Promise Technology VTrak M200f, Quick Start Manual

Page 1: ...VTRAK M Class M500f M500i M500p M300f M300i M300p M200f M200i M200p QUICK START GUIDE Version 1 4 2005 Promise Technology Inc All Rights Reserved ...

Page 2: ... VTrak The VTrak box contains the following items VTrak Unit Quick Start Guide Null Modem Cable Left and right mounting rails 1 0m External VHDCI SCSI cables 2 for M500p M300p 1 for M200p Screws for disk drives 36 for M200f i p 52 for M300f i p 64 for M500f i p including 4 spares 1 5m 4 9 ft Power cords 2 CD with SNMP files Product Manual and Quick Start Guide Warning The electronic components wit...

Page 3: ...Trak M300f i p and M200f i p Front View PROMISE VTrak M500 Power FRU Status Logical Drive Status FC iSCSI SCSI 1 Activity FC iSCSI SCSI 2 Activity Controller Heartbeat Power FC iSCSI SCSI 2 Activity FRU Status Disk Array Status FC iSCSI SCSI 1 Activity Controller Heartbeat ...

Page 4: ... M300f M200f and M300p M200p have different controllers Mgmt IOIOI Controller 1 2 FC 1 FC 2 Storage Enclosure Processor SEP RAID Controller Power Supply Cooling Unit with Battery Power Supply Cooling Unit iSCSI 1 iSCSI 2 IOIOI Controller Mgmt Cooling Unit with Battery Power Supply 1 RAID Controller Power Supply 2 Storage Enclosure Processor SEP ...

Page 5: ... of the drive carriers into the VTrak enclosure to ensure proper airflow even if you do not populate all the carriers with disk drives If you use different size disk drives in the same logical drive the total size of the logical drive will equal the size of the smallest disk drive times the number of drives Refer to Chapter 2 of the VTrak Product Manual for diagrams showing how the drive slots are...

Page 6: ...mount at the front of the carrier A VTrak M500f i p carrier is shown above The VTrak M300f i p and M200f i p carrier is similar in appearance but the two carrier designs are NOT interchangable WARNING Counter sink screws only PATA to SATA Adapter SATA Drive Mounting Holes PATA Drive Mounting Holes Serial ATA Disk Drive ...

Page 7: ...M500p M300p and M200p share the same RAID controller design and use SCSI connections for the data ports SCSI is limited to a DAS solution All VTrak models in this series have a single Ethernet RJ 45 Management Port connector that enables you to monitor the VTrak over your network using the WebPAM Software VTrak supports Ethernet and Telnet protocols Fibre Channel Storage Area Network Figure 8 VTra...

Page 8: ... Storage Figure 9 VTrak M500f DAS connections M300f and M200f are similar This arrangement requires A Fibre Channel HBA card in the Host PC A network switch A network interface card NIC in the PC Connect the VTrak Fibre Channel data ports to your Fibre Channel HBA card in your PC to establish the data path Connect the PC s standard NIC and the VTrak Management Port to your network switch to establ...

Page 9: ...C in the PC Connect the 1 GbE iSCSI NIC and VTrak Data Ports to your GbE switch to establish an isolated data path Connect the PC s standard network card and VTrak Management Port to your network switch to establish the management path As an alternative you can use the same GbE iSCSI NIC for your PC for management and data connections However combining management and data paths this way will reduc...

Page 10: ...SI support in hardware or software A network switch A network interface card NIC in the PC Connect the GbE iSCSI NIC in your PC to one of the VTrak Data Ports to establish an isolated data path Connect the PC s standard NIC and VTrak s Management Port to your network switch to establish the management path iSCSI 1 iSCSI 2 IOIOI Controller Mgmt PC VTrak Network Switch iSCSI Port 1 of 2 Management P...

Page 11: ...fault Connect the PC s standard NIC and VTrak s Management Port to your network switch to establish the management path Connect a SCSI cable to the PC s SCSI HBA card and one of the VTrak s SCSI channels To use the internal temination feature attach the SCSI cable to the In connector An external terminator is not required for this arrangement If you plan to connect multiple VTraks on a SCSI chain ...

Page 12: ...he power cords and switch on both power supplies on When the power is switched on the LEDs on the front of the VTrak will light up Figure 14 VTrak M500f i front panel LED display Mgmt IOIOI Controller 1 2 FC 1 FC 2 Mgmt IOIOI Controller 1 2 FC 1 FC 2 iSCSI 1 iSCSI 2 IOIOI Controller Mgmt iSCSI 1 iSCSI 2 IOIOI Controller Mgmt DB 9 Serial Connector DB 9Serial Connector Power FRU Status Logical Drive...

