Proware Fibre to SAS/SATA RAID Subsystem, User Manual

Page 1: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual Revision 1 1...

Page 2: ...lements 19 1 3 4 LUN Masking 19 1 4 Array Definition 20 1 4 1 Raid Set 20 1 4 2 Volume Set 20 1 5 High Availability 21 1 5 1 Creating Hot Spares 21 1 5 2 Hot Swap Disk Drive Support 21 1 5 3 Hot Swap...

Page 3: ...reate RAID Set 57 5 2 2 Delete RAID Set 58 5 2 3 Expand RAID Set 59 5 2 4 Offline RAID Set 62 5 2 5 Rename RAID Set 63 5 2 6 Activate Incomplete RAID Set 64 5 2 7 Create Hot Spare 66 5 2 8 Delete Hot...

Page 4: ...3 Upgrade Firmware 102 5 5 14 Shutdown Controller 103 5 5 15 Restart Controller 104 5 6 Information Menu 105 5 6 1 RAID Set Hierarchy 105 5 6 2 SAS Chip Information 107 5 6 3 System Information 108 5...

Page 5: ...l Copyright No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the...

Page 6: ...e sure that the power switches are turned off Disconnect first any power connection if the power supply module is being removed from the enclosure Outlets must be accessible to the equipment All exter...

Page 7: ...re optic cables for dual RAID controllers One 1 RJ45 Ethernet cable for single RAID controller Note Two Ethernet cables for dual RAID controllers One 1 external serial cable RJ11 to DB9 for single RAI...

Page 8: ...y in the terabyte range The RAID subsystem series also supports dual controllers which provide better fault tolerance and higher reliability of system operation Exceptional Manageability The firmware...

Page 9: ...tor for Windows up to 16TB per volume set Disk scrubbing array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets Login record in the event log with IP address and service http telnet...

Page 10: ...B 2GB 8GB DDR3 1333 ECC Registered SDRAM Battery Backup Optional Management Port support Yes RAID level 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 and JBOD Array Group Up to 128 LUNs Up to 128 Hot Spare Yes Drive Roaming...

Page 11: ...ackplane SAS2 SATA3 Single BP of PS Fan Modules 500W x 2 w PFC of Fans 4 Power requirements AC 90V 264V Full Range 10A 5A 47Hz 63Hz Relative Humidity 10 85 Non condensing Operating Temperature 10 C 40...

Page 12: ...or as large as several megabytes These stripes are then interleaved in a rotating sequence so that the combined space is composed alternately of stripes from each drive The specific type of operating...

Page 13: ...a pair of disk drives that store duplicate data but appear to the computer as a single drive Although striping is not used within a single mirrored drive pair multiple RAID 1 arrays can be striped tog...

Page 14: ...records Synchronized spindle drives are required for RAID 3 arrays in order to avoid performance degradation with short records RAID 5 arrays with small stripes can yield similar performance to RAID...

Page 15: ...ial records However RAID 3 does not allow overlapping of multiple I O operations and requires synchronized spindle drives to avoid performance degradation with short records RAID 5 with a small stripe...

Page 16: ...cheme 4 10 Combination of RAID levels 1 and 0 This level provides striping and redundancy through mirroring RAID 10 requires the use of an even number of disk drives to achieve data protection while R...

Page 17: ...ch This chapter describes the Fibre specific functions available in the Fibre Channel RAID controller Optional functions have been implemented for Fibre Channel operation which is only available in th...

Page 18: ...hat delivers a frame to a destination based on the destination address in the frame header It can be used to connect up to 16 million nodes each of which is identified by a unique world wide name WWN...

Page 19: ...oop to support hot pluggability Switched Fabric Switched fabric is the highest performing device available for interconnecting large number of devices increasing bandwidth reducing congestion and prov...

Page 20: ...d together in a Raid Set then the capacity of the smallest disk will become the effective capacity of all the disks in the Raid Set 1 4 2 Volume Set A Volume Set is seen by the host system as a single...

Page 21: ...s 1 5 2 Hot Swap Disk Drive Support The RAID subsystem has built in protection circuit to support the replacement of SATA hard disk drives without having to shut down or reboot the system The removabl...

Page 22: ...2 Identifying Parts of the RAID Subsystem The illustrations below identify the various parts of the system Familiarize yourself with the parts and terms as you may encounter them later in the later ch...

