Contents 1.0 ATTO FastStream Overview ................1 Technical features System memory Expansion slot RAID protection features Audio/video features 1.1 ATTO FastStream Embedded Components ........2 Board dimensions Temperature Humidity Altitude Real Time Clock CacheAssure (optional) Power supply requirements Device Connectivity Host Connectivity Management ports Audible Alarm Manual reset switch...
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3.1 Drive Diagnostics ................17 Preliminary steps Read-only Drive Test Drive performance and health Identifying a drive attached to the FastStream 3.2 DriveAssure ..................19 Guaranteed Latency Rebuild Continue on Error Initialization Media Scrubbing Media Scan On-the-Fly Media Error Handling Data Recovery Mode Rebuild Recovery Mode Basic Recovery Mode Extreme Recovery Mode...
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6.3 CacheAssure ....................36 Benefits of CacheAssure CacheAssure Status 7.0 Modify Storage ....................37 Preliminary steps RAID Group processes Creating RAID Groups Deleting RAID Groups Adding drives to a RAID Group Adding mirrors to a RAID configuration Changing RAID configuration: RAID migration Modifying RAID Group mapping Modifying RAID Group partitions Rebuilding RAID Groups...
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Appendix C Tape Pass-Through ................vi Appendix D CLI Provides an ASCII-based Interface .........vii CLI error messages CLI summary CLI command explanations Appendix E FibreBridge LEDs ................xxvii Appendix F Reference Charts ................xxviii Generated frequencies Data rate in cables Connector pinouts ATX 24-pin power connector pinouts (J1) RJ-11 connection pinouts (J3) Internal SAS 4i connector pinouts (J9) RJ-45 connector pinouts (J2)
1.0 ATTO FastStream Overview The ATTO FastStream SC 5550E, 8250E and 8550E provide class leading performance and RAID protection in an embeddable ATX form factor. System memory With the latest in storage connectivity technology, the ATTO FastStream provides unprecedented flexibility •...
The charger is integrated on the circuit board. The Lithium ion battery may explode if mistreated. Make sure all cables are anchored securely at both ends with the proper connectors. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC RAID Controller Installation and Operation Manual...
Management ports Manual reset switch Management is provided using either the 10/100/1000 A manual reset switch reboots the storage controller. Megabits per second (Mb/sec.) base T Ethernet port To reset the FastStream, depress the reset button for accessible from the RJ-45 connector or the RS-232 no more than three seconds.
1.2 ATTO Celerity FC42-ES Host Adapter The ATTO FastStream SC 5550E uses the Celerity FC-42ES PCI Express Interconnect and 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel to provide performance of up to 700 MB/sec. The Celerity FC-42ES is a dual-channel host adapter • On-demand automatic negotiation among 4-Gb,...
Insert the DIMM module vertically into its slot on the board, observing the position of Note the notch along the bottom of the module to ATTO Technology does not supply the prevent inserting the DIMM module backplate because of the variety of enclosures incorrectly.
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ExpressNAV graphical user interface accessed 12 Put the cover back on the enclosure. through the Ethernet cable. 13 Power up the unit. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC RAID Controller Installation and Operation Manual...
Installing CacheAssure (optional) CAUTION CAUTION If you have opted for a FastStream without the Make sure the NV memory card is evenly CacheAssure option, please advance to Exhibit 2.2-1 aligned on both sides. If the card is placed on page 12 and continue on.
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Finish assembling your storage controller. Exhibit 2.2-1 FastStream SC RAID controller components, dimensions and mounting holes. For pinout information, refer to Reference Charts on page xxviii of the Appendix. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC RAID Controller Installation and Operation Manual...
Exhibit 2.2-2 Back panel I/O plate. Exhibit 2.2-3 Insert the DIMM module vertically into its slot on the board. Discovering the IP address supplied with your FastStream, run the Note QuickNav Utility QuickNAV-windows.exe for The FastStream is initially configured with Windows or QuickNAV-Mac for Mac OS X.
Note Ensure Drive Integrity on page 15. The default values are user name root and password Password. The user name is case insensitive and the password is case sensitive. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC RAID Controller Installation and Operation Manual...
