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1. 00 00 OO OO OO OO OO 82 00 13 01 7B 03 00 01 00 02 43 05 00 00 OO 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 79 Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 53 3 3DM version 2 00 00 031 Figure 20 S M A R T Data Page The SMART Details page appears when you click a Port on the Drive Information page SMART data is displayed as hex values Consult your disk drive manufacturer for information on how to interpret the SMART data The SMART data meaning varies by disk drive manufacturer and model 52 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Controller Settings Page 3ware Controller Settings Microsoft Internet Explorer lal xj Edt view Favorites Tools Help Ea Heak gt A
2. 149 05 GB OK Port 6 WDC 149 05 GB OK Port WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Port8 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 OK Port 9 WDC WD1BO0DBB 00DAAD 149 05 GB OK Port 10 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 OK Port 11 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Type RAID 50 x Stripe 64 x Drives per subunit 3 x Write Cache Auto Verify Continue on Source NM ring Rebuild Cancel IB Figure 25 Configuring RAID 50 with 12 Drives Stripe The drop down list of stripe sizes lists the possible stripe sizes for the configuration you selected in the RAID level drop down The default stripe size of 64KB will give the best performance with applications that have many sequential reads and writes A larger stripe size will give better performance with applications that have a lot of random reads www 3ware com 65 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 and writes In general the smaller the stripe size the better the sequential I O and the worse the random I O The larger the stripe size the worse the sequential I O and the better the random I O Write Cache Auto Verify and Continue on Source Error during Rebuild These check boxes let you set the policies for the unit These policies can also be set and changed on the Controller Settings page For details about these policies see Unit Policies on page 54 selecting drives 3DM 2 may have refreshed Click Create Un
3. 8 fb 7 Figure 17 Unit Information Page The Unit Information page appears when you choose Information gt Unit Information from the menu bar and when you click an ID number on the Controller Summary page The Unit Information page shows a list of the units on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar and provides summary information about each unit To see details about a particular unit click the link in the Unit column Unit The unit number assigned to the unit by the firmware For 9000 series controllers unit numbers are in sequential order For 7 8000 series controllers unit numbers begin with the lowest port number Type The type of unit specified during configuration RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk JBOD or Spare For details about each of the RAID levels see Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels on page 8 Capacity The logical capacity size of the unit 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Note 3DM 2 displays the capacity in MBytes or GBytes the same way that Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems do as IKB 1024 bytes Previous versions of 3DM 1 x used the IKB 1000 bytes definition Consequently capacities of units listed under 3DM v 1 x may appear to be larger than they do under 3DM 2 Status The operational status of the unit OK Rebuilding Initializing Verifying Degraded
4. AS AVAIMABLI 13 MANUFACTURER PART ABERDEEN PART PROCESSOR CHIPSET SYSTEM MEMORY ON BOARD I O ON BOARD IDE VIDEO ON BOARD LAN SATA RAID SCSI CONTROLLER X38SA SPEC SHEET ABERDEEN STIRLI NG X38 RACKMOUNT BACKUP MONSTER SERVER SRVX38 BLACK RACK SRVX38 Dual Socket 604 Supports Dual Intel Xeon processors Front Side Bus support for 533MHz or 400MHz Onboard 3 phase switching power regulator ServerWorks Grand Champion SL chipset 8 x 240 Pin DIMM Sockets Up to 16GB DDR2 400 registered ECC Dual channel memory bus ECC Registerd DDR2 SDRAM ONLY 2 way interleave provides outstanding performance memory must be used in pairs 1 x Floppy Connector 2 x Serial 16550 compatible ports 2 x USB 2 0 Ports PS 2 keyboard and mouse ports Dual EIDE ports support Ultra DMA 100MB s of Burst data transfer rate supports UDMA Mode 5 PIO Mode 4 and ATAPI ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graphic controller Intel 82546GB Dual Gigabit controller 2 x 10 100 1000 ports 3WARE Escalade 9500S 8 Port SATA150 RAID SATA backplane provides power bus termination 8 Hot Swap Hot Spare SATA150 drive bays StorSwitch non blocking architecture for reliable scalable and high performance hardware RAID isolation RAID 1 10 5 and J BOD support SCSI performance feature set LSI Logic 21320 Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI card External Wide SCSI connector available connectors for internal or external SCSI tape drives
5. Favorites Smeda B 5 jaddess E htpsuiso1882142088 Links 2 Zwaree ALANTEST Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in _Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Controller Settings Controller ID 0 7566 12 Background Task Rate Controller ID 1 Rebuild Rate Faster Rebuild C C Faster I O Verify Rate Faster Verify Faster VO Unit Write Cache Controller ID 1 Unit RAID 5 Enabled C Disabled Unit Policies Controller ID 1 Auto Verify Continue on Source Error during Rebuild Unit 0 RAID 5 r n Other Controller Settings Controller ID 1 change through 105 Number of Drives per 1 Spin up Delay between Spin up 2 second s Export Unconfigured Disk No Disable Write Cache on No Unit Degrade Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 54 12PM 3DM version 2 00 00 031 Done Figure 21 Controller Settings Page The Controller Settings page appears when you choose Management gt Controller Settings from the menu bar The Controller Settings page lets you view and change settings that affect the units on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar Background Task Rate The Background Task Rate fields let you change the balance of background tasks rebuild and verify and I O performed by the controller 9000 series controllers show separate settings for Rebuild
6. S M A R T Data Microsoft Internet Explor Close S M A R T Controller ID 1 Port 1 10 00 01 OB OO C8 C8 OO 00 OO 00 00 00 00 03 07 00 B8 9B OE 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 64 64 AD 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 C8 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 OB 32 00 60 60 97 OD 00 00 00 00 00 13 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 OB 13 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 OC 32 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 C4 32 00 C8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C5 12 00 C8 C8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 12 00 C8 00 00 00 00 C7 OA 00 C8 FD 00 00 00 00 C8 00 00
7. ABERDEEN COMPLETE NETWORK SOLUTIONS USER S MANUAL Stirling X38sa X38saR Stirling X312 Stirling X316 Stirling X416 Stirling X524 CONTENTS User s Manual Contents Notice Introduction Aberdeen Contact Information 5 Year Warranty Terms and Conditions Mission Statement Company Background Goals The Aberdeen Advantage Aberdeen Leads Industry with 5 Year Warranty Custom Server Solutions Provider References Reviews and Awards Previous Comments from the Experts APPENDIX A Backup Monster X38 Aberdeen Stirling X38sa X38sa Spec Sheet X38sa Disk Placement Chart APPENDIX B Backup Monster X312 Aberdeen Stirling X312 X312 Spec Sheet X312 Disk Placement Chart APPENDIX C Backup Monster X316 Aberdeen Stirling X316 X316 Spec Sheet X316 Disk Placement Chart APPENDIX D TeraBuster Aberdeen Stirling X416 X416 Spec Sheet X416 Disk Placement Chart APPENDIX E TeraStorus Aberdeen Stirling X524 X524 Spec Sheet X524 Disk Placement Chart APPENDIX F 3ware Escalade Controller 3DM Disk Management Utility 1 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 8 9 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 227 28 29 30 31 32 33 NOTICE No part of this manual including the products and software described in it may be reproduced transmitted transcribed stored in a re
8. Voted among The Direct 100 vendors by PC Computing magazine Aberdeen designs manufactures and customizes award winning Aberdeen brand computer systems Stirling rackmount servers AberNAS storage appliances and backup storage servers Aberdeen LLC provides assistance to its vast customer base in the planning budgeting and implementation of complete network solutions including High Performance Computing and NAS SAN deployment within existing IT environments For product sales service or company information contact Aberdeen at 800 552 6868 by fax at 562 695 5570 or visit www aberdeeninc com GOALS To provide rack mounted server data storage and network solutions to the business government education and telecommunication sectors To continually offer a comprehensive selection of cutting edge computer hardware components and be the single source for the most reliable and the best valued backend server networking solutions in the market To exceed its clients expectations through dedicated one on one service unequalled attention to detail and custom solutions designed to overcome networking obstacles THE ABERDEEN ADVANTAGE Aberdeen s consummate professional and highly experienced sales management and technical teams are key elements in its ability to provide the finest complete network solutions and service available in the marketplace With unparalleled experience in the industry Aberdeen has accumulated the expertise
9. 0 04 0 000 Background initialize started unit 2 Jan 17 2004 12 00 59AM 0x04 0x003C Background initialize paused unit 2 Jan 17 2004 12 00 24AM 0 04 0 000 Background initialize started unit 2 i Jan 16 2004 02 22 47PM 0x04 0x003C Background initialize paused unit 2 i Jan 16 2004 01 56 45PM 0 04 0 000 Background initialize started unit 2 EE ton 15 onn4 NER ARM ___ Vorifu failed wae novar initialized DAI eubunit n isl Legend ins Last updated Mon Jan 19 2004 12 45 15PM version 2 00 00 031 E Done B E tecal intranet 2 Figure 26 Alarms Page The Alarms page appears when you click Alarms on the menu bar 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference This page displays a list of AENs asynchronous event notifications received from the controller displayed in the drop down list in the menu bar Up to 1000 alarms can be listed After the 1000 limit is reached the oldest alarms are deleted as new ones occur You can sort the alarms by severity or time To do so just click the column header For 8000 and 9000 series controllers alarms can be used by either 3DM or CLI but not both Whichever issues an alarms command first determines which can see alarm data Clear Alarms The Clear Alarms button removes all alarms shown in the list Sev Shows the severity of the ev
10. 16550 compatible ports 2 x USB 1 1 Ports PS 2 keyboard and mouse ports Dual EIDE ports support Ultra DMA 100MB s of Burst data transfer rate supports UDMA Mode 5 PI O Mode 4 and ATAPI ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graphic controller Dual Gigabit with I ntel 82546EB Controller 2 x 10 100 1000 ports 2 x 3WARE Escalade 8506 8 Port SATA150 RAID SATA backplane provides power bus termination 16 Hot Swap Hot Spare SATA150 drive bays StorSwitch non blocking architecture for reliable scalable and high performance hardware RAID isolation RAID 1 10 5 and JBOD support SCSI performance feature set Onboard voltage monitors for CPU Fan status Environmental temperature monitor and control Chassis and CPU overheat alarm LED indication and control System resource alert Supermicro System Management utility Phoenix 4Mb Flash ROM RTC Real Time Clock wakeup External modem remote ring on when system is in Soft Off state BIOS rescue hot keys for rescuing BIOS chip from flash failure Hardware BIOS virus protection Chipkill support 3 x 64 bit LOOMHz PCI X 1 x 64 bit 66MHz PCI 2 x 64 bit PCI slots populated with 3Ware controllers 1 x VXB Virtual Extended Bus Full ATX 12 x 13 in W x H EXPANSION BAYS1 x 3 5 external drive bay CHASSIS FEATURES 1 x 3 5 internal drive bay 1 x 5 25 external drive bay 1 x 5 25 slim drive bay new feature 16 x 3 5 x 1 drive bays 19 rackmount ATX 4U height RM414 24 Dep
11. ABERDEEN STIRLING X524 Stirling X524 a Available with Dantz Retrospect Backup Software Incomparable The newest addition to the all inclusive Aberdeen Stirling storage backup server line is here Dubbed the TeraStorus the Aberdeen Stirling X524 can provide up to 6TB of pure storage Aberdeen revolutionized the backup storage community with the 2TB Backup Monster for under 5000 J ust a few months later the 4TB TeraBuster was launched with double the capacity That was then and the future is now The TeraStorus is the goliath of backup storage servers with 24 hot swap hard disk drive bays suitable for 6TB of pure data storage capacity As with the previous backup Stirling storage servers the TeraStorus integrates Dantz Development s Retrospect backup software and be configured with dual Intel Xeon processors for those that require the most computing power possible Businesses can now safely guard against downtime and the loss of critical data with the Stirling line of backup servers The Aberdeen TeraStorus redefines the standard for the backup server storage market by offering a 5U rackmount server with up to 6 terabytes of SATA hot swap storage space starting under 14 000 Every Stirling TeraStorus backup server includes room for dual internal OS hard drives internal 24 hot swap hot spare drive bays dual gigabit NICs support for RAID 0 1 5 amp 10 an internal wall of cooling fans and an ex
