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1. S e n 75 BIOS CONFIGURATION 76 tem components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives The SAS SATA drives have support stagger spin up capabilities to boost reliability Stagger spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the abil ity to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4 sec s to 6 sec s per step which powers up one drive Main Menu Quick Volume R Raid Set Functi Volume Set Fu Physical Drives Raid System Fu Ethernet Config View System E Clear Event Bu Hardware Moni Systeminfonme site Activate R Capacity Trunc ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 9 Controller Fan Detection Included in the product box is a field replaceable passive heat sink to be used only if there is enough airflow to adequately cool the passive heatsink The Controller Fan Detection function is available i
2. n eneen eneen 68 3 7 4 3 Modify a Pass Through Disk esses 69 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk nnen eenen 69 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive senses sneren vennen nnne 70 3 7 4 6 Identify Enclosure ensen eeneen rene enre nennen 70 3 7 5 Raid System Function usa nenenn nennen enen enen eneen 71 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper anenenenvene enen eenen ennen 72 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting aren een ren ideen 72 3 7 5 3 Change Password sssssssssssesee nene 73 3 7 5 4 JBOD RAID Function esseee meme 73 3 7 5 5 Background Task Priority neee eneen 74 3 7 5 6 SATA NCQ SUPPO E annava ive sneren Ys Ces vor inden 74 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache ensen nennen 75 3 7 5 8 Stagger Power On erret xerox a ete bees 75 3 7 5 9 Controller Fan Detection anssen oneven renee ennen 76 3 7 5 10 Auto Activate Raid Set ens ene eenen eenen eneen 77 3 7 5 11 Capacity Truncation ensen sven enen eene eneen 78 3 7 6 Ethernet Configuration nennen venen enen eneen 79 3 7 6 1 DHCP FUNCHION esra ener ere tor ege yy En Reg 79 3 7 6 2 Local IP address uns enenne ennen nennen 80 3 7 6 3 HTTP Port Number ceeseeeeen mmm 81 3 7 6 4 Telent Port Number anas annen eenen nemen nennen 81 3 7 6 5 SMTP Port Number uns senses eenen eren eneen rene 82 3 7 6 6 Ethernet Address nee onreneennenn nennen ennen en 82 3 7 7 View System Events un
3. esee nnm 125 e HDD Read Ahead Cache sneer eneen enne nnn 125 e HDD Queue Depth anssen n ememeemnemeene nen nn nnn 125 Stagger POWEr OM aarsvin nre x Rare ee ate xa validate 125 e Auto Activate Incomplete Raid annen en ene nennen 126 e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode ssssssssssssssssssrrrrrrrrrrrers 126 6 8 2 Ethernet Configuration sess 127 6 8 3 Alert By Mail Configuration ce cceee eee ee eee eee eee ee ee 128 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration c cece eee eee ee enen ensen eenen eneen 128 6 8 5 NTP Configuration rennen venen enen neenen eneen 129 TMe ZONE arterial rani adeleae tee la tenella af 130 e Automatic Daylight Saving neren ensen eneen venen 130 6 8 6 View Events Mute Beeper ssssees nennen 130 6 8 7 Generate Test Event ccccccceccceeuuuueueeeeeeeeeeeeuuueeeuennys 131 6 8 8 Clear Events Buffer ennen n mmn nnn 131 6 8 9 Modify Password csse nnn 132 6 8 10 Update Firmware eese emm 132 6 9 Information cce arwen nnee mt dede de 133 6 9 1 Raid Set Hierarchy ss ans ene eenen eenen eneen enen ennen 133 6 9 2 System Information eceeee cece eee eens eeee reren sneren eenen 133 6 9 3 Hardware Monitor eneen eenennneeneneneenennene nennen 134 Appendix A aasnassrntndinngersennnnueddnnsenanan kenden en venatwnnde kiesen 135 Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process nennen nennen eneen 135 Upgrading Firmware Thro
4. Activate Raid State Migrating Clear Event Buffel Create H Total Capacity 800 0GB Hardware Monito Free Capacity 800 06B System informati i Min Member Disk Size 400 0GB Member Disk Channels E1S1 E1S2 Migration occurs when a disk is added to a RAID set Migrating state is displayed in the RAID state area of The Raid Set Information screen when a disk is being added to a RAID set Migrating state is also displayed in the associated volume state area of the Volume Set Information which belongs this RAID set 3 7 2 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup aid Set Function Volume Set Func Raid Set Function Physical Drives Create Raid Set Raid System Fun Delete Raid Set Ethernet Configu Expand Raid Set WIESE Activate F Clear Event Buffel Create Ha Hardware Monito Delete Hd Raid Set 00 elect Raid Set To Activate System informatid Raid Set Information The following screen is used to activate the RAID set after one of its disk drive was removed in the power off state When one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State If user wants to continue to work while the SAS RAID controller is powered on the user can use the Activate Incomplete Raid Set option me 52 BIOS CONFIGURATION to active the RAID set After user selects this function the RAID state will change to Degraded Mode a
5. The software CD disc shipped with the SAS RAID controller is a self booting CD In order to created driver diskettes for Windows Linux and FreeBSD installation drivers your system is required to support booting from the CD ROM If you do not have the software CD disc with the package contact your local dealers or you can also download the latest version driv ers for Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista Linux FreeBSD Solaris and Mac from the Areca web site at http www areca com tw These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating 86 DRIVER INSTALLATION system installations Determine the correct kernel version and identify which diskette images contain drivers for that kernel If the driver file ends in img create the appropriate driver diskette using dd utility The following steps are required to create the driver diskettes 1 The computer system BIOS must be set to boot up from the CD ROM 2 Insert the SATA controller driver CD disc into the CD ROM drive 3 The system will boot up from CD ROM Drive It will take about 5 minutes to boot up the Knoppix GNU Linux Live Linux CD 4 To create the driver diskette for example making the Cen tOS 5 driver diskette 4a Execute xterm by clicking the XTerm icon on left bottom toolbar 4b Change the path to the specific driver image cd cdrom PACKAGES Linux DRIVER CentOS 5 4c Dump the driver image into floppy diskette using dd util ity Comman
6. n log poration a L ai mology Corporati 6 7 2 Modify Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify the pass through disk attribute The user can modify the Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing and SCSI Channel ID LUN on an existing pass through disk To modify the pass through drive attribute from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar and click on the Modify Pass Through link The Select The Pass Through Disk For Modi fication screen appears mark the check box for the pass through disk from the pass through drive pool and click on the Submit button to select drive When the Enter Pass Through Disk Attri en 122 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION bute screen appears modify the drive attribute values as you want After you complete the selection mark the check box for Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button to com plete the selection action AK v e CN AU p Areca Technology Corporation i 6 7 3 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar to the main menus and click the De lete Pass Through link After you complete the selection mark the check box for Confirm The Operation and click the Submit button to complete the delete action A AR e is a 5A A Te mology Corporation 6 7 4 Identify Enclosure To prevent removing the wrong enclosure the selected Areca ex
7. BIOS CONFIGURATION E 1SOIH2 pacer tribute ace i ume SPEI SCSI Channel Kesel E 1Solt 5 SCSI ID c E 1Solt 6 SCSI LUN No E 1Solt 7 Cache Mode E 1Solt 8 Tag Queuing Enabled 3 7 4 3 Modify a Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify Pass Through Disk Attributes To select and modify a pass through disk from the pool of pass through disks move the Modify Pass Through Drive option and then press the Enter key The Physical Drive Function menu will show all pass through drive number options Move the cur sor bar to the desired number and then press the Enter key to show all pass through disk attributes Select the parameter from the list to be changed and them press the Enter key to modify it 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk Physical Drive Function View Drive Information Create Pass Through Disk Modify Pass Through Disk Select The Drive i Delete Pass mmm BIOS CONFIGURATION 70 To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool move the cursor bar to the Delete Pass Through Drive item then press the Enter key The Delete Pass Through confirma tion screen will appear select Yes to delete it 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk fault LED Indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Device is selected E 1Solt 2 500 1GB HDS725050KLA360 E 1Solt 3 5
8. Raid Setup configuration collects all available drives and includes them in a RAID set The RAID set you created is associated with exactly one volume set You will only be able to modify the default RAID level stripe size and capacity of the new volume set Designating drives as hot spares is also possible in the Raid Level selection option The volume set default settings will be SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN 0 0 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Yes The default setting values can be changed after configuration is completed Follow the steps below to create arrays using the RAID Set Volume Set method RAID levels with hot spare for the current volume set drive are displayed Choose Quick Volume Raid Setup from the main menu The available 2 It is recommended that you use drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the RAID set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the RAID set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 10 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 5 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID
9. Step 12 Install the Controller Driver For a new system e Driver installation usually takes places as part of operating sys tem installation Please refer to Chapter 4 Diver Installation for the detailed installation procedure In an existing system e To install the controller driver into the existing operating system For the detailed installation procedure please refer to the Chapter 4 Driver Installation Note For lastest release versions of drivers please download from http www areca com tw HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 13 Install ArcHttp Proxy Server The SAS RAID controller firmware has embedded the web browser McRAID storage manager ArcHttp proxy server will launch the web browser McRAID storage manager It provides all of the cre ation management and monitor SAS RAID controller status Please refer to the Chapter 5 for the detail ArcHttp Proxy Server Installa tion For SNMP agent function please refer to Appendix C Step 14 Determining the Boot Sequences The SAS RAID controller is a bootable controller If your system already contains a bootable device with an installed operating system you can set up your system to boot a second operating system from the new controller To add a second bootable control ler you may need to enter setup of motherboard BIOS and change the device boot sequence so that the SAS RAID controller heads the list If the system BIOS setup does not allow this cha
10. 1 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Ad ministrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to assign a disk drive letter 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista To remove the SAS RAID controller driver from the Windows sys tem follow the instructions below DRIVER INSTALLATION 1 Ensure that you have closed all applications and are logged in with administrative rights 2 Open Control Panel and start the Add Remove Program icon and uninstall and software for the SAS RAID controller 3 Go to Control Panel and select System Select the Hard ware tab and then click the Device Manager button In device manager expand the SCSI and RAID Controllers section Right click on the Areca SAS RAID controller and select Uninstall 4 Click Yes to confirm removing the SAS RAID driver The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver to Red Hat Linux SuSE and other versions of Linux Before install ing the SAS RAID driv
11. Greater Two TB Volum e Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Quick Volume Raid Setup l Raid Set Functio Volume Set Funci Physical Drives Raid System Fun Ethernet Configu View System Eve Clear Event Buffel Hardware Monito System informati e No Use 64bit LBA Use 4K Block Total 5 Drive Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Raid 6 Spare It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation LBA 64 This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB u LLLLLLLZUSSXSSSM 45 BIOS CONFIGURATION This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB Such as Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x or latter For more details please download pdf file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip A single volume set is created and consumes all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this RAID set Define the capacity of volume set in the Available Capacity popup The default value for the volume set which is 100 of the available capacity is displayed in the selected capacity use the UP and DOWN arrow key to set capacity of the volume set and press Enter key to ac cept this value If the volume set uses only part of the RAID set capacity you can use the Create Volume Set option in the main
12. Submit button the exist ing password will be cleared Then no password checking will occur when entering the main menu from the starting screen AB AR oe m De Areca Technology Corporation NP a d 6 8 10 Update Firmware Please refer to the appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Pro cess WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION HG RE ye ki L kA Areca Technology Corporation 6 9 Information 6 9 1 Raid Set Hierarchy Use this feature to view the SAS RAID controller current RAID set current volume set and physical disk information The volume state and capacity are also shown in this screen AK v s a Areca Technology Corporation 6 9 2 System Information To view the SAS RAID controller s system information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the System Infor mation link The SAS RAID controller RAID Subsystem Informa tion screen appears Use this feature to view the SAS RAID controller s system infor mation The controller name controller firmware version Boot ROM version SAS firmware version serial number main proces sor CPU data instruction cache size system memory size speed and current IP address appear in this screen T C Al coo 1 133 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION hun otl CE Semm 6 9 3 Hardware Monitor The hardware monitor information of the enclosure attached in this controller is also sho
13. assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and driver are installed and operational in your system The following details are the installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller for Linux ArcHttp proxy server software 1 Run the Archttp proxy server by using the following command Usage archttp32 TCP PORT or archttp64 TCP PORT It depends on your OS version Parameters TCP PORT value 1765535 If TCP PORT assigned Archttp will start from this port Otherwise it will use the setting in the archttpsrv conf or default 81 This is the port address assigning for the first adapter Such as archttp64 1553 2 Archttp server console started Controller card detected then ArcHttp proxy server screen appears Copyright c 2004 Areca Inc All Rights Reserved Areca HTTP proxy server V1 80 240 for Areca RAID controllers Controller s list Controller 1 PCI Listen to port 1553 Cfg Assistant Listen to port 1554 Binding IP 0 0 0 0 Note IP 0 0 0 0 stands for any ip bound to this host JEHE AERE E HE HEHEHERE E HEHEREREE E HEHEHEREREREHEHERE EE EE Press CTRL C to exit program JEEAERERE HE HEREHEREE HEREREREEEHEHEHEREREREHERERE EE EE Controller 1 Http New client 9 accepted Controller 1 Http New Recv 243 bytes Controller 1 Http Send 174 bytes back to the client Oo 99 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION See the next chapter detailing the McRAID Storage Manager to customize your RAID volume se
14. disks in an existing array can t be reconfigured for a higher RAID level without adding a disk Online migration is only permitted to begin if all volumes to be migrated are in the normal mode During the migration process the volume sets being migrated are accessed by the host sys tem In addition the volume sets with RAID level 1 10 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set transitions from mi grating state to migrating degraded state When the migra LSS 156 APPENDIX tion is completed the volume set transitions to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further transitions to rebuilding state e Online Volume Expansion Performing a volume expansion on the controller is the process of growing only the size of the latest volume A more flexible op tion is for the array to concatenate an additional drive into the RAID set and then expand the volumes on the fly This happens transparently while the volumes are online but at the end of the process the operating system will detect free space at after the existing volume Windows NetWare and other advanced operating systems sup port volume expansion which enables you to incorporate the additional free space within the volume into the operating sys tem partition The operating system partition is extended to incorporate the free space so it can be used by the operating syste
15. information about installation and start up of this function see the McRAID Storage Manager section in Chapter 6 35 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 36 SNMP Manager Console Integration e Out of Band Using LAN Port Before launching the controller s firmware embedded SNMP agent you need first to enable the firmware embedded SNMP agent function and install the SNMP extension agent software on your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up this function see the section 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration e In Band Using PCIe Bus Before launching the SNMP agent in the sever you need first to enable the firmware embedded SNMP community configuration and install Areca SNMP extension agent in your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up the function see the SNMP Operation amp Installation section in the Appendix C Single Admin Portal SAP Monitor This utility can scan for multiple RAID units on the network and monitor the controller set status It also includes a Disk Stress Test DST utility to identify marginal spec disks before the RAID unit is put into a production environment For additional information see the utility manual SAP in the pack aged CD or download it from the web site http www areca com tw BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The system mainboard BIOS automatically configures the following SAS RAID controller parameters at powe
16. link The SMTP Server Configurations menu will show as following When you open the mail configuration page you will see following settings e SMTP Server Configuration SMTP Server IP Address Enter the SMTP server IP address which is not MCRAID manager IP Ex 192 168 0 2 e Mail Address Configurations Sender Name Enter the sender name that will be shown in the outgoing mail Ex RaidController 1Mail address Enter the sender email that will be shown in the outgoing mail but don t type IP to replace domain name Ex RaidController_1 areca com tw Account Enter the valid account if your SMTP mail server need authentication Password Enter the valid password if your SMTP mail server need authentication MailTo Name Enter the alert receiver name that will be shown in the outgoing mail Mail Address Enter the alert receiver mail address Ex admin areca com tw e Event Notification Configurations According to your requirement set the corresponding event level Disable Event Notification No event notification will be sent Urgent 102 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Error Notification Send only urgent event Serious Error Notification Send urgent and serious event Warning Error Notification Send urgent serious and warning Event Information Notification Send all event Notification For No Event Notify user if no event occurs within 24 hours e SNMP Traps Configuration To enable the controller to send the S
17. menu to define additional volume sets Main Menu as Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare System inform Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID O 1 10 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB 46 BIOS CONFIGURATION Main Menu EEE Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup l Raid Set Function Total 5 Drive Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Volume Set Funct Physical Drives Raid 0 Ethernet Configury Raid 1 0 Sp View System Eveq Raid 3 Clear Event Buffey Raid 5 Hardware Monito Raid 3 Spare System informatico Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer performs random reads more often select a smaller stripe size Available Capac 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup i i lected Capacity 2400 0GB Volume Set Fu Physical Drives Raid 0 F Raid System F Raid 1 0 Ea Ethernet Config Raid 1 0 Spa View System E Raid 3 No Clear Event Buf Raid
18. set To continue defining another RAID set repeat step 3 To begin vol ume set configuration go to step 8 Choose the Volume Set Function from the main menu Select Create Volume Set and press the Enter key Choose a RAID set from the Create Volume From Raid Set window Press the Yes key to confirm the selection BIOS CONFIGURATION Choosing Foreground Fast Completion Press Enter key to define fast initialization or selected the Background Instant Available or No Init To Rescue Volume In the Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Foreground Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses In No Init there is no initialization on this volume 3 7 Main Menu The main menu shows all functions that are available for executing actions which is accomplished by clicking on the appropriate link Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Verity Pass ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Note The manufactur
19. 1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID controllers 1 1 Overview SAS builds on parallel SCSI by providing higher performance improving data availability and simplifying system design The SAS interface supports both SAS disk drives for data intensive applications and Serial ATA SATA drives for low cost bulk storage of reference data The family includes 8 port model as well as industry first 8 12 16 24 internal ports with additional 4 exter nal ports The ARC 1680LP 1680i 1680x support eight SAS ports via one internal amp one external two internal two external Min SAS connector The ARC 1680ix 8 12 16 24 series attach directly to SATA SAS midplanes with 2 3 4 6 SFF 8087 internal connector or increase capacity using one additional SFF 8088 external connec tor When used with SAS expanders the controller can provide up to 128 devices through one or more SAS JBODs making it an ideal solution for enterprise class storage applications that called for maximum configuration flexibility The ARC 1680LP 1680i 1680x 1680ix 8 RAID controllers are low profile PCI cards ideal for 1U and 2U rack mount systems These controllers utilize the same RAID kernel that has been field proven in existing external RAID controller products allowing Areca to quickly bring stable and reliable PCIe RAID controllers to the mar ket Unparalleled Performance The SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements includin
