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  • Page 1 Configuration Tool and Utilities v3.24 Operation Manual for Fusion RAID Storage Systems...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1.0 ATTO Configuration Tool Overview..................... 1 About the Configuration Tool Configuration Tool Launch Configuration Tool Navigation Select the Local Host Select a Controller Select a Channel Select a Device 1.1 NVRAM Settings........................7 SAS Address Boot Driver Heartbeat Device Wait Time Device Wait Count Spinup Delay 1.2 RAID Settings........................... 9 Preliminary Configuration Steps Custom RAID Group Setup Hot Spares Setup and Usage Mac OS Drive Formatting Windows Drive Formatting RAID Group Management Overview RAID Group Capacity Expansion RAID Level Migration RAID Group Deletion...
  • Page 4 Contents 1.6 Diagnose and Replace a Faulted Drive..................25 Automatic Faulted Drive Identification Manual Faulted Drive Identification Faulted Drive Replacement with Auto Rebuild Manual Faulted Drive Replacement 1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance....................27 Media Scan Options Start a Manual Media Scan Schedule a Media Scan Cancel or Pause a Media Scan Manage Scheduled Media Scans 1.8 Configuration Tool Troubleshooting..................31 Messages from NVRAM Tab Actions An error occurred loading NVRAM data. W arning: NVRAM could not be read, defaults returned. An error occurred updating the NVRAM. Feature bounds checking. Execution Throttle is greater than the maximum allowable value of 255.

  • Page 5: Atto Configuration Tool Overview

    • Linux 2.6 kernel, x86 and x64 ® Note: T he Sonnet RAID controller is designed to operate properly using Note: Java version 1.5 or later must be installed. factory settings. Entering invalid or incorrect NVRAM settings may cause your Sonnet RAID controller to function incorrectly.

  • Page 6: Select The Local Host

    The About window, displayed when About is selected from the PCI Info tab. See Figure 7 on page 6. Help menu, lists the ATTO Configuration Tool’s version number. • T he current status of the Configuration Tool is represented in Select a Controller the Status pane at the bottom of the window. The following tabs are displayed in the Configuration Options pane when you select the Sonnet RAID controller in the Device About window Listing pane: The About window, displayed when About is selected from the Help menu, lists the ATTO Configuration Tool’s version number. • T he Basic Info tab provides information about the Sonnet RAID controller when it is highlighted in the Device Listing Support Note: This feature does not work with Fusion pane. You cannot make changes from this screen. See Figure D400RAID, Fusion D800RAID, nor Fusion R800RAID 2 on page 3. storage systems. Select a Device • T he Flash tab provides information about the current flash version programmed on the highlighted controller. See Figure The following tabs display in the Configuration Options pane 3 on page 4.
  • Page 7 1.0 ATTO Configuration Tool Overview Basic Info displayed when Local Host chosen in the Device Listing pane Figure 1 Basic Info displayed when the Sonnet RAID controller is chosen in the Device Listing pane Figure 2...
  • Page 8 1.0 ATTO Configuration Tool Overview Flash information displayed when the Sonnet RAID controller is chosen in the Device Listing pane Figure 3 RAID group and associated drive information displayed when the Sonnet RAID controller is chosen in the Device Listing pane Figure 4...
  • Page 9 1.0 ATTO Configuration Tool Overview RAID CLI displayed when the Sonnet RAID controller is chosen in the Device Listing pane Figure 5 Tasks information displayed when the Sonnet RAID controller is chosen in the Device Listing pane Figure 6...
  • Page 10 1.0 ATTO Configuration Tool Overview PCI Info tab Figure 7 SES information displayed when a SAS expander is selected in the Device Listing pane Figure 8...

  • Page 11: Nvram Settings

    1.1 NVRAM Settings Device Wait Time The settings in the NVRAM tab vary depending upon the operating system. Choices: 1–255 seconds Default: 3 The Sonnet RAID controller is designed to operate properly using factory settings. Entering invalid or incorrect settings when using Specifies the number of seconds that the driver waits for devices an NVRAM configuration utility such as the ATTO Configuration to appear. Tool may cause your controller to function incorrectly. See Figure 9 on page 8. Device Wait Count Choices: 1–255 devices Default: 1 WARNING: Back up system data when installing or changing hardware configurations. Specifies the number of devices that must appear in order to cancel Use caution when making changes to NVRAM settings and only the Device Wait Time period. make changes to those with which you are familiar. Once you have made the desired changes, click Commit to save the changes.
  • Page 12 1.1 NVRAM Settings NVRAM settings information shown when a Fusion drive enclosure is selected in the Device Listing pane Figure 9...

