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1. N A The snapshot is normal Replicated The snapshot is for clone or QReplica usage Abort The snapshot is over space and abort The health of the snapshot Good The snapshot is good Failed The snapshot fails The snapshot is exposed or not The cache mode of the snapshot N A Unknown when the snapshot is unexposed Read write The snapshot can be read write Read only The snapshot is read only Number of LUN s that snapshot is attached The created time of the snapshot The options are available on this tab Set Snapshot Space Set snapshot space for preparing to take snapshots Schedule Snapshots Set the snapshots by schedule Take a Snapshot Take a snapshot on the virtual disk Cleanup Snapshots Clean all snapshots of the virtual disk and release the snapshot space The options are available after taking a snapshot j Y gt Set Quota Set the snapshot quota VW gt Rollback Rollback the snapshot VY gt Delete Delete the snapshot The options are available after setting the quota of the snapshot B V gt Unexpose Unexpose the snapshot VD S WV gt Attach LUN Attach a logical unit number to the snapshot VY gt Detach LUNs Detach a logical unit number from the virtual disk VY gt List LUNs List all of the attached logical unit numbers Take an example of taking a snapshot 1 Before taking a snapshot it must reserve some
2. Attach LUN Attach a logical unit number LUN to a virtual disk Virtual Disk VD 01 30 GB Allowed Hosts j Target 0 LUN LUN 1 e D SS a 1 Permission L Read only Read write OK Cancel 2 Select the Protocol FC models only 3 Select a Virtual Disk from the drop down list 4 Enter the Allowed Hosts with semicolons or click Add Host button to add one by one Fill in wildcard for access by all hosts Select a Target number from the drop down list Select a LUN from the drop down list Check the Permission level Se 7 SS e Click OK button The matching rules of access control are followed from created time of the LUNs The earlier created LUN is prior to the matching rules For example there are two LUN rules for the same VD one is LUN 0 and the other is iqn host1 LUN 1 The host iqn host2 can login successfully because it matches the rule 1 Wildcard and are allowed in this field can replace any word can replace only one character For example Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 113 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j iqn host gt iqn host1 and iqn host2 are accepted iqn host gt iqn host1 and iqn host12345 are accepted This field cannot accept comma so iqn host1 iqn host2 stands a long string not two iqns N TIP La In AegisSAN Q500 the maximum LUN number is 2048 In AegisSAN V100 the maximum LUN n
3. Online The hard drive is online Rebuilding The hard drive is being rebuilt Transitioning The hard drive is being migrated or is replaced by another disk when rebuilding occurs Scrubbing The hard drive is being scrubbed Health The health of the hard drive Good The hard drive is good Failed The hard drive is failed Error Alert S M A R T error alerts Read Errors The hard drive has unrecoverable read errors Usage The usage of the hard drive RAID This hard drive has been set to a RAID group Free This hard drive is free for use Dedicated Spare This hard drive has been set as dedicated spare of a RAID group Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 98 Qsan Document User Manual Vendor Serial Number Rate Write Cache Standby Read Ahead Command Queuing eQsan Local Spare This hard drive has been set as local spare of the enclosure Global Spare This hard drive has been set as global spare of whole system Hard drive vendor Hard drive serial number Hard drive rate SAS 6 0Gb s SAS 3 0Gb s SATA 6 0Gb s SATA 3 0Gb s SATA 1 5Gb s SAS SSD 6 0Gb s SATA SSD 6 0Gb s Hard drive write cache is enabled or disabled The default value is Enabled HDD auto spindown to save power The default value is Disabled This feature makes data be loaded to disk s buffer in advance for further use The default val
4. Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i AegisSAN Q500 F20 2 x 8G FC SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI controller AegisSAN Q500 F30 2 x 16G FC SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI controller Link O Oo O O Access Access AegisSAN V100 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI controller USR res eweg Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 36 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i AegisSAN V100 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI SFP 6 x GbE iSCSI controller Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 37 Qsan Document User Manual Osa i AegisSAN LX P600Q 2 x 10GbE iSCSI SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI controller Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 38 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j JBOD J100 6G SAS JBOD controller m k ICH O Link Link O on O Access Access O E Out JBOD J300Q 6G SAS JBOD controller RAID Concepts RAID is the abbreviation of Redundant Array of Independent Disks The basic idea of RAID is to combine multiple drives together to form one large logical drive This RAID drive obtains performance capacity and reliability than a single drive The operating system detects the RAID drive as a single storage device RAID Levels There are various RAID levels with different degrees of data protection data availability and performance A description of supported RAID levels follow Type Description Min No of
5. 11 04 V max 12 96 V OK Voltage PSU 3 3V 3 38 V min 3 04 V max 3 56 V OK Temperature Location 1 26 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 2 29 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 3 26 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 4 25 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 5 26 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 6 25 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 7 25 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Temperature Location 8 25 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 55 0 C OK Power Supply PSU1 N A OK Power Supply PSU2 N A OK Cooling FAN1 3375 RPM OK Cooling FAN2 3590 RPM OK Cooling FAN3 3515 RPM OK Cooling FAN4 3515 RPM OK Auto Shutdown M If auto shutdown is enabled the system will shut down automatically when the internal power Apply If Auto Shutdown is checked the system will shutdown automatically when the voltage or temperature is out of the normal range For better data protection it is recommended to check Auto Shutdown For better protection and avoiding single short period of high temperature that could trigger an automatic shutdown the system uses to gauge if a shutdown is needed This is done using several sensors placed on key systems that the system checks every 30 seconds for present temperatures The core proce
6. Local FAN lt n gt lt nnnnn gt RPM Local PSU lt n gt lt status gt Qsan L4 AYes Nov Volume Size lt nnn gt GB Adjust Volume Size Adjust IP address Adjust Submask IP Adjust Gateway IP AYes Nov L5 Apply The Config AYes Nov Apply The Config AYes Nov USB LCM is developed because of security concern and adding more mobility and flexibility Only AegisSAN Q500 series support USB LCM Several AegisSAN Q500 systems can share one USB LCM It can further save your costs All the functions provided by USB LCM are the same as the original Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 65 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i LCM introduced in previous section Please be aware to remove the USB LCM before adding the front bezel 192 168 175 810 Q568 P16 ad A v ENT ESC MUTE CAUTION To prevent data loss when powering down the storage system it is recommended to execute Reset Shutdown gt Shutdown gt Yes to flush the data from the cache to the physical disks Web UI Qsan storage system supports graphic user interface operation It supports most common web browsers Be sure to connect the LAN cable to the management port of the system The default management IP address is 192 168 1 234 255 255 255 0 please configure your computer IP address at the same subnet of the system e g 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 0 And then enter the IP address into your bro
7. RS 232 APC Smart UPS Optional Gigabit switch RR a llllMMMMMMMMMSSS ll To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To J300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 146 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa Ownership When creating a RAID group it will be assigned with a prefered owner the default owner is controller 1 To change the ownership of the RAID group please follow the procedures 1 In Volume Configuration gt RAID Group tab selects a RAID group And then click W gt Change Preferred Controller Show RAID size in is Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Disks Used Number of Virtual Disk Status Health RAID Current Controller Preferred Controller v BEE 3725 3686 3686 Disabled 3 3 RAID5 Controller 1 Controller 1 Migrate RAID Level Move RAID Level Deactivate Verify Parity Delete Change Preferred Controller Change RAID Options More Information 2 Click OK to apply The ownership of the RG will be switched to the other controller Controller Status There are four statuses in dual controller It is displayed at Status column in System Maintenance gt System Information Describe on the following 1 Normal Dual controller mode Both of controllers are functional 2 Degraded Dual controller mode When one controller fails or has been plugged out the system will turn to
8. select the target and click Properties More about basic iSCSI connections and targets OK Cancel Apply Connect To Target xi Target name fan 2004 08 tw com qsan dev0 ctr2 JV Add this connection to the list of Favorite Targets This will make the system automatically attempt to restore the connection every time this computer restarts IV Enable multi path Advanced Cancel Click Targets tab select the second path and then click Connect button Enable Enable multi path checkbox Then click OK button Done it can connect to an iSCSI disk with MPIO Setup MC S 1 2 3 If running MC S please continue Select one target name click Properties button Click MCS button to add additional connections Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 190 a Qsan Document User Manual Properties iSCSI Initiator Properties ign 2004 08 tw com qsan devO ctr2 Connected 4 Click Add button 5 Click Advanced button Multiple Connected Session MCS xi Add Connection 192 168 21 123 192 168 21 1 3 Connected Active 6 Select Initiator IP and Target portal IP and then click OK button 7 Click Connect button 8 Click OK button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 191 Qsan Document User Manual Advanced Settings Multiple Connected Session MCS Round Robin 192 168 22
9. Conventions Qsan TIP Tips provide helpful information guidelines or suggestions for performing tasks more effectively CAUTION Cautions indicate that failure to take a specified action could result in damage to the software or hardware The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this manual Conventions Bold lt ltalic gt square brackets braces vertical bar Slash underline FCC and CE statements FCC Statement Description Indicates text on a window other than the window title including menus menu options buttons fields and labels Example Click OK button Indicates a variable which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system Example copy lt source file gt lt target file gt Indicates optional values Example a b indicates that you can choose a b or nothing Indicates required or expected values Example a b indicates that you must choose either a or b Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments Indicates all options or arguments Indicates the default value Example a b This device has been shown to be in compliance with and was tested in accordance with the measurement procedures specified in the Standards and Specifications listed below and as indicated in the measurement report number XXxxxxxx F Technical Standard CE Statement FCC Part 15 Class A Verification IC ICES 003
10. ign 1991 05 com microsoft win2thoDfj4mo ign 2004 08 Com qsantechnology p400q d316 000902cc0 dev0 ctr1 Yes KSE 262144 Yes Connection Details Disconnect This table shows the column descriptions Most of the options are standard parameters used in the negotiation between the initiator and target when an iSCSI connection is created Column Name Description TSIH TSIH Target Session Identifying Handle is used for this active session Initiator Name It displays the host computer name Target Name It displays the controller name InitialR2T InitialR2T Initial Ready to Transfer is used to turn off either the use of a unidirectional R2T command or the output part of a bidirectional command The default value is Yes Immed data Immed data Immediate Data sets the support for immediate data between the initiator and the target Both must be set to the same setting The default value is Yes MaxDataOutR2T MaxDataOutR2T Maximum Data Outstanding Ready to Transfer Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 93 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i determines the maximum number of outstanding ready to transfer per task The default value is 1 MaxDataBurstLen MaxDataBurstLen Maximum Data Burst Length determines the maximum SCSI data payload The default value is 256kb DataSeginOrder DataSeginOrder Data Sequence in Order determines if the PDU Protocol Data Units are transferred in continuously non decreas
11. French IL Y A RISQUE D EXPLOSION SI LA BATTERIE EST REMPLAC E PAR UNE BATTERIE DE TYPE INCORRECT METTRE AU REBUT LES BATTERIES USAG ES CONFORM MENT AUX INSTRUCTIONS VORSICHT German Explosionsgefahr bei unsachgema em Austausch der Batterie Entsorgung gebrauchter Batterien nach Anleitung ADVERTENCIA Spanish Las bater as pueden explotar si no se manipulan de forma apropiada No desmonte ni tire las bater as al fuego Siga las normativas locales al desechar las bater as agotadas SZ Simplified Chinese AS EAR BER TE A PE BY fe GU KI EA ENEE erte SS Traditional Chinese AEUR PA TE TE e EB fe hee Gel Pt pa FF Z it ci Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 6 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Contents Chapter 0 PREFACE cinenannn aa E E ET 3 PROUT TS NANU NE a A E EE E T E T 3 TE ANEA UPEO WE 3 TIPS AND E e E 3 OBIE dei EE 4 CD EN EE 4 Chapter 1 OVERVIEW seess eege 12 Beier ie ge 12 PVF I ONIN ASO EE 13 FC E CONT i ae E O E te ont atena sis E se dawn EEE 15 PARON EE 16 Brei e 17 KIEREN e EE ER CMN CR OG IVIUX Board BC ME 26 Hie 27 RAID ONCE enee 39 RADON CIS ee A E E A EA E E 39 Volume Relationship E 40 FIBRE CHANNEL ele EC 40 Kgcheeidle KC 41 DA ee 42 Chapter 2 INSTALLA TION ons accede E E 44 JEE agence 44 Duve SOU IST UN C eneore A EA 45 System Installation and Deployment cccccsssscccccseseececceesseccccseueecessa
12. RG create fail RG delete RG rename VD create OK VD create fail VD delete VD rename VD read only VD write back VD write through VD extend VD attach LUN OK VD attach LUN fail VD detach LUN OK VD detach LUN fail VD init started VD init finished VD init failed VD rebuild started VD rebuild finished Qsan The controller will auto shutdown immediately reason Voltage abnormal lt string gt Successfully detect UPS Failed to detect UPS AC loss for system is detected UPS Power Low The system will auto shutdown immediately Disk lt slot gt S M A R T Threshold Exceed Condition occurred for attribute lt string gt Disk lt slot gt Failure to get S M A R T information RedBoot failover event occurred Watchdog timeout shutdown occurred Watchdog timeout reset occurred Description lt username gt login from lt IP or serial console gt via Console UI lt username gt logout from lt IP or serial console gt via Console UI lt username gt login from lt IP gt via Web UI lt username gt logout from lt IP gt via Web UI All event logs are cleared Failed to send event to lt email gt Description RG lt name gt has been created Failed to create RG lt name gt RG lt name gt has been deleted RG lt name gt has been renamed as lt name gt VD lt name gt has been created Failed to create VD lt name gt VD lt name gt has been deleted Name of VD lt name gt has been renamed to lt name
13. Resetto Factory Defaults Configuration Backup Volume Restoration Reboot and Shutdown System Information The System Information provides to display system information It includes CPU Type installed System Memory Firmware Version SAS IOC Firmware No SAS Expander Firmware No MAC SAS Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 120 Je Qsan Document User Manual Qsan Address Controller Hardware No Master Controller Backplane ID JBOD MAC SAS Address Status Error Message This item is only visible when the system status is Degraded or Lockdown QReplica QThin and SSD Caching status CPU Type System Memory Firmware Version SAS lOc Fimware No SAS Expander Firmware No MACISAS Address Controller HW No Master Controller Backplane ID JBOD MAC SAS Address status QReplica QThin SSD Caching Get System Infomation Information Intel R Aeon R CPU C3528 1 73GHz Slot 1 ECC Unbuffered DDR II 4095MB Slot 2 ECC Unbuffered DOR II 4096MB P4000 D212 3 4 0 build 201410031300 17 00 01 00 Local Controller 1 1120 Controller 2 1120 001378BB3880 Controller 1 5007378005900CC0 Controller 2 5001378005900640 Controller 1 1 14 Controller 2 1 14 Controller 1 a212 No JBOD is connected Normal Activated Activated Activated This table shows the Status descriptions Status Normal Degraded Lockdown Single Description Dual controller
14. gt 0 gt 0 The block size affects the cache use and the warm up time The cache use shows how much of the allocated cache actually holds the user data And the warm up time is the process of how long to fill the cache You can image that the highest cache use is obtained when all of the frequently reread data is located very close to other data that is frequently reread Using a larger cache block size of UO type is more useful to performance than a smaller one Conversely when frequently reread data is located far from other data that is frequently reread the lowest cache use is obtained In this case the lowest cache block size of I O type allows the most user data to be cached The sub block size affects the cache warm up time too A larger sub block size causes cache to fill more quickly than a smaller one but it can also affect the response time of host I O Also occupy the system resource such as CPU utilization memory bandwidth or channel utilization A very high locality of reference can be more useful from a larger sub block size than from a smaller one especially if those blocks that are reread frequently reside in the same sub block This occurs when one I O causes the sub block to be populated and another I O in the same sub block gets a cache hit These are trade off depend on the applications Users may set them by experience to get the best performance Here we provide a formula which can calculate the estimate warm up
15. iSCSI device 2 target Storage protocol such as iSCSI has two ends in the connection These ends are initiator and 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 side either an iSCSI HBA or iSCSI SW initiator The 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 command or bridge to an attached storage device SAS Concepts Serial attached SCSI offers advantages over older parallel technologies The cables are thinner and the connectors are less bulky Serial data transfer allows the use of longer cables than parallel data transfer The 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 command or bridge to an attached storage device Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 4 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa SAS HBA SAS device 1 target Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved A3 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Installation Installation Overview Before starting prepare the following items A management computer with a Gigabit Ethernet NIC recommend on
16. which can significantly reduce your total cost of ownership Scalability storage pool can grow on demand When the storage pool RAID group has reached the threshold you set before Up to 32 RAID sets can be added to the RAID group to increase the capacity on demand without interrupting I O Each RAID set can have up to 64 physical disks Automatic space reclamation mechanism to recycle unused blocks The technology used here is called zero reclamation When a thin RAID group is created the initialization process will try to fill out all the storage pool space with zero This process will run in background with low priority in order not to impact the I O performance This is the reason why when there is no I O traffic from the hosts the hard drive LED will keep blinking as if there are I O activities The purpose of zero reclamation is that when the actual user data happens to have all zero in a basic allocation unit granularity the storage system will treat it as free space and recycle it Until the next time there is data update to this reclaimed all zero basic unit the storage system can swiftly return a basic unit from the free storage pool because it s already filled with zero An eco friendly green feature that helps to reduce energy consumption Hard drive is the top power consumer in a storage system Because you can use less hard drives to achieve the same amount of work this translates directly to a huge reduction of power con
17. 0 0 6 3260 l E 3 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev3 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 TIP a e La After setting CHAP the host initiator should be set with the same CHAP account Otherwise the host cannot connect to the volume Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 92 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Active Sessions The Active Session tab is used to display all currently active iSCSI sessions and their connection information The various controllers support different number of sessions list on the following AegisSAN Q500 S Q500 P10 Up to 256 sessions per controller Q500 P20 Up to 256 sessions per controller Q500 P21 Up to 256 sessions per controller Q500 F20 Up to 64 sessions per controller Q500 F21 Up to 64 sessions per controller Q500 F30 Up to 64 sessions per controller AegisSAN V100 V100 P10 Up to 256 sessions per controller V100 P20 Up to 256 sessions per controller V100 F30 Up to 64 sessions per controller AegisSAN LX P400Q Up to 1024 sessions per controller P600Q Up to 1024 sessions per controller F600Q Up to 128 sessions per controller F630Q Up to 128 sessions per controller Show information for Controller 1 4 No TSIH Initiator Name Target Name InitialR2T immed Data MaxOutR2T MaxDataBurstLen DataSeqinOrder DataPDUInOrder Nam A 0 0x0001
18. 10GbE iSCSI ports 6 x GbE iSCSI ports V100 F30 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports 6 x GbE iSCSI ports AegisSAN LX F600Q 4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports F630Q 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports P400Q 6 x GbE iSCSI ports P600Q 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports LED from left to right for 4U24 3U16 chassis from right to left for 2U12 chassis Controller health LED Green Controller status normal Red System booting or controller failure Master slave LED only for dual controllers Green This is the Master controller Off This is the Slave controller Dirty cache LED Orange Data on the cache waiting for flush to disks Off No data on the cache BBM LED when status button pressed Green BBM installed and powered Off No BBM installed BBM status button used to check the battery when the power is off If the BBM LED shows Green then the BBM still has power to keep Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 33 Qsan Document User Manual WO FOIN FT OUTS LED data on the cache If the BBM LED stays Off then the BBM power has run out and it cannot provide power for the cache anymore It needs to be recharged or replaced Management port Console port RS 232 port for UPS SAS JBOD expansion port BBM slot USB No function Reserved for the future design purpose 1Gb
19. 128 Physical DISKS gesn EE EEEE 98 Disk Check e 99 Disk Hedhi Check eeeentrdegeengregee eege NENE E 99 IR OU E 99 More TOTO giao deca aactesecwsndedeatite onionenn 99 Redd Error Cleared E 99 Set D dicated Spare sccoicuccacdinsnatasionscasrinnsicecdbaseiacinasateesce 99 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Set Free Dis ae ee ene ee ne eer een ee ene nr eee 99 Be EE RE 99 Set EE 99 Turn off the Indication LED 99 Turn on the Indication LEID 99 EE 99 Q QReplica Options Restart the task an hour later if it failed ee 166 GEES SPICE ege EE 165 TNE SIO EEN 165 ORG er 114 158 Add Connecnon 115 163 Add Al sacrer a a iE 115 162 Change QReplica Options cccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 166 KEE D E e E E 115 159 IN 115 166 Delete Connection ccccsccccssscassssssescsensosoncensdencooses 115 163 Dele PN anae 162 QReplica OPOS vAserienscuceianacestuucsiawadenstiece 115 165 LE e a EE 115 lie UE 115 164 Set Task Shaping ccccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 115 163 Shaping Setting Configuration ccccceeeeeeeeees 115 163 AE EEN 115 162 e EE 115 162 SR Kr 134 Space Reclamation eege eene 107 Quick Installation ovccssvsssssicsesscessedaceviswassivaresseesieonssoesaveaserienes 69 R RAID CON COPS E 39 RAID Group Policy RE 103 lee cscs wastaelans wigs NE O E E ETE 103 EE 100 EE 101 POG e EE 102 Add RAID Sel EE 102 Change Preferred Controller 101 Change R
20. 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 3U16 Q500 P10 D316 Q500 P10 S316 Q500 P20 D316 Q500 P20 S316 Q500 P21 D316 Q500 P21 S316 Q500 F20 D316 Q500 F20 S316 Q500 F21 D316 Q500 F21 S316 Q500 F30 D316 Q500 F30 S316 4U24 Q500 P10 D424 Q500 P10 S424 Q500 P20 D424 Q500 P20 S424 Q500 P21 D424 Q500 P21 S424 Q500 F20 D424 Q500 F20 S424 Q500 F21 D424 Q500 F21 S424 Q500 F30 D424 Q500 F30 S424 14 Qsan Document User Manual GQsan AegisSAN V100 Series Host Interface 3U16 4U24 6 x GbE iSCSI V100 P10 C316 V100 P10 C424 2 x 10GbE iSCSI SFP 6x GbE iSCSI V100 P20 C316 V100 P20 C424 2 x 16Gb FC SFP 6 x GbE iSCSI V100 F30 C316 V100 F30 C424 AegisSAN LX Series Host Interface 2U12 3U16 4U24 4U60 6 x GbE iSCSI P400Q D212 P400Q D316 P400Q D424 P400Q D460 P400Q S212 P400Q S316 P400Q S424 P400Q S460 2 x 10GbE iSCSI SFP P600Q D212 P600Q D316 P600Q D424 P600Q D460 2 x GbE iSCSI P600Q S212 P600Q S316 P600Q S424 P600Q S460 4 x 8Gb FC SFP F600Q D212 F600Q D316 F600Q D424 F600Q D460 2 x GbE iSCSI F600Q S212 F600Q S316 F600Q S424 F600Q S460 2 x 16Gb FC SFP F630Q D212 F630Q D316 F630Q D424 N A 2 x GbE iSCSI F630Q S212 F630Q S 316 F630Q S424 JBOD Series Host Interface 2U12 2U24 3U16 4U24 4U60 6G SAS JBOD N A N A J100 C316 J100 C424 N A 6G SAS JBOD J300Q D212 J300Q D224 J300Q D316 J300Q D424 J300Q D460 J300Q C212 J300Q C224 J300Q C316 J300Q C424 J300Q C460 The dual controll
21. Click the Shutdown icon System shutdown begins When shutdown process completes the power LED will turn off Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 61 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Shutdown using Power button The power button is located at the right front handle Forced shutdown press and hold for more than 4 seconds The power will be cut off immediately Graceful shutdown press one to initialize graceful shutdown Press 2nd time within 4 seconds to confirm and start graceful shutdown If there is no 2nd press within 4 seconds disable graceful shutdown and return to normal operating mode Shutdown using QCentral Client Login QCentral Client Select Maintenance gt Reboot and Shutdown Click the Shutdown icon System shutdown begins When shutdown process completes the power LED will turn off AegisSAN LX Series 1 Shutdown using LCM At the LCM Power off the system using a normal shutdown o Press ENT button o Press down twice to show Reboot Shutdown and press ENT button o Press W down once to show Shutdown and press ENT button o Press A up once to highlight Yes and press ENT button System shutdown begins When the System Shutdown message is displayed turn the power switch to OFF O Shutdown using Web UI Using the Web UI Select System Maintenance gt Reboot and Shutdown Click the Shutdown icon System shutdown
22. Disks Used Disk Slot Time Event Log EEE RAID 5 Local 1 2 3 2014 02 17 18 52 35 CST The virtual disk is created ES a 1 RAID5 1 100 3 Local 1 2 3 2014 02 17 18 52 29 CST The virtual disk is created Be R5 RAID5 VD 02 50 1 Local 1 2014 02 17 18 35 34 CST Physical disk is removed from the system Ee R5 RAID5 VD 01 30 1 Local 1 2014 02 17 18 35 34 CST Physical disk is removed from the system el R5 RAID5 VD 02 50 2 Local 1 2 2014 02 17 18 35 26 CST Physical disk is removed from the system EA R5 RAID5 VD 01 30 2 Local 1 2 2014 02 17 18 35 26 CST Physical disk is removed from the system E R5 RAID5 VD 02 50 3 Local 1 2 3 2014 02 11 17 03 30 CST The snapshot space has initialized a R5 RAID5 VD 02 50 3 Local 1 2 3 2014 02 11 17 03 08 CST The virtual disk is created el R5 RAID5 VD 01 30 3 Local 1 2 3 2014 02 11 17 02 45 CST The snapshot space has initialized E R5 RAID5 VD 01 30 3 Local 1 2 3 2014 02 11 17 00 04 CST The virtual disk is created EA QUICK13645 RAID5 QUICK21222 3725 3 Local 3 2 1 2014 02 11 14 46 51 CST The virtual disk is created 1 2 3 4 5 6 Z7 8 next gt last gt gt This table shows the column descriptions Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 126 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Column Name Description RAID Group Name The original RAID group name RAID The original RAID level Virtual Disk The original virtual disk name Volume Size GB The original capacity of th
23. Drives RAID O Disk striping 1 RAID 1 Disk mirroring over two disks 2 N way Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the disk mirror RAID 3 Striping with parity on the dedicated disk 3 RAID 5 Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks 3 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 39 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i RAID 6 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks 4 RAID 0 1 Mirroring of the member RAID O volumes 4 RAID 10 Striping over the member RAID 1 volumes 4 RAID 30 Striping over the member RAID 3 volumes 6 RAID 50 Striping over the member RAID 5 volumes 6 RAID 60 Striping over the member RAID 6 volumes 8 JBOD The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks Independently 1 address a drive Volume Relationship The following graphic is the volume structure which Qsan has designed It describes the relationship of RAID components LUNA 1 LUN2 2 EE Cache Volume ee d getest One RG RAID group consists of a set of VDs Virtual Disk and owns one RAID level attribute Each RG can be divided into several VDs The VDs in one RG share the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity All VDs share the CV Cache Volume to execute the data transaction LUN Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier in which users can access through SCSI commands Fibre Channel Concepts Fibre channel started use primarily in the supercomputer field but h
24. EE 143 Rita Te 144 TRUNKING AND LAC Ps cassassneaipnntesasnn sea uspannentaeniunuituntenaaag ination anal p eR eR ane eReatNG 144 Be E 144 TRON E 145 WAL CON te 146 Parom O EE 146 BE EE 147 Being el ET 147 Chonge Controller eege 148 Keele te KEE 148 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 9 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i APS e EC 148 HEIEREN 149 Cleanup SISOS e EE 150 Schedule Snaps OES carr ciecatesiaresairearsstgqotnesisoancine se narastonr E EOE E ON 151 FRO ND E 151 SNADSNOE COMSUAINE sivscsdcsasssccesoesendccwedsvansvubeedeacadedesanesnedaswasswssaveannceeasssdsndousenioimeuevnedadousdavenceabsavenboes 152 CLONE E 154 KT CIOE EE 154 KE nee og a E 155 el e 155 Belair Age de EC 156 Re e 157 Cone CONSE SII ET 157 Be 158 Clare ORC BNC E E 159 Start and Stop Re CR 162 ME E E AE E AA A EA A A 162 DG JS PE E A E A E E E E E E 163 E E e E 163 Schedule QReplica TASK saccusiccccwsssxccanacsvsiswerunsievcndoasanevswesssaiddastansassiocedauwcdbeastaleesmeudveanaboudsinidndestanedbost 164 EENHEETEN 165 RER te 166 Clone Transfers tOo ORO te EE 166 FST Be ete gens pe eter E a eee eee prea eee era gadis ee emt det eae Re ere 169 EoD e g EE E E E E EE AE E A E A A A S 169 ONT ON nen E N E EAE E E E EEA 170 CORS UE 170 SDA II 171 SOO E 171 VE due elle 171 PA et IE dee 172 Read Write Cache Caees 172 KEE 174 COMM GUF ATION BEE 176 OS d tance tase re tecture as acai E E E E EE E E E 177 Chapte
25. High Priority O Medium Priority O Low Prio 4 N D Enabled N DI Disabled N Do Not Erase BAID Figure 1 Source side Select a Virtual Disk Target Size GB TargetVD 10 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved rity Ka Status Online Create a Virtual Disk Virtual Disk Name Data Storage Size Stripe Size KB Block Size Bytes Cache Mode Priority Bg Rate Read Ahead AV Media Mode Erase Disk Type Select a target virtual disk and then click OK button Health RAID Optimal RAID 5 TargetVD RS 512 M cB N M M O Write through Cache write back Cache DI High Priority Medium Priority O Low Priority 4 Disabled Disabled Do No Si RAID sl P YB M v Backup Target Cok omea Figure 2 Target side Select the source virtual disk and then click W gt Set Clone I Cancel 154 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j 4 At this time if the source virtual disk has no snapshot space it will be allocated snapshot space for clone usage automatically The size will depend on the parameter of Cloning Options Start and Stop Clone To start clone please follow the procedures 1 Select the source virtual disk and then click W gt Start Clone 2 Click OK button The source virtual disk will take a snapshot and then start cloning Show snapshots for virtual disk SourceVD cl Sh
26. Management Recom PC mended APC Smart UPS Optional 10 GbE switch OL Switch LILI To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 55 Qsan Document User Manual AegisSAN LX F600Q Management APC Smart UPS Optional To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable AegisSAN LX F630Q Management PC APC Smart UPS Optional To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 56 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa JBOD Series Using the following instructions to install and deploy the storage system e Install the Rail Kit onto the unit and insert it into the rack CAUTION The system is very heavy It s recommend that a mechanical lifter or at least two persons be used to raise and align the system to prevent injury during installation Use care when inserting or removing a system into or out of a rack to prevent the accidental tipping or the rack causing damage or personal injury Install the Disk Drives Connect SAS cable to the head unit the topology examples are on the following JBOD J100 Management Host Server PC Switch QSAN co troller FC iSCSI SAS ER O JBOD Console UPS Net cable RS 232 cable SAS cable Cabl
