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NEC Express5800/120Li User's Guide

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2. 50 Alarm Enabled No Scan For Foreign Config Add Configuration from file As the configuration type you can select any of Auto Configuration Manual Configuration or Guided Configuration n Manual Configuration 9 Guided Configuration Auto Configuration The auto configuration mode allows the draft of the logical drive configuration to be created automatically depending on the status of unused hard disk drives Manual Configuration The manual configuration mode allows a logical drive to be created according to a specific request Guided Configuration The guided configuration mode allows a logical drive to be created by specifying setting items sequentially The selection buttons commonly displayed on the logical drive creation screen are as follows Cancel Cancels the logical drive creation process Back Returns to the previous sheet Next Goes to the next sheet Finish Creates a logical drive The following sections describe the logical drive creation procedures in different configurations Operation 35 3 3 1 1 Auto Configuration The auto configuration mode allows the draft of the logical drive configuration to be created automatically depending on the status of unused hard disk drives The setting procedure is described below 1 Click Auto Configuration in Mode Selection of the Configuration Wizard t ky Auto Configuration 2 The array
3. 1 Specify an unused hard disk drive shown on the Physical view and right click it 2 Select Make Global Hotspare in the menu displayed by right clicking 3 The hard disk drive is shown to be a hot spare disk Dedicated hot spare setting procedure 1 Select an unused hard disk drive shown on the Physical view Then select Operations 2 Check Make Dedicated Hotspare 3 The array selection screen shown below appears Check the array to be operated dedicatedly in Select array and click GO C Make Global Hotspare z Selected Operation Make Dedicated Hotspare E Description Designates a ready or ee _ UNCONFIGURED GOOD drive as a dedicated 24 i ified array s Prepare For Removal Select arr _ Array 0 v Array 1 C Undo Prepare For Removal IMPORTANT As a hot spare disk use a drive having a capacity larger than or equal to that of the hard disk drive configuring the array If the hard disk drive has only a lower capacity the hot spare build feature cannot be operated 3 6 2 2 Release of Hot spare Disk Setting 1 Select a hot spare disk and right click it Select Remove Hotspare from the menu displayed by right clicking the hot spare disk The confirmation message appears Select Yes If you select No the release processing is cancelled 4 The hot spare disk setting is released The released disk will be an unused hard disk drive Operation 53 3 Reconstruction Feat
4. 35074 MB 9 gi virtual Disk 1 RAID 5 34332 MB O g Array 2 Physical Drive 3 140014 MB amp Physical Drive 4 35074 MB 2 Physical Drive 5 35074 MB The icon gj shows a degraded logical drive The icon 22 shows a defected hard disk drive Pull out the defected hard disk drive Insert a normal hard disk drive into the slot from which the defected hard disk drive 1s pulled out After the insertion the rebuild operation is started UB Server SYSTEM 9 4 Controller 0 Q g O Virtual Disk 0 RAID 5 34332 MB O amp Array O 2 Physical Drive 0 35074 MB amp Physical Drive 1 35074 MB E rsa Drive 2 35074 MB g virt isk 1 RAID 5 34332 MB O Bg Array Physical Drive 3 140014 MB 2 Physical Drive 4 35074 MB 2 Physical Drive 5 35074 MB The icon s shows the hard disk drive being rebuilt Select Group Operations Show Progress on the menu bar to know the progress of the execution IMPORTANT For the replacement of a hard disk drive by using the hot swap feature the interval from the removal of the defected hard disk drive to the installation of a substitute hard disk drive should be 60 sec or longer A shorter interval may cause an unexpected event to occur It is recommended to go to the next step after the removal and installation can be recognized on MSM 52 Operation 3 6 2 Hot spare Rebuild 3 6 2 1 Hot spare Disk Setting Procedure Global hot spare setting procedure
5. For Removal Undo Prepare For Removal Do not use the feature It s the function which stops and restarts a revolution of a spindle motor of HDD but these are the operation which has no need in particular in an HDD exchange When logical drive is selected in normal state Operations tet Deseo Virtual Disk Select an operation from the left and press go to p invoke the selected Operation Locate Virtual Disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Check Consistency Start Initialization Set Virtual Disk Properties Delete Virtual Disk Select this feature to delete the logical drive Locate Virtual Disk Start to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Stop to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Check Consistency Check the consistency of the logical drive Start Initialization Initialize the logical drive Set Virtual Disk Properties Allows you to set the read and or write policies of the logical drive When logical drive is selected in degrading or under rebuild processing Check Consistency and Start Initialization is disabled removed from the menu in the above screen 30 Operation When logical drive is selected in execution of consistency check Delete Virtual Disk Locate Virtual Disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Cancel Check Consistency Set Virtual Disk Properties Delete
6. Properties to the second Virtual Disk and all subsequent Disks select Rescan to refresh the display m Progress display and HDD icon cannot be updated automatically when Rebuild is done by RAIDIO Please use Rescan feature as workaround m Dedicated Hotspare is not supported with MSM on LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm environment even if it is on the menu Making amp Removing of Logical Drives mg When you make Virtual Disk by Configuration Wizard Disk Cache Policy is set to the value dependent on Write Policy MSM can not delete Virtual disk during Rebuilding and Checking Consistency m Do not change Default Write Policy with BH m Manual Configuration or CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 67 m Guided Configuration Miscellaneous m MSM logs are shown as GMT The system event logs are shown correctly by local time If you use the sort feature of MSM logs restart MSM to display logs in order of time Task Rates is not supported When you change the name of Virtual Disk MSM display can not be refreshed In this case no message is registered When detecting an ECC error by Check Consistency Media Error Count is not refreshed automatically Please use Rescan in this case m Inthe Windows XP 64bit environment Windows 2003 is displayed in the field of OS name in the server selection screen and property display on the MSM 68 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS Appendix A Repo
7. Viewer to the specified file Clear Log Clear the logs appearing in the Event Viewer View Saved Log Allow you to view the logs saved in file with Save Log m Tools menu This menu is not supported Do not use the features on this menu m Help menu On the Help menu you can select the following items MegaRAID Storage Manager File Operations Group Operations Log Tools Help Indicate the help information But this information is not maintained So please see this online manual instead of Help About Indicate the version information on MSM Operation 19 3 2 2 Physical Logical View On the Physical Logical View the physical and logical drives connected to the disk array controller are displayed in the tree format respectively If you put the cursor on a displayed object and right click the object then you can select and run an available feature Menu displayed by right clicking is called Context Menu The contents of Context Menu depend on the available MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA m Menu displayed by right clicking Controller Context Menu The following shows a sample menu which may be displayed by right clicking the Controller Enable Alarm Disable Alarm Silence Alarm Start Patrol Read Advanced Operations Scan For Foreign Contig Enable Alarm Enable the alarm feature The alarm beeps if a fault occurs in the disk array controller The
8. Virtual Disk Select this feature to delete the logical drive Locate Virtual Disk Start to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Stop to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Cancel Check Consistency Cancel the consistency check Set Virtual Disk Properties Allows you to set the read and or write policies of the logical drive Operation 31 m Graphical View Indicate the capacity of the selected drive graphically The following shows the sample displays of physical and logical drives Sample display of physical drive If you select a logical drive from the Select Virtual Disk VD list as shown to the left in the figure below you can check the area in which physical drives are used for the selected logical drive as shown to the right in the figure Graphical View Graphical View lt When no logical drive is selected gt lt When logical drive is selected gt Sample display of logical drive Graphical View 32 Operation 3 2 4 Event Viewer The Event Viewer indicates the log information acquired in the period from the time at which the server is started Date Time tion 2005 11 10 14 48 53 Successful log onto the server User Administrator Client 192 168 0 1 Access Mode Full Client Time 2005 11 10 14 48 52 2005 11 10 14 47 42 Controller ID 0 Battery temperature is normal 2005 11 10 14 47 06 Controller ID 0 Patrol Rea
9. Write Through or Write Back The default setting is Write Back Do not change this setting on LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm NOTES A check box of Use Write Through for failed or missing battery was added to Default Write Policy since MSM1 14 02 The default value of Use Write Through for failed or missing battery 1s the checked state when you specify Write Back in Default Write Policy Please set the unchecked state in this case Even if there is a battery BBU it will be Write Trough in the checked state 38 Operation IO Policy Select either Direct IO or Cached IO The default setting 1s Direct IO Access Policy Select Read Write Read Only or Blocked The default setting is Read Write Disk Cache Policy Select Unchanged Enabled or Disabled The default setting is Unchanged Init State Select the logical drive initialization procedure out of No Initialization Fast Initialization and Full Initialization The default setting is No Initialization NOTE Depending on the disk array controller you use some setting values may be restricted for stable system performance and operation Refer to manuals coming with the Disk array controller and server for the settings previously 5 Check the contents of the array to be configured After checking the contents click Finish Then the logical drive is created Operation 39 3 3 1 3 Guided Configuration The guided configur
