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UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0
UltraStor RS16 FS
Fibre to SATA II / SAS
RAID Storage System
User Manual
Version 6.0 (JUNE, 2008)
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  • Page 1 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 UltraStor RS16 FS Fibre to SATA II / SAS RAID Storage System User Manual Version 6.0 (JUNE, 2008) - 1 -...
  • Page 2 Preface About this manual This manual is the introduction of UltraStor RS16 FS controller and it aims to help users know the operations of the disk array system easily. Information contained in this manual has been reviewed for accuracy, but not for product warranty because of the various environments/OS/settings, Information and specification will be changed without further notice.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Table of Contents Chapter 1 RAID introduction.......... 5 Features................5 Terminology ..............6 RAID levels ..............9 Volume relationship diagram ......... 10 Chapter 2 Getting started ..........11 Before starting..............11 Storage introduction............11 Management methods ...........
  • Page 4 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 3.7.4 Import and export ................. 53 3.7.5 Event log ....................54 3.7.6 Reboot and shutdown................55 Logout ................55 Chapter 4 Advanced operation ........56 Rebuild................56 RG migration..............58 VD Extension ..............59 Snapshot / Rollback ............

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Raid Introduction

    For more details, please contact your direct sales or email to “sales@enhance-tech.com”. UltraStor RS16 FS controller connects to the host system in fibre channel interface. It can be configured to any RAID level. The controller provides reliable data protection for servers and RAID 6.

  • Page 6: Terminology

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 for further data access. The data access which includes read/ write is working as usual without any impact to end users. The "on-the-box" implies that it does not require any proprietary agents installed at host side. The snapshot is taken at target side and done by ULTRASTOR controller.
  • Page 7 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Logical Unit Number. A logical unit number (LUN) is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices (each one is a logical unit). Graphic User Interface. RAID width, copy and row are used to describe one RG.
  • Page 8 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 DeGraded mode. Not all of the array’s member disks are functioning, but the array is able to respond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks. SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface. Serial Attached SCSI.

  • Page 9: Raid Levels

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 1.3 RAID levels Disk striping. RAID 0 needs at least one hard drive. RAID 0 Disk mirroring over two disks. RAID 1 needs at least two hard RAID 1 drives. Extension to RAID 1 level. It has N copies of the disk.

  • Page 10: Volume Relationship Diagram

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 1.4 Volume relationship diagram LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3 Snap VD 1 VD 2 Dedicated Global CV PD 1 PD 2 PD 3 Figure 1.4.1 This is the volume structure of ULTRASTOR designed. It describes the relationship of RAID components.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Getting Started

    2.2 Storage introduction UltraStor RS16 FS is a fibre channel network technology primarily used for storage network. It started use primarily in the supercomputer field, but has become the standard connection type for storage area networks (SAN) in enterprise storage.

  • Page 12: Management Methods

    2.3.1 Web GUI ULTRASTOR RS16 FS controllers support graphic user interface to manage the system. Be sure to connect LAN cable. The default setting of management port IP is DHCP and DHCP address displays on LCM; user can inspect LCM for IP first, then open the browser and type the DHCP address: (The DHCP address is dynamic and user may need to check every time after reboot.) When DHCP...

  • Page 13: Console Serial Port

    For using SSH, the IP address and password are required for login. 2.4 Enclosure 2.4.1 There are four buttons to control ULTRASTOR RS16 FS LCM (LCD Control Module), including: (up), (down), ESC (Escape), and ENT (Enter). After booting up the system, the following screen shows management port IP and model name: 192.168.10.50...
  • Page 14 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Press functions “ENT”, “System Info.”, “Alarm Mute”, “Reset/Shutdown”, “Quick Install”, “Volume Wizard”, “View IP Setting”, “Change IP Config” and “Reset to Default” will rotate by pressing (up) and (down). When there is WARNING or ERROR occurred (LCM default filter), the LCM shows the event log to give users more detail from front panel.
  • Page 15 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 [ Yes [Shutdown] No ] RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 3 [Quick Install] RAID 5 [Apply The [ Yes RAID 6 Config] No ] RAID 0+1 xxx GB [Local] RAID 0 [Apply RAID 1...

  • Page 16: System Buzzer

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 2.4.2 System buzzer The system buzzer features are listed below: The system buzzer alarms 1 second when system boots up successfully. The system buzzer alarms continuously when there is error occurred. The alarm will be stopped after error resolved or be muted.

