Thecus-technology i Series User Manual

Thecus i Series User’s Manual

The iSCSI target is the storage device itself or an appliance which controls and serves volumes or virtual volumes. The target is the device which pe

Open-iSCSI website: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ Open-iSCSI README: http://www.open-iscsi.org/docs/README Features: http://www.open-iscsi.org/cgi-bin/w

2.3.2 Remote control – secure shell SSH (secure shell) is required for i Series to remote login. The SSH client software is available at the follo

The following table is function description. Alarm Mute Mute alarm when error occurs. Reset/Shutdown Reset or shutdown controller. Quick Install Qui

Caution Before power off, it is better to execute “Shutdown” to flush the data from cache to physical disks. 2.4.2 System buzzer The system

Chapter 3 Web GUI guideline 3.1 GUI hierarchy The below table is the hierarchy of i Series GUI. Quick Install ÆStep 1 / Step 2 / Step 3 / Confi

Maintenance UpgradeÆBrowse the firmware to upgrade / Export config InfoÆSystem information Reset to defaultÆSure to reset to factory default?

1. RAID light: Green means RAID works well. Red represents RAID failure happening. 2. Temperature light: Green is normal. Red represents abnormal

Step 1: Select “Quick install” then choose the RAID level to set. Please refer to Figure 3.3.1. After choosing the RAID level, click “ ”, which links

3.4 System configuration “System config” selection is for the setup of “System name”, “IP address”, “Language”, “Login config”, “Password”, “Dat

Preface About this manual This manual is the introduction of i Series, and to help user to know the operation of the disk array system easily. Inf

3.4.2 IP address Select “IP address” to change IP address for remote administration usage. There are 2 selections, DHCP (Get IP address from DHCP

3.4.4 Login config Select “Login config” is to set only one admin and set the auto logout timing. The only one admin can prevent multiple users acc

3.4.6 Date Select “Date” to set up the current date, time, and time zone before using or synchronize time from NTP(Network Time Protocol) server.

Figure 3.4.7.1 3.4.8 SNMP Select “SNMP” to set up SNMP trap for alert via SNMP. It allows up to 3 SNMP trap addresses. Default community settin

3.4.9 Messenger Select “Messenger” to set up pop-up message alert via Windows messenger (not MSN). User must enable the service “Messenger” in Win

3.4.11 Event log Select “Event log” to view the event messages. Press “Filter” button to choose the display. Press “Download” button will save the

3.5 iSCSI config “iSCSI config” selection is for the setup of “Entity Property”, “NIC”, “Node”, “Session”, and “CHAP account”. Figure 3.5.1 3.5

3.5.2 NIC Select “NIC” to change IP addresses of iSCSI data ports. Figure 3.5.2.2 (Figure 3.5.2.2: there are 2 iSCSI data ports.) User can change

CHAP: CHAP is the abbreviation of Challenge Handshake Authorization Protocol. CHAP is a strong authentication method used with point-to-point for use

Figure 3.5.4.1 (Figure 3.5.4.1: iSCSI Session.) Pressing the button “ “ will display connection(s). Figure 3.5.4.2 (Figure 3.5.4.2: iSCSI Connect

Table of Contents Chapter 1 RAID introduction...5 1.1 Features...

Figure 3.5.5.2 (Figure 3.5.5.2: Create a CHAP account named “chap1”.) 3.6 Volume configuration “Volume config” selection is for the setup

VG PD 2 PD 3 DS PD 1 UDV 1 UDV 2 UDV 3 LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3 RAM Global CV Dedicated CV +++- 31 -

The above diagram describes the relationship of RAID components. One VG (Volume Group) consists of a set of UDVs (User Data Volume) and owns one RAID

• PD column description: Slot The position of hard drives. The number of slot begins from left to right at the front side. The button next to the num

command, and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen-1 signaling speed (1.5Gbps). Unknown Æ The disk doesn’t support above command, so the speed is def

Enter “Volume group” to view the status of each volume group. • VG column description: Figure 3.6.3.1 (Figure 3.6.3.1: There is a RAID 0 with 2

Status 2 “R” Æ Rebuild. This volume group is doing rebuilding.Status 3 “M” Æ Migration. This volume group is doing migration. RAID The RAID level o

No. Number of this user data volume. The button in below to the UDV No. is “More Information” indication. It shows the details of the User data volum