20. Fault Activity Cache Write Pend 4 pin header ing LED Table 2 2 ARC 1680 ix 8 Connectors 18 HARDWARE INSTALLATION BE E LI wan BI TOR b SE Figure 2 3 ARC 1680LP SAS RAID Controller Description 1 32 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 2 J1 Manufacture Purpose Port 10 pin header 3 J6 Global Fault Activity Cache Write Pending 4 pin header LED 03 Spin header 5 05 S pin header 5 SCN Min SAS 4 8 04 ia Table 2 3 ARC 1680LP Connectors 19 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2 4 ARC 1680i SAS RAID Controller connector type Description 4 36 Global Fault Activity Cache Write Pending 4 pin header LED Table 2 4 ARC 1680i Connectors 20 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2 5 ARC 1680x SAS RAID Controller 5 07 RJ45 6 SCN1 SAS 1 4 Ports External Min SAS 4x 7 SCN2 SAS 5 8 Ports External Min SAS 4x Table 2 5 ARC 1680x Connectors 4 33 I2C LCD Connector 8 pin header 21 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 22 Tools Required An ESD grounding strap or mat is required Also required are stan dard hand tools to open your system s case System Requirement The SAS RAID controller can be installed in a universal PCIe slot and requires a motherboard that ARC 1680 series SAS RAID controller requires e Comply with the PCIe x8 It can work on the PCIe x1 x4 x8 and x16 signal with x8 or x16 slot M B Installation Tools The fo
21. RAID controller deter mines the RAID levels that can be implemented with the RAID set You can create a RAID set associated with exactly one volume set The user can change the RAID Level Capacity Initialization Mode and Stripe Size A hot spare option is also created depending on the exist configuration Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the Quick Create screen the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize 109 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ote In Quick Create your volume set is automatically configured based on the number of disks in your system Use the Raid Set Functions and Volume Set Functions if you prefer to customize your volume set or RAID 30 50 60 volume set 6 5 Raid Set Functions Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you pre fer to customize your volume set Manual configuration can provide full control of the RAID set settings but it will take longer to com plete than the Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select the Raid Set Function to manually configure the RAID set for the first time or delete and reconfigure existing RAID sets A RAID set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets 6 5 1 Create Raid Set To create a RAID set click on the Create Raid Set link A Select The Drive For RAID Set screen is displayed showing the drive s connected to the current controller and enclosures Click on
22. SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Capacity Truncation The Mute The Alert Beeper function item is used to control the SAS RAID controller Beeper Select Yes and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily The beeper will still activate on the next event 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting The Alert Beeper Setting function item is used to Disabled or Enabled the SAS RAID controller alarm tone generator Select Disabled and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off i Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID z Background Alert Beeper Setting Disabled Enabled Quick Vol HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Capacity Truncation BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 3 Change Password The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The password option allows user to set or clear the password pro tection feature Once the password has been set the user can monitor and configure the controller only by providing the cor rect password This feature is used to protect the internal RAID system from unauthorized access The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The system will automatically go back to the initial screen if it does not rece
23. The Operation check box and then click the Sub mit button to delete the volume set A AR IT WP 9 AE E Areca Technology Corporatio s r I eat vn opeten 118 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 4 Modify Volume Set To modify a volume set from a RAID set 1 Click on the Modify Volume Set link 2 Click the volume set check box from the list that you wish to modify Click the Submit button The following screen appears Use this option to modify the volume set configuration To modify volume set attributes move the cursor bar to the volume set attribute menu and click it The Enter The Volume Attribute screen appears Move the cursor to an attribute item and then click the attribute to modify the value After you complete the modification click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button to complete the action The user can only modify the last volume set capacity gt en ha ET are Technology Corporation 6 6 4 1 Volume Growth Use Expand RAID Set function to add disk to a RAID set The additional capacity can be used to enlarge the last volume set size or to create another volume set The Modify Volume Set function can support the Volume Modification function To expand the last volume set capacity move the cursor bar to the Capacity item and entry the capacity size When finished the above action press the ESC key and select the Yes option to complete th
24. Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 nennen enen 115 Volume Name e cie eerder seni xd Y REX e Ya eevee 116 e Volume Raid Level eeesseesseeneen nemen nnns 116 Capacity arterie alain a vex in 116 e Greater Two TB Volume Support nnen enen ennn 116 e Initialization Mode uus saneren eneen eneen ennen ennn 116 SD SIZE PES 116 e Cache Mode uec iere YE RENTA a Eiaa 117 e Tagged Command Queuing nennen eneen eenen 117 6 6 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 117 6 6 3 Delete Volume Set snsnne ennen neenenenen nennen nnn 118 6 6 4 Modify Volume Set ans ene eenen neren eneen nennen ennen 119 6 6 4 1 Volume Growth anneer eneen eenen renee nennen nnn 119 6 6 4 2 Volume Set Migration cese 120 6 6 5 Check Volume Set ciere gr de e ers rend erva 121 6 6 6 Stop Volume Set Check sana eneen nnn 121 6 7 Physical Drive sis mesite E ee e ee n exer eR Ran RE dele dane 122 6 7 1 Create Pass Through Disk eese 122 6 7 2 Modify Pass Through Disk nonnen enen eenen eneen 122 6 7 3 Delete Pass Through Disk esee 123 6 7 4 Identify Enclosure ss anseneeenenn nennen eenen enen nn 123 6 8 System Controls sana Endi eE ennen nennen enen nne 124 6 8 1 SYSteM Config ose cc eer ismana EE ENG VAENE 124 e System Beeper Setting svv en svenn eene eneen een 125 e Background Task Priority esee 125 e JBOD RAID Configuration
25. and volume sets with McBIOS RAID manager automatically Using Quick Volume Raid Setup or manu ally using Raid Set Volume Set Function Each configuration method requires a different level of user input The general flow of operations for RAID set and volume set configuration is Designate hot spares pass through drives optional Choose a configuration method Create RAID sets using the available physical drives Define volume sets using the space available in the RAID set Initialize the volume sets and use volume sets as logical drives in the host OS 3 4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID set can be desig nated as a hot spare The Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appro priate RAID level from which the user can select For the Raid Set Function configuration option the user can use the Create Hot Spare option to define the hot spare disk drive When a hot spare disk drive is being created using the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical de vices connected to the current controller appear Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box Press Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Cre ate Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare Reen 39 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Con figuration Quick Volume
26. bus port or Ether net port without the need to replace any hardware chips During the controller firmware upgrade flash process it is possible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller firm ware With our Redundant Flash Image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crash APPENDIX Appendix F Understanding RAID RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks It is an array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provides high performance and fault tolerance The SAS RAID control ler implements several levels of the Berkeley RAID technology An appropriate RAID level is selected when the volume sets are defined or created This decision should be based on the desired disk capacity data availability fault tolerance or redundancy and disk performance The following section discusses the RAID levels supported by the SAS RAID controllers The SAS RAID controllers makes the RAID implementation and the disks physical configuration transparent to the host operating system This means that the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selected Correct installation of the disk array and the control ler requires a proper understanding of RAID technology and the concepts RAID O RAID O also referred to as striping
27. can t be decreased For greater 2TB expansion e If your system installed in the volume don t expand the volume capacity greater 2TB currently OS can t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device e Expand over 2TB used LBA64 mode Please make sure your OS supports LBA64 before expand it 3 7 3 4 2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another when a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set Migration state is displayed in the volume state area of the Volume Set Information screen 65 BIOS CONFIGURATION Largo Tem Set Information eL Volume Raid Volume Set Name Raid Set Nam Volume Capacity Volume State SCSI CH ID Lun RAID Level Stripe Size Block Size Display Vol Member Disk Cache Attribute Tag Queuing Raid Set 00 1200 0GB Migration 0 0 0 2 35 64K 512 Bytes 14 Write Back Enabled e ARC 1680 VOL 00 3 7 3 5 Check Volume Set Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with a dedicated parity disk drive a volume set check entails computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing those results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive To check volume set move the cursor bar to the Check Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all RAID set nu
28. community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Windows You must have administrative level permission to install SAS RAID extension agent software This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID hardware and Windows are both installed and operational in your system To enable the SNMP agent for Windows configure Windows for TCP IP and SNMP services The Areca SNMP extension agent file is ARCSNMP DLL Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the Areca SNMP extension agent installation is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID controller software CD in the CD ROM drive 144 APPENDIX 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at CD ROM packagesV windows http setup exe on the CD If SNMP service was not installed please install SNMP service first 3 Click on the Setup exe file then the welcome screen appears 4 Click the Next button and then the Ready Install the Pro gram screen will appear Follow the on screen prompts to com plete Areca SNMP extension agent installation 145 APPENDIX 5 A Progress bar appears that measures the progress of the Areca SNMP extension agent setup When this screen complet
29. eect eeeeeenee sense eenen nennen 83 3 7 8 Clear Events Buffer sess enema 83 3 7 9 Hardware Monitor annen eene eenen nennen nnns 84 3 7 10 System Information uus sanennneenen eneen renee nen 84 4 Driver Installation eec eonun unn 86 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskettes nnn vennen nennen 86 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows eee nn 88 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 2003 Vista 88 4 2 2 Install Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista on a SAS SATA RAID VO UNTE os ER E IE IULII ULM 88 4 2 2 1 Installation Procedures eeeeeen nnn 88 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 90 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista Installation ceeeeen mme 90 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 92 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista 92 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux eeeeeeeem mmn 93 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD sese nnn 94 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris ceeeeeenn nnn 94 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X ssesseeeeen eenen eneen nnen 94 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation 96 SiT For WIndOoWS doma vire seis eoe EE VAN T Tema nea tics X RI Vere TETTE 97 5 2 EOr LINUX usto ane ere roe du de rede pne uie e vs deed e pese EE TEE 98 5 3 FOr FreeBSDmxs a vnd een er
30. gt ed d T LE bz d 4 Disk ie D AXE Ue Disk 1 Di Disk 3 Disk 4 RAID xO RAID level x0 refers to RAID level 30 50 and 60 RAID x0 is a combination multiple RAID x volume sets with RAID 0 striping Striping helps to increase capacity and performance without add ing disks to each RAID x array The operating system uses the spanned volume in the same way as a regular volume Up to one drive in each sub volume RAID 3 or 5 may fail without loss of data Up to two drives in each sub volume RAID 6 may fail with out loss of data RAID level x0 allows more physical drives in an array The ben efits of doing so are larger volume sets increased performance and increased reliability The following illustration is an example of a RAID level xO logical drive 167 APPENDIX Logical Disk RAID X0 Striping HH HHHH HHHH RAIO X Volume X 3 5 6 RAID X Volume X 3 5 6 RAID level 30 50 and 60 can support up to eight sub Volumes RAID set If the volume is RAID level 30 50 or 60 you cannot change the volume to another RAID level If the volume is RAID level 0 1 10 3 5 or 6 you cannot change the volume to RAID level 30 50 or 60 JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks A group of hard disks in a RAID box are not set up as any type of RAID configuration All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redundancy Single Disk Pass Throu
31. included in a single RAID set 2 Up to 8 RAID sets can be created per controller To define a RAID set follow the procedures below 1 Select Raid Set Function from the main menu 2 Select Create Raid Set from the Raid Set Function dialog box 3 A Select IDE Drive For Raid Set window is displayed show ing the SAS SATA drives connected to the current controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the current RAID set Repeat this step the user can add as many disk drives as are available to a single RAID set When finished selecting SAS SATA drives for RAID set press Esc key A Create Raid Set Confirmation screen will appear select the Yes option to confirm it E 1Solt 1 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 2 500 1GB HDS725050KLA360 JE 1Solt 3 500 1GB ST3500630NS JE 1Solt 4 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 5 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 6 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 7 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 JE 1Solt 8 500 1GB ST3500630NS ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 4 An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for the RAID set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set 5 Repeat steps 3 to define another RAI
32. installing and configuring the SAS RAID controller To ensure personal safety and to protect your equipment and data reading the following information package list carefully before you begin installing Package Contents If your package is missing any of the items listed below con tact your local dealers before you install Disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included e 1 x SAS RAID controller in an ESD protective bag e 1 x Installation CD containing driver relative software an electronic version of this manual and other related manual e 1 x User Manual 2 2 Board Layout The controller can support a family included 8 ports models as well as industry first 8 12 16 24 internal ports with additional 4 exter nal ports This section provides the board layout and connector jumper for the SAS RAID controller HARDWARE INSTALLATION TUE MEET Gist MLE BH MEEA OE TNT TE Figure 2 1 ARC 1680ix 12 16 24 SAS RAID Controller 1 33 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 2 04 RS232 Port for SAS Expander Firmware RJ11 connector upgrade 4 010 a 5 07 Topin header 5 05 24 pin header 7 010 24 pin header 8 J1 Global Fault Activity Cache Write Pend 4 pin header ing LED Table 2 1 ARC 1680ix 12 16 24 connectors 5 17 HARDWARE INSTALLATION EEM EES gag E Figure 2 2 ARC 1680ix 8 Internal External SAS RAID Controller connector type Description 6 J6 Global
33. instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID Manager configuration utility Use the McBIOS RAID manager to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The supplied software CD that came with the SAS RAID control ler includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4 x 4 2 and onwards and 5 x 5 2 and onwards To check if a more current version driver is available please see the Areca web site at http www areca com tw Please refer to the readme txt file on the SAS RAID controller software CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD or website http www areca com tw 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X After hardware installation the SATA disk drives connected to the SATA RAID Adapter must be configured and the volume set units initialized by the controller before they are ready to use by the system 94 DRIVER INSTALLATION You must have administrative level permissions to install Areca Mac driver amp software You can install driver amp software on your Power Mac G5 or Mac Pro as below 1 Insert the Areca Mac Driver amp Software CD that came with your Areca SAS RAID controller 2 Double click on the following file that resides at lt CD ROM gt packagesMMacOS
34. pander enclosure all disks fault LED indicator will light for physi cally locating the selected enclosure when the Identify Enclosure is selected This function will also light the enclosure LED indica tor if it is existed 123 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION LE AR int Me zi de aL Areca Technology Corporation __ _4H____ __ _ 6 7 5 Identify Drive To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk fault LED indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Device is selected A AR ve WE CO te TECH Vecnnorogy eorporaton 6 8 System Controls 6 8 1 System Config To set the RAID system function move the cursor to the main menu and click the System Controls link The Raid System Function menu will show all items then select the desired func tion A AR v pa i d LA I Areco Technology Corporatiot i 124 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e System Beeper Setting The System Beeper Setting function is used to Disabled or Enabled the SAS RAID controller alarm tone generator e Background Task Priority The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The SAS RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild prior ity UltraLow Low Normal and High to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately For high array perfor mance specif
35. proven device drivers e Windows 2000 XP server 2003 Vista e Linux e FreeBSD e Novell Netware 6 5 e Solaris 10 x86 x86_64 e SCO UnixWare 7 1 4 e Mac OS 10 x EFI BIOS support For latest supported OS listing visit http www areca com tw SAS RAID card emer CEO 7 rameencesu mm UT Driver Connector 2xSFF 8087 3xSFF 8087 4xSFF 8087 6xSFF 8087 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 Drive Support Up to 128 SAS SATA HDDs RAID Level 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk JBOD On Board Cache One DDR2 533 Socket with Default 512MB Upgrade to 2GB Management In Band PCIe Port Out of Band BIOS LCD LAN Port Enclosure Individual Activity Faulty Header SGPIO SMP Ready SES2 For External Port 14 INTRODUCTION SAS RAID card Fomractor ___In Driver Connector 2xSFF 8087 1xSFF 8087 2xSFF 8088 1xSFF 8088 Drive Support Up to 128 SAS SATA HDDs RAID Level 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk JBOD On Board Cache DDR2 533 256MB DDR2 533 256MB DDR2 533 256MB Port Out of Band BIOS LCD LAN Port Enclosure Individual Activity Faulty Header SGPIO SMP 15 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 Hardware Installation This section describes the procedures for installing the SAS RAID con trollers 16 2 1 Before Your Begin Installation Thanks for purchasing the SAS RAID controller as your RAID data storage subsystem This user manual gives simple step by step instructions for
36. remote standard web browser ote If your controllers have onboard LAN port you do not need to install ArcHttp proxy server you can use McRAID Storage Manager directly ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 1 For Windows You must have administrative level permissions to install SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID hardware and Windows are installed and operational in your system Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your in stallation screen may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server installation is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID controller software CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Windows http setup exe on the CD ROM 3 The screen shows Preparing to Install Follow the on screen prompts to complete ArcHttp proxy server software installation A program bar appears that measures the progress of the ArcHttp proxy server setup When this screen completes you have com pleted the ArcHttp proxy server software setup 4 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box is displayed Lam Click the Finish button to complete the installation 97 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Click on the Start button in the Windows task bar and then click Program select the McRAID and run ArcHttp proxy
37. server The ArcHttp dialog box appears 1 When you select Controller 01 PCI then click Start but ton Then web broswer appears 2 If you select Cfg Assistant then click Start button The ArcHttp Configuration appears Please refer to section 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration Bowen Conil ok 7 T t breman Sate Acht x oan wt Cy anne zoet Parey 5 2 For Linux You should have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your system The following details the Linux installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the software CD delivered with SATA card or download from the www areca com tw The firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server 1 Login as root Copy the ArcHttp file to a local directory 1 Insert the SATA RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Mac http directory to local Ex m E I eee 98 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION usr local sbin Or 1 Download from the www areca com tw or from the email attachment 2 You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID controller ArcHttp proxy server software This procedure
38. set with a different fault tolerance setting if required by the user 155 APPENDIX After Array Expansion Adding One Disk Free Space 80GB Volume 1 40GB D Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 160GB e Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities a system with Areca online RAID level stripe size migration allows a simplified upgrade to any supported RAID level without having to reinstall the operating system The SAS RAID controllers can migrate both the RAID level and stripe size of an existing volume set while the server is on line and the volume set is in use Online RAID level stripe size migration can prove helpful during performance tuning activities as well as when additional physical disks are added to the SAS RAID controller For example in a system using two drives in RAID level 1 it is possible to add a single drive and add capac ity and retain fault tolerance Normally expanding a RAID level 1 array would require the addition of two disks A third disk can be added to the existing RAID logical drive and the volume set can then be migrated from RAID level 1 to 5 The result would be parity fault tolerance and double the available capacity without taking the system down A forth disk could be added to migrate to RAID level 6 It is only possible to migrate to a higher RAID level by adding a disk
