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1. 8 CJ Quick Functio Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 012 a amp C RAID Set Functions LEG Dur A B Volume Set Functions x 1 Create Volume Set Volume Raid Level Raid 1v D Create Raid30 50 60 Max Capacity Allowed 300 cB L Delete Volume Set pu D Modify Volume Set Select Volume Capacity 300 GB D Check Volume Set Greater Two TB Volume Support No vj D Schedule Volume Check f L Stop Volume Check Volume Initialization Mode No Initialization O Download Volume Key File volume Stripe Size amp M keytes B Physical Drives de E System Controls Volume Cache Mode Write Back wj amp CJ Information Volume v Protection Disabled Full Volume Encryption Disabled v Tagged Command Queuing Disabled SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun 256Bit Key AES Key 128Bit Key Password Volumes To Be Created 128Bit Key AES Key T Confirm The Operation 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 Capacity 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
2. Read And Discard Parity Data Disabled v ia M BIOS Selection EFI Y D Upgrade Firmware Legacy NTIS S Informati UEFI Ir ornen C confirm The Operation Submit Reset Disabled 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 controller 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 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 enter ing a new value in the edit
3. 77 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 Write Same Support 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 Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Functioi Background Task Pri HDD Read Ahead C4 Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Empty HDD Slot LED Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation Hardware System in 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 feature 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
4. J a U PP ENT 152 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The ROM size for the controller has fixed to 64K and cannot be adjusted We change the arrangement of BIOS to A BIOS1 Legacy EFI UEFI 32K 32K 32K gt EFI cannot be used B BIOS2 Legacy UEFI EFI 32K 32K 32K gt UEFI cannot be used gt If legacy is selected gt BIOS1 BIOS2 can be used gt If UEFI is selected gt BIOS1 is used gt If EFI is selected gt BIOS2 is used for Intel_based MacPro gt If BIOS is to be disabled gt All data are OxFF 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 E ut T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all i T Confirm The Operation Suma Reset 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 once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other sys tem compon
5. 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 184 APPENDIX Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In a API login detected Lost Rebuilding Urgent Some rebuilding Reinserted the missing member MigrationLBA migration raidset disk back co
6. Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it with larger disk drives the Clone Disk function allows the users to replace larger disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created Click the Clone Disk option on the Physical Drives link to enable the clone function If there is an available disk then the Select The Drives For Cloning screen appears There are two Clone Disk function options Clone And Replace and Clone Only ld open all close all Areca Technology Corporation Soloct Clone Typo Clone Aias V E centirm the opes ses en Clone Disk Procedure a Select one of the members as the Clone Source status indi cated as Raid Set by clicking on the appropriate check box b Select a Clone Target status indicated as Free or Hot Spare by clicking on the appropriate check box _ EEE Ee eee FEN 141 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 142 c If you have available disk member you can repeat above pro cedures to define another clone pair d Select Clone Type The pair number for both the Clone Source and the Clone Tar get will be indicated in the screen Click the Confirm The Opera tion check box and click on the Submit button on the screen the controller will automatically start the cloning process using the existing stand by Free or Hot Spare drive to clone the source drive the Raid Set member drive
7. 155 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Note If you configure the HTTP Port Number to 0 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 4 I ii P Areca Technology Corp oration lopen all close all n sure Server IP Address f 0 o 0 Mail Address Configurations 6 8 6 SNMP Configuration Please refer to Appendix C of SNMP Operation amp Installation 156 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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
8. 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 create and then click on the Submit button 133 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The new create volume set attribute allows user to select the 134 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 k Fi Piet Areca Technology Corporation a open all close all Raid System hedule Volume Check top Volume Check ad Foreground Initialization Tes Bl vaytes Wrte Back ri ives ntrols E O Information ueuing Enabled 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
9. The cloning process percentage will be indicated in the Volume State area of the Volume Set Information screen Completion of the Clone func tion process will be indicated by a notification message on the event log 6 7 4 1 Clone And Replace You can enlarge your logical drives by copying and replacing all member drives with drives of higher capacity The existing data in the logical drives is copied onto the new drives and then the original members are marked as Offlined 6 7 4 2 Clone Only The stand by disk will clone the logical drives without substitut ing it The status of the stand by drive will be marked as Of flined after the cloning process The source drive will remain a member of the logical drive 6 7 5 Abort Cloning Use this function to stop the ongoing clone disk action 6 7 6 Set Disk To Be Failed It sets a normal working disk as failed so that users can test some of the features and functions WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION A Lb e Areca Technology Corporation open all close alll Ms ser exe Select The Device To Set To Fail Enclosures Areca ARG 8010 80 00 b000 Q storat 1000 258 woe wp1001FaLS 0017B0 O soroz 1000 268 O soro 300 065 O stro 36 768 O soros 300 168 pes a O soro 1000 258 WoC wo1003F8Vx 01V780 D identify Enclosure O soror 500 168 woc wosonnvs o1MPen D Identify Drive O soro 1000 268 wDc WD1001FALS 00780 E Um O sLoros j600 168 WDC WD
10. 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 tion of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity 2 3 Installation Use the following instructions below to insta
11. 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 RAID Set Hierarchy screen 1 A A vef Areca Technology Corporation a an lopen all close all E Q Raid System Console HC Quick Function FIC RAID Set Functions ARC 1882 Vo1 000 0 0 0 E 3SLOT 03 ARC 1882 VOLs007 0 0 3 Normal J Volume Set Functions C Physical Drives C System Controls E Information D D SAS Chip Information D system information D Hardware Monitor Raid Set 001 E23SLOT 12 ARC 1882 VOL 001 0 0 1 Normal EsastoT 13 ARC 1882 VoL 002 0 0 2 Normal E 2SLOT 02 ARC 1882 VOL amp 003 0 0 4 Normal E23SLOT 04 ARC 1882 VO1 004 0 0 5 Normal ARC 1882 VO1 005 0 0 6 136 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 4 3 Volume Write Protection When Volume Write Protection is enabled on the Modify Volume Set host commands fail if they are issued to a volume in that RAID controller and attempt to modify a volume s data or attributes Volume Write Protection is used primarily for customer initiated disaster recovery testing 6 6 5 Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a RAID set 1 Click on the Ch
12. 6 7 4 1 Clone And Replace eeeeee emn 142 6 7 4 2 CONE ONIY sirru inip annas a ve eitis A IER sede bes 142 6 7 5 Abort Cloning iicet ribs AA edd Ra 142 6 7 6 Set Disk To Be Failed cese nmn 142 6 7 7 Activate Failed Disk ceeseseeeen nmn 143 6 7 8 Identify Enclosure eeeseesseeneenen memes 143 6 7 9 Identify Drive occ cete rr RR e v e ERR XE e ERR 144 6 8 System Controls 14 2 1 ceci ipai toe DR a dada RR Pad Pack 144 6 8 1 System Config ie code ics Ced E ERR EER ER HER ERE 144 e System Beeper Setting sev sees eese cien see deg tesa beens 145 e Background Task Priority seseseeseseeee ene 145 e JBOD RAID Configuration seeeeseeeeeneeen nnn 145 e SATA NCO SUpDDpOTFt esi tides n EEPN e ER EAE CERE COE LEER 145 e HDD Read Ahead Cache sssssessesssrssrrernnnnnennenssrnsrnnnnnan 146 e Volume Data Read Ahead eene 146 HDD Queue Depth eessseeeeen ennemi 146 Empty HDD Slot LED 5 2 ier eer tek ERR erp a desde ERN ERRAT 146 CPU Fon Detection iones sest raura Ere UDEA ENEAS E A PEEye VEA 146 e SES2 SUPPO eet t ress teens XR E REREERRu ERA ERU MERE NERA 147 e Max Command Length ssesseeeesn nene 147 e Auto Activate Incomplete Raid sssssssssssrrrssrsssrserrrrrrens 147 e Disk Write Cache Mode sssssseeeeen mmm 147 e Write Same For Initialization ssssssssssrsrrsesresssrnsr
13. 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 reassign the default SMTP Port Number of the controller DHCP Function Enable Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 Ethernet Config HTTP Port Number 80 Eats Eo THe SMT Por Numer View System EN SMTP Port Nuniber Edit The SMTP Port Number Clear Event Bu EtherNet Address 0 OA 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 Vers Seuleunsiton DHCP Function Enable Physical Drives Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 Raid System Functio HTTP Port Number 80 hee Fore INE ETSI Telnet Port Number 23 SMTP Port Number 25 Ethernet Configuratio MOPE EtherNet 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 tio
14. 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 the stripes written to each disk in a RAID 0 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 128 KB 256KB 512KB or 1024KB A larger stripe size provides bet ter read performance especially when the computer preforms mostly se quential reads However 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
15. slots without needing power down the controller to perform the online array roaming SSS X eA ea 125 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ka M 44 amp Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select The Raid Set To Select Raid Set Nai Raid sy CJ Quick Fur Member Disks Raid State capacity g Raid Set 000 IE Normal 60 0GB c Raid Set 001 33 Normal 90 068 s D Create RAID Set D Delete RAID Set Q Expand RAID Set D offline RAID Set O Rename RAID Set D Activate Incomplete RAID reate Confirm The Operation VolumeSet In This RaidSet Will Also Be Offlined Submit Reset S Physical Drives S System Controls CJ Information 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 lopen all close all Uu T Areca Technolo Corporation s Enter laidSet Name Raid Set Name Raid Set 000 Member Disks 2 Min Member Disk Size 30 068 D Create RAID Set D Delete RAID Set
16. 3 e System inform Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 49 BIOS CONFIGURATION Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to 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 128 KB 256KB 512KB or 1024KB Warning Roaming the stripe size 256K 512K 1024K Raid Set to firm ware version older than 1 52 will cause data corruption Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup l Raid Set Function Total 5 Drived A Selected Capacity 2400 0GB J Volume Set Funct Physical Drives Raid 0 Raid System Fund Raid 1 0 Hdd Power Manag Raid 1 0 Sp Ethernet Configur Raid 3 View System Eve Raid 5 Clear Event Buffet 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 Available Capa 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup i i elected Capacity 2400 0GB Raid Set Funct ers puts Volume Set Fu Physical Drives Raid 0 Raid System Fi Raid 1 0 CoRR ay Hdd Power Mal Raid 1 0 Spa Ethernet Config Raid 3 No View Syste
17. 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 Controller Fan Detection Enabled Disabled Capacity Truncation 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 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 Ahe Hdd Queue Depth Activate Raid When Power on Hardware Ae ee ae 4 Disabled ind ontroller Fan De Syreni Auto Activate Raid Eren Disk Write Cache Ione Write Same Support Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 13 Disk Write Cache Mode User can set the Disk 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