27. Menu System Name Date and Time System Indication MAC Address IP Address DNS Server Address Service Ports Login Options Admin Password User Password Email Settings Send Test Mail SNMP Trap Settings Windows Messenger Syslog Server Settings Admin Interface and Front Display Alerts Device Buzzer Show information for lt Controller 1 Controller 2 gt Options iSCSI Bonding Settings Delete iSCSI Bonding Set VLAN ID iSCSI IP Address Settings Make Default Gateway Enable Disable Jumbo Frames Ping Host Reset Port Entity Name iSNS IP Address Show information for lt Controller 1 Controller 2 gt Options Authentication Method Change Portal Rename Alias Users Show information for lt Controller 1 Controller 2 gt Connection Details Disconnect Create User Options Modify User Information Delete User Show information for lt Controller 1 Controller 2 gt Clear All Counters Options Change Link speed Change Connection Mode Node Configuration Clear Counters Show disk for lt Local JBODn gt Show disk size in lt GB MB gt Disk Health Check Disk Check Report Options Set Free Disk Set Global Spare Set Local Spare Set Dedicated Spare Upgrade Disk Scrub Read Error Cleared Turn on off the Indication LED More information Show RAID size in lt GB MB gt Create Options Migrate RAID Level Move RAID Level Activ
28. OV Volt warn UV Volt crit OV Volt crit UV Volt recovery Therm warn OT Therm warn UT Therm fail OT Therm fail UT Therm recovery JBOD HDD path NG PD RPS started L2F PD RPS started F2L PD RPS started F2F PD RPS finished L2F PD RPS finished F2L PD RPS finished F2F PD RPS failed L2F PD RPS failed F2L PD RPS failed F2F PD VD read write fault Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Qsan Assign JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt to Global Spare Disks Config read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Config write error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Write error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt starts disk scrubbing process JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt completed disk scrubbing process Power Supply of lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is FAIL Power Supply of lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is NORMAL Cooling fan of lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is FAIL Cooling fan of lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is NORMAL Voltage of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is WARN OVER Voltage of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is WARN UNDE
29. PD IO retry fault PD substitute L2L Snapshot Events Level WARNING WARNING WARNING INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING INFO Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Type Snap mem Snap Space overflow Snap threshold Snap delete Snap auto delete Snap take Snap set space Snap rollback started Snap rollback finished Snap quota reached Snap clear space Qsan Write error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of PD lt slot gt The parity data inconsistency is found at LBA lt address gt lt address gt when checking parity on VD lt name gt The data at LBA lt address gt lt address gt is recovered when checking parity on VD lt name gt A recoverable read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt when checking parity on VD lt name gt The parity at LBA lt address gt lt address gt is regenerated when checking parity on VD lt name gt PD lt slot gt has been freed from RG lt name gt Configuration of RG lt name gt has been imported Configuration of RG lt name gt has been restored Configuration of VD lt name gt has been restored PD lt slot gt starts disk scrubbing process PD lt slot gt completed disk scrubbing process A large RG lt name gt with lt number gt disks included is created A RG lt name gt made up disks across lt number gt chassis is created The total size of RG lt name gt shrunk
30. This device has been shown to be in compliance with and was tested in accordance with the measurement procedures specified in the Standards and Specifications listed below and as indicated in the measurement report number xXxxxxxxx E Technical Standard EMC DIRECTIVE 2004 108 EC Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 4 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i EN55022 EN55024 UL Statement Rack Mount Instructions The following or similar rack mount instructions are included with the installation instructions 1 Elevated Operating Ambient If installed in a closed or multi unit rack assembly the operating ambient temperature of the rack environment may be greater than room ambient Therefore consideration should be given to installing the equipment in an environment compatible with the maximum ambient temperature Tma specified by the manufacturer 2 Reduced Air Flow Installation of the equipment in a rack should be such that the amount of air flow required for safe operation of the equipment is not compromised 3 Mechanical Loading Mounting of the equipment in the rack should be such that a hazardous condition is not achieved due to uneven mechanical loading 4 Circuit Overloading Consideration should be given to the connection of the equipment to the supply circuit and the effect that overloading of the circuits might have on overcurrent protection and supply wiring Appropriate considerati
31. Through cache write policy A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored in non volatile media Each data is synchronized in both data cache and accessed physical disks WB 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 RO Set the volume to be Read Only DS Dedicated Spare disks The spare disks are only used by one specific RAID group Others could not use these dedicated spare disks for any rebuilding purpose LS Local Spare disks The spare disks are only used by the RAID groups of the local enclosure Other enclosure could not use these local spare disks for any rebuilding purpose GS Global Spare disks It is shared for rebuilding purpose If some RAID groups 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 DG DeGraded mode Not all of the array s member disks are functioning but Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 199 Qsan Document User Manual SCSI SAS S M A R T WWN HBA SES NIC BBM Qsan the array is able to r
32. User Manual AegisSAN LX 424 and J300Q AegisSAN LX 460 and J300Q 4U24bays 4U60bays Front View AegisSAN Q500 Series 2U12 3U16 4U24 There is a power switch button at the right front handle a LCM with the USB interface at the left front handle Number Description 1 USB port This is designed specifically for USB LCM usage It DOES NOT offer external USB storage function 2 Access LED This indicates the host interface frontend connectivity not the hard drive activity Please be aware Blink There is host interface activity data O or management OFF There is no host interface activity 3 Status LED Red System failure Off System OK Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 17 Number 1 m Qsan Document User Manual Qsan Description Power button and power LED Blue Power ON Off Power OFF Reset button Press within 2 seconds to reset the system to default settings The default resets include Management IP Address 192 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 USB LCM comes as an optional device to Q500 series The standard SKU doesn t include USB LCM Both the USB port on the front left handle and the USB port on the controller itself support LCM function However the USB port doesn t support external USB storage function Number 1 NPE OPUuTR TWh ENT ESC MUTE Description LCD display Up button D
33. VD lt name gt finished erasing process The erasing process of VD lt name gt failed VD lt name gt starts erasing process RG lt name gt can not be activated because of missing disks Read error at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of PD lt slot gt and rewrite failed at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt Over I O retry limit in last 10 minutes on PD lt slot gt replacing the disk is highly recommended Over I O retry limit in last 10 minutes on PD lt slot gt the disk is disabled for automatic rebuilding with PD lt slot gt Description Failed to allocate snapshot memory for VD lt name gt Failed to allocate snapshot space for VD lt name gt The snapshot space threshold of VD lt name gt has been reached The snapshot VD lt name gt has been deleted The oldest snapshot VD lt name gt has been deleted to obtain extra snapshot space A snapshot on VD lt name gt has been taken Set the snapshot space of VD lt name gt to lt number gt MB Snapshot rollback of VD lt name gt has been started Snapshot rollback of VD lt name gt has been finished The quota assigned to snapshot lt name gt is reached The snapshot space of VD lt name gt is cleared 182 Qsan Document User Manual iSCSI Events Level Type INFO iSCSI login accepted INFO iSCSI login rejected INFO iSCSI logout recvd Battery Backup Events Level Type INFO BBM start syncing INFO BBM stop syncing IN
34. begins When the System Shutdown message is displayed turn the power switch to OFF O Shutdown using QCentral Client Login QCentral Client Select Maintenance gt Reboot and Shutdown Click the Shutdown icon System shutdown begins When the System Shutdown message is displayed turn the power switch to OFF O Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 62 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Quick Setup Management Interfaces There are several management methods to manage the storage system described on the following Serial Console Use console cable NULL modem cable to connect from console port of the storage system to RS 232 port of the management PC The console settings are on the following Baud rate 115200 8 data bit no parity 1 stop bit and no flow control Terminal Type vt100 The initial defaults for administrator login are Management IP Address 192 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 Secure Shell Remote Access SSH secure shell software is required for remote login The SSH client software is available at the following web site SSH Tectia Client http www ssh com PuTTY http www chiark greenend org uk The default management IP address is 192 168 1 234 255 255 255 0 please configure your computer IP address at the same subnet of the system e g 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 0 The remote control settings are on
35. button The snapshot is taken Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 149 Qsan Document User Manual J Qsan Show snapshots for virtual disk VD 01 Show disk size in GB No Name Used GB Status Health Exposure Cache Mode LUN ov 8 SnapVD 01 0 No NIA N A Set Quota Rollback ace Schedule Snapshots Take a Snapshot Cleanup Snapshots Delete Set quota to expose the snapshot Click W gt Set Quota option Set Quota Size 26 Available Space 26 GB Enter a size which is reserved for the snapshot If the size is zero the exposed snapshot will be read only Otherwise the exposed snapshot can be read written and the size will be the maximum capacity for writing Attach LUN to the snapshot Attach LUN Attach a logical unit number LUN to a virtual disk Virtual Disk SnapVD 01 30 GB Allowed Hosts L Target 0 LUN LUN 1 Permission Read only Read write Done The Snapshot can be used Cleanup Snapshots To cleanup all the snapshots please follow the procedures l There are two methods to cleanup snapshots In Virtual Disks tab selects a virtual disk And then click W gt Cleanup Snapshots or in Snapshots tab click Cleanup Snapshots button Click OK to apply It will delete all snapshots of the virtual disk and release the snapshot space Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 150
36. eicere aa 122 F Fast Rebuild H 169 Conhac 170 EE 170 el EEN 169 FC Fibre Channel scenie wn sesivnss 40 95 Arbitrated Loop OPC ATL 96 Change Connection Mode 96 Chance Link S 066 Cerca cicswaconcnsicon devssdanetesacin donacteentoueoncwasts 95 Eegeregie eh 95 leart e a 97 Node Configuration E 97 Point to Point ECRIPi 96 Switched Fabric ERC SAMWi 96 PCC SUEED Co 4 Fibre Channel 129 Fibre Channel Concepts v 1c2 eriersionsnsetsannntacstatevteabepioucsennavtted 40 Firmware Synchronization ccccccccccccsssssssseseseeeeeeeeeeeees 124 G GUI Graphic User Interface 66 H Hardware lee siesena iaca i i 116 Auto Sabutdown 117 Host Port Configuration ccccccccccccceeeeesssseeseeeeeeeeeeeeeees 85 l Indicators and ICONS wincscadvansainesvasednadvavednncvsnedsadvsdeanesyatedeadsiens 68 e E E 128 LE st hemnet et Eiter 41 BS leegen 41 FSC LC OMG UTAMOMN cerca crxccussnistetincansaccaeieuousrinediadilsdeimersnasens 85 iSCSI Initator ONS CB A tecnico ara env E OE EIET 188 EE 192 INN FS EE 191 ME E 189 ISOS Rate 188 GO WIN OG EE 89 Authentication Method 90 Chime De CHE 91 E E 92 ISNS Internet Storage Name Service 89 201 a Qsan Document User Manual J IBOD Tea E 140 Connecune teste Eegen 140 Upgrade Firmware ccccccssssesssssssesssceccecccceeneeesseees 142 Jumbo Prime arenei E TE 88 L LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol 86 144 LCM LCD Control Module
37. firmware failed JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt has been freed from RG lt name gt JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt is inserted into system JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt is removed from system JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt read block error JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt write block error JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt is disabled JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt gets no response JBOD lt name gt is inserted into system JBOD lt name gt is removed from system JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt S M A R T Threshold Exceed Condition occurred for attribute lt string gt JBOD lt name gt disk lt slot gt Failure to get S M A R T information Controller lt number gt of JBOD lt name gt is inserted into system Controller lt number gt of JBOD lt name gt is removed from system JBOD lt name gt is in degraded mode Assign JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt to be the dedicated spare disk of RG lt name gt 183 INFO ERROR ERROR DEBUG WARNING INFO INFO WARNING INFO WARNING INFO WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING INFO WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR Qsan Document User Manual PD global spare Config read fail Config write fail PD read error PD write error PD scrub started PD scrub completed PS fail PS normal FAN fail FAN normal Volt warn
38. gt Cache policy of VD lt name gt has been set as read only Cache policy of VD lt name gt has been set as write back Cache policy of VD lt name gt has been set as write through Size of VD lt name gt extends VD lt name gt has been LUN attached Failed to attach LUN to VD lt name gt VD lt name gt has been detached Failed to attach LUN from bus lt number gt SCSI ID lt number gt lun lt number gt VD lt name gt starts initialization VD lt name gt completes initialization Failed to complete initialization of VD lt name gt VD lt name gt starts rebuilding VD lt name gt completes rebuilding 180 WARNING INFO INFO ERROR INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO ERROR INFO INFO INFO INFO DEBUG DEBUG DEBUG WARNING WARNING ERROR ERROR ERROR DEBUG WARNING DEBUG ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR INFO ERROR INFO INFO WARNING Qsan Document User Manual VD rebuild failed VD migrate started VD migrate finished VD migrate failed VD scrub started VD scrub finished VD scrub aborted RG migrate started RG migrate finished RG move started RG move finished VD move started VD move finished VD move failed VD attach LUN VD detach LUN RG activated RG deactivated VD rewrite started VD rewrite finished VD rewrite failed RG degraded VD degraded RG failed VD failed VD IO fault Recoverable read error Recoverable write error Unrec
39. is for 64 bit OS x64 It can be installed in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 2008 2008 R2 only Install MPIO VSS Software 1 Depend on your 32 bits or 64 bits operating system run Qsan_Storage_Service_Setup x x x x86 en msi or Qsan_Storage_Service_Setup x x x x64 en msi 2 Click Next button i Qsan Storage Services Setup g ioj x Ki m Welcome to the Qsan Storage Services l san Setup Wizard MAKING DATA SMART The Setup Wizard will install Qsan Storage Services on your computer Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit the Setup Wizard www QsanTechnology com 3 Check I accept the terms in the License Agreement and then click Next button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 193 a Qsan Document User Manual inl Qsan Storage Services Setup End User License Agreement Please read the following license agreement carefully Common Public License Version 1 0 4 Click Browse button to change the installation directory Default is C Program Files Qsan Then click Next button JEJ L GG Qsan Storage Services Setup Custom Setup Select the way you want features to be installed 5 Click Install button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 194 a Qsan Document User Manual JI Z ox i Osan Storage Services Setup 6 Click Finish button the installation completes Completed the Qsan Storage Services Se
40. logical channel LACP Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 86 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j allows a network switch to negotiate an automatic bundle by sending LACP packets to the peer The advantages of LACP are that it increases bandwidth usage and it automatically performs a failover when the link status fails on a port Y gt Set VLAN ID VLAN is a logical grouping mechanism implemented on switch device VLANs are collections of switching ports that comprise a single broadcast domain It allows network traffic to flow more efficiently within these logical subgroups Please consult your network switch user manual for VLAN setting instructions Most of the work is done at the switch part All you need to do is to make sure that your VLAN ID of iSCSI port matches that of switch port If your network environment supports VLAN you can use this function to change the configurations Fill in VLAN ID and Priority settings to enable VLAN Set VLAN ID LAN1 VLAN ID VLAN ID range 2 4094 Priority A Priority range 0 T OK Cancel o VLAN ID VLAN ID is a 12 bit number Its range is from 2 to 4094 while 0 1 and 4095 are reserved for special purposes o Priority The PCP Priority Code Point is a 3 bit number and reserved for QoS The definition complies with IEEE 802 1p protocol ranging from O to 7 with O as the default value In normal cases you don t need to set this value Us
41. lower response time If the SSDs fail unfortunately you won t worry the data loss because the data caching in the SSD is a copy of the original which is residing on HDD Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 171 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i SSD caching is divided into group of sectors of equal sizes Each group is called a cache block each block is divided into sub blocks The I O type configured for a virtual disk would affects size of the cache block and size of sub blocks Populating the Cache The actions that read data from the HDD and write to the SSD are called populating the cache It is a background operation that typically immediately follows a host read or write operation The constraint is that two parameters are used to determine when to start a cache populate operation 1 Populate on read threshold The value is great than zero If it is zero no action is performed for read cache 2 Populate on write threshold It s the same action as read According to these values each cache block has associated to its read and write counts When a host requests the read data located on the cache block its read count is increment If a cache hit does not occur and the read count is greater than or equal to the populate on read threshold then a cache populate operation is performed with the host read concurrently If a cache hit occurs a populate operation is not performed If the read coun
42. name gt was aborted aborted DEBUG level events are displayed in download event log file only Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 187 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Software Application Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Here is the step by step to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI initiator This example is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Connect to iSCSI Target 1 Run Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2 Input IP address or DNS name of the target And then click Quick Connect button iSCSI Initiator Properties EN Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect EE To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then click Quick Connect 192 168 21 1 Discovered Wide EE Refresh Target To connect using advanced options select a target and then Connect click Connect To completely disconnect a target select the target and DE then click Disconnect For target properties including configuration of sessions Properties select the target and click Properties For configuration of devices associated with a target select Devicesn the target and then click Devices More about basic iSCSI connections and targets 3 Select the target name and then click Done butt
43. or MB Available Size Available capacity of the RAID group The unit can be displayed in GB or GB or MB MB Thin Provisioning The status of Thin provisioning Disabled Enabled Disks Uses The number of physical disks in the RAID group Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 100 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Number of Virtual The number of virtual disks in the RAID group Disk Status The status of the RAID group Online the RAID group is online Offline the RAID group is offline Rebuilding the RAID group is being rebuilt Migrating the RAID group is being migrated Scrubbing the RAID group is being scrubbed Health The health of the RAID group Good the RAID group is good Failed the RAID group fails Degraded the RAID group is not healthy and not completed The reason could be lack of disk s or have failed disk RAID The RAID level of the RAID group Current The controller of the RAID group The default is controller 1 Controller This option is only visible when dual controllers are installed Preferred The preferred controller of the RAID group The default is controller 1 Controller This option is only visible when dual controllers are installed The options are available on this tab S Create Create a RAID group The options are available after creating a RAID group V gt Migrate RAID Level Change the RAID level of a RAI
44. space which capacity is double the source virtual disk automatically The options are 0 5 3 Threshold The setting will be effective after enabling schedule replication The threshold will monitor the usage amount of the snapshot space When the used snapshot space Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 165 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i achieves the threshold system will take a snapshot and start replication process automatically The purpose of threshold could prevent the incremental copy failure immediately when running out of the snapshot space For example the default threshold is 50 The system will check the snapshot space every hour When the snapshot space is used over 50 the system will start replication job automatically And then continue monitoring the snapshot space When the rest snapshot space has been used 50 in other words the total snapshot space has been used 75 the system will start replication task again Restart the task an hour later if failed The setting will be effective after enabling schedule replication When running out of the snapshot space the virtual disk replication process will be stopped because there is no more available snapshot space If this option is checked the system will clear the snapshots of replication in order to release snapshot space automatically and the replication task will be restarted after an hour This task will start a full copy CA
45. table shows the items located on the LCD Control Module Number Description 1 LCD display Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 21 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j 2 EXIT Escape button 3 V Select button 4 Up button 5 Down button 6 Power button 7 Power LED Green Power ON Off Power OFF 8 Power Fail LED Red If one of the redundant power supply unit fails this LED will turn to RED and alarm will sound Off System OK 9 Fan Fail LED Red If a fan fails this LED will turn red and an alarm will sound Off Fan OK 10 Over Temperature LED Red If temperature irregularities in the system occur this LED will turn RED and alarm will sound Off Temperature OK 11 Voltage Warning LED Red If the output DC voltage is above or below the allowed range an alarm will sound warning of a voltage abnormality and this LED will turn red Off Voltage OK 12 Activity LED Blinking blue When the disk array is busy or being accessed Off Idle Disk Drive Assembly AegisSAN Q500 Series AegisSAN LX Series and JBOD J300Q Series 2U12 3U16 4U24 Remove a drive tray Then install a HDD To install SAS drives align the edge of the drive to the back end of tray the backplane can directly connect to the drives To install SATA drives with 3G 6G MUX boards align the board edge to the back end of tray the backplane can connect the dr
46. time slot for different bandwidth The following take an example of setting shaping group 1 In QReplicas tab of the source side click Shaping Setting Configuration button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 163 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j QReplica Shaping Setting Configuration Shaping Group Shaping Groupi Peak 100MB Off peak 200MB Peak 100 MB kl Enable Off Peak Iesele ele osjo po aeeai EEIEEIEIEEIEIEEIEEEIEEIEIEEIT von aalala aa Tue Mm mmama wed IS il ai mammonaa Thu M m ma a OOOO ell elei el gl mi Ill MO OO OI 0 0 O 0 0 Sat BA fi BA B B EA A E Bt B A ot ed BRIERE GIGI Sieklelseier EIS SIS 8 8 HEITE 2 Select a Shaping Group to setup 3 Input the bandwidth MB at the Peak time 4 If needed check Enable Off Peak and then input the bandwidth MB at Off Peak time And define the off peak hour 5 Click OK button 6 In QReplicas tab select the task and then click W gt Set Task Shaping QReplica Set Task Shaping Shaping Group 100MB Shaping Group3 100MB Shaping Group4 100MB Shaping Groupp 100MB Shaping Groupp 100MB Shaping Group 100MB Shaping Groups 100MB 7 Select a Shaping Group from the drop down list And then click OK button 8 The shaping group is applied to the replication task Schedule QReplica Task The replication task can be set by schedule such as ho
47. would like to be available for this iSCSI node Le UIE Run 8 8 3 2260 LAN 1 Use DHCP No Jumbo Frames Disabled 110 0 0 2 3260 LAN 2 Use DHCP No Jumbo Frames Disabled 110 0 0 3 3260 LAN 3 Use DHCP No Jumbo Frames Disabled 110 0 0 4 3260 LAN 4 Use DHCP No Jumbo Frames Disabled l110 0 0 5 3260 LAN 5 Use DHCP No Jumbo Frames Disabled 10 0 0 6 3260 LAN 6 Use DHCP No Jumbo Frames Disabled Cancel o Click OK button VW gt Rename Alias Use this option to add or change iSCSI alias o Select one of nodes from one controller o Chick W gt Rename Alias o Enter the Alias Name Leave it empty to remove the alias o Click OK button ISC SI Alias Add or change iSCSI alias To add or change the alias name enter the name below and press OK To remove an alias clear out the current name and press OK Alias Name devO ctri Cancel After creating an alias it is displayed at the end of the portal information ID Auth Node Name Portal Alias 0 CHAP ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev0 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 dev0 ctr1 2 None igqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev2 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 ES SA 1 CHAP ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev1 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10
48. 0 Gateway 10 0 0 254 SR Choose a RAID Level The number in the brackets is the maximum capacity at the RAID level This step utilizes all drives in the storage system as well as any JBOD expansion arrays present This option allows the selection of the RAID type and the number of drives in each array Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 72 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Step 4 Volume Settings Enclosure Local RAID Level RAID 0 5588 GB RAID 1 1862 GB RAID 3 3725 GB RAID 5 3725 GB 6 Verify all items and then click Finish button to complete the quick installation Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 73 Qsan Document User Manual eQOsan Quick Installation Confirm General System Name Date and Time Time zone Date Time Network Settings Address HTTP Port HTTPS Port S5H Port DNS Server Address iSCSI IP Address Settings Address Mask Gateway Volume Settings RAID Level RAID Size lt lt Back Osan GMT 08 00 Taipei 2014 1 17 10 39 50 Using DHCP 80 443 22 10 0 0 1 ds be OP i bo Bs be 10 0 0 254 RAID 0 on Local enclosure 5588 Finish Cancel The iSCSI information is only displayed when iSCSI controllers are used Use Back button to return to a previous page to change any setting Volume Creation Wizard The Volume Creation Wizard provides a smarter polic
49. 0 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 ES 1 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev1 or 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 al 2 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev2 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 el 3 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev3 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 Ba 4 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev4 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 KS a 5 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev5 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 el 6 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev6 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 Es 7 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 Ea 8 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev8 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 el 9 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev9 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 el 10 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev10 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 el 11 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev
50. 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 si 2 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev2 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 Ee 3 None ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev3 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 Chick W gt User Select CHAP user s which will be used It can be more than one but it must be at least one CHAP to enable on the node CHAP User Selection Select the CHAP user s that you would like to have access to this node If you do not select a user then CHAP protection will not be enabled on this node Setting for Node ign 2004 03 com gqsantechnology dev0 ctri1 Enable Users chap1 C chap Click OK button To disable CHAP authentication please follow the procedures Select the node which wants to disable CHAP Chick W gt Authentication Method Change it to None from the drop down list Click OK button WV gt Change Portal Use this iSCSI node option to change the network ports available Select one of nodes from one controller Chick W gt Change Portal Select the network ports that you would like to be available for this iSCSI node Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 91 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Change Network Portal Assign or Change LAN Portal Select the network ports that you
51. 014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 151 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i CAUTION Before executing rollback it is better that the disk is unmounted on the host computer for flushing data from cache Snapshot Constraint Snapshot function applies Copy on Write technique on virtual disk and provides a quick and efficient backup methodology When taking a snapshot it does not copy any data at first time until a request of data modification comes in The snapshot copies the original data to snapshot space and then overwrites the original data with new changes With this technique snapshot only copies the changed data instead of copying whole data It will save a lot of disk space Create a data consistent snapshot Before using snapshot user has to know why sometimes the data corrupts after rollback of snapshot Please refer to the following diagram When user modifies the data from host the data will pass through file system and memory of the host write caching Then the host will flush the data from memory to physical disks no matter the disk is local disk IDE or SATA DAS SCSI or SAS or SAN fibre or iSCSI From the viewpoint of storage device it cannot control the behavior of host side This case maybe happens If a snapshot is taken some data is still in memory and not flush to disk Then the snapshot may have an incomplete image of original data The problem does not belong to the storage device To avoid t
52. 04 08 com qsantechnology devO ctri 1 Connected Create Rebuild QReplica Options Shaping Setting Configuration 11 At this time if the source virtual disk has no snapshot space it will be allocated snapshot space for replication usage automatically The size will depend on the parameter of QReplica Options Start and Stop QReplica Task MPIO To start replication task please follow the procedures 1 In QReplicas tab of the source side select the task and then click W gt Start 2 Click OK button The source and target virtual disks will take snapshots and then start replication Show snapshots for virtual disk SourceVD sl Show disk size in sel Show snapshots for virtual disk TargetVD V Show disk size in GB Y No Name Used GB Status Health Exposure No Name Used GB Status Health Exposure v 1 QREP309461 0 N A Good No v 1 QREP309461 0 N A Good No Set Snapshot Space Scheduled Snapshots Take a Snapshot Cleanup Snapshots Set Snapshot Space Scheduled Snapshots Take a Snapshot Cleanup Snapshots Figure 5 Source side Figure 6 Target side To stop replication task please follow the procedures 1 In QReplicas tab of the source side select the task and then click W gt Stop 2 Click OK button to stop replication To setup MPIO Multi Path Input Ouput of the replication task please follow the procedures T In QReplicas tab of the s
