Revision Firmware Version
External RAID Controller & Subsystem
Infortrend
Generic Operation Manual
Copyright This Edition First Published
Product specifications are also subject to change without notice
Disclaimer
Trademarks
RMA Policy
Printed in Taiwan
Supported Models
Chapter 3 Accessing the Array through Serial Port and Ethernet
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 RAID Functions An Introduction
Chapter 2 RAID Planning
Chapter 5 LCD Keypad Operation
Chapter 4 LCD Screen Messages
Configuring RS-232C Connection via Front Panel
3.1.1
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Secondary ID - Drive Channel
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Primary ID - Drive Channel
5.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives and Drive Members
5.13
Chapter 7 Terminal Operation
Chapter 6 Terminal Screen Messages
viii
Chapter 8 Fibre Operation
Setting a Secondary Controller’s SCSI ID - Drive Channel
8.5 Multi-Host Access Control LUN Filtering
Chapter 9 Advanced Configuration
9.2 Host-side and Drive-side SCSI Parameters
Monitoring and Safety Mechanisms
Chapter 10 Redundant Controller
10.3 Configuration
Disk Array Parameters
Chapter 12 Array Expansion
Chapter 11 Record of Settings
Appendix B Firmware Functionality
Appendix A LCD Keypad Navigation Map
Appendix C System Functions Upgrading Firmware
Appendix D Event Messages
Chapter
Functional Table of Contents
Functional Description
Out-of-Band via Serial Port and
5.6/7.6
Fibre Operation
Advanced Configurations
Chapter
Chapter
Array Expansion
Redundant Controller Configuration
Chapter
Chapter
Appendix C
Controller Maintenance
xvii
Upgrading Firmware
List of Figures
List of Tables
xviii
Table 8
Figure 2 - 1 Optimization Setting
About This Manual
Revision History
Firmware Version & Other Information
Version
xxii
What is a logical volume?
1.2 Logical Volume
RAID Functions
An Introduction
What are the RAID levels?
1.3 RAID Levels
Table 1 - 1 RAID Levels
JBOD
NRAID
Figure 1 - 2 NRAID
Figure 1 - 3 JBOD
RAID 0+1
RAID
Figure 1 - 4 RAID
Figure 1 - 5 RAID
Figure 1 - 8 RAID
Figure 1 - 7 RAID
RAID
RAID
Global and Local Spare Drives
1.4 Spare Drives
Figure 1 - 9 Local Dedicated Spare
Figure 1 - 10 Global Spare
Logical Drive
Figure 1 - 12 Mixing Local and Global Spares
Flash Selected SCSI Drive
1.5 Identifying Drives
Flash All SCSI Drives
Flash All but Selected Drives
Automatic Rebuild and Manual Rebuild 1. Automatic Rebuild
1.6 Rebuild
Figure 1 - 13 Automatic Rebuild
Figure 1 - 14 Manual Rebuild
2. Manual Rebuild
3. Concurrent Rebuild in RAID 0+1
Figure 1 - 15 Logical Volume
1.7 Logical Volume Multi-Level RAID
What is a logical volume?
Figure 1 - 16 Logical Drive Composed of 24 Drives
Figure 1 - 17 Logical Volume with 4 Logical Drives
Configuration A - One logical drive with all 24 drives
Figure 1 - 18 Logical Volume with Drives on Different Channels
Spare drives assigned to a logical volume?
Limitations
RAID expansion with logical volume?
Different write policies within a logical volume?
Different controller settings using logical volume?
Redundant Controller
Multi-level RAID systems
A logical volume with logical drives of different levels?