18. CAD ACIEY p EE 63 SpE GIZO ye EMT 65 SCSI ID parceret an e e EEA E ioe hea Peet eee 66 Cache Mode isi ce Eh cde ERR ERR ia RAA 67 Write ProtectiloDr urere ntt a Eo E RE Re RETE a anaes 67 alegre 68 Tag ESCAPE 68 3 7 3 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 69 3 7 3 3 Delete Volume Set ccccccceeceeseeeeeeeeeeseeaeeaseeaenaaeegs 70 3 7 3 4 Modify Volume Set essen enne ns 70 3 7 3 5 Check Volume Set esseeseeeneen enne enne 72 3 7 3 6 Stop Volume Check ceeeeeeenen mnn 73 3 7 3 7 Display Volume Set Info cceccecceeeeeeeeee eee eeeeeaeeaeenas 73 7 4 Physical Drives sesseesseseeeeeen nennen nnne nn 74 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information een 74 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk cc ececeee eee eeeee eee eee eee 75 3 7 4 3 Modify Pass Through Disk sceceeeeee teeta eee nena 75 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk ssssssssssssssrrrssrrrrrnsrrrresrrrns 75 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive esee 76 3 7 4 6 Identify EnclosUte soris eer Er Enea eh eene beds 76 7 5 Raid System Function eesseeeeeeeeenen nene 77 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper eseeeeeenen nemen 78 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting cccceceeeeeeee eee ee eee eeeeeeeeeeeeaes 78 3 7 5 3 Change PaSSwor pec hei eee ed ERR d a Ra cts 79 3 7 544 JBOD RAID FUNCOM xs isevnccced cag eti ova tits ca eN 79 3 7 5 5 Background T
19. Corporation open all close all E Enabled v LowQU Si aD Enabled M Enabled Y Noms v v o Disabled 1 Erase am Iw Disabled 1 Dissbies BAS And SATA v Always E Enabled V Vurtigres orc ive Failed The Drive On Demand v O confirm The Operation Submit Reset 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 per formance specify a Low value e JBOD RAID 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 contro
20. D Expand RAID Set D Offiine RAID Set F Confirm The Operation D Rename RAID Set D Activate Incomplete RAID L Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare D Rescue Raid Set E Volume Set Functions Submit Reset S Information 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 current controller Ra E E Re 126 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 T lopen all close all l T Areca Technology Corporation a Select The Raid Set To Activate 9 Raid System Console B Quick Function Select Raid Set Name Member Disks Raid State capac
21. Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue 7 Disk Write Cache Mode Hardware System in Conte ro ERN T CNN Auto Activate Isable Disk Write Ce Enabled Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 14 Write Same Support Drives that support the Write Same feature SCT can write to multiple drive sectors at once improving initialization time To take advantage of this feature all the drives in the unit must support Write Same User can set the SAS And SATA SAS Only SATA Only or Disabled for the controller initialization pa SSS aa 85 BIOS CONFIGURATION Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support Volume Data Read Hdd Queue Depth 3 SAS And SATA Empty HDD Slot LH SAS Only Controller Fan Detd SATA Only Auto Activate Raid Disabled Disk Write Cache Meu Write Same Support Capacity Truncation E OrAZ Move Cursoi act E 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 Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from differ ent vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example
22. Expand RAID Set r storos 36 768 HITACHI HUS1S1436VLS300 MORS AIDS T stot o9 26 8c8 FUJITSU MAX3036RC Q Rename RAID Set E m D Activate Incomplete Rap I stor 10 36 8c8 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D Create Hot Spare T stor 11 36 8c8 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D Delete Hot Spare D Rescue Raid Set T sor 12 36 78 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 S Volume Set Functions T stor 13 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 CJ Physical Drives J s 7 Ra oret Controle T stor 14 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 CJ Information r stotis 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 T stor 16 36 7c8 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 Select The Hot Spare Type v F Confirm The Operation 127 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 Select The Hot Spare Drive To Delete Quick Function s Enclosures2 Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 En eer FUJITSU MAX3036RC Global D Create RAID Set Delete RAID Set 4 FUJITSU MAX3036RC Global Expand RAID Set Offiine RAID Set D Rename RAID Set D Activate Incomplete RAID D Create Hot Spare Rescue Raid Set S Volume Set Functions CJ Physical Drives System Controls
23. 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 EN E FRE T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close alll zt IU qum uu qe 00 00 13 p00 00 12 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 9 Generate Test Event Use this feature is generate events for testing purposes T Fi r Ute Areca Technology Corporation open all close all Do You Want To Generate Test Event Id Raid System Console F Confirm The Operation Upgrade Firmware B Information 6 8 10 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information T Fi viet Areca Technology Corporation lopen alljclose all Do You Want To Clear The Event Buffer F Confirm The Operatio
24. Option e 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 monitor utility Out of Ba
25. 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 archi tecture and high performance PCIe 2 0 3 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 provide the highest RAID 6 feature to meet this requirement The controller can concurrently com
26. 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 177 APPENDIX 3 Click on the setup exe file then the welcome screen ap pears 15 orum Cont Isilsheld Wizard E Arc amp nmpC
27. RAID Level 10 combines the fast 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 gs o RR mg 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 rx MUTET 198 APPENDIX i wn BO en B3 CO C1 C2 C3 ooo o Logical Disk Array
28. 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 pa K S enu 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 Func Raid 1 0 Hdd Power Manag Raid 1 0 Spare Ethernet Configurq 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 Manaj 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
29. SSS 122 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 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 Es define anot
30. 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 CFTCUEX MEN NC C NN CR CNN CN NN NN SS S S RR E s 130 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 complete 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 opti
31. 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 archttp installation introduction M mm 1 Follow the on screen prompts to complete ArcHttp proxy server software installation A program bar appears that measures the progress of the ArcHttp proxy server setup When this screen completes you have com pleted the ArcHttp proxy server software setup 4 After a successful installation press Done to quit the install er 109 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 f 1 P e F d i ik ArcHTTP Configurations M VN lopen all close all d LEE R ArcHTTP v2 00 B System Functions Binding IP 0 0 0 0 t E General Configuration HTTP Port 81 Mail Configuration SNMP Trap Configuration SMTP Port 25 a Reman pnia Display HTTP Connection Information To Ci le yesOn Bg SAS RAID Contro
32. 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 116 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION t ArcHTTP Configurations lopen all close all B ArcHTTP v2 00 Do You Want To Rescan Device B System Functions D General Configuration Mail Configuration SNMP Trap Configuration QO S RIE SAS RAID Controllers i ARC 1680 D ARC 1880 C Confirm The Operation Ei BEBE SATA RAID Controllers ARC 1200 e 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 ArcHTTP Configurations lopen all close all W ArcHTTP v2 2 0 Do You Want To Collect Support Ej System Functions Confirm The Operation Q SNMP Trap Configuration Submit Reset D Rescan Device L Collect Support Data 2 General Configuration Mail Configuration gt BERE SAS RAID Controllers D ARC 1880 BIEESATA RAID Controllers 117 WEB BROWSE
33. amp 00OHLHX 0137P VG O stor 10 600 168 WDC WOBOOOHLHY 0133V0 O sorn 500 163 WDC WD50004BPS 01ZzB0 Oo SLOT 12 g0 0GB ST380013A8 O confirm the operation Submit Ree 6 7 7 Activate Failed Disk It forces the current failed disk in the system to be back online Activate Failed Disk function has no effect on the removed disks because a removed disk does not give the controller a chance to mark it as failure Followings are considered as Removed Disk 1 Manually removed by user 2 Losing PHY connection due to bad connector cable back plane 3 Losing PHY connection due to disk fail Basically in the eyes of the controller the disk suddenly disap pears due to whatever reason 1 A Ue f Areca Technology Corporation M lopen elllclose all n 1 ARECA SAS RAID AdepterV 1 0 Sows 300 068 SEAGATE 51330065755 C confirm rhe Operation 6 7 8 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 m 143 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION E ue Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close alll Select The Enclosure For Identification CA SAS RAID AdapterV1 0 ca ARC 8
34. box beside this button and then se lecting the button Normally you should not need to modify this value There are two selections either 2 retry or 3 retry WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 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 t
35. command line You can download arc cli manual from Areca website or software CD lt CDROM gt DOCS directory pm R JU 9 vH 105 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 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 lt CD ROM gt 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 L3 tA Yet ArcHTTP Configurations L lopen all close all D Res E Bg SAS RAID Controllers ARC 1680 D aes gt E SATA RAID Controllers D ARC 1200 C 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 m
36. create arrays using the Raid Set Volume Set method RAID levels with hot spare for the current volume set drive are displayed Choose 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
37. 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 195 APPENDIX Appendix F 196 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 multiple disk drives inste
38. i y x s Cathode Side Cathode Side CTL output CTL output Leper 4 LED en 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
39. low 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 Contents 1 IntrOGOH UON ics iisassuas ska RaRRRARIRARRERAREERREAK RRRERAEREDEREER CREE 10 171 OVERVIEW m 10 1 2 Feat lb6s 5o ory twee ot exc tereb uen er dee cx vetat exe ives eeemvanets 12 2 Hardware Installation ruasinaeunsu uasa oai aa una RR REN RR ERE RR Rn 16 2 1 Before You First Installing esseseeseeenne 16 2 2 Board LayOUt ci ite RECRR ERE E heat EROR Ka d CRI KA ote 16 2 3 inistallatiQns s sie exte Er ves RE ERE E eehesseec es 22 2 4 SAS Cables ee em re eto Re an E eX idee tents 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 ertet te E AREE ENS AREE EERIPETK NS A 31 2 4 4 External Min SAS 4x Drive Boxes and Drive Expanders 32 2 5 LED Cable5 ite t ERR EEUU eR ere ramis 32 2 5 1 Recognizing a Drive Failure 0 cece eee ee eee eee ain 36 2 5 2 Replacing a Failed Drive etre ter e ERR Rn eK
40. 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 aaa 172 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 sure you have the latest driver and ArcHttp from this URL http www areca com tw support e ArcHt
41. 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 Cagha A l volume Data Read Ar MAWUGADEIC HACETE Hdd Queue Depth Se Hardware Empty HDD Slot LED EE eue System in Controller Fan Detecti ocean Auto Activate Raid Se Dieahled Disk Write Cache Mod Write Same Support Capacity Truncation 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 BIOS CONFIGURATION 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 Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation Hardware System inf 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 LE
