NEC Express5800/120Li User's Guide
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1. NEC Express5800 series Power Console Plus User s Guide ONL 4140bN COMMON 119 99 0508 Preface This manual explains Power Console Plus that 1s used with NEC Express5800 series connected with the LSI Logic disk array controller This manual is intended for persons who are familiar with Windows functions and operation methods See the Windows Online Help and Manual for Windows operation for further information Read other manuals related to this disk array controller when using Power Console Plus If using an optional disk array controller read the manual provided with the disk array controller as well Remarks Microsoft its logo Windows and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries MegaRAID WebBIOS and Power Console Plus are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Logic Corporation of the United States All company names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Contents la OVEOIVIOW ai 1 A AA A A senite l VD E OPON I irern i E E E O A 2 2 ZO VSN SOUD ai AE ic oon nce ee ease eee 4 Dk Op ratino Py MO MIME NL 2 93 05 a 4 O A tate weeacenameen eee 5 23 AMS CAMA WOM A ae rietoresn ted 6 24 AA VATOMINEME elisa lidia 8 2 5 Uninstalling Power Console Plus dd id dd ia 11 3 Management PC Setup siii 12 SL Operating Enya iS A A a nee er 12 Dede SPUD al ONS installed asado 13 Sr AMM Gel labo2. gt l H Dio you want add all the selected drivets Step 3 Change RAID Level A menu to select the RAID level is displayed Logical Drive 1 Select a RAID level and click on Apply Sulack new RAID level button Levels RAID D GRAID 1 CRAID 3 CRAID 5 Step 4 Array reconstruction Add Capacity starts and a progress chart is displayed on the screen as shown below RECONSTRUCTING Arrange Logical Drive 1 51 The third method is Step On Physical Devices View of the main menu select the physical drive s icon you want to add and drag it to the logical Physical Devices KE Channel 1 KE Channel 2 KE Channel 3 K Channel 4 gt 0 A1 1 Onin drive icon you want to add them Somo to OREA Jan 6 Processor amp Logical View C Physical View No of Physical drives 15 No of Logical drives 1 Step 2 A menu to select the RAID level is displayed Change RAID LA Logical Drive 1 Select a RAID level and click on Apply Select new RAID level button Levels RAID D RAID 1 CRAID 3 CRAID 5 Step 3 Array reconstruction Add Capacity starts EESE and a progress chart is displayed on the screen as shown below Arrange Logical Drive 1 Subsequently create a partition on Windows 52 6 Periodic Consistency Check Make a periodic consistency check on array disks and correct inconsistency detected Doing
3. Logical View 43 Global Hot Spare Pool Physical View No of Physical drives 15 Step 2 Click on OK in the confirmation Screen MegaRAID Power Console PlustTM xj 2 Add selected Physical Drive s to selected Logical Drive y Fe El Step 3 A menu to select the RAID level is displayed Change RAID Level Select a RAID level and click on Apply Logical Drive 1 button Select new RAID level i r Levels RAID D GRAID 1 CRAID 3 CRAID 5 Step 4 Array reconstruction Add Capacity starts RECONSTRUCTING and a progress chart is displayed on the arene screen as shown below NOTE You can view the information on logical drive and physical drives to be added by clicking on Info button while the progress chart is being displayed 50 The second method is Step On Physical Devices View of A AU trees Tee ee the main menu select the BBE i y physical drive s you want to add and on Logical Devices View RP terre z 1 41 2 Onln select the logical drive to add Soon them to S READY Jam 6 Processor Right click on the logical drive and select Add Drive in Advanced menu Logical View LD 1 RAID 5 1024 M Logical Drive 1 A Global Hot Spare Pool C Physical View Delete hitialize Check Consistency Change Policy Advanced Menu Change Config No of Physical drives 15 Property PERES Step 2 Click on OK in the confirmation screen MegaRAID Power Console Plus TM
4. Yes want to restart my computer now C No will restart my computer later Click Finish button finish to setup lt Back Cancel Screens shown here is the uninstallation performed on Windows 2000 18 4 Features of Power Console Plus This section explains the features of Power Console Plus The screen as shown below appears when Power Console Plus is started al Adapter jale a Progress Help lt lt Channel 1 ale Channel 3 or Channel 4 Legca Devices Adapter B Array 1 Logical View L LD 1 RAID 5 4306 MB s Global Hot Spare Pool No of Physical drives 7 No of Logical drives 1 Power Console Plus Screen Layout Description Select options from Configuration Adapter Physical Drv Logical Drv Progress or Help menus Click on a toolbar icon to select an option Select a controller or server Displays the physical devices connected to the SCSI Channels Displays hot spare devices and logical drives Choose Logical View or Physical View on Logical Devices View Displays the number of physical drives and logical drives for the array being connected with the system NOTES You cannot choose a different server if an operation such as a rebuild Performance Monitor display or drive reconstruction is in progress You cannot access the new server if Power Console Plus is already running You cannot change from View Only mode to Full Access
5. Control Manager Event ID 7031 Description The SNMP Service service terminated unexpectedly It has done this 1 time s Source NobelNet Portmapper Event ID 0 Description NobelNet Portmapper error 55
6. Install Program Client Uninstall Program All Component InstallShield 5 Select the Yes I want to restart Power Console Plus my computer now and click on Finish Finish to setup Setup is completed Power Console Plus has been uninstalled If you delete Power Console Plus you have to reboot your system The system restarts Yes want to restart my computer now C No will restart my computer later Click Finish button finish to setup lt Back Cancel 11 3 Management PC Setup This section explains Power Console Plus setup in a computer that manages servers via the network TCP IP 3 1 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT This section explains the operating environment required for Power Console Plus to operate on a management PC Hardware Machine NEC Express5800 series PC98 NX series PC AT compatible machine which contains Intel Pentium or CPU at least equivalent to 1t Memory size Large enough for OS operation 8MB or more Free space of the hard disk 10MB or more Display unit Screen size 1024 x 768 or larger If the screen size is 800 x 768 or smaller menu buttons may not be displayed Use the small sized font Required peripheral equipment Network Interface card CD ROM drive Pointing device such as a mouse Software Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows NT Version 4 0 Windows NT Version 4 0 Service Pack 5 or later In