  • Page 17: Chapter 3 Web Gui Guideline

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Chapter 3 Web GUI guideline 3.1 Web GUI hierarchy The below table is the hierarchy of web GUI. Step 1 / Step 2 / Confirm Quick installation System configuration System name / Date and time...

  • Page 18: Login

    Sure to logout? Logout 3.2 Login ULTRASTOR RS16 FS controller supports graphic user interface (GUI) to operate the system. Be sure to connect the LAN cable. The default IP setting is DHCP; open the browser and enter: http://192.168.10.50 (Please check the DHCP address first on LCM.) Click any function at the first time;...

  • Page 19: Quick Install

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Voltage light: Green means normal voltage. Red represents abnormal voltage.. UPS light: Green means UPS works well. Red represents UPS failure. Fan light: Green means Fan works well. Red represents fan failure. (Only for backplane solution) Power light: Green means Power works well.

  • Page 20: System Configuration

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Step 2: Confirm page. Click “ ” if all setups are correct. Then a VD will be created. Done. You can start to use the system now. Figure 3.3.2 (Figure 3.3.2: A RAID 0 Virtual disk with the VD name “QUICK16150”, named by system itself, with the total available volume size 271GB.)

  • Page 21: System Setting

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 3.4.1 System setting “System setting” can set system name and date. Default “System name” composed of model name and serial number of this system. Figure 3.4.1.1 Check “Change date and time” to set up the current date, time, and time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP (Network Time Protocol) server.

  • Page 22: Login Setting

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.4.2.1 3.4.3 Login setting “Login setting” can set single admin, auto logout time and Admin/User password. The single admin can prevent multiple users access the same controller at the same time. Auto logout: The options are (1) Disable; (2) 5 minutes; (3) 30 minutes;...

  • Page 23: Mail Setting

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.4.3.1 Check “Change admin password” or “Change user password” to change admin or user password. The maximum length of password is 12 characters. 3.4.4 Mail setting “Mail setting” can enter at most 3 mail addresses for receiving the event notification.

  • Page 24: Notification Setting

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.4.4.1 3.4.5 Notification setting “Notification setting” can set up SNMP trap for alerting via SNMP, pop-up message via Windows messenger (not MSN), alert via syslog protocol, and event log filter. - 24 -...
  • Page 25 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.4.5.1 “SNMP” allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses. Default community setting is “public”. User can choose the event log levels and default setting only enables INFO event log in SNMP. There are many SNMP tools. The following web sites...

  • Page 26: Volume Configuration

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Using “System log server”, user can choose the facility and the event log level. The default port of syslog is 514. The default setting enables event level: INFO, WARNING and ERROR event logs. There are some syslog server tools. The following web sites are for your...
  • Page 27 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Biggest capacity of RAID level for user to choose and, The fewest disk number for RAID level / volume size. E.g., user chooses RAID 5 and the controller has 12*200G + 4*80G HDDs inserted. If we use all 16 HDDs for a RAID 5, and then the maximum size of volume is 1200G (80G*15).
  • Page 28 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.1.2 Step 3: Decide VD size. User can enter a number less or equal to the default number. Then click “ ”. Figure 3.5.1.3 Step 4: Confirm page. Click “ ” if all setups are correct. Then a VD will be created.

  • Page 29: Physical Disk

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 3.5.2 Physical disk “Physical disk” can view the status of hard drives in the system. The followings are operational tips: Mouse moves to the gray button next to the number of slot, it will show the functions which can be executed.
  • Page 30 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.2.3 (Figure 3.5.2.3: Physical disks of slot 1,2,3 are created for a RG named “RG-R5”. Slot 4 is set as dedicated spare disk of RG named “RG-R6”. The others are free disks.) •...
  • Page 31 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 the hard drive is failed. “Failed” S.M.A.R.T. error alert. “Error Alert” the hard drive has unrecoverable “Read Errors” read errors. RAID Disk. This hard drive has been set to Usage “RD” RAID. FRee disk. This hard drive is free for use.