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43. 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 60 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB 128 KB 256KB 512KB or 1024KB Warning Roaming the stripe size 256K 512K 1024K Raid Set to firm ware version older than 1 52 will cause data corruption Volume Creation Volume Set Fu Volume Name a 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level Capacity 5039 9GB SCSI Channel SCSI ID E d SCSI LUN HT Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled IO mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 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 Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 26 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size D RE SCSI ID SCSI LUN 5 i Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled IO mode Cached IO RETE Ke TT TeTe Enabled System ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Re
44. one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Multiples Of 10G truncates the number under tens This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead_Cache Hdd Queue Deg Empty HDD Slo aal sioii0G Controller Fan I Auto Activate R4 Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation Hardware System inff BIOS CONFIGURATION Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For ex ample one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Multiples 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 aedi ase ane heat generation on idle drives 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 M
45. 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 i 4 Tet Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all NTP Serve NTP Server IP Address 2 Time Zone Configuration 2011 6 16 16 31 4 jot Set NTP F Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 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 157 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 158 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 Automatic 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
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47. 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 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 AT UE ail P ant i ArcHTTP Configurations lopen all close all 77 M ArcHTTP v2 00 System Functions L General Configuration Mail Configuration SNMP Trap Configuration Rescan Device gt BRE SAS RAID Controllers 9 ARC 1680 General Configurations Binding IP HTTP Port SMTP Port D ARC 1880 gt IRAE SATA RAID Controllers 0 ARC 1200 Event Log File Name O Confirm The Operation Ont Submit Reset e neral Configuration Binding IP Restrict ArcHttp proxy server to bind only single interfac
48. 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 174 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 SNMP configuration The following screen is the firmware embed ded SNMP configuration setup screen u
49. 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 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 initializat
50. 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 1882ix series incorporate one big passive heatsinkat 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 pu x 146 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION expander chip user can remove the attaching fan on the big passive heat sink 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 on the ARC 1882i x LP low profile board When using the passive heatsink only on the controller disable the CPU Fan Detection function through this from McBIOS RAID manager setting or Web Browser e SES2 Support If your SAS backplane 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
51. to bal ance volume set 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 alway
52. utility or API code function This volume encryption function can only work with ARC 1882 series with any kinds of HDD You can follow below steps to en able the function opis a 0000000070707 TUM 132 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 1 Create volume set with Full Volume Encryption capability in the web management 2 Use CLI vsf genkey command or API code to generate key file 3 Use Download Volume Key File in the web management or use CLI vsf dlkey command to download volume key file into firmware and unlock the volume 4 Follow step 3 to unlock volume if volume locked 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 channel 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
53. 0 Free Capacity Raid Set 000 3000 0GB 3000 0GB Raid Set 001 1000 0GB 8000 0GB Raid Set 003 150 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 004 150 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 005 150 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 006 150 0GB 240 0GB Raid Set 007 150 0GB 240 0GB 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 delete it ARC 1882 VOL 004 Raid 30 50 60 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 informati
54. 016 01 09 0109 ugh D Delete Pass Through Di D Set Disk To Be Failed CQ Activate Failed Disk 6 7 9 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 2 Jopen all close all td Areca Technology Corporation nn SLOT o1 36 78 HITACHI HUS151426VLS200 scot o2 36 868 Fuxrrsu MAxao3enc SLOT o3 30 88 FUJITSU MAX3O36RC SLOT 04 36 86 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D Set Disk To Be SLOT 05 36 8GB FUJITSU MAU3036RC H H CAN AK stor os 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC DEN d SLOT 07 36 85 FUJITSU MAX3036RC system Controls so os 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VL5300 Ci Information sor os 26 88 Fursu maxaoa6nc sor 10 36 866 FUITSU MAX3030RC sot 11 30 866 FUJITSU MAX3U36RC stor 12 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VL5300 SLOT 13 ml 36 7GB HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 stor 14 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 SLOT 15 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 sors 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436V15300 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 144 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION A AE 3 A a POET areca Technology
55. 6Gb s SAS RAID Cards USER S Manual Version 1 2 Issue Date October 2013 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
56. 8 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 areca 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 ras U M mn 114 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 clic
57. 840400051000 4x8G Attached Expander Expander 3 Areca ARC 8016 B0 00 b000 SAS Address 500184690C90023F Component Vendor ust Component 10 0223 Enclosure ENC 3 Number Of Phys 38 Controller 500184D400051000 4x56 SAS Address Component Vendor Component 10 Enclosure Number Of Phys 500154602007403F s EA ences 33 Attached Expander Expander 1 500184690801823F J 4x6G 161 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 main processor CPU instruction data cache size system memory size speed and current IP address appear in this screen ARC 1882 v1 49 2011 07 18 v1 49 2011 06 17 10 0 4 0 9876543219876543 i 800MHz PPC440 aaxeytes 32KBytes Write Back 1024KBytes Write Through 1024MB 1333MHz ECC PCI E Link Status exse Current 1P Address 192 168 0 65 6 9 4 Hardware Monitor The hardware monitor information of the enclosure attached in this controller is also shown on t
58. AID controller HARDWARE INSTALLATION i PIE 9r EEE E Bi ma on s ULL E Figure 2 1 ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Type 1 35 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 2 J4 Manufacture Purpose Port 12 pin header RS232 Port for CLI to configure the expander functions on the RAID control ler 1 Table 2 1 ARC 1882ix 12 16 24 connectors Note 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 B B aa n i Figure 2 2 ARC 1882i 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 07 R045 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 B EHHH En axon mui EZ Figure 2 3 ARC 1882LP 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Connector Type 1 2 Battery Backup Module Connector 2 J1 Manufacture Purpose Port 12 pin box header 12 pin header 3 13 Individual Fault Activity LED Header 8 pin header Ta
59. 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 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 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 fo
60. Attribute Tagged Commani d Queuing SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun C confirm The operation Ssmi Ree 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 If you have free spaces from reserved or delete volumes you can enlarge the last volume set size before the free spaces 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 level simultaneously pe lI c RR E ee 135 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size 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
61. C3 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 E Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all B sd Spot Consola Try To Rescue Missing RAIDSET S Quick Function G RAID Set Functions O Create RAID Set 0 Delete RAID Set Enter The Keyword D Expand RAID Set D Offiine RAID Set Rename RAID Set LJ Activate Incomplete RAID D Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare Rescue Rad Set S Volume Set Functions CJ Physical Drives CJ System Controls CJ Information T Confirm The Operation 128 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 Volume Set Functions A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical 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 disk
62. 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 A Viet Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Q Raid System Console S Quick Function S RAID Set Functions Ej Volume Set Functions Create Volume Set E ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Set 002 IV Confirm The Operation Submit Reset s 1 Check Volume Set Schedule Volume Check vl Stop Volume Check O Download Volume Key File C3 Physical Drives BQ System controls Information 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 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 on Enter The Volume Attribute screen and then click the attribute to modify the value After you complete the modification click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button to complete the action _ _ A A A af Areca Technology Corporation Enter The Volume
63. Connections optional Be sure that the proper 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 ag
64. D array before which has no RAID signature on it So when a previously removed disk is self re inserted it won t trigger the degraded RAID array to re build and so that the administrator has a chance to identify this mis behaving disk and replaces it Always it is what it was before Whenever a disk is inserted re inserted whether new or previously existed it always trigger a rebuilding for the Degraded RAID set Volume Disable it will not trigger rebuilding regardless what sort of disk plugging in When Disable and or Blank Disk Only is se lected the re inserted previously removed disk will be identified as a disk in a separate RAID set with duplicated RAIDset and with all the rest of RAID members missing e PCIE Gen3 The Disabled option is used to force PCIe running Gen2 mode for compatible issue under Gen3 slot You must restart the computer twice for the PCIE Gen3 setting to take effect 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 drives from differ ent vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For
65. D 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 Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Caq___empyy Slot Led_ Volume Data Read Ah ON Hdd Queue Depth Se Empty HDD Slot LED Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation Hardware System inf L Line Dra 83 BIOS CONFIGURATION 84 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 screen shot shows how to change the McBIOS RAID manager setting to disable the warning beeper function Mute The Alert Beeper
66. DD 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 allows the drive to be powered up into the Standby power manage ment state to minimize inrush current at power up and to allow WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION the controller to sequence the spinup of devices It is mainly for server workstation environments operating in multiple drive configurations 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 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 com
