Dahua ESS3016X User Manual
Dahua ESS3016X User Manual

Dahua ESS3016X User Manual

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  • Page 1 ESS3016X- Internet Intelligent Storage User’s Manual...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Set Controller IP Address ......................13 2.2.2 Network Connection Test ......................13 2.2.3 Set IP Address ..........................14 Boot up Device............................. 14 ESS3016X WEB CONFIGURATION ..............16 Web Login............................. 16 System Management .......................... 16 3.2.1 Display System Information......................16 3.2.2 Parameter Configuration........................
  • Page 3 CREATE ESS3016X DEVICE NAS SHARE ............. 48 Quickly Create NAS Share Process ....................48 NAS Share Example ........................... 48 4.2.1 SAMBA Share Creation ......................... 48 4.2.2 NFS Share Creation ........................54 4.2.3 FTP Share Creation........................55 QUICKLY CREATE ESS3016X DEVICE ISCSI SHARE ........58...
  • Page 4 ESS3016X User’s Manual Quickly Create ISCSI Share Process ....................58 iSCSI Share Example ......................... 58 ESS3015A ......................60 ESS3015A—ESS3016X........................60 6.1.1 Disk Management........................... 60 6.1.2 RAID Setup ............................61 iSCSI Management ..........................63 6.2.1 iSCSI Setup ............................. 63 6.2.2 Share Management ........................64 APPENDIX A ---TERMS EXPLANATION ............
  • Page 5 ESS3016X User’s Manual Welcome Thank you for using our internet intelligent storage system! This operating manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Before installation and operation please read the following safeguards and warnings carefully!
  • Page 6 ESS3016X User’s Manual Important Safeguard and Warnings 1.Electrical Safety All installation and operation should conform to your local electrical safety codes. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation 2....
  • Page 7: Features And Functions

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 1 Features and Functions The 3016X internet intelligent storage unit has installed all necessary software. It works in 1000M network environment (recommended) or 10/100mbps Ethernet. You can use web browser (IE 6.0 recommended) to manage, set network parameter and create storage pool.
  • Page 8: Installation

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Power 300W 1+1 redundancy Support on-line replacement Quality 29Kg Certificate China Compulsory Certificate External interface RS232 serial port. Three network interfaces Normal Open/Normal Close relay output Network Support on-line upgrade Support Max 15 HDDs Support hot swap.
  • Page 9: Cable Layout

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 1-1 1.2.4 Cable Layout 1.2.4.1 ESS3016X In Figure 1-2, you can see ESS3016X rear panel. Figure 1-2 You can refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Port Function Power Port Connect to 220V AC Mouse/keyboard port Connect to mouse or keyboard to view device status.
  • Page 10: Boot Up And Shut Down

    ESS3016X User’s Manual You can refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Port Function Power indication light It is to display power working status. It becomes red when alarm occurs. It becomes green when system is working normally. Power fan It is to help ventilation.
  • Page 11 ESS3016X User’s Manual NETb It is network data channel b indication light. The yellow light flashes if the network port is working properly NETa It is network data channel a indication light. The yellow light flashes if the network port is working properly System The blue light flashes when current channel is reading or writing data.
  • Page 12 The light turns on when you connect current channel to power. power LED Here we just introduce the situation when you connect ESS3015A to ESS3016X. Please follow the steps listed below to boot up the system. Connect the device to the power.
  • Page 13: System Operation

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 2 System Operation 2.1 Preparation Work 10/100Mbps or 1000Mbps Ethernet hub or switcher. Controller of the following configuration: Windows 2000/XP, IE 6.0 Ethernet connection. Check the real panel cable layout is O.K or not. (Power cable, network card and etc) 2.2 Network Setup...
  • Page 14: Set Ip Address

