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1. Stopped Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LO 1 Completed Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LO 3 Completed Tritialize RATT Controller 1 1 3 Camnleted raidcmd Step 1 Execute cc command with op option and the following parameters gt raidcmd cc c 1 l 2 op stop gt c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Logical gt raidcemd oplist Drive for which Consistency Check is stopped If specify RAID Controller 1 all as parameter the targets are all Logical Drives of all RAID Controllers Number of the Logical Drive for which Consistency Check is stopped If specify all as parameter the targets are all Logical Drives of RAID Controllers specified by c op Specify stop to stop Consistency Check Step 2 After the Consistency Check is stopped the raidcmd terminates normally The stopped Consistency Check disappears from the list of oplist command Checking Result of Executing Consistency Check You can find the result of executing Consistency Check by checking the RAID Log of the Universal RAID Utility If a problem is detected the Consistency Check logs both the message indicating the result if Consistency Check has been finished successfully and that indicating the error in the RAID Log 93 Setting Consistency Check Priority You can set the priority at which Consistency Check is executed in the server The procedure of setting the Consistency Check Priority is described
2. gt raidemd slotlamp c 1 p e252s4 sw off gt c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device for which its location is checked p Number of the Physical Device for which its location is checked SW Specify on to turn on the DISK lamp Ex Turn on the DISK lamp of the Physical Device RAID Controller Number 1 and Physical Device Number e 252s4 raidcmd slotlamp c 1 p e252s4 sw on Step 2 To turn off the lighting DISK lamp execute slotlamp command with the sw option set to off If the RAID Controller does not support the turning off the Disk lamp function the message indicating that it does not Support the function is displayed and raidcmd is finished c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device for which its location is checked p Number of the Physical Device for which its location is checked SW Specify off to turn off the DISK lamp Ex Turn off the DISK lamp of the Physical Device RAID Controller Number 1 and Physical Device Number e 252s4 raidcmd slotlamp c 1 p e252s4 sw off 105 Changing Status of Physical Device Forcibly The function of changing status of a Physical Device forcibly can be used when you want to change the Status of a Physical Device to Online or Failed forcibly for a maintenance job or another The function may not be used in normal operation w O e The function of changing the status of a Physical Device forcibly is avai
3. 25 Installation Linux VMware ESX Use setup sh in the installation image to install latest Universal RAID Utility w You must install the Universal RAID Utility in the ESX Server Do not install Universal RAID Utility in the virtual machine Step 1 Check if the operating system recognizes all the RAID Controllers connected Please be sure to connect all the RAID Controllers before installing Universal RAID Utility wO The program to control the RAID Controller depends on the type of RAID Controller Please be UAI sure to connect all the RAID Controllers first then install Universal RAID Utility Step 2 Execute setup sh in the installation image Change the current directory to the directory in which the gt ed directory name involved installation image installation image is stored and type as follows X sh setup sh instal CaO LINUR gt rpm q UniversalRaidUtility sh setup sh install UniversalRaidUti ity x yy z In case of VMware ESX 2 sh setup sh install reptblen gt rpm q eciservice a bb x 1386 eciservice a bb x 1386 gt rpm q Lib_Utils Lib Uti ls a bb cc noarch gt gt rpm q storelib storel ib a bb 0 gt gt rpm q WebPAMPRO_Agent WebPAMPRO_Agent 3 aa bbbb cc gt P Specify nomgr instead of install as an option at installation to exclude the NEC ATS ESMPRO Manager Communication Module eciservice package and raidsrv agent service Step 3 At t
4. 72 Capacity of Logical Drive The capacity of a Logical Drive to be created is defined by the RAID Level and the capacities of Physical Devices used for the Logical Drive The Easy Configuration uses the entire areas of the Physical Devices to create a Logical Drive Ex If Physical Devices 1 7 can be used in Easy Configuration to create two Logical Drives use Physical Devices 1 4 and 5 7 to create Logical Drives 1 and 2 respectively The capacity of each Logical Drive is defined by the whole capacity of those of the Physical Devices for the Logical Drive Physical Device 1 100GB Physical Device 2 100GB Physical Device 3 100GB Physical Device 4 100GB Logical Drive 1 300GB RAID 5 Physical Physical Physical Device 5 Device 6 Device 7 100GB 100GB 100GB Logical Drive 2 200GB RAID 5 Figure 18 Capacities of Logical Drives in Easy Configuration Items set for Logical Drive The values of other selection items set for a Logical Drive to be created are defined as shown in the table below Selection item Value Stripe Size type of the RAID Controller Cache Mode type of the RAID Controller Initialize Mode Full 73 Uses the default value set for the RAID Controller The value varies depending on the Uses the default value set for the RAID Controller The value varies depending on the Making Hot Spares by Easy Configuration This section describes the information on Hot Spares to be
5. If a process ID appears the raidsrv service is started normally raidsrv Agent Service The raidsrv Agent service is started automatically when your server is booted and stopped automatically when your server is shut down Without operation of the raidsrv Agent service Universal RAID Utility cannot be communicated with NEC ESMPRO Manager Do not set the raidsrv Agent service not to be started Do not stop the raidsrv Agent service w O e Incase that the operating system is Linux or VMware ESX if the raidsrv Agent Service IMPORTANT terminates abnormally due to an error or the process of the raidsrv Agent Service is terminated forcibly the lock file for avoiding double starts is left If the state remains the raidsrv Agent Service may not be started If this occurs delete the following file before restarting the raidsrv Agent Service var lock subsys raidsrv_agent raidsrv Agent service cannot use in Single User Mode 29 RAID Viewer Use Start menu to open the RAID Viewer Click Start and point menu in order to Programs Universal RAID Utility and RAID Viewer eee Ni Accessories fry Administrative Tools Documents d Startup BA Universal RAID Utility lage Log Viewer amp Internet Explorer w RAID Viewer Search 3 Ea Outlook Express p Remote Assistance Settings Help and Support Run Shut Gown To use the RAID Viewer you should log on to the computer a
6. RAID Level Capacity Type Stripe Size Cache Mode Setting Cache Mode Current Status Disk Array Information RAID Level Capacity Type Stripe Size Cache Mode Setting Cache Mode Current Status The Universal RAID Utility assigns a number beginning with 1 in correspondence with the value of ID Indicates the original identification value of the Logical Drive Use this value to create Logical Drives managed by the RAID Configuration utility of the RAID Controller correspond with those managed by the Universal RAID Utility Indicates the number of the Disk Array in which the Logical Drive exists and the information on the location in the Disk Array The information is displayed in the following format lt RAID Viewer gt Disk Array number sequence number starting from the top sequence number of Logical Drive in Disk Array lt raidcmd gt Disk Array number order Sequence number starting from the top sequence number of Logical Drive in Disk Array Indicates the RAID Level of the Logical Drive The value can be RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID OO RAID 10 RAID 1E RAID 50 or RAID 60 Displayed only when Type is Logical Drive Indicates the capacity of the Logical Drive in GB Type of the Logical Drive Indicates Logical Drive or SSD Cache Drive Indicates the Stripe Size of the Logical Drive The value can be 1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB or 102
7. The server icon indicates the status of all the RAID Systems existing in the server Icon Meaning Description Al Server Normal All RAID Systems in the server operate normally Problems which RAID Controllers define as failures do not occur a Server Warning One or more RAID Systems in the warning condition exist in the server El Server Fatal One or more RAID Systems in the warning or fatal condition exist in the server RAID Controller Each RAID System on the server is the RAID Controller node A RAID Controller node equals a RAID Controller and shows the number and model of the RAID Controller Icon RAID Controller lt Number gt lt Model gt Item Description lt Number gt Indicates the management number logical address of the RAID Controller in the Universal RAID Utility lt Model gt Indicates the model name of the RAID Controller A RAID Controller icon indicates the status of all the RAID Systems on the RAID Controller Icon Meaning Description mI RAID Controller Normal All components on the RAID Controller including Battery Flash Backup Unit Logical Drives and Physical Devices operate normally No failures have not been detected by the RAID Controller mI RAID Controller Warning One or more components on the RAID Controller including Battery Flash Backup Unit Logical Drives and Physical Devices are in the following condition Containing one or more failed components but being operable
8. raidcmd starts with Standard Mode at first after installing Universal RAID Utility If you want to change the RAID System Management Mode you must to use runmode command The RAID System Management Mode does not change the mode when restart the server Changing RAID System Management Mode The procedure of changing the RAID System Management Mode is below RAID Viewer Use Advanced Mode or Standard Mode in Tool menu See Tool menu for detail raidcmd Step 1 If you want to change from Standard Mode to Advanced Mode run runmode command gt raidemd runmode md a with md a parameter Changed RAID System Management Mode to Advanced Mode gt Step 2 If you want to change from Advanced gt raidcmd runmode md s pee A A oe A TUSEA ANAR Changed RAID System Management Mode to Standard Mode gt with md s parameter 34 Functions of RAID Viewer This chapter describes the functions of the RAID Viewer Structure of RAID Viewer As shown in the figure below the RAID Viewer is composed of four parts or Tree View Operation View Menu Bar and Status Bar Menu Bar Ifi Universal RAID Utility RAID Viewer Ioj x lt Delete Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Stop Disk Array 1 E LD 1 Online RAID 1 EA PD e252s0 Online SATA HDD EA PD e252s1 Online SATA HDD Disk Array 2 E LD 2 Online RAID 5 Bj PD e252s2 Online SAS HD
9. 3LC05ZZG a WGB Failed Norma On Refreshing the battery of the RAID Controller The Refresh Battery is a function to refresh the battery connected to the RAID Controller The function restores the battery degraded due to charge and discharge Universal RAID Utility provides the function to manually execute the battery refreshing The function can be done for each RAID Controller You can use a Windows task scheduler to do a regular battery refreshing ww The Refresh Battery is not Supported for some RAID Controllers The menu of the Refresh Battery does not appear if it is not Supported Also the refresh command of raidcmd is failed Executing Refresh Battery Manually The procedure of executing Refresh Battery is described below w The manual Refresh Battery is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the battery on the Tree View Then Control Tool Help click Refresh Battery on the File menu Create Logical Drive b 220 Create SSD Cache Drive Silence Buzzer Refresh Battery Start Consistency Check Step 2 The confirmation windows will open Click Yes to execute the battery refreshing Click No to cancel the battery refreshing confirm ed 109 raidcmd Step 1 Execute refresh command using the following parameter gt raidcmd refresh c 2 Refresh the battery c Number of RAID Controller for which Refr
10. Initialize Priority to High Middle or Low Click OK or Apply Initialize Priority Rebuild Priority Consistency Check Priority raidcmd Step 1 Execute optctrl command with the following parameters gt raidemd optctr c 1 ip low l KORS gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 c Number of the RAID Controller for which Initialize RAID Controller 1 Priority is set aD 0 ip Select high middle or low to change the Initialize Vendor gt PROMISE Priority Mode ST EX87 68 Firmware Version 5 00 0070 81 Ex Set the Initialize Priority of the RAID Controller porte att ea RAID Controller number 1 to Low Initialize Priority z Low Rabid bald wt Ow atiy i aMi ddd raidcmd optctrl c 1 ip low Consistency Check Priority High Patrol Read Disable Patrol Read Priority High Step 2 The property of the RAID Controller ear Setting Disable changes as follows when the setting has been changed successfully Initialize Priority Priority after change Step 3 Check the execution result by using property command tg Specify rc to browse the property of RAID Controller c The number of the RAID Controller Ex Browse the property of RAID Controller RAID Controller Number 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 97 Changing Cache Mode of Logical Drive You can change the cache mode of Logical Drive The range of change differs depending on the type of the RAID Controller RAID Controller Changed
11. Universal RAID Utility User s Guide Ver 3 0 856 127900 130 A ist Edition Jul 2013 Copyright NEC Corporation 2007 2013 Trademarks Notes NEC EXPRESSBUILDER is trademarks of NEC Corporation Microsoft and its logo Windows Windows Server and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries Linux is a registered trademark or a trademark in United States or other countries of Linus Torvalds Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux the Shadowman logo and JBoss are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the U S and other countries The name and logo of Asianux is a trademark of Miracle Linux Corporation and Red Flag Software Co Ltd Asianux is a registered trademark in Japan of MIRACLE LINUX Corporation Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries VMware is a registered trademark of VMware Inc in the United States and or other jurisdictions All other product brand or trade names used in this publication are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners TM R mark is not specified in this text 1 No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of NEC Corporation 2 The contents of this manual may be revised without prior notice 3 The contents of this manual shall not be copied or altered without the prior written permission of NEC
12. to be used for the added Disk Array by the number required for the RAID Level to be created Then click OK The newly created Disk Array is added to Disk Array in step 2 3 of the Register Logical Drive wizard Number PD O25 282 yn ee EJ PD e252s3 135GB EJ PD e25254 135GB O amp pp e252s5 2 RAID 10 or RAID 50 is select as the RAID Level x select Physical Devices used for the Logical Drive STEP 2 3 Selection of Physical Device For RAID 10 check the check boxes of four Physical a a E E Devices For RAID 50 check the check boxes of six or larger Physical Devices Further the number of Type SAs HDD z Physical Devices should be even and more than 95 Physical Device E TES S After the selection click Next PD 25252 GB EJ PD e252s3 135GB E PD e252s4 135GB EJ PD e252s5 80 Step 6 In step 3 3 select the setting items of xl the Logical Drive to be registered Capacity should STEP 3 3 Selection of the Select Items be a value within the Capacity of the Logical Drive to Select all Select Items for creating of Logical Drive be created If the RAID Level of the Logical Drive to be created is RAID 10 or RAID 50 you do not have to Selected RAID Leve RAIDS enter the value Select Stripe Size Cache Mode l and Initialize Mode After selecting all the setting oe ss GB 1 66 items click Next Stripe Size 64KB Cache Mode Auto Switch Initialize Mode Full v cee
13. Computer ene tte a A E RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 A E RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 lt 4 ff Battery Normal 8 Battery Normal Pod BEY Disk Array 1 SE Disk Array 100 E LD 1 Online RAID 5 E LD 1 Online RAID 5 Ey PD e252s2 Online SAS HDD ER PD e25252 Online SAS HDD EB PD 225253 Online SAS HDD lt EA PD 625253 Online SAS HDD EE PD e25254 Online SAS HDD EA PD 225254 Online S M A R T SAS HDD E PD e252s5 Dedicated HAt spare 545 HDO E PD 625255 Dedicetid Hot Spare S45 HDD Physical Device which detected S M A R T error Warning Property of RAID Viewer The S M A R T of Physical Device Properties becomes Detected when S M A R T error is detected Item Value Item Value Enclosure 252 Enclosure 252 Enclosure connection Internal Enclosure connection Internal Slot 4 Slot 4 ID 78 ID 73 Device Type HDD Device Type ae Interface SAS Interface Physical Device which Vendor Model SEAGATE ST914680355 Vendor Model detected S M A R T error Firmware Version Noo6 Firmware Version Detected Serial Number SSDOWIO4 Serial Number eS Capacity 135GB Capacity 135GB Status nnn Onine ee Status O De cece SM A R T ormial S M A R T Detected Power Status Power Status as ON Of nee oil Property of raidcmd The S M A R T of Physical Device Properties becomes Detected when S M A R T error is detected gt raidemd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4
14. Cu oea Step 7 If you click Next in step 3 3 then Register Logical Drive Completing the Register Logical Drive Wizard will Completing the Register Logical Drive wizard appear Click Finish to register the Logical Drive Click Finish button close this wizard with the data selected on the wizard To change some data click Back You have successfully set the contents of creating Logical Drive This wizard registers the Logical Drive to the Logical Drive list in Create Logical Drive Custom dialog box Step 8 At the completion of the Register Logical x j j j j j j j j Click Add button to register th ting Logical Drive to the below list Drive wizard the Logical Drive is registered in the list Geb Te button t cesta the Loge Dive onthe below Ist of the Create Logical Drive Custom dialog box RAID Level Capacity Stripe Size Cache Mode Initialization Mode RAIDS 46GB 64KB Auto Switch Full OK Cancel Step 9 To create other Logical Drives click Add xi j Click Add button t ister th ting Logical Drive to the below list and repeat steps 4 to 8 by the number of Logical Ge OK Thunor 1o Aeae PaCS DREG GSW T Drives to be created i 7 2 i i i Delete After registering all Logical Drives to create click RAID Level Capacity Stripe Size Cache Mode Initialization Mode OK Then the dialog box is closed and the registered TEE PE SA See Ri Logical Drives are created Check the co
15. error message gt Commands of raidcmd See Appendix B raidcmd Command Reference for commands of the raidcmd Use help command displays the help of raidcmd Termination of raidcmd In case of the operating system is Windows raidcmd is the batch file in system folder the batch file in system folder call raidcmd binary in the installed folder of Universal RAID Utility Therefore if you terminate raidcmd by CTRL C key the operating system displays the message as Terminate batch job Y N When this message is displayed raidcmd binary has already been terminated RAID System Configuration raidcmd displays the RAID System configuration in a tree view the same as RAID Viewer Execute raidcmd without a command to display the RAID System configuration The version of Universal RAID Utility and the configuration of gt the current RAID System will appear gt raidcmd re Universal RAID Utility Ver 3 00 Revision XXXX raidcmd Ver 2 6 1 0 RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8 Battery Normal Disk Array 1 LD 1 Online RAID 1 PD e252s0 Onl ine SATA HDD PD e252s1 Online SATA HDD Disk Array 2 LD 2 Online RAID 5 PD e252s2 Online SAS HDD PD e252s3 Online SAS HDD PD e252s4 Online SAS HDD PD e252s5 Ready SAS HDD PD e252s6 Ready SATA HDD SSD PD e252s7 Ready SATA HDD SSD 49 Referring to Information on RAID System This chapter describes how to see the config
16. ma RAID Controller Fatal One or more components on the RAID Controller including Battery Flash Backup Unit Logical Drives and Physical Devices are in the following condition Containing one or more failed components and being inoperable 36 Battery If the RAID Controller has the Battery the RAID Controller node has a Battery node A Battery node and icon shows the status of Battery Icon Battery lt Status gt Item Description lt Status gt Indicates the status of the Battery installed in the RAID Controller Icon Meaning Description HE Battery Normal The Battery operates normally 5 Battery Warning The RAID Controller detects any problem of the Battery Flash Backup Unit If the RAID Controller has the Flash Backup Unit the RAID Controller node has a Flash Backup Unit node A Flash Backup Unit node and icon shows the status of Flash Backup Unit Icon Flash Backup Unit lt Status gt Item Description lt Status gt Indicates the status of the Flash Backup Unit installed in the RAID Controller Icon Meaning Description HE Flash Backup Unit Normal The Flash Backup Unit operates normally HE Flash Backup Unit Warning The RAID Controller detects any problem of the Flash Backup Unit Disk Array If there are some Logical Drive in the RAID Controller the RAID Controller node has the Disk Array nodes included the Logical Drives The Disk Array node equals a Disk Array and shows th
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18. 1 Consistency Check was starte Buzzer Degrnstan oone tieou sia ona a P t Type aime 1 Deserin amparan 301304 aRp ao RUDI ETRE DD PDA area RND GB ENON SLT DUOALTOR ATLASINI 14 rask Canter gt RAID Spaten gt RAD Speealafoenion TE tnfvonaion aE JS 1304ca 0p a IND OTM 10D D LAD Loga Di I ener sm 141338 mH aN SLT PALTAR ATLASI IA _ Binnain ins Cee ERITREA es C mse pre onra 9 Benen 12238809 ech ELT PARTAR ATLAS Oime amonnan ina ccouy a RUD ETL DA a aez uraansa orta Geym TLT nArToR ATLABUES 14 a tera iy E eae A wusing XOP 1312 PCOE ND A NATELY LATED Loe prenesen OT i Snan fer no no TM E a e HTN ess HS BE aTa TOR ATLAS mo Batumi F728 190535060 4 FAD OTR ID ALDI Laer DA Sume ere igoenroa ATENO SLTP MARTOR ATLASES 4 A rang BORN CRAM AD AT OTP IGO LOAD Lag Bence moman ansosccaom ama oD TEE atten B Bian connate Pr al es I acai OS Log socoooooooooooo Figure 23 Troubleshooting image of RAID System 111 cocoocooocoooo secoccocoooooo weeccceseccccce eveccceveesccce eeecccceccccce Failure Detection Measures The Universal RAID Utility provides several fault detection measures as shown in Figure 23 Troubleshooting image of RAID System The measures are described below Status Display by RAID V
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20. Devices may change See the property of the Physical Device to check the ID of the Physical Device For details on the property of Physical Devices see Referring to Property of Physical Device Universal RAID Utility Ver2 4 Universal RAID Utility Ver2 5 or later ey Computer El Computer El RAID Controller 1 0 MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 i RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8i fee i Battery Normal fi Battery Normal El is Disk Array 1 0 S A Disk Array 1 Lp 0 Online RAID l HEHEHE amp g Del Online LRAID 1 HHEHRHHEHE ED PD 1 0 Online SATA HDD gt G PD e252s0 Onine SATA HDD i ERSEN fOnline SATA HDD TT P E PD 225251 Online SATA ADD 7 G E Disk Array 2 1 CHE Disk array 2 gt ES PD 3 2 Online SAS HDD f EE PD 4 3 Online SAS HDD Fal nn efai anlingal cac unn ff LD 2 1 Online RAID 5 ff LD 2 Online RAID 5 z EE PD e252s2 Online SAS HDD B a PD 25253 Online SAS HDD FS an 7269 4 online cac L Figure 3 Physical Device Number Shortcut Menu Right clicking the node of RAID Controller Disk Array Logical Drive Physical Device Battery and Flash Backup Unit allows the shortcut menu to appear On the shortcut menu you can display the property and execute the something operation See Menu Bar for detail of each function 40 Operation View The Operation View indicates the status and results of operations executed in the server after the
21. Easy Configuration Log viewer Ctrl L mo E wO Touse the Log Viewer you should log on to the computer as a user having the IMPORTANT administrator authority Only users having the administrator authority can execute the Log Viewer When start the Log Viewer on the server not connected to internet may wait a few minutes until startup the Log Viewer See Verification of Authenticode signature at the startup of the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer for detail eo Only a single Log Viewer can be started at a time Select File on the Menu Bar of the Log Viewer and click Exit to close the Log Viewer Reflesh F5 Froperties Exit Alt F4 31 raidcmd raidcmd is command on console as Command Prompt in Windows and console terminal in Linux and VMware ESX The raidcmd is executed on a console Use the raidcmd by the methods described in Functions of raidcmd wO Auser having the administrator authority should run the raidcmd Only users having the IMPORTANT administrator authority can execute the raidcmd In case of the operating system is Linux or VMware ESX the raidcmd can t start by existing the lock file after aborted it If you start the raidcmd when the lock file exists the raidcmd displays the following message raidcmd lt RU4009 gt The raidcmd command is already running Delete the lock file var lock subsys raidcmd if the raidcmd displays this message when some processes of the raidcmd do not ex
22. LD 2 ID 1 Logical Drive was created TH Information 2012 01 17 15 46 10 301 lt RU0301 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s4 ID 85 SEAGATE ST914680355 NOO7 Phy fH Information 2012 01 17 15 46 10 301 lt RU0301 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s3 ID 86 SEAGATE ST914680355 NOO7 Phy fH Information 2012 01 17 15 46 10 301 lt RU0301 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s2 ID 27 SEAGATE ST914680355 NOO7 Phy fH Information 2012 01 17 15 11 01 302 lt RU0302 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s5 ID 79 SEAGATE ST97340155 0003 Physi TH Information 2012 01 17 15 11 01 315 lt RUO0315 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s5 ID 79 SEAGATE ST97340155 0003 Glob fH Information 2012 01 17 15 10 40 302 lt RU0302 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s2 ID 27 SEAGATE ST914680355 NY007 Phy HM Information 2012 01 17 15 10 40 302 lt RU0302 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s3 ID 86 SEAGATE ST914680355 NOG HW Information 2012 01 17 15 10 40 416 lt RU0416 gt CTRL 1 D 0 LD 2 ID 1 Logical Drive was deleted Log View fH Information 2012 01 17 15 05 14 311 lt RUO311 gt CTRL 1 D 0 PD e252s4 ID 85 SEAGATE ST914680355 NOO7 bers HM Information 2012 01 17 15 03 03 303 lt RU0303 gt CTRL 1 D 0 PD e252s5 ID 79 SEAGATE ST97340155 0003 Physi fH Information 2012 01 17 15 03 03 313 lt RU0313 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s5 ID 79 SEAGATE ST97340155 0003 Glob Information 2012 01 17 15 03 03 311 lt RUO311 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s5 ID 79 SEAGATE ST97340155 0003 Physi HM Information 2012 01
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24. Logical Drive Delete Logical Drive delld y Create SSD Cache Drive Create SSD Cache Drive mkscd y Delete SSD Cache Drive Delete SSD Cache Drive delscd v Set option parameters of RAID Controller Property of RAID Controller optctrl s Set option parameters of Logical Drive Property of Logical Drive optid s Consistency Check start Start Consistency Check Ce s vA Consistency Check stop Stop on Operation View cC s Y Consistency Check start NA ccs s Y for schedule running Initialize Start Start Initialize init s Initialize stop Stop on Operation View init Y Rebuild start Start Rebuild rebuild s Rebuild stop Stop on Operation View rebuild vA Location of Physical Device Locate slotlamp s s Change Status of Physical Device Online Make Online stspd s Change Status of Physical Device Failed Make Offline stspd s Refresh Battery Refresh Battery refresh s Refresh Battery for schedule running NA refreshs y s Silence Buzzer Silence Buzzer sbuzzer v v 33 o The following message will be displayed when you operate in the Standard Mode with raidcmd Change the RAID System Management Mode to Advanced Mode raidcmd lt RU4004 gt Invalid RAID System Management Mode RAID System Management Mode when startup RAID Viewer and raidcmd RAID Viewer RAID Viewer always starts with Standard Mode You can change the RAID System Management Mode when RAID Viewer starts See Changing RAID System Management Mode at Start of RAID Viewer raidcmd
25. Module raidsrv Y y v Agent Windows Server m i m F m IRE RRREEEE I RAID Viewer Linux VMware ESX raidsrv ee Server Agent raidcmd raidcmd raidsrv Agent RAID System raidsrv RAID System raidsrv service service Universal RAID Utility Windows Version Universal RAID Utility Linux VMware ESX Version Figure 1 Configuration of Universal RAID Utility 10 Functional differences from previous version of Universal RAID Utility Ver2 61 and Ver3 0 The following features have been enhanced and changed from Universal RAID Utility Ver2 61 1 Addition of the following RAID Controllers to be managed by Universal RAID Utility N8103 171 RAID Controller OMB RAID 0 1 N8103 G171 RAID Controller OMB RAID 0 1 11 System requirements This chapter describes system requirements of the Universal RAID Utility Hardware Computers The computers can contain RAID Systems to be managed by the Universal RAID Utility RAID Systems to be managed by Universal RAID Utility For RAID Systems which can be managed by the Universal RAID Utility see the documentation attached to the computer in which RAID Systems are installed and that attached to the RAID Controller including the Universal RAID Utility Software Windows Operating systems The Universal RAID Utility can operate in the fo
26. Number of the RAID Controller containing the Logical Warning Drive to be deleted The all data will be lost on Logical Drive if the partitions I Number of the Logical Drive to be deleted exist on it l l Please make sure there Is no Important data before deleting Logical Drive Step 2 Displays the Warning message and the confirmation message Type yes to reply to the Do you continue yes y or no n yes confirmation message Then a Logical Drive is gt deleted Type no to abort the delete Logical Drive 84 Using CacheCade The CacheCade is the function to create the SSD Cache Drive using Solid State Drive S SSD The SSD Cache Drive operates as the Cache of Logical Drive SSD Cache Drive that improves access performance of the Logical Drive w O The function of creating SSD Cache Drive is available when the CacheCade function is IMPORTANT enabled The function of Create and Delete SSD Cache Drive are not available with the RAID Controller of which the CacheCade is disabled or is not supported Create SSD Cache Drive This section describes the procedure of creating SSD Cache Drive by Create SSD Cache Drive Create SSD Cache Drive is function of creating SSD Cache Drive by selected Solid State Drive The SSD Cache Drive is can create from one Solid State Drive w O The function of Create SSD Cache Drive is available only in the Advanced mode Make sure IMPORTANT that the RAID System management