• UDV operations description: Attach Attach to a LUN. Create Create a user data volume function. Delete Delete a user data volume function. 3.6.5

• CV operations description: Create Create a cache volume function. Delete Delete a cache volume function. If there is no free space for creating a

3.7 Enclosure management ... 50 3.7.1 SES configuration...

Figure 3.6.6.1 Figure 3.6.6.2 (Figure 3.6.6.2: UDV-01 is attached to LUN 0 with every host can access. UDV-02 is attached to LUN 1 with only

Example 2 is to create two UDVs. One shares global cache volume, the other uses dedicated cache volume. Set a dedicated spare disk. • Exampl

Figure 3.6.7.2 (Figure 3.6.7.2: Creating a RAID 0 with 2 physical disks, named “VG-R0”. The total size is 148GB. Because of no related UDV there, f

Figure 3.6.7.4 (Figure 3.6.7.4: Create UDVs named “UDV-1” and “UDV-2”, related to “VG-R0”, the size of “UDV-1” is 50GB, the size of “UDV-2” is 98GB

Figure 3.6.7.6 (Figure 3.6.7.6: UDV1 is attached to LUN 0 with any hosts can access. UDV2 is attached to LUN 1 with only initiator note named “iqn.

(Figure 3.6.7.7: Slot 5 is set as global spare disk.) Step 5: Done. They can be used as iSCSI disks. Delete UDVs, VG, please follow the steps. St

1. Select “/ Volume config / Volume group”. 2. Select a VG by clicking the checkbox of the row, make sure that there is no UDV on this VG, or the U

Figure 3.6.7.9 1. Select “/ Volume config / Cache volume”. 2. If there is no free space for creating a new dedicated cache volume, cut down the

Figure 3.6.7.10 1. Select “/ Volume config / User data volume”. 2. Click “ ”. 3. Input a UDV name, choose a VG Name, select Dedicated cache whic

Step 4: Attach LUN to UDV. Please refer to Step 3 of Example 1 to attach LUN. Step 5: Set dedicated spare disk. To set dedicated spare disks, plea

Chapter 1 RAID introduction 1.1 Features i Series features: • Gigabit LAN (x2) -to- SATA II (xN bays) RAID controller. • RAID 6 ready. • SATA I

To free dedicated spare disks, please follow the procedures: 1. Select “/ Volume config / Physical disk”. 2. Select the dedicated spare disk by c

5. LED status: 10 seconds. Figure 3.7.1 3.7.1 SES configuration SES represents SCSI Enclosure Services, one of the enclosure management stan

Figure 3.7.2.1 If “Auto shutdown” has been checked, the system will shutdown automatically when voltage or temperature is out of the normal range.

Figure 3.7.3.1 3.7.4 UPS Enter “UPS” function will set UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). Figure 3.7.4.1 Currently, the system only suppo

(%) function. Shutdown Delay (s) If power failure occurred, and the system can not return back to the setting value period, the system will shutdown.

Figure 3.8.1 3.8.1 Upgrade Enter “Upgrade” function to upgrade firmware. Please prepare new firmware file named “xxxx.bin” in local hard drive,

3.8.3 Reset to default Enter “Reset to default” function, it allows user to reset controller to the factory default setting. Figure 3.8.3.1 Rese

3.8.5 Shutdown Enter “Shutdown” function; it will display “Reboot” and “Shutdown” buttons. Before power off, it’s better to press “Shutdown” to

Chapter 4 Advanced operation 4.1 Rebuild If one physical disk of the VG which is set as protected RAID level (e.g.: RAID 3 , RAID 5, or RAID 6) is

When rebuilding, the status of PD/VG/UDV is “R”; and “R%” in UDV will display the ratio in percentage. After complete rebuilding, “R” and “DG” will d

1.2 Terminology The document uses the following terms: RAID RAID is the abbreviation of “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”. There are differe

4.2 VG migration and expansion To migrate the RAID level, please follow the below procedures. If the VG migrates to the same RAID level of the ori

Figure 4.2.3 (Figure 4.2.3: A RAID 0 migrates to RAID 5, complete percentage is 2%.) To do migration/expansion, the total size of VG must be lar

4. Extension starts. If UDV needs initialization, it will display an “I” in “Status 3” and complete percentage of initialization in “R%”. Figure 4

Appendix A. Certification list • RAM i Series RAM Spec: 184pins, DDR333(PC2700), Reg.(register) or UB(Unbufferred), ECC or Non-ECC, from 64MB to 1

