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1. o mE NN Barracuda 7200 7 ST380817AS 80G 7200RPM SATA 1 5Gb s 8M NCQ S S 8M NCQ NCQ S S 84 Westem Digital Raptor WD360GD 36 7GB 10000RPM SATA 8M Westem Digital Caviar RE2 WD4000YR 400GB 7200RPM SATA 16M NCQ Westem Digital Caviar RE2 WD4000YS 400GB 7200RPM SATA 16M NCQ RSG281 361 support SAS disk Vendor Model some of SAS commands in Fujitsu SAS disks do not follow SAS standard Fujitsu SAS disks are not recommended B Event notifications e PD S M A R T events Description ee ae ee Info Diskinserted Info Disk slot is inserted Info Disk removed Info Disk slot is removed Warning S M A R T Warning Disk slot S M A R T threshold threshold exceed exceed condition occurred for attribute of condition read error rate spin up time reallocated sector count seek error rate Spin up retries A calibration retries Warning S M A R T Warning Disk slot Failure to get S M A R T information information e Physical HW events Sea DE WEE Warning Single bit ECC error is detected Error Multi bit ECC error is detected Error ECC DIMM Info ECC Memory is installed Installed 85 Info Non ECCinstalled Info Non ECC Memory is installed Error Host chip failure Error Host channel chip failed Error Drive chip failure Error Drive channel chip failed Ethernet port failure Warning G
2. Info VGDeleted oo VG name has been deleted Info UD Created OK Info UDV name has been created Info UDVBDeleted Info UDV name has beendeleted Info UDV Attached OK Info UDV name has been LUN attached Info number SCSI ID number LUN number E ae Started eer ERT FU Sere eee Finished Fail rebuilding E e t LL Started SS mes Ierseng Finished Failed migration VG Degraded Warning VG name is under degraded mode UDV Degraded Warning UDV name is under degraded mode Info UDV Init OK Info o lt name gt completes the initialization Initialization nitialization UDV name VG Failed Error Fail to access VG name UDV Failed Error Fail to access UDV name Warning Global CV Error Fail to adjust the size of the global cache Adjustment Failed Info Global Cache Info The global cache is OK VENE ian tinc Failed NNI MN name ee eme mme o name T Info Assign Disk slot to be VG name Spare Disks dedicated spare disk sls dili Disks Info UDV Read Only Info UDV name is a read only volume 88 Policy name Info Use the write through cache policy for UDV Policy name Info High priority UDV Info UDV name is set to high priority Info Mid Priority UDV Info UDV name is set to mid priority I
3. Port 0 qlogic 1 128 7 Check the parameters which Initial R2T are enabled gqsan qa222 Target Parameters Immediate Execution First Target TargetlD Bind Enable Dynamic Snack Data Throttle Burst Len 192 168 11 210 3260 Ta D L 64 LJ 192 168 11 210 3260 Ta 64 64 Figure G 7 8 Check Target Information again and the state changed to Session Active 2 SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager NL l x File Host View Wizard Help S Connect Refresh QLOGIC Target information LUN List iSCSI HBA I Host qsan qa222 o a HBA 0 QLA4010 Rei e amp Porto glogic 1 m Send targets S o e Device Don 31 HBA Model QLA4010 iSCSI Port Alias Name qlogic 1 HBA iSCSI Name qsan qa222 Vendor QSANTech Product Revision 0 9 Product ID P60C Target Alias Name Mot Available State Session ee P adress 192 168 11 210 Target iSCSIName _ign 2004 08 tw com qsan p60c 0000000d4 default target DIE Device iqn 2004 08 tw com qsan p60c 0000000d4 defautt target Figure G 8 9 Then run Computer Management in Windows Make sure the disk appears 129 im Computer Management ET ojx mi File Action View Window Help Computer Management Local volume Layout Type File System Status Capacit I jib System Tools EF ES Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 19 53 GB DIS Even
4. VGRO 100 Attach a Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 4 2 3 Figure 4 2 3 A RAID 0 migrates to RAID 5 complete percentage is 12 To do migration expansion the total size of VG must be larger or equal to the original VG It does not allow expanding the same RAID level with the same hard disks of original VG During setting migration if user doesn t setup correctly controller will pop up warning messages Below is the detail of messages 1 Invalid VG ID Source VG is invalid 2 Degrade VG not allowed Source VG is degraded 3 Initializing rebuilding operation s going Source VG is initializing or rebuilding 71 Migration operation s going Source VG is already in migration Invalid VG raidcell parameter Invalid configuration E g New VG s capacity Old VG s capacity New VG s stripe size Old VG s stripe size Or New VG s configuration Old VG s configuration 6 Invalid PD capacity New VG s minimum PD capacity Old VG s minimum PD capacity Eam Caution VG Migration cannot be executed during rebuild or UDV extension 4 3 UDV Extension To extend UDV size please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Decide which UDV to be extended click the button gt in the Size column next the number 3 Change the size The size must be larger than the original and then click Confirm to start extension 4 Extension starts If UDV needs initiali
5. Alarm Mute Reset Shutdown Quick Install View IP Setting Change IP Config and Reset to Default will rotate by pressing 4 up and v down When there is WARNING or ERROR level of event happening the LCM shows the event log to give users more detail from front panel too The following table is function description Mute alarm when error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or shutdown controller Quick three steps to create a volume Please refer to section 3 3 for operation in web UI View IP Setting Display current IP address subnet mask and gateway Change IP Set IP address subnet mask and gateway There are 2 Config selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or set static IP Reset to Default Reset to default sets password to default 1234 and set IP address to default as DHCP setting Default IP address 192 168 0 200 Default subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Default gateway 192 168 0 1 The following is LCM menu hierarchy Enhance jMamMus aYes Now Technology TResetshutdown SEES faves felt Y Shutdown Quick Install RAID 0 Voume m EE Volume RAID 1 RAID 3 xxxxxx G Size RAID 5 RAID 6 Apply The Lass Ze Lie ei Beil Static IP o NN l 192 168 010 050 255 255 255 0 IP Gateway 192 168 010 254 IP Address UIS address Change IP IP Subnet Adjust aan am Static IF ge Adjust Goen Ken Apply IP E p Nov
6. LUN 0O the other is Iqn host1 LUN 1 The other host iqn host2 can login because it matches the rule 1 The access will be denied when there is no matching rule 49 3 6 7 Examples The followings are examples for creating volumes Example 1 is to create two UDVs sharing the same CV global cache volume and set a global spare disk Example 2 is to create two UDVs One shares global cache volume the other uses dedicated cache volume Set a dedicated spare disk e Example 1 Example 1 is to create two UDVs in one VG each UDV uses global cache volume Global cache volume is created after system boots up automatically So no action is needed to set CV Then set a global spare disk The last delete all of them Step 1 Create VG Volume Group To create the volume group please follow the procedures Name Misc RAID Level RAID l RAID PD slot 1234 Select PD e ve Back e Mest Gs E Figure 3 6 7 1 oelect Volume config Volume group 2 Click D Create P ei 3 Input a VG Name choose a RAID level from the picklist press i Select PD to choose the RAID PD slot s then press Next gt gt B a H Lo i Ba 4 Check the outcome Press pom if all setups are correct D Done A VG has been created Create Delete e No Name Total Free PD sUDV Status 1 l2 l3 RAID i GE GB nl 114 114 4 D od palis Create Delete e 50 Figure 3 6 7 2 Figure 3 6 7 2 Creating a RAID 5 with 4 physical d
7. 64 3 Upgrade system now A Lef If rou want to downgrade to the previous EW later Please export your sstem config first 3 Cancel Figure 3 8 1 2 When upgrading there is a progress bar running After finished upgrading the system must reboot manually v d Tips XU Please contact with Enhance Tech for latest firmware 3 8 2 Info Enter Info function will display system information including firmware version CPU type installed system memory and controller serial number 3 8 3 Reset to default Enter Reset to default function it allows user to reset controller to the factory default setting Sure to reset to factory default Confirm Figure 3 8 3 1 Reset to default sets password to default 1234 and set IP address to default as DHCP setting Default IP address 192 168 0 200 Default subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Default gateway 192 168 0 1 65 3 8 4 Config import amp export Enter Config import amp export function it allows user to save system configurable values export function and to apply all configuration import function For the volume config setting the values are available in export function and not available in import function which can avoid confliction date deleting between two controllers That says if one controller already has valuable data on the disks and user may forget it use import function could return to the original config If the volume setting was also
8. 94 Figure D 8 2 Check the Identifier which will be deleted 3 Click Log off 4 Done the iSCSI device log off successfully E Trunking LACP setup instructions Here is the step by step to setup Trunking and LACP There are 2 kinds of scenarios for Trunking LACP Please see Figure E 1 Read or Write Read or Write Trunking LACP Trunking LACF Keel SAN P series QSAN P series 1 Dual ports with Trunking LACP 2 Dual ports with Trunking LACP Via switch read or write 1n one With 2 hosts one read one write in UDV 2 UDVs at the same time Figure E 1 Network diagram of Trunking LACP The setup instructions are in the following figures 1 Create a VG with RAID 5 using 3 HDDs 95 Volume config Volume group Create 5 Delete S Total Free i AIO A No Name GB GB PD FUBV Status E GM o RAID 1 R5 RAT j Online RAID 5 Create a Delete Figure E 2 2 Create a UDV by using the RAID 5 VG Volume config User data volume Attach e Snapshot Create a Delete T NES Size R P Snapshot VG CV LI No Name GB Status 1 A 3 Se RAID SUN GB name MB 1 R5 10 H ws B HI 0 00 0 00 Onl n ni oO o cts wmm S Di 14 RAIDS 0 v ES 100 Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete Figure E 3 3 Run Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 and check the Initiator Node Name 96 iSCSI Initiator Properties E wl General Discovery Targets Persistent T
9. G QLogic QLA4010C setup instructions 125 H Installation Steps for Large Volume TB 130 Synergy Global Technology Inc RSG281 RSG361 Chapter 1 RAID introduction 1 1 Features Our iSCSI IP series controller is a high performance RAID controller e Backplane solution o RAG281 Gigabit LAN x2 to SATA II x8 bays RAID controller o RAG361 Gigabit LAN x2 to SATA II x16 bays RAID controller o RSG361 Gigabit LAN x4 to SATA II SAS x16 bays RAID controller Synergy Global Technology Inc IP series controller features RAID 6 ready Snapshot on the box ESnap rollback not supported on E320 IP QCopy remote replication not supported on E320 IP SATA II support with SATA backward compatible N way mirror On line volume expansion and RAID level migration Global dedicated cache configuration by volume S M A R T enabled Support SES Support Microsoft VDS Virtual Disk Service Disk roaming MPIO ready initiator driver support needed MC S ready initiator driver support needed Support iSCSI header and data digest Support CHAP authentication Support Link Aggregation Trunking With proper configuration RSG281 361 controller can provide non stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance by the use of Our iSCSI RAID technology and advanced array management features The controller features are slightly different between the backplane soluti
10. sends pop up message when user checks rollback function 4 5 QCopy remote replication SYNERGY TECH QCopy service is to build a proprietary replication mechanism for created UDVs It will copy the logical user volume data exactly to the remote place The QCopy is built in service without any host based application for the data replication and it has easy configuration setup from web Uls The first QCopy version supports copy from one snapshot ESnap UDVs of the source device to the remote target device QCopy supports 2 copying tasks in the system which user can setup QCopy to 2 snapshot ESnap UDVs for replication at the same time The target device capacity needs to be greater or equal to the source capacity The target UDV capacity is equal or larger than the source UDV capacity To do a QCopy task please follow the below steps 1 Take snapshot ESnap on the source UDV for detail setup steps of snapshot ESnap please refer to section 4 4 1 When setup UDV block e Ee size please set 512B for the block size The QCopy now supports 512B block size only 2 Click QCopy icon on the selected snapshot ESnap UDV 3 Input the remote iSCSI target IP Click Next gt gt and wait for a while when webui recieves the target UDV information and corresponding LUN 4 Select remote target LUN of the target UDV which is for QCopy Click Sonim then there will be a pop up window to ask user to dismount
11. 2 5 mins 3 30 mins 4 1 hour The system will log out automatically when the user is no response for a period of time 2 Login lock Disable Enable When the login lock is enabled the system allows only one user to login modify the system settings System config Login config Auto logout Disable E Login lock i Disable Zei Enable Figure 3 4 4 1 3 4 5 Password Select Password is for changing administrator password The maximum length of admin password is 12 characters System config M Password Old password Password Confirm Figure 3 4 5 1 24 3 4 6 Date oelect Date to set up the current date time and time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP Network Time Protocol server System config Date Now Dome 16 16 18 Time zone Asia Taipei e Setup date and time manually Date OO 8 o nl Time 16 BIS B3 C NTP Server Figure 3 4 6 1 3 4 7 Mail Select Mail to enter at most 3 mail addresses for receiving the event notification Some mail servers would check Mail from address and need authentication for anti spam Please fill the necessary fields and select Send test mail to check whether the email works fine User can also select which levels of event logs are needed to be sent out by Mail Default setting is only ERROR and WARNING event logs enabled E m System config f Mail Mail from address mailman
12. 3 Disable Immediate Data and enable Initial R2T 2 qsan qa222 Target Parameters E E x Immediate Execution First TargetlD Bind Enable Dynamic Snack Initial RZT Data Throttle Burst Len eg 2 LJ LJ LJ Figure G 3 4 Click OK 2 qsan qa222 Target Parameters Immediate Execution First Target TargetlD Throttle Burst Len Figure G 4 5 Click Save settings and click Yes on next page 127 2 SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager 5 18 xi File Host View Wizard Help O XX Connect Refresh QLOGIC H en iSCSI HBA Port Options Port Information Target Settings Target Information Statistics Diagnostics k Host qsan qa222 ss HBA 0 QLA4010 HBA Model QLA4010 iSCSI Port Alias Name dlogic 1 e amp Porto glo Se State IP Address 18S B8 Eie 14 HBA iSCSI Name qsan qa222 Greyed out entries are Potential Boot devices and cannot be modified Target Configuration a saved blank iSCSI Name will issue a SendTargets command Disable of Auto discover does not apply to SendTargets with CHAP entries Only 64 devices can be persisted bound Any changes made to devices not bound will not persist across card resets Note Right click on entry for additional features Auto bind Discovered Targets Auto discover Re discover prior SendTargets on save Enable Dynamic IP Address iSCSI Name Target ID Alias Target LR L 0
13. ERROR IY Figure 3 4 9 1 3 4 10 System log server Select System log server to set up alert via syslog protocol The default port of syslog is 514 User can choose the facility and the event log level The default values of event level are INFO WARNING and ERROR event logs enabled 5ystem config 5ystem log server Server IP hostname Port E Facility Local4 sl Event level INFOM WARMING Iv ERROR Iv Figure 3 4 10 1 There are some syslog server tools The following web sites are for reference WinSyslog http www winsyslog com E Kiwi Syslog Daemon http www kiwisyslog com Most UNIX systems build in syslog daemon 3 4 11 Event log select Event log to view the event messages Press Filter button to choose the display Press Download button will save the whole event log as text file with file name log ModelName SerialNumber Date Time txt e g log P200C A00001 20070801 120000 txt Press Clear button will clear event log Press Mute button will stop alarm if system alerts Filter e Download e Mute e Clear INFO Wed 08 Aug 2007 18 04 25 CST Up ouickessuas has been created INFO Wed 08 Aug 2007 18 04 25 CST vi QUICE4d5427 has been created INFO Wed 08 Aug 2007 18 01 17 CST admin login from 192 168 10 121 via Web UI Figure 3 4 11 1 For customizing your own display of event logs there are total three display methods on Web Ul Console event log page popup windows on Web UI
14. Figure F 25 120 10 Then click Advanced Log On to Target Figure F 26 121 11 Select set Local Adapter Source IP and Target Portal to iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 Then click OK Advanced Settings Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 192 168 11 34 User name Iarget secret T Berron mutual authentication Tio use mutual EH Sy an initiator secret on the Initiator settings Page and Gonhigure tab secreta the target l Apply Figure F 27 12 After connected click Details then in the Session Connections 122 tab click iSCSI Initiator Properties E NE i General Discovery Targets Persistent Targets Bound Volumes Devices Select a target and click Log On ta access the storage devices for that target Click details to see information about the sessions connections and devices for that target Targets EEN oy Log On Retresh Figure F 28 13 Choose Round Robin for Load Balance Policy Session Connections Round Robin Source Portal Target Status Type Weight Conn 192 168 10 192 168 Conne Active n a x3 Figure F 29 14 Add Source Portal for the iSCSI data port 2 192 168 12 229 123 Session Connections The round robin policy attempts to evenly distribute incoming Clem Figure E 20 Add Connector ian 2004 08 tw com qsan p60c 000a0002 1 default targe