27. RAID Viewer is started d Stop Rebuild RAID Controller 1 PD e2525 Running 4 Delete Initialize RAID ae 1 LD 2 Completed Rebuild RAID Controller 1 PD e25254 Stopped Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Completed Initialize RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Completed Figure 4 Operation View The following operations may appear on the Operation View For each operation the target RAID Controller Logical Drive or Physical Device and the status of the operation appear Initialize Rebuild Consistency Check Operations being executed while the RAID Viewer is started and those started after the RAID Viewer is started are listed You can see the status and result of operations by the value of Status Status Description Running N The operation is running N is progress Completed The operation completed Failed The operation failed Stopped The operation stopped by Stop Paused N The operation is paused N is progress Queued N The operation is queued N is progress Stop Processing The operation is being stopped by Stop Terminated operations continue to appear until the RAID Viewer is closed However the terminated operations will not appear at the next start of the RAID Viewer To delete an operation terminated while the RAID Viewer is m started click the operation to be deleted and Delete a ae Tritlize RAID TAF 1 LD 2 oaea Consistency Check RAID Controler 1
28. Remove Program to list MEER microsoft voual C 2005 Redstrbutable Sze 5 21MB Currently installed programs If the following program exists in the list of Currently installed oe programs Microsoft NET Framework is not required to be installed If the following package does not exist install the package Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 for x64 Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 x64 Step 3 Microsoft NET Framework Version 2 0 uses different packages depending on the CPU architecture See the table below to download and install the required packages CPU architecture Required components and their vendors x86 Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 Service Pack 1 x86 http www microsoft com en us download details aspx id 16614 18 Installation Windows The Setup Program installs Universal RAID Utility when there is no Universal RAID Utility in the server Step 1 Check if the operating system recognizes all the RAID Controllers connected Please be sure to connect all the RAID Controllers before installing Universal RAID Utility wO PORTANT The program to control the RAID Controller depends on the type of RAID Controller Please be sure to connect all the RAID Controllers first then install Universal RAID Utility Step 2 Click Start Run Browse Click setup exe in the folder contained the installation image of Universal RAID Utility and click Open in the Browse dialog box Recognize that displays
29. SP 1 or later Software VMware ESX VMware ESX The Universal RAID Utility can operate in the following VMware ESX VMware ESX 4 0 Update3 or later VMware ESX 4 1 You must install the Universal RAID Utility in the service console Do not install in the virtual machine 13 Others Resources Resource Windows Linux VMware ESX Available Hard Disk Space 250MB or more not include Microsoft NET Framework not include the required packages as Ver2 0 standard C library etc TCP ports used by Universal RAID Utility The Universal RAID Utility uses the following three TCP ports Description Port numbers in Ver2 6 Port numbers in Ver2 61 and earlier versions and later versions data port 52805 5016 raidsrv Agent Communication port 52807 5018 Ty Other ports than those described above will be used when you manage the RAID System Dia using NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver5 5 See NEC ESMPRO Manager Installation Guide for details The TCP ports Universal RAID Utility uses have been changed in Universal RAID Utility Version 2 61 Some of the users may have to change the settings of Universal RAID Utility or other applications depending on the current settings of the system environment when you are going to update Universal RAID Utility from Ver2 6 or earlier versions to Ver2 61 or later versions See the following table for details 14 Taking over TCP port numbers Settings for Firewall etc When other applicatio
30. SSD Indicates the status of the Physical Device Five possible status are as follows Online Indicates that the Physical Device is incorporated into a Logical Drive to operate normally Failed Indicates that the Physical Device is incorporated Rebuilding Indicates that the Physical Device is rebuilding Hot Spare Indicates that the Physical Device is set as a Hot Spare Ready Indicates that the Physical Device is not incorporated into a Logical Drive This item is indicated when Device Type item is HDD or HDD SSD Indicates the Hot Spare mode of the Physical Device if it is specified as a Hot Spare Two possible modes are as follows Global The Physical Device can be used as a Hot Spare of any Disk Array in the RAID Controller Dedicated The Physical Device can be used as a Hot Spare of the specified Disk Array Also indicates the number of the specified Disk Array This item is displayed only when Status is Hot Spare Indicates the diagnosis result of S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology function Two possible statuses are as follows Normal Does not detect any error caused by the S M A R T function Detected Detects one or more errors caused by the S M A R T function This item is indicated when Device Type item is HDD or HDD SSD 56 Item Item Description RAID Viewer raidcmd Power Status Power Status Indicates the Power Status of Physical Device Three possible conditions are
31. and execute Consistency Check Wdy The RAID log is not deleted at the uninstallation of Universal RAID Utility You can refer the log TTS files even after uninstalling Universal RAID Utility Preparing installation Windows RAID Viewer and Log Viewer use Microsoft NET Framework Versions 2 0 to 3 5 Install these components if it does not exist in the computer where the Universal RAID Utility is to be installed ae Skip this section when you exclude RAID Viewer and Log Viewer from the modules to be installed at the installation of Universal RAID Utility Go to Installation Windows Installation of Microsoft NET Framework W Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Vista Windows 7 include NET Framework Versions 2 0 to 3 5 Therefore you do not need to install NET Framework in case of using them as operating system Install NET Framework Versions 2 0 to 3 5 when you are going to use Universal RAID Utility on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 It is because only NET Framework 4 5 is included in the operating system You can download it from the following Web site http msdn microsoft com en us library vstudio hh506443 aspx IMPORTANT Step 1 Click Start Control Panel Then E Add or Remove Programs ie x double click Add or Remove Program E currently installed programs I show updetes Sortby None aie i jB Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 Size 121 00MB Step 2 Click Change or
32. below wO Setting Consistency Check Priority are available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Step 2 Click the Options tab in the RAID Controller Properties dialog box Change the value of Consistency Check Priority to High Middle or Low Click OK or Apply raidcmd Step 1 Execute optctrl command with ccp option and the following parameters c Number of the RAID Controller for which Consistency Check Priority is set ccp Select high middle or low to change the consistency check priority Ex Set the priority of the Consistency Check of the RAID Controller RAID Controller Number 1 to Middle raidcmd optctrl c 1 ccp middle Step 2 The property of the RAID Controller changes as follows Consistency Check Priority Priority after change Check the execution result by using property command tg Specify rc to browse the property of RAID Controller c The number of the RAID Controller Start the RAID Viewer Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu REDUI FOUL Consistency Check Priority Patrol Read Patrol Read Priority mi mase Mate gt raidcmd optctr c 1 ccpmmiddle gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 RAID Controller 1 0 LSI Corporation LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8i 3 140 05 1294 1 024MB CacheCade gt Normal i miMa dice Middle Patel Read Tanabe e Patrol Read
33. by using oplist command The result of initializing the Logical Drive can be checked by RAID Log Disk Arrays and Physical Devices Available for Create Logical Drive Custom Mode For Create Logical Drive Custom Mode Disk Arrays or unused Physical Devices are available depending on the RAID Level of the Logical Drive to be created Physical Devices in which M A R T errors are detected cannot be used to create Logical Drives Disk Array which does not have any Logical Drive cannot be used to create Logical Drives y Y Unused Physical Devices are those with their Status being Ready TIPS Logical Drive with RAID Level being RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 Disk Arrays containing empty areas or unused Physical Devices are available for creating a Logical Drive with the RAID Level being RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 Among empty areas in a Disk Array the empty area existing at the end of the Disk Array can be used The RAID Level of a Logical Drive to be created must be the same as that of the Logical Drives existing in the area used on the Disk Array If unused Physical Devices are used create a Disk Array and create a Logical Drive on it Logical Drive with RAID Level being RAID 10 or RAID 50 Only unused Physical Devices are available for Logical Drives with RAID Level being RAID 10 or RAID 50 82 Creating Logical Drives by Create Logical Drive Custom Mode This section describes the information on Log
34. configuration of the RAID System to be configured by the Easy Configuration To configure the RAID System according to the displayed information type yes To change the configuration type no If you type yes the raidcmd executes the configuration of the RAID System After the easy configuration is finished successfully raidcmd terminates normally Making Logical Drives and Hot Spares is now completed See the property of each component to check the configuration However the Initialize of the Logical Drives having been created may not be completed The progress of initializing the Logical Drives can be checked by using oplist command The result of initializing the Logical Drive can be checked by RAID Log Execute econfig command 70 gt raidcmd econfig mnnn Step 1 3 Select RAID Controller RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8i RAID Controller C Step 2 3 Set the contents of configuration lt Physical Device Type SAS HDD gt Unused Physical Device count Physical Device count using Logical Drive s 2 4 Hot Spare count Do you continue yes y or no n y Maximum Logical Drive count Creating Logical Drive count 1 Do you continue yes y or no n lt Physical Device Type SATA HDD gt Unused Physical Device count Physical Device count using Logical Drive s 2 Hot Spare count SE LELLI Do you continue yes y or no n y Maximum Logical Drive count Creating L
35. confirm the operation history of Universal RAID Utility with this log Log for maintenance use The log is for maintenance use The user is not required to browse it The old logs will be eliminated when the capacity of raid log exceeds 4MB You can keep it by renaming the log file When it is renamed Universal RAID Utility creates a new raid log Location where log files are created See Logging Events to RAID Log for the location where each log file is created 134 NEC ESMPRO Manager Simultaneous operation from two or more NEC ESMPRO Manager The following error might occur from NEC ESMPRO Manager to RAID System when runs the operation When the following error occurs there is a possibility of running the operation at the same time from other NEC ESMPRO Manager to same RAID System Please changes timing if whether it operates it like this is confirmed and it goes and operate it again The system error occurred Please ask it which component has broken 135
36. different types exist in the RAID Controller click the type to be used on Type Next check the check boxes of Physical Devices to be used on Physical Device You must select Physical Devices to be used by the number allowing the RAID Level selected in Step 1 3 to be created After selecting Physical Devices properly click Next Step 5 Step 3 3 indicates the information on the Logical Drive to be created Click OK to create the Logical Drive with the functions Click Back to change one or more functions Step 6 In step 3 3 click OK to create the Logical Drive After the Logical Drive is created completely Completing the Create Logical Drive Simple Wizard appears Now the Logical Drive has been created completely Close the wizard and check Create Logical Drive Simple x STEP 2 3 Selection of Physical Devices Select Physical Devices for creating of Logical Drive Number EJ PD e252s2 EJ PD e252s3 EJ PD e252s4 O E Po e252s5 Type Physical Device 135GB 135GB 135GB Create Logical Drive Simple x STEP 3 3 Check the contents Click OK button create a Logical Drive by the folowing contents and start to initialize it _RAID Level Capacity 271GB Cache Mode Initialize Mode Auto Switch Full Number E tp 2 RAIDS Stripe Size 64KB Create Logical Drive Simple x Completing the Create Logical Drive Simple wizard Click Finish button close
37. for detail To check the execution status of operation by raidcmd use gt raidomd oplist oplist command RAID Controller 1 Wn aed LD 1 Consistency Check Running 52 The following operations are displayed by oplist command fig 2 Initialize Running 33 The target components and status appear in operations PD e252s0 Rebuild Running 99 Initialize RAID Controller 2 LD 1 Consistency Check Running 2 Rebuild PD e47s0 Rebuild Paused 22 2 Consistency Check The operation performed at execution of the raidcmd appears Terminated operations do not appear For the results of terminated operations see the RAID Log and or properties Status Description Running N The operation is running N is progress Paused N The operation is paused N is progress Queued N The operation is queued N is progress Updating Information of RAID System The management information of RAID System managed by the Universal RAID Utility is corrected by the raidsrv service at the following timings Starting raidsrv service Receiving an event such as change of RAID System status or change of execution status of an operation having occurred To update the management information of the RAID System to the latest collect the newest information of all RAID System by the RAID Viewer and raidcmd RAID Viewer Use Rescan in File menu Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer The raidsrv service acquires the information o
38. in the following folder lt Universal RAID Utility installed folder gt gui 133 The different behavior between RAID Viewer and raidcmd for N8103 171 G171 N8103 171 G1 71 has differences in the time operated from RAID Viewer and the time operated from raidcmd Refer to the following table for details Operation RAID Viewer raidcmd Display the value of Cache The items do not appear One of Auto Switch Write Mode Setting in Logical Drive Through Write Back are appeared Property Specify Cache Mode in Create Cache Mode cannot be Cache Mode can be designated But the Logical Drive Custom Mode designated Cache Mode Current is not changed Logs output from Universal RAID Utility Log Rotation The maximum capacity of the log output from Universal RAID Utility and the handling when the capacity exceeds the limitation depends on the type of the log described as below File name Max capacity Handling when the capacity exceeds the limitation Use Removes approximately 1MB old logs raid log raid_log_bin dat raidsrv log raidapi log raidconn storelib log raidsrv_agent log Overwrites it if the bak file already exists For maintenance use raidsrv_agent_dll log battery log Created only when the battery is attached to the RAID Controller ra ope Renames the log file by suffixing bak to the file name Log for User The log contains the events of the RAID Controller The user can
39. is failed if HDD Power Saving is disable items Device Standby Time on the Options tab do not appear optctrl command of raidcmd is failed f you set any value other than 30 minutes 1 hour 2 hours 4 hours or 8 hours that can be selected on Universal RAID Utility by the BIOS utility the value appears in a selectable list on Universal RAID Utility as a current value RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu Step 2 Click the Option tab in the RAID HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Enable Controller X Properties dialog box Change the Device Standby Time 2 hours value of Device Standby Time Click OK or Apply J mites 1 hour hours 8 hours 103 raidcmd Step 1 Execute the optctrl command with dst option and the defined parameters c Number of RAID Controller for which Device Standby Time is set dst Select 0 5 1 2 4 or 8 hours to change the Device Standby Time Ex Changes the value of Device Standby Time to 2hours RAID Controller Number is 1 raidcmd optctrl c 1 dst 2 Step 2 The property of the RAID Controller changes after the setting has been changed successfully Device Standby Time Value after change gt raidcmd optctr c 1 dst 2 gt gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 RAID Controller 1 0 LSI Corporation LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 Firmware Versio
40. menu items cannot be executed If so clicking such a menu item is disabled File menu File menu includes items for updating the display information on the RAID Viewer displaying the property of each component and terminating the RAID Viewer Menu item Description Rescan The Universal RAID Utility acquires the configuration and state information from all of RAID System again and updates the management information by them The RAID Viewer displays the newest information Properties Indicates the property of the RAID Controller Battery Flash Backup Unit Disk Array Logical Drive or Physical Device selected on the Tree View Exit Closes the RAID Viewer Control menu Control menu includes items for operating RAID Controllers Logical Drives and Physical Devices To use a function subordinate to Control menu first click the target component on the Tree View and select the menu item to be executed from the pull down menu Some functions of Control menu may be disabled depending on the type or status of the selected component If the RAID System Management Mode of the RAID Viewer is set to the Standard Mode the functions restricted in the Standard Mode are disabled See Standard and Advanced Modes for the functions available depending on RAID System Management Modes 42 Functions executable by RAID Controller Menu item Description Create Logical Drive Creates a Logical Drive in the selected RAID Contr
41. mode is Advanced mode Be sure to use the same size and spec of solid state drives when you create SSD Cache Drive with more than one solid state drives RAID Viewer Step 1 Connect Solid State Drive s used for an SSD Cache Drive to the RAID Controller before starting Create SSD Cache Drive if required If the Solid State Drive s is connected completely start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Click a RAID Controller on the Tree View Click Create SSD Control Tool Help Cache Drive on the Control menu EE fs Create Logical Drive Create SSD Cache Drive Step 3 The Create SSD Cache Drive dialog box x is started Select Solid State Drive s to be used to create the SSD Cache Drive If the different types of Solid State Drives exist in the RAID Controller select the Type interface type to be used on Type Next check the check boxes of Solid State Drive to be used on Physical Device You can select one or more Solid State Drives After selecting Solid State Drive s properly click Next Selection of Physical Devices Select Physical Devices to use for creating of SSD Cache Drive Physical Device Number EJ PD e252s6 92GB O amp pp e252s7 46GB neei 85 Step 4 Click Next The Check the contents x and completing the Create SSD Cache Drive Wizard window appears The window shows the contents of SSD Cache Drive to be created Nu Capacity To create an SSD Cache Drive with th
42. set to Failed forcibly st Specify offline Ex Set the Physical Device RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number 252sA4 to Failed raidcmd stspd c 1 p e252s4 st offline Step 2 Displays the Warning message and the confirmation message Type yes to reply to the confirmation message Then Status of the Physical Device is changed to Failed Type No to abort the change status of the Physical Device Step 3 If stspd command succeeds the Status of the Physical Device is set to Failed gt raidcmd stspd c 1 p e252s4 st offl ine Make the Physical Device e252s4 offline Warning The redundancy of Logical Drive will be lost Do you continue yes y or no n yes gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 Device e252s4 252 RAID Controller 1 Physical Enclosure Enclosure Position Slot ID Device Type Interface Vendor Mode Firmware Version Serial Number Canan ety Status Galt Aske come Status Use the property command to see the property of the Physical Device tg Specify pd to see the property of the Physical Device c The number of the RAID Controller in which the Physical Device exists p The number of the Physical Device Ex Check the property of the Physical Device RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number e252s4 raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 108 Internal 21 HDD gt SAS SEAGATE ST936 701SS 0003
43. setup exe in Name box on Run dialog box and click OK Step 3 The installation starts the InstallShield Wizard of the ere TETE Universal RAID Utility Click Next Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Universal RAID Utility The InstallShield Wizard will install Universal RAID Utility on your computer To continue click Next Step 4 The Universal RAID Utility is installed in Program Files Universal RAID Utility or Program Files x86 for x64 in Universal RAID Utility InstallShield Wizard Choose Destination Location the drive where the OS is started by default To change the Select folder where setup will install files installation folder click Change and enter another installation folder Click Next Cy Install Universal RAID Utility to C Program Files Universal RAID Utility InstallShield E Cancel Step 5 Select the modules you would like to install All the modules are selected in default Uncheck the checkbox apical eat depending on your requirement Note that the raidsrv service an d ra id cm d must be in sta led Select the modules you want to install and deselect the modules you do not want to install Click N ext i The raidsry service and raidemd moduels will be installed by default Other modules including RAID Viewer Log Viewer and NEC ESMPRO Manager Communication Module are optional Select the modules the setup will install M Description raidsrv se
44. st option and the following parameters c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device with its status set to Online forcibly p Number of the Physical Device with its status set to Online forcibly st Specify online Ex Make the Physical Device RAID Controller Number 1 and Physical Device Number e252s4 Online forcibly raidcmd stspd c 1 p e252s4 st online Step 2 Displays the Warning message and the confirmation message Type yes to reply to the confirmation message Then Status of the Physical Device is changed to Online Type No to abort the gt raidcmd stspd c 1 p e252s4 st onl ine Make the Physical Device e252s4 onl ine KETA The consistency of Logical Drive will be lost Do you continue yes y or no n yes gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 Device e252s4 252 RAID Controller 1 Physical Enclosure Enclosure Position Slot AD Device Type Interface Vendor Mode Firmware Version Serial Number Capaci ty Status Cin A Rol Power Status Internal Of HDD SAS SEAGATE ST936 701SS 0003 3LC05ZZG 32GB Online a Nenna On change status of the Physical Device Step 3 If stspd command succeeds the Status of the Physical Device is set to Online Use the property command to see the property of the Physical Device tg Specify pd to see the property of the Physical Device c The number of the RAID Con
45. the Turn off function according to the kind of RAID Controller w RAID Viewer and raidcmd do not support the indication of the status ON or OFF of DISK Wii lamp Therefore you can t recognize the location of the Physical Device when you turn ON the lamp of two or more Physical Devices at same time You should turn ON the lamp of Physical Device one by one It is convenient when you put down the number of the Physical Device which turned on a DISK lamp because you can confirm the number of the Physical Device when turn off the DISK lamp Procedure of Checking Location of Physical Device Locate is executed for a Physical Device The locate procedure is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Physical Device to be located on the tree view select Locate on the Control menu and click ON Then the DISK lamp on the Physical Device goes on or blinks depending on the type of the server The DISK lamp automatically is turned off in 3 minutes MIJE LITT ie Step 2 In case of the RAID Controller with Turn off function OFF of Locate in the Control menu becomes enable To turn off the DISK lamp click a Physical Device to be located on the Tree View select Locate on the Control menu and click OFF raidcmd Step 1 To turn on the DISK lamp for locate execute slotlamp command with the sw option set gt raidcmd slotlamp c 1 p e252s4 sw on to on using the following parameters gt
46. this wizard You have successfully created the Logical Drive Sequentially initializing the Logical Drive You can see the progress and the result of initialization by Operation View and Log Viewer the information on the Logical Drive on the Tree View However the Logical Drive having been created may not be initialized yet Check the progress or result of the Initialize of the Logical Drive on the Operation View raidcmd Step 1 Connect Physical Devices used for a Logical Drive to the RAID Controller before executing raidcmd if required Step 2 Execute mklds command with the following parameters gt raidcmd mklds c 1 p e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 r 5 raidcomd creates Logical Drive 1 c Number of the RAID Controller in which a Logical Drive is created p Numbers of the Physical Devices with which a Logical Drive is created The required number of Physical Devices varies depending on the RAID Level of the Logical Drive to be created rl RAID Level at which a Logical Drive is made Create Logical Drive Simple Mode allows a Logical Drive with RAID Level being RAID 1 or RAID 5 to be created Do you continue yes y or no n yes raidcomd created Logical Drive 1 and started to initialize it You can see the progress and the result of initialize by oplist and property commands gt Ex Create RAID 5 Logical Drive in the Simple Mode using Physical Devices RAID Controller Number 1 and Physi
47. version 3 0 This User s Guide consists of the following four files User s Guide This file uru30eug pdf Appendix A Glossary uru30euga pdf Appendix B raidcmd Command Reference uru30eugb pdf Appendix C Logs Events uru30eugc pdf See Appendix A Glossary for the terms on the Universal RAID Utility and those used in this User s Guide Universal RAID Utility indicates Universal RAID Utility Versions 3 0 Before using Universal RAID Utility you should carefully read the User s Guide of the RAID System managed by the Universal RAID Utility and that of the computer in which the RAID System is installed The User s Guide is intended to be read by engineers who are fully familiar with the functions and operations of Windows and Linux See the Windows and Linux online help and related documentation for the operations and concerns of Windows and Linux Symbols used in the text The User s Guide uses the following three symbols Follow these symbols and their meanings to use the Universal RAID Utility appropriately Indicates a matter or caution you should particularly obey on operations of the Universal RAID Utility IMPORTANT o Indicates a notice you should check to operate the Universal RAID Utility ty Indicates effective or convenient information which help you if you know them maes TIPS Contents OVERVICW aesan Aaa 9 Whatis Universal RAID UUI ss scusiscawimenccsacsaurs a a a a A AE A
48. 1 eg For the rom packages indicated with in the following tables be sure to specify the rom TS packages as shown below for interdependence Note that there is no interdependence between the packages indicated with and rom ivh package name rpm package name rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 8 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 4 or later MIRACLE LINUX V4 0 SP 2 or later Asianux Server 3 packages x86 x64 standard C library libstdc libstdc i386 GCC library lipgcc lipgcc i386 cron vixie cron vixie cron others iptables iptables pciutils pciutils psmisc Note2 psmisc Note2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 0 or later packages x86 x64 standard C library libstdc libstdc i686 GCC library lipgcc lipgcc i686 cron cronie cronie cronie anacron cronie anacron crontabs crontabs others pciutils pciutils nss softokn freebl nss softokn freebl i686 iptables iptables psmisc Note2 psmisc Note2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 or later packages standard C library GCC library libstdc x86 x64 libstdc liogcc libgcc syslog ng syslog ng syslog ng SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 or later packages klogd klogd standard C library libstdc GCC library liogcc syslog ng syslog ng klogd lionet ex Note1 This is r
