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1. Disk Slot Max Free Space GB Disk Status Block Size Byte 595 Ready 512 Fig 48 Recover by RAID Fig 48 Description O Select a degraded RAID volume and RAID System shows which HDD can recover the RAID volume O Degraded RAID volume Such HDDs can recover the selected RAID volume 4 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 49 Description Disk Slot RAID Level TestRAIDS TestRAID6 TestRAIDS0 TestRAID60 TastR ATDS Degraded RAIDs can be rebuilt by the selected disk Size GB RAID Management gt Rebuild Recovery by RAID Recovery by Disk Avaliable Disks Max Free Space GB RAID Status Spaces RAID ID Degraded Degraded Degraded Degraded Daaradad Disk Status Block Size Byte Chunk Size KB Blocks Block Size Byte 157 286 400 125 829 120 125 829 120 5 125 829 120 9746 894 N A Fig 49 Recover by Disk O List all HDDs in this iSCSI Storage Please select one O List degraded RAID volumes which are recoverable by the HDD selected in 4 4 Mass entry Users iSCSI Targets iSCSI 1 2 3 4 LUNs Steps of Mass entry Download Mass entry template file from Fig 50 0 Edit the template file Upload the template file to the iSCSI storage Click to create users iSCSI Targets and iSCSI LUNs Po Deployment and Management System Management Wizard Hard Disk Management RAID Management iSCSI Management
2. Fig 70 Modify the maximum 1SCSI connections Fig 70 Description Setup the amount of iSCSI connection 4 7 4 Modify IP Addresses Steps of modifying IP addresses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 9 Go to IP Address Page Select a network interface NIC 1 NIC6 Enable VLAN optional Setup VLAN ID optional Configure IPv4 IP address go to 7 Configure IPv6 IP address go to 9 Configure IPv4 Network Mask Configure IPv4 Gateway Setup Jumbo Frame optional 10 Configure IPv4 External IP optional 11 Configure External Port optional 12 Select DNS page optional 13 Configure DNS optional 59 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V System Management gt IP Address Name IP v4 Address IP v4 Mask IP v4 Gateway IP v4 DNS 1 NIC 1 192 168 88 181 255 255 255 0 192 168 88 1 168 95 1 1 NIC 2 192 168 88 182 2552552550 192 168 88 1 168 95 1 1 Enable Network Port Trunking 2 Prefix 0 r jay bs 1 Jumbo Frame Disable The MTU value is 1500 X D mem 4d Pom 5200 IP v4 DNS Fig 71 Modify IP addresses Fig 71 Description O The list of Ethernet interfaces O Enable trunking function of Ethernet interfaces Enable VLAN function O Configure VLAN ID O IPv4 Configuration and IPv6 Configuration O Jumbo frame configuration O Configure External IP if your iSCSI storage is into a private network segment Steps of configuring trunk
3. Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed 2010 07 12 10 27 18 2010 07 12 10 27 14 2010 07 12 10 27 10 2010 07 12 10 27 05 2010 07 12 10 25 57 2010 07 12 10 25 51 2010 07 12 10 25 48 2010 07 12 10 25 23 2010 07 12 10 24 58 2010 07 12 10 24 54 2010 07 12 10 24 50 2010 07 12 10 24 40 Fig 109 User Log 91 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 92 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 3 IP SAN Connector 8 1 1 Download and Install IP SAN Connector Steps of downloading IP SAN Connector IPSC 1 Connect to iSCSI Storage Login Page or Easy IP SAN Page 2 Click Download IP SAN Connector hyperlink 3 Execute the downloaded file IP_SAN_Connector exe The file will be decompressed in a folder named IP_SAN_ Connector 4 Open the folder and execute setup exe 5 A shortcut IPSC is created on your Desktop a ee a RER canes iSCSI Storage Windows Internet Galore SE iSCSI Storage Windows Internet Explorer S 4 e ut Gs tem ns 1 ith Ge fe te File Edit View Favorites Tools Help x Convert 14 F Select a File Edit View
4. 4 6 1 1 Create New Users Steps of creating a new user Go to User Setting page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Go to Create User Input the username which has to be a unique username Decide the privilege of new user Describe the new user by a short string Click 48 Private Private Private Private Private Private Private Private Copyright 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt User Setting admin anonymous user01 Gamer vm User Description Fig 58 Create a new user Fig 58 Description O Existed user list O The username of new user Default Password 000000000000 twelve 0 O The Privilege of new user General or Administrator The Description of new user 4 6 1 2 Assign Targets to Users Steps of assigning targets to users 1 2 3 4 3 6 Go to User Setting Page Go to Assign Target Page Select a user in Fig 59 0 Select a free iSCSI Target in Fig 59 Click Click Steps of removing targets from users 1 2 3 4 5 6 Go to User Setting Page Go to Assign Target Page Select a user in Fig 59 0 Select a held iSCSI Target in Fig 59 Click Click 49 Can so Ta Aer upload User Privilege 5 user02 5 User Password Default 000000000000 3 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt Us
5. 55 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt Group Setting Group Name Keeping Shared Targets for new group01 new group02 Target Name share t01 share t02 Target Alias Target ID share t01 9 user0l share t02 10 user02 5 Create New Target Assignable Shared Targets Target Name share t03 share t04 share t05 Target Alias Target ID share t03 11 Gamer share t04 12 upload share t05 O 13 vm Fig 66 Assign shared targets to groups Fig 66 Description The existed groups list O The shared targets which are held by the selected group O Assign a selected shared target in O to the selected group Remove a selected shared target in from the selected group Go to Create Target page The shared targets which are not held by the selected group 4 6 2 4 Delete Groups Steps of deleting groups 1 Go to Group Setting page 2 Go to Delete Group page 3 Select groups which you want to delete 4 Click 56 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt Group Setting io ESSES EA ESTE Select Group Name Group ID Description new group01 1 This is a new group named new group0i 2010 07 12 10 3 new group02 new group02 2 This is anew group named new group01 2010 07 12 10 35 12 Fig 67 Delete groups Fig 67 Description O The ex
6. Page 5 Choose enable or disable User Password Security 6 Choose locking policy 10 minutes 24 hours Forever 7 Click System Management gt System Setting Flow Control Enable e Disable Read Ahead Enable e Disable Allow SSH connection Enable Disable RAID Auto Recovery Enable Disable User Password Security Forever Fig 80 System Setting 4 8 System Maintenance 4 8 1 Version Information 1 Go to Version Information Page 2 Review the version 67 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Maintenance gt Version Information Current Firmware Version NL U082G C0 V2 5 40 Current Security Version C1 0802 15 Builder S N 103800189 Fig 81 Version information 4 8 2 System Upgrade Steps of upgrading firmware 1 Go to Firmware Upgrade Page 2 Browse upgrade file from your PC which 1s running this UI 3 Check version in Fig 82 O and O C li ck Upgrade Firmware System Maintenance gt Firmware Upgrade Warning Please double check the version of the image file nn ff Firmware Version PW U166G C0 V2 5 32 New Firmware version Firmware Version Progress MM Fig 82 System upgrade Fig 82 Description Current firmware version The selected firmware version The path of new firmware file The progress of upgrading firmware 68 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 4 8 3 System Migration St
7. 3 9 Go to AD Setting page Go to Setting page Enable AD in Fig 84 O Click Enter an account with Administrator privilege in the AD server as shown in Fig 85 0 Enter the account s password Enter the AD server s IP address Click Enter an account with Administrator privilege in the AD server as shown in Fig 84 O 10 Enter the password of the account in Fig 84 O 11 Click 69 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V CPE TEE 1 WI Enable AD Support Account Password AD Server IP Address Save Account Fig 84 This 1SCSI Storage joins AD server Fig 84 Description O Enable AD function O An account can get account list from AD server O The account s password O This iSCSI Storage joins AD server AD Administrator Password Account Administrator Password AD Server IP Address Fig 85 Enter account password and AD server IP Address for joining AD server Fig 85 Description O Enter an account with Administrator privilege in the AD server Steps of import accounts from an AD server 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Go to AD Setting page Go to AD User page Make sure that the iSCSI storage has joined in the AD server Go to AD User page Click to obtain a user list from the AD server Select users whom you want to import Click to import the selected users into the iSCSI storage 70 Copyright 2010 Signo Interna
8. Event t01 1 Logout t01 1 Login Successfully Create Target share t01 Successfully Assign Group new group01 to User user01 Successfully Login Failed Password Locked User user01 Password Security Locked Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 84 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 6 Exception Handling 6 1 Delete Disk Forcedly Steps of deleting disks forcedly 1 Go to Delete Disk Forcedly page 2 Select a HDD such as Disk Slot 7 is selected in Fig 102 3 Click Delete Disk Forcedly __ Enable Detail Information Select Disk Slot Disk Status Volume GB Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 Ready 596 2 CO u nun RE whe Re Steps of resetting deleted disk status 1 Go to Delete Disk Forcedly page m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Free Space GB 488 488 488 488 513 513 558 580 Supplier WDC WDC WDC WDC WDC WDC WDC WDC HDD Interface SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0 Gbps SATA 3 0
9. System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly E Reboot Shutdown Reboot Fig 46 Configure spare disks for existing RAID volumes Fig 46 Description O This table illustrates existed RAID volumes which are built by RAID 5 RAID 6 You can click one RAID volume and then the lower table shows which HDDs are the RAID volumes spare HDDs and which HDDs can be the RAID volumes spare HDDs O The selected HDDs are spare HDDs of the RAID volume The unselected HDDs can be the RAID volume s spare HDDs 4 3 4 Rebuild RAID Volumes This iSCSI Storage provides two Rebuild RAID Volume processes as shown in follows 1 Auto Rebuild 1 Enable RAID Auto Recovery in System Setting Page 2 Remove crashed HDD from the slot 3 Plug anew HDD in the slot The capacity of the new HDD must be larger than or equal to that of the crashed one 4 The iSCSI Storage will rebuild all rebuildable RAID volumes 2 Manual Rebuild 1 Disable RAID Auto Recovery in System Setting Page 2 Select a Degrade RAID volume and Enable Detail Information 3 Find out the crashed HDD as shown in Fig 47 4 Remove the crashed HDD from the slot 5 Plug a new HDD in the slot 6 Initial the new HDD by Disk Management Page as shown in 7 Go to Rebuild page 8 Select Recover by RAID Go to step 9 9 Select Recover by Disk Go to step 12 10 Select a degrad
10. excepting 15 WAN A normal account can use any PC to connect to iSCSI Management System System Management Wizard Step 3 Set Login Privilege Administrator General Users Fig 13 Configure where admin and users can login this management system from 9 This stage configures the network setting of iSCSI storage as shown in Fig 14 This page illustrates how many network ports this iSCSI storage has Field shows the current setting of network ports The field under O provides port settings interfaces in Tabs and a DNS setting interface For different applications you should follow the rules as followings iSCSI Storage directly serves clients If the storage serves many clients through network switches please configure IP addresses of the network ports in a same network segment and then these ports will share loading each other For example if the storage is located in the segment 61 212 1 xxx please find out 6 no collided IP addresses and configure them in the 6 network ports respectively iSCSI Storage directly serves servers or workstations If the storage serves servers without any network switch please configure the 6 network ports in 6 independent network segments For example if an IP address of a server is 192 168 1 2 the storage 5s network port connecting to the server should be 192 168 1 xxx except 192 168 1 2 In addition an IP address of another server is 192 168 2 2 the storages network
11. j 3 There is a problem with this website s security certificate The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website s address Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website Click here to close this webpage x Continue to this website not recommended Moreinformation Click here and continuously browse this webside Internet Protected Mode Off Fig 9 Warning of CA Fig 10 is Login page of iSCSI Management System Because the storage has not been initialized yet please choose iSCSI Storage Login Then please enter username and password The default username and password are Admin and 000000000000 twelve 0 If English is not your mother language you can choose other languages in O of Fig 10 Finally left click tes by your mouse and login to iSCSI Management System Additionally you can download IP SAN Connector from the storage About the configurations and operations of IP SAN connector please reference 8 IP SAN Connector o iSCSI Storage Windows Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help r Favorites iSCSI Storage if tp dm v Pager Safetyy Tools Username
12. 100 Inquiry Reboot Power Cycle Count 100 Shutdown Power off Retract Count 200 Load Cycle Count 200 Reallocation Event Count K 200 Current Pending Sector Count 200 Logout oocoocoocoocoocoocoocoo onnm o Fig 5 Reboot the storage by Disk Status panel 3 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 5 Description O Power Switch on Disk Status panel 4 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 2 Hardware Reset Hardware Reset will reset all your configurations in the iSCSI Storage Because this operation is dangerous Hardware Reset button is hidden into the left hole of the front panel like Fig 6 You can use a needle or a pen to pull the button for 5 seconds Then the ready light is twinkling and the storage shutdowns In next boot the storage is reset like a new one Fig 6 Hardware Reset Button Fig 6 Description Hardware Reset button is hidden in the hole Hardware Reset function do following processes Reset Administrator s password into 000000000000 twelve 0 Clear RAID configuration Clear iSCSI LUN configuration Clear iSCSI Target configuration Clear User information Reset IP setting into default default IP setting is 192 168 1 88 255 255 255 0 Reset Maximum connections Reset Alarm configuration Reset System Setting configuration 60000000 After Hardware Reset all configurations in this iSCSI storage disappear Nevertheless RAID configuration iSCSI LUN confi
13. 19 2010 07 13 13 02 15 2010 07 13 13 01 32 2010 07 13 13 01 18 2010 07 13 13 00 37 2010 07 13 08 07 38 2010 07 13 08 07 36 2010 07 13 08 05 54 2010 07 07 09 32 12 2010 07 07 09 14 40 2010 07 07 09 14 28 2010 07 07 09 13 36 2010 07 07 09 13 31 2010 07 07 08 31 48 2010 07 07 08 31 36 2010 07 07 08 27 46 2010 06 07 14 02 30 2010 06 07 13 54 52 2010 03 25 08 09 57 2010 03 25 08 09 54 2010 03 24 08 00 35 2010 03 24 08 00 35 2010 03 23 18 02 14 3010 0202 1090 01 24 Refresh Fig 99 iSCSI Connect Events 5 6 5 Miscellaneous Event Miscellaneous Event as shown in Fig 100 records all activities and conditions of iSCSI Storage The follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name meaning Event Name denotes which component generates this event O Event A string describes the event O Time Denote the time when this event happens System Log gt Miscellaneous Event Event System H 20004 System Alarm Once Off 01 25 2010 09 11 17 System H 20002 System Alarm On 1 22 2010 16 42 51 System H 20003 System Alarm Off 01 22 2010 16 42 48 System H 20002 System Alarm On 01 22 2010 16 42 46 System H 20004 System Alarm Once Off 01 20 2010 08 36 09 System H 20004 System Alarm Once Off 01 19 2010 16 35 28 System H 20004 System Alarm Once Off 01 19 2010 08 56 19 System H 20002 System Alarm On 01 19 2010 08 56 16 System H 20003 System Alarm Off 01 19 2010 08 55 20 System H 20004 System Alarm O
14. 6 Enter a new password 7 Enter the new password again 8 Click iSCSI St Wind ternet Expl a x nes sl 1h Ow ER REA O Bing P File Edit View Favorites Tools Help X Convert v Select _ gt gt r Favorites iSCSI Storage fi A r Pager iSCSI Storage Login _ Easy IP SAN Login iSCSI Storage Logit Username useroi_ i ED i Language English z Login Clear Download IP SAN Connector Do Internet Protected Mode Off fa 100 Fig 104 Login User Management Page Fig 104 Description O Select iSCSI Storage Login O Username not admin O Password 87 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Change Password Change Password User Name user01 Curent Password ff Si Fig 105 Change a user s password Fig 105 Description O Enter the older password O Enter a new password Enter the new password again 7 2 Modify Alias 7 2 1 Modify Target Alias Steps of modifying iSCSI Target aliases 1 2 3 4 5 Go to Modify Alias Page Go to Modify Target Alias Page Click Mais of an iSCSI Target Enter a new alias Click 88 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Modify Target Alias Modify LUN Alias Action Modify Alias Target Alias t01 1 Modify Alias 01 2 Modify Alias share t01