15. Messenger Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers System log server Alert to remote system log server Eventlog System event lag to record critical events Figure 3 4 1 ue 3 4 1 System name Select System name to change system name Default system name composed by model name and serial number of this system e g P200C A00001 d System config SD EET System name P2O0C 400001 Figure 3 4 1 1 3 4 2 IP address Select IP address to change IP address for remote administration usage There are 2 selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or static IP The default setting is DHCP enabled User can change the HTTP HTTPS and SSH port number when the default port number is not allowed on host server System config IP address DHCP Static Address Mask Gateway DNS MAC 0 13 78 00 00 DP HTTP port HTTPS port SSH port ao Figure 3 4 2 1 al 443 3 4 3 Language select Language is to set the language shown in Web UI The option Auto Detect will be detected by browser language setting uU System config Language Language IEEE r English Simplified Chinese Figure 3 4 3 1 3 4 4 Login config Select Login config is to set only one admin and set the auto logout timing The only one admin can prevent multiple users access the same controller in the same time 1 Auto logout The options are 1 Disable
16. Reset to Default 4Yes Nov Caution Before power off it is better to execute Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks 2 4 2 System buzzer The system buzzer features are describing in the following 1 The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully 2 The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error level event happened The alarm will be stopped after mute 3 The alarm will be muted automatically when the error situation is resolved E g when RAID 5 is degraded and alarm rings immediately after user changes adds one physical disk for rebuilding and when the rebuilding is done the alarm will be muted automatically 2 4 3 LED The LED features are describing as follows 16 w N Marquee Disk Status Disk Rebuilding LED The Marquee Disk Status Disk Rebuilding LEDs are displayed in the same LEDs The LEDs behave for different functions in different stages l Marquee LEDs When system powers on and succeeds to boot up the Marquee LED acts until the system is booting successful l Disk status LEDs the LEDs reflect the disk status for the tray Only On Off situation Il Disk rebuilding LEDs the LEDs are blinking when the disks are under rebuilding Disk Access LED Hardware activated LED when accessing disks IO Disk Power LED Hardware activated LED when the disks are plugged in and powered System status LED Used to reflect the system status by
17. Sybergy Global Technology Inc LE www RackmountMart com Toll Free 1 888 865 6888 Tel 510 226 8368 Fax 510 226 8968 Email sales RackmountMart com RaidStorage Series RSG281 RSG361 ISCSI GbE to SATA II SAS RAID Controller User Manual Version 5 5 AUG 2007 www RackmountMartcom SYNERGY GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY INC 1 888 865 6888 email sales RackmountMart com Important Safeguards Please read all of these instructions carefully before you use the device Save this manual for future reference What the warranty does not cover B Any product on which the serial number has been defaced modified or removed B Damage deterioration or malfunction resulting from Accident misuse neglect fire water lightning or other acts of nature unauthorized product modifi cation or failure to follow instructions supplied with the product Repair or attempted repair by anyone not authorized by us Any damage of the product due to shipment Removal or installation of the product Causes external to the product such as electric power fluctuation or failure Use of supplies or parts not meeting our specifications oO oO D O 0O Normal wear and tear L Any other causes which does not relate to a product defect B Removal installation and set up service charges Regulatory Notice Legal Information First English printing October 2002 Information in this document has been carefully checked for accu
18. e DG gt DeGraded mode This volume group is not The RAID level of the volume group The button next to the RAID level is Migrate function Click Migrate can add disk s to do expansion or change the RAID level of the Volume group e VG operations description Create a volume group Delete Delete a volume group 3 6 4 User data volume Enter User data volume function to view the status of each user data volume Attach Snapshot Create e Delete Size R Snapshot YG CV L No Name GE Status 1 2 3 CS RAID LUN GE name MB 1 UDV 01 30 Gwe OHI 9 99 10 00 Online i C e RAID 0 1 z i VG R 663 2 UDV 02 20 Owe OHI 10 00 10 00 Online 3 E C S n k h 1 46 RAIDS 1 2 oe V G R amp 663 Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete e Figure 3 6 4 1 Figure 3 6 4 1 Create a UDV named UDV 01 related to VG RO size is 30GB status is online write back high priority related to 1 LUN with cache volume 663MB 10GB snapshot ESnap space The other UDV is named UDV 02 initializing to 469 e UDV column description Number of this user data volume The button in below to the UDV No is More Information indication It shows the details of the User data volume Name of this user data volume The button in below to 45 the UDV Name is Rename function Size GB Total capacity of this user data volume The button in below to the size is Extend function The s
19. z My Computer Hard Disk Drives Se Local Disk GC Local Disk 19 5 GB 17 0 GB S Local Disk D Local Disk 19 5 GB 16 2 GB Se Local Disk E Lacal Disk Local Disk F Local Disk 18 0 GB 16 4 GB Local Disk 2 72 TB 2 72 TB lume Hi New y A Devices with Rel Free Space 2 72 TB Total Size 2 72 TB H 31 Floppy A AEN OS 2939 2 G CD Drive 3 20 GB bytes Figure H 22 Caution if user setup 512B block size for UDV and the host server OS is 32bit in the last step of formatting disk user will find OS cannot format the area after 2048GB 2TB 8 Wrong setting result OS can not format area after 2048GB 2TB ZPDisk 0 Basic CH D E F 76 68 GB 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Online Healthy System Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy ZPbpisk 1 Basic New Volume H s 2792 99 GB 2048 00 GB NTFS 744 99 GB Ka OS cannot format this area Online Healthy Unallocated zCD ROM 0 DYD EN_OS_2939 2 G 3 20 GB 3 20 GB UDF Online Healthy Figure H 23 138
20. 12 223 3260 Default Default dETIDVE Figure F 12 112 12 Log on iSCSI Initiator Properties ZE tw Com gsar pbe Ee edel Inactive fign Figure F 13 13 Enable Enable multi path checkbox Then click Advanced Log On En Target 113 Figure F 14 14 Select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 Then click ORK Advanced Settings Lanter Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 132 168 11 34 Tor thr mitiatar Pamgetsecret SE Perform mutual authenticator e mutual er an initiator secret on the Initiator Settings page ana connigure that secret orn the Appi Figure F 1 15 Log on Enable multi path again EE iSCSI Initiator Properties Figure F 16 16 Enable Enable multi path checkbox Then click Advanced Figure F 17 17 Select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 2 192 168 12 229 Then select OK 115 Advanced Settings l cal adapter Microsoft iSCSI Initiator e Source P 192 168 12 34 l anget zecret F Ferom mutual authentication o use mutuall Page ana canha Figure F 18 18 iSCSI device is connected Click Details iSCSI Initiator Properties 116 Figure F 19 19 Click Device tab then click Advanced Target Properties X Sessions Devices Properties These are the devices exposed by iSCSI sessions to the target Click Advanced t
21. 2004 08 bw com qsan plz0c O00aO00021 ISNS e Authentication e Figure E 7 7 Select Trunking If LACP is needed please see Figure E 12 System config iSCSI Aggregation Multi homed LAN1 Aggregation Trunking LACP lt lt Back Confirm e Figure ES 8 Now the setting is in Trunking mode 98 System config iSCSI INS e Authentication e No Port Aggregation DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address Trunking no e 1500 1 Loop x 192 158 11 229 255 255 255 0 197 168 11 229 a 00 13 78 00 02 00 Entity name iqn 2004 08 bw com qsan pi20c 000a00021 ISNS a Authentication a Figure E 9 9 Enable switch Trunking function of port 21 and 23 Below is an example of Dell PowerConnect 5324 Go to Figure E 14 for next step l x Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator Microsoft Internet Explorer Hh E nj xj Q Back 09 el iz ta gt Search cr Favorites n a Le Home System LAGS Membership Network Securit Address Tables Forts co ee TS EET NE eer ient b e ed e e ES ES SS 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 statistics RMON Quality of Service javascript ipresubmit ES el Trusted sites Figure E 10 10 Select LACH If Trunking is needed please see Figure E 8 99 System config iSCSI Aggregation Multi homed LAN1 Aggregation Q Trunking LACP se Back e c
22. A 8 2078001378a8a002 74 VG R6 Gong n 3 0Gb aoa RD 10 Good 8 2072001378a8a002 74 amm B rn 3 0Gb 8 a 2073001378a8a002 74 G R6 oust n 3 0Gb e 1 aoa YG mmm DS 8 2074001378a8a002 74 Gage r 3 0Gb aoa mmm ER 8 5 74 Dae b 2075001378a8a002 amm B8 rn 30G 7 e 2076001378a8a002 74 Beas r 3 0Gb e aoa FR 7 15 25 Good b e 2077001378a8a002 4 aum B rn 3 0G P 20f5001378a8a002 74 pun d 3 0Gb aoa mmm ER Auto spindown Disabled Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e Figure 3 6 2 1 Figure 3 6 2 1 Physical disks of slot 1 2 3 4 are created for a VG named VG RO Physical disks of slot 6 7 8 9 are created for a VG named VG R6 Slot 11 is set as dedicated spare disk of VG named VG R6 The others are free disks e PDcolumn description The position of hard drives The number of slot begins from left to right at the front side The button next to the number of slot is More Information indication It shows the details of the hard drive 41 WWN World Wide Name Size GB Capacity of hard drive VG Name Related volume group name The status of hard drive GOOD the hard drive is good DEFECT 2 the hard drive has the bad blocks FAIL gt the hard drive cannot work in the respective volume RD gt RAID Disk This hard drive has been set to RAID FR FRee disk This hard drive is free for use DS gt Dedicated Spare This hard
23. IP Confirm H Figure 3 5 3 1 Figure 3 5 3 1 RAG281 RAG361 single mode RSG series controller supports multi node There is no default node name on RSG 281 and RSG361 It must be created first before it can be used When using Quick install function a node name will be created automatically User Create Delete Name Auth Portal iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorrs16i4 000a6d020 target1 CHAP cad 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 1 1 0 iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorrs 1614 000a6d020 target2 CHAP ES 2 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 1 1 0 User Create o Delete Figure 3 5 3 2 Figure 3 5 3 2 RSG281 361 multi node with two nodes and CHAP enabled f iSCSI config Node Create Name Authentication None zl Portal C 182 188 1 1 3260 LAN 1 DHCP no MTU 1500 192 158 2 1 3260 LAN 2 DHCP no MTU 1500 192 158 3 1 3260 LAN 3 DHCP no MTU 1500 C 192 158 4 1 3260 LAN 4 DHCP no MTU 1500 T AA M 34 Figure 3 5 3 3 Figure 3 5 3 3 RSG281 361 press Create to create a node CHAP CHAP is the abbreviation of Challenge Handshake Authorization Protocol CHAP is a strong authentication method used with point to point for user login It s a type of authentication in which the authentication server sends the client a key to be used for encrypting the username and password CHAP enables the username and password to transmitting in an encrypted form for protection
24. In RAG281 361 to use CHAP authentication please follow the procedures 1 Click in Auth column 2 Select CHAP 3 Go to iSCSI config CHAP page to create account and password iSCSI config Node Change Authentication Authentication None Figure 3 5 3 4 4 Select None to disable CHAP In RSG281 361 to use CHAP authentication please follow the procedures 1 Click in Auth column 2 Select CHAP 3 Go to iSCSI config CHAP page to create account and password iSCSI config Node Change Authentication TTT Authentication i Mane 4 Select the checkbox which enabled CHAP 35 User Create Delete Name Auth Portal iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorrs16i4 000a6d020 target1 CHAP E Peer 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 1 1 0 iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorrs 1614 000a6d020 target2 CHAP a A 192 168 1 1 3260 192 168 1 1 0 User e Create o Delete o ser S z Lt 7 D Click Made all v User E chapi M chap lt lt Back e Confirm e Figure 3 5 3 8 6 Select CHAP user s which will use It s a multi option can be one or more If choosing none CHAP function can not work Tips After setting CHAP the initiator in host server should be set the same Account Password Otherwise user cannot login 3 5 4 Session Enter Session function it will display iSCSI session and connection information including the following items Host Initiator
25. Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a diagnostic tool for hard drives to give advanced warning of drive failures S M A R T provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure S M A R T measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and decide the hard drives which are close to out of tolerance The advanced notice of possible hard drive failure can allow users to back up hard drive or replace the hard drive This is much better than hard drive crash when it is writing data or rebuilding a failed hard drive Enter S M A R T function will display S M A R T information of hard drives The number is the current value the number in parenthesis is the threshold value The threshold values of hard drive vendors are different please refer to vendors specification for details S M A R T web page is supported on RS8 RS16 IP RS16 IP 4 do not have this page because S M A R T is only defined for SATA disks Enclosure management SMART Read error Spin up Reallocated sector Seek error Spin up Calibration Temperature Slot E g Status rate time count rate retries retries C 1 203 63 253 63 253 0 253 157 253 223 41 GE i Good A 100 16 107 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 31 rae Good 3 100 16 104 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 32 e k is Good 4 7O 6 96 0 100 36 75 30 100 97 EN Sen 1 Good 5 100 16 102 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 32 amma k j ah 1 n 3 1 2 d Good D 2
26. Name Error Recovery Level Error Recovery Count Detail of Authentication status and Source IP port number pU I EN 36 Delete e RW No Initiator name TPGT Error recavery level Error recovery count Oo i iqn 1387 05 cam cisca d1 cO4 7c42de54 IS 0 D OI 1 8 Iqn 1987 D05 cam cisca 01 c047c42 08654 xz D 0 II iqn 1387 05 cam cisca d1 cO47c42de54 0x00 0 D Delete e Figure 3 5 4 1 Figure 3 5 4 1 iSCSI Session Pressing the button will display connection s 3 5 5 CHAP account Enter CHAP account function to create delete a CHAP account for authentication RAG281 361 can create one CHAP account only but RSG281 361 can create multiple CHAP accounts iSCSI contig CHAP account Create User chapi max 223 Secret eee run 172 max i5 Confirm 00 M imn 12 max 16 Figure 3 5 5 1 Figure 3 5 5 1 RAG281 361 press Create to create a CHAP account Create e Delete e User chapi Create e Delete e Figure 3 5 5 2 237 Figure 3 5 5 2 create a CHAP account named chap1 RSG281 361 supports many CHAP accounts the setting of CHAP account is different from RAG281 361 d iSCSI contig CHAP account Create User chapz max 223 Secret 0d imn 12 max 15 Confirm E mn 12 max 16 Node m al dE s 1314 gn 2004 08 tw com qsan p200c 000a6d02 1 targeto Fi Figure 3 5 5 3 Figure 3 5 5 3 RSG281 361 press Create to create a CHAP account It can
27. O the controller will evaluate this operation is safe or not and display Sure to migrate to a lower protection array to give user warning Double check the setting of RAID level and RAID PD slot If no problem Next gt gt a click Finally a confirmation page shows detail RAID info If no problem click onim to start migration Controller also pops up a message of Warning power lost during migration may cause damage of data to give user warning When the power is abnormally off during migration the data is in high risk Migration starts and it can be seen from the status 3 of a VG with a running square and an M In Volume config User data volume it displays an M in Status 4 and complete percentage of migration in R96 70 Name VG RO RAID Level RAIDS sl RAID PD slot Leara Select DD lt Back Next gt gt Figure 4 2 1 Volume config Volume group Create Delete s Total Free Rcs all No Name GB GB PD FUDV Status 3 RAID 1 VG RO d BAT 7 e Online RAID 5 I 8 mg 6 fl 3 1 On E Create e Delete e Figure 4 2 2 Figure 4 2 2 A RAID 0 with 2 physical disks migrates to RAID 5 with 3 physical disks Volume config User data volume Attach e Snapshot e Create Delete Size R Snapshot VG CV No Name GB Status 1 2 3 i RAID LUN GB name MB 1 Upv RO a fiwe Hur an 0 00 0 00 oO alice S Dn 12 RAIDS O0
