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Installation and Operation Manual

ATTO FastStream SC 7500R/D

Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA Storage Appliance

ATTO FastStream SC 7700

Fibre Channel to Fibre Channel Storage Appliance

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Page 1 ATTO FastStream Storage Controller Installation and Operation Manual ATTO FastStream SC 7500R/D Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA Storage Appliance ATTO FastStream SC 7700 Fibre Channel to Fibre Channel Storage Appliance...
Page 2 Technical support: Monday -- Friday, 8am-8pm EST techsupp@attotech.com © 2007 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc.
Page 4 1.0 ATTO FastStream Offers Data Protection ...........1 FastStream 7000 Series features RAID protection features Audio/video features FastStream SC 7500 features FastStream SC 7700 features 1.1 FastStream SC 7500R/D Physical Attributes ........3 Dimensions Cooling and airflow Power Fibre Channel ports SAS/SATA ports...
Page 5 6.0 Monitor Storage, Configurations ..............17 Health and Status Monitor page Configuration Display page Phone home: Email alerts Identifying drive issues Preliminary steps Verifying storage Scanning drive surfaces: read only drive test Measuring drive performance Identifying a drive attached to the FastStream 7.0 Modify Storage ....................21 Preliminary steps RAID group processes...
Page 6 • 2 optical SFP Fibre Channel device ports configuration settings for easy field replacement • Full support for direct connect for F-port fabric • OS independent switches • Class 3 and intermix ANSI Fibre Channel specifications compliance ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 7 • PLDA, public loop login (NL-ports) and fabric connect (N-port) Possible storage Ethernet Fibre Channel configurations SCSI GbE network ATTO iPBridge 2700 ATTO Celerity FC storage adapter GbE Switch 4- Gb FC Switch ATTO FastStream SC 7500 embedded ATTO iPBridge 1500/ 1550/ 2500 ATTO FibreBridge 2400 SAS JBOD...
Page 8 The ATTO FastStream SC 7500 R/D is a Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA storage appliance which can be seamlessly integrated into an existing storage environment. Fibre Channel ports The ATTO FastStream SC 7500R/D is available in a desktop model and in an industry-standard 1U form The four independent 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel ports factor for easy integration into racks.
Page 9 FC speed; lit means 4-Gb/sec; off means 1- or 2- Power: a lighted green LED indicates power has Gb/sec. been turned on to the appliance. SAS/SATA port: A green LED lit on indicates activity Fibre Channel port: bicolor LED indicates FC and off means no activity.
Page 10 Sie benutzte Batterien in Übereinstimmung A Ready LED is lighted green to indicate ready and mit Ihren lokalen off to show not ready. Umweltschutzbestimmungen. An Alert LED is lighted yellow to show an alert condition. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 11 Power: a lighted green LED indicates power has Fibre Channel port: bicolor LED indicates FC been turned on to the appliance. speed. If it is off, speed is 1-Gb; if it is green, 2-Gb, and yellow indicates 4-Gb FC. A separate green LED indicates activity if it is lit, no activity if it is off.
Page 12 If you use Internet Explorer as a If you are installing into a rack: browser, continue on to the optional Setting up Internet Explorer below. If not, continue on to Beginning initial configuration ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 13 Setting up Internet Explorer Beginning initial configuration Open your browser The ExpressNAV Storage Manager welcome screen appears. Click on Enter Here Select Internet Options . Type in the user name and password. In the Internet Options screen, select the Security tab. Note Click on the Trusted Sites icon.
Page 14 27, click Enter Here, type in your user you may continue with Configure Storage into RAID name and password, and click OK . Groups on page 11. Select Initialize and Verify Drives . ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 15 Scanning drive surfaces: read-only drive test The read-only drive test performs a non-destructive Click on Diagnostics from the left-hand menu. scan over the entire surface of each drive to identify Click the Read-Only Drive Test button. bad areas of disk drives and determine read Click Next.
Page 16 9 or created other RAID groups, the Initial Appendix for more information about RAID. Setup Menu appears. If you have initialized your storage or created other RAID configurations, ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 17 a. From the selections at the left, select Physically add or disconnect drives as needed Manage. and rescan. b. Click on the RAID Groups arrow. Click Next. c. Click on Create RAID Group . Click either Standard Fault Tolerance (no Hot Spare drives) or Maximum Fault Tolerance d.