15. Choose a NIC which you are going to configure _ Enable VLAN ID NIC 1 IPv4 IPv6 IPv4 Mask IPv4 Gateway Jumbo Frame Disable The MTU value is 1500 extemal P o jm Bojo Fig 15 Configure a NIC s IP address 12 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig o ee O O 900009 15 Description Choose a NIC which you are going to configure Enable VLAN Setup VLAN ID for this NIC Editable Field for inputting IPv4 Address Editable Field for inputting IPv6 Address Editable Field for inputting IPv4 Network Mask Editable Field for inputting IPv4 Gateway when this iSCSI storage is accessible from Internet hosts Configure the frame size of MAC protocol CSMA CD Before you determine the size you must check out the maximum frame size of your Ethernet switches External IP address of your NAT server or DHCP server must be configured when this iSCSI Storage is accessible from Internet hosts and uses a private IP address The mapping port from your NAT server or DHCP server Enter DNS setting page VLAN Setting This iSCSI Storage provides VLAN in all of network ports You choose a network port and click the Tab you can find out the check box of Fig 15 to enable VLAN function Then give the network port a VLAN ID Please fully understand VLAN standard before configuring them For example two VLAN ports have different VLAN ID respectively The IP addresses of the two ports must belong to two different
16. LAN segments respectively Setting of iSCSI Storage behind firewall or NAT An IP address mapping form a private IP to a public IP should be set if your storage behind a firewall or a NAT server has to serve users from Internet When an iSCSI Storage is located behind firewall or NAT and uses private IP addresses such as 192 168 xxx xxx you must set the external IPs and the external Ports in network ports In your Firewall or NAT your must create a record for mapping from the private IP of the storage to the public IP of the Firewall and NAT For example a NAT server obtains a public IP 61 220 70 175 The NAT should create a mapping such as 61 220 70 175 3260 gt 192 168 1 88 3260 where 192 168 1 88 is the IP address of the storage and 3260 is the port of the storage Then in IP configuration of the storage the network port with 192 168 1 88 should be set that external IP address and the external port where are 61 220 70 175 and 3260 respectively About the detail information of these setting please reference the manual of a Firewall server or NAT server At the last of tab list as shown in Fig 16 DNS page provides you for configuring two Domain Name Servers in this iSCSI storage The IPv4 DNS 1 168 99 1 1 Fig 16 Configure DNS storage merges network ports into one ports called Bond1 when you trunk all bandwidth of the separated network ports For example there are 6 network ports in Fig 16 After enabling the
17. Pertormance Monitor ot Easy IP SAN ie 100 VII Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual VII Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual Table Index Tor BD SAR a ea eo ee de 21 Table 2 Description of RAID levels provided by this iSCSI Storage 26 Table 3 RAID Volume Status LiSt sc s ssacecacecesnenioncessidanesnessendantaacceseendenstnstgeoaspensaneauianacsdeacdeabaetcoedanaae 35 Table 4 The Group Rules or RAID LEVEL oe gorios aE a R EER a 36 Toleo Space ADDE I eere T E E 37 Table 6 Graphic System Status Descriptions ss 76 Table 7 User Online Status DES Crip ON ecevossievsincasedevosoicusiasav ale ceveleustacovedavacmiensissnsslacasteusbaunselasauneaes 78 IX Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual X Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 1 Turn on Storage and Shutdown Storage 1 1 Turn on Storage Before you turn on your storage please make sure that the storage is stably locked in your rank mount and the two power cords are setup in the rear panel of storage Then push the power switch in front of the storage like O of Fig 1 The storage makes sound PJ During booting of the storage Ready LED O of Fig 1 is twinkling until finishing storage boot process and Ready LED is sustained ON Then the storage can serve users or 1s waiting for initialization processes by the admini
18. Ready 2 2 436 207 6 ial TestRAID6 RAID 6 204 Ready 2 427 819 i TestRAID50 RAID 50 200 Ready 2 2 419 430 4 E TestRAID60 RAID 60 Ready 5 419 430 4 200 2 128 RADS 208 Ready 6 1 128 4362076 ns Fig 45 Delete a RAID volume Fig 45 Description O Select a RAID volume O Click to delete the selected RAID volume 4 3 3 Configure Spare HDD Steps of Adding Spare HDD 1 Go to Spare Drives Page 2 Select a RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 or RAID 6 volume in the existed RAID volume list at Right top Field as shown in Fig 46 0 3 Select unselected HDDs in the HDD list at Right bottom Field as shown in Fig 46 4 Click Steps of Removing Spare HDD 1 Go to Spare Drives Page 2 Select a RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 or RAID 6 volume in the existed RAID volume list at Right top Field as shown in Fig 46 0 3 Select selected HDDs in the HDD list at Right bottom Field as shown in Fig 46 4 Click 39 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Model Name RAID Management gt Spare Drives Deployment and Management E Select a Target RAID System Management Wizard eve Size GB s Chunk Size KB Hard Disk Management es 5 5 75 4 RAID Management Create Delete Rebuild Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting i Inquiry Select spare drives for the Target RAID iSCSI Storage Performance elec Max Free Space GB Hard Disk Status 5
19. address of iSCSI storage in Fig 115 O 3 Click to add the iSCSI storage into the Easy IP SAN 97 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Easy IP SAN Management gt Add IP SAN Member Select IP of iSCSI Storage 192 168 88 181 D Input IP Address 192 168 88 241 2 Fig 115 Add a new iSCSI storage into Easy IP SAN Fig 115 Description O The members of this Easy IP SAN O Enter a new iSCSI storage s IP address and then click to add the iSCSI storage into the Easy IP SAN 9 3 Remove Members from Easy IP SAN Steps of removing an iSCSI storage from Easy IP SAN 1 Goto Delete IP SAN Member page 2 Select iSCSI storages you want to remove from the Easy IP SAN 3 Click Easy IP SAN Management gt Delete IP SAN Member Select IP of 1SCSI Storage 192 168 88 181 P 192 168 88 241 Fig 116 Remove an iSCSI storage from Easy IP SAN Fig 116 Description The selected iSCSI storage which will be removed from the Easy IP SAN 98 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 9 4 Review Easy IP SAN Members Steps of reviewing iSCSI storages 1 Goto IPSAN Member page 2 Click these hyperlinks for connecting to individual management systems of iSCSI storages Easy IP SAN Management gt IP SAN Member Select IP of iSCSI Storage 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 241 Fig 117 Show iSCSI storages of Easy IP SAN Fig 117 Description The hyperlinks for connecting to indi
20. an existed iSCSI LUN from the iSCSI LUN list Click aa button Edit LUNName optional Edit Description optional Extend Size of the 1SCSI LUN optional Click 44 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V iSCSI Management gt LUN Setting LUN List Select LUN Name LUN Alias Description Size GB RAID Name Target Name Status lun23 lun this lun is an iSCSI LUN for document test 20 TestRAIDS Enable VM VM 784 TestRAIDO vm tl Enable LUN Name Description Size GB lun23 this lun is an iSCSI LUN for document test 4 20 Fig 53 Edit an existed iSCSI LUN Fig 53 Description O Select an iSCSI LUN and click O fields become editable O Edit iSCSI LUN Name Edit iSCSI LUN Description O Extend the size of iSCSI LUN 4 5 1 3 Delete iSCSI LUNs Steps of deleting an iSCSI LUN 1 Go to LUN Setting Page 2 Then go to LUN Information Page 3 Select an existed iSCSI LUN from the iSCSI LUN list 4 Click button iSCSI Management gt LUN Setting Create LUN LUN Information LUN List Select LUNName LUN Alias Description Size GB RAID Name TargetName Status Mi lun23 lun2 this lun is an iSCSI LUN for document test 20 TestRAIDS Enable Dis VM VM 784 TestRAIDO vm ti Enable Dis 4 LUN Name Description Size GB lun23 this lun is an iSCSI LUN for document test MY LON ces Fig 54 Delete iSCSI LUNs 45 Copyright O 2010 Signo I
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22. information 1 Click System Environment Information 2 Inquire Motherboard Temperatures CPU Temperatures HDD Temperatures CPU Fan speed System Fan speed Voltage and Power Supply 76 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Environment Information Host System Environment Information 1 System Temperature C F Item Current Value Motherboard CPU1 CPU2 Hard Disk Slot 1 Hard Disk Slot 2 Hard Disk Slot 3 Hard Disk Slot 4 Hard Disk Slot 5 Hard Disk Slot 6 Hard Disk Slot 7 Hard Disk Slot 8 Hard Disk Slot 9 Hard Disk Slot 10 Hard Disk Slot 11 Hard Disk Slot 12 Hard Disk Slot 13 Hard Disk Slot 14 Hard Disk Slot 15 Hard Disk Slot 16 Wi Ww wa dA tn dA VA A A A w A A dA dA dA LA dA LA LA tn dA LA tn dn AA A LA A LA Ww Ww m 1 INDRA e Fig 93 System Environment Information of This iSCSI Storage 5 4 User Information Click User Information to show detail user information as shown in Fig 94 User Information User Name Target Name admin anonymous Gamer upload user01 TestRAID6 user01 TestRAID6 user01 TestRAID6 user01 TestRAID6 user01 TestRAID6 user02 TestRAID6 user02 TestRAID6 user02 TestRAID6 user02 TestRAID6 user02 TestRAID6 user03 TestRAID6 user03 TestRAID6 user03 TestRAID6 user03 TestRAID6 user03 TestRAID6 user04 TestRAID6 D N to NM N N N N N to N N to N to N N
23. new one and recoverable by replacing trouble HDDs with normal HDDs Recovering This RAID volume is rebuilding by this iSCSI Storage Administrator can observe the Progress field to know the rate of recovering progress This RAID volume is crashed and not recoverable Table 3 RAID Volume Status List Progress Illustrate the rate of initializing progress or rebuilding progress when this iSCSI Storage is initializing or rebuilding the RAID volume The field is empty when the RAID volume is Ready and Crash O RAID ID RAID ID is an unique S N of RAID volume in this iSCSI Storage It is important for Mass Entry Function Administrator should write an Excel file with a table Such table has to include 5 columns User Name Target Name LUN Name LUN Size and RAID ID Where the RAID ID denotes the RAID volume where the LUN builds in Groups This field 1s just for RAID 10 volumes which support Multi group function Please reference Table 2 to understand Multi group function of RAID volume O Chunk Size KB Denote the Chunk Size of RAID volume O Blocks Denote the number of block included in the RAID volume Block Size Byte Denote the size of Block 1n the RAID volume This value 1s usually 512 bytes Unit Size MB Denote the unit size of RAID volume This value 1s usually 1 024 MB It means that the capacity of RAID volume must be a multiple of 1024MB Adding Time Denote the built time of R
24. of removing users from a group 1 Go to Group Setting Page 2 Go to Assign User Page 3 Select a group in Fig 65 0 4 Select a user in Fig 65 0 5 Click 6 Click 54 Group Name ii mn mme ace yen ne new group02 Group Name new group03 2 O Group Description This is a new group named new group03 a Copyright 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt Group Setting Group Name new group02 Use m E Keeping Users pee new a User ID Description 4 5 ei ca ici Assignable Users User ID O Description Fig 65 Assign users to a group Fig 65 Description O The existed groups list O The users who are members of the selected group O Assign a selected user in O to the selected group O Remove a selected user in O from the selected group O Go to Create user page O The users who are not members of the selected group 4 6 2 3 Assign Shared Targets Steps of assigning shared targets to a group 1 2 3 4 5 6 Go to Group Setting page Go to Assign Target page Select a group in Fig 66 Select shared targets in Fig 66 Click Click Steps of removing shared targets from a group 1 2 3 4 5 6 Go to Group Setting Page Go to Assign Target Page Select a group in Fig 66 0 Select shared targets in Fig 66 Click Click
25. ss 63 E ZE 64 RO UO LOS OQUE sup ess eee E en 65 4 7 11 Enable Disable Reset System Alarm 2 ecin 65 ar A PE i aa ee ee dde nd ee ne a de 66 ATZ POW COMM Ola dede bacon iss areas a a ce to 66 RL RETA 6 2 6 JRR RR RR RR RR 66 4 7 12 3 Enable Disable SSH Connection 66 47 124 Enable Disable Auto RECOVERY annee dada nine as 67 47 125 User Password SCCUTILY ss cenn seen ei sense r Eai 67 c RO JMR O NAS SI LIDA PENEDO ARS a UR 67 ro LM VOICE Sia O NARRADOR AD ARARAS POR GRAN ADE DD RR 67 HG SyS TE D D S a E ed nua ec ando E te casais a on des 68 Be UC Ml N S PAG a a VR 69 O ND SC tte CO DUO MAL ad ee ee eh ee 69 SE MT MN a E RR RR A E RR 73 Sd MO TO SD ne 73 Il Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual SE Disk VO Throughput Monito gpeeenemeaee n EE 73 5 1 2 Individual Network Port Throughput ss 73 5 1 3 Network Total Throughput 0 0 00 ccccccccccccccesesseeeeeceeeeesaeeenseecceeeeeeeeaeaseeeeeeeeeeeaaeenees 74 Dio CAD CDD ES AUS 75 5 3 System Environment Information sise 76 oa OS OA On 7I de User ONE SAS e a E S 78 IO I areca cen ida aaa E cien dida ag cd On Ed Ca apa 19 DO MES DCE aqua ce este E Eneas da E caga gd 19 DO JATO ER a nn D de nie 79 510 3 Web Management E Vent ccctc lt s csossccceesdacteanssrecsenndnSceaseonecceesdachetweanecnteasndcesseseasnansdacteeenies 80 DO IS CON ONNECHOM EVENE nd een eee E 81 303 NMiScellincols ENCRES ed meta
26. the clicked RAID List existed RAID volumes including ordinary RAID volumes initiating RAID volumes degraded RAID volumes and crashed RAID volumes Rescan RAID volume information Go to the page for creating iSCSI LUNs Begin to create a RAID volume through RAID creating wizard Such wizard guides administrator to create a RAID volume step by step Remove the selected RAID volumes 000 O Step 2 Name the creating RAID volume Please use an understandable and unique string to name this new RAID volume Administrator needs the recognized name for management and assigning space to 1SCSI LUNs in the future Step 3 Choose RAID Level This iSCSI Storage provides many RAID levels for varied purposes Administrator must clearly understand the features of RAID levels according to Table 2 After decided RAID level of the new RAID volume this wizard forces administrator to select enough amount of HDDs in Step 5 27 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Step 1 Make a name for this RAID Chose a RAID Level Initialization Mode then select Hard Disks for this RAID RAID Name Peras TT raDied Em Initilization Mode Foreground Initialization Disks of RAID 4 Disk Slot Disk ID Max Free Space GB E 521 v 521 521 521 521 521 566 O on O tn EE Wh mm Fig 31 Create RAID Wizard RAID Name RAID Level and Disks of RAID Fig 31 Description Name the RAID volume by an u
27. trunk function in of Fig 17 the storage merges the 6 network ports into one Bond1 as shown in of Fig 17 13 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 4 Enable Network Port Trunking O Bondl DNS inital Port Trunking Mode Active Backup Fail Over Bond 1 IPv4 IPv4 Mask IPv4 Gateway 192 168 xem SS de 52060 Fig 17 Configure network trunk function at System Management Wizard Fig 17 Description O Enable Network Port Trunking function O NICI NIC6 are disappeared The 6 network ports are trunked into Bond 1 Select Trunking Mode Then please choose the trunking mode at Fig 18 Port Trunking Mode Yet arena Oat nee Balance rr Round Robin Active Backup Fail Over Balance XOR Broadcast IEEE 802 3ad Balance tlb Adaptive Transmit Load B Balance alb Active Load Balancing 4 IPv4 Mask IPv4 Gateway External IP 3260 k Fig 18 Configure Network Trunk Mode at System Management Wizard Network Trunk Mode Description 1 2 3 4 5 Active Backup Fail Over Network ports fail over each other but the total bandwidth does not increase Balance RR Round Robin The transmitting data are shared among network ports so the total bandwidth increases When a network port fails other network ports take the load of the failing network port This mode supports fail over and load balance simultaneously Balance XOR This
28. 06 11 36 03 2010 07 06 11 29 05 2010 07 06 11 28 26 2010 07 06 11 20 37 2010 07 06 11 16 40 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Log gt Web Management Event 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 1 88 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 18 192 168 88 18 192 168 88 18 192 168 88 10 192 168 1 216 192 168 88 10 A U4UUZ A 04003 A 04004 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 00001 A 00001 A 00001 A 04001 A 04002 A 04003 A 04004 A 00001 A 00001 A 00001 A 00001 A 01004 A 01005 Event Oct Ned Allied L ISAUIE DUCCESSLULLY Set SSH Connection Enable Successfully Set Password Security Enable Suspend Endlessly Successfully Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Authentication Failed Login Successfully Login Successfully Login Successfully Set Flow Control Disable Successfully Set Read Ahead Disable Successfully Set SSH Connection Enable Successfully Set Pas