28. be enabled by a Node name here or empty disabled When selecting empty it can be enabled in iSCSI config NIC page later Create e Delete e E User Node name useri D x iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastarrs151i4 000a6dO20 targeti usaerz E Create e Delete o Figure 3 5 5 4 Figure 3 5 5 4 RSG281 361 create two CHAP accounts named user1 and user2 user1 is enabled by node name iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorRS16 or 8 IP 4 000a6d020 target1 3 6 Volume configuration 38 Volume config selection is for the setup of volume configurations including Physical disk Volume group User data volume Cache volume and Logical unit functions Physical disk Hard disks to store data Volume group Sets of physical disks with RAID functions User data volume Slices of volume groups Cache volume Dedicated or global cache space for user data volume Logical unit Target volumes for hosts access Figure 3 6 1 39 Volume relationship diagram UDV 1 UDV 2 Global CV Dedicated CV The above diagram describes the relationship of RAID components One VG Volume Group consists of a set of UDVs User Data Volume and owns one RAID level attribute Each VG can be divided into several UDVs The UDVs from one VG share the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity Each UDV will be associated with one specific CV Cache Volume to execute the data tran
29. can set the block size to any available value If the OS is 32bit user must change the block size to larger values than 512B There will be a confirmation pop up when UDV size is over 2TB for reminding Microsoft Internet Explorer E xj LBA 64 support 2 Be Choose OE if using O8 such as Windows 64 bits Windows Server 2003 SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x FreeBSD 5 2 1 ar latter Choose Cancel It will change the sector size to 4E The maximun capacity is up to 16 TB Thus volume can not be Dymanie Disk Figure H 7 Figure H 7 choose OK for 64bit OS choose Cancel for 32bit OS this step will change block size to 4K automatically 132 T A2 93TB UDV is created Volume config User data volume Attach a Create e Delete e Size R V CV Ei No Name GE Status 1 2 3 BA RAID LUN CHE ME 1 LIDVO1 2703 Online fi we BH HI P z Dr 19 RAID 6 E YOOL 136 Attach Create e Delete e Figure H 8 a 2793G UDV is created 8 Check the detail information Volume config User data volume More information UDV Cv Block Size R Strp Snap G ID No Name GB Status 1 2 3 KB RAID LUN GB Type VG ID Nana CV ID MB Config Size Create Time 1021826050 1 UDVO1 2793 Online WB HI I 1 64 ue 0 0 00 NORMAL 345494528 VGO1 452869120 136 41 912 1173345654 lt lt Back Figure H 9 Figure H 9 block size 512B for 64bit OS setting Volume config User data volume M
30. drive has been set to the dedicated spare of the VG GS Global Spare This hard drive has been set to a global spare of all VGs RS ReServe The hard drive contains the VG information but cannot be used It may be caused by an uncompleted VG set or hot plug of this disk in the running time In order to protect the data in the disk the status changes to reserve It can be reused after setting it to FR manually R gt Rebuild The hard drive is doing rebuilding M Migration The hard drive is doing migration 3 0G gt From SATA ATAPI standard if the disk can support ATAPI IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen 2 signaling speed 3 0Gbps 1 5G From SATA ATAPI standard if the disk can support ATAPI IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen 1 signaling speed 1 5Gbps Unknown gt The disk doesn t support above command so the speed is defined as unknown Speed 42 e PD operations description Make the selected hard drive to be free for use Global set the selected hard drive s to global spare of all spares VGs Dedicated Set hard drive s to dedicated spare of selected VGs spares In this page Our iSCSI IP controller also provides HDD auto spin down down function to save power The default value is disabled User can set up in physical disk page too Auto spin down are supported on RAG281 361 RSG281 361 do not have this
31. finish QCopy events E EE eee ek QCopy Starts Info QCopy start Target node name IP X X X X Type Duplicate Info QCopy Restarts Info QCopy restart Target node name IP 89 XXXXType Duplicate QCopy Connection Warning QCopy connection fail Down QCopy Connection Warning QCopy task was aborted Retry Warning QCopy Task Warning QCopy task was aborted Setting reason UDV LBA block size ONLY support 512 bytes C Known issues 1 Microsoft MPIO is not supported on Windows XP or Windows 2000 Professional Workaround solution Using Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 server to run MPIO D Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Here is the step by step to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI initiator The following setup may not use the latest Microsoft iSCSI initiator 1 Run Microsoft iSCSI Initiator version 2 03 Please see Figure D 1 2 Click Discovery 90 iSCSI Initiator Properties Figure D 1 3 Click Add Input IP address or DNS name of iSCSI storage device Please see Figure D 2 Add Target Portal eas Figure D 2 4 Click OK Please see Figure D 3 91 stet Initiator Properties 13216811273 3260 DES Default TETTE Spl per Figure D 3 o Click Targets Please see Figure D 4 iSCSI Initiator Properties Figure D 4 92 6 T 8 9 Cl
32. host can access the volume Choose LUN number and permission then click onim Please refer to Figure 3 6 6 2 User can assign up to 256 LUNs per system controller For the host connection the host number limitation is 32 per system controller in the same time and 8 for single user data volume UDV which means 8 hosts can access the same UDV in the same time 48 UDV UDV 01 30GB Host E Target ign 2004 08 tw cam qsan pz nce nanasd uz 1 target l LUN sies Permission Read only Read write zz Back e Confirm e Figure 3 6 6 1 Figure 3 6 6 1 P200C needs to select Target Multi node the other models Single node do not have such selection Attach Detach e O Host Target LUN Permission Iu Session name O d iqn 2004 08 tw com qsanip200c 000a6d0el1 targetO OF Read write LUD 01 O C ign 1891 05 com micrasaft demo all 1 Read write UbY O2 E Attach Detach e Figure 3 6 6 2 Figure 3 6 6 2 P200C UDV 01 is attached to LUN 0 with every host can access UDV 02 is attached to LUN 1 with only initiator note named iqn 1991 05 com microsoft demo can access The other models do not display Target column e LUN operations description Attach a logical unit number to a user data volume Detach a logical unit number from a user data volume The matching rules of access control are from top to down by sequence For example there are 2 rules for the same UDV one is
33. hyst 0 0 C high 45 0 C 29 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 45 0 C 29 5 C hyst 0 0 C high 45 0 CJ Core Processor Location 1 Backplane Location 2 Backplana Location 3 Backplane PSU1 Backplane good PSU Backplane good FAN 1 Backplane good FAN2 Backplane good FAN3 Backplane good Auto shutdown Figure 3 7 2 1 If Auto shutdown has been checked the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range For better data protection please check Auto Shutdown For better protection and to avoid single short period of high temperature triggering Auto shutdown ENHANCE TECH controllers use multiple condition judgments for Auto shutdown below is the detail of when the Auto shutdown will be triggered 1 There are 3 sensors placed on controllers for temperature checking on core processor on PCI X bridge and on daughter board ENHANCE TECH controller will check each sensor every 30 seconds When one of there sensor is over the high temperature value for continuous 3 minutes the Auto shutdown will be triggered immediately 2 The core processor temperature limit is 85 C The PCI X bridge temperature limit is 80 C The daughter board temperature limit is 80 C 3 Ifthe high temperature situation doesn t last for 3 minutes ENHANCE TECH controller will not do auto shutdown 3 7 3 Hard drive S M A R T function support 61 S M A R T Self
34. imported the user s current data will be cleared Import Export CIM OTE sl Import file Import Logical unit only DUNES es Esport Confirm Figure 3 8 4 1 1 Import import all system configurations including volume config 2 Import Logical unit only No system and volume configurations 3 Export Export all configurations to a file Caution Import function will import all system configurations including volume config the user s current data will be cleared 3 89 5 Shutdown Enter Shutdown function it will display Reboot and Shutdown buttons Before power off its better to press Shutdown to flush the data from cache to physical disks The step is better for the data protection Rehaaot Shutdown e Figure 3 8 5 1 3 9 Logout 66 For security reason Logout function will allow logout while no user is operating the system Re login the system please enter username and password again 267 Chapter 4 Advanced operation 4 1 Rebuild If one physical disk of the VG which is set as protected RAID level e g RAID 3 RAID 5 or RAID 6 is FAILED or has been unplugged removed then the VG status is changed to degraded mode the system will search detect spare disk to rebuild the degraded VG to a complete one It will detect dedicated spare disk as rebuild disk first then global spare disk SYNERGY TECH controllers support Auto Rebuild function When the RAID level allows disk failures wh
35. liquids away from the equipment to minimize the risk of accidental spillage Liquid spilled on to the power supply or on other hardware may cause damage fire or electrical shock B Only qualified service personnel should open the chassis Opening it yourself could damage the equip ment and invalidate its warranty B If any part of the equipment becomes damaged or stops functioning have it checked by qualified service personnel Regulatory Notices Federal Communications Commission FCC This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interfer ence in a residential installation Any changes or modifications made to this equipment may void the user s authority to operate this equip ment 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 interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures B Re position or relocate the receiving antenna B increase the separation b
36. member RAID O volumes RAID 0 1 allows two hard drives fails or unplugging but at the same array RAID 10 Striping over the member RAID 1 volumes RAID 10 allows two hard drives fails or unplugging but at different arrays RAID 30 Striping over the member RAID 3 volumes RAID 30 allows two hard drives fails or unplugging but at different arrays 69 RAID 50 otriping over the member RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 allows two hard drives fails or unplugging but at different arrays RAID 60 Striping over the member RAID 6 volumes RAID 40 allows four hard drives fails or unplugging but each two at different arrays JBOD The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks No protection of data VG fails if any hard drive fails or unplugs 4 2 VG migration and expansion To migrate the RAID level please follow the below procedures If the VG migrates to the same RAID level of the original VG it is expansion 1 2 Select Volume config Volume group Decide which VG to be migrated click the button in the RAID column next the RAID level Change the RAID level by clicking the down arrow mark ics gj There will be a pup up which shows if the HDD is not enough to support the new setting RAID level click Bele POLI to increase hard drives then click confi t9 go back to setup page When doing migration to lower RAID level such as the original RAID level is RAID 6 and user wants to migrate to RAID
37. used as cache User can divide the cache for one UDV or sharing among all UDVs Each UDV will be associated with one CV for data transaction Each CV could be assigned different cache memory size Logical Unit Number A logical unit number LUN is an unique identifier used on a iSCSI connection which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each of which is a logical unit RAID width RAID width copy and row are used to describe one VG E g RAID copy RAID row RAID cell in One 4 disk RAID O volume RAID width 4 RAID one row copy 1 RAID row 1 One 3 way mirroring volume RAID width 1 RAID copy 3 RAID row 1 One RAID 10 volume over 3 4 disk RAID 1 volume RAID width 1 RAID copy 4 RAID row 3 Write Through cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored on non volatile media Each data is synchronized in both data cache and the accessed physical disks Write Back cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is signaled as soon as the data is in cache and actual writing to non volatile media occurs at a later time It soeeds up system write performance but needs to bear the risk where data may be inconsistent between data cache and the physical disks in one short time interval Set the volume to be Read Only Dedicated Spare disks The spare disks are only used by one specifi
38. z Q SANTech PDC SCSI Disk Device pe z Q SANTech PDC SCSI Disk Device ZEE SAN Tech Pe c Multi Pa Pe Disk Device tig ST38 01345 SR E Display adapters Ae Floppy disk controllers GH Floppy disk drives Fy IDE ATA ATAPI controllers Ei Keyboards ER 1 Mice and other pointing devices SR d Monitors EE Network adapters 2 d Ports COM amp LPT mm Processors EE SCSI and RAID controllers p Sound videa and game controllers Hl System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers Figure F 23 The MC S setup instructions are very similar to MPIO detail steps are in the following figures For the target side setting the steps are exactly the same as MPIO Please refer to Figure F 1 to Figure F 9 Oe Te Sai Create a VG with RAID 5 using 3 HDDs Create a UDV by using RAID 5 VG Run Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 and check the Initiator Node Name Attaching LUN to R5 UDV Input the Initiator Node Name in Host field The volume config setting is done Check iSCSI settings The IP address of iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 port 2 is 192 168 12 229 for example Add Target Portals on Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 Input the IP address of iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 as mentioned in previous pages For MC S there is only ONE Target Portals in the Discovery tab 119 iSCSI Initiator Properties 19216811 223 3260 Defaut Default HEIN Figure F 24 9 Logon iSCSI Initiator Properties
39. 0 DNA DNA Reserved for FastlUT O 8808 NA iNA esemedforFaslUT Cliente 1 3 hs Connection eive Config Parameters Config Authentication Save Sts Figure G 5 Port 0 qlogic 1 6 Click Refresh and find a new target with iSCSI name SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager ER lel xl File Host View Wizard Help O XX lt Connect Refresh QLOGIC 5 iSCSI HBA Port Options Port Information Target Settings Target Information Statistics Diagnostics X Host qsan qa222 o w HBA D GLA4010 R o S Port 0 qlogic 1 HBA Model QLA4010 iSCSI Port Alias Name alagic 1 State IP Address 192 168 HBA iSCSI Name qsan qa222 Greyed out entries are Potential Boot devices and cannot be modified Target Configuration a saved blank iSCSI Name will issue a SendTargets command Disable of Auto discover does not apply to SendTargets with CHAP entries Only 64 devices can be persisted bound Any changes made to devices not bound will not persist across card resets Note Right click on entry for additional features Auto bind Discovered Targets Auto discover Re discover prior SendTargets on save Enable 7 Bind Dynamic IP Address iSCSI Name Target ID Alias Target 8 L 0 0 NA DNA Reserved for FastlUT Lj Don a ur GE EE ER o o MoCoanechn Active GEET EE sel scion ets Config Parameters Config Authentication So sao Figure G 6
40. 03 63 253 63 253 0 253 157 253 223 28 EIL TEE TE ui Good z 94 16 99 24 100 5 100 67 100 60 31 amd 1 23 DEI A nes nnrgs nnf 53 Good 8 200 51 171 21 200 140 200 51 100 51 100 51 3 Figure 3 7 3 1 Enter UPS function will set UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply AE UPS Type Mone Shutdown Battery Level 95 5 Ka Shutdown Delay 5 H Ka Shutdown UPS OFF sl Status Battery Level 950 Confirm e Figure 3 7 4 1 Currently the system only support and communicate with smart UPS function of APC American Power Conversion Corp UPS Please check detail from http www apc conm First connect the system and APC UPS via RS 232 for communication Then set up the shutdown values when the power is gone UPS of other vendors can work fine but they have no such function of communication UPS Type select UPS Type Choose Smart UPS for APC None for other vendors or no UPS Shutdown When below the setting level the system will Battery Level shutdown Setting level to 0 will disable UPS 96 function Shutdown If power failure occurred and the system can not Delay s return back to the setting value period the system will shutdown Setting delay to 0 will disable the function select ON when power is gone UPS will shutdown by itself after the system shutdown successfully After power comes back UPS will start working and notify system to boot up OFF will not The statu
41. 2 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Online Healthy System Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy Disk 1 Unknown PESE 2702 90 GB Initialize Disk Not Initialized Properties Help SKS 7 GG 3 20 GB UDF Healthy Online Figure H 18 4 Convert to GPT disk for over 2TB capacity For more detail information about GPT please visit http www microsoft com whdc device storage GPT FAQ mspx ey LC D E E 13 53 GB FAT3Z 19 53 GB FAT3Z 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Healthy System Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy Basic 2702 80 GB Gonvert to Dynamic Disk 744 96 GB Online Convert to GPT Disk Unallocated ZHDisk 1 CD ROM pn Properties 3 20 GB Hep Online Healthy Figure H 19 D Format disk j B C EH 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB Healthy System Healthy 3 20 GB 3 20 GB UDF Online Healthy Figure H 20 6 Format disk is done 137 ZPDisk 0 Basic 75 58 GB Online Hpiski Basic 2702 87 GB Online NENNEN NNNM NEED C Dr E F 19 53 GB FAT3Z 19 53 GB FAT3Z 13 53 GB 15 08 GB NTFS Healthy System Healthy Book Healthy Healthy icp RoM D EN OS 2939 2 G 3 20 GB 3 20 GB UDF Online Healthy Figure H 21 f The new disk is ready to go available size 2 72TB File Edit Ven Favorites Tools Help GQ pack O f JD search gt Folders gt K l Address
