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1. CJ Quick Function System Beeper Setting Enabled E amp See Background Task Priority Low20 iw Gl Physical Drives JBOD RAID Configuration RAD v 7 bye SATA NCQ Support Enabled Sw D Advancd Configuration HDD Read Ahead Cache Enabled dee cerae volans Data Read Ahead Nomai vj Alert By Mail Configuration HDD Queue Depth 32 E Ed Empty HOD Slot LED on i O View Events Mute Beeper CPU Fan Detection Enabled Eder MM rorem IE Q Modify Password Max Command Length 4M Ue ee i Auto Activate Incomplete Raid Disabled i Disk Write Cache Mode Auto v Disk Capacity Truncation Mode Multiples OF 10G v I Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 139 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e System Beeper Setting The System Beeper Setting function is used to Disabled or Enabled the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller alarm tone generator e Background Task Priority The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild priority UltraLow Low Medium and High to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately For high array perfor mance specify a Low value e JBOD RAID
2. Global Fault Activity Cache Write Pending connector Fault Activity connector A cable for the global indicator comes with your computer system Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them A Individual Activity Fault LED and Global Indicator Con nector Most of the backplane has supported the HDD activity from the HDD The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller also provides the fault activity for fault LED Connect the cables for the drive fault LEDs between the backplane of the cage and the respective connector on the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller The following table is the fault LED signal behavior Fault LED When the fault LED is solid When the fault LED is slow blinking illuminated there is no disk 2 times sec that disk drive has present When the fault LED failed and should be hot swapped is off then disk is present immediately When the activity and status is normal LED is illuminated and fault LED is fast blinking 10 times sec there is rebuilding activity on that disk drive 33 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 34 If the system will use only a single global indicator attach the LED to the two pins of the global activity cache write pending connector The global fault pin pair connector is the overall fault signal This signal will light up in any disk drive failure The following diagrams show all LEDs connectors and pin locations LCD I2C
3. 122 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 128 volumes is the default mode for SAS RAID controller the 16 volumes mode is used for support roaming this raidset to SATA RAID controllers The SATA RAID controller is designed to support up to 16 volumes only You have to use Max 16 volumes on the raidset mode if you plan to roam this raidset between SAS RAID controller and SATA RAID controller Note o N 0 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set To delete a RAID set click on the Deleted Raid Set link A Select The RAID Set To Delete screen is displayed showing all exist RAID sets in the current controller Click the RAID set num ber which you want to delete in the select column on the delete screen Then click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it The volume sets included in the Delete RAID Set It will be deleted by this action But for the Raid 30 50 60 you need to delete the volumes belonging to those RAID sets T A A if Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Console xSeechine kad Socio Delete S Quick Function 6 5 3 Expand Raid Set Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it with additional disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created To expand a RAID set SSS eG 123 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Sel
4. eesseeeeen nennen e nnns 154 6 9 InformatiOnzc ecce een e RR EX A VERA SERRE CEDE SEXES 154 6 9 1 Raid Set HierArchy cccccecscecseeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeaeeaneees 154 6 9 2 SAS Chip Information eeseseeeeeneen nennen 155 6 9 4 Hardware MONitOr cccececceeee eee eee eee eee e eee nnnm 156 Appendix A iissessnusxnuuz hs suxEN NER ER EREEEREEKXM RED ERU RR EE NM RON a 157 Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process eeeeeen nnn 157 Appendix B isecous us uuxasksakuE Sega EECEF RENE REPE MESRINE NER RKERN ERN 161 Battery Backup Module ARC 6120BA T121 esse 161 AppendIx C ussssasuwankaxE na RREVEHEFEMEAKEEEUERRRERENKNKKN KE TKRR NER EK EE 165 SNMP Operation amp Installation seeseeeeeene 165 Appendix D 2sssasasaa Ri aRRRRA ERR REDEEZRRARERRRRFRER RRERRERERRRREEE RES 177 Event Notification Configurations ssseseeeneen 177 A DEVICE EVent zi c ee ir RE RR CERE ERMICERRREEKF ERRAT EMEN ERAE 177 B Volume Events iioc inest eene t tite Iv aD aaa 178 C RAID Set EVENE xvi vetke ex E ERE ERR EEMOCEREREEMIV CERE ERE MNC ERR 179 D Hardware Monitor Event cccceeceeeeeeee eee tees eeeenee eae ene nes 179 Appendix E 55622 saa duxi E a RRORRRRRR ER ARR RE RR R RRRYENKERKNAARR VERE REN NR RR KR 181 RAID CONCEDE cu eie ti paa E es bons tutefo a ecd 181 I MIDAI dM 181 Volume Set ty teri oo ORE DOE UL RECO EOD OCDE COUR EUR 181 Ease of Use Featu
5. Quick Volume Raid Setup 3 Time Device Event Type ElapseTime Errors 2010 4 8 12 00 00 ARC 1882 VO 001 Raid Powered On 2010 4 8 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2010 4 8 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2010 4 7 12 00 00 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In 2010 4 7 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2010 4 7 12 00 00 ARC 1882 VO 001 Start Initialize 3 7 9 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Managemef Clear Event Buffer Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 10 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller s hardware monitor information move the cursor bar to the main menu and click the Hardware Monitor link The Controller H W Monitor screen appears The Controller H W Monitor provides the CPU temperature con troller temperature and voltage of the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller i Md MainMenu Controller H W Monitor Quick Volume Raid 9 cpu Temperature 58 Raid Set Function Controller Temp 43 Volume Set Functio CPU Fan 3350 Physical Drives 12V 11 734 Raid System Functiq 5y 4 999 Hdd Power Manage 3 3V 3 200 Ethernet Configuratiq IO Voltage 1 8V 1 840 View System Event DID x 1 5V 1 536 Clear Event Buffer CPU VCore 1 0V 1 040 Hardware Monitor Analog
6. Easy RAID Management The controllers contain an embedded McBIOS RAID manager that can access via hot key at M B BIOS boot up screen This pre boot McBIOS RAID manager can use to simplify the setup and manage ment of RAID controller The controller firmware also contains a browser based McRAID storage manager which can be accessed through the Ethernet port or ArcHttp proxy server in Windows Linux FreeBSD and more environments The McRAID storage man ager allows local and remote to create and modify RAID set vol ume set and monitor RAID status from standard web browser The Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility can support one applica tion to scan multiple RAID units in the network 1 2 Features Controller Architecture e Dual Core RAID on Chip ROC 800 MHz processor e PCIe 2 0 x8 lane host interface e 1GB on board DDR3 1333 SDRAM with ECC ARC 1882LP 1882i 1882x e One 240 pin DIMM socket with default 1GB of ECC DDR3 1333 single rank registered SDRAM 1Rx8 or 1Rx16 upgradable to 4GB ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 e Write through or write back cache support e Support up to 4 8 12 16 24 internal and or 4 8 external 6Gb s SAS ports Multi adapter support for large storage requirements BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance BIOS PnP plug and play and BBS BIOS boot specification support Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro NVRAM for RAID event amp transaction log Redundant flash image for controller availability Batt
7. Stripe 0 tripe 1 Stripe 2 Stripe 3 2 3 Parity gt gt gt H Physical d F g g E yale D D D D p r i Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with parity at byte level In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk If one drive in the system fails the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the same time greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system This relieves the write bottleneck that characterizes RAID 4 and is the primary reason that RAID 5 is more often implemented in RAID arrays eM Logical Disk Array Management RAID 5 Block Interleaved Ditributed Parity A Blocks B Blocks C Blocks D Blocks Ej Blocks e E Physical p y Disk gt H H H E i Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 193 APPENDIX 194 RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability It is similar to RAID 5 but it performs two different parity computations or the same compu tation on overlapping subsets of the data RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5 but uses a second independent distributed parity scheme Data is striped on a bloc
8. Urgent HDD SMART failure Replace HDD ATA Ecc Error Change ATA Mode Time Out Error Device Failed Device Failed SMART 176 APPENDIX PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Created created PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Modified modified PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Deleted deleted B Volume Event event uever Meaning Action Start Initialize Volume initialization has started P Start Rebuilding Volume rebuilding has started P Start Migrating Volume migration has started P Start Checking Volume parity checking has started Ps Complete Init Volume initialization completed P Complete Rebuild Volume rebuilding completed FP Complete Migrate Volume migration completed P Complete Check Volume parity checking completed P Create Volume New volume created Ps Delete Volume Volume deleted P Modify Volume Volume modified ERE Volume Degraded Volume degraded Replace HDD Volume Failed Volume failure Ps Failed Volume Urgent Failed volume revived Revived Abort Warning Initialization been abort Initialization abort Rebuiing Warning Rebulamngabonea Abort Migration warnine ration aborted abort Checking Werning Party checkcabortes stop intatzation warning irisan stopped stop Rebuiing Waring nebuiina stopped Stop Migration mamno gration sto
9. r 7168 8191 Is Reserved s 192 168 0 103 192 168 0 1 task 255 255 255 0 Ether Net MAC Address 00 18 40 40 00 51 F Confirm The Operation Submit Reset WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Note If you configure the HTTP Port Number to O the HTTP console will be closed 6 8 5 Alert By Mail Configuration To configure the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller e mail function move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the System Con trols link The System Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the Alert By Mail Configuration item then select the desired function This function can only be set via web based configuration The firmware contains a SMTP manager monitoring all system events Single or multiple user notifications can be sent via Plain English e mails with no software required Please refer to sec tion 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration of SMTP Sever Configuration Mail Address Configuration and Event Notification Configuration ta b o b b hb i mair Address Send All Ever notty user 1r No Event occurs Within 24 Hours Send Urgent Serious And Warning Event 149 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 6 SNMP Configuration Please refer to Appendix C of SNMP Operation amp Installation Fi T Ue Areca Te
10. to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Foreground Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses In No Init there is no initialization on this volume 3 7 Main Menu The main menu shows all functions that are available for executing actions which is accomplished by clicking on the appropriate link Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Note The manufacture default password is set to 0000 this password can be modified by selecting Change Password in the Raid System Function section 46 BIOS CONFIGURATION Description Quick Volume Raid Setup Create a default configuration based on the number of physical disk installed Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Create a customized RAID set Create a customized volume set Physical Drives View individual disk information Raid System Function Setup the RAID system configuration Hdd Power Management Manage HDD power based on usage patterns Ethernet Configuration LAN port setting View System Events Record all system events in the buffer Clear Event Buffer Clear all inf
11. Module Connector Global Fault Activity LED m Figure 2 13 ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 individual LED for each channel drive and global indicator connector for computer case DIES isc uo T Individual Fault LED nnector Drive 1 5 tt prive 12 Drive 2 Drive 11 Drive 3 Drive 10 Drive 4 Drive 9 Drive 5 Drive 8 ve 6 eT iv J9 ri Dri Driv 4 n Individual Activity LED Connector LCD I2C Module Connector Global Fault Activity LED Y EH ENS EG Figure 2 14 ARC 1882i individual LED for each channel drive and global indicator connector for computer case B H Individual Activity B LED Connector Je 4 Individual Fault 7 LED Connector HARDWARE INSTALLATION Individual Activity LED Connector Individual Fault LED Connector LCD I2C cM Module Connector 7 SHE Fig ure 2 1 5 ARC 1 882LP Global Fault Activity LED individual LED for each channel drive and global indicator connector for computer case Drive 1 4 Drive 1 4 LCD I2C Module Connector 33 Figure 2 16 ARC 1882x individual LED for each channel drive and global indicator connector for computer case B Areca Serial Bus Connector You can also connect the Areca interface to a proprietary SAS SATA backplane enclosure This can reduce the number of activity LED and or fault LED cables The I C interface can also cascade to another SAS SATA backplane enclosure fo
12. Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 7 1 DHCP Function DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol allows network ad ministrators centrally manage and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol addresses on a computer network When using the TCP IP protocol Internet protocol it is necessary for a computer to have a unique IP address in order to communi cate to other computer systems Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to minimize the work necessary to administer a large IP network To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to DHCP Function item then press Enter key to show the DHCP setting Select the Disabled or Enabled option to enable or LSS TT 89 BIOS CONFIGURATION disable the DHCP function If DHCP is disabled it will be neces sary to manually enter a static IP address that does not conflict with other devices on the network Quick Vo
13. Raid Set 007 3 3 Disk Normal ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it with additional disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created To expand a RAID set Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SAS SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears Select the target RAID set by clicking on the appropriate radius button Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Yes key to start the expansion on the RAID set The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets The volume sets associated with this RAID set appear for you to have chance to modify RAID level or stripe size Follow the instruction presented in the Modify Volume Set to modify the volume sets operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions 1 Once the Expand Raid Set process has started user can not stop it The process must be completed 2 If a disk drive fails during RAID set expansion and a hot spare is available an auto rebuild operation will occur after the RAID set expansion completes 3 RAID 30 50 60 doesn t support the Expand Raid Set BIOS CONFIGURATION Create Raid S Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Delete Raid S Member Disks 2 E
14. You can connect the SAS SATA drives to the controller through direct cable and backplane solutions In the direct connection SAS SATA drives are directly connected to 6Gb s SAS RAID controller PHY port with SAS SATA cables The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller can support up to 28 PHY ports Remove the front bezel from the computer chassis and install the cages or SAS SATA drives in the computer chassis Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed Be sure that the power is connected to either the cage backplane or the individual drives 23 HARDWARE INSTALLATION In the backplane solution SAS SATA drives are directly connected to 6Gb s SAS system backplane or through an expander board The number of SAS SATA drives is limited to the number of slots available on the backplane Some backplanes support daisy chain expansion to the next backplanes The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller can support daisy chain up to 8 enclosures The maximum drive no is 128 devices through 8 enclosures The following figure shows how to connect the external Min SAS cable from the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller that has external connectors to the external drive boxes or drive enclosures Link LED LJ o Exp Out Exp In Exp Out RS232 JBOD Activity LED Figure 2 6 External connector to a drive box or drive enclosure The following table is the max no of 6Gb s SAS RAID controller supported bo Disks Enclosure Disks Co
15. sistant Such as http localhost 81 The port number for first con troller McRAID storage manager is ArcHttp proxy server configura tion port number plus 1 from version 2 00 T A EUM m E Pa adi i ArCHTTP Confi ura lopen all close all EZ e 77 A Q ArcHTTP v2 00 General Configurations B System Functions Binding IP 0 0 0 0 General Configuration HTTP Port Mail Configuration D SNMP Trap Configuration SMTP Ports D Rescan Device B Lis 3 SAS RAID Controllers E canning PCI Device ARC 1680 pi ARC 1880 gt Be SATA RAID Controllers D ARC 1200 Event Log File Name O Confirm The Operation Submit Reset e neral Configuration Binding IP Restrict ArcHttp proxy server to bind only single interface If more than one physical network in the server HTTP Port Value 165535 Display HTTP Connection Information To Console Select Yes to show Http send bytes and receive bytes information in the console Scanning PCI Device Select Yes for ARC 1XXX series controller Scanning RS 232 Device No Scanning Inband Device No 112 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION il alert by Mail nfi To enable the controller to send the email function you need to configure the SMTP function on the ArcHttp software To enable the RAID controller email sending function click on the Mail Con figuration link The SMTP Server Configurations menu will show as following When you op
16. word has been set the user can only monitor and configure the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller will automatically go back to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in 5 minutes Do not use spaces when you enter the password If spaces are used it will lock out the user To disable the password leave the fields blank Once the user confirms the operation and clicks the Submit button the exist ing password will be cleared Then no password checking will occur when entering the main menu from the starting screen T E i af Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Console E C3 Quick ri Quick Function CJ RAID Set Functions Volume Set Functions 3 Phy T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 153 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 12 Update Firmware Please refer to the appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Pro cess E Areca Technology Corporation k upgrade The naid System Firmware Or Boot Rom Enter The BootRom Or Firmware File Name ie lopen all close all Q Raid System Console Quick Function O RAID Set Functions C1 Volume S
17. 23 7 06 SATA NCQ SUPPO tecor reesen S xx a Tus 80 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache cese 80 3 7 5 8 Volume Data Read Ahead csse 81 3 7 5 9 Hdd Queue Depth Setting essen 81 3 7 5 10 Empty HDD Slot LED eeeeeenm mmn 82 3 7 5 11 Controller Fan Detection cceceecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeenes 83 3 7 5 12 Auto Activate Raid Set ssssssssrrerresssensrrrerrernes 83 3 7 5 13 Disk Write Cache Mode sessseeeeen nnn 84 3 7 5 14 Capacity Truncation cccecceeeee eects eee eeeeeeeaeeeeaeees 84 3 7 6 HDD Power Management cceceeeeee eee eee eee eee eee eee 85 3 7 6 1 Stagger Power Or ceste eiecti ex er RR eek 86 3 7 6 2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle eese 87 3 7 6 3 Time To Low RPM Mode eeeen mmn 87 3 6 7 4 Time To Spin Down Idle Hdd eese 88 3 7 7 Ethernet Configuration eec her eh ea nan 89 3 7 7 1 DACP Function eite er tia b Er ERREUR ica 89 3 7 7 2 Local IP address eor rx ad E s 90 3 7 7 3 HTTP Port Nurmb6Eao u eser cidea teeta Peer vr SR a EE Le 91 3 7 7 4 Telnet Port Number eeeseenene meme 91 3 7 7 5 SMTP Port Numb 6r 2 dressed vives cea re E XE RR ERA e rs 92 3 7 8 View System Events seen OEEC a FERNER 93 3 7 9 Clear Events Buffer uid coe it eerste nicer cu tuve vr obs 93 3 7 10 Hardware Monitor cesse nnn 94 3 7 11 System Information ccc eterna 94 4 Driver Ins
18. Normal Normal 5 Normal A ARC 1882 VOL 005 0 0 6 Normal To display RAID set information move the mouse cursor to the desired RAID set number then click it The RAID set information will appear To display volume set information move the mouse cursor to the desired volume set number then click it The volume set Information will display To display drive information move the mouse cursor to the desired physical drive number then click it The drive information will display ja 120 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 3 Main Menu The main menu shows all available functions accessible by clicking on the appropriate link Individual Category Quick Function Create a default configuration which is based on the number of physical disks installed it can modify the volume set Capacity Raid Level and Stripe Size Raid Set Functions Create a customized RAID set Volume Set Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter Physical Drives Create pass through disks and modify the existing pass through drives parameters Also provides the function to identify disk drives blinking fault LED System Controls Setting the RAID system configuration Information Viewing the controller information The Raid Set Hierarchy can be viewed through the Raid Set Hierarchy item 6 4 Quick Function 2S t M d T Areca Technology Corporatio
19. Quick Volume Raid Setup from the main menu The available 2 It is recommended that you use drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the RAID set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the RAID set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 10 1E requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 5 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Highlight the desired RAID level for the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm BIOS CONFIGURATION The capacity for the current volume set is entered after highlighting the desired RAID level and pressing the Enter key The capacity for the current volume set is displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to set the capacity of the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm The available stripe sizes for the current volume set are then displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the current volume set stripe size and press the Enter key to confirm This parameter specifies the size of t
20. See E 9 O y External RAID Controller b d BBM s Connector r1 B 3 Status of BBM gt e D7 Green light when BBM activated e D8 Green light when BBM normal e D9 Red light when BBM charging The BBM status will be shown on the web browser of Hard ware Monitor Information screen 161 APPENDIX B 4 Installation 1 Make sure all power to the system is disconnected 2 The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s battery connector is available for the optional battery backup module Connect the BBM cable to the 12 pin battery connector on the controller 3 Integrators may provide pre drilled holes in their cabinet for securing the BBM using its three mounting positions 4 Low profile bracket also provided 5 The BBM will occupy one PCI slot on the host backplane Battery Connector n PCle x8 B 5 Battery Backup Capacity Battery backup capacity is defined as the maximum duration of a power failure for which data in the cache memory can be main tained by the battery The BBM s backup capacity varied with the memory chips that installed on the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller B 6 Operation 1 Battery conditioning is automatic There are no manual proce dures for battery conditioning or preconditioning to be performed by the user 162 APPENDIX 2 In order to make sure of all the capacity is available for your battery cells allow the battery cell to be fully charged
21. Similar to RAID failure 5 but does two different parity computations or the same computation on overlapping subsets of the data The RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data 196 RAID 30 is a combination multiple RAID 3 volume sets with RAID 0 striping RAID 50 is a combination multiple RAID 5 volume sets with RAID 0 striping RAID 60 is a combination multiple RAID 6 volume sets with RAID 0 striping APPENDIX Up to one disk failure in each sub volume Up to one disk failure in each sub volume Up to two disk failure in each sub volume 197
22. assign a disk drive letter 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 XP To remove the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller driver from the Win dows system follow the instructions below 101 DRIVER INSTALLATION 1 Ensure that you have closed all applications and are logged in with administrative rights 2 Open Control Panel and start the Add Remove Program icon and uninstall and software for the 6Gb s SAS RAID control ler 3 Go to Control Panel and select System Select the Hard ware tab and then click the Device Manager button In device manager expand the SCSI and RAID Controllers section Right click on the Areca 6Gb s SAS RAID controller and select Unin stall 4 Click Yes to confirm removing the SAS RAID driver The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux This chapter describes how to install the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller driver to Red Hat Linux SuSE and other versions of Linux Before installing the SAS RAID driver to the Linux complete the following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager configuration utility Using the McBIOS RAID man ager to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chap ter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager If you are using a Linux di
23. multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer the best High speed data throughput RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array Disk strip ing enhances performance because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously the reliability of RAID level 0 is less because the entire array will fail if any one disk drive fails APPENDIX Logical Disk RAID 0 Striping Block 0 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Hd d i i i i Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 RAID 1 RAID 1 is also known as disk mirroring data written on one disk drive is simultaneously written to another disk drive Read performance will be enhanced if the array controller can in parallel access both members of a mirrored pair During writes there will be a minor performance penalty when compared to writing to a single disk If one drive fails all data and software applications are preserved on the other drive RAID 1 offers extremely high data reliability but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity LUICSRCDICPRCCI S EDDIDEI RE Logical disk Array Management Block 0 Block 0 d d Physical Disk 0 0 D D i i Disk 1 Disk 2 RAID1 Mirroring 191 APPENDIX RAID 10 1E RAID 10 1E is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 combing stripping with disk mirroring RAID Level 10 combines the fast
24. select Yes to delete it MMU 74 BIOS CONFIGURATION ation mo mmc gh HDS725050KL360 o Identify Enclosure a EU Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk fault LED indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Device is selected E 1Solt 02 500 1GB RaidSet Member HDS725050KLA360 E 1Solt 03 500 1GB RaidSet Member ST3500630NS E 1Solt 04 E 1Solt 05 E 1Solt 06 E 1Solt 07 E 1Solt 08 3 7 4 6 Identify Enclosure To prevent removing the wrong enclosure the selected Areca expander enclosure all disks fault LED indicator will light for physically locating the selected enclosure when the Identify Enclosure is selected This function will also light the enclosure LED indicator if it is existed SSS LL S 75 BIOS CONFIGURATION Enclosure 2 Areca x28 05 75 1 37 000 Enclosure 3 Areca x28 05 75 1 37 000 Enclosure 4 Areca x28 05 75 1 37 000 Enclosure 5 Areca x28 05 75 1 37 000 System informere 3 7 5 Raid System Function To set the Raid System Function move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the Raid System Function item and then press Enter key The Raid System Function menu will show multiple items Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid
25. tem components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives The SAS SATA drives have support stagger spin up capabilities to boost reliability Stagger spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the abil ity to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4s to 6s per step which powers up one group of drives 86 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Vol Raid Set f View System Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 6 2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle This option delivers lower power consumption by automatically unloading recording heads during the setting idle time The val ues can be selected Disabled or within the range 2 to 7 min utes I O Port Addr SQQQ0U00 VIUETS BERISIETS Kern 10 Reboot System py Areca Technology Corporation R ontroller eee Low Power Idle q Hdd Power View System Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3
26. will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appro priate RAID level from which the user can select For the Raid Set Function configuration option the user can use the Create Hot Spare option to define the hot spare disk drive When a hot spare disk drive is being created using the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical de vices connected to the current controller appear Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box Press Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Cre ate Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare m CE 42 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Con figuration Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration collects all available drives and includes them in a RAID set The RAID set you created is associated with exactly one volume set You will only be able to modify the default RAID level stripe size and capacity of the new volume set Designating drives as hot spares is also possible in the Raid Level selection option The volume set default settings will be ARC 1682 VOLFOO SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN 0 0 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Yes The default setting values can be changed after configuration is completed Follow the steps below to create arrays using the Raid Set Volume Set method RAID levels with hot spare for the current volume set drive are displayed Choose