29. 1GB 7 1 Finally in Fig 34 the maximum capacity is 3 126 GB and the minimum capacity is 6GB Administrator can choose a capacity between 3 126 GB and 6GB Moreover if administrator chooses 3 126 GB for the RAID 5 volume the free space of the 7 HDDs is OGB Hence the HDDs without free space cannot participate in any RAID volume later gt ES Step 2 Decide Chunk Size of the RAID and Create RAID Size Chunk Size 128K Byte A 1 2 RAID Size Disk Number 7 E MRequired Size per disk 521 GB 3126 GB Max Size 3 126 GB Fig 34 Decide Chunk size and Capacity of the new RAID volume Fig 34 Description O Select chunk size of the new RAID volume O The amount of selected HDD O Each of selected HDD offers the capacity to the RAID volume O Decide capacity of the new RAID volume by drawing the scroll For example in Fig 34 there are 8 HDDs in the new RAID 5 volume The capacity must be multiple of 6 GB 1GB 30 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 7 1 If administrator wants to precise configure the capacity of the volume administrator can click bottoms at the two ends of the scroll Click can decrease 6 GB Click can increase 6 GB The capacity of the new RAID volume Step 8 Configure Spare Disk This iSCSI storage provides hot spare function in RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 and RAID 6 and Moreover a RAID volume can be assigned over one spare HDD Spare HDDs can immediatel
30. 22 Usemame OF Password Error ae stasis E AEE 17 2 CDS NOC KC ea A N T E E A EAS 17 24 Introduction of iSCSI Storage Manager Page ss 19 25 Disk DA oe eo ee 20 26 SAS SATA port sequence of iSCSI storage sense 20 ZT HADD AN RSR ea RR E E RR 22 PRE PCC ea DE SAS E R 23 29 Detail Information oi AIS Kos AR eaea 23 SO RATO Mana sen Pif Genere a EE 2 31 Create RAID Wizard RAID Name RAID Level and Disks of RAID ee 28 32 Amount of HDD is not enough to create a RAID 5 volume 29 33 Select enoush amount of disks nes nissan ec es tee ess nice 29 34 Decide Chunk size and Capacity of the new RAID volume cc eeccceecceeceeeeeeseeseeeeees 30 Do ORGS D TOG aaa RARE RR RR RD RUE DR RR RT POR PR 31 36 The Setting of the New RAID Volume nn me 32 FARAD MUI a seg gto ae eee ei ae ie ee a 33 38 The detail information of initializing RAID volume 33 39 Tine mi ahzed process IS MINIS WEG scene a a it 34 40 The field descriptions of RAID volume table 1 oo ec cccccccccessseeseeeeeeeeeeaeeeneeeeeeseeaas 34 41 The field descriptions of RAID volume table 2 Re 34 42 The detail information of a RAID volume 36 43 The detail information of an initializing RAID volume ce eeececcccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaas 37 44 LUN table in the RAID detail information 38 43 Delete a RAID VO Re eea E a ee it 39 V Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual Fig 46 Configure spare disks for exist
31. AID volume Update Time Denote the last updated time of RAID volume 35 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 4 3 1 2 Detail Information of RAID Volume Select Enable Detail Information and left click a RAID volume record in RAID volume list by mouse RAID volume list shows the detail information under the RAID volume record such as O of Fig 42 where O is HDD information of the RAID volume RAID Management gt Create Delete W Enable Detail Information 1 Select RAID Name RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks _ TestKALDOU RAID 60 60 Ready gt 2 128 125 829 1 Py TestRAIDS_2 m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Disk used by RAID Name TestRAID5_2 Group ID Disk Slot Disk Status Activity Progress Hot Spare Disk ID F Ready No 1 1 1 1 2 Ready No 2 1 3 Ready No 3 1 4 Ready No 1 5 Ready No 13 1 6 Ready No 14 1 T Ready No 15 2 8 Ready Yes 24 vv 4 gt Fig 42 The detail information of a RAID volume Fig 42 Description O Enable illustrating detail information of RAID volumes O Click a RAID volume for illustrating the detail information The detail information table of the RAID volume The detail information is in of Fig 42 The follows are the descriptions of columns O Group ID Denote the Group IDs of groups in the RAID volume Table 4 shows the grouping rules of different level
32. CSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot Shutdown Logout Fig 4 Reboot the storage by Function List 1 3 2 Reboot Storage by Disk Status panel of UI The Disk Status of Web Management System includes a front panel of the storage like Fig 5 O is Reboot button You can click to execute rebooting process Your web browser shows a dialog for confirming If you select Yes in the confirming dialog window the storage runs shutdown processes and reboots itself immediately The Ready LED is twinkling during the rebooting process until the storage is Ready again System Management Wizard m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Hard Disk Management RAID Management Mass Entry 1SCSI Management User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting Disk Slot 6 SM A R T SATA Description Status Value Worst Value Threshold RAW Value iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status Temperature 1 35 85 35 ystem Environment Information Read Error Rate 200 200 0 User Information Spin Up Time 176 172 4 158 Online User Status 4 Start Stop Count 100 100 121 System Log 5 Reallocated Sectors Count lt 200 E Seek Error Rate 100 nn ns Power On Hours POH lt 100 Delete Disk Forcedly Spin Retry Count 100 Reboot Shutdown Recalibration Retries 4
33. D 50 210 Ready General 128 440 401 920 TesrRAID60 5 RAID 60 204 Ready General 128 427 819 008 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 1 250 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 1250 27 gt emma Delete Disk Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 29 Detail Information of a Disk Fig 29 Description O Enable showing some detail information of a HDD After clicking a row of a HDD the background color of the row is changed from white to 23 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V orange A new sub table is inserted under the row and displays some RAID volumes which use the HDD The table under the clicked row shows some RAID volumes which use the HDD in the row 4 3 RAID System The RAID system of the iSCSI Storage gathers HDDs configured in this storage to create some kinds of RAID volumes for some purposes RAID levels offered by this storage are described in following Table 2 RAID Level Capacity Purpose Gather some HDDs to be a big and fast RAID volume Storing data to a RAID 0 volume the data is parallel stored by the participant HDDs Reading data from the RAID O Volume the data is parallel read from these HDDs Therefore the IO performance of RAID 0 is better than that of other RAID level Amount of HDDs Minimum 2 HDDs Maximum 8 HDDs Advantage 1 Better capacity efficiency 2 High IO Speed Disadvantage 1 No data protected ability A RAID O volume has broken because one of th
34. E 76 Fig 93 System Environment Information of This iSCSI Storage esesssessssesssseeeeeereeesssssssssssssssese TT Fig 94 The table of user iSCSI Target iSCSI LUN and RAID level 77 Bio USE OS OS OU a a aan A ng 78 VI Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual Pe DO DIRE EDS a a a RD 79 BIS RE VS a da ee EE 80 ES US Mep Mand ement EYONI een nd au eee donc 81 PI Ro Qi EGO nine CE VEINS st E 82 Fio 109 Miscellancous Eveni Serer ea EE E A E A EE E EE 82 Bro TOM RSCG EO e E E E E E E E E A E ond 83 re DOC DER PO E E A 85 Fie TOS Reset Deleted Disk STUS iiien eit dan a a ae ia ai ee 86 Fig 10410510 User Management Pape each dame nes NEE ee ei 87 Pig 105 Change a User s pass WOrd scoenen ccueauenctecseCeecasasudeceddedeccnesuacctedseContascas 88 Eis LOG MOV IS ES RSR AS de ne 89 ae TOP MO ESS PEU ed a ee da 89 Pig LOS Review ausei Stok DADOS sa teste en en lente 90 Bo TOS User Os a eo ee sadias 91 Fig 110 Hyperlink of downloading IP SAN Connector ss 93 Fig 111 IP SAN Connector and its shortcut ere 94 Fig 112 IPSC is connecting to an iSCSI Storage ane sau cendenddauenwnsrsdierevensdontes 94 Fig 113 Successfully Connect to an iSCSI storage ss 95 Fig 114 Login page of Easy IP SAN management ss 97 Fig 115 Add a new iSCSI storage into Easy IP SAN 98 Fig 116 Remove an iSCSI storage from Easy IP SAN 98 Fig 117 Show iSCSI storages of Easy IP SAN siens 99 Eis LIS
35. EX 00Z3A 1 250 2 3 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 4 y 596 2 0 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 5 596 2 595 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 1 250 2 6 596 2 595 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 1 250 2 7 596 2 595 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 1 250 2 E 8 Deleted Disk i 0 0 Reset Disk Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 28 Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 28 Description O The forcedly deleted disk O Reset selected Deleted Disk into Empty 4 2 3 Display Detial Information of HDD Enable Detail Information at O of Fig 29 move your mouse cursor to a row of the HDD list and then click the row The detail information of the HDD is displayed under the row The detail information lists the RAID volumes which include the HDD The columns of the list are described in Fig 40 and Fig 41 Hard Disk Management x Enable Detail Information _ Enable Disk Slot Indicator coms Select Disk Slot Disk Status Volume GB Free Space GB Supplier HDD Interface Model F W Rev Ready 596 2 521 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 Ready 596 2 521 WDC TA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 05 0 2 RAID Name RAID ID RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Disk Type Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks Block Size B TestRAIDO RAID 0 208 Ready General 128 436 207 616 TestRAIDS RAID 5 210 Ready General 128 440 401 920 TestRAID6 RAID 6 210 Ready General 128 440 401 920 TestRAIDSO RAI
36. Favorites Tools Help x Convert v F Select o E baie mr Favorites iSCSI Storage tm dm Pages 1 lt Favorites iSCSI Storage fi dm v Pager iSCSI Storage Login i _ Easy IP SAN Login e iSCSI Storage Login Username Password Language English Language English gt Login Login Clear 3 3 Download IP SAN Connector Download IP SAN Connector E LA Internet Protected Mode Off fa 100 Do Internet Protected Mode Off fg 100 Fig 110 Hyperlink of downloading IP SAN Connector Fig 110 Description O Login Page of iSCSI Storage O Login Page of Easy IP SAN 6 Hyperlink of downloading IP SAN Connector IPSC 8 1 2 IP SAN Connector Steps of connecting to 1SCSI storage by IP SAN Connector 1 Execute the shortcut IPSC on your Desktop as shown in Fig 111 O 2 Select your Language optional 3 Enable disable AD authorization optional 4 Enable disable Cross Internet optional If your PC connects to an iSCSI storage cross Internet it is better to enable Cross Internet 5 Enter the IP address of iSCSI storage 6 Enter username 7 Enter password 8 Click HM 93 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 9 IPSC is connecting to the iSCSI Storage as shown in Fig 112 10 Successfully connect to an iSCSI storage as shown in Fig 113 EN becomes DE
37. Gbps Model WD6402AAFX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A WD6402AAEX 00Z3A Y b Delete Disk Forcedly Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 102 Delete Disk Forcedly 2 Select a deleted slot such as Slot 7 is Deleted Disks status in Fig 103 3 Click 85 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Delete Disk Forcedly m Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select Disk Slot Disk Status Volume GB Free Space GB Supplier HDD Interface Model Blo Ready 596 2 488 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 Deleted Disk 0 Ready 596 2 5 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 b Delete Disk Forcedly Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 103 Reset Deleted Disk Status 86 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 7 User Management Page 7 1 User Login Steps of first time to log on user management page 1 Connect to iSCSI Storage by a web browser such as IE 2 Enter your username not admin as shown in Fig 104 3 Enter your password 4 Change your password as show in Fig 105 5 Enter the old password
38. ID Volume List RAID Volume List lists all RAID volumes built in the iSCSI Storage Fig 40 and Fig 41 illustrate fields of the list The fields are described as follow O Select Select fields are used for deleting RAID volume You can select multiple RAID volumes and click to remove them O RAID Name The unique name of RAID volume this name should be a meaningful English string 34 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V RAID Level RAID level meaning RAID volume level denotes the RAID s working algorithm Table 2 illustrates the features of RAID level Size GB This field shows the capacity of RAID volume 6 RAID Status RAID Status field denotes status of a RAID volume Table 3 shows all statuses of RAID volume Administrator can quickly understand conditions of RAID volumes and do right operations when a RAID volume fails Especially some RAID 1 10 5 6 volumes are in Degraded situations Administrator immediately has to replace crashed HDD with a new one Administrator can find out the crashed HDD throughput visiting Hard Disk Management page and Disk Status page RAID Status The RAID volume is normal and working RAID Initializing This iSCSI storage is initializing the RAID volume Administrator can know the rate of progress by observing Progress field RAID Initiate Fail The RAID volume fails in the initializing process Administrator should delete the RAID volume and build a
39. ISCSI Cloud Storage User Manual SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual Index 1 Turn on Storage and Shutdown Storage ss l 1d DA O A CO T E e E e E A E E a l 12 COW SLORACO ess E E E l 1 2 1 Shutdown Storage Dy Power SWITCM nd Neea dames l 1 2 2 Shutdown Storage by Function List of UT l 1 2 3 Shutdown This Storage by Disk Status Panel of UT 2 LS INC DOO SOA de Se ae 2 1 3 1 Reboot This Storage by Function List of UE 3 1 3 2 Reboot Storage by Disk Status panel of UT 3 SES RE A E RR RAR ses eaeace cecaeae os eegsoneseness 5 De Storade TNE AZ AN Oia sso a gens dao io LAN ES E ab 7 MAS CS ENT AA Ce DES y e a q A q 17 A ols SN SIC COM SUOMI sou IN assistant centinee 19 4 2 Hard Disk Management ee es ee ee 19 elie COS SI ADD REZ 21 4 2 2 Clean Force Deleted Status ot HDDS nn eenen E one 22 4 2 3 Display Detial Information of HDD ss 23 Ae Dig oT DES o 2 EEA E T 24 Ao Create New RAID VOLUMES sue 2 e E AAS 26 4 3 1 1 Field Descriptions of RAID Volume List VV 34 4 3 1 2 Detail Information of RAID Volume ss 36 Do DOI RAD VOO ar E E EA EE E E E ER 38 4 3 3 Configure Spare HDD ssessssoeeessssssssseerrssssssssseersssssssscererssssssscereessssssssereessssssseeerresss 39 Ao IRC OUI RETIN OMICS ae E E a ee de eee 40 4 4 Mass entry Users iSCSI Targets iSCSI LUNS ccccnsssseeeeeeeeeeeseeeneeeeeeeeeeaaas 42 De TSC AAC AO nets 43 Bids LUNCH AO a E S 43 SM CR SES EU RR D
40. Management Set Date 2010 04 14 Es System Management 4 System Maintenance Version Information Firmware Up grade Set Time 10 Hour 34 Minute 19 2 sc System Migration eN T eel e AD Setting Inquiry iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Application Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Fig 19 Configure Time Zone Date and Time of iSCSI Storage Fig 19 Description O The time of this iSCSI Storage O Select Time Zone Configure Date Configure Time 11 Finish System Management Wizard When you see Fig 20 the System Management Wizard is finish and the system 1s rebooting Please wait until that the ready LED 1s sustained light 15 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Management Wizard Rebooting the storage plese wait a moment The initialized process is finished and this iSCSI Storage is rebooting now Fig 20 System Management Wizard is finished and reboot this iSCSI Storage 12 After rebooting of the storage please input the new IP address on your web browser and then use new password to login the management system as shown as Fig 21 x iSCSI Storage Windows Internet Explore Ow e OA Bing TE File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Up Favorites iSCSI Storage Ki E iSCSI Storage Login _ Easy IP SAN Login ISCSI
41. Motherboard 30 60 CPUI 35 60 2 Fan Speed RPM Current Value Low Limit Current Value 1 06 1 06 1 10 12 21 Fig 76 Configure system environment information monitor Fig 76 Description O Decide temperature format O Configure temperature thresholds and the monitor O Configure Fan speed thresholds and the monitor O Configure voltage thresholds and the monitor 4 7 9 UPS Steps of enabling UPS support 1 Goto UPS page 2 Enable UPS support in Fig 77 O 3 Select UPS model in Supported UPS List 4 Decide shutdown delay after AC power down 5 Click System Management gt UPS Enable UPS Support E Supported UPS List Select UPS Name Shutdown Delay Minutes After the AC power fails for 1 minute s turn off the iSCSI Storage Fig 77 Configure UPS 64 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 77 Description O Enable UPS support O Select UPS model Setup the shutdown delay when AC power down 4 7 10 Auto Logout Steps of configuring auto logout function 1 Go to Logout Timer Page 2 Decide auto logout delay 3 Click System Management gt Logout Timer Logout Timer Minutes Fig 78 Configure auto logout function Fig 78 Description O Choose auto logout function 4 7 11 Enable Disable Reset System Alarm Steps of Configuring system alarm function 1 Go to Alarm Page 2 Enable Disable system alarm St
