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- Page 1 UltraStor RS16 SCSI Ultra 320 to SATA IIa RAID Controller User Manual Version 3.0 (MAY. 2006) Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 1 -...
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Page 2: About This Manual
Preface About this manual This manual is designed for UltraStor RS16 series controller user to operate the disk array system as easy as possible. Information contained in this manual has been checked for accuracy, but no product warranty is given with this content due to each operation environment is different. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Voltage and Temperature ............... 42 Hard drive S.M.A.R.T. function support..........43 3.6.3 3.6.4 UPS ......................43 System maintenance ............. 45 3.7.1 Upgrade ....................45 3.7.2 Info ......................46 3.7.3 Shutdown ....................46 Logout ................46 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 3 -... - Page 4 Snapshot/Rollback (optional) ......... 51 4.4.1 Create snapshot volume ................. 52 4.4.2 Auto snapshot..................53 4.4.3 Rollback ....................54 Disk roaming ..............54 Appendix................55 Certification list............... 55 Event notifications............56 Known issues..............60 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 4 -...
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Page 5: Chapter 1 Raid Introduction
1.1 Features UltraStor RS16 controller is a high-performance RAID controller. Backplane solution • UltraStor RS16: U320 SCSI (x2) -to- SATA II (x16) RAID controller. UltraStor RS16 controller has the features listed below: RAID 6 ready. • Snapshot-on-the-box / rollback (optional). -
Page 6: Terminology
CV to execute the data transaction. Each CV could own the different cache memory size. Logical Unit Number. LUN is the logical volume, which the users could access by using the SCSI commands. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 6 -... - Page 7 Dedicated Cache. Global Cache. DeGrade mode. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. S.M.A.R.T. World Wide Name. Host Bus Adapter. MPIO Multi-Path Input/Output. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 7 -...
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Page 8: Raid Levels
Striping over the member RAID 6 volumes. RAID 60 needs at RAID 60 least eight hard drives. The abbreviation of “Just a Bunch Of Disks”. JBOD needs at JBOD least one hard drive. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 8 -... -
Page 9: Chapter 2 Getting Started
The target is the device that performs the SCSI command or bridges it to an attached storage device. The targets can be disks, tapes, RAID arrays, tape libraries, etc. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 9 -... -
Page 10: Management Methods
(secure shell) is required for S Series controllers to remote login. The ssh client software is available at the following web site: SSHWinClient WWW: http://www.ssh.com/ Putty WWW: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ Host name: 192.168.0.1 Login name: admin Default password: 1234 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 10 -... -
Page 11: Enclosure
Config set static IP. Reset to default will set password to default: 1234, and Reset to Default set IP address to default. Default IP address: 192.168.0.1 Default subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.0.254 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 11 -... - Page 12 [Apply IP [ Yes No ] Setting] [Reset to Default] [ Yes No ] Caution Before power off, it is better to execute “Shutdown” to flush the data from cache to physical disks. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 12 -...