67. 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 System informa 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 in 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 Confi HTTP Port Number 80 a like Telnet Port Number View System E SMTP Port Number Clear Event Bu EtherNet Address Hardware Moni System inform tre Arro Select ESC 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 Ethernet Config ANIWP xe Dru Edit The Telent Port Number x Telnet Port Number View System EJ SMTP Port Numbe Clear Event Bu EtherNet Address Hardware Moni System informarre
68. Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 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 BIOS CONFIGURATION Create Volt SAY UCET AS Con 5240 01010 Create Rai Raid Level 6 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID amp 9 SCSI LUN E Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled 10 mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled 3 7 3 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 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 Volume Set Functions Create Raid 30 50 6
69. HTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Press CTRL C to exit program 3E ERE EHE EE EH HH HE HE HE HE E E E ER V 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 have 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 112 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 5 For Mac OS 10 X The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the
70. Locate Circuitry The location of a drive may be detected 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 Lr ees PIN 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 P1 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
71. Management RAID3 Bit Interleaved Parity StripesO 1 Stripe 0 tripe 1 Stripe 2 itripe 3 2 3Parity gt gt gt Physical i j j i j r j E Disk D D D D p 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 M Logical Disk Array Management RAID 5 Block Interleaved Ditributed Parity A Blocks B Blocks C Blocks D Blocks Ej Blocks cont Physical Disk H i E i Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 199 APPENDIX 200 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 indep
72. ONFIGURATION Volume Name Volume Set 000 Raid Level 16 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 Foreground Faster Completion Background Instant Available No Init To Rescue Volume 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 1882 VOL You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit ARC 1882 VOL 000 ES Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size SCSI Channel 0 seal Ih Edit The Volume Name SCSI Write Protect IO mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled 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 Volume Set Function Physical Drives Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 RCRA Gua aie Raid Level Hdd Power Manage Capacity Ethernet Configuratio Stripe Size View System Events SCSI Channel Clear Event Buffer SCSI ID Hardware Monitor SCSI LUN System information Cache Mode Write Protect 10 mode Tag Queuing e Capacity The maximum available volume size is the default value for the first setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit yo
73. 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 interface 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
74. Pass Through E 1Solt 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 select Yes to delete it EHUEUUUEEGAOUUUUU e UM Uu c M l PRe Ju 1f 75 BIOS CONFIGURATION aton ee CEN 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 Devic
75. Q 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 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 LU A O 40 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select An Adapter To Configure 001 0 0 1 O228000000h 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 Arr
76. R 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 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 Mo
77. RAID 6 provides highest reliability Up to two disk but not widely used 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 202 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 203
78. S 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 archttp64 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 JOE EHE E ERE RE ERE EREREHERERE HERE HE REGERE E E EE 111 ARC
79. 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 Volume 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 nu ngrn 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
80. 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 O SS SS eee 48 BIOS CONFIGURATION 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 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 Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid
81. The following diagrams show all LEDs connectors and pin locations LCD I2C 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 EA 4p ae 8 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 ri Dri Driv J39 4 n Individual Activity LED Connector LCD I2C Module Connector Global Fault Activity LED Y EH ENS E 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 36 Individual Fault d LED Connector HARDWARE INSTALLATION Individual Activity LED Connector LCD I2C Module Connector 1 Individual Fault LED Connector x BB Figure 2 15 ARC 1882LP Global Fault AtivityLED individual LED for each channel drive and global indicator connector for computer case 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 al
82. a Technology Corporation lopen all close all s Select The Raid Set To Delete 9 Raid System Console CJ 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 124 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SAS SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears ABs Jopen all close all 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
83. ad 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 Eg RAID 0 Striping E i i i i Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Block 0 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 ES wee F3 gt Hm Hm g Physical Disk 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 AO A1 BO B1 CO C1 DO Di LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLUU Logical disk Array Management Block 0 Block 0 d d Physical Disk 0 0 D D i B Disk 1 Disk 2 RAID1 Mirroring 197 APPENDIX RAID 10 1E RAID 10 1E is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 combing stripping with disk mirroring
84. ailure the volume set transitions from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the pace EN o Jy cen v nndif 189 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 have created utilities that can be used to repartition disks without data loss Most of these utilities work offline Partition Ma
85. aken from the cache without real disk execution and total cache memory shows the total available memory being installed in the RAID controller 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 there 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 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 e BIOS Selection This option is used to select the BIOS code on the controller There are legacy BIOS UEFI and EFI bios all are 32K bytes e
86. 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 additional 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 IR
87. ancy User needs to delete the RAID set when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function 79 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Vol Raid Set Hardware System inf Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password Background Task Priority JBOD RAID Function SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Volume Data Read Ahead JBO Hdd Queue Depth Setting Empty HDD Slot LED Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support 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 Raid Set Hardware System inf Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password BODRA Function Background Task Priority Background Task Prio Volume Data Read Al Hdd Queue Depth Sef Empty HDD Slot LED Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation High 8096 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 6 SATA NCQ Support 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 i
88. 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 166 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 CX SAS RAID Controller E e BBM s Connector SO ee D VO 6S q D Qe p RA Q4 Battery Connector m p p Status of Battery i lt Ool k Notis LII COP pr a
89. anual 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 on the Macintosh Disk Utility program Follow the uL L EAE x 106 DRIVER INSTALLATION on screen prompts to create a volume set and to assign a disk drive letter 107 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 T
90. ask Priority seesessesseseeeeesses 80 3 7 5 6 SATA NCQ SUDDOTt seas pcteswsstebarveseeage Re E Eoo a vl 81 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache sese 81 3 7 5 8 Volume Data Read Ahead seen 82 3 7 5 9 Hdd Queue Depth Setting ss ssssssrssrrerresssensrrrerrrrres 82 3 7 5 10 Empty HDD Slot LEDit irnn rantaan gees eno v ecu Rea ded 83 3 7 5 11 Controller Fan Detection sssssssssrrerresssensrrrerrernes 84 3 7 5 12 Auto Activate Raid Set ssssssrssrrerresssessrrrerrrrnes 84 3 7 5 13 Disk Write Cache Mode sessseeen nnn 85 3 7 5 14 Write Same SUPPOrt cece cece eee eee tees ne 85 3 7 5 14 Capacity Truncation esurire anen 86 7 6 HDD Power Management ccccecee eee ee eee eee teen mmn 87 3 7 6 1 Stagger Power On sasicisecxn sean ered kd eaa aR Re ex DRE ene 87 3 7 6 2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle eeeeeeeeeel 88 3 7 6 3 Time To Low RPM Mode eseeenem mmn 89 3 6 7 4 Time To Spin Down Idle Hdd eeeeeeeee 89 3 7 7 Ethernet Configuration ccceceeceee eee ee eect ee eee ee eee eeenaee 90 37 7 1 DACP FUNCION si iii tines ciara dr Dee E E pi Deed s 90 3 7 7 2 Local IP address cniris mene nnn 91 3 7 7 3 HTIP Port Number doce a e ecie nca rcans aata 92 3 7 7 4 Telnet Port Number eeessenee meme n 92 3 7 7 5 SMTP Port NUM DE ieies viis itis vtro vaa EE LEER e ER EID 93 3 7 8 View System Events eite oi ni Kn
91. b 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 139 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 140 ad T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select the IDE drive For Pass Through Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC 36 8GB FUJITSU MAX3036RC LIT 36 8G8 FUJITSU MAX3036RC a6 ace FUxrTSU MAUS036RC lae BGB FUJITSU MAX3036RC 36 8GB Fuxrrsu max3036RC 26 768 HITACHI HUS151436v15200 36 8GB Fusrrsu maxa036Rc 30 868 Fusrrsu maxsoseRc 36 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436V S300 26 768 HITACHI HUS151436V S300 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436V S300 36 768 HITACHI HUS151436VL6300 36 7GB HITACHI HUS151436VLS300 lode SCSI Channel SCSI_ID SCSt_Lun T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 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 th
92. ble 2 3 ARC 1882LP connectors 19 HARDWARE INSTALLATION J H EA SENZ rn n cmm s 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 CSS 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 3 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 expansion slot e Small screwdriver e Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Instructions
93. c 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 install 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 F ArcHTTP For Snow Leopard 10 6 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
94. 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 e Migrating Create Raid S Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Delete Raid S Member Disks 2 Expand Raid 4 Raid State Migrating Offline Raid S Total Capacity 800 0GB Activate Raid Free Capacity 800 0GB Create Hot Sp 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 User can remove those Hdds and insert those Hdds on the others controller empty slots without needing power down the controller to perform the online array roaming 55 BIOS CONFIGURATION Delete Hot Spare Rescue Ra