12. BE Local intranet Figure 27 Settings The 3DM Settings page appears when you click Settings the menu bar Use this page to set preferences including email notification for alarms passwords page refresh frequency whether remote access is permitted and the incoming port for 3DM to listen for requests The initial settings for most of these preferences are specified during installation of 3DM E mail Notification Use the fields in this section to set up and manage notifications of events by e mail Send E mail This field determines whether e mail notification is Enabled or Disabled 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Send Severity and Above Specifies the type of events for which notifications should be sent A severity of Information will send e mails for all alarms a severity of Warning will send e mail for alarms with severity of Warning and Error A severity of Error will send e mail for alarms with severity of Error Sender Enter the email address which will appear in the From field Recipient The e mail address to which notifications should be sent You can enter multiple addresses separated by commas Server name or IP If the machine on which you are running 3DM has access to a nameserver you may enter the machine name of the mail server in the Server field Otherwise use the IP address Save E mail Settings button Saves the e
13. Disable Write Cache on Unit Degrade Indicates whether write cache will be automatically disabled on a unit if it becomes degraded After the unit is rebuilt the write cache will be re enabled automatically www 3ware com 55 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Scheduling Page 56 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help amp 7 Qsearch address https 192 168 1 160 888 x es Links Norton antivirus 2 Swares 2 sware vzknouzPn Microsoft Windows 2000 5 0 build 2195 ADMINISTRATOR logged in _Logout Summary Information Management w Alarms 3dm Settings Help Refresh Page Scheduling Select Controller Schedule Rebuild Tasks Controller ID 2 Scheduled Rebuilds Follow Schedule Ignore Schedule Day frime Duration hours r1 24 Sunday 12 00am 2 Monday 12 00am 24 3 Tuesday 12 00am 24 4 Wednesday 12 00am 24 5 Thursday 12 00am 24 6 Friday 12 00am 24 7 Saturday 12 00am 24 Remove Checked Add New Schedule Day Sunday Time 1200am v Duration M 7 Schedule Verify Tasks Controller ID 2 Scheduled Verifies Follow Schedule Ignore Schedule Day r1 24 Sunday 12 00am 2 Monday 12 00am 24 3 Tuesday 12 00am 24 4 Wednesday 12 00am 24 5 Thursday 12 00am 24 6 Friday 12 00am 24 7 Saturday 12 00am 24 Remove Checked Add
14. Drive Information Microsoft Internet Explorer m jol xj File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Bak 3 A search Favorites Br 2 Address https 192 168 2 143 888 Links 2 3wares 3DM 2 cs Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Drive Information Controller ID 0 7566 12 E Drive Information Controller ID 1 EINEN WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB WD WMACK1122267 65 13G65 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB WD WMACK1301223 65 13G65 ok WDC WD1600BB 00DAA40 149 05 GB WD WMACK1223541 65 13G65 OK WDC WD1600BB 00DAA40 149 05 GB WD WMACK1178992 65 13G65 OK WDC WD1800BB DODAAD 149 05 GB WD WMACK1250890 65 13G65 OK WDC WD1600BB 00DAA40 149 05 GB WD WMACK1235933 65 13G65 OK WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB WD WMACK1211822 65 13G65 OK WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB WD WMACK1231469 65 13G65 OK NOT PRESENT NOT PRESENT NOT PRESENT NOT PRESENT A 2 3 4 5 6 1 8 9 Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 46 06PM 3DM version 2 00 00 031 Figure 19 Drive Information Page The Drive Information page appears when you choose Information gt Drive Information from the menu bar or when you click a port on the Unit Details page If you arrive at this page from the port hyperlink on the Unit
15. SCALABLE SOLUTION Connects to Aberdeen XDAS Direct Attached Storage PC HEALTH MONITORING BIOS EXPANSION SLOTS BOARD SIZE EXPANSION BAYS CHASSIS FEATURES Device Connect up to 3 devices with SCSI port Onboard voltage monitors for CPU Fan status Environmental temperature monitor and control Chassis and CPU overheat alarm LED indication and control System resource alert Supermicro System Management utility AMI BIOS on 4Mbit Flash ROM User settings for hardware monitoring Auto configuration of IDE hard drive types Multiple boot options 1 x x8 PCI Express Slot Total of 5 PCI X 1 64 bit PCI slot populated w 3Ware controller 1 x 64 bit PCI slot populated w LSI SCSI controller 3 x Empty 64 bit PCI X Slots Full ATX 12 x 9 6 in W x H 1 x 3 5 drive bay 1 x Slim 5 25 drive bay 2 x 5 25 drive bays 8x 3 5 x 1 drive bays 19 rackmount ATX 3U height 25 4 Depth 550W Power Supply or 760W Triple Redundant Hot Plug Auto switching 100 240V AC power 4 x 5000 RPM Hot swappable Cooling Fans 2 x 5000 RPM Rear Exhaust Fan LED indicators for power on network activity IDE HDD activity Power ON OFF and system reset switches Rackmount Rails Includes 1 x 3 5 floppy drive Slim CD Rom Drive 14 X38SA DISK PLACEMENT CHART WARNING The disk drive trays must be properly seated completely back into their sockets and they must be in their proper positions in order to avoid soft
16. all units on the current controller To see this page choose Management gt Scheduling from the menu bar Maintenance Page Lets you configure new units and make changes to existing units To view this page choose Management gt Maintenance from the menu bar Alarms Page Shows a list of alarms including the specific alarm message and the exact date and time it occurred To view this page click Alarms on the menu bar 3DM Settings Page Lets you set preferences including email notification for alarms passwords page refresh frequency whether remote access is permitted and the incoming port which 3DM will use for listening To view this page click 3DM Settings on the menu bar 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Setting Up 3DM Preferences Setting Up 3DM Preferences The 3DM Settings page lets you define preference settings that affect the overall operation of 3DM Most of these settings are specified initially during installation of 3DM On the 3DM Settings page you can perform the following tasks W Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords Managing E mail Event Notification Enabling and Disabling Remote Access Setting the Incoming Port Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords 3DM provides different access levels for users and administrators The Administrator access level allows the user to fully configure 3DM The User access level all
17. connections can be enabled or disabled from the 3DM Settings page In the address line of your browser enter the URL or IP of the system containing the 3ware RAID controller If you don t know the URL or IP for the system you can contact your network administrator or from a Windows command prompt type ipconfig From a Linux command prompt type ifconfig Logging In When you first view 3DM in a browser you must log in before you can view or change any information Two levels of access are provided m Users can check the status of the controller units and drives attached to it W Administrators can check status configure and maintain the equipment Administrator and User status in 3DM is not related to Administrator User settings in the operating system To log in to 3DM 1 the 3DM logon screen select whether you are a User or Administrator 2 Enter your password and click Login If you are logging in for the first time after installing 3DM the default password for both User and Administrator is 3ware Note If you forget the passwords uninstalling and reinstalling 3DM resets the passwords to 3ware 36 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Working with the 3DM Screens Working with the 3DM Screens 3DM s features are organized on a series of pages you view in your browser After you log in to 3DM the Summary page shows a list of controllers installed in the computer at
18. mail notification settings Send Test Message button Sends a test message using the saved e mail settings Password Use the fields in this section to set the passwords for the User and Administrator When 3DM is first installed the default password for both is 3ware Change Password For Select the access level for which you are setting the password User or Administrator Users can only view status information in 3DM while Administrators can make changes and administer the controller and associated drives Current Password Enter the current password New Password Enter the new password Confirm New Password Enter the new password a second time to be sure you have entered it correctly Change Password button Saves password changes Page Refresh Minutes Between Refresh Displays how frequently pages in 3DM will be refreshed with new data from the controller To change this setting select another option from the drop down If you prefer 3DM to only refresh when you click Refresh Page select Never The Login Help and Drive SMART data pages do not automatically refresh All other 3DM pages do www 3ware com 69 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Remote Access Allow Remote Connections This field enables or disables the ability for users and administrators to access 3DM from a remote computer Incoming Port Listening Port This field specifies the HTTP port to be used by 3DM when listening for communications Th
19. to design and custom configure any network ranging from a couple of workstations to a complete SAN NAS network environment Aberdeen s ability to provide the best service and hardware availability is enhanced by its certifications and partnerships with the recognized leaders in the computer industry Company Certifications include Microsoft Certified Partner ntel Premier Provider Staff certifications and qualifications Microsoft intel Microsoft Certified Professional CERTIFIED premier Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Partner EE Leu ntel Certified Solution Consultant FTU Intel Certified Integration Specialist Novell Unix and Linux Professionals ABERDEEN LEADS INDUSTRY WITH 5 YEAR WARRANTY Aberdeen is pleased to provide an industry leading 5 Year Warranty on any of its fully configured rackmount servers Whether you select one of the pre configured Stirling servers or custom design a complete server for yourself it will be warranted to be free of defects in materials for a period of five years from the date of shipment and for the lifetime of the product to be free of workmanship defects CUSTOM SERVER SOLUTIONS PROVIDER Aberdeen LLC has provided personal and corporate customers quality custom computing solutions for more than a decade Customizable Stirling rack mounted servers backup solutions and AberNAS storage appliances not only offer a longer warranty and demons
20. unit For example a RAID 5 missing 2 or more drives or a RAID 0 missing 1 or more drives would become inoperable If you remove a drive from a redundant unit the unit will become degraded Once a unit has become degraded additional drives cannot be removed without making it inoperable so no Remove Drive link will display Warning Physically removing drives which are not in hotswap AN carriers can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive Maintenance Task Buttons Below the list of units a row of task buttons lets you preform maintenance and configuration tasks related to the unit Before clicking one of these buttons select the appropriate unit Verify Unit Puts the selected unit in verifying mode If verify scheduling is enabled on the Scheduling page the unit will not start actively verifying until the scheduled time and the status will indicate Verify Paused The Unit Details page will indicate whether a unit is actively verifying If verify scheduling is not enabled clicking Verify Unit begins the verification process www 3ware com 61 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 62 If the unit you selected to verify is a redundant unit the redundancy of the unit will be verified For example it will check parity for a RAID 5 or check data consistency fora RAID 1 If the unit you checked is not a redundant unit verify will do a surface scan of the media During verification I O continues normally F
21. you work in 3DM the Messages area just below the menu bar displays information about the results of commands you have selected www 3ware com 37 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 3DM Menus The 3DM menu bar groups access to a number of 3DM pages on menus and provides direct link access to others e Z 3ware SDM 2 SERVER3 Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in _ Logout Summary Information Management 3DM Settings Refresh Controller Details Unit Information Drive Information Figure 14 3DM Menu Bar Status information is available from the Information menu You can view controller unit and drive information for a particular controller The Management menu gives you access to tasks used for managing controller level settings background task rate enabling of unit write cache and policies that affect all units managed by the controller tasks that can be scheduled rebuild verify and self test and maintenance of individual units Unit configuration can also be done through the Management gt Maintenance page The Alarms page shows a list of alarms including the specific alarm message and the exact date and time it occurred The 3DM Settings page lets you set preferences including email notification for alarms passwords page refresh frequency whether remote access is permitted and the incoming port which 3DM will use for listening Help lets you access information about us
22. 3DM on page 44 3DM 2 Reference on page 45 www 3ware com 27 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 3DM 2 Reference contains information about the fields and settings on each page in 3DM For additional information about doing particular tasks in 3DM see the remaining sections in this guide Browser Requirements for 3DM 3DM runs in most current web browsers Tested and supported browsers include W Mozilla 1 2 and above W Internet Explorer 5 5 and above Additional requirements W JavaScript must be enabled W Cookies must be enabled m For best viewing use a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater and set colors to 16 bit color or greater Note Because 3DM be viewed in different browsers the format and style of the 3DM browser windows illustrated in this chapter are examples only Screenshots were taken in Internet Explorer The actual look of the windows will depend on the browser 3DM version and operating system in use Setting up Mozilla Details about accessing all ports including port 888 by adding a list of ports to Mozilla default all js 28 Note For security reasons some web browsers do not allow connections to certain ports including port 1080 and 888 To override this on a per port basis the Mozilla release notes recommend to add a comma separated list of ports to default all js in your Mozilla installation directory For example to unblock port 888 use the f
