufficient ports to support the required number of VTrak and client connections Note A Fibre Channel switch is required only if there will be more devices client computer or VTraks connecting to the SAN than available Fibre Channel ports on the head unit A dual controller A Class unit has 8 Fibre Channel ports a single controller unit has 4 Fibre Channel ports Z2 Hardware Installation DIRECT ATTACHED SAN As noted earlier SAN clients can be connected directly to the VTrak A Class controllers without using a Fibre Channel switch To do so connect at least one Fibre Channel cable from each client to one of the VTrak A Class controller Fibre Channel data ports If the client can support two cables it would be a good idea to connect the second one to a Fibre Channel data port on the other A Class controller as this provides improved bandwidth and data path redundancy CONNECT TO FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK To create a SAN with more SAN clients or expansion VTraks you will need to use one or more Fibre Channel switches 1 Connect Fibre Channel cables between at least one Fibre Channel data port on each VTrak controller and the Fibre Channel switch es 2 Connect Fibre Channel cables between the Fibre Channel switch es and the Fibre Channel HBA or controller of all clients that will be attached to the SAN 23 V
78. d when listing Specifies SAS host port settings to change Adjust link cable signal strength The value is from 1 to 8 Use cable length in meters as a guideline to select For example if cable length is 2 meter the cable signal strength should be the value around 2 If 2 is not a good value select the value such as 1 or 3 V Examples SOIS Verbose mode Used with a list s genoee Bia ele Poy seie E OG 16 oencie ele jo a Svieveloive sakopaenlecieiesiarenc gi ih 200 sasdiag Usage Management with CLI sasdiag a lt action gt e lt Enclosureld gt i lt expanderld gt p lt PHYId gt Summary Diagnostic command for getting SMP discovery info getting PHY error log or clear the error log For products that support multiple enclosures only Options a lt action gt discover errorlog clearerrlog lt PHY Location gt expander c2cport e lt Enclosure ID gt i lt Expander ID gt p lt PHY ID gt Examples Sie S Cl aGi as aa aT Oye ak Sel SClLere 2 e error l og l sasdiag a clearerrlog sasdiag a c rrorlog I Which action to perform Display SMP general discovery information Display error log on a certain expander Clear error log on a certain PHY The location where PHY resides If I is not specified the default value is expander Used to specify which enclosure ID Used to specify which expander ID Used to specify which PHY ID you wish t
79. de LDAP server LDAP Port The default LDAP Port is 389 This is the port used for the LDAP server Server Type The server platform used for the LDAP server The pre configured options include MAC Open Directory UID Attribute Attribute name that stores user s UID property in LDAP server Anonymous Bind Allows the system to bind to an LDAP server without providing Bind DN and password Bind DN Distinguished name used to authenticate communication between subsystem and LDAP server No default value Bind Password Password for Bind DN No default value Email notification for Enables an email subscription for an LDAP authenticated user Event Integer value that uniquely identifies a user in an administrative domain UID Number Attribute GID Number Attribute Integer value that uniquely identifies a user group in an administrative domain 93 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Configure these privilege settings for external LDAP Privilege for LDAP Users Specifies the privilege to grant for external roles Default Privilege Set default privilege if undefined for external roles Base DN of Group Defines the base distinguished name to use for common LDAP lookup for group information Object Class of Group Defines object class to store group entry in LDAP server Group ID Attribute Attribute name which stores group ID If the value of this fieldSs is mapped to an internal privilege members
80. duct Manual Promise Technologies Automatic FILE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION Follow the instructions below to use the Automatic File System Configuration option The Automatic option will create one file system using all available hard drives This file system is created using configuration settings optimized for video and audio applications 1 Choose the Automatic File System Configuration option in the initial File System Wizard menu to view the menu below I gt b x Automatic File System Configuration i Please enter a name for the file system and choose the type of application for which the file system will be used The Setup VYizard automatically adjusts file system parameters to optimize operation for the type of application chosen All Drives within each Enclosure must be the same size Hame lt This value is required Enable Quota 2 Enter a Name for the new file system You also have the option of enabling Quotas You can also enable Quotas after the file system has been created if the need arises requires stopping the file system Click on Next to view in a new menu a summary of the File System that will be created 50 Setup 3 Review the details of the new file system Click on Submit to create the file system A new menu appears asking you to confirm your decision If the summary is satisfactory type confirm in the space provided and click on the Confirm button to create the new files system Automatic File S
81. e Automatically option A new menu appears that explains the online activation process Activate The License Automatically The subsystem will connect to Promise CRM Customer Relationship Management server and will try to activate over internet Please make sure that the subsystem is connected to internet then click OK to start activating process Go Back OK 45 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies TRIAL VERSION LICENSE If you are setting up the VTrak for the first time you have the option of using a trial version of the product license that is valid for 90 days To obtain a trial version product license 1 Login to the VTrak A Class as the administrator 2 Goto Administrator gt gt Product menu make sure the License tab displays 3 Move the cursor to the Gear icon and choose the Activate License option Get Help About Logout PROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration a administrator TECHNOLOGY INC User Management Product License Notification Setup Modify vour VTrak A Class licel neste promise sunnat centet orby n t sidnature and aera lice anually Get Signature Report License Type trail Performance Monitor i e License Days Left 90 days Product Update License or Activate License Maximum number of Windows clients 0 Events Maximum number of Linux clients 0 Maximum number of Mac clients 0 Maximum capacity of File System Unlimited High Availability Enabled Mirrori
82. e connected to the VTrak A3800 for a total of 240 drives 12 Introduction SPECIFICATIONS VTrak A3000 Series System Architecture Integrated VTrak FS clustered file system Up to 8 simultaneous file systems per system Serve up to 1 Billion files Expansion Capacity V Trak x30 Expansion Chassis or VTrak x30 Fibre Channel RAID Storage Systems Fibre Channel Data Interface Four 8Gb Fibre Channel ports per controller 8 total ports for high availability systems RAID Support RAID 0 1 1E 5 6 10 50 60 Directory Services LDAP Active Directory Open Directory Green RAID Four levels of advanced power management disk drive MAID support Efficient 80Plus Certified power supplies Management Interfaces Embedded management using VTrak A Class management Software via Ethernet Command Line Interface Serial Port or Ethernet via telnet and SSH Third Party Management Support via SNMP Operating Systems Client support for Linux Windows and Mac OS X Supported Note The factory default virtual IP addresses used for system management are IPv4 10 0 0 1 The virtual management port IP address works with either RAID controller enabling you to access a dual controller VTrak over your network using a single IP address The default physical management port IP addresses are set to Controller 1 IPv4 10 0 0 2 Controller 2 IPv4 10 0 0 3 The physical management port IP address works with only one RAID controller
83. e file system or multiple file systems Use this command to list create remove start stop check and format a file system Every file system must have a LUN dedicated for Metadata and at least one more LUN for data LUNs and LUN groups can also be added or deleted to a previously created file system with this command While the file system is being formatted or during a check and repair operation progress of these operations are displayed using a list command in brief mode Options a lt action gt list add addlg addlun start stop format mod del dellg Specifies which action to perform Default Display a summary of all file systems or specify a single file system to display Add or create a file system LUN groups and LUNs can also be added be added with this command Adding LUN groups and LUNs are optional Create a LUN group or add a LUN group to an existing file system Add a LUN to an existing file system Start a file system Stop a file system Format a file system Modify a file system property Delete a file system Delete a LUN group from a file system 151 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies dellun Delete a LUN from a file system n lt FS Name gt The file system Name Can be up to 31 characters long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores C lt count gt Specifies the number of file systems to display a summary used with
84. eate delete and modify export entries in the file system The create action can only operate on running status file system The modify and delete actions can operate on stopped status file system or when used with f option to operate on running status file system Options a lt action gt Specify which action to perform list Defaults List the export entries info for file system If n lt FSNAME gt is not specified will show all the export entries info on the MDS add Add an export entry for a running status file system del Delete an export entry of a file system mod Modify an export entry setting of a file system n lt FSNAME gt Name of the file system whose export entries are to be accessed Supports string up to 31 character long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores i lt entry index gt Index of an export entry used to modify or delete an existing export entry of a file system p lt point gt The export mount point of a file system Must lead at slash f only valid with a add action d lt client id gt Id of registered client Only valid with a add action 144 k S lt option gt lt value gt readonly enable disable squash root all noroot async enable disable f V Examples Management with CLI User access type read only Default is disabled User access control Default is root Support asynchronous writing Default is disabled Force modifying or deleting t
85. ed Thur Fri Sat For multiple values divide with spaces The default is Fri for MP Wed for RC Tues for SC Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat for others For Monthly the range is Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat The default is Sat daypattern Specifies the daypattern type for Monthly recurrence type scheduler dom Day of month 122 dow dom wom month startfrom endon 0 n mm dd yyyy autofix enable disable pause enable disable Idid Management with CLI Specific day of week Day of Month for dom daypattern type The range is 1 31 The default is 1 Week ordinal for dow daypattern type The range is 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last The default is 1st Months The range are 1 12 divided by space or The default is 1 12 Start day of range of occurrence in the following format mm dd yyyy where month s range is 1 12 day s range is 1 31 The default is current date of system Used to specify end time of scheduler Default No end time An integer N indicates after N times End date month s range is 1 12 and day s range is 1 31 Fix inconsistent data The default is disable Pause on error The default is disable The list of LDID For add action if the option is not specified assumed to for all LDs For multiple value divided by space or V Verbose mode Used with a list 123 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise
86. edundancy check View rebuild status and progress Start stop pause or resume a rebuild process Note Commands are NOT case sensitive 106 Management with CLI TABLE OF SUPPORTED COMMANDS CONTINUED These are the primary SAN management function commands Use to information and status of the SAN and individual nodes and clients modify the SAN and to add or delete nodes and clients sasdiag SAS diagnostic command View or edit SAS host interface port information and settings SAS host interface product only View spare check status Start spare check interface product only session vew nelstofacwe seasons shutdown somn orses OOO SSS O amen smaRT segreso torosa OO SSS C aael crearmi orson OO O O SSO sts vws swat view senor siop sotwereconponert O O topology View SAS topology the physical connections and device information For pology products that support multiple enclosures only View transition status and progress Start stop pause or resume a transition process ups View or modify UPS information and status user List modify create and delete user accounts on subsystem zoning List modify SAS zoning on subsystem Note Commands are NOT case sensitive 107 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies NOTES AND CONVENTIONS Commands and options are NOT case sensitive Not all extended keys are supported However you can use the backspace and the left and right arrow keys for comm
87. ek2 mak cat Eo neok el aS chic le 4g e Sule fScheck aks bate norse ra coheck LOG w SS LOS REITE To Check a Toro nnr fsqc Usage fsqc a lt action gt n lt FSName gt t lt user group gt r y fsqc a start n lt FSName gt t lt user group gt r y Summary This command is used to start a Quota Check or to check the progress of a running Quota Check The Quota Check cannot be stopped or paused once it is started The file system is read only when Quota Check is running Options a lt action gt Specify which action to perform list Default Displays current quota check status start Start a quota check n lt FSName gt Specifies the file system on which to run quota check Use command fs to display all available file systems 158 t lt user group gt Examples ib SCS fog a Seaktan nak sl Management with CLI The type of quota user or group Only used for action start Not specify means check all types Reset quota setting to clear all previous quota limit and grace time Only used for action start Execute command in non interactive mode Often be used in script Use with a start 159 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies fsquota Usage fsquota a lt action gt n lt FSName gt u lt user name gt g lt group name gt y v fsquota a list n lt FSName gt u lt user name gt g lt group name gt fsquota a add n lt FSName
88. ement View all Physical Drives status on frontview and view Enclosure Controller PSU etc all component status on back view Enclosure 1 SBB SAS 4U 24bayfHead Uniti 78 Web based Management Locate A VTRAK NoDE To locate a VTrak node 1 Goto SAN gt Device menu tab 2 Choose the VTrak node you want to locate in the left panel 3 Click on Click to Locate this Enclosure the LEDs on the front of the device will blink for one minute SAN Device Internal View VTrak Node 1 Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Management Firmware Update Background Activities View status for Batteries and local Temperatures For more detail hover the cursor over the labels of individual components Enclosure 1 3B6 5A43 4U 24Bay Head Unit Batteries Jemperatures 79 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies FC MANAGEMENT Use the FC Management menu to configure speed and topology settings for FC ports on any VTrak node Select a VTrak node from the left panel to see the FC Management menu for that unit FC Management Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Management Configure IF Address between physical network port and maintenance mode gt Fiber Channel Hode WiWPH 25 00 00 01 05 36 02 00 gt Fiber Channel Port Controller 1 Ports Port ID Configured Link Speed Topology PH Time Last Reset Port Auto Auto 26 03 00 01 05 38 02 00 Port Auto Auto 26 02 00 01 05 38 02