27. 06 16 14 50 56 192 168 000 164 HTTP Log In us D Hdd Power Management 2011 06 16 14 45 46 Raid Set 004 Delete RaidSet Ethernet Configuration 2011 06 15 14 45 44 Raid Set 003 Delete RaidSet D Alert By Mail Configuration 2011 06 16 14 46 43 Raid Set 002 Delete RaidSet D SNMP Configuration NIE Codd 2011 06 15 14 45 41 Raid Set 001 Delete RaidSet D MiewEvents MutsBesps 201 06 15 14 45 41 Raid Set 000 Delete RaidSet D Generate Test Event 2011 06 15 14 48 38 ARC 1882 VOL 000 Complete Init 1000 00 13 D Clear Event Buffer 2011 06 16 14 45 37 ARC 1882 VOL 001 Abort Initialization 000 00 12 E D Modify Password 2011 06 15 14 45 28 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In EM poda Limone 2013 06 16 14 45 25 ARC 1882 VOL 000 Start Initialize C3 Information III s 2011 06 15 14 45 25 ARC 1882 VOL 001 Start Initialize 2011 06 15 14 45 08 000 000003688F00 Restart Int LBA Point 2011 06 15 14 45 04 001 0000000A0400 Reatart Init LBA Point 2011 06 16 14 45 04 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2013 06 15 14 37 59 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In 2011 06 15 14 37 57 ARC 1882 VOL amp 000 Start Initialize aarian 14 97 67 laor oonan enn leret reisen 6 8 9 Generate Test Event Use this feature is generate events for testing purposes Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all ieee Do You Want To Generate Test Event E Quick Function CJ RAID Set Functions CJ Volume Set Functions CJ Physical Driv
28. 1 0V 1 040 System information Battery Status Not Installed wKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select 3 7 11 System Information Choose this option to display controller name firmware version BOOT ROM version SAS firmware version serial number main processor CPU instruction cache and data cache size system memory and current IP address To check the system informa tion move the cursor bar to System Information item then press Enter key All relevant controller information will be dis played The System Information Quick Volume Raid Main Processor 800MHz PPC440 Raid Set Function CPU ICache Size 32KB Volume Set Functio CPU DCache Size 32KBs Write Back Physical Drives System Memory 16B 1333MHz ECC Raid System Funct Firmware Version V1 49 2011 05 31 Hdd Power Managd BOOT ROM Version V1 49 2011 06 01 Ethernet Configura PL Firmware Ver 9 0 2 0 View System Event Serial Number ARC 1882X0000000 Clear Event Buffer Unit Serial H Hardware Monitor Controller Name ARC 1882 System Information eca Pe ISI 192 168 0 103 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller driver to your operating system The installation procedures use the following terminology Installing operating system on 6Gb s SAS controller s volume If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install operating system on a disk drive
29. 2 For Linux You should have administrative level permissions to install 6Gb S SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the 6Gb s SAS RAID hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your system The following details the Linux installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the software CD delivered with 6Gb s SAS RAID controller card or download from the www areca com tw The firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller via ArcHttp proxy server EL CCELI E LLL LLL LLL NO X AL ONNIENIIIIIEIEMMNNNNGNNNN E o p ewm 109 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 1 Login as root Copy the ArcHttp file to a local directory 1 Insert the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Linux http directory to local Ex usr local sbin Or 1 Download from the www areca com tw or from the email attachment 2 You must have administrative level permissions to install 6Gb s SAS RAID controller ArcHttp proxy server software This procedure assumes that the 6Gb s SAS RAID hardware and driver are installed and operational in your system The following details are the installation procedure of the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller for Linux ArcHttp proxy server software 1 Run the Archttp proxy server by using the following command Usage archttp32 TCP PORT or archttp6
30. ARECA Windows X86 64 Storport SATA SAS PCI RAID Host Controller RAID6 Engine Inside Press Enter key to continue and copy the driver files From this point on simply follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure Follow the on screen instructions responding as needed to complete the installation DRIVER INSTALLATION 9 After the installation is completed reboot the system to load the new driver operating system 10 See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID vol ume sets using McRAID Storage Manager 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass through disks accessible to Windows This proce dure assumes that the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your sys tem 1 Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk Administrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the disk drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to give a disk drive letter 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Win dows
31. ArcHttp proxy server setup When this screen completes you have com pleted the ArcHttp proxy server software setup 4 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation 108 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION From Arcpttp version 2 0 there Areca RAID Controller icon bar window start appearing in the taskbar double click to launch the ArcHTTP Configuration screen Or click on the Start but ton in the Windows task bar and then click Program select the McRAID and run Archttp proxy server The ArcHTTP Configu rations dialog box appears 9 sii A d d T ArcHTTP Configurations SMTP Porti 25 gt Bg SAS RAID Controllers L ARC 1680 L ARC 1880 S ggg SATA RAID Controllers D ARC 1200 Event Log File Name CJ Confirm The Operation Submit Reset When you click the archttp from version 2 0 it shows all RAID adapters available on the system and create a individual adapt er icon located on left column of the Archttp Configurations screen This adapter icon is for user to launch the selected RAID adapter web browser RAID manager 1 See the next chapter detailing the McRAID Storage Manager to customize your RAID volume set 2 If you need to configure the System Function of ArcHTTP please refer to section 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration 5
32. Collect Support Data Areca has added the Collect Support Data option on the Archttp utility version v2 2 0 or later to download a supportfile file name ctlrxx xxxxx log with all necessary information system information configuration disk information eventlog The Collect Support Data function will be automatically started when ERROR or SERIOUS event occurred 116 1 Fi A viet ArcHTTP Configurations ee Jopen all close all H ArcHTTP v2 2 0 a Do You Want To Collect Support Data B S System Functions D General Configuration Q Mail Configuration i SNMP Trap Configuration D Rescan Device gt BRE SAS RAID Controllers D ARC 1880 H ESATA RAID Controllers WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 Web Browser based Configuration Before using the firmware based browser McRAID storage manager do the initial setup and installation of this product If you need to boot up the operating system from a RAID volume set you must first create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID manager Please refer to section 3 3 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration for information on creating this initial volume set The McRAID storage manager is firmware based utility which is acces sible via the web browser installed on your operating system The web browser based McRAID storage manager is a HTML based application which utilizes the browser IE Netscape and Mozilla etc installed on your monitor station It
33. Configuration JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk A group of hard disks in a RAID box are not set up as any type of RAID configuration All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redundancy User needs to delete the RAID set when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function e SATA NCQ Support The controller supports both SAS and SATA disk drives The SATA NCQ allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynami cally rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller allows the user to select the SATA NCQ support Enabled or Disabled e HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances e Volume Data Read Ahead The volume read data ahead parameter specifies the controller firmware algorithms which process the Read Ahead data blocks from the disk The Read Ahead parameter is normal by default To modify the value you must set it from the command line us ing the Read Ahead option The default normal option satisfies a R E 140 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION the performanc
34. ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most 6Gb s SAS con trollers treat each LUN as if it were a SAS disk Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Creation Create Vol WARAY THEMA Con A0 E 01010 Create Rail Raid Level aS Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI_ID 2 0 SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 66 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Cache Mode User can set the cache mode to either Write Through or Write Back Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 289 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID amp 0 SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled e Tag Queuing This option when enabled can enhance overall system perfor mance under multi tasking operating systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SAS command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disabled this function only when us ing older drives that do not support command tag queuing O000 T Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level E Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID amp 0 SCSI LUN m0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 67 BIOS CONFIGURATION 68 3 7 3 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 To create 30 50 60 volume set from RAID set
35. Installation The SNMP Traps Configurations menu will show as following ap ue opm cHTTP Configurations lopen all close all Hi 2 f Q ArcHTTP v2 00 SNMP Trap Config SNMP Trap IP Address 1 o jo mo SNMP Trap IP Address 2 0 0 o 0 Port 162 SNMP Trap IP Address SNMP System Configurations E BE SAS RAID Controllers ARC 1680 D ARC i880 B SX SATA RAID Controllers D ARC 1200 Community public a SNMP Trap Notification Configurations O Information Notification O Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 1 SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP trap IP address 114 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 2 SNMP System Configurations Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type the community names of the SNMP agent in this field Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive 3 SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Before the client side SNMP manager application accepts the 6Gb S SAS RAID controller traps it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management application s database of events and status indicator codes This process is known as c
36. PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller You have other alternatively to add volume set on the Mac Pro bootable device listing You can follow the following pro cedures to add PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller on the Mac Pro bootable device listing 1 Upgrade the EFI BIOS from shipping CD ROM VFirmwareN Mac directory or from the www areca com tw if the controllers default ship with a legacy BIOS for the PC Please follow the Ap pendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process to update the legacy BIOS to EFI BIOS for Mac Pro to boot up from 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s volume 2 Ghost such as Carbon Copy Cloner ghost utility the Mac OS X 10 5 x 10 6 x or 10 7 x system disk on the Mac Pro to the Exter nal PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller volume set Carbon Copy Cloner is an archival type of back up software You can take your whole Mac OS X system and make a carbon copy or clone to Areca volume set like an other hard drive 3 Power up the Mac Pro machine it will take about 30 seconds for controller firmware ready This periodic will let the boot up screen blank before Areca volume in the bootable device list 2 4 SAS Cables You can connect the end devices to each other through direct cables or through the SAS expander backplane connections The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller supports daisy chain expansion up to 8 enclosures The following is an example of some internal SAS SATA cables and an external SAS cable 2 4 1 Internal Min
37. RAID firmware and thus can not be a part of a RAID volume The drive is available to the operating system as an individual disk 195 APPENDIX Summary of RAID Levels 6Gb s SAS RAID controller supports RAID Level 0 1 10 1E 3 5 6 30 50 and 60 The following table provides a summary of RAID levels RAID Level Comparsion RAID Description Disks Data Level Requirement Availability Minimum Also known as striping No data Data distributed across multiple Protection drives in the array There is no data protection 1 Also known as mirroring Up to one disk All data replicated on 2 separated failure disks N is almost always 2 Due to this is a 100 9o duplication so is a high costly solution 10 1E Also known as mirroring and striping Up to one disk Data is written to two disks failure in each simultaneously and allows an odd sub volume number or disk Read request can be satisfied by data read from wither one disk or both disks Also known Bit Interleaved Parity Up to one disk Data and parity information is failure subdivided and distributed across all data disks Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk 5 Also known Block Interleaved Up to one disk Distributed Parity failure Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disk Parity information normally is interspersed with user data RAID 6 provides highest reliability Up to two disk but not widely used
38. Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper The Mute The Alert Beeper function item is used to control the SAS RAID controller beeper Select Yes and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily The beeper will still activate on the next event Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED System in Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting The Alert Beeper Setting function item is used to Disabled or Enabled the SAS RAID controller alarm tone generator Select Disabled and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off Mute The Alert Beeper Change Password JBOD RAID Functio Background Task Pri SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead C4 Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED System in Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 3 Change Password The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The password option allows user to set or clear the password pro tection featur
39. Step 13 Configure Volume Set The controller configures RAID functionality through the McBIOS RAID manager Please refer to Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager for the detail The RAID controller can also be configured through the McRAID storage manager with ArcHttp proxy server installed LCD module refer to LCD manual or through on board LAN port For this option please refer to Chapter 6 Web Browser Based Con figuration Step 14 Determining the Boot Sequences For PC system e 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is a bootable controller If your system already contains a bootable device with an installed operating sys tem you can set up your system to boot a second operating sys tem from the new controller To add a second bootable controller you may need to enter setup of motherboard BIOS and change the device boot sequence so that the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller heads the list If the system BIOS setup does not allow this change your system may be not configurable to allow the 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller to act as a second boot device HARDWARE INSTALLATION For Apple Mac Pro system eThe currently Mac OS X 10 X can not directly boot up from 6Gb s SAS controller s volume We do not support the Open Firmware on the Power Mac G5 machine and can only use as a secondary stor age All Intel based Mac Pro machines use EFI to boot not Open Firmware which was used for PPC Macs the system Areca con troller has supported the EFI BIOS on its
40. Temperature Temperature 0 C to 40 C e Humidity 45 8596 non condensing e Storage Temperature Temperature 40 C to 60 C e Humidity 45 8596 non condensing Electrical e Input Voltage 3 6VDC e On Board Battery Capacity 1880mAH 1 x 1880mAH for ARC 1882 series boards 164 APPENDIX Appendix C SNMP Operation amp Installation C 1 Overview The McRAID storage manager includes a firmware embedded Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP agent and SNMP Ex tension Agent for the Areca RAID controller An SNMP based man agement application also known as an SNMP manager can moni tor the disk array An example of a SNMP management application is Hewlett Packard s Open View Net SNMP or SNMPc The SNMP extension agent can be used to augment the Areca RAID control ler if you are already running an SNMP management application at your site C 2 SNMP Definition SNMP an IP based protocol has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager and the managed devices have the SNMP agent loaded Management data is organized in a hierarchical data structure called the Management Information Base MIB These MIBs are defined and sanctioned by various industry associations Each type of device on your network has its own specific MIB file The MIB file defines the device as a set of managed objects val ues that can be read or changed by the SNMP m
41. This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Mul tiples Of 1G truncates the fractional part This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Disabled It does not truncate the capacity 3 7 6 HDD Power Management Areca has automated the ability to manage HDD power based on usage patterns The HDD Power Management allows you to choose a Stagger Power On Control Low Power Idle Low RPM and completely Spins Down Idle HDD It is designed to reduce power consumption and heat generation on idle drives 85 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function ernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 6 1 Stagger Power On In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can sup ply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other sys
42. To Rescue Volume for recovering the missing RAID set configuration Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup 1 Total 5 Drives Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Raid 0 Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Initialization Mode Raid 3 Foreground Faster Completeion Raid 5 Background Instant Available Raid 3 Sp No Init To Rescue Volume 3 7 2 Raid Set Function Manual configuration gives complete control of the RAID set set ting but it will take longer to configure than Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select Raid Set Function to manually con figure the RAID set for the first time or delete existing RAID sets and reconfigure the RAID set Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information od BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set The following is the RAID set features for the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 1 Up to 32 disk drives can be included in a single RAID set 2 Up to 128 RAID sets can be created per controller but RAID level 30 50 and 60 only can support eight sub volumes RAID set To define a RAID set follow the procedures below 1 Select Raid Set Function from the main menu 2 Select Create Raid Set from the Raid Set Function dialog box 3 A Select IDE Drive For Raid Set window is
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44. Write Cache Mode to Auto Enabled or Disabled Enabled increases speed Disabled increases reli ability Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue I Disk Write Cache Mode Hardware System inf Disk Write C Enabled 3 7 5 14 Capacity Truncation Areca RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from different vendors are more likely to be usable as spares for one another Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capac ity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and Disabled rut A SS SS ar 84 BIOS CONFIGURATION Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support Voume Dara R rete Dek Comey Hdd Queue Def To Multiples of 10G Hardware Empty HDD Slo System inf Controller Fan I Disabled Auto Activate R Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from differ ent vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Multiples Of 10G truncates the number under tens
45. and another volume set using other disks 59 BIOS CONFIGURATION Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information The following is the volume set features for the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same RAID set and up to 128 volume sets per controller 2 Up to 128 volume sets can be created in a RAID set 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2TB because the controller is capable of 64 bit LBA mode However the operating system itself may not be capable of addressing more than 2TB See Areca website ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Docu ments Manual_Spec Over2TB_050721 ZIP file for details 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functi DAP Create Volume Set Raid System Create Raid30 50 60 Hdd Power Erene Co Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set Stop Volume Check Display Volume Info BIOS CONFIGURATION To create a volume set following the steps 1 Select the Volume Set Function from the main menu 2 Choose the Create Volume Set from Volume Set Func tions dialog box screen 3 The Create Volume From Raid Set appears This screen displays the existing arranged RAID sets Sele
46. can be accessed through the In Band PCIe 2 0 bus or Out of Band LAN port The In Band method via archttp proxy server to launch the web browser based McRAID storage manager The firmware embedded web browser based McRAID storage manager allows local or remote to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required The firmware contains SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either single or multiple user notifications to be sent via LAN with Plain English e mails The firmware embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required e Create RAID set e Expand RAID set e Define volume set Add physical drive Modify volume set Modify RAID level stripe size Define pass through disk drives Modify system function Update firmware Designate drives as hot spares 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager With the McRAID storage manager you can locally manage a sys tem containing a 6Gb s SAS RAID controller that has Windows C Se ee ee 117 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 118 Linux or more and a supported browser A locally managed sys tem requires all of the following components e A supported Web browser which should already be installed on the system e Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SAS RAID system Refer to Chapter 5 Archttp Proxy Server Installation e Remote and managed systems must have a TCP IP connection
47. create the RAID set and volume set to which you will install Windows For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID manager Once a EE 97 DRIVER INSTALLATION 98 volume set is created and configured continue with next step to install the operating system 3 Insert the Windows setup CD and reboot the system to begin the Windows installation The computer system BIOS must support bootable from CD ROM 4 Press F6 as soon as the Windows screen shows Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration A mes sage stating Press F6 to specify thrid party RAID controller will display during this time This must be done or else the Windows installer will not prompt for the driver from the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller and the driver diskette will not be recognized 5 The next screen will show Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage device installed in your sys tem Selected specify additional SCSI controller by pressing S 6 Window will prompt to place the Manufacturer supplied hardware support disk into floppy drive A Insert the SAS RAID series driver diskette in drive A and press Enter key 7 Window will check the floppy select the correct card and CPU type for your hardware from the listing and press Enter key to install it 8 After Windows scans the hardware and finds the controller it will display Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices
48. displayed show ing the SAS SATA drives connected to the current controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the current RAID set Repeat this step the user can add as many disk drives as are available to a single RAID set When finished selecting SAS SATA drives for RAID set press Esc key A Create Raid Set Confirmation screen will appear select the Yes ee to BORD it t mE Select IDE Drives For Raid Set MIE 1Solt 1 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 2 500 1GB HDS725050KLA360 JE 1Solt 3 500 1GB ST3500630NS Ethernet oj JE 1Solt 4 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 View Sys JE 1Solt 5 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 Clear Evd JE 1Solt 6 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 7 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 JE 1Solt 8 500 1GB ST3500630NS nformation Hardward System i ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 4 An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for the RAID set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set 5 Repeat steps 3 to define another RAID sets EEE 52 BIOS CONFIGURATION To create
49. drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For ex ample one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Multiples Of 10G truncates the number under tens This makes same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Multiples Of 1G truncates the fractional part This makes capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Disabled It does not truncate the capacity WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 2 Advanced Configuration E M d irs Technology Corporation lopen all close all 9 Raid System Console Quick F o D Upgrade Firmware I Confirm The Operation G Information Submit Reset i To set the RAID system function move the cursor to the main menu and click the Advanced Configuration link The Advanced Configuration menu will show all items then select the desired function e TLER Setting TLER time limited error recovery functions provide support for WD Caviar RE RAID series disks This is a new option from WD to support RAID features that were traditionally missing from standard desktop drives TLER is a method of signaling the sys tem RAID contro
50. have created utilities that can be used to repartition disks without data loss Most of these utilities work offline Partition Magic is one such utility High availability e Global Local Hot Spares A hot spare is an unused online available drive which is ready for replacing the failure disk The hot spare is one of the most impor tant features that RAID controllers provide to deliver a high de gree of fault tolerance A hot spare is a spare physical drive that has been marked as a hot spare and therefore is not a member of any RAID set If a disk drive used in a volume set fails then the hot spare will automatically take its place and he data previously E e 184 APPENDIX located on the failed drive is reconstructed on the hot spare Dedicated hot spare is assigned to serve one specified RAID set Global hot spare is assigned to serve all RAID set on the RAID controller Dedicated hot spare has higher priority than the global hot spare For this feature to work properly the hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces The host spare function only works with RAID level 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 or 60 volume set The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global dedicated hot spare disk drive To effectively use the hot spare feature you must always maintain at least one drive that is marked as a
51. host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol that lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol configurations on a computer network When using the internet s set of protocols TCP IP in order for a computer system to communicate to another com puter system it needs a unique IP address Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to eliminate the work necessary to administer a large IP network To configure the RAID controller Ethernet port move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the Ethernet Configuration item then select the desired function Enabled DHCP Fur Local 1P Used 1f DHCP Disabled me es ft fioo Gateway IP Address Used If DHCP Disabled me fes f n Subnet Mask Used If DHCP Disabled 255 pss pss p HTTP Port Number 7168 8191 Is Reserved go Telnet Port Number 7168 8191 Is Reserved ps
52. installed the archttp background task automatically starts each time when you start your computer There is one MARID icon showing on your desktop This icon is for you to start up the McRAID storage manager by archttp and arc cli utility You can also only upgrade the driver using ArcMSR x x dmg file archttp or arc cli individual item that resides at CD ROM pack ages MacOS directory When you click the archttp from version 2 0 it shows all RAID adapters available on the system and create a individual adapter icon located on left column of the Archttp Configurations screen This adapter icon is for user to launch the selected RAID adapter web browser RAID manager D Res E Bg SAS RAID Controllers ARC 1680 a D aneis gt IRAE SATA RAID Controllers D ARC 1200 Confirm The Operation If there is any RAID adapter missed on the system start up you can use the Rescan Device function See chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes using McRAID storage manager 4 6 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Mac OS X When you create a volume through McRAID storage manager the Mac OS X recognizes that a new disk is avail and displays a mes sage asking what you next want to do If the message does not show up start the Macintosh Disk Utility manually from the Finder use the Go menu and open the Utilities folder Dou ble click