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 2.2.3 Set IP Address Please follow the steps below to set device IP address. 2.2.3.1 Input IP address Open IE browser, input http://192.168.0.111(default IP address) you can see the login interface. See Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 2.2.3.2 Log in System user name is admin and password is 888888888888.
  • Page 15 ESS3016X User’s Manual Open IE browser, and input http://10.6.5.47 in the address column (10.6.5.47 is a new IP address you modified after you first logged in.). Input your user name and password, you can log in. After you logged in, you can see an interface consisting of six parts.
  • Page 16: Ess3016X Web Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 3 ESS3016X Web Configuration ESS3016X internet intelligent storage software operation consists of seven parts. Web login System management Network management Disk management iSCSI management Share management Status management 3.1 Web Login In windows OS, open IE browser and then input system IP address. Click Enter, you can see the following interface.
  • Page 17: Parameter Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual CPU temperature Fan speed ESS3016X display three fans speed. One is CPU fan speed. SAMBA status NFS status FTP status iSCSI status. CMS status Note If it is your first time to go to the system, please set system time.
  • Page 18: User Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-3 3.2.3 User Configuration Click user configuration button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-4. For one user, there are two conditions: Administrator: it is the admin. This user can read, write or delete all storage data in current system.
  • Page 19 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-4 3.2.3.1 Add User In Figure 3-4, click add button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-5. After input new user information, please click save button. System goes back to user management interface. Please note there are two types of users: iSCSI user and SAMBA/NFS/FTP user. For iSCSI user, the password length shall be more than 12-digit.
  • Page 20: Guide

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 3.2.3.3 Delete User Select the delete button after the corresponding user, system pops up a dialogue box to remind you that you are going to delete a user. Click O.K button, all the information of current user will be deleted completely.
  • Page 21 ESS3016X User’s Manual pops up a warning dialogue box to warn you .Please click Yes button to continue. Now you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-8. In Figure 3-8, you can see there are three Raid5 groups and each of them consists of five disks.
  • Page 22 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-9 In Figure 3-9, click next button. System pops up a warning dialogue box to warn you .Please click Yes button to continue. Now you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-10. Figure 3-10 In Figure3-10, click next button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-11.
  • Page 23: Upgrade

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-11 After the above operation, the page of disk manage is shown as below. See Figure 3-12. Figure 3-12 3.2.5 Upgrade From system to upgrade, here you can see a system upgrade interface is shown as in Figure 3-13.
  • Page 24: Shut Down System

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-13 3.2.6 Shut down System Click shut down system button; you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-14. There are two options for you: shut down the system/reboot. Figure 3-14 3.3 Network Management In this interface you can set device network card and router in the LAN.
  • Page 25 ESS3016X User’s Manual Member card Figure 3-15 3.3.1.1 Set network card In Figure 3-15, click edit button in, you can see the following interface. After your modification, please click save button to exit. See Figure 3-16. Figure 3-16 3.3.1.2 Status Click the status button in Figure 3-15, you can view current network card physical connection status and data send out and receive information.
  • Page 26 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-17 3.3.1.3 Remove binding If you want to remove the network card binding, please click the remove binding button in Figure 3-15. Now you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-18. These two cards are displayed respectively. The independent network card etho information is the same as previous binding information.
  • Page 27: Router Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-19 3.3.2 Router Configuration From network, select router item, you can view current router setup. Click delete button, administrator can delete a router. See Figure 3-20. Figure 3-20 If network section has changed, you may need to modify router setup such as add one router.
  • Page 28: Disk Management

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 3.4 Disk Management Disk management is to display HDD physical information in the system, configure multiple HDDs into RAID group and then create storage pool in the RAID group. 3.4.1 Display Disk Information Click display disk information, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-21.
  • Page 29 ESS3016X User’s Manual Seek error Boot up Correct Temperature Rate In the following interface, there are three buttons: return/detail information/initialization. See Figure 3-22. Back: You can click it to go to previous interface. Initialization: it is to initialize the disk. Disk initialization is going to remove all data in current disk.
  • Page 30: Raid Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Please note all the disks in the list are hot spare disks. You can click the select button and then click save to remove the hot spare disk. The specified disk now becomes idle. Figure 3-24 3.4.2 RAID Configuration Click RAID button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-25.
  • Page 31 ESS3016X User’s Manual Please refer to the following content for RAID device space calculation. 1) RAID 5:the total amount of N *disk =(N-1)× min(capacity) among which, capacity N stands for the aggregation of the total disk. You can refer to the amount displayed on the web.
  • Page 32 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-26 1) RAID 5. Remove disk: You can max remove one disk. The data will not be damaged and the RAID 5 device runs properly. Errors may occur if you remove more than one disk. Important Do not remove disk casually especially when the RAID is synchronizing.
  • Page 33 ESS3016X User’s Manual Insert disk: this operation is also forbidden during the synchronization process. You need to remove one disk if you want to insert a new one. RAID begins new synchronization after inserting a new one. The data in the disk will not be lost.
  • Page 34: Storage Pool Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual If current RAID has been used (there is a storage pool), but there is no share folder. Click remove button, you can see system pop up a dialogue to warn you. You need to remove storage pool and then remove the RAID group.
  • Page 35 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-30 3.4.3.2 Edit Storage Pool In Figure 3-29, click edit button, the interface is shown as in Figure 3-31. Here you can view all share folder information in current storage pool. If there is malfunction problem (umount), you can view the corresponding remove button.
  • Page 36: Iscsi Management