42. Network Segment Steps of setting up accessible network segment for Administrator and general users 1 Go to Login Privilege Page 2 Modify the accessible network segment for Administrator 3 Modify the accessible network segment for general users 4 Click System Management gt Login Privilege General Users LAN Only 2 Fig 74 Configure Accessible Network Segment of Administrator and general users Fig 74 Description O Decide where Administrator can login to the iSCSI storage from O Decide where general can login to the iSCSI storage from 4 7 7 System Notification Steps of configuring System Notification 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Go to System Notification Page Setup SMTP Server s IP address or Domain Name Setup SMTP Server s Port Number Enable SMTP authentication optional User Name of SMTP server optional Password of the user at SMTP server optional The first Email Address of Administrator The second Email Address of Administrator optional Enable SSL TLS secure connection optional 10 Schedule of event notification 11 Send testing Email to Administrator optional 12 Click 62 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V System Management gt Notification Notification SMTP Server mail acrored com Port Wh Enable SMTP Authentication Name 7 A Password a un E mail Address 1 Juser01 mail acror
43. Password 7 Language English Login Download IP SAN Connector O a Internet Protected Mode Off ee Re Fig 10 Login iSCSI Management System by default Account and Password 8 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 10 Description o 0000 Although CA is not published by a mistrustful CA publishing company SSL protects all communication information Select a management function for this login If you choose Easy IP SAN Login and login it you will enter Easy IP SAN Management System else you enter iSCSI Storage Management System Because the iSCSI Storage has not been initialized yet you have to choose iSCSI Storage Login Please type admin which is the default managing account Please type 000000000000 twelve 0 which is the default password for admin Choose language This is the URL for downloading IP SAN Connector which is a very convenient tool for connecting to iSCSI storages This is the first time to enter iSCSI Management System The system automatically executes System Management Wizard in the right field of web page as shown in O of Fig 11 to guide you to initialize the iSCSI Storage In the first stage the system asks you change the password of Admin because of the security issue You must enter the old password in O and enter new password two times in O and O The new password must include litters and digits and the len
44. R DR 43 SE NO yh SLING RR an un ions 44 RS D S CS ENS RR RED 45 Bel MATE EC ORPAS DEAD en RD O RR do ee 46 BSD Me Create NON 15 CSA ee en 46 4 5 2 2 Assign LUNs to 1S8CSTTAFSCIS nes dies see osss stereo 46 I Copyright 2010 Signo International B V SIGNO INTERNATIONAL B V iSCSI User Manual Eao MICS Pe 1646 ARNO UERN RR E DURAR E DR DS DD 47 Ao Sr Ail Group Mand Ce A an ae en ec cu 48 Tei ENS Geto 0 10 11 2 ee enn ene oe E eee eee 48 RO IE CEREN USSR E E a de 48 Odo ASS TARSCISOMSOIS rosana E E a de 49 4 6 1 3 Modify User Information ss 50 LG 14 Enable User and Disable DS ensiezcnduch csmcwmcenstomsd e iai 51 BOL Delito USC cons S E a ee 52 E OO COR SES E E E E 53 dO COUDES A ed E E in 53 EO MALO N T e a E E E 53 OZ ASS 691 U sl he ey da A a A eee eT 54 40 23 Assien Shared ARS RS aa te en a ba 55 A PO ie Derkte MOUP ee E suena 56 Ada System Manas CIMCIG aqui ne dre ese aurea acesas ta aa ess EE EE REE S ENEE 57 ddl Mod Admin POS SO a es ae ed ee nr 57 Re Modily Storage NaM dans aan de esse ee 58 4 7 3 Modify Maximum Connections ccccccccsssssssecccccceccaessseeecceceseeaeesseseceeceesauaeaseeeeeeess 59 Be INOUE PROS 6S an a aang 59 Add Time Zone Date and Time of ISCSLStOraAge secccsecamereccesnscasscansveadecmsassexannntccesnscaseuasmnes 61 4 7 6 Setup Accessible Network Segment setup msn li ins senenennosdosineetestessaniaenes 62 RTS SIC NOM AO RP RD MR RP E A ci 62 4 7 8 System Environment Information
45. SI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot Logout Fig 2 Shut the storage down by Function List 1 2 3 Shutdown This Storage by Disk Status Panel of UI The Disk Status of Web Management System includes a front panel of the storage like Fig 3 O is shutdown button You can click amp to execute shutdowning process Your web browser shows a dialog for confirming If you select Yes in the confirming dialog window the storage is shutdowned immediately The Ready LED is twinkling during the shutdowning process until power off a Enable Disk Slot Indicator Deployment and Management System Management Wizard Hard Disk Management RAID Management Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting IR Disk Slot 6 S M A R T SATA Inquiry E iSCSI Storage Performance Description Value Worst Value Threshold RAW Value Temperature I 35 85 35 Read Error Rate 200 200 0 Spin Up Time 4 176 172 4 158 Start Stop Count 100 100 121 5 Reallocated Sectors Count 200 200 Seek Error Rate 100 253 Power On Hours POH 100 100 Spin Retry Count 100 100 Recalibration Retries 100 100 Power Cycle Count 100 100 Power off Retract Count Load Cycle Count Reallocation Event Count 197 Current Pending Sector Count OK 200 200 Ha
46. SI connections seen 59 Fig PE Modity IP ASS de de ee con 60 Fig 72 Contisure Network FOUR shreseesnnesetscnesomnss tone 61 Pis Setup hme Zone Date and TMe eserse nnen enen eE T ENNE EEEIEE E T REENE 6l Fig 74 Configure Accessible Network Segment of Administrator and general users 62 Fig 75 Modify events notification by Email 63 Fig 76 Configure system environment information monitor ses 64 Po Coni ie UP 64 Fig 78 Configure auto logout function sise 65 Fig 79 Enable Disable or Reset System Alarm ss 66 BE SOS a SC aan ii 67 Bio SA Version AO CMA OMe ne a en een sa ode panos ee ne nn te 68 BIS OZ O SO Dee ea en de ed O 68 Fig 83 Select a set of HDDs in System Migration 69 Fig 4 This iSCSI Storag joins AD SCV Cl ess ciccantateptadsiasaesbccestueasaasaatbceetadesdasnastacotiawaszastat eetcieazes 70 Fig 85 Enter account password and AD server IP Address for joining AD server 70 Fig 86 List users from an AD server sssssssseeccccccccccccccseeeeasssssssssseeccecccececcacsceeeaessssssssseeeeeess 71 Fig 87 List local users and enable disable AD authentication ss 12 Fe S3 Disk VO PROS ADO a aa eee tas tee ee eae 73 Fig 89 Individual Network Throughput ss 74 Fie 90 Total Network Paro uct Se dalles snn ann sesoceden bee Lans oetas Dong noces denbe dit 74 BS 2 Grea D DUB SUS ade ccs E RR RR A RE E 75 Fie 92 The raphi systemi STATIS ssepe enese E EESE REE EE EE
47. Storage Login Username admin Password New Password Language English Login Clear Download IP SAN Connector Internet Protected Mode Off Fig 21 After initializing the iSCSI Storage admin login by new password 16 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 4 iSCSI Management System This iSCSI storage uses a web interface GUI system to manage the iSCSI storage For security issues you must login the management system by entering a username and a password To prevent trying the username and the password the storage just allows you try 4 times to login to Storage Management System If the management system rejects your username and password 4 times by the storage the storage will lock your username for 10 minutes such as Fig 23 During the locking you cannot login to Storage Management System even through you use correct username and password x Convert T F Select gt gt fp vy E mr Pager Safety v ISCSI Storage Login Easy IP SAN Login e ISCSI Storage Login Username Password Language Download IP SAN Connector Internet Protected Mode Off Fig 22 Username or Password Error 192 168 88 181 Windows Internet Explorer se x p gt x Convert X F Select de Favorites 99 1 x cas A By amp wm Pages Safety iSCSI Storage Login Easy IP SAN Login e iSCSI S
48. System The iSCSI Management System can limit the LAN segment of a PC which can connect to the iSCSI Management System There are two kinds of account in the iSCSI Storage You can set their permitted segment independently Administrator of Fig 13 set the permitted LAN segment of administrator accounts You have two rules as following LAN Only An administrator account manages the storage by the PC in the LAN segment which is the LAN segment of the iSCSI Storage too That means that a PC in Internet cannot manage the storage For example if network settings of a storage are IP Address 61 212 1 15 Network Mask 255 255 255 0 and the Gateway 61 212 1 1 Thus the administrator must use a PC which uses IP address 61 212 1 xxx where the xxx is the range from 2 254 excepting 15 WAN 10 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V An administrator can use any PC to connect to iSCSI Management System of Fig 13 set the permitted LAN segment of normal accounts You have two rules as following LAN Only A normal account manages his her account by the PC in the LAN segment which is the LAN segment of the iSCSI Storage too That means that a PC in Internet cannot manage the storage For example if network settings of a storage are IP Address 61 212 1 15 Network Mask 255 255 255 0 and the Gateway 61 212 1 1 Thus the account must use a PC which uses IP address 61 212 1 xxx where the xxx is the range from 2 254
49. Target Name Description Adding Time 2010 06 08 09 07 44 2010 06 08 09 07 45 2010 07 12 10 50 15 7 2 2 Modify LUN Alias Steps of modifying iSCSI LUN aliases 1 Go to Modify Alias Page 2 Go to Modify LUN Alias Page 3 Click L M ales 4 Enter anew alias 5 Click of an iSCSI Target Fig 106 Modify iSCSI Target Alias Modify Target Alias Modify LUN Alias Action Modify Alias LUN Alias Modify Alias Modify Alias Modify Alias Modify Alias Description Adding Time 2010 07 13 12 18 07 2010 07 13 12 18 07 2010 07 13 12 18 08 2010 07 13 12 18 08 2010 07 13 12 18 08 Target Name Fig 107 Modify iSCSI LUN Alias 89 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 7 3 Review a User s ISCSI Targets Step of reviewing user s iSCSI Targets 1 Go to Target Information Page 2 Select an iSCSI Target 3 Review the iSCSI Target and iSCSI LUNs of the iSCSI Target Taregt Information Target Information Target Alias Target Name Access IP Size GB Description Adding Time None 2010 07 13 12 18 07 t01 2 t01 2 None 2010 07 13 12 18 07 share t01 share t01 None 2010 07 13 12 18 08 Fig 108 Review a user s iSCSI Targets 7 4 User Log User Log as shown in Fig 109 records all activities and conditions of user The follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name denote
50. User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting Inquiry iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot Shutdown Logout Mass Entry Download Template File Produced by Microsoft Excel Mass Entry File MassCreateSample csv Load File 2 42 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 50 Mass entry Users iSCSI Targets and 1SCSI LUNs Fig 50 Description O Download template file from an iSCSI storage O Upload mass entry file to the iSCSI storage 6 Click to mass entry Description of Mass entry file 1 Open the template file by Excel 2 Please do not edit the first raw of the template file 3 Field UserName this field denotes the iSCSI target s owner If the UserName is existed in the iSCSI Storage the storage does nothing Else the storage is going to create the username 4 Field TargetName this field denotes the iSCSI LUN s holder If the TargetName is existed in the iSCSI Storage the storage does nothing Else the storage is going to create the iSCSI Target and assign the new target to the username 5 Field LUNName the field denotes the name of new iSCSI LUN The name must be unique 6 Field LUNSize the field denotes the capacity of iSCSI LUN 7 Field RAID ID the field denotes a RAID vol
51. __TestR AID Fig 94 The table of user iSCSI Target iSCSI LUN and RAID level Descriptions of columns in User Information Table O User Name The existed usernames are in this iSCSI storage If a username keeps N iSCSI LUNs the username is presented N times in this table Target Name The existed iSCSI targets are in this iSCSI storage If an iSCSI Target keeps N iSCSI LUNs the iSCSI Target is presented N times in this table 77 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V LUN Name The existed iSCSI LUN names are in this iSCSI storage An iSCSI LUN is only presented one time in this table O RAID Name Denote the RAID volume which provides storage space to the iSCSI LUN 6 RAID Level Denote the RAID volumes level O LUN ID Denote the iSCSI LUN s ID number O RAID ID Denote the RAID volume s ID number 5 5 User Online Status Click User Online Status to show user online conditions as shown in Fig 95 Online User Status Online User Total User 3 10 Online Connections Maximum Connections 3 100 Privilege Online Status Last Online Time Adding Time i 2010 07 13 08 05 54 2010 07 07 08 26 21 anonymous Gamer i 2010 06 09 09 22 33 2010 06 08 09 12 18 upload i None 2010 06 10 13 45 47 user03 i None 2010 07 13 12 18 09 user04 i None 2010 07 13 12 18 09 user05 i None 2010 07 13 12 18 10 Fig 95 User Online Status Fig 95 Description Online User Offline User User Online Status L
52. dicator Select RAIDName RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAIDID Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks _ lestRALDOU RAID 60 60 Ready 5 2 128 125 829 12 TestRAIDS 2 Disk used by RAID Name TestRAIDS 2 Group ID Disk Slot Activity Progress Hot Spare Initializing 4922 No Initializing 47 95 1 Initializing 49 63 1 Initializing 48 18 1 Initializing 47 74 Initializing 48 21 Initializing 47 51 DD ee e ed 4 Fig 43 The detail information of an initializing RAID volume Fig 43 Description O Enable illustrating detail information of a RAID volume The initializing progress percentage of the clicked RAID volume The initializing progress percentages of every HD participated in the initializing RAID volume This iSCSI Storage supports iSCSI Disk Virtualization function The storage can divide a RAID volume into many iSCSI LUNs Hence A RAID volume s detail information illustrates which iSCSI LUNs are in the RAID volume In Fig 44 the LUN table shows all iSCSI LUNs created in the RAID volume The follows are the descriptions of every column O LUN Name LUN Name named by Administrator is a unique name Please give every iSCSI LUNs meaningful names for easily managing in the future O LUN Alias 37 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V LUN Alias Name named by the LUN s owner is not a unique name A User gives the user s iSCSI LUN a meaningful name for show
53. e moot Storage IP 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 184 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 109140 00 101 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 11 192 168 88 11 192 168 88 11 192 168 88 11 192 168 88 11 192 168 88 11 192 168 88 17 192 168 88 17 192 168 88 17 192 168 88 17 192 168 88 31 109140 00 21 U 00002 U 00002 J 00001 U 90011 U 00001 U 00001 J 00002 U 00001 U 00002 U 00002 U 00001 U 00002 J 00001 U 00002 J 00001 U 00001 J 90011 U 00001 U 90008 U 90002 U 90008 U 90002 U 90002 IT ONNNN Event t02 1 Logout t01 1 Logout t02 1 Login Successfully share t02 Login Failed No Lun t01 1 Login Successfully vm tl Login Successfully vm tl Logout vm tl Login Successfully vm tl Logout vm tl Logout vm tl Login Successfully vm tl Logout vm tl Login Successfully vm tl Logout vm tl Login Successfully vm tl Login Successfully citrix t01 Login Failed No Lun citrix t01 Login Successfully citrix t01 Login Authorization Failed NA Login Authentication Failed citrix t01 Login Authorization Failed NA Login Authentication Failed NA Login Authentication Failed DA T amin Assthomtiantion Dailad Time 2010 07 13 13 02
54. e participant HDDs has broken All of data in the RAID 0 volume is lost Purpose Using 2 HDDs creates RAID 1 volume for protecting data Data is stored in one of the two HDDs and a copy of the data is stored in another one HDD simultaneously Amount of HDDs 2 HDDs Advantage 1 Protect Data Disadvantage 1 Pool Performance 24 S DxN Capacity of RAID 0 volume The capacity offered by each participant HDD amount of participant HDD S D Capacity of RAID 1 volume The capacity offered by each participant HDD RAID volume is m for some applications which need high throughput but the data is not important RAID 1 volume 1S popular in small storages Big storages usually employ RAID 5 volumes for protecting data Copyright 2010 Signo International B V RAID 10 RAID 5 Purpose Combining some RAID 1 volume into a RAID O volume can improve performance of RAID volume Usually RAID 10 combines two RAID 1 volumes into a RAID O volume including 4 HDDs RAID technology can combine many RAID O volumes into a RAID O volume The kind of RAID 10 is called RAID 10 Amount of HDDs Minimum 4 HDDs Maximum Even Amount of HDD Advantage 1 Protect Data 2 Improve performance of RAID 1 3 Save CPU power Disadvantage 1 The performance of RAID 10 is half of RAID 0 Purpose RAID 5 volumes protect data and provide hig
55. e storage down by Function List ss 2 3 Shut the storage down by Disk Status panel of UT 2 4 Reboot the storage by Function List ss 3 5 Reboot the storage by Disk Status panel Us 3 OA RS SCORE a eee a ee 5 PACS OT ASS mi PATOME DER ERR RD a be T dt at 6 8 Connect to the 1SCSI Storage Management System by the default URL https 192 168 1 88 APPEAR CRE IR ERR NR DN ENE E RR E E RR DN RO NR E 7 D ALES LEARN AO Or Aee saaned aselncsaiabtesaeianiad stansaaataanuencanpbisiacioanone 8 10 Login iSCSI Management System by default Account and Password 8 I1 Change passwordof adiada de a ou Dee 9 12 Rename this iSCSI Storage describe this iSCSI Storage and determine the maximum Conce hs Wire connecHOAS a senaste ee ne ai enemas ai eee eee err eer 10 13 Configure where admin and users can login this management system from 11 TA Cont Wit TE PA UES SS ses ccna a a de D ee eo ne di 12 15 Contente a NICS TP address sc seen eee rdee cena sance eee cendres 12 Conn Oe DN E E AE E E eua cana 13 17 Configure network trunk function at System Management Wizard ccccccsseeeeeeeeeeeeees 14 18 Configure Network Trunk Mode at System Management Wizard ccccccsssseeeseeeeeeeees 14 19 Configure Time Zone Date and Time of iSCSI Storage 15 20 System Management Wizard is finished and reboot this 1SCSI Storage 00 0 eens 16 21 After initializing the 1SCSI Storage admin login by new password 16