89. enclosure Physical Disk event subscription of enclosure RAID Migaration event subscription of enclosure Rebuild event subscription of enclosure Redundancy Check event subscription of enclosure SMART event subscription of enclosure Synchronization event subscription of enclosure Subsystem event subscription of enclosure Predictive Data Migaration event subscription of enclosure Spare Check event subscription of enclosure The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major The following are for host type event subscription hictrl Host Interface Controller event subscription of Host interface The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major The following are for drive type event subscription dictrl Drive Interface Controller event subscription of Drive interface 213 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major The following are for other type event subscription ups UPS event subscription of other app Application event subscription of other The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major V Verbose mode Used with a list Examples Sls Crip el Om soles ek O E U SUIS Cie Se ion cl lOc U Acie Stra Oe Ss een Los ties inro SUS Ciel Neko AmO SF S
90. enu tab 2 Click on the Gear icon select Create New LUN option 3 Click on the drives to add to the new LUN in the Create New LUN menu 4 Type in a LUN Name and choose a RAID Level 5 Click on the Submit button Note that a LUN created here can be removed since it has not yet been assigned to a LUN Group To remove the newly created LUN click on the Gear icon and choose the Delete option 11 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies LUN DETAIL INFORMATION To view LUN information for a LUN on the list click on the information icon the details appear in a pop up menu LUN information includes VTrak WWN LUN ID Capacity Free Capacity Status Used Type file system LUN Group ID Total Inodes Free Inodes Total Blocks Available Blocks and Used Blocks LocATE A PHYSICAL DRIVE To locate an individual physical drive 1 Goto SAN gt LUN menu tab 2 Expand list of the LUN that has the physical drive 3 Click on the Locate Physical Drive icon The Status and Activity LEDs for that drive will blink for one minute DEVICE The Device menu provides information about the physical components of the VTrak nodes Select a VTrak node from the left panel to see the Device menu for that unit Click on gt gt to scroll through the virtual Front View Back View and Internal View battery and temperature status of various hardware components SAN Device Front View menu Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Manag
91. er Can not change Idid parameter of an exist RC scheduler to all LDs del Delete a exist scheduler t lt type gt Specifies what type of scheduler mp Media Patrol Schedule rc Redundancy Check Schedule br Battery Reconditioning Schedule SC Spare Drive Check Schedule 121 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies i lt RC scheduler id gt Specifies the RC scheduler ID Its used for list modify delete RC scheduler If the option is not specified assumed to all S lt option gt lt value gt Used to specify which BGA scheduler settings to change status Specifies status type of scheduler enable Enable a scheduler disable Disable a scheduler The default is disable starttime Used to specify start time of scheduler in the following format hh mm where hour s range is 0 23 minute s range are 0 59 The default is 20 00 for MP 22 00 for RC and SC 02 00 for others recurtype Specifies recurrence type of scheduler daily weekly The default is weekly monthly recur nterval Specifies recurrence Interval This option is for Daily and Weekly recurrence type For Daily type the range is 1 255 default is 1 For Weekly type the range is 1 52 For Weekly type the default is 4 for MP 2 for RC 1 for others dow Day of Week This is for Weekly or Monthly recurrence type scheduler Regarding Monthly type if daypattern see below is day of week it will be used For Weekly the range is Sun Mon Tues W
92. er privilege Specifies verbose mode mod s alias MySubsystem lock t 60 lock r t 35 unlock Ghilkekoek 216 swmgt Usage swmgot a lt action gt Management with CLI swmgt a mod n lt component name gt t lt startup type gt s lt list of settings gt swmat a start n lt component name gt swmat a stop n lt component name gt swmat a restart n lt component name gt Summary The swmgt command allows a user to view and modify setting of software components Options a lt action gt list start stop restart mod add del n lt component name gt email webserver telnet Which action to perform Default Displays all software components Start a software component Stop a software component Restart a software component Change a component s startup type when system boots Add trap sink for snmp public key for ssh or recipient for netsend Delete trap sinks for snmp public key for ssh or recipients for netsend Specifies the component name to view setting modify start or stop Email notification Web server Telnet 217 VTrak A Class Product Manual ssh snmp cim netsend t lt startup type gt automatic manual S lt option gt lt value gt email settings smtpserver serverport authentication no yes username senderaddr senderaddr subject webserver settings sessiontimeout telnet settings
93. erial cables The second box contains the lockable front protective cover 16 Hardware Installation RACK MOUNTING THE V TRAK ENCLOSURE This section provides instructions for installing the VTrak A Class enclosure in to a rack Caution To lighten the enclosure remove the power supplies and remove all hard drive carriers Replace the power supplies and drive carriers after the unit is mounted in your rack Cautions e Do not populate any unit with hard drives until it has been securely installed in the rack e At least two persons are required to safely lift place and attach the unit into a rack system e Do not lift or move the unit by the handles power supplies or the controller units Hold the system itself e Do not install the unit into a rack without rails to support the system e Only a qualified technician who is familiar with the installation procedure should mount and install the unit e Mount the rails to the rack using the appropriate screws and flange nuts fully tightened at each end of the rail e Do not load the rails unless they are installed with screws as instructed e The rails available for the PROMISE VTrak unit are designed to safely support that PROMISE VTrak unit when properly installed Additional loading on the rails is at the customer s risk e PROMISE Technology Inc cannot guarantee that the mounting rails will support your PROMISE VTrak unit unless you install them as ins
94. erver Can be configured only when event subscription is enabled See subcription command Attribute name that stores user s email address propertyin LDAP server Can be configured only when event subscription is enabled See subcription command Specifies role policy The default value is default All LDAP users have privileges specified by default privilege parameter LDAP users have privileges according to role mapping configurations Specifies the privilege level for creating LDAP user Only takes effect when rolepolicy is set to default Super user has full control Power user cannot modify users nor delete configurations 168 maintenance view basednofgroup objectclassofgroup attributeofgroupid rolemap settings externalrole privilege super power maintenance view V Management with CLI Maintenance user can only perform background tasks View user can only view Similar to base DN above It defines the base distinguished name to use for common LDAP lookup for group information Only needed when rolepolicy is set to explicit Defines object class to store group entry in LDAP server Only needed when rolepolicy is set to explicit Attribute name which stores group ID If the value of this fieldSs is mapped to an internal privilege members of this group have the corresponding privilege when they log in Only needed when rolepolicy is set to explicit External Role
95. es battery bDartery eo re Condicion Dr 116 Management with CLI bbm Usage bbm a lt action gt p lt Pdld gt bbm a clear p lt Pdld gt Summary The bbm command displays and clears the Bad Block Map BBM for all configured SATA drives Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default List the BBM information clear Clears the BBM list For configured SATA drives only p lt Pdld gt Specifies the physical drive id For the a list option the default is all physical drives For the a clear option you must specify a physical drive id Examples Pom jo Ib bbws deve leak sp 117 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies bga Usage bga a lt action gt bga a mod s lt list of settings gt Summary The bga command displays all current background activities and makes settings for each background activity Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Lists current background activities mod Makes changes to one of the settings S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies which background activity settings to change autorebuild Enable or disables auto rebuild and auto transition Auto rebuild initiates a rebuild of an array when an unconfigured drive is inserted into the slot of a dead drive Auto transition means transitioning is initiated on a used revertible spare in the following condition 1 When the rebuild h
96. es the action to perform Default Displays a summary of one or more logical drives Changes logical drive settings Locates a logical drive within the enclosure by flashing drive LEDs Logical drive ID Logical drive count Requires the a list option Specifies the logical drive settings to change A user specified name for the logical drive Up to 32 characters containing alpha numeric characters blank spaces and underscores Beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded Specifies logical drive write policy 178 Management with CLI writethru Writes are not cached writeback Writes are cached Note Cannot be set if ReadPolicy is set to nocache ReadPolicy Specifies logical drive read policy readahead Reads extra data to help reduce read times of sequential data readcache Caches reads in the case the same request is made again nocache No caching algorithm PreferredCtrlld Specifies which controller the LD is prefers for LUN affinity Valid value is 1 or 2 V Verbose mode Used with a list Examples KOGAN toOgdry v logdrv a mod I0 s readpolicy readahead eG e ar Tocat a z 179 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies logout Usage logout Summary The logout command is used to logout the current user from the session Examples Logowe migrate Usage migrate a lt action gt d lt Dald gt migrate a start d lt Dald gt p lt Pdlds gt
97. ew or set quota information for file system 105 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies TABLE OF SUPPORTED COMMANDS CONTINUED View or edit LDAP information and settings View or clear imported license View the LUN list in a file system Transfer a LUN to another LUN group in a file system Create view or edit LUN group information and configuration settings View the LUN mapping and masking table Enable or disable LUN mapping and masking on Fibre Channel host interface product Add delete or modify an LMM entry View or edit logical drive information and settings Locate a logical drive via logdrv LEDs Logout session for the current user maintenance Enter or exit maintenance mode Start and monitor disk array migration process mp View media patrol status and progress Start stop pause or resume media patrol View or edit ethernet network information and settings View or edit NTP status and settings Modify a user s password View PDM status and progress Start stop pause or resume PDM process Start and view performance statistics for controllers logical drives physical drives or ports ivdiy View or edit physical drive information and settings Locate a physical drive pny via LEDs Ping another system through management port ptiflash Update system software and firmware through tftp server View redundancy check status and progress Start stop pause or resume r
98. g each screw Be careful not to over tighten 7 With the drive carrier handle in open position gently slide the drive carrier into the enclosure Important Press the release button to push the drive carrier into position Proper drive installation ensures adequate grounding and minimizes vibration Always attach the drive to the carrier with four screws 237 2013 PROMISE Technology Inc All Rights Reserved
99. gabytes mb gigabytes gb or terabytes tb Up to 2 decimal places are allowed to be specified Zero indicates no limit Hard disk limit and hard file limit cannot be zero at the same time Number of Files hard limit which cannot be violated The value of limit must be an integer Zero indicates no limit Hard file limit and hard disk limit cannot be zero at the same time Execute delete command in non interactive mode Often be used in script Used with a delete Verbose mode Used with a list 161 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples iE SOpUlOc el a LS Ik PSQuGka uU User ao oe N a a a E a eo a aE O ESUO evel ial S e a O e oa oar dE 0O00 togqguota ae persis utu uscerl import Usage import t lt file type gt s lt TFTP server gt f lt file name gt p lt port num gt i Summary The import command is used to import files from a remoter TFTP host Options t lt file type gt userdb User database file configscript Configuration script S lt TFTP server gt Specifies tftp server s IP or host name f lt file name gt Specifies the name of the file to import p lt port num gt The port number of the TFTP server Default is 69 i Get format validation information about imported file only File is not really applied to subsystem yet 162 Init Usage init a lt action gt lt Ldld gt Management with CLI init a start lt Ldld gt q lt
100. h controller reports its own WWNN Subsystems only Enables or disables asymmetric logical unit access Enabling ALUA will enable LUN affinity automatically Specifies the type of condition to clear Valid only when the command action is clear Displays the id of the controller on whose serial port the CLI is running Verbose mode Used with the a list option 133 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples Cer SCEI ae Er NE ctra mod i Tl Ss Dalias Ctr cocrecieon enab le date Usage date date a mod d lt date gt t lt time gt Summary The date command allows the user to view and modify the system time Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays the current system time mod Modifies the current system time d lt date gt Used to specifies date in the following format yyyy mm dd where month s range is 1 12 and day s range is 1 31 t lt time gt Used to specifies time in the following format hh mm ss where hour s range is 0 23 minute s and seconds range are 0 59 Examples date date e imoch e 2004 02 25 Se 14s 50 205 134 defrag Usage Management with CLI defrag a lt action gt n lt FSNAME gt d lt dir file gt t lt type gt s lt tftpServer gt f lt fileName gt p lt port gt Summary It can be used to start or stop file or directory defragmentation or fragmentation level calculation as well as to
101. h mm ss where hour s range is 0 23 minute s and seconds range are 0 59 S lt option gt lt value gt Used to specify what options to change timezone Specific to the timezone The timezone s range is 12 13 dst Enable and disable Daylight Saving Time enable disable 141 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies dststarttime Used to specify the DST start time The format is Month WeekOfMonth DayOfWeek Month range is Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec WeekOfMonth range is 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last DayOfWeek range is Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat dstendtime Used to specify the DST end time The format is Month WeekOfMonth DayOfWeek Month range is Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec WeekOfMonth range is 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last DayOfWeek range is Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Examples Jace dae e moc cl 2004 02 25 u Lac sO os date a mod d 2004 02 25 t 14 50 05 s timezone 8 dst enable dststarttime Mar 2nd Sun dstendtime Nov l1st Sun 142 Management with CLI 143 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies exportfs Usage exportfs a lt ACTION gt n lt FSNAME gt i lt entry id gt p lt point gt d lt client id gt s lt list of settings gt f Summary The exportfs command is used to manage file system export entries It is used to list cr