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Page 13: System Buzzer
The system buzzer will alarm 3 seconds when system boots up successfully. The system buzzer will alarm continuously when there are error level events happened in the system. The alarm will be stopped after pressing mute. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 13 -... -
Page 14: Chapter 3 Web Gui Guideline
Temperature S.M.A.R.T. for physical disks S.M.A.R.T. UPS Type / Shutdown Battery Level / Shutdown Delay / Shutdown UPS Maintenance Browse the firmware to upgrade Upgrade System information Info Reboot / Shutdown Shutdown Logout Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 14 -... -
Page 15: Login
Voltage light: Green is normal. Red represents abnormal voltage status. Please refer to section 3.6.2 for more detail. Temperature light: Green is normal. Red represents abnormal temperature. RAID light: Green means RAID works fine. Red represents RAID failed happens. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 15 -... -
Page 16: Quick Install
Step 3: Confirm page. Click “ ” if all setups are correct. Then a page with the “User data volume” just been created will be shown as Figure 3.3.2. Done. It can be used as a disk. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 16 -... -
Page 17: System Configuration
(Figure 3.3.2: A RAID 0 user data volume with the UDV name “QUICK20680”, named by the system itself, with the total available volume size 608256MB.) 3.4 System configuration “System config” selection is for the setup of “System name”, “IP address”, “Password”, “Date”, “Mail”, “SNMP” and view “Event log”. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 17 -... -
Page 18: System Name
Figure 3.4.1 3.4.1 System name Select “System name” to change system name. Default system name composed by model name and serial number of this system, e.g.: S120-000001. Figure 3.4.1.1 3.4.2 IP address Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 18 -... -
Page 19: Password
There are 2 selections, DHCP (Get IP address from DHCP server) or set static IP. Figure 3.4.2.1 3.4.3 Password Select “Password” is for changing administrator password. Figure 3.4.3.1 3.4.4 Date Select “Date” to set up the current date and time before using. Figure 3.4.4.1 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 19 -... -
Page 20: Mail
Select “SNMP” to set up SNMP trap for alert via SNMP. It allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses can be set for receiving SNMP trap. Default community setting is “public”. Figure 3.4.6.1 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 20 -... -
Page 21: Event Log
Press “Mute” button will stop alarm if system alerts. Figure 3.4.7.1 3.5 Volume configuration “Volume config” selection is for the setup of volume configurations including “Physical disk”, “Volume group”, “User data volume”, “Cache volume”, and “Logical unit” functions. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 21 -... -
Page 22: Volume Relationship Diagram
The list box will disappear if there is no VG or only VG of RAID 0, JBOD. Because these RAID levels cannot be set as dedicated spare disk. These three functions “Free disc”, “Global spares”, “Dedicated spares” can execute multiple selects. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 22 -... - Page 23 Information” indication. It shows the details of the hard drive. World Wide Name. Capacity of hard drive. Size (MB) Related volume group name. VG Name The status of hard drive. Status the hard drive is good. “GOOD” Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 23 -...
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Page 24: Volume Group
Set this hard drive(s) to global spare of all VGs. GLOBAL SPARES Set hard drive(s) to dedicated spare of selected VGs. DEDICATED SPARES 3.5.3 Volume group Enter “Volume group” to view the status of each volume group. • VG column description: Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 24 -... - Page 25 DeGrade mode. This volume group is not Status 1 “DG” completed. The reason could be lack of one disk or failure of disk. Rebuild. This volume group is doing rebuilding. Status 2 “R” Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 25 -...
- Page 26 RAID level is “Migrate” function. Click “Migrate” can add disk(s) to do expansion or change the RAID level of the Volume group. • VG operations description: Create a volume group CREATE Delete this volume group DELETE Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 26 -...
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Page 27: User Data Volume
Total capacity of this user data volume. The blue Size(MB) square button in below to the size is “Extend” function. The status of this user data volume. Status user data volume is online. “Online” user data volume is failed. “Fail” Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 27 -... - Page 28 The VG name that this user data volume belongs. VG name The cache volume that user data volume is using. CV (MB) • UDV operations description: Attach to a LUN. ATTACH LUN Choose a UDV to execute snapshot. SNAPSHOT Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 28 -...
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Page 29: Cache Volume
Total capacity of this cache volume The blue square Size(MB) button next to the CV size is “Resize” function. The CV size can be adjusted. Name of the UDV. UDV Name Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 29 -... -
Page 30: Logical Unit Number
Attach a logical unit number to a user data volume. ATTACH Detach a logical unit number from a user data volume. DETACH Caution Notify that which bus the SCSI cable is connected; it must match the bus ID which is attached. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 30 -... -
Page 31: Examples
Input a VG Name, choose a RAID level from the draw, press “ “ to choose the RAID PD slot, then press “ “. Check the outcome. Press “ “ if all setups are correct. Done. A VG has been created. Figure 3.5.7.2 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 31 -... - Page 32 Input a UDV name, choose a VG Name and input a size to be used; decide the stripe high, block size, read/write mode and set priority, finally click “ “. Done. A UDV has been created. Do one more to create another UDV. Figure 3.5.7.4 Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 32 -...