10. alarm continues until you select Silence Alarm described later Disable Alarm Disable the alarm feature With the alarm feature disabled the alarm does not beep if a fault occurs in the disk array controller Silence Alarm Stop the alarm if it beeps Start Patrol Read Stop Patrol Read Start stop the Patrol Read feature The screen display varies depending on the execution status of the Patrol Read feature Advanced Operations Configuration Configuration Wizard Create a logical drive See Section 3 3 1 Creating Logical Drive for how to create a logical drive Add Configuration from file Recover the saved configuration Save Configuration Save the configuration in a hard disk drive or floppy disk Clear Configuration Clear the information on the disk array configuration 20 Operation Scan For Foreign Config Read configuration info from HDD and try to rebuild array by using that info This feature is not supported Do not use the feature Menu appearing when right clicking physical drive Context Menu The menu appearing when right clicking Physical Drive varies depending on the status of the physical drive Sample menus are shown below in physical drive states When physical drive operates normally Make Drive Offline Make the physical drive offline This feature is dedicated for maintenance Do not use the feature Locate Physical Drive sta
11. below m File menu On the File menu you can select the following items MegaRAID Storage Manager File Operations Group Operations Log Tools Help Rescan F5 Rescan Rescan the arrays to acquire the array configuration information again Exit Exit from MSM IMPORTANT To do the rescan operation again the interval from the previous scan should be 60 sec or longer If the interval is shorter an unexpected event may occur m Operations menu When you select the Operations menu the menu displayed by right clicking an object specified on MSM appears The Operations menu changes depending on the focusing object m Group Operations menu On the Group Operations menu you can select the following items MegaRAID Storage Manager File Operations Group Operations Log Tools Help Check Consistency Initialize Show Progress Check Consistency Execute the consistency check for logical drives See Section 3 4 1 Executing Check Consistency for the consistency check Initialize Initialize logical drives Show Progress Allows you to check the progress of the process being executed or abort the process 18 Operation m Log menu On the Log menu you can select the following items MegaRAID Storage Manager File Operations Group Operations Log Tools Help Save Log Clear Log View Saved Log Save Log Save the logs appearing in the Event
12. configuration draft is created automatically For redundant array configuration select With Redundancy in Redundancy Type To edit the array configuration click Modify The menu appearing at the selection of Modify is the same as that in Step 3 of the manual configuration See Step 3 in the manual configuration for how to change the setting LSI LOGIC ks je Virtual Disk 0 Auto LD 0 RAID 5 171650 MB Q S NewArray O v sical Drive 0 35074 MB sical Drive 1 35074 MB Physical Drive 2 35074 MB Wf Physical Drive 3 140014 MB f Physical Drive 4 35074 MB Physical Drive 5 35074 MB Initialization Type No Initialization Do not initialize the logical drive after it is created Do not specify this option Fast Initialization Do Simple initialization This option initialize the management information of array only Full Initialization Initialize the logical drive after it is created completely Always use this option if you could 36 Operation Redundancy Type No Redundancy Do not provide redundant array configuration With Redundancy Provide redundant array configuration 3 Click Finish to create a logical drive 3 3 1 2 Manual Configuration The manual configuration mode allows a logical drive to be created according to a specific request The setting procedure is described below 1 Click Manual Configuration in the Mode Selection of the Configurat
13. is no problem 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your computer 2 Right click Software Setup in the Master Control Menu appearing on the screen and click MegaRAID Storage Manager Then the Selecting Installation or Uninstallation dialog box appears Select Uninstallation for MSM and click Next InstallShield Wizard Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs Please choose Install or Uninstall Please click Next Installation for MSM teen 3 After a while the Uninstallation Confirmation dialog box appears Click Yes Windows Installer X Are you sure You want to uninstall this product 4 Uninstallation of MSM starts The Setup Finished dialog box appears when MSM has been uninstalled Select Yes I want to restart my computer now and click OK Setup finished MSM setup was finished To complete a setup you need to restart Restart now 8 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 2 3 MSM Operation Environment Management PC The following shows the hardware and software operation environment management PC specification required to operate MSM Hardware m PC NEC Express5800 50 100 600 series PC AT compatible machine equipped with Intel Pentium III CPU or higher m Remaining capacity in hard disk drive 60MB or larger m Software m Windows Server 2003 SPI 32bit 64bit m Windows Server 2003 R2 32bit 64bit m Windows 2
14. method are explained here If you create logical drives do not reuse failure HDDs Please always use new HDDs MSM allows the following logical drives to be created m RAID 0 data striping with more than one hard disk drive m RAID 1 data mirroring with two hard disk drives m RAID 5 Data striping including parity with more than two hard disk drives m RAID 1 spanning Same as RAIDIO Data mirroring and striping with more than three hard disk drives m RAID 5 spanning Same as RAID5O Data striping including parity and striping with more than five hard disk drives NOTES Do not use the following hard disk drives to create a logical drive Hard disk drive with partitions Hard disk drive used for another array While a logical drive is created system shutdown and insertion removal of a hard disk drive are not permitted till the creation process is completed Available RAID level depends on MegaRAID Storage System Please check 4 1 Supported function of MegaRAID Systems for more detail 34 Operation 3 3 1 Creating Logical Drive You can create a logical drive on the Configuration Wizard appearing by right clicking the controller in the Physical Logical View and clicking Advanced Operations Configuration gt Configuration Wizard 49 Controller MEE Disable Alarm Silence Alarm Start Patrol Read Rebuild Rate 50 Patrol Read Rate 450 Server SYSTEM Properties Reconstruction Rate
15. or Always Read Ahead The default setting is No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Select either Write Through or Write Back The default setting is Write Back IO Policy Select either Direct IO or Cached IO The default setting 1s Direct IO Access Policy Select Read Write Read Only or Blocked The default setting is Read Write Disk Cache Policy Select Unchanged Enabled or Disabled The default setting is Unchanged Operation 41 Init State Select the logical drive initialization procedure out of No Initialization Fast Initialization and Full Initialization The default setting is No Initialization NOTE Depending on the disk array controller you use some setting values may be restricted for stable system performance and operation Refer to manuals coming with the Disk array controller and server for the settings previously 4 Check the contents of the array to be configured After checking the contents click Finish to create the logical drives To edit the array configuration click Modify The menu appearing at the selection of Modify is the same as that in Step 3 of the manual configuration See Step 3 in the manual configuration for setting changes LSI LOGIC 9 Virtual Disk 0 Guided LD 0 RAID 5 171650 MB Q NewArray 0 Physical Drive 0 35074 MB uf Physical Drive 1 35074 MB Physical Drive 2 35074 MB amp Physical Drive 3 140014 MB Physical Drive 4 35074 MB Phy
16. setup procedure To change the setting redefine it by the NEC ESMPRO Agent report setup procedure The event IDs in the table below are decimal numbers Mark V in the Manager column indicates the transmission of the report to NEC ESMPRO Manager Mark A in the Alive column indicates the transmission of the report to the express report service Every report is sent as information Event Message Action Mana ALIVE Fon Meee from TBBU to memory battery problems Bill omens RN due to configuration mismatch 13 Controller cache discarded due Replace the disk array controller Y to firmware version incompatibility array controller ee 5 5 dala NN corrupt the flash image Replace the disk array controller Check the media used for flash If the media are not defected replace the disk array controller programming are not defected replace the disk array controller Multi bit ECC error If the error occurs frequently take the N preventive replacement of physical drives into account 33 Single bit ECC error If the error occurs frequently take the y preventive replacement of physical drives into account 34 Not enough controller memory Take the replacement of the disk array y y controller into account 46 Background Initialization If the error occurs frequently take the A aborted on VD preventive replacement of physical drives into account A 47 Background Initialization If the error occurs frequent
17. week or at least once per month 3 4 1 Executing Check Consistency The check consistency is executed in the following procedure Check consistency execution procedure The check consistency can be executed in any of the following three ways Starting execution on menu bar m Starting execution on menu displayed by right clicking Starting execution on Operations tab The execution procedures in the ways are described below Starting execution on menu bar 1 Select Group Operations Check Consistency on the menu bar Operation 43 2 Check one or more logical drives to be subject to the check consistency in Select Virtual Disks and click Start Group Consistency Check xj LSI LOGIC Controller 0 Select Virtual Disks vj Virtual Disk 0 RAID 5 34332 MB Virtual Disk 1 RAID 5 34332 MB Select AII Check all logical drives Deselect AII Uncheck all logical drives 3 The check consistency check is executed Click the x button at the upper right corner of the screen to close it Select Group Operations Show Progress on the menu bar to see the progress of the execution Starting execution on menu displayed by right clicking 1 Select a logical drive on the Logical tab and right click it 2 Select Check Consistency on the menu displayed by right clicking ETT LB Serer SYSTEM Controller D e T Virtual Disk 0 RAID 5 Array oO 6 Physical Drive S
18. 000 SP4 Server WorkStation m Windows XP Professional SP2 32bit m Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 2 4 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in Management PC This section describes the installation and uninstallation of MSM in a PC managing servers through a network IMPORTANT Only users authorized as administrators are permitted to install and uninstall MSM NOTES For some servers of the custom installation model MSM may previously be installed at their purchases Install the MSM manually with the CD which attached the SAS Card when there is no MSM installer in the EXPRESSBUILDER CD Installing and Uninstalling MSM 9 2 4 1 Installing MSM to Management PC Install MSM in the following procedure 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your computer 2 Run MSM EXE contained in the following folder MSM VIVA MSM EXE 3 The screen shown below appears Click Next j MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 The InstallShield R Wizard will install MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 on your computer To continue click Next WARNING This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties F Cancel 4 The screen shown below appears Check I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next jf MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard License