3.0 Ensure Drive Integrity A key component to ATTO’s DriveAssure™ technology is the ATTO FastStream’s “Initialize and Verify drive” feature which discovers and remaps bad sectors on drives, providing reliable media for your RAID Groups. Before creating any RAID Group you should Initialize If you do not want to initialize or verify drives now, and Verify the drives you want in the RAID Group to continue on to...
The Performance tab appears showing what tests are running and their results. You may select other tests to run or continue on to other tasks. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
3.1 Drive Diagnostics You may determine the performance of drives attached to the FastStream using various displays and tests in ExpressNAV Storage Manager. Preliminary steps The following instructions assume you have already set up at least one RAID Group. If you are not already in the ExpressNAV The ATTO FastStream collects various metrics to Storage Manager, type the IP address of your measure performance for physical drives attached to...
Identify SES Elements page described in illuminates for one minute. Section 6.2 SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) on page 32. If SES is not available, it To stop the operation, deselect the drive. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
3.2 DriveAssure DriveAssure™ is an ATTO exclusive combination of features that perform predictive and corrective actions to allow the continued operation of marginal drives, while ensuring continued, uninterrupted access to data. DriveAssure lets your storage run longer, faster and smoother without interrupting data flow while avoiding the unnecessary cost of replacing functional drives.
If there is a soft drive failure, it may be possible to continue using the RAID Group. In the ExpressNAV menu: Click the Diagnostics button. Click Use Recovery Mode. Click Next button. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
4.0 Configure Storage into RAID Groups The ATTO FastStream allows configuration of storage into DVRAID, JBOD, RAID Level 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 or 6 with the ability to create multiple partitions. RAID is a storage configuration which uses multiple using the procedures listed in Modify Storage drives to increase capacity, performance, and/or...
If you chose Mac, continue on to Step Select one of the following and continue using Physically add or disconnect drives as needed the directions in each specific section: and rescan. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Click Next. Note Chose a RAID level. Depending on your choice and your current Choose an Initialization method (refer to system, the appliance may need to restart. Initialization on page 22). Choose an Auto-Rebuild option (refer to Auto- Choose an Initialization method (refer to Rebuild on page 21).
Click on the System Scan button to discover the drives available for RAID configuration. When the scanned drives box is populated, click on the boxes representing the drives for the RAID Group named in Step 4. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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b. For the SC 5550 and 8550, click on any 19 Choose an Auto-Rebuild feature if it is partition to map that partition to a Port and available for your RAID configuration (refer to LUN. For the SC 8250, click on any Auto-Rebuild on page 21).
Click OK. Click on the Manage menu item on the left hand side of the page. Click on the System Configuration radio button. Click on Next. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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Make any changes. host adapter in the host. (Not available for the 5550 or 8550) • System name: the system name is a unique 8-character identifier which is displayed at • Ethernet management port: change the top of each screen. You may find this whether or not you use DHCP for an IP useful if you are managing multiple ATTO address, subnet mask and gateway, or...
Display page (refer to Drive Health on page Storage Manager, type the IP address of your 29). controller in a standard browser. On the splash Exhibit 6.0-1 The Health and Status Monitor page. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Drive Health FastStream provides access to drive data which may rapidly increasing count could indicate the drive may help estimate the drive health of SAS or SATA disk be failing or is about to fail. drives. This data is provided through SMART or Informational Exceptions provided by the drive For SATA drives, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and manufacturer and the results may be subjective and...
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Exhibit 6.0-3 SATA Drive Health Details Exhibit 6.0-4 SAS Drive Health Details ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Configuration Display page Clicking on Details from the Health and Status • Partitions: RAID Group name, partition ID, Monitor page gives you added information about capacity, block size and mapping. various aspects of the FastStream and attached • Drives: Drive configuration by port, including storage.
The Health and Status Monitor page appears. the entered settings. On the menu at the left hand side of the page, 12 When all information is typed in, click Commit. choose Manage. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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13 A warning box appears. In the warning box, Note verify that you want to complete the notification If any options are changed on the Error procedure including a restart of the FastStream Notification Page, you may be prompted to re- by clicking on Yes.