- Page 33 Do one more to attach another UDV. Figure 3.5.7.6 (Figure 3.5.7.6: UDV-R5-1 is attached to Bus 0, SCSI ID 0, and LUN 0. UDV-R5-2 is attached to Bus 1, SCSI ID 2, and LUN 0.) Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 33 -...
- Page 34 (Figure 3.5.7.7: Slot 5 has been set as global spare disk.) Step 5: Done. They can be used as SCSI disks. Delete UDVs, VG, please follow the steps. Step 6: Detach LUN from UDV. In “/ Volume config / Logical unit”, Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 34 -...
- Page 35 UDV on this VG, or the UDV(s) on this VG must be deleted first. Click “ “. There will pop up a confirm page. Choose “OK” Done. The VG has been deleted. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 35 -...
- Page 36 The total cache size will depends on the RAM size and set all to global cache. To create a dedicated cache volume, first step is to cut down global cache size and remain to dedicated. Please follow the procedures. Step 1: Create dedicated cache volume. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 36 -...
- Page 37 Please refer to Step 2 of Example 1 to create UDV. To create a data user volume with dedicated cache volume, please follow the procedures. Figure 3.5.7.10 Select “/ Volume config / User data volume”. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 37 -...
- Page 38 (Figure 3.5.6.12: In “/ Volume config / Cache volume”, UDV named “UDV-R5-2” uses dedicated cache volume 20MB.) Step 4: Attach LUN to UDV. Please refer to Step 3 of Example 1 to attach LUN. Step 5: Set dedicated spare disk. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 38 -...
- Page 39 Please refer to Step 8 of Example 1 to delete VG. Step 10: Free dedicated spare disk. To set dedicated spare disks, please follow the procedures: Select “/ Volume config / Physical disk”. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 39 -...
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Page 40: Enclosure Management
Global cache volume cannot be deleted. Step 12: Done, all volumes have been deleted. 3.6 Enclosure management “Enclosure management” function allows managing enclosure information including “SAF-TE config”, “Voltage & Temperature”, “S.M.A.R.T.” and “UPS” functions. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 40 -... -
Page 41: Saf-Te Configuration
SAF-TE from buses. Figure 3.6.1.1 (Figure 3.6.1.1: Enable SAF-TE in Bus 0, SCSI ID 15, and LUN 0.) The SAF-TE client software is available at the following web site: safte-monitor: http://oss.metaparadigm.com/safte-monitor/ SANtools: http://www.santools.com/ Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 41 -... -
Page 42: Voltage And Temperature
Enter “Voltage & Temperature” function to view the information of current voltage and temperature. Figure 3.6.2.1 (for S50C/S100C) Figure 3.6.2.2 (for S60C/S120C) If “Auto shutdown” has been checked, the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 42 -... -
Page 43: Hard Drive S.m.a.r.t. Function Support
The number is the current value; the number in parenthesis is the threshold value. The threshold value of every hard drive vendors are different, please refer to vendors for details. Figure 3.6.3.1 3.6.4 Enter “UPS” function will set UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 43 -... - Page 44 UPS will start working and notify system to boot up. OFF will not. The status of UPS. Status “Detecting…” “Running” “Unable to detect UPS” “Communication lost” “UPS reboot in progress” “UPS shutdown in progress” Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 44 -...
