Table Of Contents - NEC Express5800 series User Manual

Contents
1. Overview................................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 MegaRAID Storage Manager™......................................................................................... 1
2. Installing and Uninstalling MSM ............................................................................................ 3
2.1 MSM Operation Environment (Server Specification)......................................................... 3
2.2 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in Server......................................................................... 4
2.2.1 Installing MSM to Server ............................................................................................... 5
2.2.2 Uninstalling MSM from Server....................................................................................... 7
2.3 MSM Operation Environment (Management PC) ............................................................. 8
2.4 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in Management PC ........................................................ 8
2.4.1 Installing MSM to Management PC ............................................................................... 9
2.4.2 Uninstalling MSM from Management PC .................................................................... 11
3. Operation................................................................................................................................ 13
3.1 Starting MSM ................................................................................................................... 13
3.1.1 Controlling MegaRAID Storage System with Local/Remote Computer ...................... 14
3.2 MSM Operation Screen ................................................................................................... 16
3.2.1 Menu Bar ..................................................................................................................... 17
3.2.2 Physical/Logical View .................................................................................................. 19
3.2.3 Properties /Operations/Graphical View ....................................................................... 25
3.2.4 Event Viewer................................................................................................................ 32
3.3 Creating and Deleting Logical Drive (Array).................................................................... 33
3.3.1 Creating Logical Drive ................................................................................................. 34
3.3.2 Deleting Logical Drive.................................................................................................. 41
3.4 Check Consistency Feature ............................................................................................ 42
3.4.1 Executing Check Consistency ..................................................................................... 42
3.4.2 Canceling Check Consistency..................................................................................... 45
3.5 Patrol Read Feature ........................................................................................................ 46
3.5.1 Manual Execution of Patrol Read................................................................................ 46
3.5.2 Scheduling Patrol Read............................................................................................... 48
3.6 Rebuild Feature ............................................................................................................... 50
3.6.1 Hot-swap Rebuild ........................................................................................................ 51
3.6.2 Hot-spare Rebuild........................................................................................................ 52
3.7 Reconstruction Feature ................................................................................................... 53
3.7.1 Executing Reconstruction............................................................................................ 53
3.8 Help ................................................................................................................................. 58
4. Miscellaneous Information ................................................................................................... 59
4.1 Supported function of MegaRAID Systems..................................................................... 59
4.2 How to confirm the type of Hot Spare Disks.................................................................... 60
5. CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ......................................................................................... 61
5.1 Common Cautions and Restrictions for MegaRAID Storage Systems(SAS/SATA)........ 61
5.2 Cautions and Restrictions for N8103-90 Disk array controller(External SAS HDD) and
N8103-91 Disk array controller(Internal SAS HDD) .................................................................... 64
5.3 Cautions and Restrictions for LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID™ ................................. 66
Appendix A Report Monitoring ............................................................................................. 67