Select the type of SES monitor and control you Remote System Monitoring ), all SES status wish to use. changes are sent via email. • Pass-Through: the host application manages SES information. Exhibit 6.2-1 The Enclosure Services page. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Identifying SES elements The SES Monitor page found by clicking on Details Click on Identify Drive. in the Enclosure Status section of the Health and Status Monitor page shows SES information about specific enclosures (see Exhibit 6.2-4). If you would like information about specific drives of the RAID Groups or enclosures of which they are members, use the Identify Drive page.
6.2-3). In the Enclosure Status section, click on Details. The Monitor Enclosure Services page appears (see Exhibit 6.2-4). Exhibit 6.2-3 The ExpressNAV Storage Controller Health and Status Monitor page. Exhibit 6.2-4 The SES Monitor page. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Use the Manage menu In the Select User Process box, click on the Enclosure Services arrow. If you are not already in the ExpressNAV Select the Monitor Enclosure Services Storage Manager, type the IP address of your button. controller in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click Enter Here.
NVCache LED Indicator . For Embedded CacheAssure eliminates these concerns. FastStreams, see FibreBridge LEDs in the Appendix on page xxvii. Environmentally-Friendly - CacheAssure is a battery-less technology that is not required to adhere ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
7.0 Modify Storage Use the ExpressNAV Storage Manager to replace a failed drive, add new drives or redesign RAID configurations. You may modify various aspects of storage using the “Replaced” when you initially set up RAID Manage Menu found by clicking on the tab on the left configurations.
Add Mirror or RAID Migration operations are being verify that you want to complete the performed. configuration by clicking on Yes. Clicking on No ends the procedure without making a change. The Health and Status Monitor page appears. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Modifying RAID Group mapping Click Next. Select the RAID Group Name from the drop You may change the LUNs of drives manually or let the down menu. ExpressNAV Storage Manager map drives for you. Using the graphic and drop down boxes, Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps choose to either merge or split existing...
Search for Global Hot Spare (Smallest representing those drives. available drive of sufficient size) Select whether to perform Media Scan on added drive(s) When the ATTO FastStream detects a faulted drive: ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
When you have completed your changes, click configuration by clicking on Yes. Clicking on No Commit. ends the procedure without making a change. A warning box appears. In the warning box, The Health and Status Monitor screen verify that you want to complete the appears.
Launch in Browser button to view the device's Click on the Rescan button. management console. Select a device from the list. An arrow points to the controller you are currently using. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Saving or restoring a FastStream configuration file You may save the configuration of the FastStream you Click on the System Configuration are currently using, restore the configuration from a Save/Restore button. previously-saved configuration for that FastStream, or Click on Next. clone a configuration from another ATTO FastStream Choose the option you wish to use.
Upload your saved configuration file following FastStream is replaced. steps 1-7 in Saving or restoring a FastStream configuration file on page 43. Restart your FastStream. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
9.0 Interface Options The best way to manage, monitor and configure the FastStream is to use the ExpressNAV Storage Manager, a browser-based application included with your FastStream, but you may use a terminal emulation program or Telnet. Using the ExpressNAV Storage Manager Use the ExpressNAV Storage Manager to manage, If you do not have a DHCP server, get an IP monitor and configure the unit.
Type in the default values for the user name, root, and the password, Password, if you did not set new values in Changing current user name, password on page 26. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC RAID Controller Installation and Operation Manual...
10.0 Firmware Support Firmware updates are available on the ATTO website. Contact ATTO Technical Support for more information. The ATTO FastStream has several processors which control the flow of data. The firmware to control these processors can be upgraded in the field using the ExpressNAV Storage Manager. Update Firmware Be sure all data is backed up before updating firmware select it so that the filename appears in the text...
DVRAID is ATTO Technology proprietary technology You must use the Quick Digital Video setup wizard in which supports the editing of uncompressed 10-bit the ExpressNAV Storage Manager. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
RAID Level 0: striping, no redundancy RAID Level 0 (striping) is based on the fact that other. RAID Level 0 provides no data protection. If one increased performance can be achieved by drive fails, all data within that stripe set is lost. simultaneously accessing data across multiple drives, RAID Level 0 is used by applications requiring high increasing data transfer rates while reducing average...
