ENHANCE UltraStor RS16 Bedienungsanleitung

UltraStor RS16 SCSI Ultra 320 to SATA IIa RAID Controller User Manual Version 3.0 (MAY. 2006) Enhance technology

2.3 Management methods There are three management methods to manage S Series controllers, describe on the following: 2.3.1 Web GUI S Series contr

Tips It does not support telnet to connect for remote control, only ssh. Using ssh, the IP address has to be setup and the password is required fo

The following is LCM menu hierarchy. [Alarm Mute] [cYes Nod] [Reset] [cYes Nod] [Reset/Shutdown] [Shutdown] [cYes Nod] Volume Si

2.4.1 System buzzer The system buzzer features are describing on the following: 1. The system buzzer will alarm 3 seconds when system boots up suc

Chapter 3 Web GUI guideline 3.1 S-series GUI hierarchy Quick Install ÆStep 1 / Step 2 / Step 3 / Confirm System Config System nameÆSystem

3.2 Login UltraStor series controller supports graphic user interface to manage the system. Be sure to connect LAN cable. The default IP is 192.168.0

3.3 Quick install It is easy to use “Quick install” function to create a volume. Depend on how many physical disks or how many residual spaces on cr

Figure 3.3.2 (Figure 3.3.2: A RAID 0 user data volume with the UDV name “QUICK20680”, named by the system itself, with the total available volume si

Figure 3.4.1 3.4.1 System name Select “System name” to change system name. Default system name composed by model name and serial number of this

Select “IP address” to change IP address for remote administration usage. There are 2 selections, DHCP (Get IP address from DHCP server) or set stati

Preface About this manual This manual is designed for UltraStor RS16 series controller user to operate the disk array system as easy as possible. I

3.4.5 Mail Select “Mail” to enter at most 3 mail addresses for receiving the event notification. Some mail servers would check “Mail-from address”

3.4.7 Event log Select “Event log” to view the event messages. Press “Clear” button will clear event log. Press “Mute” button will stop alarm if syst

Figure 3.5.1 3.5.1 Volume relationship diagram VGPD 2 PD 3 DS PD 1 UDV 1 UDV 2 Snap UDV Global CV +LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3++Dedica

4. The operations of the other web pages (e.g.: volume config of VG, UDV, CV, LUN pages) are similar. Figure 3.5.2.1 (Figure 3.5.2.1: Physical di

“DEFECT” Æ the hard drive has the bad blocks. “FAIL” Æ the hard drive cannot work in the respective volume. Status 1 “RD” Æ RAID Disk. This hard d

Figure 3.5.3.1 (Figure 3.5.3.1: There is a RAID 0 with 2 physical disks, named “VG-R0”, total size is 152064MB, free size is 52096MB, related to 1

Status 3 “M” Æ Migration. This volume group is doing migration. RAID The RAID level, which this volume group is using. The blue square button next t

3.5.4 User data volume Enter “User data volume” function to view the status of each user data volume. Figure 3.5.4.1 (Figure 3.5.4.1: Create a

Status 1 “WT” Æ Write Through. “WB” Æ Write Back. The blue square button in below to the status1 is “Set read/write mode” function. Status 2 “HI” Æ

CREATE Create a user data volume function. DELETE Delete this user data volume function. 3.5.5 Cache volume Enter “Cache volume” function to view t

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• CV operations description: CREATE Create a cache volume function. DELETE Delete this cache volume function. 3.5.6 Logical unit number Enter “L

3.5.7 Examples Take 2 examples to create volumes. Example 1 is to create two UDVs shared the same CV (global cache volume) and set a global spare dis

(Figure 3.5.7.2: Creating a RAID 5 with 4 physical disks, named “VG-R5”. The total size is 228096MB. Because of no related UDV there, free size still

(Figure 3.5.7.4: Create UDVs named “UDV-R5-1” and “UDV-R5-2”, related to “VG-R5”, the size of “UDV-R5-1” is 9984MB (it’s multiple of base stripe heig

Caution Be careful to avoid conflicts between SCSI ID at the same SCSI bus. Step 4: Set global spare disk. To set global spare disks, pleas

Figure 3.5.7.8 1. Select UDVs by clicking the checkbox of the row, then click “”. There will pop up a confirm page. 2. Choose “OK”. 3. Done. Step