42. 8 CHAP security information including CHAP usernames and secrets Optional 9 Setup the hardware connection before power up servers and THE controllers Connect console cable management port cable and iSCSI data port cables first 2 2 iSCSI introduction ISCSI Internet SCSI is a protocol which encapsulates SCSI Small Computer system Interface commands and data in TCP IP packets for linking storage devices with servers over common IP infrastructures iSCSI provides high performance SANs over standard IP networks like LAN WAN or the Internet IP SANs are true SANs Storage Area Networks which allow few of servers to attach to an infinite number of storage volumes by using iSCSI over TCP IP networks IP SANs can scale the storage capacity with any type and brand of storage system In addition using any type of network Ethernet Fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet and combining operating systems Microsoft Windows Linux Solaris etc within the SAN network IP SANs also include mechanisms for security data replication multi path and high availability Storage protocol such as iSCSI has two ends in the connection These ends are the initiator and the target In iSCSI we call them iSCSI initiator and iSCSI target The iSCSI initiator requests or initiates any iSCSI communication It requests all SCSI operations like read or write An initiator is usually located on the host server side either an iSCSI HBA or iSCSI SW initiato
43. 9209 2500 00 13 78 00 07 05 m m P iqn z 04 n8 tw coam gqsan piz c n0az 5z2c Figure 3 5 2 3 Entity name Figure 3 5 2 3 RAG281 RAG361 there are 2 iSCSI data ports MTU is 1500 User can change IP address by clicking the button in the DHCP column There are 2 selections DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or static IP 30 iSCSI contig ZNICTID address C DHCP Static Address 192 158 1 1 Mask pa a uem cesi Gateway 192 158 1 254 Figure 3 5 2 3 11 m 2 Default gateway can be changed by clicking the button in the Gateway column There is only one default gateway MTU Maximum Transmission Unit size can be changed by clicking the button jin the MTU column iSCSI contig NIC MTU LANI MTU Figure 3 5 2 4 There are some different of supporting MTU size on every models The range of MTU size on RSG281 361 is between from 1500 to 8000 RAG281 361 is between from 1500 to 9000 Default MTU size is 1500 If it is changed the setting of MTU size on switching hub and HBA should be set to the same size Caution The MTU size of switching hub and HBA on host must be the same as controller Otherwise the LAN connection cannot work properly In RSG281 361 Trunking LACP setting can be changed by clicking the button o Aggregation e 31 iSCSI config NIC Aggregation Aggregation Address Mask Gateway NIC fe Tr
44. 9f825 amp DisplayLang en iSCSI Initiator Properties j x xih Type the IP address or DNS name and socket number of the portal you want to add Click Advanced to select specific settings For Ehe discovery session to Ehe portal General Discovery Targets Persistent Targets Bound Yolumes Devices Ll The SCSI protocol uses the following information to uniquely identify this initiator and authenticate targets IP address or ONS name Port 192 168 11 229 3260 Advanced cma Initiator Made M ame ign 1331 05 com microsoft demo To rename the initiator node click Change Change To authenticate targets using CHAP click Secret to specify a CHAP secret Secret ISNS Servers To configure IPSec Tunnel Mode addresses click Tunnel Tunnel Hemose Refresh OK Cancel Apply Figure H 13 134 Figure H 13 Run MS iSCSI initiator go to Discovery tab add target portal iSCSI data iSCSI Initiator Properties X General Discover Targets Persistent Targets Bound V oalumes D evices Select a target and click Log On to access the storage devices for that target Click details to see information about the sessions connections and devices for that target Automatically restore this connection when the system boots Targets Enable multi path E Only select this option if SST multi path software is already installed
45. B 512 Read Write wWritethrough cache write back cache Priority High priority Middle priority Low priority lt lt Back e Confirm e Figure 3 6 7 10 1 Select Volume config User data volume D Cre E B o 2 Click got 3 Input a UDV name choose a VG Name select Dedicated cache which is created at Step 1 and input the size for the UDV decide the stripe height block size read write mode and set priority finally click Confirm D a 56 Attach e Snapshot e Size R E No Name GB Status 1 2 3 SS Z 1 UDV R5 1 50 Onine Awe Hu 2e UDV RS 2 64 fi wg HI e i Online z S Hr 5 Attach Snapshot Figure 3 6 7 11 Done A UDV using dedicated cache has been created Create e Delete n Snapshot VG CV RAID LUN GB name ME 0 00 0 00 RAID 5 1 E L t YO 5 40 0 00 0 00 RAID 5 E y Wo 5 20 Create e Delete e Figure 3 6 7 11 UDV named UDV R5 1 uses global cache volume 40MB and UDV R5 2 uses dedicated cache volume 20MB UDV R5 2 is initialing about 5 No Size 1 40 2e ZU Free 603 MB Figure 3 6 7 12 Figure 3 6 7 12 In Volume config Cache volume dedicated cache volume 20MB Step 4 Attach LUN to UDV Please refer to Step 3 of Example 1 to attach LUN Step 5 Set dedicated spare disk Create Delete UDY name Global WDOY R5S 2 Create e Delete e UDV named UDV R5 2 uses To set dedicated spare disks please follow the proced
46. B column These numbers mean Free snapshot ESnap space and Total snapshot ESnap space Choose a UDV by clicking the checkbox of the row and then click o Snapshot s m 7 A snapshot ESnap UDV is created with the date and time taken snapshot ESnap of the chosen UDV The snapshot ESnap UDV 74 size is the same as the chosen UDV no matter the actual snapshot ESnap UDV data occupies 6 Attach LUN to UDV please refer to section 3 6 6 Logical unit number for more detail T Done It can be used as a disk Attach Snapshot e Create H Delete Size eut R 5napshot VG CV No Name GB Status 1 2 3 ot RAID LUN GB aame MB 1 UDV RO 10 i DH wese HI 10 00 10 00 Online e D 2 UDV R 1713 10 02 14 17 13 35 Online AT o cts mmm Uy RO Hu RAIDO O VG RO 100 Attach Snapshot e Create Delete Figure 4 4 1 1 Figure 4 4 1 1 No 1 is a RAID 0 UDV Set snapshot ESnap space to 10GB And now its space is free to snapshot ESnap No 2 is a snap UDV taken on 02 14 17 13 35 Snapshot ESnap has some constraints as the following 1 Minimum RAM size of enabling snapshot ESnap function is 512MB 2 For performance concern and future rollback the system saves snapshot ESnap with names in sequences For example three snapshots ESnap has been taken and named snap1 first snap2 and snap3 last When deleting snap2 both of snap1 and snap2 will be deleted because snap1
47. D Not Available Target Alias Name Not Available Target iSCSI Name Not Available Send targets host 192 168 11 210 Figure G 1 2 Click Target settings Then select the target and click Config Parameters 2 SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager File Host View Wizard Help O XX S Connect Refresh QLOGIC iSCSI HBA Port Options Port Information Target Settings Target Information Statistics Diagnostics t Host qsan qa222 o HBA 0 GLA4010 R e Port glogic 1 em Send targets HBA Model QLA4010 iSCSI Port Alias Name qlogic 1 State IP Address 192 168 HBA iSCSI Name qsan qa222 Greyed out entries are Potential Boot devices and cannot be modified Target Configuration a saved blank iSCSI Name will issue a SendTargets command Disable of Auto discover does not apply to SendTargets with CHAP entries Only 64 devices can be persisted bound Any changes made to devices not bound will not persist across card resets Note Right click on entry for additional features Auto bind Discovered Targets Auto discover Re discover prior SendTargets on save Bind Dynamic IP Address iSCSI Name Target ID Alias 8 0 0 35 Es DNA Reserved for FastlUT Rk NA 1N Reserved for FastlUT at eee aso 3 s conecton eir Config Parameters Config Authentication sen sao Figure G 2 Port 0 qlogic 1 126
48. D6688KS DH 256MB DDR 333 Unbuffered Low profile with Hynix UG764D6688LS DH 512MB DDR 333 Unbuffered Low profile with Hynix UG718D6688LN GJF 1GB DDR 400 with Hynix UG718D6688LN GJF 1GB DDR 400 with Elpida RSG281 361 RAM Spec 240 pin DDR2 533 PC4300 Reg register or UB Unbufferred ECC up to 2GB 64 bit data bus width and also 32 bit memory support x8 or x16 devices 36 bit addressable up to 14 bit row address and 10 bit column address Vendr Model ATP AJ28K64E8BHE6S 1GB DDR2 667 Unbuffered non ECC with SEC ATP S AJ28KK72G 8BHE6S 1GB DDR2 667 Unbuffered ECC with SEC ATP sS AX64K72F 8BHE6S 512MB DDR2 667 Unbuffered ECC with SEC ee eee 512MB DDR2 667 Unbuffered ECC with Elpida 82 n 1GB DDR2 533 Unbuffered ECC with Elpida Hc 1GB DDR2 533 Registered ECC with Elpida iSCSI Initiator Software 0S8 Software Release Number BEEN EEGENEN Microsoft Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2 04 Windows System Requirements 1 Windows XP Professional with SP2 2 Windows 2000 Server with SP4 3 Windows Server 2003 with SP1 4 Windows Server 2003 R2 The iSCSI Initiators are different for different Linux Kernels For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Kernel 2 4 install linux iscsi 3 6 3 tar For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Kernel 2 6 use the build in iSCSI initiator iscsi initiator utils 4 0 3 0 4 in kernel 2 6 9 For Red H
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50. Enter Cache volume function to view the status of cache volume The global cache volume is a default cache volume which is created after power on automatically and cannot be deleted The size of global cache is based on the RAM size It is total memory size minus the system usage Create Delete Mo Size UDY name 1 663 C Global Free O MB Create Delete Figure 3 6 5 1 e CV column description Number of the Cache volume The button next to the CV No is More Information indication It shows the 47 PY details of the cache volume Size MB Total capacity of the cache volume The button next to the CV size is Resize function The CV size can be adjusted UDV Name Name of the UDV e CV operations description Create Create a cache volume function Delete Delete a cache volume function If there is no free space for creating a new dedicated cache volume cut down the global cache size first After resized then dedicated cache volume can be created vi Tips xU The minimum size of global cache volume is 40MB The minimum size of dedicated cache volume is 20MB 3 6 6 Logical unit number Enter Logical unit function to view the status of attached logical unit number of each UDV User can attach LUN by clicking the Attach Please refer to Figure 3 6 6 1 Host must input an initiator node name for access control or fill in wildcard which means every
51. RAID levels Quick Install will use all available HDD for the RAID level which user decides But when the system is inserted with different sizes of HDD e g 8 200G HDD and 8 80G The controller also lists all possibilities and combinations of different RAID Level and different sizes After user chooses RAID level user may finds there are still some HDD 90 are not used Free Status The result is from the smarter policy on Quick Install which gives user 1 Biggest capacity of RAID level which user chooses and 2 The fewest disk number for the RAID level volume size E g user chooses RAID 5 and the controller has 12 200G HDD 4 80HDD inserted Then if using all 16 HDD for a RAID 5 then the volume max size is 1200G 80G 15 But in controller we do smarter check and find out the most efficient use of HDDs which results controller only use the 200G HDD Volume size is 200G 11 2200G Then the volume size is bigger and full use of HDD Capacity Step 1 Select Quick install then choose the RAID level to set Please refer to Figure 3 3 1 After choosing the RAID level click Next gt gt which links to another page user can set up LUN here f Quick install Stepi RAID O 609 GB RAID 1 76 GB I FAID 3 571 GB RAID 5 571 GB RAID 6 533 GB Figure 3 3 1 Step 2 Please select a LUN number Access control of host would show as a wildcard which mea
52. SG281 361 can be changed but RAG281 361 can not iSCSI config Entity property Entity name iqn 1997 10 c0m enhance rech ultrastarrsi8614 OQU00a86dO0z20 ISNS IP Confirm Figure 3 5 1 1 3 5 2 NIC Select NIC to change IP addresses of iSCSI data ports RSG281 361 has 4 gigabit LAN ports to transmit data but RS8 IP RS16 IP have two ports Each of them must be assigned to one IP address in multi homed mode unless the link aggregation or trunking mode has been selected If any two or more ports are set 290 in link aggregation or trunking mode they will combine to one line displayed in the screen iSCSI config NIC Aggregation e Name LAG LAG No DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address Link na 192 158 1 254 1500 LANI no N A n 132 188 1 2 255 255 255 e 00 13 78 46 00 94 up na 1892 158 2 254 1500 LANZ na N A 192 158 2 1 299 295 255 o 2 00 13 78 36 0095 down no 192 168 3 254 1500 LAN na N A SC 192 158 3 1 255 255 255 0 Gs N 0 13 78 a6 00 96 down na 192 168 4254 1500 LAN no N A z 192 168 4 1 255 255 255 a E 0 13 78 a86 00 97 dawn Aggregation e Figure 3 5 2 1 Figure 3 5 2 1 RSG281 RSG361 there are 4 iSCSI data ports static IP MTU is 1500 Each of them is set to Mo Port Aggregation DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address nno na 1500 1 LAN 192 1858 11 133 eda dove ciel 197 166 11 254 0 13 78 00 0 7 04 na noa 192 158 12 254 15 0 2 LAM 192 1858 12 133 23
53. UI Ethernet port failed HDD IO events a es BEE SES events SE Vx SPATS Info SESIoad conf OK Info SES configuration has been loaded Failure A device i is disabled Info SESisdisabled Info The SES device is disabled Info j SESisenabled Toto The SES deviceisenabled Environmental events Type e ann Con OK Lu Ramin bg om SIF GF Sie SESS Admin login from lt IP or serial console gt via Web UI or Console UI gt Oe via lt Web UI or Console UI gt luem Info iSCSI login from IQN IP Port login Number succeeds Warning iSCSI data port Warning iSCSI login from lt IQN gt IP Port login reject Number was rejected reason of 1 initiator error authentication failure authorization failure target not found unsupported version too many connections missing parameter session does not exist target error out of resources unknown Thermal critical System Overheated The system will do the auto shutdown immediately 86 Thermal warning Warning System temperature is a little bit higher Voltage critical Error System voltages failed The system will do the auto shutdown immediately Warning Voltage warning Warning System voltage is a little bit higher lower Info PSU restore Info Power number is restored to work Eror PSU Fail Error Power lt number gt is out of work Info Fanrestoee _
54. ____ Info Fan number is restore to work Error Fan Fail ErrorFan number isoutofwork Error Fannon exist Error System cooling fan is not installed Warning UPS Detection Fail Eror AC Loss X Error AC loss for the system is detected SP auno shutdown Geier auto shutdown immediately Mgmt Lan Port Info Management LAN Port is active Active Warning Mgmt Lan Port Warning Fail to manage the system via the Failed LAN Port Info RTC Device OK Info RTCdeviceisactive Info Reset Password Info Reset Admin Password to default Info ResetlP Info Resetnetworksettings set to default System config events E EE Sys Config Info Default system configurations restored Defaults Restored Info Sys NVRAM OK Info The system NVRAM is active Sys NVRAM IO Error Can t access the system NVRAM Failed Sys NVRAM is full Warning The system NVRAM is full System maintenance events nore neg cecinere e UU P pgaded IT et Upgraded Vlll UM dd RN Upgraded Failed Info System reboot Info System has been rebooted Info System shutdown Info System has been shutdown Info System Init OK Info System has been initialized OK System Init Failed Error System cannot be initialized in the last boot up 87 e LVM events ee ee er ve Info VG Created OK Info VG lt name gt hasbeen created
55. and on LCM The default setting of these three displays is WARNING and ERROR event logs enabled on Web UI and LCM The popup is default disabled Show events INFO WARNING M ERROR M Pop up events INFO D WARNING C ERROR Show on LCM INFO F WARNING M ERROR M zz Back e Confirm e Figure 3 4 11 2 The event log is displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first page The event logs are actually saved in the first four hard drives each hard drive has one copy of event log For one controller there are four copies of event logs to guarantee users can check event log most of the time when there is are failed disk s Tips Please plug in anyone of first four hard drives and then event logs can be saved and appeared in next system boot up Otherwise event logs would be gone 28 3 5 ISCSI config iSCSI config selection is for the setup of Entity Property NIC Node Session and CHAP account Entity property iSCSI entity property IC SCSI portal configuration Mode iSCSI node configuration Session SCSI session information CHAP account Add Remove account far iSCSI node Figure 3 5 1 3 5 1 Entity property Select Entity property to view the view the entity name of the controller and setup iSNS IP for iSNS Internet Storage Name Service Add an iSNS server IP address to the iSNS servers list which the iSCSI initiator service can send queries The entity name of R
56. are related to snap2 3 For resource concern the max number of snapshots ESnap is 32 4 f snapshot ESnap space is full controller will send a warning message about space full and the new taken snapshot ESnap will replace the oldest snapshot ESnap by rotation sequence o Snap UDV cannot be migrated when doing migration of related VG snap UDV will fail D Snap UDV cannot be extended 4 4 2 Auto snapshot ESnap The snapshot ESnap copies can be taken manually or by schedule such as hourly or daily Please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config User data volume 75 2 Create a snapshot ESnap space Please refer to section 4 4 1 for more detail 3 Click in Snapshot ESnap GB column to set auto snapshot ESnap 4 The auto snapshot ESnap can be set at the period of monthly weekly daily or hourly 5 Done It will take snapshots ESnap automatically E i Volume config User data volume Auto Snapshot L E ivi all Mlo1 Moz Moa Mloa Mlos Mos Moy Moe bloo Mio Mii Mliz Months to take snapshots f Weeks to take snapshots 1 T Oe E13 Ela 1s lat Days to take snapshots C zd Cmon Llrue Owed Irhu Ceri U sat Oal loo Lloi Llo2 Los Cos Oos Clos L107 Hours to take snapshots log Coo Dio Fii 112 E113 Cia Elis Ce L117 Lis Aro Piso Pisa Fl5 Milos lt lt Back e confirm e Figure 4 4 2 1 Figure 4 4 2 1 It wi