7. Please do not change Disable Enable It is set up whether the mismatching detected Check Consistency with the adjustment check is restored Restoration Please do not change Disable Enable A Temp Offline function is set up Temp Offline RAID Please do not change Manage Patrol Read A Patrol Read function is set up Flush Cache If the MegaRAID system must be powered off immediately you must flush the contents of the cache memory to preserve data integrity Performance Monitor Choose Performance Monitor On from the Adapter menu to display a graphic representation of drive performance Choose Performance Monitor Off to disable this feature You can choose a logical drive the type of graph and the screen arrangement from this menu S PERFORMANCE MONITOR a Arrange View Options 2222222 KB Sec ziel 10sec 8 f 6 5 4 3 2 30 Properties Choose this option to display the controller properties Configuration Adapter Physical Dre Logical Dry Progress Help anand 1 4 4 4 SS ee 4 Adapter Properties Logical drive properties Number Of Logical Drives 1 Firmware Version U 79 Logical Drive 1 A tate Dptimal BIOS Version 1 47 RAID TYPE 0 A Write Policy Write Thru Rebuild Rate 100 Read Policy Read Ahead Cache Policy Cache Size 4MB i i SCSI Transfer Rate No of Physical drives 1 No of Logical drives 1 Rebuild Rate Choo
8. SCSI transfer rate 1 2 COMPONENTS Power Console Plus consists of the following six components SNMP A gent Install SNMP Agent in the NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installed MegaRAID Service Monitor Install MegaRAID Service Monitor in the NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installed Synchronize Cache Utility Install Synchronize Cache Utility in all servers and management PCs MegaRAID Client Control the RAID system on graphical screens Install MegaRAID Client in the NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installed or in the management PC that is connected through the NEC Express server and network MegaRAID Server Enables control of the MegaRAID controller via the network Install MegaRAID Server in the NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installed MegaRAID Registration Server Enables control of the MegaRAID controller via the network Install in one of NEC Express servers or management PCs that are connected through the network The above components must be installed correctly for establishing the environment to use Power Console Plus Power Console Plus doesn t support Standby Hibernation state Do not perform transition to the Standby Hibernation state Power Console Plus components to be installed are different between the target servers and management PC Server NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installe
9. configured logical drive Ready READY The physical drive works normally It is not part of a configured logical drive and is not a hot spare It is sometimes displayed with Master too Hot Spare HOTSP The drive is available as a spare drive in case an online physical drive fails The physical drive is out of service because it failed Rebuild Rebuild The physical drive is being rebuilt Logical Devices Logical Devices View displays the configured arrays logical drives and hot spares and global hot spare pool of the current controller Click on Logical View radio button on Logical Devices View to display the configured logical drives Click on Physical View to display the configured physical drives When you delete the created logical drive please do Delete from the menu which chooses a logical drive and 1s displayed by right click Be careful not to use it accidentally Moreover when two or more logical drives exist please delete from the logical drive created at the end When it deletes except the last logical drive the composition information on an array may break Displaying Adapter Controller Properties Click on Properties in Adapter menu to display the adapter properties as shown in the figure You can view the firmware Pasi version BIOS version and ee rebuild rate of the current Firmware Version T796 Number Of Logical Drives 1 BIOS Version 2 06 Loaical Drive 1 controller g
10. have specific requirements for the RAID system Automatic Wizard automatically sets all parameters and defines arrays and logical drives Click on the Redundancy box to configure the redundant arrays Select this option to configure an optimal RAID system 43 Step 2 Select a physical drive in the Ready status Click on Add to Array button to assign physical drives to the new array Click on Accept Array button and then click on Next button lt lt Channel 1 2 Channel 3 E Channel 4 a 6 Processor SB new array S E Global Hot Spare Pool NOTE Assign all physical disks used to configure a logical disk to New Array For example to configure the array of RAIDS level at least three physical drives are required Step 3 Specify the RAID level and size of the logical drives Click on Accept button and then Next button Click on Advanced button 1f you want to set the advanced parameter e g write policy MegaRAID Power Console Plus Wizare Span Arrays Adapter B Array 1 L new RAID lt undefined gt Global Hot Spare Pool 44 Setting Advanced Parameter Set each parameter on the screen Sr ES 6d KB Write Back Direct a Sana a NOTE Some parameter values may be restricted to ensure the system performance and stable operation Refer to the manual that comes with your controller Step 4 Verify the array configu
11. it is automatically corrected However if the failure is a read error on a data drive the bad data block is reassigned with the generated data 37 Properties Choose Properties to display the properties of the selected logical drive Each logical drive can be displayed by selecting the Previous or Next buttons Indications on the screen may not be aligned however 1t will not affect on other operation Logical Drive Properties Pal x Logical Drive 0 Size o 8682 MB RAID Level RAID 0 State Optimal Read Policy Adaptive Read Ahead Stripe Size 8k Write Policy Write Thru Cache Policy Cached 170 Virtual sizing Disabled i lt Previous Dive Next Drive gt Change Config You can change Cache Policy change Read Policy change Write Policy and change the RAJD level via this sub menu Configuration Adapter Physical Drv NER Progress Help Initialize l ge Check Consistency Properties Channel 4 RAID Level Virtual Size gt Add Capacity Loeorcal Devices Adapter TE Array 1 Logical View L LD 1 RAID 5 4306 MB a x i C Ph IY S Global Hot Spare Pool dee No of Physical drives 7 Na of Logical drives 1 Change Cache Policy You can choose Direct or Cached Change Read Policy You can choose Normal Read Ahead or Adaptive Read Ahead Normal The controller does not use read ahead for the selected logical drive This is the default se
12. pa Rebuild Rate 30 RAID TYPE des Write Policy Write Back Cache Size 64 MB Read Poli You can also view the RAID ee Cate Pok z ranster Kafe level and size of the logical d No o Stripes l drive created in the current Fast Initialization Disable a Phycical Drives controller 41 Displaying Physical Drive Properties Double click on the icon that represents the physical drive to display the properties of the selected physical drive as shown in the figure You can view the vendor and size of physical drive You can view the properties of each physical drive by clicking Previous Drive or Next Drive Displaying Logical Drive Properties Physical Drive Properties Vendor SEAGATE Product ST39102LC Revision 0005 SCSI Level 2 Channel 4 ID E 3 Size 0601 MB State Online Media error 0 Non media error 0 Predictive Failure 0 Reset Error Counters lt Previous Drive Next Drive gt Double click on the icon that represents the logical drive to display the properties of the selected logical drive as shown in the figure You can view the RAID level read policy and size of the logical drive Logical Drive Properties Logical Drive 2 RAID Level RAID 1 Read Policy Normal Write Back Cache Policy Direct I O Virtual sizing Disabled Write Policy size 4135 MB State Optimal Stripe Size 64K Span Depth 1 OK l
