Table Of Contents - Sans Digital Mobileraid MR8X Detailed User's Manual

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Contents

Preface....................................................................................................................... 4

FCC Compliance Statement....................................................................................... 5

Before You Begin ....................................................................................................... 6

Chapter 1 Introduction............................................................................................. 8

1.1 Key Features.......................................................................................................................... 9

1.1.1 Technical Specifications...................................................................................................10

1.2 Identifying Parts of the RAID Subsystem................................................................................ 11

1.2.1 Front View........................................................................................................................11

1.2.1.1 Smart Panel ..............................................................................................................12

1.2.1.2 Disk Drive Carrier .....................................................................................................13

1.2.2 Rear View ........................................................................................................................14

1.3 RAID Concepts ...................................................................................................................... 15

1.4 Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) Overview ................................................................................... 19

1.5 Array Definition....................................................................................................................... 20

1.5.1 Raid Set ...........................................................................................................................20

1.5.2 Volume Set ......................................................................................................................20

1.5.3 Easy to Use Features ......................................................................................................21

1.5.3.1 Instant Availability/Background Initialization ..............................................................21

1.5.3.2 Array Roaming..........................................................................................................21

1.5.3.3 Online Capacity Expansion .......................................................................................21

1.5.3.4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration ............................................................22

1.5.4 High Availability.................................................................................................................22

1.5.4.1 Creating Hot Spares..................................................................................................22

1.5.4.2 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support ....................................................................................23

1.5.4.3 Hot-Swap Disk Rebuild .............................................................................................23

Chapter 2 Getting Started ..................................................................................... 24

2.1 Installing Hard Drives ............................................................................................................. 24

2.2 Preparing the Subsystem and Powering On........................................................................... 26

Chapter 3 Configuration Utility Options ................................................................. 27

3.1 Configuring Through a Terminal.............................................................................................. 27

3.2 Configuring the Subsystem Using the LCD Panel ................................................................... 33

3.3 Menu Diagram........................................................................................................................ 34

RAID Management ............................................................................. 41

4.1 Quick Create........................................................................................................................... 41

4.2 Raid Set Functions ................................................................................................................. 42

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