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Page 19 • Or if an appliance boots up with drives a. Enter the desired partition size from the missing or faulted, the FastStream tries to available RAID group capability. switch them out automatically. b. Click Create . • If no unallocated drive is available, you must c.
Page 20 Click on the System Configuration radio side of the page. button. Click on Next. Make any changes. • Appliance name : The appliance name is a unique 8-character identifier which is ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 21 displayed at the top of each screen. You may • Assign a hard address . Refer to FC Hard find this useful if you are managing multiple and FCHardAddress in Appendix ATTO devices from a single workstation. • Establish Access through FC Ports : Refer to Discovering, managing other ATTO change whether you want all drives to be...
Page 22 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV Display page (refer to Configuration Display Storage Manager, type the IP address of your page on page 18). appliance in a standard browser as found in ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 23 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 and block size various aspects of the FastStream and attached • Drives: Drive configuration by port, including storage.
Page 24 Storage Manager, type the IP address of your appliance in a standard browser as found in Using the ExpressNAV Storage Manager page 27, click Enter Here, type in your user name and password, and click OK . ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 25 Verifying storage A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the CAUTION CAUTION configuration by clicking on Yes . Clicking on No ends the procedure without making a change. Data may be erased during this process. Back up your data before selecting Commit .
Page 26 (Refer to FastStream process: adding or removing Hot Spares on page 24.) Click on each RAID group you want to delete Click the Delete button ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 27 When you have selected all the groups you Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps wish to delete, click Commit . page 21 and click on the RAID Groups arrow A warning box appears. from the Select User Process box. If you want to continue click Yes. The Click on Add Mirrors to a RAID Group.
Page 28 When the process is complete, the Health and volumes. Status Monitor page appears. Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps page 21 and click on the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 29 Modifying RAID options Select the RAID group from the drop down box. Select the options you wish to change. You may change Auto-Rebuild and SpeedRead Click on Commit. configurations. Refer to Step 8 Step 9 under A warning box appears. In the warning box, Creating a custom setup on page 13 for details on verify that you want to complete the...
Page 30 An asterisk next to the Ready prompt indicates you Using the ExpressNAV Storage Manager must type SaveConfiguration restart in the text box for changes to take effect. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 32 Your browser points to the FastStream splash not you have begun configuring the FastStream. Refer screen. Press Enter. Configure Storage into RAID Groups on page 11. Type in the user name and password values. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 33 Using the serial port To connect to a terminal emulation program to f. Click OK. manage the FastStream, use the serial port. Turn on the FastStream. Connect a cable from FastStream RS-232 After you connect to the FastStream, start-up serial port or header to the serial (COM) port on messages are displayed.
Page 34 10 Click on Restart . 11 When the Diagnostics Menu page appears your new firmware has been uploaded and installed.Check the display on this page to ensure the correct firmware file is listed. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 36 BlockDevScan command GroupName the name of the RAID group to which the block device is assigned MemberIndex index designation of a RAID group member ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 37 CLI error messages The following error messages may be returned by the Command line Interface: ERROR. Invalid Command. Type 'Help' for command list. ERROR. Wrong/Missing Parameters Usage: <usage string> ERROR Invalid RAID Group state ERROR Invalid Block Device index ERROR Invalid RAID Member index ERROR Maximum number of RAID Groups exceeded ERROR Insufficient number of RAID Group members ERROR...