39. the selected physical drives within the current RAID set Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for a RAID set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set i Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button on the screen the RAID set will start to initialize If you have available disk member you can repeat above proce dures to define another RAID sets AR Vt kein Zl t poration 110 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Note To create RAID 30 50 60 volume you need create multiple RAID sets first with the same disk members on each RAID set The max no disk drives per volume set 32 for RAID 0 1 10 3 50 60 and 128 for RAID 30 50 60 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set To delete a RAID set click on the Deleted Raid Set link A Select The RAID Set To Delete screen is displayed showing all exist RAID sets in the current controller Click the RAID set num ber which you want to delete in the select column on the delete screen Then click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it The volume sets included in the Delete RAID Set It will be deleted by this action But for the Raid 30 50 60 you need to delete the volumes belonging to those RAID sets AR ve a 7 Mie zd L1 Areca Technology Corporation 6 5 3 Expand Raid Set Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it
40. wants to continue to operate the controller without power off the SAS RAID controller the user can use the Activate Incomplete Raid Set op tion to active the RAID set After the user completes this function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode and start to work AK X EX Me fi de ait ke Areca Technology Corporation WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION To activate the incomplete the RAID set click on the Activate Raid Set link A Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is displayed showing all RAID sets existing on the current controller Click the RAID set number to activate in the select column Click on the Submit button on the screen to activate the RAID set that had a disk removed or failed in the power off state The SAS RAID controller will continue to work in degraded mode 6 5 5 Create Hot Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button in the screen to create the hot spares The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare gt fat ET are a Technol gy Corporation qa re ve 6 5 6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target hot spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operati
41. writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer the best High speed data throughput RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array Disk strip ing enhances performance because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously the reliability of RAID level O is less because the entire array will fail if any one disk drive fails 163 APPENDIX A0 A1 A2 A3 BO B1 B2B3 CO C1 C2 CIN Logical Disk EFT EF LI NES Array Management B Block 0 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 i 5 H gt H gt H Physical Disk Disk Disk 2 Disk 3 4 0 3 0 D i 1 Disk RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 RAID 1 is also known as disk mirroring data written on one disk drive is simultaneously written to another disk drive Read performance will be enhanced if the array controller can in paral lel access both members of a mirrored pair During writes there will be a minor performance penalty when compared to writing to a single disk If one drive fails all data and software applica tions are preserved on the other drive RAID 1 offers extremely high data reliability but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity 164 APPENDIX RAID 10 RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 combing strip ping with disk mirroring RAID Level 10 combines the fast perfor mance of Level 0 wi
42. 00 1GB ST3500630NS E 1Solt 4 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 E 1Solt 5 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 E 1Solt 6 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 E 1Solt 7 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 E 1Solt 8 500 1GB ST3500630NS ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 4 6 Identify Enclosure To prevent removing the wrong enclosure the selected Areca expander enclosure all disks fault LED Indicator will light for physically locating the selected enclosure when the Identify Enclosure is selected This function will also light the enclosure LED indicator if it is existed BIOS CONFIGURATION Main Menu View Drive Information Create Pass Through Disk Modify gin dip ds System information 3 7 5 Raid System Function To set the Raid System Function move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the Raid System Function item and then press Enter key The Raid System Function menu will show multiple items Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 7A BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Se Mute Alert Beeper Change Passwd JBOD RAID Ful No Background Ta
43. 5 Hardware Moni Raid 3 Spare i d Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Press Yes key in the Create Vol Raid Set dialog box the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize it 47 BIOS CONFIGURATION 48 Select Foreground Faster Completion or Background Instant Available for initialization and No Init To Rescue Volume for recovering the missing RAID set configuration Available Capacity 2400 0GB Quick Volume Raid Setup 1 Raid Set Funct Total 5 Drives Selected Capacity 2400 0GB Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Initialization Mode Raid 3 Foreground Faster Completeion Raid 5 Background Instant Available Raid 3 Sp No Init To Rescue Volume 3 7 2 Raid Set Function Manual configuration gives complete control of the RAID set set ting but it will take longer to configure than Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select Raid Set Function to manually con figure the RAID set for the first time or delete existing RAID sets and reconfigure the RAID set Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set The following is the RAID set features for the SAS RAID control ler 1 Up to 32 disk drives can be
44. 6 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Highlight the desired RAID level for the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm mm CONFIGURATION The capacity for the current volume set is entered after highlighting the desired RAID level and pressing the Enter key The capacity for the current volume set is displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to set the capacity of the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm The available stripe sizes for the current volume set are then displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the current volume set stripe size and press the Enter key to confirm This parameter speci fies the size of the stripes written to each disk in a RAID O 1 10 5 or 6 volume set You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size provides better read performance especially when the computer preforms mostly sequential reads How ever if the computer preforms random read requests more often choose a smaller stripe size When you are finished defining the volume set press the Yes key to confirm the Quick Volume And Raid Set Setup function Foreground Fast Completion Press Enter key to define fast initialization or selected the Background Instant Available or No Init To Rescue Vol ume In the Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully acce
45. CONFIGURATION e NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be used in the configuration file Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and re liability Our NTP configuration supports two existing public NTP synchronization subnets e Time Zone Time Zone conveniently runs in the system tray and allows you to easily view the date and time in various locations around the world You can also quickly and easily add your own personal locations to customize time zone the way you want e Automatic Daylight Saving Automatic Daylight Saving will normally attempt to automati cally adjust the system clock for daylight saving changes based on the computer time zone This tweak allows you to disable the automatic adjustment ote NTP feature works through onboard Ethernet port So you must make sure that you have connected onboard Ethernet port 6 8 6 View Events Mute Beeper To view the SAS RAID controller s event information click on the View Event Mute Beeper link The SAS RAID controller System events Information screen appears The mute beeper function automatically enable by clicking on View Events Mute Beeper Select this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapse Time and Errors The RAID control ler does not have a built in re
46. D sets et 49 BIOS CONFIGURATION To create RAID 30 50 60 volume you need create multiple RAID sets first with the same disk members on each RAID set The max no disk drives per volume set 32 for RAID 0 1 10 3 5 6 and 128 for RAID 30 50 60 UTUET HUU Trma DT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 5 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 6 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 JE 1Solt 7 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 JE 1Solt 8 500 1GB ST3500630NS 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set To completely erase and reconfigure a RAID set you must first delete it and re create the RAID set To delete a RAID set select the RAID set number that you want to delete in the Select Raid Set To Delete screen Then Delete Raid Set dialog box will ap pear press the Yes to delete it Warning data on RAID set will be lost if this option is used But for deleting RAID set with the Raid 30 50 60 volume firstly you need to delete the volumes belonging those RAID sets Volume Set Func Physical Drives D C View System EV ach Clear Event Buffel Hardware Monito System informatiq Delete Hot Spare Raid Set Information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set inc d Raid Set Function rd Select IDE Drives For Raid Set Expansion JE 1Solt 2 JE 1Solt 3 ct JE 1Solt 4 TO EDE 4 JE 1Solt 5 System int E 1Solt 6 400 E 1Solt 7 500 1GB HDS725050KL360 1E 1Solt 8 500 1GB ST3500630NS ArrowKey Or AZ Move C
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48. ID Capacity Expansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migration Global Online Spare Automatic Drive Failure Detection Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding Disk Hot Swap Online Background Rebuilding Instant Availability Background Initialization Auto Reassign Sector Redun dant Flash Image and Battery Backup Module Greater than Two TB Support allows for very large volume set application in 64 bit environment such as data mining and managing large databases Maximum Interoperability The SAS RAID controller support broad operating system including Windows Vista Server 2003 XP 2000 Linux Open Source Free BSD Open Source Solaris Open Source Mac and more along with key system monitoring features such as enclosure manage ment SES2 SMP amp SGPIO and SNMP function Our products and technology are based on extensive testing and validation process leverage Areca SATA RAID controller field proven compatibility with operating systems motherboards applications and device drivers 11 INTRODUCTION Easy RAID Management The controllers contain an embedded McBIOS RAID manager that can access via hot key at M B BIOS boot up screen This pre boot McBIOS RAID manager can use to simplify the setup and manage ment of RAID controller The controller firmware also contains a browser based McRAID storage manager which can be accessed through the Ethernet port or ArcHttp proxy server in Windows Linux FreeBSD and more
49. NMP traps to client SNMP manager such as Net SNMP manager you need to configure the SNMP function on the ArcHttp proxy server software To enable the RAID controller SNMP traps sending function click on the SNMP Configuration link The SNMP Traps Configurations menu will show as following ARCHTTP Configurations i OS DLL E DATE e SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP trap IP address e SNMP System Configurations Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type the community names of the SNMP agent in this field Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive 103 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION e SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Before the client side manager application accepts the SAS RAID controller traps it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management application s database of events and status indicator codes This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID MIB file into the traps database N
50. OS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Seta Volume Creation Create Vol BAE EAN O r EAO 0 Creat Rai Raid Level RD Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 Stopvolum SCSI ID 0 Display Vol SCSI LUN EN Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled e Tag Queuing This option when enabled can enhance overall system perfor mance under multi tasking operating systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SAS command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disabled this function only when us ing older drives that do not support command tag queuing Quick Volume Raid Seta Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Raid Level RD Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 0 Display Vol SCSI LUN Ei Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 3 7 3 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 To create 30 50 60 volume set from RAID set group move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Raid30 50 60 link The Select The Raid Set To Create Volume On It screen will show all RAID set number Tick on the RAID set numbers same disk No per RAID set that you want to cre ate and then click on it 62 BIOS CONFIGURATION The created new volume set attribute option allows users to select the Volume Name Capacity RAID Level Strip Size SCSI ID LUN Cache Mode and Tagged Com
51. RAID controller function simulates a external SCSI RAID controller The host bus represents the SCSI channel Choose the SCSI Channel A Select SCSI Channel dialog box appears select the channel number and press the Enter key to confirm it Quick Volume Raid Setpa Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Raid Level 25 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 StopVolum SCSI ID 20 i SCSI LUN e lume Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled e SCSI ID Each device attached to the SAS RAID controller as well as the SAS RAID controller itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices It is necessary to assign a SCSI ID to each device from a list of available SCSI IDs BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Se Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Raid Level rS Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID 0 SCSI LUN quo Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled StopVolum e SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SAS controllers treat each LUN as if it were a SAS disk Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Raid Level z5 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 StopVolum SCSI ID 10 SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back BET Ke Vue Enabled Display Vol e Cache Mode User can set the cache mode to either Write Through or Write Back 61 BI
52. RCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION driver archttp64 and arc cli from software CD CD gt package Mac OS directory at the same time 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration The ArcHttp proxy server will automatically assign one additional port for setup its configuration If you want to change the archttpsrv conf setting up of ArcHttp proxy server configuration for example General Configuration Mail Configuration and SNMP Configuration please start Web Browser http Wocalhost Cfg Assistant Such as http Wocalhost 82 The port number for ArcHttp proxy server configuration is McRAID storage manager port number plus 1 ARCHTTP Configurations Ui zl mu The ArcHttp configuration starts as following e General Configuration Binding IP Restrict ArcHttp proxy server to bind only single interface If more than one physical network in the server HTTP Port Value 1965535 Display HTTP Connection Information To Console Select Yes to show Http send bytes and receive bytes information in the console Scanning PCI Device Select Yes for ARC 1XXX series controller Scanning RS 232 Device No Scanning Inband Device No e Mail Alert by Mail Configuration To enable the controller to send the email function you need to configure the SMTP function on the ArcHttp software To enable 101 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION ARCHTTP Configurations the RAID controller email sending function click on the Mail Con figuration
53. Raid Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw The following is the volume set features for the SAS RAID con troller 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same RAID set 2 Up to 128 volume sets can be created in a RAID set 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2TB because the controller is capable of 64 bit LBA mode However the operating system itself may not be capable of addressing more than 2TB See Areca website ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Docu ments Manual_Spec Over2TB_050721 ZIP file for details 55 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functi l Create Volume Set Raid System Ethernet Co Creat Raid30 50 60 View System Create Volume From Raid Set D puel Raid Set 00 bid StopVolume GTTETR Display Volume Info To create a volume set following the steps 1 Select the Volume Set Function from the main menu 2 Choose the Create Volume Set from Volume Set Functions dialog box screen 3 The Create Volume From Raid Set appears This screen displays the existing arranged RAID sets Select the RAID set number and press the Enter key The Volume Creation dialog is
54. Raid System Functi Serial Number 1100 2116 6633 Ethernet Configuratf Unit Serial B View System Even Main Processor 667MHz IOP348 Clear Event Buffer CPU ICache Size 32KBytes Hardware Monitor CPU DCache Size 32KBytes Write Back System Information Ae AORC eA ESTA MES PA ASA CESTA LCS TS Ted System Memory 256MB 533MHz ECC Current IP Address 192 168 0 55 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 85 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver to your operating system The installation procedures use the following terminology Installing operating system on the SAS SATA Volume If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install operating system on a disk drive managed by the SAS RAID Controller The driver installation is a part of the operating system installation Installing SAS RAID controller into an existing operating sys tem The computer has an existing operating system installed and the SAS RAID controller is being installed as a secondary controller Have all required system hardware and software components on hand before proceeding with the setup and installation Materials required e Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista or Linux or FreeBSD in stallation CD e SAS RAID controller software CD e SAS RAID controller 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskettes
55. SAS RAID Cards ARC 1680 Series PCIe to SAS RAID Controllers USER S Manual Version 1 2 Issue Date February 2008 Copyright and Trademarks The information of the products in this manual is subject to change without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual All brands and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners This manual contains materials protected under International Copyright Conventions All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying without the written permission of the manufacturer and the author All inquiries should be addressed to Areca Technology Corporation FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the lim its for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against in terference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interfer ence will not occur in a particular installation Contents 1 IntroductlOn iiiiiiiissisasasus isa iaRRU RR RRRKSRRRRBRRAXRER
56. SATA NCQ Support Raid Set Fun Change Password Enabled Volume Set JBOD RAID Function Disabled Physical Driv Background Task Priori Raid System SATA NCQ Support Ethernet Co HDD Read Ahead Cache View System Stagger Power on Clear Event HDD SMART Status Polling Hardware Md Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances i Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority Raid hell SATA NCQ Support Quick Volume Raid Set Fund HDD Read Ahead Cache puc Stagger Power on HDD Read Ahead Cach Clear Event B HDD SMART Status Pd eat ead Cache Hardware Mo 3 Controller Fan Detectio Enabled System inforr Auto Activate Raid Set Disable Maxtor Capacity Truncation Disabled 3 7 5 8 Stagger Power On In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can sup ply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other sys Ee
57. WSER BASED CONFIGURATION 126 multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the ability to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power de mand as well as steady state conditions Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4 sec s to 6 sec s per step which powers up one drive Auto Activate Incomplete Raid When some of the disk drives are removed in power off state or boot up stage the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State But if a user wants to automatically continue to work while the SAS RAID controller is powered on the user can set the Auto Activate Incomplete Raid option to enable The RAID state will change to Degraded Mode while it powers on e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode Areca RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from differing vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and Di
58. XP 2003 Vista Have your bootable Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista CD and follow the required procedure below to install SAS RAID control ler 1 Make sure you follow the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to access the Mc BIOS RAID manager Use the McBIOS RAID manager to create the RAID set and volume set to which you will install Windows For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID manager Once a p R 88 DRIVER INSTALLATION volume set is created and configured continue with next step to install the operating system 3 Insert the Windows setup CD and reboot the system to begin the Windows installation ote The computer system BIOS must support bootable from CD ROM 4 Press F6 as soon as the Windows screen shows Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration A mes sage stating Press F6 to specify thrid party RAID controller will display during this time This must be done or else the Windows installer will not prompt for the driver from the SAS RAID con troller and the driver diskette will not be recognized 5 The next screen will show Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage device installed in your sys tem Selected specify additional SCSI controller by pres
59. a few keystrokes to com plete Although disk drives of different capacity may be used in the RAID Set it will use the capacity of the smallest disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the RAID Set The Quick Vol ume RAID Setup option creates a RAID set with the following properties 1 All of the physical drives are contained in one RAID set 2 The RAID level hot spare capacity and stripe size options are selected during the configuration process 3 When a single volume set is created it can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in this RAID set m OOo In 44 BIOS CONFIGURATION 4 If you need to add an additional volume set use the main menu Create Volume Set function The total number of physical drives in a specific RAID set deter mine the RAID levels that can be implemented within the RAID set Select Quick Volume Raid Setup from the main menu all possible RAID level will Main Menu be displayed on the screen Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Functi Physical Drives Raid System Func Ethernet Configurd View System Eve Clear Event Buffe Hardware Monitor System informatioj Total 5 Drives Raid 0 Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Raid 6 Spare If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the