53. kernel version and identify which diskette images contain drivers for that kernel If the driver file ends in img you can also create the appropriate driver diskette using dd utility The following steps are required to create the driver diskettes 1 The computer system BIOS must be set to boot up from the CDROM 2 Insert the ARC 1882 software driver CD disc into the CD ROM drive 3 The system will boot up from CD ROM Drive to create the driver diskettes select the SAS RAID Controller Driver Diskette Make Utility and a screen with several choices will be displayed 4 Move the highlight bar to the Create Driver Disk entry and press Enter 5 The screen queries the ARC 1882 SAS RAID controllers support driver database and displays a list of available drivers Move the highlight bar to the correct driver entry and press Enter key to select 6 The next screen will show Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A Press any key to continue Insert the formatted diskette in drive A and press any key to continue 7 The window will display the driver building message Now is writing to Cylinder as it copies the image file from the CDROM to driver diskette 8 The Write Complete message will display when the driver diskette ready The driver diskette is made now Proceed to the following instruction for installation procedures DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows The 6
54. main processor CPU instruction data cache size system memory size speed and current IP address appear in this screen 155 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 156 lopen all close alll Baad custom Concise FG Quick Function CJ RAID Set Functions CJ Volume Set Functions 3 Physical Drives W System Controls E Information O RAID Set Hierarchy D SAS Chip Information D System Information D Hardware Monitor Areca Technology Corporation Raid Subsystem Information Controller Name Firmware Version ARC 1882 V1 49 2011 07 18 BOOT ROM Version V1 49 2011 06 17 PL Firmware Version 10 0 4 0 Serial Number 0876543219876543 Unit Serial Main Processor 60M Ppca40 CPU ICache Size aaqaytes CPU DCache Size 32XBytes Writa Back CPU SCache Size 102akBytes Write Through System Memory 1024MB 1333MHz ECC PCI E Link Status 8X 5G Current IP Address 6 9 4 Hardware Monitor The hardware monitor information of the enclosure attached in 192 168 0 65 this controller is also shown on this screen lopen all close all IB Raid System Console Quick Function 1C RAID Set Functions Volume Set Functions 8 Physical Drives System Controls B5 Information D RAID Set Hierarchy D SAS Chip Information D System Information Hardware Monitor Areca Te
55. monitor utility Out of Band Manager e Firmware embedded web browser based McRAID storage man ager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port ee f 13 INTRODUCTION e API library for customer to write monitor utility e Support push button and LCD display panel option Operating System e Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 e Linux e FreeBSD e VMware e Solaris 10 11 x86 x86 64 e Mac OS 10 4 x 10 5 x 10 6 x 10 7 x For latest supported OS listing visit http www areca com tw 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers ARC 1882ix 12 ARC 1882ix 16 ARC 1882ix 24 I O Processor Dual Core RAID on Chip 800MHz Form Factor H x L Full Height 98 4 x 250 mm Host Bus Type PCIe 2 0 x8 Lanes Driver Connector 3xSFF 8087 4xSFF 8087 6xSFF 8087 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 Drive Support Up to 128 6Gb s and 3Gb s SAS SATA HDDs RAID Level 0 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 Single Disk JBOD On Board Cache One 240 pin DIMM socket with default 1GB of ECC DDR3 1333 single rank registered SDRAM 1Rx8 or 1Rx16 upgradable to 4GB Management In Band PCIe Port Out of Band BIOS LCD LAN Port Individual Activity Faulty Header SGPIO SMP SES 2 For External Port Ready 14 INTRODUCTION 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers Driver Connector 2xSFF 8087 1xSFF 8087 2xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 Drive Support Up to 128 6Gb s and 3Gb s SAS SATA HDDs RAID Level O 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 Single Disk JBO
56. not modify it uis ameta en Volume Set Name ARC 1882 VOL 004 Volume Set H Raid Set Name Raid Set 02 Create Vol_ Volume Capacity 1200 0GB Create Ra Volume State Migration SCSI CH ID Lun 0 0 4 Raid Level 2 5 Stripe Size 64K Block Size 512 Bytes Member Disk 28 Cache Attribute Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 Physical Drives Choose this option from the main menu to select a physical disk and perform the operations listed above Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information When you choose this option the physical disks connected to the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller are listed Move the cursor to the desired drive and press Enter key to view drive information Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Fung Model Name ST380013AS Serial Number 5JV944ZF Firmware Rev A600 Disk Capacity 80 0 GB Current SAS 3G Supported SAS 3G Device State RaidSet Member Timeout Count 0 Media Errors 0 Rotation Speed 15015 SMART State TOK 73 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk A pass through disk is not controlled by the 6Gb s SAS RAID c
57. password can be modified by selecting Change Password in the Raid System Function section The McBIOS RAID manager is firmware based and is used to con figure RAID sets and volume sets Because the utility resides in the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller firmware operation is independent of any operating systems on your computer This utility can be used to e Create RAID sets 41 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Expand RAID sets e Add physical drives e Define volume sets e Modify volume sets e Modify RAID level stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system functions and e Designate drives as hot spares 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID manager automatically Using Quick Volume Raid Setup or manu ally using Raid Set Volume Set Function Each configuration method requires a different level of user input The general flow of operations for RAID set and volume set configuration is Designate hot spares pass through drives optional Choose a configuration method Create RAID sets using the available physical drives Define volume sets using the space available in the RAID set Initialize the volume sets and use volume sets as logical drives in the host OS 3 4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID set can be desig nated as a hot spare The Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration
58. performance of Level O with the data redundancy of level 1 In this configuration data is distributed across several disk drives similar to Level 0 which are then duplicated to another set of drive for data protection RAID 10 has been traditionally imple mented using an even number of disks some hybrids can use an odd number of disks as well Illustration is an example of a hybrid RAID 10 1E array comprised of five disks A B C D and E In this configuration each strip is mirrored on an adjacent disk with wrap around Areca RAID 10 offers a little more flexibility in choosing the number of disks that can be used to constitute an array The number can be even or odd TOUT E Eg RAID 3 RAID 3 provides disk striping and complete data redundancy though a dedicated parity drive RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or on the blocks and then writes the blocks to all but one drive in the array The parity data created during the exclusive or is then written to the last drive in the array If a single drive fails data is still available by computing the exclusive or of the contents cor responding strips of the surviving member disk RAID 3 is best for applications that require very fast data transfer rates or long data blocks eee 192 APPENDIX ni n BO B1 B2 B3 CO C1 C2 C3 BS Logical Disk Array Management RAID3 Bit Interleaved Parity StripesO 1
59. sure you have the latest driver and ArcHttp from this URL http www areca com tw support e ArcHttp supports sending traps only do not support the get command 2 Service Method 2 using Onboard NIC Pay attention to these e Do Not check mark the option SNMP Through PCI e Do need to fill out the SNMP Trap Config 3 Service Method 3 using In band PCI SNMP extension agent Pay attention to these e Download the snmp extension agent from Areca URL e The Agent is to be installed on the system which has the Areca card e Check Mark the option SNMP Through PCI e To use In Band PCIe host bus interface keep space or zero on all SNMP Tarp IP Address options 167 APPENDIX C 3 1 Using ArcHttp The HTTP management software Archttp runs as a service or daemon and have it automatically start the proxy for all con trollers found This way the controller can be managed remotely without having to sign in the server The HTTP management software Archttp also has integrated the ability of sending SNMP trap Please reference the manual ArcHttp Proxy Dervice Installa tion section to install it The ArcHttp proxy server will automati cally assign one additional port for setup its configuration If you want to change the archttpsrv conf setting up of ArcHttp proxy server configuration for example General Configuration Mail Configuration and SNMP Configuration please start Web Browser htt
60. the Submit button The following screen appears Use this option to modify the volume set configuration To modify volume set attributes move the cursor bar to the volume set at tribute menu and click it The Enter The Volume Attribute screen appears Move the cursor to an attribute item and then click the attribute to modify the value After you complete the modification click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Sub mit button to complete the action The user can only modify the last volume set capacity lopen all close all b T Areca Technology Corporation Select The Volume Set For Modification Select Volume Set Name On Raid Set capacity G JARC 1882 VOL amp 000 Raid Set 002 30 068 Submit Reset 6 6 4 1 Volume Growth Use Expand RAID Set function to add disk to a RAID set The additional capacity can be used to enlarge the last volume set size or to create another volume set The Modify Volume Set function can support the Volume Modification function To expand the last volume set capacity move the cursor bar to the Capacity item and entry the capacity size When finished the above action click on the Sumbit button to complete the action The last volume set starts to expand its capacity To expand an existing volume noticed e Only the last volume can expand capacity e When expand volume capacity you ca
61. the all files BIOS BOOT FIRM and MBRO without necessary system starting up to running the ArcHttp proxy server The nflash utility program is a DOS application which runs in the DOS operating system Be sure of ensuring properly to communicate between 6Gb s SAS RAID controller and nflash DOS utility Please make a bootable DOS floppy diskette or UBS devices from other Windows operating system and boot up the system from those bootable devices e Starting the nflash Utility You do not need to short any jumper cap on running nflash utility The nflash utility provides an on line table of contents brief descriptions of the help sub commands The nflash utility put on the CD ROM VFirmware directory You can run the lt nflash gt to get more detailed information about the command usage Typical output looks as below 159 APPENDIX A nflash Raid Controller Flash Utility V1 11 2007 11 8 Command Usage NFLASH FileName NFLASH FileName cn gt n 0 1 2 3 write binary to controller 0 FileName May Be ARC1882FIRM BIN or ARC1882 For ARC1882 Will Expand To ARC1882BOOT FIRM BIOS BIN A gt nflash arci88 1 bin Raid Controller Flash Utility V1 11 2007 11 8 MODEL ARC 1882 MEM FE620000 FE7FF000 File ARC188 1 BIN gt gt gt Flash OK A 4 Upgrading Firmware Through CLI This Command Line Interface CLI provides you to configure and manage the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller components in Windows Linux FreeBSD
62. the net work Via ArcHttp proxy server The HTTP management software Archttp runs as a service or dae mon and have it automatically start the proxy for all controllers found This way the controller can be managed remotely without having to sign in the server The HTTP management software Archttp also has integrated the email notification and SNMP extension agent The email notification can be configured in local or remote standard web browser ote If your controllers have onboard LAN port you do not need to install ArcHttp proxy server you can use McRAID Storage Manager directly 107 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 1 For Windows You must have administrative level permissions to install 6Gb s SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID hardware and Windows are installed and operational in your sys tem Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your in stallation screen may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server installation is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID controller software CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at CD ROM NPACKAGESN Windows http setup exe on the CD ROM 3 The screen shows Preparing to Install Follow the on screen prompts to complete ArcHttp proxy server software installation A program bar appears that measures the progress of the
63. to be installed Click the Next button 8 The Digital Signature Not Found screen will appear Click on Yes to continue the installation 9 Windows automatically copies the appropriate driver files and rebuilds its driver database 10 The Found New Hardware Wizard summary screen ap pears click the Finish button DRIVER INSTALLATION 11 The System Settings Change dialog box appears Remove the diskette from the drive and click Yes to restart the computer to load the new drivers 12 See Chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes using McRAID Storage Manager 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator The following steps show how to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 This procedure assumes that the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your system 1 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Ad ministrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to
64. when in stalled for the first time The first time charge of a battery cell takes about 24 hours to complete B 7 Changing the Battery Backup Module At some point the LI ION battery will no longer accept a charge properly LI ION battery life expectancy is anywhere from approxi mately 1 to 5 years 1 Shutdown the operating system properly Make sure that cache memory has been flushed 2 Disconnect the BBM cable from 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s bat tery connector 3 Disconnect the battery pack cable from JP2 on the BBM 4 Install a new battery pack and connect the new battery pack to JP2 5 Connect the BBM to 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s battery connec tor 6 Disable the write back function from the McBIOS RAID manager or McRAID storage manager ote Do not remove BBM while system is running B 8 Battery Functionality Test Procedure 1 Writing amount of data into controller volume about 5GB or bigger 2 Waiting for few seconds power failed system by remove the power cable 3 Check the battery status make sure the D9 is bright light and battery beeps every few seconds 4 Power on system and press Tab F6 to login controller 5 Check the controller event log make sure the event shows controller boot up with power recovered 163 APPENDIX B 9 BBM Specifications Mechanical e Module Dimension W x H x D 37 3 x 13x 81 6 mm e BBM Connector 2 x 6 box header Environmental e Operating
65. 000 Create Vol MEETS 28 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Chaf Available Capacity 2400 0GB SCSI ID BET Ke gre Enabled 63 BIOS CONFIGURATION 64 If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater Two TB Volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Use 64bit LBA Use 4K Block Physical Drives Raid System Fun Raid 1 0 Hdd Power Mana Raid 1 0 Spare Ethernet Configu Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare System informatiq Raid 6 Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e Use 64bit LBA This option uses 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB Such as Windows 2003 with SP1 or later Linux kernel 2 6 x or later e Use 4K Block It change the sector size from default 512 bytes to 4k bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works under Windows platform only And it can not be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download pdf file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip BIOS CONFIGURATION e Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of segment written to each disk in a RAID O 1 1E 10 5 6 50 or
66. 002R001 Size 3 6 TB RAID controller BIOS not installed Press lt Tab F6 gt to enter SETUP menu 9 second s left lt ESC to Skip gt The McBIOS RAID manager message remains on your screen for about nine seconds giving you time to start the configuration menu by pressing Tab or F6 If you do not wish to enter configu ration menu press ESC to skip configuration immediately When activated the McBIOS RAID manager window appears showing a selection dialog box listing the 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers that are installed in the system The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys are enabled for the windows m LL o OA LLLLLLLIAAAI 40 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select An Adapter To Configure 001 0 0 1 O 28000000h IRQ 9 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select Press F10 Tab to Reboot Use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the controller you want to configure While the desired controller is highlighted press the Enter key to enter the main menu of the McBIOS RAID manager Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 2 McBIOS RAID manager The manufacture default password is set to 0000 this
67. 016 01 09 0109 e See ZE E e soros 30 868 FUJITSU MAX3030RC C stor os 36 88 FUJITSU MAX3036RC soros 36 868 FUJITSU MAU3036RC laor os 36 868 Fuarrsu Maxaosenc c soror 36 868 FUJITSU MAX30368C soros 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 EIER pem RUSO RANGES c morus 25865 Funrrsu maxaozsrc e jaou 36 8GB FUJITSU Max3036RC c lao 36 78 HITACHI HUS151436VLS200 c laon 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436V5200 c laor 36 78 HITACHI HUS151436V S300 c storas 6 7c8 HITACHI HUS151436VLS200 E oe bu VUE UNE Enter Pass Through Disk Attribute Volume Cache Mode Write Back wj Tagged Command Quauing Enabled BB SCSI channel scst ID 5Cst Lun vis o 19 119 T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset H 6 7 2 Modify Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify the pass through disk attribute The user can modify the Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing and SCSI Channel ID LUN on an existing pass through disk To modify the pass through drive attribute from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar and click on the Modify Pass Through link The Select The Pass Through Disk For Modi fication screen appears mark the check box for the pass through disk from the pass through drive pool and click on the Submit button to select drive When the Enter Pass Through Disk A
68. 1882 VOL 004 0 0 5 Normal Es2sLOT 01 ARC 1882 VOL 005 0 0 6 Normal E 3SLOT 06 134 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 5 Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a RAID set 1 Click on the Check Volume Set link 2 Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check Click on Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit but ton Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity vol ume set check means computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing the results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive The checking percentage can also be viewed by click ing on RAID Set Hierarchy in the main menu 6 6 6 Schedule Volume Check A volume check is a process that verifies the integrity of redun dant data To verify RAID 3 5 6 30 50 or 60 redundancy a volume check reads all associated data blocks computes parity reads parity and verifies that the computed parity matches the read parity Volume checks are very important because they detect and cor rect parity errors or bad disk blocks in the drive A consistency check forces every block on a volume to be read and any bad blocks are marked those blocks are not used again This is criti cal and important because a bad disk block can prevent a disk rebuild from completing We strongly recommend that you run consistency checks on a
69. 1E requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 30 requires at least 6 physical drives RAID 50 requires at least 6 physical drives RAID 60 requires at least 8 physical drives After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set press the Enter to confirm the Create Raid Set function An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanu meric characters to define a unique identifier for this new RAID set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set Press Enter key to finish the name editing Press the Enter key when you are finished creating the current RAID set To continue defining another RAID set repeat step 3 To begin vol ume set configuration go to step 8 Choose the Volume Set Function from the main menu Select Create Volume Set and press the Enter key Choose a RAID set from the Create Volume From Raid Set window Press the Yes key to confirm the selection 45 BIOS CONFIGURATION Choosing Foreground Fast Completion Press Enter key to define fast initialization or selected the Background Instant Available or No Init To Rescue Volume In the Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for System reads and writes The operating system can instantly access
70. 4 TCP PORT It depends on your OS version Parameters TCP PORT value 1265535 If TCP PORT assigned Archttp will start from this port Otherwise it will use the setting in the archttpsrv conf or default 81 This is the port address assigning for the archttp configuration Cfg Assistant Such as archttp64 1553 2 Archttp server console started Controller card detected then ArcHttp proxy server screen appears Copyright c 2004 Areca Inc All Rights Reserved Areca HTTP proxy server V2 00 for Areca RAID controllers Controller s list Cfg Assistant Listen to port 1553 Controller 1 PCI Listen to port 1554 Binding IP 0 0 0 0 Note IP 0 0 0 0 stands for any ip bound to this host EE EO E ERE E ERE ERERE HERE HERE HERE ERE E GE 110 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Press CTRL C to exit program 33H EHEEHEHERE ERE HE E HE HE HE HE E E E E E ERE B IE Controller 1 Http New client 9 accepted Controller 1 Http New Recv 243 bytes Controller 1 Http Send 174 bytes back to the client See the next chapter detailing the McRAID Storage Manager to customize your RAID volume set 3 If you need the Cfg Assistant please refer to section 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration 4 See the next chapter detailing the McRAID storage manager to customize your RAID volume set Because our management need Java support so user may need upgrade to version 1 6 or later 5 3 For FreeBSD You must h
71. 60 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB Volume Raid Setup i potion Volume Creation Volume Set Fu Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 2b Capacity 2400 0GB a Stripe Size Gk o SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 8 0 SCSI LUN 2 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller function simulates a external SCSI RAID controller The host bus represents the SCSI chan nel Choose the SCSI Channel A Select SCSI Channel dialog box appears select the channel number and press the Enter key to confirm it Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Se Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 3h Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID RO SCSI LUN 8 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled BIOS CONFIGURATION e SCSI ID Each device attached to the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller as well as the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices It is necessary to assign a SCSI ID to each device from a list of available SCSI IDs Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Se Volume Creation Create Volt RAY TCR Ella Con 240 01010 Create Rai Raid Level 205 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 0 SCSI LUN EU Cache Mode Write Back BET Ke Tere Enabled E yO e SCSI LUN Each SCSI
72. 6Gb s SAS RAID Cards USER S Manual Version 1 0 Issue Date April 2012 Copyright and Trademarks The information of the products in this manual is subject to change without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual All brands and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners This manual contains materials protected under International Copyright Conventions All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying without the written permission of the manufacturer and the author FCC Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the lim its for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against in terference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interfer ence will not occur in a particular installation Manufacturer s Declaration for CE Certification We confirm ARC 1882 series have been tested and found comply with the requirements set up in the council directive on the approximation of the l
73. 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Installation In this scenario you are installing the controller in an existing Windows system To install the driver 99 DRIVER INSTALLATION 100 1 Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 the Hardware Installation Chapter to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the con troller McBIOS RAID manager Use the configuration utility to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager Once a volume set is created and config ured continue with installation of the driver 3 Re Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller and launche the Found New Hardware Wizard which guides you in installing the SAS RAID driver 4 The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard will pop up and provide a choice of how to proceed Choose Display a list of known driv ers for this device so that you can choose a specific driver and click on Next 5 When the next screen queries the user about utilizing the cur rently installed driver click on the Have Disk button 6 When the Install From Disk dialog appears insert the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller driver diskette or the shipping soft ware CD and type in or browse to the correct path for the Copy Manufacturer s Files from dialog box 7 After specifying the driver location the previous dialog box will appear showing the selected driver
74. 7 6 3 Time To Low RPM Mode This function can automatically spin disks at lower RPM if there have not been used during the setting idle time The values can be selected Disabled or within the range 10 to 60 minutes 87 BIOS CONFIGURATION Low RPM Mode Hdd Power Disabled 10 20 30 40 50 View System Events 60 Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 6 7 4 Time To Spin Down Idle Hdd This function can automatically spin down the drive if it hasn t been accessed for a certain amount of time This value is used by the drive to determine how long to wait with no disk activity before turning off the spindle motor to save power The values can be selected Disabled or within the range 1 to 60 minutes Spin Down Hdd d Hdd Power Disabled 1 3 5 10 15 View System Events 20 Clear Event Buffer 30 Hardware Monitor 40 System information 0 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 7 Ethernet Configuration Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration It is not necessary to create reserved disk space on any hard disk for the Ethernet port and HTTP service to function these func tions are built into the controller firmware move the cursor bar to the main menu Ethernet Configuration Function item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function
75. 82 VOL You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level m5 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size SCSI Channel 0 Sca I Edit The Volume Name SCSI Edit e Volume Name Cache RC 1882 VOL 00 Tag Queuing ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION e Raid Level Set the Raid Level for the volume set Highlight Raid Level and press the Enter key The available RAID levels for the cur rent volume set are displayed Select a RAID level and press the Enter key to confirm Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Valine Gani Volume Set Function Physical Drives Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 SCR NA Gua aA Raid Level Hdd Power Manage Capacity 2400 92 5 Ethernet Configuratio Stripe Size 64K Sissi Rel Level View System Events SCSI Channel 0 Clear Event Buffer SCSI ID a0 041 Hardware Monitor SCSI LUN HO System information Cache Mode Write Tag Queuing Enabl e Capacity The maximum available volume size is the default value for the first setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your ap plication The capacity value can be increased or decreased by the UP and DOWN arrow keys The capacity of each volume set must be less than or equal to the total capacity of the RAID set on which it resides Volume Creation m Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL
76. 882FIRM BIN RAID kernel program ARC1882MBRO BIN Master Boot Record for supporting Dual Flash Image in the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller README TXT contains the history information of the software code change in the main directory Read this file first to make sure you are upgrading to the proper binary file Select the right file for the upgrade Normally user upgrades the ARC1882BIOS BIN for sys tem M B compatibility and ARC1882FIRM BIN for RAID function upgrades Note Please update all binary code BIOS BOOT and FIRM before you reboot system Otherwise a mixed firmware package may hang the controller 157 APPENDIX A 2 Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager Get the new version firmware for your 6Gb s SAS RAID controller For example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the C drive T A d wt Areca Technology Corporation open all close all T 5 g DODDODDDDUDD gEemio nos 1 To upgrade the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller firmware move the mouse cursor to Upgrade Firmware link The Upgrade The Raid System Firmware or Boot Rom screen appears 2 Click Browse Look in the location to which the Firmware upgrade software was downloaded Select the file name and click Open 3 Click Confirm The Operation and press the Submit button 4 The web browser begi
77. AAOAAA 4yv 4A w L L OCOCAAAA U C CA CCAAAAARDpoGOOABRAAEAEi L VIV AAQ 47 BIOS CONFIGURATION 4 If you need to add an additional volume set use the main menu Create Volume Set function The total number of physical drives in a specific RAID set deter mine the RAID levels that can be implemented within the RAID set Select Quick Volume Raid Setup from the main menu all possible RAID level will be displayed on the screen Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Total 5 Drives Volume Set Functi Physical Drives Raid 0 Raid System Fun Raid 1 0 Hdd Power Manag Raid 1 0 Spare Ethernet Configurd Raid 3 View System Eve Raid 5 Clear Event Buffe Raid 3 Spare Hardware Monitor Raid 5 Spare System informatio Raid 6 Raid 6 Spare If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater Two TB Volume Support sub menu Quick Volume Raid Setup l Raid Set Functio Use 64bit LBA Volume Set Func Use 4K Block Physical Drives Raid System Fun Raid 1 0 Hdd Power Mana Raid 1 0 Spare Ethernet Configuy Raid 3 View System Eve Raid 5 Clear Event Buff Raid 3 Spare Hardware Monitoy Raid 5 Spare System informati Raid 6 Raid 6 Spare e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e Use 64bit LBA This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB SSS SSS 48 BIOS CONFIGURATION This option w