56. e the new RAID volume immediately Looking at RAID volume list at RAID Management a new RAID volume record is shown in the list The RAID status field of the record is Initializing and the following field Progress denotes the finishing percentage For example in Fig 37 TestRAID 5 is the new RAID volume and RAID system 1s initializing this RAID volume When the progress field becomes 100 the RAID volume is ready Moreover RAID system spends very short time initializing RAID 0 Single Disk and JBOD Usually you click of Step 9 and the wizard leaves You are going to find out a ready RAID volume created by the wizard RAID system spends a lot of time initializing RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 and RAID 6 32 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V RAID Management gt Create Delete _ Enable Detail Information al Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select RAID Name TestRAIDO TestRAIDS TestRAID6 TestRAIDS0 TestRAID60 TestRAIDS 2 RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 50 RAID 60 RAID 5 4 Fig 37 Description Enable Detail Information RAID Level Size GB Blocks 234 881 02 157 286 4 125 829 12 125 829 12 125 829 12 276 824 0 RAID Status RAID ID Ready 75 Ready 60 Ready 60 Ready 60 Ready Chunk Size KB 128 128 128 128 128 128 Progress Groups 112 Fig 37 A RAID is initiating O TestRAIDS_2 is anew RAID volume RAID system is initiating TestRAIDS 2 so RAID s
57. e two HDDs so ESS is disabled ex Create RAID Step 1 Make a name for this RAID Chose a RAID Level Initialization Mode then select Hard Disks for this RAID RAID Name TestRAIDS 2 RAD Leve Initilization Mode Foreground Initialization Disks of RAID Select Disk Slot Disk ID Max Free Space GB on Aw fw he Fig 33 Select enough amount of disks 29 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 33 Description O Choose RAID 5 level which needs 3 HDDs at least O 15 HDDs are selected The new RAID 5 volume can be created on the 15 HDDs so is enabled Step 6 Choose Chunk Size Decide chunk size of the new RAID volume This iSCSI Storage provides two kind of chunk size as shown in following O 64K Byte Good for smaller files storage Database and highly random IO O 128K Byte Good for bigger files storage and sequential IO Step 7 Decide Capacity of the new RAID volume The capacity of the new RAID volume is computed by RAID Creation Wizard according to the selected RAID level the amount of selected HDD the minimum free size among the selected HDDs Each participant HDD offers minimum 1GB In Fig 34 there are 7 HDDs participated the RAID 5 volume so the minimum capacity of the RAID 5 volume is 6GB 1GB 7 1 where the disappeared 1GB is used for storing XOR data In Fig 33 the minimum free space of these 7 HDDs is 521GB so the maximum capacity of the RAID 5 volume is 3 126 GB 52
58. ease open RAID Management in left function menu and select Create Delete like Fig 30 Following the under steps creates a new RAID volume 26 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Step 1 Execute RAID Creation Wizard Click in Fig 30 RAID Creation Wizard is operated like Fig 31 PE 1 A 2 Deployment and Management P L Enable Detail Information L Enable the function of disk indication light System M t Wizard ie Select RAID Name RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size Blocks 4 RAID Management i 2 128 207 6 AID 5 2 2 128 3 Create Delete 2 128 Spare Drives a AIDS 5 2 2 128 4 Rebuild Mass Entry si 128 iSCSI Management 2 AID 5 5 18 128 User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting Inquiry iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Application Snapshot Exception Handling 5 6 7 Delete Disk Forcedly Logout Fig 30 RAID Management Page Fig 30 Description Enable showing some detail information of a RAID volume Enable the function of disk indication light This function helps administrator to find out some HDDs in a RAID volume After enabling it administrator clicks a row of RAID volume Some error LEDs Red Light on HDD tray are going to glitter These HDDs in glittering red LEDs are used in
59. ed RAID volume in the top field as shown in Fig 47 11 Select a HDD in the bottom field as shown in Fig 47 9 12 Click to begin recovering the RAID volume 13 Select a HDD in the top field as shown in Fig 49 14 Select a degraded RAID volume in the bottom field as shown in Fig 49 15 Click to begin recovering the RAID volume 40 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V RAID Management gt Create Delete R Enable Detail Information O __ Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select RAID Name RAD Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks O TestRAIDS 208 Degraded 00 1 1 128 436 207 6 204 Degraded 0 00 2 1 128 427 819 0 00 Disk used by RAID Name TestRAID50 by that columr Disk Slot Activity Progress Hot Spare to to a mm mm nm 6 he mm Cowon OA LE LUIN I Fig 47 Find Crash HDD Fig 47 Description O Enable to show Detail Information O Click the raw of RAID volume O Detail Information The Crash Disk RAID Management gt Rebuild Recovery by RAID Recovery by Disk Degraded RAID RAID Name RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Block Size Byte Unit Siz TestRAID6 E 210 cu 128 440 401 920 TestRAID50 RAID 50 210 Degraded 128 440 401 920 TesrRAID60 RAID 60 204 Degraded 128 427 819 008 TestRAIDS 2 RAIDS 1 275 Degraded 128 2 673 868 800 4 Available disks for rebuilding the above degraded RAID
60. ed com E mail Address 2 Juser01 mail acrored com Use SSL TLS secure connection Daily Notify Time Send a test mail when Confirm Fig 75 Modify events notification by Email Fig 75 Description 9800000000 Email server s IP address or Domain Name where the Email server can send event messages to Administrator s Email SMTP port number Enable SMTP authentication User account at the SMTP server The user account s password at the SMTP server The first E mail address of Administrator The Second E mail address of Administrator Enable SSL TLS connection Schedule of event notification Send test mail to the first and second Email address of Administrator after Confirm 4 7 8 System Environment Information Steps of configuring system environment information 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 Goto System Environment Information page Click High Limit Fields to configure the thresholds of temperatures Enable Disable temperature monitors Click Low Limit Field to configure the thresholds of Fan speed Enable Disable temperature monitors Click High Limit Field and Low Limit Field to configure the threshold of voltages Enable Disable voltage monitors Click 63 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Management gt System Environment Information Host System Environment Information 1 System Temperature C F Item Current Value High Limit Enable
61. eps of reset system alarm 1 Go to Alarm Page 2 Click 65 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Management gt Alarm Alarm Status Enable Enable Disable 1 2 Fig 79 Enable Disable or Reset System Alarm Fig 79 Description O Enable System Alarm O Disable System Alarm Reset System Alarm when the system buzzer is sounding 4 7 12 System Setting 4 7 12 1 Flow Control Steps of enabling disabling Flow Control Function 1 Go to System Setting Page 2 Choose enable or disable flow control function 3 Click 4 7 12 2 Read Ahead Steps of enabling disabling Read Ahead Function 1 Go to System Setting Page 2 Choose enable or disable Read Ahead function 3 Click 4 7 12 3 Enable Disable SSH Connection Steps of enabling disabling SSH Connection 1 Go to System Setting Page 2 Choose enable or disable SSH connection for remote maintenance 3 Click 66 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 4 7 12 4 Enable Disable Auto Recovery The RAID system would automatically and immediately recover all degraded RAID volumes when Administrator replaced the crashed HDD to a new one Administrator can enable disable this function by following steps 1 Go to System Setting Page 2 Choose enable or disable RAID Auto Recovery 3 Click 4 7 12 5 User Password Security Steps of enabling disabling User Password Security 4 Go to System Setting
62. eps of system migration 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shutdown the old iSCSI storage Remove all HDDs from the old iSCSI storage Please make sure that all HDDs are OK Plug all HDDs in the new iSCSI storage Boot the new iSCSI storage Go to System Migration Page Choose a set of HDDs in Fig 83 O Click System Maintenance gt System Migration Disk Group Disk Group Name Migration ID Disk Count iSCSI Storage 1284982082 Disks in Selected Group Disk Slot Disk Status Free Space GB Size GB Blocks Block Size Byte Supplier Model HDD Interface Ready 488 5962 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 474 596 2 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 474 5962 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 474 596 2 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 499 5962 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 499 596 2 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 544 5962 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps Ready 596 2 1 250 263 727 512 WDC WD6402AAEX 00Z3A SATA 3 0 Gbps oa 00 J O Li amp WW D mm S9992009200 4 This storage no need to migration Fig 83 Select a set of HDDs in System Migration Fig 83 Description O The list of HDD sets O The list of HDDs in a HDD set 4 9 AD Setting Optional Steps of joining AD server 1 2 3 4 6 6 7
63. er Setting Username User ID i i Password Security admin anonymous user01 user02 Target Name i Target ID Full Target Name vm tl 8 ign 2010 07 acrored vm tl Gamer upload _ Assignable Targets Target Name Target Alias Target ID Full Target Name citrix t01 citrix t01 1 iqn 2010 3 acrored citrix t01 O Fig 59 Assing targets to users Fig 59 Description O Existed users O The held iSCSI Targets of the selected user O Assign a selected iSCSI Target listed in Fig 59 to the user O Remove a selected iSCSI Target listed in Fig 59 from the user O Go to Target Setting Page The free iSCSI Targets in this iSCSI Storage 4 6 1 3 Modify User Information Steps of modifying user information 1 Go to User Setting page 2 Go to Modify User page 3 Modify user s privilege optional 4 Reset password when the user forgets his her password optional 5 Modify user s description optional 50 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt User Setting Username admin anonymous user01 user02 Gamer upload Fig 60 Description O Existed users Asse NI EE User Name User Privilege User Password User Description Fig 60 Modify User Information O Username but you cannot modify it O User s privilege Reset user s password beck to 000000000000 twe
64. gth of new password has to be over 12 words ruled by iSCSI Standard RFC 3720 Finally click to do next stage Storage Name iSCSI Storage IP 192 168 1 88 1 826 MM ju DO Nm 0 0 Deployment and Management a Step 1 Change Administrator s Password 4 System Management Wizard Hard Disk Managemen t RAID Management Name admin Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group Management Current Password System Management System Maintenance Version Information New Password i Confirm New Password Firmware Upgrade System Migration AD Setting Inquiry iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot Shutdown Fig 11 Change password of admin Fig 11 Description o O 6 The right field automatically executes System Management Wizard which guides you to initialize this iSCSI Storage You have to type the default password 000000000000 twelve 0 of admin here because the iSCSI storage has not been initialized yet Type your new password here Type your new password again These are Network port statuses The system illustrates network port conditions via different colors of circle lights Green Light A network port has an IP address and connects to a network device such as Hub Switch a
65. guration iSCSI Target configuration and User information are still in your HDDs Via these configurations you can recover before configurations back to the storage which has been hardware reset Please do following steps after Hardware Reset 1 Power on your storage 2 Connect to your storage by IE https 192 168 1 88 3 Choose System Migration 4 Do System Migration Please reference Section 4 8 3 5 Reboot 6 Connect to your storage by IE https 192 168 1 88 again 7 Do System Management Wizard 8 Done 5 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V You can config system configuration wizard or system migration What do you want to config System Management Wizard System Migration Fig 7 Dialog of asking migration 6 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 3 Storage Initialization When it is the first time to power on an iSCSI Storage please do the following processes to initialize the iSCSI Storage 1 Power on the iSCSI Storage and wait blinking Ready LED becomes sustained lighting The blinking Ready LED means that the iSCSI storage is booting and has not readied to serve clients If there are some HDDs in the iSCSI Storage the status LED Red of HDD tray is lighting because these HDDs are not Read Please reference 4 2 1 Reset HDD 2 Before you connect to iSCSI Management System through a Web browser please the first network port must configure a RJ45 cord The first net
66. h IO throughput There is no data loss when one participant HDD crashes Amount of HDDs Minimum 3 HDDs Maximum 8 HDDs Advice Building a RAID 5 volume on 8 HDDs has better performance For example an iSCSI Storage has 16 HDDs The performance of building one RAID 5 volume on 1 8 HDDs and another RAID 5 volume on 9 16 HDDs is better than that of building a RAID 5 volume on 1 16 HDDs Advantage I Protect Data 2 Good Performance Disadvantage 1 Need more CPU power than RAID 1 and RAID 10 2 Need more memory 25 S DxN 2 Capacity of RAID 10 volume The capacity offered by each participant HDD amount of participant HDD S Dx N 1 Capacity of RAID 5 volume The capacity offered by each participant HDD amount of participant HDD RAID 10 can protect data in crashing of one participant HDD If two participant HDDs crashed the two HDD must be in two different RAID 1 volumes respectively Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Single Disk Purpose RAID 6 volumes protect data and provide high IO throughput There is no data loss when two participant HDDs crash Amount of HDDs Minimum 4 HDDs Maximum 8 HDDs Advice Building a RAID 6 volume on 8 HDDs has better performance For example an iSCSI Storage has 16 HDDs The performance of building one RAID 6 volume on 1 8 HDDs and another RAID 6 volume on 9 16 HDDs is bette
67. ialized the new RAID volume RAID status field of the volume shows Ready and the Progress field becomes empty Administrator can create new iSCSI LUNs in such RAID volume now Additionally you can enable Detail Information to observe each HDD status You can see that all HDD become Ready RAID Management gt Create Delete W Enable Detail Information Li Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select RAID Name RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks Li TestKALDO0 RAID 60 60 Ready 5 2 128 125 829 11 LUN Disk used by RAID Name TestRAID5_2 Disk Slot Hot Spare N m mm nm e ml ona DA A L N el san sii Fig 39 The initialized process is finished Fig 39 Description O RAID volume is ready to serve users when the status of the RAID volume is Ready The progress bar is empty when the RAID volume is Ready Each HDD is Ready Select RAID Name RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size KB TestRAIDO RAID 0 208 Ready 1 1 128 TestR AIDS RAID 5 208 Ready 1 1 128 Fig 40 The field descriptions of RAID volume table 1 Blocks Block Size Byte Unit Size MB Adding Time Update Time 436 207 616 512 1 024 2010 06 08 08 10 53 2010 06 08 08 10 53 436 207 616 512 1024 2010 06 08 08 11 56 2010 06 08 08 11 56 Fig 41 The field descriptions of RAID volume table 2 4 3 1 1 Field Descriptions of RA
68. ies 2 Power Cycle Count 2 Power off Retract Count Load Cycle Count Reallocation Event Count OK Ww nd bo O Oo O0 0 O0 0 0 0 O0 mm Fig 91 Graphic HDD Status Fig 91 Description O Reboot this iSCSI Storage O Shutdown this iSCSI Storage Click a slot then the LED of the slot is going to twinkle and the HDD s S M A R T is illustrated in Fig 91 O A slot with a HDD O A slot without any HDD O S M A R T Information or SAS Disk Information 15 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 5 3 System Environment Information 1 Status Bar Administrator can quick understand system statuses through Status Bar on UI as shown in Fig 92 J E a E 3 i o o L AA fa e 7 S 6aa Fig 92 The graphic system status Status Description Power supply status x Power supply is OK eO Power supply fails Each RAID vol is OK RAD une sims Each RAID volume is OK _ Some RAID volumes have some troubles DE se system fan speed TO Some fans have troubles Temperature including CPU temperature and 0 All temperatures are OK system temperature Some temperatures are abnormal Buzzer is OFF 0 This network port is normal This network port without an IP address Network port status This network port without network cable Table 6 Graphic System Status Descriptions 2 Inquire System Environment Information Steps of inquire system environment