23. 6 Terabytes of data This Backup Monster is suited to be the perfect solution for the 1 Manager looking to find a beefy storage solution at the most affordable price Our Ultra Dense Backup Monster costs as little as 1 10th the cost of a backup solution by any other company This storage beast is capable of storing up to 6 4TB This beast can be featured with SATA disk drives for those that require the most computing power possible The Aberdeen Stirling X316 now features the newly released Intel E7520 chipset Lindenhurst featuring Express and DDR2 capability Extended Memory 64 Technology EM64T and an 800MHz processor system bus to support the latest Intel Xeon Nocona dual processors with 1MB L2 cache and 800 MHz system bus for servers and workstations The SATA Aberdeen Stirling X316 comes with 16 hot swap drive bays dual Gigabit LAN 64 bit Raid controller and has a slim CD ROM and floppy drive Housed in an ultra dense 3U chassis and utilizing the Intel E7520 chipset it guarantees the absolute best storage capacity available in any 3U platform and by design the Stirling X316 provides scalability for any enterprise looking for the ultimate storage and backup solution with the XDAS scalable arrays 21 MANUFACTURER PART ABERDEEN PART PROCESSOR CHIPSET SYSTEM MEMORY ON BOARD I O ON BOARD IDE VIDEO ON BOARD LAN SATA RAID SCSI CONTROLLER SCALABLE SOLUTION PC HEALTH MONITORING BIOS EXPANS
24. 950W 3 1 Triple Redundant Hot Swap 2 x 12cm Hot Swap Blowers 2 x 60x38mm Fans Exhaust Fans Optimized HDD interspace to maximize inlet air flow Buzzer alarm for fan failure and overheat warning Includes 1 x 3 5 floppy drive Slim CD ROM Drive Rackmount Rails 30 X524 DISK PLACEMENT CHART WARNING The disk drive trays must be properly seated completely back into their sockets and they must be in their proper positions in order to avoid software corruption and or hardware damage Please carefully read the following Your TeraStorus has four columns of six hard disk drives The columns are labeled alphabetically from left to right and the rows are numbered from top to bottom For safety during shipment to you the drives have been removed and shipped separately The number stickers on the hard drive packages correspond to their placement in the chassis Proper placement of the drives is critical in retaining the integrity of any software or operating system that has been loaded Slide the hard drive into place with the retaining handle extended When the drive is fully inserted push the retaining handle back until it is fully seated and snapped into the latch Should you require technical assistance with this or any other aspect of your Aberdeen server contact us toll free at 800 552 6868 option 3 from 8 00am to 5 00pm PST 31 APPENDIX F 3WARE ESCALADE CONTROLLER 32 3DM DISK MANAGEMENT U
25. ATA RAID SCSI CONTROLLER SCALABLE SOLUTION PC HEALTH MONITORING BIOS EXPANSION SLOTS BOARD SIZE EXPANSION BAYS CHASSIS FEATURES WARRANTY X312 SPEC SHEET ABERDEEN STIRLING X312 3U RACKMOUNT BACKUP SERVER SRVX312 BLACK RACK KITX312 Dual Socket 604 Dual Intel Xeon Processors EM64T Support Intel E7520 Lindenhurst chipset 800 MHz FSB 8 x 240 Pin DIMM Sockets Up to 16GB DDR2 400 registered ECC Dual channel memory bus ECC Registerd DDR2 SDRAM ONLY 2 way interleave provides outstanding memory performance memory must be used in pairs 1 x Floppy Connector 2 x Serial 16550 compatible ports 2 x USB 2 0 Ports PS 2 keyboard and mouse ports Dual EIDE ports support Ultra DMA 100MB s of Burst data transfer rate supports UDMA Mode 5 PIO Mode 4 and ATAPI ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graphic controller Intel 82546GB Dual Gigabit controller 2 x 10 100 1000 ports 1x 3WARE Escalade 9500S 12 Port SATA150 RAID SATA backplane provides power bus termination 12 Hot Swap Hot Spare SATA150 drive bays StorSwitch non blocking architecture for reliable scalable and high performance hardware RAID isolation RAID 0 1 10 5 and JBOD support SCSI performance feature set LSI Logic 21320 Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI card External Wide SCSI connector available connectors for internal or external SCSI tape drives Connects to Aberdeen XDAS Direct Attached Storage Device Connect up to 3 devices with SCSI port
26. ION SLOTS BOARD SIZE EXPANSION BAYS CHASSIS FEATURES WARRANTY X316 SPEC SHEET ABERDEEN STIRLING X316 3U RACKMOUNT BACKUP SERVER SRVX316 BLACK RACK KITX316 Dual Socket 604 Dual Intel Xeon Processors EM64T Support Intel E7520 Lindenhurst chipset 800 MHz FSB 8 x 240 Pin DIMM Sockets Up to 16GB DDR2 400 registered ECC Dual channel memory bus ECC Registerd DDR2 SDRAM ONLY 2 way interleave provides outstanding memory performance memory must be used in pairs 1 x Floppy Connector 2 x Serial 16550 compatible ports 2 x USB 2 0 Ports PS 2 keyboard and mouse ports Dual EIDE ports support Ultra DMA 100MB s of Burst data transfer rate supports UDMA Mode 5 PIO Mode 4 amp ATAPI ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graphic controller Intel 82546GB Dual Gigabit controller 2 x 10 100 1000 ports 2 x 3WARE Escalade 9500S 8 Port SATA150 RAID SATA backplane provides power bus termination 16 Hot Swap Hot Spare SATA150 drive bays StorSwitch non blocking architecture for reliable scalable and high performance hardware RAID isolation RAID 0 1 10 5 and JBOD support SCSI performance feature set LSI Logic 21320 Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI card External Wide SCSI connector available connectors for internal or external SCSI tape drives Connects to Aberdeen XDAS Direct Attached Storage Device Connect up to 3 devices with SCSI port Onboard voltage monitors for CPU Fan status Environmental temperature monitor and con
27. Information page the line showing the port you clicked on is highlighted The Drive Information page shows a list of drives on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar and a summary of each one To see the SMART data for a drive click the link in the Port column Port 4 The port to which the drive is connected Model The model of the drive Capacity The physical capacity of the drive Note that the capacity as shown on 3DM screen is calculated as 1KB 1024 This amount may differ from the capacity that is printed on the disk drive where it typically has been calculated as 1K 1000 Consequently the capacity of the drive may appear smaller in the 3DM screens No storage capacity is actually lost the size has simply been calculated differently for consistency Serial The serial number of the drive Firmware The firmware version of the drive Unit The unit the drive belongs to if applicable WWW J3ware com 51 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Status The status of the drive OK Not Supported Read Timeout Read Failure Orphan DCB Data Check Unsupp DCB Unconv DCB Offline JBOD or Not Present In the event of a problem the status shown for the drive can be useful to customer support Note In most cases the status of the drive will not correspond to the status of the unit shown on the Unit Information page SMART Details About Drive at Particular Port Page E 3ware ALANTEST
28. New Schedule Day Sunday z Time 12 00am x Duration 1 z Schedule Self tests Controller ID 2 Day lime Tasks applies to all schedule items r1 Sunday 12 00am M Upgrade UDMA mode 2 Monday 12 00am IV Check S M A R T Thresholds 3 Tuesday 12 00am 4 Wednesday 12 00am 5 Thursday 12 00am 6 Friday 12 00am 7 Saturday 12 00am Remove Checked Add New Schedule Day Sunday x Time 12 00am Done fep 2 Figure 22 Scheduling For 9000 series controllers the Scheduling page appears when you choose Management gt Scheduling from the menu bar The Scheduling page is not available for 7000 and 8000 series controllers If you want to schedule tasks for one of those controllers use 3DM Version 1 x 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference The Scheduling page lets you view and change the schedule for tasks that affect all units on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar including W Rebuild tasks also applies to initialization tasks Verify tasks also applies to media scans Self tests You can also enable or disable use of the schedule for Rebuild and Verify tasks by selecting either Follow Schedule or Ignore Schedule When these schedules are set to be ignored these tasks can be performed at any time and are not restricted to the scheduled times Note Scheduling of these tasks is only available on
29. Onboard voltage monitors for CPU Fan status Environmental temperature monitor and control Chassis and CPU overheat alarm LED indication and control System resource alert Supermicro System Management utility Phoenix 4Mb Flash ROM RTC Real Time Clock wakeup External modem remote ring on IF system is in Soft Off state BIOS rescue hot keys rescue BIOS chip from flash failure Hardware BIOS virus protection Chipkill support 1 x x8 PCI Express Slot Total of 5 PCI X 1 x 64 bit PCI slot populated with 3Ware controller 1 x 64 bit PCI slot populated with LSI SCSI controller 3 x Empty 64 bit PCI X Slots Full ATX 12 x 13 in W x H 1 x 2 5 internal drive bay 1 x 5 25 slim external bay cd rom 1 x 3 5 slim external floppy 16 x 3 5 x 1 drive bays 19 rackmount ATX 3U height 27 Depth Heavy duty cold rolled steel with Zinc plated interior Accepts Full Size Motherboard 12x13 650W 2 1 Redundant Hot Swap 2 x 40MM Expansion Card Cooling Fans 3 x 80MM Hot Swap System Cooling Fans 2 x 60MM Rear Exhaust Fans Optimized HDD tray spacing to maximize air flow Buzzer alarm for fan failure and overheat warning 1 year parts 2 year labor warranty ABERDEEN 18 X312 DISK PLACEMENT CHART WARNING The disk drive trays must be properly seated completely back into their sockets and they must be in their proper positions in order to avoid software corruption and or hardware damage Please careful
30. Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Maintenance Controller ID 0 7566 12 X Rescan Controller This will scan all empty ports for newly inserted drives Unit Maintenance Controller ID 0 _ ooo subunito Port 0 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Remove Drive subunit Port 1 WDC 000 149 05 GB OK Remove Drive subunit 1 Port2 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB Remove Drive subunit 1 Port3 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB Remove Drive Port4 WDC WD1600B8 00DAAD 149 05 GB Verify Unit Rebuild Unit Remove Unit Delete Unit Before deletina removina a unit make sure there is no I O on the unit and unmount it Available Drives Controller ID 1 Port5 WDC WD1B5DOBB D0DAAD 148 05 GB OK Remove Drive 6 WDC WYD1600BB 00DAAD 149 05 GB OK Remove Drive Port7 WDC W D1600BB 00DAAD 149 05 GB OK Remove Drive Create Unit Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 01 00 11PM version 2 00 00 031 Ua nana DD C DA im Figure 23 Maintenance Page The Maintenance page appears when you choose Management gt Maintenance from the menu bar The Maintenance page lets you perform maintenance tasks on existing units on the current controller shown in the drop down list on the menu bar and lets you create new units by con
31. Paused The Unit Details page indicates whether a unit is actively rebuilding If rebuild scheduling is not enabled the rebuild process will begin right away Remove Unit Removes a selected unit and allows you to unplug the drives and move the unit to another controller the data on the unit remain intact 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference are removing is unmounted and no I Os are being issued For example make sure you are not copying files to the unit and make sure that there are no applications with open files on that unit i Caution Before you click Remove Unit make sure the unit you If a unit is not unmounted and you remove it it is the equivalent of physically yanking a hard drive out from under the operating sys tem Resulting behavior depends on which operating system you are using and what kind of I O is being done however you will typically see really bad results bad errors and most likely a reset of the controller or a system hang To unmount a unit under windows use Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Disk Management In the Computer Management window right click on the partition and Remove the logical drive letter associated with the unit To unmount a unit under Linux unmount the mount point to where the RAID unit is mounted For example if you want to remove unit 0 and you know that 0 corresponds to dev sdb you should unmount all partitions for s
32. Rate and Verify Rate as shown in Figure 21 7000 and 8000 series controllers show only one setting for Task Rate it applies to both rebuild and verify rates This rate is not persistent following a reboot for 7 8000 The 5 radio buttons let you set the ratio at which rebuilds and verifies are performed The furthest left buttons set the firmware to the fastest rebuild and verify settings This means maximum processing time will be given to rebuilds or verifies rather than I O The furthest right buttons set the firmware to the slowest rebuild and verify settings giving maximum processing time to Vo www 3ware com 53 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 54 For additional information see Setting Background Task Rate on page 113 Unit Write Cache You can enable or disable write cache for each unit 3DM lists each unit on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar and shows you whether the write cache is currently enabled or disabled for it Write cache is a combination of the physical hard drives write cache as well as the controller s memory depending on what type of unit you are using For 9000 series controllers a Disable Write Cache on Unit Degrade setting can be set in 3ware BIOS Manager 3BM You can see if this setting is enabled in the Other Controller Settings field at the bottom of this Controller Settings page If Disable Write Cache on Unit Degrade is enabled upon degrade of a unit the write cach