95. con troller has supported the EFI BIOS on its 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 an
96. ct 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 pau w 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 c o 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 Controll
97. d 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 connector jumper for the 6Gb s SAS R
98. d an external SAS cable 2 4 1 Internal Min 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 _ EEE E ee ee MM cana an a ee eee 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 n Figure 2 9 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4x SATA cable d 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 th
99. d 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 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 mm RERO 194 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 without the need to replace any
100. dify 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 mA a 118 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 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 t I Mo A i rcHTTP Configuration TALA Lis ATC Config lopen all clos
101. draw 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 Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 6 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 30 SCSI LUN EE Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled 1O mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled e SCSI LUN Each SCSI 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 Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level 2 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI_ID 20 SCSI LUN 4 Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled 10 mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled BIOS CONFIGURATION e Cache Mode User can set the cache mode to either Write Through or Write Back l Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Creation Create Vol BB 9 TIE SETTE OST P0 701010 Create Rai Raid Level G Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID ERO SCSI LUN m Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled 10 mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled e Write Protection When Write P
102. dual 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 information 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
103. e 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 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Installation In this scenario you are installing the controller in an existing Windows system To install the driver DRIVER INSTALLATION 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 in
104. e 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 113 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION e Mail alert by Mail Configuration 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 open the mail configuration page you will see following settings sil A x t k ArcHTTP Configurations lopen all close all WL Bee TE f ArcHTTP v2 00 str Server Configuration g System Functions 0 General Configuration D Mail Configuration Mail Address Configurations SNMP Trap Configuration Sendak NS Mail Address Rescan Device E B SAS RAID Controllers ARC 1680 O En MailTo Name2 S gE SATA RAID Controllers 0 ARC 1200 Accou MailTo Name3 MailTo Name4 Mail Address Event Notification Configurations e No Event Ni 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 16
105. e dedicated hot spare disk Volume Set IE41Sc 204 Ann ICR Hitachi UNT7ZIENANY A360 Physical Dri EE 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 aoe Hardware M JE 1Solt 07 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 System info JE 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 hot 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 eee i ae S Hardware M Rescue Raid Set i 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 func
106. e 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 ul X XX A X X X X X A I 76 BIOS CONFIGURATION Enclosure 1 ARECA SAS RAID Adapter V1 0 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 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 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
107. e all g ArcHTTP v2 00 System Functions 2 General amp Mail Confi ioi SNMP Trap Configuration D Rescan Device gt BE SAS RAID Controllers D ARC 1680 ARC 1880 S BEI 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 119 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 McRAID 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 cont
108. e 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 RAID 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 f
109. e 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 Attri 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 Le N ut T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select The Pass Through Disk For Modifi Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 stor ot 36 768 HrrAcHI HuS151436vLS300 jor o2 6 868 Fursu waxanaenc WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 T A y 1 TEE areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all errcur Hus151436V 5300 c aoro 36 ace jFuarrsu maxaoa6rc T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 6 7 4 Clone Disk
110. e pees OG O 4 External RAID Controller amp 3 dd BBM s Connector Qn S rt B 3 Status of BBM 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 167 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 a b W CMM 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 168 APPENDIX 2 In order to make sure of all the capacity is available for your battery cells allow the battery cell to be fully cha
111. e 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 BIOS CONFIGURATION ARC 1882 VO par PRA ARC 1882 VO ARC 1882 VO ARC 1882 VOEm 3 7 3 6 Stop Volume 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 not modify it uis Mur Rac setu Volume Set Name ARC 1882 VOL 004 Volume Set H Raid Set Name Raid Set 02 Create Vol Volume Capacity 1200 06B Volume State Migration SCSI CH ID Lun 0 0 4 Raid Level 2 Stripe Size 64K Block Size 512 Bytes Member Disk no Cache Attribute Write Back Write Protect Disabled IO mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled 13 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 Physical Drives Choose this option from the main me
112. e 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 USB 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 165 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
113. eca web site at http www areca com tw These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating ESS a CX 96 DRIVER INSTALLATION system installations For Windows 7 2008 Vista you can copy the Windows driver file to USB device and installed from it Determine the correct 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
114. eck 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 a 3 M I ut T Areca Technology Corporation open all close all 137 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 regular basis at least once per week set on Scheduler Volume checks deg
115. eee ee eee nmm 187 e Online Capacity ExpansSiOn cciceccceseeeee eee eee nennen 187 e Online Volume Expansion eeeeeen mmm 190 High availability cicer iR e rx Chen commer er hd ER dk 6 eid 190 e Global Local Hot Spares ssssssseesee eene 190 e Hot Swap Disk Drive Support seseee mmn 191 e Auto Declare Hot Spare essen emm 191 Auto Rebuilding eee etr ERR ERR eh CER RR ER ERR EERRUS 192 e Adjustable Rebuild Priority ceccece eee e eee ee teeta eee eee eae ee 192 High Reliability zc cree Sekt s hr rie ise re E tree eR HERR RE ieee tant 193 e Hard Drive Failure Prediction ssessssssrsessesssrrnrrsrrenrsssnes 193 Auto Reassigri SectOE iiec cce pa xe basis ea Re e xs 193 e Consistency Check ssessseeseeeseen nennen nennen nnn 194 Data Mwst UE 194 s Battery Backup 412 x aeris ioini IR Ere L YR Re dv na DR case IE RO SO TR 194 Recovery ROM uoce Ex RM et VE RMACERREEEMI VENE COE Me E EYR E YR 195 Appendix F isrosun cu nu EhauER 9s ER ARR REFERRE AE EK REPE KRURRKEERA ERE aeai 196 Understanding RAID eeeker esent hh htt ERR XR ERR ERR RERRERNE KR ME 196 RAID 0 Eee Dieci deese oe teet tra Guar Seen neanta ee 196 RAID RE 197 RAID LOVE teet ie kx extre erem e RS Ema dua aie iy a 198 pics 198 JBOD Corrie raain ei eth RH RI APER RPEE RE MIIXRERRMA Ir RE RES 201 INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction This section presents a brief ove
116. eeeeen nnn 161 6 9 3 System Information cesses nnne 162 6 9 4 Hardware Monitor eeeeeseeseeen nennen nnn 162 Appendix A iissenxexssssasznavkuzkoRSEEEERUFENRIASARSNERTEANEFREZEAREEKK CNN E 163 Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process eeeeeeennnnn 163 Appenuix B iiusessuzenxuawuuEuxu a KE BEEEAKEREERERN SER MEXNVENEN NEMINEM 167 Battery Backup Module ARC 6120BA T121 sss 167 Appendix C essssosossnRa sana AR ERARRERREA REEERERERERERERRAFEERESERFEEKKR REA 171 SNMP Operation amp Installation ceeeeennnn nne 171 Appendix Di asxnsss a xur RREE VERE RRERKSEIEREFEEREKER EVE KNEE ER RR MERE MEUM 182 Event Notification Configurations c eceeeeeeee eee eee eee ee eee ee 182 As Device Event siste a REPRE EX ARRA ths secede EXE CHAR skeen 182 B Volume Event eene eed e E DE Exam Rp DK EET ek 183 C RAID Set EVM sirinsiti isara yx ERRXPIRERERERGTKREAXERKNERAIENEERE 184 D Hardware Monitor Event esses nnne 184 Appendix E iiieesa x n xuuuoEn avus FaxEKu ka YA KK CERERI ERR R VERE SAN MEER K NE 186 RAID CONCEDE 2 5 i toes si oret needa cere ERN EXER ERA CERE E NU ERN VERE 186 RAID Sets EE 186 Vol me Set ere trn eh ERR rax RR CR Ra ERR o e Da tenes 186 Ease of Use Features cciisieeccieiscascevevs rede HERR RX E e Edna 187 e Foreground Availability Background Initialization 187 e Online Array Roaming ceceee
117. ei enei ES 94 3 7 9 Clear Events Buffer i eite situ eet vR Esa canes ITA ER 94 3 7 10 Hardware Monitor essem nnn 95 3 7 11 System Information ccc cece cece eee a nnns 95 4 Driver Installation e eao oiu ununi uuun aa iun ununi Ens RR iiu 96 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskettes cciceeceeeee eee a 96 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows ccceceeseccseeeesseeeeeeseneneneas 98 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 PEE 98 4 2 2 Install Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 on a 6Gb s SAS RAID VoOlUM Gece eris sexvesssen retta Rie xEYR EIE UE D PITE Qr ePE E INN 98 4 2 2 1 Installation Procedures sseeen mmn 98 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 100 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Windows 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Installation meme nnn 100 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 102 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 7 2008 Vista 2003 XP 102 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux sseeeenn meme 103 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD eeenmmme 104 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris ee nme 104 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X sssssen memes 104 4 6 1 Installation Procedures seeeen mmm 105 4 6 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Mac OS X 106 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation 108 5 1 For WIMKdOWS is ciri ek
118. em can support up to four SAS SATA signals These controllers can be installed 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 ET o H
119. endent distributed parity scheme Data is striped on a block 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 ud 35888 8 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 Disk 6 7 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 xO logical drive APPENDIX mnm PE as us 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 Dis
120. ent function please refer to Ap pendix C 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
121. ents 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 p AP a M n 153 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 154 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 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 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 6 8 3 4 Time To Spin Down Idle H
122. er 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 We PCle x8 A A Min SAS 4i connector Figure 2 7 SAS cable connect to HD Figure 2 8 SAS cable connect to backplane SS ae e Wt ma il i IT pg S SQUE d PCle x8 Min SAS 4i connector 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