13. spare The drive to be made a hot spare must have the same or greater capacity than the other drives in the RAID array 35 Property Choose this option to display the properties of the selected physical drive Physical Drive Properties If you select Processor to display properties the Insertion may be incorrectly displayed 36 Logical Drv Menu Configuration Adapter Physical Dry MASA Progress Help Initialize Check Consistency A NT22 Properties Change Config Looreas Devices Adapter 243 Global Hot Spare Pool Logical View Physical View To change configuration Click on Configuration Wizard Initialize Choose this option to initialize the selected logical drive or drives You can view the progress of initialization The time required for initialization depends on type and capacity of physical drive INITIALIZE Al ES Arrange IMPORTANT Power Console Plus allows you to initialize a drive at any time Make sure that the drive being initialized does not have live data All data will be lost Check Consistency Choose this option to verify the redundancy data in logical drives that use RAID levels 1 or 5 Select the logical drive to be checked and choose Check Consistency from the Logical Drv menu You are prompted to run parity checking Click on OK to perform parity checking Parity Checking Selected Device s If a discrepancy is found
14. tata 14 3A ENYA CAL UU is 16 3 5 Uninstalling Power Console PIMs 2 ational 18 4 Features of Power Console PluS oooocccoonnncccconnnncncononncononanncononannconenannrenenannrrrnnananens 19 Ar Toolbar COS Sail 20 AD O A seltsdniie detusne ole actin bens IOA AOA 25 5 Running Power Console PIUS oooocccccconccccccicccconnnoncnnonnnonannnancnnnnnnnnrrnannnnnrnnannnanenas 41 3 1 Configuring Arrays and Logical Dives cede ened A ees A 43 5 2 Rebuilding Physical Drive cscs aida illa 47 5 3 Check Consistency on Logical DAYS A AE 48 34 Online Capacity A a 49 6 Periodic Consistency Check 53 1 Overview 1 1 MAJOR FUNCTIONS Power Console Plus is a utility to RAID system Use of Power Console Plus enables operations e g monitoring and maintenance of RAID systems that are constructed on local NEC Express servers and NEC Express servers connected through networks TCP IP The operations can be done online on graphical screens without the system being stopped Power Console Plus has the following features Supporting the Wizard function to facilitate configuration Enabling the change of RAID levels Being compatible with SAF TE Supporting the performance monitor Supporting enclosure functions such as temperature monitoring power monitoring and fan monitoring Enabling the settings of Write Read and Cache policies for each logical drive Supporting the save and restore functions for configuration Enabling the display of the
15. this option to force the controller to write the contents of cache memory to the logical drives Performance Monitor Choose this option to graphically display the On Off performance of a logical drive You can select a bar graph or a line graph This option can only turn this feature on or off Properties Choose this option to display the controller properties including the SCSI specification type cache memory size rebuild rate and firmware and BIOS versions Diagnostics This option is not available Rebuild Rate Choose this option to change the rate at which drives are rebuilt Choose this option to scan the SCSI channels again View Log Choose this option to display a MegaRAID event log en NVRAM Event The log of NVRAM is displayed ee Og View Bad Block Log The Bad Block information on a drive is displayed Enclose Choose this option to manage the drives in Management each physical RAID drive cabinet A picture of a RAID enclosure is displayed The actual real time state of each RAID channel is displayed You can monitor the addition and removal of devices in the enclosure online 29 Option Description Alarm Control Choose this option to enable or disable the system alarm when the physical drive fails Fast Initialization Choose this option to enable or disable Fast Initialization Battery Status The battery information on a controller is displayed S M A R T Setting S M A R T Set up a function
16. 0 Sets the day of the week on which the consistency check is made in the range from 0 to 6 The default day is O Sunday Sets intervals of O to 24 weeks at which the consistency check is made w0 indicates that the consistency check is made every day The default interval is 1 week dateMM DD YYYY Sets the start date of the consistency check The default start date is the command execution date YYYY ranges from 1900 to 2038 A year over 2038 cannot be specified abort Terminates the consistency check if it is in progress argi enChkCon Executes the consistency check command at the scheduled time Default disChkCon Suppresses the consistency check at the scheduled time This suppression does not affect the current consistency check If disChkCon is specified with enChkCon the last specified one is valid Examples of use Executing the consistency check command at 00 00 every Sunday megactrl cons h0 d0 wl Terminating all the consistency checks of all controllers megactrl cons abort Disabling the consistency check schedule megactrl disChkCon Enabling the consistency check schedule megactrl enChkCon NOTE The above commands need directory specification depending on the setting of the system path Example C winnt system32 megactrl cons 54 7 Notes 1 The following event log is sometimes registered when uninstalling Power Console Plus But there is no problem Source Service
17. Custom and click on Next A screen as shown below appears MegaRAID Power Console Plus Wizard A ES Action Array Definition K Channel 1 KE Channel 2 ali Channel 3 Channel 4 0 41 Online Add to Array 1 41 Online 2 41 Online Add Spare 7 Y Logical Devices Adapter Accept Array SB argi Ch210 0 Ch210 1 Ch210 2 Reclaim 8 new array po OLA Fit LALE Poo lt Back Next gt Cancel Help Select drive s _Add to Array and click Accept Array to close Custom configuration Select the drive to configure the array and click on Add to Array You cannot add a drive to an existing array while running the Wizard Select the drive for hot spare and click on Add Spare to add Hot Spare drives Even 1f 1t creates a hot spare and completes Wizard 1t may not be displayed on a screen In that case please click Rescan Click on Accept Array 1f you approve the suggested configuration Click on Reclaim to clear the last configured array Click on Next to accept the proposed configuration Follow the on screen instructions to complete the configuration process It 1s satisfactory although the following logs may be registered at the time of creation of an array Source MegaServ ID 6107 Description CheckConsistency is COMPLETED 27 Display Choose this option to display the current RAID system configuration Print Choose this option to print the current RAID syste