19. 9 Disk Array Controller Och e N8403 019 Disk Array Controller e LSI Logic MegaRAID tm SAS PCI EXPRESS tm ROMB m Remaining capacity in hard disk drive 60MB or larger m Software It depends on which OSs are supported in each computer m Windows Server 2003 SPI 32bit 64bit m Windows Server 2003 R2 32bit 64bit m Windows XP Professional SP2 32bit m Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 4 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 2 2 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in Server This section describes the installation and uninstallation of MSM in an NEC Express5800 series server equipped with the MegaRAID controller IMPORTANT Only users authorized as administrators are permitted to install and uninstall MSM As premised the software must be supported by Server Windows Security Warning is shown about POPUP as the case may be when installing the MSM This POPUP module 1s disabled in the installer of MSM so there is no problem This warning is not shown after the rebooting anymore The dialogue of warning of security is sometimes indicated to installation of a Stanby Hibernation Lock driver at the time of installation of MSM When our warning was indicated Please choose Yes and continue installation NOTES Installation of MSM in server of custom installation model For some servers of the custom installation model MSM may previously be installed at their purchases Setup of server by Express Setup MSM can be installe
20. Agreement Please read the following license agreement carefully STOP BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE CAREFULLY READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Installing this Software indicates that you agree to abide by this Software License Agreement If you do not agree with it promptly return the Software and we will refund the purchase price Software License Agreement PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE STARTING INSTALLATION OF THE Ido not accept the terms in the license agreement InstallShield lt Back Cancel fe MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Customer Information Please enter your information User Name Administrator Organization ee Allow availability of this application For All users C Only For current user Administrator Installshield lt Back Cancel 10 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 6 The screen shown below appears Click Next To change the installation folder click Change and specify a new installation folder ig MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Destination Folder Click Next to install to this Folder or click Change to install to a different Folder cl Install MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 to C Program Files MegaRAID Storage Manager Change InstallShield ie MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs
21. Drive Online Make the physical drive online This feature is dedicated for maintenance Do not use the feature Mark Physical Drive as Missing This feature is not supported yet Do not use the feature Rebuild Start the rebuild processing Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk 28 Operation When physical drive is selected being hot spare disk Locate Physical Drive 7 i Select an operation from the left and press go to invoke the selected Operation D Stop Locating Physical Drive Remove Hotspare Remove Hotspare Release the setting as a hot spare disk Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk When physical drive is not used yet Operations O Locate enys ITUR e A Select an operation from the left and press go to Bal invoke the selected Operation Oo Stop Locating Physical Drive Make Global Hotspare Make Dedicated Hotspare D Prepare For Removal Undo Prepare For Removal Locate Physical Drive start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk Make Global Hotspare Create a Global hot spare disk Make Dedicated Hotspare Create a hot spare disk operating only for the specified array Operation 29 Prepare
22. ID luuuuuuuueuuuss 66 Appendix A Report NIOMIMONING Prod ees 67 This page is intentionally left blank Overview 1 1 Overview 1 1 MegaRAID Storage Manager MegaRAID Storage Manager hereafter abbreviated for MSM is an application that locally or remotely monitors and manages the MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA are following systems e LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm e N8103 90 Disk Array Controller External SAS HDD e N8103 91 Disk Array Controller Internal SAS HDD e N8103 99 Disk Array Controller Och e N8403 019 Disk Array Controller e LSI Logic MegaRAID tm SAS PCI EXPRESS tm ROMB MSM has the following features m Flexible system management MSM provides a system using MSM with N to 1 management In the environment enabling communication through TCP IP more than one system can be managed at a time by remote management m Feature of creating or deleting the following arrays packs on the graphical operation screen MSM allows the following arrays to be created m RAID 0 data striping with more than one hard disk drive m RAID 1 data mirroring with two hard disk drives m RAID 5 Data and parity striping with more than two hard disk drives m RAID 1 spanning Same as RAIDIO Data mirroring and striping with more than three hard disk drives m RAIDS spanning Same as RAIDS5O Data striping including parity and striping with more than five hard dis
23. MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard InstallShield Wizard Completed The InstallShield Wizard has successfully uninstalled MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 Click Finish to exit the wizard i Cancel Now the uninstallation is completed Operation 13 3 Operation This chapter describes how to start MSM and how to operate MSM The supported features of MSM are depended on MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA Unsupported features are not shown in the MSM menu See also Section 4 1 Supported function of MegaRAID Systems for more details 3 1 Starting MSM This section describes how to start MSM IMPORTANT Terminate the MSM display in other than array maintenance operation Depending on the OS and or color scheme you use the screens appearing actually may be different from those shown in this manual NOTE If MSM is installed in a computer in which OS supporting Windows firewall is installed the Important warning on Windows security window may appear against javaw at the start of MSM If this occurs select Release block 14 Operation 3 1 1 Controlling MegaRAID Storage System with Local Remote Computer To control MSM with local and or remote computers start MSM in the following procedure to display the array configuration screen NOTES To control MSM with a remote computer MSM must also be installed in the remote computer MSM services must operate in any systems
24. NEC NEC Express5800 Series MegaRAID Storage Manager User s Guide Windows Edition 7th Edition 12 2006 808 882425 676 G Preface The User s Guide explains the utility MegaRAID Storage Manager to be used for LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm N8103 91 Disk Array Controller Internal SAS HDD N8103 90 Disk Array Controller External SAS HDD N8103 99 Disk Array Controller Och N8403 019 Disk Array Controller and LSI Logic MegaRAID tm SAS PCI EXPRESS tm ROMB installed in NEC Express5800 server The guide is intended for persons who are familiar with Windows functions and operation methods For details on or unclear points on Windows operation see Windows Online Help and manuals When using MegaRAID Storage Manager first read the User s Guide provided with the server as well Trademarks LSI Logic its logo 1BBU MegaRAID and MegaRAID Storage Manager are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Logic Inc of the U S A NEC ESMPRO and NEC EXPRESSBUILDER are registered trademarks of NEC Corporation Microsoft its logo Windows Windows Server and MS DOS are worldwide registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation of the U S A All company names and product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Notes 1 No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of NEC Corporation 2 The con
25. Please select a setup type Complete te This option will install all program Features This option will only install components required to remotely view and configure servers C Server T This option will only install components required For remote server management f StandAlone This option will only install components required For local server management Back Next gt Cancel InstallShield 8 The screen shown below appears Click Install ie MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Ready to Install the Program The wizard is ready to begin installation Click Install to begin the installation Click Back to review or change any of your installation settings Click Cancel to exit the utility Installshield i MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard E InstallShield Wizard Completed E The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 Click Finish to exit the wizard i Cancel Now the installation 1s completed Installing and Uninstalling MSM 11 2 4 2 Uninstalling MSM from Management PC Uninstall MSM in the following procedure IMPORTANT Do not uninstall MSM through Add or Remove Applications or Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel Always follow the procedure described in this section for the uninstallation Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your compu
26. a Physical Drive 2 Delete Virtual Disk Locate Virtual Disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk i i C 4 Bi d Dm 4 E m ex Physical Drive 7 SHOCK Consistenc 3 The consistency check is executed Select Group Operations Show Progress on the menu bar to know the progress of the execution 44 Operation Starting execution on Operations tab Operations Delete Virtual Disk Selected Operation Check Consistency Description Starts a check consistency Locate Virtual Disk 4 operation on the selected virtual disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk amp Check Consistency Start Initialization Set Virtual Disk Properties Select a logical drive on the Logical view and select the Operations tab Check Check Consistency and click Go The consistency check is executed Select Group Operations Show Progress on the menu bar to see the progress of the execution Operation 45 3 4 2 Canceling Check Consistency The check consistency can be cancelled in the following procedure Check consistency canceling procedure 1 Select Group Operations Show Progress on the menu bar 2 The Group Show Progress screen appears Click Abort to the right of the progress indication LSI LOGIC Ongoing Operations on Virtual Disks Virtual Disk 0 RAID 5 34332 MB Check Consistency 30 Abort Elapsed time 1 Min 6 Sec i Ongoing Operations on Physical Dri