60. ackplane enclosure This can reduce the number of activity LED and or fault LED cables The C interface can also cascade to another SAS SATA backplane enclosure for the additional channel status display m sa E B zzz em LCD I2C o oe e Dm o OF 9 F Module Connector ETIN LED iss LED ELLE Kak iel Ga o Num o o ER o ak o 1 Figure 2 15 Activity Fault LED I C connector connected between SAS RAID Controller amp 4 SATA HDD backplane 33 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 34 The following picture and table is the I C signal name description for LCD amp fault activity LED SV LCD 12C INT ACS 12C INT HEADER 4X D2A4n pin Description PIN Description EEKE LCD Module Interrupt Protect Key LCD Module Serial Data 6 Fault Activity Clock Fault Activity Serial Data 8 LCD Module Clock C Global Indicator Connector If the system will use only a single global indicator attach the LED to the two pins of the Global Activity Cache Write Pending connec tor The Global Fault pin pair connector is the overall fault signal This signal will light up in any disk drive failure The following diagrams show the connector and pin locations Global Fault Activity Individual Fault LED Cache Write Pending LED Connector s coinage siae EIER B B LCD 2C Module Connector i D Figure 2 16 ARC 1680ix 8 l Global Indicator Connector for d computer
61. aid Set sessseseeeseen nennen 49 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set sss enne 50 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set sesssesseeeseen nennen nnns 51 MIGKFALING RM 52 3 7 2 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set senses eneen 52 3 7 2 5 Create Hot Spare usecess esent eoe eee gives Eae ER EY 53 3 7 2 6 Delete Hot Spare uus snrnne ennen nennen 53 3 7 2 7 Raid Set Information arenevenen renee enen nennen 54 3 7 3 Volume Set Function sssssessessserserrsrrsrnsennessesnorrnrrnennan 54 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 56 Vol me Name nes ene exer ey nadam dee eek 57 e Raid Level sssssseessessseeee nnnm mena nean nean aa nna seen nnn 58 Capacity annava FEAR AY REY deert KATAR moetten 58 e Stripe SIZE s n 59 SCSI ID uses suuaa aar OD eee varende en 60 SCS LUN EN 61 Cache Mode ite weerden denten Y EY Eee 61 Tag QUEUING ete rrr RR rec Ex xr epPa XE x a gage Ege 62 3 7 3 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 62 3 7 3 3 Delete Volume Set seeeseeesee eene 63 3 7 3 4 Modify Volume Set ssesseeeeeee nennen 64 3 7 3 6 Stop Volume Set Check aaan eene renee enen nnen 67 3 7 3 7 Display Volume Set Info sv anvene venen eenen eenen 67 3 7 4 Physical Drives ussen eneeneeenenn nennen enen venen eenn enn 67 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information ess eene nnne 68 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk
62. al time clock The time information is the relative time from the system time setting The maximum event no is 256 per controller 130 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION A AK ae Lg END MRE b ER 3 Jechnology 6 8 7 Generate Test Event Use this feature is generate events for testing purposes a AR vs um Areca Technology Corporation 6 8 8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information A AR X en Areca Technolog poration hibet A M bed emmer 131 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 132 6 8 9 Modify Password To set or change the SAS RAID controller password select Sys tem Controls from the menu and click on the Modify Password link The Modify System Password screen appears The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The password option allows user to set or clear the SAS RAID controller s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the SAS RAID controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the SAS RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The SAS RAID controller will automatically go back to the initial screen when it does not re ceive any command in ten seconds To disable the password leave the fields blank Once the user confirms the operation and clicks the
63. alled and operational in your system For the SNMP extension agent installation for Linux procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt packages Linux SNMP Readme or download from areca com tw SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD You must have administrative level permission to install SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID hard ware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system For the SNMP extension agent installation for FreeBSD procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt packages FreeBSD SNMP Readme or download from http www areca com tw APPENDIX Appendix D Event Notification Configurations The controller classifies disk array events into four levels depending on their severity These include level 1 Urgent level 2 Serious level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notification events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator The following lists sample events for each level A Device Event Device Inserted Warning HDD reading error Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Device Removed Reading Error Writing Error Warning HDD writing error K
64. and Password The RAID controller default User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 After entering the user name and password press Enter key to access the McRAID storage manager WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Linux FreeBSD Solaris Mac Local Administration To configure the internal SAS RAID controller You need to know its IP address You can find the IP address assigned by the Archttp proxy server installation Binding IP X X X X and controller listen port 1 Launch your McRAID storage manager by entering http Computer IP Address Port Number in the web browser 2 When connection is established the System Login screen appears The SAS RAID controller default User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager Through Ether net Port Out of Band Areca now offers an alternative means of communication for the PCIe RAID controller Web browser based McRAID storage manager program User can access the built in configuration without needing system starting up running the ArcHttp proxy sever The web browser based McRAID storage manager pro gram is an HTML based application which utilizes the browser installed on your remote system To ensure proper communications between the PCIe RAID con troller and web browser based McRAID storage manager Please connect the RAID controller LAN port to any LAN switch port The controller has
65. are marked those blocks are not used again This is criti cal and important because a bad disk block can prevent a disk rebuild from completing We strongly recommend that you run consistency checks on a regular basis at least once per week Note that consistency checks degrade performance so you should run them when the system load can tolerate it Data Protection e Battery Backup The SAS RAID controllers are armed with a Battery Backup Mod ule BBM While a Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS protects most servers from power fluctuations or failures a BBM provides an additional level of protection In the event of a power failure a BBM supplies power to retain data in the SAS RAID controller s cache thereby permitting any potentially dirty data in the cache to be flushed out to secondary storage when power is restored The batteries in the BBM are recharged continuously through a trickle charging process whenever the system power is on The pm t 161 APPENDIX 162 batteries protect data in a failed server for up to three or four days depending on the size of the memory module Under nor mal operating conditions the batteries last for three years before replacement is necessary e Recovery ROM The SAS RAID controller firmware is stored on the flash ROM and is executed by the I O processor The firmware can also be up dated through the SAS RAID controllers PCIe
66. ate Raid Set Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 6 Ethernet Configuration Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configura tion It is not necessary to create reserved disk space on any hard disk for the Ethernet port and HTTP service to function these functions are built into the controller firmware move the cursor bar to the main menu Ethernet Configuration Function item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 6 1 DHCP Function DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol allows network ad ministrators centrally manage and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol addresses on a computer network When using the TCP IP protocol Internet protocol it is necessary for a computer to have a unique IP address in order to communi cate to other computer systems Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addre
67. ault address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassign the static IP address of the controller Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functi Volume Set Ful Ethernet Configuration Physical Drives DHCP Function Enable Bc ES EUN Local IP Address Ee 168 001 100 Ethernet Config mn c rr rt Number d View System E cL D CE E Edit The Local IP Address en pene SMTP Port Number 2 ardware Moni EtherNet Address i Cosas E2168 001 100 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 6 3 HTTP Port Number To manually configure the HTTP Port Number of the controller move the cursor bar to HTTP Port Number item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID con troller Then You can reassign the default HTTP Port Number of the controller Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functipa Volume Set Fu Ethernet Configuration Physical Drives DHCP Function Enable Raid SystemFY Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 Ethernet Configf HTTP Port Number 80 Mew Systeme Telent Port Number Edit The HTTP Port Number SEHE SMTP Port Number us SEITE Hardware Moni EtherNet Address System informa o Br 3 7 6 4 Telent Port Number To manually configure the Telent Port Number of the control ler move the cursor bar to Telent Port Number item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassign the default Telent Port Number o
68. case HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 6 Summary of the installation The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for SAS RAID controllers These procedures includes hardware installa tion the creation and configuration of a RAID volume through the McBIOS McRAID manager OS installation and installation of SAS RAID controller software The software components configure and monitor the SAS RAID controllers as following table Configuration Utility Operating System supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Vista Via Archttp proxy server Linux FreeBSD Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin Portal to Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Vista scan for multiple RAID units in the net work via ArcHttp proxy server SNMP Manager Console Integration Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Vista Linux FreeBSD Solaris and Mac Launch McRAID Storage Manager See Chapter 6 Create Bootable RAID Volume Install OS Install gt using McBIOS gt vol ard ArcHttp Proxy RAID Manager eere es Server See Chapter 2 See Chapter 3 See Chapter 4 See Chapter 5 SNMP Management Console Install SAP Monitor See Appendix C See Utility Integration McRAID Storage Manager Before launching the firmware embedded web server McRAID storage manager through the PCIe bus you need first to install the ArcHttp proxy server on your server system If you need additional
69. ce Assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SAS controllers treat each LUN like a SAS disk 6 6 2 Create Raid30 50 60 Volume Set 30 50 60 To create 30 50 60 volume set from RAID set group move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Raid30 50 60 link The Select The Raid Set To Create Volume On It screen will show all RAID set number Tick on the RAID set numbers same disk No per RAID set that you want to cre ate and then click on the Submit button ee 117 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The new create volume set attribute allows user to select the Volume Name RAID Level Capacity Greater Two TB Volume Support Initialization Mode Strip Size Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun Please refer to above section for details description of each item A A ee Wr P AUI technology Corporat RAID level 30 50 and 60 can support up to eight sub volumes but it can not support expansion and migration 6 6 3 Delete Volume Set To delete a volume from RAID set move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Delete Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Delete screen will show all RAID set numbers Click a RAID set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Submit button to show all volume set items in the selected RAID set Click a volume set number and the Confirm
70. che on the SAS RAID controller and provides power to the cache memory if it contains data not yet written to the hard drives when power failure occurs BBM Components SAS RAID Controller uu C BBM s Connector Battery Connector 4 Status of BBM ee External RAID Controller e i1v8 02192d8V gt Ji BBM s Connector Status of BBM e D13 Green light when BBM activated e D14 Red light when BBM charging e D15 Green light when BBM normal Installation 1 Make sure all power to the system is disconnected 2 Connector J2 is available for the optional battery backup module Connect the BBM cable to the 12 pin battery connector on the controller 3 Integrators may provide pre drilled holes in their cabinet for securing the BBM using its three mounting positions 4 Low profile bracket also provided 139 APPENDIX PCIe x8 Battery Backup Capacity Battery backup capacity is defined as the maximum duration of a power failure for which data in the cache memory can be maintained by the battery The BBM s backup capacity varied with the memory chips that installed on the SAS RAID controller Operation 1 Battery conditioning is automatic There are no manual pro cedures for battery conditioning or preconditioning to be per formed by the user 2 In order to make sure of all the capacity is available for your battery cells allow the battery cell to be fully charged
71. d Volume failure Failed Volume Urgent Failed volume revived Revived Abort Warning Initialization been abort Initialization abort Rebuing Warning rebulangevores abort Migration Wwerning gration stores abort checking Werning Party check abonea Stop intatzation warning risana stopped stop Rebuiing warnne nebuiina stoped Stop migration wamne gration stopped stop checking warning Party checicstoeee L 150 APPENDIX C RAID Set Event Create RaidSet New RAID set created Delete RaidSet Raidset deleted Expand RaidSet Raidset expanded Rebuild RaidSet Raidset rebuilding RaidSet Urgent Raidset degraded Replace HDD Degraded D Hardware Monitor Event DRAM 1 Bit ECC DRAM 1 Bit ECC error Check DRAM DRAM Fatal Urgent DRAM fatal error Check the DRAM module and Error encountered replace with new one if required Controller Over Abnormally high Check air flow and cooling fan of Temperature temperature detected the enclosure and contact us on controller over 60 degree Hdd Over Abnormally high Check air flow and cooling fan of Temperature temperature detected theenclosure on Hdd over 55 degree Fan Failed Urgent Cooling Fan failure Check cooling fan of the or speed below enclosure and replace with a new 1700RPM one if required Controller Serious Controller Temp temperature back Recov
72. d background tasks appropriately For 159 APPENDIX high array performance specify an Ultra Low value Like volume initialization after a volume rebuilds it does not require a sys tem reboot High Reliability e Hard Drive Failure Prediction In an effort to help users avoid data loss disk manufacturers are now incorporating logic into their drives that acts as an early warning system for pending drive problems This system is called SMART The disk integrated controller works with multiple sensors to monitor various aspects of the drive s performance determines from this information if the drive is behaving normally or not and makes available status information to SAS RAID controller firmware that probes the drive and look at it The SMART can often predict a problem before failure occurs The controllers will recognize a SMART error code and notify the administer of an impending hard drive failure e Auto Reassign Sector Under normal operation even initially defect free drive media can develop defects This is a common phenomenon The bit density and rotational speed of disks is increasing every year and so are the potential of problems Usually a drive can internally remap bad sectors without external help using cyclic redundancy check CRC checksums stored at the end of each sector SAS RAID controller drives perform automatic defect re assign ment for both read and write errors Writes are always completed i
73. d format dd if2 image file of destination dd if driver img ofz dev fdO 4d When the operation is complete the following messages are shown 2880 40 records in 2880 40 records out 1474560 bytes 1 5 MB copied 97 5903 seconds 15 1 kB s The driver diskette is made now Proceed to the following instruction for installation procedures 87 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows The SAS RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista The SAS RAID controllers support SCSI Miniport and StorPort Drivers for Windows Server 2003 Vista 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 2003 Vista The Storport driver is new to Windows Server 2003 XP 64 Vista Storport implements a new architecture designed for better per formance with RAID systems and in Storage Area Network SAN environments Storport delivers higher I O throughput enhanced manageability and an improved miniport interface Storport better utilizes faster adapters through the use of reduced Delay Procedure Call DPC and improved queue management 4 2 2 Install Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista on a SAS SATA RAID Volume The following instructions explain how to install the SAS RAID controller device driver For completed details on installing Win dows see the Windows User s Manual 4 2 2 1 Installation Procedures The following procedures detail installing the SAS RAID control ler driver while installing Windows 2000
74. d the volume set units initialized before they are ready to use The user interface for these tasks can be accessed through the built in configuration that resides in the controller s firmware It provides complete control and management of the controller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software In addition a software utility to configure the SAS RAID is provided on the software CD delivered with SAS RAID controller This software CD contains the software utility that can monitor test and support the SAS RAID controller The software utility and McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SAS RAID controller via ArcHttp proxy server interface The following table outlines their functions Configuration Utility Operating System supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista Linux Free Via Archttp proxy server BSD Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin portal to Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista scan for multiple RAID units in the net work Via ArcHttp Proxy Server The HTTP management software Archttp runs as a service or dae mon and have it automatically start the proxy for all controllers found This way the controller can be managed remotely without having to sign in the server The HTTP management software Archttp also has integrated the email notification and SNMP extension agent The email notification can be configured in local or
75. displayed in the screen 4 The new create volume set attribute allows user to select the Volume Name RAID level Capacity Strip Size SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing Quick Volume Raid Setpa Volume Creation Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 aid Leve E lume Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 Stopvolum SCSI ID 70 SCSI LUN Es Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 56 BIOS CONFIGURATION 5 After completed the modification of the volume set press the Esc key to confirm it An Initialization Mode screen ap pears eSelect Foreground Faster Completion for faster initializa tion of the selected volume set e Select Background Instant Available for normal initializa tion of the selected volume set e Select No Init To Rescue Volume for no initialization of the selected volume Volume Creation BAE Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level z5 Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K cu EEL SCSI ID Serj MON Foreground Faster Completion Display Vd Cache Mod Background Instant Available Tag Queui No Init To Rescue Volume 6 Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create additional volume sets 7 The initialization percentage of volume set will be displayed at the button line e Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as ARC 1680 VOL You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed t
76. e volume set from the list to be changed press the Enter key to modify it As shown volume information can be modified at this screen Choose this option to display the properties of the selected volume set But user can only modify the last volume set capacity Main Menu Volume Set f Volume Modification Volume Set Name Volume Set 00 Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Volume Capacity 160 1GB Volume State Migration SCSI CH ID Lun 0 0 0 RAID Level 6 Stripe Size 64K ATOWATE mommo Member Disk 24 System Information Cache Attribute Write Back BET Ke nue Enabled BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 4 1 Volume Growth Use Expand RAID Set function to add disk to a RAID set The additional capacity can be used to enlarge the last volume set size or to create another volume set The Modify Volume Set function can support the Volume Modification function To expand the last volume set capacity move the cursor bar to the Capacity item and entry the capacity size When finished the above action press the ESC key and select the Yes option to complete the action The last volume set starts to expand its capacity To expand an existing volume noticed e Only the last volume can expand capacity e When expand volume capacity you can t modify stripe size or modify RAID revel simultaneously e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size e After volume expansion the volume capacity
77. e Raid Set Capacity Truncation Volume Set Functio Physical Drives Raid System Functi Ethernet Configurat View System Event Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 5 5 Background Task Priority The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The SAS RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild prior ity UltraLow Low Normal High to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper i Alert Beeper Setting Change Password Ultral ow 5 JBOD RAID Function Low 2076 Background Task Priority ESI HU SATA NCQ Support High 80 HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 6 SATA NCQ Support The controller supports both SAS and SATA disk drives The SATA NCQ allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynami cally rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary track ing mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the ed 74 BIOS CONFIGURATION workload The SAS RAID controller allows the user to select the SATA NCQ support Enabled or Disabled Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Quick Volumd Alert Beeper Setting