18. RTE Global Hot Spare Pool No of Physical drives 15 Wizard Choose Wizard to configure the drive Choose Custom or Automatic array configuration When Wizard starts the following dialog box appears MegaRAID Power Console Wizard Aa ES Action Starting This wizard will help you to configure your RAID system quickly and easily To start configuration click next Custom Allows you to define all aspects of the configuration arrays logical drives and their parameters C Automatic Automatically defines arrays and logical drives and sets their parameters IV Redundancy If checked Automatic Configuration will create redundant arrays where possible i Cancel Help This dialog box shows that Custom Configuration is being selected 25 Automatic Configuration The Wizard examines the system e g connected physical drives and check mark on Redundancy checkbox and automatically configures an optimal RAID system Select Automatic and click on Next The screen as shown below appears MegaRAID Power Console Plus Wizard K Channel 1 S Channel 2 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 8 L LD 1 RAID 5 4306 MB 8 Array 2 L LD 2 RAID 1 4338 MB 8 Array 3 D3 RA 26 Custom Configuration You can determine the configuration by specifying in detail the physical drives to be used and the logical drive to be created Select
19. ack Present Charge Status Complete Charge Cycle 19 Battery Voltage Normal S M A R T Setting S M A R T Set up a function Please do not change SMART Settings i d Fel ac 8 M A R T Settings Parameters Scan Interval S minutes MRIE Valve OK Cancel 33 Disable Enable Check Consistency Restoration It is set up whether the mismatching detected with the adjustment check is restored Please do not change Disable Enable Temp Offline RAID A Temp Offline function is set up Please do not change Manage Patrol Read A Patrol Read function is set up AA a Operation Mode Manual Start Execution Delay Hours I No Delay Status Number of Iterations Completed 0 Physical Drive Number Being Processed Ch 16 ID 15 Number of Physical Devices Processed 0 0 Patrol Read Progress Start Refresh Cancel Help 34 Physical Drive Menu MegaRAID Power Console Plus Version 4 00t J M Standard Channel 3 anne gt i Chnl 2 Tret 0 S MR Sor Rebuild Abort Rebuild vols axe On me Firmware Downloat Make Hotspare all Drive move in Down m B array 1 amp Logical View LD 1 RAID 0 4094 MB r 2 C Physical View 9 5 5 LD 2 RAID 5 75 MB 43 Global Hot Spare Pool No of Logical drives 2 Rebuild Choose the Rebuild option to rebuild one or more failed disk drives Select Abort Rebuild to stop the rebuild process at any tim
20. d Install the following components in this server SNMP Agent MegaRAID Service Monitor MegaRAID Client Management PC Management PC that monitors and controls servers via the network TCP IP Install the following components in the management PC MegaRAID Client Management PC does not guarantee operation on Client which uses Terminal Server Terminal Server Emulator or WBT Start Power Console Plus on management PC after powered on the machine on which the Server or Management Server is installed Management server Server that manages all servers connected to the same network TCP IP Install the following components in the management server MegaRAID Server MegaRAID Registration Server 2 Server Setup This section explains how to setup the Power Console Plus in the NEC Express server configuring RAID system 2 1 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT This section explains the operating environment required for Power Console Plus to operate Hardware Machine NEC Express5800 series server configuring RAID system Memory size Large enough for OS operation 8MB or more Free space of the hard disk 10MB or more Display unit Screen size 1024 x 768 or larger If the screen size 1s 800 x 768 or smaller menu buttons may not be displayed Use the small sized font Required peripheral equipment Network Interface Card CD ROM drive Pointing device such as a mouse Software Microsoft Windows 2000 Micros
21. e The drive will revert to its original status before the rebuild began A RAID 1 or 5 configuration has redundancy If a drive in a RAID group fails the RAID subsystem continues to work but no additional redundancy is provided Another drive failure will bring the system down But the failed drive can be replaced and added into the RAID system by rebuilding the drive Select Rebuild to perform this function The rebuild process can take place while the RAID system is still running although performance may be slightly affected Update Drv Firmware This option is not available Change Status Choose this option after you have selected a target physical drive Option Description Make Online Choose this option to bring the selected physical drive online Choose this option to take the selected physical drive offline Spin Up Choose this option to allow a period of time for the selected physical drive to reach operational speed Spin Down Choose this option to allow a period of time for the selected physical drive to stop spinning before taking the drive offline Make Hot Spare Choose this option to designate the selected drive as a hot spare Hot spares are automatically brought online to replace failed disk drives Hot spares are physical drives that are powered up along with the RAID drives and usually are placed in a standby state Hot spares can be used for RAID levels 1 and 5 Click on the drive icon of the drive to be made the hot
22. e management server Use a text editor e g notepad to modify the REGSERV DAT file Line feed is necessary at the end of each line Please register one host name of the server and management server into REGSERV DAT file With Windows 2000 the REGSERV DAT file is placed in C Winnt System32 Drivers etc regserv dat With Windows 2003 Server the HOSTS file is C Windows System32 Drivers etc regserv dat i Regsery dat Notepad E 10 x File Edit Format Help PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY This Tile MUST contain the name of the Registration server The HOSTS Tile must contain the RAID server names and their associated TCP IP address The Registration server name should correspond to a name in the HosTs Tile The HOSTS file can be found in the systemRoots systems2 drivers etc directory in windows NT and in the winbootdir directory in windows 45 Replace localhost below with your Registration server name and press enter MECL Change of the password permitting the full access To change the password specified at installation that permits the full access use the password change tool SETPASS EXE provided by Power Console Plus Execute the password change tool Setting Password Version 2 01 SETPASS EXE in the subfolder rserver in the Change password for Remote MegaRAID Administrator installation destination of Power Console Plus Old Password eee O using Explorer and so on New Password P aM R