102. he Advanced Configuration option for best performance place the Meta Data LUN or LUNs on the head unit VTrak A Class It should not be necessary to increase the size of the Meta Data LUN for a file system to be larger than the Capacity of a two disk RAID 1 LUN Note The storage capacity of the Meta Data LUN does not need to be larger than the recommended setup using two hard disks in a RAID 1 configuration 66 Web based Management ADVANCED CONFIGURATION OPTIONS FOR THE FILE SYSTEM In order to better understand how changing the Block Size Journal Size and Inode Ratio can change the performance of the File System please read the description of these settings below Block Size This is the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated by the file system It cannot be changed once the file system has been created Changing the Block Size value also known as Block Allocation Size can degrade or improve performance depending on what critical applications are likely to use the file system In general applications that typically use large sized files will work better if the file system allocates larger sized blocks and applications that use small sized files are better off using smaller block sizes As an example 256 blocks are needed in order to store a 1MB sized file on a file system with a block size of 4KB Since there are many blocks used it is more likely that the blocks will be located in non contiguous blocks the file
103. he export entry of a file system even if it is running Only valid for a mod and delete action Verbose mode Used with a list action exportfs a add n fsl p datal d 2 s readonly enable squash all async enable e exportts a mod n rs expor is Sh a lke leas o l e exportts a del gt n tsk expor iS N z Toni 145 I s gt readonly VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies factorydefaults Usage factorydefaults a lt action gt t lt type gt Summary The factorydefaults command restores factory default settings Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform restore Restore the factory default settings t lt type gt Specifies the type of settings to restore all All settings allfw All firmware settings allsw Subsystems only All software settings 146 Management with CLI The following are individual Firmware settings bga Background activity settings ctrl Controller settings encl Enclosure settings including temperature thresholds netmgmt Subsystems only Network settings of management ports phydrv Physical drive settings subsys Subsystem settings The following are individual Software settings which only apply to Subsystems bgascheduler Background activity scheduler settings service Service startup type settings webserver Web server settings snmp SNMP settings telnet Telnet settings email Email settings user User settings
104. he file system This is applicable only for Windows clients Set the Windows access control list flag for a file system Modifiable This is applicable only if POSIX is supported Set the Linux Mac access control list flag for a file system Modifiable Set the quotas flag for a file system Modifiable Specify the LUN Group information These options are separated by a comma The name of LUN group for data LUNs Its mandated for adding LUN group Can be up to 31 characters long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores Specify the allocation size The size can be 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB or 64MB 153 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies The allocation size must be equal to or multiples of 2 or 4 times the size of the data block size the file system For example allocsize can equal 4MB if the file system data block size is 4MB 2MB or 1MB The default size is 4 times the data block size of the file system layout Set the layout of the LUN group The default is stripe stripe fill fifi stripesize Specify the stripe size The size can be 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32GB 64GB 128GB 256GB or 512GB This is used only when the layout is specified to stripe The stripe size must be greater than or equal to the allocation size you specified for the
105. he following Windows versions are supported e Windows 2012 Server Standard R2 SP1 x86 64 bit e Windows 7 SP1 x86 64 bit e Windows 2008 Server Standard R2 x86 64 bit e Windows 7 x86 64 bit e Windows 2008 Server x86 64 bit e Windows 8 x86 64 bit Open a browser and enter the virtual management IP Address of the VTrak A Class system 10 0 0 1 Additional information on the IP Addresses can be found in Specifications on page 13 Download the VTrakFS Client application for your client using one of the methods on page 34 then go to the download location and double click the file to uncompress it Opening the folder note that there are installers for the supported Operating System versions Double click the file to uncompress it and double click the icon to begin the installation process Note that it will be necessary to restart the computer after installing the client application After the Windows client is added to the SAN use the client application to mount the new SAN volume See Using FS Client Software on page 57 for more details on adding an A Class SAN server and mounting a VTrakFS volume on your client workstation 36 Setup LINUX INSTALLATION The following Linux versions are supported e RHEL 6 2 64bit e RHEL6 3 32bit 64bit e SUSE 11 SP1 64bit e SUSE 11 SP2 32bit 64bit Open a browser and enter the virtual management IP Address of the VTrak A Class system 10 0 0 1 Additional information on the IP Addresses can be f
106. hot spare drive d A dedicated hot spare drive r lt revertible gt Specifies whether the spare drive is revertible y Yes n No S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies options for the spare drive mediapatrol Enables or disables Media Patrol enable disable Examples spare SPa E a sora ye ep Se Speaker a mods I TF E o 0 sy Mecilapewisol dirisable Spare a del 1i Q0 209 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies stats Usage Stats t lt type gt i lt devid gt c lt Count gt stats a clear Summary The stats command displays statistics of subsytem controller enclosure physical drives and logical drives and resets the statistics count to zero Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays the statistics clear Resets the statistics count to zero t lt type gt Specifies the device type ctrl Controller logdrv Logical drive phydrv Physical drive all All the above options lt devid gt Specifies the device ID Default is the first available device ID C lt Count gt Specifies the device count Default is all devices Examples ee o R O a yy a Srat o ac oee a stats a clear 210 Management with CLI subscription Usage subscription a lt action gt u lt username gt t lt type gt s lt list of settings gt subscription a list subscription a list v t lt type gt subscription a enable
107. inistration User Management menu GetHelp About ContactUs Logout PROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration S administrator TECHNOLOGY INC User Management User Management LDAP Settings Notification Setup Report Name Privilege Display Name Email Performance Monitor administrator Super Super user admin yourcompany com Product Events Client Software Setup Wizard 89 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies User MANAGEMENT Management users are those that can access the management interface and view information and make configuration changes to the File System SAN etc depending on the level of privilege assigned to the user The default user name and password grant Super User level privilege to the user administrator This user cannot be removed but the password can be changed It is a good idea to change the this password from the default soon after first gaining access to the Web PAM PROe interface MANAGEMENT USER PRIVILEGE LEVELS The table below describes the different privilege levels of management users Privilege Level Read Write privileges o SUper The user has complete administrative control L Power The user cannot modify user accounts or delete configurations The user can perform background tasks only The user can only view information has no administrative or write capability 90 Web based Management ADDING MANAGEMENT USERS To create a management user 1
108. ion it Forces a drive from an Offline to an Online state Forces a drive from an Onine to an Offline state Clears a drive s condition Specifies the physical drive ID Specifies number of drives when their ID numbers are sequential Specifies type of condition to clear Requires the a clear option Clears a PFA condition on the drive Clears a stale configuration on the drive Specifies type of settings to modify Requires the a mod option Defaults to be all if d is not specified SATA related setting s writecache rlacache and The SATA settings apply to all SATA physical drives All drives where is applicable Specifies which settings to change User specified name only for configured physical drives Up to 32 characters containing alpha numeric characters blank spaces and underscores Beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded The following global settings are for physical drives that support these features 190 writecache enable disable rlacache enable disable cmdqueuing enable disable temppollint mediumerrorthreshold V Examples Onycloy ON ana Ny amean a e a Management with CLI Enables or disables write cache on the physical drive s Enables or disables read look ahead cache on the physical drive s Enables or disables command queuing on the physical drive s 15 255 Drive temperature polling interval in seconds If value is 0 polling is dis
109. is normally done to logical drives after they are created from a disk array Initialization sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero The action is useful because there may be residual data on the logical drives left behind from earlier configurations For this reason Initialization is recommended whenever you create a logical drive Initialization of an LD will pause any other Background Activities that are running To initialize an LD or multiple LDs on a VTrak node 1 Goto SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Choose the VTrak node that has the LD or LDs to initialize in the left panel 3 Click on the Play icon blue triangle inside blue circle to bring up the Initialization settings menu 4 The menu lists all the LDs on the node Choose the Initialization options for any or all LDs and click the Save button to save the settings start initialization Options include Quick Initialization To select all LDs for initialization click to check mark the Logical Drive option box A progress bar will display under Current Running Background Activity showing how much of the initialization is completed on each LD Click the Gear icon to display the Stop Pause and Resume options to stop pause or resume initialization of an LD Note LD Initialization Rate is Medium by default This setting is chosen to balance system resources between initialization and ongoing read write operations on other LDs Use the Background Activities Set
110. ivate the license when you login for the first time or skip it and perform the task later in the regular user interface as the administrator In order to create a shared network files system the license including the trial license must first be activated This section describes the options for license activation The license activation options described are e Manual Activation e Automatic Activation e Use the Trial License Note If you plan to activate the product license manually and have not yet obtained the license file use the Trail Version until you have the license file See Trial Version License on page 46 42 Setup ACTIVATE LICENSE MANUALLY To activate the license manually follow these steps 1 Access the Update the License menu If you are setting up the VTrak for the first time this menu appears automatically If you have skipped this part use the VTrak A Class user interface click on the Administration tab at the top of the menu click on the Product menu link then click on the Gear icon and scroll down to select the Activate License option Update The License This interface provides a simple way to electronically activate your VTrak A Class license r Activate Automatically Activate Manually Ee By e j to PROMISE support a By s email mar Try the Trial version for 90 days with unlimited function Try the Trial version Skip Activation 2 Click on the Activate Manually option A new
111. ivities VTrak Node 2 tailed i ntr Viva oye er n in the list to view to assign as Alia t virak E830f Basic Information Status 7 OK WN 0000 0001 5500 4241 Capacity Alias Model Trak ES30f IP Address 192 165 206 112 SerialNumber SBB JBOD 123 NO of Connected JBOD C NO of Physical Drive lt System Date and Time Mar 24 2013 10 13 12 Choose a VTrak Node in the left panel to view details for that unit The information about the VTrak node displayed in the Detail menu includes Status WWN Capacity Alias if assigned see above Model IP Address Serial Number the Number of Connected JBODs the Number of Physical Drives and System Date and Time 75 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies CREATE VT RAK Nope ALIAS To create an alias for any VTrak node 1 Goto SAN gt Detail menu tab 2 Click on the Note icon type in the name for the Alias 3 Click on the Save button SHUTDOWN VTRAK Nope To shutdown any VTrak node 1 Goto SAN gt Detail menu tab 2 Click on the Gear icon 3 Select the Shutdown option A confirmation is required 4 Allow at least 5 minutes for the system to completely shutdown before switching off the power supplies Restore VTRAK DEFAULT SETTINGS When factory default settings are restored logical settings including IP settings and administration settings are restored to factory default settings To restore a VTrak node to its factory default settings 1
112. k in left panel 2 Inthe Product Registration menu tab click on the Join Now link Sign in to Promise Already have a Promise ID Sign In Email ID Password f Forget Password Dont have a Promise ID Join Now Skip Registration 3 Create a new Promise ID in two separate menus The first menu asks for personal and company information Fill in all required fields and click the Submit button to continue to the next entry menu Create a New Promise ID Your Personal Information First Name Middle Initial Last Name Address 1 Address 2 City State Country Select Postal Code Phone Fax Alternate Phone Company and Designation Information Company Job Title Customer Type Distributors x TE EEE i 100 4 5 Web based Management In the next menu create the new Promise ID and click on Next Create a New Promise ID Your Email Address and Password Email Address Password Retype Password Password Reset Information Select Question Pets Name Enter Your Response ee Your new Promise ID has been created Now you can complete the product registration Follow the steps in Registering the VTrak A Class on page 99 to register the VTrak Create a New Promise ID SUCCESSFUL The Promise ID has been created 101 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies MANAGING WITH THE CLI MAKING A SERIAL CONNECTION Befo