123. et 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 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 Fu
124. example 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 m NN NN eua 148 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 e Smart Option For HDD This option is used to increases the reliability of SSDs HDDs by automatically copying data from a drive with potential to fail to a designated hot spare or newly inserted drive The options are Failed The Drive Failed The Drive If Hot Sapre Exist and Alert Only The default is Alert Only Failed The Drive controllers kill off the SMART fail drive im mediately Failed The Drive If Hot Sapre Exist controllers kill off the SMAT fail disk if hot sapre dive is existed Alert Only it will trigger alert when there happens a SMART fail drive e Smart Polling Interval Besides the scheduled volume check user can define the Smart Pulling Interval to pull the SMART status of each disk The de fault is on demand User can schedule every certain period of time interval to pul
125. gic 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 v J 190 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 global hot spare The hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the dri
126. gnating 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 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 E 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
127. hange ATA Mode Time Out Error 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 Sa 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 Po Delete Volume Volume deleted P Modify Volume Volume modified 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 Reburaing wernng nebuiina stores Abort Migration Warning ration aborted abort Checking Wering Party check aborted __ stop intatzation warning risana stopped stop Rebutang warnne nebuiina stopped Stop Migration mamno gration stooped stop checking warning Party checicstoeee 183 APPENDIX
128. he 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 E b Free Space E Volume 1 RAID 5 E E mn S E L e Volume 0 1E Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 186 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 RAID configuration information on the disk drives The controller therefore protec
129. he 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 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 108 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
130. her RAID sets 3 200 5 J 33 4 Areca Technology Corporation lopen ali close all Raid Systom Console ick Function Fusrrsu maxaoz6Rc Fumrsu MAx30 faor 10 sor ia loria T r gorz2 I n sor is oras 36 758 r morie 36 768 HrTACHT Hus1s1436viS300 esa sot Name CE raidset mode Max 128 vircs 8 F Confirm The Operation Submit Roset 123 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 ON 22 0 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 e Arec
131. his screen T Au ol on lopen all close all eo c 3e c n 1350 RPM 12V 12 160 V E 5 053 V 3 3v 3 360 V IO Voltage 1 8V 1 856 V 1 536 V ARECA SAS RAID AdapterV1 0 Enclosure Areca ARC 8016 80 00 b000 27 iv 5v 33V iiv 162 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 ARC1882FIRM 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 rig
132. ht file for the upgrade Normally user upgrades the ARC1882BIOS BIN for sys tem M B compatibility and ARC1882FIRM BIN for RAID function All these files in the firmware package are a part of the firmware You should update all files in the package no special update order needed New firmware works after a system restart not instantant available so you can update all files before restart the system The controller firmware is independent of the array update firmware does not touch anything you stored in the array ote Please update all binary code BIOS BOOT FIRM and MBRO before you reboot system Otherwise a mixed firmware package may hang the controller 163 APPENDIX A 2 Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager OST UE ui b Areca Technology Corporation poo E T Gonfirm The Operation Submit Reset 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 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 browse
133. id Set Raid Set Information 3 7 2 5 Activate 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 RAID state will change to Degraded Mode and start to work 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 th
134. 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 tested 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 Sea 104 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 Ma
135. ion 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 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 indivi
136. isk 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 GSE FM ETA Raid Set 004 3 3 Raid Set 005 3 3 No Raid Set 006 3 3 Disk Normal 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 1 Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SAS SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears 2 Select the target RAID set by clicking on the appropriate radius button Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box 3 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
137. ity s Boecl c Raid Set 000 2 2 Normal 60 068 QQ Create RAID Set D Delete RAID Set c Raid Set 001 3 3 Normal 90 068 D Expand RAID Set D Offine RAID Set Submit Reset D Rename RAID Set O Activate Incomplete RAID Create Hot Spare Delete Hot Spare D Rescue Raid Set H Volume Set Functions 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 disk drive is rebuild automatically on the dedicated hot spare disk 3 PA TE Technology Corporation lopen all close all Select The Drives For Hot Spare W Raid System Console amp Quick Function RAID Set Functions D Create RAID Set s Enclosure 2 Areca ARC 8016 01 09 0109 SLOT 06 26 868 FUJITSU MAX3036RC a D Delete RAID Set jM stor o7 36 88 FUJITSU MAX3036RC D
138. ive 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 e Number of AV Stream RAID controllers are required to have not only the function of processing 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 Co a LL Ll U 151 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 t
139. k Pass through disk refers to a drive that is not controlled by the 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 201 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
140. k 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 Installation The SNMP Traps Configurations menu will show as following iil A Soa BF ar HTTP Confi lopen all close all E g rime v SNMP Trap Configurations B i System SNMP Trap IP Address 1 0 10 10 Port 162 urai J Mall Configuration SNMP Trap IP Address 2 L SNMP Trap Configuration SNMP Trap IP Add Rescan Device E BEI SAS RAID Controllers ARC 1680 O ARC 1880 E BERE SATA RAID Controllers o 0 0 0 0 Port 162 0 To Port 162 amp SNMP System Confi Community a SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Disable Event Notification No Event Notification Will Be Sent O urgent Error Notification Send Only Urgent Event D ARC 1200 O Serious Error Notification end Urgent And Serious Event s O Warning Error Notifi Send Urgent Serious And Warning Event s D Information Notification end All Event O Confirm The Operation Submit Reset 1 SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP trap IP address 115 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 2 SNMP System Configurations Community name acts as a password to
141. l the SMART status of each disk When SMART pulling is ex ecuted disk activity will be temporally halted until the SMART parameter reading is finished That is why you don t want to set the Interval too frequent What to use is up to the users to decide based on their applications and experiment results 6 8 2 Advanced Configuration 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 pa X PM P if 149 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 150 AN viet nem HEN rt wu 3c i bil d uii s Areca Technology Corporation open all close all Raid System Console E Quick Function TLER Setting 20 RAID Set Functions is Volume Set Functions ls C Physical Drives Number Of Retries 2v 2 5 System Controls D System Configuration D Advanced Configuration Amount Of Read Ahead Auto v D Hdd Power Management E D EtherNet Configuration D Alert By Mail Configuration J optimize AV Recording Disabled m D SNMP Configuration D NTP Configuration D View Events Mute Beeper Write Performance Margin 0 m D Gener ent D Clear Timeout Setting 8 w secends Buffer Threshold Setting 25 M Number Of AV Streams s Bi Read Performance Margin o v
142. led 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 Ao s M 1 p P Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Quick Create Raid Volume Set is Raid 5 Spare 420 GB Foreground Initialization e vw KByte Max 128 Volumes 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 Pec a SS
143. ll a PCIe 2 0 3 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller Step 1 Unpack Unpack and remove the PCIe 2 0 3 0 6Gb s SAS RAID control ler 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 3 0 slot Align the gold fingered edge on the card with the selected PCIe 2 0 3 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 series controllers require a PCIe 2 0 3 0 x8 slot for better perfor mance 1 J mmm PCIe x8 Figure 2 5 Insert 6Gb s SAS RAID controller into a PCIe slot Step 5 Mount the Drives You can connect the SAS SATA drives to the controller through direct cable and backplane solutions In the dire
144. ller software The software components configure and monitor the 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers as following table Configuration Utility Operating System Supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager OS Independent Via Ethernet port 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 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 7 Chapter2 Chapter3 Create Bootable Install Controllers e or Data RAID Volume Using McBIOS RAID Manager 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
145. ller 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 a Te 145 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 using the Read Ahead option The 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 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
146. llers ete EM ai g PCI Device vesOn uj AR O89 s RS 232 D Yes N D ARC 1880 QR YT SATA RAID Controllers Scannins ig Inband Device Y Ni D ARC 1200 Event Log File Name O 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 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 n EL ER A 110 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 1 Login as root Copy the ArcHttp file to a local directory 1 Insert the 6Gb s SA
147. llowing 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 distribution 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 pa W i 103 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
148. m E Raid 5 Clear Event Bu 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 BIOS CONFIGURATION Press Yes key in the Create Vol Raid Set dialog box the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize it Select Foreground Faster Completion or Background Instant Available for initialization and No Init To Rescue Volume for recovering the missing RAID set configuration 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 View System E Raid 5 Background Instant Available Clear Event Bul Raid 3 Sp No Init To Rescue Volume Hardware Monil sima System informa 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 Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Arrowt BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set The following is the RAID set fea
149. 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 3 0 x8 lane host interface PCB version 3 0 or greater can support PCIe 3 0 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 Battery Backup Module BBM ready