53. 100GB 100GB 100GB There are some limitations when a RAID group is being migrated or moved System would reject these operations Add dedicated spare Remove a dedicated spare Create a new virtual disk Delete a virtual disk Extend a virtual disk Scrub a virtual disk Perform another migration operation Scrub entire RAID group SS o Ss ee eS ee YY mg Take a snapshot kA Delete a snapshot kA Expose a snapshot 12 Rollback to a snapshot v TIP RY Migrate function will migrate the member disks of RAID group to the same physical disks but it should increase the number of disks or it should be different RAID level Move function will move the member disks of RAID group to totally different physical disks CAUTION RAID group migration or moving cannot be executed during rebuilding or virtual disk extension Take an example of migrate the RAID group 1 Select Volume Configuration gt RAID Groups 2 Select a RAID group and then click W gt Migrate RAID Level 3 Select a RAID Level from the drop down list Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 132 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j 4 Click the Select Disks button to select disks from either local or expansion JBOD systems and click OK to complete the selection The selected disks are displayed at Disks Used Migrate RAID Level RAID Name RO gt R5 RAID Level RAID 5 Disks Used Local
54. 11 ctri 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 1652 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next gt last gt gt The options are available on this tab V gt Authentication Method CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol is a strong authentication method used in 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 transmit in an encrypted form for protection TIP A CHAP account must be added before you can use this authentication method Please refer to CHAP Accounts session to create an account if none exists To use CHAP authentication please follow the procedures o Select one of nodes from one controller o Chick W gt Authentication Method o Select CHAP from the drop down list Authentication Method Choose Authentication Method Select the authentication method that Authentication Method None ou would like to use for this node o Click OK button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 90 Qsan Document User Manual Qsan ID Auth Node Name Portal Alias el d CHAP ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev0 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 3260 10 0 0 5 3260 10 0 0 6 3260 E 1 CHAP iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev1 ctr1 10
55. 123 5 At the confirmation dialog click OK button to execute migration 6 Migration starts The status of Physical Disks RAID Groups and Virtual Disks are changing The complete percentage of migration is displayed in R Show disk for Local V Show disk size in GB Y Slot Size GB RAID Group RAID Set Status Health Usage Vendor Serial Number Rate Write Cache Standby Read Ahead Command Queuing be ai 1 1862 RO gt R5 NIA Transitioning Good RAID WDC WD WCAVY 4158095 SATA 6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled el 2 1862 RO gt R5 NIA Transitioning Good RAID WDC WD WCAVY3924333 SATA6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled Sa 3 1862 RO gt R5 NIA Online Good RAID WDC WD WCAVY4118479 SATA 6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Disks Used Number of Virtual Disk Status Health RAID Current Controller Preferred Controller v R0 gt R5 3725 3625 3625 Disabled 3 1 Migrating Good RAID5 Controller 1 Controller 1 Show disk size in ll 1 Name Size GB Write Priority Bg Rate Type Clone Schedule Clone Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot Space GB Snapshot RAID Group v VD 01 5 WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Migrating Optimal 0 RAID5 0 0 0 0 R0 gt R5 1 Move RAID Level usage is the same as Migrate RAID Level except it cannot change the RAID level Extend Virtual Disks Extend function extend the size of the v
56. 123 7 192 168 22 1 3260 ha 192 168 21 123 192 168 21 1 3 Connected Active 192 168 22 123 192 168 22 1 3 Connected Active GHAR helps ensure connection security by providing authentication between a target and an imitator Nemme NerGet Secret T Perform mutual authentication Tio Use mutual CHAP either specify an initiator secret on the Gontiguration page or use RADIUS Use RADIUS to generate user authentication credentials Use RADIUS to authenticate target credentials 9 Done Disconnect 1 Select the target name click Disconnect button and then click Yes button iSCSI Initiator Properties ign 2004 08 tw com gsan devO ctr1 2 Done the iSCSI device disconnect successfully Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 192 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Microsoft VSS Introduction This document introduces how to perform VSS Volume Shadow copy Service function on Qsan systems It includes Qsan VSS installation and Qsan VSS client usage Software Contents Before start using VSS it is necessary to install the Qsan Storage Service software The software includes the following items 1 Multipath LO Driver MPIO 2 Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS optional 3 QVolume Shadow Copy Application optional this is an application for demo VSS function The software has two versions One is for 32 bits OS x86 the other
57. 19 21 64 Log and Alert Settings cccccccccccccccceceeessssseeeeeeeeeeeees 83 Admin Interface and Front Display Alerte 85 B yeni eal E E 85 SNE 84 System S rver S CHIN OS sorores soit kriisi 84 Windows Messenger 84 Tota RRE 112 Attach LAIN sccvaweisecnsiosnsnsilsvasuigsenminceeabaescndeaatnsies 107 110 113 Detach E BC 107 110 113 aere 107 110 aere 81 AWO TO EE 82 Change Admin Password 82 Change User Faso gott vituserwecsosmesaneacaarwnsoceianes 82 LOSIN Bose eeeeeny reemeenevern rete eret eer cercerny yen rir rere reettrer nett 82 LUN Logical Unit Number 112 M MC S Multiple Connections per Session 143 163 MPIO Multi Path Input Output eens 142 162 MTU Maximum Transmission Un 88 N Network WE E 80 DNS Server e 81 Enable dual management porte 81 Ee 81 ET 81 Service Ports o 0scccessenssvecsdexevensenerveesatacnedieesenvardeccvesieneee s 81 Network SeU E 85 Disable Jumbo Frames ssresisossserirsrresircricosssssirurisesrross 88 Enable Jambo Frames scesseseisoro i e EeEENeE EN eet 88 ISCSI Beuecht eeneg 86 ISCSI IP Address Settngsg 87 Make Default Gateway cisascecuarseseiviuadveaveitoxnteanadvesvneinvedves 88 E TOS E 88 Remove Default Gateway cccccccccccceeeeeessseeeseeeeees 88 E 88 VLAN Eege 87 NTP Network Time Protocol 2 00 00 cccccceeeccceeeceeeeeseeeees 80 P PCP Priority Code ott ogetrueegk eegeege deeg 87 Performance Montor
58. 2 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 WARNING or ERROR events displayed on the LCM are automatically filtered by the LCM default filter The filter setting can be changed in the Web UI under System Configuration gt Log and Alert Settings Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 64 Qsan Document User Manual This table displays the LCM menu hierarchy Main L1 System Info Alarm Mute Reset Shutdown Quick Install only available if not already set Volume Wizard only available if not already set lt IP Addr gt Qsan lt Model gt AY View IP Setting Change IP Config Enc Management Reset to Default L2 Firmware Version lt n n n gt RAM Size lt nnnn gt MB AYes Nov Reset Shutdown lt RAID O RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 1 gt nnn GB Local lt RAID O RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 1 gt JBOD lt n gt Ae lt RAID O RAID 1 RAID 3 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 1 gt IP Config lt Static IP DHCP BOOTP gt IP Address lt 192 168 001 234 gt IP Subnet Mask lt 255 255 255 0 gt IP Gateway lt XXX XXX XXX XXX gt DHCP BOOTP Static IP Phy Disk Temp Cooling Power Supply AYes Nov L3 A Yes A Yes Nov Nov Apply The Config Use default algorithm New n disk Ae lt nnn gt GB A Yes A Yes Nov Nov IP Address IP Subnet Mask IP Gateway Apply IP Setting Local Slot lt n gt lt nn gt C
59. AID Oppons 101 EN 101 Penc UVE eenen een 101 RE 101 Migrate RAID Le Vel ivsciccciccsactonsenvestenecessarenscarsbanede 101 131 More Informati n sencisarnrennnncn 102 Move RAID Level 101 131 NETL E a EE 101 RAID LEVE lenna 39 RAID Set IER 103 Move Kate tee reueg S e 103 e 103 Reboot and Shutdown cccccccccccccessecceceeeeceeeeeeeceeeaeees 127 Replication E 114 158 Reset to Factory Defaults siisssrissscreecsserssscissiseericesserissscuss 125 S S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Eegen 120 SAS Serial Attached SCSI sisciscssssncsacsisstsaniedecticeicnunaiens 42 SAS CONCEP seet 42 a Qsan Document User Manual ir 63 SES SCSI Enclosure Services 119 BE IC bie E E 119 EE EE 119 SIEI ON OLEE 109 148 Atach BI E 107 110 113 Cleanup Snapshots soonoeeeeeeneessssssseeeeeeeeee 107 110 150 CONSE AUN ee E E 152 RE 110 Detach LUNA 107 110 113 CLUN E 107 110 List Snapshots eteeieteegeed geesde Seed eg eege 107 By OBAGI EN 110 151 Schedule Snapshots cccccccccsssssseeeeeeees 107 110 151 EECHER oe Eed 110 SEL Snapshot SP e eege degt 107 110 Take a Snapshot EE 107 110 149 EE e E E O E 110 DCAC cee E 171 Active LACEIISC vissicssivincdoncsdvcdvcenenotnutencesvensacteasednves 124 176 COIS OUT AOU E A E EE E 176 C One eA EEN 177 VO ENEE 174 Methodology E 171 Pop lating th CAC es cdasinsnetaicstsoestecrsassianiarctansaarctoctcaes 172 Read Write Cache Cases ccsc
60. AN LX 424 and J300Q AegisSAN LX 460 and J300Q 4U24bays 4U60bays The storage array available in different configurations of Fibre Channel GbE iSCSI 10GbE iSCSI and SAS interfaces provides a flexible intelligent storage area network SAN solution for virtualized server environments and the glowing demand for data storage Qsan storage systems can provide non stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance by using Qsan RAID technology and advanced array management features Model Comparison Qsan storage system AegisSAN Q500 XXX Xxxx AegisSAN V100 XXX Xxxx and AegisSAN LX XXXXQ Xxxx stands for the following models AegisSAN Q500 XXX stands for front end interfaces Q500 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 P21 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports LOGBASE T 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 F20 2 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 F21 4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 F30 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller AegisSAN V100 XXX stands for front end interfaces V100 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller V100 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports SFP 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller V100 F30 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports SFP 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights
61. CKUP NIA CAUTION Changing a cloning job to a replication task is only available when the cloning job has been finished This change is irreversible J Deactivate the RAID group which the target virtual disk resides in and move all physical disks of the RAID group to the target system Then activate the RAID group in the target system Remember to set snapshot space for the target virtual disk And then attach the target virtual disk to a LUN ID 6 In QReplicas tab of the source side click Rebuild button to rebuild the replication task which is changed from a cloning job formerly 7 Rebuild the clone relationship select a source virtual disk Rebuild the Clone Relationship Select a Source Virtual Disk 1 Name Size GB Status RAID LUN Snapshot RAID Group SourceVD 10 Online RAIDS 1 1 R5 1 Next gt gt Cancel 8 Next steps are the same as the procedure of creating a new replication task 9 If a wrong target virtual disk is selected when rebuilding the replication task there will be an alert and the system stops the creation Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 168 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Fast Rebuild When executing rebuild the Fast Rebuild feature skips any partition of the virtual disk where no write changes have occurred it will focus only on the parts that have changed This mechanism may reduce the amount of time needed for the reb
62. D lt slot gt and rewrite failed at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt 184 Qsan Document User Manual ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR PD IO retry fault PD substitute L2F PD substitute F2L PD substitute F2F System Maintenance Events Level INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING ERROR INFO HAC Events Level INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Type System shutdown System reboot System console shutdown System web shutdown System button shutdown System LCM shutdown System console reboot System web reboot System LCM reboot FW upgrade start FW success upgrade FW upgrade failure IPC FW upgrade timeout Config imported Type RG owner changed Force CTR write through Restore CTR cache mode Failover complete Failback complete CTR inserted GQsan Over I O retry limit in last 10 minutes on JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt replacing the disk is highly recommended Over I O retry limit in last 10 minutes on PD lt slot gt the disk is disabled for automatic rebuilding with JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Over I O retry limit in last 10 minutes on JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt the disk is disabled for automatic rebuilding with PD lt slot gt Over I O retry limit in last 10 minutes on JBOD lt name gt PD lt slo
63. D group Please refer to next chapter for details Y gt Move RAID Level Move the member disks of RAID group to totally different physical disks Y gt Activate Deactivate Activate or deactivate the RAID group after disk roaming Activate can be executed when the RAID group status is offline Conversely Deactivate can be executed when the status is online These are for online disk roaming purpose WV gt Verify Parity Regenerate parity for the RAID group It supports the RAID level3 5 6 30 50 60 V gt Delete Delete the RAID group VY gt Change Preferred Controller Set the RAID group ownership to the other controller VY gt Change RAID Options Change the RAID property options o Write Cache Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 101 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i v Enabled When the write cache is enabled data transfer operations are written to fast cache memory instead of being written directly to disk This may improve performance but may take the data lost risk when losing power if there is no BBM protection v Disabled Disable disk write cache Default o Standby v Disabled Disable auto spin down Default v 30 sec 1 min 5 min 30 min The hard drives will be spun down for power saving when the disk is idle for the period of time specified o Read Ahead v Enabled The system will discern what data will be needed next based on what was just
64. Delete button to delete the snapshot Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 198 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Glossary and Acronym List Common Terminology Item Description RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks There are different RAID levels with different degree of data protection data availability and performance to host environment PD The Physical Disk belongs to the member disk of one specific RAID group RG Raid Group A collection of removable media One RAID group consists of a set of virtual disks and owns one RAID level attribute VD Virtual Disk Each RAID group could be divided into several virtual disks The virtual disks from one RAID group have the same RAID level but may have different volume capacity LUN Logical Unit Number A logical unit number LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit GUI Graphic User Interface RAID cell When creating a RAID group with a compound RAID level such as 10 30 50 and 60 this field indicates the number of subgroups in the RAID group For example 8 disks can be grouped into a RAID group of RAID 10 with 2 cells 4 cells In the 2 cell case PD 0 1 2 3 forms one RAID 1 subgroup and PD 4 5 6 7 forms another RAID 1 subgroup In the 4 cells the 4 subgroups are physical disk 0 1 physical disk 2 3 physical disk 4 5 and physical disk 6 7 WT Write
65. E 10000 d 250 5000 x TE RA Y dli E Throughput 4512KB E Latency 17 ms 19 ms The iSCSI provides to display TX Transmission and RX Reception of the iSCSI ports Check the interfaces which you want to monitor Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 128 Qsan Document User Manual Controller1 L LAN1 MLAN2 LILANS MLAN Controller2 L LAN1 LAN2 LILAN3 LAN4 Controller1 LANZ 1000 H ti Dr 400 04Mbps RX 331 71 Mbps Controller2 LAN2 BI 405 34 Mbps E RX 395 75 Mbps Fibre Channel The Fibre Channel provides to display TX Transmission and RX Reception of the fibre channels Check the interfaces which you want to monitor Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved E Tx 414 32 Mbps E RX 505 55 Mbps E TX 635 01 Mbps Ei RX 633 72 Mbps SQOsan 129 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Advanced Operations Volume Rebuild If one physical disk of the RAID group which is set as protected RAID level e g RAID 5 or RAID 6 fails or has been removed then the status of RAID group will be changed to degraded mode At the same time the system will search the spare disk to execute volume rebuild the degraded RAID group into complete one There are three types of spare disks which can be set in Physical Disks Dedicated Spare The hard drive has been set as dedicated spare of a RAID group Local Spare The har
66. E 107 Schedule Snapshots csasecvscsceuewacenrtuucenawadeseiiccn 107 110 EE 107 EE 106 Set Snapshot Space vacccescccvatessaserrraadacenesieacraraeacdeanes 107 110 Set eegene gees 106 Space EECHER de Eege 107 EE 107 SIOD Wen 107 Take a SAS NO E 107 110 Very Parly sree airnean e kn r EErEE ERa 106 KS CET RO 87 Volume Configuration cccccccccccccceeessseeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaas 98 Volume Creation Wizard ccccccccccccceessssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaas 74 Volume Rebuild sis cesscencescndsncatonsenceawncenansoeon Geustionaxtoaccnees 130 Volume RECOV EE 130 Volume Relationship cccccccececccceceeesessseseseeeeeeeeeeeees 40 Volume Restoration 0 1 csseccesecsadacccecseesiecsaseeecssaceness 126 e E 127 VSS Volume Shadow copy Service 193 Tasta laO s 193 Vos Cieni ssa T 196 W Web UI Web User Interface 66 WWNN World Wide Node Namen 95 WWPN World Wide Port Name 95 203
67. E Link LED All Orange Asserted when a 1G link is established and maintained Green Asserted when a 100M link is establish and maintained 1GbE Access LED All Blinking green Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity 8G FC Link LED AegisSAN Q500 F20 Blue Asserted when an 8G link is established and maintained Amber Asserted when a 4G and below link is established and maintained 8G FC Access fail LED AegisSAN Q500 F20 Green Asserted when the link is establish Blinking green Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity Red Asserted when the link can t establish 8G FC Link LED AegisSAN Q500 F21 AegisSAN LX F600Q Blue Asserted when an 8G link is established and maintained Yellow Asserted when a 4G link is established and maintained Blinking yellow Asserted when a 2G link is established and maintained 8G FC Access fail LED AegisSAN Q500 F21 AegisSAN LX F600Q Green Asserted when the link is establish Blinking green Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity Red Asserted when the link can t establish 16G FC Link LED AegisSAN Q500 F30 AegisSAN V100 F30 AegisSAN LX F630Q Blue Asserted when a 16G link is established and maintained Amber Asserte
68. EEE ERATE 98 LIRE el E 100 NTT Eel DIS KS E E E E E E E A E tana A E T E A 105 SIE en Le 109 toc RE 112 OREHE ee 114 ENCEOSURE E TE 116 R lee Hee te E 116 BS 118 ENEE 119 Vis Feel E 120 STEN IV AINTE NANCE scarce sescinsusaseatecterestawciunkAacawairaeqnanbesaataaetenrauabdauatene gags deusananrenntant RO ae 120 SV SECT EE ee 120 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved g Chapter 5 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Su e or AA E E E E E E E E 122 Upe E 123 Firmware Synchronization Only available in Dual controller modele 124 Reset tO Factory 1D SVE Sirer e EE E E ES 125 cOn eW aN AC A EE 125 Volume RestoratiON cceececcccccsaeeseeececeeeeaeesseeeeeeessaeeseeeeeeessaeeeseeeeeeessaeesseeeeeessaeasseeeeeessaaaaeeeeeeeeaas 126 Reboot and Shutdown sssssssssseressssssserrrssssssteressssssrrerssssssrrrreessssetereeessssrerressssetereeesssseeereessseeeeee 127 PERFORMANCE MONITOR E 128 KE E E E E E A E en ee ee E 128 Ke RE 128 Bleid e 129 ADVANCED OPERATIONS ege 130 VOLUME REBUILD E 130 MIGRATE AND MOVE RAID ET 131 EATE NE VIRTUE RE 133 TAN E EE 134 Toe Bepetitsof OT E 135 Ree TE e LEE 136 TU d leide e Sia cae sorts EE A EE AE EEEE 138 Thin Provisioning COSC cc svcccicsninsiuiamtncsieite na TANE EEEE 139 Bet TEE 140 JBOD EX PANSIO TTT 140 CO gd JE OD aean E EA A E E E EE 140 Bet eg IE aa a EEA E AEA A AA A AA EE E 142 MPIO AND MC S EE 142 ALa E E E E E EEA T EN T E O E E E E 142 DG
69. FO BBM installed INFO BBM status good INFO BBM status charging WARNING BBM status fail INFO BBM enabled INFO BBM inserted INFO BBM removed JBOD Events Level Type INFO PD upgrade started INFO PD upgrade finished WARNING PD upgrade failed INFO PD freed INFO PD inserted Warning PD removed ERROR HDD read error ERROR HDD write error ERROR HDD error ERROR HDD IO timeout INFO JBOD inserted WARNING JBOD removed WARNING JBOD SMART T E C WARNING JBOD SMART fail INFO JBOD CTR inserted WARNING JBOD CTR iremoved WARNING JBOD degraded INFO PD dedicated spare Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Qsan Description iSCSI login from lt IP gt succeeds iSCSI login from lt IP gt was rejected reason lt string gt iSCSI logout from lt IP gt was received reason lt string gt Description Abnormal shutdown detected start flushing battery backed data lt number gt KB Abnormal shutdown detected flushing battery backed data finished Battery backup module is detected Battery backup module is good Battery backup module is charging Battery backup module is failed Battery backup feature is lt string gt Battery backup module is inserted Battery backup module is removed Description JBOD lt name gt PD lt string gt starts upgrading firmware process JBOD lt name gt PD lt string gt finished upgrading firmware process JBOD lt name gt PD lt string gt upgrade
70. Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i AegisSAN Q500 Series 1 Shutdown using LCM At the LCM Power off the system using a normal shutdown o Press ENT button o Press down twice to show Reboot Shutdown and press ENT button o Press W down once to show Shutdown and press ENT button o Press A up once to highlight Yes and press ENT button System shutdown begins When shutdown process completes the power LED will turn off 2 Shutdown using Web UI Using the Web UI Select System Maintenance gt Reboot and Shutdown Click the Shutdown icon System shutdown begins When shutdown process completes the power LED will turn off 3 Shutdown using Power button The power button is located at the right front handle Forced shutdown press and hold for more than 4 seconds The power will be cut off immediately Graceful shutdown press one to initialize graceful shutdown Press 2nd time within 4 seconds to confirm and start graceful shutdown If there is no 2nd press within 4 seconds disable graceful shutdown and return to normal operating mode 4 Shutdown using QCentral Client Login QCentral Client Select Maintenance gt Reboot and Shutdown Click the Shutdown icon System shutdown begins When shutdown process completes the power LED will turn off AegisSAN V100 Series 1 Shutdown using Web UI Using the Web UI Select System Maintenance gt Reboot and Shutdown
71. Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Schedule Snapshots The snapshots can be taken by schedule such as hourly or daily Please follow the procedures 1 There are two methods to set schedule snapshots In Virtual Disks tab selects a virtual disk And then click W gt Schedule Snapshots or in Snapshots tab click Schedule Snapshots button 2 Check the schedules which you want They can be set by monthly weekly daily or hourly Check Auto Mapping to attach LUN automatically when the snapshot is taken And the LUN is allowed to access by Allowed Hosts 3 Click OK to apply Schedule Snapshots VD 01 All Months to Take Snapshots V Se ue i o9 O 10O 11 O 12 Weeks to Take Snapshots Be 20204 J C all C Sun U Mon L Tue U Wed LI Thu U Fri U Sat C Al Coo U 01 U 02 U 03 L o4 O o5 U o6 U 07 Hours to Take Snapshots os Ooo 10O ii 12 O13 1415 116 O17 18 U 19 z0 O21 O 22 O 23 Days to Take Snapshots Minutes to Take Snapshots All oo O 15 O 30 O 45 Auto Mapping E Allowed Hosts OK Cancel TIP Nr KY Daily snapshot will be taken at every 00 00 Weekly snapshot will be taken every Sunday 00 00 Monthly snapshot will be taken every first day of month 00 00 Rollback The data in snapshot can rollback to the original virtual disk Please follow the procedures 1 In Snapshots tab selects a snapshot And then click W gt Rollback 2 Click OK to apply Copyright 2004 2
72. P Trap Settings Host Address 1 Host Address 2 Host Address 3 Community public SNMP MIB File Download Download Alert Levels To Send W Information W Warning Error Windows Messenger Host Address 1 Host Address 2 Host Address 3 Alert Levels To Send LJ information W Warning Wl Error Syslog Server Settings Host Address or Name UDP Port 914 Facility User Alert Levels To Log LJ information w Waring wl Error Admin Interface and Front Display Alerts Admin Interface Popup Alerts LJ information L warning LJ Error Alerts to Show on Front Display LJ information W Warning M Error The options are available on this tab SNMP Trap Settings It allows up to three SNMP trap addresses The default community setting is public You can check the alert levels which you would like to receive The default setting only includes Warning and Error event logs If necessary click Download to get the MIB file for importing to the SNMP client tool There are many SNMP tools available on the internet o SNMPc http www snmpc com o Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net Windows Messenger You must enable the Messenger service in Windows Start gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Services gt Messenger It allows up to three host addresses The same you can check the alert levels which you would like to receive System Server Settings Fill in the host address and the facility for sy
73. Q500 2U12 chassis 1 2 This table describes the rear modules Number Description 1 Controller 1 CTRL 1 2 Controller 2 CTRL 2 only for dual controller 3 Power Switch ON O OFF Fan Module FAN1 FAN2 5 Fan Module FAN3 FAN4 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 27 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j 6 Power Supply Unit PSU1 7 Power Supply Unit PSU2 8 Power Supply Unit PSU3 9 Fan Module FAN A 10 Fan Module FAN B 11 SAS JBOD expansion port AegisSAN Q500 3U16 chassis Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 28 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i AegisSAN Q500 4U24 chassis AegisSAN V100 4U24 chassis 1 11 4 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 29 Qsan Document User Manual Osa i AegisSAN LX 2U12 chassis 2 1 AegisSAN LX 3U16 chassis 4 5 6 7 AegisSAN LX 4U24 chassis Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 30 Je Qsan Document User Manual AegisSAN LX 4U60 chassis This table describes the rear modules Number 1 2 3 WTLOINT OD UIT 11 12 13 14 Description Controller 1 CTRL 1 Controller 2 CTRL 2 only for dual controller Power Switch ON O OFF Power Supply Unit PSU1 and Fan Module FAN1 Power Supply Unit PSU2 and Fan Module FAN2 Power Supply Unit PS
74. R Voltage of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is CRIT OVER Voltage of lt item gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is CRIT UNDER Voltage of lt string gt in JBOD lt string gt is NORMAL Temperature of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is OT WARNING Temperature of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is UT WARNING Temperature of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is OT FAILURE Temperature of lt string gt read as lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is UT FAILURE Temperature of lt string gt in JBOD lt name gt is NORMAL Path redundancy to JBOD lt name gt PD lt number gt is lost Assign JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt to replace PD lt slot gt Assign PD lt slot gt to replace JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Assign JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt to replace JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt PD lt slot gt is replaced by JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt is replaced by PD lt slot gt JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt is replaced by JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Failed to replace PD lt slot gt with JBOD 4d PD lt slot gt Failed to replace JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt with PD lt slot gt Failed to replace JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt with JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Read error at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of JBOD lt name gt P
75. Reserved 13 Qsan Document User Manual Qsan AegisSAN LX XXXXQ stands for front end interfaces P400Q 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller P600Q 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller F600Q 4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller F630Q 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller JBOD JXXX Q stands for front end interfaces J100 6G SAS JBOD IN 6G SAS JBOD OUT ports per controller J300Q 6G SAS JBOD IN 6G SAS JBOD OUT ports per controller X stands for D S C D Dual controller S Single controller but can be upgradable to dual C Single controller only xxx stands for chassis height and HDD bays It can be 212 224 316 424 460 212 2U 12 bays with 3 5 HDD trays 224 2U 24 bays with 2 5 HDD trays 316 3U 16 bays with 3 5 HDD trays 424 4U 24 bays with 3 5 HDD trays 460 4U 60 bays with 3 5 HDD trays AegisSAN Q500 Series Host Interface 6 x GbE iSCSI 2 x 10GbE iSCSI SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI 2 x 10GbE iSCSI 10GBASE T 2 x GbE iSCSI 2 x 8Gb FC SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI 4 x 8Gb FC SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI 2 x 16Gb FC SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI 2U12 Q500 P10 D212 Q500 P10 S212 Q500 P20 D212 Q500 P20 S212 Q500 P21 D212 Q500 P21 S212 Q500 F20 D212 Q500 F20 S212 Q500 F21 D212 Q500 F21 S212 Q500 F30 D212 Q500 F30 S212 Copyright
76. S Type None No UPS or other vendors Smart UPS Serial port APC Smart UPS with serial port Smart UPS SNMP APC Smart UPS with network function Megatec UPS Megatec UPS Shutdown Battery When the battery level goes down and lower than the configured Level threshold the system will auto shutdown This function will be disabled if the configured threshold is set to 0 Shutdown Delay When there is the power outage happening if the power cannot be Seconds recovered within the configured time such as 30 seconds the system will auto shutdown at the moment This function will be disabled if the configured seconds is set to 0 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 118 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Shutdown UPS The status of shutdown UPS ON The system will send the command to shutdown the connected UPS if one of the above functions is triggered when the power outage is happening OFF Disable this function IP Address The IP address of the network UPS This option is only visible when the UPS type is Smart UPS SNMP Community The SNMP community of the network UPS This option is only visible when the UPS type is Smart UPS SNMP Status The status of UPS Detecting Running Unable to detect UPS Communication lost UPS reboot in progress UPS shutdown in progress Batteries failed Please change them NOW Battery level Current power perc
77. Sosa j Import or Export Import File While the volume configuration settings are available for exporting to prevent conflicts and overwriting existing data they cannot be imported The options are available on this tab Import Import all system configurations excluding volume configuration Export Export all configurations to a file CAUTION Import option will import all system configurations excluding volume configuration and the current system configurations will be replaced Volume Restoration The Volume Restoration can restore the volume configuration from the volume creation history It is used for RAID group corrupt and tries to recreate the volume When trying to do data recovery the same volume configurations as original must be set and all member disks must be installed by the same sequence as original Otherwise data recovery will fail The volume restoration does not guarantee that the lost data can be restored Please get help from the expert before executing the function Restore the Volume Configuration The volume restoration can restore your previous volume configurations when a RAID group corruption or a mis delete occurs Before restoration please make sure that all the member disks are in guarantee all the lost data will be recovered Please contact for support before using this function 1 2 3041 5 6 7 8 next gt last gt gt RAID Group Name Virtual Disk Volume Size GB
78. U3 and Fan Module FAN3 Fan Module FAN4 FAN5 Fan Module FANG FAN7 Expander Module A1 single controller Expander Module B1 only for dual controller Expander Module A2 single controller Expander Module B2 only for dual controller Fan Module FAN8 Fan Module FAN9 Fan Module FAN10 Fan Module FAN11 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 31 a Qsan Document User Manual Qsan 13 Fan10 R Te E H dh wi HM rz A IK re H OF SEU E PT aA a mt eeng TT ak y a Zi e A mg Ae mg Aer Wan ji ii n oO There are many various controllers available With the exception of the host SAN ports the connections are the same on all modules Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 32 Je Qsan Document User Manual AegisSAN Q500 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI controller This table describes the rear components Number Description SAN ports depending on model AegisSAN Q500 Q500 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI ports Q500 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI ports S Q500 P21 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports 1OGBASE T 2 x GbE iSCSI ports Q500 F20 2 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports Q500 F21 4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports Q500 F30 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports AegisSAN V100 V100 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI ports V100 P20 2 x
79. UTION The default snapshot space allocated by the system is two times the size of source virtual disk That is the best value of our suggestion If user sets snapshot space by manually and lower than the default value user should take the risk if the snapshot space is not enough and the replication task will fail Delete QReplica Task To delele the replication task please follow the procedures 1 2 Select the task in QReplicas tab and then click W gt Delete Click OK button to delete the replication task Clone Transfers to QReplica It is always being a problem that to do full copy over LAN or WAN when the replication task is executed at the first time It may take days or weeks to replicate data from source to target within limited network bandwidth We provide two methods to help user shorten the time of executing full copy l One is to skip full copy on a new clean virtual disk The term clean means that the virtual disk has never been written data since created For a new created virtual disk which has not been accessed the system will recognize it and skip full copy automatically when the replication task is created on this virtual disk at the first time 7 TIP e LA Any I O access to the new created virtual disk will make it as not clean even though executing Erase function when a virtual disk is created The full copy Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserve
80. Version 8 52 October 2014 eOsan MAKING DATA SMART Qsan Document User Manual AegisSAN Q500 Series AegisSAN V100 Series AegisSAN LX Series JBOD Series Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Copyright Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All rights reserved No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted without written permission from Qsan Technology Inc Trademarks All products and trade names used in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Firmware Versions AegisSAN Q500 P10 P20 P21 F20 F21 F30 Series FW 1 3 0 AegisSAN V100 P10 P20 F30 Series FW 1 1 1 AegisSAN LX P400Q P600Q F600Q F630Q Series FW 3 4 0 JBOD J100 J300Q Series FW 1 7 1 Storage Service Provider V2 0 6 g TIP a e La AegisSAN V100 series is not support QReplica fast rebuild SSD caching and performance monitor features Login Information Management IP Address 192 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 Qsan Technology Inc 4F No 103 Ruihu St Neihu Dist Taipei City 114 Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 7720 2118 Fax 886 2 7720 0295 Email Sales QsanTechnology com Website www QsanTechnology com Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 2 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Preface About This Manual This manual is the introduction of Qsan storage system and it aims to help users know the operations of
81. a snapshot has been rollbacked the related snapshots which are earlier than it will also be removed But the rest snapshots will be kept after rollback If a snapshot has been deleted the other snapshots which are earlier than it will also be deleted The space occupied by these snapshots will be released after deleting Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 153 Clone a Qsan Document User Manual GQsan Clone function can backup data from the source virtual disk to target Here is the clone operation At the beginning copy all data from the source virtual disk to target It is also called full copy Afterwards use snapshot technology to perform the incremental copy Please be fully aware that the incremental copy needs to use snapshot to compare the data difference Therefore the enough snapshot space for the virtual disk is very important Of course clone job can also be set as schedule Setup Clone Take an example of clone the virtual disk de Before cloning it must prepare backup target virtual disk In Virtual Disks tab click Create button And then select Disk Type to Backup Target Create a Virtual Disk Virtual Disk Name Data Storage Size Stripe Size KB Block Size Bytes Cache Mode Priority Bg Rate Read Ahead AV Media Mode Erase Disk Type SourceVD R5 N 10 cB 64 iy 512 ba O Write through Cache write back Cache DI
82. ad write OK Cancel 12 Done The snapshot can be used ae TIP Bes e La In AegisSAN Q500 and AegisSAN LX the maximum snapshot number per virtual disk is 64 Logical Units The Logical Units tab provides to attach detach or view the status of logical unit numbers for each virtual disk The following example shows the P400Q series Allowed Hosts Tar Permission Virtual Disk Number of Session EA e ign 1991 05 com microsot 0 Read only Attach LUN This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description Allowed Hosts The FC node name iSCSI node name for access control or a wildcard for access by all hosts Target The number of the target LUN The number of the LUN assigned Permission The permission level Read write Read only Virtual Disk The name of the virtual disk assigned to this LUN Number of The number of the active connection linked to the logical unit Session This option is only visible when Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 112 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa the controller has iSCSI ports The options are available on this tab Attach LUN Attach a logical unit number to the virtual disk The options are available after attaching LUN Y gt Detach LUNs Detach a logical unit number from the virtual disk Take an example of attaching a LUN on P400Q series 1 Click the Attach LUN button
83. ade finished WARNING PD upgrade failed INFO PD RPS started L2L INFO PD RPS finished L2L ERROR PD RPS failed L2L Hardware Events Level Type WARNING ECC single ERROR ECC multiple INFO ECC dimm INFO ECC none Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Description Disk lt slot gt is inserted into system Disk lt slot gt is removed from system Disk lt slot gt read block error Disk lt slot gt write block error Disk lt slot gt is disabled Disk lt slot gt gets no response PD lt string gt starts upgrading firmware process PD lt string gt finished upgrading firmware process PD lt string gt upgrade firmware failed Assign PD lt slot gt to replace PD lt slot gt PD lt slot gt is replaced by PD lt slot gt Failed to replace PD lt slot gt with PD lt slot gt Description Single bit ECC error is detected at lt address gt Multi bit ECC error is detected at lt address gt ECC memory is installed Non ECC memory is installed 178 INFO ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO EMS Events Level INFO ERROR INFO ERROR WARNING INFO ERROR INFO ERROR ERROR WARNING ERROR ERROR ERROR WARNING WARNING ERROR ERROR Qsan Document User Manual SCSI bus reset SCSI host error SATA enable device fail SATA EDMA mem fail SATA remap mem fail SATA PRD mem fail SATA rev
84. ailed VD clone aborted VD clone set VD clone reset Auto clone error Auto clone no snap QReplica Events Level INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING WARNING WARNING INFO INFO Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Type Qrep portal enabled Qrep portal disabled VD replicate started VD replicate finished VD replicate failed VD aborted VD set as replica VD set as RAID VD replica set replicate VD replica reset Auto qrep enable not Auto qrep error Auto grep no snap Source replicate started Source replicate finished Qsan Controller lt number gt is removed from system Controller lt number gt gets no response Controller lt number gt is locked down Memory size mismatch Firmware version mismatch Low speed inter link is down High speed inter link is down SAS expander is down FC IO controller is down Firmware synchronization Controller reboot completed reason Description VD lt name gt starts cloning process VD lt name gt finished cloning process The cloning in VD lt name gt failed The cloning in VD lt name gt was aborted The clone of VD lt name gt has been designated The clone of VD lt name gt is no longer designated Auto clone task lt string gt Auto clone task Snapshot lt name gt is not found for VD lt name gt Description Replication portal is enabled Replicati
85. al disk Schedule The status of the schedule N A No schedule for the replication task Icon The schedule of the replication task is set Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 114 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Time Created The created time of the task Vendor The vendor of the target Model The model of the target WWN The WWN of the target virtual disk This table shows the Task Path column descriptions Column Name Description No Number Source NIC The NIC port of the source side for the replication task Target IP The IP address of the target side Target Name The iSCSI node name of the target side LUN The number of the LUN assigned Status The status of the connection Connecting The replication task pair is connecting Connected The replication task pair is connected Disconnected The replication task pair is disconnected Recovering The replication task pair is reconnecting when it s disconnected The options are available on this tab Create Create a replication task Rebuild Rebuild the replication task which is changed from a cloning job QReplica Options Set replication options Shaping Setting Configuration Set task shaping configurations The options are available after creating a replication task in the Task table WY gt Start Start the replication task V gt Stop Stop the replication task WV gt Set Task Shap
86. alth Description Virtual disk name Total capacity of the virtual disk The unit can be displayed in GB or MB The SSD caching policy Disable Disable SSD caching Database Enable SSD caching and set it as database policy File System Enable SSD caching and set it as file system policy Web Service Enable SSD caching and set it as web service policy Custom Enable SSD caching and set it as customization policy The right of virtual disk WT Write Through WB Write Back RO Read Only The priority of virtual disk HI High priority MD Middle priority LO Low priority Background task priority 4 3 2 1 0 Default value is 4 The higher number the background priority of a VD is the more background I O will be scheduled to execute The type of the virtual disk RAID the virtual disk is normal BACKUP the virtual disk is for backup usage The clone target name of the virtual disk The clone schedule of the virtual disk The status of the virtual disk Online The virtual disk is online Offline The virtual disk is offline Initiating The virtual disk is being initialized Rebuilding The virtual disk is being rebuilt Migrating The virtual disk is being migrated Rollback The virtual disk is being rolled back Parity checking The virtual disk is being parity check The health of virtual disk Optimal the virtual disk is workin
87. apacity After a period of working snapshot what if the snapshot size over the snapshot space of user defined There are two different situations 1 If there are two or more snapshots existed the system will try to remove the oldest snapshots to release more space for the latest snapshot until enough space is released 2 If there is only one snapshot existed the snapshot will fail Because the snapshot space is run out For example there are two or more snapshots existed on a virtual disk and the latest snapshot keeps growing When it comes to the moment that the snapshot space is run out the system will try to remove the oldest snapshot to release more space for the latest snapshot usage As the latest snapshot is growing the system keeps removing the old snapshots When it comes that the latest snapshot is the only one in system there is no more snapshot space which can be released for incoming changes then snapshot will fail How many snapshots can be created on a virtual disk There are up to 64 snapshots can be created per virtual disk What if the 65th snapshot has been taken There are two different situations 1 If the snapshot is configured as schedule snapshot the latest one the 65th snapshot will replace the oldest one the first snapshot and so on 2 If the snapshot is taken manually when taking the 65th snapshot will fail and a warning message will be showed on Web UI Rollback and delete snapshot When
88. arget Node and then click Next button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 160 9 10 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa QReplica Set iSCSI Authentication Information Choose Authentication Method No Authentication Method O Max 223 Min 12 Max 16 Select a Target Node No Name 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev0 ctr1 Next gt gt Cancel Select a Target LUN When a replication job completes it will take a snapshot on its target virtual disk Please make sure the snapshot space of the backup virtual disk on the target side is properly configured Finally click Finish button QReplica Select a Target LUN When a replication job completes it will take a snapshot on its target virtual disk Please make sure the snapshot space of the backup virtual disk on the target side is properly configured No LUN Virtual Disk Size GB Vendor Model Serial Number 1 1 TargetVD 10 Qsan P400Q D212 20f3001378900640 lt lt Back Finish Cancel The replication task is created Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 161 Qsan Document User Manual Qsan Show disk size in G5 Task No Source Virtual Disk Status Shaping Speed MB Target Virtual Disk Size GB Task SourceVD Path No Source NIC Target IP Target Name LUN Status e 1 LAN1 10 0 0 2 iqn 20
89. as become the standard connection type for storage area networks SAN in enterprise storage Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 40 Qsan Document User Manual FC device 1 target FC device 2 target The 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 to an attached storage device iSCSI Concepts 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 several 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 it can be used by any type of network Ethernet Fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and combination of operating systems Microsoft Windows Linux Solaris Mac etc within the SAN network IP SANs also include mechanisms for security data replication multi path and high availability Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 41 Qsan Document User Manual iSCSI device 1 target
90. ate Deactivate Verify Parity Delete Change Preferred Controller Change RAID Options Add RAID Set Add Policy More information RAID Set options Remove Move RAID Level List Disks RAID Group Policy options Delete Modify Create Cloning Options Options Extend Set SSD Caching Verify Parity Delete Set Properties Space Reclamation Attach LUN Detach LUNs List LUNs Set Clone Set Snapshot Space Cleanup Snapshots Take a Snapshot Scheduled Snapshots List Snapshots More information Set Snapshot Space Scheduled Snapshots Take a Snapshot Cleanup Snapshots 78 a Qsan Document User Manual Enclosure Management System Maintenance Performance Monitor Quick Installation Volume Creation Wizard System Configuration Logical Units QReplicas Hardware Monitor UPS SES SMART System information Event log Upgrade Firmware Synchronization This option is only visible when dual controllers are inserted Reset to Factory Default Configuration Backup Volume Restoration Reboot and Shutdown Disk iSCSI Fibre Channel This option is only visible when the controller has FC ports Qsan Options Set Quota Rollback Delete Attach LUN Options Detach LUN Create Rebuild QReplica Options Shaping Setting Configuration Options Start Stop Set Task Shaping Add Path Delete Path Schedule Delete Add Connection Delete Conne
91. ber per virtual disk is 16 The maximum host number per controller is 64 The maximum virtual disk number in a system is 2048 The max virtual disk number for snapshot is 16 In AegisSAN LX the maximum number of virtual disks in a RAID group is 96 The maximum host number per virtual disk is 16 The maximum host number per controller is 128 The maximum virtual disk number in a system is 4096 The max virtual disk number for snapshot is 64 CAUTION If shutdown or reboot the system when creating a virtual disk the erase process will stop Snapshots The Snapshots tab provides to create modify delete or view the status of snapshot The two drop down lists at the top enable you to switch the virtual disks The other is to change the drive size units MB or GB Show snapshots for virtual disk VD 01 Show disk size in GB No Name Used GB Status Health Exposure Cache Mode LUN ES ie SnapVD 01 0 No NIA NIA Set Quota Rollback joe schedule Snapshots Take a Snapshot Cleanup Snapshots Delete This table shows the column descriptions Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 109 Qsan Document User Manual Column Name No Name Used GB or MB Status Health Exposure Cache Mode LUN Time Created Qsan Description Number Snapshot name The amount of the snapshot space that has been used The unit can be displayed in GB or MB The status of the snapshot
92. ble when the controller has multiple interfaces The iSCSI Configuration menu bar option is only visible when the controller has iSCSI ports Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 67 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j There are up to seven indicators and three icons at the top right corner The last indicator Dual controller is only visible when two controllers are installed This table describes the indicators and icons Icon Description ae RAID indicator A Green All RAID groups are functioning aes e Red A RAID group is degraded or has failed OR Temperature indicator Green Temperature is normal Red Temperature is too high Voltage indicator be Green Voltage values are normal T Red Voltage values are out of range UPS indicator EN Green UPS is functioning or no UPS is connected d Red UPS connection has failed Red Fan failed Power indicator Fan indicator Si Green Fan is working well _ Green Power supplies are connected and working well Red A power supply has failed or is no longer connected Dual controller indicator Green Dual controllers are active and working well Orange One of the dual controllers has failed Return to home page Logout of the management web Ul Mute alarm beeper N TIP La If the status indicators in Internet Explorer IE are displayed in gray but not in b
93. called recover they are the same meaning This table describes the relationship between RAID levels and recovery Operation Description RAID O Disk striping No protection for data RAID group fails if any hard drive fails or unplugs RAID 1 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 mirror Extension to RAID 1 level It has N copies of the disk N way mirror allows N 1 hard drives failure or unplugging RAID 3 Striping with parity on the dedicated disk RAID 3 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging RAID 5 Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks RAID 5 allows one hard drive failure or unplugging RAID 6 2 dimensional parity protection over the member disks RAID 6 allows two hard drives failure or unplugging If it needs to rebuild two hard drives at the same time it will rebuild the first one then the other in sequence RAID 0 1 Mirroring of RAID O volumes RAID 0 1 allows two hard drive failures or unplugging but at the same array RAID 10 Striping over the member of RAID 1 volumes RAID 10 allows two hard drive failure or unplugging but in different arrays RAID 30 Striping over the member of RAID 3 volumes RAID 30 allows two hard drive failure or unplugging but in different arrays RAID 50 Striping over the member of RAID 5 volumes RAID 50 allows two hard drive failures or unplugging bu
94. ck level are not good candidates for thin provisioning as well Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 139 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i QThin works well with email system web based archive or regular file archive system When the number of supported volumes grows larger the benefits of QThin will become more apparent Disk Roaming Physical disks can be re sequenced in the same system or move all physical disks in the same RAID group from system 1 to system 2 This is called disk roaming System can execute disk roaming online Please follow the procedures 1 In Volume Configuration gt RAID Group tab selects a RAID group And then click W gt Deactivate 2 Click OK button to apply The Status changes to Offline 3 Move all physical disks of the RAID group to another system 4 In Volume Configuration gt RAID Group tab selects the RAID group And then click W gt Activate 5 Click OK to apply The Status changes to Online Disk roaming has some constraints as described in the followings 1 Check the firmware version of two systems first It is better that either systems have the same firmware version or the firmware version of the system 2 is newer 2 All physical disks of the RAID group should be moved from system 1 to system 2 together The configuration of both RAID group and virtual disk will be kept but LUN configuration will be cleared in order to avoid conflict with the
95. connecting the RS 232 cable for UPS gray color phone jack to DB9 male to APC Smart UPS directly Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 59 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Attach the power cords and power on the system and then power on the hosts and the iSNS server optional for iSCSI environment Start the configuration Power ON OFF Power on the System AegisSAN Q500 Series and AegisSAN V100 Series The power button is located at the right front handle To turn on the system you may press power button once After you turn the power ON the system performs a booting process which takes a few minutes AegisSAN Q500 AegisSAN V100 AegisSAN LX Series 2U12 3U16 4U24 The power switch is located at the rear of the panel To turn on the system you may press power switch to After you turn the power ON the system performs a booting process which takes a few minutes CAUTION Be aware that when Controller Health LED is in RED please DO NOT plug out the controller from the system or turn off the power suddenly This may cause unrecoverable damage which will not be covered by warranty Power off the System If it becomes necessary to power down the system it is recommended using a normal controlled shutdown form through either the LCM or Web Ul to ensure all data is flushed from the cache first Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 60
96. ction Task Path options Add Connection Delete Connection Delete Show information for lt Local JBODn gt Temperature Internal Case lt C F gt Controller 1 Monitors Controller 2 Monitors Backplane Options Auto Shutdown UPS Type Shutdown Battery Level Shutdown Delay Seconds Shutdown UPS UPS Status UPS Battery Level Enable Disable Show information for lt Local JBODn gt Temperature Internal Case lt C F gt Download System Information Event Log Level to Show lt Information Warning Error gt Download Mute Buzzer Clear Controller Module Firmware Update JBOD Firmware Update Controller Mode SSD Caching License Apply Reset Import or Export Import File Options Restore Reboot Shutdown Reboot options Both Controller 1 and Controller 2 Controller 1 Controller 2 Show disk for lt Local JBODn gt Controller 1 Controller 2 Controller 1 Controller 2 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Confirm Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Confirm The System Configuration menu option is for accessing the System Settings Network Settings Login Settings Email Notification Settings and Log and Alert Settings option tabs System Settings System Settings Network Settings Login Settings Email Notification Settings Log and Alert Settings The System Settings tab is used to setup the system name and date The defa
97. current setting of the system 2 JBOD Expansion Qsan storage space can be expanded by adding JBOD expansion system Connecting JBOD Qsan storage systems suport expansion systems with SAS connections When connecting to an expansion system it will be displayed at the Show disk for drop down list in Volume Configuration gt Physical Disks tab For example Local JBOD 1 QSAN J300Q JBOD 2 QSAN J300Q etc Local means disks in local controller JOBD 1 means disks in JBOD 1 controller and SO on In Enclosure Management gt Hardware monitor tab select the enclosure at the Show information for drop down list it can display the hardware status of SAS JBODs Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 140 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i In Enclosure Management gt S M A R T tab select the enclosure at the Show information for drop down list it can display the SMART information of the disks in JBODs SAS JBOD expansion has some constraints as described in the followings 1 User could create RAID group among multiple chassis max number of disks in a single RAID group is 32 2 Local spare disk can support the RAID groups which located in the local chassis 3 Global spare disk can support all RAID groups which located in the different chassis 4 When support SATA drives for the redundant JBOD model the 6G MUX board is required The 3G MUX board does not apply to this model 5 The
98. d Disabled RAID OK Cancel Here are some constraints about Fast Rebuild Only thick fat RAID group supports this feature Thin provision RAID group already has this feature implement When rebuild happened in a fast rebuild virtual disk clean partitions are not rebuilt since there are no data saved there Though clean partitions are never rebuilt their health status is good If all partitions of the fast rebuild virtual disk are clean then no rebuild would happen and no event would be sent The RAID stacks could not use optimize algorithm to compute parities of a partition which is not rebuilt Thus the performance of random write in a clean partition would be worse Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved CAUTION The fast rebuild should not be enabled for a virtual disk whose access pattern is random write 170 SSD Caching Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i The traditional storage technology is stored in the HDDs Hard Disk Drives and SSDs Solid State Drives are mainly used in mission critical applications where the speed of the storage system needed to be as high as possible In recent years the capacity of HDDs has increased but their random input output I O has not increased at the same rate For some applications such as enterprise web with database cloud and virtualization which require both high capacity and performance HDDs have the supe
99. d 166 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i will take place in such a case 2 The other way is to use virtual disk clone function which is a local data copy function between virtual disks to execute full copy at the first time Then move all the physical drives of the target virtual disk to the target system and then turn the cloning job into replication task with differential copy afterward Source Target To do that virtual disk clone transfers to QReplica please follow the procedures 1 Create a clone job on an existing virtual disk with data stored already 2 It is better that there is no host connected to the source virtual disk Then run Set Clone Start Clone to synchronize the data between source and target virtual disks 3 After the data is synchronized change the cloning job to a QReplica task Select the source virtual disk and then click W gt Change QReplica Options Show disk size in GB Size GB Write Priority Extend Verify Parity Clear Clone Start Clone Change OReplica Options Schedule Clone 4 The Clone column of the source virtual disk will be changed from the name of the target virtual disk into QRep Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 167 a Qsan Document User Manual Ssa j Show disk size in GB 1 Name Size GB Write Priority Bg Rate Type Clone Y sourceVD 10 WB HI 4 RAID QRep HM TargetVD 10 WB HI d BA
100. d RAID Cell Status Online RAID Group Policy lt lt first lt prev 1 next gt sl A3 em Q em 60 Information Take no Action kb 10 Information Take no Action 50 Information Take no Action 65 Warning Reclaim Space Waming Delete Snapshots 7 Warning De activate RAID Group e lt lt eee a em Figure 6 Capacity policy settings Automatic space reclamation to recycle unused space and increase utilization rate Automatic space reclamation will be automatically activated in RAID group initialization process or it can be set manually through capacity policy You can set as many as 16 policies When space usage ratio grows over the threshold set in the policy space reclamation will be enabled automatically at the background with the lowest priority or when the I O is low The resource impact is reduced to minimum Modify RAID Group Policy Level Information Action Take no Action Reclaim Space Delete Snapshots De activate RAID Group Figure 7 Space reclamation Thin Provisioning Case We suggest that you apply QThin to non critical production applications first Thin provisioning works well when the data written is thin friendly which means that the data written is not completely spread across the whole volume Applications that spread metadata across the entire volume will obviate the advantages of thin provisioning Some applications that expect the data to be contiguous at blo
101. d drive has been set as local spare of the enclosure Global Spare The hard drive has been set as global spare of whole system The detection sequence is the dedicated spare disk as the rebuild disk first then local spare disk and global spare disk The following examples are scenarios for a RAID 6 1 When there is no global spare disk or dedicated spare disk in the system The RAID group will be in degraded mode and wait until there is one disk assigned as spare disk or the failed disk is removed and replaced with new clean disk and then the Auto Rebuild starts 2 When there are spare disks for the degraded array system starts Auto Rebuild immediately In RAID 6 if there is another disk failure occurs during rebuilding system will start the above Auto Rebuild process as well Auto Rebuild feature only works at that the status of RAID group is Online Thus it will not conflict with the online roaming feature 3 In degraded mode the health of the RAID group is Degraded When rebuilding the status of RAID group and virtual disk will display Rebuilding the column R in virtual disk will display the ratio in percentage After complete rebuilding the status will become Online i TIP e e La The dedicated spare cannot be set if there is no RAID group or only RAID groups with RAID O or JBOD level Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 130 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Sometimes rebuild is
102. d when an 8G link is established and maintained White Asserted when a 4G and below link is established and maintained 16G FC Access fail LED AegisSAN Q500 F30 AegisSAN V100 F30 AegisSAN LX F630Q Green Asserted when the link is establish Blinking green Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity Red Asserted when the link can t establish 10GbE Link LED AegisSAN Q500 P20 AegisSAN V100 P20 AegisSAN LX P600Q Orange Asserted when a 1G link is established and maintained Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 34 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Blue Asserted when a 10G link is establish and maintained 10GbE Access LED AegisSAN Q500 P20 AegisSAN V100 P20 AegisSAN LX P600Q Yellow Asserted when the link is established and packets are being transmitted along with any receive activity CAUTION Be aware that when Controller Health LED is in RED please DO NOT unplug the controller from the system or turn off the power suddenly This may cause unrecoverable damage which will not be covered by warranty AegisSAN Q500 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI SFP 2 x GbE iSCSI controller Link 1061 O S o kkk m Een kel sw ae i L ECH Console AegisSAN Q500 P21 2 x 10GbE iSCSI 10GBASE T 2 x GbE iSCSI controller Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 35
103. degraded In this stage I O will force to write through for protecting data and the ownership of RAID group will switch to good one For example if controller 1 which owns the RAID group 1 fails accidently the ownership of RAID group 1 will be switched to controller 2 automatically And the system and data can keep working well After controller 1 is fixed or replaced The current owner of all RAID groups will be asigned back to their prefered owner 3 Lockdown Dual controller mode The firmware of two controllers is different or the size of memory of two controllers is different In this stage only master controller can work and I O will force to write through for protecting data 4 Single Single controller mode In the stage the controller must stay in slot A and MUX boards for SATA drives are not necessary The differences between single and degraded are described on the following There is no error message for inserted one controller only I O will not force to write through And there is no ownership of RAID group Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 147 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Change Controller Mode The operation mode can be changed from Single to Dual or vice versa Please follow the procedures to change the operation mode 1 In System Maintenance gt Upgrade tab select Single or Dual in the drop down list Controller Mode Operation Mode 2 Click Apply button it will p
104. e To Next JBOD Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 57 a Qsan Document User Manual Osa i JBOD J300Q Management Host Server pc Switch o0 FC iSCSI SAS Net cable SSS SS i FC iSCSI SAS RS 232 cable een SAS cable Cable To Next JBOD To Next JBOD Dual controller topology For a better data service availability all the connections among hosts switches and the dual controllers are recommended as redundant as below The following example shows the AegisSAN LX P400Q Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 58 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j controller 1 controller 2 Console and UPS topology Connect the console cable and UPS as the following Management PC RS 232 cable for UPS phone jack to DB9 male APC Smart UPS Optional wae RS 232 cable for console phone jack to DB9 female RS 232 cable for UPS phone jack to DB9 male APC Smart UPS serial cable DB9 female to N A Q Series controller O Console UPS o Using RS 232 cable for console back color phone jack to DB9 female to connect from controller to management PC directly o Using RS 232 cable for UPS gray color phone jack to DB9 male to connect from controller to APC Smart UPS serial cable DB9 female side and then connect the serial cable to APC Smart UPS CAUTION It may not work when
105. e 32 W Node 33 M Node 34 W Node 35 W Node 36 W Node 37 M Node 38 W Node 39 W Node 40 W Node 41 N Node 42 W Node 43 M Node 44 W Node 45 M Node 46 W Node 47 M Node 48 W Node 49 N Node 50 Node 51 W Node 52 W Node 53 M Node 54 N Node 55 W Node 56 W Node 57 M Node 58 kl Node 59 M Node 60 W Node 61M Node 62 kl Node 63 M Node 64 W Node 65 N Node 66 M Node 67 M Node 68 W Node 69 N Node 70 W Node 71 W Node 72 W Node 73 N Node 74 W Node 75 W Node 76 W Node 77 M Node 78 M Node 79 M Node 80 W Node 81 M Node 82 M Node 83 M Node 84 W Node 85 M Node 86 M Node 87 M Node 88 W Node 89 M Node 90 kl Node 91 M Node 92 W Node 93 N Node 94 W Node 95 W Node 96 W Node 97 N Node 98 W Node 99 W Node 100 W Node 101 4 Node 102 M Node 103 W Node 104 W Node 105 M Node 106 M Node 107 W Node 108 W Node 109 M Node 110 M Node 111 W Node 112 lw Node 113 Node 114 M Node 115 W Node 116 lw Node 117 lv Node 118 M Node 119 W Node 120 W Node 121 Node 122 M Node 123 W Node 124 OK Cancel V gt Clear Counters Clear the counters of the selected fibre channel CAUTION The connection mode Point to Point does not support multi node Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 97 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Volume Configuration The Volume configuration menu option is for accessing the Physical Disks RAID Groups Virtual Disks Snapshots Logica