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 3.5 iSCSI Management iSCSI is to provide iSCSI share service for you. 3.5.1 iSCSI Configuration The iSCSI configuration interface is shown as in Figure 3-32. Here you can see the following information. Current system has three iSCSI share devices.
  • Page 37: Share Management

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Here you need to configure the following four items when you adding iSCSI share. Target (mapping) name: it is a part of iSCSI share device name. It is easy for you to recognize the iSCSI device. Configuration space: Here you can set device size. Unit is G.
  • Page 38: Share Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-34 3.6.1 Share configuration From share to share manage, you can see an interface. This interface is to display SAMBA,NFS and FTP share information. Here you can also add, edit or delete share folder. 3.6.1.1 Add share folder.
  • Page 39 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-35 1) Add SAMBA share (In Figure 3-35) 1. Set share folder information. 2. Enbale SAMBA share and then disable NFS and FTP share, 3. Read/write right setup: Read only: all accessing users can read current folder only.
  • Page 40 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-36 In Figure 3-37, all Linux users of IP 10.6.0.0 to 10.6.255.255 can access NFS share. The user right is read and write. Figure 3-37 Please note: in Figure 3-36 and Figure 3-37, 16 and 32 are just two ways to display subnet mask.
  • Page 41 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-38 3.6.1.3 Access share folder In share list of the share configuration main interface, if its share mode is “cifs’, then it is a SAMBA share folder. If its share mode is “nfs”, it is a NFS share folder. If its share mode is “ftp”, it is a FTP share.
  • Page 42 ESS3016X User’s Manual Access NFS share folder Click edit button of NFS share folder (10)to view detailed path. In Linux environment, mount NFS share to one folder and then access the folder in the Linux environment. Note: Before you mount, please open Linux user platform and NFS service of 3016X internet intelligent storage.
  • Page 43: Ftp Configuration

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Disable SAMBA share: In share configuration interface, from the share list, click the edit button. You can go to the edit interface. Select to disable SAMBA share and then click save button. (See Figure 3-38) Disable NFS share. In share configuration interface, click the edit button of the share folder you want to delete.
  • Page 44: Status Management

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-42 3.6.3.1 SAMBA Configuration Enable SAMBA service: check start item and then click set button. Disable SAMBA service. Check stop item and then click set button. Restart SAMBA service. Check restart item and then click set button.
  • Page 45 ESS3016X User’s Manual Click log view button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-43. Log search consists of three modes: Search all logs: click search button you can see all logs. Search the recent logs: input log amount you want to view in the () and then click search button.
  • Page 46: Service Status

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 3-44 3.7.2 Service Status Click service status, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-45. In Figure 3-45, host (IP address 10.6.5.49) is accessing SAMBA share folder. Here you can also see accessing time.
  • Page 47: Reboot/Shut Down

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 3.8 Reboot/Shut down You can see log out button in any interface. It is on the top right corner. See Figure 3-47. Click reboot button you can restart the device. Click shutdown button you can turn off the system.
  • Page 48: Create Ess3016X Device Nas Share

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 4 Create ESS3016X Device NAS Share This chapter is to help you quickly create SAMBA, NFS and FTP share and provide share service. 4.1 Quickly Create NAS Share Process Here is a flow chart for SAMBA and NFS share creation.
  • Page 49 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 4-3 And then click add button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-4. Figure 4-4 Please note, system has three valid accounts: admin (system administrator ), 8888888888 guest(ordinary user), 666666666666 ftpuser(ftp user),111111111111 4.2.1.2 Create system user...
  • Page 50 ESS3016X User’s Manual From disk management, select RAID configuration. See Figure 4-6. Figure 4-6 And then click add button in Figure 4-7. Figure 4-7 You can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-8. Here you can select RAID5 device (at least four disks)
  • Page 51 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 4-8 Note Before using devices here, please enable RAID5 device synchronization process. 4.2.1.4 Storage pool configuration From disk management, select storage pool configuration. See Figure 4-9. Figure 4-9 Click add button in Figure 4-10.
  • Page 52 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 4-10 Now you can configure storage pool. See Figure 4-11. Here you can see raid5 device disk15 constitutes storage pool1. Figure 4-11 4.2.1.5 Share folder configuration From share management, select share manage. See Figure 4-12.
  • Page 53 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 4-12 And then in Figure 4-13, click add button. Figure 4-13 In Figure 4-14, please follow the steps below. Select one storage pool to create a share folder(such as pool) Input SAMBA share folder name.(DVRch6) Set share folder total space(100G) Input share content description(data from DVR channel 6) Select a valid user (such as user1).
  • Page 54: Nfs Share Creation

    ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 4-14 4.2.1.6 Enable share service. From share to service. In Figure 4-15, you can enable SAMBA service and then click set button. Figure 4-15 4.2.2 NFS Share Creation...
  • Page 55: Ftp Share Creation

    ESS3016X User’s Manual The steps are similar to create SAMBA share. There are some difference in share folder configuration (chapter 4.2.1.5) and enable share service (chapter 4.2.1.6). Here we just introduce NFS share folder configuration. 4.2.2.1 Configure NFS share folder.
  • Page 56 ESS3016X User’s Manual From the above processes, you can see FTP share creation steps are difference from SAMBA share creation and NFS share creation. There is no need for you to create a user, because there is only one FTP user (ftpuser). Its user name is ftpuser and password is 111111111111. For security reasons, please modify your password after you first log in.
  • Page 57 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 4-18 FTP configuration In Figure 4-19, you need to set transmission speed, connection amount of each IP and total connection amount. Note: IF there is created RAID device and storage pool, you can create SAMBA, NFS and FTP share folder directly.
  • Page 58: Quickly Create Ess3016X Device Iscsi Share

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 5 Quickly Create ESS3016X Device iSCSI Share 5.1 Quickly Create ISCSI Share Process Administrator logs in Create a user Create RAID device Create storage pool iSCSI configuration Enable iSCSI share service Figure 5-1 5.2 iSCSI Share Example From the above processes, you can see the first four steps are identical with SAMBA share of NAS share creation processes and the sixth step is also similar.
  • Page 59 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 5-3 In Figure 5-4, you can set the following items: Input iSCSI share device name(DVRch4) Set iSCSI total space (200G) Select one storage pool to create iSCSI share device(Pool). Select valid user for iSCSI share device. If you do not check a valid user here. In the future when you load iSCSI share device, you do not need to input user name and password.
  • Page 60: Ess3015A

    ESS3015A ESS3015A Figure 6-1 One ESS3016X device can connect to two HBA and one HBA can connect to two ESS3015A devices. One ESS3015A can install 15 SATA disks. So ESS3015A device can effectively extend ESS3016X internet intelligent storage device capacity.
  • Page 61: Raid Setup

    Please note, though sometimes user interface just shows there is only disk rack1, you can not say there is only one disk rack connects to current ESS3016X. If you have not created RAID device in disk rack 2, system just shows there is one host rack and one expand rack1.
  • Page 62 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 6-3 Add RAID Setup In Figure 6-3, click add button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 6-4. Here you can select RAID type (RAID0, RAID1, and RAID5), disk rack number (host, expand1/2/3/4) and then select disks to create a RAID device.
  • Page 63: Iscsi Management

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 6.2 iSCSI Management 6.2.1 iSCSI Setup From iSCSI management to iSCSI setup, you can see an interface is shown as below. See Figure 6-5. Here you can see there are five iSCSI share devices to provide iSCSI share service. One is in host rack and others are in expanding rack1/2/3/4 respectively.
  • Page 64: Share Management

    ESS3016X User’s Manual There is valid user: You can select either of them or both of them. The next time when you load iSCSI share, you need to input account name and password. If you have enabled two users, you just input either of them to log in.
  • Page 65 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 6-7...
  • Page 66: Appendix A ---Terms Explanation

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 7 Appendix A ---Terms Explanation Here are some terms explanations in this user’s manual. NAS: It is the abbreviation for network attached system. It provides user file service via network. SATA:It is the abbreviation for serial ATA. In current released Serial ATA 2.0, data transmission speed can reach 300MB/second.
  • Page 67 ESS3016X User’s Manual High read HDD error will transmission affect speed. File input Medium write applicatio output speed. RAID 5 speed, n server, The controller Considerable database design low ECC HDD server. little data difficult. occupatio Synchronization: After creating RAID 1or RAID5, before using, system needs to read-write the HDD at a fixed speed and adopts an algorithm to calculate.
  • Page 68: Appendix B--- Disk Hot Swap Operation