2.1 Considerations
RAID Planning
1. How many physical drives do you have?
2. How many drives on each drive channel?
3. How many drives would you like to appear to the host computer?
5. Dual loop, hub, or switch?
4. What kind of host application?
Optimization Mode
Figure 2 - 1 Optimization Setting
7. What RAID level?
9. Limitations?
8. Any spare drives?
Table 2
RAID Levels
Figure 2 - 2 Array Configuration Process
2.2 Configuring the Array
2.2.1 Starting a RAID System
5. The next step is to make logical drives or storage partitions available through the host ports. When associated with a host ID or LUN number, each capacity volume appears as one system drive. The host SCSI or Fibre adapter will recognize the system drives after the host bus is re-initialized
2.3 Operation Theory
Figure 2 - 4 Connecting Drives
2.3.1 I/O Channel, SCSI ID, and LUN
2.3.2 Grouping Drives into an Array
Figure 2 - 5 Physical locations of drive members
Figure 2 - 6 Partitions in Logical Configurations
Figure 2 - 7 Mapping Partitions to Host ID/LUNs
2.3.3 Making Arrays Available to Hosts
Figure 2 - 8 Mapping Partitions to LUNs under ID
Table 2 - 2 Controller Parameter Settings
Fault Management
2.4 Tunable Parameters
Controller
SCSI Parameters
Optimization Mode
Spin-Up Parameters
Fibre Channel Parameters
Others
Array Configuration
The following are guidelines on using the serial port
Accessing the Array
through Serial Port and
Ethernet
3.1.1 Configuring RS-232C Connection via Front Panel
3.1.2 Starting RS-232C Terminal Emulation
The keys used when operating via the terminal are as follows
3.2 Out-of-Band via Ethernet
What Is the “Disk Reserved Space?”
RAIDWatch and Reserved Space
Other Concerns
3.2.1 Connecting Ethernet Port
Requirements
Availability Concern
1. Use a Terminal Emulator to Begin Configuration
3.2.2 Configuring the Controller
2. Create a Reserved Space on Drives
4. FTP Manager Programs to the Controller IP Address
3. Assign an IP Address to Ethernet Port
5. Starting the Manager
3.2.3 NPC Onboard
The EMAIL section
The SNMPTRAP section
The BROADCAST section
3-10
Status/Data Transfer Indicator
4.2 Quick Installation Screen
LCD Screen Messages
4.1 The Initial Screen
LG0 RAID5 DRV=3 LG=0 RAID5 DRV=3 2021MB GD SB=1 2021MB GD SB=1
4.3 Logical Drive Status
Logical Drive
RAID level
Logical Volume Status
4.4 Logical Volume Status
LV=0 ID=09816DE9 00002021MB DRV=1
C=1 I=0 1010MB
4.5 SCSI Drive Status
LG=0 LN SEAGATE
Drive Status
4.6 SCSI Channel Status
Default SCSI Bus Sync Clock
CH0=Host
PID =
4.7 Controller Voltage and Temperature
4.9 View and Edit Event Logs
4.8 Cache Dirty Percentage
LCD Keypad Operation
5.1 Power on RAID Enclosure
5.2 Caching Parameters
Optimization Modes
Database and Transaction-based Applications
Optimization Mode and Stripe Size
Video Recording/Playback and Imaging Applications
Write-Back Cache Enabled
Write-Back/Write-Through Cache Enable/Disable
Disable Write
Optimization for Random or Sequential I/O
Every time you change the Caching Parameters, you must reset the controller for the changes to take effect
View and Edit SCSI Drives
5.3 View Connected Drives
C=2 I=0 1010MB New DRV SEAGATE
View Drive Information
Choosing a RAID Level
5.4 Creating a Logical Drive
Choosing Member Drives
Logical Drive Preferences
Spare Drive Assignments
Maximum Drive Capacity
Disk Reserved Space
Write Policy
Beginning Initialization
Stripe Size
The On-Line Mode
Initializing090% Please Wait LG=0 Initializat Ion Completed
The Off-Line Mode
LG=0 RAID5 DRV=3 2012MB GD SB=0
Initialization Mode
5.5 Creating a Logical Volume
Write Policy
Logical Volume Assignment
View and Edit Logical Volume LV=0 ID=685AE502 2021MB DRV=1
5.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume
Partition Logical Volume LV=0 Part=0 2021MB ? LV=0 Part=0 2021MB
LV=0 Part=0 700MB ? LV=0 Partition=1 1321MB ?