78. e action The last volume set starts to expand its capacity To expand an existing volume noticed e Only the last volume can expand capacity e When expand volume capacity you can t modify stripe size or modify RAID revel simultaneously enl 119 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e You can expand volume capacity but can t reduce volume capacity size e After volume expansion the volume capacity can t be decreased For greater 2TB expansion e If your system installed in the volume don t expand the volume capacity greater 2TB currently OS can t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device e Expand over 2TB used LBA64 mode Please make sure your OS supports LBA64 before expand it 6 6 4 2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another when a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a RAID set Migration state is displayed in the volume state area of the Volume Set Information screen A AR v 13 Tecl loq rporation us ke eca Te n logy Corporatio ote If the volume is RAID level 30 50 or 60 you can not change the volume to another RAID level If the volume is RAID level 0 1 10 3 5 or 6 you can not change the volume to RAID level 30 50 or 60 120 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 5 Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a RAID set A AR Vel Wr p A 1 Click on the Check Vo
79. e default password is set to 0000 this password can be modified by selecting Change Password in the Raid System Function section 43 BIOS CONFIGURATION Description Quick Volume Raid Setup Create a default configuration based on the number of physical disk installed Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Create a customized RAID set Create a customized volume set Physical Drives View individual disk information Raid System Function Setup the RAID system configuration Ethernet Configuration Ethernet LAN setting View System Events Record all system events in the buffer Clear Event Buffer Clear all information in the event buffer Hardware Monitor Show the hardware system environment status System Information View the controller system information This password option allows user to set or clear the RAID control ler s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the RAID controller by pro viding the correct password The password is used to protect the internal RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will prompt for the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen The RAID controller will automatically return to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in twenty seconds 3 7 1 Quick Volume RAID Setup Quick Volume RAID Setup is the fastest way to prepare a RAID set and volume set It requires only
80. ear as ARC 1680 VOL You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit e Volume Raid Level Set the RAID level for the volume set Highlight the desired RAID Level and press Enter key The available RAID levels for the current volume set are displayed Select a RAID level and press Enter key to confirm e Capacity The maximum volume size is the default initial setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your application e Greater Two TB Volume Support If volume capacity will exceed Two TB controller will show the Greater Two TB Volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support option No and 64bit LBA For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip e Initialization Mode Press Enter key to define Background Initialization Fore ground Initialization or No Init To Rescue Volume When Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete When Foreground Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses There is no initialization happed when you select No Init option No Init is for customer to rescue volume wi
81. ecified RAID set will reside on all the physical disks in the RAID set Thus each volume set on the RAID set will have its 114 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION data spread evenly across all the disks in the RAID set The following is the volume set features for the SAS RAID control ler 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same RAID set 2 Up to 128 volume sets can be created in a RAID set 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to two TB because the controller is capable of 64 bit LBA mode However the operating system itself may not be capable of addressing more than two TB See Areca website ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Docu ments Manual_Spec Over2TB_050721 ZIP file for details 6 6 1 Create Volume Set 0 1 10 3 5 6 To create volume set from RAID set system move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Create Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Create On It screen will show all RAID set number Tick on a RAID set number that you want to create and then click on the Submit button The new create volume set attribute allows user to select the Volume Name RAID Level Capacity Greater Two TB Volume Support Initialization Mode Strip Size Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun ype 115 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Volume Name The default volume name will always app
82. edistributed evenly across all the disks A contigu ous block of unused capacity is made available on the RAID set The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets A disk to be added to a RAID set must be in normal mode not failed free not spare in a RAID set or passed through to host and must have at least the same capacity as the smallest disk capacity already in the RAID set Capacity expansion is only permitted to proceed if all volumes on the RAID set are in the normal status During the expansion process the volume sets being expanded can be accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAID level 1 10 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set changes from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the expansion is completed the volume set would then transition to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further changes to the rebuilding state The expansion process is illustrated as following figure Before Array Expansion Free Space 40GB Volume 1 40GB D Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 120GB The SAS RAID controller redistributes the original volume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance configuration The unused capacity on the expand RAID set can then be used to create an additional volume
83. eep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Warning HDD ECC error Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Warning HDD change ATA Check HDD connection mode Warning HDD time out Keep Watching HDD status may be it caused by noise or HDD unstable Urgent HDD failure Replace HDD PCI Parity Error Serious PCI parity error If only happen once it may be caused by noise If always happen please check power supply or contact to us Urgent HDD SMART failure Replace HDD 149 ATA Ecc Error Change ATA Mode Time Out Error Device Failed Device Failed SMART APPENDIX PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Created created PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Modified modified PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Deleted deleted B Volume Event event uever Meaning JActon Start Initialize Volume initialization has started Po Start Rebuilding Volume rebuilding has started P E Start Migrating Volume migration has started as Start Checking Volume parity checking has started P Complete Init Volume initialization completed Po Complete Rebuild Volume rebuilding completed i gt Complete Migrate Volume migration completed Complete Check Volume parity checking completed re Create Volume New volume created Po Delete Volume Volume deleted i Modify Volume Volume modified Volume Degraded Volume degraded Replace HDD Volume Faile
84. elected Capac 2400 0GB BET KONE Enabled 58 BIOS CONFIGURATION If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater Two TB Volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Quick Volume Raid Setup No Use 64bit LBA Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare System informatiq Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 Raid 6 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e LBA 64 This option uses 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB Such as Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x or latter For more details please download pdf file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip e Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of segment written to each disk in a RAID O 1 10 5 6 50 or 60 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB 59 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup actos Volume Creation Volume Set Fu OE Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 roaie Vo ume Raid Level 5 Pica Raid30 q Capacity 2400 0GB foe Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 l SCSI ID O e SCSI LUN 510 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled Display Volumd 60 e SCSI Channel The SAS
85. embedded the TCP IP amp Web Browser based RAID manager in the firmware User can remote manage the RAID controller without adding any user specific software plat form independent via standard web browsers directly connected 7 sec o xu 1J Cep3X Ls a 107 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION to the 10 100 RJ45 LAN port To configure RAID controller on a remote machine you need to know its IP address The IP address will default show in McBIOS RAID manager of Ethernet Configuration or System Informa tion option Launch your firmware embedded TCP IP amp web browser based McRAID storage manager by entering http IP Address in the web browser ote You can find controller Ethernet port IP address in McBIOS RAID manager System Information option 6 2 SAS RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager The McRAID storage manager initial start up screen displays the current configuration of your SAS RAID controller It displays the Raid Set List Volume Set List and Physical Disk List The RAID set information volume set information and drive informa tion can also be viewed by clicking on the RAID Set Hierarchy screen The current configuration can also be viewed by clicking on RAID Set Hierarchy in the main menu A4 vu T Areca Technology Corporatio A eca Tec h ogy Co poration To display RAID set information move the mouse cursor to the desired RAID set number then click it The RAID set
86. environments The McRAID storage man ager allows local and remote to create and modify RAID set vol ume set and monitor RAID status from standard web browser The Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility can support one applica tion to scan multiple RAID units in the network The Disk Stress Test DST utility kicks out disks meeting marginal spec before the RAID unit is actually put on line for real business 1 2 Features Adapter Architecture e Intel IOP348 series I O processor with SAS controller e PCIe x8 Link host interface e 256MB on board DDR2 533 SDRAM with ECC ARC 1680LP 1680i 1680x 1680ix 8 e One 240 pin DDR2 533 DIMM socket with default 512MB of SDRAM with ECC protection upgrade to 2GB ARC 1680ix 12 16 24 e Write through or write back cache support Support up to 4 8 12 16 24 internal and 4 8 external SAS ports Multi adapter support for large storage requirements BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance BIOS PnP plug and play and BBS BIOS boot specification support Intel RAID engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function NVRAM for RAID configuration amp transaction log Redundant flash image for adapter availability Battery Backup Module BBM ready Option RoHS Compliant 12 INTRODUCTION RAID Features e RAID level 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD e Multiple RAID selection e Online array roaming e Online RAID level stripe size migration e Online capacity e
87. er logi cal of fault activity header The signal for each pin is cathode side The following diagrams and descriptions describe each type of con nector Open Collector Low Open Collector Low A cable for the global indicator comes with your computer system Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them A Individual Fault LED Indicator Connector Most of the backplane has supported the HDD activity from the HDD The SAS RAID controller also provides the fault activity for fault LED Connect the cables for the drive fault LEDs between the backplane of the cage and the respective connector on the SAS RAID controller The following table is the fault LED signal behavior HARDWARE INSTALLATION Fault LED When the fault LED is solid When the fault LED is slow blinking illuminated there is no disk 2 times sec that disk drive has present When the fault LED failed and should be hot swapped is off then disk is present immediately When the activity and status is normal LED is illuminated and fault LED is fast blinking 10 times sec there is rebuilding activity on that disk drive Global Fault Activity Individual Fault LED Cache Write Pending LED Connector B gs TA d Figure 2 14 ARC 1680ix 8 Ecot dad Module Connector Individual LED Indicators con nector B IC Connector You can also connect the IC interface to a proprietary SAS SATA b
88. er to the Linux complete the following ac tions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager configuration utility Using the McBIOS RAID man ager to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chap ter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a com piled driver available from Areca you can copy the source from the SAS software CD or download the source from the Areca website and compile a new driver Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are includ ed on the shipped CD You can download updated versions of com piled and tested drivers for RedHat or SuSE Linux from the Areca web site at http www areca com tw Included in these downloads is the Linux driver source which can be used to compile the updat 93 DRIVER INSTALLATION ed version driver for RedHat SuSE and other versions of Linux Please refer to the readme txt file on the included Areca CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver to FreeBSD Before installing the SAS RAID driver to FreeBSD complete following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the
89. ered tonormal level Hdd Temp Recovered On Power On With Warning RAID power on with Battery Backup battery backuped Incomplete Serious Some RAID set Check disk information to find out RAID member disks which channel missing Discovered missing before power on 151 APPENDIX Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In a API login detected Lost Rebuilding Urgent Some rebuilding Reinserted the missing member MigrationLBA migration raidset disk back controller will member disks continued the incompleted missing before power rebuilding migration on 152 APPENDIX Appendix E RAID Concept RAID Set A RAID set is a group of disks connected to a SAS RAID control ler A RAID set contains one or more volume sets The RAID set itself does not define the RAID level 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 etc the RAID level is defined within each volume set Therefore volume sets are contained within RAID sets and RAID Level is de fined within the volume set If physical disks of different capaci ties are grouped together in a RAID set then the capacity of the smallest disk will become the effective capacity of all the disks in the RAID set Volume Set Each volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device in other words a single large virtual hard disk A volume set will use a specific RAID level which will require one or mo
90. es you have completed the Areca SNMP extension agent setup 6 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box of the installation program is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation Starting SNMP Trap Notification Configurations To start SNMP Trap Notification Configruations There have two methods First double click on the Areca RAID Controller Second you may also use the Taskbar Start programs Areca Technology Corp ArcSnmpConf menus shown below 146 APPENDIX SNMP Community Configurations Please refer to the community name in this appendix SNMP Trap Notification Configurations The Community Name should be the same as firmware embedded SNMP Community The SNMP Trap Notification Configurations include level 1 Serious level 2 Error level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notification events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux You must have administrative level permission to install SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID hard 147 APPENDIX 148 ware and Linux are inst
91. et browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required 136 APPENDIX Controller with onboard LAN port you can directly plug an Ethernet cable to the controller LAN port then enter the McBIOS RAID manager to configure the network setting After network setting configured and saved you can find the current IP address in the McBIOS RAID manager System Information page From a remote pc you can directly open a web browser and enter the IP address Then enter user name and password to login and start your management You can find the firmware update feature from the Raid system Console on the System Controls option Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility Areca now offers an alternative means communication for the SAS RAID controller Upgrade the all files BIOS BOOT FIRM MBRO and Transport without necessary system starting up to running the ArcHttp proxy server The nflash utility program is a DOS application which runs in the DOS operating system Be sure of ensuring properly to communicate between SAS RAID controller and nflash DOS utility Please make a bootable DOS floppy diskette or UBS devices from other Windows operating system and boot up the system from those bootable devices e Starting the nflash Utility You do not need to short any jumper cap on running nflash utility The nflash utility provides an on line table of contents brief descriptions of the help sub commands The nflash utility put
92. ever Configuration Mail Address Configuration and Event Notification Configuration AR ve belinda ATS ology Corporation 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration To configure the RAID controller SNMP function click on the Sys tem Controls link The System Controls menu will show avail able items Select the SNMP Configuration item This function can only set via web based configuration The firmware SNMP agent manager monitors all system events and the SNMP function becomes functional with no agent software required WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP Trap IP Address e SNMP System Configurations About community please refer to Appendix C of SNMP commu nity name The system Contact Name and Location that will be shown in the outgoing SNMP trap e SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Please refer to Appendix E of Event Notification Configurations 6 8 5 NTP Configuration The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to Coordinated Universal Time UTC via a Global Positioning Service GPS receiver for example A AR ye i ty Areca Technology Corporatior nes md Ll E ae rn 129 WEB BROWSER BASED
93. f a location to be written is found to be defective the drive will automatically relocate that write command to a new location and map out the defective location If there is a recoverable read error the correct data will be transferred to the host and that location will be tested by the drive to be certain the location is not defective If it is found to have a defect data will be automatically relocated and the defective location is mapped out to prevent future write attempts 160 APPENDIX In the event of an unrecoverable read error the error will be re ported to the host and the location will be flagged as being po tentially defective A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location prove to have a defect Auto Reassign Sector does not affect disk subsystem performance because it runs as a background task Auto Reassign Sector discontinues when the operating system makes a request e Consistency Check A consistency check is a process that verifies the integrity of re dundant data To verify RAID 3 5 6 30 50 or 60 redundancy a consistency check reads all associated data blocks computes par ity reads parity and verifies that the computed parity matches the read parity Consistency checks are very important because they detect and correct parity errors or bad disk blocks in the drive A consistency check forces every block on a volume to be read and any bad blocks
94. f the controller Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functip Volume Set Fu Ethernet Configuration Physical Drives DHCP Function Enable Raid System F F Ethemet Config Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 HTTP Port Number mE View System E Telent Port Number Edit The Telent Port Number Clear Event Bu SMTP Port Numbe Hardware Moni EtherNet Address LO AG System informa BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 6 5 SMTP Port Number To manually configure the SMTP Port Number of the control ler move the cursor bar to the main menu Ethernet Configu ration function item and then press Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to SMTP Port Number item then press Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassign the default SMTP Port Number of the controller Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Functie Volume Set Fu Ethernet Configuration Physical Drives DHCP Function Enable Raid System PU Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 Ethernet Config AIRS Tm NT emg VAES Telent Port Numbe 5 Clear Event Buff SMTP Port Number Edit The SMTP Port Number Hardware Moni EtherNet Address System informal Bjoo25 3 7 6 6 Ethernet Address Each Ethernet port has its unique Mac address which is also factory assigned Usually Ethernet address is used to uniquely identify a port in the Ethernet network Quick Volume Raid Se Raid Set Function E
95. formation move the cursor bar to the main menu and click the Hardware Monitor link The Controller H W Monitor screen appears The Controller H W Monitor provides the CPU temperature con troller temperature voltage and fan speed I O Processor fan of the SAS RAID controller Controller H W Monitor Quick Volume Raid S4 Raid Set Function CPU Temperature 0 Volume Set Function Controller Temp 0 Physical Drives CPU Fan 0 RPM Raid System Functio 12V 0 000 Ethernet Configuratiof 5V 0 000 View System Events 3 3V 0 000 Clear Event Buffer DDR II 1 8V 1 840V Hardware Monitor PCI E 1 8V 1 840 V System information CPU 1 8V 1 840 V CPU 1 2V 1 200 V DDR II 0 9 0 896V ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 10 System Information Choose this option to display controller name firmware version BOOT ROM version SAS firmware version serial number main processor CPU instruction cache and data cache size system memory and current IP address To check the system informa tion move the cursor bar to System Information item then press Enter key All relevant controller information will be dis played 84 BIOS CONFIGURATION The System Informatio Quick Volume Raid Controller Name ARC 1680 Raid Set Function Firmware Version V1 43 2007 5 15 Volume Set Functiqd BOOT ROM Version V1 43 2007 5 15 Physical Drives SAS Firmware Version 2 1 2 4
96. g Intel new high perfor mance I O Processor a DDR2 533 memory architecture and high performance PCIe x8 Link host interface bus interconnection The low profile controllers by default support on board 256MB of ECC DDR2 533 SDRAM memory The ARC 1680ix 12 16 24 controllers each include one DIMM socket with default 512MB of ECC DDR2 533 SDRAM with optional battery backup module upgrade to 2GB 10 INTRODUCTION The test result is against overall performance compared to other SAS RAID controllers The powerful Intel new I O processors inte grated 8 SAS ports on chip delivers high performance for servers and workstations Unsurpassed Data Availability As storage capacities continue to rapidly increase users need greater level of disk drive fault tolerance which can be implement ed without doubling the investment in disk drives The RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data The SAS RAID controllers with extreme performance RAID 6 engine installed provide the highest RAID 6 feature to meet this require ment The controller can concurrently compute two parity blocks and get very similar RAID 5 performance The SAS RAID controllers can also provide RAID levels O 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD for maximum configuration flexibility Its high data availability and protection derives from the following capabilities Online RA