49. 17 15 02 47 311 lt RUO311 gt CTRL 1 D 0 PD e252s7 ID 47 ATA SSDSA2SH064G1GC 8861 tall e ee ee ee a ee r m 5 _ e o _ e m 4 F Status Bar Figure 7 Structure of Log Viewer The Status Bar is used only for changing the size of the Log Viewer window 45 Log View The Log View indicates RAID System operation logs logged by the raidsrv service You can view the following information on the Log View Item Description Type Logs are classified into three types as follows ts Fatal A log of the type is registered when a fatal error occurs A Warning A log of the type is registered when a problem occurs which is not fatal but requires your attention Information A log of the type is registered at occurrence of an event such as execution of an operation without any problem Date Indicates the date on which the event occurred Time Indicates the time at which the event occurred in the 24 hour format ID Indicates the event ID of the log Description Indicates the contents of the log Double clicking an arbitrary log allows the detailed Event Progen x information on the log to be displayed Event Date 2012 01 12 Time 14 33 27 Type Error lt RUO304 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e25254 ID 20 SEAGATE 7914680355 NO007 Physical Device is Failed 46 Menu Bar The Log Viewer has two menu items or File and Help on the Menu Bar ff Universal RAID Utility Log Yiewer F
50. 4KB Displayed only when Type is Logical Drive Indicates the mode of writing data to the cache memory installed in the RAID Controller Three possible modes are as follows Auto Switch Switches the mode automatically between Write Back and Write Through depending on the existence and or status of Battery and Flash Backup Unit For onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID it is set as Write Back Write Back Writes data to the cache memory asynchronously Write Through Writes data to the cache memory synchronously Displayed only when Type is Logical Drive Indicates the current value of the mode of writing data to the cache memory installed in the RAID Controller For onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID it indicates the current status of the HDD Write Cache Two possible modes are as follows Write Back Writes data to the cache memory asynchronously Write Through Writes data to the cache memory synchronously Displayed only when Type is Logical Drive Indicates the status of the Logical Drive Three possible status are as follows Online Indicates that the redundancy of the Logical Drive is retained Degraded Indicates that the redundancy of the Logical Drive is lost or degraded Accessing to the Logical Drive is enabled Offline Indicates that the Logical Drive is offline and accessing to the Logical Drive is disabled 54 ww Each RAID Controller supports specific RAID Levels and Stripe Siz
51. AID Systemi aiiin a E A 59 Referring to RAID System Operation LOG cccccscssceccstseccecneceececersercnccreuececsesaesesneetseececutsuesesansesenss 60 Configuration Of RAID SySteM aissis a aa 61 MAKING HOCS DAO ia nnn aE EATEN 62 ADOUC GlODal MOE Spal E aiarra A E E A E AAA AEN 62 ADoUtDedicated MOE S DANG niiske a a a tains 63 Making Glopal HOt SHar Cras ireieiotreanda neiaa a a eLA Aa AA i NTA 64 Making Dedicated Hot Spare eiiiai aa a a a ame pasieeeaeelaw oui aaa ncamea nies 65 REMOVING HOCOPAl E aiga a a a aa aa a a 66 cConfigurno RAID System EQS norsioerisieiin a a aaa yteinyiasennemane 68 Procedure of Easy Configuration of RAID SYStCIN cccccsecscctseeseceentceceececutoncaeseeutonsaesassecuseeanseeorseeaeseeenses 68 RAID Controller Enabling Easy Configuration to Be Ex Cuted cccccecseseceeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeseaeeeeeeseeaeseeaeseeaeees 71 Physical Devices Available for Easy Configuration cccccccececseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeseaeeeeeeseeeeeeeaesesaeseeaeseeanees 71 Creating Logical Drives by Easy COnriquratlon iscccssinccscatcasatevecsutacentsanrdiotecinuncnconseiaalecdatieatweiaaveanceteansineat 71 Making Hot Spares by Easy Configuration cccccccececceececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeaeeeeaeeesaeeeeaesesgeaesaeseseeeeeeeaegas 74 Creating Logical DIVE EASY sicaire S A E bis wae vacua uans 76 Operation Procedure of Create Logical Drive Simple MOe cccecscseceeeeseeecseeeseseeeeeeneneesuaesetaeersene
52. Cache Size 1 024MB Premtum Feature 6 Ea tn F lash Backup Untt Stat b 4 4 2121 21 Rebuild Priority ees eNidd 9270CV 8 Firmware Version Cache Size Premium Feature te T F l ash Backup Un it Statys l Rebuild Priority ass Mi Qoanaiatanas t ARANI Driaritu Middla Nanai atannau Chanl Drinaritv le A EOE E eee EEEEEEEEEEEELEEL Figure 29 Display of RAID Viewer raidcmd Abnormal Flash Backup Unit operation 122 Monitoring Enclosure Status The Universal RAID Utility can monitor enclosure status which the RAID Controller detects by the following means RAID Viewer raidcmd RAID Log Buzzer The Universal RAID Utility monitors events of the enclosure detected by the RAID Controller The Universal RAID Utility logs detected enclosure events to the RAID Log In addition the Universal RAID Utility records important event to the OS log and sends alerts to the NEC ESMPRO Manager The RAID Viewer and raidcmd do not indicate the severity of events in this category to Tree View and the property of RAID System See Appendix C Logs Events for detail about the event of enclosure Monitoring Various Events of RAID System The Universal RAID Utility can monitor other events which the RAID Controller detects by the following means RAID Viewer raidcmd RAID Log OS Log The Universal RAID Utility monitors various events of the RAID System as well as failures of Physical Devices B
53. D J PD e252s3 Online SAS HDD o E pa e252s4 Online SAS HDD a i Ready SAS HDD Tree View H PD 2252s6 Ready SATA HDD SSD J PD e252s7 Ready SATA HDD SSD Running 34 Operation View Status Bar Figure 2 Structure of RAID Viewer Tree View The Tree View shows the configuration of RAID Systems managed by the Universal RAID Utility as a hierarchical structure The Tree View also indicates the types and status of components with relevant icons The Tree View displays each RAID System existing in your eB Computer server as a RAID Controller node Each RAID Controller node has the node of a Battery and Flash Backup Unit on RAID Controller created all Logical a Battery Normal Drives and Disk Array and connected all Physical Devices A Se Disk Array 1 single node includes at least a single component of each LD 1 Online RAID 1 a ER PD e252s0 Online SATA HDD Every component is accompanied by an icon The icons B eI T indicate the type and the status of each component server dei ae ao RAID Controller Battery Flash Backup Unit Logical Drive Ed Disk Array 2 and Physical Device graphically fF LD 2 Online RAID 5 m amp PD e25252 Online SAS HDD 35 Server The first level node shows the server in which the Universal RAID Utility operates Icon lt Server name gt Item Description lt Server name gt Indicates the name of server having the RAID System
54. D 50 to be created cp Capacity of a Logical Drive to be created This value may be omitted if a Logical Drive is created by using the whole area of unused Physical Devices You do not specify this option when you create an RAID10 or RAID 50 Logical Drive Ss Stripe Size of a Logical Drive to be created This value may not be specified if the default value for the RAID Controller is used cm Cache Mode of a Logical Drive to be created This value may not be specified if the default value for the RAID Controller is used im Operation mode for Initialize executed after a Logical Drive is created The Full mode is recommended In the Full mode the Initialize Mode may not be specified Ex Create a Logical Drive RAID5 20GB 64 KB stripe size Auto Switch Cache Mode and Full Initialization Mode in the Custom Mode using Physical Devices RAID Controller Number 1 and Physical Devices 252s2 e252s3 and e252s4 raidcmd mkldc c 1 p e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 rl 5 cp 20 ss 64 cm auto im full Step 3 Type yes to reply to the confirmation message Then a Logical Drive is created Step 4 After the Logical Drive is created successfully the raidcmd terminates normally The Logical Drive has been created completely You can check the information on the Logical Drive by using property command However the Initialize of the Logical Drive having been created may not be completed The progress of initializing the Logical Drive can be checked
55. Drive is offline due to failure of Physical Device If you continue to use the RAID System with lost redundancy of a Logical Drive and another Physical Device is failed further the redundancy of the Logical Drive is lost completely two or more Physical Devices of RAID Level 1 or 5 is failed three or more Physical Devices of RAID Level 6 is failed The status of a Logical Drive without redundancy is offline with its Status being Offline The data in a Logical Drive in the offline status is lost Replace all failed Physical Devices and Rebuild the RAID System Structure and Status of RAID System Property of RAID Viewer 1 Offline RAID Level 5 Logical Drive 2 Properties E3 General Option e Controller 1 Logical Disk Array Information RAID Level is Capacity san Stripe Size Disk Array Informat A 2 dder 1 1 r e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 rs a n ai 3 Cache Node crn Online Failed Failed eee y ce acne moge uurren 4 Stripe Sze gt 4KB Cache Mode errent ewWrite Back Become Fatal by existence of RAID Controller 1 Physical Offline node Enclosure Enclosure Position Slot ID gt r Device Type RAI Interface a Vendor Model Enc Firmware Vere Two failed Physical Devices Failed TE Serial Number SEAGATE 5197340255 oan ID ee a we e Firmware Version ane 0002 Serial Number KA 3NPOBXND Capacity i EAEE O yj n Status
56. GCUUing REDUING sirara O A E A A a Panenueesaeianusteceuceanokar 99 SOPPAGIR DUI iiai A A a a a AA 100 Checking Result of Executing Rebuild tiie ceva coi tienes estes ta eens 101 Setting REDOING Pony wiciesscaceudcutenesisaense beaaneus AE E enceneae asa banvanetneneanexenubate wis aceeumsoyeaeaneenes 101 Reducing the power consumption of the Physical Device cccscecceceeseceeeeeeeseseeeeeseeetaeeeseeeeseseeness 102 SEUNG POWE Saving DEVICES satire che ie eaten a Rie eel teak le cele lctan had dole taeda a a 102 SERINO DEVICE STANCDY TMC amasa a a a tetas tea Wenn onica sac a 103 Checking Location of Physical DOV Ce nerenin a a a 105 Procedure of Checking Location of Physical Device s ssssssssereresssnsrsrsrnnnnrnnensnnnnrnrnrnenennnnrnrnnnenenrenrnnne 105 Changing Status of Physical Device FOrcibly ccccsceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeaeeeeaeeaeeeeseeaeseesesaeseneeaes 106 MO OMI MG FORCIDOWY coasts sevaatsapeencace te poe duntnc nents ase ruses pated yaaa th eanene ada conaae ae peeswausiieces tie 106 TO Fane FORGO atiaaire tice e igus cette ite ites ice ita as bse hebe tie Mea Gets celal nae eet eat iat ie eee ea 107 Refreshing the battery of the RAID Controller c cccscseceececeeeeeeeeeneceeeeeeesesseeeeeesetaeseteestsesseeenanes 109 Executing Refresh Battery Manually sivavssrevastusveeeverswistewnisiviawedaaedeaneetnnrvswlvebinvindsdavinuavaweisnuaaveeeevreteeiuee 109 Scheduling REIESM Batey arininn a E AEE O T
57. Hot Spare for the Disk Arrays 1 and 2 I 7 i Disk Array Disk Array j Dedicated Dedicated N u oe e E A A A A Figure 15 Dedicated Hot Spare 4 Making Global Hot Spare The procedure of making a Global Hot Spare is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Physical Device with Status being Ready on the Tree View Step 2 Select Hot Spare on the Control menu sumga and click Make Global Hot Spare Ly Hot Spare Make Global Hot Spare Make Online Make Dedicated Hot Spare Make Offine Remove Hot Spare Hoe OMe a A Step 3 Ifthe Global Hot Spare is created Drakire variuuvynu successfully you can find that the value of Status is Caa 33GB set to Hot Spare and item Hot Spare Information Status Hot Spare appears newly with value Global Hot Spare Information Global 5 M A R T Normal M maara CRS C 64 raidcmd Step 1 Execute hotspare command with mr option and the following parameters gt raidcmd hotspare c 1 p e252s5 mr make Make Global Hot Spare c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device with which a Hot Spare is made Do you continue yes y or no n yes p Number of the Physical Device with which a Global Sraidemd ty te nd 95985 Hot Spare is made ralacma property tg pa c 1 p ezocs mr Specify make to make Global Hot Spare iane ler 1 Physical PeR e20280 Enclosure Position Internal Ex Create a Gl
58. ID S45 9267 5 mA RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 0267 81 lt l Battery Warning HE Disk array 1 nT EME Disk Array de O E LD 1 Online BAIC a ea iin 1 Onl Enara Battery E PD 225250 Online SATA HDD fg PD 225250 Warning Property of RAID Viewer The Status of Battery Properties becomes Warning when there are problem in Battery Battery Properties xj Battery Properties Abnormal Battery Warning ee Property of raidcmd The Battery Status of RAID Controller Properties becomes Warning when there are problem in Battery gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 RAID Controller 1 gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 RAID Controller 1 0 LSI Corporation Abnormal Battery Warning 0 LSI Corporation LSI MegaRAID SAS Firmware Version gt 3 140 05 1294 Cache Size 1 024MB Firmware Version Cache Size Premium Feature l CacheCade Premium Feature CacheCade lt Battery Status Warning Rebuild Priority Rebuild Priority A Middle Paneiaotanayv hanl Driarit Nanai atannau Nhoek sB tavitw Middla Figure 28 Display of RAID Viewer raidcmd Abnormal Battery operation 121 Monitoring Flash Backup Unit Status The Universal RAID Utility can monitor Flash Backup Unit status which the RAID Controller detects by the following means RAID Viewer raidcmd RAID Log Buzzer The Universal
59. LO 2 Stopped Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LO 2 Completed An operation being executed can be stopped on the way To do this click the operation to be stopped and Stop RAID Controller 1 PD e252s54 Running 450 Initialize RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Completed Rebuild RAID Controller 1 PD e252s54 Stopped Consistency Check RAIN Controller 1 1D 7 Comnleted o Operations allowed to be stopped vary depending on RAID System Management Modes See Standard and Advanced Modes for details The stop of the operation might not be supported according to the kind of RAID Controller In that case the Stop does not become effective 41 du When progress is frequently updated such as initializing a Logical Drive with extremely small TIS capacity the progress of Status might not be able to be displayed correctly Correct progress is displayed when Rescan in File menu is run at such time Menu Bar The RAID Viewer has four menu items on the Menu Bar or File Control Tool and Help Af Universal RAID Utility RAID iewer File Control Tool Help Figure 5 Menu of RAID Viewer The following describes the menu items w O With the RAID System Management Mode of the RAID Viewer being Standard the IMPORTANT functions unavailable in the Standard Mode do not appear on the pull down menus of the menu items Depending on the type or status of the target component selected on the Tree View some
60. M Fabled O k O O O an S M AR T Normal Power Status a nrasnennnnanansannnaneanennennnnnnnnanannanannnnnnns E Power Status JOD ns Cena eee ee 5 ec ROE LN gt Normal Prnwer Stati is nn Figure 27 Display of RAID Viewer raidcmd Under lost redundancy of Logical Drive 120 Property of raidcmd gt raidcmd property tg ld c 1 I 1 Drive 1 1 order 1 1 RAID 5 20GB gt 64KB Write Back Write Back gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 Device e252s4 lt 202 Internal 4 2l HDD SAS SEAGATE ST936701SS 0003 3LCO5ZZG 33GB Monitoring Battery Status The Universal RAID Utility can monitor Battery status which the RAID Controller detects by the following means RAID Viewer ay eee RAID Log Buzzer The Universal RAID Utility monitors events of the Battery installed in the RAID Controller The Universal RAID Utility logs detected Battery events in the RAID Log Any event indicating occurrence of a problem in the Battery reflects to the Status of Battery on RAID Viewer and the Battery Status of RAID Controller on raidcmd changes the status to Warning The Battery status is retailed until the problem is solved Tree View of RAID Viewer The status of the node of Battery becomes Warning when there are Become Warning by existence 7 problem in Battery of Warning node Se a see Saans El oO Computer i RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRA
61. Number apaca by Status Gu jk A Ra E Power Status C Number of the RAID Controller to which the Physical Device is connected p Number of the Physical Device Ex Refer to the property of the Physical Device with RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number e252s5 raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s5 67 Internal 55 93 HDD gt SAS SEAGATE 19146853SS NQY1 6XM009S2 EED Ready Normas On Configuring RAID System Easily The Universal RAID Utility supports the Easy Configuration function allowing configurations such as creating Logical Drive and making a Hot Spare to be provided in the state where unused Physical Devices are connected to RAID Controllers If you decide the number of Physical Devices used for data storage or the number of Physical Devices configuring Logical Drives and the number of Physical Devices used as Hot Spares among unused Physical Devices connected to RAID Controllers the Universal RAID Utility automatically configure the RAID System The benefits of configuring a RAID System by using the Easy Configuration are as follows The Universal RAID Utility performs the jobs which must be examined and manipulated to configure a RAID System instead Allowing a RAID System to be configured only by specifying three items or a RAID Controller the number of Physical Devices used for Logical Drives and the number of Logical Drives to be created Allowing the Uni
62. PRO Manager for details 26 Uninstallation Linux VMware ESX Use setup sh in the installation image to uninstall Universal RAID Utility w Use the same version of the Setup Program as the one when you install the current Universal RAID Utility Step 1 Stop raidcmd if you are using it If you uninstall Universal RAID Utility while you are using raidcmd the uninstallation of Universal RAID Utility will fail Step 2 Execute setup sh in the installation image Change the current directory to the directory in which the gt cd directory name involved installation image installation image is stored and type as follows sh setup sh uninstal sh setup sh uninstall gt rpm q UniversalRaidUti ity package UniversalRaidUtility is not instala ed gt Step 3 At the end of setup sh the uninstallation is Tpit ou eci service completed Check the result of the uninstallation by using package eciservice is not installed the rom command When the uninstallation is completed gt rpm q storelib properly the following packages will be uninstalled Pakas storelib isnot installed UniversalRaidUtility x yy z x is major version yy is minor version z is revision number gt rpm q WebPAMPRO_Agent eciservice a bb x i386 a is major version bb is minor package WebPAMPRO_Agent is not installed version Also one or several packages to control RAID Controller are uninstalled If another application is using ec
63. Priority High Buzzer Setting Disable HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Enable Device Standby Time 30 minutes gt Firmware Version Cache Size Premium Feature Battery Status Raba in li mPa iOi intay Consistency Check Priority Ex Browse the property of RAID Controller RAID Controller Number 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 94 Initializing Logical Drive The Initialize writes Os into the entire area of a Logical Drive to erase the data saved in the Logical Drive Use the function when you want to erase the data saved in a Logical Drive fully Initialize has two modes listed in the table below Mode l Description Full Writes Os into the entire area of a Logical Drive to erase the data fully Quick Writes Os into some blocks in a Logical Drive Only erases OS installation and partition management information Initialize of the mode is completed earlier than that of the full mode However because Os are not written into the remaining area data consistency is not held in the Logical Drive 4 Initialize are available only in the Advanced Mode MPORTANT You can initialize Logical Drive with partitions Before initializing Logical Drive check if the Logical Drive contains required data Initializing a Logical Drive causes all the data saved in the Logical Drive to be lost The Consistency Check of a Logical Drive initialized in the quick mode causes a data inconsistency error to occur due to no data consiste
64. RAID Controller 1 Physical Device e252s4 Enclosure 202 Enclosure Position Internal 5 gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 RAID Controller 1 Physical Device e252s4 Enclosure 292 Enclosure Position Internal 5 Device Type Physical Device which Interface detected S M A R T error Vendor Mode Detected Firmware Version 3LC05Z22G 21 Device Type HDD Interface gt SAS Vendor Mode SEAGATE ST936701SS Firmware Version 0003 gt 3LC05ZZG Detected fn Figure 30 Display of RAID Viewer raidcmd Detection of S M A R T error 124 Management of RAID System using NEC ESMPRO Manager You can browse monitor or operate the RAID System that is managed by Universal RAID Utility using NEC ESMPRO Manager after registering the server as the target server to be monitored by NEC ESMPRO Manager See the instruction of NEC ESMPRO Manager about system requirements and how to use This chapter describes the point that should be noted when the RAID System is managed by using NEC ESMPRO Manager System Requirement and Installation Version of NEC ESMPRO Manager The version of NEC ESMPRO Manager that can manage the system in which Universal RAID Utility Ver3 0 is installed must be Ver 5 5 or later You cannot manage the RAID System from Windows GUI of NEC ESMPRO Manager Be sure to use Web GUI to manage the RAID Controller Using RAID System Management Mode The user account of NEC ESMPRO Mana
65. RAID Controller 1 changes to Ready Fl Event Properties Event 302 raidsrv x General Details lt RU0302 gt CTRL 1 D 0 PD e252s3 ID 19 SEAGATE ST9146803SS N007 Physical Device is Ready ie Log Name System 3 Source raidsrv Logged 1 12 2012 5 13 11 PM Event ID 302 Task Category None Level Information Keywords Classic User N A Computer WIN IBLEPHHVGGO OpCode More Information Event Log Online Help Item Description lt RU0302 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 PD e252s3 ID 19 SEAGATE ST936701SS 0003 Indicates event ID The four numeric characters after RU is event ID Indicates RAID Controller number The example CTRL 1 ID O indicates the RAID Controller of which the RAID Controller number is 1 and ID is O Indicates the Physical Device number The example PD e252s3 ID 19 indicates the Physical Device of which the Physical Device number is 252s3 and ID is 19 Indicates the product name of the Physical Device 113 Linux and VMware ESX Example 1 When Logical Drive 1 on RAID Controller 2 is degraded Jun 27 18 49 04 localhost raidsrv 27370 lt RUO402 gt CTRL 2 ID 1 LD 1 ID 0 Logical Drive is Degraded raidsrv Indicates the process name of Universal RAID Utility lt RU0402 gt Indicates event ID The four numeric characters after RU is event ID CTRL 2 ID 1 Indicates the RAID Controller number The example CTRL 2 ID 1 indicates the RAID Controller of w
66. RAID Utility monitors events of the Flash Backup Unit installed in the RAID Controller The Universal RAID Utility logs detected Flash Backup Unit events in the RAID Log Any event indicating occurrence of a problem in the Flash Backup Unit reflects to the Status of Flash Backup Unit on RAID Viewer and the Flash Backup Unit Status of RAID Controller on raidcmd changes the status to Warning The Flash Backup Unit status is retailed until the problem is solved Tree View of RAID Viewer The status of the node of Flash Backup Unit becomes Warning when there LEE Warning by existence ti are problem in Flash Backup Unit of Warning node e EE Computer nee Controller 1 ane MegaRAID SAS 92 70CV 8i iB Fish ac a zH o ASA a E Abnormal Flash Backup Unit Warning E LD 1 Online RAID Q ananunua ER PD e1650 Online SAS HDD Property of RAID Viewer The Status of Flash Backup Unit Properties becomes Warning when there are problem in Flash Backup Unit Flash Backup Unit Properties xi General Flash Backup Unit Properties Abnormal Flash Backup Unit E istia Property of raidcmd The Flash Backup Unit Status of RAID Controller Properties becomes Warning when there are problem in Flash Backup Unit gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 RAID Controller 1 ID 0 LSI Corporation LSI MegaRAID SAS Firmware Version gt 3 152 105 1754
67. TT 110 Troubleshooting RAID System cccccsesseseseesenesseeeeesseeeeeseeseeeneeseaeneeseaeseeeeaeseesnaenenes 111 Falure DETECTION Measures nania ER R a ines 112 Status Display DY RAID VICWE ronaan na a aa denen ic nano svete a 112 SAUS DISDlay OYT N eaan a aa a a saat sana tenets cetneeeaneee 112 LOGGING EVENIS tORAID LOG arican E thete eee tereaiie 112 LOGGING EVENTS tO OS LOG seesecc ad sesennccenteresscuset cepcsawarnusc cess A E 112 BUZZerANE RAT DY CONO cniretancetscncey ot aiGet ecwatvhatens cepacia E ones pune eeeaaeetmmes oes 114 Sending Alert tO ESMPRO Manager nerina a a a TN 115 Monitoring Faults of Physical DeviceS s ssnensnsnsnsnnsnrunururernrernnnnsnsnsnsnsnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnsnnnrnennnrnenrnenne 116 Operation in no failures of Physical Devices ceccscsesseceseeseseestencarseentencatseentsecatoasueseeutsasaesecutonsaeseenentees 117 Operation when redundancy of Logical Drive degraded or lost due to failure of Physical Device 008 118 7 Operation when failed Physical Device is replaced to recover RAID SYSt M ccccseceeseeeeeseeeeeetaeeeeseeeeaeees 119 Operation when the Logical Drive is offline due to failure of Physical Device cccececseseeeeeeseeeeeeeeseteeensers 120 MOMILONING Battery StAtUs usc sct usdieas ines paccatings a a aA ETEA ESAE 121 Monitoring Flash BackUp U NIC Status iveriariccocsrni n aa pedaewexaaanaieiaancentnaes 122 Monitorning Enclosure Status eni anion paws scc
68. The Physical Device which is detected a failure by RAID Controller Tape Drive The Physical Device which device type is Tape Drive E CD Drive DVD Drive The Physical Device which device type is CD DVD A Physical Device icon indicates the power status of the Physical Device when HDD Power Saving function is enabled 39 Icon Meaning Description A Physical Device Power Saving The Physical Device which Power Status has been moved to Power Saving by the HDD Power Saving function is placed at the lower left of the Physical Device icon oar Physical Device Transitioning The Physical Device which Power Status is transitioning from Power F Saving to Power On by the HDD Power Saving function is placed at the lower left of the Physical Device icon Every node of Dedicated Hot Spare created for more than one Disk Array is located in each node of Disk Array Assigning Physical Device Number In Universal RAID Utility Ver2 4 and the earlier versions the number starting from 1 is assigned to each Physical Device in the ascending order of the ID of Physical Devices From Ver2 5 the policy has been changed that the Physical Device number is assigned based on the enclosure number and slot number in the format e lt enclosure number gt s lt slot number gt When you install Universal RAID Utility Ver2 5 or later version in the environment where Universal RAID Utility Ver2 4 has been installed the order of Physical
69. Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1 or later Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP SP2 or later Windows XP x64 SP1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 8 or later Universal RAID Utility Linux VMware ESX Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 4 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 0 or later MIRACLE LINUX V4 0 SP2 or later Asianux Server 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 or later SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 or later VMware ESX 4 0 Update3 or later Universal RAID Utility Linux VMware ESX Edition VMware ESX 4 1 WW The installation images of Universal RAID Utility are attached to the computer or the RAID Controller The latest version of Universal RAID Utility is released on the NEC Global Site http www nec com Installation and Uninstallation This section describes the procedure of installation and uninstallation of Universal RAID Utility Installation Install Universal RAID Utility newly when there is not Universal RAID Utility in the server Procedure Windows 1 Preparing installation Windows 2 Installation Windows Procedure Linux 1 Preparing installation Linux 2 Installation Linux VMware ESX Procedure VMware ESX 1 Installation Linux VMware ESX Uninstallation Uninstall Universal RAID Utility from the server Procedure Windows 1 Uninstallation Windows Procedure Linux VMware ESX 1 Unin
70. aatnsnredentere tee E O 128 Using Windows as Operating System ccsccecsececstcecaececnececntcesseceenresseceenroaseeseseeeeseeaeseeetseeaeseentsesansaeates 128 Using Linux or VMware ESX as Operating SYStGM ites icectiiies nei heel a hecede etude ndeverleliataeietadas ae 129 PAVOIGIIIG TIGR DORE COD C sax saa praia re ceca aaa tse evan teie cates a cas a tee mas tnared ann auiete aA eanenaaeaemae 129 Changing RAID System Management Mode at Start of RAID Viewer ccscceeseceesecseeeeeeeeseeeeeeeanees 130 Notes on Use of Universal RAID Utility ccccscscsnesesnesseneeescesseneeenseeeeneeseneneesenenees 131 operat OM ENV IFORIMENE asiro irist EE E 131 EOP O r a E A Naweoamtanseuneen 131 SUPDOKt for Solid State Drive SSD armirimit T AR 131 OS Fate ENOr EVE Ntan rao a a a a a E TEE 132 Doubly Registered Event After Restoring Backup Data ssssssereresssrrnsrsrnrnrrsnnrsrnrnrnrnrnrnennnnrnrnnnenenrenennne 132 Falls to Stare GONSISLENCY COCK ainmihrerisedi tria OTA e 132 Instalaton Uninstal Nenea a temeeannnuelanenersore 132 DistributedCOM event is registered during installing Or uninstalling s ssssesesessrsnnsnsnsrsrensnrnnerensnnrnrrenenne 132 RAID VIEWS LOG VIWE P aien aE E E E aN 133 Verification of Authenticode signature at the startup of the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer ssssssssseresssssrsrn 133 About the startup without Microsoft NET Framework Ver2 0 or later ccscscseceeecseeseeesesetseeeeese
71. able HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Enable Device Standby Time 30 minutes J p Some items are left blank or not displayed depending on the type of the RAID Controller Dos because they are not supported in that RAID Controller Item Item Description RAID Viewer raidcmd Number RAID Controller X Indicates the management number logical address of the RAID Controller in the Universal RAID Utility The Universal RAID Utility assigns a number beginning with 1 for each RAID Controller ID ID Indicates the original identification value of the RAID Controller The BIOS utility of the RAID Controller uses the address of the identification value Vendor Vendor Indicates the vendor of the RAID Controller Model Model Indicates the model name of the RAID Controller Firmware Version Firmware Version Indicates the version of the RAID Controller Cache Size Cache Size Indicates the size of cache on RAID Controller in MB 50 Item RAID Viewer Item raidcmd Description Premium Feature Initialize Priority Rebuild Priority Consistency Check Priority Patrol Read Patrol Read Priority Buzzer Setting HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Device Standby Time Premium Feature Battery Status Flash Backup Unit Initialize Priority Rebuild Priority Consistency Check Priority Patrol Read Patrol Read Priority Buzzer Setting HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Device Standby Time Indicates the Premium Feat