5.7 Mapping a Logical Volume/Logical Drive to Host LUN
Adding a Local Spare Drive
5.8 Assigning Spare Drive and Rebuild Settings
Adding a Global Spare Drive
Rebuild Settings
5-15
Infortrend
Deleting a Logical Drive
5.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives and Drive Members
Figure 5 - 1 Drive Space Allocated to the Last Partition
Deleting a Partition of a Logical Drive
Rebuilding a Logical Drive
Assigning a Name to a Logical Drive
Front Panel Operation
5-18
Regenerating Logical Drive Parity
Media Scan
5-21
Write Policy
Infortrend
5.10 Viewing and Editing Host LUNs
Pass-through SCSI Commands
Viewing and Deleting LUN Mappings
Scanning New SCSI Drive
5.11 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives
Front Panel Operation
Identifying a Drive
5-24
Deleting Spare Drive Global / Local Spare Drive
5.12 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels
Redefining Channel Mode
Viewing IDs
Setting a SCSI Channel’s ID - Host Channel
Adding a Channel ID
Deleting a Channel ID
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Primary ID - Drive Channel
Setting Channel Bus Terminator
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Secondary ID - Drive Channel
Front Panel Operation
5-28
Setting Transfer Speed
Viewing and Editing SCSI Target - Drive Channel
Setting Transfer Width
Maximum Synchronous Transfer Clock
Slot Number
Maximum Transfer Width
5-31
Parity Check
Disconnecting Support
Maximum Tag Count
Front Panel Operation
Restore to Default Setting Restore to Default Setting?
Restore to Default Setting
SCSI Target
CHL=1 ID=0
Changing Password
Change Password
5.13 System Functions
Mute Beeper
Reset Controller
Disabling Password
Old Password
Re-Ent Password
Saving NVRAM to Disks
Restore NVRAM from Disks
Controller Maintenance
Front Panel Operation
5.14 Controller Parameters
Password Validation Timeout
Controller Name
LCD Title Display Controller Name
Time Zone
Controller Date and Time
GMT +0800
Date and Time
Date and Time
MMDDhhmmYYYY
SCSI Drive Low-level Format
5.15 SCSI Drive Utilities
SCSI Drive Read/Write Test
Terminal Screen Messages
Transfer Rate Indicator
6.1 The Initial Screen
Cursor Bar
6.2 Main Menu
6.3 Quick Installation
Terminal Screen Messages
RAID
6.4 Logical Drive Status
SIZE MB
SizeMB
Column C
6.5 Logical Volume Status
Name
SizeMB
Slot
6.6 SCSI Drive Status
Size MB
Speed
The default setting of the channel is ??.? MHz in
6.7 SCSI Channel’s Status
The default setting of the channel is Asynchronous mode
Mode
CurSynClk
Term
CurWid
??.?M
Controller voltage and temperature monitoring
6.8 Controller Voltage and Temperature
ENTER
6.9 Viewing Event Logs on the Screen
Terminal Operation
7.1 Power on RAID Enclosure
7.2 Caching Parameters
Chapter
Database and Transaction-based Applications
Limitations
Video Recording/Playback and Imaging Applications
Optimization Mode and Stripe Size
Write-Back/Write-Through Cache Enable/Disable
Optimization for Random or Sequential I/O
Terminal Operation
7.3 Viewing the Connected Drives
7.4 Creating a Logical Drive
Choosing a RAID Level
A pull-down list of supported RAID levels will appear. In this chapter, RAID 5 will be used to demonstrate the configuration process. Choose a RAID level for this logical drive
Choosing Member Drives
Logical Drive Preferences
Logical Drive Assignments
Assign Spare Drives
You can add a spare drive from the list of the unused drives. The spare chosen here is a Local spare and will automatically replace any failed drive in the event of drive failure. The controller will then rebuild data onto the replacement drive
Disk Reserved Space
Initialization Mode
Press ESC to continue when all the preferences have been set
Stripe Size
Use the ESC key to view the status of the created logical drive
7.5 Creating a Logical Volume
7.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume
Choose the logical volume you wish to partition, then press ENTER. Choose “Partition logical volume”, then press ENTER. Select from the list of undefined partitions and Press ENTER
7.7 Mapping a Logical Volume to Host LUN