  • Page 13: Raid Settings

    Support Note: DVRAID is a customized, protected more than 14 characters. RAID 4 configuration. It is optimized for increased digital video playback performance when compared to that obtained from a RAID 5 configuration. DVRAID’s write performance is Support Note: Two RAID groups with the same name decreased in order to accomplish this optimization. may not be recognized. If you add another RAID group to your setup, you must make sure it does not have the same name DVRAID RAID groups may be set up automatically by the ATTO as the existing one, and change it if it does. Configuration Tool. All other RAID configurations require customized input; Sonnet recommends Custom RAID Group • L evel: select a RAID group level from the drop-down box. setup. Support Note: Descriptions of RAID levels can be found Each RAID group may be divided into one or more partitions; on the Wikipedia.org Web site at the following addresses: each partition appears to the your computer as a virtual disk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_levels and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels. Windows Support Note: In order to create RAID • Interleave: select an interleave value. The default value volumes larger than 2TB under Windows, you must do one is 128KB. Sonnet recommends 1MB interleave size for...

  • Page 14: Hot Spares Setup And Usage

    1.2 RAID Settings Custom RAID Group Setup (continued) 5. If you want the RAID group to be presented as one virtual • I nitialize: select Advanced or Express; Sonnet recommends disk (partition), click Finish. If you want more than one choosing Advanced. virtual disk (partition), click Next (see Figure 14 on page 15), and then select one of the following options: Support Note: When the Advanced Initialize option is • leave as one partition selected, parity blocks are calculated and the RAID group is thoroughly scanned and subjected to a complete Write/Verify • partition by count operation to map out any bad blocks on the drives before the • partition by size RAID group is made available for use. When the Express Initialize option is chosen, drives are not If you choose to split the RAID group by count or capacity, scanned and subjected to the Write/Verify operation, but parity you must enter additional information. blocks are calculated and the RAID group may be used during the initialization. 6. If you have not already done so, click Finish. 3. Click Next. Select the drives in the top pane and drag them into the device area in the bottom pane. See Figure 12 on 7. A confirmation dialog box asks you to approve the settings page 14.

  • Page 15: Mac Os Drive Formatting

    1.2 RAID Settings Mac OS Drive Formatting 8. Depending on how you configured the RAID groups, the 1. Depending on how you configure your setup, a Disk Insertion volumes may already be available to the system. If you window stating that there is an unreadable volume will created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group, appear at some point during the RAID group creation process; configuration will take much longer. You may check on the click Initialize, and then Disk Utility will open. process by double-clicking the volume name in the lower pane of the ATTO Configuration Tool window. 2. In the Disk Utility window, each RAID group you created using the ATTO Configuration Tool will appear as a single 9. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and finished volume. Select the volume, and then click the Erase tab at the building, they are ready to use. top of the window. RAID Group Management Overview Support Note for Power Mac G5 Users: The ATTO Configuration Tool interface may be used to manage When creating RAID groups 16TB or larger, uncheck the Install the replacement of a failed drive, add capacity to a RAID group, Mac OS 9 Drivers checkbox; OS 9 drivers do not support volumes...