23. efore it can be added to a logical drive No operation can be started while a drive is being reconstructed m With Windows 2000 Add Capacity is available only for basic disk not for dynamic disk 39 Progress Menu The features on this menu are available only when a rebuild initialization check consistency or drive reconstruction are in progress Configuration Adapter Physical Dry Logical Drv MESA Help IA 1 Rebuila aaTeSs 1 l 1 i 2 Diagnostics Proaress A NTO LOCAL M E Ada Ss lhitelize Progress A ihheck lsonsisteney rrogress Physical Devices 5 Reconstruction Progress E Channel 1 6 Peromance Monitor 5 JCDRom Loca Devices Adapter B array 1 Logical View L LD 1 RAID 5 4306 MB C Physical View Global Hot Spare Pool No of Physical drives 7 No of Logical drives 1 Description Displays the progress of rebuild process Displays the progress of diagnostics test Displays the progress of initialization Displays the progress of Check Consistency Displays the progress of reconstruction Displays the Performance Monitor screen 40 5 Running Power Console Plus This section describes how to run Power Console Plus Described below is simple terminology and basic operations Drive Status The statuses of each physical drive shown to the right of the SCSI ID or array are as follows The physical drive works normally It is part of a
24. etype Password rotor Enter the old password in the Old Password field and the new password in the New Password Retype Password field and then click OK If you have forgotten the old password delete the password file RAIDPASS VAL and then set the new password by executing the password change tool SETPASS EXE The password file RAIDPASS VAL 1s C Winnt System32 Drivers etc raidpass val In case of Windows 2003 Server the HOSTS file is C Windows System32 Drivers etc raidpass val IMPORTANT The password file RAIDPASS VAL is an important file containing the password that permits the full access through Power Console Plus In consideration of security change the NTFS file access authority for the password file RAIDPASS VAL to Administrator authority etc so that only administrators are permitted to delete transfer data 10 2 5 UNINSTALLING POWER CONSOLE PLUS Take the following steps to uninstall Power Console Plus 1 Power on the server and start Windows 2 Set the provided CD ROM EXPRESSBUILDER in the drive 3 Execute SETUP EXE which is in the ESMPRO en PCON in CD ROM from Explorer and so on Select Setup Options screen appears 4 Select the Uninstall Program All Component and click Next Setup Option x Uninstallation starts When AAA automatic setup completes Finish aa A to setup screen appears Install Program Server Install Program Server Management Server C
25. for drive enclosure appears when you click on one of the icons leon Description OOO E Displays the current status of the power supply in the enclosure for the selected subsystem Na Displays the current status of the cooling fans in the enclosure for the selected subsystem ajl Displays the current temperature of the enclosure for the selected subsystem 32 Alarm Control The alarm generates a beeping sound when one or more physical disks fail The sound continues until Silence Alarm is selected After a rebuild finishes a beep signals that the rebuild is done Choose Silence Alarm at this time to silence the alarm The alarm settings are Setting Description Enable Disable When Alarm Control option is selected and if Disable Alarm Alarm appears the alarm is enabled and can be disabled If Enable Alarm appears the alarm is disabled and can be enabled When Enable Alarm is set a beeping sound occurs even when all logical drives are online and there are no failed disks after a hot spare rebuild completes Use the Silence Alarm function to stop the alarm Silence Alarm Stops the alarm if it is currently beeping If the alarm is not beeping it has no effect Fast Initialization Specify whether to perform fast initialization Always set to Enable default Battery Status The battery information on a controller is displayed Battery Status Battery Module Present Temperature Normal Battery P
26. hed 1 0 Size 8682M Component Physical Drives RANK 0 Physical Drive Icon Click on this icon to display the properties of the selected physical drive Physical Drive Properties 21 Logical Drive Icon Click on this icon to display the properties of the selected logical drive Logical Drive Properties Al ES Logical Drive 0 SIE 8682 MB RAID Level RAID 0 State Optimal Read Policy Adaptive Read Ahead Stripe Size BE Write Policy White Thru Cache Policy Cached I O Virtual sizing Disabled E Previous Drive Hest Dive gt Rebuild Rate Icon Click on this icon to change I O rate for rebuild or reconstruction Rescan Icon When you click on this icon the currently selected controller scans 1ts channels again to make sure that all drive configuration information 1s current The configuration information will be updated to the latest one 99 Display Log Icon Click on this icon to display the log as shown below View LOG File Mal ES Server ID LOCAL Adapter ID Adapter_1 Battery backup Trickle charge on Fri Dec 12 06 55 36 1997 NOTE Power Console Plus logs all events to Raid log Raid log is created in the same directory where Power Console Plus runs If the Power Console Plus is installed in C Program Files MegaRAID then C Program Files MegaRAID Clhient will become the working directory NVRAM Icon The log of NVRAM is d
27. ical drive Step 1 MegaRAID Power Console Plus Version 4 00t J M Standard E q O xi Select an icon of log ical Configuration Adapter Physical Dry Logical Dry Progress Help drive to be checked in slala E Logical Devices View WA 1920 Shines Corti on main menu Physical Devices E Channel 1 lt Channel 2 Select Check Consistency in Logical Drv menu Jn 6 Processor Logical Devices Logical View Global Hot Spare Pool C Physical View Step 2 Click on OK in the confirmation screen Check Consistency starts and a progress chart is displayed on the screen as shown below NOTE Clicking on Abort CHECK CONSISTENCY button while the progress chart Arrange is being displayed forcedly stops Check Consistency process Logical Drive 1 48 5 4 ONLINE CAPACITY EXPANSION This section describes the procedures for online capacity expansion Add Capacity You can add a physical drive to an existing array to expand capacity only under the following conditions Only one logical drive is configured per array If two or more logical drives are configured Add Capacity feature is unavailable For Windows 2000 Add Capacity is available only for basic disk not for dynamic disk Please reboot OS after Add Capacity is completed If it does not reboot an error event may be periodically registered into the event log of OS NOTE Available RAID level for the capacit
28. isplayed Bad Block Log Icon The Bad Block information on a drive is displayed Exit Icon Click on this icon to quit Power Console Plus 33 Help Icon Click on this icon to display information about Power Console Plus 24 4 2 MENUBAR OPTIONS The Power Console Plus menus are Option Description OOOO Configuration Choose this option to start the Power Console Plus Wizard to configure the RAID system Adapter Choose this option to select controller related functions You can enable or disable the speaker and start the performance monitor Physical Drv Choose this option to rebuild and display the properties of the physical drives Logical Drv Choose this option to initialize display the properties of and check consistency of logical drives Progress Choose this option to view the progress of a disk rebuild initialization check consistency reconstruction or to view the performance monitor Choose this to display information on Power Console Plus Configuration Menu MegaRAID Power Console Plus Version 4 00t J M Standard DE e leal x Configuration Adapter Physical Dry Logical Dry Progress Help Wizard Display Print Save Load Glear Configuration Exit o READY READY 8 5 A1 1 Onln Jan 6 Processor En Adapter A 5 8 array 1 Logical View LD 1 RAID 0 4094 MB eee El C Physical View 8 Array 2 La TENE