27. al Drive 3 34588 MB Alarm Enabled Wo eap Port 4 nam Port 5 man E DILE Coercion Mode 1GB c Physical Drive 4 140014 MB aam Pott 7 DevicelD 0x411 c Physical Drive 5 34588 MB Battery Backup Uni Host Port Count JO 3 Show Logical View Check Hot Spare Disk icon S There is only Dedicated Hot Spare Disk marked red frame Cache Flush Interval 4 sec Bm LB Serer system 9 4 Controller D e Lg Virtual Disk 0 RAID 5 55752 MB Rebuild Rate z Array O v ORE Array Patrol Read Rate Physical Drive 0 34588 MB Ec Physical Drive 1 34588 MB Reconstruction Rate D Physical Drive 2 34588 MB amp Physical Drive 5 34688 MB SubVendorID x1000 Alarm Enabled Ha Cache Flush Interval CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 61 9 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 5 1 Common Cautions and Restrictions for MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA Installing uninstalling of MSM MSM temporarily uses a dynamic port number 49152 or above during installation MSM automatically releases the port at the end of installation If MSM is installed in a computer in which OS supporting Windows firewall such as Windows XP is installed the Important warning on Windows security window may appear against javaw at the start of MSM If this occurs select Remove block Windows Security Warning may be shown about POPUP when installing MSM This POPUP module is disabled in the installe
28. ation mode allows a logical drive to be created by specifying setting 1tems sequentially The setting procedure is described below 1 Click Guided Configuration in the Mode Selection of the Configuration Wizard Guided Configuration 2 Select Redundancy and Existing Arrays options and specify the number of logical drives to be created in Desired Number of Virtual Disks Click Next cancel Back Mew Redundancy Redundancy Only Create redundant array configuration Redundancy when possible Try to create redundant array configuration If not possible creates non redundant array configuration No Redundancy Create non redundant array configuration Existing Arrays Use Existing Arrays Only Use existing arrays only 40 Operation Don t use Existing Arrays Do not use existing arrays Use Existing and New Arrays Use both existing and new arrays 3 Specify the number of logical drives to be created for each RAID and its capacity in Virtual Disk Count and Total Capacity respectively Set relevant parameters in Virtual Disk Properties and click Next Virtual Disk Parameters Stripe Size Select the unit of data distributed to each hard disk drive configuring RAID out of 8K 16K 32K 64K and 128K bytes The default setting is 64K bytes LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm is always 64K bytes Read Policy Select No Read Ahead Adaptive Read Ahead
29. ature Enclosure shutdown Check the enclosure EE 182 Too many enclosures Decrease the number of connected connected to port Enclosure enclosures not supported 183 Firmware mismatch on The compatibility with the firmware of the enclosure enclosure is disabled Contact the support department replacement into account pe areas 5 replacement into account D eee T replacement into account D meer gessggmune rer ee TL replacement into account 189 SAS SATA mixing not SAS and SATA coexist in a specific A hd supported in enclosure enclosure Check whether the connection is BEEN disabled PD configured correctly detected on SES enclosure Ki allia NN RU RN logical drives to WT 196 Bad block table is 8096 full on The bad block table in the physical drive is A A hd PD filled by 80 or larger Replace the physical BEBE drive log block full Replace the physical drive Seca mmm II Due to Ownership Loss on VD aborted due to ownership loss on VD 23 L 2 Battery charger problems Replace the battery detected SOH Bad threshold exceeded physical drive into account threshold exceeded reporting disabled enclosure enclosure enclosure is disconnected CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 73 216 FAILED Test The test detects an error Take the y y replacement of the disk array controller into account 221 NVRAM is corrupt reinitializing If the error occurs frequently take the y preventive
30. ce The source physical drive may be damaged drive error Take the replacement of the physical drive and the recovery from the backup into account CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 71 102 Rebuild failed due to target The target physical drive may be damaged drive error Take the replacement of the physical drive into account notification The action is unnecessary 106 Rebuild automatically started This message is rebuilding starting 4 notification The action is unnecessary Kl al RN RR RN cluster ownership 108 Reassign write operation failed If the error occurs frequently take the A preventive replacement of physical drives into account 109 Unrecoverable medium error If the error occurs frequently take the during rebuild preventive replacement of physical drives into account 111 Unrecoverable medium error If the error occurs frequently take the 4 4 during recovery preventive replacement of physical drives into account detected controller addressable connected correctly ports to the same SAS address connected correctly 122 y y SAS topology error Expander Check whether the disk array controller is error connected correctly timeout connected correctly KE alil emg eel TL entries connected correctly ound Ser IM Mt Comecedarenty found connected correctly A ineton dated comededconecty o function failed connected correctly error connected correc
31. cked state Creating or deleting logical drive m Specify the maximum capacity default value for RAID 1 spanning RAID 10 or RAID 5 spanning RAID 50 if a logical drive 1s created with the capacity specified Do not change the capacity m n creation of a logical drive do not use the following hard disk drives e Hard disk drive with partitions e Hard disk drive used for another array m While a logical driver is being created do not perform the followings e Shut down the system e Insert hard disk drive s e Remove hard disk drive s Rebuild feature m Do not use the hot swap feature during rebuild Inthe rebuild operation by using the hot swap feature the interval from the removal of the hard disk drive to the installation of a substitute hard disk drive should be 60 sec or longer m Hard disk drives in the status shown below cannot be used as hot spare disks Instead use new hard disk drives or hard disk drives already formatted e Hard disk drive with partitions e Hard disk drive used for another array CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 63 Patrol Read feature If the server is restarted the Patrol Read feature is aborted If you restart the Patrol Read after restarting the server it will be executed from the first step Even when selecting Stop Patrol Read and making them suspend a patrol lead on the way it indicates Complete Miscellaneous It is recommended that Check Consistency or Patrol Read is peri
32. controlled by remote computers If the firewall feature provided by Windows OS operates in a system controlled by a remote computer MSM cannot be controlled by the remote computer In the situation change the setting so that MSM can be controlled by the remote computer MSM uses ports 3071 and 5571 MSM also uses any port numbers 32000 over temporarily Do not block these ports 1 Select Start Programs MegaRAID Storage Manager and click StartupUI Z eS Windows Catalog o Windows Update rograms N Accessories 77 Uninstall 2 Select the server to be controlled by local and or remote computers and click Connect MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA belonging to a specific subnet are automatically displayed as candidates For connection extending over the subnet enter the IP address in the text box at the bottom of the screen and click Update Ifa MegaRAID Storage system is found in the server of the specified IP address the result will be reflected on the display Operation 15 A circle icon appears on each host in the server selection screen The host status is shown by one of the following colors Green Normal operation Yellow Occurrence of disk array degrading Red Occurrence of configuration error Operate the following on the login screen User Name amp Password LSI LOGIC Login Mode Full Access v User Name Administrator Password Dum c
33. ctory to install click Browse button and select a directory Destination Folder pe Files MegaRAID Storage Manager Browse InstallShield E Cancel 6 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 4 The installation is started When MSM has been installed the Setup finished dialog box appears Select Yes I want to restart my computer now and click OK MSM setup was finished To complete a setup you need to restart Restart now NOTE After selecting system reboot at the termination of MSM installation the background of the setup may remain as 1t 1s rarely If this occurs follow the procedure below 1 Press Ctrl Alt Delete and start the Task Manager on the Windows Security screen 2 Terminate the InstallShield MSM task 3 Ifa dialog such as 1628 Script base installation could not be completed appears click OK to close the dialog box Then reboot the system to complete the installation Despite the operation MSM has been installed normally Installing and Uninstalling MSM 7 2 2 2 Uninstalling MSM from Server Uninstall MSM in the following procedure IMPORTANT Do not uninstall MSM through Add or Remove Applications or Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel Always follow the procedure described in this section for the uninstallation The popup for warning as Application is not running when uninstalling the MSM Close this popup for warning there
34. d by using Express Setup automatic installation tool stored in the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM coming with the purchased server If you start the seamless setup the dialog box appears which allows you to specify the desired application Then select MSM Install the MSM manually with the CD which attached the SAS Card when there is no MSM installer in the EXPRESSBUILDER CD Installing and Uninstalling MSM 5 2 2 1 Installing MSM to Server Install MSM in the following procedure 1 2 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your computer Right click Software Setup in the Master Control Menu appearing on the screen and click MegaRAID Storage Manager Then the Selecting Installation or Uninstallation dialog box appears Select Installation for MSM and click Next InstallShield Wizard Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs Please choose Install or Uninstall Please click Next The Specifying Installation Destination Directory dialog box appears If you want to change the installation destination folder click Browse and follow the instructions in the dialog box that appears If the directory is specified completely click Next If the installation destination directory may not be changed click Next without change InstallShield Wizard Select a directory to install This setup installs MSM to following directory To change a dire