78. AID configuration information on the disk drives The controller therefore protects the configuration settings in the event of controller failure Online array roaming allows the administrators the ability to move a complete RAID set to another system without losing RAID configuration infor mation or data on that RAID set Therefore if a server fails the RAID set disk drives can be moved to another server with an Areca RAID controllers and the disks can be inserted in any order e Online Capacity Expansion Online Capacity Expansion makes it possible to add one or more physical drives to a volume set without interrupting server op eration eliminating the need to backup and restore after recon figuration of the RAID set When disks are added to a RAID set unused capacity is added to the end of the RAID set Then data A 4 M Y 181 APPENDIX 182 on the existing volume sets residing on the newly expanded RAID set is redistributed evenly across all the disks A contigu ous block of unused capacity is made available on the RAID set The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets A disk to be added to a RAID set must be in normal mode not failed free not spare in a RAID set or passed through to host and must have at least the same capacity as the smallest disk capacity already in the RAID set Capacity expansion
79. Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 10 Empty HDD Slot LED The firmware has added the Empty HDD Slot LED option to setup the fault LED light ON or OFF when there is no HDD installed When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this option to OFF Choose option ON the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller will light the fault LED if no HDD installed Hardware System inff Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priorit SATA NCQ Suppor HDD Read Ahead Cad ON Volume Data Read Ah Hdd Queue Depth Se Empty HDD Slot LED Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 11 Controller Fan Detection The ARC 1882ix series incorporate one big passive heatsink at taching a active cooling fan that allows the hot devices such as a ROC and expander chip to keep cool In addition newer systems already have enough air flow blowing over the controller If the systems have provided enough adequate cooling for ROC and expander chip user can remove the attaching fan on the big passive heat sink The Controller Fan Detection function is available in the firm ware for detecting the cooling fan function on the ROC which uses the active cooling fan When using the passive heatsink on the controller disable the Controller Fan Detection func tion through this McBIOS RAID manager setting The following
80. D On Board Cache 1GB on board DDR3 1333 SDRAM Management In Band PCIe Port Out of Band BIOS LCD LAN Port Enclosure Individual Activity Faulty Header SGPIO SMP SES 2 Ready Note Low profile bracket has included on the low profile board ship ping package Ul HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 Hardware Installation This section describes the procedures for installing the 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers 16 2 1 Before You First Installing Thanks for purchasing the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller as your RAID data storage subsystem This user manual gives simple step by step instructions for installing and configuring the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller To ensure personal safety and to protect your equipment and data reading the following information package list carefully before you begin installing Package Contents If your package is missing any of the items listed below con tact your local dealers before you install Disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included e 1 x 6Gb s SAS RAID controller in an ESD protective bag e 1 x Installation CD containing driver relative software an electronic version of this manual and other related manual e 1 x User manual e 1 x Low profile bracket 2 2 Board Layout The controller can support a family included 8 ports models as well as industry first 8 12 16 24 internal ports with additional 4 exter nal ports This section provides the board layout and connect
81. D level 1 1E 10 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set transitions from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the PEE S B e 183 APPENDIX migration is completed the volume set transitions to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further transitions to rebuilding state e Online Volume Expansion Performing a volume expansion on the controller is the process of growing only the size of the latest volume A more flexible op tion is for the array to concatenate an additional drive into the RAID set and then expand the volumes on the fly This happens transparently while the volumes are online but at the end of the process the operating system will detect free space at after the existing volume Windows NetWare and other advanced operating systems sup port volume expansion which enables you to incorporate the additional free space within the volume into the operating sys tem partition The operating system partition is extended to incorporate the free space so it can be used by the operating system without creating a new operating system partition You can use the Diskpart exe command line utility included with Windows Server 2003 or the Windows 2000 Resource Kit to ex tend an existing partition into free space in the dynamic disk Third party software vendors
82. D state will change to Degraded Mode and start to work I TeTeTeTeTt Create Raid Set Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set Delete Hot Spare Rescue Raid Set Raid Set Information 56 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 6 Create Hot Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller will result in the screen Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare The Create Hot Spare gives you the ability to define a global or dedicated hot spare Unlike Global Hot Spare which can be used with any RAID sets Dedicated Hot Spare can only be used with a specific RAID set or Enclosure When a disk drive fails in the RAID set or enclosure with a dedicated hot spare is pre set data on the disk drive is rebuild automatically on the dedicated hot spare disk Volume Set IE41Sc 204 Ann ICR Hitachi UNT7IENANDY A360 Physical Dri Eu Syste EXE Select Hot Spare Type Hdd Power o C Ee SAE Ethernet Co IES Dedicated To RaidSet View Syste Dedicated To Enclosure Clear Event room ore Hardware M JE 1Solt 07 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 System info E 1Solt 08 500 1GB ST3500630NS ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 2 7 Delete Hot Spare Select the target h
83. E 62 e Copaci pc Em 63 SUID Gi SIZC rc ttctasvies TE 65 SCSI ID isicie ites itis coivevetis ERYRVERECE SER NEAR ERR CORR EgERA EU Lo EXER 66 Cache Mode m 67 Tad Queuing ione tiie cen et ex ene tese o yaw coves DER a a ERE E CR 67 3 7 3 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 68 3 7 3 3 Delete Volume Set cesseseeeseen enne 69 3 7 3 4 Modify Volume Set essem nnns 69 3 7 3 5 Check Volume Set eessseeseeeneen enne 71 3 7 3 6 Stop Volume Set Check eeeeen nnn 72 3 7 3 7 Display Volume Set Info eeeseeeeeeennnnnn 72 3 7 4 Physical DriveS iecit ott Ateiceanihtey a baud vrr trad Er COE 73 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information eeeeeeeeen nnn 73 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk sess 74 3 7 4 3 Modify Pass Through Disk esseseeeeeseeeeese 74 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk esses 74 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive sess nnn 75 3 7 4 6 Identify Enclosure sesessssseseemene 75 3 7 5 Raid System Function cesseeeeeen nennen 76 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper eeeseeeen nennen 77 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting cre he he hn a ets 77 3 7 5 3 Change Password ceceee cece eect e eens eee ee eee neeeenaes 78 3 7 5 4 JBOD RAID Function eeeeeeemmme menn 78 3 7 5 5 Background Task Priority onasssinsviinsrssiuveivisiusvntuuiiiuns 79
84. EB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 9 2 SAS Chip Information To view the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s SAS controller and at tached expander chip information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the SAS Chip Information link The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller SAS Chip Information screen ap pears User can click on ROC controller and SAS expander item on the SAS Chip Information screen It will show statistic page for ports on the ROC controller and SAS expander Click on the Clear Error Log to refresh the fully statistic page 500184D400051000 ENCEI 8 Expander 1 500184690801823F 4x6 Expander 2 500184690C00023F 4x6G 500184690801823F Jozza lenc 2 38 Expander 3 500184692007403F 4x66 Cortroller S00184D400051000 4x6C S00184690CO0023F ust 0223 Controller 500184D400051000 4x56 reca ARC 8016 B0 00 b000 500184692007403F irs 0223 ENC 4 38 Expander 1 500184690801823F 4x6G 6 9 3 System Information To view the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s system information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the Sys tem Information link The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller RAID Subsystem Information screen appears Use this feature to view the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s system information The controller name controller firmware version Boot ROM version SAS firmware version serial number
85. Gb s SAS RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Win dows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers support SCSI Miniport and StorPort Drivers for Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 The Storport driver is new to Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 Stor port implements a new architecture designed for better perfor mance with RAID systems and in Storage Area Network SAN environments Storport delivers higher I O throughput enhanced manageability and an improved miniport interface Storport bet ter utilizes faster controllers through the use of reduced Delay Procedure Call DPC and improved queue management 4 2 2 Install Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 on a 6Gb s SAS RAID Volume The following instructions explain how to install the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller device driver For completed details on installing Windows see the Windows User s Manual 4 2 2 1 Installation Procedures The following procedures detail installing the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller driver while installing Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Have your bootable Microsoft Windows CD and follow the re quired procedure below to install 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 1 Make sure you follow the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to access the Mc BIOS RAID manager Use the McBIOS RAID manager to
86. J1 Manufacture Purpose Port 12 pin box header 12 pin header 3 13 Individual Fault Activity LED Header 8 pin header Table 2 3 ARC 1882LP connectors 19 HARDWARE INSTALLATION J H ESE scn2 f D eT NN E Lm uim LS Figure 2 4 ARC 1882x 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Type 1 01 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 2 12 Manufacture Purpose Port 12 pin header Table 2 4 ARC 1882x connectors The following describes the ARC 1882 series link activity LED Link LED Activity LED p LLLLLLLSmms LL Link LED When link LED illuminate that indicates the link LED is Green light connected Activity LED The activity LED illuminate that indicates the adapter is Blue light active HARDWARE INSTALLATION Tools Required An ESD grounding strap or mat is required Also required are stan dard hand tools to open your system s case System Requirement The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller can be installed in a universal PCIe slot and requires a motherboard that ARC 1882 series 6Gb s SAS RAID controller requires e Comply with the PCIe 2 0 x8 lanes It can work on the PCIe 2 0 x1 x4 x8 and x16 signal with x8 or x16 mechanical slot M B e Backward compatibe with PCIe 1 0 Installation Tools The following items may be needed to assist with installing the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller into an available PCIe
87. Mm 195 RAID XO pe 195 Ulo 196 INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction This section presents a brief overview of the 6Gb s SAS RAID control ler ARC 1882 series PCIe 2 0 to 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers 1 1 Overview SAS 2 0 is designed for much higher speed data transfer than pre vious available and backward compatibility with SAS 1 0 The 6Gb s SAS interface supports both 6Gb s and 3Gb s SAS SATA disk drives for data intensive applications and 6Gb s or 3Gb s SATA drives for low cost bulk storage of reference data The ARC 1882 family includes 8 ports low profile as well as 12 16 24 internal ports with additional 4 external ports models The ARC 1882LP 1882i 1882x support eight 6Gb s SAS ports via one inter nal amp one external two internal two external mini SAS connector The ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 attaches directly to SATA SAS midplanes with 3 4 6 SFF 8087 internal connector or increase capacity using one additional SFF 8088 external connector When used with 6Gb s SAS expanders the controller can provide up to 128 devices through one or more 6Gb s SAS JBODs making it an ideal solution for enterprise class storage applications that called for maximum configuration flexibility ARC 1882LP 1882i 1882x 6Gb s RAID controllers are low profile PCI cards ideal for 1U and 2U rack mount systems These control lers utilize the same RAID kernel that has been field proven in ex isting external RAID controller products allowing Areca to q
88. RAID hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your sys tem The old version agent has to modify the open source project integrate the changes from Areca manually then take the modified binaries and manually deploy them Users need to change source code from the linux distribution and then main tain it by themselves 174 APPENDIX The new version agent provides the way to integrate with those codes into snmpd snmptrapd and create a sub agent for user easy to install it The new version SNMP extension agent instal lation for Linux procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt pack ages Linux SNMP readme txt or download from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards AP Drivers Linux SNMP V4 1 C 3 4 3 FreeBSD You must have administrative level permission to install Areca RAID software This procedure assumes that the Areca RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system The old version agent has to modify the open source project integrate the changes from Areca manually then take the modified binaries and manually deploy them Users need to change source code from the linux distribution and then main tain it by themselves The new version agent provides the way to integrate with those codes into snmpd snmptrapd and create a sub agent for user easy to install it The new version SNMP extension agent instal lation for FreeBSD procedure please refer to CD ROM Mpack ages FreeBSD SNMP readme txt or dow
89. RAID 30 50 60 volume you need create multiple RAID sets up to 8 RAID sets first with the same disk members on each RAID set The max no disk drives per volume set 32 for RAID 0 1 10 3 5 6 and 128 for RAID 30 50 60 JE 1Solt 5 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 6 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 7 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 JE 1Solt 8 500 1GB ST3500630NS ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set To completely erase and reconfigure a RAID set you must first delete it and re create the RAID set To delete a RAID set select the RAID set number that you want to delete in the Select Raid Set To Delete screen Then Delete Raid Set dialog box will ap pear press the Yes to delete it Warning data on RAID set will be lost if this option is used But for deleting RAID set with the Raid 30 50 60 volume firstly you need to delete the volumes belonging those RAID sets Raid Set 000 3 3 Disk Normal Raid Set 001 9 9 Disk Normal j 8 l ga msc Raid Set 0067 No Raid Set 007 3 3 Disk Normal ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set i olume Raid Setup Rai Raid Set Function Select IDE Drives For Raid Set Expansion Raid Set WW ei Raid Set 004 3 3 Raid Set 005 3 3 No Raid Set 006 3 3 Disk Normal
90. RAID Storage Manager from Linux FreeBSD Solaris Mac Local Administration To configure the internal 6Gb s SAS RAID controller You need to know its IP address You can find the IP address assigned by the Archttp proxy server installation Binding IP X X X X and controller listen port 1 You can click the individual adapter icon located on left column of the Archttp Configurations screen or Launch your McRAID storage manager by entering http Computer IP Address Port Number in the web browser 2 When connection is established the System Login screen appears The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller default User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager Through Ether net Port Out of Band Areca now offers an alternative means of communication for the PCIe RAID controller web browser based McRAID storage man ager program User can access the built in configuration without needing system starting up running the ArcHttp proxy sever The web browser based McRAID storage manager program is an HTML based application which utilizes the browser installed on your remote system To ensure proper communications between the PCIe RAID con troller and web browser based McRAID storage manager Please connect the RAID controller LAN port to any LAN switch port The controller has embedded the TCP IP amp Web Browser based RAID manager in the firmware User can remote manage the RAID controller without add
91. SAS 4i to SATA Cable The Min SAS 4i to SATA cables are used for connection between the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller internal connectors and connectors on the SAS SATA disk drives or SAS SATA connector backplane The 6Gb s SAS controllers has 1 6 Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 inter _ EEEE E ee ee ee RR E 29 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 30 nal connectors each of them can support up to four SAS SATA drives These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with standard SATA connectors backplane The following diagram shows the picture of Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA cables Backplane supports SGPIO header can leverage the SGPIO function on the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller through the sideband cable The SFF 8448 sideband signals cable is reserved for the back plane with header on it Sideband Cable ges Figure 2 9 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4x SATA cable 2 4 2 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4xSFF 8482 Cable These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with out a backplane The kind of cable will attach directly to the SAS disk drives The following diagram shows the picture of Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 to 4xSFF 8482 cables HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 4 3 Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 to Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 cable The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers have 1 6 Min SAS 4i internal SFF 8087 connectors each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals These controllers can be install
92. SNMP configuration The following screen is the firmware embed ded SNMP configuration setup screen using browser based man ager To launch the above browser based RAID controller SNMP func tion click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show available items Select the SNMP Configuration item The firmware embedded SNMP agent manager monitors all system events and the SNMP function becomes functional with no agent software required SNMP Trap IP Address 2 p E IF E pete n SNP Trap IP Address 3 b b b b pue fe SNMP System Configurations Disable SNMP Trap Urgent Error Notification Sen T confirm The operation Sunt reset 1 SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP Trap IP Address 2 SNMP System Configurations Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type in the com munity names of the SNMP agent Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny ac cess to the system Most network devices use public as de fault of their community names This value is case sensitive The system Contact Name and Location that will be shown in the outgoing SNMP trap 169 APPENDIX 3 SNMP Trap Notification Conf
93. To Offline n RAID Set Functions D Create RAID Set Raid Set 000 Raid Set 001 6 5 5 Rename Raid Set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set when it is first created by the controller The Rename Raid Set function is for customer to rename the default RAID set name To rename a RAID set from a group of RAID sets 1 Click on the Rename Raid Set link 2 Click the RAID set check box from the list that you wish to rename Click the Submit button The following screen appears Use this option to rename the RAID set name 34 amp Areca Technology Corporation 4 Jopen all close all Ned iet COE Enter The RaidSet Name S Quick Function i lame Raid Set 000 Disks 2 30 068 OF Q Activate Incomplete RAID D Create Hot Spare 6 5 6 Activate Incomplete Raid Set If one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State If the user wants to continue to operate the controller without power off the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller the user can use the Activate Incomplete Raid Set option to active the RAID set After the user completes this function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode and start to work To activate the incomplete the RAID set click on the Activate Raid Set link A Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is displayed showing all RAID sets existing on the c
94. a com tw Account Enter the valid account if your SMTP mail server need authentication Password Enter the valid password if your SMTP mail server need authentication MailTo Name Enter the alert receiver name that will be shown in the outgoing mail Mail Address Enter the alert receiver mail address Ex admin areca com tw 113 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 3 Event Notification Configurations According to your requirement set the corresponding event level Disable Event Notification No event notification will be sent Urgent Error Notification Send only urgent event Serious Error Notification Send urgent and serious event Warning Error Notification Send urgent serious and warning Event Information Notification Send all event Notification For No Event Notify user if no event occurs within 24 hours e SNMP Tr nfiguration To enable the controller to send the SNMP traps to client SNMP manager using the IP address assigned to the operating system such as Net SNMP manager you can simply use the SNMP function on the ArcHttp proxy server software To enable the RAID controller SNMP traps sending function click on the SNMP Configuration link The Archttp proxy only provide one direction to send the trap to the SNMP manager without needing to install the SNMP extension agent on the host If SNMP manager requests to query the SNMP information from RAID controller please refer the Appendix C SNMP Operation amp
95. a ve aer a ci n c a C C a 112 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration essessesssssessenm mene 112 6 Web Browser based Configuration 117 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager see 117 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local Administrations ss ixi a Edwardus dx RR EAR 118 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Linux FreeBSD So laris Mac Local Administration seem 119 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager Through Ethernet Port Out of Bandy sedis ento ed Laer rE nave e REO Puede e aue a 119 6 2 6Gb s SAS RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager 120 6 3 Main MONU mE 121 6 4 Quick FUNCHION s irren cere e xeu e Rx Yr deve EX Rn EXER ERR RAE 121 6 5 Raid Set FUNCTIONS 25 eerie eter eros cu ac E ected 122 6 5 1 Create Raid Set esssssseeseeeseen nennen nnn nnn 122 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set ssssseeseeeseen nennen nnns 123 6 5 3 Expand Raid Set scies ineo RR dh nna 123 6 5 4 Offline Raid Set Loon ccectr Eo Tyr Ip eee eee lke aav vies 124 6 5 5 Rename Raid Set sessssssesseeeseen nennen nens 125 6 5 6 Activate Incomplete Raid Set csseeeeeeeeen 125 6 5 7 Create Hot Spare pedi E ERR duvet OSEE 126 6 5 8 Delete Hot Spare esesseeseeeneen meme eene nnns 127 6 5 9 Rescue Raid Set sessessseeseeeseen nennen nennen nnn 127 6 6 Volume Set Functions eeesseseeeeeenn mmn 128 6 6 1 Create
96. access and background tasks appropriately For high array performance specify an Ultra Low value Like volume initialization after a volume rebuilds it does not require a system reboot High Reliability e Hard Drive Failure Prediction In an effort to help users avoid data loss disk manufacturers are now incorporating logic into their drives that acts as an early warning system for pending drive problems This system is called SMART The disk integrated controller works with multiple sensors to monitor various aspects of the drive s performance determines from this information if the drive is behaving normally or not and makes available status information to 6Gb s SAS RAID controller firmware that probes the drive and look at it The SMART can often predict a problem before failure occurs The controllers will recognize a SMART error code and notify the administer of an impending hard drive failure e Auto Reassign Sector Under normal operation even initially defect free drive media can develop defects This is a common phenomenon The bit density and rotational speed of disks is increasing every year and so are the potential of problems Usually a drive can internally remap bad sectors without external help using cyclic redundancy check CRC checksums stored at the end of each sector The RAID controller drives perform automatic defect re assign ment for both read and write errors Writes are always completed if a locatio
97. ace refers to transport SNMP data of 6Gb s SAS controllers from a remote station connected to the control ler through a network cable Before launching the SNMP manager on clinet you need first to enable the firmware embedded SNMP agent function and no additional agent software inquired on your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up this function see the section 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration e In Band Using PCIe Host Bus Interface In band interface refers to management of the SNMP data of 6Gb s SAS controllers from a PCIe host bus In band interface is simpler than out of band interface for it requires less hardware ex Jf Hs 38 HARDWARE INSTALLATION in its configuration Since the SAS controller is already installed in the host system no extra connection is necessary Just load the necessary in band Areca SNMP extension agent for the control lers Before launching the SNMP agent in the sever you need first to enable the firmware embedded SNMP community configuration and install Areca SNMP extension agent in your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up the function see the SNMP Operation amp Installation section in the Appendix C Single Admin Portal SAP Monitor This utility can scan for multiple RAID units on the network and monitor the controller set status For add
98. aid Level 28 Stripe Size 64K Block Size 512 Bytes Member Disk 2 5 Cache Attribute Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 3 5 Check Volume Set Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with a dedicated parity disk drive a volume set check entails computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing those results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive To check volume set move the cursor bar to the Check Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all RAID set number items Move the cursor bar to an RAID set number item and then press the Enter key to show all volume set items Select the volume set to be checked from the list and press En ter key to select it After completed the selection the confirma tion screen appears press Yes to start the check Z1 BIOS CONFIGURATION ARC 1882 VO ARC 1882 VO ARC 1882 VO ARC 1882 VOE 3 7 3 6 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop all of the Check Volume Set operations 3 7 3 7 Display Volume Set Info To display volume set information move the cursor bar to the desired volume set number and then press the Enter key The Volume Set Information screen will be shown You can only view the information of this volume set in this screen but can
99. all mraid zip file that resides at CD ROM gt packages MacOS to add the installer on the Finder 3 Launch the installer by double clicking the install mraid on the Finder 4 Follow the installer on screen steps responding as needed to complete the Areca driver and MRAID ArcHTTP and CLI utility installation Install see T E RT RH EE stoi F ArcHTTP For Snow Leopard 10 6 F CLI For Snow Leopard 10 6 Description This installs the driver for Snow Leopard 10 6 e Driver is required for the operating system to be able to inter act with the Areca RAID controller e ArcHTTP has to be installed for GUI RAID console MRAID storage manager to run It also runs as a service or daemon in the background that allows capturing of events for mail and SNMP traps notification Refer to the section 5 6 Archttp Configu ration for details about the mail and SNMP traps configuration e Command Line Interface CLI lets you set up and manage RAID controller through a command line interface Arc cli per forms many tasks at the command line You can download arc cli manual from Areca website or software CD lt CDROM gt DOCS directory a ar 104 DRIVER INSTALLATION 5 A reboot is required to complete the installation This will start the ArcHTTP so RAID Console can be used 6 Normally archttp64 and arc cli are installed at the same time on 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Once archttp and arc cli have been
100. anager The MIB file enables the SNMP manager to interpret trap messages from devices To make sense out of a trap that s sent by a device the SNMP manager needs to have access to the MIB that describes the format and content of the possible traps that the device can send The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli ance with these MIBs so that inter vendor interoperability can be achieved To be available for the SNMP manager a command adds the MIB file for each of devices to the MIB database This enables the devices to be managed via the SNMP manager The following figure illustrates the various components of an SNMP based management architecture 165 APPENDIX Event Configuration Performance Manager Application Managed Resource Definition Service Layer and Protocols SNMP Agent Physical Managed Object Network resources C 3 SNMP Installation Perform the following steps to install the Areca RAID control ler SNMP function into the SNMP manager The installation of the SNMP manager is accomplished in several phases Step 1 Installing the SNMP manager software on the client Installing the SNMP manager software on the client This instal lation process is well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP manager application Step 2 Compiling the MIB description file with the manage ment Placing a copy of the RAID controller s MIBs file in a directory which is accessible to the management applicat