  • Page 32: Raid Group

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Set hard drive to dedicated spare of selected RGs. Dedicated spares Change the status of write cache and standby. Set property Write cache options: Enable disk write cache. “Enabled” Disable disk write cache. “Disabled”...
  • Page 33 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Step 2: Confirm page. Click “ ” if all setups are correct. Figure 3.5.3.2 (Figure 3.5.3.2: There is a RAID 0 with 4 physical disks, named “RG-R0”, total size is 135GB. Another is a RAID 5 with 3 physical disks, named “RG-R5”.) Done.
  • Page 34 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 the RAID group is being rebuilt. “Rebuild” the RAID group is being migrated. “Migrate” the RAID group is being scrubbed. “Scrub” The health of RAID group. Health the RAID group is good. “Good” the hard drive is failed.

  • Page 35: Virtual Disk

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Show RAID group detail information. More information 3.5.4 Virtual disk “Virtual disk” can view the status of each Virtual disk. The following is an example to create a VD. Step 1: Click “ ”, enter “Name”, choose “RG name”, “Stripe height (KB)”, “Block size (B)”, “Read/Write”...
  • Page 36 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.4.2 (Figure 3.5.4.2: Create a VD named “VD-01”, related to “RG-R0”, size is 30GB. The other VD is named “VD-02”, initializing to 12%.) Done. View “Virtual disk” page. • VD column description: Number of this Virtual disk. The button next to the VD No.
  • Page 37 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Background task priority. Bg rate Default value is 4. The higher “4 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 0” number the background priority of a VD has, the more background I/O will be scheduled to execute.
  • Page 38 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Number of snapshot(s) that Virtual disk is taken. #Snapshot The Virtual disk is related to the RG name RG name • VD operations description: Extend a Virtual disk capacity. Extend Scrub a Virtual disk. It’s a parity regeneration. It Scrub supports RAID 3 / 5 / 6 / 30 / 50 / 60 only.

  • Page 39: Snapshot

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Take a snapshot on the Virtual disk. Take snapshot Set auto snapshot on the Virtual disk. Auto snapshot List all snapshot VD related to the Virtual disk. List snapshot Show Virtual disk detail information.
  • Page 40 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.5.3 Step 4: Export the snapshot VD. Move the mouse to the gray button next to the Snapshot VD number; click “Export”. Enter a capacity for snapshot VD. If size is zero, the exported snapshot VD will be read only. Otherwise, the exported snapshot VD can be read / written, and the size will be the maximum capacity to read / write.

  • Page 41: Logical Unit

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Number of this snapshot VD. The button next to the snapshot VD No. shows the functions which can be executed. Snapshot VD name. Name The amount of snapshot space that has been used. Used (MB) Snapshot VD is exported or not.

  • Page 42: Example

    “ ”. Figure 3.5.6.1 Figure 3.5.6.2 (Figure 3.5.6.2: ULTRASTOR RS16 FS, VD-01 is attached to LUN 0 and every host can access. VD-02 is attached to LUN 1 and only FC note name which is named “200000051E4214B8” can access.) •...
  • Page 43 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 • Example 1 Example 1 is to create two VDs in one RG, each VD uses global cache volume. Global cache volume is created after system boots up automatically. So, no action is needed to set CV. Then set a global spare disk. Eventually, delete all of them.
  • Page 44 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.7.3 Select “/ Volume configuration / Virtual disk”. Click “ ”. Input a VD name, choose a RG Name and enter a size of VD; decide the stripe high, block size, read/write mode and set priority, finally click “...
  • Page 45 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.7.5 Select a VD. Input “Host” name, which is a FC node name for access control, or fill- in wildcard “*”, which means every host can access to this volume. Choose LUN and permission, then click “...
  • Page 46 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.5.7.7 (Figure 3.5.8.7: Slot 4 is set as global spare disk.) Step 5: Done. They can be used as disks. Delete VDs, RG, please follow the steps listed below. Step 6: Detach LUN from VD.

  • Page 47: Enclosure Management

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Tips When deleting VD, the attached LUN(s) related to this VD will be detached automatically. Step 8: Delete RG (RAID group). To delete the RAID group, please follow the procedures: Select “/ Volume configuration / RAID group”.

  • Page 48: Ses Configuration

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Temperature sensors: 1 minute. Voltage sensors: 1 minute. Hard disk sensors: 10 minutes. Fan sensors: 10 seconds . When there are 3 errors consecutively, controller sends ERROR event log. Power sensors: 10 seconds, when there are 3 errors consecutively, controller sends ERROR event log.

  • Page 49: Hard Drive S.m.a.r.t. Support

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.6.2.1 If “Auto shutdown” has been checked, the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range. For better data protection, please check “Auto Shutdown”. For better protection and avoiding single short period of high temperature triggering auto shutdown, controllers use multiple condition judgments for auto shutdown, below are the details of when the Auto shutdown will be triggered.