35. d started 2005 11 10 14 47 05 Controller ID 0 Time established since power on Time Thu Mov10 14 47 05 2005 B Seconds B5seconds from reboot Controller ID Device inserted Device Type Disk Device Id 0 7 65seconds from reboot Controller ID 0 PD inserted 0 7 B5seconds from reboot Controller ID Device inserted Device Type Disk Device Id 0 5 Displaying log from server m Right click the Event Viewer Save Loy Clear Log View Saved Log Save Log Save the logs appearing in the Event Viewer to the file Clear Log Clear the logs appearing in the Event Viewer View Saved Log Allow you to view the logs saved by selecting Save Log NOTES There are two type of logs on MSM log viewer 2006 04 24 xx xx xx Actual time XXXXXX seconds from reboot Progress time since rebooting MSM logs are registered by following rules Events which occurred after to finish OS started are shown as Actual time Events which occurred before to finish OS starting are shown as Progress Time Check the application logs of system event logs if you want to know Progress time as Actual time Date Time of log is sometimes shown by the MegaRAID Storage system that you re using to Actual time by Progress time since rebooting Please confirm the date and time by application log in this case Operation 33 3 3 Creating and Deleting Logical Drive Array The creation method of a logical drive and the deletion
36. defected during system operation with a normal hard disk drive Hot spare rebuild This method previously creates a hot spare disk and starts rebuild by using the spare disk automatically when a hard disk drive is defected Hot spare disks include the following two types m Global Hot spare Hot spare disks of the type are used to operate for all arrays m Dedicated Spare Hot spare disks of the type are used to operate for specified arrays Rebuild from MSM The feature starts rebuild by selecting Rebuild displayed by right clicking the defected hard disk drive Because the feature uses the defected hard disk drive to try array recovery the rebuild may fail or the array may be degraded immediately after it can be recovered Accordingly it cannot secure the operation after the rebuild The hot swap and hot spare rebuild operations are described below NOTES Do not use the hot swap feature during array rebuild operation To enable rebuild the disk capacity of the new hard disk drive should be equal to or larger than the disk capacity of the defected hard disk drive Operation 51 3 6 1 Hot swap Rebuild The feature can be done in the following procedure 1 Find the defected hard disk drive The following figure shows a sample display in MSM B Server SYSTEM 4 Controller 0 Q irtual Disk 0 RAID 5 34332 MB a Array 0 ee Physical Drive 0 35074 MB Rhysical Drive 1 35074 MB T Physical Drive 2
37. enu shown to the left change the setting on the window shown to the right 1f necessary and select Go The menu displayed in the Operations view varies depending on the states of the selected objects and or drives Sample menus are shown below When controller is selected Operations Enable Alarm 2 Select an operation from the left and press goto 5 invoke the selected Operation p Disable Alarm Silence Alarm Flash Firmware Set Patrol Read Properties Q Start Patrol Read Set Adjustable Task Rates Enable Alarm Enable the alarm feature Disable Alarm Disable the alarm feature Silence Alarm Stop the alarm when it beeps Flash Firmware Update the firmware of the controller This operation is dedicated for maintenance Do not use the feature Set Patrol Read Properties Allow you to set the Patrol Read schedule See Section 3 5 2 Scheduling Patrol Read for the schedule setting 26 Operation Start Patrol Read Stop Patrol Read Start or stop the Patrol Read The screen display varies depending on how the Patrol Read is executed See Section 3 5 1 Manual Execution of Patrol Read for the execution of the Patrol Read Set Adjustable Task Rates Specify the preferential assignment of the system processing capacity with a value between 0 and 100 when the rebuild Patrol Read or check consistency feature is executed Specifying a higher value allows the system p
38. erations Show Progress on the menu bar to know the progress of the execution IMPORTANT Specify only a single HDD in the execution of Add Drive If more than one HDD must be specified first complete the addition of a single HDD and then start the Add Drive feature again Add Drive feature increase capacity of array but do not increase capacity of partition which recognize by OS If you want to increase partition size you need to make partition newly after Add drive It is recommended that the partitions on a logical drive are always backed up before remake partitions 56 Operation 3 1 2 Remove Drive This feature removes the physical drive from the logical drive and converts the RAID level to RAID 0 The procedure is described below 1 Click Remove Drive in Reconstruction Mode of the Reconstruction Wizard 2 Select the physical drive to be removed from the upper list and click the p button to move the physical drive to the lower list Then click Next cancer Back ex JI 3 The physical drive to be removed appears with red characters After checking the information click Finish LD0 34332 MB Physical Drive 0 35074 MB Physical Drive 1 35074 MB amp Physical Drive 2 35074 MB RAID 0 v Cancel Back Finish 4 The confirmation message appears Select Yes If you select No the Remove Drive feature is cancelled Select Group Operations Show Pro
39. gress on the menu bar to know the progress of the execution Operation 57 3 1 3 Change RAID Level This feature converts the RAID level to RAID 0 The procedure is described below 1 Click Change RAID Level in Reconstruction Mode of the Reconstruction Wizard ui Change RAID Level 2 Select RAID 0 from New RAID Level and click Finish LD 0 34332 MB Physical Drive 0 35074 MB amp Physical Drive 1 35074 MB Physical Drive 2 35074 MB 3 The confirmation message appears Select Yes If you select No the Change RAID Level feature 1s cancelled Select Group Operations Show Progress on the menu bar to know the progress of the execution 58 Operation 3 8 Help Selecting Help Help on the menu bar allows the help normally attached to MSM to be displayed NOTE The help normally attached to MSM includes the features unsupported by the NEC Express5800 series machines and the features on array boards unsupported by the NEC Express5800 series servers See the relevant descriptions in this manual for the supported features Version confirmation procedure Selecting Help About on the menu bar allows you to see the MSM version If you select Server Info the information on the server appears as shown below MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 14 02 LSI LOGIC MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 14 02 Client Build 1 14 Build 01 Copyright 2006 LSI Logic Co
40. ing Manual Disables the execution of the scheduled Patrol Read and enables the manual execution only Disabled Disable the Patrol Read Change the following items to desired values and click Go Maximum PD Count for patrolling Set the maximum number of physical drives for which the Patrol Read is to be executed Do not change the default value 255 Continuous Patrolling This feature is not supported yet Do not check it Select Excluded Virtual Disks If you check one or more logical drives appearing in this item the Patrol Read is not executed for the drives To execute the Patrol Read for all logical drives do not put checks in this option Operation 49 Execution Frequency Specify the interval at which the Patrol Read is executed You can set the interval in hours minutes or seconds NOTES If you shutdown the server on the way of manual Patrol Read it is aborted Execute the Patrol Read again when the server is started If you shutdown the server on the way of schedule Patrol Read it will be restarted from the beginning at the next start of the server 50 Operation 3 6 Rebuild Feature The rebuild feature can recovers a degraded array Before the feature can be used the defected hard disk drive must be replaced with a normal hard disk drive The rebuild can be done in the following three ways Hot swap rebuild This method provides rebuild by replacing a hard disk drive
41. ion Wizard Xe Manual Configuration 2 Select a physical drive from the Unconfigured Physical Drive List and click the gt button to add the physical drive to the Arrays with Available Space To recover the added physical drive select the physical drive and click the ie button sical Drive 1 35074 MB sical Drive 2 35074 MB gt sical Drive 3 140014 otg sical Drive 4 35074 M sical Drive 5 35074 M Add Hotspare To v Add Hotspare To Set the physical disk as the hot spare disk operating only for the specified array Remove HotSpare Release the setting as the hot spare disk 3 Click Accept Then click Next Operation 37 4 Set parameters in Virtual Disk Properties appropriately and click Accept Then click Next Virtual Disk Creation RAID Level Select the RAID level of the array Size in MB J Set the capacity of the logical drive to be created Volume ID Leave the initial setting value unchanged Volume Name Specify the name of the logical drive Stripe Size Select the unit of data distributed to each hard disk drive configuring RAID out of 8K 16K 32K 64K and 128K bytes The default setting is 64K bytes LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm is always 64K bytes Read Policy Select No Read Ahead Adaptive Read Ahead or Always Read Ahead The default setting is No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Select either
42. k drives IMPORTANT Support RAID Levels depends on MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA Please check Section 4 1 Supported function of MegaRAID Systems m Check consistency feature for checking array consistency MSM supports the check consistency feature for checking consistency MSM also supports the feature of recovering data automatically if the check consistency feature detects inconsistency 2 Overview m Auto array rebuild feature in array degrading MSM supports the hot spare rebuild executed at the insertion removal of a disk and the hot spare rebuild in which a hot spare disk is defined previously and used at the shift of the array to degrading state NOTE The hot swap rebuild is available only in a system supporting hot swap To start MSM more than 255 colors must be selected in the screen setup If only up to 255 colors are selected the popup requesting more than 255 colors appear and MSM cannot be started Installing and Uninstalling MSM 3 2 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 2 1 MSM Operation Environment Server Specification The following shows the hardware and software operation environment sever specification required to operate MSM Hardware m Server NEC Express5800 50 100 600 series server supporting following MegaRAID Storage Systems SAS SATA e LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAIDTM e N8103 90 Disk Array Controller External SAS HDD e N8103 91 Disk Array Controller Internal SAS HDD e N8103 9