72. aidcmd Step 1 Execute optctrl command with prp option and the following parameters gt raidemd optctr c 1 prp high gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 c Number of the RAID Controller for which Patrol Read RAID Controller 1 Priority is set Tere bi Select high middle or low to ch the Patrol Read i orporation He igh middle or low to change the Patrol Rea ESI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 Firmware Version 3 140 05 1294 o Cache Size 1 024MB Ex Set the Patrol Read Priority to High on the RAID Premium Feature CacheCade Controller 1 Battery Status Normal Rebui Id Priority Middle raidcmd optctrl c 1 prp high Consistency Check Priority Low Rat nod Read Enab ke Patrol Read Priority High Bur zer se ea ie nD pcaele HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Enable property command The property of the RAID Jovice Standby Time 30 minutes Controller changes the value as below Step 2 Check the execution result by using Patrol Read Priority The priority after change Check the property of the RAID Controller by using the property command tg Specify rc to browse the property of the RAID Controller c the number of the RAID Controller Ex Browse the property of the RAID Controller RAID Controller number 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 90 Checking Logical Drive Consistency The Consistency Check function checks the consistency between the data in the data area of a Logical Drive and the par
73. alize is started the raidcmd terminates normally Check the execution status of the Initialize by using oplist command Stopping Initialize Status Initialize RAID Controller 1 LO 2 Running 10 Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LD 1 Completed Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LD 3 Completed Tnitiasliza RATA Contralor 1 1M 3 Camrnlatad gt raidcmd init c 1 l 2 op start Initialize Logical Drive 2 KETA The all data will be lost on Logical Drive if the partitions exist on it Please make sure there is no important data before Initializing Logical Drive Do you continue yes y or no n yes gt raidcemd oplist RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Initialize Running 50 gt You can stop Initialize being executed on the way The procedure of stopping Initialize is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Step 3 Click operation Initialize which you want to stop Then click Stop on the Operation View After the Initialize is stopped Status on the Operation View is changed to Stopped raidcmd Step 1 Execute init command with op option and the following parameters c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Logical Drive for which Initialize is stopped Number of the Logical Drive for which Initialize is stopped Op Specify stop to stop Initialize Step 2 list of oplist command Start the RAID Viewer See Operation View whi
74. as follows On Power Status is active Power Saving Power Status is Power Saving Transitioning Power Status is transitioning from Power Saving to active 4 The ID is not displayed in RAID Configuration Utility for MPORTANT N8103 149 150 151 152 160 167 171 G171 RAID Controller NE3104 004 RAID Controller and NE3203 151 RAID Controller Check the numbers of enclosure and slot to compare the Physical Devices which are managed by the RAID Configuration Utility with those which is managed by Universal RAID Utility d Each RAID Controller supports specific items appearing on the Property tab of the Physical Device and specific items whose settings can be changed Unsupported items indicate Space or do not appear in the list Even if Physical Device does not break down when you execute Make Offline Status item is changed to Failed 57 Referring to Property of Disk Array For the information on a Disk Array see the property of the Disk Array To display the property of Disk Array by RAID Viewer click the x Disk Array whose information is to be seen on the Tree View and click Properties on the File menu The General tab indicates the property of the Disk Array General Number 1 ID D Capacity 297GB Unused Capacity 197GB Type Disk Array Physical Device 1 e25250 Physical Device 2 e25251 Use property command to see property of a Disk Array by gt raidomd property tg da c 1 a 1 raidcmd ow Contr
75. asia pi A a 123 Monitoring Various Events of RAID System sessssssssserunsnsnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnrnrnnunnnnnnsnnnnnnnnnrnnnrnennnenenennt 123 Replacing Physical Device for Prevention sssesesssssusnsnsnunnnusnnnnnsnnnununnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 123 Management of RAID System using NEC ESMPRO Mana Gef s sssssescsesesenseneneseees 125 System Requirement and INStallation ssaceissauhsaeeier iicasis aa a a a 125 Version of NEC ESMPRO Managel sison araa a A aA AA a AN 125 Using RAID System Management Mode cccscsscsecsessccncaresececuecseseccesareneeesutseececutsasensarsersnentnansasas 125 USING standardiMode ecciecsbaotrewecnimadinsadingoaeeiacnuehescusGoustaesasscstumeciee E A 125 Usmo AGVanGed Mode inienn A O E E ianep carey meee veuntie mate auamiiaxedion 125 Function that can be used in NEC ESMPRO Manager sssssssssesensnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnnnennnnrnnnnerenenrnrnrnrnrnenne 126 Using EXpreSsSUpdate nicponia gacccea waste atanaas Gauncaceeeaaae et tisiaeaneeaetatae tivo uacseumauteeeeinaees 127 Functions supported by ExpressUpdate ccscecsscsecsccesecsecsentcncaeseentcesaeseentoesaraeseeoeseranseeceseeanseeonsesatsaeates 127 Version Management by ExpreSSUpdate cccscsessececstcecsececncctsecaeseecuseeseseeotseeseseentseearsaentsesarsaestsesarentaes 127 Changing of Settings of Universal RAID Utility ccccscscscsseseeesesssssseeeeeeesesesseeeenaeas 128 Change PCP POR MUIMDEE esitectcssiavsascut
76. ate normally The Physical Device used for rebuild should have the same the same capacity rotation speed and other specification as the defected Physical Device The Physical Devices with the different size must be used as Dedicated Hot Spares A Physical Device in which a S M A R T error is detected cannot be used as a Hot Spare w O The maximum number of Hot Spares that can be created is 8 for N8103 109 128 134 135 RAID Controllers About Global Hot Spare Global Hot Spare is a Hot Spare for all the Disk Arrays under a single RAID Controller Ex 1 If you make the Global Hot Spare on the RAID Controller which has Disk Arrays 1 and 2 the Global Hot Spare is a Hot Spare of Disk Arrays 1 and 2 Global Hot Disk Array Disk Array i 1 2 Spare Figure 10 Global Hot Spare 1 Ex 2 If you create the Disk Array 3 on the RAID System of Ex 1 the Global Hot Spare is a Hot Spare for the Disk Array 3 too l i Disk Array Disk Array Disk Array l Global Hot 1 2 3 J Figure 11 Global Hot Spare 2 62 About Dedicated Hot Spare Dedicated Hot Spare is a Hot Spare for the specified Disk Arrays under a single RAID Controller The Dedicated Hot Spare has the following features E Dedicated Hot Spare is a Hot Spare for specified Disk Arrays E One Dedicated Hot Spare can be a Hot Spare for one or more Disk Arrays E One or more Dedicated Hot Spare can be a Hot Spare for one or more Disk Arrays Dedicated Hot Spa
77. attery events and enclosure events described above The Universal RAID Utility logs events detected in the RAID System to the RAID Log In addition the Universal RAID Utility records important events to the OS log and send alerts to the NEC ESMPRO Manager The RAID Viewer and raidcmd do not indicate the severity of events in this category to Tree View and the property of RAID System See Appendix C Logs Events for detail about the various event of RAID System Replacing Physical Device for Prevention If Physical Devices support S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology and the RAID Controller can detects S M A R T errors the Universal RAID Utility can monitor the S M A R T errors by the following means RAID Viewer raidcmd RAID Log Buzzer The Universal RAID Utility monitors S M A R T errors occurred in Physical Devices Detecting a S M A R T error the Universal RAID Utility logs the event to the RAID Log In addition the Universal RAID Utility reflects the status of S M A R T in a Physical Device as the status of the Physical Device by changing the status of the Physical Device to Detected The status of the Physical Device is retained as its status until the S M A R T error is solved 123 Tree View of RAID Viewer The status of the node of Physical Device becomes Warning when _ Become Warning by S M A R T error is detected existence of Warning node 4 EE Computer EE
78. bes the procedure of starting or stopping each module in the Universal RAID Utility raidsrv service The raidsrv service is started automatically when your server is booted and stopped automatically when your server is shut down Without operation of the raidsrv service the Universal RAID Utility cannot operate normally Neither makes the raidsrv service be not started nor stop the raidsrv service w incase that the operating system is Linux or VMware ESX if the raidsrv service terminates UAI abnormally due to an error or if the process of the raidsrv service is terminated forcibly the lock file for avoiding multiple starts is left undeleted The raidsrv service may not be started in this case If this occurs delete the following file before restarting the raidsrv service var lock subsys raidsrv Starting Universal RAID Utility in Single User Mode The Universal RAID Utility uses network functions Accordingly the Universal RAID Utility cannot be used in the single user mode of Linux and VMware ESX without network functions To use the Universal RAID Utility in the single user mode first enable the network functions in the following procedure and start the raidsrv service Step 1 Start the network service gt etc init d network start Step 2 Start the raidsrv service 2 gt etc init d raidsrv start gt Step 3 Check that the raidsrv service is started normally AMAAL RAELE We raidsrv pid 3738 3718 is running
79. cache Range of change Onboard RAID Controller LSI Hard Disk Drive All the Logical Drives in a single Embedded MegaRAID Disk Array Option and Internal RAID Controller RAID Controller All the Logical Drives in a single N8103 128 G128 134 135 RAID Controller Option and Internal RAID Controller RAID Controller You can change each of Only the Logical Drive selected Logical Drive w The setting of the cache mode of Logical Drive influences the performance of server Please Wii change carefully Setting cache mode The procedure of setting cache mode of Logical Drive is described below wO Changing cache mode is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the Logical Drive on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu Step 2 Click the Options tab in the Logical Drive Properties dialog box Change the value of Cache Mode Setting to Auto Switch Write Back EAE MOE ng or Write Through Click OK or Apply Value Fr 7 Write Through raidcmd Step 1 Execute optid command with cm option and the following parameters gt raidemd optild c 1 1 1 cm wr i teback gt raidcemd property tg ld c 1 I 1 c Number of the RAID Controller for which Cache Mode RAID Controller 1 Logical Drive 1 change ID 0 1 Number of the Logical Drive for which Cache Mode Disk Array Information 1 order 1 1 cm Select auto writeback or writethru
80. cal Devices e252s2 e252s3 and e252s4 raidcmd mklds c 1 p e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 rl 5 77 Step 3 Type yes to reply to the confirmation message Then a Logical Drive is created Step 4 After the Logical Drive is created successfully the raidcmd terminates normally The Logical Drive has been created completely You can check the information on the Logical Drive by using property command However the Initialize of the Logical Drive having been created may not be completed The progress of initializing the Logical Drive can be checked by using oplist command The result of initializing the Logical Drive can be checked by RAID Log Physical Devices Available for Create Logical Drive Simple Mode Unused Physical Devices are available for Create Logical Drive Simple Mode Physical Devices in which S M A R T errors are detected cannot be used to create Logical Drives y7 Unused Physical Devices are those with their Status being Ready TIPS Creating Logical Drives by Create Logical Drive Simple Mode This section describes the information on Logical Drives to be created by Create Logical Drive Simple Mode RAID Level The RAID Level of a Logical Drive which can be created by Create Logical Drive Simple Mode should be RAID 1 or RAID 5 Capacity of Logical Drive The capacity of a Logical Drive to be created is defined by the RAID Level and the capacities of Physical Devices used for the Logical Driv
81. cal Number RAID Level Capacity Stripe Size Cache Mode Initialization Mode Drive to be deleted and click Delete 79 Step 4 If you click Add in the Create Logical Register Logical Drive xj Drive Custom dialog box the Register Logical STEP i 3 Selection of RAID Level Drive wizard is started In step 1 3 select the RAID Select RAID Level of Lagical Drive Level of the Logical Drive to be registered After the selection click Next RAID Level RAIDS gt Step 5 In step 2 3 the operation varies Register Loa pe depending on the RAID Level selected in step 1 3 STEP 2 3 Selection of Disk Array Select Disk Array for creating of Logical Drive 1 When RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 is selected as the RAID Level select an existing Disk Type Sie Array or create another Disk Array Disk Array F fa PD e252s0 Online SATA HDD When you select an existing Disk Array select the Ej PD e252s1 Online SATA HDD Disk Array on Disk Array If the RAID Controller contains Physical Devices of different types click the type to be used on Type Next click the Disk Array node to be used on Disk Array After the selection click Next Add Disk Array To create a Disk Array to be used newly click Add x Disk Array Then the Add Disk Array dialog box Select Physical Device s for adding of Disk Array appears Check the check boxes of Physical Devices Physical Device
82. ces of lower Physical Device Numbers are used preferentially for Logical Drives to be created excluding those for making Hot Spares Ex If Physical Devices 1 7 can be used for Easy Configuration Logical Drives 1 is created with Physical Devices 1 2 and 3 in the ascending order of Physical Device Numbers and Logical Drives 2 is created with Physical Devices 4 5 and 6 Physical Device 7 the largest number is used as a Hot Spare Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Device 1 Device 2 Device 3 Device 4 Device 5 Device 6 Device 7 Hot Spare Logical Logical Drive 1 Drive 2 Figure 16 Assigning Physical Devices in Easy Configuration 1 If more than one Logical Drive are created and the number of Physical Devices configuring a Logical Drive is not equal to others a larger number of Physical Devices should be assigned to a Logical Drive having a smaller logical number Ex If Physical Devices 1 7 can be used for Easy Configuration and two Logical Drives are created Logical Drives 1 and 2 are created with four Physical Devices 1 4 and three Physical Devices 5 7 respectively Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Device 1 Device 2 Device 3 Device 4 Device 5 Device 6 Device 7 Logical Logical Drive 1 Drive 2 Figure 17 Assigning Physical Devices in Easy Configuration 2 Physical Devices in which S M A R T errors are detected cannot be used to create Logical Drives
83. dicates the management number logical address of the SSD Cache Disk Array in the Universal RAID Utility An SSD Cache Disk Array icon indicates the status of SSD Cache Disk Array Icon Meaning Description EA SSD Cache Disk Array All the SSD Cache Drives you have created all the member Physical Devices Normal operate normally No failures have been detected by the RAID Controller SSD Cache Disk Array One or more Physical Devices in the warning condition exist in the SSD Warning Cache Disk Array sso SSD Cache Disk Array One or more Physical Devices in the warning or fatal condition exist in the Fatal SSD Cache Disk Array Logical Drive The Logical Drive node exists in the Disk Array node A Logical Drive node equals a Logical Drive and shows the number status and RAID Level of the Logical Drive Icon LD lt Number gt lt Status gt lt RAID Level gt Item Description lt Number gt Indicates the management number logical address of the Logical Drive in the Universal RAID Utility lt Status gt Indicates the status of the Logical Drive lt RAID Level gt Indicates the RAID Level of the Logical Drive A Logical Drive icon indicates the status of the Logical Drive Icon Meaning Description T Logical Drive Normal The Logical Drive operates normally ob Logical Drive Warning Because the Logical Drive contains one or more Physical Devices with Status being Failed the redundancy of the Logical Drive is l
84. e I D 1 9 Device Type HDD Interface SAS value gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e25254 Enclosure 252 RAID Controller 1 Physical a e252s4 Enclosure connection Internal Enclosure Enclosure Position Internal Slot Slot 4 ID Failed Physical ID 7 Device Tn aaneneenengs Device Sl ol oy n a n Device Type HDD Ingetice Ps Failed 1hterface gt SAS Vendor Model s Vendor Model be SEAGATE ST936701SS i Firmware Version 0003 ladon a Serial Number 3LCOSZZG Serial Number K 3NPOBXND 33GB LL aiaiai S M A R T Normal Power Status On oc Status Figure 25 Display of RAID Viewer raidcmd Lost the redundancy of Logical Drive 118 Operation when failed Physical Device is replaced to recover RAID System Using the RAID System continuously with the redundancy of a Logical Drive remaining degraded may cause the data in the Logical Drive to be lost when another Physical Device is failed further Recover a Logical Drive of degraded redundancy by Hot Spare or replacement of the failed Physical Device If Hot Spare or replacement of a failed Physical Device operates Rebuild the status of the Physical Device changes during the rebuilding with its Status changed to Rebuilding Structure and Status of RAID System Property of RAID Viewer Logical Drive 1 Properties Fa General Option Property of raidcmd gt raidcmd property tg Id c 1 I 1 i Controller 1 Logical o
85. e In Create Logical Drive Simple Mode a Logical Drive is created by using the entire areas of the Physical Devices Items set for Logical Drive The values of other selection items set for a Logical Drive to be created are defined as shown in the table below Selection item Value Stripe Size Uses the default value set for the RAID Controller The value varies depending on the type of the RAID Controller Cache Mode Uses the default value set for the RAID Controller The value varies depending on the type of the RAID Controller Initialize Mode Full 78 Creating Logical Drive Freely The Universal RAID Utility supports Create Logical Drive Custom Mode in which a Logical Drive can be created as required by specifying the setting items of the Logical Drive closely Create Logical Drive Custom Mode allows you to create a Logical Drive by specifying the setting items of the Logical Drive closely It can also be used to create Logical Drives of several RAID Levels or create a Logical Drive by using unused area of Disk Array In addition Create Logical Drive Custom Mode enables more than one Logical Drive to be created at a time The benefits of creating Logical Drives by Create Logical Drive Custom Mode are as follows Allows Logical Drives of various RAID Levels RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 and RAID 50 to be created Allows selection items including Capacity Stripe Size Cache Mode and Initia
86. e H1 Disk Array Information 1 order 1 1 EEE ET RAID Level RAID 5 Capacity a 20GB 1 Degraded RAID Level 5 Number ID Disk Array Information RAID Level Stripe Size tay 64KB Cache Mode Setting Write Back Cache Mode Current s Write Back 7w i e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 e252s4 Online Online Ready Rebuilding Failed Capacity a Stripe Size KO B4KB Cache Mode Cirrent a gt raidcemd property tg pd c 1 p e252s5 RAID Controller 1 Physical Device e252s5 Enclosure 292 Enclosure Position me 2 Device Type HDD Triterface SAS Vendor Mod t SEAGATE ST9146853SS Firmware Version gt NQY1 Become Warning by existence of Degraded node Sen k 76 B vice Type HDD 3 6XM009S2 Gam Interface j SAS a Battery Normal a Enos Vendor Model enue SEAGATE ST9146803SS ee s Firmware Version NOO Tea Serial Number 35002617 67GB in EPower Status Failed Physical i After Rebuild starts various results such as Status can nie ei aE ride changes Ready cannot recognize existence and a er pened Status keep Failed are thought by RAID Controller s SMART kind and the kind of the occurring issue as for a Physical S M A R T Normal Power Status On Device that failed Figure 26 Display of RAID Viewer raidcmd Rebuilding of Physical Device 119 Operation when the Logical
87. e RAID Viewer Menu item Description About Indicates the version and revision of the Universal RAID Utility and the version of the RAID Viewer Status Bar The Status Bar indicates the current RAID System Management Mode of the RAID Viewer Standard a Advanced a Figure 6 Status Bar of RAID Viewer 44 Functions of Log Viewer This chapter describes the functions of the Log Viewer Structure of Log Viewer As shown in the figure below the Log Viewer is composed of three parts or Log View Menu Bar and Status Bar ff Universal RAID Utility Log Viewer ioj x Fie Help Date Time ID Descriptic TH Information 2012 01 17 15 48 40 410 lt RU0410 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 LD 2 ID 1 Consistency Check completed fH Information 2012 01 17 15 47 56 210 lt RUJ0210 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 Patrol Read completed fH Information 2012 01 17 15 47 56 409 lt RUJ0409 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 LD 2 ID 1 Consistency Check was started fH Information 2012 01 17 15 47 48 412 lt RU0412 gt CTRL 1 D 0 LD 1 ID 0 Consistency Check was stopped MH Information 2012 01 17 15 47 40 409 lt RU0409 gt CTRL 1 ID 0 LD 1 ID 0 Consistency Check was started HM Information 2012 01 17 15 46 10 405 lt RU0405 gt CTRL 1 1D 0 LD 2 ID 1 Initialization completed fH Information 2012 01 17 15 46 10 404 lt RUJ0404 CTRL 1 ID 0 LD 2 ID 1 Initialization was started HInformation 2012 01 17 15 46 10 415 lt RU0415 gt CTRL 1 D 0
88. e dialog box shown to the right to delete the x SSD Cache Drive Click No to cancel the deletion of the SSD Cache wis Drive A Delete SSD Cache Drive 3 raidcmd Step 1 Execute delscd command with the following parameters gt raldemd delscd c 1 I 2 Delete SSD Cache Drive 2 Warning The SSD Cache will be lost c Number of RAID Controller the SSD Cache Drive to be deleted Number of SSD Cache Drive to be deleted Do you continue yes y or no n yes gt Ex Delete SSD Cache Drive RAID Controller number is 1 Logical Drive number is 2 raidcmd delscd c 1 l 2 Step 2 Display the confirmation message Type yes to delete the SSD Cache Drive Type no to cancel the deletion of SSD Cache Drive 88 Maintenance of RAID System This chapter describes the maintenance of a RAID System using the Universal RAID Utility Providing Patrol Read for Physical Devices The Patrol Read function reads data saved in all Physical Devices in a RAID System entirely to check whether a read error occurs or not regularly in the background The Patrol Read is effective to find failures including Physical Device medium error early Be sure to execute Patrol Read for a RAID Controller if it Supports the Patrol Read The Universal RAID Utility provides the function of indicating whether Patrol Read is executed or not and the function of changing the Patrol Read Priority Ww Some RAID Controller may not Sup
89. e made and 2 Connecting with more than one unused Physical Device Physical Devices Available for Easy Configuration Only unused Physical Devices are available for Easy Configuration Unused Physical Devices are those with their Status being Ready Creating Logical Drives by Easy Configuration Logical Drives created by Easy Configuration are described below RAID Levels and the number of Logical Drives allowed to be created The RAID Level of a Logical Drive created by Easy Configuration should be RAID 1 or RAID 5 Whether RAID 1 or RAID 5 is used is defined by RAID Levels supported by the RAID Controller and the number of Physical Devices used by the Logical Drive The number of Logical Drives allowed to be created is also defined by the similar conditions RAID Controller supporting RAID Levels RAID 1 and RAID 5 Number of Physical Devices RAID Level of Logical Drive Number of Logical Drives allowed to be created used by Logical Drive 2 RAID 1 1 3 5 RAID 5 1 6 or more RAID 5 Number of Physical Devices used by Logical Drive 3 RAID Controller supporting RAID 1 only Number of Physical Devices RAID Level of Logical Drive Number of Logical Drives allowed to be created used by Logical Drive 2 or more RAID 1 Number of Physical Devices used by Logical Drive 2 w The Easy Configuration can only create Logical Drives of RAID 1 or RAID 5 IMPORTANT 71 Physical Devices used for Logical Drives Physical Devi
90. e number of the Disk Array The Logical Drives you have created all Physical Devices as the members of the Logical Drives and Dedicated Hot Spares you have assigned to the Logical Drives exist in the Disk Array node Icon Disk Array lt Number gt Item Description lt Number gt Indicates the management number logical address of the Disk Array in the Universal RAID Utility A Disk Array icon indicates the status of the Disk Array Icon Meaning Description Disk Array Normal All the created Logical Drives all the member Physical Devices and all the Dedicated Hot Spares operate normally No failures have been detected by the RAID Controller B Disk Array Warning One or more Logical Drives Physical Devices or Dedicated Hot Spares are in the warning condition in the Disk Array Disk Array Fatal One or more Logical Drives Physical Devices or Dedicated Hot Spares are in the warning or fatal condition in the Disk Array 37 SSD Cache Disk Array When you create SSD Cache Drive in the RAID Controller you can see that SSD Cache Disk Array node for that SSD Cache Drive is in the RAID Controller node A single SSD Cache Disk Array node equals an SSD Cache Disk Array and shows the number of the SSD Cache Disk Array The SSD Cache Drive you have created all the member Physical Devices exist in the SSD Cache Disk Array node Icon Disk Array lt Number gt SSD Cache Item Description lt Number gt In
91. e settings aos oe displayed click Finish To change the settings click Back Check the contents and completing the Create SSD Cache Drive Wizard Click Finish button create a SSD Cache Drive by the following contents and close this wizard Click Finish to create an SSD Cache Drive and close the wizard After the wizard closes see the Tree View to check the contents Click Back to cancel the creation of SSD Cache Drive raidcmd Step 1 Connect Solid State Drive s used for an SSD Cache Drive to the RAID Controller before executing raidcmd if required Step 2 Execute mkscd command with following parameters gt raidcmd mkscd c 1 p e252s6 e252s raidcmd creates SSD Cache Drive 2 c Number of RAID Controller in which an SSD Cache Drive is created Do you continue yes y or no n yes p Numbers of the Physical Device s used for creating of SSD Cache Drive raidcmd created SSD Cache Drive 2 gt Ex Create SSD Cache Drive using the Solid State Drives RAID Controller Number is 1 Physical Device Number is e252s6 252s7 raidcmd mkscd c 1 p e 252s6 e252s Step 3 Display the confirmation message Type yes to create an SSD Cache Drive Type no to cancel the creation of SSD Cache Drive Step 4 raidcmd terminates normally when SSD Cache Drive is created successfully You can check the property of the created SSD Cache Drive by using property command 86 Capacity of SSD Cache D
92. eck Priority Patrol Read Patrol Read Bricrity raidcmd Step 1 Execute optctrl command with rp option and the defined parameters gt raidcmd optctr c 1 rp middle l l gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 c Number of the RAID Controller for which Rebuild RAID Controller 1 Priority is set 0 rp Select high middle or low to change the Rebuild LSI Corporation Priority MegaRAID SAS PCI Express TM Ex Set the Rebuild Priority of the RAID Controller Bde A pa RAID Controller number 1 to Middle Battery Status i Noema Rebuild Priority Middle raidcmd optctrl c 1 rp middle Censegtency Chock Prion ity a alow Patrol Read Enable Step 2 The property of the RAID Controller Patrol Read Priority Low changes to the following value when the setting has cml Setting Enable been changed successfully Rebuild Priority Priority after change Check the execution result by using property command tg Specify rc to browse the property of Logical Drive c The number of the RAID Controller Ex Browse the property of the RAID Controller RAID Controller Number 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 101 Reducing the power consumption of the Physical Device The HDD Power Saving is the function to spin down the Physical Device that is not in use The HDD Power Saving reduces the power consumption of the System by spinning down the Physical Device Set the Power Saving in each RAID Controllers You can see wh
93. ecute at same time ww Only a single raidcmd can be started at a time In case of the operating system is Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 you must use Administrator Command Prompt for running raidcmd If you use normal Command Prompt you cannot see the message of raidcmd because of raidcmd runs in the another Administrator Command Prompt You can use Administrator Command Prompt by the following procedure Step 1 Click Start menu and point menu in order to za Calculator Programs Accessories Command Prompt click Run Documents as administrator on shortcut menu Command Prompt Connect to a Wekwro Open ql Notepad Cy Run as administrator a W miL Open file location Step 2 The operating system may display User Account Control dialog box after clicked Run as Administrator If you want to run the raidcmd click Continue User Account Control q P Windows needs your permission to continue If you started this action continue Windows Command Processor Microsoft Windows come cat User Account Control helps stop unauthorized changes to your computer Step 3 Administrator Command Prompt will start soon amp You should check the window title is I Administrator fes 4dministrator Command Prompt Sena pian EEE ae nee Microsoft Windows Version 6 740806 Command Prompt Copyright c gt 2006 M
