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- 9 - 4. Redundant power supply monitor 5. 3.3V, 5V and 12V voltage monitor 6. Thermal sensors x 3 on the controller BOARD (for CPU, bridge and ho
- 101 - Figure B.11 15. Click “Targets” tab, select Targets Name, and then click “Log On…”. 16. Enable “Enable multi-path” checkbox. Then click “
- 102 - Figure B.13 18. Click “OK” Figure B.14 19. Done, it can connect to an iSCSI disk with MPIO. • MC/S 20. If running MC/S, please con
- 103 - Figure B.15 22. Click “Connections…”. Figure B.16 23. Click “Add”. RAG362
- 104 - Figure B.17 24. Click “Advanced…”. Figure B.18 25. Select “Source IP:” and “Target portal:”. 26. Click “OK” RAG362
- 105 - Figure B.19 27. Click “OK” Figure B.20 28. Done, it can connect to an iSCSI disk with MC/S. RAG362
- 106 - System information RAG362SW version 1.0.8p2 RAG36
- 10 - RAID drive obtains performance, capacity and reliability than a single drive. The operating system detects the RAID drive as a single storage d
- 11 - media occurs at a later time. It speeds up system write performance but needs to bear the risk where data may be inconsistent between data cac
- 12 - CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. An optional security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI d
- 13 - 1.2.3 Volume relationship The below graphic is the volume structure which RAG362 has designed. It describes the relationship of RAID compo
- 14 - operations like read or write. An initiator is usually located on the host side (either an iSCSI HBA or iSCSI SW initiator). The target is th
- 15 - Support Kernels: 89Hhttp://www.open-iscsi.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Supported_Kernels Google groups: 90Hhttp://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi/th
- 16 - Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 Package contents The package contains the following items: - One RAG362 : Gigabit LAN (x2) -to- SATA II/SAS RAID
- 17 - 2.3 Make the system connected Before starting, prepare the following items. 1. Check “Certification list” in Appendix A to confirm the har
- 18 - Chapter 3 Quick setup 3.1 Management interfaces There are three management methods to manage RAG362 controller, describe in the following
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- 19 - Figure 3.1.3.1 Press “Enter” button, the LCM functions “System Info.”, “Alarm Mute”, “Reset/Shutdown”, “Quick Install”, “Volume Wiza
- 20 - • LCM menu hierarchy: [Firmware Version x.x.x] [System Info.] [RAM Size xxx MB] [Alarm Mute] [cYes Nod] [Reset] [cYes No
- 21 - 3.1.4 Web UI RAG362 controller supports graphic user interface (GUI) to operate. Be sure to connect the LAN cable. The default IP setting is
- 22 - • Indicator description: RAID light: x Green Æ RAID works well. x Red Æ RAID fails. Temperature light: x Green Æ Temperature is normal.
- 23 - 3.2 How to use the system quickly The following methods will describe the quick guide to use this controller. 3.2.1 Quick installation It
- 24 - 3.2.2 Volume creation wizard “Volume create wizard” has a smarter policy. When the system is inserted with some HDDs. “Volume create wizard”
- 25 - Step 3: Decide VD size. User can enter a number less or equal to the default number. Then click “Next”. Figure 3.2.2.3 Step 4: Confirm page
- 26 - Chapter 4 Configuration 4.1 Web UI management interface hierarchy The below table is the hierarchy of web GUI. Quick installation ÆStep 1
- 27 - Reset to default ÆSure to reset to factory default? Import and export ÆImport/Export / Import file Event log ÆDownload / Mute / Clear Reboo
- 28 - Check “Change date and time” to set up the current date, time, and time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP (Network Time Protoco
- 2 - Important Safeguards Please read all of these instructions carefully before you use the device. Save this manual for future reference.W
- 29 - 1. Auto logout: The options are (1) Disabled; (2) 5 minutes; (3) 30 minutes; (4) 1 hour. The system will log out automatically when user is i
- 30 - Figure 4.2.4.1 4.2.5 Notification setting “Notification setting” can set up SNMP trap for alerting via SNMP, pop-up message via Windows mess
- 31 - “SNMP” allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses. Default community setting is “public”. User can choose the event log levels and default setting ena
- 32 - needs to install an iSNS server in SAN. Add an iSNS server IP address into iSNS server lists in order that iSCSI initiator service can send que
- 33 - • Default gateway: Default gateway can be changed by checking the gray button of LAN port, click “Become default gateway”. There can be only on
- 34 - Figure 4.3.2.5 For example, LAN1 and LAN2 are set as Trunking mode. To remove Trunking / LACP setting, checking the gray button of LAN port
- 35 - 3. Click “Confirm”. Figure 4.3.3.5 4. Go to “/ iSCSI configuration / CHAP account” page to create CHAP account. Please refer to next sect
- 36 - 4.3.5 CHAP account “CHAP account” can manage a CHAP account for authentication. RAG362 can create a CHAP account. To setup CHAP account, p