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151. moni tor the backplane information 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 Write Same For Initialization Drives that support the Write Same feature SCT can write to multiple drive sectors at once improving initialization time To take advantage of this feature all the drives in the unit must support Write Same User can set the SAS And SATA SAS Only SATA Only or Disabled for the controller initialization 147 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding It defines if the RAID array volume should start rebuilding or not when detects a disk is inserted re inserted during online The options are Blank Disk Only Always and Disable The default is Blank Disk Only Blank Disk Only it will trigger the rebuilding if and only if the inserted disk has not been in the RAI
152. mware B Information 6 8 12 Update Firmware Please refer to the appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process Areca Technology Corporation lopen alljclose all Upgrade The Raid System Firmware Or Boot Rom 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 160 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION lopen all close all Raid system Console C Quick Function RAID Set Functions Volume Set Functions Physical Drives System Controls E Information D RAID Set Hierarchy L SAS Chip Information D System Information D Hardware Monitor M t3 TS Technology Corporation s RaidSet Hierarchy RAID Set Devices Volume set ch Id Lun Volume State E 3SLOT 03 ARC 1882 VOL 007 0 0 3 Normal Es2SLOT 03 Es2SLOT 04 Es2SLOT 07 E 2SLOT 10 Es3SLOT 02 Raid Set 001 E 3SLOT 12 ARC 1882 VOL 001 0 0 1 Normal 225101 13 ARC 1882 VO 002 0 0 2 Normal E s2SLOT 02 ARC 1882 VO 003 0 0 4 Normal Es3SLOT 04 ARC 1882 VO 004 0 0 5 Normal Ez2s1oT 01 ARC 1882 VOL 005 0 0 6 Normal Enclosures ARECA SAS RAID AdapterV1 0 6 9 2 SAS Chip Information Device TEE capacity moder slot 1 na ma NA slct 2 Na NA NA sie
153. n Submit Reset 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 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 pm M N 159 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 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 k A A het Areca Technology Corporation lopen alljclose all Modify System Password Enter Original Password Raid System Console Quick D Upgrade Fir
154. n 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 Quick Volume Raid Setup E 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 NS MainMenu Controller H W Monitor Q
155. nction item then press Enter key to show the DHCP setting Select the Disabled or Enabled option to enable or C r d n uu LL LL cc L c 90 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 Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Select DHCP Setting HTTP Port Number E IE 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 aS SUE Local IP Address
156. nd Manager e Firmware embedded web browser based McRAID storage man ager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port pam S M X X mH 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 Be sure to update the ArcMSR kext driver shipping with Mac OS X to V1 3 7 or later from the software CD or from the Areca website 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 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 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 0 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 Single Disk JBOD On Board Cache 1GB on boar
157. nse 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 171 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 application and compile the MIB description file with the SNMP management applcation database Before the
158. nternal 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 E DIT RU Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priorit Volume Data Read Ahead Hdd Queue Depth Setting Empty HDD Slot LED Hardware Controller Fan Detection Systemin Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation Rees MEE a 3 7 5 7 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 Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priorit HDD Read Ahead C Volume Data Read Enabled Hdd Queue Depth S Disable Maxtor Empty HDD Slot LE Disabled J Controller Fan Detection System in Auto Activate Raid Set Disk Write Cache Mode Write Same Support Capacity Truncation Hardware BIOS CONFIGURATION 82 3 7 5 8 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 Data Read Ahead parameter is normal by default To modify the value you
159. ntroller will member disks continued the incompleted missing before power rebuilding migration on 185 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 become part of a RAID set If there are pre existing RAID sets with available capacity and enough disks for t
160. nu 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 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 MSS 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 74 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk A pass through disk is not controlled by the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller 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 acme SCSI Channel 0 E 1Solt 10 400 SCSI ID Create
161. on 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 128 KB 256KB 512KB or 1024KB 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 ote RAID level 3 can t modify the cache stripe size e Roaming the stripe size 256K 512K 1024K Raid Set to firmware version older than 1 52 will cause data corruption e Cache Mode The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller supports Write Through and Write Back cache 131 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION eVolume Write Protection When Volume Write Protection is enabled on the Modify Volume Set host commands fail if they are issued to a volume in that RAID controller and attempt to modify a volume s data or attributes Volume Write Protection is used primarily for customer initiated disaster recovery testing e Full Volume Encryption ARC 1882 adapters have featured with controller based hard ware encryption function Controller based hardware encryption describes the encryption of data occurring at the disk array con troller before being sent to the disk drives Since RAID controller is a natural cent
162. on 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 zw uuu cui 70 BIOS CONFIGURATION Volume Set Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Level amp dex Capacity 100 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled 10 mode Cached IO 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 last 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
163. onf 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 8 AreSampCont InstallShield Wizard InstallShield Wizard Completed Tho installshield Wizard has successfull installed Archnpcorf Clic Prish to ex the war 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 178 APPENDIX yaf InstallShield Wizard iii salse 6 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box of the installation program is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation eotalchied 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 179 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 request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its reque
164. ove 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 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 C ey 87 BIOS CONFIGURATION 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 JH Quick Volp Raid Set fj View System Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 6 2 Time to Hdd Low Po
165. ow 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 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 Ar
166. owKey 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 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 Desi
167. p Raid Set Functi Create Volume Set Create Raid30 50 60 Hdd Power Emnene 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 Select 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 Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1882 VOL 001 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled 10 mode Cached IO 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 C
168. pendix 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 Device Failed 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 Device Urgent HDD SMART failure Replace HDD Failed SMART 182 ATA Ecc Error C
169. perature 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 170 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 manager The MIB file enables the SNMP manager to interpret trap messages from devices To make se
170. pute 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 ucts and technology are based on extensive testing and validation Eel Re n WI aaa 11 INTRODUCTION process leverage Areca SAS or SATA RAID controller field proven compatibility with operating systems motherboards applications and device drivers Easy RAID Management The controllers contain an embedded McBIOS RAID
171. puter 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 ad dresses 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 func tion E M b Jc Technology Corporation lopen all close all Ether Net Configur DHCP Function Enabled Local IP Address Used If DHCP Disabled pe e Bo po Gateway IP Address Used If DHCP Disabled 12 Mes fi fi less pss ps fo Telnet Port Number 7168 8191 Is Reserved SMTP Port Number 7168 8191 Is Reserved s Current 1P Address 192 168 0 103 Current Gateway IP Address 192 168 0 1 Current Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Ether Net MAC Address o0 15 40 40 00 51 T Confirm The Operation Submit Reset
172. r begins 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 package 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 SSS SSS SST 164 APPENDIX 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 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 Upgrad
173. rade performance so you can also run them when the system is idle set by Checking After System Idle 6 6 7 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop the Check Volume Set function 1 Fi at Areca Technology Corporation 6 6 8 Download Volume Key File Get the key file which was generated by CLI vsf genkey com mand or API code for your ARC 1882 adapters You can follow below steps to download volume key file 1 To download volume key file into the firmware move the mouse cursor to Download Volume Key file link and click it The Download Volume Encryption Key File screen appears 2 Click Browse Look in the location to which the key file was generated Select the file name and click Open ES ee RUM 138 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 3 Click Confirm The Operation and press the Submit button 4 After the key file download is completed a bar indicator will show Key File Has Been Downloaded Successfully Technology Co IAS open all close all 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 6G
174. ral point of all data therefore encryption at this level is inherent and also reduces deployment complexity ARC 1882 RAID controller has dedicated electronic circuitry for the cryptographic engine embedded in the ROC and operating at full channel speeds The hardware encryption does not impact the performance of ARC 1882 RAID controller and can implement on any kinds of HDD that is transparent to the user the OS and applications Encrypting your volume can give your data an extra layer of pro tection beyond setting up a controller password Encryption will conceal your volume s data and make accessing the files almost impossible for anyone who does not know your encryption key Data saved in the volume will be hidden by Algorithm developed by Areca Technology With this scramble process no one can see and access into the hidden volume data without access key ARC 1882 adapters support 128 and 256 bit encryption keys using AES a key size of 128 or 256 bits or password a vari able key size Each encryption key size causes the algorithm to behave slightly differently so the increasing key sizes not only offer a larger number of bits with which you can scramble the data but also increase the complexity of the cipher algorithm ARC 1882 adapters provide five new key options in the Full Vol ume Encryption Disable 256Bit key Password 256Bit key AES 128Bit key Password 128Bit key AES You can gener ate the new key by CLI
175. rged 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 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 Power on system and press Tab F6 to login controller Check the controller event log make sure the event shows controller boot up with power recovered UA 169 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 Temperature Temperature 0 C to 40 C e Humidity 45 8596 non condensing e Storage Tem