Page 23: ...no hard drive the LED is Red If hard drive defected in this slot or the hard drive is failure the LED is blinking red Lock Indicator Every Disk Tray is lockable and is fitted with a lock indicator to...

Page 24: ...nformation on the LCD screen This is also used to move between each menu when you configure the subsystem NOTE When the Down Arrow button is pressed 3 times the LCD control will shift to the other RAI...

Page 25: ...n s rotational speed is below 700RPM this LED will turn red and an alarm will sound Over Temperature LED If temperature irregularities in the system occurs HDD slot temperature over 65 C Controller te...

Page 26: ...address of Controller 1 is shown there is no blinking rectangular character at the end of the IP address When the IP address of Controller 2 is shown there is a blinking rectangular character at the...

Page 27: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual 27 2 1 2 Rear View Single Controller Dual Controller...

Page 28: ...wer 1 Fan 1 and Fan 2 PSFM 2 has Power 2 Fan 3 and Fan 4 If the power supply fails to function the Power Fail LED will turn red and an alarm will sound An error message will also appear on the LCD scr...

Page 29: ...Subsystem User Manual 29 2 2 1 Controller Module Panel Note Only one host cable and one SFP module are included in the package Additional host cables and SFP modules are optional and can be purchased...

Page 30: ...ser Indicator LED Color Description Host Channel A B C D Status LEDs Link LED and Activity LED Green Link LED Indicates Host Channel has linked if the Fibre HBA Card is 8GB Orange Link LED Indicates H...

Page 31: ...ower On Fail Indicator showing the Power Status LED indicating ready or fail Each fan within a PSFM is powered independently of the power supply within the same PSFM So if the power supply of a PSFM f...

Page 32: ...airflow inside the enclosure In replacing the failed PSFM refer to section 6 3 2 of this manual NOTE After replacing the Power Supply Fan Module and turning on the Power On Off Switch of the PSFM the...

Page 33: ...ds into the AC Power Input Socket located at the rear of the subsystem NOTE The subsystem is equipped with redundant full range power supplies with PFC power factor correction The system will automati...

Page 34: ...e subsystem supports hot swapping allowing you to install or replace a hard drive while the subsystem is running NOTE In this model it is recommended to use 6Gb hard drive disks 3 2 1 Installing Disk...

Page 35: ...the four screw holes of the SAS disk drive in the four Hole A of the disk tray To secure the disk drive into the disk tray tighten four screws on these holes of the disk tray Note in the picture belo...

Page 36: ...anual 5 Slide the tray into a slot 6 Press the lever in until you hear the latch click into place The HDD Fault LED will turn green when the subsystem is powered on and HDD is good 7 If necessary lock...

Page 37: ...alling a SATA Disk Drive Dual Controller Mode in a Disk Tray 1 Remove an empty disk tray from the subsystem 2 Prepare the dongle board the Fixed Bracket and screws Fixed Bracket Dongle Board Screws 3...

Page 38: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem 38 User Manual 4 Place the Fixed Bracket with the dongle board in the disk tray as shown...

Page 39: ...holes of the Fixed Bracket in the two Hole d of the disk tray Tighten two screws to secure the Fixed Bracket into the disk tray NOTE All the disk tray holes are labelled accordingly 6 Place the SATA d...

Page 40: ...ive in the four Hole B of the disk tray To secure the disk drive into the disk tray tighten four screws on these holes of the disk tray Note in the picture below where the screws should be placed in t...

Page 41: ...rt c Telnet connection via the R Link Ethernet port NOTE The RAID subsystem allows you to access using only one method at a time You cannot use more than one method at the same time 4 1 Configuration...

Page 42: ...Enter the RAID subsystem s IP address Make sure the PC running the terminal emulation program can connect to the RAID subsystem s IP address Click Next 3 Rename the Session name if necessary Click Fi...

Page 43: ...displayed Select a menu and the Password box will be shown Enter password default is 00000000 to login Keyboard Function Key Definitions A key to move to the line above Z key to move to the next line...

Page 44: ...ce the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the RAID subsystem by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the RAID subsystem from unauthorized access Th...

Page 45: ...unctions Create a customized Raid Set Volume Set Functions Create a customized Volume Set Physical Drive Functions View individual disk information Raid System Functions Setting the Raid system config...

Page 46: ...ont panel perform the following functions Parts Function Up and Down Arrow buttons Use the Up or Down arrow keys to go through the information on the LCD screen This is also used to move between each...