29. ition screen and begin the configuration process again Adding a Physical Drive to an Existing Array You cannot add a physical drive to an array while running the Configuration Wizard NOTE To add a physical drive to an existing array see Section 5 4 46 9 2 REBUILDING PHYSICAL DRIVE This section describes how to rebuild the physical drive Step 1 On Physical Devices View in __MesaRAID Power Console Plus Version 400t J M Standard lol the main menu select a physical drive you want to rebuild icon representing physical drive being failed Select Rebuild in Physical Drv menu Update Dry Firmware Change Status Properties Jan 6 Processor Rebuild starts and a progress chart is displayed on the screen as shown below Logical Devices Adapter S array 1 Logical View LS LD 1 RAID 5 1024 MB ae S Global Hot Spare Pool s Physical View No of Physical drives 15 No of Logical drives 1 Step 2 Click on OK in the confirmation screen NOTES REBUILD a Arrange Ch4ID2 m Clicking on Abort button while the progress of rebuild is being displayed forcedly stops rebuild process It is recommended to check the status of logical drive after the physical drive is rebuilt For Check Consistency see Section 5 3 47 9 3 CHECK CONSISTENCY ON LOGICAL DRIVE This section describes how to perform consistency check on log
30. m configuration SAVE Choose this option to save the current RAID configuration to a hard disk or floppy disk LOAD Choose this option to load a previously saved RAID configuration When this option 1s selected the dialog box as shown below appears Select the correct directory path and type the configuration filename IMPORTANT This feature is maintenance purpose only The user should not execute any of these functions Improper operation may cause a loss of data Load Configuration EES Look in EE Floppy 4 Ex ob EEE Files of type system Files sys Cancel T Open as read only Clear Configuration Clears the disk array configuration information IMPORTANT Do not use this feature Otherwise all configuration information will be erased EXIT Choose this option to quit Power Console Plus 28 Adapter Menu Configuration MECA Physical Dry Logical Dry Progress Help Ss A B Update Eirnvare l Flush Cache Performance Monitor On Properties DISENDSUCS v Rebuild Rate Rescan View Log Enclosure Management Alarm Control Fast Initialization i SB Array 1 amp Logical View L LD 1 RAID 5 2000 MB S Global Hot Spare Pool s Physical View No of Physical drives 3 No of Logical drives 1 The options on the Adapter menu are described below Description Remarks O Update Firmware This option is not available Flush Cache Choose
31. m32 Drivers etc hosts fj hosts Notepad E E aj xj File Edit Format Help Copyright ci 1993 1999 microsoft corp This is a sample HOSTS Tile used by Microsoft TCP IP Tor windows This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names Each aa should be kept on an individual line The IP address should aced in the first column followed ny the corresponding host name e The IP address and the host name should separated by at least one space Era ee comments such as these may be inserted on individual lines or following the machine name denoted by a symbol For example 1027 54 94 97 rhino acme com source server 38 25 63 10 xX acme com x client host NEC 16 Modifying REGSERV DAT File Modify management server information registered in the REGSERV DAT file that is provided browsed by Power Console Plus The default host name registered is localhost Host name of the management server Use a text editor e g notepad to modify the REGSERV DAT file Line feed is necessary at the end of each line Please register one host name of the server and management server into REGSERV DAT file REGSERV DAT file is placed in C winnt System32 Drivers etc regserv dat for Windows 2000 NT C System32 Drivers etc regserv dat for Windows 95 98 Me With Windows 2003 Server the REGSERV DAT file is C Windows System32 Drivers etc regserv dat df Regsery dat Notepad E loj x File Edit For
32. mat Help PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY This file MUST contain the name of the Registration server The HOSTS file must contain the RAID serwer name s and their associated TCP IP address The Registration server name should correspond to a name in the HosTs Tile The HOSTS Tile can be found in the SsystemRootesystems2 drivers ete directory in windows NT and in the winbootdir directory in windows 95 Replace localhost below with your Registration server name and press enter MECL 17 3 9 UNINSTALLING POWER CONSOLE PLUS Take the following steps to uninstall Power Console Plus 1 2 5 Power on the server and start Windows Set the provided CD ROM EXPRESSBUILDER in the drive Execute SETUP EXE which 1s in the ESMPRO en PCON in CD ROM from Explorer and so on Setup Options screen appears Select the Uninstall Program x All Component and click Setup Option Next Power Console PlusS tart Setup Uninstallation Starts When Please Select Setup Option automatic setup completes Install Program Server Finish to setup screen Install Program Server Management Server appears Install Program Client Uninstall Program All Component InstallShield E Cancel Click Finish i Power Console Plus 3 Finish to setup Setup is completed Power Console Plus has been uninstalled If you delete Power Console Plus you have to reboot your system
33. mode You must exit Power Console Plus and then run Power Console Plus again Choose the server then choose Full Access mode and enter the password when prompted 19 4 1 TOOLBAR ICONS Power Console Plus includes several toolbar icons at the top of the screen These icons provide easy access to Power Console Plus features Display Configuration Icon ia Click on this icon to display the current RAID system configuration Raid System Configuration Server Local Serv Adapter Adapter_1 Number Of Logical Drives 1 Logical Drive 1 State Optimal RAID TYPE oo Write Policy Write Back Read Policy Read Ahead Cache Policy Caching 120 Stripe Size BK Bytes No of Stripes 6 Size 49295MB Component Physical Drives RANK 0 CHANNEL 1 TARGET CHANNEL 1 TARGET CHANNEL 1 TARGET CHANNEL 1 TARGET CHANNEL 1 TARGET Print Icon Click on this icon to print the current RAID system configuration Wizard Configuration Icon Click on this icon to configure the RAID system Clear Configuration Icon Do not click on this icon Clicking on this icon will erase the current configuration information 20 Adapter Properties Icon Click on this icon to display the properties of the selected controller Adapter Properties Number Of Logical Drives 3 Logical Drive 0 Stat ate Optimal RAID TYPE 0 Write Policy Write Thru Read Policy Adaptive Read Ahead Cac