57. argets Bound Volumes Devices The iSCSI protocol uses the following information to uniquely identify this initiator and authenticate targets Initiator Node M ame iqn 1331 DP com microsoft qa chrischoud To rename the initiator node click Change Change To authenticate targets using CHAP click Secret to specify a CHAP secret Secret To configure PSec Tunnel Mode addresses click Tunnel BA Tunnel Figure E 4 4 Attaching LUN to R5 UDV Input the Initiator Node Name in the Host field Volume config Logical unit Attach UDV R5 10GB Host iqn 1991 05 com microsoft demo LUN 0 KE Permission Q Read only 9 Read write lt lt Back confirm Figure E 5 9 Done please check the settings 97 Volume config Logical unit Attach Detach CJ Host LUN Permission UDV name Session Ir iqn 1991 05 com microsoft demo Read write R5 1 Session Attach Detach e Figure Ep 6 Check iSCSI settings The IP address of iSCSI data port 1 is 192 168 11 229 Using port 1 as Trunking or LACP Click the blue square in Aggregation field to set Trunking or LACP System config SCSI ISNS e Authentication e No Port Aggregation DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address na no 1500 1 LANI m x 192 158 11 229 255 255 255 0 192 168 11 229 00 13 78 00 02 00 na na 192 158 12 254 1500 2 LAN m 192 168 12 229 295 255 255 0 00 13 78 00 02 01 Entity name iqn
58. at Enterprise Linux 5 Kernel 2 6 use the build in ISCSI initiator iscsi initiator utils 6 2 0 695 0 7 e15 in kernel 2 6 18 ATTO XTEND 2 0x SAN Mac iSCSI Initiator System Requirements 1 Mac OS X v10 3 5 or later For ATTO initiator it is not free Please contact your local distributor for ATTO initiator iSCSI HBA card Vendor Model E Adaptec ASC 7211C PCI X Gigabit 1 port TCP IP offload iSCSI offload HP NC380T PCI Express Gigabit 2 ports TCP IP offload iSCSI offload QLogic QLA4010C PCI X Gigabit 1 port TCP IP offload iSCSI offload QLogic QLA4052C PCI X Gigabit 2 ports TCP IP offload iSCSI offload For detailed setup steps of Qlogic QLA4010C please refer to Appendix G QLogic QLA4010C setup instructions 83 NIC Vendor Model ee eee eee D Link DGE 530T PCI Gigabit 1 port HP NC7170 PCI X Gigabit 2 ports HP NC360T PCI Express Gigabit 2 ports TCP IP offload a eee 1000 T 73P4201 PCI X Gigabit 2 ports TCP IP offload Intel PWLA8490MT PCI X Gigabit 1 port TCP IP offload Intel PWLA8492MT PCI X Gigabit 2 ports TCP IP offload Intel PWLA8494MT PCI X Gigabit 4 ports TCP IP offload GbE Switch Vendor CMe HEN Ee Del PowerConnect 53240 Del PowerConnect 2724 gt 1 1 0 o Del PowerConnect 2708 gt 1 1 1 10 Hard drive Vendr CMe
59. ber disks RAID 3 needs at least three hard drives RAID 6 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 needs at least four hard drives RAID 0 1 Mirroring of the member RAID O0 volumes RAID 0 1 needs at least four hard drives RAID 10 Striping over the member RAID 1 volumes RAID 10 needs at least four hard drives RAID 30 Striping over the member RAID 3 volumes RAID 30 needs at least six hard drives RAID 50 Striping over the member RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 needs at least six hard drives RAID 60 Striping over the member RAID 6 volumes RAID 60 needs at least eight hard drives JBOD The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks JBOD needs at least one hard drive Chapter 2 Getting started 2 1 Before starting Before starting prepare the following items 1 Check the Certification list in Appendix A to confirm the hardware setting is fully supported 2 Read the latest release notes before upgrading Release notes accompany with release firmware 3 A server with a NIC or iSCSI HBA 4 CAT 5e or CAT 6 network cables for management port and iSCSI data ports Recommend CAT 6 cables for best performance 5 Prepare storage system configuration plan 6 Management and iSCSI data ports network information When using static IP please prepare static IP addresses subnet mask and default gateway 7 Gigabit LAN switches Recommended or Gigabit LAN switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking functions Optional
60. c VG Others could not use these dedicated spare disks for any rebuilding purpose Global Spare disks GS is shared for rebuilding purpose If some VGs need to use the global spare disks for rebuilding they could get the spare disks out from the common spare disks pool for such requirement Dedicated Cache Global Cache C O DeGraded mode Not all of the arrays member disks are functioning but the array is able to respond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology oie WWN World Wide Name Host Bus Adapter Multi Path Input Output MC S Multiple Connections per Session SCSI Enclosure Services Network Interface Card iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol Z O MTU Maximum Transmission Unit CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol An optional security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI data ports ISNS Internet Storage Name Service ii SAS oo Serial Attached SCSI 1 3 RAID levels RAID 0 Disk striping RAID O needs at least one hard drive Disk mirroring over two disks RAID 1 needs at least two hard drives N way Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the disk mirror Striping with parity on the dedicated disk RAID 3 needs at least three hard drives Striping with interspersed parity over the mem
61. contraller Mail to address 1 Send events 1 INFO F WARNING ERROR v Mail ta address 2 Send events 2 INFO l WARNING ERROR M Mail ta address 3 Send events 3 INFO F WARNING ERROR v SMTP relay SMTP server Authentication None Account Password Contirm Send test mail a Figure 3 4 7 1 3 4 8 SNMP Select SNMP to set up SNMP trap for alert via SNMP It allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses Default community setting is public User can choose the event log levels and the default value of SNMP is INFO event log enabled only System config SNMP SNMP trap address 1 SNMP trap address 2 SNMP trap address 3 Community public Send events INFOM WARNING ERROR Figure 3 4 8 1 There are many SNMP tools The following web sites are for reference 26 SNMPc http www snmpc com Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net 3 4 9 Messenger select Messenger to set up pop up message alert via Windows messenger not MSN User must enable the service Messenger in Windows Start gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Services gt Messenger and then event logs can be received It allows up to 3 messenger addresses User can choose the event log levels and the default values are WARNING and ERROR event logs enabled only System config Messenger Messenger IP hostname 1 Messenger IP hostname Messenger IP hostname 3 Send events INFO WARNING M
62. e Aggregation column iSCSI contig NIC Aggregation Ge Multi homed Aggregation C Trunking C LACP Figure 3 5 2 7 Figure 3 5 2 7 RSG281 361 select aggregation mode 1 Multi homed Default mode Each of iSCSI data ports is connected by itself and is not link aggregation Select this mode can remove Trunking LACP setting 2 Trunking defines the use of multiple iSCSI data ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any one single port 3 LACP The Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP is part of IEEE specification 802 3ad that allows bundling several physical ports together to form a single logical channel LACP allows a network switch to negotiate an automatic bundle by sending LACP packets to the peer The advantages of LACP are 1 increases bandwidth 2 failover when link status fails on a port For detailed setup steps please refer to Appendix E Trunking LACP setup instructions Caution In RSG281 361 each of iSCSI data ports must be set in different subnet The other models do not have such limitation 3 5 3 Node 33 Single node Multi node Select Node to view the target name for iSCSI initiator IP series controller supports single node The node name of RAG281 RAQG361 exists by default and can not be changed iSCSI config Entity property Entity name iqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorrsieip D00az 0475 ISNS
63. e 2096 of VG size or more for snapshot ESnap space Please refer to Figure 4 4 1 for snapshot ESnap concept RAG281 361 RSG281 361 support snaps hot rollback ee 4 4 1 Osan SorP series crar Volume Volume z Snapshot e A z T T ah Working is iat d J 2pm A Volume Zpm Transactional CONSISIENcy Ma Exchangg Server Rollback MS Virtue Geh Snapshot Copy Snapshot Copy Senit itid WS vim Snapshat Copy EE RPO 15 mins RTO 25 ic A DU E D I M 2 440 HM Figure 4 4 1 2 00 PM Caution Snapshot ESnap rollback features need 512MB RAM at least Please also refer to RAM certification list in Appendix A Create snapshot ESnap volume To take a snapshot ESnap of the data please follow the procedures 1 2 Select Volume config User data volume Choose a UDV to do snapshot ESnap by clicking the button in the Snapshot ESnap GB column it will direct to a setup page The maximum snapshot ESnap space is 2TB which user can setup the space no bigger than 2048GB oet up the size for snapshot ESnap The size is suggested to be 2096 of UDV size at least then click confirm It will go back to the UDV page and the size will show in snapshot ESnap column It may not be the same as the number entered because some is reserved for snapshot ESnap internal usage There will be 2 numbers in Snapshot ESnap G
64. e for indivifual UDV manually Using dedicated cache volume the performance would not be affected by the other UDV s data access The total cache size depends on the RAM size and set all to global cache automatically To create a dedicated cache volume first step is to cut down global cache size for the dedicated cache volume Please follow the procedures Step 1 Create dedicated cache volume Create Delete No Size UDY name 1 40 Global 2 ZU Empty Free 603 MB Create Delete Figure 3 6 7 9 55 Select Volume config Cache volume If there is no free space for creating a new dedicated cache volume cut down the global cache size first by clicking the button in the size column After resized click Confirm to return to cache volume page Click create to enter the setup page Fill in the size and click Con M Done A new dedicated cache volume has been set Tips The minimum size of global cache volume is 40MB The minimum size of dedicated cache volume is 20MB Step 2 Create VG Volume Group Please refer to Step 1 of Example 1 to create VG Step 3 Create UDV User Data Volume Please refer to Step 2 of Example 1 to create UDV To create a data user volume with dedicated cache volume please follow the below procedures Name UDV R5 2 G name MS CV No Dedicated 20 MB sl Capacity GB SE Stripe height KB GA sl Black size
65. e row then click Free disks to free disk 58 Step 11 Delete dedicated cache volume To delete the cache volume please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Cache volume 2 Select a OV by clicking the checkbox of the row 3 Click Delete There will pop up a confirmation page 4 Choose OK 5 Done The CV has been deleted Caution Global cache volume cannot be deleted Step 12 Done all volumes have been deleted 3 Enclosure management Enclosure management function allows managing enclosure information including SES config Hardware monitor S M A R T and UPS functions For the enclosure management there are many sensors for different purposes such as temperature sensors voltage sensors hard disks fan sensors power sensors and LED status And due to the hardware characteristics are different among these sensors for different sensors they have different polling intervals Below is the detail polling time intervals Temperature sensors 1 minute Voltage sensors 1 minute Hard disk sensors 10 minutes Fan sensors 10 seconds when there are continuous 3 times of error controller sends ERROR event log Power sensors 10 seconds when there are continuous 3 times of error controller sends ERROR event log 6 LED status 10 seconds pe pe SR SES config Access control for SES management Hardware monitor System monitored voltage
66. ers and Groups E windows 2000 C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy System 19 53 GB A Performance Logs and Alert TN il Device Manager Removable Storage Mr Disk Defragmenter Gei Disk sk Management d ig Services and Applications ZPDisk 0 geen Basic Windows f WINDOW E lt 21 QA TOOLS 74 50 GB 19 53 GE N f 19 53GBF 419 15 90 GBF Online Healthy Sy ff Healthy amp Healthy lt lt Healthy ZF Disk 1 Basic 152 67 GE 152 87 GB Online Unallocated kd BB Unallocated fl Primary partition B Extended partition f Logical drive ee emi Figure E 21 105 F MPIO and MC S setup instructions Here is the step by step to setup MPIO There are 2 kinds of scenarios for MPIO Please see Figure F 1 Synergy Tech suggests using scenario 2 for better performance Network diagram of MPIO Read or Write Read or Write Gigabit Switch Read ar Write 8 zc lg Switch DRAN P senes HSAN F series 1 Dual ports with MPIO 2 Dual ports with MPIO Direct connect host has 2 Via switches host has 2 LAN ports read or write in LAN ports read or write in one UDV one UDV Figure F 1 The setup instructions are in the following figures 1 Create a VG with RAID 5 using 3 HDDs 106 Volume config Volume group Create e Delete e No Name Total Free PD UDV Status ia 3 RAID o a GB GB 1 R5 TUS Online RAID 5 ip ee 3 P _ ne Create a Dele
67. ession Attach Detach e Figure F 6 6 Check iSCSI settings The IP address of iSCSI data port 1 is 192 168 11 229 port 2 is 192 168 12 229 for example System config SCSI INS e Authentication e No Port Aggregation DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address na na 1500 1 LANI se 192 168 11 229 255 259 255 0 192 168 11 229 00 13 78 00 02 00 na na l 192 168 127 254 1500 2 LAN i 192 168 12 229 295 255 255 0 x m 00 13 78 00 02 01 Entity name iqn 2004 08 bw com qgsan plz0c O00aO00021 ISNS Authentication a Figure F 7 7 Add Target Portals on Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 109 iSCSI Initiator Properties Figure F 8 Input the IP address of iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 as mentioned in previous page Add Target Portal 192 168 11 229 3260 F idvanced TETTIGVE Figure F 9 110 9 Add second Target Portals on Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 iSCSI Initiator Properties General Discovery Targets Persistent Targets Bound Volumes Devices Target Portals Address Pot Adapter IP Address 192 166 117 229 3260 Default Default Remove Refresh ISHS Servers Mame Herve Hefresh Figure F 10 10 Input the IP address of iSCSI data port 2 192 168 12 229 as mentioned in previous page 111 Add Target Portal 192 168 12 229 3260 REMEE Figure F 11 11 The initiator setting is done E 250 beaut Dea 132158
68. etween the equipment and receiver B Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Preface About this manual This manual is designed for RaidStorage RAG361 user to operate the disk array system as easy as possible Information contained in this manual has been checked for accuracy but no product warranty is given with this content due to each operation environment is different Information and specification are subject to change without further notice Copyright 2007 Synergy Global Technology Inc All rights reserved Thank you for using Synergy Global Technology Inc products If you have any question please e mail to sales rackmmountmart com We will answer your question as soon as possible Synergy Global Technology Inc RSG281 RSG361 Model comparison RAG281 RSG281 RAG361 RSG361 DDR 333 DDR2 533 512MB 1GB Cable Backplane Backplane Backplane ports Single node or Multi node Multi Trunking 1500 9000 1500 8000 Snapshot ESnap Yes Yes No S M A R T Web nage Yes No HDD auto Ve No spindown S SAF TE Synergy Global Technology Inc RSG281 RSG361 Table of Contents Chapter 1 RAID introduction 6 1 1 EE E 6 1 2 Kul al ee EE T 1 3 RAID IOVOIS I 10 Chapter2 Getting started 11 2 1 Berre Staring eC 11 2 2 gebiede ie ere RED EE
69. feature Auto spindown Disabled Select zl Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e Figure 3 6 2 2 Volume config Physical disk Auto spindovin Auto spindawn Figure 3 6 2 3 3 6 3 Volume group Enter Volume group to view the status of each volume group e VG column description 43 Create e Delete e No Name oss pis PD UDY Status 1 2 13 RAID 1 VG RO j Online RAID O P 207 257 4 1 guine 2 VR i Online RAID 6 P 148 128 4 1 d Create e Delete e Figure 3 6 3 1 Figure 3 6 3 1 There is a RAID O0 with 4 physical disks named VG RO total size is 297GB free size is 267GB related to 1 UDV Another is a RAID 6 with 4 physical disks named VG R6 Number of volume group The button next to the No is More Information indication It shows the details of the volume group Volume group name The button next to the Name is Rename function Total GB Total capacity of this volume group Free GB Free capacity of this volume group mmm O The number of physical disks of the volume group UDV The number of user data volumes related to the volume group The status of volume group Online gt volume group is online Fail gt volume group is fail completed The reason could be lack of one disk or failure of disk R gt Rebuild This volume group is doing rebuilding M gt Migration This volume group is doing migration 44