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35. TILITY Introduction The 3DM disk management utility allows you to view status and version information pertaining to your Escalade ATA RAID Controller 3DM alerts you when a disk array needs maintenance and you can maintain your disk arrays from 3DM You can add or remove drives specify an available drive as a hot spare or launch the rebuild process Array status can be viewed or arrays can be maintained remotely via a standard web browser provided you have access to the network containing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Event notification occurs from 3DM when the ATA RAID controller requires attention such as when a disk array becomes degraded and is no longer fault tolerant Event notification will only occur while 3DM is running so we recommend that 3DM be left running as a background utility on the ATA RAID controller s machine The event notification e mail feature can send an e mail to a specified recipient when 3DM detects a problem within the array The e mail received will include most of the information provided in the Logs on the Alarms page Documentation The online manual and user guide is available to download on the Aberdeen Website http www aberdeeninc com abcatg Aberdeen AberNAS 3ware pdf Troubleshooting Common usage concerns with the 3DM Utility and the 3Ware Escalade controller Soft Reset A Soft Reset message window will appear on the desktop upon each restart of the system This is normal for the 3DM so
36. You can change these later from within 3DM The first question appears for Linux but not for FreeBSD 1 Was RPM used to install the Escalade driver and or 3DM The default answer is no 2 Pleas nter the location of the help documentation default is usr local doc 3dm Press Enter to accept the default location and display the next question or enter the path at which you want the documentation to be installed 3 Would you like to have e mail notification enabled Y N E mail notification sends an email message when an event occurs The default answer to this question is yes If you enable e mail notification you will be asked to provide additional information the name of the mail server the user name for the person who will send the E mail notification typically the local host name and the user name for the person who will receive the e mail notification typically the system administrator Pleas nter the name of your mail server default is local host name Pleas nter the name of the user you want sending e mail notification default is root Pleas nter the name of the user you want receiving e mail notification default is 3ware admin To enter multiple e mail addresses separate them by a comma or a semicolon 4 Pleas nter the port number you would like to use for web monitoring default is 888 If you do not know what port to use select the default 5 Would you like 3DM connect
37. al Intel Xeon processors for those that require the most computing power possible Businesses can now safely guard against downtime and the loss of critical data with the Stirling line of backup servers The Aberdeen TeraBuster establishes a new standard for the server storage market by offering a 4U rackmount server with up to 4 Terabytes of SATA hot swap storage space Every Stirling TeraBuster backup server includes 16 hot swap hot spare drive bays dual gigabit NICs an internal wall of cooling fans and support for RAID 0 1 5 amp 10 Options include a tape drive two internal OS hard drives CD RW a triple redundant 600W power supply and Dantz Development s Retrospect backup software to provide data security disaster recovery and file storage capabilities 25 X416 SPEC SHEET MANUFACTURER BBX416 PART BLACK RACK ABERDEEN PART KITX416 PROCESSOR CHIPSET Dual Socket 604 Supports Dual Intel Xeon processors Front Side Bus support for 533MHz or 400MHz Onboard 3 phase switching power regulator Intel E7501 Server chipset SYSTEM MEMORY 8 x 184 Pin DIMM Sockets ON BOARD I O ON BOARD IDE VIDEO ON BOARD LAN SATA RAID PC HEALTH MONI TORI NG BIOS EXPANSI ON SLOTS BOARD SIZE Up to 16GB ECC Registered DDR266 SDRAM Compatible with PC2100 and PC1600 ECC Registerd DDR SDRAM ONLY Two way interleaved memory banks provide outstanding memory performance 1 x Floppy Connector 2 x Serial
38. atus information and manage your 3ware RAID controller by logging in to the 3DM screens in your browser Starting 3DM under Linux 3DM should start automatically after installation and upon bootup To start 3DM manually 1 1 2 Login as root Afterwards type For Red Hat Linux etc rc d init d 3dm start For SuSE Linux etc rc d 3dm start Open your browser and enter the URL for your system The default URL is https localhost 888 You can also replace localhost with the IP address of the computer that contains the 3ware controller For example https lt IP address gt 888 The 3DM login screen appears Starting 3DM under Windows W From the Start menu choose Programs gt 3ware gt 3DM 2 www 3ware com Your default browser opens and displays the URL for your local controller The default URL is https localhost 888 You can also replace localhost with the IP address of the computer that contains the 3ware controller For example https lt IP address gt 888 35 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Note If you close your browser 3DM continues to run in the background on the system Viewing 3DM Remotely via a Standard Web Browser When remote administration is enabled you can use 3DM to check status and administer your 3ware RAID controller from a browser on any computer over an internet connection You do not need to install the 3DM software on the remote computer Remote
39. bers for 9000 series are in sequential order Unit numbers for the 7 8000 series will begin with the lowest port number of the unit Use the checkbox next to the unit to select a unit before clicking one of the task buttons 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Drives Number of drives in the unit Type of Unit Type of unit specified during configuration RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk Spare or JBOD Capacity The usable capacity size of the unit Status Operational status of the unit Ok Rebuilding Initializing Verifying Degraded or Inoperable missing drives When Rebuilding Initializing or Verifying the percentage complete is also shown The complete can be active or paused To see whether this task is currently active or paused click on the unit number to display the Unit Information page which has that information Drive Information Port The port to which the drive is connected Model The model of the drive Capacity The capacity size of the drive Status The status of the drive OK Not Supported Not Present and so forth If you need help regarding a status displayed here please contact Technical Support Remove Drive The Remove Drive link removes a drive from the controller so that you can safely unplug it In the Unit Maintenance section this link is only provided for drives that can be safely removed without creating an inoperable
40. ble to install and run both 3DM 2 and 3DM version 1 x on the same system Note If two different versions of 3DM are both running they have to be listening on different ports In addition alarms cannot be captured by both versions 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference 3DM 2 Reference This section includes details about the fields and features available on the pages you work with throughout 3DM 2 It is organized by page as the pages are organized on the 3DM menu bar Controller Summary Page Controller Details Page Unit Information Page Unit Details Page Drive Information Page SMART Details About Drive at Particular Port Page Controller Settings Page Scheduling Page Maintenance Page Alarms Page 3DM Settings Page Controller Summary Page 3ware 3DM Summary Microsoft Internet Explorer x File Edit View Favorites Tools gt A Qsearch Favorites meda B Address https 192 168 2 143 888 Jinks 2 3ware 3DM 2 SERVER3 Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Summary Controller Summary iD Seralf Firmware Driver 0 Geronimo Apache Sware Internal Use FGXX 2 01 00 030 24012 1 Geronimo Apache 3ware Internal Use FGXX2 01 00 030 2 4 0 12 m Last updated Fri Ja
41. d a user can connect to 3DM over the internet or an intranet to check status or administer the controller and associated drives If remote access is disabled and a user attempts to connect to 3DM remotely they will see the following error message Remote Access to 3DM has been disabled Please connect using the local machine by entering localhost in the URL bar Remote access can be enabled or disabled on the 3DM Settings page To enable or disable remote access 1 Click 3DM Settings on the menu bar 2 Inthe Remote Access section of the 3DM Settings page select either Enabled or Disabled in the Allow Remote Connections field The page refreshes and a message at the top of the screen confirms that remote access has been enabled or disabled Setting the Incoming Port You can set the port which 3DM uses to listen for incoming messages If you are not sure which port would be the best to use leave this set to the default port of 888 To set the incoming port 1 Click 3DM Settings on the menu bar 2 Inthe Incoming Port section of the 3DM Settings page enter the port number in the Listening Port field The page refreshes and a message at the top of the screen confirms that the listening port has been changed Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes Since the status of the drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller can change while you are viewing information about them in 3DM it s important to refresh the
42. dbx where x 1s the number of the parti tion umount dev sdbx For FreeBSD the command would be umount dev twedx When you click Remove Unit you will be asked to confirm that you want to proceed When you confirm the removal the unit number and information will be removed from 3DM Units created in the future can reclaim this unit number The operating system 1s notified that the unit was removed In Linux the device node associated with this unit is removed In Windows the Device Manager will reflect the changes under the disk drives icon Information about the unit remains intact on the drives This allows the drive or drives to be reassembled into a unit again on this controller or if moved to another controller carriers can result in a system hang or may even damage the system Warning Physically removing drives which are not in hotswap AN and the drive Delete Unit Deletes the selected unit and allows you to use the drives to create another unit The drives appear in the list of Available Drives www 3ware com 63 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 64 Caution Before you click Delete Unit make sure the unit you are AN removing is unmounted and no I Os are being issued If a unit is not unmounted and you delete it it is the equivalent of physically yanking a hard drive out from under the operating system Resulting behavior depends on which operating system you are using and what kind of I O is being done however yo
43. do not have any data indicating they were previously part of a 3ware RAID configuration they will appear in the Available Drives list In addition if there is a unit with the status Inoperable before a rescan for example a RAID 5 unit missing 2 or more drives and a rescan finds drives that complete the unit the inoperable unit will become a valid unit and rescanned while keeping the data intact Clicking Rescan Controller after removing units other than a JBOD unit e g RAID 5 will cause the drives that make up the unit to be seen as individual available drives they will not be pieced together to form a unit This is unlike the 9000 series controllers which will piece together the unit for you and display the drives as a unit If you still want to use the drives together as a unit restart the computer before creating a new unit with those drives Creating a new unit with those drives will destroy any existing data on them After you restart the 8000 will again see the drives as a valid unit Note In 8000 series controllers only JBOD units can be removed Unit Maintenance The Unit Maintenance section of the page lists all existing units on the current controller and displays summary information about them The top row shows information about the unit while subsequent rows show summary information about each drive in the unit Unit Information Unit Number The unit number assigned to the unit by the firmware Unit num
44. e default port setting is 888 If you change this port make sure the port you specify is not being used Failure to do so will cause 3DM to stop responding and you will have to restart it by hand Change Port button Saves a new port number 70 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
45. e will automatically be disabled even if you enable write cache in the Unit Write Cache field For additional information see Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache on page 89 Unit Policies For units on 9000 series controllers you can enable or disable two policies Auto verify and Continue on Source Error During Rebuild 3DM lists each unit on the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar and shows you whether the policies are currently enabled or disabled for each unit This section does not appear for 7000 and 8000 series controllers Auto verify The Auto verify policy causes verify tasks to be performed repeatedly during a scheduled verify window When Auto verify is disabled verify is not initiated automatically by the controller Verify can still be started manually with 3DM 3BM or CLI Once a manually started verification is complete no further verify tasks for the unit is performed Continue on Source Error During Rebuild This policy applies only to units which are redundant For units which are not redundant a check box is not available When this policy is set ECC errors are ignored when they are encountered during a rebuild When this policy is not set a rebuild will abort upon encountering an ECC error and the unit will be set back to Degraded Since this option could result in the loss of some source data in the event of source errors select this option only if you want to ensure t