Parity 1-3 Stripe 2 Data 5 Data 6 Parity 4-6 Data 4 Stripe 3 Data 9 Parity 7-9 Data 7 Data 8 Stripe 4 Data 10 Data 11 Parity 10-12 Data 12 ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
RAID Level 6: striping, two parity blocks distributed among drives RAID Level 6 increases reliability for mission critical tolerate failure of two drives and provides redundancy applications by striping both data and dual parity during rebuilds. across multiple drives, writing data and parity blocks The ATTO FastStream requires at least four drives to across all the drives in a RAID Group.
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Appendix C Tape Pass-Through A value added feature of the FastStream allows the pass-through of SAS connected tape devices. Connect these devices to a SAN Fibre Channel connection through the host ports on a FastStream Storage Controller. Enable Tape Pass-Through server while RAID groups and tapes exist side by side without the need for extra hardware like a bridge or If you need to backup data through a fibre channel...
Appendix D CLI Provides an ASCII-based Interface The command line interface (CLI) uses ASCII commands typed while in CLI mode. • Commands generally have three types of CAUTION CAUTION operation: get, set and immediate. Do not use CLI unless you are directed to •...
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Example AutoMap automap AutoResume set autoresume all disabled BlockDevClean blockdevclean 30 BlockDevIdentify blockdevidentify alpha 3 BlockDevIDStop blockdevidstop BlockDevInfo blockdevinfo BlockDevScan blockdevscan BootDelay set bootdelay 25 BootOldestImage bootoldestimage BridgeModel get bridgemodel viii ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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Command Default Example BridgeName “ “ set bridgename Omega6 BuzzerOnError disabled set buzzeronerror enabled BuzzerTest buzzertest on CACacheStatus get cacachestatus (CacheAssure Models) CACleanCache cacleancache (CacheAssure Models) CAPowerStatus get capowerstatus (CacheAssure Models) ClearEventLog cleareventlog Date set date 03/03/2003 DeleteAllMaps deleteallmaps DeleteScheduledTasks deletescheduledtasks 0 DisplayScheduledTasks displayscheduledtasks...
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Password set password Performance (all but SC 8250) get performance 2 Ping ping mp1 192.42.155.155 RAIDRebuildPriority set raidrebuildpriority low RAIDSpeedWriteLimit set raidspeedwritelimit 20 ReadOnlyPassword Password set readonlypassword ReadOnlyUsername user set readonlyusername ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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Command Default Example RebuildContinueOnError set rebuildcontinueonerror g1 enabled Reserve reserve ResetFCPortErrors (all but SC resetfcporterrors 1 8250) RestoreConfiguration restoreconfiguration default RGAddStorage rgaddstorage g1 span commit RGAutoRebuild set rgautorebuild g1 enabled RGCancelAddStorage rgcanceladdstorage g1 RGCancelMediaScan rgcancelmediascan g1 RGCommit rgcommit all RGCreate rgcreate g1 raid0 RGDelete rgdelete g1...
Zmodem zmodem receive CLI command explanations AutoMap Automap will automatically map each RAID partition to a Fibre Channel LUN (maximum 256 maps allowed). Existing maps for available targets are preserved. AutoMap ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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AutoResume BootDelay AutoResume sets or gets the AutoResume features for Regulates the delay in seconds after startup before allowing interrupted rebuild, erase, initialization, media scan, and hosts to detect discovered targets. conversion operations at startup. Optional parameter Default: 5 GroupName specifies the RAID group to operate on. If no set BootDelay [0 - 255] GroupName is specified, the command operates on all existing get BootDelay...