97. gh Disk Pass through disk refers to a drive that is not controlled by the RAID firmware and thus can not be a part of a RAID volume The drive is available to the operating system as an individual disk 168 APPENDIX Summary of RAID Levels RAID subsystem supports RAID Level 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 and 60 The following table provides a summary of RAID levels RAID Level Features and Performance Description Min Disks Data requirement Reliability Also known as stripping Data distributed across multiple drives in the array There is no data protec tion Also known as mirroring All data replicated on N Separated disks N is almost always 2 This is a high availability Solution but due to the 100 duplication it is also a costly solution Also known Block Interleaved Parity Data and parity information is sub divided and distributed across all disks Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk Also known Bit Interleaved Parity Data and parity information is sub divided and distributed across all disk Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk Also known Block Interleaved Distrib uted Parity Data and parity information is sub divided and distributed across all disk Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capac
98. he 15 characters limit Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Raid Level o Creat Raid30 4 Capacity 2400 0GB Delete Volume Stripe Size 64K Modify Volume SCSI Channel 0 Edit The Volume Name SCSI JN Enh Tag Queuing BIOS CONFIGURATION e Raid Level Set the RAID level for the volume set Highlight RAID Level and press the Enter key The available RAID levels for the current volume set are displayed Select a RAID level and press the Enter key to confirm Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Creation Volume Set Function Physical Drives Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Raid System Functio Raid Level Ethernet Configuratiof Capacity 2400 98 View System Events Stripe Size 64K Clear Event Buffer SCSI Channel 0 0 Hardware Monitor SCSI ID 0 01 System information SCSI LUN zu 9 Cache Mode vve NE NN 6 BET Ke Ig Enabl e Capacity The maximum available volume size is the default value for the first setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your ap plication The capacity value can be increased or decreased by the UP and DOWN arrow keys The capacity of each volume set must be less than or equal to the total capacity of the RAID set on which it resides Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Creation ica Volume Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Create Vol SCIT WS ib Capacity 2400 0GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Chai SCSI ID Available Capacity 2400 0GB SESER S
99. her com puter system it needs a unique IP address Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to eliminate the work necessary to administer a large IP network To configure the RAID controller Ethernet port move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the Ethernet Configuration item then press Enter key to select the desired function A BR A4 hk fin L iz Areca Technology Corporation mak dics Par Operam 127 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 128 6 8 3 Alert By Mail Configuration To configure the RAID controller e mail function move the cur sor bar to the main menu and click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the Alert By Mail Configuration item then select the desired function This function can only be set via web based configuration The firmware contains a SMTP manager monitoring all system events Single or multiple user notifications can be sent via Plain English e mails with no software required Please refer to sec tion 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration of SMTP S
100. i HD Connector 1N 3 Ny P 4 SATA Connector Te Y dd N li ANE AP WSS E i PCle x8 C Min SAS 4i connector Figure 2 8 SAS Cable Connect to HD l sex 5 a K EA Figure 2 9 SAS Cable Connect to Backplane 26 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 7 Install the LED Cable option The preferred I O connector for server backplanes is the Min SAS 4i internal connector This connector has eight signal pins to support four SAS SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive Locate status See SFF 8485 for the specification of the SGPIO bus For backplane without SGPIO supporting Please refer to Section 2 4 LED cables for fault activity LED cable installation LED Management The backplane may contain LEDs to indicate drive status Light from the LEDs could be transmitted to the out side of the server by using light pipes mounted on the SAS drive tray A small microcontroller on the backplane connected via the SGPIO bus to a SAS RAID controller could control the LEDs Activ ity blinking 5 times second and Fault solid illuminated Drive Locate Circuitry The location of a drive may be detected by sensing the voltage level of one of the pre charge pins before and after a drive is installed The following signals define the SGPIO assignments for the Min SAS 4i internal connector SFF 8087 in
101. i static surface such as an unpainted portion of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity 2 3 Installation Use the following instructions below to install a PCIe SAS RAID controller Step 1 Unpack Unpack and remove the PCIe SAS RAID controller from the pack age Inspect it carefully if anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Step 2 Power PC Server Off Turn off computer and remove the AC power cord Remove the system s cover For the instructions please see the computer sys tem documentation Step 3 Check Memory Module Be sure of the cache memory module is present and seated firmly in the DIMM socket DDR2 533 for ARC1680ix 12 16 24 models 23 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 24 Step 4 Install the PCIe SAS RAID Cards To install the SAS RAID controller remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCIe slot Align the gold fingered edge on the card with the selected PCIe slot Press down gently but firmly to ensure that the card is prop erly seated in the slot as shown in Figure 2 6 Then screw the bracket into the computer chassis ARC 1680 series cards require a PCIe x8 slot J Figure 2 6 Insert SAS RAID controller into a PCIe slot Step 5 Mount the Drives You can connect the SAS SATA drives to the controller through direct cable and backplane solutions In the direct connection SAS SATA drives are direc
102. in English e mails The firmware embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required e Create raid set e Expand raid set e Define volume set e Add physical drive e Modify volume set e Modify RAID level stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system function e Update firmware e Designate drives as hot spares 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager With the McRAID storage manager you can locally manage a system containing a SAS RAID controller that has Windows Linux 105 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 106 or more and a supported browser A locally managed system re quires all of the following components e A supported Web browser which should already be installed on the system e Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SAS RAID system Refer to Chapter 5 Archttp Proxy Server Installation e Remote and managed systems must have a TCP IP connection e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local Administration Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server installa tion is essentially the same 1 To start the McRAID storage manager for browser based management selecting Controller 01 PCI and then click the Start button The Enter Network Password dialog screen appears type the User Name
103. information will appear To display volume set information move the mouse cursor to the desired volume set number then click it The volume set Information will display To display drive information move the mouse cursor to the desired physical drive number then click it The drive information will display Ero o M M Y 108 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 3 Main Menu The main menu shows all available functions accessible by clicking on the appropriate link Individual Category Quick Function Create a default configuration which is based on the number of physical disks installed it can modify the volume set Capacity Raid Level and Stripe Size Raid Set Functions Create a customized RAID set Volume Set Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter Physical Drives Create pass through disks and modify the existing pass through drives parameters Also provides the function to identify disk drives blinking fault LED System Controls Setting the RAID system configuration Information Viewing the controller information The Raid Set Hierarchy can be viewed through the Raid Set Hierarchy item 6 4 Quick Function A AR E Tat PEF areca echnology Corporation hema I Im jet Comte Mab vh gt Codec Tha eaten The number of physical drives in the SAS
104. itor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 68 Choose this option from the main menu to select a physical disk and perform the operations listed above Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information When you choose this option the physical disks connected to the SAS RAID controller are listed Move the cursor to the de sired drive and press Enter key to view drive information Model Name ST380013AS Serial Number 5JV944ZF Firmware Rev 3 18 Disk Capacity 80 0 GB PIO Mode Mode 4 Current UDMA SATA150 6 Supported UDMA SATA150 6 Device State RaidSet Member Timeout Count 20 Media Errors pall SMART Read Error Rate 200 51 SMART Spinup Time ATS 421 SMART Reallocation Count 200 140 SMART Seek Error Rate 200 51 SMART Spinup Retries 100 51 SMART Calibration Retries 100 51 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk A pass through disk is not controlled by the SAS RAID controller firmware and thus cannot be a part of a volume set The disk is available directly to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating system is on a disk not controlled by the SAS RAID controller firmware The SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode and Tag Queuing must be specified to create a pass through disk
105. ity in the array Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk No data Protection Single disk failure single disk failure single disk failure single disk failure 169 APPENDIX 170 As RAID level 5 but with additional independently computed redundant information RAID 30 is a combination multiple RAID 3 volume sets with RAID 0 striping RAID 50 is a combination multiple RAID 5 volume sets with RAID 0 striping RAID 60 is a combination multiple RAID 6 volume sets with RAID 0 striping Two disk failure Up to one disk failure in each sub volume Up to one disk failure in each sub volume Up to two disk failure in each sub volume
106. ivate Raid Set Capacity Truncation 77 BIOS CONFIGURATION 78 3 7 5 11 Capacity Truncation Areca RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from different vendors are more likely to be usable as spares for one another Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capac ity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and Disabled Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For exam ple one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Mul tiples Of 10G truncates the number under tens This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For ex ample one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Multiples Of 1G truncates the fractional part This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Prid Truncate Disk Capacity SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Caf To Multiples of 10G Stagger Power on To Multiples of 1G HDD SMART Status H No Truncation Controller Fan Detection Auto Activ
107. ive any command in 20 seconds To set or change the password move the cursor to Raid System Function screen press the Change Password item The Enter New Password screen will appear To disable the password only press Enter key in both the Enter New Password and Re Enter New Password column The ex isting password will be cleared No password checking will occur when entering the main menu Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache it Stagger Power on HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Auto Activate Raid Set Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 4 JBOD RAID Function JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk A group of hard disks in a RAID box are not set up as any type of RAID configuration All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redundancy User needs to delete the RAID set when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function 73 BIOS CONFIGURATION Main M Raid System Function JBOD RAID Function s 7 Mute The Alert Beeper enden Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Auto Activat
108. le re Wan 100 5 4 For Solaris 10 X86 uus senses Ea R AEA nnn 100 5 5 For Mac OS TO X oo ER D exe ERROR a 100 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration nnen eveneens eneen eneen 101 6 Web Browser based Configuration 105 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager rennen enn 105 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local Administration iic eeen venen bone aleen re Pales eee ee daa 106 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager from Linux FreeBSD So laris Mac Local Administration eem 107 e Start up McRAID Storage Manager Through Ethernet Port Out of Band ur ame tenera eer e aet breeds i dao den 107 6 2 SAS RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager 108 Sosa 109 6 4 Quick Futiction iussione ree her E Pe xv YR E ae 109 6 5 Raid Set Functions ansenennneen nennen ennen eneen ennen nnen 110 6 5 1 Create Raid Set uns diiine eenen nennen eneen vennen nnn 110 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set uus enen ennen nennen nnn 111 6 5 3 Expand Raid Set ensen eenen nennen eneen nennen ennen 111 6 5 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set sausen vene eneen 112 6 5 5 Create Hot Spare rcx Rex eden xy ves 113 6 5 6 Delete Hot Spare uss eneen ennenn nennen menn nnn 113 6 5 7 Rescue Raid Sete iei unseren ennen nenne nennen nnn 114 6 5 8 Offline Rald S68E iri eniveo coe e eroe E TY ee ur CR 114 6 6 Volume Set Functions aans eansenneenen eneen emnes 114 6 6 1 Create
109. lect a Drive For Raid Set window is displayed showing the SAS SATA drives connected to the SAS RAID controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur rent RAID set It is recommended that you use drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the RAID set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the RAID set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 10 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 30 requires at least 6 physical drives RAID 50 requires at least 6 physical drives RAID 60 requires at least 8 physical drives After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set press the Enter to confirm the Create Raid Set function An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanu meric characters to define a unique identifier for this new RAID set The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set Press Enter to finish the name editing Press the Enter key when you are finished creating the current RAID
110. llowing items may be needed to assist with installing the SAS RAID controller into an available PCIe expansion slot e Small screwdriver e Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Instructions Use the following safety instructions to help you protect your computer system from potential damage and to ensure your own personal safety High voltages may be found inside computer equipment Before installing any of the hardware in this package or removing the protective covers of any computer equipment turn off power switches and disconnect power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers HARDWARE INSTALLATION e Always wear a grounding strap or work on an ESD protective mat e Before opening the system cover turn off power switches and unplug the power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers Electrostatic Discharge Static electricity can cause serious damage to the electronic com ponents on this SAS RAID controller To avoid damage caused by electrostatic discharge observe the following precautions e Do not remove the SAS RAID controller from its anti static packaging until you are ready to install it into a computer case e Handle the SAS RAID controller by its edges or by the metal mounting brackets at its each end e Before you handle the SAS RAID controller in any way touch a grounded ant
111. lly when a drive fails The SAS RAID controllers automatically and trans parently rebuild failed drives in the background at user definable rebuild rates If a hot spare is not available the failed disk drive must be re placed with a new disk drive so that the data on the failed drive can be automatically rebuilt and so that fault tolerance can be maintained The SAS RAID controllers will automatically restart the system and rebuilding process if the system is shut down or powered off abnormally during a reconstruction procedure condition When a disk is hot swapped although the system is functionally operational the system may no longer be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the removed drive is replaced and the rebuild operation is completed During the automatic rebuild process system activity will contin ue as normal however the system performance and fault toler ance will be affected e Adjustable Rebuild Priority Rebuilding a degraded volume incurs a load on the RAID subsys tem The SAS RAID controllers allow the user to select the rebuild priority to balance volume access and rebuild tasks appropriately The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a background operation such as rebuilding or migrating The SAS RAID controller allows user to choose the task priority Ultra Low 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 to bal ance volume set access an
112. lume Set link 2 Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check Tick on Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity vol ume set check means computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing the results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive The checking percentage can also be viewed by click ing on RAID Set Hierarchy in the main menu 6 6 6 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop the Check Volume Set function A AR ws Me cfle LE Areca Technology Cc 121 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 7 Physical Drive Choose this option to select a physical disk from the main menu and then perform the operations listed below 6 7 1 Create Pass Through Disk To create pass through disk move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the Create Pass Through link The relative setting function screen appears A pass through disk is not con trolled by the SAS RAID controller firmware it cann t be a part of a volume set The disk is available to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operat ing system is on a disk not controlled by the RAID firmware The user can also select the Cache Mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN for this pass through disk A AT V
113. m without creating a new operating system partition You can use the Diskpart exe command line utility included with Windows Server 2003 or the Windows 2000 Resource Kit to ex tend an existing partition into free space in the dynamic disk Third party software vendors have created utilities that can be used to repartition disks without data loss Most of these utilities work offline Partition Magic is one such utility High availability e Global Hot Spares A Global Hot Spare is an unused online available drive which is ready for replacing the failure disk The Global Hot Spare is one of the most important features that SAS RAID controllers provide to deliver a high degree of fault tolerance A Global Hot Spare is a spare physical drive that has been marked as a global hot spare and therefore is not a member of any RAID set If a disk drive used in a volume set fails then the Global Hot Spare will mE P ro e R1 157 APPENDIX automatically take its place and he data previously located on the failed drive is reconstructed on the Global Hot Spare For this feature to work properly the global hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces Global Hot Spares only work with RAID level 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 or 60 volume set You can configure up to three global hot spares with SAS RAID c
114. mand Queuing The detailed description of those parameters can refer to section 3 7 3 1 User can modify the default values in this screen the modification procedures are in section 3 7 3 4 Raid Set 00 1600 0GB 1 Raid Set 01 1600 0GB 1 Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info RAID level 30 50 and 60 can support up to eight sub vol umes RAID set 3 7 3 3 Delete Volume Set To delete volume set from a RAID set move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Delete Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Func tions menu will show all Raid Set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number then press the Enter key to show all volume sets within that RAID set Move the cursor to the volume set number that is to be deleted and press the Enter to delete it 63 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup Creat Volume Set Creat P E Dee Select Volume To Delete i ARC 1680 VOLK 680 VOLZOL Delete Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info 3 7 3 4 Modify Volume Set Use this option to modify volume set configuration To modify volume set values from RAID set system function move the cursor bar to the Modify Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all RAID set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number item then press the Enter key to show all volume set items Select th
115. mber items Move the cursor bar to an RAID set number item and then press the Enter key to show all volume set items Select the volume set to be checked from the list and press En ter to select it After completed the selection the confirmation screen appears press Yes to start the check Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Select Volume To Check Check The Volume Volume Set Function i Check Vc Delete Volum Modify valime Set t Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 6 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop all of the Check Volume Set operations 3 7 3 7 Display Volume Set Info To display volume set information move the cursor bar to the desired volume set number and then press the Enter key The Volume Set Information screen will be shown You can only view the information of this volume set in this screen but can not modify it Main Menu Volume Set Name ARC 1680 VOL 00 Se Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Volume Capacity 1200 0GB ARC 1 REIT UERSIELG Initialize StopVolume SCSI CH ld Lun 0 0 0 RAID Level 25 Stripe Size 64K Block Size 512 Bytes Member Disk 14 Cache Attribute Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 3 7 4 Physical Drives Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Mon