106. e device causes a break in the ring Fibre Channel hubs exist to connect multiple devices together and may bypass failed ports A loop may also be made by cabling each port to the next in a ring o Fabric Switched Fabric FC SW All devices or loops of devices are connected to Fibre Channel switches similar conceptually to modern Ethernet implementations Advantages of this topology over FC P2P or FC AL include Attribute Point to Point Arbitrated Loop Switched Fabric Max ports 2 127 16777216 2 24 Address size N A 8 bit ALPA 24 bit port ID Side effect of port Link fails Loop fails until port N A Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 96 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i failure bypassed Mixing different link No No Yes rates Frame delivery In order In order Not guaranteed Access to medium Dedicated Arbitrated Dedicated Reference from http en wikipedia org wiki Fibre Channel V gt Node Configuration Set the selected fibre channel for multi nodes configuration Check the nodes which can be accessed by the host Node Configuration Node List All W Node 1 Node 2 M Node 3 M Node A kl Node 5 W Node 6 k Node 7 ki Node 8 kl Node 9 W Node 10M Node 11 W Node 12 W Node 13 M Node 14 M Node 15 M Node 16 W Node 17 M Node 18 M Node 19 M Node 20 W Node 21 M Node 22 M Node 23 M Node 24 W Node 25 N Node 26 ki Node 27 W Node 28 W Node 29 N Node 30 W Node 31 W Nod
107. e dual management ports MAC Address 00 13 78 BB 38 80 Use DHCP Use BOOTP Specify a Static IP Address IP Address 192 168 1 234 Subnet Mask 255 255 0 0 Gateway 192 168 1 254 DNS Server Address Address HTTP Port HTTPS Port SSH Port Apply The options are available on this tab Enable dual management ports This is for dual controller models Check it to enable dual management ports MAC Address Display the MAC address of the management port in the system IP Address The option can change IP address for remote administration usage There are three options DHCP BOOTP and Specify a Static IP Address DNS Server Address If necessary the IP address of DNS server can be entered or changed here Service Ports If the default port numbers of HTTP HTTPS and SSH are not allowed on the network they can be changed here When it is done click Apply button Login Settings The Login Settings tab is used to control access to the storage system For the security reason set the auto logout option or set the limit access of one administrator at a time The other options can change the Admin and User passwords Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 81 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Change Login Options and Passwords When the auto logout option is enabled you will be logged out of the admin interface after the time specified The login lock option prev
108. e failed disks Upgrade The Upgrade tab is used to upgrade controller firmware JBOD firmware change operation mode and active SSD caching license Before upgrade it recommends to use Configuration Backup tab to export all configurations to a file Qsan next gt last gt gt CTR1 Disk 1 has been freed from RAID group H CTR Virtual disk VD 02 has been deleted CTR Virtual disk SnapVD 01 has been deleted CTR Virtual disk WD 01 has been deleted CTR1 RAID group R5 has been deleted CTR1 LUN 1 is attached to virtual disk VD 01 CTR1 Disk 2 has been freed from RAID group H CTR1 Virtual disk VD 02 has failed CTR1 Virtual disk VD 01 has failed CTR1 RAID group Hi has failed CTR1 Disk 3 has been freed from RAID group Hi CTR1 RAID group RS is in degraded mode CTR1 admin login from 192 166 6 231 via web Ul CTR1 admin login from 92 242 203 131 via web UI CTR1 admin login from 59 125 120 109 via web Ul CTR1 admin login from 203 117 200 77 via web UI CTR1 admin login from 192 168 135 1 via web UL CTR1 Virtual disk VD 02 has completed rebuilding CTR Virtual disk VD 02 has started rebuilding CTR1 Virtual disk WD 0T has completed rebuilding next gt last gt gt Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 123 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa Controller Module Firmwa
109. e maximum capacity will be limited to 16 TB The volume can also not be used as a dynamic disk ox ee 6 Finally verify the selections and click Finish button if they are correct Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 76 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Volume Creation Wizard Confirm Please confirm the settings for your new volume below and click Finish RAID Level RAID 0 RAID Group Name QUICK12169 Volume Size GB 5586 The volume is created and named by the system automatically It is available to use now Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 77 Qsan Document User Manual Basic Configuration Interface Hierarchy eQsan This table describes the hierarchy of the web GUI Menu Bar System Configuration iSCSI Configuration This option is only visible when the controller has iSCSI ports Host Configuration This option is only visible when the controller has multiple interfaces Volume Configuration L1 System Settings Network Settings Login Settings Email Notification Settings Log and Alert Settings Network Setup Entity and ISNS Settings iSCSI Node Active Sessions CHAP Accounts Fibre Channel This option is only visible when the controller has FC ports Physical Disks RAID Groups Virtual Disks Snapshots Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved L2 Button or
110. e virtual disk Disks Used The original physical disk number of the RAID group Disk slot The original physical disk locations Time The last action time of the virtual disk Event Log The last event of the virtual disk The options are available on this tab Restore Restore the virtual disk of the RAID group gt N TIP p When trying to do data recovery the same volume configurations as original must be set and all member disks must be installed by the same sequence as original Otherwise data recovery will fail CAUTION The data recovery does not guarantee that the lost data can be restored 100 It depends on the real operation and the degree of physical damages on disks Users will take their own risk to do these procedures Reboot and Shutdown The Reboot and Shutdown function is used to reboot or shutdown the system Before powering off the system it is highly recommended to execute Shutdown function to flush the data from cache onto the physical disks The step is important for data protection Reboot Shutdown The Reboot function has three options reboot both controllers controller 1 only or controller 2 only Reboot Both Controller 1 and Controller 2 Controller 1 Controller 2 OK Cancel Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 127 a Qsan Document User Manual Performance Monitor LB Spannen SO SSATN The Performance Monitor menu option is accessing the D
111. ecnon Details cccssecessassecieiaaviadecsegicovieenindccateecceinieess 94 Rer 94 B BBM Battery Backup Module 46 53 EE 178 C CE SOTE iee e E 4 CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol 90 Ee E 94 E E 94 IR E e aac E E atin een E E E E 95 Modify User Information cccccccceececeeeeeeeseeeeseeees 95 e 154 Change QReplica Options ccccceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 107 lear TEE 107 157 Cloning Options 2s sissscvenasviedsands sesvaudovedvansssnevesassesvaudosent 156 Ee E 157 Schedule Clone ssccvsicissssvessvcnsdesescessavessnsevacscssceseons 107 155 et Clone vs ent egeedeerueeget deeg tegen 107 154 SAE CHONG eorna a 107 155 PTO Pe AOR ea erte 107 155 Clone Options Restart the task an hour later if it failed 0 0 157 Snapshot gr 156 MATS NOW WE 156 Contreuration Backup secrecions iscriere 125 ES DO E 126 rue i TEA AE AE EE E E 126 D IR 128 Disk E E 140 Drive Slot Numbering ccccceeeecccceececeeeeaeeesseseseeeeeeees 45 Dual We e ME 146 E Email Notification Settings ccccccccccsssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeees 82 Send Test Baia yc 0xsiece arssscnnwnsuconcetcacoeatonsoncmiminonnmswecesece 82 Enclosure Management 2gegengrtareregegeg dree E 116 Entity and 1SNS Settings ess cecccsesessesraieveasniseecessiddesoartantoaseds 89 EES 122 178 EE eegene 122 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Qsan Download 122 Mute BOZZE
112. eeseceeseuaeeceesaeaeeeessueaeeessuansees 46 POWER ON OFF iivssssisadsssvvncnsseesntnnsessntenanoapavesuntoeusornindesesenitssssvosuiasoetennssanesdiesinnasevsssausedesoninacsssesndiaseessweuseess 60 POWT eeh CR E 60 Wee CIV E 60 Chapter 3 QUICK Ee 63 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 7 Chapter 4 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i MANAGEMENT INTERFACES csscnveunieoiateadscnvannnentMeusaseaiawenmannsasisanslewetnebeuaannedanunentnauaahansaentenaeueinmuiacasonineuuaanaansient 63 PACO O E aE E T A AEE A A AE A 63 Spectre Shell Remote ACCESS sesira raene rE ENE ARRES NETE EEEE TEREE EAER ERNE ERER ERE EKER 63 Fe P E E E EAA T E E E O A E E E T 64 E e E EE 66 Sieten CET tas 68 QUICK Installation Tool 69 Volume Creation Wizard ssssssesssssseesssserrssssrressserresssreresssrrrossseressseersessrerosssrressseeresseeresseeeeesseereee 74 BASIC EENEG SCENE 78 INTERFACE TER AR CHIY caine Se quanienveuninoiateeads E iE EE EE 78 SY STEMECONFIGUB ATION ET 79 GEREENT 79 Kaell e 80 Beraicher 81 Email Notification Setting 82 tor NATE SE VS pe a E E 83 HosT PORT 7 Kiecheeidtert th de 85 LEY 76 g est EUD a tet On ee enor ore ee SnD in tt E tee Dn eR eee ae er nee ete 85 Entity and eet 89 KSC ole E ar ene ee E E E A A EE E E E E 89 enden E 93 TPA PC ele EE 94 FO CAIN AT EE E EA EE E A E A NE OE S E ET 95 ei Re ONCOR e 98 Physical DISKS scesccsaaenscncoseurdensoausa vant RE EEEE EAE EEE EEA EAEE E
113. entage of battery level The system will shutdown either Shutdown Battery level or Shutdown Delay Seconds reaches the condition User should set these values carefully SES The SES SCSI Enclosure Services one of the enclosure management standards tab is used to enable or disable the management of SES SCSI Enclosure Services SES SES is an enclosure management standard Use this screen to enable or disable SES Allowed Hosts Target LUN 0 0 Disable The options are available on this tab Enable Click the Enable button to enable SES Disable Click the Disable button to disable SES The SES client software is available at the following web site Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 119 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i SANtools http www santools com S M A R T S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance It provides users a chance to take actions before a possible drive failure Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology S M A R T Below is the current S M_A R T information for the drives attached to this device S_M A R T provides users with an opportunity to take action before possible drive failure Show information for Loca M Temperature Internal Case o M Slot HDD Rate Media Wea Reallocated Sec Erase Fail Unexpec
114. ents multiple people from administering the storage server at the same time Login Options Auto Logout Disable Login Lock Disable Admin Password Change Admin Password Change User Password Apply The options are available on this tab Auto Logout When the auto logout option is enabled you will be logged out of the admin interface after the time specified There are Disable default 5 minutes 30 minutes and 1 hour options Login Lock When the login lock is enabled the system allows only one user to login to the web Ul at a time There are Disable default and Enable options Change Admin Password Check it to change administrator password The maximum length of password is 12 alphanumeric characters Change User Password Check it to change user password The maximum length of password is 12 alphanumeric characters When it is done click Apply button Email Notification Settings The Email Notification Settings tab is used to enter up to three email addresses for receiving the event notifications Fill in the necessary fields and click Send Test Email button to test whether it is available Some email servers will check the mail from address and need the SMTP relay settings for authentication TIP e La Please make sure the DNS server IP is well setup in System Configuration gt Network Settings So the event notification emails can be sent successfully Copyright 2004 2014 Q
115. er specific functions such as dual active cache mirroring flexible RAID group ownership management management port seamless take over no system down time and etc are not available in Q500 XXX Sxxx and XXXXQ Sxxx series Package Contents The package contains the following items Qsan storage system x1 HDD trays x12 2U12 HDD trays x16 3U16 HDD trays x24 2U24 4U24 HDD trays x60 4U60 Power cords x2 2U12 2U24 3U16 Power cords x3 4U24 4U60 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 15 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa RS 232 cables x2 one is for console black color phone jack to DB9 female and the other is for UPS gray color phone jack to DB9 male AegisSAN LX LCM with USB x1 AegisSAN Q500 Rail kit x1 set Keys screws for drives and rail kit x1 packet Disk tool x1 4U60 Hardware This section provides basic information about the hardware components AegisSAN Q500 Series AegisSAN Q500 AegisSAN Q500 2U12bays 3U16bays EEEH 6606000 AegisSAN Q500 4U24bays AegisSAN V100 Series and JBOD J100 Series AegisSAN V100 and J100 AegisSAN V100 and J100 3U16bays 4U24bays AegisSAN LX Series and JBOD J300Q Series ET ETETE AegisSAN LX 212 and J300Q AegisSAN LX 316 and J300Q 2U12bays 3U16bays Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 16 Qsan Document
116. er to have access select one or multiple nodes If selecting none you can add it later by iSCSI Configuration gt iSCSI Nodes gt Users o Click OK button Challenge Handshake Authorization Protocol CHAP You can create CHAP users to protect your iSCSI targets from unauthorized access To create a user click on the Create User button below Users Access to Nodes The options are available after creating a CHAP account V gt Modify User Information Modify the selected CHAP user information e WV gt Delete User Delete the selected CHAP user Fibre Channel The Fibre Channel tab is used view the fibre channel information and change the link speed of FC It displays the Port ID Connection Mode Data Rate WWNN World Wide Node Name WWPN World Wide Port Name error count and the link status Show information for Controller 1 Name Port ID Connection Mode Data Rate WWNN WWPN Loss of Signal Loss of Sync Link Failure Invalid CRC Link el Poi 1 Arbitrated Loop 8 Gb s een itera nll npr 0 0 0 0 Up el Po 1 Arbitrated Loop 8 Gb s Weien Seeche 0 0 0 0 Up el pots 1 Arbitrated Loop 8 Gbis E AN 0 0 0 Up fy Pots 1 Arbitrated Loop 8 Gbis vibe pjene kdos 0 0 0 0 Up Ee The options are available on this tab Clear All Counters Clear all counters of all fibre channels V gt Change Link Speed There are Automatic 2 Gb s 4 Gb s 8 Gb s for Q500 F20 Q500 F21 F600Q Auto
117. espond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks Small Computer Systems Interface Serial Attached SCSI Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology World Wide Name Host Bus Adapter SCSI Enclosure Services Network Interface Card Battery Backup Module FC iSCSI SAS Terminology Item FC FC P2P FC AL FC SW iSCSI LACP MPIO MC S MTU CHAP ISNS SAS Description Fibre Channel Point to Point Arbitrated Loop Switched Fabric Internet Small Computer Systems Interface Link Aggregation Control Protocol Multi Path Input Output Multiple Connections per Session Maximum Transmission Unit Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol An optional security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI data ports Internet Storage Name Service Serial Attached SCSI Dual Controller Terminology Item SBB 6G MUX Description Storage Bridge Bay The objective of the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group SBB is to create a specification that defines mechanical electrical and low level enclosure management requirements for an enclosure controller slot that will support a variety of storage controllers from a variety of independent hardware vendors IHVs and system vendors Bridge board is for SATA II disk to support dual controller mode Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 200 Qsan Document User Manual Index A EE 93 Conn
118. f an application it s really hard to make the prediction correctly and precisely To avoid the complexity of adding more space to the volumes frequently IT administrators might as well allocate more storage space to each logical volume than it needs in the beginning This is why it s called fat provisioning Usually it turns out that a lot of free space is sitting around idle This stranded capacity is wasted which equals to waste of investment and inefficiency Various studies indicate that as much as 75 of the storage capacity in small and medium enterprises or large data centers is allocated but unused And this is where thin provisioning kicks in Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 134 Qsan Document User Manual vanes FALL unn EE UL Qsan Actual data Physical space Available space Traditional Fat Provisioning Thin provisioning sometimes is known as just in time capacity or over allocation As the term explains itself it provides storage space by requests dynamically Thin provisioning presents more storage space to the hosts or servers connecting to the storage system than is actually available on the storage system Put it in another way thin provisioning allocates storage space that may or may not exist The whole idea is actually another way of virtualization Virtualization is always about a logical pool of physical assets and provides better utilization over those asset
119. f any link is restored it will be added to the link group automatically The Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP is a part of IEEE specification 802 3ad It allows bundling several physical ports together to form a single logical channel A network switch negotiates an automatic bundle by sending LACP packets to the peer Theoretically LACP port can be defined as active or passive Qsan controller implements it as active mode which means that LACP port sends LACP protocol packets automatically Please notice that using the same configurations between Qsan controller and gigabit switch The usage occasion of LACP It s necessary to use LACP in a network environment of multiple switches When adding new devices LACP will separate the traffic to each path dynamically Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 144 Qsan Document User Manual Osa j i d Te S e ge L SS EEN a y 4 PHAN RRS HD shra didik ES lt Ce maman eon E am zap aE a e mm wm el eee A Oe Ei gt zima ee SAND 8 8 0 8 gt i Trunking Trunking is not a standard protocol It defines the usage of multiple iSCSI data ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any single port The usage occasion of Trunking This is a simple SAN environment There is only one switch to connect the server and storage And there is no extra server to be added in the future There is no idea
120. following table is the maximum JBOD numbers and maximum HDD numbers with different chassis can be cascaded AegisSAN Q500 Q500 P10 Q500 P20 Q500 F20 Q500 F21 Q500 F30 series RAID Storage Syste nmin D212 D316 D424 J300Q D212 no 20 20 19 SEAE MOr Zen J300Q D316 no 15 15 14 Err E SE e J300Q D424 no 10 10 9 a DOr e 5 2 AegisSAN V100 V100 P10 V100 P20 V100 F30 series RAID Storage System Osaa C316 C424 J100Q C316 no 11 10 EE EE a J100Q C424 no 7 7 e SS AegisSAN LX P400Q P600Q F600Q F630Q series RAID Storage System aaa D212 D316 D424 D460 J300Q D212 no 20 20 19 1 Ss oo J300Q D316 no 15 15 14 Saami o J300Q D424 no 10 10 9 uns EE EE BE eg Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 141 Qsan Document User Manual Ssa i J300Q D460 no 3 Max HDD no 240 Upgrade Firmware Before upgrade it recommends to use System maintenance gt Configuration Backup tab to export all configurations to a file To upgrade the firmware of JBOD please follow the procedures 1 In System Maintenance gt Upgrade tab select a JBOD first and then click Browse to select the firmware file JBOD Firmware Update Choose an JBOD Select the firmware file for the upgrade Browse Apply 2 Click Apply button it will pop up a warning message click OK button to start upgrading the JBOD firmware 3 After finished u
121. g well and there is no failed disk in Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 105 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j the RG Degraded At least one disk from the RG of the Virtual disk is failed or plugged out Failed the RAID group disk of the VD has single or multiple failed disks than its RAID level can recover from data loss Partially optimal the virtual disk has experienced recoverable read errors After passing parity check the health will become Optimal R Ratio of initializing or rebuilding RAID RAID level LUN Number of LUN s that virtual disk is attached Snapshot space The virtual disk size that is used for snapshot The number means Used GB or MB snapshot space Total snapshot space The unit can be displayed in GB or MB Snapshot Number of snapshot s that have been taken RAID Group The RAID group name of the virtual disk The options are available on this tab Create Create a virtual disk Cloning Options Set the clone options Detail is described in chapter 5 The options are available after creating a virtual disk WV gt Extend Extend the virtual disk capacity VY gt Set SSD Caching Set SSD caching for the virtual disk Detail is described in chapter 5 WV gt Verify Parity Execute parity check for the virtual disk It supports RAID 3 5 6 30 50 60 The options are o Verify and repair data inconsistencies o Only verify for data inc
122. hich handles a host write request 1 Request Write 3 Return Status Memory Cache 4 Populate Cache 2 Write to HDD The following steps describe details about a host write 1 A host requests a write data 2 Write data to the HDD 3 Return the status to the host 4 Populate the cache to SSD I O Type The type of I O access is a user selectable SSD cache configuration The user selectable I O type controls the SSD cache internal settings for cache block size sub block size populate on read threshold and populate on write threshold Three pre defined I O types are supported they are database file system and web service The user can select an I O type to set the SSD cache of a virtual disk When enabled SSD caching the user can also change it online But the cached data would be purged if the I O type is changed You may select the suitable I O types depends on the Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 174 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j application to get the best performance If the above three applications are not suitable the last item is customization which you may set the configurations by yourself I O Type Block Size Sub block Size Populate on Populate on Sectors Sectors Read Threshold Wrote Threshold Database 1MB 2 048 8KB 16 2 0 File System 2MB 4 096 16KB 32 2 2 Web Service 4MB 8 192 64KB 128 2 A Customization 1MB 2MB 4MB 8KB 16KB 64KB
123. his data inconsistent issue between snapshot and original data user has to make the operating system flush the data from memory of host write caching into disk before taking snapshot Host data UO route User modified data File System V 1 O Memory cache y y Physical Physical disk disk Fibre Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 152 op Qsan Document User Manual Osan On Linux and UNIX platform a command named sync can be used to make the operating system flush data from write caching into disk For Windows platform Microsoft also provides a tool sync which can do exactly the same thing as the sync command in Linux UNIX It will tell the OS to flush the data on demand For more detail about sync tool please refer to http technet microsoft com en us sysinternals bb897438 aspx Besides the sync tool Microsoft develops VSS volume shadow copy service to prevent this issue VSS is a mechanism for creating consistent point in time copies of data known as shadow copies It is a coordinator between backup software application SQL or Exchange and storages to make sure the snapshot without the problem of data inconsistent For more detail about the VSS please refer to http technet microsoft com en us library cc785914 aspx Qsan storage system can support Microsoft VSS What if the snapshot space is over Before using snapshot a snapshot space is needed from RAID group c
124. hot Space Threshold Restart the task an hour later if it failed W Enabled OK Cancel Snapshot Space This setting is the ratio of the source virtual disk and snapshot space If the ratio sets to 2 it means when the clone process is starting the system will book the free RAID group space to set as the snapshot space which capacity is double the source virtual disk automatically The options are 0 5 3 Threshold The setting will be effective after enabling schedule clone The threshold will monitor the usage amount of the snapshot space When the used snapshot space achieves the threshold system will take a snapshot and start clone process automatically The purpose of threshold could prevent the incremental copy failure immediately when running Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 156 a Qsan Document User Manual Osan out of the snapshot space For example the default threshold is 50 The system will check the snapshot space every hour When the snapshot space is used over 50 the system will start clone job automatically And then continue monitoring the snapshot space When the rest snapshot space has been used 50 in other words the total snapshot space has been used 75 the system will start clone job again Restart the task an hour later if failed The setting will be effective after enabling schedule clone When running out of the snapshot space the virtual disk clone proces
125. ing Set task shaping group Y gt Add Path Add multi path for the replication task VW gt Schedule Set the replication task by schedule WV gt Delete Delete the replication task The options are available after creating a replication task in the Task Path table V gt Add Connection Add a connection of the replication task VY gt Delete Connection Delete the connection for the replication task VY gt Delete Delete multi path of the replication task More detail is described in chapter 5 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 115 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Enclosure Management The Enclosure Management menu option is for accessing the Hardware Monitor UPS SES and S M A R T option tabs Hardware Monitor UPS SES S MLAR T For the enclosure management there are many sensors for different purposes such as temperature sensors voltage sensors hard disk status fan sensors power sensors and LED status Due to the different hardware characteristics among these sensors they have different polling intervals Below are the details of the polling time intervals Temperature sensors 1 minute Voltage sensors 1 minute Hard disk sensors 10 minutes Fan sensors 10 seconds When there are 3 errors consecutively system sends ERROR event log Power sensors 10 seconds when there are 3 errors consecutively system sends ERROR e
126. ing sequence offsets The default value is Yes DataPDU InOrder DataPDU InOrder Data PDU in Order determines if the data PDUs within sequences are to be in order and overlays forbidden The default value is Yes The options are available on this tab Y gt Connection Details It can list all connection s of the selected session Connection No Initiator IP Initiator name MaxRecvDataSegLen MaxTransDataSegLen Authentication 1 192 168 10 121 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft qsan 16384 65536 No OK V gt Disconnect Disconnect the selected session click OK button to confirm CHAP Accounts The CHAP Account tab is used to manage the CHAP accounts on the system The options are available on this tab Create User Create a CHAP user Create Create a CHAP User Enter the required information below to create a new CHAF user If you would like this CHAF user to have access to more than one node then you can use the control key Windows and Linux or the command key Mac to select multiple nodes User Name chapi Max 223 Secret SoS e0 08088 Min 12 Max 16 Re type Secret Seeseeeseeeg Min 12 Max 16 Nodes 0 1 A d A 4 3 5 Fi H w 9 OK Cancel Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 94 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j o Enter the required information for User Name Secret and Re type Secret o If you would like this CHAP us
127. ing the default will do just fine TIP e La If iSCSI ports are assigned with VLAN ID before creating aggregation takes place aggregation will remove VLAN ID You need to repeat the steps to set VLAN ID for the aggregation group Y gt iSCSI IP Address Settings It can assign an iSCSI IP address of the iSCSI data port There are two options Use DHCP to acquire an IP address automatically or Specify a Static IP Address to set the IP address manually Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 87 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j iSCSI IP Address Settings You can select DHCP to acquire an IP address automatically or select Static to specify an IP address manually Use DHCP Specify a Static IP Address IP Address 10 0 0 1 Subnet Mask 259 259 299 0 Gateway 10 0 0 254 V gt Make Default Gateway Set the gateway of the IP address as default gateway There can be only one default gateway To remove the default gateway click W gt Remove Default Gateway VY gt Enable jumbo frames It can enable the MTU Maximum Transmission Unit size The maximum jumbo frame size is 3900 bytes To disable jumbo frames click W gt Disable Jumbo Frames CAUTION VLAN ID jumbo frames for both the switching hub and HBA on host must be enabled Otherwise the LAN connection cannot work properly V gt Ping host It can verify the port connection from a target to the corres
128. irtual disk In Virtual Disks tab selects the Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Enter a Size which is reserved for the snapshot space and then click OK button Name Size GB Write Priority Bg Rate Type v TargetVD 10 WB HI 4 BACKUP Figure 4 Target Side Cache Mode O write through Cache D write back Cache Priority High Priority O Medium Priority O Low Priority Bg Rate 4 N D Read Ahead Enabled N D AV Media Mode Disabled ba Erase Do Not Erase iv Disk Type RAID OK Cancel Figure 1 Source Side 2 backup virtual disk And then click W gt Set Snapshot Space 3 4 Attach LUN of the source and target virtual disk separately Name Size GB Write Priority Bg Rate Type v SourceVD 10 WB HI 4 RAID Figure 3 Source Side SR In QReplicas tab of the source side click Create button 6 Select a target virtual disk and then click Next button 159 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa QReplica Select a Source Virtual Disk first lt pre 1 Name Size GB Status RAID LUN Snapshot RAID Group SourceVD 10 Online RAID5 1 0 R5 1 Next gt gt Cancel 7 Select the Source Port and input the Target IP and then click Next button QReplica Select Target IP Address Source Port LAN1 Target IP 10 0 0 2 Next gt gt Cancel 8 Select Authentication Method and input the CHAP user if needed Select a T
129. irtual disk if there is enough free space Take an example of extending the virtual disk 1 Select Volume Configuration gt Virtual Disks 2 Select a virtual disk and then click W gt Extend Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 133 QThin Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i 3 Change the virtual disk size The size must be larger than the current and then click OK button to start extension Extend Enter the size that you would like to extend this virtual disk to and press OK The size must be larger than the current size of the virtual disk Virtual Disk Size 10 GB Free Space 3 20 GB OK Cancel 4 Extension starts If the virtual disk needs initialization it will display the status Initiating and the complete percentage of initialization in R TIP pa The extension size must be larger than the current size of the virtual disk CAUTION Extension cannot be executed during rebuilding or migration Nowadays thin provisioning is a hot topic people talk about in IT management and storage industry To make contrast to thin provisioning it naturally brings to our minds with the opposite term fat provisioning which is the traditional way IT administrators allocate storage space to each logical volume that is used by an application or a group of users When it comes to the point to decide how much space a logical volume requires for three years or for the lifetime o
130. isabled 00 13 78 bb 38 82 1 Gbps ISS LAN2 No N A N A No 10 0 0 2 255 255 255 0 10 0 0 254 Disabled 00 13 78 bb 38 83 Down Be LAN3 No N A N A No 10 0 0 3 255 255 255 0 10 0 0 254 Disabled 00 13 78 bb 38 84 Down Be LAN4 No N A N A No 10 0 0 4 255 255 255 0 10 0 0 254 Disabled 00 13 78 bb 38 85 Down Ea LAN5 No N A N A No 10 0 0 5 255 255 255 0 10 0 0 254 Disabled 00 13 78 bb 38 86 Down This figure shows six iSCSI data ports These data ports are set up with a static IP address For the other controllers that can be set up the same way The options are available on this tab V gt iSCSI Bonding Settings The default mode of each iSCSI data port is individually connected without any bonding Trunking and LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol settings can be setup here At least two iSCSI data ports must be checked for iSCSI bonding Network Bonding Settings Network Bonding settings Select the network interfaces that Bonding Method IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway Network Setup ou would like to bond tog IR Trunking LACH 100 0 0 1 KR EK 10 0 0 254 Wani Wian Cians Oiana Cians CILAne o Trunking Configures multiple iSCSI ports to be grouped together into one in order to increase the connection speed beyond the limit of a single iSCSI port o LACP The Link Aggregation Control Protocol is part of IEEE specification 802 3ad that allows bonding several physical ports together to form a single
131. ision id fail SATA set reg fail SATA init fail SATA diag fail Mode ID fail SATA chip count error SAS port reply error SAS unknown port reply error FC port reply error FC unknown port reply error Port linkup Port linkdown Type Power install Power absent Power restore Power fail Power detect Fan restore Fan fail Fan install Fan not present Fan over speed Thermal level 1 Thermal level 2 Thermal level 2 shutdown Thermal level 2 CTR shutdown Thermal ignore value Voltage level 1 Voltage level 2 Voltage level 2 shutdown Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved SQsan Received SCSI Bus Reset event at the SCSI Bus lt number gt SCSI Host allocation failed Failed to enable the SATA pci device Failed to allocate memory for SATA EDMA Failed to remap SATA memory io space Failed to init SATA PRD memory manager Failed to get SATA revision id Failed to set SATA register Core failed to initialize the SATA adapter SATA Adapter diagnostics failed SATA Mode ID failed SATA Chip count error SAS HBA port lt number gt reply terminated abnormally SAS frontend reply terminated abnormally FC HBA port lt number gt reply terminated abnormally FC frontend reply terminated abnormally The Port lt number gt link status is changed to Up The Port lt number gt link status is changed to Down Description Power lt string gt is installed Power lt string gt is absent Po