113. l LUN groups in a file system modify a LUN group in a file system Options a lt action gt Specifies which action to perform list Default List the properties of all LUN groups in a file system mod Modify the attribute of a LUN group in a file system n lt FS Name gt The file system Name Supports string up to 31 character long containing alphanumeric characters and underscores i lt LUN group id gt LUN group id Used to list modify a special LUN group S lt option gt lt value gt Used to specify settings for a LUN group These options are separated by a comma layout Set the layout of the LUN group The default is stripe stripe fill fifi stripesize Specify the stripe size The size can be 174 Management with CLI 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32GB 64GB 128GB 256GB or 512GB e Itis valid when the layout is specified to stripe e Ifthe layout is changed to stripe stripe size setting must be specified e The stripe size must be greater than or equal to the allocation size you specified for the LUN group Examples ngr reurs A Ahi 2 igi es hs lungroup a mod n fsl 1i 1 s layout stripe stripesize 64MB IOS ICTS a lunmap Usage lunmap a lt action gt i lt Initiatorld gt t lt Targetld gt r lt Ctrlld gt p lt Portld gt c lt Count gt lunmap a addld i lt Initiatorld gt
114. l PDM stop Stops a PDM pause Pauses a PDM resume Resumes a paused PDM 188 Management with CLI d lt DA ID gt Specifies which disk array on which to perform the PDM S lt sequence Num gt Specifies the sequence number of the suspect drive p lt PD ID gt Specifies physical drive ID of the replacement drive Examples pdm oC e Sires Cl S 2 ollt ject gt a Sires cll S2 phydrv Usage phydrv a lt action gt p lt Pdld gt c lt Pd count gt v phydrv a mod p lt Pdld gt s lt list of settings gt phydrv a locate p lt Pdld gt phydrv a online p lt Pdld gt phydrv a offline p lt Pdld gt phydrv a clear t lt condition type gt p lt Pdld gt Summary The phydrv command displays physical drive information changes physical drive settings locates individual drives and forces a drive to an online or offline state 189 VTrak A Class Product Manual Options a lt action gt list mod locate online offline clear p lt PD ID gt C lt count gt t lt condition type gt pfa staleconfig d lt drive type gt sata cmdqueuing all S lt option gt lt value gt alias Promise Technologies Specifies the action to perform Default Displays all physical drives their make model number and array they belong to Their status is also shown Modifiies physical drive settings Flashes the physical drive s LED so you can locat
115. l Promise Technologies Disk Carrier LEDs front of every carrier Drive Status lt Power Activity PROMISE The VTrak spins up the disk drives sequentially to equalize power draw during start up After a few moments e The Power Activity LED displays blue when a physical drive is present e The Drive Status LED displays green when the physical drive is configured as a member of a disk array or as a spare When the physical drive is unconfigured the LED is dark Steady means the LED is on Blinking means a regular on off pattern Flashing means intermittent and irregular on off pattern Drive Status LED Behavior After Boot Up State Power Activity Drive Status Dark Drive is unconfigured Flashing Blue Activity on drive a Steady Green pee Drive is configured Blinking Green Locator feature Configured means the physical drive either belongs to an array or it is assigned as a spare drive 32 Setup SAN anp FILE System SETUP Now that the VTrak A Class subsystem is installed and connected it is time to setup the SAN clients and file system used by the clients on the SAN In order to automatically detect the SAN client workstations it is necessary to install the file system client application on any Linux Mac OS X or Windows workstations Then you can use the browser based management GUI and the Setup Wizards to set up the SAN and File System The first time that you log in to the A Class you will
116. list of Client Computers allowed to access this File System with the Status and IP Address of each client computer VTRAK List Scroll down in the File System Detail menu to see a list of VTrak Nodes used with this File System including the Status and Model type View CLIENT COMPUTER INFORMATION To view basic information about clients computers connected to the SAN 1 Goto the SAN menus any tab 2 Click on the Computers link in lower part of the left panel The basic information includes the client Status IP Address Operating System used and Client Software Version 71 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Fite SYSTEM STORAGE The Storage menu tab is used to view information about LUNs and LUN Groups that have been created on the File System File System Storage information display menu DataFS1 Detail Storage Quota Folder Status Capacity Q Free 116 65 GB Total 155 97 O Used Free 118 86 GB Total 135 97 o Free 3 16 TB Total 3 16 TB O Used Free 3 17 TB Total 3 17 TB Click on the Meta Data LUN Group information icon blue icon with lower case i to see details about the group Click on the Gear icon and select View to see information about any of the Data LUN Groups Choose Modify for a Data LUN Group to change the Storage Usage for the LUN Group Options for Storage Usage are e FLFI File Level Fault Isolation An entire file is stored in a LUN i e no striping across LUNs
117. lt LdSettings gt Summary The migrate command allows the user to migrate logical drives inside a particular disk array The supported migrations are online capacity expansion RAID level migration and stripe size migration Further more when starting off with disk array that has a RAID 10 logical drive and performing a capacity expansion by adding physical drive s to the array it will cause the RAID 10 logical drive to MIGRATE to RAID 1E unless the user explicitly specifies RAID10 180 Options a lt action gt list start d lt DA ID gt p lt PD ID list gt lt option gt lt value gt id capacity capacityrounding migration enable disable raid axle stripe Management with CLI Which action to perform Default Displays the migration status of specified disk array If no array ID specified all migration status will be displayed start a specific migration progress Used to specify the array ID for migration Used to specify which physical drives are to be added in an array Used to specify settings for logical drive migration Required Specifies the logical drive ID Specifies the new logical drive capacity Not to specify it unless intending to expand the capacity Enable or disable capacity rounding for logical drive Default Enable capacity rounding Disable capacity rounding Specifies the new logical drive RAID level Specifies the axle number for
118. lt SourceLdld gt d lt TargetLdld 1 2 3 gt r clone a stop lt SourceLdld gt d lt TargetLdld gt clone a list lt Ldld gt Summary This command allows the user to start or stop a Clone as well as to check on the progress of a running Clone There are two methods to start a Clone One is specify the destination logical drive to perform clone another is specify an existing array Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays the current active Clone s and their status es start Start a Clone stop Stop a Clone lt source Id gt Specifies which source logical drive to perform clone action on d lt destination Id gt Specifies which destination logical drive to perform a clone action on For start if multiple destinations are specified a maximum of 8 allowed If not specified all existing associations on the source logical drive specified by l will be started or stopped f Instructs to retain this association after corresponding background operation done 127 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies For clone by default the association is not retained The following are used to specify a existing array to perform clone S lt option gt lt value gt id lt array id gt Specifies an array id Raid 0 1 5 10 1e 50 6 60 Axle Used to specify the RAID level of the logical drive Striping Mirroring on two drives Parity
119. lt list of settings gt Spare a del i lt Spareld gt Summary The spare command displays a list of hot spare drives and creates modifies and deletes hot spare drives A global hot spare can replace a failed drive from any redundant disk array A dedicated hot spare is assigned to one or more redundant disk arrays and can only replace a drive that belongs to one of the assigned arrays A revertible hot spare can transition back to spare status after it replaces a failed drive in a disk array See the transit command The hot spare drive must be of equal or greater size than the drive it replaces The spare drive must be the same media type HDD or SSD as the other physical drives in the disk array Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays a list of hot spare drives add Adds new hot spare drives mod Changes hot spare drive settings del Deletes a hot spare drive i lt Spare Id gt Specifies the ID of the spare drive p lt PD ID gt Specifies the ID of the physical drive Requires the a add option to configure a drive as a Spare 208 Management with CLI d lt DA ID or DA ID List gt Specifies the disk array ID Requires the a list option Displays a list of global spares and spares dedicated to this disk array When used with other actions it specifies the disk array IDs to which this spare is dedicated t lt type gt Specifies the type of hot spare drive g A global
120. m high Initrate low medium high rcrate low medium high Examples bga Promise Technologies Transition rate determines the rate at which transition will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 Synchronization rate determines the rate at which synchronization will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 Initialization rate determines the rate at which initialization will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 Redundancy check rate determines the rate at which redundancy check will run low 25 medium 50 high 75 bga a mod s autorebuild enable rebuildrate high syncrate low 120 Management with CLI bgasched Usage bgasched a lt action gt t lt type gt s lt list of settings gt bgasched a add t lt type gt s lt list of settings gt bgasched a mod t rc i lt RC scheduler id gt s lt list of settings gt bgasched a mod t lt type gt s lt list of settings gt bgasched a del t lt type gt bgasched a del t rc i lt RC scheduler id gt Summary bgasched is used to display all scheduled background activities as well as to allow the user to add modify or delete date and time of the scheduled activities a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays information of BGA scheduler add Create a new BGA scheduler If exists RC scheduler cannot add RC scheduler with all LDs The max number of RC scheduler is 4 Only 1 for other schedulers mod Modify a exist schedul
121. ment Server IP Mount status Mount type ES Add Server Se 192 168 10 181 Unmounted Manual mount gt Server IP 192 168 10 181 Password Auto Mount Disabled Flow Control MB s 0 Important Windows FSClient users subject to quotas administered by Windows Active Directory use the same Username and Password for FSClient as setup for the user quota on the Windows server 58 Web based Management WEB BASED MANAGEMENT This chapter describes using the web based GUI to set up monitor and manage the network file system and storage area network For information on how to use the web GUI for the first time configuration setup including how to log in and use the different Setup Wizards please read System Setup on page 33 This chapter includes descriptions or the various configuration and information display menus with the exception of the Setup Wizards The following sections are included e Navigating the interface e File System Management Includes Planning and Creation of the File System e Firmware Upgrade e Background Activities e Administration 59 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies NAVIGATING THE INTERFACE The VTrak A Class web based management interface is designed to help make management and setup of the SAN and File System an easy intuitive and streamlined process Wherever possible graphical representations of devices file sy
122. menu appears Activate The License Manually Don t have a License fou will need to save the VTrak A Class Report from the GUI under Administration Repornt Generate VTrak A Class Report Save the file locally on the computer and contact Promise Support via https support promise com fou will need to register and create a support case Promise Support will respond your case with a new license file Or Go Back and use Try the Trial version Already have a License You already have the license file and wanttoinstallit Install License Go Back 3 If you do not have a license already you will first need to generate and save a report file then open a support case online See the instructions below If you have a license click the Install License link and proceed to Step 5 43 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies To generate a Service Report close the Setup Wizard menu go to Administration gt Report gt Generate VTrak A Class Report and save the file to your local computer To obtain the license e Go to PROMISE Support online at http support promise com e Follow the steps to register the VTrak A Class and create a support case Then get the license file from PROMISE and save it to your computer 4 When you have the new license file repeat Step 1 and Step 2 but this time click the Install License link in Step 3 5 Inthe new menu click Choose File to locate the new license file on
123. mounted FSClient Action About E z Ci SERVER Server 192 168 206 111 amp Server IP Mount status Mount type LOCAL MANAGEMENT Local Mount Point Add Server S 192 168 206 111 Unmoun ted Manual mount Property Server IP Auto Mount 4 Click on the Mount icon to mount the storage volume on the client Alternatively you can choose the Mount Volume option under Action or right click on the Server IP address and choose Mount All 5 When the volume s are successfully mounted the export path of each mounted volume is listed in a left the column of the menu and the Mount Status middle column appears as Mounted 6 The storage volume is now be available for use by the client It will appear as a mounted drive on the client 57 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Winoows FSC tient Users For the Windows FSClient a Username and Password are required before mounting the file system Once these are entered the file system can be mounted automatically in the future Note that if a Windows Active Directory LDAP server is used to manage quota users the Username and Password will be the same as that set up for user quotas on the Windows server Windows FSClient user interface unmounted TrakFS Client fel Es Action Language About e e g 2 E SERVER 192 168 10 181 x 192 168 10 181 EF LOCAL MANAGEMENT Local Mount Point Disk Devices Virtual Devices Option Setting Log Manage
124. name For LDAP usually is LDAP the user group id Specifies the privilege to grant for external roles Super user has full control Power user cannot modify users nor delete configurations Maintenance user can only perform background tasks View user can only view Verbose mode Used with a list 169 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples ldap Ceo Poop eh VINCI Jans SSIES 1e ss OOO OOOO OG OO d Y bias an inoc UrralElivy se Senvich wNx aa a ax binddn username bindpw password basedn dc xxx dc domain dc com objectclass person attributeoffullname displayName attributeofemail mail ldap a add t rolemap s externalrole rolename privilege view ldap a del t rolemap s externalrole rolename ldap a disable 1 external 170 Management with CLI license Usage license a lt action gt y Summary It can be used to view or clear the imported license Use command import to import or update license file Options a lt action gt Specify which action to perform list Default Displays imported license info del Delete the imported license y Execute delete command in non interactive mode Only valid for del action Examples license license a del y 171 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies lun Usage lun a lt action gt n lt FS Name gt t lt type gt l lt node gt lt lun gt g lt LUN group id gt