116. n the firm ware for preventing the buzzer warning When using the pas sive heatsink disable the Controller Fan Detection function through this McBIOS RAID manager setting BIOS CONFIGURATION The following screen shot shows how to change the McBIOS RAID manager setting to disable the beeper function This function is not available in the web browser setting i Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority SATA NCQ Support HDD Read Ahead Cacl Stagger Power on Controller Fan Detection HDD SMART Status Pd Controller Fan Dectectic Auto Activate Raid Set Disabled Capacity Truncation Quick Volume R Raid Set Funct Volume Set Fu 3 7 5 10 Auto Activate Raid Set When some of the disk drives are removed in power off state or boot up stage the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State But if a user wants to automatically continue to work while the SAS RAID controller is powered on then user can set the Auto Activate Raid Set option to Enabled The RAID state will change to Degraded Mode while it powers on Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Taf Auto Activate Raid When Power on Een peel HDD Read Ahe Disabled d A E EA Stagger Power Enabled ear Event PU HDD SMART S He Controller Fan Detection Sue pete Auto Act
117. nary Code BIOS BOOT and FIRM before you reboot system Otherwise a mixed firmware package may hang the controller 135 APPENDIX Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager Get the new version firmware for your SAS RAID controller For example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the C drive A AR ve ih L Areca Technology Corporation 1 To upgrade the SAS RAID controller firmware move the mouse cursor to Upgrade Firmware link The Upgrade The Raid System Firmware or Boot Rom screen appears 2 Click Browse Look in the location to which the Firmware upgrade software was downloaded Select the file name and click Open 3 Click Confirm The Operation and press the Submit button 4 The web browser begins to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash ROM 5 After the firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware Has Been Updated Successfully 6 After the new firmware completes downloading find a chance to restart the controller computer for the new firmware to take effect The web browser based McRAID storage manager can be accessed through the In Band PCIe bus or Out of Band LAN port The In Band method uses the ArcHttp proxy server to launch the McRAID storage manager The Out of Band method allows local or remote to access the McRAID storage manager from any standard intern
118. nd start to work 3 7 2 5 Create Hot Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller will result in the screen Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup aid Set Friction Raid Set Function E 1Solt 3 500 1GB ST3500630NS JE 1Solt 4 400 1GB Hitachi HDT725040VLA360 E 1Solt 5 400 14 Creat HotSpare VLA360 JE 1Solt 6 400 ves VLA360 JE 1Sott 7 500 RC JE 1Solt 8 500 14 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 2 6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target hot spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Press the Enter key to select a hot spare disk drive and press Yes in the Delete Hot Spare screen to delete the hot spare 53 BIOS CONFIGURATION Mai nl Mer Oe 4 Raid Set Function Create Raid Set Delete Raid Set Expand Raid Set 3 7 2 7 Raid Set Information To display RAID set information move the cursor bar to the de sired RAID set number then press the Enter key The Raid Set Information will appear You can only view information for the RAID se
119. ng the SAS RAID controllers that are in stalled in the system The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys are enabled for the windows eee 37 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select An Adapter To Configure 001 0 0 I O228000000h IRQ 9 Use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the controller you want to configure While the desired controller is highlighted press the Enter key to enter the main menu of the McBIOS RAID manager The manufacture harte Se Pantin default password is Ik he set to 0000 this Raid System Function POR re te NC ae password can be Ethernet Configuration View System Events En d panne Clear Event Buffer LE modified by selecting Hardware Monitor Change Password System inf ti NET 4 ystem information in the Raid System Function section 3 2 McBIOS RAID manager The McBIOS RAID manager is firmware based and is used to con figure RAID sets and volume sets Because the utility resides in the SAS RAID controller firmware operation is independent of any operating systems on your computer This utility can be used to e Create RAID sets e Expand RAID sets EE OOOO 38 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Add physical drives e Define volume sets e Modify volume sets e Modify RAID level stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system functions and e Designate drives as hot spares 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure RAID sets
120. nge your system may not configurable to allow the SAS RAID controller to act as a second boot device 2 4 SAS Cables You can connect the end devices to each other through direct ca bles or through the SAS expander backplane connections The SAS RAID controller supports daisy chain expansion up to 8 enclosures The following is an example of some internal SAS SATA cables and an external SAS cable 2 4 1 Internal Min SAS 4i to SATA Cable The Min SAS 4i to SATA cables are used for connection between the SAS RAID controller internal connectors and connectors on the SAS SATA disk drives or SAS SATA connector backplane The SAS controllers has 1 6 Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 internal connec tors each of them can support up to four SAS SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with standard SATA connectors backplane The following diagram shows the picture of Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA cables Backplane sup 29 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ports SGPIO header can leverage the SGPIO function on the SAS RAID controller through the sideband cable The sideband cable is reserved for the backplane with header on it Sidoband cabio hus em c Figure 2 10 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4x SATA Cable Mu 2 4 2 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4xSFF 8482 Cable These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with out a backplane The kind of cable will attach directly to the SAS disk drives The following diagram shows
121. ns 142 APPENDIX MIB Compilation and Definition File Creation Before the manager application accesses the RAID controller it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management application s database of events and status indicator codes This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID MIB file into the traps database Event Configuration Performance 2 SNMP Agent SNMP Installation n The installation of the SNMP manager is accomplished in several phases e Starting the firmware embedded SNMP community configura tion e Installing the SNMP extension agent on the server e Installing the SNMP manager software on the client e Placing a copy of the Management Information Base MIB in a directory which is accessible to the management application e Compiling the MIB description file with the management appl cation pm S 143 APPENDIX Starting the SNMP Function Setting l x AC ba a n in L se Technology Corporation e Community Name Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type in the community names of the SNMP agent Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid
122. on check box and click the Submit button on the screen to delete the hot spares x AR Vx Y L p Areca ec dd De gy Ce rporation 113 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 5 7 Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the RAID set update creation period the configuration possibly could disappear due to this ab normal condition The RESCUE function can recover the missing RAID set information The RAID controller uses the time as the RAID set signature The RAID set may have different time after the RAID set is recovered The SIGANT function can regenerate the signature for the RAID set Xm wx d L b Are Technology Corporation 6 5 8 Offline Raid Set This function is for customer being able to unmount and remount a multi disk volume All Hdds of the selected RAID set will be put into offline state spun down and fault LED in fast blinking mode User can remove those Hdds and insert new Hdds on those empty slots without needing power down the controller 6 6 Volume Set Functions A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device It is organized in a RAID level with one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set capacity can consume all or a portion of the disk capacity available in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist on a group of disks in a RAID set Additional volume sets created in a sp
123. on the lt CD ROM gt Firmware directory You can run the lt nflash gt to get more detailed information about the command usage Typical output looks as below 137 APPENDIX 138 A nflash Raid Controller Flash Utility V1 11 2007 11 8 Command Usage NFLASH FileName NFLASH FileName cn gt n 0 1 2 3 write binary to controller 0 FileName May Be ARC1680FIRM BIN or ARC1680 For ARC1680 Will Expand To ARC1680BOOT FIRM BIOS BIN A gt nflash arc168 1 bin Raid Controller Flash Utility V1 11 2007 11 8 NODEL ARC 1680 MEM FE620000 FE7FF000 File ARC168 1 BIN gt gt gt Flash OK Areca SAS and SATA II RAID controller firmware version 1 43 date Feb 2007 and later has supported the ATA 8 spec for HDD microcode download allowing customer using nflash DOS utility or web browser to upgrade ATA 8 spec for microcode download supported HDD s firmware connected with Areca s entire family RAID controllers without necessary removing any single drive and upgrade Areca has provided one utility for customer to make the ATA 8 spec for microcode download drive s firmware for readable by Areca firmware APPENDIX Appendix B Battery Backup Module ARC 6120 BAT Txx The SAS RAID controller operates using cache memory The Bat tery Backup Module is an add on module that provides power to the SAS RAID controller cache memory in the event of a power fail ure The Battery Backup Module monitors the write back ca
124. ontroller Important The hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces e Hot Swap Disk Drive Support The SAS RAID controller chip includes a protection circuit that supports the replacement of SAS SATA hard disk drives without having to shut down or reboot the system A removable hard drive tray can deliver hot swappable fault tolerant RAID solu tions This feature provides advanced fault tolerant RAID protec tion and online drive replacement e Auto Declare Hot Spare If a disk drive is brought online into a system operating in de graded mode the SAS RAID controllers will automatically de clare the new disk as a spare and begin rebuilding the degraded volume The Auto Declare Hot Spare function requires that the smallest drive contained within the volume set in which the failure occurred In the normal status the newly installed drive will be reconfig ured an online free disk But the newly installed drive is auto matically assigned as a hot spare if any hot spare disk was used to rebuild and without new installed drive replaced it In this condition the Auto Declare Hot Spare status will be disappeared if the RAID subsystem has since powered off on 158 APPENDIX The Hot Swap function can be used to rebuild disk drives in ar rays with data redundancy such as RAID level 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 and 60 e Auto Rebuilding If a hot spare is available the rebuild starts automatica
125. ote Event Notification Table refer to Appendix D After you confirm and submit configurations you can use Generate Test Event feature to make sure these settings are correct 104 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 Web Browser based Configuration Before using the firmware based browser McRAID storage manager do the initial setup and installation of this product If you need to boot up the operating system from a RAID volume set you must first create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID manager Please refer to section 3 3 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration for information on creating this initial volume set The McRAID storage manager is firmware based utility which is acces sible via the web browser installed on your operating system The web browser based McRAID storage manager is a HTML based application which utilizes the browser IE Netscape and Mozilla etc installed on your monitor station It can be accessed through the In Band PCIe bus or Out of Band LAN port The In Band method via archttp proxy server to launch the web browser based McRAID storage manager The firmware embedded web browser based McRAID storage manager allows local or remote to ac cess it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required The firmware contains SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either single or multiple user notifications to be sent via LAN with Pla
126. perating system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requir ing a reboot and without waiting for initialization to complete Furthermore the volume set is protected against disk failures while initialing If using Foreground Initialization the initializa tion process must be completed before the volume set is ready for system accesses e Online Array Roaming The SAS RAID controllers store RAID configuration information on the disk drives The controller therefore protects the con figuration settings in the event of controller failure Online array roaming allows the administrators the ability to move a com plete RAID set to another system without losing RAID configura tion information or data on that RAID set Therefore if a server fails the RAID set disk drives can be moved to another server with an Areca SAS SATA RAID controllers and the disks can be inserted in any order e Online Capacity Expansion Online Capacity Expansion makes it possible to add one or more physical drives to a volume set without interrupting server op eration eliminating the need to backup and restore after recon figuration of the RAID set When disks are added to a RAID set unused capacity is added to the end of the RAID set Then data EE n 154 APPENDIX on the existing volume sets residing on the newly expanded RAID set is r
127. r up e I O Port Address e Interrupt Channel IRQ e Adapter ROM Base Address Use McBIOS RAID manager to further configure the SAS RAID control ler to suit your server hardware and operating system 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager This section explains how to use the McBIOS RAID manager to configure your RAID system The McBIOS RAID manager is de signed to be user friendly It is a menu driven program residing in the firmware which allows you to scroll through various menus and sub menus and select among the predetermined configuration options When starting a system with a SAS RAID controller installed it will display the following message on the monitor during the start up sequence after the system BIOS startup screen but before the operating system boots ARC 1680 PCIEx4 RAID Controller DRAM 256 MB Channels 16 BIOS V1 17b Date 2006 8 07 F W V1 42 Date 2007 3 1 p Bus Dev Fun 1 0 0 I 0 Port 28000000h IRQ 9 BIOS CBOO Oh pb No BIOS disk found RAID controller BIOS not installed ppp Press lt Tab F6 gt to enter SETUP menu 9 second s left lt ESC to Skip gt The McBIOS RAID manager message remains on your screen for about nine seconds giving you time to start the configurarion menu by pressing Tab or F6 If you do not wish to enter configu ration menu press ESC to skip configuration immediately When activated the McBIOS RAID manager window appears showing a selection dialog box listi
128. rator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu C Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the disk drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to give a disk drive letter 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Win dows 2000 XP 2003 Vista Installation In this scenario you are installing the controller in an existing Windows system To install the driver DRIVER INSTALLATION 1 Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 the Hardware Installation Chapter to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the con troller McBIOS RAID manager Use the configuration utility to create the RAID set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager Once a volume set is created and config ured continue with installation of the driver 3 Re Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SAS RAID controller and launche the Found New Hardware Wizard which guides you in installing the SAS RAID driver 4 The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard will pop up and provide a choice of how to proceed Choose Display a list of known driv ers for this device so that you can choose a specific driver and click on Ne
129. re physical disks depending on the RAID level used RAID level refers to the level of performance and data protection of a volume set The capacity of a volume set can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist in a RAID set For the SAS RAID controller a volume set must be created either on an existing RAID set or on a group of available individual disks disks that are about to become part of a RAID set If there are pre existing RAID sets with available capacity and enough disks for the desired RAID level then the volume set can be created in the existing RAID set of the user s choice RAID set 1 3 Individual Disks Free Space Volume 1 RAID 5 Volume 0 1E Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 153 APPENDIX In the illustration volume 1 can be assigned a RAID level 5 of operation while volume 0 might be assigned a RAID level 1E of operation Alternatively the free space can be used to create vol ume 2 which could then be set to use RAID level 5 Ease of Use Features e Foreground Availability Background Initialization RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used immediately after creation because they do not create parity data However RAID 3 5 6 30 50 or 60 volume sets must be initialized to generate parity information In Background Initialization the initializa tion proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The o
130. rray Roaming nan ensen vennen eneen venen 154 e Online Capacity Expansion eese nnnm 154 e Online Volume Expansion uunsansnenenenvenen eneen ennen ennn 157 High avallabillty nnen seen tee rre ete xx ee e xd iile aed 157 e Global Hot Spares senen sennen nennen nne 157 e Hot Swap Disk Drive Support annees eenen eenen nennen 158 e Auto Declare Hot Spare sese 158 s Auto Rebuilding tnv rade ena 159 e Adjustable Rebuild Priority sans eneenen oneens renee eneen ennn 159 High Reliability spanten eter dealen aen ERR 160 e Hard Drive Failure Prediction cccceccecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeesaeeaeennes 160 Auto Redssigrni SectOLs eee eu ex RD y EE derd 160 Consistency Check vedas onweren s tus tt d vies shave aand 161 Data Protection dateren tte rader e x een pais 161 Battery Backup orarius riserve rte ec Er nae e his Oen ave Ux 161 Recovery ROM socer i cv xd ya en Y SY E 162 Appendix GG iara nain a Eua ave xa weg E exx ERR ra av uw av R nele 163 Understanding RAID Spiir nina onian ELT meme 163 RAID Oera aed O test em n ee d AAE aad Rl 163 RAID d oie a UR DAR eeen eee 164 RAID Sereen SURES DEUM MAIL T 165 RAID Brno coiere ele daten eds perdus rur iret d xe leon an 166 TIDAL D 167 RAID XQ tement evene eea ie aaa Rineke Yr E ERR EE RE 167 Mzlo pp e Pi M EM 168 INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction This section presents a brief overview of the SAS RAID controller ARC
131. s abled Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from differ ent vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Multiples Of 10G truncates the number under tens This makes same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Multiples Of 1G truncates the fractional part This makes capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 2 Ethernet Configuration Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration A customer doesn t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working The firm ware embedded Web Browser based RAID manager can access it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol that lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol configurations on a computer network When using the internet s set of protocols TCP IP in order for a computer system to communicate to anot
132. sing S 6 Window will prompt to place the Manufacturer supplied hardware support disk into floppy drive A Insert the SAS RAID series driver diskette in drive A and press Enter key 7 Window will check the floppy select the correct card and CPU type for your hardware from the listing and press Enter key to install it 8 After Windows scans the hardware and finds the controller it will display Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices ARECA Windows X86 64 Storport SATA SAS PCI RAID Host Controller RAID6 Engine Inside Press Enter key to continue and copy the driver files From this point on simply follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure Follow the on screen instructions responding as needed to complete the installation 89 DRIVER INSTALLATION 90 9 After the installation is completed reboot the system to load the new driver operating system 10 See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID vol ume sets using McRAID Storage Manager 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass through disks accessible to Windows This proce dure assumes that the SAS RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your system 1 Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk Administ
133. sses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to minimize the work necessary to administer a large IP network To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to DHCP Function item then press Enter key to show the DHCP setting Select the Disabled or Enabled option to enable or disable the DHCP function If DHCP is disabled it will be neces mm 79 BIOS CONFIGURATION sary to manually enter a static IP address that does not conflict with other devices on the network Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Funcion Select DHCP Setting HTTP Port Number 80 ia Telent Port Number 23 SMTP Port Number 25 EtherNet Address 00 04 D9 7F FF FF 3 7 6 2 Local IP address If you intend to set up your client computers manually no DHCP make sure that the assigned IP address is in the same range as the default router address and that it is unique to your private network However it is highly recommend to use DHCP if that option is available on your network An IP address alloca tion scheme will reduce the time it takes to set up client com puters and eliminate the possibilities of administrative errors and duplicate addresses To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to Local IP address item then press the Enter key to show the def
134. ssible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Foreground Initialization the initialization proceeds must be com pleted before the volume set ready for system accesses In No Init there is no initialization on this volume Initialize the volume set you have just configured If you need to add additional volume set using main menu Create Vol ume Set function 3 6 Using RAID Set Volume Set Function Method In Raid Set Function you can use the Create Raid Set function to generate a new RAID set In Volume Set Function you can use the Create Volume Set function to generate an associated volume set and configuration parameters If the current controller has unused physical devices connected you can choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function to define a global hot spare Select this method to con figure new RAID sets and volume sets The Raid Set Volume Set Function configuration option allows you to associate volume sets with partial and full RAID sets pm t 41 BIOS CONFIGURATION 42 4 To setup the hot spare option choose Raid Set Function from the main menu Select the Create Hot Spare and press the Enter key to define the hot spare Choose RAID Set Function from the main menu Select Create Raid Set and press the Enter key The Se