46. elf tests can be scheduled Upgrade UDMA mode This test checks the speed at which data transfer to drives is occurring to see if the UDMA mode can be increased If you are already running at the fastest UDMA mode then this self test has no effect The UDMA mode can become downgraded in the event that cable CRC errors are encountered requiring multiple retries to read sectors In severe cases the UDMA mode may be downgraded from ATA 150 to ATA 133 to ATA 100 to 66 to 33 This check is also done every time the system is booted UDMA mode does not apply to SATA Check SMART Thresholds This test checks to see whether SMART thresholds have been exceeded The SMART thresholds indicate when a drive is likely to fail based on the number of errors that have been recorded through SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology If any of the disk drives have detected a threshold exceeded condition then an AEN is logged to the 3DM Alarms page Moreover if anything unusual is found during any self test it will be logged as an Alarm 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Maintenance Page 3ware 3DM Maintenance Microsoft Internet Explorer E 101 xj File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Bak A Qsearch Favorites Meda B jadkess E htpsisi8 244 3958 sss 2 3ware 3DM 2 SERVER3 Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service
47. en the License Agreement screen appears read and agree to the license information then let the InstallShield Wizard guide you through the installation process 4 Onthe 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration screen see Figure 10 use the settings to specify these things W Tochange the HTTP port that 3DM will use as a listening port check the first box If you do not know which port to use leave the box unchecked and use the default port W To allow remote administration uncheck the second checkbox www 3ware com 29 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 30 5 When the second checkbox is checked only localhost connections are allowed Internet and Intranet connections are not allowed You can change this setting later in 3DM 3ware 3DM 2 Setup x 2 Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration 2 3ware Check first box to update 3DM 2 HTTP listening port Uncheck second box to allow Intemet Intranet connections to 3DM 2 v Restrict to localhost only connections 1912 8 lt Back Cancel Figure 10 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration Display If the 3DM HTTP listening port setup screen appears enter the HTTP port you want to use This screen only appears when you check the first box on the 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration screen You can change this setting later within 3DM On the E mail Notification Preferences screen see Figure 11 use t
48. ent Three levels are provided Errors are shown next to a red box m Warnings are shown next to a yellow box W Information is shown next to a blue box Time The time shown for alarms generated by 7000 and 8000 series controllers is the time retrieved from the driver by 3DM The time shown for alarms generated by 9000 series controllers is the time received by the driver from firmware Message The specific text relating to the alarm condition www 3ware com 67 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 3DM Settings Page 101 Eile Edit View Favorites Tools 68 EI Q 3 A Qsearch s Favorites lesa d E Address https jlocalhost 888 z Links ADMINISTRATOR logged Logout 2 3 DM 2 AUTHORIZ DLTX2W Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service F Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh 3DM Settings Send E mail C Enabled amp Disabled Send Severity and Above information gt Sender on Recipient s Server name or IP 7 Save E mail Settings Send Test Message Change Password For User z Current Password Ss New Password Confirm New Password Jee r Change Password Page Refresh Minutes Between Refresh 5 Allow Remote Access Enabled C Disabled Incoming Port Listening Port 888 Change Port Last updated Fri Jan 23 2004 12 09 20PM zi B
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50. figuring available drives Rescan Controller Use the Rescan Controller button to have 3DM scan the available drives in the controller and update the list of available drives shown This is useful in variety of maintenance tasks For example if you physically plug in a drive and want the controller to recognize the newly plugged in drive Rescan will not recognize it as gone unless the drive was in use or until it is required by the system Always use the Remove link to remove a drive before unplugging it Note If you unplug a drive without first removing it through 3DM www 3ware com 59 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 60 i Warning Removing or adding drives which are not in hotswap carriers can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive In 9000 series controllers rescan checks empty ports for newly plugged in drives If those drives were previously part of a 3ware RAID configuration and they still have valid DCB Disk Configuration Block information on them the controller tries to piece them back together into a working unit Ifa working unit can be formed it will appear in the Unit Maintenance list when the scan is complete and the operating system will be notified of the unit In Linux or FreeBSD a device node will be associated with each unit created In Windows the device manager will reflect the changes under the disk drives icon This process is known as importing drives If new drives
51. ftware as it treats each restart of the system as a reported incident Power Status Lights Fach unit includes hard disk drive power status LEDs Hot Swap With 3Ware activity is the key word Soft Reset will notify that the system is being shut down and re starting Error Reporting There is no error reported when a drive is removed while the system is powered up and inactive 3Ware management software will immediately report a drive missing or defective when there is read or write activity addressed to that drive The constant polling of the drives was deemed by 3Ware to be a performance degrading overhead activity and unnecessary RAI D Control The mirroring of the operating system drives is controlled by the Microsoft software and not by the 3Ware controller 33 AMG STORAGE 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller Supports the 9000 Series PN 720 0104 00 April 2004 User Guide Copyright 2004 3ware Inc All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the proper written consent of 3ware Inc 455 West Maude Ave Sunnyvale CA 94085 Trademarks 3ware Escalade and 3DM are all registered trademarks of 3ware Inc The 3ware logo 3BM StorSwitch TwinStor and R5 Fusion are all trademarks of 3ware Inc All other trademarks herein are property of t
52. hat a rebuild will complete successfully without manually intervention If the rebuild fails and Continue on Source Error During Rebuild is not selected then you have the option to start a rebuild manually It is recommended that a file system check be executed when the rebuild completes 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Note The policy Continue on Source Error During Rebuild is equivalent to the Force continue on source errors option in 3DM v 1 x and the ignoreEcc option in the CLI Other Controller Settings For 9000 series controllers the Other Controller settings displays information about additional settings that can only be changed in the BIOS 3BM For more information see Setting Policies for a Controller through 3BM on page 74 This section does not appear for 7000 and 8000 series controllers Number of Drives Per Spin up Number of drives that will spin up at the same time when the controller is powered up This setting only applies when the feature is supported by the disk drives and has been enabled in 3BM Delay between Spin ups The delay between drive groups that spin up at one time on this particular controller Export JBOD Unconfigured Disks Indicates whether unconfigured disks JBODs should be exported to the operating system By default this setting is disabled For more information about this feature see Exporting JBOD Disks on page 75
53. he fields to specify initial email settings Note If you do not want email alerts to be sent to anyone leave None in these fields and click Next to go on to the next screen m Inthe Server field enter the name of your email server If you do not know your server name ask your system administrator or check the e mail preferences or setup options on your e mail client Inthe Recipients field enter the e mail address of the user who should receive the 3DM e mail status messages You may enter multiple e mail addresses separating each entry witha comma 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Installing 3DM Inthe Sender field enter the email address from which the email notifications will be sent This is typically the local host name You can change these settings later within 3DM SCSI 3ware 3DM 2 Setup 2 3ware Email Notification Preferences To enable email notification please enter the hostname of your SMTP mail server and email addresses To skip this step and configure email later press Next Server None Recipients None Sender None Figure 11 E mail Notification Preferences 7 Continue with the installation as prompted clicking Next to move to the next screen and Finish when you reach the last screen 3DM Installation gives you the option of starting 3DM and opening the browser window 8 Ifyou elect to lau
54. heir respective owners Disclaimer 3ware Inc assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document nor does 3ware Inc make any commitment to update the information contained herein 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Note 3DM 2 includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit http www openssl org 3ware Disk Manager 2 3DM 2 allows you to view the status of and manage 3ware RAID controllers and associated drives 3DM runs as a service under Microsoft Windows and as a daemon under Linux When it is running you can use your browser to view status and perform administrative tasks locally or remotely 3DM 2 can display information about 3ware RAID 7000 8000 and 9000 series RAID controllers However some version 2 features are only available for 9000 series controllers Two levels of access are provided user and administrator Users have view only access they can check the status of drives and units while Administrators can view and make changes using 3DM to configure RAID units and designate hot spares and to perform maintenance tasks on RAID units In this section information about 3DM is organized into the following topics Browser Requirements for 3DM on page 28 Installing 3DM on page 29 Starting 3DM and Logging In on page 35 Working with the 3DM Screens on page 37 Setting Up 3DM Preferences on page 41 Running Two Versions of
55. ic controller Intel 82546EB Dual Gigabit controller 2 x 10 100 1000 ports Dual channel Adaptec AI C 7902 controller Ultra320 SCSI External Bracket w Wide SCSI connector available connectors for internal or external SCSI tape drives For added system safety and system failover Fixed internal IDE drives 3 x 3WARE Escalade 8506 8 Port SATA150 RAID SATA backplane provides power bus termination 24 Hot Swap Hot Spare SATA150 drive bays StorSwitch non blocking architecture for reliable scalable and high performance hardware RAID isolation RAID 1 10 5 and JBOD support SCSI performance feature set Onboard voltage monitors for CPU Fan status Environmental temp monitor and control Chassis and CPU overheat alarm LED indication and control System resource alert Supermicro System Management utility Phoenix 4Mb Flash ROM RTC Real Time Clock wakeup External modem remote ring on when system is in Soft Off state BIOS rescue hot keys for rescuing BIOS chip from flash failure Hardware BIOS virus protection Chipkill support Total of 6 PCI X 3 x 64 bit PCI slots populated w 3Ware controllers 3 x Empty 64 bit PCI X Slots 1 x VXB Virtual Extended Bus Full ATX 12 x 13 in W x H 1 x 3 5 external drive bay 2 x 3 5 internal drive bay 1 x 5 25 external drive bay 1 x 5 25 slim drive bay 24 x 3 5 x 1 drive bays 19 rackmount 5U height RMC5E 25 4 Depth Accepts Full Size Motherboard 12x13
56. ing 3DM and provides access to an electronic copy of this User Guide 38 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Working with the 3DM Screens Viewing Information About Different Controllers in 3DM If you have more than one controller in the system you select the one you want to see details about from the drop down list at the right of the menu bar This drop down is available on all pages that provide controller specific features Note Throughout these instructions current controller is used to refer to the controller which is currently selected in this drop down list Refreshing the Screen You can refresh the data on the screen at any time by clicking Refresh Page in the menu bar This causes 3DM to update the information shown with current information from the controller and associated drives Automatic refreshes can also be set For details see Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes on page 43 Note If you click Refresh on the browser window you will be taken back to the Summary page 3DM Screens and What They re Used For Table 5 shows a list of the pages you work with in 3DM and describes what they are used for Details about each page and the fields and features on it are provided in the section 3DM 2 Reference on page 45 The page names in Table 5 provide links to details about that page Table 5 List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Description Controller Summary Provides ba