125. ng policy level 3 4 Click to select the Try a Trial version option then click on the Try the Trial version button A trial license will be installed for use with limited function for 90 days Update The License This interface provides a simple way to electronically activate your Trak A Class license m Activate Automatically Activate Manually E By connecting to PROMISE support a ste se file manus Try the Trial version for 90 days with unlimited function Try the Trial version 7 46 Setup Usinc THE SAN Setup WIZARD Click on the SAN tab to begin adding devices to the SAN Click on the Add SAN icon in the SAN menu 1 Choose client computers and other VTraks from the list that you want to add to the SAN To choose all clients in the list click in the box next to Name Click the Next button to continue About Logout I ROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC Topology VTrak 1 Computer 0 SAN Setup Wizard Select devices that you want to be the part of the SAN Computer Q Local _ Name IP Address Model OS Type MBP13 4266 192 168 206 47 Mac _ WIN DFHO2WZ11HX 192 168 206 117 Windows Add Client Add Remote Device 2 Review your SAN clients click Submit to continue and create the SAN About Logout PROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC Topology V Trak 1 Computer 0 SAN Setup Wizard Please review the setti
126. ngs for your SAN SAH VTrak 0 SAH Computer 2 MBP1 3 4266 192 168 206 47 WIN DFHO2V Z1 1HX 192 168 206 117 Add Client i cs 47 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies 3 A confirmation screen appears click Done to close the menu and continue to the File System Wizard About Logout Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC Topology VTrak 1 Computer 0 SAN Setup Wizard SUCCESSFUL The SAN has been created Add Clien Previous Done Cancel 48 Setup USING THE FILE System SETUP WIZARD For first time setup you will automatically be directed to the File System Setup Wizard after completing the San Setup Wizard procedure To launch the File System Setup Wizard without going through the entire Setup Wizard sequence go to the File System menu tab and click on the Add File System icon in the left menu panel The first menu you see asks to choose the Automatic or Advanced File System Configuration option Each configuration option is described in a separate section below File System Setup Wizard Automatic File System Configuration Automatically create new filesystem and Automat LUM ax Advanced File System Configuration Manually create new filesysterr Note The Automatic configuration option will use all available hard drives If you want to create separate LUNs or use more than one file system use the Advanced configuration option 49 VTrak A Class Pro
127. nt to one Fibre Channel switch and the other port to the other switch 25 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies SERIAL CABLE MANAGEMENT CONNECTION Serial communication enables the terminal emulation application on your host PC or server to access the VTrak s Command Line Interface CLI to set up a network connection The VTrak package includes one RJ11 to DB9 serial data cable for each controller Controller serial interface Mgmt HOO lt cy j SAS EXP D p C Serial port RJ 11 Use the DB9 to RJ 11 adapter to connect Note Management via the Serial port is optional All system management and administration can be done through the Management port via the Metadata communications network connection 26 Hardware Installation Connectinc A VTrAK JBOD To expand the storage capacity of your VTrak SAN you can attach additional VTrak JBOD enclosures to the VTrak A Class unit Follow these guidelines and procedure to perform the connections If you have a VTrak A Class with one controller you will only need one SFF 8088 SAS cable to connect the JBOD to the A Class and if it has two controllers you will need two SAS cables These cables are provided with the VTrak JBOD and should be located in the accessory box 1 Starting with the VTrak A Class controller on the left remove the protective cap from one SAS cable connector and plug it in to the SAS socket marked SAS EXP located at
128. nutes for the process to be completed 82 Web based Management BACKGROUND ACTIVITIES Background activities perform a variety of preventive and remedial functions on your physical drives disk arrays logical drives and other components You can run a background activity immediately or schedule it to run at a later time Setting options for each activity are listed after the scheduling options These settings determine how the background activity affects I O performance View CURRENT STATUS OF BACKGROUND ACTIVITIES To view the current status of background activities 1 Goto SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Choose the VTrak node you want to upgrade in the left panel The status of the following Background Activities appear in the menu e Media Patrol e Initialization e Rebuild e PDM Background Activities status default settings Detail LUN Device FC Management Network Management Firmware Update Background Activities resume the background activities wiew the current running background activity progress Set the global prope Mes Background Activities Name Status Media Patrol is not running Media Patrol Last Media Patrolstart Time Not Started Last Media PatrolStop Time Mot Stopped Initialization Initialization is not running Rebuild Mo dead physical drives available in the subsystem for rebuild POM POM is not running 83 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Manace BACKGR
129. o issue clear errorlog Only used with a clearerrlog option expander e 1 i 1 expander e 1 i 1 SLE pan d o r e265 ait oL C2 O POrE 201 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies SC Usage sc a lt action gt i lt Spareld gt sc a Start i lt Spareld gt Summary The sc command starts a Spare Check and monitors the status of a running Spare Check Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays Spare Check status start Starts the Spare Check i lt Spare ID gt Specifies the spare ID on which to run Spare Check Valid value range is 0 255 Examples SC SC a olara n 3 202 Management with CLI SCSI Usage scsi a lt action gt c lt Channelld gt i lt Targetld gt v scsi a list c lt Channelld gt scsi a list c lt Channelld gt i lt Targetld gt scsi a list t target scsi a list c lt Channelld gt t target scsi a mod c lt Channelld gt s lt List of Settings gt scsi a enable c lt Channelld gt i lt Target Id List gt scsi a disable c lt Channelld gt i lt Target Id List gt Summary The parallel SCSI command is used to view and modify parallel SCSI info and settings These include things like parallel SCSI termination and targetlist Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Gives summary information about parallel SCSI status enable To enable the specified target IDs of the
130. on error This option causes Redundancy Check to pause when it encounters inconsistent data The default is to continue on error 195 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples ae Pe CcereunS ta elt lei p IC el Scene Ls Cee E OD eZ rb Usage rb a lt action gt d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt rb a start d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt p lt Pdld gt rb a stop d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt rb a pause d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt rb a resume d lt Dald gt s lt SeqNo gt Summary The rb command starts stops pauses and resumes a Rebuild and monitors the progress of a running Rebuild Note that the replacement drive must be the same media type HDD or SSD as the other physical drives in the disk array Options a lt action gt Specifies action to perform list Default Displays the running and paused Rebuilds and their status start Starts a manual Rebuild 196 stop pause resume d lt DA ID gt S lt sequence Num gt p lt PD ID gt Examples ital eee oS eciaue O Opie oS we oll CDR awS te Op a CU sz san Usage Management with CLI Stops a Rebuild Pauses a Rebuild Resumes a paused Rebuild Specifies which disk array on which to perform the Rebuild Specifies the sequence number of the failed physical drive The source drive of the Rebuild Specifies the ID of the replacement physical drive The target drive of
131. on gt lt value gt Summary The user command is used to list modify create and delete user accounts on the subsystem Usage a lt action gt u lt username gt p lt privilege gt s lt option gt lt value gt Summary The user command is used to list modify create and delete user accounts on the subsystem 233 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies APPENDIX A INSTALLING PHYSICAL DRIVES In the event of a hard disk drive failure or other problems that periodically occur it will be necessary to remove a problem hard drive and replace it with a new one Follow the instructions here to remove a failed disk drive and install a new one The VTrak A Class Series shared storage server supports 3 5 inch SAS hard disk drives For a list of supported physical drives download the latest compatibility list from the PROMISE support website NumBer oF Drives REQUIRED The table below shows the number of drives required for each RAID level Level Number of Drives Number of Drives RAID 1E RAID 30 RAID 3 RAID 50 RAID 6 oo Must be an even number of drives 234 Installing Physical Drives Drive slot numbering on VTrak A830f Be BO BR OL G 69 O o O e i i ll SE Caution The VTrak A Class supports disk drive hot swapping To avoid hand con tact with an electrical hazard do not remove more than one drive car rier a time Important A failed drive is indicated by
132. or a start action Piet cles eee OM oa oe Oulu initiator Usage initiator a lt action gt i lt Index gt c lt Count gt initiator a add i lt Index gt n lt Name gt initiator a del i lt Index gt Summary Use this to display information about the current initiator list as well as to add or delete an initiator Options a lt action gt Which action to perform 164 Management with CLI list Default Displays the current initiator list add Add an initiator to the list del Delete an initiator from the list lt Index gt Used to specify the index of the initiator For a list 0 2047 option it is the starting index and may be used with c option For other options it is the specific index Caution For a add option if the index specified is already in use the existing initiator name is overwritten with new name C lt Count gt Used to specify the number of initiators to be listed Only used with a list option n lt Name gt Used to specify the name of the initiator For a Fibre Channel host interface product the name should be the initiator s WWWPN in hex format e g aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 For a SAS host interface product the name should be the initiator s SAS address in hex format e g aa bb cc dd ee ff 11 22 For slot based lun mapping product the first byte is slot id For example for slot 2 the name is 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Examples inicia
133. ort scroll over port you want to configure and click on the Note icon that appears on the left end of the row A new menu appears with the various settings Configure the port settings and click on the Save button Virtual Management Port settings are Enable IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway IP Address and DNS IP Address Note that DHCP is supported only for VTrak E Class storage nodes Maintenance Mode port settings are Controller ID Enable IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway IP Address and DNS IP Address Note that DHCP is supported only for VTrak E Class storage nodes 81 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies FIRMWARE UPGRADE Firmware upgrades for VTrak nodes are done using the Firmware Upgrade menu tab of the SAN menu group To get the latest controller firmware download it from the PROMISE Support Download Center To upgrade a VTrak node i 2 Go to SAN gt Firmware Upgrade menu tab Choose the VTrak node you want to upgrade in the left panel Click the VTrak Firmware Upgrade button the Controller Firmware Upgrade menu pops up The menu offers two options to locate the file TFTP or from the local computer you are using Choose the preferred option For TFTP enter the IP address of the TFTP server that has the file the full path of the file and the port used For a local computer file click on the Choose File button and locate the file Click the Next button to begin the upgrade process It might take a few mi
134. ound in Specifications on page 13 Download the VTrakFS Client application for your client using one of the methods on page 34 Follow this procedure to install the Linux SAN client 1 Log in as the root super user 2 Launch the terminal software and go to the directory where the installation file is located For example Downloads might have the software installation package if the file was downloaded directly to the client 3 Use the tar command to unpack the software Example root linux tar zxvf VTrakFSClient Linux 1 0 0 tar gz 4 Place the installation file into a new directory used for launching the software Example root linux Downloads cd VTrakFSClient Linux 5 4 1 31872 5 Torun the install script in the new directory use the command install pl with gui install Example root linux VTrakFSClient Linux 5 4 1 31872 installer pl with gui install 6 Review the License Agreement To run the installation script center y for yes to decline enter n for no The installation script runs if you entered y 7 Finally to launch the VTrakFS client application use the command VTrakFSClient Example root linux VTrakClient After the Linux client is added to the SAN use the client application to mount the new SAN volume See Using FS Client Software on page 57 for more details on adding an A Class SAN server and mounting a VTrakFS volume on your client workstation 37
135. ount the types of applications that will be used and the expected workload as this can impact some of the configuration choices Setting up the file system or file systems will be a relatively simple task for most users For example the Automatic configuration option in the initial setup procedure does not require any other configuration decisions from the administrator Automatic file system configuration will create one file system using all available capacity The default file system configuration is best suited for video and audio applications If you intend to create more than one file system use the Advanced option for file system configuration The default configuration settings for a file system created with Advanced configuration are better suited for video and audio applications You have additional options to override some settings Block Size Inode Ratio Journal Size to suit specific applications But once the file systems is created these settings cannot be changed However even after the file system has been created there is still a high degree of flexibility available to the administrator The VTrak supports multiple file system setups where file systems can be created for different purposes and applications for example one file system might be setup for audio video editing while another is used for more generic data files text files Email etc Plus an existing file system can be expanded to increase capacity It is important to
136. p in the list that you want to assign check the box of one ofthe listed LUNs on the right then click the Assign button to assign the selected LUN Name Detail Name Capacity W Meta_Group Y Data_Group1 E x ASSIGN Create New LUN Group 5 SE Create New LUN iil Click on the Create New LUN button to choose hard disk drives to build a new LUN for the Meta Data Group in a new menu 53 VTrak A Class Product Manual 4 Promise Technologies In the Create New LUN menu displays the front of the VTrak showing installed drives Choose the drives to use for each LUN by clicking on them In this example HDD1 and HDD2 are used to create a RAID1 LUN which will be used for the Meta Group Click on the Submit button to create the LUN you will return to the File System Setup Wizard Filesystem Setup Wizard Create Volume Groups and assign LUNs to those Yolume Groups You can also create LUNs if necessary If no LUNs are listed on the right click on the Create New LUN button and choose unassigned drives for the new LUN in the Create New LUN menu that appears and click the Submit button To assign a LUN to a volume group highlight a Meta Group or Data Group in the list that you wantto assign check the box of one of the listed LUNs on the right then click the Assign button to assign the selected LUN Deta x Create New LUN LUH Hame LUNO Select Physical Drives FD 1 PD 2 RAID Level RAID1 w Capacity 3 98
