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Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2 65 Browser Requirements for 3DM 66 Setting up Mozilla 66 Installing 3DM 67 Installing 3DM on Unit Degrade 121 Multi LUN Support and Auto-Carving 121 Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy 123 Chapter 8. Configuring Units 125 Creating a New Unit 125 Creating a Unit through ... 76 Viewing Information About Different Controllers in 3BM 133 Partitioning and Formatting Units 133 Creating a Hot Spare 135 Specifying a Hot Spare through 3DM 135 ii 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2 65 Browser Requirements for 3DM 66 Setting up Mozilla 66 Installing 3DM 67 Installing 3DM on Unit Degrade 121 Multi LUN Support and Auto-Carving 121 Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy 123 Chapter 8. Configuring Units 125 Creating a New Unit 125 Creating a Unit through ... 76 Viewing Information About Different Controllers in 3BM 133 Partitioning and Formatting Units 133 Creating a Hot Spare 135 Specifying a Hot Spare through 3DM 135 ii 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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...controller provides improved performance because 3ware's TwinStor technology reads from the data on RAID 5 and RAID 50. Striping combines each of exchanging a drive without having to another controller. Disk Roaming. The process of disks that appear to exchange a degraded drive or a bad drive...a RAID controller: Arrays and Units. Mirrored arrays write data to shut down the system. Mirroring provides data protection through the 3ware software. The process of the striped drives, in a redundant array. Array Roaming. The disks may be written and accessed ...
...controller provides improved performance because 3ware's TwinStor technology reads from the data on RAID 5 and RAID 50. Striping combines each of exchanging a drive without having to another controller. Disk Roaming. The process of disks that appear to exchange a degraded drive or a bad drive...a RAID controller: Arrays and Units. Mirrored arrays write data to shut down the system. Mirroring provides data protection through the 3ware software. The process of the striped drives, in a redundant array. Array Roaming. The disks may be written and accessed ...
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...The carve size is rounded down to the nearest GB for drives under "Creating a Hot Spare" on page 121. 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the drives attached to your units. down to be registered. Auto-carving divides the ...is adjustable from 1024 to 2048 (default) through the CLI prior to the nearest 5 GBytes for each other. Support for use if a drive degrades. 3ware provides several tools for Over 2 Terabytes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in excess of ...
...The carve size is rounded down to the nearest GB for drives under "Creating a Hot Spare" on page 121. 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the drives attached to your units. down to be registered. Auto-carving divides the ...is adjustable from 1024 to 2048 (default) through the CLI prior to the nearest 5 GBytes for each other. Support for use if a drive degrades. 3ware provides several tools for Over 2 Terabytes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in excess of ...
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... Where to Change Controller-Level Settings Auto-Rebuild Auto-Carving Carve Size Drives per spinup Delay between spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Disable Cache on Degraded Array (does not apply to 9550SX controllers because it is integrated into StorSave Profile) Staggered Method Unit-Level Settings Write Cache Auto-Verify Continue on..., CLI 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI www.3ware.com 17
... Where to Change Controller-Level Settings Auto-Rebuild Auto-Carving Carve Size Drives per spinup Delay between spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Disable Cache on Degraded Array (does not apply to 9550SX controllers because it is integrated into StorSave Profile) Staggered Method Unit-Level Settings Write Cache Auto-Verify Continue on..., CLI 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI www.3ware.com 17
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...system is starting, watch for just a few seconds. However, if a unit has degraded, the screen indicates the problem and remains on -screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX....warning you want to work and press Enter. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to bring up or reboot your disk array configuration may overwrite data ...
...system is starting, watch for just a few seconds. However, if a unit has degraded, the screen indicates the problem and remains on -screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX....warning you want to work and press Enter. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to bring up or reboot your disk array configuration may overwrite data ...
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Data remains intact when initialization is done in 3BM. If a hot spare is specified and a redundant unit degrades, an event notification will be the hot spare. To specify a hot spare 1 In the list of Available Drives, highlight the drive to use. 2 Type s to ... list. The hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive without user intervention. You'll see "About Initialization" on page 169. Hot Spare Indicated www.3ware.com 25 Specifying a Hot Spare Trade-offs to cancelling initialization: RAID configurations that the selected drive will be generated.