69. ing RAID volumes ss 40 TEAT CAS D Annee re hear ee eee ee 41 Bis RSR CON r oT RA serac ese naneneaceoamoneece E asc din dates niss nado sanidade E bate ndosiad esa agdada des 41 Bro dO Recover by DiI RE ho netas Radar dar nd ade nd cuia NE 42 Fig 50 Mass entry Users iSCSI Targets and iSCSI LUNS eeeee erre 43 Fig 51 The template file for mass entry function ss 43 Bio 920 reais AS CS LU iso SRA O A emus eee 44 Ei So Patas Cx 1st 19 CSI LENS ele tea detecte 45 BIS DR SOU NS a E E EE 45 Bio o Create ai New IS CS TARSO ee de ee de ee 46 Bis 56 ASSISES EUNTOIS SI TARBES dns aan des tes annees 47 ah boo DOR ARR aces dasa RR ee E E E E E E tat EE A E 48 12 Pod Gio a MCW USL RR RR RODE RR RR RE 49 Fig 59 Assine Tar ets TO SOLS sn canne rena Dee san duas api sda ne essences ee cine classes 50 Fie OO Modin User THOMA OR ceeesnceecmemeaueenetonsuese ce aencee 51 Fie O ll Cli ale and Deacuvale USAS aaa saiseio gado cubana Danana aan cais sida dado seen tester nettes 52 TAE D E E po E T E A N E A O RR RR eee 52 Bro 0 OnO ETS TOC kU CIS e E ee ia a et 53 Bro OC he abe Wis Wy lt 1 OOS ee EE E E E E and eG ada 54 PETA nS CO T a E a ne 55 Fig 66 Assign shared targets to groups seeessssssseeeersssssssecceressssssscceeessssssseceeessssssseceeessssssseceeesssess 56 PES C7 PCIe SO DS ae 2 ao E M te ado aqu 57 Fig OS Modiiy Admin Spass VOL a de 58 Fig 69 Modify storage name and description 58 Fig 70 Modify the maximum iSC
70. ing purposes of the iSCSI LUN LUNID LUN ID is a unique number of iSCSI LUN O Description Administrator should use a string to describe an iSCSI LUN for future managements O Size The size of iSCSI LUN O Status Denote whether an iSCSI LUN is enabled or not If the value is Enable the iSCSI LUN is available for its owner Else the iSCSI LUN is not available O Target Name Denote an iSCSI Target which holds the iSCSI LUN Target ID Denote an iSCSI Target which holds the iSCSI LUN RAID Management gt Create Delete W Enable Detail Information Lai Enable Disk Slot Indicator RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks LUN on the RAID Name TestRAIDO Description Size GB Target Name Target ID Sax t01 1 t01 1 t01 1 t01 2 t01 2 t02 1 t02 1 t02 2 t02 2 102 2 Ni iN NN NN NN hd to to dr amp A Ww N NN 128 436 207 6 128 427 819 00 ER gt Fig 44 LUN table in the RAID detail information 4 3 2 Delete RAID Volumes Steps 1 Go to Create Delete Page as shown in Fig 45 2 Select iSCSI LUNs 3 Click 38 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V RAID Management gt Create Delete m Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select RAID Name RAID Level Size GB RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups Chunk Size KB Blocks O TestRAIDO RAID 0 208 Ready 2 436 207 6 C TestRAIDS RAID 5 208
71. initialization Non initialization does nothing in creating a RAID volume When administrator finished RAID Creating Wizard he can create iSCSI LUNs and use them immediately However non initialization process does not scan all sectors of HDD There are a few risks about data protections 28 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Step 5 Select HDDs According to the RAID level decided in step 3 the wizard wait administrator selecting enough and correct amount of HDDs If the amount of HDDs 1s insufficient and incorrect becomes M s and administrator cannot do the next step For example in Fig 32 administrator chooses RAID 5 need 3 HDDs at least but he she just selects 2 HDDs So is is disabled In Fig 33 administrator selects over 2 HDDs for the RAID 5 volume SO is enabled eo Create RAID Step 1 Make a name for this RAID Chose a RAID Level Initialization Mode then select Hard Disks for this RAID RAID Name TestRAIDS 2 1 RAID Level RAID 5 Md Initilization Mode Foreground Initialization Disks of RAID Select Disk Slot DiskID Max Free Space GB Ww Wi to to to bo bh Ww pa tm UM ho a pa on OO tn Elo we Wi Wi bo LA oO On 4 1 Fig 32 Amount of HDD is not enough to create a RAID 5 volume Fig 32 Description O Choose RAID 5 level which needs 3 HDDs at least O 2 HDDs are selected The new RAID 5 volume cannot be created on th
72. ist Descriptions of columns in User Online Table O User Name List all users in this iSCSI storage Privilege Denote a user s privilege Normal or Administrator Online Sataus Online Status Online The user is using this iSCSI storage now The user has not connected to this iSCSI storage yet Table 7 User Online Status Description 78 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Last Online Time This column denotes the last online time of the user Adding Time This column denotes when the user was created 5 6 System Log This iSCSI Storage provide 6 kinds of event logs as following 1 Disk Event RAID Event Web Management Event iSCSI Connection Event Miscellaneous Event User Log a Ae a 5 6 1 Disk Event Disk Event as shown in Fig 96 records all activities and conditions of disks The follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name meaning Event Name denotes which component generates this event O Event A string describes the event O Time Denote the time when this event happens System Log gt Disk Event Event Refresh 5 6 2 RAID Event R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 1 Disk ID 65 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 1 Disk ID 65 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 13 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 14 Disk ID 47 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 15 Disk ID 46 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 16 Disk ID 45 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Sl
73. isted group list O The selected group The selectable existed group list 4 7 System Management 4 7 1 Modify Admin Password Steps of modifying Admin password 1 Go to Administrator Password Page 2 Enter the old admin password 3 Enter the new admin password 4 Enter the new admin password again 5 Click 57 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Management gt Administrator Password User Name Current Password New Password Confirm New Password Fig 68 Modify Admin s password Fig 68 Description O Enter the old password O Enter the new password Enter the new password again 4 7 2 Modify Storage Name Steps of modifying storage name and description 1 Go to Storage Name Page 2 Modify the storage name field 3 Modify the description of storage 4 Click System Management gt Storage Name Storage Name iSCSIStorage Storage Description Fig 69 Modify storage name and description 58 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 69 Description O Modify the storage name Modify the description of storage 4 7 3 Modify Maximum Connections Steps of modifying maximum connections 1 2 3 Go to Maximum Connections Page Modify the amount of maximum iSCSI connection Click System Management gt Maximum Connections Storage Name iSCSIStorage Storage Description Maximum Connections 100 O
74. istrator deletes a HDD which has Disk ID 8 Then Administrator initializes the HDD again The storage offers Disk ID 17 to the HDD 4 2 1 Reset HDD When statuses of HDDs are Configured or Resucable these HDDs cannot join to any RAID volume can reset such two statuses into Ready Please follow these following steps to reset HDDs 1 Select some Configured HDDs or Rescuable HDDs 2 Click If resetting selected HDDs 1s successful the status fields of the selected HDDs become Ready as shown in Fig 27 Warning After reset HDDs these HDDs loss all DATA and RAID configurations 21 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Hard Disk Management m Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select v Disk Slot Disk Status Volume GB Free Space GB Supplier HDD Interface Model 1 Ready 596 2 595 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 2 Ready 5 3 Ready 4 595 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 595 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 595 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 595 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 9 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 9 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B Reset Disk Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 27 HDDs have reset Fig 27 Description O These slots connect to HDDs and the HDDs are reset Therefore these statuses are Ready O These slots have not connected to any HDD yet 4 2 2 Clean Force Deleted Status of HDDs An unnormal HDD is forcedly de
75. leted by Administrator or the RAID system when the HDD has some unrecoveralbe errors and interferes or stops the RAID system For recovering the service of RAID system Administrator should visit Delete Disk Forcedly page to delete the slot of the HDD and set the status of the slot into Deleted Disk There are two ways to release Deleted Disk status from the slot 1 Replace the unnormal HDD with a normal HDD when Administrator has removed the unnormal HDD from the slot the status of the slot is still Deleted Disk Administrator has to plug a normal HDD into the slot to release Deleted Disk status Finally the status of the slot is Non Initial 2 Using in Hard Disk Management page and Delete Disk Forcedly reset Deleted Disk status from a slot Please visit those two pages and select slots with Deleted Disk status Then click to reset the selected slots Finally the status of the slot is Non Initial In Fig 28 Slot 16 had been forcedly deleted so the status of Slot 16 is Deleted Disk Administrator should select it and click iii to reset Slot 16 22 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Hard Disk Management __ Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select Disk Slot Disk Status Volume GB Free Space GB Supplier HDD Interface Model Blo 1 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AAEX 00Z3A 1 250 2 2 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6402AA
76. lt gt FPSC IPSC 1 192 168 88 181 6 COS 7 D Mom Fig 111 IP SAN Connector and its shortcut Fig 111 Description The icon of IPSC The UI of IPSC Select Language Enable disable AD authentication If your PC accesses the iSCSI Storage via Internet it is better to enable Cross Internet IP Address of an iSCSI Storage Username Password Mount iSCSI Targets 192 168 898 181 OOO Fig 112 IPSC is connecting to an iSCSI Storage 94 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 113 Successfully Connect to an 1SCSI storage 95 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 96 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 9 Easy IP SAN 9 1 Login Easy IP SAN Management Steps of logging on Easy IP SAN management 1 Select Easy IP SAN Login on the login page as shown in Fig 114 2 Enter admin 3 Enter admin s password File Edit View Favorites Tools x Convert PP Select Favorites iSCSI Storage uni di v v Pager Password Language English Login Clear Download IP SAN Connector Internet Protected Mode Off Fig 114 Login page of Easy IP SAN management Fig 114 Description O Please select Easy IP SAN Login O Enter admin O Enter admins password 9 2 Add Easy IP SAN Members Steps of adding an iSCSI storage into an Easy IP SAN 1 Goto Add IP SAN Member page 2 Enter an IP
77. lve 0 O Modify user s description 4 6 1 4 Enable User and Disable User Steps of enabling and disabling users 1 Go to User Setting Page 2 Go to Active User Page 3 Select a user in Fig 61 O 4 Activate or deactivate the user at Fig 61 O o RN CS 3 mises 4 51 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt User Setting Username admin anonymous user01 user02 Gamer upload Fig 61 Description O The existed user list O The selected user Activate or deactivate a user seer Tut Nos Us Par Soe User Name User Status Fig 61 Activate and Deactivate users 4 6 1 5 Delete Users Steps of deleting users 1 Go to User Setting page 2 Go to Delete User page 3 Select user accounts which you want to delete 4 Click User and Group Management gt User Setting Username admin anonymous user01 Gamer upload Fig 62 Description Assign Target Activate User Delete User Password Security Online Status Offline Offline Privilege Administrator Fig 62 Delete users 52 Description 2010 06 08 09 12 1 2010 06 10 13 45 4 2010 07 07 08 26 2 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V The existed user list O The detail and selectable existed user list O The selected user 4 6 1 6 Unlock Users A user account is locked because the user uses some w
78. mode also supports fail over and load balance simultaneously but the load balance algorithm is differently from Balance RR mode Broadcast All network ports send same packets and receive same packets in the same time The network ports fail over each other but the total bandwidth does not increase IEEE 802 3ad Group network ports One of the networks ports is working and other network ports are backup ports When the working network port fails one of the backup ports replace the fault network port If you want to do this mode please make sure that all NICs and the switch support 802 3ad protocol 14 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 6 Balance tib Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing One of the network ports receives data and all of the network ports can send data 7 Balance ale Active Load Balancing All of the network ports can send and receive data 10 Configure Time Zone Date and Time of the storage It is important to keep correct time of the storage since the system log of the storage references the time If the time is incorrect it 1s hard to look for problems by the system log You can check the system time of the storage in O of Fig 19 If it is incorrect please correct it ir gee i Deployment and Management Step 5 Set System Clock System Management Wizard Hard Disk Management Set Time Zone GMT 08 00 Beijing Hong Kong Taipei RAID Management Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group
79. nce Off 01 13 2010 11 16 56 Refresh Fig 100 Miscellaneous Events 82 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 5 6 6 User Log User Log as shown in Fig 101 records all activities and conditions of user The follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name denotes a user who generates this event O Storage IP The user connects to the IP address of 1SCSI Storage O Clinet IP The client s IP O Event A string describes the event Time Denote the time when this event happens System Log gt User Log Username 7 l Name anonymous 2 user01 admin admin admin Storage IP user01 192 168 88 183 user01 192 168 88 181 user01 user01 user01 user01 user01 user01 user01 user01 user01 user0i user01 user01 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 Fig 101 User Log 83 Client IP 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 U 00002 U 00001 A 01005 A 03003 A 90005 A 11001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001
80. nd Router or a network host such as a PC or a Server 9 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Yellow Light A network port must been without any IP address Red Light A network port must have an IP address but it must not connect to any network device or any network host 7 Name this iSCSI Storage and describe it That information will help your management in the future like Fig 12 Then you have to decide the maximum concurrent 1SCSI connections of this iSCSI Storage If the value is larger there are many users to share resources of the storage such as storage capacity and network bandwidth and then the quality of server will be lower Hence please decide an appropriate value which depends on your application Finally click to do next stage System Management Wizard Step 2 Set Name Description and Maximum Connections of Storage Storage Name iSCSI Storage O Storage Description us Storage Maximum Connections 100 Fig 12 Rename this iSCSI Storage describe this iSCSI Storage and determine the maximum concurrent iSCSI connections Fig 12 Description Naming this iSCSI Storage uses an understandable string O Describing this iSCSI Storage uses a string which describes this storage s functions and purposes Setting the maximum number of iSCSI connections in which this iSCSI storage can concurrently serve them 8 Configure the permitted LAN segment of iSCSI Management
81. nderstandable and unique string O Choose RAID Level such as 0 1 10 5 6 JBOD Single Disk Decide how to initialize this RAID volume O Select all of available HDD to participate the RAID volume These HDDs must been initiated and have free space free space gt 0 Select a HDD to participate in the RAID volume Available HDD list Step 4 Choose Initialization Mode If administrator selected one of RAID 1 10 5 6 in Step 3 the wizard asks administrator to decide how to initialize this RAID volume There are three initialization modes supported by this iSCSI Storage as shown in follows l J Full Initialization Full Initialization would scan and clean all sectors of HDD participated in the RAID volume When the storage is initializing the RAID volume administrator cannot create iSCSI LUNs After finishing the initialization administrator would create isCSI LUNs for targets Full Initialization can find out problems of HDDs before the RAID volume is used so it can avoid some risks of data protection For data protection issues we strongly suggest administrator do Full Initialization for creating a RAID volume Background Initialization Background Initialization also scans and cleans all sectors of HDD participated in the RAID volume However administrator can create isCSI LUNs and use them during initializing the RAID volume It is an eclectic solution between efficiency issues and data protection issues Non