- 37 - Figure 4.4.1 4.4.1 Physical disk “Physical disk” can view the status of hard drives in the system. The followings are operational steps:
- 38 - Figure 4.4.1.2 Step 3: Done. View “Physical disk” page. Figure 4.4.1.3 (Figure 4.4.1.3: Physical disks in slot 1,2,3 are created for a RG
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- 39 - • PD column description: Slot The position of a hard drive. The button next to the number of slot shows the functions which can be executed. S
- 40 - Write cache Hard drive write cache is enabled or disabled. Default is “Enabled”. Standby HDD auto spindown to save power. Default is “Disabled
- 41 - Figure 4.4.2.1 Step 2: Confirm page. Click “Confirm” if all setups are correct. Figure 4.4.2.2 (Figure 4.4.2.2: There is a RAID 0 with 4
- 42 - Free (GB) (MB) Free capacity of this RAID group. The unit can be displayed in GB or MB. #PD The number of physical disks in a RAID group. #VD T
- 43 - Delete Delete the RAID group. Set disk property Change the disk property of write cache and standby options. Write cache: x “Enabled” Æ Enable
- 44 - Figure 4.4.3.1 Step 2: Confirm page. Click “Confirm” if all setups are correct. Figure 4.4.3.2 (Figure 4.4.3.2: Create a VD named
- 45 - Step 3: Done. View “Virtual disk” page. • VD column description: No. Virtual disk number. The button includes the functions which can be execu
- 46 - Type The type of virtual disk: x “RAID” Æ the virtual disk is normal. x “BACKUP” Æ the virtual disk is for clone usage. Health The health of
- 47 - Delete Delete the virtual disk. Set property Change the VD name, right, priority, bg rate and read ahead. Right: x “WT” Æ Write Through. x “W
- 48 - space next chapter for more detail. Cleanup snapshot Clean all snapshots of a VD and release the snapshot space. Take snapshot Take a snapshot
- 4 - Preface About this manual This manual is the introduction of RAG362, 3U SAS/SATA 16-bay iSCSI 2-port RAID Subsystem controller and it aims to
- 49 - Figure 4.4.4.3 Step 4: Expose the snapshot VD. Check the gray button next to the Snapshot VD number; click “Expose”. Enter a capacity for
- 50 - Name Snapshot VD name. Used (GB) (MB) The amount of snapshot space that has been used. The unit can be displayed in GB or MB. Status The statu
- 51 - 4.4.5 Logical unit “Logical unit” can view, create, and modify the status of attached logical unit number(s) of each VD. User can attach LUN
- 52 - This field can not accept comma, so “iqn.host1, iqn.host2” stands a long string, not 2 iqns. 4.4.6 Example The following is an example to cr
- 53 - Figure 4.4.6.3 1. Select “/ Volume configuration / Virtual disk”. 2. Click “Create”. 3. Input a VD name, choose a RG Name and enter a size
- 54 - The procedures are as follows: Figure 4.4.6.5 1. Select a VD. 2. Input “Host” IQN, which is an iSCSI node name for access control, or fil
- 55 - Figure 4.4.6.7 (Figure 4.4.6.7: Slot 4 is set as a global spare disk.) Step 5: Done. Delete VDs, RG, please follow the below steps. Step
- 56 - Step 8: Delete a RG (RAID group). To delete a RAID group, please follow the procedures: 1. Select “/ Volume configuration / RAID group
- 57 - 5. Power sensors: 10 seconds, when there are 3 errors consecutively, system sends ERROR event log. 6. LED status: 10 seconds. Figure 4.5.1
- 58 - 4.5.2 Hardware monitor “Hardware monitor” can view the information of current voltages and temperatures. Figure 4.5.2.1 If “Auto shutdown”
- 5 - Table of Contents Chapter 1 Overview...
- 59 - 4.5.3 Hard drive S.M.A.R.T. support S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a diagnostic tool for hard drives to de
- 60 - Currently, the system only supports and communicates with smart-UPS of APC (American Power Conversion Corp.) UPS. Please review the details fr
- 61 - Battery Level (%) Current power percentage of battery level. 4.6 System maintenance “Maintenance” allows the operation of system functions w
- 62 - 4.6.2 Upgrade “Upgrade” can upgrade firmware. Please prepare new firmware file named “xxxx.bin” in local hard drive, then click “Browse” to
- 63 - 4.6.4 Import and export “Import and export” allows user to save system configuration values: export, and apply all configuration: import. For
- 64 - Figure 4.6.5.1 The event log is displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first / top page. The event logs are a
- 65 - Chapter 5 Advanced operations 5.1 Volume rebuild If one physical disk of the RG which is set as protected RAID level (e.g.: RAID 3, RAID 5, o
- 66 - • Rebuild operation description: RAID 0 Disk striping. No protection for data. RG fails if any hard drive fails or unplugs. RAID 1 Disk mirrori
- 67 - 5.2 RG migration To migrate the RAID level, please follow below procedures. 1. Select “/ Volume configuration / RAID group”. 2. Check the gr
- 68 - 1. Add dedicated spare. 2. Remove a dedicated spare. 3. Create a new VD. 4. Delete a VD. 5. Extend a VD. 6. Scrub a VD. 7. Perform anoth
- 6 - 4.6 System maintenance ... 61 4.6.1 System information ...