  • Page 50: Ups

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a diagnostic tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance. S.M.A.R.T. provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure. S.M.A.R.T. measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and inspects the properties of hard drives which are close to be out of tolerance.
  • Page 51 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.6.4.1 Currently, the system only supports and communicates with smart-UPS of APC (American Power Conversion Corp.) UPS. Please review the details from the website: http://www.apc.com/. First, connect the system and APC UPS via RS-232 for communication. Then set up the shutdown values when power is failed.

  • Page 52: System Maintenance

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Current percentage of battery level. Battery Level 3.7 System maintenance “Maintenance” allows the operation of system functions which include “System information” to show the system version, “Upgrade” to the latest firmware, “Reset to factory default” to reset all controller configuration values to factory settings, “Import and export”...

  • Page 53: Reset To Factory Default

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.7.2.1 Figure 3.7.2.2 When upgrading, there is a progress bar running. After finished upgrading, the system must reboot manually to make the new firmware took effect. Tips Please contact with tech@enhance-tech.com for latest firmware.

  • Page 54: Event Log

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 values are available in export and not available in import which can avoid confliction/date-deleting between two controllers. That says if one controller already exists valuable data in the disks and user may forget to overwrite it. Use import could return to original configuration.

  • Page 55: Reboot And Shutdown

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 3.7.5.1 The event log is displayed in reverse order which means the latest event log is on the first page. The event logs are actually saved in the first four hard drives; each hard drive has one copy of event log. For one controller, there are four copies of event logs to make sure users can check event log any time when there is/are failed disk(s).

  • Page 56: Chapter 4 Advanced Operation

    RG is changed to degraded mode, the system will search/detect spare disk to rebuild the degraded RG to a complete one. It will detect dedicated spare disk as rebuild disk first, then global spare disk. ULTRASTOR RS16 FS controllers support Auto-Rebuild. The following is the scenario: Take RAID 6 for example:...
  • Page 57 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Tips “Set dedicated spare” is not available if there is no RG or only RG of RAID 0, JBOD, because user can not set dedicated spare disk to RAID 0 & JBOD. Sometimes, rebuild is called recover; they are the same meaning. The following table is the relationship between RAID levels and rebuild.

  • Page 58: Rg Migration

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 four hard drive failures or unplugging, every two in different arrays. The abbreviation of “Just a Bunch Of Disks”. No data JBOD protection. RG fails if any hard drive failures or unplugs. 4.2 RG migration To migrate the RAID level, please follow below procedures.

  • Page 59: Vd Extension

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 4.2.2 (Figure 4.2.2: A RAID 0 with 4 physical disks migrates to RAID 5 with 5 physical disks.) Figure 4.2.3 (Figure 4.2.3: A RAID 0 migrates to RAID 5, the complete percentage is 14%.) To do migration, the total size of RG must be larger or equal to the original RG.

  • Page 60: Snapshot / Rollback

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Select “/ Volume configuration / Virtual disk”. Mouse moves to the gray button next to the VD number; click “Extend”. Change the size. The size must be larger than the original, and then click “...

  • Page 61: Create Snapshot Volume

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 ordinary VDs in the system. Rollback restores the data back to the state of any time which was previously captured in case for any unfortunate reason it might be (e.g. virus attack, data corruption, human errors and so on). Snap VD is allocated within the same RG in which the snapshot is taken, we suggest to reserve 20% of RG size or more for snapshot space.
  • Page 62 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 VD page and the size will show in snapshot column. It may not be the same as the number entered because some size is reserved for snapshot internal usage. There will be 2 numbers in “Snapshot (MB)”...

  • Page 63: Auto Snapshot

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 (Figure 4.4.1.2: This is the list of “VD-01”. There are two snapshots in “VD-01”. Snapshot VD “SnapVD-01” is exported to read only, “SnapVD-02” is exported to read/write.) 10. There are two methods to clean all snapshots. In “/ Volume configuration / Virtual disk”, mouse moves to the gray button next to...

  • Page 64: Rollback

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 4.4.2.1 (Figure 4.4.2.1: It will take snapshots every month, and keep the last 32 snapshot copies.) Tips Daily snapshot will be taken at every 00:00. Weekly snapshot will be taken every Sunday 00:00. Monthly snapshot will be taken every first day of month 00:00.