82. ndling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot Shutdown EEE T Logout Q scanDisk 10 RestDik J Reset Deleted Disk Status Fig 25 Disk Initialization Fig 25 Description O Enable Display Detail Information for HDD O Enable HDD Location Indicator When administrator clicks a HDD on this page the Red LED on the HDD s tray is twinkling for 20 seconds Select all of HDD Select a HDD These HDDs can participate to any RAID volume when the status is Ready The HDDs are able to rescue some RAID volumes in this iSCSI storage The HDD had been used in other iSCSI storages The slot did not connect to any HDD Rescan SAS SATA slot to refine HDDs Reset Configured status and Rescuable status to Ready status Remove Deleted Disks which are forcedly deleted by admin 6980000000 Column descriptions of Disk information list O Select Each of SAS SATA slot includes Select field You have to select some target HDDs first and then do some operations such as reset status or reset Deleted Disk Status Disk Slot This iSCSI Storage includes 8 SAS SATA2 Hot swapable slots Hard Disk Management assigns a unique number to each slot Fig 26 illustrates the mapping from slot numbers to positions on the storage chassis Fig 26 SAS SATA port sequence of iSCSI storage Status This column denotes the HDD status HDD status has some values as shown in following Table 1 Status Empty This sl
83. ne User Status 6 System Log 3 Exception Handling 1 Delete Disk Forcedly 4 Reboot Shutdown 1 Reboot 2 Shutdown 5 Logout Finally the bottom bar shows the time in the iSCSI storage It is important to keep the time correct The log system of iSCSI storage in the 1SCSI storage records all events included when they happen If the time is incorrect these events are recorded wrong time by the log system 18 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Aanager I Storage IP 192 168 88 241 10 Storage Name 1SCS y a2 A A Logout Deployment and Management la Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator System Management Wizard E NC Ea Select Disk Slot Disk Status Volume GB Free Space GB Supplier HDD Interface Model F W Rev Bloc Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready 6 596 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready 596 2 WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 Ready WDC SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B 01 0 1 250 2 RAID Management Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting ory OO A Et tom tolo Do G
84. network 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 9 Go to IP Address Page Enable Network port trunking Select Bound 1 Choose Port Trunking Mode Configure IPv4 IP address Configure IPv4 Mask Configure IPv4 Gateway Configure IPv4 External IP address optional Configure External Port optional 10 Select DNS page optional 11 Configure DNS optional 60 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Enable Network Port Trunking O Bound 1 DNS pro Bound 1 IPv4 IPv4 Mask IPv4 Gateway wema Jr Fig 72 Configure Network Trunk Fig 72 Description O Enable Network port trunk O Trunked network interface Bound 1 Choose trunking mode 4 7 5 Time Zone Date and Time of iSCSI storage Steps of configure Time Zone Date and Time 1 2 3 4 5 Go to System Clock Page Setup Time Zone Setup Date Setup Time Click System Management gt System Clock System Date 2010 July 12 L System Time W 13 25 31 System Time Zone GMT 08 00 Beijing Hong Kong Taipei Set Time Zone GMT 08 00 Beijing Hong Kong Taipei Set Date 2010 07 12 E3 3 Set Time Fig 73 Setup Time Zone Date and Time Fig 73 Description Illustrate the Time Zone Date and Time in the iSCSI Storage O Setup Time Zone Setup Date O Setup Time 61 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 4 7 6 Setup Accessible
85. nish Name TestRAID50 Raid ID 3 R 00009 RAID Recovery start Name TestRAIDS0 Raid ID 3 R 00009 RAID Recovery start Name TestRAIDS Raid ID 1 R 00009 RAID Recovery start Name TestRAID6 Raid ID 2 R 00005 RAID Degrade Name TestRAIDS Raid ID 1 R 00005 RAID Degrade Name TestRAID6 Raid ID 2 R 00005 RAID Degrade Name TestRAID50 Raid ID 3 R 00008 RAID Init finish Name TestRAID50 Raid ID 3 R 00008 RAID Init finish Name TestRAID6 Raid ID 2 R 00007 RAID Init start Name TestRAID50 Raid ID 3 R 00007 RAID Init start Name TestRAID6 Raid ID 2 R 00008 RAID Init finish Name TestRAIDS Raid ID 1 R 00007 RAID Init start Name TestRAIDS Raid ID 1 Refresh Fig 97 RAID Events 5 6 3 Web Management Event Web Management Event as shown in Fig 98 records all activities and conditions of web UI The follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name meaning Event Name denotes which component generates this event Storage IP Denote an IP address of Administrator using to manage this iSCSI storage Client IP Denote an IP address which Administrator s PC used O Event A string describes the event Time Denote the time when this event happens 80 2010 07 06 19 31 54 2010 07 06 19 31 30 2010 07 06 19 13 40 2010 07 06 18 28 21 2010 07 06 18 28 21 2010 07 06 18 28 21 2010 07 06 11 45 05 2010 07 06 11 45 05 2010 07 06 11 45 05 2010 07 06 11 36 34 2010 07
86. nternational B V Fig 54 Description O Select an iSCSI LUN O Click 4 5 2 Target Configuration 4 5 2 1 Create New iSCSI Targets Steps of creating a new iSCSI Target 1 Go to Target Setting page 2 Type a new target name in Fig 55 O 3 Decide Target Type in Fig 55 0 4 Describe the new iSCSI Target in Fig 55 optional 5 Decide the owner of the new iSCSI Target in Fig 55 and optional 6 Click iSCSI Management gt Target Setting Ass LUN Tage neo Target Name Target ID 2 Target Name citrix t01 Full Target Name Target Type Description this target is an iSCSI target for Document 6 Description User ID admin anonymous user0i user02 7 Gamer upload vm Fig 55 Create a New 1SCSI Target Fig 55 Description O Existed iSCSI Target Target Name of new 1SCSI Target The full name of the 1SCSI Target Target type Description of the new iSCSI Target Does you assign owner to the new iSCSI Target now The list of existed users Connect to User Management page 0900000 4 5 2 2 Assign LUNs to iSCSI Targets Steps of assigning LUNs to iSCSI targets 1 Go to Target Setting Page 2 Go to Assign LUN Page 3 Select an iSCSI Target from existed iSCSI Target List as shown in Fig 56 0 46 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 4 Select an iSCSI LUN in Fig 56 5 Click 6 Click iSCSI Management g
87. o Inquiry iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot r Shutdown _ _ _ _ _ _ z Fig 24 Introduction of iSCSI Storage Manager Page Fig 24 Description System status quick view obviously illustrates the conditions which are distributed in Hard Disk Management RAID Management and System Management The administrator can quickly understand system conditions and remove them The more detail description is at 5 3 System Environment Information The model name of this iSCSI Storage The current page name Management Function List Management Function page The time of iSCSI storage administrator must always keep it correct 600000 4 1 System Configuration Wizard System Management Wizard guides administrator to initiate an iSCSI Storage Section 2 has described the iSCSI Storage initiated process If you want to initiate this iSCSI storage by the wizard again you can click System Management Wizard to trigger the initiated process again 4 2 Hard Disk Management After the next successful login the first page is Hard Disk Management like Fig 25 For example this iSCSI st
88. orage has 8 slots Hard Disk Management lists 8 slots on the webpage HDDs used for the iSCSI storage have to been ready before them participate in RAID volumes When administrator plugs in a HDD into running iSCSI storage the storage smartly recognizes the condition of the HDD There are three possible statuses when you plug a HDD into a slot 1 Ready When you plug a new HDD into a slot the status has to be Ready 2 Configured Ifthe plugged HDD has worked in an iSCSI Storage the status has to be Configured 3 Rescuable If the plugged HDD is able to rescue a crashed RAID volume in the iSCSI storage the status has to be Rescuable 19 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V 1 Deployment and Management Enable Detail Information 2 Enable Disk Slot Indicator System Management Wizard T I z eee I I I FOOT E Select 3 Disk Status Volume GB Free Space GB Supplier HDD Interface RAID Management SATA3 0Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B Mass Entry SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B iSCSI Management SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B User and Group Management SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B System Management 5 Rescuable 596 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B System Maintenance Rescuable 596 SATA 3 0 Gbps WD6401AALS 00L3B AD Setting d itachi SATA 3 0 Gbps HDT721032SLA360 Inquiry iSCSI Storage Performance Hard Disk Status System Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log Exception Ha
89. ot 14 Disk ID 46 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 13 Disk ID 45 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 15 Disk ID 47 R 00014 Hard Disk Force Deleted Slot 16 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 16 Disk ID 0 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 16 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 15 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 14 R 00003 Hard Disk Attached Slot 13 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 16 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 15 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 14 R 00002 Hard Disk Remove Slot 13 Fig 96 Disk Events 2010 07 06 13 33 56 2010 07 06 11 45 05 2010 06 07 18 00 26 2010 06 07 18 00 25 2010 06 07 18 00 23 2010 06 07 18 00 22 2010 06 07 17 52 04 2010 06 07 17 52 04 2010 06 07 17 52 03 2010 06 07 17 48 37 2010 06 07 17 48 37 2010 06 07 17 48 13 2010 06 07 17 48 12 2010 06 07 17 48 11 2010 06 07 17 48 07 2010 06 07 17 22 56 2010 06 07 17 22 55 2010 06 07 17 22 53 2010 06 07 17 22 51 RAID Event as shown in Fig 97 records all activities and conditions of RAID volumes The 79 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name meaning Event Name denotes which component generates this event Event A string describes the event Time Denote the time when this event happens System Log gt RAID Event Event R 00010 RAID Recovery finish Name TestRAID6 Raid ID 2 R 00010 RAID Recovery finish Name TestRAIDS Raid ID 1 R 00010 RAID Recovery fi
90. ot does not connect to any HDD Ready This slot connects to a HDD and the HDD has been ready to use in RAID system of the iSCSI Storage 20 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Configured This slot connects to a HDD and the HDD had been used in other 1SCSI storages before The HDD had been used in this iSCSI storage and is able to rescue a RAID volume in this moment This slot connects to a HDD but this HDD cannot be Read Written Deleted Disk This slot is closed You can remove the HDD from the slot to reopen the slot or click to reset the slot Table 1 HDD status O Volume Show available capacity of the HDD in units of Giga Byte GB Free Space Show free capacity of the HDD in units of GB The free capacity can be used for a RAID volume Supplier Illustrate the manufacturer of the HDD O HDD Interface Show the interface spec of the HDD Model Show the model name of the HDD O F W Rev Illustrate the firmware version of the HDD Blocks Show how many blocks in the HDD Block Size Show Block size of the HDD The block size is usually 512 Byte 0 5KB Disk ID Disk ID assigned by the iSCSI Storage is a unique number of an initialized HDD If an initialized HDD is deleted the HDD s Disk ID is going to be deleted and will not been used again For example an iSCSI Storage is plugged 16 HDDs After initializing these HDDs the storage offers Disk ID 1 8 to these 8 HDDs Admin
91. port should be 192 168 2 xxx except 192 168 2 2 11 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Storage Name iSCSI Storage IP 192 168 1 88 8 26 Me ou System Management Wizard Step 4 Set IP Address Name IP v4 Address IP v4 Mask IP v4 Gateway IP v4 DNS 1 IP v4 DNS NIC 1 192 168 1 88 255 255 255 0 NIC 2 Enable Network Port Trunking Ss _ Enable VLAN ID NIC 1 IPv4 192 168 1 88 Pv 2001 2880 0833 88 Prefix 64 0 IPv4 Mask 255 a 259 a 259 Jumbo Frame Disable The MTU value is 1500 X v Fig 14 Configure IP Address Fig 14 Description This field illustrates the overview of network setting These are Network port statuses The system illustrates network port conditions via different colors of circle lights Green Light A network port has an IP address and connects to a network device such as Hub Switch and Router or a network host such as a PC or a Server Yellow Light A network port must been without any IP address Red Light A network port must have an IP address but it must not connect to any network device or any network host The first network port has an IP address Because this iSCSI Storage has not been initialized yet the first network was the default IP address 192 168 1 88 IP address fields of NIC 2 NIC 3 NIC 4 NIC 5 and NIC 6 are empty These network ports have not been set any IP address yet Enable Network Trunk function
92. r than that of building a RAID 6 volume on 1 16 HDDs Advantage 1 Protect Data when two HDDs crashes Disadvantage 1 Need more CPU power than RAID 5 RAID 1 and RAID 10 2 Need more memory Purpose Combine free spaces of every HDD in to a huge RAID volume but files are sequentially stored on the HDDs Amount of HDDs Minimum 2 HDDs Maximum 8 HDDs Advantage Improve space efficient Disadvantage 1 No data protection 2 Poor Performance Purpose A HDD is a RAID volume Amount of HDDs A HDDs Advantage 1 Low computing power Disadvantage 1 No data protection 2 Poor Performance in a single user S Dx N 2 Capacity of RAID 6 volume The capacity offered by each participant HDD amount of participant HDD S D D D Capacity of JBOD volume the free spaces are offered by every participant HDDs Sizes of these free spaces may be different each other N amount of participant HDD S D S Capacity of single disk volume D The capacity of the HDD Table 2 Description of RAID levels provided by this iSCSI Storage iSCSI service cannot directly use capacities of HDDs before building RAID volumes New HDDs must be Ready state The RAID system RAIDs these initialized HDDs into some RAID volumes iSCSI service can build some 1SCSI LUNs on the RAID volumes 4 3 1 Create New RAID Volumes Administrator can create RAID volume on Ready HDDs Pl
93. rage Performance 2 Go to Network Total Page 3 Real Time Disk I O throughput is shown in Fig 90 0 4 The average Disk I O throughput is shown in Fig 90 iSCSI Storage Performance gt Network Total Real Time Total Average 15 Sec Total Fig 90 Total Network Throughput 74 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Fig 90 Description O Real Time Total Network Throughput O Average Total Network Throughput Blue Send Read throughput Green Receive Write throughput Red Read Write throughput 5 2 Graphical HDD Status Steps of monitoring HDDs by Graphic HDD status 1 Click Hard Disk Status 2 Click a slot and then the LED of the slot will twinkle The S M A R T information of the HDD in the slot is illustrated in Fig 91 Steps of shutting down this iSCSI Storage by Hard Disk Status page 1 Click Hard Disk Status 2 Click A 3 Confirm for shutting down this iSCSI Storage Steps of rebooting this iSCSI Storage by Hard Disk Status page 4 Click Hard Disk Status 5 Click Bl 6 Confirm for rebooting this iSCSI Storage Hard Disk Status SMART Disk Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Disk Slot 6 S M A R T SATA Description Value Worst Value Threshold Temperature Read Error Rate Spin Up Time 4 Start Stop Count 5 Reallocated Sectors Count Seek Error Rate Power On Hours POH Spin Retry Count Recalibration Retr
94. rd Disk Status ystem Environment Information User Information Online User Status System Log 000000000607 r0o Exception Handling Delete Disk Forcedly Reboot Shutdown Reboot Shutdown Logout Fig 3 Shut the storage down by Disk Status panel of UI Fig 3 Description O Power Switch at Disk Status panel 1 3 Reboot Storage This storage provides two manners of rebooting the storage l Mouse clicks Reboot in the left field of management UI 2 Mouse clicks in the Disk Status page of management UI The following describes the two manners 2 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 1 3 1 Reboot This Storage by Function List of UI The storage provides rebooting storage by Web Management System Administrator can reboot the storage through Internet Please look for Reboot in the left field of Web Management System as shown in Fig 4 In addition click Reboot to show Reboot page in right field on your web browser Click in the page and then the web shows a dialog window for confirming If you select Yes in the confirming dialog window the storage is rebooting immediately The Ready LED is twinkling during the rebooting process until the storage is Ready again DE Deployment and Management System Management Wizard Hard Disk Management RAID Management Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting Inquiry iS