57. ion can be e mailed to one or more recipients You can specify the type of events for which notifications will be sent by selecting the severity W Information will send e mails for all alarms W Warning will send e mail for alarms with severity of Warning and Error only Error will send e mail for alarms with severity of Error only For more information about events and alarms see Viewing Alarms on page 107 Event notification is initially set up during 3DM installation but can be changed on the 3DM Settings page To set up event notification 1 Click 3DM Settings on the menu bar 2 Inthe E mail Notification section of the 3DM Settings page enter change the settings you want W Enable or Disable all notifications Set the severity level of events for which e mail notifications are sent Specify the email address of the sender This will appear in the From field of the e mail Enter the e mail address es to which notifications are sent Separate multiple addresses with a comma or a semicolon W Enter the SMTP server name or IP of your mail server 3 Click Save E mail Settings To send a test message You can send a test message to make sure you ve entered the e mail notification settings correctly W Click Send Test Message 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Setting Up 3DM Preferences Enabling and Disabling Remote Access When remote access is enable
58. ion security to limit connections to localhost only default is yes If you want to be able to use 3DM for remote administration change this to No 6 Change the directory and then eject the CD ROM disk when finished cd home eject cdrom www 3ware com 33 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Uninstalling 3DM under Linux or FreeBSD 34 To uninstall 3DM for Linux or FreeBSD 1 2 Insert the 3ware software installation CD ROM into the CD ROM drive Mount the CD ROM disk mount dev cdrom mnt Change the directory and run the uninstall script For FreeBSD replace linux with freebsd in the path shown in this step cd mnt packages 3dm2 linux x86 install 3dm u Note that if you downloaded 3DM from the web replace mnt in the previous command with root Eject the CD ROM disk when finished cd home eject cdrom Note If 3DM Linux is reinstalled or restarted close any open web browsers before starting 3DM again to close the server socket 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Starting 3DM and Logging In Starting 3DM and Logging In 3DM runs as a service under Windows and as a daemon under Linux It is a good idea to leave 3DM running on the system that contains your 3ware RAID controller That way email alerts can be sent by 3DM and administrators can manage the controller remotely if remote administration is enabled You can access the 3DM screens to check st
59. it again If desired you can reduce the frequency with which information refreshes in 3DM 2 or disable refresh temporarily on Note If the configuration window disappears while you are Alarms Page 66 the 3DM Settings page 3ware Alarms Microsoft Internet Explorer _ 0 xj File Edit View Favorites Tools Help EJ gt D A Favorites E Address https localhost 888 x ee Links gt Norton Antivirus Ed A Z 3wares 3DM 2 ALANTEST Microsoft windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged _ Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Alarms Sree eel Controller ID 0 7566 12 E Clear Alarms m Jan 19 2004 01 12 54AM 0x04 0xDU2B Background verify done unitz Sun Jan 18 2004 11 57 02PM 0 04 0 0029 Background verify started unit 0 Sun Jan 18 2004 01 16 35 0 04 0 002 Background verify done unit 0 Jan 18 2004 12 00 48AM 0 04 0 0029 Background verify started unit 0 Sat Jan 17 2004 04 38 54AM 0 04 0 0007 Background initialize done unit 0 Sat Jan 17 2004 12 38 33AM 0 04 0 000 Background initialize started unitz Jan 17 2004 12 38 31AM 0 04 0 002 Verify failed because array was never initialized RAIDS subunit 0 Jan 17 2004 12 37 58AM 0 04 0 0007 Background initialize done unit 2 Sat Jan 17 2004 12 04 34AM
60. kmount server that can store data disk to disk and provide the ability for additional tape backup This Super Backup Monster is suited to be the perfect hybrid solution for the IT Manager looking for a storage solution at the best cost per TB ratio Our Super Backup Monster costs as little as 1 10th the cost of a backup solution by any other company This magnificent machine clearly surpasses any server on the market This beast can be featured with SATA disk drives for those that require the most computing power possible The Aberdeen Stirling X312 features the newest Intel E7520 chipset Lindenhurst featuring PCI Express and DDR2 capability Extended Memory 64 Technology EM64T and an 800MHz processor system bus to support the latest Intel Xeon Nocona dual processors with 1MB L2 cache and 800 MHz system bus for servers and workstations The SATA Aberdeen Stirling X312 comes with 12 hot swap drive bays dual Gigabit LAN 64 bit Raid controller and has space for an internal tape backup drive and a CD RW drive Housed in an ultra dense 3U chassis and utilizing the Intel E7520 chipset it guarantees the most diverse storage capacity in any 3U platform and by design the Stirling X312 provides scalability for any enterprise looking for the ultimate storage and backup solution with the XDAS scalable arrays 17 MANUFACTURER PART ABERDEEN PART PROCESSOR CHIPSET SYSTEM MEMORY ON BOARD I O ON BOARD IDE VIDEO ON BOARD LAN S
61. le details about a RAID 10 unit made up of two subunits each of which contains two drives will include details about the unit and each subunit as shown in www 3ware com 49 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 50 Figure 18 However if the unit was a Single Disk only information about one disk would be shown Details on this page may include all or some of the following information described below To see details about a particular drive click the Port You ll see a list of all drives with the drive you selected highlighted Status The operational status of the unit or subunit OK Rebuilding Initializing Verifying Degraded or Inoperable missing drives When a unit is Rebuilding Initializing or Verifying the percentage complete is also shown Capacity The total capacity of the unit capacities of subunits are not shown Type The type of unit or subunit it is RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk Spare JBOD or Disk Stripe The stripe size of the unit if applicable Subunits If the unit has subunits details of the subunits are shown Port If the Type is Disk Single Disk JBOD or Spare the port to which the drive is connected is shown For multiple drive units the port numbers are shown in the subunits section The port number is a link to the Drive Information page 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Drive Information Page E 3ware 3DM
62. ly read the following Your server has three rows of four hard disk drives Each row is numbered from left to right For safety during shipment to you the drives have been removed and shipped separately The number stickers on the hard drive packages correspond to their placement in the chassis Proper placement of the drives is critical in retaining the integrity of any software or operating system that has been loaded Retaining Hanc Slide the hard drive into place with the retaining handle extended When the drive is fully inserted push the retaining handle back until it is fully seated and snapped into the latch Should you require technical assistance with this or any other aspect of your Aberdeen server contact us toll free at 800 552 6868 option 3 from 8 00am to 5 00pm PST 19 APPENDIX BACKUP MONSTER X316 20 Absolute Best Storage Capac Dantz Retrospect Backup Software AS AVAIMABLI ABERDEEN STIRLING X316 7 D 20222222225 4 V p P wA CUM 7 Mg gl p p 4 4 I NCOMPARABLE Aberdeen is proud to announce the improved capacity all inclusive With the release of the newest extension to the 3U SATA Backup Monster storage servers the Stirling X316 provides the absolute largest storage capacity in a 3U format As an addition to our world famous line of Stirling Servers this hot swap 3U rackmount server that can store up to over
63. n 16 2004 12 37 02PM 3DM version 2 00 00 031 8 1 internet Figure 15 Controller Summary Page Note The software version shown in the screenshots in this manual are preliminary examples only For the current released and tested version number refer to the 9000 release notes www 3ware com 45 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 46 The Summary page appears after you first logon to 3DM and when you click the Summary link in the menu bar The Summary page provides basic information about each 3ware RAID controller in your system To see details about the units in a controller click the link in the ID column ID The ID that the operating system assigns to the controller Note The controller ID you see in 3DM 2 may not match the number that you see for the same controller in 3DM version 1 x Model The model name of the controller The model number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller Serial The serial number of the controller The serial number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller Firmware The firmware version running on the controller Driver The driver version being used to interact with the controller Status The overall status of the controller Possible statuses include OK Warning Error and No Units Warning indicates that a background task is currently being performed rebuilding verifying or initializing Error indica
64. nch the web interface a Security Alert may appear as shown in Figure 12 Click Yes continue You may install the certificate 1f you do not want to see this alert in the future To do so click View Certificate and then click Install Certificate Security Alert Lx Information you exchange with this site cannot be viewed or Q changed by others However there is a problem with the site s security certificate The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen to trust View the certificate to determine whether you want to trust the certifying authority The security certificate date is valid A The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site Do you want to proceed Ni f View Certificate Figure 12 Security Alert dialog box 9 When the first 3DM screen appears in your browser log in as Administrator and use the default password 3ware www 3ware com 31 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Notes You can start 3DM later by choosing 3DM from the Start menu If you change add or remove an IP address or change the machine name of the machine on which you have installed 3DM 2 you will need to recreate the security certificate You can do so by re installing 3DM 2 or by deleting the file 3dm2 pem and restarting the 3DM 2 service Under Windows this file is located in the same directory in which you installed 3DM 2 Under Linux the file resides in etc 3dm2 Y
65. ollowing line pref network security ports banned override 888 This file is located at usr lib mozilla defaults pref all js 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Installing 3DM Installing 3DM 3DM 2 can be installed from the main 3ware CD that came with your 3ware RAID controller You can also download the current version from the website at http www 3ware com support download asp 3DM must be installed on the system in which the controller is installed 3DM does not have to be installed on remote systems in order to remotely manage a 3ware controller During installation you will be asked to enter the following preferences for 3DM use Each of these preferences can be changed later from within 3DM The HTTP port to be used as the listening port Whether remote access will be allowed Whether you want email alerts to be sent when errors occur and who should receive them Installing 3DM on a Windows system The 3ware RAID controller works with Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 The latest service packs should be installed for any Windows release To install 3DM on a Windows system 1 Insert the 3DM CD ROM and click Install 3DM 2 when the menu appears Or if you downloaded 3DM from the website find the file 3DM2 86 or 3DM2 AMD64 exe and double click it to launch the setup 2 Ifacommand window opens press any key to begin the installation process 3 Wh
66. on to our world famous line of Stirling Servers is the only SATA hot swap 3U rackmount server that can store up to 2 Terabytes of data This Backup Monster is suited to be the perfect solution for the IT Manager looking to find a beefy backup storage solution at the most affordable price available Our Backup Monster costs as little as 1 10th the cost of a backup solution by any other company This magnificent machine clearly Surpasses any server on the market This beast can be featured with either 8 SATA disk drives for the cost conscious 1 Manager or provide increased storage capacity with additional XDAS scalable arrays The Aberdeen Stirling X38 features the newly released Intel E7520 chipset Lindenhurst featuring PCI Express and DDR2 Stirling X38 capability Extended Memory 64 Technology EM64T and an 800MHz processor system bus to support the latest Intel Xeon Nocona dual processors with 1MB L2 cache and 800 MHz system bus for servers and workstations The SATA Aberdeen Stirling X38 comes with 8 hot swap drive bays dual Gigabit LAN 64 bit Raid controller and has space for an internal tape backup drive and a CD L RW drive Housed in an ultra dense 3U chassis and utilizing the Available with Dantz Intel E7520 chipset it guarantees the most computing power in any Retrospect Backup Software 3U platform and by design the Stirling X38 provides scalability for any enterprise looking for the ultimate storage and backup solution