  • Page 65: Disk Roaming

    LUN configuration will be cleared in order to avoid conflict with system-2. 4.6 SAS JBOD expansion ULTRASTOR RS16 FS has SAS JBOD expansion port to connect extra SAS JBOD controllers. When connecting to a SAS JBOD which can be detected, it - 65 -...
  • Page 66 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 displays tabs on the top in “/ Volume configuration / Physical disk”. For example, Local, JBOD 1 (vendor model), JBOD 2 (vendor model), …etc. Local means disks in local controller, and so on. The disks in JBOD can be used as local disks.
  • Page 67 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure 4.6.2 (Figure 4.6.2: Disk S.M.A.R.T. information of Local and JBOD 1, although S.M.A.R.T. supports SATA disk only.) SAS JBOD expansion has some constraints as described in the followings: Up to 4 SAS JBODs can be cascaded.

  • Page 68: Support Microsoft Mpio

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Global spare disk only supports all RGs which located in the same controller. 4.7 Support Microsoft MPIO MPIO (Multi-Path Input/Output) use multiple physical paths to create logical "paths" between the server and the storage device. In the case which one or more of these components fails, causing the path to fail, multi-path logic uses an alternate path for I/O.

  • Page 69: Appendix

    Appendix A. Certification list • UltraStor RS16 FS RAM Spec: 240-pin, DDR2-533(PC4300), Reg.(register) or UB (Unbufferred), ECC, up to 2GB, 64-bit data bus width (and also 32-bit memory support), x8 or x16 devices, 36-bit addressable, up to 14-bit row address and 10-bit column address.
  • Page 70 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 • Hard drive ULTRASTOR RS16 FS support SATA I, II disks. Vendor Model Hitachi Deskstar 7K250, HDS722580VLSA80, 80GB, 7200RPM, SATA, 8M Hitachi Deskstar E7K500, HDS725050KLA360, 500GB, 7200RPM, SATA II, Hitachi Deskstar 7K80, HDS728040PLA320, 40GB, 7200RPM, SATA II, 2M...

  • Page 71: Event Notifications

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Seagate Barracuda ES.2, ST31000640SS, 1000GB, 7200RPM, SAS 3.0Gb/s, B. Event notifications • PD events Level Type Description Disk inserted Disk <slot> is inserted into system. INFO Disk removed Disk <slot> is removed from system.
  • Page 72 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Voltage critical System voltages <location> failed!!! ERROR Voltage critical System voltages <location> failed!!! The system ERROR shutdown will do the auto shutdown immediately. UPS info UPS detection succeeded. INFO UPS error UPS detection failed.
  • Page 73 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 VD rebuild failed Failed to complete rebuild of VD <name>. WARNING VD migration VD <name> starts migration. INFO started VD migration VD <name> completes migration. INFO finished VD migration failed Failed to complete migration of VD <name>.
  • Page 74 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 deleted deleted to obtain extra snapshot space. Snapshot taken A snapshot on VD <name> has been taken. INFO Snapshot space Set the snapshot space of VD <name> to INFO configured <number> MB. Snapshot rollback Snapshot rollback of VD <name>...

  • Page 75: Known Issues

    UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 • System maintenance events Level Type Description System shutdown System shutdown. INFO System reboot System reboot. INFO FW upgrade start Firmware upgrade start. INFO FW upgrade Firmware upgrade success. INFO success FW upgrade failure Firmware upgrade failure.
  • Page 76 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Tips If the OS is 64bit, user can set the block size to any available value. If the OS is 32bit, user must change the block size to larger values than 512B. There will be a confirmation pop-up message when VD size is over 2TB.
  • Page 77 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Figure D.2 Initialize the disk. Figure D.3 Convert to GPT disk for over 2TB capacity. For more detail information about GPT, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx Figure D.4 - 77 -...
  • Page 78 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Format the disk. Figure D.5 Done. Figure D.6 The new disk is ready to use, the available size = 2.72TB. Figure D.7 - 78 -...
  • Page 79 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 Caution If user setups 512B block size for VD and the host/server OS is 32bit, in the last step of formatting disk, user will find OS can not format the disk sector after 2048GB (2TB).
  • Page 80 UltraStor RS16 FS – Manual v.6.0 System information ULTRASTOR RS16 FS 1.0.0 SW version - 80 -...

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