Page 47: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual 47 4 2 1 Menu Diagram The following menu diagram is a summary of the various configurations and setting functions that can be accessed through telnet...

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Page 53: ...ontroller R Link Port is 192 168 1 100 and subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 DHCP client function is also enabled by default You can reconfigure the IP Address or disable the DHCP client function through t...

Page 54: ...during setup Raid Set Functions Create customized Raid Sets Volume Set Functions Create customized Volume Sets and allow modification of parameters of existing Volume Sets parameter Physical Drives Cr...

Page 55: ...y provided in the screen as shown in the example below There are three options to select No 64bit LBA and 4K Block Greater Two TB Volume Support No Volume Set capacity is set to maximum 2TB 64bit LBA...

Page 56: ...configured based on the number of disks in your system maximum 32 disks per Raid Set Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you prefer to create customized Raid Set and Volume Set NOTE...

Page 57: ...The Drives For RAID Set screen is displayed showing the disk drives in the system Tick the box of each disk drive that will be included in Raid Set to be created Enter the preferred Raid Set Name 1 to...

Page 58: ...To Delete screen is displayed showing all Raid Sets existing in the system Select the Raid Set you want to delete in the Select column Tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button...

Page 59: ...et which you want to expand Tick on the available disk s and check Confirm The Operation Click on the Submit button to add the selected disk s to the Raid Set NOTE Once the Expand Raid Set process has...

Page 60: ...a disk is added to a Raid Set Migrating status is displayed in the Raid Set status area of the Raid Set information Migrating status is also displayed in the Volume Set status area of the Volume Set...

Page 61: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual 61 NOTE Cannot expand Raid Set when contains Raid30 50 60 volume...

Page 62: ...e HDD state will change to Offlined Mode and the HDD Status LEDs will be blinking RED To offline a Raid Set click on the Offline RAID Set link A Select The RAID SET To Offline screen is displayed show...

Page 63: ...me RAID Set Use this function to rename a RAID Set Select the Rename RAID Set under the RAID Set Functions and then select the Select the RAID Set to rename and click Submit Enter the new name for the...

Page 64: ...he RAID subsystem is powered off and one disk drive is removed or has failed in power off state and when the subsystem is powered on the Raid Set State will change to Incomplete The Volume Set s assoc...

Page 65: ...RAID Set link A Select The Raid Set To Activate screen is displayed showing all existing Raid Sets in the subsystem Select the Raid Set with Incomplete state which you want to activate in the Select c...

Page 66: ...daisy chain It can replace any failed disk in any enclosure Dedicated to RaidSet The Hot Spare disk is a hot spare dedicated only to the RaidSet where it is assigned It can replace any failed disk in...

Page 67: ...lete by clicking on the appropriate check box Tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete the hot spare s 5 2 9 Rescue Raid Set If you need to recover a mi...

Page 68: ...e Raid Set 5 3 1 Create Volume Set The following are the Volume Set features 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same Raid Set 2 Up to 128 Volume Sets in a Raid Set can be create...

Page 69: ...our application Greater Two TB Volume Support If the Volume Set size is over 2TB an option Greater Two TB Volume Support will be automatically provided in the screen as shown in the example above Ther...

Page 70: ...data are both written to the cache and the disk s before the write I O is acknowledged as complete Write Back when data is written to cache the I O is acknowledged as complete and some time later the...

Page 71: ...iments of the present invention described above can be implemented within a Switch for FC Arbitrated Loop LUN Base The base LUN number Each LUN Base supports 8 LUNs LUN Each Volume Set must be assigne...

Page 72: ...lude in the creation and then click on the Submit button NOTE When creating Raid 30 50 60 Volume set you need to create first the Raid Sets Up to 8 Raid Sets maximum is supported in Raid 30 50 60 All...

Page 73: ...elete Volume Set link The Select The Volume Set To Delete screen will show all available Raid Sets Tick on a Raid Set and check the Confirm The Operation option and then click on the Submit button to...

Page 74: ...Click on the Modify Volume Set link 2 Tick from the list the Volume Set you want to modify Click on the Submit button The following screen appears To modify Volume Set attribute values select an attri...

Page 75: ...d to enlarge the Volume Set size or create another Volume Set Use the Modify Volume Set function to expand the Volume Set capacity Select the Volume Set and move the cursor to the Volume Set Capacity...