95. rong passwords to login the management system for 4 times Administrator can unlock the account by following steps 1 Go to User Setting Page 2 Go to Password Security Page 3 Select Locked users 4 Click User and Group Management gt User Setting Te As Tae admin anonymous 2 Select Username Security Status Privilege Description user01 i admin Unlocked Administrator anonymous Unlocked General user02 m 1 J ms upload P user02 Locked General 5 vm m Gamer Unlocked General 6 m upload Unlocked General 2 7 Fig 63 Unlock the locked users Fig 63 Description The locked users The normal users Unlock the selected locked users 4 6 2 Group Setting 4 6 2 1 Create a New Group Steps of creating new groups 1 Go to Group Setting page 2 Go to Create Group page 3 Enter a name of new group 4 Describe the new group by a string optional 5 Click 53 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V User and Group Management gt Group Setting new group01 Fig 64 Create new groups Fig 64 Description O The existed group list O New group name The description to describe the new group 4 6 2 2 Assign Users Steps of assigning users to a group 1 Go to Group Setting page 2 Go to Assign User page 3 Select a group in Fig 65 0 4 Select a user in Fig 65 0 5 Click 6 Click Steps
96. s RAID Level Grouping Rule RAID 0 Only one group RAID 1 Only one group and the group includes 2 HDDs RAID 10 2 Groups at least and each group includes 2 HDDs Because this iSCSI Storage has RAID 10 function a RAID 10 volume may have gt 2 groups Table 4 The Group Rules of RAID Level O Slot This iSCSI Storage has 16 SAS SATA slots The storage identifies the slot by number 1 8 as shown in Fig 26 This field denotes the physical location of HDDs O Disk Status Denote the current HDD status Please reference Table 1 to understand all conditions of HDDs O Activity 36 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Denote the current activity of a HDD There are two possible activities in this field Initializing and Recovering Progress This field shows progress bar for denoting the rate of progress when this HDD is being Initialized and Recovered Hot Spare Denote a HDD whether this HDD is a spare HDD or not Hot Spare This HDD is not a Spare HDD of the RAID volume This HDD is a Spare HDD of the RAID volume Table 5 Spare HDD Flag O Disk ID The unique S N in this iSCSI Storage denotes an initialized HDD Administrator must initialize HDDs used in this iSCSI Storage The Storage gives every initialized HDD a unique and non zero S N if a HDD s Disk ID is 0 the HDD must be a non initialized HDD RAID Management gt Create Delete N Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot In
97. s a user who generates this event Storage IP The user connects to the IP address of iSCSI Storage Clinet IP The client s IP O Event A string describes the event O Time Denote the time when this event happens 90 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Storage IP Client IP Event Time 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 13 A 00001 Login Successfully 2010 07 13 16 44 59 U 00019 Modify user01 Password Successfully 2010 07 13 16 44 46 192 168 88 13 A 00001 Login Successfully 2010 07 13 16 36 21 U 00002 t01 1 Logout 2010 07 13 13 02 15 192 168 88 13 U 00001 t01 1 Login Successfully 2010 07 13 13 00 37 A 01005 Create Target share t01 Successfully 2010 07 12 10 50 15 A 03003 Assign Group new group01 to User user01 Successfully 2010 07 12 10 40 54 192 168 88 13 A 90005 Login Failed Password Locked 2010 07 12 10 27 23 A 11001 User user01 Password Security Locked 2010 07 12 10 27 18 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 183 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 181 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 192 168 88 13 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001 A 90001
98. stem Inquiry 5 1 I O Throughput 5 1 1 Disk I O Throughput Monitor Steps of monitoring disk I O throughput 1 Click iSCSI Storage Performance 2 Go to Disk I O Page 3 Real Time Disk I O throughput is shown in Fig 88 0 4 The average Disk I O throughput is shown in Fig 88 iSCSI Storage Performance gt Disk I O Real Time 3 Read 309 00 MB Wnte 154 00 MB R W 464 00 MB Average 15 Sec 3 Read 232 33 MB Wnte 218 40 MB R W 451 40 MB 4 Fig 88 Disk I O Throughput Fig 88 Description O Real Time Disk I O throughput O Average Disk I O throughput Blue Read throughput Green Write throughput Red Read Write throughput 5 1 2 Individual Network Port Throughput Steps of monitoring individual network port throughputs 1 Click iSCSI Storage Performance 2 Go to Network Individual Page 73 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V iSCSI Storage Performance gt Network Individual Real Time NIC 1 1 115 6 718 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2930 3 353637 3839404 243 Send 55 00 MB Receive 60 00 MB Total 115 00 MB Real Time NIC 3 Fig 89 Individual Network Throughput Fig 89 Description O NIC 1 Network throughput O NIC 2 Network throughput Blue Send Read throughput Green Receive Write throughput Red Read Write throughput 5 1 3 Network Total Throughput Steps of monitoring total network throughput 1 Click iSCSI Sto
99. strator Fig 1 Turn on the Storage Fig 1 Desciption O Power Switch of Storage O Ready LED 1 2 Shutdown Storage The storage provides three manners for shutting the storage down l Push the Power Switch in front of the storage chassis for example of Fig 1 A Mouse clicks Shutdown in the left field of management UI 3 Mouse clicks amp in the Disk Status page of management UI The following describes the three manners 1 2 1 Shutdown Storage by Power Switch Push Power Switchin of Fig 1 The Ready LED is twinkling during the shutdowning process 1 2 2 Shutdown Storage by Function List of UI The storage provides shutting storage down by Web Management System Administrator can shut the storage down through Internet Please look for Shutdown in the left field of Web Management System as shown in Fig 2 In addition click Shutdown to show shutdown page in right field on your web browser Click on the page and then the web shows a dialog window for confirming If you select Yes in the confirming dialog window the storage is shutdowned immediately The Ready LED is also twinkling during the shutdowning process until power off 1 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V Deployment and Management System Management Wizard Hard Disk Management RAID Management Mass Entry iSCSI Management User and Group Management System Management System Maintenance AD Setting Inquiry iSC
100. sword Security Disable Successfully Login Successfully Login Successfully Login Successfully Login Successfully Create Lun lun2 Successfully Create Target vm tl Successfully Fig 98 Web Management Events 5 6 4 iSCSI Connection Event iSCSI Connection Event as shown in Fig 99 records all activities and conditions of iSCSI Target The follows are descriptions of the table s columns O Name Name meaning Event Name denotes which component generates this event Storage IP Denote an IP address of an iSCSI initiator using to connect to this iSCSI storage Client IP Denote an IP address which user s PC used O Event A string describes the event Time Denote the time when this event happens 81 Time ZUIVU I1Z IU ZU 2 2010 07 12 10 26 54 2010 07 12 10 26 54 2010 07 12 10 25 57 2010 07 12 10 25 51 2010 07 12 10 25 48 2010 07 12 10 25 23 2010 07 12 10 24 58 2010 07 12 10 24 54 2010 07 12 10 24 50 2010 07 12 10 24 40 2010 07 12 10 13 25 2010 07 12 10 12 16 2010 07 12 10 11 26 2010 07 12 10 09 57 2010 07 12 10 09 57 2010 07 12 10 09 57 2010 07 12 10 09 57 2010 07 12 10 09 36 2010 07 12 10 05 00 2010 07 12 10 02 36 2010 07 08 12 14 36 2010 07 07 08 55 01 2010 07 07 08 26 31 Yv Copyright 2010 Signo International B V System Log gt iSCSI Connection Event vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm citrix citrix citrix user01 citrix user01 vmwar
101. t Target Setting ca Tg na Assigned LUN List LUN Name Description LUN ID Target Name Target ID 3 vmtl 8 Target Name Target ID upload o Ri 3 4 o reate New Free LUN List LUN Name Description LUN ID Target Name Target ID lun23 this lun is an iSCSI LUN for document test 0 O Fig 56 Assign 1SCSI LUN to 1SCSI Targets Fig 56 Description O Existed iSCSI Targets O AniSCSI Target s iSCSI LUNs Assign the selected iSCSI LUN in Fig 56 to the selected iSCSI target O Remove the selected iSCSI LUN in Fig 56 O from the selected iSCSI target Go to LUN Setting page The list of free iSCSI LUNs 4 5 2 3 Delete Target Steps of deleting iSCSI targets 1 Go to Target Setting Page 2 Go to Delete Target Page 3 Select an iSCSI Target in Fig 57 0 4 Click 47 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Fig 57 Description O Existed iSCSI Target List iSCSI Management gt Target Setting Target Name citrix t01 t01 1 t01 2 t02 1 t02 2 gamer tl upload Target ID JO a Et bb el Assga ON Deke Tere Select Target Name Target Alias citrix t01 citrix t01 t01 1 t01 2 t02 1 t02 2 gamer tl upload vm tl upload vm tl Description Fig 57 Delete Target Online User Name Target Type user01 user02 user02 Gamer upload vm 4 6 User and Group Management 4 6 1 User Setting
102. tatus field of TestRAIDS 21s Initializing The initiated percentage of TestRAIDS 2 In initializing RAID volumes administrator can click O to enable Detail Information Such information includes initiated percentages of initializing disks for example Fig 38 O illustrates initiated percentages of disks You can find out the descriptions about RAID Detail information at section 4 3 1 2 o The section describes the means of the columns RAID Management gt Create Delete R Enable Detail Information m Enable Disk Slot Indicator Select RAID Name _ LestRALDOU RAID 60 LUN RAD Level Size GB Disk Slot D un mm nm ml ml sal Fig 38 Description O The initializing RAID volume ony nu A WH Disk Status Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Blocks RAID Status Progress RAID ID Groups 125 829 12 60 Ready 2 Chunk Size KB 128 Disk used by RAID Name TestRAIDS 2 Initializing Initializing Initializing Initializing Initializing Initializing Initializing 47 95 49 63 48 18 47 74 48 21 47 51 b mnt Fig 38 The detail information of initializing RAID volume O The detail information of initializing RAID volume illustrates the initializing progresses of 33 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V HDDs participated in the RAID volume The activity of HDD O The initialized percentages of HDDs After init
103. tional B V ee Select Administrator Guest O SUPPORT 388945a0 krbtgt tester List AD User Account mes Import To Local User Fig 86 List users from an AD server Fig 86 Description The list of users in the AD server List users from the AD server Import the selected users into the iSCSI storage Steps of enable AD authorization for users 1 Go to AD Setting page 2 Go to Local User page 3 Select some user without AD authorization 4 Click to enable AD authorization for selected users Steps of disable AD authorization for users 1 Go to AD Setting page 2 Go to Local User page 3 Select some user with AD authorization 4 Click Es to disable AD authorization for selected users Remark When a user is disabled AD authorization the user s password is reset into 000000000000 twelve 0 71 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Select user01 user02 krbtgt tester Disable Disable Enable Enable Fig 87 List local users and enable disable AD authentication Fig 87 Description The users without AD authorization The users with AD authorization Enable AD authorization for selected users Disable AD authorization for selected users Remark when users are authorized by AD server please use IP SAN Connector to connect the iSCSI storage fe Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 5 Sy
104. torage Login Username m Password Language Login Clear Download IP SAN Connector Internet Protected Mode Off Fig 23 Admin 1s locked 17 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Signo iSCSI Storage uses web browsers to manage it Administrator connects to the iSCSI Storage management system through a web browser and the IP address configured at Section 3 Fig 24 is the page layout of the management system The top bar includes our logo the IP address which you connected to and system statuses O The system statuses help administrator to understand system situations Please look for the description of system statuses in 5 3System Environment Information O shows the model name of the iSCSI Storage denotes which management function is in the field under 9 The main page is divided into a left field and a right field The left field list the management functions of the iSCSI Storage and the right field is operating field of a management function The iSCSI storage provides following management functions 1 Deployment and Management 1 System Management Wizard 2 Hard Disk Management 3 RAID Management 4 Mass Entry 5 iSCSI Management 6 User and Group Management 7 System Management 8 System Maintenance 9 AD Setting 2 Inquiry 1 iSCSI Storage Performance 2 Hard Disk Status 3 System Environment Information 4 User Information 5 Onli
105. ume in the iSCSI storage The new iSCSI LUN will be built on the RAID volume G D 44 gt MassCreateSa Fig 51 The template file for mass entry function Fig 51 Description Do not edit this field O Mass entry records 4 5 iSCSI Management 4 5 1 LUN Configuration 4 5 1 1 Create iSCSI LUNs Steps of creating an iSCSI LUN 1 Go to LUN Setting Page 2 Select a RAID volume Please ensure the free space of the RAID volume is enough for creating anew iSCSI LUN 3 Name the new iSCSI LUN 4 Describe the new iSCSI LUN Optional 43 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V 5 6 Decide the Size of the iSCSI LUN Click iSCSI Management gt LUN Setting Free RAID Space List Select RAID Name RAD Level Free Size GB Size GB RAID Status SA TestRAIDS AID 5 208 208 Ready TestRAID6 RAID 6 204 204 Ready TestRAIDSO RAID 50 Q 204 204 Ready TestRAIDO RAID 0 0 784 Ready Description is lun is an iSCSI LUN for document test Media Type Size GB Fig 52Create an iSCSI LUN Fig 52 Description O RAID Volume List O Name of new iSCSI LUN O Description of iSCSI LUN O LUN Type 6 Size of the new 1SCSI LUN Go to Create Delete RAID page Rescan the existed RAID volumes 4 5 1 2 Modify iSCSI LUNs Steps of modifying an iSCSI LUN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Go to LUN Setting Page Then go to LUN Information Page Select
106. vidual management systems of iSCSI storages The list of iSCSI storages 9 5 Performance Monitor of Easy IPSAN Steps of monitoring Easy IP SAN performance 1 Go to IP SAN Performance Page 2 Real Time Disk I O throughput is shown in Fig 118 0 3 The average Disk I O throughput is shown in Fig 118 99 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V IP SAN Performance IP SAN Performance Real Time Total 1 3 Send 0 00 MB Receive 1309 00MB S R 1309 00 MB Average 15 Sec Total 1 5 Send 0 00 MB Receive 1311 27 MB S R 1311 27 MB Fig 118 Performance Monitor of Easy IP SAN Fig 118 Description O Real Time Disk I O throughput O Average Disk I O throughput Blue Send Read throughput throughput Green Receive Write throughput Red Read Write 100 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V
107. work port has the default IP address 192 168 1 88 Your computer which is going to connect to the web management system has to be in a LAN segment as same as 192 168 1 xxx Please check out your computer s network configuration 3 Execute your web browser such as Internet Explorer like Fig 8 You have to type https 192 168 1 88 in URL field For information security https uses SSL to encripte all communication data between your web browser and the storage Certificate Error Navigation Blocked Windows Internet Explo https 192168 1 88 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help wr Favorites 7 p mo 3 E Certificate Error Nawigation Blocked fay ig mm Pager Safetyr Tools fr Fig 8 Connect to the iSCSI Storage Management System by the default URL https 192 168 1 88 4 Then your browser shows the mistrusted certification from the storage website as shown in Fig 9 Please choose and click Continue to this website not recommended Although the certification is mistrusted the communication data between your web browser and the storage is still encrypted by SSL 7 Copyright 2010 Signo International B V Certificate Error Navigation Blocked Winde CD E https 192 168 1 88 gt 4 x I Bing File Edit View Favorites Tools Help yy Favorites e Certificate Error Navigation Blocked f LA cm v Pager Safety Tools
108. y and automatically rebuild the fail HDD before administrator becomes aware of degraded RAID volumes At O of Fig 35 if any HDD can be assigned to the new RAID volume this field is enabled When administrator select yes the of Fig 35 is enabled Administrator should choose a HDD at least gt ES Step 3 Setup spare drives for the RAID Would you like to add spare drives to this RAID Select Hard Disks for Disk Slot Disk ID Setting Spare Drives A g 24 Fig 35 Configure Spare Disk Fig 35 Description O Choose Yes and then O is enabled O You can assign these HDDs in the RAID volume Step 9 Verify Setting of The New RAID volume Verify the setting of the new RAID volume after configuring spare HDDs In Fig 36 illustrate all your settings of the new RAID volume Step 10 Confirm Click to begin initiating the new RAID volume 31 Copyright O 2010 Signo International B V loea Summary RAD Le SS RAD Name 2 Disk Information Disk Slot Spare Drives ID 24 Size Information Fig 36 The Setting of the New RAID Volume Fig 36 Description O The RAID level of the New RAID volume O The RAID name of the New RAID volume The participant HDD of the New RAID volume The Spare HDDs of the New RAID volume The Capacity of the New RAID Volume After Step 10 the iSCSI Storage begin to initiat

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