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DisplayScheduledTasks not be set while a drive test is being performed. Immediate command that displays all outstanding scheduled set DriveTestConfig [init | read | verify | init-verify] tasks. get DriveTestConfig DisplayScheduledTasks ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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DriveTestList EmailNotifyAddress Specifies drives to be run in the next drive test. DriveTestConfig EmailNotifyAddress configures notification addresses. Index is should be setup prior to adding any drives into the test list. This a number between 1 and 5, inclusive. Full email address is a command can be called with different eligible BlockDev IDs and fully qualified Internet email address, not more than 128 each one will be added to the list.
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Fibre Channel the CRC validation causes a multi-second delay. loop. Under soft addressing, the loop address is assigned FlashImages <validate> during loop initialization. set FCHard [enabled | disabled] get FCHard ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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Help IPDHCP The Help command issued with no parameters displays a list of IPDHCP allows acquisition of an IP address from a network available CLI commands. When a CLI Command name is DHCP server. When this option is disabled, the IP address used specified, a command usage string and command description will be specified by the IPAddress CLI command.
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PassThroughMode [all | SES | non-SES | disabled] the original partition's space. get PassThroughMode Partition [GroupName] [PartIdx] [capacity] [GB | MB | blocks] PassThroughPersistent PassThroughPersistent stores maps for currently-attached passthrough devices to persistent memory. PassThroughPersistent xviii ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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PassThroughRediscover RAIDSpeedWriteLimit PassThroughRediscover will make any previously deleted pass Set or get the limit on the coalescing factor. Warning: changing through target devices visible to the host the default setting (8) may result in poor performance or timeouts. A lower setting is recommended when using multiple PassThroughRediscover initiators.
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GroupName is the ASCII name of the NEW RAID Group to commit. RGHaltInitialization RGCommit < GroupName <Advanced | Express> | all RGHaltInitialization halts the initialization of the specified RAID <Advanced | Express> > Group. RGHaltInitialization [GroupName] ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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RGHaltMediaScan RGPrefetch RGHaltMediaScan halts a media scan on the specified existing Set or Get the prefetch for all or for the specified RAID Group. RAID Group. This command will fail if the RAID Group does not exist. GroupName is the ASCII name of the RAID Group for which the RGHaltMediaScan [GroupName] parameter will apply.
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The partitions <passthrough> | <persistent> themselves will be unaffected, though they will now be inaccessible by any initiators. RGUnmap [[[GroupName] <[PartIdx] <2-128>>] | all] xxii ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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SASMultiAddress (8250 only) SASMultiAddress enables or disables the use of multiple host- SES enables support for SES enclosures that have been side SAS addresses. When enabled, each host-side PHY discovered by the system. reports a unique SAS address. When disabled, each host-side set SES PHY reports the same SAS address.
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SNTP [enabled | disabled] VirtualDriveInfo displays characteristics and statistics for all the get SNTP available virtual drives or any available virtual drive identified by its virtual drive ID. VirtualDriveInfo <VirtualDrive ID> xxiv ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
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WrapEventLog Zmodem WrapEventLog is used to enable/disable event log wrapping. Zmodem uses the ZMODEM protocol to transfer a file via the When enabled, 2048 event entries will be logged before RS-232 port. The filename to retrieve is required if the 'send' wrapping.
SAS/SATA device: A green LED on each connector SAS Host: A green LED lit on indicates activity and indicates activity if it is lit. off means no activity. Exhibit H-1 FibreBridge 6500E DIMs LEDS xxvii ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Appendix F Reference Charts These reference charts contain detailed information about generated frequencies, connector pinouts and jumper pinouts for the ATTO FastStream SC RAID storage controllers. Generated frequencies Description Frequency Origin Type Level DDR2 SDRAM 266.67MHz Derived SSTL1.8 SAS Reference Clock 125MHz Oscillator LVPECL...
Appendix G Standards and Compliances The equipment described in this manual generates and uses radio frequency energy. If this equipment is not used in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instruction, it can cause interference with radio and television reception. See the ATTO FastStream Technical Specification sheet for your particular model for a full list of certifications for that model.
Manufacturer warrants to the original purchaser of this product that it is free from defects in material and workmanship as described in the ATTO Technology website, www.attotech.com. Manufacturer liability shall be limited to replacing or repairing, at its option, any defective product. There is no charge for parts or labor should Manufacturer determine that this product is defective.