- 69 - 5.4 iSnap Snapshot-on-the-box (iSnap) captures the instant state of data in the target volume in a logical sense. The underlying l
- 70 - 5.4.1 Create snapshot volume To take a snapshot of the data, please follow the procedures. 1. Select “/ Volume configuration / Virtual disk”
- 71 - 5.4.2 Auto snapshot The snapshot copies can be taken manually or by schedule such as hourly or daily. Please follow the procedures. 1. There
- 72 - 5.4.4 iSnap constraint RAG362 snapshot function applies Copy-on-Write technique on UDV/VD and provides a quick and efficient backup m
- 73 - Figure 5.4.4.1 On Linux and UNIX platform, a command named sync can be used to make the operating system flush data from write caching into d
- 74 - run out, the system will try to remove the oldest snapshot to release more space for the latest snapshot usage. As the latest snapshot is growi
- 75 - 5.6 VD clone The user can use VD clone function to backup data from source VD to target VD, set up backup schedule, and deploy the clone rul
- 76 - Figure 5.6.3 4. There are three clone configurations, describe on the following. Figure 5.6.4 x Snapshot space: Figure 5.6.5 This s
- 77 - rest snapshot space has been used 50%, in other words, the total snapshot space has been used 75%, the system will synchronize the source VD a
- 78 - Figure 5.6.10 8. Click “Start clone”, the clone process will start. Figure 5.6.11 9. The default setting will create a snapshot space aut
- 7 - Chapter 1 Overview 1.1 Features RAG362 controller can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance by using RAG362 RAID
- 79 - Figure 5.6.14 12. There are “Set Clone schedule” and “Clear Clone schedule” in this page. Please remember that “Threshold” and “Restart the t
- 80 - When running out of snapshot space, the flow diagram of VD clone procedure will be like the following. Figure 5.6.16 5.7 MPIO and MC/S
- 81 - session fails, then another session can continue processing I/O without interruption to the application. Figure 5.7.1 2. MC/S: MC/S (Multip
- 82 - Figure 5.7.2 Difference: MC/S is implemented on iSCSI level, while MPIO is implemented on the higher level. Hence, all MPIO infrastructures
- 83 - ability. Beside the advantage of wide bandwidth, the I/O traffic remains operating until all physical links fail. If any link is restored, it
- 84 - Chapter 6 Troubleshooting 6.1 System buzzer The system buzzer features are listed below: 1. The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system b
- 85 - fail ERROR SATA revision id fail Failed to get SATA revision id ERROR SATA set reg fail Failed to set SATA register ERROR SATA init fail Cor
- 86 - • RMS events Level Type Description INFO Console Login <username> login from <IP or serial console> via Console UI INFO Cons
- 87 - INFO VD move finished VD <name> completes move. ERROR VD move failed Failed to complete move of VD <name>. INFO RG activated RG
- 88 - INFO VD erase started VD <name> starts erasing process. • Snapshot events Level Type Description WARNING Snap mem Failed to alloca
- 8 - 8. One logic volume can be shared by as many as 8 hosts 9. Host access control 10. Configurable N-way mirror for high data protection 11. O
- 89 - • System maintenance events Level Type Description INFO System shutdown System shutdown. INFO System reboot System reboot. INFO System
- 90 - • Clone events Level Type Description INFO VD clone started VD <name> starts cloning process. INFO VD clone finished VD <name&
- 93 - Appendix . A. Certification list • RAM RAM Spec: 240-pin, DDR2-533(PC4300), Reg.(register) or UB(Unbufferred), ECC, up to 4GB, 64-bit data bu
- 94 - Mac ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator v3.10 System Requirements: 1. Mac OS X v10.5 or later For ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator, it is not free.
- 95 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, ST380817AS, 80GB, 7200RPM, SATA 1.5Gb/s, 8M, NCQ Seagate Barracuda 7200.8, ST3400832AS, 400GB, 7200RPM, SATA 1.5Gb
- 96 - B. Microsoft iSCSI initiator Here is the step by step to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI init
- 97 - Figure B.3 5. Click “Target” tab. Highlight the Targets Name. Figure B.4 6. Click “Log on…”. Enable “Automatically restore this conne
- 98 - Figure B.5 7. Click “Advanced…”. 8. Select “Local adapter:”, “Source IP:” and “Target portal:”. And then click “OK” Figure B.6 9.
- 99 - Figure B.7 10. Click “OK”. The iSCSI is now connected. Figure B.8 RAG362
- 100 - • MPIO 11. If running MPIO, please continue. 12. Click “Discovery” tab to connect the second path. 13. Click “Add Portal…”. Input IP address
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