  • Page 16: Raid Group Deletion

    You may pause a RAID group rebuild by selecting the RAID group in the lower pane, and then selecting RAID Management > Pause Rebuild from the application menu. To restart the rebuild, select the RAID group in the bottom pane, and then select RAID Management > Resume Rebuild from the application menu. Change RAID Group Properties Each RAID group has specific properties, and the value of each property remains with the RAID group when it is moved from one computer to another. Some of the properties can only be specified during RAID group creation (RAID level, interleave, and sector size), whereas others may be changed at any time during the life of the RAID group. See Figure 15 on page 15. 1. Select a RAID group in the Groups pane. 2. Select RAID Management > Properties from the application menu, and then view or change the current properties: • S peed Read specifies the cache policy to be used during read operations. Once a read command is given, the ExpressSAS RAID code retrieves the next set of sequential data from the RAID group’s drives and caches it in the Sonnet RAID controller’s internal memory. If you select Never, read caching is never performed. If you select Always, read caching is always performed. If you select Adaptive, Speed Read is enabled or disabled depending on the sequential patterns detected in I/O requests. • A uto Rebuild controls the replacement of a faulted drive with any available unallocated drive. When you click on the Auto Rebuild check box and the Accept button, Auto Rebuild is enabled. If a drive becomes faulted, the ExpressSAS RAID adapter replaces the drive with an unallocated drive.
  • Page 17 1.2 RAID Settings Configuration Tool main screen with the RAID tab selected Figure 10 Options selection screen displayed when creating new, custom RAID groups Figure 11...
  • Page 18 1.2 RAID Settings RAID group drives selected Figure 12 Additional options selection screen displayed when creating new, custom RAID groups Figure 13...
  • Page 19 1.2 RAID Settings Select the number of partitions for the new RAID group Figure 14 Select the RAID group’s properties Figure 15...

  • Page 21: Drive And Raid Group Monitoring

    In the bottom pane, click the Groups tab to display RAID groups. all the drives is displayed. See Figure 16 on page 19. See Figure 16 on page 19. • L ED icon: Indicates operational status of the drives. Green = • Name: Displays the name of the RAID group online, red = faulted • Level: Indicates the RAID level formatting for the RAID group • Name: Displays the drive’s model number • C apacity: Indicates the formatted, configured capacity of the • Vendor: Not used RAID group • A ddress: Displays the SAS address generated by the Sonnet • M embers: Identifies the number of drives comprising the RAID RAID controller group • U sage: Identifies how the drive is being used. If it is part of • S tatus: Displays the operating status for the RAID group. a RAID group, the group name and member number are ONLINE indicates that there are no faulted drives and the displayed. If it is a Hot Spare, it is listed as a Hot Spare. group is fully operational; DEGRADED indicates that one drive in the group has failed and it should be replaced as soon as • Capacity: Displays the drive’s formatted capacity. possible; OFFLINE indicates more than one drive in the group has failed or is missing and the RAID group is non-operational;...

  • Page 22: Data

    1.3 Drive and RAID Group Monitoring Drive Identification (continued) The S.M.A.R.T. status display also contains information such as 4. Select RAID Management > Locate > Drive from the the date and time the S.M.A.R.T. status was recorded, the total application menu. If the drive does not support this method number of records for this drive, and the current monitoring of identification, a message will appear in the bottom pane; status (enabled or disabled). go to the next step. Otherwise, look at the Fusion enclosure; the drive activity LED(s) for the specific drive(s) will be lit You may move to previous or subsequent records, query the drive until you deselect Locate in the application menu. or refresh the view using controls on the interface. Control-click (or right-click) a single drive in the Attached Drives panel, and 5. Double-click a drive in the top pane to display detailed select S.M.A.R.T. Status from the sub-menu to view the record. information, and note the index number for the drive. Close the detailed drive information window. • U se the left arrow or right arrow control to move between S.M.A.R.T. status records. 6. Click the RAID CLI tab, and then type “Blockdevidentify x”, where x is the index number. Look at the Fusion enclosure; • U se the Refresh button to query the drive for the latest values. the drive activity LED for the specific drive will be lit. If any values are different from the most recent record, a new record is created and displayed. Note: Type “Blockdevidstop” to turn off the LED. S.M.A.R.T.
  • Page 23 1.3 Drive and RAID Group Monitoring Drive information displayed with the RAID tab selected Figure 16 Detailed information displayed for a specific drive Figure 17...
  • Page 24 1.3 Drive and RAID Group Monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status displayed for a specific drive Figure 18...