101. and is used for writing data The remaining cache memory will be used for reading and other sys tem overhead Write buffer threshold for 5 is added for video recording This option will push data to disk early This feature gives controller extra buffer time in case of slow response from the hard drives within a given time Consequently this can prevent a pause in data flow and there will be continues data access and stream This feature is very useful for the video streaming applications where there is high demand for constant non stop data flow with no interruption due to lower performance of specific hardware e Amount of Read Ahead Read Ahead data is buffered in the RAID controller cache howev er thereby cutting down on the amount of I O traffic to the disk The Amount of Read Ahead defines how many data of reading at a time making more efficient use of the RAID subsystem This makes it possible to locate and re issue the data without repeti tive hard parsing activities The Amount of Read Ahead parameter is used to allocate an amount of memory in the cache memory the frequently executed queries and return the result set back to the host without real disk read execution Default value is Auto Controller will base on the HDD number to set the amount of Read Ahead value You can select between 512KB 16MB WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Number of AV Stream RAID controllers are required to have not only the function of pr
102. and more environments The CLI is useful in en vironments where a graphical user interface GUI is not avail able Through the CLI you perform firmware upgrade that you can perform with the McRAID storage manager GUI The controller has added protocol on the firmware for user to update the controller firmware package BIOS BOOT FIRM and MBRO through the util ity To update the controller firmware follow the procedure below Parameter lt path lt PATH_OF_FIRMWARE_FILE gt gt Fn Firmware Updating Ex Update Firmware And File Path Is In C FW ARC1882FIRM BIN Command sys updatefw path c fw arc1882firm bin Enter 160 APPENDIX Appendix B Battery Backup Module ARC 6120BA T121 B 1 Overview The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller operates using cache memory The Battery Backup Module is an add on module that provides power to the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller cache memory in the event of a power failure The Battery Backup Module monitors the write back cache on the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller and provides power to the cache memory if it contains data not yet written to the hard drives when power failure occurs B 2 BBM Components This section provides the board layout and connector jumper for the BBM CJ SAS RAID Controller X 2 2 _BBM s Connecto s Connector g A G E e I VO 4 Battery Connector 4 tie Status of Battery o HH LI LJ D8 Oiler
103. arameter specifies the controller firmware algorithms which process the read ahead data blocks from the disk The Data Read Ahead parameter is normal by default To modify the value you must set it from the Raid System Function using the Volume Data Read Ahead option The default Normal option satisfies the performance requirements for a typical volume The Disabled value implies no read ahead The most efficient value for the controllers depends on your application The Aggressive value is optimal for sequential access but it degrades random access Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Ca A l volume Data Read At MOVUGADEIC MS CEA Hdd Queue Depth Se Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED sd System in Controller Fan Detecti QUO Auto Activate Raid Se Disabled Disk Write Cache Mod Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 9 Hdd Queue Depth Setting This parameter is adjusted the queue depth capacity of NCQ SAS HDD or Tagged Command Queuing SAS HDD which transmits multiple commands to a single target without waiting for the initial command to complete 81 BIOS CONFIGURATION Hardware System inf Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Empty HDD Slot LED Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write
104. ast volume set capacity move the cursor bar to the Capacity item and entry the capacity size When finished the above action press the ESC key and select the Yes option to complete the action The last volume set starts to expand its capacity To expand an existing volume noticed e Only the last volume can expand capacity e When expand volume capacity you can t modify stripe size or modify RAID revel simultaneously e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size e After volume expansion the volume capacity can not be decreased For greater 2TB expansion e If your system installed in the volume don t expand the volume capacity greater 2TB currently OS can t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device e Expand over 2TB used 64bit LBA mode Please make sure your OS supports 64bit LBA before expand it NM a SS 70 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 4 2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another when a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set Migration state is displayed in the volume state area of the Volume Set Information screen The Volume Set Information Quick Volume Raid Setu Volume Set Name ARC 1882 VOL 004 Raid Set Name Raid Set 02 Create vt Volume Capacity 1200 0GB Create Rai Volume State Migration Delete Vol SCSI CH ID Lun 0 0 4 R
105. ave administrative level permissions to install 6Gb s SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the 6Gb s SAS RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system The following details the FreeBSD installation procedure of the 6Gb S SAS RAID controller software 1 Insert the RAID controller software CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES FreeBSD http directory to local The next following step is the same with Linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux 5 4 For Solaris 10 X86 Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD or website http www areca com tw The step is same with Linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux 111 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 5 For Mac OS 10 X The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the software CD delivered with 6Gb s SAS RAID controller or download from the www areca com tw The firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller via ArcHttp proxy server The Archttp proxy server for Mac pro please refer to Chapter 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac 10 X 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration The ArcHttp proxy server will automatically assign one additional port for setup its configuration If you want to change the archttp srv conf setting up of ArcHttp proxy server configuration for example General Configuration Mail Configuration and SNMP Configuration please start Web Browser http Wocalhost Cfg As
106. building Urgent Some rebuilding Reinserted the missing member MigrationLBA migration raidset disk back controller will member disks continued the incompleted missing before power rebuilding migration on 179 APPENDIX Appendix E RAID Concept RAID Set A RAID set is a group of disks connected to a RAID controller A RAID set contains one or more volume sets The RAID set itself does not define the RAID level 0 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 etc the RAID level is defined within each volume set Therefore volume sets are contained within RAID sets and RAID Level is de fined within the volume set If physical disks of different capaci ties are grouped 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 Volume Set Each volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device in other words a single large virtual hard disk A volume set will use a specific RAID level which will require one or more physical disks depending on the RAID level used RAID level refers to the level of performance and data protection of a volume set The capacity of a volume set can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist in a RAID set For the RAID controller a volume set must be created either on an existing RAID set or on a group of available individual disks disks that are about to b
107. chnology Corporation I Stop Auto Refresh Controller H W Monitor CPU Temperature 60 oC Controller Temp 3e c CPU Fan 3350 RPM 12v 12 160 V EU 5 053 V 33v 3 360 V TO Voltage 1 8V 1 856 V DOR3 1 5V 1 536 V CPU VCore 1 0V 1 040 V Analog 1 0V 1 040 V DDR3 0 75V 0 752 V Battery Status Not Installed sEndosure 1 ARECA SAS RAID AdapterV1 0 1 Enclosures Areca ARC 8016 80 00 b000 27 0 970 V sv 5 040 v 3 3V 3 370 V Ey 12 120 V Fan Di 3600 RPM Fan 02 4190 RPM Fan 03 4120 RPM APPENDIX Appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process A 1 Overview Since the PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller features flash ROM firmware it is not necessary to change the hardware flash chip in order to upgrade the RAID firmware The user can simply re pro gram the old firmware through the In Band PCIe 2 0 bus or Out of Band Ethernet port McRAID Storage manager and nflash DOS util ity New releases of the firmware are available in the form of a DOS file on the shipped CD or Areca website The files available at the FTP site for each model contain the following files in each version ARC1882NNNN BIN Software Binary Code NNNN refers to the software code type ARC1882BIOS BIN PCIe 2 0 BIOS for system board using ARC1882BOOT BIN RAID controller hardware initialization ARC1
108. chnology Corporation open all close alll Ports No SNMP Trap Wil Be Sent Send Only Urgent Event 6 8 7 NTP Configuration The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to Coordinated Universal Time UTC via a Global Positioning Service GPS receiver for example A A viet Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all 150 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be used in the configuration file Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and re liability Our NTP configuration supports two existing public NTP synchronization subnets e Time Zone Time Zone conveniently runs in the system tray and allows you to easily view the date and time in various locations around the world You can also quickly and easily add your own personal locations to customize time zone the way you want e Automatic Daylight Saving Aut
109. configuration All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redundancy User needs to delete the RAID set when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function M I 78 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Vol Mute The Alert Beeper Raid Set Alert Beeper Setting Change Password Background Task Priority JBOD RAID Function SATA NCQ Support RAID HDD Read Ahead Cache MAMA Volume Data Read Ahead JBO Hdd Queue Depth Setting Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED System inf Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 5 Background Task Priority The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild priority UltraLow Low Normal High to balance volume set ac cess and rebuild tasks appropriately Quick Vol Mute The Alert Beeper Raid Set Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Prio SATA NCQ Support UltraLow 5 HDD Read Ahead Cad Low 20 Volume Data Read A Medium 50 Hdd Queue Depth Seq High 80 Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED System inf Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 79 BIOS CONFIGURATION 80 3 7 5 6 SATA NCQ Sup
110. ct the RAID set number and press the Enter key The Volume Creation dialog is displayed in the screen 4 The new create volume set attribute allows user to select the Volume Name Raid level Capacity Strip Size SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 5 After completed the modification of the volume set press the Esc key to confirm it An Initialization Mode screen appears eSelect Foreground Faster Completion for faster initialization of the selected volume set e Select Background Instant Available for normal initializa tion of the selected volume set e Select No Init To Rescue Volume for no initialization of the selected volume 61 BIOS CONFIGURATION Volume Name Volume Set 000 Raid Level 15 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size SCSI Chal SCSI ID Background Instant Available No Init To Rescue Volume ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 6 Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create additional volume sets 7 The initialization percentage of volume set will be displayed at the button line e Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as ARC 18
111. cted by sensing the voltage level of one of the pre charge pins before and after a drive is installed The following signals define the SGPIO assignments for the Min SAS 4i internal connector SFF 8087 in the 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller rin Description m Description SideBando SClock Clock signal SideBand1 SLoad Last clock of a bit stream SideBand4 SDataOut Serial data SideBand5 SDataIn Serial data input bit output bit stream stream The SFF 8087 to 4 SATA with sideband cable which follows SFF 8448 specification The SFF 8448 sideband signals cable is reserved for the backplane with header on it The following signal defines the sideband connector which can work with Areca sideband cable on its SFF 8087 to 4 SATA cable HARDWARE INSTALLATION The sideband header is located at backplane For SGPIO to work properly please connect Areca 8 pin sideband cable to the sideband header as shown above See the table for pin definitions SDataln 4 SB5 I2 Tf SB6 F Reserved SDataOut 4 SB4 Ground Ground 4 SB3 6 5 SLoad Reserved 4 SB7 8 7 SBO f SClock Sideband Pin Definitions Note For lastest release versions of drivers please download from http www areca com tw support main htm Step 8 Adding a Battery Backup Module optional Please refer to Appendix B for installing the BBM in your 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Step 9 Re check Fault LED Cable Connections optional Be sure that the prop
112. d those blocks are not used again This is criti cal and important because a bad disk block can prevent a disk rebuild from completing We strongly recommend that you run consistency checks on a regular basis at least once per week Note that consistency checks degrade performance so you should run them when the system load can tolerate it Data Protection e Battery Backup The RAID controllers are armed with a Battery Backup Module BBM While a Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS protects most servers from power fluctuations or failures a BBM provides an additional level of protection In the event of a power failure a BBM supplies power to retain data in the RAID controller s cache thereby permitting any potentially dirty data in the cache to be flushed out to secondary storage when power is restored ERNEEEC Fy 188 APPENDIX The batteries in the BBM are recharged continuously through a trickle charging process whenever the system power is on The batteries protect data in a failed server for up to three or four days depending on the size of the memory module Under nor mal operating conditions the batteries last for three years before replacement is necessary e Recovery ROM RAID controller firmware is stored on the flash ROM and is ex ecuted by the I O processor The firmware can also be updated through the RAID controllers PCIe 2 0 bus port or Ethernet port wit
113. e Once the password has been set the user can monitor and configure the controller only by providing the cor rect password This feature is used to protect the internal RAID system from unauthorized access The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The system will automatically go back to the initial screen if it does not receive any command in 5 minutes To set or change the password move the cursor to Raid System Function screen press the Change Password item The Enter New Password screen will appear Do not use spaces when you enter the password If spaces are used it will lock out the user To disable the password only press Enter key in both the Enter New Password and Re Enter New Password column The ex isting password will be cleared No password checking will occur when entering the main menu Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting t Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED System inff Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 4 JBOD RAID Function JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk A group of hard disks in a RAID box are not set up as any type of RAID
114. e Set function to generate an associated volume set and configuration parameters If the current controller has unused physical devices connected you can choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function to define a global hot spare Select this method to con figure new RAID sets and volume sets The Raid Set Volume Set Function configuration option allows you to associate volume sets with partial and full RAID sets 44 4 BIOS CONFIGURATION To setup the hot spare option choose Raid Set Function from the main menu Select the Create Hot Spare and press the Enter key to define the hot spare Choose Raid Set Function from the main menu Select Create Raid Set and press the Enter key The Select a Drive For Raid Set window is displayed showing the SAS SATA drives connected to the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur rent RAID set It is recommended that you use drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the RAID set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the RAID set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 10
115. e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local Administration Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server installa tion is essentially the same From Arcpttp version 2 0 there Areca RAID Controller icon bar window start appearing in the taskbar double click to launch the ArcHTTP Configuration screen Or click on the Start but ton in the Windows task bar and then click Program select the McRAID and run Archttp proxy server The ArcHTTP Configu rations dialog box appears P TIU x at ArcHTTP Configurations lopen all close all M ArcHTTP v2 00 2 Lj SAS RAID Controllers D ARC 1680 ARC 1880 B BUE SATA RAID Controllers ARC 1200 When you click the archttp from version 2 0 it shows all RAID adapters available on the system and create an individual adapter icon located on left column of the Archttp Configurations screen This adapter icon is for user to launch the selected RAID adapter web browser RAID manager WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The Enter Network Password dialog screen appears type the User Name and Password The RAID controller default User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 After entering the user name and password press Enter key to access the McRAID stor age manager e Start up Mc
116. e requirements for a typical volume The disabled value implies no read ahead The most efficient value for the controllers depends on your application Aggressive read ahead is optimal for sequential access but it degrades random access e HDD Queue Depth This parameter is adjusted the queue depth capacity of NCQ SATA HDD or Tagged Command Queuing SAS HDD which transmits multiple commands to a single target without waiting for the initial command to complete e Empty HDD Slot LED The firmware has added the Empty HDD Slot LED option to setup the fault LED light ON or OFF when there is no HDD installed When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this option to OFF Choose option ON the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller will light the fault LED if no HDD installed e CPU Fan Detection The ARC 1882 series incorporate two passive heatsinks that al low the hot devices such as a ROC and expander chip to keep cool In addition newer systems already have enough air flow blowing over the controller The passive heat sink has provided enough adequate cooling for ROC and expander chip The CPU Fan Detection function is available in the firmware for detecting the cooling fan function on the ROC if you want to use the active cooling fan When using the replaceable cooling fan enable the CPU Fan Detection function through this McBIOS RAID manager setting or Web Browser e SES2 Support If your SAS back
117. e volume set attribute allows user to select the Volume Name RAID Level Capacity Greater Two TB Volume Support Initialization Mode Strip Size Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun 128 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION open all close all C RAID Set Functions G Volume Set Functions 1 Create Volume Set Q Create Raid30 50 60 Delete Volume Set L Modify Volume Set L Check Volume Set LJ Schedule Volume Check L Stop Volume Check CJ Physical Drives SE System Controls CJ Information 4 T Areca Technolo Enter The Volume Attribute Corporation Volume Name Memi Disks Volume Raid Level Max Capacity Allowed Select Volume Capacity Volume Initialization Mode Volume Stripe Size Volume Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing Foreground Initialization ARC 1882 VOL 000 a Raidas 150 GB 150 GB 64 V KBytes Write Back v Enabled SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun le wi o iw o Volumes To Be Created Confirm The Operation Submit Reset e Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as ARC 1882 VOL You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit e Volume Raid Level Set the Raid Level for the volume set Highlight the desired RAID Level from the available RAID levels option e Capaci
118. ecome part of a RAID set If there are pre existing RAID sets with available capacity and enough disks for the desired RAID level then the volume set can be created in the existing RAID set of the user s choice RAID set 1 3 Individual Disks 180 E iE Free Space t Volume 1 RAID 5 Volume 0 1E Disk 1 Disk 2 APPENDIX In the illustration volume 1 can be assigned a RAID level 5 of operation while volume 0 might be assigned a RAID level 1E of operation Alternatively the free space can be used to create vol ume 2 which could then be set to use RAID level 5 Ease of Use Features e Foreground Availability Background Initialization RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used immediately after creation because they do not create parity data However RAID 3 5 6 30 50 or 60 volume sets must be initialized to generate parity information In Background Initialization the initializa tion proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requir ing a reboot and without waiting for initialization to complete Furthermore the volume set is protected against disk failures while initialing If using Foreground Initialization the initializa tion process must be completed before the volume set is ready for system accesses e Online Array Roaming RAID controllers store R
119. ect the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SAS SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears T D Areca Technology Corporation open all close all a Select The Raid Set For Raid Expansion 9 Raid System Console S Quick Function S S RAID Set Functions D Create RAID Set c Raid Set 001 3 3 Noma 90 068 Submit Reset Select the target RAID set by clicking on the appropriate radio button Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Click on the Submit button to start the expansion on the RAID set The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets The volume sets associated with this RAID set appear for you to have chance to modify RAID level or stripe size Follow the instruction presented in the Modify Volume Set to modify the volume sets operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions 6 5 4 Offline Raid Set This function is for customer being able to unmount and remount a multi disk volume All Hdds of the selected RAID set will be put into offline state spun down and fault LED in fast blinking mode User can remove those Hdds and insert new Hdds on those empty slots without needing power down the controller EEE 124 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION T A x tet Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select The Raid Set
120. ed in a server RAID enclosure with Min SAS 4i internal connectors backplane This Min SAS 4i cable has eight signal pins to support four SAS SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive Locate status Figure 2 11 Min SAS 4i to Min SAS 4i cable HARDWARE INSTALLATION 32 2 4 4 External Min SAS 4x Drive Boxes and Drive Expanders The Min SAS 4x external cables are used for connection between the 6Gb s SAS controller external connectors and connectors on the external drive boxes or drive expanders JBOD The 6Gb s SAS controller has Min SAS 4x SFF 8088 external connector each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals 2 5 LED Cables There is no SGPIO supported in the most of old version SATA back plane The 6Gb s SAS controller also provides two kinds of alterna tive LED cable header to support the fault activity status for those backplanes The global indicator connector is used by the server global indicator LED The following electronics schematic is the 6Gb s SAS RAID control ler logical of fault activity header The signal for each pin is cathode side The following diagrams and descriptions describe each type of con nector HARDWARE INSTALLATION Open Collector Low Open Collector Low i 38 9 i i y x M Cathode Side Cathode Side CTL output CTL output LED CT 4 LED CT
121. elete it ARC 1882 VOL 004 Raid an nn an ValY ARC 1882 VOL 009 ARC 1882 VOL 014 ARC 1882 VOL 002 ARC 1882 VOL 003 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 3 4 Modify Volume Set Use this option to modify volume set configuration To modify volume set values from RAID set system function move the cursor bar to the Modify Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all RAID set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number item then press the Enter key to show all volume set items Select the volume set from the list to be changed press the Enter key to modify it As shown volume information can be modified at this screen Choose this option to display the properties of the selected volume set But user can only modify the last volume set capacity 69 BIOS CONFIGURATION Volume Modification Volume Set Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 2 Capacity 2000 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 3 4 1 Volume Growth Use Expand Raid Set function to add disk to a RAID set The additional capacity can be used to enlarge the last volume set size or to create another volume set The Modify Volume Set function can support the Volume Modification function To expand the l
122. en the mail configuration page you will see following settings TAL Et T Arcu TTP Configurations lopen all close all Q ArcHTTP v2 00 SMTP Server Configuration System Functions D General Configuration L Mail Configuration SNMP Trap Configuration SMTP Server IP Address Mail Address Configurations Sender Name Mail Address gt Bg SAS RAID Controllers pm Password ARC 1680 D ARC 1880 S B gRIE SATA RAID Controllers D ARC 1200 MailTo Namet Mail Address MailTo Name2 Mail Address MailTo Name3 Mail Address MailTo Name4 Mail Address a Event Notification Configurations Disable Event Notification No Event Notification Will Be Sent urgent Error Notification Send Only Urgent Event Error Notification Send Urgent And Serious Event a Send Urgent Serious And Warning Event O Information Notification Send All Event C Notification For No Event Notify User If No Event Occurs Within 24 Hours C Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 1 SMTP Server Configuration SMTP Server IP Address Enter the SMTP server IP address which is not MCRAID manager IP Ex 192 168 0 2 2 Mail Address Configurations Sender Name Enter the sender name that will be shown in the outgoing mail Ex RaidController 1Mail address Enter the sender email that will be shown in the outgoing mail but don t type IP to replace domain name Ex RaidController_1 arec
123. er failed drive channel information is dis played by the fault LEDs An improper connection will tell the user to Hot Swap the wrong drive This can result in removing the wrong disk one that is functioning properly from the controller This can result in failure and loss of system data Step 10 Power up the System Thoroughly check the installation reinstall the computer cover and reconnect the power cord cables Turn on the power switch at the rear of the computer if equipped and then press the power button at the front of the host computer Step 11 Install the Controller Driver For a new system e Driver installation usually takes places as part of operating sys tem installation Please refer to Chapter 4 Diver Installation for the detailed installation procedure DRA 27 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 28 In an existing system e To install the controller driver into the existing operating system For the detailed installation procedure please refer to the Chapter 4 Driver Installation Step 12 Install ArcHttp Proxy Server The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller firmware has embedded the web browser McRAID storage manager ArcHttp proxy server will launch the web browser McRAID storage manager It provides all of the creation management and monitor 6Gb s SAS RAID controller status Please refer to the Chapter 5 for the detail ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation For SNMP agent function please refer to Ap pendix C
124. ery Backup Module BBM ready Option RoHS compliant DER a 12 INTRODUCTION RAID Features RAID level 0 1 10 1E 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD e Multiple RAID selection e Online array roaming e Offline RAID set e Online RAID level stripe size migration e Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultane ously e Online volume set growth e Instant availability and background initialization e Support global and dedicated hot spare e Automatic drive insertion removal detection and rebuilding Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support Greater than 2TB per volume set 64 bit LBA support e Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life e Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port Monitors Notification e System status indication through global HDD activity fault con nector individual activity fault connector LCD I2C connector and alarm buzzer e SMTP support for email notification e SNMP support for remote manager e Enclosure management SES 2 SMP and SGPIO ready RAID Management e Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM In Band Manager e Hot key boot up McBIOS RAID manager via M B BIOS e Web browser based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server for all operating systems e Support Command Line Interface CLI e API library for customer to write monitor utility e Single Admin Portal SAP
125. es System Controls System Configuration D Advancd Configuration Hdd Power Management D EtherNet Configuration D Alert By Mail Configuration D SNMP Configuration D NTP Configuration D View Events Mute Beeper Generate Test Event D Clear Event Buffer D Modify Password D Upgrade Firmware C3 Information 6 8 10 Clear Events Buffer VW Confirm The Operation Submit Reset Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Console Do You Want To Clear The Event Buffer 3 CJ Quick Function E RAID Set Functions H 0 Volume Set Functions CJ Physical Drives B System Controls D System Configuration iJ Advancd Configuration D Hdd Power Management L EtherNet Configuration i Alert By Mail Configuration L SNMP Configuration NTP Configuration D View Events Mute Beeper D Generate Test Event D Clear Event Buffer iJ Modify Password Upgrade Firmware I Information Iv Confirm The Operation 152 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 11 Modify Password To set or change the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller password select System Controls from the menu and click on the Modify Pass word link The Modify System Password screen appears The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The password option allows user to set or clear the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s password protection feature Once the pass