137. pe confirm in the confirmation menu and click the Confirm button MANAGEMENT USER EVENT SUBSCRIPTION SETTINGS Event subscriptions for a user require a valid email address if you have not entered one first Modify the user settings and enter an email address To configure event subscription settings for a user 1 2 Log into WebPAM PROe as the Administrator or a Super User Go to Administrator gt User Management gt User Management menu tab Click on the Gear icon for the user in the list Subscription option Select the types of events to receive notifications for Click the Save button 92 Web based Management LDAP SETTINGS The VTrak Class A Series supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP a protocol used to access a directory listings LDAP can be enabled or disabled and set up to use an external LDAP server To enable or disable LDAP service click on the Click to change LDAP status link near the top of the menu and choose to Enable or Disable External LDAP Server Configure these settings for external LDAP LDAP Connection Description Settings Response Time Out 1 Maximum time in seconds allowed to wait between client requests If time out 30 expires the session ends and a new request must be sent to start a new session Base DN Object identifier Distinguished Name used as based object entry search dc example dc com is the default LDAP Server IP address or host name of outsi
138. pecified all the pds which are supported by the specified od fw are selected Display the status of currently running flash process y Enable non interactive mode Examples Peina oR e seh 2 o a Sic ee a cone a aoe e Pede sdi E ru muler 00 TOTO joie 138 for in band ptiflash l list currently running flash process Stet cielo a teas Ie ies Lae Sterno Heys E if the flash image is located under the temp folder on the TFTP server ORE Ugh yS OL t eee ts ab eos eA CKO ae Oe Me Ol AIR 2 i WOCELS las OC a wee joc I incl 2 Wisse cle jc iy E 194 rc Usage rc a lt action gt lt Ldld gt rc a Start lt Ldld gt n p rc a stop lt Ldld gt rc a pause lt Ldld gt rc a resume I lt Ldld gt Summary Management with CLI The rc command starts stops pauses and resumes a Redundancy Check and monitors the progress of a running Redundancy Check Options a lt action gt list start stop pause resume lt Ld ID gt Specifies action to perform Default Displays active and paused Redundancy Checks and their status Starts a Redundancy Check Stops a Redundancy Check Pauses a Redundancy Check Resumes a paused Redundancy Check Specifies the logical drive ID on which to run the Redundancy Check Do not fix inconsistent data This option causes Redundancy Check to run without correcting inconsistent data All inconsistency errors are reported Pause
139. pies your data to a spare drive before the physical drive fails and your logical drive goes Critical The PDM Rate is configured in the Background Activities Settings menu see page 84 To run PDM 1 Goto SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Click on the Play icon blue triangle inside blue circle to bring up the PDM menu 3 Choose a Source and a Target physical drive 4 Click on the Save button to begin the rebuild BACKGROUND SYNCHRONIZATION Synchronization is automatically applied to redundant logical drives when they are created Synchronization recalculates the redundancy data to ensure that the working data on the physical drives is properly in sync The Background Synchronization Rate is configured in the Background Activities Settings menu see page 84 REDUNDANCY CHECK Redundancy Check is a routine maintenance procedure for fault tolerant disk arrays those with redundancy that ensures all the data matches exactly Redundancy Check can also correct inconsistencies The Redundancy Check Rate is configured in the Background Activities Settings menu see page 84 88 Web based Management ADMINISTRATION The Administration menus include menus to manage users for system management how system events and alert notification are handled as well as various performance monitoring displays This is also where to find the PROMISE License management menus for updating or upgrading the VTrak A Class product license Adm
140. port sessiontimeout maxconnection Promise Technologies SSH SNMP CIM Netsend Netsend service is supported for Pv4 protocol only Specifies the startup type Component is automatically started when system boots Component has to be manually started by issuing command Used to specify settings for this component This is used when modifying mod These options are separated by a comma SMTP server IP address or SMTP server name SMTP server port number SMTP server authentication Username if using SMTP authentication Sender s email address Sender s email address Email subject Session time out in minutes Maximum 1440 Port number for telnet daemon Session time out in minutes Maximum 1440 Max number of telnet client connection 218 ssh settings port sessiontimeout maxconnection snmp settings port sysname syslocation syscontact readcommunity cim settings http httpport https httpsport authentication oldpassword newpassword i lt Index gt Management with CLI Port number for ssh daemon Session time out in minutes Maximum 1440 Max number of ssh client connection Port number System name string system location string system contact information string Read community name Enable or disable HTTP connection for CIM server enable disable Port number if using HTTP Enable or disable HTTPS connection for CIM server
141. ps on an external LDAP server that can then be added in the Quota Configuration see below The VTrak A Class currently supports LDAP using Windows Active Directory and Mac Open Directory Note that use of Windows Active Directory requires that Identity Management for UNIX be installed on the Windows server The LDAP Settings menu is located under the Administration directory ADD QUOTA CONFIGURATION Once the requirements are finished then create a new quota if 2 Go to File System gt Quota menu tab Click on the Gear icon and select the Add Quota option Configure the following in the new menu that appears e Choose the User or User Group to which the quota will be applied e Set a maximum capacity as the limit to the quota e Enter a maximum number of files allowed for the quota Notice that the user has the option to apply the quota settings to all users or user groups To do this click check mark the option box at the bottom of the Add Quota menu Click on the Save button to save and apply the new settings 73 VTrak A Class Product Manual Fite SYSTEM FOLDER Promise Technologies Create folders for access control and control LUN migration affinity This is also the menu used for defragmentation of an File System File System Folder menu P RO M I S E Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC File System VidFS1 DataF 51 2 Free 3 17 TB Detail Storage Quota Folder VidFS1 Free 951 79 GB
142. put into CLI command Make sure they have the same severity level or it will report a conflict enclosure shortcut event subscription by enclosure raid shortcut event subscription by raid core host shortcut event subscription by host interface drive shortcut event subscription by drive interface other shortcut event subscription by other The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major The following are for enclosure type event subscription battery battery event subscription of enclosure bbu BBU event subscription of enclosure blower blower event subscription of enclosure cu Cooling Unit event subscription of enclosure psu PSU event subscription of enclosure sep SEP event subscription of enclosure 212 temp Management with CLI temperature event subscription of enclosure The range is info warning minor major critical fatal none Default value is major The following are for raid type event subscription ctrl oce pd rm rebuild rc smart sync subsys pdm SC Controller event subscription of enclosure Disk Array event subscription of enclosure Initialization blower event subscription of enclosure Logical Drive cooling unit event subscription of enclosure DDF event subscription of enclosure Media Patrol event subscription of enclosure Online Capacity Expansion event subscription of
143. re Channel Fibre Channel Switch o oss Introduction Key ADVANTAGES Key advantages of the VTrak A Class Series include Fully integrated shared storage appliance requiring no extra server hardware High performance workflows enable faster project completion thus providing time for more projects and higher revenues Lower storage infrastructure costs lower CAPEX expenditures Easy deployment means your workflow is up and going in a fraction of the time of traditional storage solutions Single unified management equals less time spent worrying and managing the storage system On Demand independent performance and capacity expansion Embedded I O performance and power usage monitoring Fite SYSTEM FEATURES Capacity 64 ZB Number of files more than 1 000 million Files in a single directory 62 million Maximum single file size 2 PB Maximum file name length 255 ASCII Characters Maximum path length 255 for Windows 4096 for Linux Number of LUNs 4093 Number of file system volume 256 Maximum number of clients 1024 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies OTHER FEATURES e 64 bit SAN File system scalable amp high performance e 8G Fibre Channel e Data path over Fibre Channel e Suitable for M amp E and HPC market High performance amp bandwidth e Single name space with File system spanning across multiple storage unit e High Availability e Ac
144. re you begin be sure the RJ11 to DB9 serial data cable is connected between the Host PC and VTrak and that both machines are booted and running Serial ports on the controllers Then do the following actions 1 Change your terminal emulation program settings to match the following specifications Bits per second 115200 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control none 2 Start your PC s terminal VT100 or ANSI emulation program 3 Press Enter once to launch the CLI 102 Management with CLI Loccine INTO THE CLI 1 At the Login prompt type the user name and press Enter The default user name is administrator 2 At the Password prompt type the password and press Enter The default password is password The CLI screen appears CLI administrator prompt c Command Prompt ssh 192 168 206 111 administrator cli gt 103 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies TABLE OF SUPPORTED COMMANDS The table below and on the following pages provides a brief description of the CLI commands available on the VTrak A Series When used alone will display this menu When used in conjunction with a command example help array it will display help information for that particular command This can be used in place of the help command or optionally can be used as a switch for a command example array to provide command usage View utility information View or edit arr
145. recipient trapsinkserver Trap sink IP address or trap sink server name For snmp only trapfilter Trap filter level It implies the level and above For snmp only info warning minor major critical fatal recipientserver Recipient IP address or recipient server name For netsend only messagefilter Message filter level It implies the level and above For netsend only info warning minor major critical fatal filename ssh public key file name For ssh only server TF TP server IP address or server name For ssh only comment ssh public key comment For ssh only 221 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies sync Usage sync a lt action gt lt Ldld gt Summary The sync command monitors the progress of background synchronization Background synchronization is used to make logical drives consistent It starts automatically when a redundant logical drive is created But unlike initialization background synchronization allows read and write operations on the logical drive If an initialization starts the background synchronization pauses until the initialization has finished Since background synchronization starts pauses and resumes automatically there is no need for start stop pause or resume functions Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays the current background synchronization activities and their status 7 Specifies the logical drive
146. requiring 3 or more drives Mirroring on even number of drives Extended mirroring requiring 2 or more drives Striping on multiple RAID 5 requiring 6 or more drives Allow two drive failure requiring 4 or more drives Striping on multiple RAID 6 requiring 8 or more drives Used to specify the number of axles for RAID50 and RAID60 C lt Ld count gt Specifies the number of logical drives to be created Examples clone clone a start 10 d1 Cloner a stop l0 adil clone a start I Ue smid Tr raid Eea 128 Management with CLI config Usage config a auto config a expr r y n c y n p yin m yin s yin t lt App Type gt l lt NumLd gt Summary The config command has two options Automatic auto and Express expr Automatic configuration takes all available unconfigured physical drives to create an optimized disk array following a default set of parameters There are no options Express configuration takes your input creates one or two arrays and spreads their capacity evenly over all of the logical drives that you specify The redundancy option creates redundant logical drives RAID 1 10 1E 5 50 6 or 60 The capacity option enables optimizes the logical drives for capacity The performance option optimizes the logical drives for performance If you choose all three options redundancy gets highest priority and capacity gets lowest priority Note that you cannot combine HDDs and
147. rmation such as which specific parts of which disks are used to store a particular file and whether the file is being accessed The journal data is a record of file system transactions used to help ensure the integrity of files in the event of a failure This section describes how to use Web PAM PROe to create and manage the SAN File System The material is organized and presented according to the File System menu used File System management and functions related to the SAN File System are done using these menus e File System Detail e File System Storage e File System Quota Management e File System Folder These are all located in the File System menu directory click on the File System link at the top of the menu interface to view the tabbed submenus In addition some background information is provided about some of the configuration options available to administrators when creating a file system Background information is presented in these sections e Planning and Creation of the File System e What is Metadata e Advanced Configuration Options for the File System 64 Web based Management PLANNING AND CREATION OF THE FILE SYSTEM This section discusses the choices you must make when creating a shared network file system with the VTrak A Class using the Advanced Configuration option in the File System Setup Wizard When planning the file system the administrator needs to take into acc
148. s internal or external Only valid for a enable disable action Defaults External LDAP server provided by customer Specify the external LDAP settings or role mapping LDAP server hostname or IP address The default server is 0 0 0 0 Specify to enable or disable event subscription for LDAP authenticated user The default value is disable LDAP server type The default type is Open Directory Windows Active Directory Open Directory LDAP server port number The default value is 389 The timeout in seconds for connection with the LDAP server The default value is 10 seconds User on LDAP server that is permitted to search the LDAP directory within the defined search base Password of binddn Attribute name that stores user s UID property in LDAP server 167 VTrak A Class Product Manual basedn anonymousbind enable disable objectclass attributeoffullname attributeofemail rolepolicy default explicit defaultprivilege super power Promise Technologies Base distinguished name DN to use for common LDAP search base Allows the system to bind to an LDAP server without providing the Bind DN and password The default value is enable Object class used to filter information from LDAP search result for a specific user Can be configured only when event subscription is enabled See subcription command Attribute name that stores user s full name property in LDAP s
