Generic Operation Manual
External RAID Controller & Subsystem
Revision Firmware Version
Infortrend
Trademarks
Product specifications are also subject to change without notice
Copyright This Edition First Published
Disclaimer
RMA Policy
Printed in Taiwan
Supported Models
Chapter 2 RAID Planning
Table of Contents
Chapter 3 Accessing the Array through Serial Port and Ethernet
Chapter 1 RAID Functions An Introduction
3.1.1
Chapter 4 LCD Screen Messages
Chapter 5 LCD Keypad Operation
Configuring RS-232C Connection via Front Panel
5.13
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Primary ID - Drive Channel
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Secondary ID - Drive Channel
5.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives and Drive Members
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
Disk Array Parameters
Chapter 10 Redundant Controller
Monitoring and Safety Mechanisms
10.3 Configuration
Chapter 12 Array Expansion
Chapter 11 Record of Settings
Appendix D Event Messages
Appendix A LCD Keypad Navigation Map
Appendix B Firmware Functionality
Appendix C System Functions Upgrading Firmware
Out-of-Band via Serial Port and
Functional Table of Contents
Chapter
Functional Description
5.6/7.6
Chapter
Advanced Configurations
Fibre Operation
Chapter
Chapter
Redundant Controller Configuration
Array Expansion
Chapter
Upgrading Firmware
Controller Maintenance
Appendix C
xvii
Table 8
List of Tables
List of Figures
xviii
Figure 2 - 1 Optimization Setting
About This Manual
Revision History
Firmware Version & Other Information
Version
xxii
An Introduction
1.2 Logical Volume
What is a logical volume?
RAID Functions
What are the RAID levels?
1.3 RAID Levels
Table 1 - 1 RAID Levels
Figure 1 - 3 JBOD
NRAID
JBOD
Figure 1 - 2 NRAID
Figure 1 - 5 RAID
RAID
RAID 0+1
Figure 1 - 4 RAID
RAID
Figure 1 - 7 RAID
Figure 1 - 8 RAID
RAID
Figure 1 - 10 Global Spare
1.4 Spare Drives
Global and Local Spare Drives
Figure 1 - 9 Local Dedicated Spare
Logical Drive
Figure 1 - 12 Mixing Local and Global Spares
Flash All but Selected Drives
1.5 Identifying Drives
Flash Selected SCSI Drive
Flash All SCSI 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
Redundant Controller
Different write policies within a logical volume?
RAID expansion with logical volume?
Different controller settings using logical volume?
Multi-level RAID systems
A logical volume with logical drives of different levels?
2. How many drives on each drive channel?
RAID Planning
2.1 Considerations
1. How many physical drives do you have?
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?
RAID Levels
8. Any spare drives?
9. Limitations?
Table 2
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
2.3.2 Grouping Drives into an Array
Figure 2 - 4 Connecting Drives
2.3 Operation Theory
2.3.1 I/O Channel, SCSI ID, and LUN
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
Controller
Fault Management
Table 2 - 2 Controller Parameter Settings
2.4 Tunable Parameters
Fibre Channel Parameters
Optimization Mode
SCSI Parameters
Spin-Up Parameters
Others
Array Configuration
Ethernet
Accessing the Array
The following are guidelines on using the serial port
through Serial Port and
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
Availability Concern
3.2.1 Connecting Ethernet Port
Other Concerns
Requirements
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
3-10
The SNMPTRAP section
The EMAIL section
The BROADCAST section
4.1 The Initial Screen
4.2 Quick Installation Screen
Status/Data Transfer Indicator
LCD Screen Messages
RAID level
4.3 Logical Drive Status
LG0 RAID5 DRV=3 LG=0 RAID5 DRV=3 2021MB GD SB=1 2021MB GD SB=1
Logical Drive
Logical Volume Status
4.4 Logical Volume Status
LV=0 ID=09816DE9 00002021MB DRV=1
Drive Status
4.5 SCSI Drive Status
C=1 I=0 1010MB
LG=0 LN SEAGATE
PID =
Default SCSI Bus Sync Clock
4.6 SCSI Channel Status
CH0=Host
4.7 Controller Voltage and Temperature
4.9 View and Edit Event Logs
4.8 Cache Dirty Percentage
Optimization Modes
5.1 Power on RAID Enclosure
LCD Keypad Operation
5.2 Caching Parameters
Database and Transaction-based Applications
Optimization Mode and Stripe Size
Video Recording/Playback and Imaging Applications
Optimization for Random or Sequential I/O
Write-Back/Write-Through Cache Enable/Disable
Write-Back Cache Enabled
Disable Write
Every time you change the Caching Parameters, you must reset the controller for the changes to take effect
View Drive Information
5.3 View Connected Drives
View and Edit SCSI Drives
C=2 I=0 1010MB New DRV SEAGATE
Logical Drive Preferences
5.4 Creating a Logical Drive
Choosing a RAID Level
Choosing Member Drives
Write Policy
Maximum Drive Capacity
Spare Drive Assignments
Disk Reserved Space
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
LV=0 Part=0 700MB ? LV=0 Partition=1 1321MB ?
