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  • Page 1 Configuration Tool and Utilities v3.25 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 Group Setup and Management...................

  • Page 4: Raid Group Media Maintenance

    Contents 1.5 Notifications.......................... 23 Basic Alerts Logging Email Alert 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...

  • Page 5: Configuration Tool Troubleshooting

    Contents 1.9 Configuration Tool Troubleshooting..................39 Messages from NVRAM Tab Actions An error occurred loading NVRAM data. Warning: 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. Messages from Flash Tab Actions This is not a flash file, or it is corrupt.

  • Page 7: Atto Configuration Tool Overview

    Sonnet RAID controller to function incorrectly. The ATTO Configuration Tool displays: The main screen has three panes: Device Listing, Configuration • The name of the Sonnet RAID controller (listed as an ExpressSAS Options and Status. Rxxx adapter) Configuration Tool Navigation •...

  • Page 8: Select The Local Host

    Device Listing pane: • The Basic Info tab displays information about the booted • When you select a specific channel under the Sonnet RAID operating system. See Figure 1 on page 3.
  • Page 9 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 10 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 11 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 12 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 13: Nvram Settings

    Choices: enabled, scan only, disabled Default: disabled The Sonnet RAID controller is designed to operate properly using factory settings. Entering invalid or incorrect settings when using When enabled, the Sonnet RAID controller’s driver sends an NVRAM configuration utility such as the ATTO Configuration multiple simultaneous commands to NCQ-capable SATA disk Tool may cause your controller to function incorrectly.
  • Page 14 1.1 NVRAM Settings NVRAM settings information shown when a Fusion drive enclosure is selected in the Device Listing pane Figure 9...

  • Page 15: Raid Group Setup And Management

    Configuration Tool window, the Sonnet RAID controller is identified as an ExpressSAS Rxxx. Use the ATTO Configuration Tool to set up RAID groups on your Sonnet RAID controller in one of the following RAID levels: Custom RAID Group Setup • JBOD 1.

  • Page 16: Custom Raid Group Setup

    1.2 RAID Group Setup and Management Custom RAID Group Setup (continued) 5. If you want the RAID group to be presented as one virtual • Initialize: select Advanced or Express; Sonnet recommends disk (partition), click Finish. If you want more than one choosing Advanced.

  • Page 17: Hot Spares Setup And Usage

    Hot Spare drives. created will appear (listed as “unallocated”) as a single volume. If the Sonnet RAID controller detects a faulted drive in a RAID Right-click where the word “unallocated” appears, and then group with a designated Hot Spare: select New Simple Volume.

  • Page 18: Raid Group Capacity Expansion

    The following migration levels are supported: data from the RAID group’s drives and caches it in the Sonnet RAID controller’s internal memory. If you select • JBOD to RAID Level 0 Never, read caching is never performed. If you select •...
  • Page 19 1.2 RAID Group Setup and Management Configuration Tool main screen with the RAID tab selected Figure 10 Options selection screen displayed when creating new, custom RAID groups Figure 11...
  • Page 20 1.2 RAID Group Setup and Management RAID group drives selected Figure 12 Additional options selection screen displayed when creating new, custom RAID groups Figure 13...
  • Page 21 1.2 RAID Group Setup and Management Select the number of partitions for the new RAID group Figure 14 Select the RAID group’s properties Figure 15...

  • Page 23: Drive And Raid Group Monitoring

    RAID group • Vendor: Not used • Members: Indicates the number of drives in the RAID group • Address: Displays the SAS address generated by the Sonnet • Status: Displays the operating status for the RAID group. RAID controller ONLINE indicates that there are no faulted drives and the group is fully operational;...

  • Page 24: Data

    1.3 Drive and RAID Group Monitoring Drive Identification (continued) The S.M.A.R.T. status display also contains information such as 5. Double-click a drive in the top pane to display detailed the date and time the S.M.A.R.T. status was recorded, the total information, and note the index number for the drive.
  • Page 25 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 26 1.3 Drive and RAID Group Monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status displayed for a specific drive Figure 18...

  • Page 27: 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. Many Fusion drive enclosures contain a SCSI enclosure processor which tracks enclosure health status, drive identification and drive fault identification.
  • Page 28 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 29: Notifications

    Notification pane as needed. The notifications are specified at the host system level and apply to all Sonnet RAID controllers • You must complete the IP address or name of the server and installed in the host system.
  • Page 30 1.5 Notifications Configuration Tool Notifications screen when the local host is selected in the Device Listing pane Figure 21...

  • Page 31: Diagnose And Replace A Faulted Drive

    Email notifications (only when configured to do so). If a Hot Spare Pool exists, the Sonnet RAID controller chooses a suitable Hot Spare drive before selecting an unallocated drive. Support Note: Automatic faulted drive identification...
  • Page 32 1.6 Diagnose and Replace a Faulted Drive RAID group rebuild information displayed Figure 22...

  • Page 33: Raid Group Media Maintenance

    1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance Support Note: The Media Scan feature scans disk drives for media errors and parity Media Scan operations significantly impact your Fusion storage system’s performance, and errors. All media errors are counted and fixed. All parity errors are may take several hours to complete.

  • Page 34: Manage Scheduled Media Scans

    The Scan Report is updated by the Configuration Tool every 10 View a Scan Report seconds. The metrics are not updated when the Media Scan is 1. Select the Sonnet RAID controller from the Device Listing paused. pane. 2. Select the RAID tab in the right pane.
  • Page 35 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 36 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 37 1.7 RAID Group Media Maintenance Changing a scheduled Media Scan operation Figure 27 Viewing a Media Scan report on a RAID group Figure 28...