4. When prompted to “Map Host LUN, press ENTER
Adding Local Spare Drive
7.8 Assigning Spare Drive, Rebuild Settings
Adding a Global Spare Drive
7.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drive and Drive Members
Deleting a Logical Drive
Figure 7 - 1 Drive Space Allocated to the Last Partition
Deleting a Partition of a Logical Drive
Assigning a Name to a Logical Drive
7-18
Rebuilding a Logical Drive
Infortrend
Regenerating Logical Drive Parity
When rebuild has already started, choose “Rebuild progress” to see the rebuilding progress
Media Scan
Write Policy
2. Iteration Count
Viewing or Deleting LUN Mappings
7.10 Viewing and Editing Host LUNs
Edit Host-ID/WWN Name List
Pass-through SCSI Commands
Scanning New Drive
7.11 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives
Identifying Drive
Slot Number Drive Entry
These two functions are reserved for Fault Bus configuration
Deleting Spare Drive Global / Local Spare Drive
Page
Redefining Channel Mode
7.12 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels
Viewing and Editing SCSI IDs
Viewing and Editing SCSI IDs - Host Channel
Adding a SCSI ID Primary/Secondary Controller ID
Deleting an ID
Setting a Primary Controller’s SCSI ID - Drive Channel
Setting Channel Terminator
Setting a Secondary Controller’s SCSI ID - Drive Channel
Setting a Transfer Speed
Drive Channel
Host Channel
Setting the Transfer Width
This setting is reserved for the Fault-Bus option
Viewing and Editing SCSI Target / Drive Channel
Slot Number
Maximum Transfer Width
Maximum Synchronous Transfer Clock
Parity Check
Choose “Maximum Sync. Xfer Clock,” then press ENTER. A dialog box will appear on the screen. Enter the clock, then press ENTER
Disconnecting Support
Data Rate
Choose “Disconnect Support.” Choose Yes in the dialog box that follows to confirm the setting
Maximum Tag Count
should work fine with most drives. Changing this setting is not recommended unless some particular bus signal issues occur
Change Password
7.13 System Functions
Mute Beeper
Setting a New Password
Changing the Password
Reset Controller
Disabling the Password
The new password will now become the controller’s password. Providing the correct password is necessary when entering the main menu from the initial screen
Shutdown Controller
Controller Name
7.14 Controller Parameters
LCD Title Display Controller Name
Saving NVRAM to Disks
Restore NVRAM from Disks
Terminal Operation
7-38
Controller Unique Identifier
Password Validation Timeout
Press Yes to confirm
7-40
Terminal Operation
Time Zone
Set Controller Date and Time
Date and Time
7-41
SCSI Drive Utilities
7.15 Drive Information
View Drive Information
SCSI Drive Low-level Format
Do not switch the controller’s and/or SCSI disk drive’s power off during the SCSI Drive Low-level Format. If any power failure occurs during the formatting process, the formatting must be performed again when power resumes
Terminal Operation
SCSI Drive Read/Write Test
7-44
8.1 Overview
Fibre Operation
Chapter
Redundant Cache Coherency Channels RCC
8.2 Major Concerns
Connection between Controllers
Channel Mode Assignment
Fibre Operation
performance
Fibre Chip
8.3 Supported Features
Multiple Target IDs
1Gbit Fibre Channel
In-band Fibre and S.E.S. Support
Drive IDs
Channel Mode
8.4 Configuration Host and Drive Parameters
Primary and Secondary Controller IDs
View Channel WWN
Redundant Controller Cache Coherency Channel RCC Channel
Limitation
View and Edit Fibre Drive
View Device Port Name List WWPN
User-Assigned ID Scan SCSI Drive
A drive enclosure usually has drive slots pre-assigned with specific IDs. There are occasions when an ID needs to be assigned manually to a device other than an ID provided otherwise. The set slot number and the add drive entry functions are reserved for Infortrends Fault-bus operation
View and Edit Host-Side Parameters
View Drive Information
View and Edit Drive-Side Parameters 2. Drive-Side Dual Loop
1. Fibre Channel Connection Type