Page 76: ...Migration Migration occurs when a Volume Set migrates from one RAID level to another a Volume Set stripe size changes or when a disk is added to a Raid Set Migrating status is displayed in the Volume...

Page 77: ...e Set Only RAID levels with parity redundant data such as RAID Levels 3 5 6 30 50 and 60 support this function To perform Check Volume Set function 1 Click on the Check Volume Set link 2 Tick from the...

Page 78: ...started The checking percentage can also be viewed by clicking on RaidSet Hierarchy in the Information menu NOTE The result of Check Volume Set function is shown in System Events Information and Volum...

Page 79: ...n the Submit button Scheduler Disabled 1Day For Testing 1Week 2Weeks 3Weeks 4Weeks 8Weeks 12Weeks 16Weeks 20Weeks and 24Weeks Check After System Idle No 1 Minute 3 Minutes 5 Minutes 10 Minutes 15 Minu...

Page 80: ...ual Raid Set The disk is available to the host as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating system is on a disk not controlled by the RAID firmware To create pass through...

Page 81: ...and Fibre Channel LUN Base LUN on an existing Pass Through Disk To modify the Pass Through drive attribute from the Pass Through drive pool click on the Modify a Pass Through Disk link The Select The...

Page 82: ...Through link Select a Pass Through Disk tick on the Confirm The Operation and click the Submit button to complete the delete action 5 4 4 Set Disk To Be Failed It sets a normal working disk as failed...

Page 83: ...sing PHY connection due to bad connector cable backplane 3 Losing PHY connection due to disk fail Basically in the eyes of the controller the disk suddenly disappears due to whatever reason 5 4 6 Iden...

Page 84: ...rive is selected using the Identify Drive function the Status LED of the selected disk drive will be blinking To identify a selected drive from the drives pool click on the Identify Drive link The Sel...

Page 85: ...eration The RAID Subsystem allows user to choose the background task priority High 80 Medium 50 Low 25 and Ultra Low 5 to balance between background task process and Volume Set access For high RAID Su...

Page 86: ...ttery backup module selecting the Auto option will automatically enable Disk Write Cache On the other hand if there is no BBM the Auto option will disable Disk Write Cache Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuild...

Page 87: ...same capacity as 120 GB so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might b...

Page 88: ...3 retry Buffer Threshold This new feature there are 4 options 5 25 50 75 The percentage represents how much data should be kept in resident cache memory how full cache should get before controller st...

Page 89: ...the amount of Read Ahead data taken from the cache without real disk execution and total cache memory shows the total available memory being installed in the RAID controller Optimize AV Recording AV...

Page 90: ...he Disk Array MAID is implemented in the HDD Power Management menu Using the Advanced Power Management APM function of disk drives HDD Power Management has three options MAID Levels Level 1 Place idle...

Page 91: ...45 Recovery time is 15 seconds Options are Disabled 10 20 30 40 50 and 60 Minutes Time to Spin Down Idle HDD MAID Level 3 This option enables the Disk Array to spin down HDDs of a Raid Set after they...

Page 92: ...port has its unique WWPN which is also factory assigned Usually the WWNN WWPN tuple is used to uniquely identify a port in the Fabric Channel Speed Each FC port speed can be configured either as 2Gbps...

Page 93: ...ion Note that current topology is shown as None when no successful connection is made for the channel Hard Loop ID This setting is effective only under Loop topology When enabled you can manually set...

Page 94: ...to Channel Speed setting Channel Topology setting 8Gb FC switch 8Gb Fabric 4Gb FC switch 4Gb Fabric 2Gb FC switch 2Gb Fabric 8Gb FC HBA no switch 8Gb Loop 4Gb FC HBA no switch 4Gb Loop 2Gb FC HBA no s...

Page 95: ...e EtherNet Configuration link under the System Controls menu The Disk Array EtherNet Configuration screen will be shown Set the desired configuration Once done tick on the Confirm The Operation and cl...

Page 96: ...ll be emailed to the email recipient s that a problem has occurred Events are classified into 4 levels Urgent Serious Warning and Information NOTE If Event Notification by email is enabled every 30 of...

Page 97: ...ress box the IP address of the host system where SNMP traps will be sent The SNMP Port is set to 162 by default SNMP System Configuration Community Type the SNMP community The default is public 1 sysC...