132. isk iSCSI and Fibre Channel This option is only visible when it is fibre channel model option tabs Disk iSCSI Fibre Channel The Disk provides to display the throughput and latency of the physical disk Check the slots which you want to monitor Show disk for Local Jl Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 Slot 9 Slot 10 Slot 11 Slot 12 Slot 17 Slot 18 Slot 19 Slot 20 Slot 1 40000 Au 30000 J a E 20000 2 E 10000 0 D Throughput 21892KB ES Latency 41 ms Slot 4 40000 4 30000 a S 20000 S F vm 0 E Throughput 22636 KB E Latency Slot 7 An 30000 Throughpu H S 8 CO Slot 10 ER iSCSI Slot 5 Slot 6 Slot 7 Slot 8 Slot 13 Slot 14 Slot 15 Slot 16 Slot 21 Slot 22 Siot23 O Slot 24 Slot 2 Slot 3 1000 40000 1000 40000 1000 750 4 30000 750 30000 750 E E B E soo BR 2000 am 8 2000 SS 3 E 2 E e 2 250 10000 250 10000 250 o o 0 D 0 D Throughput 21732K5 E Latency 39 ms D Throughput 23604KB Ei Latency 39 ms Slot 5 Slot 6 1000 40000 1000 40000 1000 750 d 30000 750 4 30000 750 5 5 8 5 soo g S 20000 50 S 20000 sm S e 2 E ZS 3 250 10000 i 250 10000 250 kee geneet 0 0 0 0 0 E Throughput 18902KB E Latency 24 ms D Throughput 22698 KB E Latency 44 ms Slot 8 Slot 9 1000 750 amp 500 g 2 250 oe c H o E Throughput 4352KB E Latency 20 ms Slot 11 Slot 12 30000 1000 25000 4 750 20000 S s 2 15000 500 Q
133. ives through the boards SAS Drive SATA Drive Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 22 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j The front of each disk tray has four components This table provides details about the front components of a disk tray Number Description 1 Power LED Green Drive is inserted and good Red Drive fails Off No drive in the tray 2 Access LED Blue blinking The drive is being accessed Off The drive is not being accessed or no drive in the tray 3 Tray removal handle Latch to release the tray AegisSAN V100 Series and JBOD J100 Series 3U16 4U24 The front of each disk tray has four components This table provides details about the front components of a disk tray Number Description 1 Power LED Green Drive is inserted and good Red Drive fails Off No drive in the tray 2 Access LED Blue blinking The drive is being accessed Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 23 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Off The drive is not being accessed or no drive in the tray 3 Tray removal handle 4 Latch to release the tray and tray lock AegisSAN LX Series and JBOD J300Q Series 4U60 1 Prepare the HDD side brackets Remove them from the dummy disk by pushing the upper sides of the dummy disk as shown below Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 24 Je Qsa
134. j Take an example to set the physical disk to dedicated spare disk 1 Check W gt Set Dedicated Spare at one physical disk Set Dedicated Spare No Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Disks Used Number of Virtual Disk Status Health RAID OK Cancel 2 If there is any RAID group which is in protected RAID level and can be set with dedicate spare disk select one RAID group and then click OK button TIP e La In AegisSAN Q500 and AegisSAN LX the maximum number of physical drives in a system is 256 RAID Groups The RAID Groups tab provides to create modify delete or view the status of the RAID groups Use the drop down list at the top to change the drive size units MB or GB Select the traditional RAID group it displays on the following Show RAID size in GB Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Disks Used Number of Virtual Disk Status Health RAID Current Controller Preferred Controller v R0 1862 1862 1862 Disabled 1 0 Online Good RAIDO Controller 1 Controller 1 v R1 1862 1862 1862 Enabled 2 0 Online Good RAID 1 Controller 1 Controller 1 This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description Name RAID group name Total GB or MB Total capacity of the RAID group The unit can be displayed in GB or MB Free Capacity Free capacity of the RAID group The unit can be displayed in GB or MB GB
135. l Units and QReplicas option tabs AUER ed RAID Groups Virtual Disks Snapshots Logical Units QReplicas Physical Disks The Physical Disks tab provides the status of the hard drives in the system The two drop down lists at the top enable you to switch between the local system and any expansion JBOD systems attached The other is to change the drive size units MB or GB Show disk for Local Show disk size in Ge Y Slot Size GB RAID Group RAID Set Virtual Disk Status Health Usage Vendor Serial Number Rate Write Cache Standby Read Anead Command Queuing 1 1862 NWA NIA Online Good Free WDC WD WCAVY 4158095 SATA 6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled 1862 NWA NIA Online Good Free WDC WD WCAVY3924333 SATA 6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled EEE 3 446 N A NIA Online Good Free INTEL CVWL414500UZ480QGN SATA SSD 60Gbs Enabled Disabled Enabled Enabled Disk Health Check This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description Slot The position of a hard drive The button next to the number of slot shows the functions which can be executed Size GB or MB Capacity of hard drive The unit can be displayed in GB or MB RAID Group RAID group name RAID Set The number of RAID Set N A The RAID group is traditional provisioning Number The RAID group is the number of RAID set of thin provisioning Virtual Disk Virtual disk name for SSD caching Status The status of the hard drive
136. l disk Take an example of creating a virtual disk Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 107 I C a e Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Click Create button Create a Virtual Disk Virtual Disk Name Data Storage Size Stripe Size KB Block Size Bytes Cache Mode write through Cache Write back Cache DI Priority High Priority Medium Priority Low Priority Bg Rate 4 DI Read Ahead Enabled D AV Media Mode Disabled Space Reclaim Enabled Disk Type RAID Backup Target OK Cancel Enter a Virtual Disk Name for the virtual disk Select a Data Storage from the drop down list Enter required Size Optionally configure the following O Stripe Size KB The options are 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB The default value is 64KB Block Size Bytes The options are 512 to 65536 The default value is 512 bytes Cache Mode The options are Write through Cache and Write back Cache The default value is Write back Cache Priority The options are High Medium and Low Priority The default value is High priority Bg Rate Background task priority The higher number the background priority of a virtual disk has the more background UO will be scheduled to execute The options are 0 to 4 The default value is 4 Read Ahead The system will discern what data will be needed next based on what was just retrieved form disk and then preload this data into the di
137. l disk It will only take up the just the right amount of space to store the data not the full size of the virtual disk Convert traditional virtual disk to QThin and vice versa You can enjoy the benefits of QThin right now and right this moment Move all your existing fat provisioned virtual disks to thin provisioned ones Virtual disk clone function can be performed on both directions fat to thin and thin to fat depending on your application needs Figure 5 shows cloning a fat virtual disk to a thin one Fat VD 1000 WB RAID N A N A HI 4 Cie e a Ee Select a Virtual Disk Target lt lt first lt prev 1 next gt Name Size GB Status Health RAID RAID Group Thin VD 1000 Online Optimal RAID 0 Thin RG Figure 5 Clone between thin virtual disk and fat one QThin Options The following describes the thin provisioning options Threshold settings and capacity policies These are designed to simplify the management and better monitoring the storage usage You can set as many as 16 policies for each RAID group When space usage ratio grows over the threshold set in the policy the action will be taken and event log will be generated Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 138 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Disks Used Disabled Enabled RAID Set Free Size GB Disks Use
138. linking red please enable Tools gt Internet Options gt Advanced gt Play animations in webpages options in IE The default value is enabled but some applications disable it How to Use the Guided Configurations To help users get started quickly two guided configuration tools are available in the Web UI and LCM Quick Installation guides you a easy way to create a volume Volume Creation Wizard Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 68 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i provides a smarter policy to help users to create a volume If you are an advanced user you can skip these steps Quick Installation Tool This tool guides you through the process of setting up basic array information configuring network settings and the creation of a volume on the storage system Please make sure that it has some free hard drives installed in the system SAS drivers are recommended eeh sel RAID Groups Virtual Disks Snapshots Logical Units QReplicas Show disk for Local V Show disk size in sel Slot Size GB RAID Group RAID Set Status Health Usage Vendor Serial Number Rate Write Cache Standby Read Ahead Command Queuing v 1 1862 N A Online Good Free WDC WD WCAVY4158095 SATA6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled v 2 1862 N A Online Good Free WDC WD WCAVY3924333 SATA 6 0Gb s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled kd 3 1862 N A Online Good Free WDC WD WCAVY4118479 SATA6 0Gb
139. ll MPIO infrastructures are shared among all SCSI transports including Fiber Channel SAS etc MPIO is the most common usage across all OS vendors The primary difference between these two is which level the redundancy is maintained MPIO creates multiple iSCSI sessions with the target storage Load balance and failover occurs between the multiple sessions MC S creates multiple connections within a single iSCSI session to manage load balance and failover Notice that iSCSI connections and sessions are different than TCP IP connections and sessions The above figures describe the difference between MPIO and MC S There are some considerations when user chooses MC S or MPIO for multi path 1 If user uses hardware iSCSI off load HBA then MPIO is the only one choice 2 If user needs to specify different load balance policies for different LUNs then MPIO should be used J If user installs anyone of Windows XP Windows Vista or Windows 7 MC S is the only option since Microsoft MPIO is supported Windows Server editions only 4 MC S can provide higher throughput than MPIO in Windows system but it consumes more CPU resources than MPIO Trunking and LACP LACP Link aggregation is the technique of taking several distinct Ethernet links to let them appear as a single link It has a larger bandwidth and provides the fault tolerance ability Beside the advantage of wide bandwidth the I O traffic remains operating until all physical links fail I
140. lowing Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 157 Qsan Document User Manual Check threshold every hour Run out of snapshot space Auto delete old clone snapshot Auto restart an hour later Qsan E VD Clone gt Schedule clone Manually start clone by user Run out of snapshot space Manually release snapshot space Restart clone QReplicas by user Start clone process with fully copy Done QReplicas function can replicate data easily through LAN or WAN from one system to another Here is the replication operation At the beginning copy all data from the source virtual disk to target It is also called full copy Afterwards use snapshot technology to perform the incremental copy Please be fully aware that the incremental copy needs to use snapshot to compare the data difference Therefore the enough snapshot space for the virtual disk is very important Of course replication task can also be set as schedule The following table is the comparison with QReplica 1 0 and 2 0 QReplica 2 0 starts from AegisSAN LX FW 3 2 0 and AegisSAN Q500 FW 1 1 0 Replication port Tasks per controller MPIO MC S Traffic shaping Traffic shaping scheduling V2 0 Any iSCSI data port AegisSAN LX 32 tasks AegisSAN Q500 16 task
141. lure for stripe number lt address gt in VD lt name gt Recoverable read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt Recoverable write error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt Unrecoverable read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt Unrecoverable write error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of VD lt name gt Config read failed at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of PD lt slot gt Config write failed at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of PD lt slot gt Failed to change size of the global cache The global cache is ok Failed to create the global cache Assign PD lt slot gt to be the dedicated spare disk of RG lt name gt Assign PD lt slot gt to Global Spare Disks Read error occurred at LBA lt address gt lt address gt of PD lt slot gt 181 Qsan Document User Manual WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING INFO WARNING ERROR ERROR ERROR PD write error Scrub wrong parity Scrub data recovered Scrub recovered data Scrub parity recovered PD freed RG imported RG restored VD restored PD scrub started Disk scrub finished Large RG created Weak RG created RG size shrunk VD erase finished VD erase failed VD erase started RG disk missing PD VD read write fault
142. matic 4 Gb s 8 Gb s 16 Gb s for Q500 F30 V100 F30 F630Q options The default and recommended setting is to automatically detect the data rate Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 95 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Data Rate Select the data rate for Port 4 on Controller 1 below The default and recommended setting is for the array to automatically detect the data rate Data Rate Automatic Data Rate Select the data rate for Port 1 on Controller 1 below The default and recommended setting is for the array to automatically detect the data rate Automatic 4 Gb s 8 Gb s poe PORE 16 Gb s OK Cancel gt N TIP w e D La Please be aware that there is no Automatic in Q500 F20 model And Q500 F21 doesn t support automatic link speed negotiation WV gt Change Connection Mode There are Loop Point to Point Fabric options For Q500 F30 V100 F30 F630Q model 16Gb link speed supports Point to Point mode only Connection Mode Change Connection Mode Connection Mode OK Cancel o Point to Point FC P2P Two devices are connected directly to each other This is the simplest topology with limited connectivity o Loop Arbitrated Loop FC AL In this design all devices are in a loop or ring similar to token ring networking Adding or removing a device from the loop causes all activity on the loop to be interrupted The failure of on
143. n Document User Manual Osa j 2 Place the brackets on both sides of the disk drive and secure them with screws 3 Place the slotted flat head screw H Su ec 4 Place the drive carefully in the disk slot 5 Fix the disk drive using the disk tool that is included in the package Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 25 Qsan Document User Manual 6 Repeat the same steps for the rest of the disks TIP e D La You can use also the disk tool to remove the disk drive in the disk slot 3TB 6G MUX Board Limitation AegisSAN Q500 Series and AegisSAN LX Series Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 26 Qsan Document User Manual Qsan System JBOD Single upgradable Dual Single Dual Q500 XXX Sxxx Q500 XXX Dxxx F600Q Sxxx F600Q Dxxx P400Q Sxxx P400Q Dxxx P600Q Sxxx P600Q Dxxx J300Q Cxxx J300Q Dxxx lt 2TB SATA No 6G MUX board No 6G MUX board gt 2TB SATA No 6G MUX board No 6G MUX board lt 2TB SAS No No No No gt 2TB SAS No No No No HDD Type 6G MUX Board 3G MUX Board 3TB 2794 GB 2794 GB SATA 6Gb s SATA 6Gb s SATA 3Gb s SATA SATA 3Gb s SATA 6Gb s SATA 3Gb s SATA 1 5Gb s SATA 6Gb s SATA 1 5Gb s Without MUX Board 3TB 2794 GB SAS SAS 6Gb s SAS 6Gb s SAS 3Gb s SAS 3Gb s Rear View There are several various chassis available The following examples show the AegisSAN Q500 P10 AegisSAN V100 P10 and AegisSAN LX P400Q series AegisSAN
144. nable SSD caching Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 176 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Policy Cache Block Size Sub block Size Populate on read Threshold Populate on write Threshold Selected Disks Constraint Here are some constraints about SSD caching Only SSD could be used SSD caching space of a virtual disk A SSD could be assigned to one and only one virtual disk as its caching space Up to 8 SSDs could be used as SSD cache of a virtual disk Support up to 2 4TB of SSD caching space in one system Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 177 Qsan Document User Manual Troubleshooting System Buzzer Qsan The system buzzer features are listed below The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error occurred The alarm will be stopped after error resolved or be muted The alarm will be muted automatically when the error is resolved E g when RAID 5 is degraded and alarm rings immediately user changes adds one physical disk for rebuilding When the rebuilding is done the alarm will be muted automatically Event Notifications Physical Disk Events Level Type INFO PD inserted WARNING PD removed ERROR HDD read error ERROR HDD write error ERROR HDD error ERROR HDD IO timeout INFO PD upgrade started INFO PD upgr
145. nal AegisSAN V100 o V100 P10 P20 F30 Gigabit switches recommended Or Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional o V100 P20 10 Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional o V100 F30 Fibre Channel switches optional AegisSAN LX o P400Q P600Q Gigabit switches recommended Or Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional o P600Q 10 Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional o F600Q F630Q Fibre Channel switches optional CHAP security information including CHAP username and secret optional For dual controller systems it is recommended that the host logon to the target twice both Controller 1 and Controller 2 and then the MPIO should setup automatically For an iSCSI dual controller system install an iSNS server on the same storage area network recommended Drive Slot Numbering The drives can be installed into any slot in the enclosure Slot numbering is reflected in Web Ul 2U12 Slot 10 Slot 11 Slot 12 3U16 Slot 13 Slot 12 Slot 16 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 45 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i 4U24 Jefes D I Boo BEE AY TIF La Install at least one drive in Slot 1 to 4 marked gray slots System event logs are saved in these drives Otherwise event logs no longer exist after a reboot System Installation and Deployment AegisSAN Q500 Series Using the followi
146. ndby It s to enable or disable the auto spin down function of hard drives when this option is enabled and hard drives have no I O access after certain period of time they will spin down automatically The default value is Disabled Read Ahead It s to enable or disable the read ahead function The default value is Enabled Command Queuing It s to enable or disable the hard drives command queue function The default value is Enabled 6 Atthe confirmation dialog click OK button to create the RAID group In AegisSAN Q500 AegisSAN V100 and AegisSAN LX the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID group is 64 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 104 Qsan Document User Manual Virtual Disks GQOsan The Virtual Disks tab provides to create modify delete or view the status of the virtual disk Use the drop down list at the top to change the drive size units MB or GB Show disk size in Co Y 1 Name Size GB Y VD 01 10 Disable v VD 02 20 Database SSD Caching Write Priority Bg Rate Type Clone Schedule Clone Status Health R RAID LUN Snapshot Space GB Snapshot RAID Group WB HI 4 RAID NA NIA Online Optimal RAIDO o oro 0 RO WB HI 4 RAID N A N A Online Optimal RAIDO 0 oo 0 RO Create Cionang Opbons This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Name Size GB or MB SSD Caching Write Priority Bg Rate Type Clone Schedule Clone Status He
147. ng QVSSClient F Format the disk and assign a drive letter S This volume is a Virtual disk which comes from Qsan storage system Click Start gt All Programs gt QSAN gt QVSSClient to run the application 2 Click Create button It will take a snapshot via VSS 3 Are you sure to create a snapshot for volume Gi OReplica Delete Expose Schedule Exit 3 During Qsan VSS Hardware Provider is in operation the volume icon will be displayed in yellow Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 196 a Qsan Document User Manual Osa i Sl ovSSclient 4 Observe the event log on the Qsan storage system there is an associated snapshot through VSS INFO EA 12 Nov 2010 16 34 55 LUN 61 is s attached to VD INFO Fri 12 Nov 2010 16 34 54 VD has been created INFO Fri 12 Nov 2010 16 34 51 A snapshot on VD VSS_ 2 has been taken INFO Fri 12 Nov 2010 16 34 E Set the snapshot space of VD VSS_2 to 204806 MB 5 Select the No 1 column and click Expose button then select a folder The snapshot will expose to a directory as a disk image format ovssclient 6 Click Schedule button to enable taking snapshots by schedule Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 197 a Qsan Document User Manual 8 Schedule 7 Click
148. ng figure for snapshot concept Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 148 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Osan S or P series Osan 5 or P series Volume Snapshot Volume 2pm y Transactional Rollback MS Exchange MS Exchange at ri a MS Exchange Servar Server Server S Vinia Snapshot Copy GT x Snapshot Copy Wa Virtue Snapshot Copy Services Services Services RPO 15 mins RTO 25 s 2 00 PM fenns 5 DN a_t 40 PM Take a Snapshot Take an example of taking a snapshot 1 Before taking a snapshot it must reserve some storage space for saving variant data There are two methods to set snapshot space In Virtual Disks tab selects a virtual disk And then click YW gt Set Snapshot Space or in Snapshots tab click Set Snapshot Space button Set Snapshot Space Virtual Disk cp Available 3595GB size 30 Minimum 4GB Free Capacity 3565GB 2 Enter a Size which is reserved for the snapshot space and then click OK button The minimum size is suggested to be 20 of the virtual disk size Now there are two numbers in Snapshot Space GB column in Virtual Disks tab They mean used snapshot space and total Snapshot space 3 There are two methods to take snapshot In Virtual Disks tab selects a virtual disk And then click W gt Take a Snapshot or in Snapshots tab click Take a Snapshot button 4 Enter a Snapshot Name 5 Click OK
149. ng instructions to install and deploy the storage system Install BBM Battery Backup Module for AegisSAN Q500 series models In all Q500 models BBM is not attached to the controller cage AegisSAN Q500 2U12 chassis o For 2U12 model BBM is located inside the right PSU PSU2 module Release the PSU2 latch and plug out Flip to the back side O aat afatan BH a eieieieiee Gage m b s ag S P _ H e co E i ee 20 9 0 8 Ze we j 2 8 09 90 8 efefef Zefe e CC i Safe Befef Seer SE ss e L L Seer Sese COSL o ecet o eaten LL Go ee ases ss l We ee Befefasefefef aa Se Zefefafefef e Befefafefef D 2 0 Sefesesese Befefefef PSU2 OD D Ak Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 46 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j o Release the screws Connect the BBM into the PSU Be careful that do not touch the golden finger of the PSU when the BBM is connected o Plug it in the chassis CAUTION Please do not touch the golden finger of the PSU when the BBM is connected AegisSAN Q500 3U16 and 4U24 chassis o For 3U16 and 4U24 models BBM module is located between two controller cages BBM module is inserted into the system chassis and connected to the backplane DOPTE KE t Gi EEN AZ Cecccccccccccccccs E 000000000000000000 2 VM E ei g Go L y CMa c
150. o J300Q Dxxx SS Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx EEN RS 232 cable ae SAS cable AegisSAN Q500 P20 iSNS server Management Recom PC mended APC Smart UPS Optional 10 GbE switch CIC Switch LILI To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 49 Qsan Document User Manual Osa i AegisSAN Q500 P21 iSNS server Management Recom PC mended APC Smart UPS Optional 10 GbE switch To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable CAT 6 cable AegisSAN Q500 F20 F30 Management PC APC Smart UPS Optional To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 50 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j AegisSAN Q500 F21 Management RS 232 APC Smart UPS Optional FC switch ri Switch iS 1L LMM To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To J300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable AegisSAN V100 Series Using the following instructions to install and deploy the storage system Install the Rail Kit onto the unit and insert it into the rack CAUTION The system is very heavy It s recommend that a mechanical lifter or at least two persons be used to raise and align the system to prevent injury during installation Use care when inserting or
151. of slave controller is always changed to match the firmware of the master Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 124 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j controller It doesn t matter if the firmware version of slave controller is newer or older than that of the master Normally the firmware versions in both controllers are the same The firmware versions are the same between the two controllers If the firmware versions between two controllers are different it will display the following message Click Apply button to synchronize The firmware versions are different between the two controllers To copy controller one s firmware to controller Two click the Apply button below TIP e La This tab is only visible when the dual controllers are installed A single controller system does not have this option Reset to Factory Defaults The Reset to factory defaults tab allows users to reset the system configurations back to the factory default settings Click the Reset button below to reset the system to the factory defaults Reset The default values are Management IP Address 192 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 Configuration Backup The Configuration Backup is used to either save system configuration export or apply a saved configuration import Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 125 Qsan Document User Manual
152. of using LACP or Trunking uses Trunking first There is a request of monitoring the traffic on a trunk in switch miig ee samm LU OO Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 145 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i CAUTION Before using trunking or LACP the gigabit switch must support either trunking or LACP Otherwise host cannot connect the link with storage device Dual Controllers The Qsan storage system supports dual controllers of the same type for redundancy Controller 1 CTRL 1 is the master controller and controller 2 CTRL 2 is the slave by default CAUTION If you try to increase the system memory and running in dual controller mode please make sure both controllers have the same DIMM on each corresponding memory slot Failing to do so will result in controller malfunction which will not be covered by warranty Be aware that when the LED of the Controller Health is in RED please DO NOT unplug the controller from the system or turn off the power suddenly This may cause unrecoverable damage which will not be covered by warranty Perform I O Please refer to the following topology and have all the connections ready To perform I O on dual controllers server host should setup MPIO MPIO policy will keep I O running and prevent fail connection with single controller failure The following example shows the P400Q Dxxx series iSNS server Management Recom PC mended
153. on Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 188 Qsan Document User Manual Quick Connect Connect 4 It can connect to an iSCSI disk now Setup MPIO 1 If running MPIO please continue iSCSI Initiator Properties 2 Click Discovery tab to connect the second path 3 Click Discover Portal button Enter the IP address or DNS name of the target iSCSI Initiator Properties 192 168 21 1 3260 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Discover Target Portal 189 4 iSCSI Initiator Properties xi 5 6 7 m Qsan Document User Manual Click OK button Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration i M Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then click Quick Connect Discovered targets Refresh ign 2004 08 tw com qsan devO ctri Connected ign 2004 08 tw com qsan devO ctr2 Inactive To connect using advanced options select a target and then click Connect For configuration of devices associated with a target select Devices the target and then click Devices _ Target Quick Connect To completely disconnect a target select the target and Disconnect then click Disconnect _ For target properties including configuration of sessions Properties
154. on of equipment nameplate ratings should be used when addressing this concern 5 Reliable Earthing Reliable earthing of rack mounted equipment should be maintained Particular attention should be given to supply connections other than direct connections to the branch circuit e g use of power strips CAUTION The main purpose of the handles is for rack mount use only Do not use the handles to carry or transport the systems The ITE is not intended to be installed and used in a home school or public area accessible to the general population and the thumbscrews should be tightened with a tool after both initial installation and subsequent access to the panel Warning Remove all power supply cords before service This equipment intended for installation in restricted access location Access can only be gained by SERVICE PERSONS or by USERS who have been instructed about the reasons for the restrictions applied to the location and about any precautions that shall be taken Access is through the use of a TOOL or lock and key or other means of security and is controlled by the authority responsible for the location Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 5 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i CAUTION English Risk of explosion if battery is replaced by incorrect type Please replace the same or equivalent type battery use and dispose of used batteries according to the instructions ATTENTION
155. on portal is disabled VD lt name gt starts replication process VD lt name gt finished replication process The replication in VD lt name gt failed The replication in VD lt name gt was aborted VD lt name gt has been configured as a replica VD lt name gt has been configured as a RAID volume The replica of VD lt name gt has been designated The replica of VD lt name gt is no longer designated Auto QReplica task QReplica is not enabled for VD lt name gt Auto QReplica task lt string gt Auto QReplica task Snapshot lt name gt is not found for VD lt name gt Remote VD lt name gt starts replicating to VD lt name gt Remote VD lt name gt finished replication to VD lt name gt 186 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i INFO Source replicate Remote VD lt name gt failed replication to VD lt name gt failed INFO Source replicate Remote VD lt name gt aborted replication to VD lt name gt aborted QThin Events Level Type Description WARNING RG threshold hit The used capacity of RG lt name gt exceeds lt number gt percent INFO RAID set created RAID set lt number gt has been added into RG lt name gt INFO RAID set deleted RAID set lt number gt was deleted from RG lt name gt INFO VD reclaim started VD lt name gt starts space reclamation process INFO VD reclaim VD lt name gt finished space reclamation process completed WARNING VD reclaim The space reclamation in VD lt
156. onsistencies Stop verifying when 1 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 inconsistencies have been found Y gt Delete Delete the virtual disk V gt Set Properties Change the virtual disk name cache mode priority bg rate read ahead AV media mode and type o Cache Mode v Write through Cache A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored in non volatile media Each data is synchronized in both data cache and accessed physical disks v Write back Cache 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 speeds up system write performance but needs to bear the risk where data may be in consistent between data cache and the physical disks in one short time interval Default v Read Only Set the volume to be read only any write request is forbidden o Priority Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 106 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa v High Priority Default v Medium Priority v Low Priority Bg Rate Y 4 3 2 1 0 Default value is 4 The higher number the background priority of a virtual disk has the more background I O will be scheduled to execute o Read Ahead v Enabled The system will discern what data will be needed next based on what was just retrieved form disk and then preload this data into
157. op up a warning message click OK button to confirm Recommend iSNS Server In addition iSNS server is recommended It s important for keeping I O running smoothly when the ownership of the RAID group is switching or one of the dual controllers fails For example of without iSNS server when the controller 1 fails the running I O from host to controller 1 may fail because the host switches to new portal is slower at the moment and it may cause I O time out With iSNS server this case would not happen N TIF La iSNS server is recommended for dual controller system of iSCSI interfaces Snapshots Snapshot on the box captures the instant state of data in the target volume in a logical sense The underlying logic is Copy on Write moving out the data which would be written to certain location where a write action occurs since the time of data capture The certain location named as Snapshot virtual disk is essentially a new virtual disk which can be attached to a LUN provisioned to a host as a disk like other ordinary virtual disks in the system Rollback restores the data back to the state of any time which was previously captured in case for any unfortunate reason it might be e g virus attack data corruption human errors and so on Snapshot virtual disk is allocated within the same RAID group in which the snapshot is taken we suggest to reserve 20 of the RAID group size or more for snapshot space Please refer to the followi