94. ed gt etc init d raidsrv_agent stop Stopping raidsrv_agent services gt gt etc init d eciServiceProgram stop Stopping eciServiceProgram gt Step 4 You must change TCP port number in the configuration file of raidsrv service RAID Viewer raidcmd or raidsrv Agent service for date port event port and raidsrv Agent Communication port module path and configuration data port event port raidsrv Agent file name Communication port raidsrv service etc opt nec raidsrv socket section socket section none raidsrv conf data port event port raidcmd etc opt nec raidcmd network section none none raidcmd conf port raidsrv Agent service etc opt nec raidsrv network section network section network section raidsrv_agent cont data_port event_port agent_port Step 5 After the modification is finished start the raidsrv service raidsrv Agent service and eciService gt etc init d raidsrv start Starting raidsrv services gt gt etc init d raidsrv_agent start Starting raidsrv_agent services gt etc init d eciServiceProgram start Starting eciServiceProgram gt Avoiding TCP port conflict If the user has customized the TCP ports Universal RAID Utility uses it may conflict with the TCP port s Ephemeral Port that are automatically assigned for other applications In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 0 or later versions or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 6 or later version you can reserve TCP ports which Uni
95. ed for data stora ge Set the contents of configuration such as a use of Physical Devices D a count of Logical Drives etc and the number of Logical Drives created in the RAID Controller If Physical Devices of different interface Type types or device type exist specify the number of p Setting of Physical Device Physical Devices in each type After the specification aeeai cs le eei E click N ext Physical Device count using Logical Drive s 3 Hot Spare count a Setting of Logical Drive Maximum Logical Drive count E Creating Logical Drive count 1 Step 5 Step 3 3 shows the configuration of the x RAID System to be configured by the Easy STEP 3 3 Check the contents of configuration Configuration To the RAID System according to the Cick OK button run the following configuration displayed information click OK To change the configuration click Back E RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8i Disk Array 2 E LD 2 Online RAID 5 amp PD e252s2 Online SAS HDD amp PD e252s3 Online SAS HDD amp PD e252s5 Online SAS HDD PD e252s4 Dedicated Hot Spare SAS HDD Disk Array 3 E Lp 3 Online RAID 1 Hi Step 6 If you click OK in step 3 3 then the Easy Configuration RAID System will be configu red After the Logical Completing the Easy Configuration Wizard Drives are created and the makings of Hot Spares Click Finish button close this wizard are successfully completed Completing the Easy Co
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97. equired when you use ExpressUpdate TES Note2 This is required when you use N8103 109 128 134 135 RAID Controllers Install these packages by the following procedure This procedure is an example using standard C library Step 1 You can check by rom command if standard C library exists in the computer or not If it has existed in your computer rom command appears as shown in the right the part depends on the operating system In this case go to the section Installation Linux VMware ESX Step 2 If standard C library has not existed in your computer rom command appears as shown in the right In this case install it to your computer Insert the install disk of operating system that includes the standard C library to CD ROM DVD ROM drive of your computer Change the current directory to the directory where standard C library exists and install the standard C liorary by rom command the part depends on the operating system You can see the result of installation by rom command gt rpm q libstdc ibstdco gt rpm q libstdc package ibstdc is not installed gt rpm ivh ibstdc rpm l ree FA 0 1 libstdc 1 100 gt rpm q libstdc ibstdc After the installation finishes the following package will exist in your computer liostdc The part depends on the operating system If the installation fails the package will not exist in your computer
98. er raidcmd No failures of Physical Devices 117 Operation when redundancy of Logical Drive degraded or lost due to failure of Physical Device If one or more Physical Devices used by a Logical Drive are failed with their Status being Failed to degraded one Physical Device of RAID Level 6 is failed or lost one Physical Device of RAID Level 1 or 5 is failed two Physical Devices of RAID Level 6 is failed the redundancy of the Logical Drive the Logical Drive is degraded with its Status being Degraded Structure and Status of RAID System Property of RAID Viewer Property of raidcmd Logical Drive 1 Properties amp Drive 1 Properties gt raidcmd property tg lId 1 a Degraded RAID Controller 1 Logical Drive 1 RAID Level 5 General Option ID lt 0 char e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 e252s5 Online Online Failed Hot Spare Value Disk Array Information 4 order 1 1 Number 1 RAID Level RAID 5 ID o Capacity 20GB Logical Drive Stripe Size 64KB Disk Array Information 1 order idda Deg raded Cacie Mode Setti ng Wr Ite Back RAID Level pen 5 Cache Mode li Write Back Capacity o 20G8 Stripe Size 64KB Cache Mode Current e irite Back gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s2 RAID Controller 1 Physical oe e252s2 Enclosure Become Fatal by Enclosure Position pierre existence of x i Slot Fa i led node i Ger
99. er Saving RAID Controller 1 Device is set 0 psd Select none or hotspare to change the Power LSI Corporation l Saving Device LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 Firmware Version 3 140 05 1294 Cache Si 1 024MB Ex Changes value of HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Premium Feature CacheCade to enable RAID Controller Number is 1 Battery Status Normal Rebuild Priority Middle raidcmd optctrl c 1 psd hotspare Consistency Check Priority Middle Patrol Read Enable Patrol Read Priority High Buzzer aSehtd ag Disab he Step 2 l Checking the execution result by using HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Enable property command The following parameter of RAID Devices Standby ime BA merUkGS Controller is changed Power Saving Hot Spare Enable to selected hotspare Disable to selected none Ex Referring to property of the RAID Controller RAID Controller number is 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 pie Only a single parameter can be set at a time If execute optctrl command with psd option ATS and dst option at the same time command is failed Setting Device Standby Time Set the time of transitioning to Power Saving the Physical Device which is not in use You can select the time of transitioning from 30 minutes 1 hour 2 hours 4 hours and 8 hours Le Some types of RAID Controller do not support this function If it does not support this Dos function the items do not appear optctrl command of raidcmd
100. eration View At the completion of the Consistency Check Status on the Operation View is changed to RANE NEMATERIA Completed Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LO 1 Completed Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LO 3 Completed Tritialize RATT Controller 1 1 3 Camnleted raidcmd Step 1 Execute cc command with op option and the following parameters gt raidemd cc c 1 1 2 op start c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Logical gt raidcmd oplist Drive for which Consistency Check is executed If specify RAID Controller 1 all as parameter the targets are all Logical Drives of all LD 2 Consistency Check Running 30 RAID Controllers gt Number of the Logical Drive for which Consistency Check is executed If specify all as parameter the targets are all Logical Drives of RAID Controllers specified by c op Specify start to start Consistency Check To execute Consistency Check for all Logical Drives of a RAID Controller which not support Patrol Read or of which the Patrol Read is disabled use ccs command of the raidcmd raidcmd ccs du For the RAID Controller which support Patrol Read or of which the Patrol Read is enabled TS ccs command is actually not executed even if you execute it 91 Step 2 After the Consistency Check is started the raidcmd terminates normally Check the execution status of the Consistency Check by using oplist command Executing Consistency Chec
101. ervice The raidsrv service always operates in the server to manage RAID Systems Receiving a processing request from the RAID Viewer or raidcmd the raidsrv service provides proper information on a RAID System or performs an appropriate operation for the RAID System In addition the raidsrv service manages events occurred in RAID Systems notifies the RAID Viewer of the events and or registers them to several logs RAID Viewer Windows Edition only The RAID Viewer is the Windows application managing and monitoring the RAID System by GUI The RAID Viewer displays the configuration and status of a RAID System graphically or provides configuration and operation for a RAID System Log Viewer Windows Edition only The Log Viewer is the Windows application viewing the event of RAID System The Log Viewer allows you to see the RAID Log in which events occurred in RAID Systems are registered raidcmd The raidcmd is the application managing and monitoring the RAID System by CLI The raidcmd is the command that indicates the configuration and status of a RAID System or operates on a console providing configurations and operations NEC ESMPRO Manager Communication Module raidsrv Agent When the RAID System is managed in NEC ESMPRO Manager raidsrv Agent controls the communication between NEC ESMPRO Manager and Universal RAID Utility Linux VMware ESX Operating System Windows raidsrv service Y vA vA Log Viewer s NEC ESMPRO Manager Communication
102. es ATS and cache modes cannot be selected 83 Deleting Logical Drive The Universal RAID Utility can delete a Logical Drive becoming unnecessary w O e The function of deleting a Logical Drive is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT Before deleting a Logical Drive check if the Logical Drive contains required data Deleting a Logical Drive causes all the data saved in the Logical Drive to be lost You can delete Logical Drive with partitions o You can delete only the Logical Drive that is located at the end of Disk Array Deleting Logical Drive The procedure of deleting a Logical Drive is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Click the Logical Drive to be deleted on the Tree View Click Control Tool Help Delete Logical Drive on the Control menu Create Logical Drive S20 Create SSO i cach E Drive Silence Buzzer Refresh Battery Start Consistency Check Start Initialize Delete Logical Drive Step 3 Click yes on the dialog box shown to the right to run the delete Click No to abort the delete Logical Drive Delete Logical Drive 1 Warning The all data will be lost on Logical Drive if the partitions existonit Please make sure there is no important data before deleting Logical Drive Do you continue raidcmd Step 1 Execute delld command with the following parameters gt raidcmd delld c 1 I 2 Delete Logical Drive 2 c
103. es Unsupported items TPS indicate space or do not appear in the list Each RAID Controller supports specific Cache Modes Unsupported Cache Modes do not appear Each RAID Controller Supports specific items appearing on the Property tab of the Logical Drive and specific items whose settings can be changed Unsupported items indicate Space or do not appear in the list pie The status of a Logical Drive is defined depending on the RAID Level and the number of TIS Physical Devices failed If the RAID Level is RAID 10 or RAID 50 and two Physical Devices are failed the status will be Degraded or Offline depending on the failed Physical Devices RAID level Number of failed Physical Devices 1 2 3 or more RAID O Online Offline Offline Offline RAID 1 Online Degraded Offline RAID 5 Online Degraded Offline Offline RAID 6 Online Degraded Degraded Offline RAID 10 Online Degraded Degraded Offline Offline RAID 50 Online Degraded Degraded Offline Offline RAID 60 Online Degraded Degraded Degraded Offline 5 or more Offline Referring to Property of Physical Device For the information on a Physical Device see the property of the Physical Device To display the property of Physical Device by RAID Viewer click the Physical Device whose information is to be seen on Gid the Tree View and click Properties on the File menu The General tab indicates the property of the Physical l Enclosure 16 Device Enclosure Positi
104. esh Battery is set Do you continue Lyes y or no n yes gt Ex Refresh the battery RAID Controller number 2 raidcmd refresh c 2 Step 2 Execute the refresh command to display the confirmation message Enter Yes to execute battery refreshing Enter No to cancel battery refreshing Scheduling Refresh Battery You can register the task to schedule Refresh Battery using the Task Scheduler on Windows or cron on Linux or VMware ESX Y If you are using the RAID Controller which supports the Refresh Battery function Universal P RAID Utility executes Refresh Battery in a regular manner according to the task registered Example 1 Register the task to execute the batter refresh at AM 0 00 on April 1st in the Windows environment Item Description Task name Refresh Battery Execution day April 1st Starting time AM 0 00 Execution command Universal RAID Utility installation folder cli raidcmd exe refreshs Execution account NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM The Windows task can be used to change the schedule of executing Refresh Battery or delete tasks For how to use tasks see the Windows help Example 2 Register the task to execute the batter refresh at AM 0 00 on April 1st in the Linux or VMware ESX environment Item Description Execution day April 1st Starting time AM 0 00 Execution command opt nec raidcmd raidcmd refreshs Execution account root The functions of cron can be used to change the schedule of execu
105. evice The procedure of executing Rebuild is described below w Manual Rebuild is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the Physical Device used for the Contral Tool Help Rebuild on the Tree View Then click Start Rebuild on the Control menu Create Logical Drive b 50 Create SSD Cache Drive Silence Buzzer Refresh Battery Start Consistency Check Start Initialize Delete Logical Drive Delete SSD Cache Drive Cal Start Rebuild Step 2 After the Rebuild is started the progress of the Rebuild appears on the Operation View At the completion of the Rebuild Status on the Operation View is changed to Completed Running 4 Initialize RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Completed Rebuild RAID Controller 1 PD e25254 Stopped Consistency Check RAIN Controller 1 11 7 Comnleted 99 raidcmd Step 1 Execute rebuild command with op option and the defined parameters gt raidemd rebuild c 1 p e252s4 op start c Number of the RAID Controller containing the gt raidcmd oplist Physical Device for which Rebuild is executed RAID Controller 1 p Number of the Physical Device for which Rebuild PD e252s4 Rebuild Running 0 is executed 2 Op Specify start to start Rebuild Ex Start rebuilding on the Physical Device RAID Controller Number 1 and Physical Device Number e252s4 raidcmd rebuild c 1 p e252s4 op start Step 2 After the Rebuild i
106. f Universal RAID Utility install Uninstall Ver2 31 or older Ver2 4 v v Ver2 5 or later v y v WW To update Universal RAID Utility the existent Universal RAID Utility must support the Dar uninstallation function by ExpressUpdate For example if you attempt to update Universal RAID Utility from Ver2 31 to Ver3 0 the update will fail The update function allows the old version of Universal RAID Utility to take over the following settings and states to the new version E The folder to install E TCP ports Universal RAID Utility uses See TCP ports used by Universal RAID Utility for the notices regarding taking over TCP port numbers E The mode at the start of RAID Viewer and raidcmd E Scheduled task to do Consistency Check registered on the operating system wO o System reboot is required when install update or uninstall Universal RAID Utility using IMPORTANT ExpressUpdate Universal RAID Utility may not operate properly without restarting the system ESMPRO Manager Ver5 5 or later versions are required to use ExpressUpdate Version management by ExpressUpdate The feature enables you to perform version management of Universal RAID Utility You can select the version of Universal RAID Utility when you install Universal RAID Utility from ExpressUpdate If you would like to install the old version of Universal RAID Utility first uninstall existing Universal RAID Utility and then install new Universal RAID U
107. f does not specify V1 option or changes Configure for of the task this task is going to remain in your server after uninstalling Universal RAID Utility When this task remains after uninstalling Universal RAID Utility delete it Task registered by Universal RAID Utility Linux VMware ESX The Universal RAID Utility registers a task such as that shown in the table below in a Linux cron if it is installed The functions of cron can be used to change the schedule of executing Consistency Check or delete tasks For how to use cron see the manual of cron 8 crontab 1 crontab 5 by man command Item Description Execution day of the week Wednesday Starting time AM 0 00 Execution command opt nec raidcmd raidcmd ccs Execution account root 92 Executing Consistency Check for all Logical Drives for a RAID Controller which not support Patrol Read or of which the Patrol Read is disabled Use ccs command of the raidcmd Stopping Consistency Check You can stop Consistency Check being executed on the way The procedure of stopping Consistency Check is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer See Operation View while Consistency Check is executed Step 2 Click operation Consistency Check MTEP which you want to stop Click Stop on the Operation ap us View After the Consistency Check is stopped Status Status on the Operation View is changed to Consistency Check RAID CO T LD 2 Running 0
108. ger has the attribute of RAID System Management Mode of Universal RAID Utility There is not the function of changing RAID System Management Mode Using Standard Mode The user accounts of NEC ESMPRO Manager not include Administrator has the authority of Standard Mode in default If you change the RAID System Management Mode authority of user account change the setting of User Information In User Information view change the RAID System Management Mode to Standard Mode See the instruction of NEC ESMPRO Manager to change the User Information Using Advanced Mode The Administrator account of NEC ESMPRO Manager has the authority of Advanced Mode in default If you change the RAID System Management Mode authority of user account change the setting of User Information In User Information view change the RAID System Management Mode to Advanced Mode See the instruction of NEC ESMPRO Manager to change the User Information 125 Function that can be used in NEC ESMPRO Manager You can use the following functions Usable is V with the RAID System Management function Category Function Standard Advanced View Information Tree View vA Y Property v v Rescan v v Allow it by Rescan in RAID System Information tree View RAID Log v y Display it RAID Log tree Configuration Make Logical Drive Simple Make Logical Drive Custom Hot Spare Make Delete Deleting Logical Drive Easy Configuratio
109. get aa eon ler 1 Physical tt e202s80 Disk Array ae i mr Specify make to make Dedicated Hot Spare ou Position euverne a Number of the target Disk Array using the Dedicated ID 93 Hot Spare Device Type HDD Interface gt SAS Ex Create a Dedicated Hot Spare for the Disk Array Vendor Model SEAGATE S19146853SS Disk Array N Firmware Version NQY1 y Number 2 using a Physical Device with l Serial Number gt 6 XM009S2 RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device Canac ity 135CR number e252s5 Status Hot Spare Hot Spare Information Dedicated Disk Array 2 raidcmd hotspare c 1 p e252s5 mr make a 2 Sale A R e LENO Fria Power Status On gt Step 2 If you see the Dedicated Hot Spare is created successfully you find that the value of Status is changed to Hot Spare and new item Hot Spare Information appears with value Dedicated Use the property command to refer to the property of Physical Device tg Specify pd to refer to the property of Physical Device c Number of the RAID Controller to which the Physical Device is connected p Number of the Physical Device Ex Refer to the property of the Physical Device with RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number e252s5 raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s5 Removing Hot Spare The procedure of removing a Hot Spare is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Physical Device with Sta
110. h the selected Physical Device or removes a Hot Spare Make Global Hot Spare makes Physical Devices be Global Hot Spares available as Hot Spares of all Logical Drives in the relevant RAID System Make Dedicated Hot Spare makes Physical Devices be Dedicated Hot Spares available as Hot Spares of specific Logical Drives Remove Hot Spare removes Physical Devices from Hot Spares Make Online Sets the selected Physical Device to online Make Offline Sets the selected Physical Device to offline Locate Goes on or blinks the lamp on the slot where the selected Physical Device is installed ON goes on or blinks the lamp OFF goes off the lamp 43 Tool menu Tool menu includes tools used to manage RAID Systems and items for changing the operation of the RAID Viewer Menu item Description Easy Configuration i Executes Easy Configuration allowing a RAID System to be configured easily Log Viewer Starts the Log Viewer Advanced Mode or Alters the RAID System Management Mode The item varies depending on the RAID System Standard Mode Management Mode Advanced Mode sets the RAID System Management Mode to the Advanced Mode Standard Mode sets the RAID System Management Mode to the Standard Mode Option Allows you to provide settings for the Universal RAID Utility Help menu Help menu includes the item of indicating the version and revision of the Universal RAID Utility and the version of th
111. he end of setup sh the installation is completed Check the result of the installation by using the rom command When the installation is completed properly the following packages are installed UniversalRAIDUtility x yy z x is major version yy is minor version z is release number for x yy eciservice a bb x i386 a is major version bb is minor version eciservice package and raidsrv agent service are not installed when you specify the nomgr option at setup Also the programs to manage the RAID Controllers will be installed with any one of the following combinations depending on the type of the RAID Controller used in your system Storelib a bb O a bb is version and Lib_Utils a bb cc noarch a bb cc is version WebPAMPRO_Agent 3 aa bbbb cc aa bbbb cc is version Storelib a bb O a bb is version Lib _Utils a bb cc noarch a bb cc is version and WebPAMPRO_Agent 3 aa bbbb cc aa bbbb cc is version If the installation fails these packages do not exist in the computer Universal RAID Utility does not install the following packages in the VMware ESX environment Please note that the installation is finished successfully in VMware ESX even after the program does not exist storelib a bb O a bb is version Lib _Utils a bb cc noarch a bb cc is version ie NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver5 5 or later versions is required to manage the server where Universal RAID Utility Ver3 0 has been installed See Installation of NEC ESM
112. hich the RAID Controller number is 2 and ID is 1 LD 1 ID O Indicates the Logical Drive number The example LD 1 ID O indicates the Logical Drive of which the Logical Drive number is 1 and ID is O Example 2 When the status of the Physical Device e49s1 connected to the RAID Controller 2 changes to Ready Jun 27 18 49 04 localhost raidsrv 27370 lt RUO302 gt CTRL 2 ID 1 PD e49s1 ID 72 ATA ST380815AS A Physical Device is Ready raidsrv Indicates the process name of Universal RAID Utility lt RU0302 gt Indicates event ID The four numeric characters after RU is event ID CTRL 2 ID 1 Indicates the RAID Controller number The example CTRL 2 ID 1 indicates the RAID Controller of which the RAID Controller number is 2 and ID is 1 PD e49s1 ID 72 Indicates the Physical Device number The example PD e49s1 ID 72 indicates the Physical Device of which the Physical Device number is e49s1 and ID is 72 ATA ST380815AS Indicates the product name of the Physical Device A Buzzer in RAID Controller If a RAID Controller is equipped with a Buzzer the RAID Controller sounds the Buzzer for some types of failures occurred The Buzzer sounds until the stopping it by RAID Viewer or raidcmd This section describes how to stop the Buzzer RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Check the component in which a failure occurs on the Tree View Step 2 Click the RAID Controller containing the component in which
113. ical Drives to be created by Create Logical Drive Custom Mode RAID Levels The RAID Level of a Logical Drive which can be created by Create Logical Drive Custom Mode should be RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 or RAID 50 Ww Supported RAID Levels vary in RAID Controllers Unsupported RAID Levels cannot be Dor selected Capacity of Logical Drive A Logical Drive to be created in the Custom Mode can have any capacity However a Logical Drive with the RAID Level being RAID 10 or RAID 50 must be created by using the entire areas of Physical Devices Items set for Logical Drive The values of other selection items set for a Logical Drive to be created are defined as shown in the table below Selection Item Value Stripe Size Select a value out of 1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB and 1024KB Cache Mode Three possible values are as follows Auto Switch Switches the mode automatically between Write Back and Write Through depending on the existence and or status of Battery and Flash Backup Unit Write Back Writes data to the cache memory asynchronously Write Through Writes data to the cache memory synchronously Initialize Mode Two possible values are as follows Full Initializes both the management and data areas in the Logical Drive Quick Initializes only the management information in the Logical Drive Wd Supported Stripe Sizes and cache mode vary in RAID Controllers Unsupported Stripe Siz
114. ich type of the Physical Device is available for the HDD Power Saving function in the table below Device Type Status T Online Hotspare Hard disk Drive HDD N A N A S Solid State Drive HDD SSD N A N A N A Tape device CD DVD w The settings for HDD Power Saving are available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT Setting Power Saving Devices The procedure of setting the Power Saving Devices for each RAID Controller is described below The Physical Device that can see the HDD Power Saving function is the Hard Disk Drive of which the status is Hot Spare ul 1 Some types of RAID Controller do not support HDD Power Saving If it does not support this Par function the items HDD Power Saving Hot Spare and Device Standby Time on the Options tab do not appear optctrl command of raidcmd is failed RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu Step 2 Click the Options tab in the RAID puecer DeLUTIY usau Controller X Properties dialog box Change the HDD Power Saving Hot Spare enable k value of HDD Power Saving Hot Spare to Enable Device Standby Time Enable or Disable Click OK or Apply 102 raidcmd Step 1 Execute optctrl command with psd option and the defined parameters gt raidcmd optctr c 1 psd hotspare l l gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 c Number of RAID Controller for which Pow
115. icrosoft Corporation All ri CioNWindows ss ystems2 gt 32 Standard and Advanced Modes The RAID Viewer and raidcmd can operate in two RAID System Management Modes which are Standard Mode and Advanced Modes The Standard Mode provides the RAID Viewer and raidcmd with standard management functions for RAID Systems The Advanced Mode provides the RAID Viewer and raidcmd with advanced management and maintenance functions for RAID Systems Using the two RAID System Management Modes appropriately depending on users and jobs allows the usability of the RAID Viewer to be improved and malfunctions to be avoided The table below lists the functions of the RAID Viewer and raidcmd available in each mode Function RAID Viewer function raidcmd command Standard mode Advanced mode See the version About in Help menu run raidcmd without s Y command view Tree View run raidcmd_ without v s command Start Log Viewer Log Viewer NA v s Update display information Rescan rescan v s Change RAID System Management Mode Standard Mode runmode s s Advanced Mode See property Property property v s See status of operation Operation View oplist s Y Hot Spare make Make Hot Spare hotspare s vA Hot Spare remove Remove Hot Spare hotspare s s Easy Configuration Easy Configuration econfig v y Create Logical Drive simple Create Logical Drive mklds v s Simple Create Logical Drive custom Create Logical Drive mkldc s Custom Delete
116. iewer The RAID Viewer indicates the status of the RAID System with the icons of components on the Tree View and the Status in the Property tab of each component For details of the icons of components on the Tree View see Tree View See Referring to Information on RAID System about details of Status in the Property tab Status Display by raidcmd The structure of the RAID Controller will be displayed in a hierarchical structure by using the raidcmd without command You can see the status of each component in a RAID System by using property command For the information in the property see Referring to Information on RAID System Logging Events to RAID Log The Universal RAID Utility logs all events occurred in the RAID System to the RAID Log in the Universal RAID Utility The data in the RAID Log can be seen by using a text editor or Log Viewer when the operating system is Windows For details of the Log Viewer see Functions of Log Viewer Note the character code when you see the RAID Log Operating System Path and File Name Character Code Windows installed folder server raid log UTF 8 Linux var log raidsrv raid log When the character code of the operating system is EUC EUC When the character code of the operating system is not EUC UTF 8 VMware ESX var log raidsrv raid log UTF 8 For details of events to be registered to the RAID Log see Appendix C Logs Events ww The registration of the event to RAID L