149. sl s winacl enable quotas enable Le n 156 Management with CLI fscheck Usage fscheck a lt action gt n lt FSNAME gt c s lt tftpServer gt p lt port gt f lt fileName gt Summary Used to start or stop file system checking and repair and to view the progress of a currently running file system check or repair Also used to export the log file that contains corrupted or missing files to a TFTP server If c is specified it will only perform a check and not repair the file system S f p are optional for the start action used to export the check result file If s and f are both not specified no check result file is created Options a lt action gt Specify which action to perform list Default Displays check and repair progress start Start file system check and repair stop Stop file system check and repair n lt FSName gt File System Name Can be up to 31 characters long containing alohanumeric characters and underscores f lt file name gt Specifies the name of file for logging corrupted or missing file Only valid for start action S lt TFTP server gt Specifies tftp server s IP or host name Only valid for start action p lt port num gt The port number of the TFTP server Default is 69 Only valid for start action C Only do check and do not repair the file system Only valid for start action 157 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples PSChneo
150. specified channel disable To disable the specified target IDs of the specified channel mod To modify the specified channel termination setting t target List all targets infomation one or all channel s c lt Channel ID gt Channel number i lt Target ID gt 0 15 Used to specify the target ID Used with a list option to display the target information and statistics 203 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies i lt Target ID list gt 0 15 Used to specify which targets are to be used in the list Used in conjunction with a enable or a disable Target IDs can be used singly or separated by comma Additionally a sequential group of targets can be specified by placing a between numbers such as 1 6 This will include targets 1 2 3 4 5 6 S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies which Parallel SCSI settings to change termination Parallel SCSI termination configuration auto on off V Verbose mode display statistics information Examples seen Se Ra Shisicay em Secote ce Vhatsicwme see lS ae il Se Sate oie ee eal eco r SC Saeki ee se eae scsi a mod c 1 s rerminarion on Scol e a enbe m ea aae S T Sos e ae aae e E a e 204 session Usage session session h this command Summary This command lists the current active sessions Examples 2S 6 LOI 205 Management with CLI VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies shutdown Usage shutdown a lt action g
151. specified logical drives Create association between specified source logical drive and destination logical drive Delete existing association between specified source logical drive and destination logical drive What kind of association to be created Clone association Source logical drive Id Destination logical drive Id Instructs to retain this association after corresponding background operation done For clone by default the association will not be retained Specifies the number of associations to give a summary of when used with the a list option Verbose mode Used with a list aoon onon cere ils ora SOC aon ene pea e T o eca Mr wes assn a add t clone 1 0 d 1 r assn a del 1 0 d 1 115 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies battery Usage battery a lt action gt b lt batld gt battery a recondition b lt batld gt Summary Battery is used to display the current status of a battery indicating the percentage of charge left This command is also used to recondition a battery Reconditioning of a battery attempts to fully discharge and then recharge it In addition the battery will be reconditioned automatically once per month a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default List information for all batteries or a specific battery unit recondition Recondition a specific battery b lt battery ID gt Used to specify which battery in a given enclosure Exampl
152. stems and topology are used to facilitate quick visual assessment of administrative requirements The first window that appears after logging in is the Dashboard This provides a quick overview of the VTrak nodes and file systems Click Get Help to view the Help Files Click About to view the VTrak A Class Version and Build Date Click Logout to logout of the web manager Dashboard menu pee Get Help About Contact Us Logout XO EY D Dashboard File System SAN Administration Sire TECHNOLOGY INC Alert All file systems OK There is no warning events File system OK Expand below arrow to see detail VTrak node s OK Expand below arrow to see detail All Trak node s OK Click on an expander arrow for a quick view of the status of File Systems and VTrak nodes Click more to view the alert details in the Event display menu 60 Web based Management The top level directory links for all management functions are located at the top of the WebPAM PROe menu interface These include the Dashboard File System SAN and Administration directories The default administrator user name and password provides Super user level privilege therefore at first login you will have access to all management functions Dashboard File System quick view PROMISE Dashboard File System SAN Administration TECHNOLOGY INC File system Ok Expand below arrow to see
153. t i lt ctrlld gt shutdown a shutdown shutdown a restart shutdown a restart i 2 shutdown a shutdown i 1 Summary Shutdown is the command used to shutdown or restart a controller or subsystem Options a lt action gt Which action to perform shutdown To shutdown the controller or subsystem restart To restart the controller or subsystem i lt ctrild gt Controller ID or subsystem If i is not specified the default value is subsystem 1 Controller 1 2 Controller 2 subsys Subystem 206 Management with CLI smart Usage smart a lt action gt p lt Pdld gt Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays the status of S M A R T diagnostic for phydrv drive s enable Enable S M A R T disable Disable S M A R T p lt Pdld gt Specifies physical drive ID of the destination drive If not specified the destination drive will be all physical drives V Verbose mode Used with a list Summary S M A R T diagnostic for physical drives Examples Sie ae omare Sy Mares ase Ste Ook smart a enable p l 207 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies spare Usage spare a lt action gt spare a list i lt Spareld gt d lt Dald gt v spare a add i lt Spareld gt p lt Pdld gt t gld r y n d lt Dald list gt s lt list of settings gt Spare a mod i lt Spareld gt t g d r y n d lt Dald list gt s
154. t If not specified it will accept the current incomplete condition by default 112 Management with CLI missingdrive The condition of missing drive in the array V Verbose mode Displays all array properties requires a list option Examples array v c array a add Ss alvas MyArray mediapakrol enablke p 1 3 5 9 eraid o Capacity 00gb ei ripe 2126ko aia e a e a a 8 a a a E a S a SE CGapacity l00gbh array ammod CaA ly ss ailvas YOourArray mediapatrol diseblie Varray a dell d array a loea e one array a addld d 0 l raid le capacity 125gb stripe 64kb array a delld l 1 113 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies assn Usage assn a lt action gt t lt type gt lt Ldld gt d lt TargetLdld gt r c lt count gt v assn a add t lt type gt lt SourceLdld gt d lt TargetLdld 1 2 3 gt r assn a del lt SourceLdld gt d lt TargetLdld gt assn a list t lt type gt lt Ldld gt c count v Summary Assn is used to manage association between two logical drives including list and delete existing associations and create new associations 114 Options a lt action gt list add del t lt assn type gt clone lt source Id gt d lt destination Id gt f C lt count gt V Examples Management with CLI Which action to perform Display a list of existing associations for all or
155. t setup see Making UPS Settings 29 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies TURNING ON THE V TRAK With the power supplies connected turn on both power switches on the back of the enclosure When the power is switched on the LEDs on the right handle light up Once the VTrak A Class startup tasks are completed and the unit is operational observe the LED indicators on the front right enclosure ear Power FRU and Logical Drive LEDs display steady green Each controller activity LED flashes green when there is activity on that controller The controller heartbeat LED blinks green once per second for five seconds goes dark for ten seconds then blinks green once per second for five seconds again Steady means the LED is on Blinking means a regular on off pattern Flashing means an intermittent and irregular on off pattern 30 Hardware Installation Front Panel LEDs Right side 2 p Power a T FRU Status N Logical Drive Status Controller 1 Activity E i ft gt E Controller 2 Activity e Heartbeat Front LED Behavior After Boot Up bere oroe Nopower roam Seay creen noma noma vom Ta Normal Check the LEDs on the back of the VTrak enclosure Blinks green once per second for five seconds goes dark for ten seconds then blinks green once per second for five seconds again Flashing a 31 VTrak A Class Product Manua
156. te License Wizard menu appears For a description of how to update or activate the product license please see License Activation on page 42 98 Web based Management REGISTERING THE VT RAK A CLASS To register the VTrak online Update Wizard 1 Go to Administrator gt Product link in left panel 2 Inthe Product Registration menu tab click on the Sign In link Sign in to Promise Already have a Promise ID Sign In Email ID Password Forget Password Dont have a Promise ID Join Now Skip Registration 3 If you already have a Promise ID enter the Email ID and Password in the entry fields of the Sign in to Promise menu and click the Sign In button The Product Registration menu appears Product Registration Name Type Serial Number VTrak_Node1 4U SAS 24 VCSU27061511 Note You will now register these units under username com if any unit was previously registered it will now be unregistered from the previous username Skip Registration submit 4 Check the Product Registration information for accuracy Click the Submit button to complete the registration If you do not yet have a Promise ID click on the Join Now link See Create a Promise ID on page 100 99 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies CREATE A Promise ID If you do not yet have a Promise ID used to register the VTrak and for technical support follow these steps 1 Go to Administrator gt Product lin
157. the Rebuild san a lt action gt t lt type gt i lt device id list gt s lt list of settings gt d lt list of device setting gt f v gt y Summary This command allows the user to list modify a SAN as well as add devices into or remove devices from the SAN For any VTrak A Class there is always a SAN running on it 197 VTrak A Class Product Manual Options a lt action gt list mod add del t lt type gt Promise Technologies Which action to perform Default List SAN information Modify an existing SAN VTrak A Class only Add devices into the SAN Used with options t and d VTrak A Class only Remove devices from the SAN Used with options t and i Device type It s required when add or delete device s For list action if not specified both node and client information will be displayed node client i lt device id list gt S lt option gt lt value gt name d lt option gt lt value gt ip f y V Storage Node VTrak FS Client Used to specify which storage nodes or clients are to be deleted or listed for devices in the SAN only Name of the SAN IP address of the device used while adding a device into the SAN For IPv4 protocol only Force delete used with a del Enable non interactive mode Used with a del Verbose mode used with a list on VTrak A Class to show current status of the SAN 198
158. the enclosure mod Modifies settings Requires the s option locate Locates an enclosure by flashing its LEDs e lt encl id gt Enclosure ID The default value is 1 if unspecified For list action the default is for all enclosures if unspecified S lt option gt lt value gt Specifies the settings to change Applies to the JBOD enclosures only tempwarning 25 45 Enclosure warning theshold temperature in degrees Celsius tempcritical 30 51 Enclosure critical theshold temperature in degrees Celsius ctritempwarning 90 95 Controller warning theshold temperature in degrees Celsius ctritempcritical 100 105 Controller critical threshold temperature in degrees Celsius t lt FRU type gt Specifies which type of FRU to locate Requires a locate option ctrl Locates the controller cooling Locates the cooling unit 140 Management with CLI export Usage export t lt fileType gt s lt tftoServer gt p lt port gt f lt fileName gt Summary The export command exports certain types of configuration files to a remote or local host This command only affects subsystems Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list Default Displays the current system time mod Modifies the current system time d lt date gt Used to specifies date in the following format yyyy mm dd where month s range is 1 12 and day s range is 1 31 t lt time gt Used to specifies time in the following format h
159. the upper right corner of the controller 2 Remove the protective cap from the other end of the SAS cable connector and plug it in to the socket marked SAS IN on the JBOD I O module directly below 3 Repeat for the VTrak A Class controller on the right connecting it to the JBOD I O module directly below 4 If you have any additional VTrak JBODs connect them in the same manner using the SAS OUT socket of the last JBOD to daisy chain the units Always connect a SAS OUT port to a SAS IN port 27 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies JBOD Expansion Connections YX WW ex E i tee y LI eae is a 28 Hardware Installation CONNECTING THE ENCLOSURE POWER Insert the female end of one of the supplied power cables in to a power cable receptacle on each of the power supply units and plug the other end in to a suitable power outlet VTrak A Class power connections and switches Power switches toggle power ON Off SA UPS Mgmt 10101 sal gt mm Ea n R ANA BNI 4 m 8 j O id UPS connector UPS connector Power cable receptacles OPTIONAL UPS SERIAL CONNECTION If your deployment plan calls for one or more UPS units and management via serial communication connect a UPS control cable to the Mini D9 UPS connector on the RAID controller UPS control cables are available from PROMISE Technology at http www promise com To complete the UPS managemen
160. these settings a File System Information Hame FS1 FP Volume Group Information Volume Group Count 2 Meta_Group 38778 XVTrak1 LUNO Data_Group 179 74 Ta xv Trak LUN1IXV Traki LUN2 Upon completing the formatting a message informs you that the new file system has been created Click on Done to go to the File System Detail menu tab You will see that the file system you have created is formatting The Detail menu tab displays the progress of the formatting process When it is completed the File System icon will change to green color indicating the OK status Advanced File System Configuration The File System has been created and under formatting you can see the formatting progress in the file system detail page 56 Setup Usine FS CLIENT SOFTWARE Now that the clients have been added to the SAN it is time to use the client software to mount the SAN volumes on the client systems The FSClient software user interface is nearly identical on the different operating system environments Windows FSClient requires a username and password please see Windows FSClient Users on page 58 To mount a File System volume on a client computer 1 Launch the VTrak FSClient software on the participating client system 2 Click on Add Server and type the IP address of the VTrak A Class system and press Enter to add it to the server list 3 Click to select the server IP Address in the menu the status is listed as Un