126. et Functions CJ Physical Drives 3 system Controls D System Configuration D Advanced Configuration D Hdd Power Management D EtherNet Configuration D Alert By Mail Configuration L SNMP Configuration D NTP Configuration I Confirm The Operation Submit Reset D View Events Mute Beeper D Generate Test Event D Clear Event Buffer D Modify Password a ES inf 6 9 Information 6 9 1 Raid Set Hierarchy Use this feature to view the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller current RAID set current volume set and physical disk information The volume state and capacity are also shown in this screen lopen all close all Raid System Console S Quick Function RAID Set Functions Rad Set 000 E 3SLOT 11 ARC 1882 VOL 000 0 0 0 Normal HI ELS E 2SLOT 02 ARC 1882 VOL amp 007 0 0 3 Normal CJ Physical Drives J HQ System Controls E22SLOT 04 E 2SLOT 06 E22SLOT 07 D System Information E 2SLOT 10 J Hardware Monitor EXISTE Esastor 02 Raid Set 001 Es3SLOT 12 ARC 1882 VOL amp 001 0 0 1 Normal E23SLOT 13 ARC 1882 VOL 002 0 0 2 Normal E 2SLOT 02 ARC 1882 VOLs003 0 0 4 Normal Es3SLOT 04 ARC 1882 VOl 004 0 0 5 Normal E 2SLOT 01 ARC 1882 VOL 005 0 0 6 Normal E 3SLOT os s Enclosures ARECA SAS RAID AdapterV1 0 W
127. expansion slot e Small screwdriver e Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Instructions Use the following safety instructions to help you protect your computer system from potential damage and to ensure your own personal safety e Always wear a grounding strap or work on an ESD protective mat Warning High voltages may be found inside computer equipment Be fore installing any of the hardware in this package or remov ing the protective covers of any computer equipment turn off power switches and disconnect power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers HARDWARE INSTALLATION 22 e Before opening the system cover turn off power switches and unplug the power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers Electrostatic Discharge Static electricity can cause serious damage to the electronic com ponents on this 6Gb s SAS RAID controller To avoid damage caused by electrostatic discharge observe the following precau tions e Do not remove the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller from its anti stat ic packaging until you are ready to install it into a computer case e Handle the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller by its edges or by the metal mounting brackets at its each end e Before you handle the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller in any way touch a grounded anti static surface such as an unpainted por ti
128. file then the welcome screen ap pears iG ArcSamyConf InstallShield Wizard 4 Click the Next button and then the Ready Install the Pro gram screen will appear Follow the on screen prompts to com plete Areca SNMP extension agent installation iG AreSampCont InstallShield Wizard InstallShield Wizard Completed Tho installshield Wizard has successfull installed Archnpcor Clic Prish to ex the wiar 5 A Progress bar appears that measures the progress of the Areca SNMP extension agent setup When this screen completes you have completed the Areca SNMP extension agent setup 172 APPENDIX yaf InstallShield Wizard 6 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box of the installation program is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation Starting SNMP Trap Notification Configurations To start SNMP Trap Notification Configruations There have two methods First double click on the Areca RAID Controller Riso Second you may also use the Taskbar Start programs Areca Technology Corp ArcSnmpConf menus shown below F sar and De 989 andis pdt 173 APPENDIX SNMP Community Configurations About community Community name acts as a password to Screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type in the community names of the SNMP agent Before access is granted to a
129. for the first time or delete and reconfigure existing RAID sets A RAID set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets 6 5 1 Create Raid Set To create a RAID set click on the Create Raid Set link A Select The Drive For RAID Set screen is displayed showing the drive s connected to the current controller and enclosures Click on the selected physical drives within the current RAID set Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for a RAID set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set i Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button on the screen the RAID set will start to initialize If you have available disk member you can repeat above proce dures nu define another RAID sets E oan ra Wis i Areca Technology Corporation lopen ali close all ID Se Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 26 768 36 868 jor os 26 808 sor 04 36 868 or os 36 808 stor oe 36 000 Fursu wAxaoaenc laor o7 asaca runrsu waxaosenc stor os 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VL5300 stor os 36 68 Fumsu maxsosenc or 10 36 808 Fursu mwan j orn 30 868 lrunrtsu max oras 36 760 nra loris 36 768 lnrract Musas lstor 14 36 768 HrrAcHI Hus151436VLs300 laor 15 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VL5300 T aora 36768 erracsa nus 1s1436vL5300 Raid Set 000 Max 128 Volumes ahhh aa
130. global hot spare The hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces e Hot Swap Disk Drive Support The RAID controller chip includes a protection circuit that sup ports the replacement of SAS SATA hard disk drives without hav ing to shut down or reboot the system A removable hard drive tray can deliver hot swappable fault tolerant RAID solutions This feature provides advanced fault tolerant RAID protection and online drive replacement e Auto Declare Hot Spare If a disk drive is brought online into a system operating in de graded mode the RAID controllers will automatically declare the new disk as a spare and begin rebuilding the degraded volume The Auto Declare Hot Spare function requires that the smallest drive contained within the volume set in which the failure oc curred In the normal status the newly installed drive will be reconfig ured an online free disk But the newly installed drive is auto matically assigned as a hot spare if any hot spare disk was used Eee 185 APPENDIX to rebuild and without new installed drive replaced it In this condition the Auto Declare Hot Spare status will be disappeared if the RAID subsystem has since powered off on The Hot Swap function can be used to rebuild disk drives in ar rays with data redundancy such as RAID level 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 and 60 e Auto Rebuilding If a hot spare is available the rebuild starts automaticall
131. gn the default SMTP Port Number of the controller DHCP Function Enable Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 HTTP Port Number 80 Ethernet Config i EMEN Nambe Edit The SMTP Port Number View System EY SMTP Port Number Edit The SMTP Port Number Clear Event Bu EtherNet Address 0 DS System informate 3 7 7 6 Ethernet Address Each Ethernet port has its unique Mac address which is also factory assigned Usually Ethernet address is used to uniquely identify a port in the Ethernet network Quick Volume Raid Sg Raid Set Function Ethernet Configuration vorme SE Funen DHCP Function Enable Physical Drives Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 Raid System Functio HTTP Port Number 80 Inlet FOIS Menera Telnet Port Number 23 SMTP Port Number 25 Ethernet Configuratio Sy EterNet Address 00 04 D9 7F FF FF Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 8 View System Events To view the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s system events informa tion move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the View System Events link then press the Enter key The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s events screen appear Choose this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapsed Time and Errors The RAID system does not have a build in real time clock The time information is the relative time from the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller powered on
132. group move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Raid30 50 60 link The Select The Raid Set To Create Volume On It screen will show all RAID set number Tick on the RAID set numbers same disk No per RAID set that you want to cre ate and then click on it The created new volume set attribute option allows users to select the Volume Name Capacity Raid Level Strip Size SCSI ID LUN Cache Mode and Tagged Command Queuing The detailed description of those parameters can refer to section 3 7 3 1 User can modify the default values in this screen the modification procedures are in section 3 7 3 4 Create Raid 30 50 60 Free Capacity Raid Set 001 1000 0GB 8000 0GB Raid Set 003 150 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 004 150 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 006 150 0GB Raid Set 007 150 0GB 240 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 005 150 0GB 240 0GB ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 3 Delete Volume Set To delete volume set from a RAID set move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Delete Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Func tions menu will show all Raid Set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number then press the Enter key to show all volume sets within that RAID set Move the cursor to the volume set number that is to be deleted and press the Enter key to d
133. he stripes written to each disk in a RAID O 1 10 1E 5 or 6 volume set You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size provides better read performance especially when the computer preforms mostly sequential reads How ever if the computer preforms random read requests more often choose a smaller stripe size 5 When you are finished defining the volume set press the Yes key to confirm the Quick Volume And Raid Set Setup function Foreground Fast Completion Press Enter key to define fast initialization or selected the Background Instant Available or No Init To Rescue Vol ume In the Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Foreground Initialization the initialization proceeds must be com pleted before the volume set ready for system accesses In No Init there is no initialization on this volume Initialize the volume set you have just configured If you need to add additional volume set using main menu Create Vol ume Set function 3 6 Using Raid Set Volume Set Function Method In Raid Set Function you can use the Create Raid Set function to generate a new RAID set In Volume Set Function you can use the Create Volum
134. hedule Volume Check hock TB Volume Support Foreground Initialization v 64M kBytes Write Back Enabled baka F Confirm The Operation 6 6 3 Delete Volume Set To delete a volume from RAID set move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Delete Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Delete screen will show all RAID set numbers Click a RAID set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Submit button to show all volume set items in the selected RAID set Click a volume set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Sub mit button to delete the volume set k A Viet Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all S Raid System Console S Quick Function S RAID Set Functions S S Volume Set Functions D Create Volume Set Select volumesetName onmaidset capiy v ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Set 002 30 068 Modi folume Set L Check Volume Set EE D Schedule Volume Check Stop Volume Check 3 Physical Drives 8 C System Controls C Information 132 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 4 Modify Volume Set To modify a volume set from a RAID set 1 Click on the Modify Volume Set link 2 Click the volume set check box from the list that you wish to modify Click
135. hout the need to replace any hardware chips During the con troller firmware upgrade flash process it is possible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller firmware With our Redundant Flash Image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crash 189 APPENDIX Appendix F 190 Understanding RAID RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks It is an array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provides high performance and fault tolerance The RAID controller imple ments several levels of the Berkeley RAID technology An appro priate RAID level is selected when the volume sets are defined or created This decision should be based on the desired disk capacity data availability fault tolerance or redundancy and disk performance The following section discusses the RAID levels supported by the RAID controllers The RAID controllers makes the RAID implementation and the disks physical configuration transparent to the host operating system This means that the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selected Correct installation of the disk array and the control ler requires a proper understanding of RAID technology and the concepts RAID O RAID O also referred to as striping writes stripes of data across
136. igration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities a system with online RAID level stripe size migration allows a simplified upgrade to any supported RAID level without having to reinstall the operating system The RAID controllers can migrate both the RAID level and stripe size of an existing volume set while the server is online and the volume set is in use Online RAID level stripe size migration can prove helpful during performance tuning activities as well as when additional physical disks are added to the RAID control ler For example in a system using two drives in RAID level 1 it is possible to add a single drive and add capacity and retain fault tolerance Normally expanding a RAID level 1 array would require the addition of two disks A third disk can be added to the existing RAID logical drive and the volume set can then be migrated from RAID level 1 to 5 The result would be parity fault tolerance and double the available capacity without taking the system down A forth disk could be added to migrate to RAID level 6 It is only possible to migrate to a higher RAID level by adding a disk disks in an existing array can t be reconfigured for a higher RAID level without adding a disk Online migration is only permitted to begin if all volumes to be migrated are in the normal mode During the migration pro cess the volume sets being migrated are accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAI
137. igurations Please refer to Chapter 2 of Event Notification Configurations C 3 3 Using In band PCI SNMP extension agent Installa tion By using the IP address assigned to the operating RAID control ler using Areca SNMP extension agent through PCIe host bus interface a Set only Community field and select the SNMP Port option on the firmware embedded SNMP configuration function There is no function to set other fields on SNMP System Configuration The SNMP community and SNMP port can setup by using brows er based manager or CLI SNMP configuration To launch the above browser based RAID controller SNMP function click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show available items Select the SNMP Configuration item The follow ing SNMP System Configuration screen is launched by browser based manager About community Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type in the community names of the SNMP agent Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive APPENDIX b Mark the check box on the SNMP Through PCI Inband setting and keep space or zero
138. ing any user specific software platform independent via standard web browsers directly connected to the pa Ha H nU 119 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 10 100Mbit RJ45 LAN port To configure RAID controller on a remote machine you need to know its IP address The IP address will default show in McBIOS RAID manager of Ethernet Configuration or System Informa tion option Launch your firmware embedded TCP IP amp web browser based McRAID storage manager by entering http IP Address in the web browser ote You can find controller Ethernet port IP address in McBIOS RAID manager System Information option 6 2 6Gb s SAS RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager The McRAID storage manager initial start up screen displays the current configuration of your 6Gb s SAS RAID controller It displays the Raid Set List Volume Set List and Physical Disk List The RAID set information volume set information and drive informa tion can also be viewed by clicking on the RAID Set Hierarchy screen The current configuration can also be viewed by clicking on RAID Set Hierarchy in the main menu Es T lopen all close all Raid system Console a Ch Id Lun o Ai 00 0 0 Norm ARC 1882 VOL 007 0 0 31 Normal Raid Set 001 ARC 1882 VOL 001 0 0 1 Normal 2
139. ion and compile the MIB description file with the SNMP management applcation database Before the manager application accesses the Areca RAID controller it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management applica tion s database of events and status indicator codes This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP manager application Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the areca sas mib file into the traps database The MIBs file resides at lt CD ROM gt packages SNMP_MIBs on the software CD or download from http www areca com tw a nee 166 APPENDIX Each RAID controller needs to have its own MIBs file Areca provide 4 adapters MIBs file for users User can request it if more control lers install on one system Note 1 The MIB compiler may be not installed by default with SNMP manager 2 Some SNMP managers have unique rule on the format of MIB files you may need to refer the error message to modify the mib file to be able to met the software requirement Step 3 SNMP Service Method With Areca series RAID cards there are 3 service methods to get snmp ArcHttp Onboard NIC and in band PCIe SNMP extension agent 1 Service Method 1 using ArcHttp Proxy Server Pay attention to these e Do Not check mark the option SNMP Through PCI e Make
140. is only permitted to proceed if all volumes on the RAID set are in the normal status During the expansion process the volume sets being expanded can be accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAID level 1 10 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set changes from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the expansion is completed the volume set would then transition to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further changes to the rebuilding state The expansion process is illustrated as following figure Before Array Expansion i Eo E E Free Space 40GB E EE Volume 1 40GB D E Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 120GB RAID controller redistributes the original volume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance configuration The unused capacity on the expand RAID set can then be used to create an additional volume set with a different fault tolerance setting if required by the user APPENDIX After Array Expansion Adding One Disk E a M Free Space 80GB p E E volume 1 40GB D E I BELL Il Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 40 GB 40 GB 40GB 40 GB Array A 160GB e Online RAID Level and Stripe Size M
141. itional information see the utility manual SAP in the packaged CD or download it from the web site http www areca com tw 39 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The system mainboard BIOS automatically configures the following 6Gb s SAS RAID controller parameters at power up e I O Port Address e Interrupt Channel IRQ e Controller ROM Base Address Use McBIOS RAID manager to further configure the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller to suit your server hardware and operating system 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager This section explains how to use the McBIOS RAID manager to configure your RAID system The McBIOS RAID manager is de signed to be user friendly It is a menu driven program residing in the firmware which allows you to scroll through various menus and sub menus and select among the predetermined configuration options When starting a system with a 6Gb s SAS RAID controller in stalled it will display the following message on the monitor during the start up sequence after the system BIOS startup screen but before the operating system boots ARC 1882 PCIEx8 2 5G RAID Controller DRAM 1024 MB Channels 8 BIOS V1 22d Date 2010 11 16 F W V1 49 Date 2011 05 31 Bus Dev Fun 4 0 0 I 0 Port 28000000h IRQ 11 BIOS C800 Oh ID LUN 00 0 Vol Areca ARC 1882 VOL 000R001 Size 3 6 TB ID LUN 00 1 Vol Areca ARC 1882 VOL 001R001 Size 3 6 TB ID LUN 00 2 Vol Areca ARC 1882 VOL
142. k level across a set of drives and then a second set of parity is calculated and written across all of the drives Logical Disk RAID 6 P Q Redundancy A Blocks B Blocks C Blocks D Blocks E Blocks F Blocks GU d d cx Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 Disk 6 RAID xO RAID level x0 refers to RAID level 00 100 30 50 and 60 RAID x0 is a combination multiple RAID x volume sets with RAID O striping Striping helps to increase capacity and performance without adding disks to each RAID x array The operating system uses the spanned volume in the same way as a regular volume Up to one drive in each sub volume RAID 3 or 5 may fail with out loss of data Up to two drives in each sub volume RAID 6 may fail without loss of data RAID level x0 allows more physi cal drives in an array The benefits of doing so are larger volume sets increased performance and increased reliability The following illustration is an example of a RAID level x0 logical drive APPENDIX Logical Disk RAID X Volume X 0 10 1E 3 5 6 RAID X Volume X 0 10 1E 3 5 6 JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks A group of hard disks in a RAID box are not set up as any type of RAID configuration All drives are avail able to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redundancy Single Disk Pass Through Disk Pass through disk refers to a drive that is not controlled by the
143. kill off slow speed disk There is nothing physically wrong with the disk A manually failed the drive can be rebuilt by the hot spare and brought back on line 3 7 2 9 Raid Set Information To display RAID set information move the cursor bar to the de sired RAID set number then press the Enter key The Raid Set Information will appear You can only view information for the RAID set in this screen Raid Set Name Raid Set 000 su Member Disks Raid State Initializing Raid Power State Operating Total Capacity 14000 0GB Free Capacity 2233 3GB Min Member Disk Size 2000 0GB Member Disk Channels E3S1 E3S2 E3S3 E3S4 E3S5 E3S6 E3S7 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 3 Volume Set Function A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device it is organized in a RAID level within the controller utiliz ing one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set can consume all of the capacity or a portion of the available disk capacity of a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist on a RAID set If multiple volume sets reside on a specified RAID set all volume sets will reside on all physical disks in the RAID set Thus each volume set on the RAID set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the RAID set rather than one volume set using some of the available disks
144. l device It is organized in a RAID level with one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set capacity can consume all or a portion of the disk capacity available in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist on a group of disks in a RAID set Additional volume sets created in a specified RAID set will reside on all the physical disks in the RAID set Thus each volume set on the RAID set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the RAID set The following is the volume set features for the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same RAID set and up to 128 volume sets per controller 2 Up to 128 volume sets can be created in a RAID set 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not lim ited to 2TB because the controller is capable of 64 bit LBA mode However the operating system itself may not be capable of ad dressing more than 2TB See Areca website ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Docu ments Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 ZIP file for details 6 6 1 Create Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 To create volume set from RAID set system move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Create On It screen will show all RAID set number Tick on a RAID set number that you want to create and then click on the Submit button The new creat
145. ller in the event that an error recovery process is taking longer than time out specifications allow This prevents the RAID controller from dropping the drive from the array during this period Default value is manufacture setting You can select between 5 6 and 7 second This feature is to setup the HDD in ternal timeout value e Timeout Setting Disk time out is a registry setting that defines the time that RAID controller will wait for a hard disk to respond to a command You can modify the retry value by entering a new value in the edit box beside this button and then selecting the button Normally you should not need to modify this value Default value is 8 seconds You can select between 3 8 second 143 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 144 e Number of Retries This setting determines the number of access that will be at tempted before the current command from the RAID controller to the disk drive is aborted You can modify the retry value by entering a new value in the edit box beside this button and then selecting the button Normally you should not need to modify this value There are two selections either 2 retry or 3 retry e Buffer Threshold This new feature there are 3 options 25 50 75 The percentage represents how much data should be kept in resident cache memory how full cache should get before controller starts to flush data onto the hard drives If the buffer is set for 25 then all 25 will be cached
146. lume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Select DHCP Setting HTTP Port Number E Telent Port Number SMTP Port Number EtherNet Address 00 04 D9 7F FF FF 3 7 7 2 Local IP address If you intend to set up your client computers manually no DHCP make sure that the assigned IP address is in the same range as the default router address and that it is unique to your private network However it is highly recommend to use DHCP if that option is available on your network An IP address alloca tion scheme will reduce the time it takes to set up client com puters and eliminate the possibilities of administrative errors and duplicate addresses To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to Local IP address item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassign the static IP address of the controller Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functip Volume Set Fu Physical Drives DHCP Function Enable AGES SUE Local IP Address E 168 001 100 Hdd Power Maj HTTP Port Number Telent Port Number Ethernet Config View System E SMTP Port Number Clear Event Bul EtherNet Address Hardware Moni ESSI TUBE iz BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 7 3 HTTP Port Number To manually configure the HTTP Port Number of the controller move the cursor bar to HTTP Port Number item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting i
147. managed by the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller The driver installation is a part of the operating system installation Installing 6Gb s SAS RAID controller into an existing operat ing system The computer has an existing operating system installed and the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is being installed as a secondary control ler Have all required system hardware and software components on hand before proceeding with the setup and installation Materials required e Microsoft Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Linux FreeBSD Solaris and Mac installation CD e 6Gb s SAS RAID controller software CD e 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskettes The software CD disc shipped with the ARC 1882 series 6Gb s RAID controller is a self booting CD In order to created driver diskettes for Windows Linux FreeBSD Solaris and Mac installation drivers your system is required to support booting from the CD ROM If you do not have the software CD disc with the package contact your local dealers or you can also download the latest version drivers for Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 XP Linux FreeBSD Solaris and Mac from the Areca web site at http www areca com tw These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating rmm M HM Sl RR RU mp ll 95 DRIVER INSTALLATION 96 system installations For Windows 7 2008 Vista you can copy the Windows driver file to USB device and installed from it Determine the correct
148. n lopen all close alll Raid System Console ag 15 Raid 5 Spare 420 GB a20 GB Foreground nitialization w amp Y KBytes Max 128 Volumes 9 T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset The number of physical drives in the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller determines the Raid Levels that can be implemented with the RAID set You can create a RAID set associated with exactly one volume set The user can change the Raid Level Capacity Initialization Mode and Stripe Size A hot spare option is also created depending on the exist configuration Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the Quick Create screen the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize 121 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ote In Quick Create your volume set is automatically configured based on the number of disks in your system Use the Raid Set Functions and Volume Set Functions if you prefer to customize your volume set or RAID 30 50 60 volume set 6 5 Raid Set Functions Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you pre fer to customize your volume set Manual configuration can provide full control of the RAID set settings but it will take longer to com plete than the Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select the Raid Set Function to manually configure the RAID set
149. n disks at lower RPM if there have not been used during the setting idle time The values can be selected Disabled or within the range 10 to 60 minutes 6 8 3 4 Time To Spin Down Idle HDD This function can automatically spin down the drive if it hasn t been accessed for a certain amount of time This value is used by the drive to determine how long to wait with no disk activity before turning off the spindle motor to save power The values can be selected Disabled or within the range 1 to 60 minutes 6 8 3 5 SATA Power Up In Standby SATA Power Up In Standby power management 2 mode PM2 is a SATA disk drive configuration which prevents the drive from automatic spinup when power is applied Enabled option al lows the drive to be powered up into the Standby power man agement state to minimize inrush current at power up and to al low the controller to sequence the spinup of devices It is mainly for server workstation environments operating in multiple drive configurations pa O X H n 147 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 148 6 8 4 Ethernet Configuration Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration A customer doesn t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working The firm ware embedded Web Browser based RAID manager can access it from any standard internet browser or from any