Controller firmware automatically examines the node names and port names of all the connected drives once initiated. If devices on two different drive channels appear with the same loop ID and port name, controller will consider these two drive channels as a dual loop
Controller Unique Identifier
Controller Communications over Fibre Loops
2. Communications Traffic Distributed over All Drive Loops Select all drive loops and configure them as Drive + RCCOM Drive Loops plus Redundant Controller Communications. The communications traffic between the two controllers will be automatically distributed over all drive loops
Figure 8 - 1 Storage Pool
8.5 Multi-Host Access Control LUN Filtering
Figure 8 - 2 Host-LUN Mapping
Creating LUN Masks
Figure 8 - 3 LUN Mask
WWN Name List
Logical Unit to Host LUN Mapping
Choose Yes to proceed
Filter Type Include or Exclude
LUN Mask ID Range Configuration
Access Mode Read Only or Read/Write
Sample Configuration
Figure 8 - 4 LUN Filtering - Configuration Sample
Configuration Procedure
Entry 3 LD1-P0, ID=0x…F111, Mask=0x…FFFE, Filter Type = Include, Access Mode = Read Only. It means P0 of LD1 is Read Only for Host A and B
9.1 Fault Prevention
Advanced Configurations
S.M.A.R.T
Chapter
Replace after Clone
9.1.1 Clone Failing Drive
Perpetual Clone
The cloning process will begin with a notification message
B. Infortrends Implementations with S.M.A.R.T
A. Introduction
9.1.2 S.M.A.R.T. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
Detect Only
Disable
Perpetual Clone
Clone + Replace
Enabling the S.M.A.R.T. Feature
Configuration Procedure
Examining Whether Your Drives Support S.M.A.R.T
Using S.M.A.R.T. Functions
3b. Whenever a drive predicts symptoms of predictable drive failure, controller will issue an error message
original role - it will become a spare drive again and start rebuilding the failed drive
9-10
9.2.1 Host-side SCSI Parameters
9.2 Host-side and Drive-side SCSI Parameters
Foreword SCSI Channel, SCSI ID and LUN
Maximum Concurrent Host LUN Connection “Nexus” in SCSI
9-12
Number of Tags Reserved for each Host-LUN Connection
LUNs per Host SCSI ID
Maximum Queued I/O Count
LUN Applicability
9-13
Peripheral Device Type
What is In-band?
In-band SCSI or Fibre
9-14
Table 9 - 1 Peripheral Device Type Parameters
Peripheral Device Type Parameters for Various Operating Systems
Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping
Table 9 - 2 Peripheral Device Type Settings
Table 9 - 3 Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping under Sun Solaris
Capacity
Selecting Cylinder Ranges
Selecting Sector Ranges Selecting Head Ranges
Configuring Sector Ranges/Head Ranges/Cylinder Ranges
SCSI Motor Spin-Up
9.2.2 Drive-side Parameters
9-18
SCSI Reset at Power-Up
SCSI I/O Timeout
Disk Access Delay Time
9-20
Maximum Tag Count Tag Command Queuing
SAF-TE and S.E.S. Enclosure Monitoring
Detection of Drive Hot Swap Followed by Auto Rebuild
Periodic Drive Check Time
9-22
Idle Drive Failure Detection
By choosing a time value to enable the Periodic Drive Check Time,” the controller will poll all connected drives through the controller’s drive channels at the assigned interval. Drive removal will be detected even if a host does not attempt to access data on the drive
9-24
Dynamic Switch Write-Policy
9.3 Monitoring and Safety Mechanisms
View Peripheral Device Status
9-25
9-26
Controller Auto-Shutdown - Event Trigger Option
Rebuild Priority
9.4 Disk Array Parameters
9-28
Verification on Writes
10.1 Operation Theory
Redundant Controller
Chapter
Figure 10 - 1 Redundant Controller Configuration Flowchart
10.1.1 Setup Flowchart
Figure 10 - 1 Dual-Controller Using SCSI-Based Controllers
10.1.2 Considerations Related to Physical Connection
Fibre-Based Controllers
1. Dedicated Communications Loops - “RCC”
10.1.3 Grouping Hard Drives and LUN Mapping
2. Communications over Drive Loops - “Drive + RCC”
Logical Drive, Logical Volume, and Logical Partitions
Figure 10 - 3 Grouping Hard Drives
System Drive Mapping
Figure 10 - 4 Partitioning of Logical Units
Primary and Secondary IDs
Figure 10 - 5 Mapping System Drives Mapping LUNs
Mapping
What Is a Redundant Controller Configuration?