161. tings menu to change this rate 86 Web based Management REBUILD PHYSICAL DRIVE To Rebuild a physical drive 1 Go to SAN gt Background Activities menu tab 2 Click on the Play icon blue triangle inside blue circle to bring up the Rebuild menu 3 Choose a Source and a Target physical drive 4 Click on the Save button to begin the rebuild Rebuild Rate When you rebuild a disk array you are actually rebuilding the data on one physical drive e When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity is available the disk array begins to rebuild automatically using the spare drive e If there is no spare drive of adequate capacity but the Auto Rebuild function is ENABLED the disk array begins to rebuild automatically as soon as you remove the failed physical drive and install an unconfigured physical drive in the same slot e If there is no spare drive of adequate capacity and the Auto Rebuild function is DISABLED you must replace the failed drive with an unconfigured physical drive then perform a Manual Rebuild The Rebuild Rate is configured in the Background Activities Settings menu see page 84 87 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies PDM Predictive Data Migration PDM is the migration of data from the suspect physical drive to a spare drive similar to rebuilding a logical drive But unlike Rebuilding PDM constantly monitors your physical drives and automatically co
162. tive Standby SAN FS Metadata server e Active Active RAID Controller e Metadata Journaling e POSIX compliance e Client support for Windows Linux and Mac e Multiple clients access shared files best for sharing and collaboration e Online defragmentation e Online expansion of data volume e Each File system volume can be individually tuned for the usage of the volume e Integration with AD and LDAP for ACL e Client node ACL e Multipath support on clients e Provide intelligent fault detection and notification tool on clients Introduction VTRak A Ciass Probuct LICENSE Each VTrak A Class model is shipped with a trial license installed The license purchased specifies the number of clients and other features of the SAN Contact your PROMISE sales representative for details on what license types are available When the VTrak A Class unit is received follow the instructions in this manual or in the Quick Start Guide to set it up Typically you will want to also download client software to the client systems install and run the software before you actually log in to the VTrak for the first time This way all the clients will be detected and can be added to the SAN for immediate use when setup is completed License activation is accomplished with a special setup wizard when the system is first set up The quickest way to activate the license is to make sure the VTrak has an established Internet connection then proceed to activate the license a
163. tor i c 72 iniciatore a Ciclo aa a ae a n dor Con a ny a om 165 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies idap Usage ldap a lt action gt t lt rolemap gt v ldap a add t rolemap s lt externalrole privilege gt ldap a mod s lt list of settings gt ldap a del t rolemap s lt externalrole gt Summary The ldap command is used to view and modify LDAP configurations It is used to list add modify and delete role mapping rules as well as to enable or disable the external LDAP The default is disabled external LDAP Options a lt action gt Which action to perform list List LDAP settings add Add role mapping mod Modify LDAP settings or role mapping del Delete role mapping test Test LDAP bind operation to verify current configuration Note this operation only validates server IP and port attributes enable Enable external LDAP disable Disable external LDAP t lt type gt The type of external LDAP setting to configure auth LDAP authentication configuration Default value 166 rolemap lt Ildap gt external k S lt option gt lt value gt auth settings server emailforevent enable disable servertype ad od port timeout 1 30 binddn bindpw uidattribute Management with CLI Role mapping rules Maps external roles such as an LDAP group to internal privileges Specify the location of LDAP server i
164. tructed 17 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies MOUNTING THE ENCLOSURE IN A RACK To install the VTrak into a rack with the supplied mounting rails 1 Check the fit of the mounting rails in your rack system 2 Adjust the length of the mounting rails as needed e The rear rail slides inside the front rail The rails are composed of two sliding sections and do not require adjusting screws e The front left and front right mounting rail ends are labeled e Be sure the front rail support is on the bottom facing inward Installing the rails onto the rack See Front left label i Front right label e e o o ov o o oo ooo ooo iy oom oom O l l e e O e O e e Support flange on the front end of each rail Guide pins on rails align with holes in the rack post Be sure the rail support flange is at the front and facing inwards All rail ends front and rear attach at the outside of the rack posts e The guide pins at the rail ends align with the holes in the rack posts e Use the attaching screws and flange nuts from your rack system Tighten the screws and nuts according to instructions for your rack system 18 Hardware Installation Rail ends attach to the outside of each post oF een ocoooooooo oji Rail ends attach on the outside of the front and rear rack posts T 3
165. u will have to log in again to continue the setup process License Following this is the License Update dialog Note that you must activate the license to create and use a file system Refer to the next section for detailed information on this process 39 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies CHANGE NETWORK SETTINGS In order to use the Activate Automatically option in the License Wizard the VTrak requires Internet access The Network Setup menu allows you to change the IP settings of the Virtual Management Port to suit the preferred IP arrangement used on you network Note If the VTrak IP settings are changed to a subnet that is inaccessible by the computer being for access WebPAM PRO will log you out automatically It will be necessary to login again from a computer within the new subnet i Network Setup Protocol Famike Pv4 Virtual Management Port IP Address 192 168 206 34 Controller 1 Port IP Address 192 168 206 111 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Controller 2 Port IP Address 192 168 206 112 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway IP Address 192 168 206 254 DHS IP Address 192 168 1 11 Skip The VTrak A Class uses a static IP address so the IP address used for the Meta Data communications network can only be changed by the administrator If the Meta Data network is shared with the general local IP network or if a DHCP server is running anywhere on the Meta Data network it is a good idea to remove the IP
166. ual PERFORMANCE MONITORING Promise Technologies Use the performance monitoring displays to view performance of the File System or the LUNs Controllers and physical drives of any VTrak node To view performance displays 1 Goto Administrator gt Performance Monitor link in left panel 2 Choose the File System tab to display a graph for Os per second Maximum Latency Average Latency Minimum Latency Bandwidth MB s use the Measurement drop down menu to select which performance parameter for displaying 3 Choose the VTrak Performance tab and select a VTrak node from the drop down VTrak menu to display graphs for Controllers Cache Usage Dirty Cache Usage LUN Os per second Maximum Latency Average Latency Minimum Latency Bandwidth MB s or Physical Drives Os per second Maximum Latency Average Latency Minimum Latency Bandwidth MB s Information Bandwidth in MB s Cache usage by Dirty cache usage by Maximum latency in ms Average latency in ms Minimum latency in ms I Os per second Read Write 96 Read bandwidth Write bandwidth Maximum Read latency in ms Maximum Write latency in ms Average Read latency in ms Average Write latency in ms Minimum Read latency in ms Minimum Write latency in ms Web based Management EVENTS Event logs are useful for troubleshooting tracking functions and monitoring subsystems Use the Events menu to view save or clear subsystem event logs
167. uires a list option VPD information is displayed Examples enclosure enclosure v enclosure a mod e I0 rempwerning 32o temporitical 457 138 Management with CLI event Usage event a lt action gt lt location gt i lt SeqNo gt c lt event count gt v event a clear lt location gt Summary The event command displays and clears the RAM and NVRAM event logs Options a lt action gt Specified the action to perform list Displays the events for the specified location RAM events are displayed if no location is specified clear Clear events for a specified location lt location gt Specifies the location from which to display or clear events ram All events are stored in RAM These events are lost after rebooting nvram Some events are also stored in NVRAM These events remain after rebooting and are a subset of the RAM events i lt sequence ID gt Specifies a specific event by its sequence number This is a starting point Requires the a list option You can use the c option c lt event count gt Specifies the number of events to retrieve when displaying events V Verbose mode Requires the a list option 139 VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies Examples SVN i OVON V event l nvram event a clear lnvram event c 200 evon SE a e aa EO Options a lt action gt Specifies the action to perform list Default Displays information and status of
168. user a add u lt username gt p lt privilege gt s lt list of settings gt user a mod u lt username gt p lt privilege gt s lt list of settings gt user a del u lt username gt Summary The user command allows a user to view and modify an existing user account Only a Superuser can create modify or delete a user account User access levels are Superuser Poweruser Maintenance and View If a password is not specified when the user account is created there will be no password when you log in Use the password command to change a password Maximum password length is 31 characters no spaces Options a lt action gt list add mod del u lt username gt t lt type gt mgmt p lt privilege gt super power Which action to perform Default Displays the current users Create a new user Modify an existing user Delete a user Specifies the username to display edit or delete Specifies the type of user Default Management user There are two types Local and LDAP contained Specifies the privilege level to set for the user Superuser has max control Poweruser cannot modify users nor delete configs 230 Management with CLI maintenance Maintenance user can only perform background tasks view View user can only view f Force delete a user S lt option gt lt value gt status Enable disable this user s account Default is enable
169. utomatically Part of the initial setup procedure launched automatically upon logging in is configuration of the network settings to allow Internet connection Then you can proceed through the Setup Wizard process to get the product license create the SAN and File Systems See System Setup on page 1 for details on how to use the setup wizards including the License Activation Wizard Propuct REGISTRATION During the Setup Wizard procedure you will have the option of registering the new VTrak online Registration of the VTrak A Class is not required but it is strongly recommended in order to expedite online service from PROMISE VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies HARDWARE The following section provides a summary of the front and back panel hardware features of the VTrak Class A Series enclosures FRonT oF V Trak A3800 The VTrak A3800 enclosure features handles on each side used to secure the enclosure to an equipment rack A lockable ventilated bezel cover provides physical security for the installed drives VTrak A3800 front view with protective cover ii o d od oe ad d ed Z__ a abad me nn ai uia ew D z ed 2 n EO D a a bii id and d d d d d d d d d G d adad aed ei e aad e e D eee e e e o e e a e a o M ee i l ee a a a a O E Protective cover Power and Status LEDs VTrak A3800 front view with cover removed Introduction Drive carriers E a ii PROMISE
170. w performance is affected before the file system is made available for use The test should use representative system loads against varied journal sizes then pick whichever performs best Inode Ratio The Inode or index node is a data structure in a files system that contains various matadata about a file such as the size socket device node location of the disk blocks where the contents is stored and other information except the contents and name of the file The Inode Ratio is the ratio of blocks on the Meta Data LUN that are reserved for exclusive use for inode data For example a ratio of 1 7 default value means that one seventh of the blocks on the Meta Data LUN are reserved for inode data Increasing the ratio increases the number of inodes available in the file system meaning that a larger number of files can be stored If the available inode space on the Meta Data LUN are used up no more files can be stored on the file system regardless of how much space is available on the Data LUNs The default Inode ratio 1 7 should be more than enough even for very large file systems 68 Fite System DETAIL Web based Management Click on a File System in the left panel to view the Detail menu for that File System Below the File System information panel you can scroll down and expand the menus for Client Computer List and VTrak List Click on the Gear icon near the upper right corner to roll open a menu to Stop or Expand the Existing File
171. your local computer then click the Save button Install License Q i Import License File Choose File No file chosen 6 After a few seconds a message will inform you the license activation was successful If you do not see this message repeat Step 5 and Step 6 If it fails again please contact technical support for assistance 44 Setup ACTIVATE LICENSE AUTOMATICALLY Note that this procedure is also described in the Quick Start Guide To activate the license automatically make sure the VTrak is able to connect to the Internet and follow the steps listed below If the VTrak cannot connect to the Internet it might be necessary to change the network settings See Change Network Settings on page 40 for details 1 Access the Update the License menu If you are setting up the VTrak for the first time this menu appears automatically If you have skipped this part or need use the VTrak A Class user interface click on the Administration tab at the top of the menu click on the Product menu link then click on the Gear icon and scroll down to select the Activate License option Update The License This interface provides a simple way to electronically activate your VTrak A Class license r Activate Automatically Activate Manually B p nnecting to PROMISE pport a By sx ng il manu Try the Trial version for 90 days with unlimited function Try the Trial version Skip Activation 2 Click on the Activat
172. ystem Configuration Current Node List Wwe will use below devices to create configuration Node ID Model IP Address NO of Connected JBOD NO of Physical Drive Capacity VTrak Node 1 VTrak A3800f 192 168 206 34 0 20 14 78 TB d ETE EE 4 The formatting of the file system will proceed Click Done to go to the Detail tab of the File System menu where you can view the progress of the file system formatting Automatic File System Configuration The File System has been created and under formatting you can see the formatting progress in the file system detail page 5I VTrak A Class Product Manual Promise Technologies AbvANCED FILE System CONFIGURATION Follow the instructions here to use the Advanced File System Configuration option The Advanced option allows you to create multiple file systems and create multiple LUNs for data 1 Choose the Advanced File System Configuration option in the initial File System Wizard menu to view the menu below Advanced File System Configuration Please enter a name for the file system and choose the type of application for which the file system will be used The Setup Wizard automatically adjusts file system parameters to optimize operation for the type of application chosen Hame Enable Quota F Data Block Size 256KB Journal Size 64MB inode Ratio Provide a name for the File System being created The Block Size Journal Size and Inode Ratio settings here are optimal

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