70. g iSCSI config Volume config Enclosure management Maintenance Logout Figure 3 2 1 There are six indicators at the top right corner for backplane solutions and cabling solutions have three indicators at the top right corner 19 Figure 3 2 2 RAID light Green means RAID works well Red represents RAID failure happening 2 EN temperature light Green is normal Red represents abnormal temperature 3 D Voltage light Green is normal Red represents abnormal voltage status 4 UPS light Green is normal Red represents abnormal UPS status 9 Fan light Green is normal Red represents abnormal fan status Only for backplane solution 6 Power light Green is normal Red represents abnormal power status Only for backplane solution 3 3 Quick install It is easy to use Quick install function to create a volume Depend on how many physical disks or how many residual spaces on created VGs are free the system will calculate maximum spaces on RAID levels 0 1 3 5 6 Quick install function will occupy all residual VG space for one UDV and it has no space for snapshot ESnap and spare If snapshot ESnap function is needed please create volumes by manual and refer to section 4 4 for more detail Quick Install function has a smarter policy When the system is full inserted with 8 HDD or 16 HDD and all HDD are in the same size Quick Install function lists all possibilities and sizes among different
71. g UDV the attached LUN s related to this UDV will be detached automatically too Step 8 Delete VG Volume Group To delete the volume group please follow the procedures 1 2 3 4 5 Select Volume config Volume group Select a VG by clicking the checkbox of the row make sure that there is no UDV on this VG or the UDV s on this VG must be deleted first Click Delete There will pop up a confirmation page Choose OK Done The VG has been deleted 54 Tips The action of deleting one VG will succeed only when all of the related UDV s are deleted in this VG Otherwise it will have an error when deleting this VG Step 9 Free global spare disk To free global spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select the global spare disk by clicking the checkbox of the row then Click Free disks to free disk Step 10 Done all volumes have been deleted e Example 2 Example 2 is to create two UDVs in one VG One UDV shares global cache volume the other uses dedicated cache volume First dedicated cache volume should be created it can be used in creating UDV The last delete them Each UDV is associated with one specific CV cache volume to execute the data transaction Each CV could have different cache memory size If there is no special request in UDVs it uses global cache volume Or user can create a dedicated cach
72. i Path Input Output and MC S Multiple Connections per Session both use multiple physical paths to create logical paths between the server and the storage device In the case which one or more of these components fails causing the path to fail multi path logic uses an alternate path for I O so that applications can still access their data Microsoft iSCSI initiator supports multi path function Please follow the procedures to use MPIO feature 1 A host with dual LAN ports connects cables to RAG281 361 RSG281 361 series controller 2 Create a VG UDV attach this UDV to the host 3 When installing Microsoft iSCSI initiator please install MPIO driver at the same time 4 Logon to target separately on each port When logon to target check Enable multi path Please refer to Appendix D step 6 5 MPIO mode can be selected on Targets gt Details gt Devices gt Advanced 6 Rescan disk 7 There will be one disk running MPIO For detailed setup steps please refer to Appendix F MPIO and MC S setup instructions MC S setup steps are very similar to MPIO please also refer to Appendix F 81 Appendix A Certification list e RAM RAG281 361 RAM Spec 184pins DDR333 PC2700 Reg register or UB Unbufferred ECC or Non ECC from 64MB to 1GB 32 bit or 64 bit data bus width x8 or x16 devices 9 to 11 bits column address Vendor Modl ieee ee ee UG732
73. ich the VG is protected such as RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 and etc THE controller starts Auto Rebuild as below scenario Take RAID 6 for example 1 When there is no global spare disk or dedicated spare disk on the system THE controller will be in degraded mode and wait until A there is one disk assigned as spare disk or B the failed disk is removed and replaced with new clean disk then the Auto Rebuild starts The new disk will be a spare disk to the original VG automatically a If the new added disk is not clean with other VG information it would be marked as RS reserved and the system will not start auto rebuild b If this disk is not belonging to any existing VG it would be FR Free disk and the system will start Auto Rebuild function c if user only removes the failed disk and plugs the same failed disk in the same slot again the auto rebuild will start by this case But rebuilding in the same failed disk may impact customer data later from the unstable disk status SYNERGY TECH suggests all customers not to rebuild in the same failed disk for better data protection 2 When there is enough global spare disk s or dedicated spare disk s for the degraded array THE controller starts Auto Rebuild immediately And in RAID 6 if there is another disk failure happening during the time of rebuilding THE controller will starts the above Auto Rebuild scenario as well And the Auto Rebuild feature only works at RUNTIME It
74. ick Log On Please see Figure D 5 Check Enable multi path if running MPIO Log On to Target a J x Target name Automatically restore this connection when Ehe system boots Enable multi path E Only select this option if SCS multi path software is already installed on your computer Advanced Cancel Figure D 5 Click Advance if CHAP information is needed Please see Figure D 6 General IPSec Connect by using Local adapter Default ia Source IP Default e Target Fortal Default e CAC Checksum Data digest Header digest CHAP logon information CHAF helps ensure date security by providing authentication bebwesrn a target and ani initiator tring to establish a connection To wee TE speci the same target CHAP secret that was contigured on the target for thie mitata Username ba 991 05 com microsoft demo Target secret Perform mutual authentication Jo use mutual CHAF specify an initiator secret on the Initiator Settings page and contigure that secret ar the target i Cancel Apply Figure D 6 Click OK The status would be Connected Please see Figure D 7 Done it can connect to an iSCSI disk 93 stet Initiator Properties ign 2004 08 tw com gsar pbc DODOLCG onnected i i j h i E Figure D 7 The following procedure is to log off iSCSI device 1 Click Details Please see Figure D 8 Target Properties
75. icon shown up at status 1 column Select l Free disks e Global spares e Dedicated spares e a Slot WEN pr ER Status 1 2 Speed 1 7 2007001378a40040 a8 VG R5 RA RD 1 5Gbh 2 Good BR 2z2D017001378a2 02d9 EIS VH c FH np 1 565 3 Gond 1 T 201890013 78a202d9 EIS VH D FH np 1 5Ghb 5 Good O si 2019001378a202d8 EIS MVi3 R5 a FH np 1 566 3 Good IS 2n01a001378a202d9 38 am H cs 1 566 5 Good BR e lt 0c400 1378000108 EI PH fi FR 1 566 Good BR 201c001378a202da8 EI fi rn 1 565 5 Good E a 201b001378a202q9 EIS mm fi rn 1 565 Figure 3 6 7 7 Figure 3 6 7 7 Slot 5 is set as global spare disk Step 5 Done They can be used as iSCSI disks Delete UDVs VG please follow the steps Step 6 Detach LUN from UDV In Volume config Logical unit 53 Beeeeg 2 3 Attach e Detach e Host LUN Permission UDY name Session i Read write UDY R5 1 1 ign 1991 05 micrasaft com dema 1 Fead write UDVY RS 2 0 Attach e Detach e Figure 3 6 7 8 oelect LUNs by clicking the checkbox of the row then click ii Detach B Choose OK Done There will pop up a confirm page Step 7 Delete UDV User Data Volume To delete the user data volume please follow the procedures ao YS Select Volume config User data volume Select UDVs by clicking the checkbox of the row Click Delete There will pop up a confirm page Choose OK Done Then the UDVs are deleted Tips When deletin
76. ign 2004 08 ba com qsarn pb0c Q000000ed deh Inactive on your computer Advanced Cancel Details Refresh Details Log On Refresh OF Cancel Apply OF Cancel Apply Figure H 14 Figure H 14 go to Targets tab click Refresh and then Log On the target iSCSI Initiator Properties 3 x General Discovery Targets Persistent Targets Bound Volumes Devices Select a target and click Log On to access the storage devices for that target Click details to see information about the sessions connections and devices for that target Targets Mame ign 2004 08 tw com grar GEI TO DC det qs re A a Details Log n Refresh Figure H 15 Figure H 15 Status is Connected the initiator setting is done Step C Initialize Format Mount the disk 135 1 Go to Start gt Control Panel gt Computer Management gt Device Manger Disk drives EI Computer Management m File Action View Window Help mim Ee S E nm a IS Computer Management Local 2 29 QA CHRISCHOUZ ERC System Tools ER Fi Computer EHE Event viewer E drives a K Shared Folders tig HDSTZ8 0BD PLA3BU SE Local Users and Groups ie See Qsan P1200 SCSI Disk Device SR Performance Logs and Alert aM Osan P120C Multi Path Disk Device ho E Device Manager e i Display adapters Figure H 16 Figure H 16 Disk d
77. isks named VG R5 The total size is 114GB Because of no related UDV there free size still remains 114GB Step 2 Create UDV User Data Volume To create a data user volume please follow the procedures Name VG name CY No Capacity GB Stripe height KB Block size B Read Write Priority 1 2 3 4 5 Nn C e RB gt UDW R5 1 vi 5 sl Glabal i20 MB sl GA sl 512 i E Wirite through cache Write back cache e High priority C Middle priority C Low priority z Back e Contirm Figure 3 6 7 3 Select Volume config User data volume Create B o Click l Input a UDV name choose a VG Name and input a size to the UDV decide the stripe high block size read write mode and set priority Confirm B o finally click Done A UDV has been created Do one more time to create another UDV Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete e Size R Snapshot VG CV Name GB Status 1 2 3 s RAID LUuN GB name MB LIpny R5 1 al BH we B HI 0 00 0 00 S Bnline Bridel Bains o qo VES 120 LID v R5 2 54 i Gwe BHI 0 00 0 00 gt en Rn Or 0 RAIDS gt E VG 5 120 Attach e Snapshot e Create Delete e Figure 3 6 7 4 Figure 3 6 7 4 Create UDVs named UDV R5 1 and UDV R5 2 related to VG R5 the size of UDV R5 1 is 50GB the size of UDV R5 2 is 64GB The status of these UDVs are online write back high priority with cache volu
78. ll take snapshots ESnap every month and keep the last 32 snapshot ESnap copies Tips Daily snapshot ESnap will be taken at every 00 00 Weekly snapshot ESnap will be taken on every Sunday 00 00 Monthly snapshot ESnap will be taken on every first day of month 00 00 4 4 3 Rollback The data in snapshot ESnap UDV can rollback to original UDV Please follow the procedures 76 1 Select Volume config User data volume 2 Take one or more snapshots ESnap Please refer to section 4 4 1 for more detail 3 Click in Snapshot ESnap GB column to rollback the data which user can recover data to the time that snapshot ESnap is taken Rollback function has some constraints as described in the following 1 Minimum RAM size of enabling rollback function is 512MB 2 When doing rollback the original UDV cannot be accessed for a while At the same time the system connects original UDV and snap UDV and then starts rollback 3 During rollback data from snap UDV to original UDV the original UDV can be accessed and the data in it just like it finished rollback At the same time the other related snap UDV s can not be accessed 4 After rollback process finished the other related snap UDV s will be deleted and snapshot ESnap space will be set to O Caution Before executing rollback it is better to dismount file system for flushing data from cache to disks in OS first The controller also
79. logy Inc RSG281 RSG361 3 6 7 Fe NM DIG Sins niet taedis d MODUS M NO Ud Er 50 3 7 Enclosure management 59 3 7 1 SES COMM QU AMON EE IM 60 3 7 2 Hardware ei Tree 60 3 7 3 Hard drive S M A R T function support 61 3 7 4 UP uu erp E d am a en M M E ME EE 62 3 8 SYSTEM maintenance eeesesesseeeeen eene nnns 64 3 8 1 Una ade MuR RO TOTEM 64 3 8 2 A EEFE lE 65 3 8 3 Ixeset to Re ET EE 65 3 8 4 Config import amp export seesesssssssseseeneeeenemeennenne nnns 66 3 8 5 Sito Phe eo etie ate ace teat AI MADE LM M E EL AU DUE 66 3 9 Beate 66 Chapter A Advanced operation 68 4 1 ms 010 0 NP RR RTT 68 4 2 VG migration and evpansion 70 4 3 DW EXTON SI ON EU Tm 12 4 4 Snapshot ESnap Rollback 73 4 4 1 Create snapshot ESnap volume sonsnnsenonnsnnsrreresrennsnrsrrerrerrrrrerenns T4 4 4 2 Auto snapshot ESnap NEE 75 4 4 3 e lez EE 76 4 5 QCopy remote replication ccccecceeceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeees TT 4 6 DISK FOAMING EE 81 4 1 Support Microsoft MPIO and MC S 81 ele Le oe ce ios 82 A C rificaton MSE EE 02 B Event notifications cesses 85 C KNOWN ISSUCS EN 90 D Microsoft iSCSI nt re 90 E Trunking LACP setup instructions 95 F MPIO and MC S setup instructions 106
80. me 120MB UDV R5 1 is initialing about 4 There is no LUN attached Bi Step 3 Attach LUN to UDV There are 2 methods to attach LUN to UDV 1 In Volume config User data volume press Attach a ic LA 7 Attach D o 2 n Volume config Logical unit press The procedures are as follows UD UDV R5 1 50GB sl Host ii LUN 0 ml Permission C Read only Read write lt lt Back Confirm e Figure 3 6 7 5 1 Select a UDV 2 Input Host which is an initiator node name for access control or fill in wildcard which means every host can access this volume cci Confirm Choose LUN and permission then click i 3 Done Attach e Detach Host LUN Permission UD Y name 25ession E 0 Read write UDV R5 1 1 1gn 1991 05 microsoft com dema 1 Read write UDV R5 2 o Attach e Detach Figure 3 6 7 6 Figure 3 6 7 6 UDV R5 1 is attached to LUN 0 with any hosts can access UDV R5 2 is attached to LUN 1 with only initiator note named iqn 1991 05 com microsoft demo can access Tips The matching rules of access control are from top to down by sequence Please refer 3 6 6 for details 52 Step 4 Set global spare disk To set global spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select the free disk s by clicking the checkbox of the row then click Global spares to set as global spares 3 There is a GS
81. me group Create D Delete o No Name Total Free PD UDY Status 12 3 RAID GB GB diy Create Delete e Figure H 1 2 Choose RAID level and disks Volume contig volume group Create Mame Val RAID Level RAID RAID PD slot 310111213141516 Select PO e ze Back e E Next gt gt Figure H 2 3 Confirm VG settings Volume config Valume group Create Confirm Create GO1 RAID amp RAID width B RAID copy 1 RAID row 1 RAID PD slot 3 10 11 12 13 141516 ce Back e de Confirm e Figure H 3 4 ARAID 6 VG is created Volume config Volume group Create e Delete Total Free No Name GB GB SD UDY Status KSE RAID 1 VGO1 Online RAID 6 C e 273 2 93 g T Kata S Create a Delete e Figure H 4 5 Goto Volume config User data volume create a UDV 131 Volume config User data volume Attach Create Delete n Size R YG CY 1 No Name GB Status zd uc RAID LUN ui MB Attach e in Create Delete Figure H 5 6 Setup capacity stripe height and block size for UDV Z Volume config User data volume Create Name Up VG name voor sl CV No Global t 136 MB Capacity GB ano m Stripe height KB 54 sl Black size B 512 Read Write write through cache write back cache Priority f High priority Middle priority Low priority zx Back e Confirm e Figure H 6 Tips When the OS is 64bit user
82. n list If user needs the latest Linux iSCSI initiator please visit Open iSCSI project for most update information Linux ISCSI sfnet and Open iSCSI projects merged in April 11 2005 Open iSCSI website http www open iscsi org Open iSCSI README http www open iscsi org docs README Features http www open iscsi org cgi bin wiki pl Roadmap Support Kernels http www open iscsi org cgi bin wiki pl Supported Kernels Google groups http groups google com group open iscsi threads gvc 2 http groups google com group open iscsi topics Open iSCSI Wiki http www open iscsi org cgi bin wiki pl 3 ATTO iSCSI initiator is available for Mac Website http www attotech com xtend html 2 3 Management methods There are three management methods to manage P Series controller describe in the following 2 3 1 Web GUI IP Series controllers support graphic user interface to manage the system Be sure to connect LAN cable The default setting of management port IP is DHCP and the DHCP address displays on LCM user can check LCM for the IP first then open the browser and type the DHCP address The DHCP address is dynamic and user may need to check every time after reboot again When DHCP service is not available IP series controllers use zero config Zeroconf to get an IP address E g on LCM 192 168 0 200 UltraStor RS8 http 192 168 0 200 or https 192 168 0 200 https connection with encrypted Secure Sockets Laye
83. no iori Error PD slot Iba lt gt length lt gt config read write error read write failed PD read write error Error PD lt gt Iba lt gt length read write error UDV recoverable Error UDV lt name gt stripe lt gt PD i Iba lt gt read write error length lt gt read write recoverable Error UDV lt gt stripe lt gt PD lt gt Iba lt gt read write error length lt gt read write unrecoverable Me ees Sons et ad start fail succeed bitmap BITMAP started failed finished Snapshot ESnap events Description pue Warning Allocate Snapshot Warning Fail to allocate snapshot ESnap ESnap Mem memory for UDV name Failed Warning Allocate Snapshot Warning Fail to allocate snapshot ESnap ESnap Space space for UDV name Failed ESnap Threshold ESnap of UDV name has been reached 1 Snapshot ESnap Info The snapshot ESnap of UDV name Delete has been deleted Snapshot ESnap Info The oldest snapshot ESnap version of replaced UDV name has been replaced by the new one gen am ESnap w Set Size for Info Set the snapshot ESnap size of UDV Snapshot ESnap lt name gt to lt number gt GB m Snapshot ESnap Info The snapshot ESnap of UDV lt name gt rollback start rollback start Snapshot ESnap Info The snapshot ESnap of UDV lt name gt rollback finish rollback