117. ile Help Figure 8 Menu of Log Viewer The following describes each menu item File menu File menu includes items for updating the display information on the Log Viewer and terminating the Log Viewer Menu item Description Refresh Reads the contents in the RAID Log and updates the Log View to the latest Properties Opens the Event Properties dialog box and displays the detailed information on the log selected by the Log Viewer Exit Closes the Log Viewer Help menu Help menu includes the item of indicating the version of the Log Viewer Menu item Description About Indicates the version of the Log Viewer Functions of raidcmd This chapter describes the functions of the raidcmd Command Line To use the raidcmd specify a command and one or more parameters for the command if necessary gt raidcmd command lt parameters of command gt ur Executing the raidcmd without any command and its parameters indicates the version of the mp raidcmd and the configuration of the RAID system Returned Value from raidcmd The returned value of the raidcmd is the result of executing the command Returned value Execution result O Normal termination of command 1 Abnormal termination of command Error Messages of raidcmd When a command of the raidcmd terminates abnormally the relevant error message appears in the following format gt raidcmd command parameters of command raidcmd
118. ility Ver3 0 The message indicating the following application is required to install Universal RAID Utility may appear at Setup with EXPRESSBUILDER for Windows Microsoft Visual C 2005 Redistributable Package x86 In this case install the Microsoft Visual C Run time library You can delete it after the setup is completed If not required Ur NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver5 5 or later versions is required to manage the server where 3 m5 Universal RAID Utility Ver3 0 has been installed See Installation of NEC ESMPRO Manager for details 21 Uninstallation Windows The Setup Program uninstalls Universal RAID Utility when there is the same version of Universal RAID Utility in the server w Use the same version of the Setup Program as the one when you install the current Universal Wa RAID Utility W You can start the uninstallation by using the clicking Delete on Universal RAID Utility Dar program in the list of Add or Remove Program Step 1 The procedure to start setup exe is the same as that described in Installation Windows Step 2 The currently running programs are displayed such as mmc exe Event Viewer server manager RAID Viewer Log Viewer Mee 0 7 VIR RU ia inte E lity raed aa and raidcmd You cannot uninstall Universal RAID Utility as long as these programs are running Terminate the programs and click If you want to continue the uninstallation quit the Retry applications below and click A e
119. in the online status with its Status being Online Structure and Status of RAID System Property of RAID Viewer Property of raidcmd 1 Online Logical Drive 1 Properties raided property tg ld eS ia RAIDLevel 5 i Controller 1 Logical Bre 1 Disk Array Information 1 order 1 1 Number RAID Level RAID 5 J String 8 BAKE Disk Array Informatio thiRg Size e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 e 252s5 ee aia we Cache Wadd Setting Write Back Online Online Online Hot Spare Capacity Cache Mode aii Write Back Stripe Size F Cache Mode Current KA Tree View of RAID Viewer gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s2 RAID Controller 1 ae i e252s2 Enclosure Enclosure Position Internal xl Slot 2 ID lt 19 Device Type HDD EHD computer 75 a Nd SEAGATE T9367018S l F Loa wnnebsnees Vendor Model E E RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8 Se perro ot Firmware Version 9003 Battery Normal Interest SAS Serial Number 3LC047LG i B E Disk Array 20 paf YE dor Model 2 SEAGATE ST973402SS Capac ty S 98GB LD 1 Onine RAIDS 0 eee Firmware Vergion p003 e FO e25252 Online 545 HODD Serial hamber 3NP38VWO EA PD 225253 Online SAS HDD peace tapacty YEG A PD 625254 Onine SASHDD EE Piee 8 m PD e25255 Dedicated Hot Spare 545 HDO Power Status eeeeeeseei ia me FR oT OTE REE ceil Power Status S M A R T Normal 5 Power Status On Figure 24 Display of RAID View
120. iority Middle Executes Consistency Check at balanced priority Low Executes Consistency Check at low priority Indicates whether Patrol Read is executed or not Enable Executes Patrol Read Disable Does not execute Patrol Read Indicates the priority level of Patrol Read executed in the server system Three possible Patrol Read Priorities are as follows High Executes Patrol Read at high priority Middle Executes Patrol Read at balanced priority Low Executes Patrol Read at low priority Indicates whether the Buzzer of the RAID Controller is used if a failure occurs in the RAID System Enable Enables the Buzzer Disable Disables the Buzzer Indicates whether the HDD Power Saving Hot Spare is enable or not Enable Spin down the Hot Spare that is not in use Disable Does not spin down the Hot Spare that is not in use Indicates the time of transitioning to Power Saving of the Physical Device which is not in use 30 minutes 1 hour 2 hours 4 hours 8 hours X hour hours Y minute minutes Indicates this option if current Device Standby Time is other value than listed above 51 Referring to Property of Battery For the information on a Battery on RAID Controller see the property of the Battery by RAID Viewer and see the property of the RAID Controller by raidcmd To display the property of Battery by RAID Viewer click the x Battery whose information is to be seen on the Tree Viewand cree click Pr
121. iservice a bb x i386 a is major version bb is minor version eciservice a bb x i386 a is major version bb is minor version is not uninstalled Please note that the uninstallation is finished successfully even if the program eciservice a bb x i386 exists in this case Installation of NEC ESMPRO Manager Install NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver5 5 or later versions is required to manage the RAID System that Universal RAID Utility Ver2 5 or later version manages If the older version of NEC ESMPRO Manager has been installed update it to Ver5 5 or later versions You cannot manage the RAID System from Windows GUI of NEC ESMPRO Manager Be sure to use Web GUI to manage the RAID Controller Wu You can download NEC ESMPRO Manager from NEC Corporate Website Por http www nec com See Operation Management of Software 27 Change of Universal RAID Utility Configuration The configuration of Universal RAID Utility must be changed when a RAID Controller is connected or removed In this case uninstall existing Universal RAID Utility and then install new Universal RAID Utility The following settings must be set again if the following settings has been customized TCP ports that Universal RAID Utility uses RAID System Management Mode at the start of RAID Viewer or raidcmd Scheduled tasks that registered in Operating System and execute Consistency Check 28 Starting or Stopping Universal RAID Utility This chapter descri
122. ity The Universal RAID Utility can start or stop Consistency Check and change the priority in which Consistency Check is executed The Consistency Check is effective next to Patrol Read to find failures including Physical Device medium error early Execute Consistency Check periodically if the RAID Controller does not support Patrol Read or the Patrol Read is disabled If the Universal RAID Utility is installed routine execution of the Consistency Check is set for RAID Controllers not supporting Patrol Read wO Starting or stopping the Consistency Check is enabled both in the Standard Mode and UW Advanced Mode The function of changing the priority at which the Consistency Check is executed is available only in the Advanced Mode p pe The Consistency Check can be executed only for Logical Drives with Status being Online The Consistency Check cannot be executed for Logical Drives with RAID Level being RAID O Executing Consistency Check Manually Consistency Check is executed in Logical Drives The procedure of starting Consistency Check is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Logical Drive on the Tree View Control Tool Hel Then click Start Consistency Check on the Control menu P Create Logical Drive H S60 Create SSD Cache Drive Silence Buzzer Refresh Battery Start Consistency Check Step 2 After Consistency Check is started the progress of the Consistency Check appears on the Op
123. k for arbitrary Logical Drive You can register the task to schedule the Consistency Check using the Task Scheduler on Windows or cron on Linux or VMware ESX After installing Universal RAID Utility a task to schedule the Consistency Check will be registered that makes it possible to detect failures such as media errors on the RAID Controller which does not support the Patrol Read function uty For the RAID Controller which does not support Patrol Read or of which the Patrol Read is PT disabled Universal RAID Utility executes Consistency Check using the function of task scheduler Tasks registered by Universal RAID Utility Windows The Universal RAID Utility registers a task such as that shown in the table below in a Windows task if it is installed The Windows task can be used to change the schedule of executing Consistency Check or delete tasks For how to use tasks see the Windows help Item Description Task name Consistency Check Execution day of the week Wednesday Starting time AM 0 00 Execution command Universal RAID Utility installation folder cli raidcmd exe ccs Execution account NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM w Note the following point when changes the setting of the task on operating system excluding Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Specify V1 option with Create option when uses schtasks command for changing the setting of the task Do not change the Configure for of the task of Consistency Check I
124. lable only in the IMPORTANT Advanced Mode The system may not start if you forcibly change the status of the Physical Device used for the system drive Do not change the status of the Physical Device used for the system drive forcibly P The function of changing the status of a Physical Device forcibly may not be able to change 1s the status to the desired one depending on the status of the Physical Device Such as a severe failure To Online Forcibly To set the Status of a Physical Device to Online forcibly use Make Online The procedure of executing Make Online is described below w O The consistency of Logical Drive will be lost if you forcibly change the status of the Physical Device used for the Logical Drive RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Physical Device with Status being mEnE Failed on the Tree View Then click Make Online on the Control menu Make Online Step 2 Displays the Warning message and the confirmation message Click Yes then Status of the Physical Device is changed to Online Then click N o Ai ithout chan gl n g the status of the P hys ical Warning If this Physical Device is the member of Logical Drives Device the consistency of Logical Drives will be lost i Make the Physical Device e25254 online Do you continue w Step 3 After the Make Online succeeds Status of the Physical Device is changed to Online 106 raidcmd Step 1 Execute stspd command with
125. le Initialize is executed Stop Initialize RAID Controller 1 LO 2 Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LD 1 Consistency Check RAID Controller 1 LD 3 BATA Comteoilar 1 17 22 a Leleten a Running 10 Completed Completed Coroanloatad Tritializa gt raidemd init c 1 l 2 op stop gt raidcmd oplist RAID Controller 1 gt After the Initialize is stopped the raidcmd terminates normally The stopped Initialize disappears from the Checking Result of Executing Initialize You can find the result of executing Initialize by checking the RAID Log of the Universal RAID Utility Detecting a problem the Initialize records the log in the RAID Log 96 Setting Initialize Priority You can set the priority at which Initialize is executed in the server The procedure of setting the Initialize Priority is described below wO Setting Initialize Priority are available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT Das support this function RAID Viewer and raidcmd do not display this item in the property of ww RAID Controllers of some types may not support the setting Initialize Priority If does not RAID Controller and the execution of optctrl command of raidcmd fails RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu Step 2 Click the Options tab in the RAID Controller Properties dialog box Change the value of
126. lerts on report coordination of the NEC ESMPRO AlertManager add the following registry to the computer in which the NEC ESMPRO Manager is installed If the registry has existed already you do not need to correct the registry additionally Registry key CPU architecture x86 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE NEC NVBASE AlertViewer AlertType URAIDUTL CPU architecture x64 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node NEC NVBASE AlertViewer AlertType URAIDUTL Values Name Type Data WavDefault REG_SZ Default wav AniDefault REG_SZ Default omp Image REG_SZ Default omp Smalllmage REG_SZ Default omp Permission In case of the operation system where ESMPRO Manager is installed is Windows XP exclude Home Edition Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 add the following permissions Name Type Administrators Full Control Everyone Read SYSTEM Full Control ESMPRO User Group Full Control 115 ie ESMPRO User Group is the name group for the management of NEC ESMPRO Manager Specified it when installed NEC ESMPRO Manager If you forget the name of group see the following registry key CPU architecture x86 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE NEC NVBASE CPU architecture x64 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node NEC NVBASE Value LocalGroup Monitoring Faults of Physical Devices The Universal RAID Utility can take the following measures to monitor failures of Physical Devices detected by RAID Controllers RAID Viewer raidcmd RAID L
127. lize Mode to be specified closely Allows not only unused Physical Devices but also unused area of Disk Array to be used to create a Logical Drive of RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 Allows more than one Logical Drive to be created by a set of operations only RAID Viewer Operation Procedure of Create Logical Drive Custom Mode This section describes the procedure of creating a Logical Drive by Create Logical Drive Custom Mode w Create Logical Drive Custom Mode is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Connect Physical Devices used for a Logical Drive to the RAID Controller before starting the RAID Viewer if required If the Physical Devices are connected completely start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Change the RAID System Management Mode to the Advanced Mode if it is set to the Standard Mode To do this click Advanced Mode on the Tool menu Click a RAID Controller on the Tree View select Create Logical Drive on the Control menu and click Custom Control Tool Step 3 The Create Logical Drive Custom x dialog box is started In the Custom Mode register a Click Add button to register the creating Logical Drive to the below list Click OK button to create the Logical Drives on the below list Logical Drive to be created to the list of the dialog box If the Logical Drive may be registered click Add To d el ete a registe red Logical Drive cli ck the Logi
128. llowing operating systems It can operate in either 32 bit or 64 bit environment for any operating system Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1 or later Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Professional SP2 or later Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP1 or later w Ifyou use Server Core Install Option of Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 use raidcmd for the management of the RAID System You cannot use RAID Viewer and Log Viewer 12 Microsoft NET Framework To use the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer Microsoft NET Framework Versions 2 0 to 3 5 is required Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Vista Windows 7 include NET Framework Version 2 0 to 3 5 Therefore you do not need to install NET Framework in case of using them For the installation of Microsoft NET Framework Version 2 0 to 3 5 see Preparing installation Windows Software Linux Operating systems The Universal RAID Utility can operate in the following operating systems It can operate in either 32 bit or 64 bit environment for any operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 8 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 4 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 0 or later MIRACLE LINUX V4 0 SP 2 or later Asianux Server 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 3 or later SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
129. llows The Universal RAID Utility defines selection items which you should examine to create a Logical Drive instead of you Allowing a Logical Drive to be created only by specifying two selection items RAID Level and Physical Devices to be used Allowing the Universal RAID Utility to set all setting items including Capacity and Stripe Size other than the RAID Level and Physical Devices to be used automatically Operation Procedure of Create Logical Drive Simple Mode This section describes the procedure of creating a Logical Drive by Create Logical Drive Simple Mode RAID Viewer Step 1 Connect Physical Devices used for a Logical Drive to the RAID Controller before starting the RAID Viewer if required If the Physical Devices are connected completely start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View select Create Logical Drive on the Control menu and click Simple Custom If only a single unused Physical Device exists in the RAID Controller Create Logical Drive Simple Mode is disabled Step 3 The Create Logical Drive Simple xi wizard is started STEP 1 3 Selection of RAID Level In step 1 3 select the RAID Level of the Logical Drive Select RAID Level of Logical Drive to be created After the selection click Next RAID Level RAID 5 gt E 76 Step 4 In step 2 3 select Physical Devices to be used to create the Logical Drive If Physical Devices of
130. made by the Easy Configuration Number of Hot Spares The number of Hot Spares is defined by the number of unused Physical Devices connected to the RAID Controller and the number of Physical Devices used for Logical Drives The number of Hot Spares results from subtracting Number of Physical Devices specified for Logical Drives from Unused Physical Device count in step 2 3 of the Easy Configuration wizard of RAID Viewer or econfig command of raidcmd w The maximum number of Hot Spares that can be created is 8 for N8103 109 128 134 135 RAID Controllers Easy Configuration will fail if you leave more than 8 Physical Devices for Hot Spares Physical Devices used as Hot Spares Physical Devices of larger capacities are preferentially used as Hot Spares Ex For the example shown below Physical Devices 1 7 can be used in Easy Configuration to make two Hot Spares Use Physical Devices 5 and 6 of larger Physical Device Numbers among the three Physical Devices as Hot Spares Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Device 1 Device 2 Device 3 Device 4 Device 5 Device 6 Device 7 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB 100GB ss Hot Spare Hot Spare Figure 19 Assigning Hot Spares in Easy Configuration o Physical Devices in which S M A R T errors are detected cannot be used to make Hot Spares 74 Modes of Hot Spares The Easy Configuration can only make Dedicated Hot Spares but cannot make Global Hot S
131. n Create SSD Cache Drive Delete SSD Cache Drive Operation Monitoring Operation v v Display it Running Operation in RAID include Stop Running System Information tree Operation Start Consistency Check y v Consistency Check Allow it Remote Batch tree Scheduled Only the user with an administrator right is practicable Start Initialize Start Rebuild B S Refresh Battery Scheduled Refresh Battery Maintenance Alert to NEC ESMPRO v y Manager Stop Buzzer v v Locate Physical Device v v Changing Status of Physical v Device Online Failed Changing of Settings Parameters of RAID v Controller Parameters of Logical Drive v Other functions Change RAID System Each user account of NEC ESMPRO Management Mode Manager has the attribute of RAID System Management Mode about Universal RAID Utility CLI Command Line Interface 126 Using ExpressUpdate Universal RAID Utility supports ExpressUpdate This feature enables you to install update and uninstall Universal RAID Utility This can enables you the version management of Universal RAID Utility For details of the operation environment and procedure of ExpressUpdate see the manual of ExpressUpdate Functions supported by ExpressUpdate The functions supported in ExpressUpdate for Universal RAID Utility are installation update and uninstallation These features are dependent on the version of Universal RAID Utility as shown below Version o
132. n gt 3 140 05 1294 Cache Size 1 024MB Premium Feature CacheCade Battery Status gt Normal Rebuild Priority Middle Consistency Check Priority Middle Patrol Read Enable Patrol Read Priority gt High Buzzer Setting Disable Pawela Savinedhot Spare cnable Device Standby Time 2 hours Use the property command to see the property of the RAID Controller tq Specify rc to see the property of the RAID Controller c The Number of the RAID Controller of which you are going to check the property Ex Referring to property of the RAID Controller RAID Controller Number 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 and dst option at the same time command is failed W Only a single parameter can be set at a time If execute optctrl command with psd option P 104 Checking Location of Physical Device The locate function can be used when you want to know the slot to which a specific Physical Device appearing in the RAID Viewer is inserted in the server or enclosure In actual locate turns on the DISK lamp on the server or enclosure in which the specified Physical Device is installed The DISK lamp blinks depending on the types of the server or enclosures Searching for the Physical Device with the DISK lamp being ON allows the Physical Device for which check location is executed on the RAID Viewer and raidcmd to be identified The DISK lamp automatically is turned off in 3 minutes Also the RAID Controller may have
133. n Control Tool Help the RAID System from the RAID System again and updates the management information to the latest Rescan CIF Properties Exit Alt F4 raidcmd Use rescan command Step 1 Execute rescan command The raidsrv service acquires the information of the RAID System gt raidcmd rescan again and updates the management information to gt the latest 59 Referring to RAID System Operation Log Operations done for RAID Systems and events occurred in the RAID Systems are registered to the RAID Log of the Universal RAID Utility See Logging Events to RAID Log for detail In case of the operating system is Windows use Log Viewer to see RAID Log File Help Refresh F5 Properties Exit Alt Fe The information saved in the RAID Log at the start of the Log Viewer appears on it To update the information click Refresh on the File menu The Log Viewer acquires the RAID Log again and updates the displayed information to the latest In case of the operating system is Linux use text editor or otherwise to see Logging Events to RAID Log 60 Configuration of RAID System This chapter describes the configuration of a RAID System by using the Universal RAID Utility The Universal RAID Utility provides a variety of functions depending on purposes TAS oo mS Allows Global or Dedicated Hot Spare to be made without errors Would like to make Hot Spare as measure
134. ncy aN Ae Initialize cannot be executed for any Logical Drive with Status being Online TIPS Executing Initialize Initialize should be executed in Logical Drives The procedure of executing Initialize is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Logical Drive on Control Tool Help the Tree View Select Start Initialize on the Control menu I create Logical Drive i and click Full or Quick E l i 9 Create SSD Cache Drive I SAS 92700 5 Silence Buzzer Refresh Battery Start Consistency Check Start Initialize Delete Logical Drive Step 2 Click yes on the dialog box shown to the right xj to run the initialize Click No to abort the initialize Logical Drive Initialize Logical Drive 1 Warning The all data will be lost on Logical Drive if the partitions exist on it Please make sure there is no important data before initializing Logical Drive Do you continue 95 Step 3 After Initialize is started the progress of the Initialize appears on the Operation View At the completion of the Initialize Status on the Operation View is changed to Completed raidcmd Step 1 Execute init command with op option and the following parameters c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Logical Drive for which Initialize is started Number of the Logical Drive for which Initialize is started op Specify start to start Initialize Step 2 After the Initi
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136. nfiguration Wizard appears Now creating the You have successfully configured the RAID system Sequentially Initializing the Logical Drive s Logical Drives and making Hot Spares is completed You can see the progress and the result of initialization by Operation View and Log Viewer After the wizard is closed see the Tree View to check the configuration However the Initialize of the Logical Drives having been created may not be completed The progress and result of initializing the Logical Drives can be checked on the Operation View Gancel 69 raidcmd Step 1 Connect Physical Devices used for Easy Configuration to the RAID Controller before executing raidcmd if required Step 2 Step 3 Specify the conditions on Easy Configuration In step 1 3 select the RAID Controller to be configured Enter the RAID Controller number to be configured Step 4 In step 2 3 specify the number of Physical Devices used for Logical Drive s Physical Device count using Logical Drive s and the number of Logical Drives to be created in the RAID Controller Making Logical Drive count If Physical Devices of different Interface Types or Device Type exist specify the number of Physical Devices in each type in the example shown to the right proper settings are provided for Physical Devices of the SAS interface If other Physical Devices of different types exist perform the operation in each type Step 5 Step 3 3 shows the
137. niversal RAID Utility in the IPv4 environment To manage a RAID System in the IPv6 environment use the BIOS utility of the RAID Controller Support for Solid State Drive SSD The RAID Viewer and raidcmd of Universal RAID Utility Ver2 31 or later display the Solid State Drive connected to the onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID as Hard Disk Drive After updating Universal RAID Utility from Ver2 3 or the older versions where the Solid State Drive is displayed as it is to Ver2 31 in the onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID environment the Solid State Drive will be displayed as Hard Disk Drive To display the Solid State Drive correctly in the environment where the onboard RAID Controllers LSI Embedded MegaRAID is used you need the driver ver14 00 1026 or later which supports the Solid State Drive Please check if the version of driver is 14 00 1026 or later Please be careful not to configure Logical Drive mixing Solid State Drives and Hard Disk Drives in the onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID environment The Logical Drive of which Solid State Drives and Hard Disk Drives are the members may be created in the following cases The functions of possibility mixing SSD and HDD Create Logical Drives Simple Custom When you select Physical Devices please be careful not to configure Logical Drive mixing Solid State Drives and Hard Disk Drives Rebuild Please check if the device type of
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141. ntents of the RAID 1 33GB 64KB Auto Switch Full i i RAID 1 278GB 64KB Auto Switch Full Logical Drives on the Tree View and or their uto Switc u properties However the Initialize of the Logical Drives having been created may not be completed The progress and result of initializing the Logical Drives can be checked on the Operation View OK Cancel 81 raidcmd A count of Logical Drive created by raidcmd is 1 at same time Step 1 Connect Physical Devices used for a Logical Drive to the RAID Controller before executing raidcmd if required Step 2 Execute mkldc command with the following parameters gt raidemd mkldc c 1 p e252s2 e252s3 e252s4 rl 5 cp 20 ss 64 cm auto im ful c Number of the RAID Controller in which a Logical Drive raidcmd creates Logical Drive 1 is created p Numbers of the Physical Devices used to create a Do you continue yes y or no n yes Logical Drive if used The required number of Physical bra sedan Devices varies depending on the RAID Level of the Logical cadena created Logical Drive 1 and started to initialize Drive to be created You can see the progress and the result of initialize by a Number of the Disk Array used to create a Logical oplist and property commands Drive if used rl RAID Level of a Logical Drive to be created Create Logical Drive Custom Mode allows a Logical Drive with RAID Level being RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAI
142. obal Hot Spare using the Physical Slot 5 Device with RAID Controller 1 and Physical Device DES 21 number e252s5 Device Type HDD Interface SAS raidcmd hotspare c 1 p e252s5 mr make Vendor Mode SEAGATE ST9146853SS Firmware Version NOO2 Serial Number 6XMOOWA8 Caras kitty QO GR Step 2 If the Global Hot Spare is created Status Hot Spare successfully you find that the value of Status is ah nee Information ee o M A I NormMai changed to Hot Spare and new item Hot Spare Power Status On Information appears with value Global Use the property command to refer to the property of Physical Device tg Specify pd to refer to the property of Physical Device c Number of the RAID Controller to which the Physical Device is connected p Number of the Physical Device Ex Refer to the property of the Physical Device with RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number e252s5 raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s5 Making Dedicated Hot Spare The procedure of making a Dedicated Hot Spare is described below RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Physical Device with Status being Ready on the Tree View Step 2 Select Hot Spare on the Control menu Sil and click Make Dedicated Hot Spare Cy Hot Spare i Make Global Hot Spare Make Online Make Dedicated Hot Spare Make Offline Remove Hot Spare leenkarn 4 Step 3 The Make Dedicated Hot Spare dialog x bo