135. t 3 If you need the Cfg Assistant please refer to section 5 6 ArcHttp Configuration 4 See the next chapter detailing the McRAID storage manager to customize your RAID volume set Because our management need Java support so user may need upgrade to version 1 6 or later 5 3 For FreeBSD You must have administrative level permissions to install SAS RAID software This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system The following details the FreeBSD installation procedure of the SAS RAID controller software 1 Insert the RAID controller software CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES FreeBSD http directory to local The next following step is the same with Linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux 5 4 For Solaris 10 X86 Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD or website http www areca com tw The step is same with linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux 5 5 For Mac OS 10 X The ArcHttp proxy server is provided on the software CD delivered with SATA card or download from the www areca com tw The firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server The Archttp proxy server for Mac please reference Chapter 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac 10 x or refer to the the Mac manual xxxx pdf that resides at CD lt CD ROM gt DOCS directory You can install EE 100 A
136. t in this screen Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup aid Set Function Volume Set Func Raid Set Function Physical Drives DRUG The Raid Set Information Raid System Fun Delete R Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Ethernet Configu Expand Member Disks 2 View System Eve activate Raid State Normal Clear Event Buffd Create H Total Capacity 800 0GB Hardware Monitof Delete H Free Capacity 800 0GB System informatid Min Member Disk Size 400 0GB Member Disk Channels E1S1 E1S2 3 7 3 Volume Set Function A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical de vice it is organized in a RAID level within the controller utiliz ing one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set can consume all of the capacity or a portion of the available disk capacity of a RAID set Multiple volume sets can exist on a RAID E A G A u Oi 54 BIOS CONFIGURATION set If multiple volume sets reside on a specified RAID set all volume sets will reside on all physical disks in the RAID set Thus each volume set on the RAID set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the RAID set rather than one volume set using some of the available disks and another volume set using other disks Quick Volume Raid Setup
137. th the data redundancy of level 1 In this con figuration data is distributed across several disk drives similar to Level 0 which are then duplicated to another set of drive for data protection RAID 10 has been traditionally implemented using an even number of disks some hybrids can use an odd number of disks as well Illustration is an example of a hybrid RAID 10 array comprised of five disks A B C D and E In this configura tion each strip is mirrored on an adjacent disk with wrap around Areca RAID 10 offers a little more flexibility in choosing the num ber of disks that can be used to constitute an array The number can be even or odd RAID 3 RAID 3 provides disk striping and complete data redundancy though a dedicated parity drive RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or on the blocks and then writes the blocks to all but one drive in the array The parity data created during the exclusive or is then written to the last drive in the array If a single drive fails data is still available by computing the exclusive or of the contents cor responding strips of the surviving member disk RAID 3 is best for applications that require very fast data transfer rates or long data blocks mE M 165 APPENDIX Array Management Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with pari
138. the SAS RAID controller CN m Description SideBand0 SClock Clock signal SideBand1 SLoad Last clock of a bit stream SideBand4 SDataOut Serial data SideBand5 SDataIn Serial data input bit output bit stream stream Step 8 Adding a Battery Backup Module optional Please refer to Appendix B for installing the BBM in your SAS RAID controller 27 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 9 Re check Fault LED Cable Connections optional Be sure that the proper failed drive channel information is dis played by the fault LEDs An improper connection will tell the user to Hot Swap the wrong drive This can result in removing the wrong disk one that is functioning properly from the controller This can result in failure and loss of system data Step 10 Power up the System Throughly check the installation reinstall the computer cover and reconnect the power cord cables Turn on the power switch at the rear of the computer if equipped and then press the power but ton at the front of the host computer Step 11 Configure Volume Set The controller configures RAID functionality through the McBIOS RAID manager Please refer to Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager for the detail The RAID controller can also be configured through the McRAID storage manager with ArcHttp proxy server installed LCD module refer to LCD manual or through on board LAN port For this option please refer to Chapter 6 Web Browser Based Configuration
139. the picture of Min SAS 4i to 4xSFF 8482 cables Figure 2 11 Min SAS 4i to 4xSFF 8482 Cable m HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 4 3 Internal Min SAS 4i to Internal Min SAS 4i cable The SAS RAID controllers have 1 6 Min SAS 4i internal connec tors each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with Min SAS 4i internal connectors backplane This Min SAS 4i cable has eight signal pins to support four SAS SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive Locate status Figure 2 12 Min SAS 4i to Min SAS 4i Cable 2 4 4 External Min SAS 4i Drive Boxes and Drive Expanders The Min SAS 4X external cables are used for connection between the SAS controller external connectors and connectors on the ex ternal drive boxes or drive expanders JBOD The SAS controller has Min SAS 4x SFF 8088 external connector each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals HARDWARE INSTALLATION 32 2 5 LED Cables There is no SGPIO supported in the most of old version SATA backplane The SAS controller also provides two kinds of alterna tive LED cable header to support the fault activity status for those backplanes The Global Indicator Connector is used by the server global indicator LED The following electronics schematic is the SAS RAID controll
140. thernet Configuration sam p Function DHCP Function Enable 5 HER Es ECCL MENS Raw HTTP Por Number 80 Ethernet Configuratio g View System Event Telent Port Number 23 EN E in uns SMTP Port Number 25 eat event Buen EtherNet Address 00 04 D9 7F FF FF Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 7 View System Events To view the SAS RAID controller s system events information move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the View System Events link then press the Enter key The SAS RAID controller s events screen appear Choose this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapsed Time and Errors The RAID system does not have a build in real time clock The time information is the relative time from the SAS RAID controller powered on Quick Volume Raid Setup Time Device Event Type ElapseTime Errors 2007 1 1 12 00 00 ARC 1680 VO 00 Raid Powered On 2007 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2007 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 3 7 8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration Clear Event Buffer View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 9 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller s hardware monitor in
141. thout losing data in the disk e Strip Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID O 1 10 5 6 50 or 60 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance espe nT YY 116 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION cially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer does random reads more often select a smaller stripe size Note RAID level 3 can t modify the cache strip size Cache Mode The SAS RAID controller supports Write Through and Write Back cache e Tagged Command Queuing The Enabled option is useful for enhancing overall system performance under multi tasking operating systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SAS command tag queuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain Enabled Disabled this function only when using SAS drives that do not support command tag queuing e SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun SCSI Channel The SAS RAID controller function is simulated as a external SCSI RAID controller The host bus is represented as a SCSI channel Choose the SCSI Channel SCSI ID Each SCSI device attached to the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices The SAS RAID controller is a large SCSI devi
142. tly connected to SAS RAID controller PHY port with SAS SATA cables The SAS RAID controller can support up to 26 PHY ports Remove the front bezel from the computer chassis and install the cages or SAS SATA drives in the computer chassis Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed Be sure that the power is connected to either the cage backplane or the individual drives HARDWARE INSTALLATION In the backplane solution SAS SATA drives are directly connected to SAS system backplane or through an expander board The number of SAS SATA drives is limited to the number of slots available on the backplane Some backplanes support daisy chain expansion to the next backplanes The SAS RAID controller can support daisy chain up to 8 enclosures The maximum drive no is 128 devices through 8 enclosures The following figure shows how to connect the external Min SAS cable from the SAS RAID controller that has external connectors to the external drive boxes or drive enclosures Link LED Exp Out Exp ln Exp Out Activity LED Figure 2 7 External connector to a drive box or drive enclosure The following table is the max no of SAS RAID controller supported Disks Enclosure Disks Controller Volume Note 1 The maximum no is 32 disk drives included in a single RAID set HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 6 Install SAS Cable This section describes SAS cable how to connect on controller
143. to add the installer on the Finder a install mraid mac zip For Power Mac G5 b install mraid macpro zip For Mac Pro 3 Launch the installer by double clicking the install mraid mac or install mraid macpro on the Finder 4 Follow the installer steps to install Areca driver MRAID archttp64 and arc cli utility at the same time MRAID Without Driver Ordy MRAD apotications wit be mataliet apart mas VAChude d The defun Grover for Areca wael Pai BWM NE Baard SATA and SAS RAID atapeer MRALD With Driver VRAD apshcati en and driver wil be mutated 5 Reboot your Power Mac G5 or Mac Pro system Normally archttp64 and arc_cli are installed at the same time on Areca SATA RAID adapter Once archttp64 and arc_cli have been installed the background task automatically starts each time when you start your computer There is one MARID icon showing on your desktop This icon is for you to start up the McRAID storage manager by archttp64 and arc_cli utility You can also only upgrade the driver archttp64 or arc_cli individual item that resides at lt CD ROM gt packages MacOS Arc cli performs many tasks at the command line You can download arc cli manual from Areca website or software CD lt CDROM gt DOCS directory 95 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation Overview After hardware installation the SAS SATA disk drives connected to the SAS RAID controller must be configured an
144. ty at byte level In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk If one drive in the system fails the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the same time greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system This relieves the write bottleneck that characterizes RAID 4 and is the primary reason that RAID 5 is more often implemented in RAID arrays JAO BO CO DO A1 B1 C1 E1 A2 B2 D2 E2 RAID 5 Block Interleaved Array Management Ditributed Parity A Blocks 8 Blocks C Blocks D Blocks Ef Blocks Medias Logical Disk Physical Disk Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 166 APPENDIX RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability It is similar to RAID 5 but it performs two different parity computations or the same compu tation on overlapping subsets of the data RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5 but uses a second independent distributed parity scheme Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives and then a second set of parity is calculated and written across all of the drives Array Management A RAID 6 P Q Redundancy A e D Qi Qo d i gt nd
145. ugh McRAID Storage Manager 136 Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility 137 Appendix B iiiieico eiie iso o xoa a Annapa inenen EE PES EE 139 Battery Backup Module ARC 6120 BAT Txx senso eneen enen 139 BBM Components nennen renee venen eneen nennen 139 Status of BBM was arseen etten A aae tesa VERRE Rand as 139 Installation x cem gated benden dada 139 Battery Backup Capacity san san eenen envenee eneen ennen ennn 140 Operation per 140 Changing the Battery Backup Module nnee enen 140 BBM Specifications iiir e e eneen eenen ennen ennn 141 Appendix G asennnstnnenensrnnninainnnn PER E REEERE ERR SVKER FREEEREEES VENE 142 SNMP Operation amp Installation een 142 Appendix D 225410223299 225 28 eset TRESREweRORNUTVESRERRRERR ERU PRS ts 149 Event Notification Configurations nnen ennen 149 A DEVICE EVent ict eet letten ET EATEN RUE 149 B Volume Event oneens neenen nennen nean nna nena ean nnn 150 C RAID Set Event ssec nde ex ve eoe e ox VEREOR E XE cede 151 D Hardware Monitor Event annen enen envene renee eenen 151 Appendix E aansrissnsnserereansnnnnmeeden m 153 RAID Goncept sen nissan enmet etn eeen dee ede KE oe P ERN 153 RAID Set nitraat eeen eenden tenen ede dada 153 VolumeSet aans nanne ae eee 153 Ease of Use Features ese eee ta ener eti reser R FIERE a 154 e Foreground Availability Background Initialization 154 e Online A
146. ursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Instead of deleting a RAID set and recreating it with additional disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created To expand a RAID set Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears Select the target RAID set by clicking on the appropriate radio button Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Yes key to start the expansion on the RAID set The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets The volume sets associated with this RAID set appear for you to have chance to modify RAID level or stripe size Follow the instruction presented in the Modify Volume Set to modify the volume sets operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions 1 Once the Expand Raid Set process has started user can not stop it The process must be completed 2 If a disk drive fails during raid set expansion and a hot spare is available an auto rebuild operation will occur after the RAID set expansion completes 3 RAID 30 50 60 doesn t support the Expand Raid Set BIOS CONFIGURATION e Migrating Volume Set Func Physical Drives Raid System Fun Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Ethernet Configu Expand Member Disks 2
147. when installed for the first time The first time charge of a battery cell takes about 24 hours to complete Changing the Battery Backup Module At some point the LI ION battery will no longer accept a charge properly LI ION battery life expectancy is anywhere from ap proximately 1 to 5 years 1 Shutdown the operating system properly Make sure that cache memory has been flushed 140 APPENDIX Disconnect the BBM cable from J2 on the SAS RAID controller Disconnect the battery pack cable from JP2 on the BBM Install a new battery pack and connect the new battery pack to JP2 5 Connect the BBM to J2 on the SAS controller 6 Disable the write back function from the McBIOS RAID man ager or McRAID storage manager A WN ote Do not remove BBM while system is running Battery Functionality Test Procedure 1 Writing amount of data into controller volume about 5GB or bigger 2 Waiting for few seconds power failed system by remove the power cable 3 Check the battery status make sure the D13 is bright light and battery beeps every few seconds 4 Power on system and press Tab F6 to login controller 5 Check the controller event log make sure the event shows controller boot up with power recovered BBM Specifications Mechanical e Module Dimension W x H x D 37 3x 13 x 81 6 mm e BBM Connector 2 6 box header Environmental e Operating Temperature Temperature 25 C to 759 C e Humidit
148. with additional disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the RAID set that have already been created To expand a RAID set Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen appears Select the target RAID set by clicking on the appropriate radio button Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box nd LIT WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 112 AR e Wr 9 Ae uL nnology Corporatio Press the Yes to start the expansion on the RAID set The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets The volume sets associated with this RAID set appear for you to have chance to modify RAID level or stripe size Follow the instruction presented in the Modify Volume Set to modify the volume sets operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions Note 1 Once the Expand Raid Set process has started user can not stop it The process must be completed 2 If a disk drive fails during raid set expansion and a hot spare is available an auto rebuild operation will occur after the RAID set expansion completes 3 RAID 30 50 60 does not support the Expand Raid set 6 5 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set If one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the RAID set state will change to Incomplete State If the user
149. wn on this screen L er e inthe a Areca Technology Corporation EP s a nadi tet Maten 134 APPENDIX Appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process Since the PCIe SAS RAID controller features flash ROM firmware it is not necessary to change the hardware flash chip in order to upgrade the RAID firmware The user can simply re program the old firmware through the In Band PCIe bus or Out of Band Eth ernet port McRAID Storage manager and nflash DOS utility New releases of the firmware are available in the form of a DOS file on the shipped CD or Areca website The files available at the FTP site for each model contain the following files in each version ARC1680NNNN BIN Software Binary Code NNNN refers to the software code type ARC1680BIOS BIN PCI card BIOS for system board using ARC1680BOOT BIN RAID controller hardware initialization ARC1680FIRM BIN RAID kernel program ARC1680MBRO BIN Master Boot Record for supporting Dual Flash Image in the SAS RAID controller ARC1680transport BIN Intel IOP 348 SAS controller transport layer microcode README TXT contains the history information of the software code change in the main directory Read this file first to make sure you are upgrading to the proper binary file Select the right file for the upgrade Normally user upgrades the ARC1680BIOS BIN for sys tem M B compatibility and ARC1680FIRM BIN for RAID function upgrades ote Please update all Bi
150. xpansion and RAID level migration simultane ously e Online volume set growth e Instant availability and background initialization e Automatic drive insertion removal detection and rebuilding e Greater than 2TB per volume set 64 bit LBA support e Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life MAID e Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port Monitors Notification e System status indication through global HDD activity fault con nector individual activity fault connector LCD I2C connector and alarm buzzer e SMTP support for email notification e SNMP support for remote manager e Enclosure management SES2 SMP and SGPIO ready RAID Management e Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM In Band Manager e Hot key boot up McBIOS RAID manager via M B BIOS e Web browser based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server for all operating systems e Support Command Line Interface CLI e API library for customer to write monitor utility e Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility e Disk Stress Test DST utility for production Out of Band Manager e Firmware embedded web browser based McRAID storage man ager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port 13 INTRODUCTION e API library for customer to write monitor utility e Support Push Button and LCD display panel option Operating System Same as Areca SATA Il RAID adapter field
151. xt 5 When the next screen queries the user about utilizing the cur rently installed driver click on the Have Disk button 6 When the Install From Disk dialog appears insert the SAS RAID controller driver diskette or the shipping software CD and type in or browse to the correct path for the Copy Manufactur er s Files from dialog box 7 After specifying the driver location the previous dialog box will appear showing the selected driver to be installed Click the Next button 8 The Digital Signature Not Found screen will appear Click on Yes to continue the installation 9 Windows automatically copies the appropriate driver files and rebuilds its driver database 10 The Found New Hardware Wizard summary screen ap pears click the Finish button 11 The System Settings Change dialog box appears Remove 91 DRIVER INSTALLATION 92 the diskette from the drive and click Yes to restart the computer to load the new drivers 12 See Chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes using McRAID Storage Manager 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator The following steps show how to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista This procedure assumes that the SAS RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your sys tem
152. y 45 85 non condensing e Storage Temperature Temperature 40 C to 85 C e Humidity 45 8596 non condensing Electrical e Input Voltage 3 6VDC e On Board Battery Capacity 1100mAH 1 1100mAH ECC T LLL LIIS Ee 141 APPENDIX Appendix C SNMP Operation amp Installation Overview The McRAID storage manager includes a firmware embedded Sim ple Network Management Protocol SNMP agent and SNMP Exten sion Agent for the SAS RAID controller An SNMP based manage ment application also known as an SNMP manager can monitor the disk array An example of An SNMP management application is Hewlett Packard s Open View The SNMP extension agent can be used to augment the SAS RAID controller if you are already run ning an SNMP management application at your site SNMP Definition SNMP an IP based protocol has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager and the managed devices have the SNMP agent loaded Management data is organized in a hierarchical data structure called the Management Information Base MIB These MIBs are defined and sanctioned by various industry associa tions The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli ance with these MIBs so that inter vendor interoperability can be achieved If a vendor wishes to include additional device informa tion that is not specified in a standard MIB then that is usually done through MIB extensio
153. y a Low value e JBOD RAID Configuration JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disk A group of hard disks in a RAID box are not set up as any type of RAID configuration All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk JBOD does not provide data redundancy User needs to delete the RAID set when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function e HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances e HDD Queue Depth This parameter is adjusted the queue depth capacity of NCQ SATA HDD or Tagged Command Queuing SAS which trans mits multiple commands to a single target without waiting for the initial command to complete e Stagger Power on In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can supply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power sup ply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other system components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives The SAS SATA drives have support stagger spin up capabilities to boost reli ability Stagger spin up is a very useful feature for managing EEEE M 125 WEB BRO

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