5.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume
View and Edit Logical Volume LV=0 ID=685AE502 2021MB DRV=1
Partition Logical Volume LV=0 Part=0 2021MB ? LV=0 Part=0 2021MB
5.7 Mapping a Logical Volume/Logical Drive to Host LUN
Adding a Local Spare Drive
5.8 Assigning Spare Drive and Rebuild Settings
Infortrend
Rebuild Settings
Adding a Global Spare Drive
5-15
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
5-18
Assigning a Name to a Logical Drive
Rebuilding a Logical Drive
Front Panel Operation
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
5-28
Setting a SCSI Channel’s Secondary ID - Drive Channel
Setting Channel Bus Terminator
Front Panel Operation
Setting Transfer Speed
Viewing and Editing SCSI Target - Drive Channel
Setting Transfer Width
5-31
Slot Number
Maximum Synchronous Transfer Clock
Maximum Transfer Width
Front Panel Operation
Disconnecting Support
Parity Check
Maximum Tag Count
CHL=1 ID=0
Restore to Default Setting
Restore to Default Setting Restore to Default Setting?
SCSI Target
Mute Beeper
Change Password
Changing Password
5.13 System Functions
Re-Ent Password
Disabling Password
Reset Controller
Old Password
Front Panel Operation
Restore NVRAM from Disks
Saving NVRAM to Disks
Controller Maintenance
LCD Title Display Controller Name
Password Validation Timeout
5.14 Controller Parameters
Controller Name
Time Zone
Controller Date and Time
MMDDhhmmYYYY
Date and Time
GMT +0800
Date and Time
SCSI Drive Low-level Format
5.15 SCSI Drive Utilities
SCSI Drive Read/Write Test
Cursor Bar
Transfer Rate Indicator
Terminal Screen Messages
6.1 The Initial Screen
6.2 Main Menu
6.3 Quick Installation
Terminal Screen Messages
SizeMB
6.4 Logical Drive Status
RAID
SIZE MB
SizeMB
6.5 Logical Volume Status
Column C
Name
Speed
6.6 SCSI Drive Status
Slot
Size MB
Mode
6.7 SCSI Channel’s Status
The default setting of the channel is ??.? MHz in
The default setting of the channel is Asynchronous mode
??.?M
Term
CurSynClk
CurWid
Controller voltage and temperature monitoring
6.8 Controller Voltage and Temperature
ENTER
6.9 Viewing Event Logs on the Screen
Chapter
7.1 Power on RAID Enclosure
Terminal Operation
7.2 Caching Parameters
Database and Transaction-based Applications
Limitations
Video Recording/Playback and Imaging Applications
Terminal Operation
Write-Back/Write-Through Cache Enable/Disable
Optimization Mode and Stripe Size
Optimization for Random or Sequential I/O
7.3 Viewing the Connected Drives
7.4 Creating a Logical Drive
Logical Drive Preferences
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 a RAID Level
Choosing Member Drives
Disk Reserved Space
Assign Spare Drives
Logical Drive Assignments
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
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
Assigning a Name to a Logical Drive
Figure 7 - 1 Drive Space Allocated to the Last Partition
Deleting a Logical Drive
Deleting a Partition of 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
Pass-through SCSI Commands
7.10 Viewing and Editing Host LUNs
Viewing or Deleting LUN Mappings
Edit Host-ID/WWN Name List
Scanning New Drive
7.11 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives
Deleting Spare Drive Global / Local Spare Drive
Slot Number Drive Entry
Identifying Drive
These two functions are reserved for Fault Bus configuration
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
Drive Channel
Setting a Secondary Controller’s SCSI ID - Drive Channel
Setting Channel Terminator
Setting a Transfer Speed
Host Channel
Setting the Transfer Width
This setting is reserved for the Fault-Bus option
Viewing and Editing SCSI Target / Drive Channel
Slot Number
Choose “Maximum Sync. Xfer Clock,” then press ENTER. A dialog box will appear on the screen. Enter the clock, then press ENTER
Maximum Synchronous Transfer Clock