158. option Maximize the size of the RAID group or manual option Select the number of disks to use From the drop down list select either the RAID Group capacity combination desired Click Next button to proceed Volume Creation Wizard Step 2 You can either have the enclosure automatically maximize the size of your RAID group based on the available disks or you can select the number of disks that you would like to include Note The maximum number of disks in a RAID group is 64 Maximize the size of the RAID group Select the number of disks to use New 1 Disk 1862 GB New 2 Disk 3725 GB New 3 Disk 5588 GB Next gt Cancel Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 75 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j 4 Enter the Volume Size GB desired that is less than or equal to the default available size shown Then click Next button Volume Creation Wizard Step 3 Enter the size you would like the volume to be on your new RAID The maximum size is the size of your RAID group 5565 Volume Size GB 5588 5 Use LBA 64 support It depends on the operation system Message from webpage x Use LBA 64 support SI Choose OK if using operating system such as a 64bit version of Windows Windows Server 2003 SP 1 or later Linux with at least a 2 6 x kernel or FreeBSD 5 2 1 or later If you choose Cancel then the sector size will change to 4K and th
159. otal GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Fat RG 1662 062 062 Disabled M Thin RG 1662 1662 1662 Enabled Figure 3 Write on demand Expand capacity on demand without downtime Extra RAID set can be added to the thin RAID group to increase the size of free storage pool A thin RAID group can have up to 32 RAID sets with each RAID set containing up to 64 physical hard drives The maximum size of each RAID set is 64TB Figure 4 shows that Thin RG consists of two RAID sets Show RAID size in GE Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Disks Used Fat RG 1662 ob2 062 Disabled 1 Thin RG 3 24 3724 324 Enabled 2 No Total Size GB Free Size GB Disks Used RAID Cell status E Saa a fe 1862 1862 1 1 Online 1862 1662 ara 1 Online Figure 4 Scalable RAID group size Allocation unit granularity is 1GB This is a number that demands careful balance between efficiency and performance The smaller it is the better the efficiency and the worse the performance becomes and vice versa Thin provisioned snapshot space and it is writable Snapshot space sits at the same RAID group of the volume that the snapshot is taken against Therefore when you expose the snapshot into a virtual disk it becomes a thin provisioned Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 137 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j virtua
160. ource side select the task and then click W gt Add Path 2 Next steps are the same as the procedure of creating a new replication task To delete multi path of the replication task please follow the procedures L In QReplicas tab of the source side select the task and then click W gt Delete Path 2 Select the path s which want to be deleted and then click OK button 3 The multi path s are deleted Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 162 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j MC S To setup MC S Multiple Connections per Session of the replication task path please follow the procedures 1 In QReplicas tab of the source side select the task path and then click W gt Add Connection QReplica Add Path Connection Source Port LANI Target IP 10 0 0 2 OK Cancel 2 Select the Source Port and input the Target IP and then click OK button 3 The connection is added To delete multi connections per session of the replication task path please follow the procedures 1 In QReplicas tab of the source side select the task path and then click W gt Delete Connection 2 Select the connection s which want to be deleted and then click OK button 3 The multi connection s are deleted Task Shaping If the replication traffic affects the normal usage we provide a method to limit it There are eight shaping groups which can be set In each shaping group we also provide peak and off peak
161. overable read error Unrecoverable write error Config read fail Config write fail CV boot error adjust global CV boot global CV boot error create global PD dedicated spare PD global spare PD read error Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Qsan Failed to complete rebuild of VD lt name gt VD lt name gt starts migration VD lt name gt completes migration Failed to complete migration of VD lt name gt Parity checking on VD lt name gt starts Parity checking on VD lt name gt completes with lt address gt parity data inconsistency found Parity checking on VD lt name gt stops with lt address gt parity data inconsistency found RG lt name gt starts migration RG lt name gt completes migration RG lt name gt starts move RG lt name gt completes move VD lt name gt starts move VD lt name gt completes move Failed to complete move of VD lt name gt LUN lt number gt is attached to VD lt name gt LUN lt number gt is detached from VD lt name gt RG lt name gt has been manually activated RG lt name gt has been manually deactivated Rewrite at LBA lt address gt of VD lt name gt starts Rewrite at LBA lt address gt of VD lt name gt completes Rewrite at LBA lt address gt of VD lt name gt failed RG lt name gt is in degraded mode VD lt name gt is in degraded mode RG lt name gt is failed VD lt name gt is failed I O fai
162. ow disk size in GB Name Used GB Status Health Exposure CLONEF5641 U N A Good No Set Snapshot Space Schedule Snapshots Take a Snapshot Cleanup Snapshots To stop clone please follow the procedures 1 Select the source virtual disk and then click W gt Stop Clone 2 Click OK button to stop cloning Schedule Clone The clone job can be set by schedule such as hourly or daily Please follow the procedures 1 Select the source virtual disk and then click W gt Schedule Clone 2 Check the schedules which you want They can be set by monthly weekly daily or hourly Click OK button to apply Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 155 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Clone Set Clone Schedule Set Clone Schedule SourceVD C Al Months in the Year C o1 O 02 O 03 O 04 C o5 U o6 U o7 LJ 08 o9 O 10O 11 O 12 Weeks in the Month nfin 20304 a Dae LI Al Days of the Week LI Sun L Mon LJ Tue LJ Wed L Thu U Fri U sat C all Ll oo U o1 U 02 U 03 Hours in the Day H e he So i12 13O 14015 C16 O17 O 18 O 19 C20 U 21 ol os Minutes in the Hour C Al C oo O 15 O 30 U 45 OK Cancel ae TIP e e La Daily clone will be taken at every 00 00 Weekly clone will be taken every Sunday 00 00 Monthly clone will be taken every first day of month 00 00 Cloning Options There are three clone options described on the following Cloning Options Snaps
163. own button ENT Enter button ESC Escape button MUTE button USB connector AegisSAN V100 Series and JBOD J100 Series 3U16 4U24 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 18 Je Qsan Document User Manual Qsan There is a power switch button at the right front handle Number 1 Description Power button and power LED Blue Power ON Off Power OFF MUTE button Press to mute the alarm IP Reset button J100 has no function at this button Press within 2 seconds to reset the system to default settings The default resets include Management IP Address 192 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 Status LED Red System failure Off System OK Access LED This indicates the host interface frontend connectivity not the hard drive activity Please be aware Blink There is host interface activity data O or management OFF There is no host interface activity AegisSAN LX Series and JBOD J300Q Series 2U12 3U16 4U24 There are five buttons to control LCM LCD Control Module including A up Y down ENT Enter ESC Escape and MUTE D vV ENT ESC MUTE Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 19 Je Qsan Document User Manual Qsan This table shows the items located on the LCD Control Module Number 1 NTO POT fw Th Description LCD display Up button Down button ENT En
164. pgrading the JBOD system must reboot manually to make the new firmware took effect MPIO and MC S These features come from iSCSi initiator They can be setup from iSCSI initiator to establish redundant paths for sending I O from the initiator to the target MPIO In Microsoft Windows server base system Microsoft MPIO driver allows initiators to login multiple sessions to the same target and aggregate the duplicate devices into a single device Each session to the target can be established using different NICs network infrastructure and target ports If one session fails then another session can continue processing I O without interruption to the application Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 142 a Qsan Document User Manual MPIO Multiple sessions between initiator and target MC S MC S Multiple Connections per Session is a feature of iSCSI protocol which allows combining several connections inside a single session for performance and failover purposes In this way I O can be sent on any TCP IP connection to the target If one connection fails another connection can continue processing I O without interruption to the application E i iSCSI layer Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 143 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Difference MC S is implemented on iSCSI level while MPIO is implemented on the higher level Hence a
165. ponding host data port Input the host s IP address and click Start button The system will display the ping result Or click Stop button to stop the test Please input the host s IP address 192 168 55 2 Start Stop _ Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ims Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ims Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt 1ims Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ims Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ims Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ims Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ilms Reply from 192 168 55 2 time lt ims Y gt Reset Port If the behavior of the port is abnormal try to reset port to make it normal Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 88 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Entity and iSNS Settings The Entity and iSNS Settings tab is used to view the entity name of the system and setup iSNS IP for the iSNS Internet Storage Name Service protocol It allows automated discovery management and configuration of iSCSI devices on a TCP IP network To use iSNS an iSNS server needs to be added to the SAN When this is done the iSNS server IP address must be added to the storage system for iSCSI initiator service to send queries to it Entity Name and iSNS Configuration Information The entity name is for a device or gateway that is accessible from the network The iSNS protocol allows automated discovery management and Entity Name iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology iSNS IP Addre
166. r 6 7 ROU BL Ge Leien 1 LE 178 N TEM BUZZER E 178 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 10 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i SENGER 178 Chapter 7 SOFTWARE EECH 188 Vulle eet CN gt te 188 CONNEC to SCl eet 188 Se UE MEI ME 189 UIC 5 EEA EE IA AOAIE AA AE AAAA EEA A E S EAA AEAN AA S EAA 190 DISC OMG OU druinn ierann Een E a E Rags 192 Vulle eet TEE 193 IA EPO CIC TION ere A boteusnatansuancnessynsssauacntenetevounteimensanedaieremevaudecetauanabeddetan essere udaunsaineonags 193 SOM Weal C OE ES pcssseusaaneseautenavenntent A E E te vetobedeasdantvauaimaasaacies 193 Instal MPIO Te un 193 BE ADEE E 196 GLOSSARY AND ACRONYM LIS EE 199 Il SE 201 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 11 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Overview Product Overview This user manual describes how to set up and use the Qsan storage systems There are several types of chassis available now AegisSAN Q500 Series AegisSAN Q500 AegisSAN Q500 2U12bays 3U16bays AegisSAN Q500 4U24bays AegisSAN V100 Series and JBOD J100 Series AegisSAN V100 and J100 AegisSAN V100 and J100 3U16bays 4U24bays Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 12 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i AegisSAN LX Series and JBOD J300Q Series AegisSAN LX 212 and J300Q AegisSAN LX 316 and J300Q 2U12bays 3U16bays AegisS
167. re Update Select the firmware file for the upgrade Browse JBOD Firmware Update Choose an JBOD Select the firmware file for the upgrade Browse The options are available on this tab Controller Module Firmware Update Please prepare new controller firmware file named xxxx bin in local hard drive then click Browse to select the firmware file Click Apply button it will pop up a warning message click OK button to start upgrading the firmware When upgrading there is a progress bar running After finished upgrading the system must reboot manually to make the new firmware take effect JBOD Firmware Update To upgrade JBOD firmware choose an JBOD first the other steps are the same as controller firmware update Controller Mode This option can be modified to dual or single here If the system installed only one controller switch this mode to Single and then click Apply button SSD Caching License This option can activate SSD caching function Select the license file and then click Apply button Each license key is unique and dedicated to a specific system To obtain the license key please contact sales for assistance Firmware Synchronization Only available in Dual controller models The Firmware Synchronization tab is used on dual controller systems to synchronize the controller firmware versions when the firmware of the master controller and the slave controller are different The firmware
168. removing a system into or out of a rack to prevent the accidental tipping or the rack causing damage or personal injury Install the Disk Drives Connect the management port cable and data port cables on the network plan the topology examples are on the following Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 51 Qsan Document User Manual AegisSAN V100 P10 iSNS Server Management Recom PC mended RS 232 Host Server APC Smart UPS Optional GbE switch G Switch CIE Net cable RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable AegisSAN V100 P20 iSNS Server Management Recom PC mended Host Server RS 232 APC Smart UPS Optional RS 232 Net cable RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 52 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i AegisSAN V100 F30 Management Host Server PC RS 232 APC Smart UPS Optional FC switch ri Switch CIE Net cable RS 232 cable SAS cable FC cable AegisSAN LX Series Using the following instructions to install and deploy the storage system Install the BBM Battery Backup Module in their appropriate controllers if needed The following examples show the AegisSAN LX F600Q Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 53 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosan o BBM supports hot pl
169. retrieved from disk and then preload this data into the disks buffer This feature will improve performance when the data being retrieved is sequential Default v Disabled Disable disk read ahead o Command Queuing v Enabled Sends multiple commands at once to a disk to improve performance Default v Disabled Disable disk command queuing V gt Add RAID Set Add RAID sets for the thin provisioning RAID group Y gt Add Policy Add policy for the thin provisioning RAID group V gt More information Dispkay RAID group detail information Select the thin provisioning RAID group it displays on the following There are two more tables to describe the properties of the thin provisioning RAID group RAID Set and RAID Group Policy Show RAID size in G8 Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Disks Used Number of Virtual Disk Status Health RAID Current Controller Preferred Controller v RO 1862 1862 1862 Disabled 1 0 Online Good RAIDQ Controller 1 Controller 1 e WR 1862 1862 1862 Enabled 2 0 RAID 1 Controller 1 Controller 1 RAID Set No Total Size GB Free Size GB Disks Used RAID Cell Status Health v 1 1862 1862 2 1 Online Good RAID Group Policy 1 No Threshold Level Action 60 Information Take no Action 70 Information Take no Action 80 Information Take no Action III 85 Warning Reclaim Space 90 Warning Delete Snap
170. riority in capacity but lower speed It means the pure HDD storage is not enough for those applications Using the superiority of SSDs offer exceptionally high speed SSD caching technology provides the best way to fulfill cost effectively the performance and capacity requirements of their enterprise applications Integrated HDDs and SSDs into the storage combine the benefits of both SSD cache feature enables the system to use SSDs as extended cache thus increasing the performance of random I O applications such as databases file servers and web servers etc Generally the SSD caching is useful for the following features 1 Due to the HDD IOPS read performance cause the bottleneck 2 In working space read I O is much more than write 3 The best performance is in the case the working data size is repeatedly accessed and smaller than the size of SSD cache capacity Solution SSD caching is the secondary cache used to enable better performance One and more SSDs could be assigned to a single virtual disk to be its SSD caching space Be attention that the cache volume is not available for regular data storage Currently the maximum SSD cache size allowed in a system is 2 4TB Methodology When the read or write I O performs this feature copies the data from HDD into SSD At the next time any subsequent I O read of the same logical block addresses can be read directly from SSD It increases the overall performance with a much
171. s 2 paths per task 4 connections per session 8 traffic shapers can apply to each task Peak and off peak to apply Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved V1 0 Specified iSCSI port only 8 tasks 2 paths per task N A N A max 20 MB s N A 158 Snapshot Qsan Document User Manual different traffic shaping Auto rollback to latest image if Qsan Manually any accident during replication Create QReplica Task Take an example of creating the QReplica task 1 Before replication it must prepare backup target virtual disk In Virtual Disks tab of the target side click Create button And then select Disk Type to Backup Target Create a Virtual Disk Data Storage Size Stripe Size KB Virtual Disk Name Block Size Bytes SourceVD R5 v 10 cB N 64 iv 512 ba Create a Virtual Disk Virtual Disk Name Data Storage Size Stripe Size KB Block Size Bytes Cache Mode Priority Bg Rate Read Ahead AV Media Mode Erase Disk Type TargetVD R5 KA 10 cB N 64 y 512 Vv O Write through Cache write back Cache High Priority Medium Priority O Low Priority sl D Disabled E o Disabled N Do No 2 v Backup Target al ze Figure 2 Target Side After creating the target virtual disk please also setup snapshot space The snapshot of the source virtual disk can replicate to the target v
172. s Disabled Disabled Enabled Enabled _Disk Health Check d Click Quick Installation from the menu bar 2 Enter a System Name and set up the Date and Time Click Next button to proceed Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 69 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Step 1 System Settings System Name System Name Osan Date and Time kl Change Date and Time Current Time O14 1 17 10 41 5 Time Zone GMT 08 00 Taipei Setup Date and Time Manually Date 2014 1 L7lsel Time io 390 5a O NTP Confirm or change the management port IP address and DNS server If the default HTTP HTTPS and SSH port numbers are not allowed on your network they can be changed here as well Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 70 Qsan Document User Manual Osa i Quick Installation Step 2 Network Settings 00 13 78 BB 38 80 Use DHCP Use BOOTP Specify a Static IP Address IP Address 192 168 1 234 Subnet Mask 259 209 0 0 Gateway HTTP Port HTTPS Port SSH Port EE d For iSCSI Configurations use this step to set up the data port iSCSI IP address and then click Next button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 71 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Quick Installation Step 3 iSCSI IP Address Settings L Use DHCP Specify a Static IP Address Address 10 0 0 1 Mask 255 295 259
173. s Here the virtualization mechanism behind thin provisioning is storage pool The capacity of the storage pool is shared by all volumes When write requests come in the space will be drawn dynamically from this storage pool to meet the needs a TE are Volume A it VI TTT e TT TN oat I I I wy I Volume B ES 7 VI Whole System Ben zm pm mmm BEES EES ESE SET Thin Provisioning The Benefits of QThin The benefits of QThin are described on the following Actual data Physical space Thin provisioning space Available space Disks not purchased Less disk purchase is needed initially when setting up a new storage system You don t need to buy more capacity to meet your future data growth at present time Usually hard drive price declines as time progresses You can buy the same hard drives with cheaper price at a later time Why not save money upfront while you can No stranded storage capacity better utilization efficiency and lower total cost of ownership QThin can make full use of the stranded capacity that traditional provisioning can t All free Capacity can be made available to other hosts A single storage system can serve more hosts and servers to achieve high consolidation ratio QThin can help you achieve the same level of Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 135 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i services with less hard drives purchased upfront
174. s and JBODs are in normal stage One controller or JBOD fails or has been plugged out The firmware of two controllers is different or the size of memory of two controllers is different Single controller mode The options are available on this tab Download System Information Download the system information for debug Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 121 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa CAUTION If you try to increase the system memory and running in dual controller mode please make sure both controllers have the same DIMM on each corresponding memory slot Failing to do so will result in controller malfunction which will not be covered by warranty Event log The Event Log tab provides a log or event messages Choose the buttons of INFO WARNING or ERROR levels to display those particular events The options are available on this tab Download Save the event log as a file It will pop up a filter dialog as the following The default it Download all event logs Download Event Logs Download all event logs 10 of the latest event logs 220 of the latest event logs OThe latest 24 hours event logs The latest 7 days event logs The latest 31 days event logs Mute Buzzer Stop alarm if the system alerts Clear Clear all event logs yN TIP e La Please plug in any of the first four hard drives then event logs can be saved and displayed in nex
175. s will be stopped because there is no more available snapshot space If this option is checked the system will clear the snapshots of clone in order to release snapshot space automatically and the clone task will be restarted after an hour This task will start a full copy CAUTION The default snapshot space allocated by the system is two times the size of source virtual disk That is the best value of our suggestion If user sets snapshot space by manually and lower than the default value user should take the risk if the snapshot space is not enough and the clone job will fail Clear Clone To clear the clone job please follow the procedures 1 Select the source virtual disk and then click W gt Clear Clone 2 Click OK button to clear clone job Clone Constraint While the clone is processing manually the increment data of the virtual disk is over the snapshot space The clone will complete the task but the clone snapshot will fail At the next time when trying to start clone it will get a warning message This is not enough of snapshot space for the operation The user needs to clean up the snapshot space in order to operate the clone process Each time the clone snapshot failed it means that the system loses the reference value of incremental data So it will start a full copy at the next clone process When running out of the snapshot space the flow diagram of the virtual disk clone procedure will be like the fol
176. san Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 82 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i You can also select which levels of event logs which you would like to receive The default setting only includes Warning and Error event logs Configure Email Notification Settings You can specify up to three email addresses for email notifications You should use the SMTP server option to specify a specific email server that you would like to use for sending email notifications required if your network will not allow this device to send the email directly After the information is set you can click Send test mail to test whether email functions are available Email Settings From Email Address mailman QsanTechnology com To Email Address 1 Alert Levels To Sendi LJ information M Warning Error To Email Address 2 Alert Levels To Send LJ information W Warning Error To Email Address 3 Alert Levels To Send3 LJ Information W warning Error L Specify a SMTP Server Send Test Email When it is done click Apply button Log and Alert Settings The Log and Alert Settings tab is used to setup SNMP traps for alerting via SNMP pop up messages via Windows messenger not MSN or Skype alerts via the syslog protocol the pop up alerts and alerts on the front display The device buzzer is also managed here Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 83 Qsan Document User Manual Ssa SNM
177. shots 95 Warning De activate RAID Group Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 102 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j This table shows the column descriptions of RAID Set Column Name Description No The number of the RAID set Total Size GB Total capacity of the RAID set Free Size GB Free capacity of the RAID set Disks Used The number of physical disks in the RAID set RAID Cell The number of RAID cell in the RAID set Status The status of the RAID set Online the RAID set is online Offline the RAID set is offline Rebuilding the RAID set is being rebuilt Migrate the RAID set is being migrated Scrubbing the RAID set is being scrubbed Health The health of the RAID set Good the RAID set is good Failed the RAID set fails Degraded the RAID set is not healthy and not completed The reason could be lack of disk s or have failed disk The options are available on this tab V gt Remove Remove the selected RAID set VY gt Move RAID Level Move the member disks of RAID set to other physical disks Y gt List Disks List the member of physical disks This table shows the column descriptions of RAID Group Policy Column Name Description No The number of the RAID group policy Threshold The threshold of the thin provision RAID group Level Define the event log level when the thin provision RAID group usage reaches the threshold Ac
178. sicccenuscdvssccteseisoetedesstedeewtenens 172 SPOON eer a ORA 171 SSH Sec re shell sercicsusenricingewessintenencrenacersvepeeevcimtueandvetcents 63 System Confgeuraton 19 System Information ccccccccssssssssseeeeecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseees 120 Download System Information ccccceeeeeeeeeeees 121 System Installation and Deployment ce eeeeeeeeeees 46 System Maintenance cide scscucsauncveasctestaateteanetsensianccdtecenttouses 120 EE EIERE 79 Dae and TUNG eioan e e ie 80 System Identification 2 0 0 cccssssseesseseeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeees 80 Syste EE 80 T Techical SOPOT EE 3 Thin Nee rt 134 Ee rr 86 145 U MD SUAS E 5 Eeer 123 Controller Mode si cicsssaceviscsscovsesadeescsoevevensacssvassoss 124 147 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Qsan Controller Module Firmware Update 124 JBOD Firmware Update 124 142 SSD Cachins ET 124 UPS Uninterruptible Power Supp 118 V PA TAN 1 eS eesriide te ctr a aoe cp rea encloses 105 Altach LUN WE 107 110 113 Change QReplica Options cccceccccccceeeeesssseeeeeeeees 107 Cleanup Snapshots cssicscnaieeaeseerraissevicsaiaeracon cents 107 110 Cear C TOM ea 107 NOE OPOS sercis rie eieiei 106 B i e E O E A E 106 IR 106 Detach LUNS wis ssucsnwistnatatoasunedareendentedindannatioauss 107 110 113 L airs E nn E ET 106 133 ECU EE 107 110 n E 107 More Information cscicerencancasentateasitenurteciebentittitenmaseineded 107 CMC CMTS
179. sks buffer This feature will improve performance when the data being retrieved is sequential The default value is Enabled AV Media Mode Optimize for video editing The default value is Disabled Erase This option is available when the RAID group is not thin provisioning This option will wipe out old data in virtual disk to prevent that OS recognizes the old partition Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 108 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j The options are Do Not Erase erase First 1GB or Full Disk The default value is Do Not Erase o Space Reclaim This option is available when the RAID group is thin provisioning There are Enabled or Disabled The default value is Enabled o Fast Rebuild This option is available when the RAID group is not RAID O There are Enabled or Disabled The default value is Disabled o Disk Type Select type for normal or backup usage The options are RAID for general usage and Backup Target for Clone or QReplica The default value is RAID 6 Click OK button to create the virtual disk me TIP KRY In AegisSAN Q500 the maximum number of virtual disks in a RAID group is 96 The maximum host number per virtual disk is 16 The maximum host number per controller is 64 The maximum virtual disk number in a system is 2048 The max virtual disk number for snapshot is 32 In AegisSAN V100 the maximum number of virtual disks in a RAID group is 96 The maximum host num
180. slog service The default UDP port is 514 You can also check the alert levels here There are some syslog server tools available on the internet for Windows o WinSyslog http www winsyslog com o Kiwi Syslog Daemon http www kiwisyslog com Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 84 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Most UNIX systems built in syslog daemon Admin Interface and Front Display Alerts You can check the alert levels which you would like to have pop up message in the Web UI and show on front display The default setting for admin interface is none while the default setting for shown on the front display includes Warning and Error event logs Device Buzzer Check it to disable the device buzzer Uncheck it to activate the device buzzer When it is done click Apply button Host Port iSCSI Configuration The Host port iSCSI Configuration menu option is for accessing the Network Setup Entity and ISNS Settings iSCSI Nodes Active Sessions CHAP Account and Fibre Channel This option is only visible when the controller has Fibre Channel ports option tabs Waombe Entity and ISNS Settings iSCSI Nodes Active Sessions CHAP Accounts Fibre Channel Network Setup The Network Setup tab is used to change IP addresses of iSCSI data ports The various controllers have different iSCSI ports list on the following AegisSAN Q500 Q500 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per con
181. ss 10 0 0 100 Apply To make changes enter the Entity Name and the iSNS IP Address and then click Apply button iSCSI Nodes The iSCSI Nodes tab is used to view the target name for iSCSI initiator The various controllers support different number of multiple nodes list on the following AegisSAN Q500 Q500 P10 Up to 64 multiple nodes per controller Q500 P20 Up to 64 multiple nodes per controller Q500 P21 Up to 64 multiple nodes per controller Q500 F20 Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller Q500 F21 Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller Q500 F30 Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller AegisSAN V100 V100 P10 Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller V100 P20 Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller V100 F30 Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller AegisSAN LX P400Q Up to 128 multiple nodes per controller P600Q Up to 128 multiple nodes per controller F600Q Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller F630Q Up to 32 multiple nodes per controller Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 89 Qsan Document User Manual Qsan The following example shows the AegisSAN LX P400Q series up to 128 multiple nodes Show information for Controller 1 is 1 2 3 4 85 6 7 8 9 10 next gt last gt gt ID Auth Node Name Portal Alias el 0 None iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology dev0 ctr1 10 0 0 1 3260 10 0 0 2 3260 10 0 0 3 3260 10 0 0 4 326
182. ssor temperature limit is 80C The interface temperature limit is 65 C The SAS Controller and SAS Expandor temperature limits are 65C When one of these sensors reports a temperature above the threshold for three contifuous minutes the system shuts down automatically 117 Qsan Document User Manual Ssa j UPS The UPS tab is used to set up a UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply The system supports Smart UPS made by APC and Megatec series UPS Choose Smart UPS for APC products Megatec UFS for Megatec series products or none if you are using a UPE UPS Type Smart UPS SNMP Shutdown Battery Level 20 Shutdown Delay Seconds 0 Shutdown UPS OFF IP address Community UPS Status UPS Battery Level Apply Currently the system only supports and communicates with Smart UPS series by APC American Power Conversion Corp http www apc com and Magatec UPS TIP Be e La Connection with other vendors of UPS can work well but they have no such communication features with the system Now we support the traditional UPS via serial port and network UPS via SNMP If using the UPS with serial port connect the system to UPS via the included cable for communication The cable plugs into the serial cable that comes with the UPS Then set up the shutdown values for when the power goes out This table shows the available options and their descriptions Options Description UPS Type Select UP
183. storage space for saving variant data Click Set Snapshot Space button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 110 Qsan Document User Manual Osan Set Snapshot Space Virtual Disk Se Available 3595GB Size 30 Minimum 4GB Free Capacity 35656B Select a Virtual Disk from the drop down list Enter a Size which is reserved for the snapshot space Click OK button The snapshot space is created Click Take a Snapshot button Use the drop down list to select a Virtual Disk Enter a Snapshot Name oY oa eee Ze Click OK button The snapshot is taken Show snapshots for virtual disk VD 01 sl Show disk size in G8 Used GB Status Health Exposure Cache Mode LUN Time Created Tue Feb 11 17 32 24 2014 9 Set quota to expose the snapshot Click W gt Set Quota option Set Quota Size 26 Available Space 26 GB 10 Enter a size which is reserved for the snapshot If the size is zero the exposed snapshot will be read only Otherwise the exposed snapshot can be read written and the size will be the maximum capacity for writing 11 Attach LUN to the snapshot Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 111 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Attach LUN Attach a logical unit number LUN to a virtual disk Virtual Disk SnapVD 01 30 GB Allowed Hosts Ge Target 0 LUN LUN 1 Permission O Read only Re