OS Software/Release Number Microsoft Windows Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.04 System Requirements: 1. Windows XP Professional wi

Dell PowerConnect 5324 Dell PowerConnect 2724 Dell PowerConnect 2708 HP ProCurve 1800-24G D-Link DGS-3024 • Hard drive i Series support SAT

• PD/S.M.A.R.T. events Level Type Description Info Disk inserted Info: Disk <slot> is inserted. Info Disk removed Info: Disk <slot&g

Info SES load conf. OK Info: SES configuration has been loaded. Warning SES Load Conf. Failure Error: Failed to load SES configuration. The SES devi

Warning RTC Access Failed Warning: Fail to access RTC device Info Reset Password Info: Reset Admin Password to default. Info Reset IP Info: Reset n

Warning VG Created Fail Warning: Fail to create VG <name>. Info VG Deleted Info: VG <name> has been deleted. Info UDV Created OK Info:

WT Write-Through cache write policy. A caching technique in which the completion of a write request is not signaled until data is safely stored on no

read/write error <read | write> failed. Error PD read/write error Error: PD <#> lba <#> length <#> <read | write> erro

Figure C.2 4. Click “OK”. Please see Figure C.3. Figure C.3 5. Click “Targets”. Please see Figure C.4. - 71 -

Figure C.4 6. Click “Log On”. Please see Figure C.5. Check “Enable multi-path” if running MPIO. Figure C.5 7. Click “Advance…” if CHA

Figure C.6 8. Click “OK”. The status would be “Connected”. Please see Figure C.7 9. Done, it can connect to an iSCSI disk. -

Figure C.7 The following procedure is to log off iSCSI device. - 74 -

1. Click “Details”. Please see Figure C.8. Figure C.8 2. Check the Identifier, which will be deleted. 3. Click “Log off”. 4. Done, the iSCSI d

Figure D.1 The setup instructions are in the following figures. 1. Create a VG . Figure D.2 2. Create a UDV. - 76 -

Figure D.3 3. Run Microsoft iSCSI initiator and check the Initiator Node Name. Figure D.4 4. Attaching LUN to UDV_1 UDV. Input the Initiator N

Figure D.6 6. Check iSCSI settings. The IP address of iSCSI data port 1 is 192.168.11.229, port 2 is 192.168.12.229 for example. Figure D.7 7.

Figure D.9 9. Add second Target Portals on Microsoft iSCSI initiator. Figure D.10 - 79 -

iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface. CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. An optional security mechanism to control acces

10. Input the IP address of iSCSI data port 2 (192.168.12.229 as mentioned in previous page). Figure D.11 11. The initiator setting is done. -

Figure D.12 12. Log on. Figure D.13 - 81 -

13. Enable “Enable multi-path” checkbox. Then click “Advanced”. Figure D.14 14. Select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 1 (192.168.11.229). Then

Figure D.15 15. Log on “Enable multi-path” again. Figure D.16 16. Enable “Enable multi-path” checkbox. Then click “Advanced…”. Figure D.17 - 8

17. Select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 2 (192.168.12.229). Then select “OK” Figure D.18 18. iSCSI device is connected. Click “Details”. -

Figure D.19 19. Click “Device” tab, then click “Advanced”. Figure D.20 - 85 -

20. Click “MPIO” tab, select “Load Balance Policy” to “Round Robin”. Figure D.21 21. Click “Apply”. Figure D.22 - 86 -

22. Run “Device Manage” in Windows. Make sure MPIO device is available. Then the disk can be tested performance by IOMETER. The MC/S setup instr

Figure D.24 10. Then click “Advanced…”. Figure D.25 - 88 -

11. Select set Local Adapter, Source IP, and Target Portal to iSCSI data port 1 (192.168.11.229). Then click “OK”. Figure D.26 12. After connec

Chapter 2 Getting started 2.1 Before starting Before starting, prepare the following items. 1. Check the “Certification list” in Appendix A to c

- 90 - Figure D.27 13. Choose “Round Robin” for Load Balance Policy. 14. “Add” Source Portal for the iSCSI data port 2(192.168.12.229) Figure D

- 91 - 15. Choose “Adavanced” Figure D.29 16. Select Local adapter, Source IP, and Target Portal to iSCSI data port 2 (192.168.12.229). Then se