  • Page 39: Snmp Configuration

    SNMP administrators will use this mode, as installing and occur. Via the Configuration Tool, SNMP is supported only for the Sonnet RAID controller. configuring the operating system services are beyond the scope of this document. Examples are Windows SNMP services, or the open-source Net-SNMP package.

  • Page 40: Disabled Mode

    1.8 SNMP Configuration Disabled Mode Communities This mode disables the operation of the ATTO SNMP agent. Any This is a list of community strings accepted by the agent when network ports it has open to support SNMP are closed, making it receives an incoming request.

  • Page 41: Trap Destination Table

    1.8 SNMP Configuration Trap Destination Table Test This table lists the host address and community string used This button will validate the settings displayed on screen, for each destination when a trap is triggered. The host column and then send a warm Start trap to each of the displayed trap destinations as if the displayed settings had been committed.

  • Page 42: Troubleshooting

    1.8 SNMP Configuration Troubleshooting Requests from an MIB browser time out: • Ensure the agent is not disabled • Ensure the Management Station is using the port for the system service if the agent is in subagent mode or the port displayed on the SNMP pane if the agent is enabled.
  • Page 43 1.8 SNMP Configuration SNMP tab with the Enable Traps option selected Figure 29 Editing the Community string Figure 30...
  • Page 44 1.8 SNMP Configuration Editing the trap destination Figure 31...

  • Page 45: Configuration Tool Troubleshooting

    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.

  • Page 47: Drive Performance Testing

    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.
  • Page 48 2.0 Drive Performance Testing Drive Performance window before starting the test Figure 32...

  • Page 49: Windows Only - Atto Disk Benchmark

    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.

  • Page 50: 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: •...

  • Page 51: Atto Disk Benchmark Troubleshooting

    Utility to low level format a troublesome device. However, this erases all information on the disk. • Have 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 53: Appendix A - Cli Ascii-Based Interface

    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.

  • Page 54: 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.
  • Page 55 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.
  • Page 56 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 16...
  • Page 57 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface Command Default Example RGSectorSize setrgsectorsize groupname1 8192 RGSpanDepth set rgspandepth groupname1 22 RGSpeedRead all disabled set rgspeedread groupname1 enabled RGUnmap rgunmap groupname1 RGWaitTimeout rgwaittimeout 30 RMStatus rmstatus groupname1 Route route host 1 raid alpha1 6 RouteDisplay routedisplay 03 124 SASPortList...

  • Page 58: Cli Command Explanations

    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...
  • Page 59 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • DisplayScheduledTasks (Immediate, Disabled on Error) • DriveTestList (Disabled on Error) Immediate command that displays all outstanding tasks Specifies drives to be run in the next drive test. DriveTestConfig should be set up prior to adding any drives into the test list. This command can be called with different eligible BlockDev DisplayScheduledTasks IDs and each one will be added to the list.
  • Page 60 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • Help (Immediate) • Partition (Immediate) Displays a list of available commands. If command name is Creates a specified partition to the specified capacity in specified, displays detailed command-specific information Gigabytes (GB), Megabytes (MB), or blocks. The specified capacity must be smaller than the specified partition’s current capacity.
  • Page 61 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • RAIDRebuildPriority • RGAutoRebuild Sets or displays the RAID rebuild priority. A RAID rebuild RGAutoRebuild enables and disables Auto-Rebuild functionality priority set to high gives higher priority to RAID rebuilds and for one or more RAID Groups. Auto-Rebuild uses drives assigned as Hot Spares, followed by available drives, as lower priority to the processing of simultaneous read/write transactions.
  • Page 62 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • RGDiskWriteCache (Immediate) • RGMediaScan (Immediate, Disabled on Error) If enabled, produces higher write performance with a small risk Initiates a Media Scan. A Media Scan reads all member drives of data loss after a system failure. If disabled, drives are updated and corrects media errors by calculating the expected data and rewriting it, so the drive can relocate it to a good sector.
  • Page 63 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • RGRebuild (Immediate) • RGSpanDepth Starts rebuilding the specified existing RAID Group. Optional Regulates the span depth on the specified existing new parameters MemberN specify the members to rebuild. If no RAID group for all RAID configurations except JBOD, which member is specified, all degraded members will be rebuilt.
  • Page 64 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • RouteDisplay (Immediate) • SESDiskFailureAlarm (Disabled, Disabled on Error) Will display a list of host protocol address to target destination When enabled, activates an audible alarm when the RAID device mappings. The optional “tid” parameter will limit the controller determines that a RAID member disk drive has failed.
  • Page 65 Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface • SESStartingSlot (Disabled on Error) SESStartingSlot establishes the starting slot/ID number for all attached SES enclosures. set SESStartingSlot [0 | 1] get SESStartingSlot • SESStatus (Immediate, Disabled on Error) SESStatus displays the last polled status of the specified element type in the specified enclosure.

  • Page 66: Appendix B - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions

    1. Follow all the steps in the included documentation to install created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group, the software and the Sonnet RAID controller, and to set up configuration will take much longer. You may check on the and connect the Fusion RAID drive enclosure.

  • Page 67: Windows Xp/Server 2003 Users' Instructions

    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.
  • Page 68 Appendix B - Quick Drive Reformat 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.
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