184. sumption and more green in your pocket Features Highlight The following describes the comparison with Fat and Thin provisioning Write on demand or allocate on demand This is the most distinctive function in thin provisioning You can see from the screenshots below Figure 1 shows there are two RAID groups created Fat RG is using traditional provisioning without QThin enabled and its size is 1862GB Thin RG is QThin enabled and its size is the same Name Total GB Free Capacity GB Available Size GB Thin Provisioning Fat RG 1662 1662 1662 Disabled VM Thin RG 1862 1662 1662 Enabled Figure 1 No virtual disk is created Let s create a Virtual Disk on each RAID group with the same size of 1000GB respectively in Figure 2 and see what happen Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 136 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa Name size GB Write Priority Bg Rate Type Clone Fat VD 1000 WE HI 4 RAID NIA Thin VD 1000 WE Hl 4 RAID NIA Figure 2 Virtual disks are created In Figure 3 the free space of Fat RG immediately reduces to 862GB 1000GB is taken away by the virtual disk However the free space of Thin RG is still 1862GB even though the same size of virtual disk is created from the RAID group Nothing is written to the virtual disk yet so no space is allocated The remaining 1862GB can be used to create other virtual disks This is storage efficiency Name T
185. t gt the disk is disabled for automatic rebuilding with JBOD lt name gt PD lt slot gt Description System shutdown System reboot System shutdown from lt string gt via Console UI System shutdown from lt string gt via Web UI System shutdown via power button System shutdown via LCM System reboot from lt string gt via Console UI System reboot from lt string gt via Web UI System reboot via LCM System firmware upgrade starts System firmware upgrade succeeds System firmware upgrade is failed System firmware upgrade timeout on another controller lt string gt config imported Description The preferred owner of RG lt name gt has been changed to controller lt number gt Controller lt number gt forced to adopt write through mode on failover Controller lt number gt restored to previous caching mode on failback All volumes in controller lt number gt completed failover process All volumes in controller lt number gt completed failback process Controller lt number gt is inserted into system 185 ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR INFO Clone Events Level INFO INFO WARNING INFO INFO INFO WARNING WARNING Je Qsan Document User Manual CTR removed CTR timeout CTR lockdown CTR memory NG CTR firmware NG CTR lowspeed NG CTR highspeed NG CTR backend NG CTR frontend NG CTR FW sync reboot Type VD clone started VD clone finished VD clone f
186. t in different arrays RAID 60 Striping over the member of RAID 6 volumes RAID 60 allows four hard drive failures or unplugging every two in different arrays JBOD The abbreviation of Just a Bunch Of Disks No data protection RG fails if any hard drive failures or unplugs Migrate and Move RAID Groups Migrate RAID Level function changes the RAID group to different RAID level or adds the member disks of the RAID group for larger capacity Usually the RAID group migrates to higher RAID level for better protection To do migration the total size of RAID group must be larger than or equal to the original RAID group The limitation is that it s not allowed expanding the same RAID level with the same physical disks of the original RAID group There is a similar function Move RAID Level which will move the member disks of the RAID group to totally different physical disks In addition thin provision RAID group cannot execute migrate or move it uses Add RAID Set to enlarge capacity Describe more detail in the Thin Provision section Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 131 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Raid 0 300GB At least add iwo free disk become raid 6 Raid 6 300GB 3 2 HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD 100GB 10068 100GB Se 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB Raid 5 200GB 2 1 At least add one free Raid 6 200GB 2 2 disk become raid 6 HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB
187. t is smaller than the threshold the count continues and a populate operation is not performed neither For write cases it s the same scenario as read We provide the figures to describe more details on the following Read Write Cache Cases Read Data with Cache Miss The following figure shows the steps of the controller which handles a host read request when some of the data is not in the SSD cache Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 172 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa 1 Request Read 3 Return Data Memory Cache The following steps describe details about a host read with a cache miss 1 A host requests a read data 2 Read data from the HDD 3 Return requested data to the host 4 Populate the cache to SSD Read Data with Cache Hit The following figure shows the steps of the controller which handles a host read request when the data is in the SSD cache 1 Read 3 Return Data Memory Cache 4 Read from HDD S SSD Failure Case gt 2 Read from SSD Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 173 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j The following steps describe details about a host read with a cache hit 1 A host requests a read data 2 Read data from the SSD 3 Return requested data to the host 4 If SSD has error read data from the HDD Write Data The following figure shows the steps of the controller w
188. t system boot up Otherwise the event logs cannot be saved and would be disappeared Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 122 a Qsan Document User Manual Event Log Level to Sh lt lt first lt prev Information Information Information Information Information Information Information Error Error Error Information Warning Information Information Information Information Information Information Information Information lt lt first lt prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 10 Time Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 56 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 56 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 56 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 56 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 56 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 42 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 34 Mon 1 Feb 2014 16 35 34 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 34 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 34 Mon 17 Feb 2014 16 35 26 Mon 17 Feb 2014 18 35 26 Mon 17 Feb 2014 18 23 47 Sat 15 Feb 2014 20 54 24 Fri 14 Feb 2014 15 42 28 Fri 14 Feb 2014 15 01 17 Thu 13 Feb 2014 11 46 00 Wed 12 Feb 2014 21 57 00 Wed 12 Feb 2014 21 42 25 Wed 12 Feb 2014 21 42 25 1 24 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 10 ooo The event logs are displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first top page They are actually saved in the first four hard drives each hard drive has one copy of event log For one system there are four copies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there ar
189. ted Pr Uncorrectable Temperatur Read Error Spin Up Time Seek ErrorR Spin Up Ret Calibration Re 1 SATA6 0Gb s N A 200 140 N A N A N A N A 200 51 177 21 200 0 100 0 100 0 2 SATA6 0Gb s N A 200 140 N A N A N A N A 200 51 161 21 200 0 100 0 100 0 3 SATA6 0Gb s N A 200 140 NIA NIA N A N A 200 51 166 21 200 0 100 0 100 0 SMART measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and inspects the properties of hard drives which are close to be 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 This tool displays SMART information of hard drives The number is the current value the number in parenthesis is the threshold value The threshold values from different hard drive vendors are different please refer to hard drive vendors specification for details S M A R T only supports SATA drives SAS drives do not have this function and will show N A in the web page System Maintenance The System Maintenance menu option is accessing the System Information Event Log Upgrade Firmware Synchronization This option is only visible when dual controllers is installed Reset to Factory Defaults Configuration Backup Volume Restoration and Reboot and Shutdown option tabs Sueur tidal EventLog Upgrade Firmware Synchronization
190. ter button ESC Escape button MUTE button Power LED Green Power ON Off Power OFF Status LED Red System failure Off System OK Access LED Blue Host is accessing storage system Off No host access attempts AegisSAN LX Series and J300Q Series 4U60 Main Switch Display Panel HDD Status Indicator CAUTION When powering off the subsystem press the Main Switch for 4 seconds and allow at least 3 minutes during which each disk slot starting from slot 1 until slot 60 will be powered down for the subsystem to shutdown properly Then turn off the switches of the 2 Power Supply Fan Modules Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 20 Qsan Document User Manual Ssa i 1 Activity LED 2 Power On Fail LED This table shows the items located on the LCD Control Module Number Description 1 Activity LED Blinking blue Indicates the drive is busy or being accessed 2 Power On Fail LED Green Indicates the drive in this slot is good Red Indicates the drive in this slot is faulty Blinking Red Indicates the drive in this slot is rebuilding Off Indicates there is no drive in this slot 3 Expander module Fault LED Red Indicates the Expander module is faulty Off Indicates the Expander module is normal There are four buttons to control LCM LCD Control Module including A up down V Select and EXIT Escape This
191. the disk array system easily Information contained in this manual has been reviewed for accuracy but not for product warranty because of the various environments OS settings Information and specification will be changed without further notice For any update information please visit www QsanTechnology com and your contact windows Before reading this manual it assumes that you are familiar with computer skills such as hardware storage concepts and network technology It also assumes you have basic knowledge of Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID Storage Area Network SAN Fibre Channel FC Internet SCSI iSCSI Serial attached SCSI SAS Serial ATA SATA technology CAUTION Do not attempt to service change disassemble or upgrade the equipment s components by yourself Doing so may violate your warranty and expose you to electric shock Refer all servicing to authorized service personnel Please always follow the instructions in this user s manual Technical Support Thank you for using Qsan Technology Inc products if you have any question please e mail to Support QsanTechnology com We will answer your question as soon as possible Tips and Cautions This manual uses the following symbols to draw attention to important safety and operational information Symbol Meaning Description Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 3 Qsan Document User Manual KZ Ba e _
192. the disks buffer This feature will improve performance when the data being retrieved is sequential Default v Disabled Disable disk read ahead o AV Media Mode v Enabled Enable AV media mode for optimizing video editing v Disabled Disable AV media mode Default o Type v RAID The virtual disk is normal Default v Backup Target The virtual disk is used for clone or QReplica usage V gt Space Reclamation Reclaim space for the virtual disk VY gt Attach LUN Attach a logical unit number to the virtual disk VY gt Detach LUNs Detach a logical unit number from the virtual disk VY gt List LUNs List all of the attached logical unit numbers Y gt Set Clone Set the target virtual disk for clone VY gt Clear Clone Clear the clone VY gt Start Clone Start the clone V gt Stop Clone Stop the clone WV gt Change QReplica Options Change the clone to QReplica relationship WV gt Schedule Clone Set the clone function by schedule WY gt Set Snapshot Space Set snapshot space for preparing to take snapshots Y gt Cleanup Snapshots Clean all snapshots of the virtual disk and release the snapshot space VY gt Take a Snapshot Take a snapshot on the virtual disk Y gt Schedule Snapshots Set the snapshots by schedule VY gt List Snapshots List all snapshots of the virtual disk Y gt More Information Show the detail information of the virtua
193. the following Host IP lt P Address gt e g 192 168 1 234 User Name admin Password 1234 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 63 LCM Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i i TIP e e La Qsan system supports SSH for remote access only When using SSH the IP address and password are required for login After booting up the system the following screen shows management port IP and model name Take an example of AegisSAN LX P400Q D424 US army coer Meee Osan P4000 D424 To access the LCM options use the ENT Enter button ESC Escape button A up and e down to scroll through the functions This table describes the function of each item Function Description System Info Display system information including firmware version and amount of RAM Alarm Mute Mutes an alarm after an error occurs Reset Shutdown Reset or shutdown the system Quick Install Provide quick steps to create a volume Volume Wizard Provide smart steps to create a volume View IP Setting Display current IP address subnet mask and gateway Change IP config Set IP address subnet mask and gateway There are 2 options DHCP Get IP address from DHCP server or static IP Enc Management Shows the enclosure data for physical disk temperatures fan status and power supply status Reset to Default Reset the system to default settings The default resets include Management IP Address 19
194. the same network as the Qsan storage system Connection cables o All Use CAT 5e or CAT 6 recommend network cables for the management port AegisSAN Q500 o Q500 P10 CAT 5e or CAT 6 recommend network cables o Q500 P20 F20 F21 F30 Fibre Channel cables or AOCs Active Optic Cable o Q500 P21 CAT 6 network cables AegisSAN V100 o V100 P10 CAT 5e or CAT 6 recommend network cables o V100 P20 F30 Fibre Channel cables or AOCs Active Optic Cable AegisSAN LX o P400Q CAT 5e or CAT 6 recommend network cables o P600Q 10GBASE T CAT 6 network cables o P600Q SFP F600Q F630Q Fibre Channel cables or AOCs Active Optic Cable JBOD o J100 J300Q SAS cables Prepare a storage system configuration plan by the network administrator The plan should include network information for the management port and iSCSI data ports If using static IP addresses please prepare a list of the static IP addresses the subnet mask and the default gateway Switches o All Gigabit switches optional for connecting management port AegisSAN Q500 o Q500 P10 P20 F20 F21 F30 Gigabit switches recommended Or Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional o Q500 P20 P21 10 Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 44 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j o Q500 F20 F21 F30 Fibre Channel switches optio
195. time We define that T Warm up time seconds required l Best random IOPS of HDD S I O Size D Number of HDDs C Total SSD caching capacity P Populate on read or Populate on write threshold We assume that random read write from HDD to achieve the capacity of SSD should be Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 175 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Bebe epes So we can estimate the warm up time at least T C P I1 S D The real case may be longer than the estimate time Here we take an example on the following l 250 IOPS Random IOPS per HDD S 64KB Web service D 16 HDDs C 480GB 1 SSD P 2 Populate on read threshold Warm up time T 480GB 2 250 64KB 16 3932 16 seconds 65 536 minutes Configuration Activate the license key User needs to obtain a license key and download it to the system to activate the SSD caching function in System Maintenance gt Upgrade gt SSD Caching License Each license key is unique and dedicated to a specific system To obtain the license key please contact sales for assistance Take an example of enabling SSD caching 1 After creating a virtual disk click YW gt Set SSD Caching of the selected virtual disk 2 Check Enable box 3 Select the policy by drop down menu 4 Click Select Disks button and then check the SSDs which are provided for SSD caching 5 Click OK button to e
196. tion Take action of the system when the thin provision RAID group usage reaches the threshold Ss Take no Action Reclaim Space Delete Snapshots De activate RAID Group The options are available on this tab WT gt Delete Delete the selected policy Y gt Modify Modify the level and the action of the policy Take an example of creating a RAID group 1 Click the Create button Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 103 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Create a RAID Group RAID Name R5 kl RAID Level RAID 5 RAID Disks Local 123 Select Disks Preferred Controller Auto Thin Provisioning Disabled Write Cache Disabled Standby Disabled Read Ahead Enabled Command Queuing Enabled Disabled 2 Enter a RAID Name for the RAID group 3 Select a RAID Level from the drop down list 4 Click the Select Disks button to select disks from either local or expansion JBOD systems and click OK to complete the selection The selected disks are displayed at RAID Disks 5 Optionally configure the following O Preferred Controller This option is only visible when dual controllers are installed The default value is Auto Thin Provisioning This option is only visible when thin provisioning feature is enabled The default value is Disabled Write Cache It s to enable or disable the write cache option of hard drives The default value is Disabled Sta
197. troller Q500 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 P21 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 F20 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 F21 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Q500 F30 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller AegisSAN V100 V100 P10 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller V100 P20 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller V100 F30 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller AegisSAN LX P400Q 6 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller P600Q 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports 2 x GbE iSCSI port per controller F600Q 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 85 a Qsan Document User Manual F630Q 2 x GbE iSCSI ports per controller Qsan These network ports must be assigned IP addresses then they can be used For better performance or fault tolerance reason they can be bonding as Trunking or LACP These bonding network ports share a single IP address The following example shows the P400Q series 6 x GbE iSCSI ports Show information for Controller 1 iSCSI IP Address Settings Make Default Gateway Enable Jumbo Frames Reset Port 255 255 255 0 10 0 0 254 00 13 78 bb 38 87 Name LAG LAGNo VLANID UseDHCP IP Address Netmask Gateway Jumbo Frames MAC Address Link Sa LAN No N A N A No 10 0 0 1 255 255 255 0 10 0 0 254 D
198. tup Wizard Click the Finish button to exit the Setup Wizard 8 After reboot use Windows CLI command vssadmin list providers to check whether the Qsan VSS hardware provider is installed successfully Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 195 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa c Administrator Command Prompt Delete Shadows Delete volume shadow copies Delete ShadowStorage Delete volume shadow copy storage associations List Providers List registered volume shadow copy providers List Shadows List existing volume shadow copies List ShadowStorage List volume shadow copy storage associations List Volumes List volumes eligible for shadow copies List Writers List subscribed volume shadow copy writers Resize ShadowStorage Resize a volume shadow copy storage association Revert Shadow Revert a volume to a shadow copy Query Reverts Query the progress of in progress revert operations C Users Administrator ussadmin list providers vssadmin 1 1 Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command line tool lt C gt Copyright 2661 2665 Microsoft Corp Provider name Qsan USS Hardware Provider Provider type Hardware Provider Id 4156a7d3 ebd5 4f 51 8585 6495 7d6c9338 gt Version 1 0 Provider name Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1 0 Provider type System Provider Id b5946137 7b f 4925 af86 Silabd66b26d5 gt Version 1 0 0 7 C Users Administrator gt Usi
199. ue is Enabled Newer SATA and most SCSI disks can queue multiple commands and handle one by one The default value is Enabled The options are available on this tab Disk Health Check Check the health of the selected disks It cannot check the disks which are in used Disk slot Disk Health Check Select PD Stop disk health check when the bad block Mex number is greater than OK Cancel Disk Check Report Download the disk check report It s available after executing Disk Health Check V gt Set Free Disk Make the selected hard drive be free for use Y gt Set Global Spare Set the selected hard drive to global spare of all RIAD groups WV gt Set Local Spare Set the selected hard drive to local spare of the RIAD groups which located in the same enclosure V gt Set Dedicated Spare Set a hard drive to dedicated spare of the selected RAID group WV gt Upgrade Upgrade the firmware of the hard drive e WV gt Disk Scrub Scrub the hard drive It s not available when the hard drive is in used e WV gt Read Error Cleared Clean the read error of the hard drive WW gt Turn on off the indication LED Turn on the indication LED of the hard drive Click again to turn off V gt More information Display hard drive detail information Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 99 Je Qsan Document User Manual Sosa
200. uggable Regardless of the system is turned on or off o Remove the cover of BBM o Insert the BBM o Tighten the BBM and use screws to lock the both sides At the rear check that the Master Controller is in its slot CTRL 1 If desired install the optional Slave Controller in its slot CTRL 2 only for dual controller CAUTION When running on dual controller mode please make sure both controllers have the same DIMM on each corresponding memory slot Failing to do so will result in controller malfunction which will not be covered by warranty Install the Rail Kit onto the unit and insert it into the rack CAUTION The system is very heavy It s recommend that a mechanical lifter or at least two persons be used to raise and align the system to prevent injury during installation Use care when inserting or removing a system into or out of a rack to prevent the accidental tipping or the rack causing damage or personal injury Install the Disk Drives Connect the management port cable and data port cables on the network plan the topology examples are on the following Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 54 Qsan Document User Manual Osa i AegisSAN LX P400Q iSNS server Management Recom PC mended APC Smart UPS Optional Gigabit switch To J300Q Dxxx Net cable To 3300Q Dxxx RS 232 cable EH SAS cable AegisSAN LX P600Q iSNS server
201. uild task It also reduces the risk of RAID failure cause of reducing the time required for the RAID status from degraded mode to healthy At the same time it frees up CPU resources more quickly to be available for other I O and demands Solution Without Fast Rebuild feature rebuild will start from the beginning partition to the end It may spend lots of time to complete the task When enabling Fast Rebuild feature it will rebuild the partition with the changed only Dirty Partition J lle e e Clean Partition Rebuild Partition 8 l Virtual Disk Disable Enable Fast Rebuild Fast Rebuild w TIP e La With less changed partition the Fast Rebuild feature may go faster If the virtual disk is full of changed partition the rebuild may take the same time without Fast Rebuild feature Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 169 Qsan Document User Manual Configuration Qsan When creating a virtual disk enable the Fast Rebuild The default is disabled Constraint Create a Virtual Disk Virtual Disk Name Data Storage Size Stripe Size KB Block Size Bytes Cache Mode Priority Bg Rate Read Ahead AV Media Mode Erase Fast Rebuild Disk Type VD 01 R5 30 GB N 64 512 O write through Cache write back Cache DI High Priority O Medium Priority O Low Priority 4 sl D Enabled Ki DI Disabled sl Do Not Erase KE Enable
202. ult system name is composed of the model name and the serial number of this system Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 79 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j Change General System Settings On this screen you can change the name of the device set the current date and time manually or automatically using an NTP Network Time Protocol server and identify the device by flashing an indicator GMT 08 00 Taipei 20140 1 M 20M 5A 20 55 System Identification Flash the status light on the front display OK Apply The options are available on this tab System Name Change the System Name highlight the old name and type in a new one Date and Time Change the current date time and time zone settings check Change Date and Time The changes can be done manually or synchronized from an NTP Network Time Protocol server System Identification Flash the status light on the front display for locating this system in the racks click OK button To Stop flashing the status light on the front display click OK button again When it is done click Apply button Network Settings The Network Settings tab is used to view the MAC address and change basic network settings Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 80 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i Change Network Settings On this screen change the network settings for the administration port Enabl
203. umber is 2048 In AegisSAN LX the maximum LUN number is 4096 QReplicas The QReplicas tab provides to create rebuild delete or manage the replication tasks Show disk size in G8 V Task No Source Virtual Disk Status Shaping Speed MB Target Virtual Disk Size GB Schedule Time Created Vendor Model WWN Thu Oct 16 16 02 00 2014 Qsan P400Q D212 201f001378900ccO0 Task SourceVD Path No Source NIC Target IP Target Name LUN Status v 1 LAN1 10 0 0 2 ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology devO ctr1 1 Connected Create Rebuild QReplica Options Shaping Setting Configuration This table shows the Task column descriptions Column Name Description No Number Source Virtual The source name of the virtual disk Disk Status The status of the task Online The task is normal and idle Initiating The source virtual disk is initiating Offline The source virtual disk is offline Queued The task is queued When multiple tasks are replicating one task is running the others are queued Replicating The task is running Missing The target virtual disk does not exist N A It s unavailable to get the status of the source virtual disk when the system is busy Ratio of the replication task Shaping Apply the number of the shaping group Speed MB Replication speed Target Virtual Disk The target name of the virtual disk Size GB or MB Total capacity of the target virtu
204. ummed g OT o Release the screws Plug in the BBM And then secure the bracket with screws Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 47 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i 4 gt N TIP QY The BBM of the AegisSAN Q500 supports controller 1 only At the rear check that the Master Controller is in its slot CTRL 1 If desired install the optional Slave Controller in its slot CTRL 2 only for dual controller CAUTION When running on dual controller mode please make sure both controllers have the same DIMM on each corresponding memory slot Failing to do so will result in controller malfunction which will not be covered by warranty Install the Rail Kit onto the unit and insert it into the rack CAUTION The system is very heavy It s recommend that a mechanical lifter or at least two persons be used to raise and align the system to prevent injury during installation Use care when inserting or removing a system into or out of a rack to prevent the accidental tipping or the rack causing damage or personal injury Install the Disk Drives Connect the management port cable and data port cables on the network plan the topology examples are on the following Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 48 Qsan Document User Manual Osa i AegisSAN Q500 P10 iSNS server Management Recom PC mended APC Smart UPS Optional Gigabit switch T
205. urly or daily Please follow the procedures 1 In QReplicas tab select the task and then click W gt Schedule 2 Check the schedules which you want They can be set by monthly weekly daily or hourly Click OK to apply Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 164 Qsan Document User Manual Sosa j QReplica Set a QReplica Schedule Set a OReplica Schedule SourceVD All Months in the Year o1 U 02 U 03 U 04 los U os U o7 U 08 o9 O 10O 11 U 12 Weeks in the Month See 50304 Ls E L all Days of the Week C Sun U Mon LJ Tue LJ wed L Thu LJ fri O sat C Al Coo O 01 O 02 O 03 Hours in the Day F a r 12 13 1415 LJis O17 O 18 O 19 C 20 O21 O 22 O 23 Minutes in the Hour C All C oo O 15 O 30 U 45 OK Cancel TIP a ae A EE Daily replication will be taken at every 00 00 Weekly replication will be taken every Sunday 00 00 Monthly replication will be taken every first day of month 00 00 QReplica Options There are three QReplica options described on the following QReplica Options Snapshot Space 3 Threshold 50 Restart the task an hour later if it failed M Enabled Snapshot Space This setting is the ratio of the source virtual disk and snapshot space If the ratio sets to 2 it means when the replication process is starting the system will book the free RAID group space to set as the snapshot
206. vent log LED status 10 seconds Hardware Monitor The Hardware Monitor tab displays the information of current voltages and temperatures also provides an Auto shutdown option The following example shows the P400Q series Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 116 Qsan Document User Manual Qsan Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Show information for Local sel Temperature Internal Case C Controller 1 Monitors Type Item Value Status Voltage On Board Vcore 0 99 V min 0 75 V max 1 35 V OK Voltage Onboard 3 3V 3 34 V min 3 10 V max 3 50 V OK Voltage Onboard 5V 5 00 V min 4 60 V max 5 40 V OK Voltage Onboard 12V 12 04 V min 11 04 V max 12 96 V OK Voltage On Board Vddr 1 50 V min 1 39 V max 1 60 V OK Temperature CPU Core 0 48 0 C hyst 5 0 C high 79 0 C OK Temperature CPU Core 1 46 0 C hyst 5 0 C high 79 0 C OK Temperature iSCSI NIC 1 36 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 65 0 C OK Temperature iSCSI NIC 2 36 0 C hyst 0 0 C high 65 0 C OK Temperature System Board 40 0 C hyst 5 0 C high 65 0 C OK Temperature SAS Expander 63 0 C hyst 5 0 C high 90 0 C OK Temperature Location BBM N A Not installed Backplane Type Item Value Status Voltage PSU 5V 5 07 V min 4 60 V max 5 40 V OK Voltage PSU 12V 12 08 V min
207. wer lt string gt is restored to work Power lt string gt is not functioning PSU signal detection lt string gt Fan lt string gt is restored to work Fan lt string gt is not functioning Fan lt string gt is installed Fan lt string gt is not present Fan lt string gt is over speed System temperature lt string gt is higher System Overheated lt string gt System Overheated lt string gt The system will auto shutdown immediately The controller will auto shutdown immediately reason Overheated lt string gt Unable to update thermal value on lt string gt System voltage lt string gt is higher lower System voltages lt string gt failed System voltages lt string gt failed The system will auto shutdown immediately 179 Qsan Document User Manual ERROR INFO WARNING ERROR ERROR WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING RMS Events Level INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING LVM Events Level INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO WARNING INFO INFO Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Voltage level 2 CTR shutdown UPS OK UPS fail UPS AC loss UPS power low SMART T E C SMART fail RedBoot failover Watchdog shutdown Watchdog reset Type Console Login Console Logout Web Login Web Logout Log clear Send mail fail Type RG create OK
208. wser to display the authentication screen http lt IP Address gt e g http 192 168 1 234 Welcome to Qsan User Name admin Password TIT English To access the Web Ul you have to enter a user name and password The initial defaults for administrator login are User Name admin Password 1234 Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 66 Qsan Document User Manual When the password has been verified the home page is displayed The following examples show the AegisSAN LX P400Q D212 Osan P4000 D212 MAKING DATA SMART Qsan f System Configuration D iSCSI Configuration krs Volume Configuration KL Enclosure Management LY System Maintenance B Performance Monitor g Ou Installation g volume Creation Wizard Menu Bar Options Choose the functions from the Menu Bar on the left side of the window to make any configuration changes Indicators and Icons Operation Area S System Configuration Si Host Port Configuration krsi Volume Configuration LA Enclosure Management LY System Maintenance i Performance Monitor CS Quick Installation Z volume Creation Wizard S System Configuration Ss iSCSI Configuration krei Volume Configuration LA Enclosure Management LY System Maintenance i Performance Monitor CS Quick Installation Z volume Creation Wizard TIP e La The Host Port Configuration menu bar option is only visi
209. y to determine all possibilities and volume sizes in the different RAID levels that can be created using the existing free drives It provides Largest capacity for each RAID level from which to choose The fewest number of drives for each RAID level volume size This way after choosing RAID level you may find that some drives are still available free status This phenomenon is the result of using smart design Take an example user chooses the RAID 5 level and the system has 12 200GB 4 80GB free drives inserted Generally if using all 16 drives for a RAID 5 group the maximum size of volume is 16 1 80GB 1200GB This wizard provides a Copyright 2004 2014 Qsan Technology Inc All Rights Reserved 74 a Qsan Document User Manual Sosa i smarter check and searches the most efficient way of using free drives It uses 200GB drives only to provide 12 1 200GB 2200GB capacity the volume size is larger and less drives 1 Click Volume Creation Wizard from the menu bar 2 Choose a RAID Level The number in the brackets is the maximum capacity at the RAID level Volume Creation Wizard Step 1 The dropdown list below contains the levels and the amount of storage that will be available using that RAID method Please select the option that best suits your storage needs Enclosure RAID Level RAID 0 5588 GB RAID 1 1862 GB RAID 3 3725 GB RAID 5 3725 GB 3 Select the default

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