Page 98: ...NTP Server IP Address to enable the Disk Array to synchronize with it To set the NTP function move the cursor to the main menu and click on the NTP Configuration link The Disk Array s NTP Configurati...

Page 99: ...information move the mouse cursor to the System Controls menu and click on the View Events Mute Beeper link The Disk Array s System Events Information screen appears The System Events Information scre...

Page 100: ...rate Test Event If you want to generate test events move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Generate Test Event Link Tick on the Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button Then...

Page 101: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual 101 5 5 11 Clear Event Buffer Use this feature to clear the Disk Array s System Events Information buffer...

Page 102: ...enu from the initial screen The Disk Array will automatically go back to the initial screen when it does not receive any command after sometime To disable the password enter only the original password...

Page 103: ...RAID Controller This is used to flush the data from the cache memory and is normally done before powering off the system power switch After shutting down the controller and still want to use the Disk...

Page 104: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem 104 User Manual 5 5 15 Restart Controller Use this function to restart the RAID Controller This is normally done after upgrading the controller s firmware...

Page 105: ...D subsystem s existing Raid Set s Volume Set s and disk drive s configuration and information Select the RAID Set Hierarchy link from the Information menu to display the Raid Set Hierarchy screen To v...

Page 106: ...he Device Information screen appears This screen shows various information such as disk drive model name serial number firmware revision disk capacity timeout count media error count and SMART informa...

Page 107: ...7 5 6 2 SAS Chip Information To view the SAS Chip Information of the RAID Controller click the link SAS Chip Information The SAS Address Component Vendor Component ID Enclosure number Number of Phys a...

Page 108: ...screen The following are the states under Dual Controller State Dual Controller State Description Single Controller is running at Single Mode Other Controller Added The other Controller is added and w...

Page 109: ...5 6 4 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID subsystem s hardware information click the Hardware Monitor link from the Information menu The Hardware Monitor Information screen appears NOTE To disable auto...

Page 110: ...alues are surpassed warning messages will be indicated through the LCD LED and alarm buzzer Item Warning Condition CPU Temperature 90 Celsius Controller Board Temperature 80 Celsius HDD Temperature 65...

Page 111: ...the power cables 3 Disconnect any Fibre cable from the controller module and then remove the Controller Module from the slot 4 Remove the memory module from the RAM socket of the RAID controller by pr...

Page 112: ...name and VVV refers to the firmware version README TXT It contains the history information of the firmware change Read this file first before upgrading the firmware These files must be extracted from...

Page 113: ...connect to RAID subsystem using Telnet open Terminal Emulation program example CRT 6 1 Refer to Section 4 1 for sample step to enable Telnet connection via CRT program 2 After successful connection se...

Page 114: ...file xxxx vvv yyyyyyyy bin and click Add Then click OK NOTE The BOOT firmware file xxxxBOOT vvv yyyyyyyy bin must be upgraded first Then repeat the steps to upgrade the firmware file xxxx vvv yyyyyyyy...

Page 115: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual 115 6 A message Update The Firmware will be displayed Select Yes 7 Select Yes again 8 Message will show Start Updating Firmware Please Wait...

Page 116: ...D Subsystem 116 User Manual 9 Message will show Firmware has been updated successfully 10 The RAID Controller must be restarted in order for the new firmware to take effect 11 Select Restart Controlle...

Page 117: ...Fibre to SAS SATA RAID Subsystem User Manual 117 12 Select Yes again to confirm The RAID controller will restart...

Page 118: ...irmware click the Upgrade Firmware link under System Controls menu The Upgrade The Raid System Firmware Or Boot Rom screen appears 2 Click Browse Look in the location where the firmware file was saved...

Page 119: ...ode NOTE fdl code is the command to update flash firmware code fw file fdl mfgb is the command to update CFG data code rom file Make sure you have both files before updating b CLI fdl mfgb Please Use...

Page 120: ...Protocol to send firmware file Only need about 60 seconds to finish sending firmware file If not please repeat steps D and E again Note If won t to transfer firmware data fw file Press Q or q to quit...

Page 121: ...he case and install the new one 4 Tighten the thumbscrews on the sides of the Controller Module case 6 4 1 1 Replacing Controller Module with Blanking Plate When replacing a failed Controller Module w...

Page 122: ...for a long period of time proper air flow within the enclosure might fail causing high controller disk drive temperature 7 Connect the power cord to the AC Inlet Plug of PSFM 8 Tighten the thumbscrews...