150. n t modify stripe size or modify RAID level simultaneously e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size aT 133 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e After volume expansion the volume capacity can t be decreased For greater 2TB expansion e If your system installed in the volume don t expand the volume capacity greater 2TB currently OS can t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device e Expand over 2TB used LBA64 mode Please make sure your OS supports LBA64 before expand it 6 6 4 2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another when a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set Migration state is displayed in the volume state area of the Volume Set Information screen Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Conscle Devices Volume Set Ch Id Lun Raid Set 000 Es3sLoT 11 ARC 1882 Voi 000 0 0 0 E 3SLOT 03 ARC 1882 VO 007 0 0 3 Normal E22SLOT 03 Es23LOT 04 D E 2SLOT 06 D SAS Chip Information E 2SLOT 07 D System Information Es28LOT 10 D Hardware Monitor EUNT Es3sLOT 02 Raid Set 001 E 3SLOT 12 ARC 1882 VOLs001 0 0 1 Normal sastoT 13 ARC 1882 VOL 002 0 0 2 Normal E 2SLOT 02 ARC 1882 VO 003 0 0 4 Normal E 3SLOT 04 ARC
151. n the RAID con troller Then You can reassign the default HTTP Port Number of the controller Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functiga DHCP Function Enable Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 Eth t Conf HTTP Port Number 80 errnet ono Telnet Port Number View System E SMTP Port Number Clear Event Bu EtherNet Address Hardware Moni System informare 3 7 7 4 Telnet Port Number To manually configure the Telnet Port Number of the controller move the cursor bar to Telnet Port Number item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassign the default Telnet Port Num ber of the controller Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functiga Volume Set Fu Ethernet Configuration DHCP Function Enable Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 HTTP Port Numbe T Ethernet Config Telnet Port Number Edit The Telent Port Number View System EJ SMTP Port Numbe Clear Event Bu EtherNet Address Hardware Moni System informatre BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 7 5 SMTP Port Number To manually configure the SMTP Port Number of the control ler move the cursor bar to the main menu Ethernet Configu ration function item and then press Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to SMTP Port Number item then press Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassi
152. n to be written is found to be defective the drive will automatically relocate that write command to a new location and map out the defective location If there is a recoverable read error the correct data will be transferred to the host and that location will be tested by the drive to be certain the location is not 187 APPENDIX defective If it is found to have a defect data will be automatically relocated and the defective location is mapped out to prevent future write attempts In the event of an unrecoverable read error the error will be re ported to the host and the location will be flagged as being po tentially defective A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location prove to have a defect Auto Reassign Sector does not affect disk subsystem performance because it runs as a background task Auto Reassign Sector discontinues when the operating system makes a request e Consistency Check A consistency check is a process that verifies the integrity of re dundant data To verify RAID 3 5 6 30 50 or 60 redundancy a consistency check reads all associated data blocks computes par ity reads parity and verifies that the computed parity matches the read parity Consistency checks are very important because they detect and correct parity errors or bad disk blocks in the drive A consistency check forces every block on a volume to be read and any bad blocks are marke
153. nload from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards AP_Drivers FreeBSD SNMP V4 1 175 APPENDIX Appendix D Event Notification Configurations The controller classifies disk array events into four levels depend ing on their severity These include level 1 Urgent level 2 Serious level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notifica tion events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 1 is the highest level and covers events that need immediate attention and action from the administrator The following lists sample events for each level A Device Event Device Inserted Warning HDD reading error Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Device Removed Reading Error Writing Error Warning HDD writing error Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Warning HDD ECC error Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Warning HDD change ATA Check HDD connection mode Warning HDD time out Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Urgent HDD failure Replace HDD PCI Parity Error Serious PCI parity error If only happen once it may be caused by noise If always happen please check power supply or contact to us
154. nnel Choose the SCSI Channel SCSI ID Each SCSI device attached to the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is a large SCSI device Assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most 6Gb s SAS controllers treat each LUN like a SAS disk 6 6 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 To create 30 50 60 volume set from RAID set group move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Raid30 50 60 link The Select The Raid Set To Create Volume On It screen will show all RAID set number Tick on the RAID set numbers same disk No per RAID set that you want to cre ate and then click on the Submit button The new create volume set attribute allows user to select the Volume Name Raid Level Capacity Greater Two TB Volume Support Initialization Mode Strip Size Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun Please refer to above section for details description of each item RAID level 30 50 and 60 can support up to eight RAID set four pairs but it can not support expansion and migration 131 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION z ka l tf Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all E Volume Attribute ARC 1882 VOL 000 PD D If Modify Volume Set apacity HO Check Volume set D Sc
155. ns to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash ROM 5 After the firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware Has Been Updated Successfully 6 After the new firmware completes downloading find a chance to restart the controller computer for the new firmware to take effect The web browser based McRAID storage manager can be accessed through the In Band PCIe bus or Out of Band LAN port The In Band method uses the ArcHttp proxy server to launch the McRAID storage manager The Out of Band method allows local or remote to access the McRAID storage manager from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required ee ET 158 APPENDIX Controller with onboard LAN port you can directly plug an Ethernet cable to the controller LAN port then enter the McBIOS RAID manager to configure the network setting After network setting configured and saved you can find the current IP address in the McBIOS RAID manager System Information page From a remote pc you can directly open a web browser and enter the IP address Then enter user name and password to login and start your management You can find the firmware update feature from the Raid system Console on the System Controls option A 3 Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility Areca now offers an alternative means communication for the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Upgrade
156. ntly replaced and the rebuild operation is completed 2 5 1 Recognizing a Drive Failure A drive failure can be identified in one of the following ways 1 An error status message lists failed drives in the event log 2 A fault LED illuminates on the front of RAID subsystem if failed drives are inside 36 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 5 2 Replacing a Failed Drive With RAID subsystem drive tray you can replace a defective physical drive while your computer is still operating When a new drive has been installed data reconstruction will be automatically started to rebuild the contents of the disk drive The controller always uses the smallest hotspare that fits If a hotspare is used and the defective drive is exchanged on line the new inserted HDD will automatically assign as a hotsapre HDD Note The capacity of the replacement drives must be at least as large as the capacity of the other drives in the raid set Drives of insufficient capacity will be failed immediately by the RAID controller without starting the Automatic Data Rebuild 2 6 Summary of the installation The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for 6Gb S SAS RAID controllers These procedures includes hardware instal lation the creation and configuration of a RAID volume through the McBIOS McRAID manager OS installation and installation of 6Gb s SAS RAID controller software The software components configure and monitor
157. ntroller Volume Note 1 The maximum no is 32 disk drives included in a single RAID set HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 6 Install SAS Cable This section describes SAS cable how to connect on controller im P a fps ra T rej J SS be Am x N POIs x8 Min SAS 4i connector Min SAS 4i connector Figure 2 8 SAS cable connect to backplane 25 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 26 Step 7 Install the LED Cable option The preferred I O connector for server backplanes is the inter nal SFF 8087 connector This connector has eight signal pins to support four SAS SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive Locate status See SFF 8485 for the specification of the SGPIO bus For backplane without SGPIO supporting Please refer to Section 2 4 LED cables for fault activity LED cable installation LED Management The backplane may contain LEDs to indicate drive status Light from the LEDs could be transmitted to the out side of the server by using light pipes mounted on the SAS drive tray A small microcontroller on the backplane connected via the SGPIO bus to a 6Gb s SAS RAID controller could control the LEDs Activity blinking 5 times second and Fault solid illuminated Drive Locate Circuitry The location of a drive may be dete
158. o each disk in a RAID O 1 1E 10 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB 49 BIOS CONFIGURATION Available Capacity 2400 0GB Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Select Strip Size Physical Drives Raid System Fund Raid 1 0 Hdd Power Manad Raid 1 0 Sp Ethernet Configur Raid 3 View System Eve Raid 5 Clear Event Buffey Raid 3 Spare Hardware Monitor Raid 5 Spare System informatio Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer performs random reads more often select a smaller stripe size eboot System gt gt gt Available Capacity 2400 0G Quick Volume Raid Setup i lected Capaci 2400 0GB Total 5 Drives Raid 0 n Raid 1 0 Create Vol Raid Set il Raid 1 0 Sp Ethernet Config Raid 3 No View System E Raid 5 Clear Event Bul Raid 3 Spare Hardware Moni Raid 5 Spare System informa Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Press Yes key in the Create Vol Raid Set dialog box the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize it BIOS CONFIGURATION Select Foreground Faster Completion or Background Instant Available for initialization and No Init
159. ocessing ordinary data but also the function of dealing with AV audio video stream data needing real time processing Since the bus cycle used in RAID controller was designed to transfer the computer data exactly it was unsuitable for the transfer of AV stream needing great band widths They are required to do some setting for the handshaking during the processing of stream data This setting is an object of transferring stream data efficiently on an existing RAID controller Normally you should not need to modify this value Default value is 6 You can select between 67256 To decide how to set AV stream playout parameter you need to check the Number of Stream Amount of Read Ahead and Total Cache Memory during runtime You can try to adjust the three numbers to get the best performance as your requirement Num ber of Stream shows the number of stream added to the system Amount of Read Ahead shows 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 The following is the rule of optimized setting for the AV Stream Playout application e Optimize AV Recording AV recording option is for video recording no time limit but if used in normal operation performance may be degraded This new feature there are 4 options Disabled Mode1 Mode2 and Mode 3 Default value is Disabled Our controller cache uses LRU method the
160. omatic Daylight Saving will normally attempt to automati cally adjust the system clock for daylight saving changes based on the computer time zone This tweak allows you to disable the automatic adjustment Note NTP feature works through onboard Ethernet port So you must make sure that you have connected onboard Ethernet port 6 8 8 View Events Mute Beeper To view the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller s event information click on the View Event Mute Beeper link The 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller System events Information screen appears The mute beeper function automatically enable by clicking on View Events Mute Beeper Select this option to view the system events information Time Device Event Type Elapse Time and Errors The RAID control ler does not have a built in real time clock The time information is the relative time from the system time setting The maximum event no is 256 per controller 151 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Areca Technology Corporation open all close all e Raid System Console 3 Quick Function C RAID Set Functions 2011 06 15 15 15 20 192 168 000 090 HTTP Log In Se ee 2011 06 15 15 00 04 Ence2 SLOT 02 PassThrough Disk Created DM UU CONG 2011 06 15 14 56 59 Enc 2 SLOT 01 PassThrough Disk Created ache CORREA 2011 06 16 14 52 04 192 168 000 090 HTTP Log In D Advancd Configuration 2011
161. ompiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the areca sas mib file into the traps database The MIBs file resides at lt CD ROM gt packages SNMP_MIBs on the software CD Note Event Notification Table refer to Appendix D After you confirm and submit configurations you can use Generate Test Event feature to make sure these settings are correct e Rescan Device Configuration Let s assume you ve put all Areca RAID adapters to a system The Archttp scans the RAID adapters on the system and create a individual adapter icon located on left column of the Archttp Configurations screen This adapter icon is for user to launch web browser RAID manager If there is any RAID adapter missed on the system start up you can use the Rescan Device function The Rescan Device function is a procedure which forces the archttp to rescan the targets to allow a missed RAID adapter to be added 115 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 1 A A 1 om ArcHTTP Configurations a lopen all close all 9 ArcHTTP v2 00 Do You Want To Rescan Device Gy System Functions 0 General Configuration Mail Configuration D SNMP Trap Configuration O gt BE SAS RAID Controllers i ARC 1680 C Confirm The Operation E gE SATA RAID Controllers Q ARC 1200 e
162. on all SNMP Tarp IP Address options C Installing the SNMP extension agent on the server Please refer to next section of SNMP Extension Agent Installation for different operation system such as Windows Linux and Free BSD C 3 4 SNMP Extension Agent Installation The SNMP extension agent on the device is able to return mean ingful highly useful information to the SNMP manager The Areca RAID controllers have supported the extension agent for Win dows Linux and FreeBSD This section is the detail procedures for those extension agent installation C 3 4 1 Windows You must have administrative level permission to install 6Gb s SAS RAID controller extension agent software This procedure assumes that the RAID hardware and Windows are both in stalled and operational in your system To enable the SNMP agent for Windows configure Windows for TCP IP and SNMP services The Areca SNMP extension agent file is ARCSNMP DLL Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the Areca SNMP extension agent installation is essentially the same 1 Insert the Areca RAID controller software CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at CD ROM packages windows SNMP setup exe on the CD If SNMP service was not installed please install SNMP service first 171 APPENDIX 3 Click on the setup exe
163. on of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity 2 3 Installation Use the following instructions below to install a PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Step 1 Unpack Unpack and remove the PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller from the package Inspect it carefully if anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Step 2 Power PC Server Off Turn off computer and remove the AC power cord Remove the system s cover For the instructions please see the computer sys tem documentation Step 3 Check Memory Module Be sure of the cache memory module is present and seated firmly in the DIMM socket DDR3 1333 for ARC1882ix 12 16 24 models The physical memory configuration for ARC 1882ix series is one 240 pin DDR3 1333 ECC single rank SDRAM DIMM module HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 4 Install the PCIe 6Gb s SAS RAID Cards To install the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCIe 2 0 slot Align the gold fingered edge on the card with the selected PCIe 2 0 slot Press down gently but firmly to ensure that the card is properly seated in the slot as shown in Figure 2 5 Then screw the bracket into the computer chassis ARC 1882 se ries controllers require a PCIe 2 0 x8 slot Ji pe mm D PCIe x8 Figure 2 5 Insert 6Gb s SAS RAID controller into a PCIe slot Step 5 Mount the Drives
164. on the Macintosh Disk Utility program Follow the Sess 105 DRIVER INSTALLATION on screen prompts to create a volume set and to assign a disk drive letter 106 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation Overview After hardware installation the SAS SATA disk drives connected to the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller must be configured and the volume set units initialized before they are ready to use The user interface for these tasks can be accessed through the built in configuration that resides in the controller s firmware It provides complete control and management of the controller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software In addition a software utility to configure the 6Gb s SAS RAID control ler is provided on the software CD delivered with 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller This software CD contains the software utility that can monitor test and support the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller The software utility and McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller via ArcHttp proxy server interface The following table outlines their functions Configuration Utility Operating System Supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Linux Via Archttp proxy server FreeBSD Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin Portal to Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 scan for multiple RAID units in
165. once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other sys tem components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives The SAS SATA drives have support stagger spin up capabilities to boost reliability Stagger spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the abil ity to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4 to 6 seconds per step which powers up one drive WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Ls i pE iY Arete Technology Corporation 4 gy p open all close all m 6 8 3 2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle This option delivers lower power consumption by automatically unloading recording heads during the setting idle time The val ues can be selected Disabled or within the range 2 to 7 min utes 6 8 3 3 Time To Hdd Low RPM Mode This function can automatically spi
166. ontroller firmware and thus cannot be a part of a volume set The disk is available directly to the operating system as an indi vidual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating system is on a disk not controlled by the 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller firmware The SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode and Tag Queuing must be specified to create a pass through disk E 1Solt 8 500 1 ZARE E SCSI Channel 0 E 1Solt 10 400 SCSI ID Create Pass Through E 1S0lt 11 400 SCSI LUN E 1Solt 12 500 Cache Mode Tag Queuing No System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 4 3 Modify Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify Pass Through Disk Attributes To select and modify a pass through disk from the pool of pass through disks move the Modify Pass Through Drive option and then press the Enter key The Physical Drive Function menu will show all pass through drive number options Move the cur sor bar to the desired number and then press the Enter key to show all pass through disk attributes Select the parameter from the list to be changed and them press the Enter key to modify it 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool move the cursor bar to the Delete Pass Through Drive item then press the Enter key The Delete Pass Through confirma tion screen will appear
167. oped __ stop checking warning Party checicstopee 177 APPENDIX C RAID Set Event Create RaidSet New RAID set created Delete RaidSet Raidset deleted Expand RaidSet Raidset expanded Rebuild RaidSet Raidset rebuilding RaidSet Urgent Raidset degraded Replace HDD Degraded D Hardware Monitor Event DRAM 1 Bit ECC DRAM 1 Bit ECC error Check DRAM DRAM Fatal Urgent DRAM fatal error Check the DRAM module and Error encountered replace with new one if required Controller Over Abnormally high Check air flow and cooling fan of Temperature temperature detected the enclosure and contact us on controller over 60 degree Hdd Over Abnormally high Check air flow and cooling fan of Temperature temperature detected theenclosure on Hdd over 55 degree Fan Failed Urgent Cooling Fan failure Check cooling fan of the or speed below enclosure and replace with a new 1700RPM one if required Controller Serious Controller Temp temperature back Recovered tonormal level Hdd Temp Recovered On Power On With Warning RAID power on with Battery Backup battery backuped Incomplete Serious Some RAID set Check disk information to find out RAID member disks which channel missing Discovered missing before power on 178 APPENDIX Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In a API login detected Lost Re
168. or jumper for the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller HARDWARE INSTALLATION B EX er a7 _ Sec LS Figure 2 1 ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 1 35 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 2 36 RS232 Port for CLI to configure the RJ11 connector expander functions on the RAID control ler 1 3 CN1 SAS 25 28 Ports External SFF 8088 4 09 R45 5 17 Individaul Fault LED Header 24 pin header 6 J8 Individual Activity HDD LED Header 24 pin header Table 2 1 ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 connectors 1 You can download the ARC1880ix 1882ix Expander CLI PDF manual from http www areca com tw support main htm to view and set expander configuration HARDWARE INSTALLATION M N psa mmn mnn Figure 2 2 ARC 1882i 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 07 R5 2 06 a pin header 3 05 pin header 2 04 cpin header 5 J2 12 pin box header 5 01 12 pin header 7 03 B pin header 8 SCN1 SFF 8087 9 SCN2 SFF 8087 Table 2 2 ARC 1882i connectors 18 HARDWARE INSTALLATION m pas I p i LS Figure 2 3 ARC 1882LP 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Connector Type 1 2 Battery Backup Module Connector 2
169. orks on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB Such as Windows 2003 with SP1 or later Linux kernel 2 6 x or later e Use 4K Block It change the sector size from default 512 bytes to 4k bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works under Windows platform only And it can not be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download pdf file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip A single volume set is created and consumes all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this RAID set Define the capacity of volume set in the Available Capacity popup The default value for the volume set which is 100 of the available capacity is displayed in the selected capacity use the UP and DOWN arrow key to set capacity of the volume set and press Enter key to ac cept this value If the volume set uses only part of the RAID set capacity you can use the Create Volume Set option in the main menu to define additional volume sets Main Menu Peon Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup 1 Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Clear Event By Raid 3 Spare Hardware Mon aaRaid 5 Spare System inform Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written t
170. ormation in the event buffer Hardware Monitor Show the hardware system environment status System Information View the controller system information This password option allows user to set or clear the RAID control ler s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the RAID controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the internal RAID controller from unauthorized entry The control ler will prompt for the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The RAID controller will automatically return to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in five minutes 3 7 1 Quick Volume Raid Setup Quick Volume Raid Setup is the fastest way to prepare a RAID set and volume set It requires only a few keystrokes to com plete Although disk drives of different capacity may be used in the RAID set it will use the capacity of the smallest disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the RAID set The Quick Vol ume Raid Setup option creates a RAID set with the following properties 1 All of the physical drives are contained in one RAID set 2 The RAID level hot spare capacity and stripe size options are selected during the configuration process 3 When a single volume set is created it can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in this RAID set oa OALLLLLGo4LUu LLOO C L L AALALOLA O
171. ot spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Press the Enter key to select a hot spare disk drive and press Yes in the Delete Hot Spare screen to delete the hot spare 57 BIOS CONFIGURATION Raid Set Function Raid Set Delete Raid Set Raid Set Fur Expand Raid Set Hdd Power gm The HotSpare Ethernet Co lete HotSpare View Syste E 1Solt 3 500 1GE ebay i Ln S Hardware M Rescue Raid Set 9 System info Raid Set Information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 2 8 Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the RAID set update creation period it possibly could disappear due to this abnormal condition The RESCUE function can recover the missing RAID set informa tion The RAID controller uses the time as the RAID set signature The RAID set may have different time after the RAID set is recov ered The SIGANT function can regenerate the signature for the RAID set Volume Set Physical Dri T Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set Offline Raid Set Activate Rpid So oum ro Delete Hoi Rescue Re 0 0 jj Raid Set Information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Please contact us to make sure if you need to use rescue function Improperly usage may cause configuration corruption BIOS CONFIGURATION Once can manually fail a drive which is useful in
172. ovide the highest RAID 6 feature to meet this requirement The controller can concurrently compute two parity blocks and get very similar RAID 5 performance The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers can also provide RAID levels O 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD for maximum con figuration flexibility Its high data availability and protection derives from the following capabilities Online RAID Capacity Expansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migration Global Online Spare Automatic Drive Failure Detection Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding Disk Hot Swap Online Background Rebuilding Instant Availability Background Initialization Auto Reassign Sec tor Redundant Flash Image and Battery Backup Module Greater than Two TB Support allows for very large volume set application in 64 bit environment such as data mining and managing large databases Maximum Interoperability The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller support broad operating system including Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Linux Open Source FreeBSD Open Source Solaris Open Source Mac VMware and more along with key system monitoring features such as enclosure management SES 2 SMP amp SGPIO and SNMP function Our prod 11 INTRODUCTION ucts and technology are based on extensive testing and validation process leverage Areca SAS or SATA RAID controller field proven compatibility with operating systems motherboards applications and device drivers
173. ow of member state relating to the EMC Directive2004 108 EC For the evaluation regarding to the electromag netic compatibility the following standards where applied EN 55022 2006 Class B EN 55024 1998 A1 2001 A2 2003 EN 61000 3 2 2006 IEC61000 4 2 2001 EN 61000 3 3 1995 A1 2001 A2 2005 IEC61000 4 3 2006 IEC61000 4 4 2004 IEC61000 4 5 2005 IEC61000 4 6 2006 IEC61000 4 8 2001 IEC61000 4 11 2004 1 2 3 Contents IntrOQUClOn iiie esaxsssssukuRusRRu RE ERERRRRR EREFREaNEKAR EN AFRE RR E 10 ROS T 10 1 2 Features i eese Ex eese ter ivan E ERRVERERE ERR WOEREV ERA ERR REEF ERE NIE 12 Hardware Installation esee eene 16 2 1 Before You First Installing essien aiia senean iaia 16 2 2 Board LayOUt i ERI ER ine cred AEDE NENA TRIN 16 2 3 Installations scies sese teer E RR PU XERIR A RE ENAEMP ERNSREN FERAE 22 2 4 SAS Cables oerte ere mE aa anti Pes PA Tenes 29 2 4 1 Internal Min SAS 4i to SATA Cable eene 29 2 4 2 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4xSFF 8482 Cable 30 2 4 3 Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 to Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 9087 cable rete rere ke mte DE REI PRECEE NERA CERES 31 2 4 4 External Min SAS 4x Drive Boxes and Drive Expanders 32 2 5 LED Cable5 Leer er ERE EE RREEINR AR ERR diel 32 2 5 1 Recognizing a Drive Failure esses 36 2 5 2 Replacing a Failed Drive sss tritt HERR ERR RE 37 2 6 Summary of the ins