Page 13: ... for five seconds again Power FRU and Logical Drive LEDs display green continuously Fibre Channel iSCSI SCSI LEDs flash green if there is activity on that channel There are two LEDs on each Drive Carrier They report the presence of power and a disk drive and the current condition of the drive Figure 16 VTrak M500f i p disk carrier LEDs Power FC iSCSI SCSI 2 Activity FRU Status Logical Drive Status...

Page 14: ...the CLU to assign an IP address to the VTrak for WebPAM 1 Change your terminal emulation program settings to match the following 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 4 At the Login prompt type administrator and press Enter 5 At the Password prompt type password an...

Page 15: ...ress Enter administrator cli net CId Port Type IP Mask Gateway Link 1 1 Mgmt 192 168 10 87 255 255 255 0 192 168 10 3 Up This completes the Management port setup Go to Step 9 VTrak Setup with Embedded WebPAM on page 25 To see the full set of CLI commands at the admin cli prompt type help and press Enter CLI iSCSI Models M500i M300i M200i 1 Type the following string to set the Management Port IP ad...

Page 16: ... If you prefer to let your DHCP server assign the IP address type the following string then press Enter administrator cli net a mod t iSCSI p 1 s dhcp enable 4 To verify the settings type net and press Enter administrator cli net CId Port Type IP Mask Gateway Link 1 1 Mgmt 192 168 10 87 255 255 255 0 192 168 10 3 Up 1 1 iSCSI 192 168 10 88 255 255 255 0 192 168 10 3 Up 1 2 iSCSI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...

Page 17: ...ess Enter The CLU main menu appears 2 With Quick Setup highlighted press Enter The first Quick Setup screen enables you to make Date and Time settings System Date and Time 1 Press the arrow keys to highlight System Date 2 Press the backspace key to erase the current date 3 Type the new date 4 Follow the same procedure to set the System Time ...

Page 18: ...Trak above To set Managment Port settings manually or to view the current settings you must disable DHCP To view the current Management Port settings 1 Press the arrow keys to highlight DHCP 2 Press the spacebar to toggle to Disabled The current Management Port IP are displayed above 3 Record the information on this screen 4 Press the spacebar to toggle DHCP back to Enable ...

Page 19: ... to specify the Subnet Mask Gateway IP Address and DNS Server IP Address If you do not have a DNS server skip the DNS Server IP address 7 Press Ctrl A to save these settings Exit the CLU 1 Highlight Skip the Step and Finish and press Enter 2 Highlight Return to CLI and press Enter This completes the Management port setup Go to Step 9 VTrak Setup with Embedded WebPAM on page 25 CLU iSCSI Models M50...

Page 20: ...3 Type the new date 4 Follow the same procedure to set the System Time 5 Press Ctrl A to save these settings and move to the Management Port configuration screen Management Port By default DHCP is enabled on VTrak above To set Managment Port settings manually or to view the current settings you must disable DHCP To view the current Management Port settings ...

Page 21: ... to the iSCSI Port 1screen To make Management Port settings manually 1 Press the arrow keys to highlight DHCP 2 Press the spacebar to toggle to Disabled 3 Press the arrow keys to highlight IP Address 4 Press the backspace key to erase the current IP Address 5 Type the new IP Address 6 Follow the same procedure to specify the Subnet Mask Gateway IP Address and DNS Server IP Address If you do not ha...

Page 22: ...ess the arrow keys to highlight DHCP 2 Press the spacebar to toggle to Disabled 3 Record the information on this screen See the illustration on the next page 4 Press the spacebar to toggle DHCP back to Enable 5 Press Ctrl A to save these settings and move to the iSCSI Port 2 screen 6 Follow the same procedure to view settings for iSCSI Port 2 7 Press Ctrl A to save these settings and move to the R...

Page 23: ...at the previous steps to specify the Subnet Mask Gateway IP Address and DNS Server IP Address If you do not have a DNS server skip the DNS Server IP address 7 Press Ctrl A to save these settings and move to the iSCSI Port 2 screen 8 Follow the same procedure to make settings for iSCSI Port 2 9 Press Ctrl A to save these settings Exit the CLU 1 Highlight Skip the Step and Finish and press Enter 2 H...

Page 24: ...he iSCSI initiator on your Host PC then proceed with the following steps 1 Go to Start Settings Control Panel and double click on iSCSI Initiator Or double click the iSCSI Initiator icon on the desktop The iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog box displays 2 On the Discovery tab click on Add button 3 In the Add Target Portal dialog box type in the IP address of one of the VTrak s iSCSI ports and click...

Page 25: ...he IP address you obtained in Step 7 Note that the IP address shown below is only an example The IP address you type into your browser will be different Regular Connection WebPAM uses an HTTP connection http Enter the VTrak s Management Port IP address 192 168 10 87 Together your entry looks like this http 192 168 10 87 Note Setup of an actual iSCSI initiator takes place after the disk array and l...