43. ly take the corrected medium error preventive replacement of physical drives BEEN into account completed with uncorrectable drives into account errors on VD detected uncorrectable multiple drives into account medium errors 51 Background Initialization failed Take the preventive replacement of physical V y on VD drives into account BE 56 Consistency Check aborted on The consistency check is aborted Check the VD validity 70 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 57 Consistency Check corrected If the error occurs frequently take the ML id preventive replacement of physical drives into account M LL cn uncorrectable multiple medium drives into account errors VD drives into account uncorrectable data on VD drives into account 64 67 63 Consistency Check found If the error occurs frequently take the inconsistent parity on VD strip preventive replacement of physical drives into account VD Initialization aborted on VD If the error occurs frequently take the imn preventive replacement of physical drives BEEN into account drives into account If the error recurs take the preventive N unrecoverable errors replacement of physical drives into account 76 Reconstruct detected If the error recurs take the preventive uncorrectable multiple medium replacement of physical drives into account errors If the error recurs take the preventive BEEN due to configuration mismatch replacement of phy
44. n Time Tue yova17 42 14 2006 53Seconds ion 52seconds from re ontrollerID 0 Device inserted Device Type Disk Device Idi 4 i eboo roller ID 0 _PD inserted 0 5 roller ID 0 Device in e Device Type Disk Device Id 0 4 EIER 3 3 3 3 3 serted roller ID 0 PD inserted 0 4 roller ID 0 Device inserted Device Type Disk Device Id 0 3 MSM has four screen interfaces as follows 1 Menu bar 2 Physical Logical View 3 Properties Operations Graphical view 4 Event Viewer The following operations are permitted for the above interfaces m A feature can be selected from the menu bar m Onthe Physical Logical View an object can be selected Further an item on the object can be selected by right clicking the object m On the Operations tab a feature can be selected m On the Event Viewer an event can be selected Further an item on the event can be selected by right clicking the event m The detailed information on an event can be displayed by double clicking the event NOTES Any item grayed out in each menu is unavailable due to some reason in the environment in which the menu 1s displayed An available menu item changes with the MegaRAID Storage system that you re using it Operation 17 3 2 1 Menu Bar Selectable objects on the menu bar can also be selected executed by right clicking them The menu bar appears as follows File Operations Group Operations Log Tools Help The menus are described
45. odically performed to detect defects due to the fails of HDDs Note that the icons of events reported by the NEC ESMPRO report feature are all displayed green on NEC ESMPRO they seem information events If the Save dialog is displayed by selecting Save Log on the Log menu the Desktop folder is displayed incorrectly in Japanese Environment To save a log specify a folder other than Desktop To start MSM the screen setting should be done so that more than 255 colors are available If only up to 255 colors are available the relevant error message appears and MSM cannot be started If you display the dialog for Save Log and select Detail the information on Type will be garbled in Japanese environment To check Type to be displayed in the save log operation use Windows Explore When restarting MSM the messages displayed in the MSM screen may disappear Use the Save Log feature of MSM or check the messages registered in the Windows application log In case user wants to change the IP of the server system MSMFramework Service needs to be restarted 64 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 5 2 Cautions and Restrictions for N8103 90 Disk array controller External SAS HDD and N8103 91 Disk array controller Internal SAS HDD MSM Operation m Date Time of MSM Logs is sometimes shown as xx seconds from reboot In this case please check the Application Log of System Events m Every time MSM is started when an additi
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47. onal battery N8103 94 is not attached with the next message 1s output by MSM log and event log application Even if Write Thru is set in Write Policy this is output MSM Log Controller ID x BBU disables changing WB logical drivers to WT Event Log Application Source MR MONITOR Event ID 195 x 1s controller ID number It can be restrained by this log printout s inputting D with the next message indicated at the time of a server start he battery hardware is missing or malfunctioning or the battery is unplugged f you continue to boot the system the battery backed cache will not function Please contact technical support for assistance Press D to disable this warning if your controller does not have a battery m Tfredundant power unit is not installed to N8141 37 Disk Expansion Unit the following popup message may be shown up while installing MSM And you may see the following event in MSM and application event logs at every boot time However those are no problem MSM Log Controller ID x BBU disables changing WB logical drivers to WT Event Log Application source MR MONITOR Event ID 173 x is controller ID number m When using N8141 37F Disk Expansion Unit which is connected to N8103 90F Disk Array Controller it is necessary to check the slot numbers of drives before you use configuration wizard rebuild feature or reconstruction feature The slot numbers are not displayed
48. onen m Inthe Login Mode field select Full Access to change the array configuration or View Only to see the configuration only In the User name field specify the name of a user authorized as an administrator for the system In the Password field type the password of the user specified in the User name field Click Login NOTES If Full Access is selected only a single can log in to the system If Full Access is selected only a user authorized as an administrator can log in to the system The names of login users and their IP addresses are recorded in the MSM log IMPORTANT Only local users can be specified with an Administrators authority in the User name field Domain users can not login MSM as Administrators regardless of their authorities 16 Operation 3 2 MSM Operation Screen An example of the MSM screen is shown below after logged in the screen shown below appears MeeaRAID Storage Manager is Log Tools Help LSI LOGIC e SYSTEM IP Address 10 0 1 50 Operating System s Windows 2003 OS Architecture x86 2 Physical Drive 2 34688 MB Physical Drive 3 34688 MB 5 Physical Drive 4 69809 MB 2 Physical Drive 5 69809 MB Battery Backup Unit vel D Ti D ipti nformation 2006 11 21 17 45 37 e Client 10 0 1 50 Access Mode Full Client Time 2006 11 21 17 45 37 ormation 2006 11 21 17 42 ontroller ID 0 Time established since powero
49. or Removal Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk Make Global Hotspare Create a Global hot spare disk Prepare For Removal Undo Prepare For Removal Do not use the feature It s the function which stops and restarts a revolution of a spindle motor of HDD but these are the operation which has no need in particular in an HDD exchange Operation 23 Menu appearing when right clicking Virtual Disk Context Menu The menu appearing when right clicking Virtual Disk varies depending on the status of the logical drive Sample menus are shown below in logical drive states When logical drive operates normally J virtual Disk Delete Virtual Disk Locate Virtual Disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Check Consistency Adwanced Operations b Delete Virtual Disk Select this feature to delete the logical drive Locate Virtual Disk Start to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Stop to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Check Consistency Check the consistency of the logical drive Advanced Operations Reconstruction Wizard Increases in the capacity of the existing array or changes the RAID level See Section 3 7 1 Executing Reconstruction for how to execute the reconstruction IMPORTANT When you use N8103 90 with N8141 37 order of HDD on MSM di
50. r of MSM so there is no problem The warning message is no longer shown after system reboot The dialog of warning of security may be displayed during the process of Standby Hibernation Lock driver installation at MSM installation In this case select Yes to continue the installation To control MSM by a remote computer MSM must be installed in both local and remote computers Popuplog log file is created in C drive at the time of MSM installation This file 1s not used after the reboot so this file is able to remove after the reboot MSM operation MSM client can not be started until MSM related service completes a start When having started a MSM client before starting service the next error is indicated Fatal Eror Cannot connect to Framework MSM related service is the following Service Name MegaMonitorSrv Display Name MRMonitor Service Name MSMFramework Display Name MSMFramework If you select Replace Missing Physical Drive in Operations a pull down menu without options appears in the right frame Do not use the feature The firewall function which is provided by Windows OS disturbs the remote function of MSM Change the setting for the remote function of MSM Review the port setting for the firewall MSM uses port numbers 3071 and 5571 You cannot change these port numbers MSM uses any port numbers 32000 over temporarily Concurrent accesses by both MSMs in local and remote computers are possible Ho
51. replacement of the disk array controller into account 222 NVRAM mismatch occurred If the error occurs frequently take the y preventive replacement of the disk array controller into account 223 Link lost on SAS wide port If the error occurs frequently take the A preventive replacement of the disk and disk array controller into account 225 Allowed error rate exceeded on If the error occurs frequently take the SAS port preventive replacement of the disk and disk array controller into account 226 Bad block reassigned If the error occurs frequently take the preventive replacement of the disk into account 228 Temperature sensor differential If the error occurs frequently take the A detected on enclosure preventive replacement of the enclosure into account 229 Disk test cannot start No If the error occurs frequently take the A MES ul preventive replacement of the disk into m account 230 Time duration provided by host If the error occurs frequently take the 2 ot utcen or sotone gt preventive replacement of the disk array m controller into account 235 Firmware download failed on If the error occurs frequently take the enclosure preventive replacement of the enclosure into account 238 PDs missing from configuration Check the disk connection Y at boot 239 VDs missing drives and will go Check the disk connection offline at boot VDs missing at boot Check the disk connection Pre
52. rocessing capacity to be used more preferentially Specifying a lower value causes the system performance during rebuild to remain only in a lower level This only sets the priority against other processes With 0 the feature can also operate Similarly With 100 any other processes are not always interrupted When physical drive is selected in normal state Operations f 4 Make Drive Offline E Selectan operation from the left and press go to D 7 1 invoke the selected Operation Locate Physical Drive oO Stop Locating Physical Drive Make Drive Offline Make the physical drive offline This feature 1s dedicated for maintenance Do not use the feature Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk Operation 27 When physical drive is selected under rebuild processing Operations Abort Rebuild i Sele ration from the left and press go to ion il an ope i invoke the selected Operati Locate Physical Drive Oo Stop Locating Physical Drive Abort Rebuild Abort the rebuild processing Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk When physical drive is selected in offline status Operations Select an operation from the left and press go to d invoke the selected Operation Make