  • Page 25: Enclosure (Ses) Health Monitoring

    1.4 Enclosure (SES) Health Monitoring Support Note: This feature does not work with Fusion D400RAID, Fusion D800RAID, nor Fusion R800RAID storage systems. The ATTO Configuration Tool provides enclosure health monitoring information automatically when the Fusion storage system drive enclosure has SES (SCSI Enclosure Services) functionality. Use the ATTO Configuration Tool to gather the health status of the enclosure’s power supplies and fans. If the status of either of these sub-systems indicates a failure, the controller reports the problem. The Configuration Tool shows the status of selected SES devices and reports the specific health of each sub-system. SES Status Checking 1. Select the Fusion drive enclosure from the Device Listing tree in the Configuration Tool. See Figure 19 on page 22.
  • Page 26 1.4 Enclosure (SES) Monitoring Basic info information displayed when a SAS expander is selected Figure 19 Power supply status displayed when the SES (SCSI Enclosure Services) tab is selected Figure 20...

  • Page 27: Notifications

    • All: all Critical, Warning and Information events are reported • C hoose the type of event you want recorded in the event log from the Events: drop down box. • None: no event is reported. The None level is useful in Email Email Alert notification because you can set up Email addresses to which alerts might be sent at some future time. Email notification sends a message to designated Email addresses when the event level from the drop down box is reached. You may choose any combination of notifications on the Notification pane as needed. The notifications are specified at • Y ou may specify several notification addresses on each line in the host system level and apply to all Sonnet RAID controllers the Email section of the Notifications pane, each separated by installed in the host system. commas, for any event level. Basic Alerts • Y ou must complete the IP address or name of the server and You can select an audible alert, a visual alert, or both for a sender. particular category of events. Select a notification level using the drop-down box next to the Audible and Visual labels on the • Y ou may specify a user name and password for the mail server Notifications screen. if one is required. Audible alert uses the computer’s speaker to sound an alarm for • A critical event Email notification is sent after a 10-second...
  • Page 28 1.5 Notifications Configuration Tool Notifications screen when the local host is selected in the Device Listing pane Figure 21...

  • Page 29: Diagnose And Replace A Faulted Drive

    A drive error may occur that will cause a RAID group to become degraded. This section will help you to identify and replace the bad A faulted drive is automatically replaced if Auto Rebuild is drive. enabled and a suitable unallocated disk is available. Suitable unallocated drives are initialized, have a large enough capacity to Automatic Faulted Drive Identification replace the degraded drive, and cannot contain any RAID group On supported Fusion storage systems, the Sonnet RAID controller information. The unallocated drive may be a pre-existing drive or causes the fault LED to flash next to the degraded drive when an a newly-installed drive. error occurs that requires a drive to be replaced, and reports the status of the drive to the ATTO configuration tool. The ATTO If a Hot Spare Pool exists, the Sonnet RAID controller chooses a Configuration Tool will also issue visual, audible, and Email suitable Hot Spare drive before selecting an unallocated drive.
  • Page 30 1.6 Diagnose and Replace a Faulted Drive RAID group rebuild information displayed Figure 22...

  • Page 31: Raid Group Media Maintenance

    1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance Cancel or Pause a Media Scan The ATTO Configuration Tool media scanning features enable you to schedule or manually start a scan all hard drives in a parity RAID 1. Select the RAID group being scanned in the groups pane. group (RAID 4, 5, 6, and DVRAID) to check for and fix errors. 2. Control-click (or right-click) the RAID group and select Use the ATTO Configuration Tool to check and repair media Pause Media (or Parity) Scan to pause the Media Scan, or...
  • Page 32 1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance Manually selecting a Media Scan operation for a RAID group Figure 23 Scheduling a Media Scan operation for a RAID group Figure 24...
  • Page 33 1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance Selecting the Media Scan operation type Figure 25 Scheduling the time and frequency for a Media Scan operation Figure 26...
  • Page 34 1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance Changing a scheduled Media Scan operation Figure 27...

  • Page 35: Configuration Tool Troubleshooting

    Warnings and error messages are displayed in the Status pane. created flash files may be selected using the flash file dialog box. Messages from NVRAM Tab Actions • T his HBA is not compatible with the selected flash file. • A n error occurred loading NVRAM data. ATTO flash files are created based on the type of card flashed. The first time a channel is highlighted, the Configuration Tool Only certain ATTO flash files are compatible with the Sonnet attempts to read NVRAM from the card. This message usually RAID controller. When a flash file is selected, it is inspected to indicates that the Configuration Tool could not communicate determine whether it is compatible. with the driver, probably because the application does not support the driver version in use. • A valid file was not selected.