Maximum Transfer Width
Parity Check
Maximum Tag Count
Data Rate
Disconnecting Support
Choose “Disconnect Support.” Choose Yes in the dialog box that follows to confirm the setting
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
Shutdown Controller
Disabling the Password
Reset Controller
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
Controller Name
7.14 Controller Parameters
LCD Title Display Controller Name
7-38
Restore NVRAM from Disks
Saving NVRAM to Disks
Terminal Operation
Controller Unique Identifier
Password Validation Timeout
Press Yes to confirm
7-40
Terminal Operation
7-41
Set Controller Date and Time
Time Zone
Date and Time
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
Channel Mode Assignment
8.2 Major Concerns
Redundant Cache Coherency Channels RCC
Connection between Controllers
Fibre Operation
performance
1Gbit Fibre Channel
8.3 Supported Features
Fibre Chip
Multiple Target IDs
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
Chapter
Advanced Configurations
9.1 Fault Prevention
S.M.A.R.T
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
Clone + Replace
Disable
Detect Only
Perpetual Clone
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
Maximum Concurrent Host LUN Connection “Nexus” in SCSI
9.2 Host-side and Drive-side SCSI Parameters
9.2.1 Host-side SCSI Parameters
Foreword SCSI Channel, SCSI ID and LUN
9-12
Number of Tags Reserved for each Host-LUN Connection
9-13
Maximum Queued I/O Count
LUNs per Host SCSI ID
LUN Applicability
9-14
What is In-band?
Peripheral Device Type
In-band SCSI or Fibre
Table 9 - 1 Peripheral Device Type Parameters
Peripheral Device Type Parameters for Various Operating Systems
Capacity
Table 9 - 2 Peripheral Device Type Settings
Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping
Table 9 - 3 Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping under Sun Solaris
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
9-22
Detection of Drive Hot Swap Followed by Auto Rebuild
SAF-TE and S.E.S. Enclosure Monitoring
Periodic Drive Check Time
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
9-25
9.3 Monitoring and Safety Mechanisms
Dynamic Switch Write-Policy
View Peripheral Device Status
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
10.1.2 Considerations Related to Physical Connection
10.1.1 Setup Flowchart
Figure 10 - 1 Redundant Controller Configuration Flowchart
Figure 10 - 1 Dual-Controller Using SCSI-Based Controllers
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
Primary and Secondary IDs
System Drive Mapping
Figure 10 - 3 Grouping Hard Drives
Figure 10 - 4 Partitioning of Logical Units
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
channel 0 - Failed
Table 10 - 1 ID Mapping Status Normal Operation
Table 10 - 2 ID Mapping Status Controller Failed
Figure 10 - 8 Controller Failover
Auto-Failback
C. Active-to-Active Configuration
B. Controller Failover and Failback
Replacing a Failed Unit
Figure 10 - 9 Traffic Distribution
D. Traffic Distribution and Failover Process
Connection
Symptoms
E. Controller Failure
Figure 10 - 10 Controller Failover
Cabling Requirements
Out-of-Band Configuration
10.2 Preparing Controllers
10.2.1 Requirements
3. Create Primary and Secondary IDs on Drive Channels
Controller Settings
1. Enable Redundant Controller
2. Controller Unique Identifier
10.2.2 Limitations
10.2.3 Configurable Parameters
Primary or Secondary
Cache Synchronization
Active-to-Active Configuration
Active-to-Standby Configuration
Battery Support
Infortrend
10-18
10.3 Configuration
10.3.1 Via Front Panel Keypad
Redundant Configuration Using Automatic Setting
1. Enable Redundant Controller
Autoconfig
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
Front Panel View of Controller Failure
What will happen when one of the controllers fails?