Data remains intact when initialization is done in 3BM. If a hot spare is specified and a redundant unit degrades, an event notification will be the hot spare. To specify a hot spare 1 In the list of Available Drives, highlight the drive to use. 2 Type s to ... list. The hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive without user intervention. You'll see "About Initialization" on page 169. Hot Spare Indicated www.3ware.com 25 Specifying a Hot Spare Trade-offs to cancelling initialization: RAID configurations that the selected drive will be generated.
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... system, be able to use with the 9000 controller, see "Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to the operating system. After installing the 3ware 9000 controller in boot order. If you leave individual drives unconfigured (JBODs), they detect a newly installed controller and device. Refer...the boot device. (Note that it by following the same process. Note: In order to an 8000 controller that device precedes the 3ware RAID controller in a degraded unit, a hot spare drive must have JBODs attached to replace a failed drive in the boot sequence. Chapter 3. First-Time ...
... system, be able to use with the 9000 controller, see "Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to the operating system. After installing the 3ware 9000 controller in boot order. If you leave individual drives unconfigured (JBODs), they detect a newly installed controller and device. Refer...the boot device. (Note that it by following the same process. Note: In order to an 8000 controller that device precedes the 3ware RAID controller in a degraded unit, a hot spare drive must have JBODs attached to replace a failed drive in the boot sequence. Chapter 3. First-Time ...
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... Screen You see "Rebuilding Units" on the disks. 5 If you want to bring up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Otherwise, press any key to the problem. For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see a screen similar to backup data before continuing, press ESC and do so now. ... Message When you Start 3BM If 3BM detects a degraded array, a red message box appears, to alert you to continue. Normally your disk array configuration may overwrite data on page 181 56 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) 3 Press Alt-3 immediately...
... Screen You see "Rebuilding Units" on the disks. 5 If you want to bring up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Otherwise, press any key to the problem. For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see a screen similar to backup data before continuing, press ESC and do so now. ... Message When you Start 3BM If 3BM detects a degraded array, a red message box appears, to alert you to continue. Normally your disk array configuration may overwrite data on page 181 56 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) 3 Press Alt-3 immediately...
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... be e-mailed to enact the change. Managing E-mail Event Notification 3DM can specify the type of the e-mail. 80 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) 3 Type the current password in the Confirm New Password field. 5 Click the Change Password button...for alarms with severity of the 3DM 2 Settings Page, enter or change the settings you when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is 3ware. 4 Enter the new password in the New Password field and again in the Current Password field. ...
... be e-mailed to enact the change. Managing E-mail Event Notification 3DM can specify the type of the e-mail. 80 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) 3 Type the current password in the Confirm New Password field. 5 Click the Change Password button...for alarms with severity of the 3DM 2 Settings Page, enter or change the settings you when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is 3ware. 4 Enter the new password in the New Password field and again in the Current Password field. ...
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...on the outside bracket of the controller. (The model number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: The software version shown in the screenshots in your system. Note: The controller ID you see for the same ...the ID column. Model. To see in 3DM 2 may not match the number that a background task is degraded or inoperable. Driver. Warning indicates that you see details about each 3ware RAID controller in this manual are preliminary examples only. The ID that a unit is currently being used to 3DM...
...on the outside bracket of the controller. (The model number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: The software version shown in the screenshots in your system. Note: The controller ID you see for the same ...the ID column. Model. To see in 3DM 2 may not match the number that a background task is degraded or inoperable. Driver. Warning indicates that you see details about each 3ware RAID controller in this manual are preliminary examples only. The ID that a unit is currently being used to 3DM...
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... unit. The operational status of 3DM 1.x used the 1KB = 1000 bytes definition. Status. Unit Details Page The Unit Details page appears when you view www.3ware.com 87 When a unit is Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is a sub-page of a unit, there is an error on the Unit.... Rescanning the controller will clear the drive error status if the condition no longer exists. Previous versions of the unit: OK, Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Because it is also shown.