143. og Buzzer If a Physical Device used for a Logical Drive is failed the status of the Physical Device changes to Failed In addition the status of the Logical Drive using the Physical Device changes to Degraded or Offline depending on the redundancy The status of the Physical Device and Logical Drive remains unchanged until the problem is solved liy If the Physical Device SSD used as CacheCade fails the status of the Physical Device SSD changes to Fail and the capacity of the SSD Cache Drive that includes the Physical Device SSD decreases SSD Cache Drive operates as Read Cache of HDD Therefore if the status of any one of the Physical Devices SSD is Online the status of the SSD Cache Drive is Online The RAID Viewer indicates the status of Physical Devices and Logical Drives with their icons on the Tree View and their properties In addition the RAID Viewer shows the status from the viewpoint of the RAID System and from the viewpoint of the server on the Tree View The raidcmd indicates the status of Physical Devices and Logical Drives on their properties The display of the RAID Viewer depending on the change of Physical Symbols Device status is described below BE Logical drive A Physical device Z Physical device Hot Spare 116 Operation in no failures of Physical Devices If all Physical Devices used by a Logical Drive operates normally with their Status being Online the Logical Drive is
144. og starts when raidsrv service is begun and stops Wii when raidsrv service is stopped The event happened when raidsrv service has stopped is not registered to RAID Log y W For log rotation see Logs output from Universal RAID Utility P Logging Events to OS Log Among RAID System events logged in the RAID Log the Universal RAID Utility also logs important events to the OS Log OS Log is the event log system in Windows or the syslog in Linux For events to be logged in the OS log see Appendix C Logs Events 112 Windows Example 1 When Logical Drive 2 on RAID Controller 1 is degraded El Event Properties Event 402 raidsrv x General Details lt RU0402 gt CTRL 1 D 0 LD 2 ID 1 Logical Drive is Degraded Lel gt Log Name System Source raidsrv Logged 1 12 2012 5 09 56 PM Event ID 402 Task Category None Level Warning Keywords Classic User N A Computer WIN I8L6PHHVGGO OpCode More Information Event Log Online Help Item Description lt RU0402 gt Indicates event ID The four numeric characters after RU is an event ID CTRL 1 ID 0 Indicates RAID Controller number The example CTRL 1 ID O indicates the RAID Controller of which the RAID Controller number is 1 and ID is O LD 2 ID 1 Indicates Logical Drive number The example LD 2 ID 1 indicates Logical Drive number 2 and ID 1 Example 2 When the status of the Physical Device 252s3 connected to the
145. ogical Drive count 1 Do you continue yes y or no n y lt Physical Device Type SATA HDD SSD gt Unused Physical Device count Physical Device count using Logical Drive s 2 Hot Spare count Do you continue Lyes y or no n y Maximum Logical Drive count Creating Logical Drive count 1 Do you continue yes y or no n y Step 3 3 RAID Controller 1 0 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8i Disk Array 1 LD 1 Online RAID 5 PD e252s2 Online SAS HDD PD e252s3 Online SAS HDD PD e252s4 Online SAS HDD PD e252s5 Dedicated Hot Spare SAS HDD Disk Array 2 LD 2 Online RAID 1 PD e252s0 Online SATA HDD PD e252s1 Online SATA HDD Disk Array 3 LD 3 Online RAID 1 PD e252s6 Online SATA HDD SSD PD e252s7 Online SATA HDD SSD lt Caut i on gt Create Logical Drive 2 with different Physical Devices of a capacity Therefore Logical Drive capacity is decided by the smallest Physical Device of capacity Confirm the contents of configuration Run the above configuration Initialize all of Logical Drive after creating them You can see the progress an d the result of Initialize by oplist and property commands Do you continue yes y or no n yes u 5 gt RAID Controller Enabling Easy Configuration to Be Executed Any RAID Controller enabling Easy Configuration to be executed must meet the following conditions 1 Allowing Dedicated Hot Spares to b
146. oller Create Logical Drive has two modes Simple and Custom In the Simple mode a Logical Drive can be simply created only by selecting a RAID Level and Physical Devices In the Custom mode a Logical Drive can be created by specifying detailed settings Create SSD Cache Drive Creates an SSD Cache Drive in the selected RAID Controller Create SSD Cache Drive is available only when CacheCade is enable Silence Buzzer Stops the Buzzer in the RAID Controller Functions executable for Battery Menu item Description Refresh Battery Executes Refresh for the selected Battery Functions executable for Logical Drive Menu item Description Start Consistency Check Executes Consistency Check for the selected Logical Drive Start Initialize Initializes the selected Logical Drive Start Initialize has two modes Full and Quick In the Full mode initializes the entire area of a Logical Drive In the Quick mode initializes only several leading blocks including the information on managing a Logical Drive Delete Logical Drive Deletes the selected Logical Drive Functions executable for SSD Cache Drive Menu item Description Delete SSD Cache Drive Deletes the SSD Cache Drive Delete SSD Cache Drive is available when CacheCade is enable Functions executable for Physical Device Menu item Description Start Rebuild Rebuilds the selected Physical Device Hot Spare Makes a Hot Spare wit
147. oller 1 Disk Array Capacity 297GB tg Specify da to see property of a Disk Array Unused Capacity 197GB C Number of the RAID Controller Type Disk Array a Number of the Disk Array Physical Device 292s0 Physical Device 2 e252s1 gt Ex Refer to the property of Disk Array with RAID Controller number 1 and Disk Array number 1 raidcmd property tg da c 1 a 1 Item Item Description RAID Viewer raidcmd Number RAID Controller X Indicates the management number logical address of the Disk Array in the Disk Array Y Universal RAID Utility ID ID Indicates the original identification value of the Disk Array Use this value to create Disk Array managed by the RAID Configuration utility of the RAID Controller correspond with those managed by the Universal RAID Utility Capacity Capacity Indicates the total capacity of Physical Device in Disk Array in GB Unused Capacity Unused Capacity Indicates the capacity of unused area in the Disk Array in GB Type Type Indicates the Type of Disk Array Indicates Disk Array or SSD Cache Disk Array Physical Device N Physical Device N Indicates the number of the Physical Devices which are the members of Disk Array 58 Checking Execution Status of Operation RAID Viewer and raidcmd allows the checking execution status of operation in the RAID System To check the execution status of operation by RAID Viewer use Operation View on RAID Viewer See Operation View
148. on Internal Slot 2 ID 15 Device Type HDD Interface SAS Vendor Model SEAGATE 57914680355 Firmware Version NOOO Serial Number 35D024H4 Capacity 67GB Status Ready S M A R T Normal Power Status On Use property command to see property of a Physical gt raidcomd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 Device by raidcmd RAID Controller 1 Physical Device e252s4 Enclosure 252 Enclosure Position Internal tg Specify pd to see property of a Physical Device Slot c Number of the RAID Controller C Type oD p Number of the Physical Device interface ENTS Vendor Mode SEAGATE ST9146803SS Ex Refer to the property of the Physical Device with Firmware Version N007 RAID Controller 1 d Phvsical Devi Number Serial Number gt 3SDOWKQ5 ontroier l an ysical Device NU er Capacity 135GB e252s4 Status Online S M A R T Normal Power Status On raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 55 Item RAID Viewer Enclosure Enclosure Position Slot Device Type Interface Vendor Model Firmware Version Serial Number Capacity Status Hot Spare Information S M A R T Item raidcmd Enclosure Enclosure Position Slot Device Type Interface Vendor Model Firmware Version Serial Number Capacity Status Hot Spare Information S M A R T Description Indicates the number of Enclosure inserted Physical Device This value is the original identification value of Enclosure Indica
149. oooooooocooooooocoooooooosooooooooooooooooooooooooo Coccoocooooooooo EA PO 2 1 Online SAS HDD EA PO 3 2 Online SAS HDD E PO 4 3 Dedicated Hot Spare SAS HDD PD 5 4 Global Hot Spare SAS HOD E PD 6 5 Ready SAS HDD E PD 7 6 Ready SAS HDD 2008 01 23 _ 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 2008 01 23 detegting RAID Pgoblem RAID System eocoocooooooooo socoooooooooooo gcal Drive is Online lt RU0401 gt CTRL 1 LD 2 Logical Drive is Online lt RU0304 gt CTRL lt RU0402 gt CTI lt RU0402 gt CTI lt RU0409 gt CTI lt RU0404 gt CTI lt RU0404 gt CTI lt RUD417 gt CTI lt RUD417 gt CTI lt RUD415 gt CTI lt RU0401 gt CTI lt RU0415 gt CTI lt RU0401 gt CTI lt RU0412 gt CTI lt RU0409 gt CTRL Viewer ID 5 HITACHI HUS153073VLS300 A140 Physical 3 Logical Drive is Degraded 2 Logical Drive is Degraded 1 Consistency Check was started 3 Initialzation was started 2 Initialization was started 3 The Cache Made of Logical Drive was changed Va 2 The Cache Mode of Logical Drive was changed Va 3 Logical Drive was created 3 Logical Drive is Online 2 Logical Drive was created 2 Logical Drive is Online 1 Consistency Check was stopped
150. operties on the File menu General The General tab indicates the property of the Battery Item value Status Normal Item Description RAID Viewer Status Indicates the status of the Battery installed in the RAID Controller Two possible statuses are as follows Normal Indicates that the Battery can be used normally Warning Indicates that the Battery cannot be used normally due to some reason Referring to Property of Flash Backup Unit For the information on a Flash Backup Unit on RAID Controller see the property of the Flash Backup Unit by RAID Viewer and see the property of the RAID Controller by raidcmd To display the property of Flash Backup Unit by RAID Flash Backup Unit Properties Viewer click the Flash Backup Unit whose information is oo to be seen on the Tree View and click Properties on the File menu The General tab indicates the property of the Flash Normal Backup Unit Item Description RAID Viewer Status Indicates the status of the Flash Backup Unit installed in the RAID Controller Two possible statuses are as follows Normal Indicates that the Flash Backup Unit can be used normally Warning Indicates that the Flash Backup Unit cannot be used normally due to some reason 52 Referring to Property of Logical Drive For the information on a Logical Drive see the property of the Logical Drive To display the property of Logical Drive by RAID Viewer click x the Logical Drive
151. ost or degraded H Logical Drive Fatal Because the Logical Drive contains one or more Physical Devices with Status being Failed the Logical Drive is offline and accessing to the Logical Drive is disabled o A RAID10 RAID50 RAID6O Logical Drive consists of more than one Disk Array according to the type of the RAID Controller Such Logical Drive nodes are located in more than one Disk Array nodes 38 SSD Cache Drive The SSD Cache Drive node exists in the SSD Cache Disk Array node An SSD Cache Drive node equals an SSD Cache Drive and shows the number and status of the SSD Cache Drive Icon LD lt Number gt lt Status gt SSD Cache Item Description lt Number gt Indicates the management number logical address of the SSD Cache Drive in the Universal RAID Utility The number starts from 1 for HDD Logical Drive and SSD Cache Drive lt Status gt Indicates the status of the SSD Cache Drive An SSD Cache Drive icon indicates the status of the SSD Cache Drive Icon Meaning Description F SSD Cache Drive Normal The SSD Cache Drive operates normally SSD Cache Drive Fatal Because Status of all Physical Devices for the SSD Cache Drive is Failed the SSD Cache Drive is offline and accessing the SSD Cache Drive is disabled Physical Device The Physical Device node exists in either the Disk Array node or the RAID Controller node The Physical Device which has created the Logical Drive and created Dedicated Hot Spare exist
152. pares If more than one Logical Drive is created the Dedicated Hot Spare can be used for all Logical Drives to be created Ex If Physical Devices 1 7 are used in Easy Configuration to create two Logical Drives and a single Hot Spare the Hot Spare will be the Dedicated Hot Spare for each Logical Drive Physical Devices Physical Devices Physical 1 2 and 3 4 5 and 6 Device 7 wr Logical Drive 1 a a i Hot Spare Dedicated Figure 20 Making Dedicated Hot Spare in Easy Configuration 1 Ex If Physical Devices 1 7 are used in Easy Configuration to create two Logical Drives and two Hot Spares Physical Devices 7 will be the Dedicated Hot Spares for both Logical Drives 1 and 2 Physical Devices Physical Devices Physical Physical 1 2 and 3 4 5 and 6 Device 7 Device 8 CER H A Logical Hot Spare Hot T I Logical es ea ee Drive 2 A oa Figure 21 Making Dedicated Hot Spares in Easy Configuration 2 75 Creating Logical Drive Easily The Universal RAID Utility supports Create Logical Drive Simple Mode in which a Logical Drive can be created only by selecting two selection items according to the guide Create Logical Drive Simple Mode allows you to create a Logical Drive only by specifying two selection items or the RAID Level of the Logical Drive and Physical Devices to be used The benefits of creating a Logical Drive with Create Logical Drive Simple Mode are as fo
153. port the Patrol Read function In such environment Patrol TTS Read and Patrol Read Priority are not displayed on RAID Viewer and raidcmd and the optctrl command will fail Setting Whether Patrol Read Is Executed or Not Whether Patrol Read is executed or not should be set in RAID Controllers The procedure of setting whether Patrol Read is executed or not is described below w Changing the setting whether Patrol Read is executed or not is available only in the Advanced Ton Mode RAID Viewer Step 1 Step 2 Click the Options tab in the RAID Controller Properties dialog box Change the value of Patrol Read to Enable or Disable Click OK or Apply raidcmd Step 1 and the following parameters Execute optctrl command with pr option C Number of the RAID Controller for which whether Patrol Read is executed or not is set pr Specify enable to allow Patrol Read Specify disable not to allow Patrol Read Step 2 Check the execution result by using property command The following parameter of RAID Controller is changed if the settings has been changed successfully Patrol Read enable to allow Patrol Read disable not to allow Patrol Read Ex Browse the property of the RAID Controller 1 raidcmd property tg rc c 1 89 Lonsistency Check Priority Fatrol Read Patrol Read Priority Buzzer Setting Start the RAID Viewer Click a RAID Controller on the Tree Vie
154. pressUpdate Utility by using The port numbers currently used No effect on any settings ExpressUpdate are taken over No effect on any settings For the change of TCP port number using Universal RAID Utility see Changing TCP port number Safe Mode and Single User Mode The Universal RAID Utility uses the network function Accordingly the Universal RAID Utility is not available in any of the following safe modes in which the network function cannot operate Safe Mode Safe Mode with Command Prompt Safe Mode with Networking Also it cannot be used in the single user mode of Linux and VMware ESX See Starting Universal RAID Utility in Single User Mode about how to use the Universal RAID Utility in the single user mode 15 Setup of Universal RAID Utility This chapter describes installation and uninstallation of the Universal RAID Utility Installation image Use the setup program of Universal RAID Utility for the installation and the uninstallation The setup program is contained in the installation image of the Universal RAID Utility Before the Universal RAID Utility can be installed or uninstalled you must prepare the installation image The installation images of Universal RAID Utility are different by operating system You need to use correct installation image corresponding to the operating system Operating system Installation image Windows Server 2012 Universal RAID Utility Windows Edition
155. r change any of your installation settings click Back Click Cancel to exit the wizard InstallShield Cancel InstallShield Wizard Complete The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed Universal RAID Utility Click Finish to exit the wizard fi Add or Remove Programs 5 x Sort by Name 7 Size 121 00MB 5i Currently installed programs I Show updates Change or Remove Programs nd Add New Programs Ta e fey Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 x64 5 Microsoft visual C 2005 Redistributable Size 5 25MB To remove this program from your computer click Remove jB WebPAMPRO Agent Add Remove Windows Components Size 7 80MB 4 Do not uninstall LSI SAS Storage SNMP Agent X X is version in the list of Add or MPORTANT Remove Program If you uninstall it Universal RAID Utility cannot use normally Please check the setting of When maximum log size is reached in the Properties of System event log In case that When maximum log size is reached is not Overwrite events aS needed when the log size reaches the maximum size Universal RAID Utility cannot register the detected RAID event to the Windows Event Log and alert it to the NEC ESMPRO Manager Please set When maximum log size is reached to the Overwrite events as needed If you have already had Universal RAID Utility in your computer be sure to uninstall it first Then install Universal RAID Ut
156. res cannot be created in a Disk Array containing Logical Drives with the RAID Level being RAID O Dedicated Hot Spares cannot be created in a Disk Array which does not have any Logical Drive Dedicated Hot Spare can be created by a Physical Device as which a Physical Device of the same Interface Type and Device Type to create the Disk Array Ex 1 You make the Dedicated Hot Spare on the RAID Controller which has Disk Arrays 1 and 2 If you specify only the Disk Array 1 as the target Disk Array the Dedicated Hot Spare is a Hot Spare of Disk Array 1 Disk Array Disk Array Dedicated 1 J 2 Hot Spare Figure 12 Dedicated Hot Spare 1 Ex 2 If you specify the Disk Arrays 1 and 2 as the target Disk Array the Dedicated Hot Spare is a Hot Spare of Disk Arrays 1 and 2 Dedicated Hot Spare Disk Array Disk Array 1 2 u oe e Figure 13 Dedicated Hot Spare 2 Ex 3 In case of the RAID System in Ex1 you can add more Dedicated Hot Spare If you add the Dedicated Hot Spare 2 to the Disk Array 1 the both Dedicated Hot Spare are the Hot Spare for the Disk Array 1 63 g TN Disk a I Disk fe Dedicated Dedicated A m _ 4 _ Hot Spare 1 Hot Spare 2_ J Figure 14 Dedicated Hot Spare 3 Ex 4 In case of the RAID System in Ex2 you can add more Dedicated Hot Spare likely Ex2 If you add the Dedicated Hot Spare to the Disk Arrays 1 and 2 the both Dedicated Hot Spare are the
157. rive The capacity of SSD Cache Drive to be created depends on the capacity of Solid State Drive s The maximum size of SSD Cache Drive is 512GB in total The SSD Cache Drive is created by using the entire areas of Solid State Drive Be sure to use the same size and spec of solid state drives when you create a single SSD Cache Drive with more than one solid state drives Ex Create SSD Cache Drive creates the SSD Cache Drive by using Solid State Drives Physical Devices SSD 5 6 Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical Physical i Device Device Device Device Device SSD Device SSD 1 2 3 4 5 6 l Hot Spare _50GB_ _5SOGB_ Be sure to use the same size and spec of solid state drives Logical Drive SSD Cache Drive 1 2 Figure 22 Capacities of SSD Cache Drive 87 Deleting SSD Cache Drive The procedure of deleting an SSD Cache a Drive is described below w O The function of Delete SSD Cache Drive is available only in the Advanced mode Make sure IMPORTANT that the RAID System management mode is Advanced mode RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Click the SSD Cache Drive to be deleted on the Tree View Control Tool Help Click Delete SSD Cache Drive on the Control menu Create Logical Drive S50 Create SSD Cache Drive Silence Buzzer Refresh Battery Start Consistency Check Start Initialize Delete Logical Drive Delete SSD Cache Drive Step 3 Click yes on th
158. rvice raidsry service raidemd V RAID Viewer Log Viewer 2 The raidsry service always operates in the NEC ESMPRO Manager Communication Module computer to manage RAID Systems taidemd The raidemd is the application managing and monitoring the RAID System by CLI 13 64 MB of space required on the C drive 13462 30 MB of space available on the C drive InstallShield lt Back Cancel 19 Step 6 The Ready to Install the Program screen appears Confirm the modules to be installed displayed on the screen and click Install to start installation To change the modules to be installed click Back to reselect the modules Step 7 Atthe completion of the installation the InstallShield Wizard Complete screen appears Click Finish Step 8 When the installation completes Universal RAID Utility is registered to the program list in the Change or Remove Programs Also either program or both programs to manage the RAID Controllers shown below will be registered depending on the type of the RAID Controller WebPAMPRO Agent 20 Universal RAID Utility InstallShield Wizard Ready to Install the Program The wizard is ready to begin installation Setup will install the following modules raidsry service raidemd RAID Viewer Log Viewer NEC ESMPRO Manager Communication Module Click Install to begin the installation If you want to review o
159. s a user having the MPORTANT administrator authority Only users having the administrator authority can execute the RAID Viewer 4 When you start the RAID Viewer on the server not connected to internet may wait a few minutes until startup the RAID Viewer See Verification of Authenticode signature at the startup of the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer for detail Only a single RAID Viewer can be started at a time o The RAID Viewer cannot be started if the raidsrv service does not operate An error may occur if the RAID Viewer is started just after the start of the OS It is because the raidsrv service has not been started completely In this case wait for a while before restarting the RAID Viewer Select File on the Menu Bar of the RAID Viewer and click Exit to close the RAID Viewer Control Tool Help Rescan CtrH F5 Properties Exit Alt F4 30 Log Viewer Use Start menu to open the Log Viewer Click Start and point menu in order to Programs Universal RAID Utility Log Viewer Ni Accessories ifr Administrative Tools Documents m Startup Gi Universal RAID Utility Log viewer amp Internet Explorer linge RAID viewer Search Ea Outlook Express lii Remote Assistance fe Programs Settings Help and Support Run Shut Gown Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Or select Tool menu of the RAID Viewer and click Log Viewer Tool Help
160. s against failure of Physical Device ould like to configure RAID System easily due to no expert knowledge _ E e Provides Easy Configuration allowing RAID System to be configured without expert knowledge of RAID System Would like to add a Logical Drive easily sy cm Allows Logical Drive to be made only by setting two selection items Would like to specify configuration of Logical Drive closely or create more than one Logical Drive at a time Allows information on Logical Drive to be set closely or more than one Logical Drive to be created at a time at will Would like to delete unnecessary Logical O a Drive You can delete the Logical Drive without stopping the System Would like to improve access performance of the Logical Drive e 7 You can improve access performance of the Logical Drive by using the SSD Cache Drive Figure 9 RAID System configuration functions 61 Making Hot Spare The Universal RAID Utility can make a Hot Spare to be replaced with a Physical Device in which a failure occurs Hot spares can have the following two modes Mode Description Global Hot Spare Available as a Hot Spare of every Disk Array for a single RAID Controller Dedicated Hot Spare Available as a Hot Spare of a specific Disk Array for a single RAID Controller In either mode note the following to have a Hot Spare oper
161. s in the Disk Array node The other Physical Device exists in RAID Controller node The Physical Device node equals a Physical Device and shows the number status interface device type and power status of the Physical Device Icon PD lt Number gt lt Status gt lt Interface gt lt Device Type gt lt Power Status gt Item Description lt Number gt Indicates the management number logical address of the Physical Device in the Universal RAID Utility lt Status gt Indicates the status of the Physical Device lt Interface gt Indicates the type of the interface to which the Physical Device is connected lt Device Type gt Indicates the type of Physical Device lt Power Status gt Indicates the Power Status of Physical Device Displayed only when Power Status is Power Saving or Transitioning A Physical Device icon indicates the device type and the status of the Physical Device Icon Meaning Description Physical Device Ready The Physical Device is not used to create a Logical Drive yet fa Physical Device Online The Physical Device is already used to create a Logical Drive Problems which the RAID Controller detects as failures do not occur H Physical Device Hot Spare The Physical Device is registered as a Hot Spare Physical Device Rebuilding The Physical Device which is rebuilding now a Physical Device Warning The Physical Device which detects one or more S M A R T errors miz bal Physical Device Fatal
162. s started the raidcmd terminates normally Check the execution status of the Rebuild by using oplist command Ex Check the status raidcmd oplist Stopping Rebuild You can stop Rebuild being executed on the way The procedure of stopping Rebuild is described below w The function of stopping Rebuild is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT Wf Some types of RAID Controller do not support stopping rebuild If it does not support this TIS function the stop button of operation view of RAID Viewer does not become enable When the op option of raidcmd rebuild is stop the message saying it is not Supported is displayed and the command is terminated RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer See Operation View while Rebuild is executed Step 2 Click operation Rebuild which you want to stop Then click Stop on the Operation View After the Rebuild is stopped Status on the peration Objec Operation View is changed to Stopped ebui RAID Controller 1 PD e2525 Running 4 Initialize RAID Controller 1 LD 2 Completed Rebuild RAID Controller 1 PD e252s54 Stopped i Consistency Check RAIN Controller 1 1D 7 Comnleted raidcmd Step 1 Execute rebuild command with the following parameters gt raidcmd rebuild c 1 p 3 op stop gt c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical gt raidcmd oplist Device for which Rebuild is stopped RAID Controller 1 p Number of the Physical De
163. stallation Linux VMware ESX Installation of NEC ESMPRO Install NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver 5 5 or later versions to manage the server where Universal Manager RAID Utility has been installed using NEC ESMPRO Manager Procedure 1 Installation of NEC ESMPRO Manager wO Auser having the administrator authority should install or uninstall the Universal RAID IMPORTANT Utility in the computer Only users having the administrator authority can execute the setup program If you use Server Core Install Option of Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 there is not Start menu You must run setup exe on the Administrator Command Prompt If you use VMware ESX press Alt key and F1 key at the same time at boot screen of VMware ESX to switch to the service console Log in to VMware ESX with the administrator authority to install or uninstall Universal RAID Utility Universal RAID Utility Ver2 3 or later versions do not support the Update Installation function To update Universal RAID Utility first uninstall existing Universal RAID Utility and then install the new version of Universal RAID Utility If you have changed following settings from default ones you have to change them again after re installation of Universal RAID Utility gt TCP ports that Universal RAID Utility uses gt RAID System Management Mode at the start of RAID Viewer or raidcmd gt Scheduled tasks that registered in Operating System
164. t ccccscsecsecncsececseceseecnsseceseeonssecusntatecseseeotseeseseeotseeanseents 89 Checking Result of Executing Patrol REAG wecciscivesecssneceicvuntie badd iebeawesierteweiebhasveixseeasiesadunebduawanandandecsndee raed 90 Setting Patrol Read Priority lt cssucaicnicaiaaydaiav vasasawaanieacwasaanceueavauatunadsanne ents caandeaateasinasaaa dv auaenabaaesateewaaanannaeiaen 90 Checking Logical Drive COnSIStCMEY imriss nai a aaaea 91 Executing Consistency Check Manually aciano a E T 91 Executing Consistency Check for arbitrary Logical Drive ssssssssesenssrsssrsrnrnnnrrerernnnrnrnrnrnnnnnnrnrnrnenenennrnne 92 SLODDING CONSISLENCY CHECK iaie a A a N ee an eeieeieas 93 Checking Result of Executing Consistency CNeck cccscsccstoscsececsececeecessececneansseceenteseeseseeorseesesseetseeanseents 93 setting Consistency Cmeck PRORUY woceverinccaeds nna ETE Gaudet E eaetiw encanta seine cis ed cc eae 94 IMEANZ ING EO ab PIV S nenin O 95 EX CCUG TIL AilZesccmsccevacnencsnens cages peatecananesmacaamnanaacute nod eramrsipecaaamen A Nai 95 StOPPINO IMUAIIZO seacacacesiscenieccateadaneasieweaiceaastenatecrrsertiaa ccemaamanuadenatsianaa A A 96 Checking Result GF Executng HIZO sinnar i i a a aaa 96 Setingnitalize PHONY reer NE N O aN 97 Changing Cache Mode of Logical Drive sssssssssssnsssnsnrnnnenennnenrnrnnnrnrnrurururnruronnnunununnnnnnnnnenennnnnnnn 98 SOUN Cache MOA E acoria A a O 98 Rebuilding PHYSICAl DEVICE riiseni a a 99 EX
165. teeaeeensseans 133 ABoUt the startup From Command DrOMDi sriain aA O eine 133 The different behavior between RAID Viewer and raidcmd for N8103 171 G171 sesesssssssssnsnsrerssssssrsnns 134 Logs output from Universal RAID Utility c cccssecsseesseceesecrseccueeeerseeueeueureesseeuseeersecaueesarsenseensares 134 LOGRO UON eas e tole tug a erssuens cocoa a reas Seaceetenusoie bes 134 Location where log files are CreAteC cccecsesscecsecseceectsecarceentceeaeseenreesaeseeneeeseeaaseeeeseeaaseeeesetaaseetseeatsaeatss 134 NEG ESMPRO Mandager 2 it serosa bee ectsab talent secant aecorsatedicsin ier eeniaidtscgeuhiapet iiue ccsseness icine 135 Simultaneous operation from two or more NEC ESMPRO Manager ccccsceeceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeseeeeaeeeeeesenanees 135 This chapter describes the overview of the Universal RAID Utility What is Universal RAID Utility The Universal RAID Utility enables RAID Systems in a computer to be managed The Universal RAID Utility is characterized as follows 1 Allowing a variety of RAID Systems to be managed Conventionally a specific management utility must be used for each RAID System On the other hand only the Universal RAID Utility can manage more than one RAID System For the RAID Systems which the Universal RAID Utility can manage see the documentation on computers and RAID Systems Operating in either Standard or Advanced Mode The Universal RAID Utility can operate in t