176. roller 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 adding any user specific software platform independent via standard web browsers directly connected to the auum Smcco e Ne m mstg Hi 120 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 brow
177. rotection is enabled on the Create Volume Set host commands fail if they are issued to a volume in that RAID controller and attempt to modify a volume s data or attributes Write Protection is used primarily for customer initiated disaster recovery testing Quick Volume Raid Setpa Volume Creation Create Volt RAe TNCS Con 5152 0 E70 010 Create Ra Raid Level 23 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID SCSI LUN 2 1 Cache Mode Write Back Write Protect Disabled Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled 67 BIOS CONFIGURATION 68 e IO Mode The Cache IO and Direct IO cache policies apply to read on a specific virtual disk The volume IO mode options are as fol lows Cache IO Specifies that all reads are buffered in the control ler cache memory Direct IO Specifies that reads are not buffered in cache memory When using direct IO mode data is transferred to the controller cache memory and the host system simultaneously during a read request If a subsequent read request requires data from the same data block it can be read directly from the controller cache memory Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Creation Create Vol RAYO CANE ANS OE AVO E 0 010 Create Rai Raid Level 6 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Write Protect Di Cached IO IO mode Direct IO BE Terme q ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC
178. rrerens 147 e Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding sseeseeeeeess 148 ecc Em 148 e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode c seen nnns 148 Smart Option FOr ADD sso enne exu a ERE ERE NER RE ERERRERU ERANA 149 e Smart Polling Interval ssesseseemme 149 6 8 2 Advanced Configuration esses 149 6 8 3 HDD Power Management cssssesseen menn 153 6 8 3 1 Stagger Power On Control eene 153 6 8 3 2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle eese 154 6 8 3 3 Time To Hdd Low RPM Mode eeenm 154 6 8 3 4 Time To Spin Down Idle HDD eene 154 6 8 3 5 SATA Power Up In Standby eee 154 6 8 4 Ethernet Configuration sese 155 6 8 5 Alert By Mail Configuration sssssssssssrssssrrrsrsrrrrresrrrns 156 6 8 6 SNMP Configuration ccceceee cece eect ee eee nnne 156 6 8 7 NIP Configuratio 2 ra ret ties rae vi e debe Rs 157 6 8 8 View Events Mute Beeper essess nnne 158 6 8 9 Generate Test Event iecit eR ER eR een xn Ek RR 159 6 8 10 Clear Events Buffer cesssssseesseeeee enne 159 6 8 11 Modify Password sseseseeen nmm 159 6 8 12 Update Firmware eseeseeeeeenenem emen nn 160 6 9 InformatiOn secre yr cxx ERR e EpRE EAR PED PORE 160 6 9 1 Raid Set Hierarchy seessesseeeeenen enne nnne 160 6 9 2 SAS Chip Information eesesee
179. rview of the 6Gb s SAS RAID control ler ARC 1882 series PCIe 2 0 3 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 quickly bring stable and reliable PCIe 2 0 3 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers to the market Unparalleled
180. s 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 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 Setu
181. s 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 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 129 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION M eis T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all s Enter The Volume Attribute insole n Raid system
182. s completed if a location 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 193 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 an
183. 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 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 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
184. ser 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 Rad set 000 Ez3stoT 1i E 3SLOT 03 E23SLOT 02 Raid Set 001 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 SSS a a ay 121 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 instal
185. sert 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 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 99 DRIVER INSTALLATION 100 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 th
186. signed 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 T M T Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all APPENDIX b Mark the check box on the SNMP Through PCI Inband setting and keep space or zero on all SNMP Tarp IP Address options C Installing the SNMP extension agent on the server
187. sing 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 1 WA yc i aroce Technology Corporation SNMP System Configurations Communi ity Public F Confirm The Operation Submit 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 p J J J X XX nui 175 APPENDIX 3 SNMP Trap Notification Configurations 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 as
188. so cascade to another SAS SATA backplane enclosure for the additional channel status display LCD I2C Modual Connector JJ T Figure 2 18 Activity Fault LED serial bus connector connected between 6Gb s SAS RAID controller amp 4 SATA HDD backplane jr 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 ACS CLK LCD CLK HEADER 4X2 NC4 D2A4n Tein 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 I C 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 Fa
189. st 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 Ji Areca SNMP Configuration Tool 1 0 areca SNMP Community Configuration Conmunty TA SNMP Trap Notification Configurations 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 RAID hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your sys tem The old version agent has
190. stalled 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 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 101 DRIVER INSTALLATION 102 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
191. tall 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 create the RAID set and volume set to which you will install Windows For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID manager Once a B JJa CC n t 98 DRIVER INSTALLATION 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 ote 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 In
192. te INA Na Na Slates IDE Na NA Slots n a n a NA slote6 IL JA NA 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 F d 4 aT Areca Technology Corporation lopen all close all Raid System Console C Quick Function S RAID Set Functions C Volume Set Functions 8C Physical Drives System Controls E Information D RAID Set Hierarchy L SAS Chip Information D System Information D Hardware Monitor Controller Areca ARC 1882 1 49 Attached Expander Attached Expander SAS Address 5001840400051000 Enclosure Encar Number Of Phys js Expander 1 500184690801823F1 4x6C Expander 2 500164690C00023F 4x66 li Expander 1 Areca ARC 8016 B0 00 bo00 sas Address Component Vendor Component 1D Enclosure Number Of Phys 500154600801823F ist me ence ES Attached Expander Expanders3 500184692007403F 4x6G ARSE eae OOOO s Expander 2 Areca ARC 8016 B0 00 b000 jCentroller s001
193. 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 97 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows The 6Gb 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 ins
194. tion can regenerate the signature for the RAID set Volume Set Physical Dri f Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set Offline Raid Set Activate Rpid So ie ro Delete Hoi Rescue Re o 0 5 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 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 Member Disks 20 Raid State Normal Raid Power State Operating Total Capacity 5800 0GB Free Capacity 5600 0GB Min Member Disk Size 290 0GB Supported Volumes 128 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 de vice it is organized in a RAID level within the controller utiliz ing one or more physical disk
195. 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 180 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 Wpack ages FreeBSD SNMP readme txt or download from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards AP_Drivers FreeBSD SNMP V4 1 181 APPENDIX Ap
196. 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 5t 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 Write Same Support 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 configuration All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redund
197. tp 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 173 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 http localhost Cfg Assistant Such as http Wlocalhost 81 The port number for first controller McRAID
198. ts 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 pam 187 APPENDIX 188 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 is only permitted to proceed if all volumes on the RAID set are in the normal status D
199. tures 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 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 opaan to conni 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 Dra
200. uick 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 Functid 5y 4 999 Hdd Power Manage 3 3V 3 200 Ethernet Configuratid jo Voltage 1 8V 1 840 View System Event DDR3 1 5V 1 536 Clear Event Buffer CPU VCore 1 0V 1 040 Hardware Monitor Analog 1 0V 1 040 System information Battery Status Not Installed 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 1GB 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 IMKeTTICTn a ze SII 192 168 0 103 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Driver Installation This chapter describes h
201. ult tolerance will be lost until the hot swap drive is subsequently 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 contro
202. ur 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 000 Create Vol MMC ES 6 Capacity 5039 9GB Stripe Size K SCSI Chai SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Modi Write Protect Disabled 10 mode Cached IO Tag Queuing Enabled 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
203. uring 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 o E Free Space 40GB p RR E It Volume 1 40GB D E Em E L 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 E E M Free Space 80GB r E BR Volume 1 40GB D E 3 E E Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 160GB e Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities a system with online RAID level stripe siz
204. ve 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 p M Dif 191 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 automatically
205. 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 pa L R Z1 BIOS CONFIGURATION 72 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 Note Power failure may damage the migration data Please back up the RAID data before you start the migration function The Volume Set Information Quick Volume Raid Setu Volume Set Name ARC 1882 VOL 000 Raid Set Name Raid Set 000 Create Voll Volume Capacity 100 0GB Create Ra Volume State Normal Delete Vol SCSI CH ID Lun 0 0 0 Raid Level 140 Stripe Size 64K Block Size 4096 Bytes Member Disk 2 2 Cache Attribute Write Back Write Protect Disabled IO mode Cached IO 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 thos
206. w 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 e ar 52 BIOS CONFIGURATION To create RAID 30 50 60 volume you need create multiple RAID sets up to 8 RAID sets first with the same disk numbers 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 ves a Raid Set 0067 No Raid Set 007 3 3 D
207. wer 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 Areca techno ogy Corporation ontroller r Low Power Idle q Hdd Power View System Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 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 Low RPM Mode TE 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 EINEN Spin Down Hdd 4 Hdd Power View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 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 Ethern
208. 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 E P nf 192 APPENDIX RAID controller allows user to choose the task priority Ultra Low 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80

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