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 8 Appendix B--- Disk Hot Swap Operation Note: please implement 3016X internet intelligent storage device when RAID is in working status. Hot swap only be operated when RAID is in working status, otherwise it may result in data loss in RAID device! Ready status: It only applies to RAID1/RAID5, e.g these disk groups are in RAID...
  • Page 69 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 8-1 2) In web configuration interface, from disk management to RAID configuration, you can see current RAID device status. Before hot swap, please make sure the disk to be hot swapped is in RAID5 (RAID1) and RAID5 (RAID1) is in working status.
  • Page 70 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 8-3 4). In web configuration interface, from disk management to disk information, you can see the disk information after hot dismantle: disk1 is in free status. See Figure 8-4. Now there are two options: You can remove the disk1 from the rack.
  • Page 71 ESS3016X User’s Manual After hot swap disks, RAID5 device from working status to clean, degraded status. Current RAID5 disk group can still work properly. Figure 8-5 6). Hot swap disk In web configuration interface, from disk configuration to disk configuration, you can see the disk status.
  • Page 72 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 8-8 2). Insert the disk directly to the idle disk channel of 3016X internet intelligent storage and memorize the disk channel name (such as disk1). In this example, we are going to insert the disk1 that just was removed.
  • Page 73 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 8-11 Note: Since newly added disk information take “disk volume” as a symbol (such as disk1), so in the step (2) please memorize hot swap disk name. 6). In web configuration interface, from disk configuration to disk configuration, you can see the disk information.
  • Page 74 ESS3016X User’s Manual 7). In web configuration interface, from disk configuration to RAID configuration, you can see the following RAID device status. See Figure 8-13. Figure 8-13 Note After hot swap, RAID5 device status is from “degrading” to “recovering” and begins synchronization.
  • Page 75: Appendix C ---Samba Share Implementation In Windows

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 9 Appendix C ---SAMBA Share Implementation in Windows SAMBA and central management implementation 3016X internet intelligent storage device provides SAMBA share just like a network disk. When it works with central management software, you need to map it to local disk partition. Please follow the steps below.
  • Page 76 ESS3016X User’s Manual System pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 9-3. You can select drive symbol (A:--Z:) and then click finish button. Figure 9-3 3).View local PC disk. Open my computer, you can see network driver is not empty, which means the map network drive is successful.
  • Page 77: Appendix D---Iscsi Application In Ms Windows

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 10 Appendix D---iSCSI Application in MS Windows iSCSI connection in windows system 3016X internet intelligent storage device can provide iSCSI share. But you need to install corresponding software to support such a kind of function. Here we introduce iSCSI connection in MS Windows: the iSCSI Initiator installation and use so that you can use iSCSI share of the 3016X internet intelligent storage device.
  • Page 78 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 10-2 3). Click add button, input 3016 internet intelligent storage device IP address and then click Ok button. See Figure 10-3. Figure 10-3 4) Click target button to view 3016 internet intelligent storage device share situation. See Figure...
  • Page 79 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 10-4 5). In Figure 10-4, select one iSCSI share and then click “Log on” button. See Figure 10-5. Figure 10-5 Please enable auto connect function. See Figure 10-6.
  • Page 80 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 10-6 6).Now there is two situations: When ISCSI share device has no valid user Click OK button, now you can see the selected iSCSI device status becomes active. When iSCSI has a valid user. Click advance button, system pops up a dialogue box. Here you check “CHAP logon information”...
  • Page 81 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 10-8 2).In Figure 10-8, click disk 2 and then click initialize disk. See Figure 10-9. Figure 10-9 3). Right-click “12.00GB unallocated” and then select new partition. See Figure 10-10.
  • Page 82 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 10-10 4). Please follow the instructions to set and format the disk. 5). After formatting, the iSCSI share will be displayed as newly added volume and has its own driver number. See Figure 10-11. Now you can use iSCSI device.
  • Page 83: Appendix E-Com Command

    ESS3016X User’s Manual 11 Appendix E—COM COMMAND ESS3016X internet intelligent storage device provides serial port Debug command for administrator. It is to help you deal with some situation such as forgetting admin password or IP address abnormal phenomena. You can follow the steps listed below.
  • Page 84 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 11-2 Here we take netshowas an example. In debug command line, input netshow and then click Enter button. Now you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 11-3. You can see the information after bond0. In Figure 11-3, you can see system IP address is 10.6.5.81.
  • Page 85 ESS3016X User’s Manual Figure 11-3 Slight difference may be found in user interface. All the designs and software here are subject to change without prior written notice. Please visit our website for more information.

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