Page 38 IPDNSServer set ipdnsserver mp1 172.15.12.123 IPGateway 0.0.0.0 get ipgateway mp1 IPSubnetMask 255.255.0.0 get ipsubnetmask mp1 IsReserved isreserved MaxOpTemp get maxoptemp Metrics metrics display all MinOpTemp set minoptemp 10 ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 39 Command Default Example OpTempWarn set optempwarn 15 Partition partition alpha1 6 4 GB PartitionDisplay partitiondisplay alpha1 PartitionMerge partitionmerge alpha1 all PartitionSplit partitionsplit alpha1 22 2 Password Password set password Performance get performance 2 Ping ping mp1 192.42.155.155 RAIDRebuildPriority same set raidrebuildpriority low ReadOnlyPassword Password set readonlypassword...
Page 40 (single node): AutoMap Lights the LED of a disk drive. Use either RAID group name and SaveConfiguration command required member index, or block ID. BlockDevIdentify <Group name> [BlockDevID | member index] ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 41 BlockDevIDStop DeleteAllMaps Turns off the IO LED of a previously identified disk drive. Removes all mapped devices from the map table. Upon the subsequent POST, the default maps are loaded if no maps are BlockDevIDStop present. DeleteAllMaps BlockDevScan SaveConfiguration command required Lists all currently-connected physical block devices and any potential RAID group association.
Page 42 Ethernet speed is negotiated. When hard set, 10 and 100 speeds are half duplex. Default: auto set EthernetSpeed [mp1] [10 | 100 | auto] SaveConfiguration Restart command required get EthernetSpeed [mp1] ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 43 EventLog FCHard Regulates event logging. When enabled, the unit records Regulates Fibre Channel hard address assignment. When various system events to the event log. enabled, the unit tries to use its internal hard address as its address on the Fibre Channel loop. Under soft addressing, the Default: enabled unit loop address is assigned during loop initialization.
Page 44 IdentifyBridge [enabled | disabled] get IPSubnetMask [mp1] get IdentifyBridge IsReserved Info Displays the reservation status of the current unit. Displays version numbers and other product information for key IsReserved components within the unit. Info ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 45 MaxOpTemp PartitionMerge Regulates the maximum operating temperature of this unit in Combines the specified contiguous partitions into one partition. degrees Celsius. Valid entries are between 55 and 70 degrees. Partition index is the index of a partition to merge, along with a number of contiguous partitions to merge to that index.
Page 46 CAUTION MIRRORs can not be added to a RAID 4, 5 or All data is lost! DVRAID group. RGAddStorage [group name] [MIRROR | STRIPE | RGErase [group name] SPAN] <BlockDevID>... <commit>> ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 47 RGHaltConversion RGSpanDepth Stops the conversion of the specified RAID group. Regulates the span depth on the specified RAID group. The RAID group must be of type RAID 0, 1, 4, 5 or 1+0. RGHaltConversion [group name] set RGSpanDepth [group name] [SpanDepth [1-32]] RGHaltErase RGSpeedRead Stops the erase on the specified RAID group.
Page 48 Controls whether an SNTP time server sets the date and time. set VerboseMode [enabled | disabled] get VerboseMode Default: enabled set SNTP [enabled | disabled] SaveConfiguration Restart command required get SNTP xiii ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 49 VirtualDriveInfo WrapEventLog Displays characteristics and statistics for all available virtual Controls EventLog output wrapping. When enabled, the unit drives or any available virtual drive identified by its virtual drive logs up to 2048 event entries before overwriting the first entries. When disabled, the unit stops logging event entries at buffer full.
Page 50 RAID Level 0 The ATTO FastStream supports 1 to 32 drives per Stripe Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 JBOD-configured RAID group. ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 51 RAID Level 1 The ATTO FastStream supports an even number of 4 to 16 drives per RAID Level 1+0 group. RAID Level 1 ensures the security of data by writing the exact same data simultaneously to two different Exhibit A-6 RAID Level 1+0 with mirroring and drives.
Page 52 CE standards and found to be compliant. The ATTO FastStream SC 7500 complies with Directive 2002/95/EC on the Restriction of the Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS). xvii ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual...
Page 53 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.

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