Page 26: ...gether your entry looks like this https 192 168 10 87 3 When the opening screen appears type administrator in the User Name field and type password in the Password field The User Name and Password are case sensitive 4 Click the Login button Note Whether you select a regular or a secure connection your login to WebPAM and your user password are always secure ...

Page 27: ...re the Array Configuration menu will also appear see page 28 Important As soon as possible assign the Administrator s password Make the change under User Management Each user you create will have his her own login ID and password Note Make a Bookmark Netscape Navigator or set a Favorite Internet Explorer of the Login Screen so you can access it easily next time ...

Page 28: ...Korean 1 Click on Language in the WebPAM Header The language list appears in the Header 2 Click on the language you prefer The WebPAM user interface will display in the selected language Create a Disk Array Click on the Disk Arrays icon The Array Configuration menu appears Since this VTrak is newly activated there are no disk arrays or logical drives yet Logged in User Subsystem IP address Adminis...

Page 29: ... following parameters display Disk Arrays The number of physical drives in the disk array their ID numbers configurable capacity and the number of logical drives to be created Logical Drives The ID number of the logical drive s their RAID level capacity and stripe size Spare Drives The physical drive ID number of the dedicated hot spare assigned to this disk array If you accept these parameters cl...

Page 30: ... uncertain about choosing parameters for your disk array use the Automatic option Follow these steps to create a new disk array 1 Check the boxes to select any one or a combination of Redundancy The array will remain available if a physical drive fails Capacity The greatest possible amount of data capacity Performance The highest possible read write speed Spare Drive A hot spare drive 2 In the Num...

Page 31: ...sical drive ID number of the dedicated hot spare assigned to this disk array If you accept these parameters proceed to the next step If you do NOT accept these parameters review and modify your selections in the previous steps 5 When you are done click the Submit button The new disk array appears in the Disk Array List on the Information tab Advanced The Disk Array Advanced Creation option enables...

Page 32: ...ta recorded on the media PDM Predictive Data Migration PDM scans the bad sector remapping table of the disk drives assigned to a logical drive When the table fills to a specified percentage of its capacity PDM triggers a migration of data from the suspect drive the disk drive with the bad sectors to a spare disk drive 3 Highlight physical drives you want in the disk array from the Available list a...

Page 33: ...ls depends on the number of physical drives you selected 7 Specify a Capacity and the unit of measure MB GB TB This value will be the data capacity of the logical drive If you specify less than disk array s maximum capacity the remainder is available for additional logical drives 8 Specify a Stripe size from the dropdown menu 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 KB and 1 MB are available 64 KB is the default 9 ...

Page 34: ...No Cache 11 Choose a Write Cache policy WriteThru WriteBack 12 Click the Update button When you click the Update button WebPAM sets up one logical drive and adds it to the New Logical Drive lists at the bottom of the window To create another logical drive repeat steps 5 through 12 above ...

Page 35: ...edded WebPAM 35 If you want to change a logical drive setting click on the logical drive at the bottom of the window The entry and the capacity usage are highlighted Make your changes to the parameters and click the Update button ...

Page 36: ...VTrak M Class Quick Start Guide 36 13 When you have finished specifying logical drives click the Next button ...

Page 37: ...lick on the Disk Array icon and click on the Create LD tab You will go to Disk Array Advanced Creation see page 31 If the current disk array is fully allocated use additional physical drives to create a new disk array Click on the Disk Arrays icon then select Automatic Express or Advanced from the Create tab dropdown menu see page 28 Log out of WebPAM There are two ways to log out of WebPAM Close ...

Page 38: ...f each physical drive VTrak M Class uses the industry standard DDF and has a metadata to DDF conversion feature To use the conversion feature you must restart the VTrak M Class after installing disk drives from an older system Note that if you move the disk drives from the VTrak M Class to the older subsystems they will not recoginize your disk array or logical drive Can I use my existing SCSI car...

Page 39: ...t your browser directly to the VTrak rather than a server Also with M Class you do not have to create a subsystem because the subsystem already exists Why can a RAID 1 logical drive on VTrak consist of only two disk drives On VTrak RAID 1 logical drives work in mirrored physical drive pairs You could create up to seven RAID 1 logical drives Or you can create a single RAID 10 logical drive with dat...

Page 40: ...f the power supply fails But deliberately leaving one power supply off negates this advantage In addition leaving one power supply off reduces air flow through the VTrak enclosure and can contribute to overheating Always switch on both power supplies Contact Technical Support Promise Technical Support provides several support options for Promise users to access information and updates We encourage...

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