174. p localhost Cfg Assistant Such as http Wlocalhost 81 The port number for first controller McRAID storage manager is ArcHttp proxy server configuration port number plus 1 from ver sion 2 00 To enable the controller to send the SNMP traps to client SNMP manager using the IP address assigned to the operating system such as Net SNMP manager you can simply use the SNMP function on the ArcHttp proxy server software To enable the RAID controller SNMP traps sending function click on the SNMP Configuration link The Archttp proxy only provide one direction to send the trap to the SNMP manager without needing to install the SNMP extension agent on the host If SNMP manager requests to query the SNMP information from RAID controller please refer the C 3 2 section Using Onboard NIC and C 3 3 section Using In band PCI Thunderbolt port SNMP extension agent For detailed information on using Archttp to send the SNMP traps please see SNMP Traps Configuration section on 5 6 Archttp configuration Note Event Notification Table refer to Chapter 2 After you confirm and submit configurations you can use Generate Test Event feature to make sure these settings are correct 168 APPENDIX C 3 2 Using Onboard NIC Installation By using the built in LAN port on the RAID controller RAID con troller using built in LAN interface You can use the browser based manager or CLI SNMP configuration to setup the firmware based
175. plane does not implement the correct SES2 function you can disable the SES2 support on controller Con troller will use SMP only monitor PHY not environment to com municate with SAS backplane but you will be not able to moni tor the backplane information 141 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 142 e Max Command Length Max Command Length is used to set a best IO size for the RAID controller e Auto Activate Incomplete Raid When some of the disk drives are removed in power off state or boot up stage the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State But if a user wants to automatically continue to work while the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is powered on the user can set the Auto Activate Incomplete Raid option to enable The RAID state will change to Degraded Mode while it powers on e Disk Write Cache Mode User can set the Disk Write Cache Mode to Auto Enabled or Disabled Enabled increases speed Disabled increases reli ability e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode Areca RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from differing vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and Disabled Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB
176. port RAID controller supports both SAS and SATA disk drives The SATA NCQ allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynami cally rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary track ing mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller allows the user to select the SATA NCQ support Enabled or Disabled ER Hardware System inff 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache io Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priorit SATA NCQ Support Enabled Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Empty HDD Slot LED Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation elect Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances 3K97 Hardware System inff 00000 aci Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function SNR caper HDD Read Ahead C Enabled Volume Data Read 4 Disable Maxtor Hdd Queue Depth S Disabled Empty HDD Slot LEB Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 8 Volume Data Read Ahead The volume read data ahead p
177. r the additional channel status display LCD I2C Modual Connector JJ si Figure 2 18 Activity Fault LED serial bus connector connected between 6Gb s SAS RAID controller amp 4 SATA HDD backplane n EDI ET 35 HARDWARE INSTALLATION The following picture and table is the serial bus signal name de scription for LCD amp fault activity LED 5V LCD i c INT LCD DATA ACS DATA LCD CLK HEADER 4X2 NC4 D2A4n Trin Description PIN Description Power 55V LCD Module Interrupt Protect Key LCD Module Serial Data 6 Fault Activity Clock Fault Activity Serial Data 8 LCD Module Clock Areca serial bus also supports SES SCSI Enclosure Services over IC over internal PC backplane cable The backplane cable can connect the I2C signal from Areca controller to the backplane using IPMI style IC 3 pin connector It means you link IC cable into back plane and let back plane LED indicate HardDisk fail status 2 5 Hot plug Drive Replacement The RAID controller supports the ability of performing a hot swap drive replacement without powering down the system A disk can be disconnected removed or replaced with a different disk without taking the system off line The RAID rebuilding will be processed automatically in the background When a disk is hot swap the RAID controller may no longer be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the hot swap drive is subseque
178. re have no special memory capacity reserved for read or write The Mode 1 2 and 3 are used for define the command sorting method The default sorting method is helpful for normal applications but not useful for AV applications so we have de fined three different sorting methods for these special applica tions To decide how to optimize AV stream recording parameter you need to adjust the Optimize AV Recording and Write Buffer Threshold during runtime e Read Performance Margin The Read Performance Margin is for controller to reserve n read margin during AV stream recording 145 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 146 e Write Performance Margin The Write Performance Margin is for controller to reserve n write margin AV stream recording e Read And Discard Parity Data This function is used to determine if parity data is to be read and discarded 6 8 3 HDD Power Management Areca has automated the ability to manage HDD power based on usage patterns The HDD Power Management allows you to choose a Stagger Power On Control Low Power Idle Low RPM and completely Spins Down Idle HDD It is designed to reduce power consumption and heat generation on idle drives 6 8 3 1 Stagger Power On Control In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can sup ply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at
179. regular basis at least once per week set on Scheduler Volume checks degrade performance so you can also run them when the system is idle set by Checking After System Idle 3 i T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 135 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 7 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop the Check Volume Set function 1 Fi vert Areca Technology Corporation lopen il 6 7 Physical Drive Choose this option to select a physical disk from the main menu and then perform the operations listed below 6 7 1 Create Pass Through Disk To create pass through disk move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the Create Pass Through link The relative setting function screen appears A pass through disk is not con trolled by the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller firmware it cann t be a part of a volume set The disk is available to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating system is on a disk not controlled by the RAID firm ware The user can also select the Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN for this pass through disk 136 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 4 33 4 Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select the IDE drive For Pass Through Enclosuras2 Areca ARC 8
180. request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive SNMP Trap Notification Configurations The Community Name should be the same as firmware embedded SNMP Community The SNMP Trap Notification Configurations includes level 1 Serious level 2 Error level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notification events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator Areca SNMP Configuration Tool 1 0 areca SNMP Community Configuration Conmunty TA SNMP Trap Notification Configurations 31 Disable SNMP Trap No SNMP Trap Will Be Sent C Serious Error Notification Send Only Serious Event C Error Notification Send Serious And Error Event C Warning Notification Send Serious Error And Warning Event Information Notification Send All Event C 3 4 2 Linux You must have administrative level permission to install Areca RAID software This procedure assumes that the Areca
181. res csssssesee Hee eene enn nnn 182 e Foreground Availability Background Initialization 182 e Online Array Roaming sssssses mmm 182 e Online Capacity Expansion eese nnne 182 e Online Volume Expansion eeeeeen nmm 185 Hight availability crecer rhet chin ES ER ER ERR ERR XR EE Pa scion 185 e Global Local Hot Spares ssssssseeesen eene 185 e Hot Swap Disk Drive Support ssesssrssrsessesserrorrserrerresnes 186 e Auto Declare Hot Spare eeeeseeenen nemen n nnn 186 Auto Reb lilding iecore ep Ene ERE EEERR FER LEER CHER RE ue 187 e Adjustable Rebuild Priority cecceee ce eee eee ee teeta teste eae ee 187 High ReliaDility cedro rh a iva nua nae a a inns 188 e Hard Drive Failure Prediction ccccescsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeaees 188 Auto Reassigri SECCO oeiia es screen On kb axe Ea a 188 Consistency Check 2 i ececx deber deuten ra Dara YER saeei ee 189 Data Protectio eoc RE 189 s Battery Backup 4 2 liececeen cerns ccdariotausterdinss ceed vateecees ten 189 Recovery ROM iios xe zx ke EXER EXE ERKNVERC UR EKREEK RERER ERE 190 Appenuix F xssssncu nns an EE REGE dara RR RI RR QUA RN E RUM 191 Understanding RAID 5 eek rue Rh ERR Hte RI ERR ER ER NR EAE ERE ii 191 RAID Q EUM 191 Ho dp 192 NDERIT nem 193 pac ey dtinsas tesa ticccarscoxs axes A 193 RAID 5 zeit o unie evene ci exem erar ane tieestaaciner scans 194 RAID
182. screen shot shows how to change the McBIOS RAID manager setting to disable the warning beeper function This function is not available in the web browser setting Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Empty HDD SlotL Controller Fan Detection Controller Fan Det Auto Activate Raid Enabled Disk Write Cache Disabled Capacity Truncatid ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 12 Auto Activate Raid Set When some of the disk drives are removed in power off state or boot up stage the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State But if a user wants to automatically continue to work while the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is powered on then user can set the Auto Activate Raid Set option to Enabled The RAID state will change to Degraded Mode while it powers on PT 83 BIOS CONFIGURATION Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Volume Data Reaq 5 Mdd Queue Depih Auto Activate Raid When Power on Hardware Empty HDD Slot L Disabled System inf Controller Fan Det Enabled Auto Activate Raid Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 13 Disk Write Cache Mode User can set the Disk
183. sesssrssrrsessensernsrrennsnnnessennsrnsrrnennan 141 s Empty HDD Slot LED 2 innere tiat eda veo Y n EYED eim exc 141 e CPU Fan Detection eie cott eterna Ray xar E EE EYE EROR 141 s SES2 SUPPO i kii ari ini p uacua p biprvaur Dev ER aga ua URP as 141 Max Command Length orc eh Rea Ra Rat 142 e Auto Activate Incomplete Raid ssssssssssrsessesssrrnrrnrrresses 142 e Disk Write Cache Mode seseeenn mmn 142 e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode essen 142 6 8 2 Advanced Configuration essen 143 6 8 3 HDD Power ManaGeMent ccceeceeee eee ee sees ence menn 146 6 8 3 1 Stagger Power On Control ccceeceeeee teeta teeta es 146 6 8 3 2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle eeeeeeeee 147 6 8 3 3 Time To Hdd Low RPM Mode eeeen 147 6 8 3 4 Time To Spin Down Idle HDD eene 147 6 8 3 5 SATA Power Up In Standby eee 147 6 8 4 Ethernet Configuration ssssssssrsrsssrrrrssrrnrrnrrrrnesrrnrns 148 6 8 5 Alert By Mail Configuration eee 149 6 8 6 SNMP Configuration retired deiner ne xe uk gas 150 6 8 7 NIP Configuration 22 5 extr hr e EE ER tpi a Rh is 150 6 8 8 View Events Mute Beeper eseesnn menn 151 6 8 9 Generate Test Event 5 onus pa eh ERN NX RR EE ERU 152 6 8 10 Clear Events Buffer essen nmn 152 6 8 11 Modify Password seeseeeeen enm 153 6 8 12 Update Firmware
184. sk drive is rebuild automatically on the dedicated hot spare disk 3 p Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select The Drives For Hot Spare Enclosure 2 Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 SLOT 06 36 8cB FUJITSU MAX3036RC Q Raid System Console 3 Quick Function S5 RAID Set Functions Create RAID Set u D Delete RAID Set W stoto7 36 8ce FUJITSU MAX3036RC D Expand RAID Set T stor os 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 D Offline RAID Set i ee T soros 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D Activate Incomplete RAIDE stor 10 36 8c8 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D es Fr soru 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC Delete Hot Spare T fasas Rad Sat T sor 12 36 78 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 amp C3 Volume Set Functions r stor 13 36 78 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 G Physical Drives Darse o Conde T SLOT 14 6 78 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 S Information T stotis 36 78 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 stot 16 36 7c8 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 Select The Hot Spare Type i Global Hot Spare Dedicated To RaidSet Dedicated To Enclosure WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 5 8 Delete Hot Spare Select the target hot spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button on the screen to delete the hot spares Al Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Console a Select The Hot Spare Drive To Delete CJ Quick F
185. stribution for which there is not a com piled driver available from Areca you can copy the source from the SAS software CD or download the source from the Areca website and compile a new driver Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are includ ed on the shipped CD You can download updated versions of com piled and tested drivers for RedHat or SuSE Linux from the Areca web site at http www areca com tw Included in these downloads La a X E TE 102 DRIVER INSTALLATION is the Linux driver source which can be used to compile the updat ed version driver for RedHat SuSE and other versions of Linux Please refer to the readme txt file on the included Areca CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller driver to FreeBSD Before installing the 6Gb s SAS RAID driver to FreeBSD complete following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID Manager configuration utility Use the McBIOS RAID manager to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The supplied software CD that came with the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller includes compiled and tes
186. tallation sesseessseseeenenee 37 McBIOS RAID Manager e eee eene nenne nnnm nnn nnn 40 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager eseeseeeeenee 40 3 2 McBIOS RAID manager re eco rx ere Rx ceded ces 41 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets seessesse 42 3 4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares ociera 42 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration 43 3 6 Using Raid Set Volume Set Function Method 44 2d MaM MONU me T D ERLUUTELTTT 46 3 7 1 Quick Volume Raid Setup seeeeeeen nnn 47 3 72 Raid Set FUNCTION eee eni eiu eite sit eot EE 51 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set sesssssseeseeeneene enne nnns 52 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set seessessseeseeeseene nennen nnns 53 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Seberiana nens 54 alulcscp 55 3 7 2 4 Offline Raid Set escena aga ERR a Dead 55 3 7 2 5 Activate Incomplete Raid Set esseeeseeses 56 3 7 2 6 Create Hot Spare i e peo heure EA MERE EHE EE cs 57 3 7 2 7 Delete Hot Spare cssseseeeseen nennen nen nnn 57 3 7 2 8 Rescue Raid Set sei e Ra ERE Ra ER 58 3 7 2 9 Raid Set Information eeeseseeeeeeeeen nnn 59 3 7 3 Volume Set Function sisirin snaa iian 59 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 sess 60 s Volume NaMe Toris ovest ote cour ety ed vre cow aea cran vg DER EE TI
187. tallation ee resus suu nnaa sau muunn uum uuEn run Ru ER un Ru 95 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskette Surrein aa 95 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows cesnn mmn 97 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 97 4 2 2 Install Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 on a 6Gb s SAS RAID Volume sses mn enemsses emnes een a a na n a a n d a 97 4 2 2 1 Installation Procedures seem 97 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 99 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Installation cemere 99 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 101 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 XP 101 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux sseeee mem 102 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD eem mmm 103 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris sen me 103 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X sssseeee meme 103 4 6 1 Installation Procedures seee mmm 104 4 6 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Mac OS X 105 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation 107 5 1 For WindOows ssssssesenn eene emen nnn 108 5 2 FOr LINUX oii eivzasusi saxa veda indeed Vv va D a ED Debe P LY Ra ER d Aaa 109 5 3 For FreeBSD csccskayi y ek ci EE YA OEC EX C CE CE E EE KOC 111 54 For Solaris 10 X86 sevitae sabes ena oda x cet e a T e 111 5 5 For Mac OS 10 X iiic ev
188. te When Foreground Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses There is no initialization happed when you select No Init option No Init is for customer to rescue volume without losing data in the disk e Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID O 1 10 5 6 50 or 60 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer does random reads more often select a smaller stripe size Note RAID level 3 can t modify the cache strip size e Cache Mode The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller supports Write Through and Write Back cache WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Tagged Command Queuing The Enabled option is useful for enhancing overall system performance under multi tasking operating systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SAS command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain Enabled Disabled this function only when using SAS drives that do not support command tag queuing e SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun SCSI Channel The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller function is simu lated as a external SCSI RAID controller The host bus is repre sented as a SCSI cha
189. ted drivers for FreeBSD 7 x 7 2 and onwards and 8 x 8 0 and onwards To check if a more current version driver is available please see the Areca web site at http www areca com tw Please refer to the readme txt file on the 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller software CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD or website http www areca com tw 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X After hardware installation the SAS SATA disk drives connected to the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller must be configured and the volume set units initialized by the controller before they are ready to use by the system pm M Punt 103 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 6 1 Installation Procedures This section describes detailed instructions for installing the Areca Mac driver amp utility for the ARC 1882 series on your Apple Mac Pro You must have administrative level permissions to install Areca Mac driver amp utility You can use the installer to install Areca Mac driver amp utility MRAID at once or Custom to install special components To follow the following process to install driver amp utility on Apple Mac Pro as below 1 Insert the Areca Mac Driver amp Software CD that came with your Areca 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 2 Double click on the inst
190. the 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers as following table Configuration Utility Operating System Supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Linux Via Archttp proxy server FreeBSD Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin Portal to Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 scan for multiple RAID units in the net work via ArcHttp proxy server SNMP Manager Console Integration Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Linux and FreeBSD 37 HARDWARE INSTALLATION SAP Utility Install SAP Monitor Windows Version McRAID Storage Manager Before launching the firmware embedded web server McRAID storage manager through the PCIe bus you need first to install the ArcHttp proxy server on your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up of this function see the McRAID Storage Manager section in Chapter 6 SNMP Manager Console Integration There are two ways to transport SNMP data on the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller In Band PCIe host bus interface or Out of Band built in LAN interface Enter the SNMP Tarp IP Address option on the firmware embedded SNMP configuration function for user to select the SNMP data agent side communication from the Out of Band built in LAN interface To use In Band PCIe host bus interface keep blank on the SNMP Tarp IP Address option e Out of Band Using LAN Port Interface Out of band interf
191. tification RECA SAS RAID Adapterv1 0 eca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 6 7 5 Identify Drive To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk fault LED indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Device is selected WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Jopen all close alll maie System Console 8 Quick Function J RAID Set Functions WM soror 6 768 Hraci HUSis1436VL5300 eres sor 02 26 866 FUJITSU waxaoaenc D Create Pass Through Disk SLOT 03 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC Md SLOT 0 26 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D Identify Enclosure SLOT 05 36 8GB FUJITSU MAU3036RC SLOT oc 26 068 FUIITSU MAx3026RC ace soror 26 068 FUITTSU MAX026RC SLOT os 26 768 HITACHI HUS1s1426VL5200 Soros 26 068 FUITTSU MAx026RC sor 13 26 768 HITACHI HUSiS1426VLS200 sor as 26 768 HITACHI HUSISL426V S300 soris 26 768 HITACHI HUS1S1436VLS200 sor 16 26 768 HITACHI HUSis1426vLS300 Submit Reset 6 8 System Controls 6 8 1 System Config To set the RAID system function move the cursor to the main menu and click the System Controls link The Raid System Function menu will show all items then select the desired func tion Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all 9 Raid System Console SiSysteniCoufuurations
192. ttri bute screen appears modify the drive attribute values as you want After you complete the selection mark the check box for Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button to com plete the selection action 56 765 HITACHI HUS51436VL5300 c sores aeos FUXTTSU MAXGO3SRC Submit Reset C Information 137 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 138 6 7 3 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar to the main menus and click the De lete Pass Through link After you complete the selection mark the check box for Confirm The Operation and click the Submit button to complete the delete action A A Ue Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all eea Select The Pass Through Disk To Delete Quick Fi HITACHI HUS151436VL5300 c soro T FUJITSU MAX3036RC T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 6 7 4 Identify Enclosure To prevent removing the wrong enclosure the selected Areca ex pander enclosure all disks fault LED indicator will light for physi cally locating the selected enclosure when the Identify Enclosure is selected This function will also light the enclosure LED indica tor if it is existed Hn 1 ki vet Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all ire For Iden
193. ty The maximum volume size is the default initial setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your application e Greater Two TB Volume Support If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater Two TB Volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support option No 64bit LBA and 4K Block e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e 64bit LBA This option uses 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB Such as Windows 2003 with SP1 or later Linux kernel 2 6 x or later 129 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 130 e 4K Block It change the sector size from default 512 bytes to 4k bytes the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works under Windows platform only And it can not be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download Over2TB manual from http www areca com tw support main htm e Initialization Mode This option is used to define Background Initialization Fore ground Initialization or No Init To Rescue Volume When Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and wait ing the initialization comple
194. uickly bring stable and reliable PCIe 2 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers to the market Unparalleled Performance The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher per formance levels with several enhancements including new high performance dual core ROC Processor a DDR3 1333 memory architecture and high performance PCIe 2 0 x8 lane host interface bus interconnection The low profile controllers by default sup port on board 1G of ECC DDR3 1333 SDRAM memory The ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 controllers each include one 240 pin DIMM socket 10 INTRODUCTION with default 1GB of ECC DDR3 1333 single rank registered SDRAM 1Rx8 or 1Rx16 upgradable to 4GB The optional battery backup module provides power to the cache if it contains data not yet writ ten to the drives when power is lost The test result is against over all performance compared to other 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers The powerful new ROC processors integrated 8 6Gb s SAS ports on chip delivers high performance for servers and workstations Unsurpassed Data Availability As storage capacities continue to rapidly increase users need greater level of disk drive fault tolerance which can be implement ed without doubling the investment in disk drives The RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers with extreme performance RAID 6 engine installed pr
195. unction a Enclosure 2 Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 Fe o zee eee 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC Global eate RAID Se nd Delete RAID Set 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC Global Expand RAID Set D Offfine RAID Set T Confirm The Operation Rename RAID Set D Activate Incomplete RAID D Create Hot Spare Rescue Raid Set Volume Set Functions CJ Physical Drives CJ System Controls Information 6 5 9 Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the RAID set update creation period the configuration possibly could disappear due to this ab normal condition The RESCUE function can recover the missing RAID set information The RAID controller uses the time as the RAID set signature The RAID set may have different time after the RAID set is recovered The SIGANT function can regenerate the signature for the RAID set 4 A Viet Areca Technology Corporation m lopen all close all Raid System Console uy Rae ness ROE CJ Quick Function RAID Set Functions O Create RAID Set 0 Delete RAID Set Enter The Keyword Expand RAID Set O offline RAID Set Rename RAID Set D Activate Incomplete RAID D Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare D T Confirm The Operation SO Volume Set Functions CJ Physical Drives CJ System Controls Information WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 Volume Set Functions A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logica
196. urrent controller SSS a 125 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 126 Click the RAID set number to activate in the select column Click on the Submit button on the screen to activate the RAID set that had a disk removed or failed in the power off state The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller will continue to work in degraded mode E Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Console 2 Select The Rall Set To Acthinte Quick Function SS RAID Set Functions D Create RAID Set D Delete RAID Set Expand RAID Set D Offline RAID Set i Rename RAID Set Raid Set 000 Raid Set 001 D Create Hot Spare J Delete Hot Spare D Rescue Raid Set H Volume Set Functions C Physical Drives System Controls S O Information 6 5 7 Create Hot Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button in the screen to create the hot spares The Create Hot Spare gives you the ability to define a global or dedicated hot spare Unlike Global Hot Spare which can be used with any RAID sets Dedicated Hot Spare can only be used with a specific RAID set or Enclosure When a disk drive fails in the RAID set or enclosure with a dedicated Hot Spare is pre set data on the di
197. xpand Raid 4 Raid State Migrating Offline Raid S Total Capacity 800 0GB Activate Raid Free Capacity 800 0GB Create Hot Sg Min Member Disk Size 400 0GB Delete Hot Sp Member Disk Channels E1S1 E1S2 Rescue Raid Raid Set information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Migration occurs when a disk is added to a RAID set Migrating state is displayed in the RAID state area of The Raid Set Information screen when a disk is being added to a RAID set Migrating state is also displayed in the associated volume state area of the Volume Set Information which belongs this RAID set 3 7 2 4 Offline Raid Set This function is for customer being able to unmount and re mount a multi disk volume All Hdds of the selected RAID set will be put into offline state and spun down and fault LED will be in fast blinking mode 55 BIOS CONFIGURATION Delete Hot Spare Rescue Raid Set Raid Set Information 3 7 2 5 Activate Incomplete Raid Set The following screen is used to activate the RAID set after one of its disk drive was removed in the power off state When one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State If user wants to continue to work while the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is pow ered on the user can use the Activate Incomplete Raid Set op tion to active the RAID set After user selects this function the RAI
198. y when a drive fails The RAID controllers automatically and transparently rebuild failed drives in the background at user definable rebuild rates If a hot spare is not available the failed disk drive must be re placed with a new disk drive so that the data on the failed drive can be automatically rebuilt and so that fault tolerance can be maintained RAID controllers will automatically restart the system and re building process if the system is shut down or powered off abnor mally during a reconstruction procedure condition When a disk is hot swapped although the system is functionally operational the system may no longer be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the removed drive is replaced and the rebuild operation is completed During the automatic rebuild process system activity will contin ue as normal however the system performance and fault toler ance will be affected e Adjustable Rebuild Priority Rebuilding a degraded volume incurs a load on the RAID sub system The RAID controllers allow the user to select the rebuild priority to balance volume access and rebuild tasks appropriately The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a background operation such as rebuilding or migrating SLST SUR 186 APPENDIX RAID controller allows user to choose the task priority Ultra Low 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 to bal ance volume set

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