166. tency Check You cannot perform Consistency Check to the Logical Drive on which other operation is being done Check the status of the operation using Operation View or the oplist command of raidcmd The start of Consistency Check may fail even if no operation is in progress This may be caused by the Background Initialize BGI on the Logical Drive The status of the Background Initialize is not displayed in Operation View and by the oplist command of raidcmd Perform Consistency Check again after BGI is finished You can check the completion of BGI in the RAID log Installation Uninstallation DistributedCOM event is registered during installing or uninstalling The following events might be registered in the event log of OS during installation or uninstallation of Universal RAID Utility under Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 Even if the following events are registered there is no problem in the operation of the system and Universal RAID Utility Source Event ID Description DistributedCOM 10001 Unable to start a DCOM Server E9513610 F218 4DDA B954 2C7E6BA7CABB as 132 RAID Viewer Log Viewer Verification of Authenticode signature at the startup of the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer RAID Viewer and Log Viewer have an Authenticode signature When you start the Microsoft NET Framework Version 2 0 managed application that has an Authenticode signature NET Framework Version 2 0 verify the validation of Authen
167. tes the location where Enclosure in which Physical Device is inserted is connected lt RAID Viewer gt Internal Port Port Number Position Position lt raidcmd gt Internal Port Port Number Position Position Port Number the number of the Port with which the RAID Controller and Enclosure is connected Position the depth of the daisy chain number starting form 1 Indicates the number of Slot inserted Physical Device This value is a number starting from O or 1 Indicates the original identification value of the Physical Device Use this value to match Physical Devices managed by the RAID Configuration utility of the RAID Controller and those managed by the Universal RAID Utility The format of the ID varies depending on the types of RAID Controllers Indicates the type of Physical Device Four possible types are as follows HDD Hard Disk Drive HDD SSD Solid State Drive Tape Drive Tape Drive CD DVD CD drive or DVD drive Indicates the type of the interface to which the Physical Device is connected Two possible types are as follows SAS Serial Attached SCSI SATA Serial ATA Indicates the vendor and model name of the Physical Device Indicates the version of the Physical Device Indicates the serial number of the Physical Device This item is indicated when Device Type item is HDD or HDD SSD Indicates the capacity of the Physical Device in GB This item is indicated when Device Type item is HDD or HDD
168. the Control aa failure occurs The click Silence Buzzer on the Control menu fA Create Logical Drive Create SSD Cache Drive W You can click menu item Silence Buzzer whether a Buzzer sounds or not Nothing is done if Pi no Buzzer sounds 114 raidcmd Step 1 Execute raidcmd without command to check the component where a failure occurs Step 2 Execute sbuzzer command with the following parameter raidcmd sbuzzer c 1 c Number of the RAID Controller for which Buzzer is stopped Ex Stop the Buzzer of the RAID Controller RAID Controller number 1 raidcmd sbuzzer c 1 Sending Alert to ESMPRO Manager Among RAID System events logged in the OS Log the Universal RAID Utility sends important events which may affect the operations and managements of the server to the NEC ESMPRO Manager as alerts To send alerts the event monitoring function provided by the NEC ESMPRO Agent can be used If the NEC ESMPRO Agent is installed in the server in which the Universal RAID Utility is installed and alert transmission is set RAID System events detected by the Universal RAID Utility will be automatically subject to alert transmission to the NEC ESMPRO Manager For alerts sent to the NEC ESMPRO Manager see Appendix C Logs Events Wu For alert transmission provided by the NEC ESMPRO Agent see the relevant documentation Por of the NEC ESMPRO Agent Using report coordination of NEC ESMPRO AlertManager To use a
169. the Physical Device is SSD or HDD then replace the Physical Device with the proper type of device before rebuilding if required How to distinguish SSD and HDD Please see Property of the Physical Device and check Capacity The Physical Device is SSD if Capacity of property displays 30GB 50GB or 100GB If you want to know how to see Property of Physical Device see Referring to Property of Physical Device 131 OS Fatal Error Event The event OS Fatal Error is registered if the contiguous memory that is required for Universal RAID Utility operation cannot be reserved on the operating system It may be caused by the lack of system memory or free Space You must resolve the root cause After the problem is resolved check Updating Information of RAID System to update the RAID system configuration If you cannot update the RAID system information restart the raidsrv service Doubly Registered Event After Restoring Backup Data The event may be doubly registered registered again after restoring backup data when the log file for the events occurred during Universal RAID Utility is not activated are set as the target of the backup To avoid it exclude the following files from the target files for backup Operating System Path and File Name Windows lt Universal RAID Utility installation folder gt server raidconn storelib event bat Linux VMware ESX var log raidsrv raidconn storelib event bat Fails to Start Consis
170. ticode signature Therefore if you use the server not connected network and the server connected bad quality network may wait a few minutes until startup the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer Information http support microsoft com kb 936 0 en About the startup without Microsoft NET Framework Ver2 0 or later RAID Viewer and Log Viewer will fail to start if you do not install Microsoft NET Framework Version 2 0 or later in advance 1 When the version that is older than Microsoft NET Framework Version 2 0 exists The message dialog to show the occurrence of the initialization error of NET Framework is displayed 2 When NET Framework does not exist The message dialog to show the occurrence of the application error which generated by the link error of NET Framework is displayed And the following events are registered in the event log of OS Source Event ID Description Application Popup 26 Application popup raidview exe or rlogview exe Application Error The application failed to initialize properly OxcO000135 Click on OK to terminate the application You must install Microsoft NET Framework Version 2 0 or higher to use the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer About the startup from command prompt Move the location to the folder where the Log Viewer and RAID Viewer execution files exists to start the RAID Viewer and Log Viewer from the command prompt Universal RAID Utility stores the execution files of RAID Viewer and Log Viewer
171. tility by selecting the old version of Universal RAID Utility 127 Changing of Settings of Universal RAID Utility This chapter describes how to change the settings of the Universal RAID Utility Changing TCP port number If the TCP port number using Universal RAID Utility is same one of other application you can change the TCP port number using Universal RAID Utility wO Auser having the administrator authority should change the TCP port number Only users having the administrator authority can change the TCP port number Using Windows as Operating System Step 1 Log on to the server as a user having the administrator authority Step 2 Abort the RAID Viewer Log Viewer and raidcmd if they are used Step 3 Stop raidsrv service If manages the RAID System by NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver 5 5 or later stop raidsrv Agent service and eciService too Click Start Control Panel Then double click Management Tool Services Click raidsrv service and Stop of Control menu after displays service list And stop Universal RAID Utility raidsrv Agent service and eciService by the same way Step 4 There are two of more parts in configuration file of raidsrv service RAID Viewer raidcmd and raidsrv Agent service about data port event port and raidsrv Agent Communication port Change the two of more parts in each configuration file path and configuration data port event port raidsrv Agent file name Communication port raidsr
172. ting Refresh Battery or delete tasks For how to use cron see the manual of cron 8 crontab 1 crontab 5 by man command 110 Troubleshooting RAID System This chapter describes the troubleshooting of a RAID System done by using the Universal RAID Utility The Universal RAID Utility provides various measures to monitor occurrences of failures in the RAID System The figure below shows the image of the troubleshooting function provided by the Universal RAID Utility secoesceoseocoocosososoooooscoocoocoosoocoocsoocoscoocoscoocoocosoooooocoocoscossococosoocooscosoocoocoocoosoosoosoocoocoocoscoocosooosoocoscoocosooocooocoocoocoscooooscoseosoocosooocoocoocoocoocoocoocoocoocoocoososcoscoocosooocoscoocoocoocoococooooosoooo NEC ESMPRO Manager Universal RAID Utility RAID Viewer eeccecceccccce icuniversalRarD Ble contol Tool a Ell compter HEI RAID Cortroler 1 0 MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 126MB MEn 9 Delete E Battery Normal Operation Object Status mo errn feou RAD Cuclet 1 FD 7 stopped Ebul controler opre E Lo F100 onina RAIDS Rebuild RAID Controler 1 PD 5 Stopped Ea PO 1 0 Online SAS HOD Tritialza RAID Controler 1 LD 2 Stopped Cocooooooooooooooooo00o0o000o00000 0000000000000000 0 0000000000000000 0 000000000000000 000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000 000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000 0000000000000000 00o Oooo oeoo eooo oooooo
173. to change the Capacity Cache Node Stripe Size i Caehe Modes 4Se tt age Cache Mode Current Write Back Ex Set the Cache Mode of the Logical Drive RAID Type alpa jpa l Braj pg Controller number 1 Logical Drive number 1 to Status Online Write Back gt raidcmd optld c 1 l 1 cm writeback Step 2 The property of the RAID Controller changes as follows when the setting has been changed successfully Cache Mode Setting Cache Mode after change Check the execution result by using property command tg Specify rc to browse the property of Logical Drive c The number of the RAID Controller in which the Logical Drive The number of the Logical Drive Ex Browse the property of Logical Drive RAID Controller Number 1 Logical Drive 1 raidcmd property tg Id c 1 l 1 98 Rebuilding Physical Device Rebuild means incorporation of a new Physical Device to a Logical Drive after a Physical Device is replaced with the new one due to occurrence of an event such as a failure In general the Rebuild is automatically started by a function of the RAID Controller called standby rebuild or hot swap rebuild Accordingly manual Rebuild is not required so often If required use the Universal RAID Utility Ae Rebuild can be executed if Status of a Physical Device is set to Failed and Status of the Dar Logical Drive using the Physical Device is set to Degraded Executing Rebuild Rebuild is executed for a Physical D
174. troller in which the Physical Device exists p The number of the Physical Device Ex Check the property of the Physical Device RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number e252s4 raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s4 To Failed Forcibly To set the Status of a Physical Device to Failed forcibly use Make Offline The procedure of executing Make Offline is described below w The redundancy of Logical Drive will be lost if you forcibly change the status of the Physical Device used for the Logical Drive RAID Viewer PPh aT ie Make Offine eee oe Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click a Physical Device with Status being Online on the Tree View Then click Make Offline on the Control menu Step 2 Displays the Warning message and the confirmation Kj message Click Yes then Status of the Physical Device is changed to Failed Then click No without changing the status of the Physical Warning If this Physical Device is the member of Logical Drives Device l the redundancy of Logical Drives will be lost i Make the Physical Device e252s4 offline Do you continue Step 3 After the Make Offline succeeds Status of the Physical Device is changed to Failed 107 raidcmd Step 1 Execute stspd command with st option and the following parameters c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device with its status set to Failed forcibly p Number of the Physical Device with its status
175. try Click Cancel to cancel the setup RAID Viewer Log Viewer raided InstallShteld Retry Step 3 The uninstallation starts the InstallShield Wizard of the Universal RAID Utility Click Yes on the dialog box x shown to the right to start the uninstallation Click No to Do you want to completely remove the selected application and all of its Features abort the setup program Step 4 Uninstallation begins A right screen is displayed i i Universal RAID Utility InstallShield Wizard while uninstalling it Setup Status The InstallShield Wizard is removing Universal RAID Utility Preparing to uninstall A InstallShield 22 Step 5 At the completion of the uninstallation the wizard appears as shown in the figure to the right Click Finish Universal RAID Utility InstallShield Wizard Uninstall Complete If the uninstallation completes Universal RAID Utility is deleted from the list of Add or Remove Program The InstallShield Wizard has successfully uninstalled Universal RAID Utility Click Finish to exit the wizard Also one or several programs to control RAID Controller in your system are also deleted i Cancel 23 Preparing installation Linux You must prepare the following packages for using the Universal RAID Utility If the following packages do not exist in the computer that installs Universal RAID Utility you need to install them
176. tus being Hot Spare on the Tree View Step 2 Select Hot Spare on the Control menu es and click Remove Hot Spare Make Online Make Offline Remove Hot Spare Step 3 If the Hot Spare is created successfully Capadty 336E you can find that the value of Status of the Physical Status Ready Device property is set to Ready and item Hot Spare CHART REEE Information disappears SEDE am 66 raidcmd Step 1 Execute hotspare command with mr option and the following parameters c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device from which the Hot Spare is removed p Number of the Physical Device from which the Hot Spare is removed mr Specify remove to remove Hot Spare Ex Remove a Hot Spare with RAID Controller number 1 and Physical Device number e252s5 raidcmd hotspare c 1 p e252s5 mr remove Step 2 If you see the Hot Spare is created successfully the value of Status is changed to Ready and item Hot Spare Information disappears Use the property command to refer to the property of Physical Device tg Specify pd to refer to the property of Physical Device gt raidcmd hotspare c 1 p e252s5 mr remove Remove Hot Spare Do you continue yes y or no n yes gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s5 Device e252s5 gt 252 RAID Controller 1 Physical Enclosure Enclosure Position Slot ID Device Type Interface Vendor Mode Firmware Version Serial
177. urations and status of RAID Systems and the RAID System operation log Referring to Property of RAID Controller For the information on a RAID Controller see the property of the RAID Controller To display the property of RAID Controller by RAID Viewer Fa click the RAID Controller whose information is to be seen on General Option the Tree View and click Properties on the File menu The RAID Controller Properties dialog box has the Number 1 General and Option tabs ID D The General tab indicates the property of the RAID Vendor LSI Corporation Controller Model LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 8i x The Option tab allows you to see the settings of the RAID General Option Controller You can change the settings in the Advanced Mode Rebuild Priority paki El Consistency Check Priority Low Patrol Read Enable Patrol Read Priority Low xl Buzzer Setting Disable HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Enable Device Standby Time 30 minutes Use property command to see property of a RAID gt raidomd property tg ro c 1 Controller by raidcmd RAID Controller 1 0 tg Specify rc to see property of a RAID Controller i Wee RAID SAS 9967 8 C Number of the RAID Controller Firmware Version 3 140 05 1294 Cache Size 1 024MB Premium Feature CacheCade Battery Status Normal Rebui Id Priority Middle Consistency Check Priority Low Patrol Read Enable Patrol Read Priority Low Buzzer Setting Dis
178. ure of RAID Controller Displayed only when Premium Feature is enable The possible status is as follow Cache Cade Indicates the status of the Battery installed in the RAID Controller Three possible statuses are as follows Normal Indicates that the Battery can be used normally Warning Indicates that the Battery cannot be used normally due to some reason Not Present No battery with the RAID Controller Indicates the status of the Flash Backup Unit installed in the RAID Controller Three possible statuses are as follows Normal Indicates that the Flash Backup Unit can be used normally Warning Indicates that the Flash Backup Unit cannot be used normally due to some reason Not Present No Flash Backup Unit with the RAID Controller Indicates the priority level of Initialize executed in the server system Three possible Initialize Priorities are as follows High Executes Initialize at high priority Middle Executes Initialize at balanced priority Low Executes Initialize at low priority Indicates the priority level of Rebuild executed in the server system Three possible Rebuild Priorities are as follows High Executes Rebuild at high priority Middle Executes Rebuild at balanced priority Low Executes Rebuild at low priority Indicates the priority level of Consistency Check executed in the server system Three possible Consistency Check Priorities are as follows High Executes Consistency Check at high pr
179. urred in RAID Systems by using various functions The RAID Viewer the GUI of the Universal RAID Utility indicates the configurations and status of RAID Systems comprehensibly with trees and icons The raidcmd the CLI of the Universal RAID Utility indicates the same information too In addition the Universal RAID Utility registers failures occurred in RAID Systems not only to the dedicated log but also the OS log Further the Universal RAID Utility can send alerts to the NEC ESMPRO Manager normally attached to NEC Express series systems RAID System Management by NEC ESMPRO Manager Universal RAID Utility Windows Linux Edition can manage the RAID System using Web GUI of NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver 5 5 or later The RAID System that exists in a remote environment can be managed by using NEC ESMPRO Manager like RAID Viewer and Log Viewer You cannot manage the RAID System from Windows GUI of NEC ESMPRO Manager Be sure to use Web GUI to manage the RAID Controller Management by ExpressUpdate Universal RAID Utility Ver3 0 supports ExpressUpdate This feature enables you to update Universal RAID Utility to the latest version when a new version of Universal RAID Utility is released This feature is available with Universal RAID Utility Ver2 5 or the later versions Structure of Universal RAID Utility The Universal RAID Utility consists of the following modules The module that can be used is different depending on operating system raidsrv s
180. v service installed folder socket section socket section none server raidsrv conf data port event port RAID Viewer installed folder network section network section none gui raidview conf port port_listen raidcmd installed folder network section none none cli raidcmd conf port raidsrv Agent service installed folder network section network section network section server data_port event_port agent_port raidsrv_agent conf a The default folder after installation is SystemDrive Program Files Universal RAID Utility VTIS when the architecture of CPU is x86 It is SystemDrive Program Files x86 Universal RAID Utility when the architecture of CPU is x64 Step 5 If complete to modify all of configuration files start raidsrv service raidsrv Agent service and eciService Click Start Control Panel Then double click Management Tool Services Click Universal RAID Utility service and Start of Control menu after displays service list And start Universal RAID Utility raidsrv Agent service and eciService by the same way 128 Using Linux or VMware ESX as Operating System Step 1 Log in to the computer as a user having the administrator authority Step 2 Abort the raidcmd if it is used Step 3 Stop raidsrv service If the RAID System is managed by NEC ESMPRO Manager gt etc init d raidsrv stop Ver 5 5 or later raidsrv Agent service and eciService will Stopping raidsrv services also be stopp
181. versal RAID Utility uses It prevents you from the conflict between Universal RAID Utility and the application that automatically assigns TCP ports See the following description in the table Note that the TCP ports 5016 5018 that Universal RAID Utility Ver2 61 or later versions use are out of the range of the Ephemeral Ports that an application automatically assigns Therefore it is not necessary to reserve the ports Path and file name Description etc sysctl conf Add the following line net ipv4 ip_local_reserved_ports XXXXX ZZZZZ TCP port numbers 129 Changing RAID System Management Mode at Start of RAID Viewer The RAID Viewer is started in the Standard Mode by default The setting can be changed so that the RAID Viewer is always started in the Advanced Mode as described below Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click Option on the Tool menu Step 2 Check the Always start with an Advanced Mode SF check box in the General tab of the Option dialog box General RAID System Management Mode W Always start with an Advanced Mode YW The setting of Always start RAID Viewer in Advanced Mode is enabled at the next start of the Pos RAID Viewer 130 Notes on Use of Universal RAID Utility This chapter describes the notes on use of the Universal RAID Utility Operation Environment Use of IPv6 The Universal RAID Utility cannot operate in the IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 environment Use the U
182. versal RAID Utility to set all the items associated with Logical Drives including RAID Level Capacity and Stripe Size automatically Allowing more than one Logical Drive to be created at a time Making Dedicated Hot Spares for Logical Drives automatically created by Universal RAID Utility if Physical Devices are left for Hot Spares Procedure of Easy Configuration of RAID System The following describes the procedure of configuring a RAID System easily RAID Viewer Step 1 Connect Physical Devices used for Easy Configuration to the RAID Controller before starting the RAID Viewer if required If the Physical Devices are connected completely start the RAID Viewer Step 2 Click Easy Configuration on the Tool menu Tool Help Easy Configuration Pn Wicwwor i trio x Step 3 The Easy Configuration wizard is STEP 1 3 Selection of RAID Controller started In step 1 3 select the RAID Controller to be Select RAID Controller using Easy Configuration configured by clicking it Then click Next In the RAID Controller area RAID Controllers which RAID Controller B RAID Controller 1 LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 do not meet the conditions on Easy Configuration do not appear neei 68 Step 4 In step 2 3 specify the number of x Physical Devices used by Logical Drives or the STEP 2 3 Setting the contents of configuration number of Physical Devices us
183. vice for which Rebuild is stopped Op Specify stop to stop Rebuild Ex Stop rebuilding on the Physical Device RAID Controller Number 1 and Physical Device Number e252s4 raidcmd rebuild c 1 p e252s4 op stop Step 2 After the Rebuild is stopped the raidcmd terminates normally The stopped Rebuild disappears from the list of oplist command Ex Check the status raidcmd oplist 100 Checking Result of Executing Rebuild You can find the result of executing Rebuild by checking the Tree View the property of the Physical Device and the RAID Log of the Universal RAID Utility If Rebuild Succeeds the icon of the Physical Device subject to the Rebuild changes to Online on the Tree View In addition the Status in the Property tab of the Physical Device is set to Online When detects something problem Universal RAID Utility records the log in the RAID Log Setting Rebuild Priority You can set the priority at which Rebuild is executed in the server The procedure of setting the Rebuild Priority is described below w Setting Rebuild Priority are available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu Step 2 Click the Options tab in the RAID Controller Properties dialog box Change the value of Rebuild Priority to High Middle or Low Click ee OK or Apply Consistency Ch
184. w Then click Properties on the File menu miade x gt raidcmd optctr c 1 pr enable gt raidcmd property tg rc c 1 RAID Controller 1 Firmware Version Cache Size Premium Feature Battery Status Rebui Id Priority Patrol Read Pata Read Pppp ty Buzzer Setting 0 LSI Corporation LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267 81 3 140 05 1294 1 024MB CacheCade Normal Middle bans ksiensy Chack Palo mit ys a Low Enable EJL o Disable HDD Power Saving Hot Spare Device Standby Time gt MELIK 30 minutes Checking Result of Executing Patrol Read You can find the result of executing Patrol Read by checking the RAID Log of the Universal RAID Utility When detects something problem Universal RAID Utility records the log in the RAID Log Setting Patrol Read Priority You can set the priority in which Patrol Read is executed in your server The procedure of setting the Patrol Read Priority is described below w Changing the priority of Patrol Read is available only in the Advanced Mode IMPORTANT RAID Viewer Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View Then click Properties on the File menu Step 2 Click the Options tab in the RAID PALL real ET Ite ed Controller Properties dialog box Change the value of Patrol Read Priority Patrol Read Priority to High Middle or Low Buzzer Setting Click OK or Apply HOD Power Saving Hot Spare r
185. whose information is to be seen on the Tree View and click Properties on the File menu General Option The Logical Drive Properties dialog box contains the socal General and Option tabs Disk Array Information 2 order 1 1 oe RAID Level RAID 5 The General tab indicates the property of the Logical Drive Diy iii Stripe Sire B4KB Cache Mode Current Write Back Type Logical Drive Status Online The Option tab allows you to see the settings of the Logical x Drive 7 You can change the settings in the Advanced Mode General Option Cache Mode Setting Auto Switch Use property command to see property of a Logical Drive Sraidomd property tg ld c 1 1 2 by raidcmd RAID Controller 1 Logical Drive 2 ID d Disk Array Information 2 order 1 1 tg Specify Id to see property of a Logical Drive RAID Level RAID 5 c Number of the RAID Controller gabac A Ane I Number of the Logical Dri tripe size E ad Cache Mode Setting Auto Switch Cache Mode Current Write Back Type Logical Drive Ex Refer to the property of the Logical Drive with RAID Status Online gt Controller Number 1 and Logical Drive Number 2 raidcmd property tg ld c 1 l 2 53 Item Item RAID Viewer raidcmd Description Number RAID Controller X Indicates the management number logical address of the Logical Drive in the Logical Drive Y Universal RAID Utility Disk Array Information
186. wo RAID System Management Modes which are Standard Mode and Advanced Modes The Standard Mode provides the Universal RAID Utility with standard management functions of RAID Systems The Advanced Mode provides the Universal RAID Utility with advanced management and maintenance functions of RAID Systems Using the two RAID System Management Modes appropriately depending on users and jobs allows the usability of the Universal RAID Utility to be improved and malfunctions to be avoided Configuring RAID Systems easily Using the Universal RAID Utility you can configure a RAID System easily without expert knowledge of the RAID System The Universal RAID Utility provides the simple Logical Drive create function allowing a Logical Drive to be created by selecting only two selection items according to the guide of the Universal RAID Utility and the Easy Configuration allowing a RAID System to be configured only by defining uses of unused Physical Devices Supporting general functions required for configurations operations and maintenances of RAID Systems The Universal RAID Utility supports general functions for configuring a RAID System including creating Logical Drive and making Hot Spare general operation functions including log recording Patrol Read and Consistency Check and general functions required for maintenance including Rebuild and Locate functions Troubleshooting RAID Systems The Universal RAID Utility can detect failures occ
187. x appears Check the check box of the Disk Array for which a Dedicated Hot Spare is to be made The ar Dedicated Hot Spare may be made for more than Sian flo ve one Disk Array A She Same oni es Sete ae veil rer ear er ere ee ter Te Thien nee ern eee renee one ee The capacity of the Physical Device to be used as a Hot Spare must be the same as that of the Physical Device being used in the target Disk Array Select Disk Array s to make Dedicated Hot Spare Click OK to make the Dedicated Hot Spare Capacity of selected Physical Device 67 GB OK Cancel 65 eed d ee kee Lae gee at T set Y Step 4 If the Dedicated Hot Spare is created ore 67GB successfully you can find that the value of Status is Status Hot Spare set to Hot Spare and item Hot Spare Information Hot Spare Information Dedicated Disk Array 1 appears newly with value Dedicated Disk Array X are F MART orma raidcmd Step 1 Execute hotspare command with mr option and the following parameters gt raidcmd hotspare c 1 p e252s5 mr make a 2 Make Dedicated Hot Spare c Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device with which a Hot Spare is made Do you continue yes y or no n yes p Number of the Physical Device with which a Dedicated Hot Spare is made The capacity of the Physical Device gt raidcmd property tg pd c 1 p e252s5 should be equal to any Physical Device used by the tar

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