  • Page 37: Disk Performance Testing

    Note: T he performance test can only be performed on drives which belong to a RAID group. The Performance dialog box displays individual statistics for each drive selected. After you start the I/O load application, the collection of these statistics begins when the Start button is pressed and continues until the Stop button is pressed. You may press the Reset button and restart a test at any time. The Configuration Tool can be closed after starting the performance test and re-opened to show the statistics from the most recent test. 1. Start the application on your computer generating I/O. 2. Select the Sonnet RAID controller from the Device Listing pane. 3. Select the RAID tab in the right pane. 4. Select the drives to be tested: • Select individual drives from the Attached Drives pane. • Select a single RAID group in the Groups pane. 5. Select RAID Management > Performance from the application menu. 6. The Performance dialog box displays. See Figure 28 on page 34. 7. Click the Start button. 8. Click the Stop button to halt monitoring.
  • Page 38 2.0 Disk Performance Testing Drive Performance window before starting the test Figure 28...

  • Page 39: Windows Only - Atto Disk Benchmark

    Support Note: The ATTO Utilities for Windows are installed from the CD that was Additional information on using Disk Benchmark is available by accessing the Help menu in the included with your Sonnet RAID controller. Only one utility, Disk application. Benchmark, may be used with your Sonnet RAID storage system. Benchmark Fields Disk Benchmark measures peak and sustained throughput for disk reads and writes. See Figure 29 on page 36. You may locate...

  • Page 40: Multiple Benchmark Testing

    2.1 Windows Only - ATTO Disk Benchmark Multiple Benchmark Testing • /p testfile: Same as testfile, only the test is printed to the Disk Benchmark supports four command line parameters for default system printer instead of being executed. uninterrupted testing: • / p textfile: Same as textfile, only the tests in the list are printed • testfile opens and executes the test named testfile with the to the default system printer instead of being executed. extension .bmk. • t extfile opens the text file named textfile. This file contains a list of test file names that have an extension of .bmk. Each test in this list is opened and executed in order. Stopping one test in the list prevents further tests from being executed. Error logging is the same as the command line parameter testfile, but all errors generated from all tests in the list are logged to one file: textfile.log. Disk Benchmark screens before and after a test has been run Figure 29...

  • Page 41: Atto Disk Benchmark Troubleshooting

    The following suggestions may help if you encounter problems with Disk Benchmark. • U se Windows Device Manager to check and verify that all drives are visible to the operating system. • I f drives are not listed, check the connections between the drive enclosure and the RAID controller card, and verify that all drives are fully seated in their bays. • M ake sure that the enclosure is powered up and has completed its self check before booting your computer. • R eboot your system any time you make changes to a RAID group (after the RAID group has been rebuilt). • A s a last resort, you may use the ATTO Boot Configuration Utility to low level format a troublesome device. However, this erases all information on the disk. • H ave you partitioned your drive, and then activated that partition? • Did you format the drives for use with your operating system? If problems persist, contact Sonnet customer service.

  • Page 43: Appendix A - Cli Ascii-Based Interface

    Sonnet technician, as changing parameters may cause • T he set form is an action that changes the value of a parameter loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability or configuration setting. It may require a SaveConfiguration of the Sonnet RAID controller. The ATTO Configuration Tool interface is the preferred method to operate and manage the command and a restart of the system before it is implemented. Sonnet RAID controller.