10.1.4 Fault-Tolerance
Figure 10 - 6 Mapping System Drives IDs
Figure 10 - 7 Redundant Controller Channel Bus
How does Failover and Failback Work? A. Channel Bus
Table 10 - 2 ID Mapping Status Controller Failed
Table 10 - 1 ID Mapping Status Normal Operation
Figure 10 - 8 Controller Failover
channel 0 - Failed
B. Controller Failover and Failback
C. Active-to-Active Configuration
Replacing a Failed Unit
Auto-Failback
Figure 10 - 9 Traffic Distribution
D. Traffic Distribution and Failover Process
E. Controller Failure
Symptoms
Figure 10 - 10 Controller Failover
Connection
10.2 Preparing Controllers
Out-of-Band Configuration
10.2.1 Requirements
Cabling Requirements
1. Enable Redundant Controller
Controller Settings
2. Controller Unique Identifier
3. Create Primary and Secondary IDs on Drive Channels
10.2.2 Limitations
10.2.3 Configurable Parameters
Primary or Secondary
Active-to-Standby Configuration
Active-to-Active Configuration
Battery Support
Cache Synchronization
Infortrend
10-18
10.3 Configuration
1. Enable Redundant Controller
Redundant Configuration Using Automatic Setting
Autoconfig
10.3.1 Via Front Panel Keypad
1. Enable Redundant Controller
Redundant Configuration Using Manual Setting
2. Controller Unique ID
Creating Primary and Secondary ID
Starting the Redundant Controllers
Drive Channel
Host Channel
Assigning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume to the Secondary Controller
Mapping a Logical Drive/Logical Volume to the Host LUNs
When and how is the failed controller replaced?
What will happen when one of the controllers fails?
The replacement controller has to be pre-configured as the Secondary
Front Panel View of Controller Failure
Redundant Configuration Using Automatic Setting
10.3.2 Via Terminal Emulation
Redundant Controller
Redundant Configuration Using Manual Setting
10-27
Infortrend
10-28
Creating Primary and Secondary ID
Assigning Logical Drives to the Secondary Controller
Drive Channel Host Channel
Select LUN number Select partition Mapping optioin
Choose “host channel-ID” Choose mapping to which “logical unit”
Confirming mapping scheme
Mapping a Logical Drive/Logical Volume to the Host LUNs
Terminal Interface View of Controller Failure
10.3.3 When and How Is the Failed Controller Replaced?
What will happen when one of the controllers fails?
When the scanning has completed, the status will change to Enabled
1. Pulling out one of the controllers to simulate controller failure
Forcing Controller Failover for Testing
2. Failover by Forcing controller failure
Secondary Controller RS-232
RCC Status Redundant Controller Communications Channel
Remote Redundant Controller
Cache Synchronization on Write-Through
11.1 View and Edit Logical Drives
Record of Settings
Chapter
11-2
Partition Information
Infortrend
Record of Settings
11.2 View and Edit Logical Volumes
11-3
Access Restriction Setting
11.3 View and Edit Host LUN’s
LUN Mappings
Host-ID/WWN Name List
Host Filter Entries
Access
LV/LD
Local Spare?
11.4 View and Edit SCSI Drives
Record of Settings
11.5 View and Edit SCSI Channels
11-7
Ethernet Configuration
11.6 View and Edit Configuration Parameters
PPP Configuration
Communication Parameters
Caching Parameters
Record of Settings
Host Side SCSI Parameters
Drive Side SCSI Parameters
Redundant Controller Parameters
Disk Array Parameters
Cache synchronization
on write-through
Define Peripheral Device Active Signal
11.7 View and Edit Peripheral Devices
Set Peripheral Device Entry
View System Information
11.9 RAID Security Password
11.8 Save NVRAM to Disk, Restore from Disk
RAID Security
Array Expansion
What is it and how does it work?