67. or Inoperable missing drives When a unit is Rebuilding Initializing or Verifying the percentage 90 complete is also shown Unit Details Page 3ware Unit Information Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 xj File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Ea Bak gt A Qsearch Favorites B 5 Address 192 168 214388 ss m 2 Swares 3DM 2 5 microsoft windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Unit Information Controller ID 0 7566 12 bd Unit 0 Controller ID 1 Status OK Capacity 298 00 GB Type RAID 5 Stripe Subunits 3 Subunito A Subunit2 Status OK Status OK Status OK amp Type DISK Type DISK Type DISK Port 0 Port 1 Pott 2 Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 45 27PM 3DM version 2 00 00 031 Done m Internet 2 Figure 18 Unit Details Page The Unit Details page appears when you click an ID number on the Unit Information page Because it is a sub page of Unit Information the page title in the menu bar continues to display Unit Information even when you view details of a unit To return to the list of units click Unit Information in the menu bar The Unit Details page shows details about a particular unit The specific information shown depends on what type of unit it is For examp
68. or RAID 0 single disks JBODs and spares there is only a slight performance loss For redundant units you can set the background task rate on the Controller Settings page to specify whether more processing time should be given to verifying or to I O While a unit is verifying the status changes to Verifying and a Stop Verify link appears in the right most column of the Unit Maintenance table Note If the unit has not previously been initialized and you click Verify Unit the initialization process starts Initialization cannot be halted so no Stop Verify link appears Initialization can be paused however through Scheduling Initialization follows the Rebuild schedule so turning on scheduling for Rebuild will pause initialization as well For more information about initialization see About Initialization on page 109 Rebuild Unit Replaces a degraded drive in a degraded unit with an available drive and begins rebuilding the RAID When you select a degraded unit and click Rebuild Unit a dialog box listing available drives appears so that you can select the drive you want to use If the degraded unit has more than one degraded drives for example a RAID 10 where both mirrored pairs each have a degraded drive you will repeat this process a second time If rebuild scheduling is enabled on the Scheduling page the unit will not start actively rebuilding until the scheduled time and the status will change to say Rebuild
69. ou may also want to delete the installed cached security certificate from your browser Uninstalling 3DM under Microsoft Windows Use the Add or Remove Programs control panel to uninstall 3DM From the Startup menu choose Control Panels gt Add or Remove Programs In the Add or Remove Programs control panel select 3DM and click Change Remove Installing 3DM for Linux or FreeBSD You can install 3DM from the command line or from a GUI The steps below describe how to install 3DM from the command line If you are using a GUI you can access the CD ROM and folders from the windows in the GUI 32 the file to root or to any other working directory and change Directory CD to that directory for example root Then start the following procedure at step 3 substituting mnt with root or your installation directory Note If you downloaded 3DM_Linux zip from the website unzip To start the installation 1 Insert the 3ware software installation CD ROM for Linux into the CD ROM drive Mount the CD ROM disk mount dev cdrom mnt Change the directory and run the install script For Linux cd mnt packages 3dm2 linux x86 install 3dm For FreeBSD cd mnt packages 3dm2 freebsd x86 install 3dm 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Installing 3DM To specify initial setup for 3DM 2 During installation you will be prompted with a series of questions that determine initial 3DM settings
70. ou will be prompted to select the unit Type Stripe size if applicable Write Cache and Auto Verify settings A window like the one in Figure 24 shows the drives you selected and lets you specify configuration settings 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Selected drives to create Port 0 WDC WD1BDOBE DODAAD 149 05 GB OK Port 1 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Port2 WDC WDI600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Port 3 WDC WD1BDOBE DODAAD 149 05 GB OK Type RAIDS M Stripe 64KB bd Iv Write Cache Auto Verify Continue on Source error during Rebuild Cancel Figure 24 Configuring a Unit in 3DM For more detailed instructions see Creating a Unit through 3DM on page 82 Type The drop down list lists the possible RAID configurations for the drives selected in the list of Available Drives Available configurations may include RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk and Spare Disk For information about these configurations see Available RAID Configurations on page 9 When you are configuring a RAID 50 with twelve drives an additional field appears in which you select the number of drives per subunit 3 4 or 6 Selected drives to create Port WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Port1 WDC WD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Port2 WDC WYD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 OK Port3 WDC WYD1600BB 00DAA0 149 05 GB OK Port 4 WDC WD1B5D0D0BB 00DAAD 149 05 GB OK Port 5 WDC
71. ows the user to view pages within 3DM These passwords work independently of each other The default password for both the User and Administrator is 3ware Passwords are case sensitive You can only change passwords if you are logged in as Administrator If you change the Administrator password you will be automatically logged out and must log back in with the new password To set or change the password 1 Click 3DM Settings on the 3DM menu bar 2 the 3DM Settings page in the Password section select the type of password you want to change User or Administrator 3 Type the current password in the Current Password field If you are changing the password for the first time the factory set default password is 3ware 4 Enter the new password in the New Password field and again in the Confirm New Password field 5 Click the Change Password button to enact the change Note If you forget your password you can uninstall 3DM and then reinstall it This will reset the password to the default password 3ware www 3ware com 41 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Managing E mail Event Notification 42 3DM can notify you when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is no longer fault tolerant Event notification can only occur while 3DM is running so it is recommended that 3DM be left running on the system that contains the 3ware RAID controller When events occur notificat
72. page information regularly That way you can be assured that the information you see in 3DM is current You can manually refresh the information on a page by clicking Refresh Page in the menu bar But you can also have 3DM refresh the information on a regular basis www 3ware com 43 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 To set the frequency of page refreshes 1 Click 3DM Settings on the menu bar 2 Inthe Page Refresh section of the 3DM Settings page select how often you want the page to be refreshed in the Minutes Between Refresh field Note If you don t want 3DM to refresh the screen automatically select Never in the Minutes Between Refresh field You can then refresh manually by clicking Refresh on your web browser Running Two Versions of 3DM 44 Although you can view information about 7000 and 8000 series controllers in 3DM 2 some features of version 2 are only available for the 9000 series because they require that the firmware contain associated capabilities When this is the case a message appears in the 3DM page indicating that the feature is not available for the current controller The scheduling feature is one that works differently in 9000 series controllers and earlier controllers If you want to set the schedule for background tasks for a 7000 or 8000 series controller you must do so by using 3DM version 1 x If you have multiple controllers in the same system and the controllers are from different series it is possi
73. r of the controller Firmware The firmware version running on the controller Driver The driver version being used to interact with the controller BIOS The BIOS version on the controller Monitor The Monitor version on the controller This field appears only for 7000 and 8000 series controllers Boot Loader Boot Loader version on the controller This field appears only for 9000 series controllers of Units The number of units on the controller of Ports The number of total ports on the controller regardless of whether each currently has a drive connected Error Log Provides access to the firmware s error log When you click this link a dialog box gives you the option to save the log to your computer or open it www 3ware com 47 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Unit Information Page 48 3ware Unit Information Microsoft Internet Explorer loj x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Bak gt a Search Favorites d EM amp Address ja https 192 168 2 143 888 inks Z 2 3ware 3DM gt ALANTEST Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in _Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Unit Information Controller ID 0 7566 12 Unit Information Controller ID 1 0 RAID 5 298 00 GB OK Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 44 19PM version 2 00 00 031
74. re registered trademarks of Intel Corporation 3ware and Escalade are registered trademarks of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated Adaptec is a registered trademark of Adaptec Inc For previous or updated manuals BIOS drivers or product release information contact ABERDEEN at http www Aberdeeninc com or through any of the means indicated on the following pages SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MANUAL ARE FURNISHED FOR INFORMATIONAL USE ONLY AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY ABERDEEN ABERDEEN ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRI BED IN IT Copyright 2004 ABERDEEN LLC All Rights Reserved INTRODUCTION Aberdeen LLC the Custom Server Solution Provider has provided an excellent selection of quality custom computing solutions to the IT professional for more than a decade As an innovator of storage solutions Aberdeen has become a one stop solution source for the IT Professional The computer industry is a continuously evolving marketplace With a clear vision of the future Aberdeen has become a trend setter via its vast technical experience and industry foresight Aberdeen is a pione
75. rom left to right For safety during shipment to you the drives have been removed and shipped separately The number stickers on the hard drive packages correspond to their placement in the chassis Proper placement of the drives is critical in retaining the integrity of any software or operating system that has been loaded Retaining Handle Slide the hard drive into place with the retaining handle extended When the drive is fully inserted push the retaining handle back until it is fully seated and snapped into the latch Should you require technical assistance with this or any other aspect of your Aberdeen server contact us toll free at 800 552 6868 option 3 from 8 00am to 5 00pm PST ad APPENDIX D TERABUSTER 24 ABERDEEN STIRLING X416 Available with Dantz Retrospect Backup Software _ Breaking Storage Barriers e TeraBuster Incomparable We are proud to announce the newest addition to our revolutionary line of Stirling all inclusive storage and backup servers the Aberdeen Stirling TeraBuster First Aberdeen created the Backup Monster with an amazing 2 Terabytes of backup storage capacity for under 5000 Based on our customers demands we have pushed the proverbial envelope to offer an unparalleled 4 Terabytes of SATA storage space for under 12 000 As with the Backup Monster the TeraBuster integrates Dantz Development s Retrospect backup software and be configured with du
76. sic information about each 3ware RAID Page controller in your system To see this page click Summary in the menu bar Controller Details Provides detailed information about the current Page controller To see this page choose Information gt Controller Details from the menu bar www 3ware com 39 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 Table 5 List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Description Unit Information Page Shows a list of the units on the current controller and provides summary information about each unit To see this page choose Information gt Unit Information from the menu bar or click an ID number on the Controller Summary Unit Details Page Shows details about a particular unit To see this page click an ID number on the Unit Information page Drive Information Page Shows a list of drives on the current controller and provides summary information about each drive To see this page choose Information gt Drive Information from the menu bar SMART Details About Drive at Particular Port Page Shows the SMART data for a specific drive To see this page click the Port for a drive on the Drive Information page Controller Settings Page Lets you view and change settings that affect the units on the current controller To see this page choose Management gt Controller Settings from the menu bar Scheduling Page Lets you view and change the schedule for tasks that affect
77. ternal SCSI port for expansion up to 21TB through the addition of up to five 3TB RAID storage expansion boxes per SCSI connector thus creating a scalable NAS server Options include a tape drive CD RW a 3 1 redundant 950W power supply and Dantz Development s Retrospect backup software to provide data security disaster recovery and file storage capabilities A 10 terabyte storage capacity TeraStorus backup server will be available in Q2 2004 by utilizing the newest 400GB SATA hard drives 29 MANUFACTURER BBX524 PART ABERDEEN PART PROCESSOR CHIPSET SYSTEM MEMORY ON BOARD I O ON BOARD IDE VIDEO ON BOARD LAN ON BOARD SCSI OS DRIVE MIRROR SATA RAID PC HEALTH MONITORING BIOS EXPANSION SLOTS BOARD SIZE EXPANSION BAYS CHASSIS FEATURES X524 SPEC SHEET BLACK RACK KITX524 Dual Socket 604 Supports Dual I ntel Xeon processors Front Side Bus support for 533MHz or 400MHz Onboard 3 phase switching power regulator Intel E7501 Server chipset 8 x 184 Pin DIMM Sockets Up to 16GB ECC Registered DDR266 SDRAM Compatible with PC2100 and PC1600 ECC Registerd DDR SDRAM ONLY Two way interleaved memory banks provide outstanding memory performance 1 x Floppy Connector 2 x Serial 16550 compatible ports 2 x USB 1 1 Ports PS 2 keyboard and mouse ports Dual EIDE ports support Ultra DMA 100MB s of Burst data transfer rate supports UDMA Mode 5 PIO Mode 4 and ATAPI ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graph