34. oft Windows 2003 Server 2 2 PREPARATIONS This section explains prerequisites for setup The driver for the RAID system must be installed The SNMP service of Windows must be installed TCP IP setting for Windows must be completed Updating of the system must be completed The machine must be logged on by an Administrator group 2 3 INSTALLATION Take the following steps to install Power Console Plus 1 2 3 5 Power on the server to start Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Server Set the provided CD ROM labeled as EXPRESSBUILDER in the CD ROM drive Run SETUP EXE which is in the ESMPRO en PCON in CD ROM using Explorer and so on Setup Option dialog box appears Select Install Program Server and click Next ME Selection Of Destination Folder Power Console PlusStart Setup dialog box appears Please Select Setup Option f Install Program Server Install Program ServertManagerment Server Install Program Client Uninstall Program All Component InstallShield E Cancel NOTE To give management server functions to this server select Component Server Management Server and click on Next button Specify the directory to Power Console Plus xj install the Power Console Selection Of Destination Folder li Plus and click Next The setting ofa password Setup install ta Power Console Plus dialog box appears IF you install to a different folder click Bro
35. pletes Finish to Setup screen appears Power Console Plus 3 xj Selection Of Destination Folder Setup install to Power Console Plus If you install to a different folder click Browse button and select another folder Destination Folder C Program Files MegaRAlD Browse InstallShield lt Back Cancel NOTE To change the installation directory click on Browse and specify the desired directory Click Finish A Power Console Plus E Finish to setup setup is completed Power Console Plus has been installed Glick Finish finish to setup Back Eancel Screens shown here is the installation performed on Windows 2000 15 3 4 ENVIRONMENT SETUP Set up the environment as explained below Setting HOSTS File Set the server information management server information and management PC information of Power Console Plus into the HOSTS file that 1s provided browsed by the TCP IP of Windows IP address and host name for all servers and management servers and management PCs to be controlled via network IP address and host name for management server Use a text editor e g notepad to add the information to the HOSTS file Line feed is necessary at the end of the additional line With Windows NT 2000 the HOSTS file is C Winnt System32 Drivers etc hosts With Windows 95 98 Me the HOSTS file is C Windows hosts With Windows 2003 Server the HOSTS file is C Windows Syste
36. ration on the screen When verified click on Finish button 5 Ready Jan 6 Processor Adapter B Array 1 L LD 1 RAID 5 1024 MB Global Hot Spare Pool NOTE In the example shown below Array1 A1 containing a logical drive RAID5 1024MB is created with three physical drives IDO to ID2 in channel 4 45 Step 5 Click on OK in the confirmation screen The new configuration is saved in the controller oh 2 cave the new configuration EL Step 6 Click on OK in the confirmation screen Initializes the logical drive NOTE If you canceled select the logical drive on Logical Devices View in main menu select Initialize in Logical Drv menu to initialize the drive Changing Array Configuration MegaRAID Power Console Plus Wizard E i oj x Action Array Definition KE Channel 2 KE Channel 3 E Channel 4 Add to Array Add Spare Accept Array Ch4 101 Reclaim new array S Global Hot Spare Pool Cancel Help Select drive s Add to Array and click Accept Array to close Custom configuration S iy e Ch 41D 0 To change array configuration select an icon of logical drive to be changed in Logical Devices View and click Reclaim Click on OK in the confirmation screen After that repeat from Step 2 If no logical drives are defined in the array Step 3 or earlier click on Back to display the Array Defin
37. se Rebuild Rate to select the amount of system resources to be devoted to rebuilding failed disk drives Click on the slider to select the percentage of system resources to devote to the disk rebuild and click OK REBUILD RATE E O g Ok Cancel Help NOTE The higher the percentage the more computing power 1s devoted to the rebuild Choose a low percentage to minimize system performance problems IMPORTANT The higher rebuild rate may cause a system error It recommends to set to equal to or less than 30 Rescan Choose this option to scan all SCSI channels again to update the status of all attached SCSI devices 31 View Log Select this option to display the MegaRAID event log View LOG File Aa ES Server ID LOCAL Adapter ID Adapter_0 Battery backup Module missing Fri Oct 31 08 43 07 1997 Writing Configuration File Fri Oct 31 08 48 17 1997 Number Of Logical Drives 2 Logical Drive 0 Optimal State RAID TYPE Write Policy Write Thru View NVRAM Event Log The log of NVRAM is displayed View Bad Block Log The Bad Block information on a drive is displayed Enclosure Management Displays the status of the RAID drive enclosures Three icons for each drive enclosure appear Click on an icon to display the cooling fan power supply or temperature for each drive enclosure Enclosure Management Icons Displays the status of the power supply fans and temperature
38. so prevents a failure in rebuilding a failing physical drive A consistency check must be made on the whole Read section of the logical drive This means that areas of the physical drives which are not usually accessed are accessed all together Thus the consistency check command also enables detection of an imminent physical drive failure Making a periodic consistency check decreases the multi drive failure rate and maintains the steady operation of the array system Periodic consistency check can be performed by running Check Consistency command from the command prompt The command is for scheduling When consistency check is scheduled and performed the running status including start end and at every 15 minutes is output to event log Requirements to execute the Check Consistency command LSI Logic disk array controller must be connected Power Console Plus must be installed The MegaServ service 1s available Execute form Format megactrl arg arg2 arg3 arg4 megactrl exe is installed generally in c winnt system32 when Power Console Plus is installed IMPORTANT Do not use any other parameters than described below 53 O omen pesen o Sets a consistency check schedule Other arg parameters are used to set time If no other arg parameters are specified relevant default is used Sets the start time of the consistency check The time can be set in the range from 0 to 23 The default start time is
39. st names of all servers and management Server and management PCs that are controlled via the network IP address and host name of the management server Use a text editor e g notepad to add the information to the HOSTS file Line feed is necessary at the end of the added lines With Windows 2000 the HOSTS file is C Winnt System32 Drivers etc hosts With Windows 2003 Server the HOSTS file is C Windows System32 Drivers etc hosts fj hosts Notepad E lolx File Edit Format Help copyright c 1993 1999 microsoft corp This is a sample HOSTS Tile used by Microsoft TCP IP Tor windows This Tile cantains the mappings of IP addresses to host names Each ee should be kept on an individual line The IP address should be placed in the first column followed By the corresponding host name The IF address and the host name should be separated by at least one space E oe ye comments such as these may be inserted on individual lines or following the machine name denoted by a symbol For example 1027 54 94 97 rhino acme com source server 38 25 63 10 x acme com x client host MECI NEC NECS Modifying REGSERV DAT File Modification of the management server information is necessary when control is performed via the network Modify management server information registered in the REGSERV DAT file that 1s provided browsed by Power Console Plus The default host name registered 1s localhost Host name of th