84. ns every host can access this volume In this page the Volume size can be changed The maximum volume size is shown To re enter the size be sure it has to be less or equal to maximum volume size Then click e Next gt gt B o Step 3 Confirm page Click confirm if all setups are correct Then a page with the User data volume just been created will be shown as Figure SCC Done You can start to use the system now 21 Attach e Snapshot Create e Delete Size R Snapshot VG CH Mn Name GB Status 1 2 3 Hm RAID LUN GB are ME 1 UICK688 9 609 _ Bws Bui 0 00 0 00 2 _ Online RAID D 1 x P QUICK45427 663 p Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete e Figure 3 3 2 Figure 3 3 2 A RAID 0 user data volume with the UDV name QUICK68809 named by the system itself with the total available volume size 609GB 3 4 System configuration System config selection is for the setup of System name IP address Language Login config Password Date Mail SNMP Messenger System log server and view Event log System name System name for identification IP address Internet Protacal IP address for remote administration Language Language preference for Well Login config Configuration for auto logout and login lock Password Administrator s password Date System time for event log E Alert by e mail SNMP Alert via Simple Network Management Protocol SWmP
85. o view information about the device and configure Ehe multipath policy Devices Device NON eee MIO Capable OS4NTech Dec SCSI Disk Device Multi Path Support QSAMTechP6 c SCSIDisk Device Multi Path Support Advanced ma e Figure F 20 20 Click MPIO tab select Load Balance Policy to Round Robin 117 Device Details EN xi General nl Load Balance Policy Fai Over Only Pound Robin DE Round Robin With Subset Least Queue Depth Weighted Paths Least Blacks This device has the Following paths Session ID Ox20000 Conne Active n a FFFFFFFFFS80e8 c 400001 Ox20001 conne Standby nia FFFFFFFFFS80e8 c 400001 Details Edit ma e Figure F 21 21 Click Apply Device Details E X General MPIO Load Balance Policy Description The round robin policy attempts to evenly distribute incoming requests to all processing paths This device has the Following paths PathId Status Type weight Session ID Ox20000 Conne Active n a FFFFFFFFFe80e87c 400001 Ox 0001 Conne Active n a FFFFFFFFFe80e87 c 400001 Dom Details Edit a Figure F 22 22 Run Device Manage in Windows Make sure MPIO device is available Then the disk can be tested performance by IOMETER 118 BER Eile Action View Help e m Ege ARa QA CHARISCHOUS ER X Computer E Disk drives Se
86. on and cable solution IP series controller connects to the host system in iSCSI interface It can be configured to any RAID level IP series controller provides reliable data protection for servers and the RAID 6 function ready The RAID 6 function allows two HDD failures without any impact on the existing data Data can be recovered from the remaining data and parity drives Data can be recovered from the rest disks drives Snapshot on the box ESnap is a fully usable copy of a defined collection of data that contains an image of the data as it appeared at the point in time which means a point in time data replication It provides consistent and instant copies of data volumes without any system downtime Snapshot on the box ESnap can keep up to 32 snapshots ESnap for all data volumes Rollback feature is provided for restoring the previously snapshot ESnap data easily while continuously using the volume for further data access The data access is regular as usual including read write without any impact to end users The on the box terminology implies that it does not require any proprietary agents installed at host side The snapshot ESnap is taken at target side and done by Enhance Tech IP controller It will not consume any host CPU time thus the server is dedicated to the specific or other application The snapshot ESnap copies can be taken manually or by schedule every hour or every day depends on the modification QCopy ser
87. onfirm e Figure E 11 11 Now the setting is LACP mode System config iSCSI ISNS e Authentication e No Port Aggregation DHCP IP address Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address LACP no l l 1500 1 lag m x 1927 168 11 229 200 290 200 0 192 168 11 229 00 13 78 00 02 00 Entity name iqn 2004 08 tw com qsan piz c O00a00021 ISNS e Authentication e Figure E 12 12 Enable switch LACP function of port 21 and 23 Below is an example of Dell PowerConnect 5324 100 I E Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator Microsoft Internet Explorer E E loj xj l Bile Edit wew Favorites Tools Help Q Back gt x Jet el Search e Favorites 5 Bet EM SL me Address http 192 168 10 252 Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator Support Help About Log Out PowerConnect 5324 192 680 282 LAG Membership Eg Home H System LAG Membership SE Network Securit Bee Address Tables rinm Spanning Tree 1 4 5 7 8 9g 40 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Z4 T EET L zm Li ict 1 fE ievesciptpresubmtO T_T 71 I9 tmusted sies Figure E 13 13 Add Target Portals in Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 101 iSCSI Initiator Properties Figure E 14 14 Input the IP address of iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 as mentioned in previous page Add Target Portal 192 168 11 229 3260 F idvanced TETTIGVE Figure E 15 102 15 Click Targets to log on iSCSI Ini
88. ore information UDV Size R Strp Snap YG Cv Block E ID No Name GB Status 1 2 3 KB RAID LUN GB Type VG ID Nama CV ID MB Config Size Create Time a 0 00 NORMAL 345494528 VG01 452869120 136 41 4096 1173347651 891804674 1 UDVO1 2793 Online WB HI I 1 64 6 lt lt Back Figure H 10 Figure H 10 block size 4K for 32bit OS setting 9 Attach LUN Volume config User data volume Attach Create e Delete e Size R YG CV Mo Name GB Status 1 2 3 ae RAID LUN SE MB vem 1 UD 2703 Online fi we EB HI e e Create e Delete e Attach dn Figure H 11 133 Volume config User data volume Attach Volume config User data volume Attach UDY ucv 2793GB EN Bis 1 0 Host al SCSIID o LUN 0 3m LUN CS Permission C Read only Read write us Figure H 12 Figure H 12 Left P series Right S series attach LUN Step B configure your host server 1 For S Series controller SCSI the host server side may need reboot or setup SCSI HBA BIOS to make volumes available Please refer to your SCSI HBA manual for more detail For P Series iSCSI user needs to setup software iscsi initiator or iSCSI HBA first 2 Below is the configuration for Windows Server 2003 R2 with Microsoft iscsi initiator Please install the latest Microsoft iscsi initiator from below link http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID 12cb3c1a 15d6 4585 b385 befd131
89. r The iSCSI target is the storage device itself or an appliance which controls and serves volumes or virtual volumes The target is the device which performs SCSI commands or bridges it to an attached storage device iSCSI targets can be disks tapes RAID arrays tape libraries and etc Host 1 initiator NIC Host 2 initiator iSCSI HBA iSCSI device 1 target iSCSI device 2 target Figure 2 2 1 The host side needs an iSCSI initiator The initiator is a driver which handles the SCSI traffic over iSCSI The initiator can be software or hardware HBA Please refer to the certification list of iSCSI HBA s in Appendix A OS native initiators or other software initiators use the standard TCP IP stack and Ethernet hardware while iSCSI HBA s use their own iSCSI and TCP IP stacks on board Hardware iSCSI HBA s would provide its initiator tool Please refer to the vendors HBA user manual Microsoft Linux and Mac provide software iSCSI initiator driver Below are the available links 1 Link to download the Microsoft iSCSI software initiator http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID 12cb3c1a 15d6 4585 b385 befd1319f825 amp DisplayLang en Please refer to Appendix D for Microsoft iSCSI initiator installation procedure 2 Linux iSCSI initiator is also available For different kernels there are different iSCSI drivers Please check Appendix A for software iSCSl initiator certificatio
90. r SSL Please be aware of the https function is slower than http https is not supported on E320 IP Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog to authenticate current user Login name admin Default password 1234 Or login with the read only account which only allows seeing the configuration and cannot change setting Login name user Default password 1234 2 3 2 Console serial port Use NULL modem cable to connect console port The console setting is baud rate 115200 8 bits 1 stop bit and no parity Terminal type vt100 Login name admin Default password 1234 2 3 3 Remote control secure shell SSH secure shell is required for P Series controllers to remote login The SSH client software is available at the following web site SSHWinClient WWW http www ssh com Putty WWW http www chiark greenend org uk Host name 192 168 0 200 Please check your DHCP address for this field Login name admin Default password 1234 Tips Enhance Tech IP IP 4 Series controller support SSH for remote control For using SSH the IP address and the password is required for login 2 4 Enclosure 2 4 1 LCM There are four buttons to control theLCM LCD Control Module including A up v down ESC Escape and ENT Enter After booting up the system the following screen shows management port IP and model name 192 168 0 200 UltraStor RS8 Press ENT the LCM functions
91. racy however no guarantee is given to the correctness of the contents The information in this document is subject to change without notice We are not liable for any injury or loss that results from the use of this equipment Safety Instructions B Unplug equipment before cleaning Don t use liquid or spray detergent use a moist cloth B Keep equipment away from excessive humidity and heat Preferably keep it in an air conditioned enviro nment with temperatures not exceeding 40 Celsius 104 Fahrenheit B When installing place the equipment on a sturdy level surface to prevent it from accidentally falling and causing damage to other equipment or injury to persons nearby B When the drawer is in an open position do not cover block or in any way obstruct the gap between it and the power supply Proper air convection is necessary to keep it from overheating m Arrange the equipments power cord in such a way that others won t trip or fall over it B If you are using a power cord that didn t ship with the equipment ensure that it is rated for the voltage and current labeled on the equipment s electrical ratings label The voltage rating on the cord should be higher than the one listed on the equipment s ratings label m Observe all precautions and warnings attached to the equipment B If you dont intend on using the equipment for a long time disconnect it from the power outlet to prevent being damaged by transient over voltage B Keep all
92. reate Delete Rename Change Authentication IP series Change Authentication Delete IP 4 series Create Delete Modify user information IP series Create Delete Free disks Global spares Dedicated spares More information Auto Spindown Create Delete More information Rename Migrate Attach Snapshot Create Delete More information Rename Extend Set read write mode Set priority Resize Snapshot space Auto Snapshot Create Delete More information Resize Attach Detach Enable Disable Auto shutdown 18 S M A R T Only for SATA disks IP series UPS gt UPS Type Shutdown Battery Level Shutdown Delay Shutdown UPS Upgrade gt Browse the firmware to upgrade Export config Info System information Reset to default Sure to reset to factory default Config import amp gt Import Export Import file gt export Shutdown Reboot Shutdown Logout Sure to logout 3 2 Login IP series controller supports graphic user interface GUI to operate the system Be sure to connect the LAN cable The default IP setting is STATIC open the browser and enter http 192 168 0 200 Please check the DHCP address first on LCM Click any function at the first time it will pop up a dialog for authentication Login name admin Default password 1234 After login you can choose the function blocks on the left side of window to do configuration Quick install System confi
93. rive status of ENHANCE TECH controller 2 Go to Start gt Control Panel gt Computer Management Disk Management it displays a new disk im Computer Management m File Action View Window Help elt mmu mj Computer Management Local Volume Layout _ Type File System Status JL Capacity Free Space Free Fault Tolerance Overhead EL 8 System Tools e c3 Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy System 19 52 GB 17 01GB 87 Mo 0 0 gal Event Viewer E pi Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy Boot 19 52 GBE 16 32656 83 Na s BH E Shared Folders GIE Partition Basic Healthy 19 53GB 19 53GB 100 No Oe Local Users and Groups GIE Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 18 08 G6 16 40GB 90 No Oe E z Performance Logs and Alert cn es 2939 2 re Partition Basic UDF Healthy 3 2066 OMB 0 No Oe ie Device Manager Be S Storage RS Removable Storage Mir Disk Defragmenter E Disk Management e 28 Services and Applications ZeDisk 0 Basic LC D E F 76 58 GB 13 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB FAT32 19 53 GB 18 08 GB NTFS Online Healthy System Healthy Boot Healthy Healthy Unknown pol eee s Disk 1 CT e _ 2792 99 aB 2782 g GB Mat Initialized Unallocated GE zSICD ROM 0 EWE EN 05 2939 2 G 3 20 GB 3 20 GB UDF Online Healthy Figure H 17 3 Initialize disk 136 ZPDisk 0 Basic CH D E F 76 58 GB 19 53 GB FAT3Z 19 53 GB FATS
94. s of UPS Detecting Running Unable to detect UPS Communication lost UPS reboot in progress UPS shutdown in progress 63 Batteries failed Please change them NOW Battery Level Current percentage of battery level 76 3 8 System maintenance Maintenance function allows operation of the system functions including Upgrade to the latest firmware Info to show the system version Reset to default to reset all controller configuration values to origin settings Config import amp export to export and import all controller configuration except for VG UDV setting and LUN setting and Shutdown to either reboot or shutdown the system Upgrade Remote upload firmware Info System information Reset to default Reset to factory default Config import amp export Import expart configurations Shutdown Reboot or shutdown system Figure 3 8 1 3 8 1 Upgrade Enter Upgrade function to upgrade firmware Please prepare new firmware file named xxxx bin in local hard drive then press E9 to select the file Click onim it will pop up a message Upgrade system now If you want to downgrade to the previous FW later please export your system config first click Cancel to export system config first then click OK to start to upgrade firmware Browse the firmware to upgrade Browse Export contig Confirm e Figure 3 8 1 1
95. s replication steps user only needs to setup the QCopy service from target system in reversely QCopy is only supported by RAG281 361 only 78 Valume config User data volume Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete 5 Size R Snapshot VG CV E No Name GE Status 1 2 3 ix RAID et UN GB name ME 1 ul LOO H ws Oui 49 99 50 00 Onl O x S Ae gt RAIDO O gt vi 61l e W1 1 16 LOU OOf 1 17 16 48 o Emm dins fno An RAIDO 0 3 v1 611 Remote Copy Node Mame ign 19397 10 com enhance tech ultrastarrsi6ip O00a20475 refinitiator O0 1 Attach e Snapshot Create e Delete e Figure 4 5 1 Figure 4 5 1 setup QCopy on selected snapshot ESnap UDV Volume contig User data volume Remote Copy Target IP 192 168 1 2 Port 3260 Direction Replicate lt lt Back e Next gt gt Figure 4 5 2 Figure 4 5 2 input the target system data port IP address Valume config User data volume Remote Copy Target LUN D 300 GB x z Back Confirm e Figure 4 5 3 Figure 4 5 3 select the target UDV LUN the target UDV capacity must be equal or larger than the source UDV capacity 79 The page at http 192 168 0 205 says a r9 Sure to Remote Copy 5 tul Replicate u1 1716 100 GB to 192 168 1 2 32860 LUM 0 300 GB Please dismount the disk in the host side First Cancel Figure 4 5 4 Figure 4 5 4 click OK after the target UDV is dismounted from host ser
96. saction Each CV could have different cache memory size from user s modification setting LUN is the logical volume unit which the users could access through SCSI commands 3 6 2 Physical disk Enter Physical disk to view the status of hard drives inserted in the system The following are operation tips 1 Multiple select Select one or more checkboxes in front of the slot number Or select the checkbox at the top left corner will select all Check again will select none 2 The list box will disappear if there is no VG or only VG of RAID O JBOD Because these RAID levels cannot be set as dedicated spare disk 3 These three functions Free disks Global spares Dedicated spares can do multiple selects too 4 The operations of the other web pages e g volume config of VG UDV CV LUN pages are similar to previous steps 40 Free disks Global spares e Dedicated spares e Size VG mu Slot WWN vum See Status 1 2 Speed 8 2071001378a8a002 74 VG RO ide 3 0Gb e aoa B RD d 8 207c001378a8a002 74 VG RO Boer n 3 0Gb e B aga mmm RD e 207b001378a8a002 74 VG RO ones d 3 0Gb asa a RD E s 7 7 za b 207a001378a8a002 4 VG RO enam B RD 3 0G O 2079001378a8a002 74 Goce a 3 0Gb aoa FR n 6 p S Good b 207d001378a8a002 VG R6 nmm B RD 30G a 206f001378a8a002 74 VG R6 GUUE r 3 0Gb e aoa RD 8 2070001378a8a002 74 G R6 Lun 3 0Gb e a8a YG mem D RD
97. t Figure F 31 15 Select Local adapter Source IP and Target Portal to iSCSI data port 2 192 168 12 229 Then select OK 124 General IPSec Connect by using Lacal adapter Microsoft SCSI Initiator Source IP 192 168 12 34 Target Fortal 3 92 168 12 223 3260 CRC Checksum Data digest Header digest CHAP logon information CA AP helpe ensure date security by providing authentication belween 4 target and ari initiator trum to establish a connection To Wee T speci the same target ek secret thatwas configured on the target for thie mitiatar Username fian 331 05 com micrasaft qa chrischou3 Target secret E Perfor mutual authentication Toute mutual CHAF specu an initiator secret on the Initiator Settings page and contigure that secretion the target Cancel Apply Figure F 32 16 The MC S setting is done G QLogic QLA4010C setup instructions The following is the step by step setup of Qlogic QLA4010C 1 Log on the iSCSI HBA Manager and the current state shows No Connection Active 125 2 SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager 18 xi File Host View Wizard Help O XX Connect Refresh QLOGIC iSCSI HBA Target Information LUN List Host qsan qa222 J qm bad PEE HBA Model QLA4010 iSCSI Port Alias Name qlogic t ort 0 qlogic HBA iSCSI Name qsan qa222 Vendor Not Available Product Revision Not Available Product I