When and how is the failed controller replaced?
The replacement controller has to be pre-configured as the Secondary
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
Mapping a Logical Drive/Logical Volume to the Host LUNs
Choose “host channel-ID” Choose mapping to which “logical unit”
Select LUN number Select partition Mapping optioin
Confirming mapping scheme
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
Cache Synchronization on Write-Through
RCC Status Redundant Controller Communications Channel
Secondary Controller RS-232
Remote Redundant Controller
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
Host-ID/WWN Name List
11.3 View and Edit Host LUN’s
Access Restriction Setting
LUN Mappings
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
Communication Parameters
11.6 View and Edit Configuration Parameters
Ethernet Configuration
PPP Configuration
Drive Side SCSI Parameters
Record of Settings
Caching Parameters
Host Side SCSI Parameters
on write-through
Disk Array Parameters
Redundant Controller Parameters
Cache synchronization
View System Information
11.7 View and Edit Peripheral Devices
Define Peripheral Device Active Signal
Set Peripheral Device Entry
11.9 RAID Security Password
11.8 Save NVRAM to Disk, Restore from Disk
RAID Security
12-1
What is it and how does it work?
Array Expansion
12.1 Overview
3. Applicable Arrays
Note on Expansion
1. Added Capacity
2. Size of the New Drive
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
Figure 12 - 3 Expansion by Copy & Replace
Copy and Replace Procedure
12.3 Mode 2 Expansion
Copy and Replace Drives with Drives of Larger Capacity
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
The total capacity of logical drive has been expanded to 6 Gigabytes
Choose Yes to confirm and proceed
Upon completion, you will be prompted by the notification message
Press ESC to return to the previous menu screen
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
Create
Install
Select a configured
LCD Keypad Navigation
View and Edit
Logical Volume
Logical Volume
Reset Controller
View and Edit SCSI Drives
Navigation Map A-3
Select a Host or Drive Channel
A-4 Infortrend
View and Edit
SCSI Channels
Navigation Map A-5
View and Edit Configuration Parameters
View and Edit Peripheral Device
View and Edit Configuration Parameters
Controller Password set
RS232 Enabled/Disabled
View and Edit
System Functions
View System
Information
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
Upgrading Firmware
New Features Supported with Firmware
Redundant Controller Rolling Firmware Upgrade
System Functions 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
Alert
Event Messages
Event Index
Controller Event
Channel
Drive SCSI Channel/Drive Error
Notification
Drive
Controller on-board
Logical Drive Event
General Target Events
Alert SAF-TE Device
SES Devices
I2C Device
Notification SAF-TE Device
Infortrend
I2C Device
Alert
Controller Event
Event Messages
What to Do?
Event Type
What to Do?
Event Type
Event Messages
Happens? What to Do?
Event Type
Happens? What to Do?
Infortrend
Drive SCSI Channel/Drive Error
Drive
D-10
Event Messages
Received Sensekey Sensecode
D-11
D-12
Sensecode
Blocknumber Sensekey Sensecode
Sensekey Sensecode
D-13
Event Messages
Event Type
Event Type
Event Type
What to Do?
Event Messages
Channel
D-15
D-16
Notification
Infortrend
D-17
Logical Drive Event
Alert
Event Messages
Notification
D-18
Infortrend
Event Type
D-19
Event Messages
Infortrend
D-20
D-21
Event Type
Happens?
Event Messages
Infortrend
General Target Events
Alert SAF-TE Device
D-22
Event Messages
Controller On-board
D-23
D-24
Event Type
Event Type
Event Type
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
Index-2
Index-3
Infortrend
Index-4
Index-5
Infortrend
Index-6
Index-7
Infortrend
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