40. t Previous Drive e Choose an Adapter Controller If the current controller is not the controller to be configured click on the Adapter box and select the correct adapter Power Console Plus can control the controllers displayed in the Adapter box When multiple controllers are connected to the server you can select a controller in Adapter box you want to make MegaRAID Client monitor and control 42 9 1 CONFIGURING ARRAYS AND LOGICAL DRIVES This section describes how to configure arrays and logical drives Step 1 Choose Wizard from the MegaRAID Power Console Plus Wizard loj xj Configuration menu Action Starting The Wizard screen appears This wizard will help you to configure your RAID Choose Custom or Automatic mode and click on Next system quickly and easily To start configuration click next Custom Allows you to ee all aspects of the configuration arrays logical drives and their parameters Go to Step 4 1f you choose Automatic mode C Automatic Automatically defines arrays and ogical drives and sets their parameters M Redundancy Tf checked Automatic Sl will create redundant arr ee possible Cancel Help To start configuration click next Custom configuration NOTE Types of Configuration You can choose either Custom or Automatic configuration Custom Set parameters to define the arrays and logical drives Select this option if you
41. ternet Explorer 4 01 Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows 95 98 Me Internet Explorer 4 01 Service Pack 2 or later 12 3 2 PREPARATIONS This section explains prerequisites for setup TCP IP setting for Windows must be completed Updating of the system must be completed when NEC Express server is used The machine must be logged on by an Administrator group Windows 2003 Server NT 2000 Power Console Plus must be uninstalled 1f installed 13 3 3 INSTALLATION Take the following steps to install Power Console Plus 1 2 3 Power on the server to start Windows Set the provided CD ROM labeled as EXPRESSBUILDER in the CD ROM drive Run SETUP EXE which is in the ESMPRO en PCON in CD ROM using Explorer and so on Setup Option dialog box appears Select Install Program Management PC and click Next Selection of Destination Folder dialog box appears Power Console Plus Setup Option Power Console PlusStart Setup Please Select Setup Option Install Program Server Install Program Server Management Server Install Program Client Uninstall Program All Component NOTE To give management server functions to this server select Component Server Management Server and click on Next button 14 Specify the directory to install the Power Console Plus and click Next Installation starts When automatic setup com
42. tting Read Ahead The controller uses read ahead for the selected logical drive Adaptive Read Ahead The controller uses read ahead if the two continuous disk accesses occurred in sequential sectors If all read requests are random the controller does not use read ahead However all requests are still evaluated for possible sequential operation Change Write Policy 38 You can choose Write Back or Write Thru Write Back The controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all the data in a transaction Write Thru The controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the disk array has received all the data in a transaction This is the default setting Write Thru has a data security advantage over Write Back Write Back has a performance advantage over Write Thru Virtual Sizing This feature is not available Add Capacity Click on this option to add additional physical drive s to the specified logical drive First click on the drive icon for each physical drive to be added Then click on the icon for the logical drive to be added to Then select Add Capacity from the Logical Drv menu Click on OK when prompted to confirm the new logical drive configuration Select a new RAID level You can select any RAID level that is not grayed out Click on APPLY to complete the operation NOTES The physical drive must be in the READY state b
43. wse button and select another folder Destination Folder C Program Files MegaR AlL Browse InstallShield _ _ _ _ _ _ lt Back Cancel NOTE To change the installation directory click on Browse and specify the desired directory 6 Enter the password to permit full access to Power Console Plus and click Next Installation starts When automatic setup completes Finish to Setup screen appears Power Gonsole Flus The setting of a password Enter password to permit full access mode Power Console Plus Please don t forget your password m O XAXK K K Installshield Back Cancel 7 Select Yes I want to restart my computer now and click Finish The system restarts Fower Console Plus Finish to setup Setup lz completed Power Console Plus has been installed If yoy use Power Console Plus you have to reboot your system f Yes want to restart my computer now No will restart my computer later Click Finish button finish to setup Back Lancel 2 4 ENVIRONMENT SETUP Set up the environment as explained below Setting HOSTS File Setting of HOSTS file is needed when control is performed via the network Set the server information management server information and management PC information of Power Console Plus into the HOSTS file that is provided browsed by the TCP IP of Windows IP addresses and ho
44. y added array depends on the number of physical disks configuring the array Two physical drives RAID 0 or 1 Three or more physical drives RAID 0 or 5 New drive s can be added to the SCSI bus or subsystem e g disk rack IMPORTANT It is recommended to make backup copy of partition on logical drive before adding capacity After Add Capacity completion should reboot OS When not rebooting The following error events may be periodically registered into the Event Log Application Log of OS Source MegaServ Log ID 6302 Type Error Description Check Consistency FAILED Source MegaServ Log ID 6201 Type Warning Description Check Consistency is OVER and it has corrected some problem Source MegaServ Log ID 6102 Type Information Description Check Consistency 1s OVER and it has not found any problem 49 Adding Capacity using Power Console Plus On the main Power Console Plus screen verify that the drive s that are added display on the appropriate channel There are three ways you can add a physical drive to an existing array The first method is Step 1 On Physical Devices View of the main menu select physical drive s y bwose EJE 8 you want to add and on Logical Chores Coe Write Devices View select the logical drive to add them to Select Add Capacity in Change ps Croce Configuration of Logical Drv menu
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