12.1 Overview
12-1
1. Added Capacity
Note on Expansion
2. Size of the New Drive
3. Applicable Arrays
Figure 12 - 1 Logical Drive Expansion
Expand Logical Drive Re-Striping
12-3
12.2 Mode 1 Expansion Adding Drives to a Logical Drive
Add-Drive Procedure
Figure 12 - 2 Expansion by Adding Drive
Press ESC to proceed and the notification will prompt
12-5
Upon completion, there will appear a confirming notification. The capacity of the added drive will appear as an unused partition
12.3 Mode 2 Expansion
Copy and Replace Procedure
Copy and Replace Drives with Drives of Larger Capacity
Figure 12 - 3 Expansion by Copy & Replace
Choose Yes to confirm and proceed Press ESC to view the progress
12-9
12.4 Making Use of the Added Capacity Expand Logical Drive
Upon completion, you will be prompted by the notification message
Choose Yes to confirm and proceed
Press ESC to return to the previous menu screen
The total capacity of logical drive has been expanded to 6 Gigabytes
12-11
12.5 Expand Logical Volume
Limitations When Using Windows
12.6 Configuration Example Volume Extension in Windows 2000 Server
Example
You can view information about this drive in the Windows 2000 Server’s Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management
12-13
Follow the steps described in the previous section to add or copy & replace SCSI disk drives and perform Logical Drive Expansion
Return to Windows 2000 Server’s Disk Management. There now exists a Disk 2 with 8.3GB of free space. You may use the “rescan disks” command to bring up the new drive
12-15
The Extend Volume Wizard should guide you through the rest of the process
Drive E now has a capacity of about 25GB
12-17
Array Expansion
Select a configured
Install
LCD Keypad Navigation
Create
Logical Volume
Logical Volume
Reset Controller
View and Edit
View and Edit SCSI Drives
Navigation Map A-3
View and Edit
A-4 Infortrend
SCSI Channels
Select a Host or Drive Channel
Navigation Map A-5
View and Edit Configuration Parameters
Controller Password set
View and Edit Configuration Parameters
RS232 Enabled/Disabled
View and Edit Peripheral Device
View System
System Functions
Information
View and Edit
Basic RAID Management
Firmware Functionality Specifications
Appendix
Advanced Features
RAID0
Caching Operation
Cache buffer sorting prior to cache flush operation
RAID Expansion
Fibre Channel Support
Redundant Controller
S.M.A.R.T. Support
Data Safety
System Security
Environment Management
Remote Manageability
User Interface
Others
JBOD-Specific
Redundant Controller Rolling Firmware Upgrade
New Features Supported with Firmware
System Functions Upgrading Firmware
Upgrading Firmware
Redundant Controller Firmware Sync-version
Upgrading Firmware Using In-band SCSI + RAIDWatch Manager
Establish the In-band SCSI connection in RAIDWatch Manager
Upgrade Both Boot Record and Firmware Binaries
Upgrade the Firmware Binary Only
Upgrading Firmware Using RS-232C Terminal Emulation
Establishing the connection for the RS-232C Terminal Emulation
Upgrading Both Boot Record and Firmware Binaries
Infortrend
Upgrading the Firmware Binary Only
Event Index
Event Messages
Controller Event
Alert
Notification
Drive SCSI Channel/Drive Error
Drive
Channel
General Target Events
Logical Drive Event
Alert SAF-TE Device
Controller on-board
SES Devices
I2C Device
Notification SAF-TE Device
Infortrend
I2C Device
Alert
Controller Event
Event Messages
What to Do?
Event Type
Event Type
What to Do?
Event Type
Happens? What to Do?
Happens? What to Do?
Event Messages
Drive
Drive SCSI Channel/Drive Error
D-10
Infortrend
Event Messages
Received Sensekey Sensecode
D-11
Blocknumber Sensekey Sensecode
Sensecode
Sensekey Sensecode
D-12
D-13
Event Messages
Event Type
Event Type
What to Do?
Event Type
Event Messages
Channel
D-15
D-16
Notification
Infortrend
Alert
Logical Drive Event
Event Messages
D-17
Infortrend
D-18
Event Type
Notification
D-19
Event Messages
Infortrend
D-20
Happens?
Event Type
Event Messages
D-21
Alert SAF-TE Device
General Target Events
D-22
Infortrend
Event Messages
Controller On-board
D-23
Event Type
Event Type
Event Type
D-24
Event Messages
I2C Device
D-25
Infortrend
D-26
D-27
Event Messages
D-28
SES Device
Infortrend
Event Messages
2-Line LCD . Temp Sensor Device Unknown Status
D-29
Infortrend
D-30
Event Messages
2-Line LCD . Current Sensor Device Not Supported
D-31
Infortrend
D-32
Event Messages
General Peripheral Device
D-33
D-34
Notification SAF-TE Device
Infortrend
Event Messages
Controller Self Diagnostics
D-35
D-36
I2C Device
Infortrend
Happens?
Happens?
Happens?
Happens?
D-38
SES Device Alert
Infortrend
Event Messages
General Peripheral Device
D-39
Index
Infortrend
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Index-3
Infortrend
Index-4
Index-5
Infortrend
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Index-7
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