98. t Viewer 304 TOOLS F Partition Basic FATZ Healthy 15 86 GB e St Shared Folders CSWINDOWS2DO3 D Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy Boot 19 52 GB Si Local Users and Groups EJ Windows 2000 C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy System 19 53 GB ER Performance Logs and Alert PO de S Device Manager CES Storage SM Removable Storage Mi Disk Defragmenter ig Management 4 Servi es and Applications LF Disk 0 wm Basic Windows f WINDOW E lt 22 QA TOOLS 74 50 aE 19 53 GB M 13 53 GBF 419 P 115 90 GBF Online Healthy Sy f Healthy E 4 Healthy ZPDisk 1 Basic 152 87 GB 152 87 GB Online Unallocated 4 Bg Unallocated gl Primary partition RB Extended partition B Logical drive ux pe Figure G 9 H Installation Steps for Large Volume TB Introduction Synergy Tech controllers are capable to support large volumes gt 2TB on all product lines When connecting controllers to 64bit OS installed host server the host server is inherently capable for large volumes from the 64bit address On the other side if the host server is installed with 32bit OS user has to change the block size to 1KB 2KB or 4KB to support volumes up to 4TB 8TB or 16TB for the 32bit host server is not LBA Logical Block Addressing 64bit supported For detail installation steps please check below Step A configure your target 1 Goto Volume config Volume group create a VG 130 Valume config Volu
99. tatus of this user data volume Online user data volume is online Fail user data volume is failed WT gt Write Through WB gt Write Back RO gt Read Only The button in below to the status1 is Set read write mode function HI gt High priority MD gt MiD priority LO LOw priority The button in below to the status2 is Set Priority function gt user data volume is doing initializing R gt user data volume is doing rebuilding M user data volume is doing migration P gt user data volume is doing QCopy LUN Number of LUN s that data volume is attaching Snapshot The user data volume size that used for snapshot ESnap GB ESnap The button next to the snapshot ESnap is Resize function to decide the snapshot ESnap space The button next to the resize function is Auto snapshot ESnap function to setup the frequency of taking snapshots ESnap The number means Free snapshot ESnap space Total snapshot ESnap space If the snapshot ESnap UDV has been created this column will be the creation time 46 QCopy Remote replication function The VG name of the user data volume CV MB The cache volume of the user data volume e UDV operations description Attach to a LUN Choose a UDV to execute snapshot ESnap Create a user data volume function Delete a user data volume function 3 6 5 Cache volume
100. te Figure F 2 2 Create a UDV by using RAID 5 VG Volume config User data volume Attach e Snapshot Create a Delete T NES Size R P Snapshot VG CV LI No Name GB Status 1 A 3 Se RAID SUN GB name MB 1 R5 10 H ws B HI 0 00 0 00 Onl n ni oO o cts wmm S Di 14 RAIDS 0 v ES 100 Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete Figure F 3 3 Run Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2 03 and check the Initiator Node Name 107 iSCSI Initiator Properties EE x General Discovery Targets Persistent Targets Bound Volumes Devices The iSCSI protocol uses the following information to uniquely identify this initiator and authenticate targets Initiator Node M ame iqn 1991 05 com microsoft qa chrischou To rename the initiator node click Change Change To authenticate targets using CHAP click Secret ta specify a CHAP secret Secret To configure PSec Tunnel Mode addresses click Tunnel BA Tunnel Figure F 4 4 Attaching LUN to R5 UDV Input the Initiator Node Name in Host field Volume config Logical unit Attach UDV R5 10GB Host iqn 1991 05 com microsoft dema LUN 0 E Permission O Read only 9 Read write lt lt Back e confirm Figure F 5 5 The volume config setting is done 108 Volume config Logical unit Attach Detach CJ Host LUN Permission UDV name Session Ir iqn 1991 05 com microsoft demo Read write R5 1 S
101. temperature and battery backup module 5 M A R T 5Self monitaring analysis and reporting technology for physical disks UPS Uninterruptible power supply Figure 3 7 1 59 3 7 1 SES configuration SES represents SCSI Enclosure Services one of the enclosure management standards Enter SES config function can enable or disable the management of SES Enable e Disable e Host LUN Permission UDY name E d D Read write SES Enable Disable Figure 3 7 1 1 Figure 3 7 1 1 Enable SES in LUN 0 and can be accessed from every host The SES client software is available at the following web site SANtools http www santools com 3 2 Hardware monitor Enter Hardware monitor function to view the information of current voltage and temperature 60 Enclosure management Hardware monitor Item 1 5V T3 3M ect T12V 2 5V PSU 5V Backplane PSU 12V Backplane PSU 3 3V Backplane Daughter Board Information 1 52 V min 1 44 V max 1 63 V 3 28 V min 3 10 V max 3 55 V 5 02 V min 4 80 V max 5 35 V 12 08 V min 11 40 V max 12 80 V 2 54 V min 2 45 V max 2 75 V 5 10 V min 4 70 V max 5 35 V 12 23 V min 411 40 V max 412 80 V 3 31 V min 3 10 V max 3 55 V 43 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 70 0 C PCI X BRG 33 5 C hyst 0 0 C high 60 0 C 46 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 75 0 C 29 0 C
102. the target UDV from host server first This dismount step is to avoid any data inconsistence from others After the target UDV is dismounted from host server then click Yes for confirmation 5 When the QCopy is processing data on the Volume config User data volume status colume there will be an indicator P for QCopy and completed percertage 6 The source system will issue one INFO event describes the replication setting 7 If the replication has been completed successfully the source system will issue one INFO event describes the replication started at what time and completed at what time 8 The source system will try to reconect the target system when there is any network error or unstable transferring And if the replication has been stopped for some interrupts the source system will issue one WARNING event describes the possibility of the interrupts to stop the replication The possibility to stop the replication may be network link failure the target system not reachable connection fail and etc 9 When the causes to the interrupts have been removed the users can manually activate the QCopy replication again to restart the replication work The source system will issue one INFO event describes the replication has been resumed When the QCopy is completed user can delete the LUN of the source UDV for avoiding wrong operation or deleting data When recovery is needed the operation steps are the same a
103. tiator Properties EISES 259 60 Deia DA Figure E 16 16 Log on iSCSI Initiator Properties ign 2004 3 Nm G IE aL edel inactive genee Apply Figure E 17 103 17 Click Advanced K pper deFault target Figure E 18 18 Select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 1 192 168 11 229 Then click OK Advanced Settings an tiata secret on te thiihator settings LE A x jet d HS CH E et d ri D ED at Page ang contigure tuat secretion the target Apply 104 Figure E 19 19 The setting is completed iSCSI Initiator Properties E x General Discovery Targets Persistent Targets Bound Volumes Devices Select a target and click Log Un to access the storage devices for that target Click details to see information about the sessions connections and devices for that target Targets ign 2004 08 hw com qsarnpbOc b3ceaQ001e def Connected n Figure E 20 20 Run Computer Management in Windows Make sure the disks are available Then the disks can be tested for performance by IOMETER imi File Action View Window Help He x emu Computer Management Local volume Layout Type File System Status Capacit ERC System Tools E E Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 19 53 GB E iol Event viewer EI QA TOOLS F Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy 15 88 GB E i shared Folders SwINooWws2003 D Partition Basic FATS Healthy Book 19 52 GB l Ej Local Us
104. turn on the LED when error occurs or RAID malfunctioning happens Management LAN port LED GREEN LED is for LAN transmit receive indication ORANGE LED is for LAN port 10 100 LINK indication BUSY LED Hardware activated LED when the front end channel is busy POWER LED Hardware activated LED when system is powered on Chapter 3 Web GUI guideline 3 1 IP series GUI hierarchy The below table is the hierarchy of IP series GUI System Confic System name IP address Language Login config Password Date Mail SNMP Messenger System log server Event log ISCSI config Entity Property NIC Node Session CHAP account Volume confio Physical disk Volume group User data Volume Cache volume Logical unit SES config Hardware monitor Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Confirm System name DHCP Static Address Mask Gateway DNS HTTP port HTTPS port SSH port Language Auto logout Login lock Old password Password Confirm Time zone Date Time NTP Server Mail from address Mail to address Sent events SMTP relay SMTP server Authentication Account Password Confirm Send test mail SNMP trap address Community Send events Messenger IP hostname Send events Server IP hostname Port Facility Event level Filter Download Mute Clear Entity name iSNS IP Aggregation IP settings for iSCSI ports Become default gateway Set MTU IP 4 series User C
105. unking C ACP 192 188 1 1 zig ey ER 182 158 1 254 O aani O cane O cans O LANA Figure 3 5 2 5 Figure 3 5 2 5 RSG281 361 there are 4 iSCSI data ports select at least two NICs for link aggregation iSCSI contig NIC Aggregation Aggregation Address Mask Gateway NIC e Trunking M 192 168 10 73 Zaa ern Aaa 0 LEE ae He srt LaN1 Lane Figure 3 5 2 6 Figure 3 5 2 6 RAG281 361 there are 2 x iSCSI data ports select two NICs for link aggregate Name LAG 1 Trunking P Trunking PF LACP P LACP P LAG No DHCP nu P na Lad na P nu Ps IP address 182 158 1 1 192 168 1 1 192 168 3 1 192 168 3 1 Netmask Gateway MTU MAC address Link 1892 1868 1 254 1500 Zo diese do 8 dU i3 78 a8 00 60 down 182 158 1 254 15 232 222 2293 g 13 78 a6 00 60 down Ee d 192 158 3 254 1500 eec doc ool 00 13 78 46 00 62 down 182 158 3 254 1500 EE etel ee M D0 13 78 a6 00 52 down a m Figure 3 5 2 7 Figure 3 5 2 7 RSG281 361 LAN1 amp LANZ set as Trunking mode LAN3 and LANA set as LACP mode CN Take an example of RSG281 361 LAN1 amp LAN2 set as Trunking mode LAN3 and LANA set as LACP mode To remove Trunking LACP setting can click the button in the LAG column and then will pop up a message to confirm InRSQG281 361 Trunking LACP setting can be changed by clicking the button gt in th
106. ures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Dedicated spares e There is a DS icon shown up at status 1 M 72m oelect a VG from the list box then select the free disk s click to set as dedicated spare for the selected VG column Select gt Free disks e Global spares e Dedicated spares e 8 Slot WWN pin Ed Status 1 2 Speed 1 Good 8 2007001378340040 38 Wi3 R5 D np 1 566 2 Good E 2017001378a202d9 38 Wi3 R5 Al np 1 566 3 Good C us 2018001378a202d9 38 Wi 3 R5 RD 1 566 4 Good O e 2019001378a202d9 38 VG D np 1 566 3 Good O 201a001378a202d9 38 VG Al ps 1 566 D Good O Oc4001378000108 39 FH rn 1 566 D Good O 01c001379a202d9 38 fi rn 1 565 H Good O 201b001378a202d9 38 fi FR 1 566 Figure 3 6 7 13 Figure 3 6 7 13 Slot 5 has been set as dedicated spare disk of VG named VG R5 Step 6 Done The PDs can be used as iSCSI disks Delete UDVs VG please follow the steps Step 7 Detach LUN from UDV Please refer to Step 6 of Example 1 to detach LUN Step 8 Delete UDV User Data Volume Please refer to Step 7 of Example 1 to delete UDV Step 9 Delete VG User Data Volume Please refer to Step 8 of Example 1 to delete VG Step 10 Free dedicated spare disk To free dedicated spare disks please follow the procedures 1 Select Volume config Physical disk 2 Select the dedicated spare disk by clicking the checkbox of th
107. ver Volume config User data volume Attach e Snapshot e Create e Delete e i Size R Snapshot VG CV E Mo Name GB Status 1 2 EI Se RAID el UN GB name MB 1 ul 100 ine O we D HI RAID 49 99 50 00 Online am E e E e D a 52 z 1 1716 SE 08 17 17 16 48 ui i Online e RAID RS P P em a Don Hur p 4 D T a vl 611 Remote Copy Node Name Igqn 1997 10 com enhance tech ultrastorrsi6ip Qnnaz ua75 refinitiatar O0 1 Attach e Snapshot Create e Delete H Figure 4 5 5 Figure 4 5 5 QCopy is copying and the completed percentage it 496 Tips Enhance Remote Replication supports 512B block size only for both source and target side Caution Before executing Enhance Remote Replication it is better to dismount target file system for avoiding any inconsistent data lO The controller also send pop up message when user 80 4 6 Disk roaming Physical disks can be re sequenced in the same system or move whole physical disks from system 1 to system 2 This is called disk roaming Disk roaming has some constraints as described in the following 1 Check the firmware of two systems first It is better that both have same firmware version or newer 2 Whole physical disks of related VG should be moved from system 1 to system 2 together The configuration of both VG and UDV will be kept but LUN configuration will be cleared to avoid conflict with system 2 4 7 Support Microsoft MPIO and MC S MPIO Mult
108. vice is to build a proprietary replication mechanism for created UDVs It will copy the logical user volume data exactly to the remote place The QCopy is built in service without any host based application for the data replication and it has easy configuration setup from the Web GUI Enhance Tech RAID controller is the most cost effective disk array controller with completely integrated high performance and data protection capabilities which meet or exceed the highest industry standards and the best data solution for small medium business SMB users Caution Snapshot ESnap rollback features need 512MB RAM or more Please refer to RAM certification list in Appendix A for more detail 1 2 Terminology The document uses the following terms RAID is the abbreviation of Redundant Array of Independent Disks There are different RAID levels with different degree of the data protection data availability performance to host environment The Physical Disk belongs to the member disk of one specific volume group VG Volume Group A collection of removable media One VG consists of a set of UDVs and owns one RAID level attribute User Data Volume Each VG could be divided into several UDVs The UDVs from one VG share the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity Cache Volume The RAID controller uses the on board memory as cache All RAM except for the part which is occupied by the controller can be
109. will not work the downtime Thus it will not conflict with the Roaming function In degraded mode the status of VG is DG 68 When rebuilding the status of PD VG UDV is R and R96 in UDV will display the ratio in percentage After complete rebuilding R and DG will disappear VG will become complete one Tips The list box doesn t exist if there is no VG or only VG of RAID 0 JBOD Because user cannot set dedicated spare disk for these RAID levels sometimes rebuild is called recover these two have the same meaning The following table is the relationship between RAID levels and rebuild Disk striping No protection of data VG fails if any hard drive fails or unplugs Disk mirroring over 2 disks RAID 1 allows one hard drive fails or unplugging Need one new hard drive to insert to the system and rebuild to be completed N way Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the disk N way mirror mirror allows N 1 hard drives fails or unplugging otriping with parity on the dedicated disk RAID 3 allows one hard drive fail or unplugging otriping with interspersed parity over the member disks RAID o allows one hard drive fail or unplugging RAID 6 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 allows two hard drives fails or unplugging If it needs to rebuild two hard drives at the same time it will rebuild the first one then the other by sequence RAID 0 1 Mirroring of the
110. zation it will display an I in Status 3 and complete percentage of initialization in R96 Volume config User data volume Extend ze Back e confirm Figure 4 3 1 Volume config User data volume Attach Snapshot s Create a Delete e Size R TA Snapshot VG CN LI No Name GB Status 1 2 3 se RAID LUN GB iiri pi 1 LDV RO 10 0 00 0 00 Online Gwe Du p Dr 58 RAIDS J E VG RO 100 Attach Snapshot Create Delete 2 Figure 4 3 2 Figure 4 3 2 Extend UDV RO from 5GB to 10GB Tips The size of UDV extension must be larger than original Caution UDV Extension cannot be executed during rebuild or migration 4 4 Snapshot ESnap Rollback Enhance Tech Snapshot on the box ESnap captures the instant state of data in the target volume in a logical sense The underlying logic is Copy on Write moving out the to be written data to certain location whenever a write action occurs since the time of data capture The certain location named as snap UDV is essentially a new UDV which can be attached to a LUN thus provisioned to a host as a disk just like other ordinary UDVs in the system Rollback function restores the data back to the state of any point in time previously captured for whatever unfortunate reason it might be e g virus attack data corruption human errors and so on Snap UDV is allocated within the same VG in which the snapshot ESnap is taken we suggest to reserv

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