78. tes that a unit is degraded or inoperable If both Error and Warning conditions exist the status will appear as Error 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3DM 2 Reference Controller Details Page 3ware Controller Details Microsoft Internet Explorer nl x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help pak A Search Favorites meda Br 2 Address ja https 192 168 2 143 888 ao Links 2 3ware 3DM 2senvers Microsoft Windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in _Logout Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Controller Details Controller ID 0 7566 12 Controller Details Controller ID 1 Model Geronimo Apache Serial Number 3ware Internal Use Firmware FGXX 2 01 00 030 Driver 2 40 12 BIOS BG9X 2 01 00 029 Boot Loader BLDR 2 01 00 001 3 of Units 1 8 of Ports 12 Error Log DOWNLOAD ERROR LOG Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 43 41PM 3DM version 2 00 00 031 Done O48 internet 2 Figure 16 Controller Details The Controller Details page appears when you choose Information gt Controller Details from the menu bar The Controller Details page provides detailed information about the controller specified in the drop down list on the menu bar You can also open or download an error log from this screen Model The model name of the controller Serial The serial numbe
79. th Accepts Full Size Motherboard 12x13 650W Triple Redundant Hot Swap 5 x 8cm easy swap cooling fans Optimized HDD interspace to maximize inlet air flow Buzzer alarm for fan failure and overheat warning Includes 1 x 3 5 floppy drive Slim CD Rom Drive Rackmount Rails 26 X416 DISK PLACEMENT CHART WARNING The disk drive trays must be properly seated completely back into their sockets and they must be in their proper positions in order to avoid software corruption and or hardware damage Please carefully read the following Your TeraBuster has four columns of four hard disk drives The columns are labeled alphabetically from left to right and the rows are numbered from top to bottom For safety during shipment to you the drives have been removed and shipped separately The number stickers on the hard drive packages correspond to their placement in the chassis Proper placement of the drives is critical in retaining the integrity of any software or operating system that has been loaded Latch Retaining Handle Slide the hard drive into place with the retaining handle extended When the drive is fully inserted push the retaining handle back until it is fully seated and snapped into the latch Should you require technical assistance with this or any other aspect of your Aberdeen server contact us toll free at 800 552 6868 option 3 from 8 00am to 5 00pm PST 27 APPENDIX E TERASTORUS 28
80. the 9000 series controllers For details about the different background tasks see About Background Tasks on page 109 About Task Schedules Each type of task may be scheduled for up to 7 times per week This limits active initializing rebuilding verifying and testing of a unit to the times you specify so that the task does not interfere with peak I O times Ifall 7 schedule slots are filled you must first remove one or more schedule times before you can add another You may set schedule times whether scheduling is set to be followed or ignored This is useful if you want to temporarily disable the schedule If you remove all the schedule times for a particular background task initializations and rebuilds will run anytime as they are needed Verify will only run if started by the CLI or if the Verify Unit button is clicked For information about adding and removing schedules and setting schedules to be followed or ignored see Scheduling Background Tasks on page 114 About Self tests Unlike scheduling of rebuilds and verifies scheduling of self tests is always followed To disable self tests you either remove all schedule times or uncheck the tests listed in the Tasks column Note Only the checked tasks will be run during the scheduled times If none of the tasks are checked self tests will never run even if you have scheduled time slots set www 3ware com 57 3ware Disk Manager 3DM 2 58 Two s
81. the URL you specified Note If you expect to see a controller that is not listed it may not be compatible with the driver that is loaded a firmware flash upgrade may be required Operating system and version on the server 3ware Summary Microsoft Internet Explorer z 1 oj xj Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help Address of the KE system to which eek A Gsearch Bygavorites B 2 you are dees ethttps 192 168 2 143 888 Links connected Z 3ware 3DM 2 microsoft windows 2000 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ADMINISTRATOR logged in Logout Menu bar Summary Information Management Alarms 3DM Settings Help Refresh Summary Messages area Controller Summary List of controllers on this system 0 Geronimo Apache Sware Internal Use FGXX2 01 00 030 240 12 1 Geronimo Apache 3ware Internal Use FGXX2 01 00 080 2 4 0 12 oe Time of last Last updated Fri Jan 16 2004 12 37 02PM page refresh Version of 3DM SDM version 2 00 00 031 B internet 2 Figure 13 3DM Main Screen The menu bar across the top of the screen gives you access to other pages in 3DM You can move between pages by using the menu bar or by clicking a link on the page The main area of the page provides summary or detail information about your 3ware RAID controller and the resources connected to it As
82. trate better performance but have proven to provide a better ROI than the competition in head to head comparisons Aberdeen offers a comprehensive product line for the Gaming Enthusiast to the IT Professional Fully Customizable Rackmounts Servers Chassis and Systems Full Network Solutions and Rackmount Server Cabinet Models NAS SAN Mass Storage Solutions Units and Appliances RAID protected Disaster Recovery and Backup Servers Governmental Educational and Corporate Workstations Complete Server Solutions for Microsoft Unix and Linux platforms Industrial PC Components Data Acquisition SBCs and Backplanes Hand Held amp Modular Hard Drive Duplication Comprehensive line of PC Hardware REFERENCES Over the years Aberdeen LLC has been privileged to work with companies that share similar expectations and professional goals to its own such as unmatched customer service personal and professional integrity honest communication and the commitment to forming long term partnerships The innovative Stirling Backup Monster storage server impressed Tawfik Daoud senior system engineer of Maximus Inc enough to praise Aberdeen in a recent letter Mr Daoud mentioned that he chose Aberdeen since the Backup Monster costs considerably less than the closest competitor and was amazed with the ease of implementation and performance Mr Daoud goes on to write in his testimonial The Backup Monster is one step ahead in the backup indus
83. trieval system or translated into any language in any form or by any means except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes without the express written permission of ABERDEEN LLC ABERDEEN ABERDEEN PROVIDES THIS MANUAL AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT SHALL ABERDEEN ITS DIRECTORS OFFICERS EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS LOSS OF BUSINESS LOSS OF USE OR DATA INTERRUPTI ON OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE EVEN IF ABERDEEN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN THIS MANUAL OR PRODUCT Product warranty or service will not be extended if 1 the product is repaired modified or altered unless such repair modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ABERDEEN or 2 the serial number of the product is defaced or missing Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners benefit without intent to infringe e Aberdeen Stirling AberNAS Backup Monster TeraBuster TeraStorus and XDAS are registered trademarks of Aberdeen LLC Intel Pentium and Xeon a
84. trol Chassis and CPU overheat alarm LED indication and control System resource alert Supermicro System Management utility Phoenix 4Mb Flash ROM RTC Real Time Clock wakeup External modem remote ring on if system is in Soft Off state BIOS rescue hot keys rescuing BIOS chip from flash failure Hardware BIOS virus protection Chipkill support 1 x 8 PCI Express Slot Total of 5 PCI X 2 x 64 bit PCI slots populated with 3Ware controllers 1 x 64 bit PCI slot populated with LSI SCSI controller 2 x Empty 64 bit PCI X Slots Full ATX 12 x 13 in W x H 1 x 2 5 internal drive bay 1 x 5 25 slim external bay cd rom 1 x 3 5 slim external floppy 16 x 3 5 x 1 drive bays 19 rackmount ATX 3U height 26 5 Depth Heavy duty cold rolled steel with Zinc plated interior Accepts Full Size Motherboard 12x13 650W 2 1 Redundant Hot Swap 3 x 40MM Expansion Card Cooling Fans 3 x 80MM Hot Swap System Cooling Fans 2 x 60MM Rear Exhaust Fans Optimized HDD tray spacing to maximize air flow Buzzer alarm for fan failure and overheat warning 1 year parts 2 year labor warranty 22 X316 DISK PLACEMENT CHART WARNING The disk drive trays must be properly seated completely back into their sockets and they must be in their proper positions in order to avoid software corruption and or hardware damage Please carefully read the following Your server has four rows of four hard disk drives Each row is numbered f
85. try and what I like most is that Aberdeen is backing it up The Stirling S21 Server appealed to David Featherstone a network administrator for Timber Products a company of 1 500 employees who told PC Magazine how happy he is with the Stirling brand server and that he plans to purchase more in the future Over the years I ve tried everything Mr Featherstone says I have built my own servers or bought them from major vendors but I really like these The value you get for your money is impressive Satisfied clients are the best reference for Aberdeen Below includes a sample of some of the world class companies whose rack mounted server expectations have been exceeded by Aberdeen to the point that they have become frequent repeat customers Adventists Boeing Computer Sciences Corp Cornell University Central Intelligence Agency Dow Chemical IBM Intel Lockheed Microsoft Motorola Northrup Grumann Novartis Pharmaceuticals Oak Ridge National Lab Ohio State University Paramount Pictures Penn State University Raytheon Stanford University Timber Products UC Lawrence Berkeley Lab University of Michigan University of Washington US Army US Navy Vanderbilt University Verizon Virgin Entertainment 10 REVIEWS AND AWARDS Throughout the years Aberdeen LLC has received praise and critical acclaim for custom built servers and desktop systems Take a look at these recent comments about Aberdeen Stirling
86. u will typically see really bad results bad errors and most likely a reset of the controller or a system hang Devices can be unmounted through the operating system For details see the discussion under Remove Unit above deleted the drives cannot be reassembled into the same unit If you want to reassemble the drives on another controller and access the existing data use Remove Unit instead of Delete Unit i Warning When a unit is deleted the data will be permanently After deletion the operating system is notified that the unit was deleted In Linux the device node associated with this unit is removed In Windows the Device Manager will reflect the changes under the disk drives icon Available Drives to Create Units This section lists the drives on the controller which are not currently configured as part of a unit The Port number model capacity and status are all displayed as they are for drives in existing units Remove Drive The Remove Drive link removes a drive from the controller so that you can safely unplug it Any drive in the Available Drives list can be removed Warning Physically removing drives which are not in hotswap AN carriers can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive Create Unit Use the Create Unit button to create a unit for use on the current controller Begin by selecting the drives you want to use in the list of Available Drives and then click Create Unit Y
87. ware corruption and or hardware damage Please carefully read the following Your server has a row of eight hard disk drives The row is numbered from left to right For safety during shipment to you the drives have been removed and shipped separately The number stickers on the hard drive packages correspond to their placement in the chassis Proper placement of the drives is critical in retaining the integrity of any software or operating system that has been loaded Retaining Handle Slide the hard drive into place with the retaining handle extended When the drive is fully inserted push the retaining handle back until it is fully seated and snapped into the latch Should you require technical assistance with this or any other aspect of your Aberdeen server contact us toll free at 800 552 6868 option 3 from 8 00am to 5 00pm PST 15 APPENDIX B BACKUP MONSTER X312 16 Diverse Hybrid Solu dantz Dantz Retrospect Backup Software AVAI AS DLE ABERDEEN STIRLING X312 The Super B INCOMPARABLE Aberdeen is proud to announce the improved capacity all inclusive storage and backup hybrid solution The Stirling X312 is a condensed version of the original revolutionary Backup Monster model By sacrificing one of the two available 5 25 bays the X312 can pack up to 4 8TB amp continue to have room for a tape backup device As with our world famous line of Stirling Servers this hot swap 3U rac

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