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Page 45: System Maintenance
“xxxx.bin” in local hard drive, then press “ ” to select the file. Click “ ”, it will start to upgrade firmware. Figure 3.7.1.1 When upgrading, there is a progress bar running. After finished upgrading, the system must reboot manually. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 45 -... -
Page 46: Info
Before power off, it’s better to press “SHUTDOWN” to flush the data from cache to physical disks. Figure 3.7.3.1 3.8 Logout For security reason, “Logout” function will allow logout while none is operating the system. Re-login the system by entering username and password. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 46 -... -
Page 47: Chapter 4 Advanced Operation
Need one new hard drive to insert and rebuild to complete. Extension to RAID 1 level. It has N copies of the disk. N-way N-way mirror allows N-1 hard drives fail or plug out. mirror Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 47 -... -
Page 48: Vg Migration And Expansion
There will be a pup-up shows if the HDD is not enough to support the new setting RAID level, click “ ” to increase hard drives, then click “ “ to go back to setup page. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 48 -... - Page 49 Figure 4.2.2 (Figure 4.2.2: A RAID 0 with 2 physical disks migrates to RAID 5 with 3 physical disks.) Figure 4.2.3 (Figure 4.2.3: A RAID 0 migrates to RAID 5, complete percentage is 1%.) Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 49 -...
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Page 50: Udv Extension
“Status 3” and complete percentage of initialization in “R%”. Figure 4.3.1 Figure 4.3.2 (Figure 4.3.2: Extend UDV-R0 from 99968MB to 109952MB (It’s multiple of base stripe height, so the number may be less than the setting size.) Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 50 -... -
Page 51: Snapshot/Rollback (Optional)
20% of VG size or more for snapshot space. Please refer to Figure 4.4.1 for snapshot concept. Figure 4.4.1 Caution Snapshot/rollback features need 512MB RAM or more. Please refer to a certification list for RAM in Appendix A. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 51 -... -
Page 52: Create Snapshot Volume
Snapshot has some constraints as described in the following: Minimum RAM size of enabling snapshot function is 512MB. For performance concern, saving data of taking snapshots are incremental. For example: three snapshots have been taken and Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 52 -... -
Page 53: Auto Snapshot
“Hours to take snapshots” function only enable when selecting “Number of hourly snapshots”. Last, click “ “. Done. It will take snapshots automatically. Figure 4.4.2.1 (Figure 4.4.2.1: It will take snapshots every hour, and keep the last 8 snapshot copies.) Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 53 -... -
Page 54: Rollback
Physical disks can be re-sequenced in the same system or move whole physical disks from system-1 to system-2. This is called disk roaming. Disk roaming has some constraints as described in the following: Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 54 -... -
Page 55: Appendix
39160 (Ultra160, 2-channels) Adaptec 29160 (Ultra160, 1-channel Adaptec 7902B on mother board (Ultra320, 2-channels) LSI Logic LSI22320-R (Ultra320, 2-channels) Tekram DC-390U4W (Ultra320, 2-channels) Tekram DC-390U4B (Ultra320, 1-channel) QLogic QLA12160 (Ultra320, 2-channels) • SATA hard drive Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 55 -... -
Page 56: Event Notifications
Info: Non-ECC Memory is installed. Info Host chip failure Error: Host channel chip failed. Error Drive chip failure Error: Drive channel chip failed. Error Ethernet port failure Warning: GUI Ethernet port failed. Warning Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 56 -... - Page 57 Info: RTC device is active. Info RTC Access Failed Warning: Fail to access RTC device Warning Reset Password Info: Reset Admin Password to default. Info Reset IP Info: Reset network settings set to default. Info Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 57 -...
- Page 58 Info: UDV <name> starts migration. Info Started UDV_OP Migrate Info: UDV <name> completes migration. Info Finished UDV_OP Migrate Warning: Fail to complete UDV <name> Warning Failed migration. VG Degraded Warning: VG <name> is under degraded mode. Warning Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 58 -...
- Page 59 Info: Set the snapshot size of UDV <name> to Info Snapshot <number> MB/GB. Snapshot rollback Info: The snapshot of UDV <name> rollback Info start start. Snapshot rollback Info: The snapshot of UDV <name> rollback Info finish finish. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 59 -...
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Page 60: Known Issues
After passing LSI Logic LSI22320-R bios scan, power on UltraStor RS8 subsystems. It can succeed to ping the management port of the controller, but fail to access Web GUI. Workaround solution: Connect the Ethernet cable into management port before turning on power. Enhance technology UltraStor RS16 - 60 -...