53. rporation All Rights Reserved lt When About is selected gt MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 14 Build 01 Server Information HostName SYSTEM IP Address 10 0 1 50 Operating System Name Windows 2003 Operating System Version 5 2 Operating System Architecture x86 Version Information Framework Version 1 14 Build 00 Kernel Version 1 14 Build 01 Authenticate Plugin version 1 00 Native library 1 00 Log Service Plugin version 1 02 NetworkCapability Plugin version 1 06 Storelib Plugin version 1 12 Build 01 JNI Layer Version 1 12 Build 01 Storelib Version 2 7 0 Systeminfo Plugin version 1 03 When Server Info is selected Miscellaneous Information 59 4 Miscellaneous Information 4 1 Supported function of MegaRAID Systems Supported function of MSM depends on the MegaRAID Systems See below for detail Remarks MegaRAID Systems Embedded MegaRAID LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID tm N8103 90 N8103 90 Disk Array Controller External SAS HDD N8103 91 N8103 91 Disk Array Controller Internal SAS HDD N8103 99 N8103 99 Disk Array Controller Och N8403 019 N8403 019 Disk Array Controller ROMB LSI Logic MegaRAID tm SAS PCI EXPRESS tm ROMB V Supported MegaRAID Systems Function 1 Embedded MegaRAID N8103 90 91 N8103 99 N8403 019 ROMB cur e i pf 1 1 Haier alam Operations Graphical a N N View o v llo MEN Viewer GUI pv Supported Arra
54. rt Monitoring Event messages associated with the MegaRAID Storage system can be displayed on the NEC ESMPRO Manager The setting varies depending on the environment as follows m To monitor messages with the NEC ESMPRO Manager operating on a machine other than the server to which the monitored MegaRAID is connected take the following procedure on the machine m To monitor messages with the NEC ESMPRO Manager operating on the server to which the monitored MegaRAID is connected no setup is required Alert report registry setup procedure 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive If the Master Control menu appears on the screen close the menu Install the MSM manually with the CD which attached the SAS Card when there is no MSM installer in the EXPRESSBUILDER CD 2 Start MSMALTEN EXE in MSM of NEC EXPRESSBUILDER Start MSMALTEN EXE in MSM when you use the CD which attached the SAS Card also The confirmation dialog box appears Select Yes Setting Ehe alert registry X Execute the alert regiatrv Ore You sure 3 After the registry setup is completed the dialog box indicating the termination appears Click OK to reboot the system CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 69 Alert report messages and actions against the messages If MSM is installed the following messages registered as MSM are set as report targets To change the setting redefine it by the NEC ESMPRO Agent report
55. rt to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk When physical drive is being rebuilt Abort Rebuild Aborts the rebuild processing Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk Operation 21 When physical drive is in offline status e Physical Drive Make Drive Online Mark Physical Drive as Missing Rebuild Locate Physical Drive Stop Locating Physical Drive Make Drive Online Makes the physical drive online The feature is dedicated for maintenance Do not use the feature Mark Physical Drive as Missing This feature is not supported yet Do not use the feature Rebuild Starts the rebuild processing Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk When physical drive is hot spare disk cu Physical Drive Locate Physical Drive Stop Locating Physical Drive Remove Hotspare Locate Physical Drive Start to blink LED of Physical disk Stop Locating Physical Drive Stop to blink LED of Physical disk Remove Hotspare Releases the setting as a hot spare disk 22 Operation When physical drive is not used yet acai zm Physical Drive Locate Physical Drive Stop Locating Physical Drive Make Global Hotspare Prepare For Removal Undo Prepare F
56. sagree with order of HDD on N8141 37 In this case Locate Virtual Disk feature can help 24 Operation When logical drive is degraded Check Consistency disappears to be unavailable while it is displayed if the logical drive operates normally When logical drive is subject to consistency check or rebuild processing Lg virtual Disk Delete Virtual Disk Locate Virtual Disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Cancel Check Consistency Delete Virtual Disk Select this feature to delete the logical drive Locate Virtual Disk Start to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Stop Locating Virtual Disk Stop to blink LED of Physical disks consists of Virtual disk Cancel Check Consistency only in consistency check Cancel the consistency check Operation 25 3 2 3 Properties Operations Graphical View The Properties Operations Graphical view indicates the information on controllers and drives selected in the Physical Logical View in the Properties view the setups executions of available features in the Operations view and the capacities of graphical drives in the Graphical view m Properties Indicate the information on selected controllers and drives m Operations Allows you to set or execute features available for the selected controllers and drives IMPORTANT Setup execution of feature In the setup execution of a feature on the Operations view select the desired feature from the m
57. sical Drive 5 35074 MB const sock way me Miewthe summary and finally press Finish to write the configuration 000 3 3 2 Deleting Logical Drive You can delete a logical drive in the following procedure 1 Select the logical drive to be deleted in the Logical view 2 Click Operations Delete Virtual Disk on the menu bar 3 Aconfirmation warning message appears Select Yes Selecting No causes the deletion processing to be canceled 4 The selected logical drive is deleted from MSM IMPORTANT Any logical drive deleted by mistake cannot be recovered any more Before deleting a logical drive make sure that it may be deleted 42 Operation 3 4 Check Consistency Feature The check consistency feature checks consistency and automatically corrects data 1f some inconsistency 1s detected IMPORTANT The Check Consistency function and the Patrol Read function allow you to find the defects due to degradation such as aging in files of low access frequency and unused areas as soon as possible In rebuilding after replacement of a HDD due to a failure subsequent defects may be found in remaining HDDs In such a case the system cannot be recovered Thus detecting subsequent defects as early as possible is extremely effective as preventive maintenance Periodical synchronization or media patrol is effective to keep the stable operation of your system It 1s strongly recommended to take the action once per
58. sical drives into account 82 PD Clear aborted If the error occurs frequently take the y MIU LEN preventive replacement of physical drives DI into account If the error recurs take the preventive replacement of physical drives into account 87 Emo Contactthesupportdepartmen v Hot Spare SMART polling Take the preventive replacement of physical y y failed drives into account 92 x PD is not supported Check whether a supported physical drive is inserted 93 Patrol Read corrected medium If the error occurs frequently take the y error preventive replacement of physical drives into account 95 Patrol Read found an If the error occurs frequently take the N y uncorrectable medium error preventive replacement of physical drives Consistency Check If the error occurs frequently take the inconsistency logging disabled preventive replacement of physical drives too many inconsistencies on into account into account Pe perce e T drives into account 97 Puncturing bad block If the error occurs frequently take the A preventive replacement of physical drives into account Rebuild aborted by user The rebuild is aborted by some user operation Build RAID again Rebuild complete on VD This message is rebuilding completion notification The action is unnecessary 100 Rebuild complete on PD This message is rebuilding completion notification The action is unnecessary 101 Rebuild failed due to sour
59. tents 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 Corporation 4 All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of all information in this manual If you notice any part unclear incorrect or omitted in this manual contact the sales agent where you purchased this product 5 NEC assumes no liability arising from the use of this product nor any liability for incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of this manual regardless of Item 4 O NEC Corporation 2006 Contents EE C uui Poe c 1 1 1 MegaRAID Storage Manager cccccssscccccssscecceeseeecseseeceeseecseeseeecsaneeecsanseesssaseessageees 1 2 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 11 eeeeeeeeeseeeee nennen nennen nnne nnn nana nns 3 2 1 MSM Operation Environment Server Specification ccccccccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeesaeeeees 3 2 2 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in S rvel cecccccseeececseeeeeceeeeeeseeeeesseeeeeesaaeeeesaeeeeesaees 4 2 2 1 Installing MSM to Server Le on n i RR Ves ex Reus s 5 2 2 2 Uninstalling MSM from S rver u cccccccsccccssesccseesccseeecsuseeseseessusessausessasessaeeessuasesanseesanaes 2 3 MSM Operation Environment Management PC cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesaeeseesaeeees 8 2 4 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in Management PC
60. ter 2 Run MSM EXE contained in the following folder MSM VIVA MSM EXE 3 The screen shown below appears Click Next iif MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 The InstallShield R Wizard will allow you to modify repair or remove MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 To continue click Next i MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Program Maintenance Modify repair or remove the program C Modify Custom Selection dialog in which you can change the way features are amp Change which program Features are installed This option displays the installed C Repair Repair installation errors in the program This option fixes missing or corrupt files shortcuts and registry entries Remove MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 from your computer InstallShield lt Back Cancel 12 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 5 The screen shown below appears Click Remove ji MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 InstallShield Wizard Remove the Program You have chosen to remove the program from your system Click Remove to remove MegaRAID Storage Manager v1 13 03 from your computer After removal this program will no longer be available For use If you want to review or change any settings click Back Installshield i Cancel 6 Thescreen shown below appears Click Finish i