  • Page 44: Cli Error Messages

    Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface CLI Error Messages ERROR Cannot perform operation. RAID Group has The following error messages may be returned by the Command mapped Partitions line Interface ERROR Cannot perform operation. RAID Group has ERROR Invalid Command. Type 'Help' for command Outstanding Commands list. ERROR Block Device at specified index no longer ERROR Command Not Processed available ERROR Wrong/Missing Parameters...
  • Page 45 WARNING: Do not use the CLI unless you are directed to by a Sonnet technician, as changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the Fusion storage system. Command Default Example...
  • Page 46 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface Command Default Example Info info IsReserved isreserved Metrics metrics display all Partition partition alpha1 6 4 GB PartitionDisplay partitiondisplay alpha1 PartitionMerge partitionmerge all PartitionSplit partitionsplit alpha1 22 2 PartitionWriteCache set partitionwritecache enabled RAIDRebuildPriority same set raidrebuildpriority low RAIDSpeedWriteLimit set raidspeedwritelimit 15 Reserve reserve RestoreConfiguration restoreconfiguration default RGAddStorage rgaddstorage g1 span commit RGAutoRebuild disabled set rgautorebuild all enabled RGCancelAddStorage rgcanceladdstorage g1 RGCommit rgcommit all...
  • Page 47 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface Command Default Example RGUnmap rgunmap g1 RGWaitTimeout rgwaittimeout 30 RMStatus rmstatus g1 Route route host 1 raid alpha1 6 RouteDisplay routedisplay 03 124 SASTargets sastargets SaveConfiguration saveconfiguration SerialNumber get serialnumber SESIdentify get sesidentify all SESIdentifyStop sesidentifystop all SESPoll set sespoll 0 SMPIdentify set smpidentify all SMPIdentifyStop set smpidentifystop all Time set time 03:32:30 TimeZone set timezone pst VerboseMode enabled set verbosemode disabled VirtualDriveInfo...

  • Page 48: Cli Command Explanations

    • B lockDevIdentify Command line interface commands are listed alphabetically with Turns on a drive activity LED on the Fusion drive enclosure for explanations of what they are used for, their defaults and syntax. a specified drive until a BlockDevIDStop command is given. WARNING: WARNING: Using CLI without contacting a Sonnet The BlockDevIdentify command is intended technician is not recommended because changing for diagnostic purposes only. Executing this command may parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to adversely impact the performance and throughput of the Fusion performance and reliability of the Fusion storage system.
  • Page 49 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • D efaultInterleave • D riveTestClearList Assigns or retrieves the system-default interleave size for new Specifies the drive to be removed from the drive test list. the RAID groups, where the interleave size is expressed as the drive BlockDevID parameter removes the specified drive from number of 512-byte blocks. If an interleave size is not the list. The all parameter removes all drives from the list. explicitly specified when a RAID group is created, then the DefaultInterleave value is used. Note: Although changing the DriveTestClearList [BlockDevId | all] default interleave size may improve performance, it may instead degrade performance. • D riveTestConfig Configures the next drive test to perform one of the following Default: 128 operations: The test is not started until the DriveTest Begin...
  • Page 50 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • E ventLogFilter • P artition Filters data from specific unit subsystems and levels when event Creates a specified partition to the specified capacity in logging is enabled. The specific entries supported are platform- Gigabytes (GB), Megabytes (MB), or blocks. The specified dependent. For set commands, the final parameter indicates capacity must be smaller than the specified partition’s current whether or not events from the specified subsystem and level capacity. A new partition is created to acquire the remainder are displayed. of the original partition’s space. VirtualDriveInfo displays characteristics and statistics for all the available virtual drives or Default: all all all any available virtual drive identified by its virtual drive ID. set EventLogFilter [subsys | all] [event level | all] [all | none] Partition [GroupName] [PartIndex] [capacity] [GB get EventLogFilter [subsystem] [level] | MB | blocks] • H elp...
  • Page 51 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • R AIDRebuildPriority • R GCancelAddStorage S ets or displays the RAID rebuild priority. A RAID rebuild Cancels the RGAddStorage command. priority set to high gives higher priority to RAID rebuilds and lower priority to the processing of simultaneous read/write RGCancelAddStorage [GroupName] transactions. A RAID rebuild priority set to low gives lower priority to the rebuild and a higher priority to read/write • R GCommit transactions. Set same, the RAID rebuild and processing of Stamps a NEW RAID group’s configuration to its member read/write transactions is the same. drives. After this command, a RAID group can be considered operational and transitions from the NEW state to the Online, Default: same Degraded, or Offline state depending on the health of the selected member drives. RGCommit also stamps an existing set RAIDRebuildPriority [high | low | same] RAID group’s configuration to its member drives as storage is get RAIDRebuildPriority being added. If the init option is specified, previous user • R eserve...
  • Page 52 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • R GHaltConversion • R GResumeConversion Stops the conversion on the specified existing RAID group. Continues the stopped conversion on the specified existing RAID group. RGHaltConversion [GroupName] RGResumeConversion [GroupName] • R GHaltErase Stops the erase on the specified existing RAID group. • R GResumeErase Continues the erase on the specified existing RAID group. RGHaltErase [GroupName] RGResumeErase [GroupName] • R GHaltInitialization Stops the initialization process on the specified existing RAID • R GResumeInitialization group. Continues the initialization on the specified existing RAID group. RGHaltRebuild [GroupName] RGResumeInitialization [GroupName] • R GHaltRebuild...
  • Page 53 GroupName stop identifying all disks in a RAID group. If the restart. MemberIndex is also specified, only that disk is no longer identified. DRIVE and BlockDevID stop identifying the specified disk. SaveConfiguration • S erialNumber set SMPIdentifyStop [ALL | RAID GroupName Reports the unique serial number for the Sonnet RAID controller <MemberIndex> | DRIVE BlockDevID] using a 13-character field. The first seven alphanumeric characters represent the product name; the last six digits are the • T ime unit’s unique number. C ontrols or displays the current time as clocked by the unit in 24 hour format. get SerialNumber set Time [HH: MM: SS]...
  • Page 54 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • T imeZone Controls or displays the time zone or an offset from GMT for the unit. Default: EST set TimeZone [[EST | CST | MST | PST] | [+/-HH: MM]] get TimeZone • V erboseMode Controls the level of detail in CLI Help output and command response output. Default: enabled set VerboseMode [enabled | disabled] get VerboseMode • V irtualDriveInfo Displays characteristics and statistics for all the available virtual drives or any available virtual drive identified by its virtual drive ID.
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  • Page 56: Appendix B - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions

    Appendix B - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions 11. Click Erase; a window will appear asking you to approve If your Sonnet Fusion RAID storage system shipped with pre-installed hard disk drives, the following information will assist you to reformat your choice. the drives per your needs. 12. Click Erase. In Fusion RAID systems shipped from Sonnet with hard disk drives installed, the drives are formatted Mac OS Extended 13. Repeat steps 8–12 for each remaining unformatted RAID (Journaled), and configured as a single RAID 5 RAID group.

  • Page 57: Windows Xp/Server 2003 Users' Instructions

    Appendix B - Quick Drive Format Instructions Windows Vista Users’ Instructions (continued) Windows XP/Server 2003 Users’ Instructions 10. Select Computer Management From the Windows Start 1. Follow all the steps in the included documentation to install menu. If Computer Management is not available in the Start the software and the Sonnet RAID controller, and to set up Menu, select Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools. and connect the Fusion RAID enclosure. In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer Management. 2. Start your computer, and then turn on the Fusion drive enclosure. 11. In the Computer Management window, click Storage on the left, and then double-click Disk Management. 3. Launch the ATTO Configuration Tool. 12. When the Initialize Disk window appears, select the RAID 4. Expand the device tree in the Device Listing section on the volume you created. Select the MBR partition style if you left side of the window until ExpressSAS Rxxx is displayed, need to access your RAID storage from a computer running and then click ExpressSAS Rxxx. Windows XP Professional or 32-bit Windows Server 2003;...
  • Page 58 Appendix B - Quick Drive Format Instructions Windows XP/Server 2003 Users’ Instructions (continued) 16. When the Welcome to the New Partition Wizard window appears, click Next. 17. When the Select Partition Type window appears, select Primary Partition, and then click Next. 18. When the Specify Partition Size window appears, click next. 19. When the Assign Drive Letter or Path window appears, select Assign the following drive letter, choose a letter, and then click Next. 20. When the Format Partition window appears, enter a new name for the volume table if you’d like. For RAID volumes up to 16TB, accept the default allocation unit size; for RAID volumes greater than 16TB, select 8192 from the drop-down menu. Select Perform a quick format, and then click Next. 21. When the next window appears, click Finish. Note: If you do not select the quick format option, this process will take much longer to complete.
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