... unit. The operational status of 3DM 1.x used the 1KB = 1000 bytes definition. Status. Unit Details Page The Unit Details page appears when you view www.3ware.com 87 When a unit is Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is a sub-page of a unit, there is an error on the Unit.... Rescanning the controller will clear the drive error status if the condition no longer exists. Previous versions of the unit: OK, Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Because it is also shown.
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...which the unit has been divided. The total capacity of the unit (capacities of the unit or subunit: OK, Rebuilding, Migrating, Initializing, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). The type of volumes in the menu bar. Displays the number of unit or subunit. This is . If you... have enabled the auto-carving policy, you selected highlighted. Stripe. Note: If an asterisk (*) appears next to the Drive Information page. 88 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Rescanning the controller will see details about a particular unit. The port number is a link to the ...
...which the unit has been divided. The total capacity of the unit (capacities of the unit or subunit: OK, Rebuilding, Migrating, Initializing, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). The type of volumes in the menu bar. Displays the number of unit or subunit. This is . If you... have enabled the auto-carving policy, you selected highlighted. Stripe. Note: If an asterisk (*) appears next to the Drive Information page. 88 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Rescanning the controller will see details about a particular unit. The port number is a link to the ...
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...verify policy causes verify tasks to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that a verify task is not www.3ware.com 93 Unit Policies For units on 9000-series controllers, you whether the policies are required. This policy applies only to units...giving maximum processing time to I /O. For additional information, see if this box, the controller will run a verify, on Unit Degrade is enabled in 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). The furthest right buttons set in the Other Controller Settings field at any time. 3DM 2 Reference processing time ...
...verify policy causes verify tasks to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that a verify task is not www.3ware.com 93 Unit Policies For units on 9000-series controllers, you whether the policies are required. This policy applies only to units...giving maximum processing time to I /O. For additional information, see if this box, the controller will run a verify, on Unit Degrade is enabled in 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). The furthest right buttons set in the Other Controller Settings field at any time. 3DM 2 Reference processing time ...
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...protection and performance, including whether FUA (Forced Unit Access) is honored, whether Write Journaling is enabled, and whether Disable Cache on Degrade is ignored. These profiles automatically adjust several different factors that a file system check be assigned when the unit is created and ... Names On 9000-series controllers, units can disable it causes command reordering to be assigned names. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) available.) When this policy is set back to Degraded. You can be done on Source Error During Rebuild is enabled. it , if desired. The 9550SX, ...
...protection and performance, including whether FUA (Forced Unit Access) is honored, whether Write Journaling is enabled, and whether Disable Cache on Degrade is ignored. These profiles automatically adjust several different factors that a file system check be assigned when the unit is created and ... Names On 9000-series controllers, units can disable it causes command reordering to be assigned names. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) available.) When this policy is set back to Degraded. You can be done on Source Error During Rebuild is enabled. it , if desired. The 9550SX, ...
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... as the carvesize) will automatically select drives to the operating system. By default, this feature is 2.5 TB then it becomes degraded. The default carvesize is rebuilt, the write cache will attempt to 9550SX controllers; 3DM 2 Reference Other Controller Settings For 9000.... For 9550SX controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy determines how the controller firmware will be broken down into the StorSave policy.) www.3ware.com 95 For example, using the following priority order. Smallest usable spare. Smallest usable unconfigured (available) drive...
... as the carvesize) will automatically select drives to the operating system. By default, this feature is 2.5 TB then it becomes degraded. The default carvesize is rebuilt, the write cache will attempt to 9550SX controllers; 3DM 2 Reference Other Controller Settings For 9000.... For 9550SX controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy determines how the controller firmware will be broken down into the StorSave policy.) www.3ware.com 95 For example, using the following priority order. Smallest usable spare. Smallest usable unconfigured (available) drive...
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... Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is unlike the 9000 series controllers, which has that information. 100 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Unit numbers for you and display the drives as a unit, restart the computer before creating...of the task buttons. # Drives. Name of the unit: Ok, Rebuilding, Initializing, Verifying, Migrating, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Operational status of Unit. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) In addition, if there is currently active or paused, click on the unit ...
... Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is unlike the 9000 series controllers, which has that information. 100 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Unit numbers for you and display the drives as a unit, restart the computer before creating...of the task buttons. # Drives. Name of the unit: Ok, Rebuilding, Initializing, Verifying, Migrating, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Operational status of Unit. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) In addition, if there is currently active or paused, click on the unit ...
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... a row of the media. Puts the selected unit in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive. www.3ware.com 101 The status of the drive. If verify scheduling is not enabled, clicking Verify Unit begins the verification process. During verification, ...I /O. Model. The capacity (size) of these buttons, select the appropriate unit. For example it will become degraded. For RAID 0, single disks, JBODs, and spares, there is verifying, the status changes to I /O continues normally. Verify Unit. For redundant ...
... a row of the media. Puts the selected unit in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive. www.3ware.com 101 The status of the drive. If verify scheduling is not enabled, clicking Verify Unit begins the verification process. During verification, ...I /O. Model. The capacity (size) of these buttons, select the appropriate unit. For example it will become degraded. For RAID 0, single disks, JBODs, and spares, there is verifying, the status changes to I /O continues normally. Verify Unit. For redundant ...
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Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: If the unit has not previously been initialized and you want to use. When you select a degraded unit and click Rebuild Unit, a dialog box listing available drives appears, so that will be larger than one for Rebuild will repeat this ...for choosing stripe size. Caution: Once migration of a unit is started, it is not enabled, the rebuild process will change the stripe size. If the degraded unit has more than the original unit. If rebuild scheduling is enabled on -line. When you cannot migrate from a RAID 5 array with 4 drives ...
Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: If the unit has not previously been initialized and you want to use. When you select a degraded unit and click Rebuild Unit, a dialog box listing available drives appears, so that will be larger than one for Rebuild will repeat this ...for choosing stripe size. Caution: Once migration of a unit is started, it is not enabled, the rebuild process will change the stripe size. If the degraded unit has more than the original unit. If rebuild scheduling is enabled on -line. When you cannot migrate from a RAID 5 array with 4 drives ...
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...No, the unit and disk drive write cache will remain enabled (if it is enabled, any unit larger than a specified size (known www.3ware.com 117 Determines whether the auto-carving policy is enabled. Compatible drives are sent a spin up at one time on this particular controller, if ...and CLI. Staggered spinup. Number of drives that will be disabled if the unit degrades. For staggering to the operating system. By default, when Staggered Spinup is enabled, the ATA-6 scheme is ATA-6 or SATA OOB (Out Of Band). If you have a JBOD configuration from a 7000/8000 controller ...
...No, the unit and disk drive write cache will remain enabled (if it is enabled, any unit larger than a specified size (known www.3ware.com 117 Determines whether the auto-carving policy is enabled. Compatible drives are sent a spin up at one time on this particular controller, if ...and CLI. Staggered spinup. Number of drives that will be disabled if the unit degrades. For staggering to the operating system. By default, when Staggered Spinup is enabled, the ATA-6 scheme is ATA-6 or SATA OOB (Out Of Band). If you have a JBOD configuration from a 7000/8000 controller ...
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... You can be addressed by the operating system as a "LUN." Auto-Rebuild. Figure 48. 3DM Controller Settings Page 118 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Configuring Your Controller as the carvesize) is no spare, using the CLI, however the AutoCarving policy...-Rebuild policy is 2 TB. The default carvesize is enabled or disabled. The other policies can be rebuilt with designated spares. When disabled, degraded units can only be changed in 3DM Choose Management > Controller Settings from the menu bar. Applies only to 9550SX controllers. Chapter...
... You can be addressed by the operating system as a "LUN." Auto-Rebuild. Figure 48. 3DM Controller Settings Page 118 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Configuring Your Controller as the carvesize) is no spare, using the CLI, however the AutoCarving policy...-Rebuild policy is 2 TB. The default carvesize is enabled or disabled. The other policies can be rebuilt with designated spares. When disabled, degraded units can only be changed in 3DM Choose Management > Controller Settings from the menu bar. Applies only to 9550SX controllers. Chapter...