61. tion Wizard on the menu bar 54 Operation The reconstruction is divided into three types Add Drive Remove Drive and Change RAID Level Change RAID Level Add Drive Add a physical drive to the logical drive to increase in the capacity of the array Remove Drive Removes the physical drive from the logical drive and converts the RAID level to RAID 0 Change RAID Level Convert the RAID level to RAID 0 The reconstruction procedures in types are described below 3 7 1 1 Add Drive This feature adds a physical drive to the logical drive to increase in the capacity of the array The procedure is described below 1 Click Add Drive in Reconstruction Mode of the Reconstruction Wizard JA Add Drive Operation 55 2 Select the physical drive to be added from the upper list and click the 4 button to move the physical drive to the lower list Then click Next Device ID Drive Capacity in MB H 140014 3 The physical drive to be added appears with red characters Select the RAID level after the expansion from New RAID Level and click Finish LD0 34332 MB Physical Drive 0 35074 MB Physical Drive 1 35074 MB uf Physical Drive 2 35074 MB Physical Drive 3 140014 MB ij Conc Back men 4 The confirmation message appears Select Yes If you select No the Add Drive feature is cancelled MegaRAID Storage Manager 7 45 Ex 7 Select Group Op
62. tions gt Start Patrol Read on the menu bar MegaRAID Storage Manager Group Operations Log Help Enable Alarm Disable Alarm Silence Alarm Phy futvanced Operations Scan For Foreign Config 2 Ifthe confirmation dialog shown below appears click Yes The Patrol Read is executed MegaRAID Storage Manager Operation 47 To interrupt the Patrol Read being executed click Operations Stop Patrol Read MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 00 File Operations Group Operations Log Help CEIL O N Disable Alarm Silence Alarm Stop Patrol Read pa Advanced Operations b EE Scan For Foreign Config EE 48 Operation 3 5 2 Scheduling Patrol Read The Patrol Read can be scheduled in the following procedure Patrol Read scheduling procedure 1 Select a controller on the Physical Logical View Then select Operations 2 Check Set Patrol Read Properties 3 The schedule setting screen shown below appears Change the Operation Mode to Auto 4 If Auto is selected already the mode change is not required Enable Alarm 9 Selected Operation Set Patrol Read Properties F a Description Sets patrol read options for Disable Alarm configured physical drives Silence Alarm Flash Firmware Set Patrol Read Properties Start Patrol Read Set Adjustable Task Rates Auto Execute the Patrol Read schedul
63. tly A 4 Ka rer a ma Gui NUN connected correctly paths connected correctly mua Smecmdcom connected correctly useful for all arrays drives into account cover all arrays drives into account t mstwwiosetenudow oe active writes at shutdown The battery is heated at a high temperature If the error occurs frequently take the battery replacement into account If the error occurs frequently take the battery BEEN replacement into account If the error occurs frequently take the battery pf replacement into account SOH Bad Battery relearn timed out Replace the battery Replace the battery v wv 162 Current capacity of the battery If the error occurs frequently take the battery y is below threshold replacement into account 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f i f 7 J 24 25 i 26 27 i SAS topology error Multiple a subtractive connected correctly 29 31 i 34 T 0 72 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 166 Communication lost on Check the connection of the enclosure enclosure Fan failed on enclosure Check the operation of the enclosure fan Check the connection of the enclosure fan enclosure warning threshold on enclosure warning threshold Check the temperature threshold on enclosure error threshold Check the temperature 80 A A warning threshold on enclosure warning threshold Check the temperature threshold on enclosure error threshold Check the temper
64. ure The reconstruction feature allows you to increase in the capacity of an existing array and or change its RAID level IMPORTANT Execution of reconstruction It is recommended that the partitions on a logical drive are always backed up before the addition of the capacity of the array so that proper measures can be taken at the occurrence of an unexpected event Any reconstruction cannot be cancelled after it is started NOTE The reconstruction feature is only available only under the following condition Only a single logical drive should be configured in the array the reconstruction feature is unavailable if more than one logical drive are configured in the array 3 7 1 Executing Reconstruction To execute the reconstruction right click the relevant logical drive on the Logical view click Advanced Operations Reconstruction Wizard and select Yes for the confirmation message shown below to display the Reconstruction Wizard Server SYSTEM Properties 9 Controller 0 9 p Virtual Disk 0 RAID 5 Delete Virtual Disk Level 5 T My Array Locate Virtual Disk 34332 MB S2 Physical Drive amp 2 Physical Drive Stop Locating Virtual Disk S2 Physical Drive 7 Check Consistency eSize 64KB MegaRAID Storage Manager The Reconstruction Wizard can also be displayed by selecting the relevant logical drive on the Logical view and clicking Operations Advanced Operations Reconstruc
65. ves Estimated time left 2 Min 32 Sec Abort AII With more than one logical drive being subject to the check consistency allows the check consistency to be canceled for all the logical drives 3 Cancels the consistency check Click the x button at the upper right corner of the Group Show Progress screen to close it 46 Operation 3 5 Patrol Read Feature The Patrol Read feature operates in physical drives configuring all arrays including hot spare disks to detect errors and recover the system from the errors if they are detected IMPORTANT The Check Consistency function and the Patrol Read function allow you to find the defects due to degradation such as aging in files of low access frequency and unused areas as soon as possible In rebuilding after replacement of a HDD due to a failure subsequent defects may be found in remaining HDDs In such a case the system cannot be recovered Thus detecting subsequent defects as early as possible is extremely effective as preventive maintenance Periodical synchronization or media patrol is effective to keep the stable operation of your system It 1s strongly recommended to take the action once per week or at least once per month 3 5 1 Manual Execution of Patrol Read The Patrol Read can be executed manually in the following procedure Patrol Read execution procedure 1 Under the selection of a controller on the Physical Logical View click Opera
66. vious configuration Check the disk connection completely missing at boot 241 PD rebuild not possible as Check whether physical drives to be N SAS SATA is not supported in supported are used an array 250 VD is now PARTIALLY Partial degrading is detected Replace the 4 DEGRADED defected physical drive and run the rebuild operation 251 VD is now DEGRADED The logical drive is degraded Replace the A A m eee defected physical drive and run the rebuild BEBE operation NN 252 VD is now OFFLINE The logical drive enters into the offline status Recover the data by using the A backup not supported by this RAID key not supported by this controller drives are not supported by this key RAID key Check the disk connection en
67. wever only a single MSM can have the full access authority If the full access authority cannot be selected in the login mode check whether an access from another client occurs 62 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS The MSM log may be reviewed to see accesses from other clients m You can specify the local users only as the Administrators member in the User Name field of MSM login window You can not specify domain users which has Administrators right MSM cannot be used when there is no MegaRAID Storage System in the same LAN m MSM cannot be used when the target server has several ports which are belonged to different sub net In this case please use MSM in the target server Todo the rescan operation again the interval from the previous scan should be 60 sec or longer If the interval is shorter an unexpected event may occur m Do not use the Prepare For Removal and Undo Prepare For Removal It is the function that stops and restarts a spinning of spindle motor of HDD however these are the operations which are no need in particular to replace HDDs m Acheck box of Use Write Through for failed or missing battery was added to Default Write Policy since MSM1 14 02 The default value of Use Write Through for failed or missing battery is the checked state when you specify Write Back in Default Write Policy Please set the unchecked state in this case Even if there is a battery 1BBU it will be Write Trough in the che
68. while executing the features and you need to select physical drive numbers of drives Note that physical drive numbers which are displayed in the left panel of physical view may be different from the actual slot numbers of drives You can see the slot numbers in the Properties view of drives on MSM such as the following copy of the screen e The slot numbers are started from 0 although those printed on the unit are started from l CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 65 e To avoid selecting wrong drives it is highly recommended to check them properly by executing Locate Physical Drive or Locate Virtual Disk operation on MSM MegaRAID Storage Manager 1 13 Build 02 File Operations Group Operations Log Help Physical Lg sever dnes ay4p2di2htsmallbusiness local Properties Controller 0 eap Porto Product Info HuUss151473VLS300 9 ao Enclosure 4 ee Physical Drive 0 34688 MB SA Physical Drive 1 34688 MB Ed Physical Drive 2 588098 MB Sa Physical Drive 3 68808 MB Physical Drive State Unconfigured amp Good nan Port 1 eap Port 2 Revision Level A340 Device ID E 35 asm Port 3 B Raw Size 69809 MB SAS Address 0 0x5000CC400342DFB0 66 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 5 3 Cautions and Restrictions for LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID MSM Operation MSM can not set Virtual Disk Properties for several Virtual Disks at the same time If you want to set Virtual Disk
69. y Level eid EK 1 10 NAE 1 10 NA 1 10 0 1 10 0 PES OMM Nn CA Nn N 2a lt Lj 2 Check Consistency Patrol Read Manual ll T EE Scheduled Operation Rebuild Hot ee l Rebuild Gases Hot Spare Rebuild Hot Spare Global Hot Mp I land eee Dedicated Hot Spare zo o Disk ATMNER S eere 1 1 1 7 1 1 O M 9 iF A1 amp EE iind Xp Depends on RAID driver or RAID firmware 2 Depends on Server 60 Miscellaneous Information 4 2 How to confirm the type of Hot Spare Disks You could confirm the type of Created Hot Spare Disks by MSM There are 2type of Hot Spare Disk Global Hot Spare Disk and Dedicated Hot Spare Disk How to confirm e Global Hot Spare Disk Global Hot Spare Disk is shown on Physical View but not shown on Logical View e Dedicated Hot Spare Disk Dedicated Hot Spare Disk is shown on both of Physical and Logical View Sample l Start up MSM 2 Show Physical View Check Hot Spare Disk icon e There are 2type of Hot Spare Disk Global Hot Spare Disk and Dedicated Hot Spare Disk marked red frame LB Server system Controller 0 9 rap Porta Rebuild Rate amp Physical Drive 0 34688 MB um Patrol Read Rate E ez Physical Drive 1 34688 MB Reconstruction Rate O 9 rap Fort 2 F ca Physical Drive 2 34588 MB SubvendorlID 041000 sam Port 3 Ge Physic

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