Tips The action of deleting one VG will succeed only when all of the related UDV(s) are empty in this VG. Otherwise, it will have an error when del

Figure 3.5.7.9 1. Select “/ Volume config / Cache volume”. 2. If there is no free space for creating a new dedicated cache volume, cut down the glob

2. Click “ ”. 3. Input a UDV name, choose a VG Name, select Dedicated cache which is created at Step 1, and input a size to be used; decide the strip

To set dedicated spare disks, please follow the procedures: 1. Select “/ Volume config / Physical disk”. 2. Select a VG from the list box, then sel

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2. Select the dedicated spare disk by clicking the checkbox of the row, then click “ “ to free disk. Step 11: Delete dedicated cache volume. To del

Figure 3.6.1 3.6.1 SAF-TE configuration SAF-TE represents SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures, one of the enclosure management standards. E

3.6.2 Voltage and Temperature Enter “Voltage & Temperature” function to view the information of current voltage and temperature. Figure 3.6.2.

3.6.3 Hard drive S.M.A.R.T. function support S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a diagnostic method for hard drives t

Figure 3.6.4.1 Currently, the system only support and communicate with smart-UPS function of APC (American Power Conversion Corp.) For UPS, Please t

“Batteries failed. Please change them NOW!” Battery Level (%) Current percentage of battery level. 3.7 System maintenance “Maintenance” function al

3.7.2 Info Enter “Info” function will display firmware version. 3.7.3 Shutdown Enter “Shutdown” function; it will display “REBOOT” and “S

Chapter 4 Advanced operation 4.1 Rebuild If one physical disk of the VG which sets to protected RAID level (e.g.: RAID 3 or RAID 5) is FAILED or has

RAID 3 Striping with parity on the dedicated disk. RAID 3 allows one hard drive fails or plugs out. RAID 5 Striping with interspersed parity over the

4. Double check the setting of RAID level and RAID PD slot. If no problem, click “ “. 5. Finally a confirm page is shown with detail RAID info. If n

Chapter 1 RAID introduction 1.1 Features UltraStor RS16 controller is a high-performance RAID controller. • Backplane solution o UltraStor RS16: U

Tips Executing migration/expansion, the total size of VG must be larger or equal to the original VG. It does not allow expanding the same RAID leve

Tips The size of UDV extension must be larger than original. Caution UDV extension cannot be executed during rebuild or migration. 4.4 Sn

4.4.1 Create snapshot volume To take a snapshot of the data, please follow the procedures. 1. Select “/ Volume config / User data volume”. 2. Choo

created as name “snap1”(first), “snap2” and “snap3”(last). When deleting “snap2”, both of “snap1” and “snap2” will be deleted because “snap1” are rela

Tips Daily snapshot will be taken at every 00:00. Weekly snapshot will be taken on every Monday 00:00. 4.4.3 Rollback The data in snapshot UDV c

1. Check the firmware of two systems first. It’s better that both have same firmware version or newer. 2. Whole physical disks of related VG should

Vendor Model Hitachi Deskstar 7K250, HDS722580VLSA80, 80GB, 7200RPM, SATA, 8M Hitachi Deskstar 7K80, HDS728080PLA380, 80GB, 7200RPM, SATA-II, 8M

• HDD IO events Level Type Description Warning Disk error Error: Disk <slot> read block error. Warning Disk error Error: Disk <slot>

• System config events Level Type Description Info Sys Config. Defaults Restored Info: Default system configurations restored. Info Sys NVRAM OK

Warning UDV Degraded Warning: UDV <name> is under degraded mode. Info UDV Init OK Info: UDV <name> completes the initialization. Warnin

UltraStor controller is the most cost-effective disk array controller with completely integrated high-performance and data-protection capabilities tha

C. Known issues 1. In Microsoft Windows server 2003 or Windows XP, there is at least a LUN 0 in each SCSI ID; otherwise, it cannot be recognized. W

GUI Graphic User Interface. RAID width, RAID copy, RAID row (RAID cell in one row) RAID width, copy and row are used to describe one VG. E.g.: 1. On

SAF-TE SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures. 1.3 RAID levels Describe RAID levels as follows: RAID 0 Disk striping. RAID 0 needs at least one h

Chapter 2 Getting started 2.1 Before starting Before starting, prepare as follows.  Review the “Certification list” in Appendix A to confirm that