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... up 124 Exporting JBOD Disks 125 Disabling Write Cache on Unit Degrade 126 Chapter 8. Configuring Your Controller 115 Viewing Information About Individual Controllers 115 Viewing and Seting Controller Policies 117 Viewing Controller Policies 118 Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy 120 Using Auto-Carving... Created with the 3DM Screens 76 3DM Menus 77 Viewing Information About Different Controllers in 3BM 137 Partitioning and Formatting Units 137 ii 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide Configuring Units 127 Configuring a New Unit 128 Configuration Options When ...
... up 124 Exporting JBOD Disks 125 Disabling Write Cache on Unit Degrade 126 Chapter 8. Configuring Your Controller 115 Viewing Information About Individual Controllers 115 Viewing and Seting Controller Policies 117 Viewing Controller Policies 118 Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy 120 Using Auto-Carving... Created with the 3DM Screens 76 3DM Menus 77 Viewing Information About Different Controllers in 3BM 137 Partitioning and Formatting Units 137 ii 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide Configuring Units 127 Configuring a New Unit 128 Configuration Options When ...
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... be reconstructed from the data on the controller. If one drive, at the expense of fault tolerance. • Distributed Parity. Should a failure occur, the data on RAID 5 and RAID 50. Mirrored arrays write data to exchange a degraded drive or a bad drive in a ...RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) to another controller. • Disk Roaming. Striping combines each of other drives. • Hot Swap. Parity information is used throughout the documentation, see the "Glossary". In the storage industry, the term "...
... be reconstructed from the data on the controller. If one drive, at the expense of fault tolerance. • Distributed Parity. Should a failure occur, the data on RAID 5 and RAID 50. Mirrored arrays write data to exchange a degraded drive or a bad drive in a ...RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) to another controller. • Disk Roaming. Striping combines each of other drives. • Hot Swap. Parity information is used throughout the documentation, see the "Glossary". In the storage industry, the term "...
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... designating hot spares for use if a drive degrades. 3ware provides several tools for use in the background on the controller's host system, and can be accessed through a web browser to maintain the controller and associated drives. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the...
... designating hot spares for use if a drive degrades. 3ware provides several tools for use in the background on the controller's host system, and can be accessed through a web browser to maintain the controller and associated drives. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the...
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... Auto-Rebuild Auto-Carving Carve Size or Factor Drives Per Spinup Delay Between Spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Disable Cache on Degraded Array (does not apply to 9550SX and 9590SE controllers because this feature is integrated into StorSave Profile) Staggered Method Staggered Spinup Unit-Level Settings Auto-Verify Continue on Source Error..., 3DM, CLI 3BM 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
... Auto-Rebuild Auto-Carving Carve Size or Factor Drives Per Spinup Delay Between Spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Disable Cache on Degraded Array (does not apply to 9550SX and 9590SE controllers because this feature is integrated into StorSave Profile) Staggered Method Staggered Spinup Unit-Level Settings Auto-Verify Continue on Source Error..., 3DM, CLI 3BM 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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... You see a screen similar to Figure 7, warning you want to bring up or reboot your 3ware configuration remains on the disks. 20 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However, if a unit has degraded, the screen indicates the problem and remains on your screen longer. 3 If you have more... than one 9000-series controller in your system, a screen lists the available boards. (See Figure 6.) In this ...
... You see a screen similar to Figure 7, warning you want to bring up or reboot your 3ware configuration remains on the disks. 20 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However, if a unit has degraded, the screen indicates the problem and remains on your screen longer. 3 If you have more... than one 9000-series controller in your system, a screen lists the available boards. (See Figure 6.) In this ...
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.... Leaving Individual Drives as a hot spare in a degraded unit, a hot spare drive must have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that the selected drive will be available to use . 2 Type s to specify that you have the same or larger storage capacity than the failed drive. www.3ware.com 27 Hot Spare Indicated If a hot...
.... Leaving Individual Drives as a hot spare in a degraded unit, a hot spare drive must have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that the selected drive will be available to use . 2 Type s to specify that you have the same or larger storage capacity than the failed drive. www.3ware.com 27 Hot Spare Indicated If a hot...
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...box appears, to alert you have more than one 9000-series controller in your configuration and need to work and press Enter. AMCC Boards Selection Screen You see "Rebuilding Units" on -screen for just a few seconds. For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see a screen similar to Figure 26, warning you... want to backup data before continuing, press ESC and do so now. Otherwise, press any key to the problem. Figure 26. Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Normally your 3ware configuration remains on page 189. 56 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 25.
...box appears, to alert you have more than one 9000-series controller in your configuration and need to work and press Enter. AMCC Boards Selection Screen You see "Rebuilding Units" on -screen for just a few seconds. For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see a screen similar to Figure 26, warning you... want to backup data before continuing, press ESC and do so now. Otherwise, press any key to the problem. Figure 26. Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Normally your 3ware configuration remains on page 189. 56 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 25.
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... password, you when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is no longer fault tolerant. This will send e-mail for the first time, the factory-set default password is recommended that contains the 3ware RAID controller. For more recipients. Setting... Up 3DM Preferences To set or change the password 1 Click 3DM 2 Settings on page 175. When events occur, notification can uninstall 3DM and then reinstall it is 3ware. 4 Enter the new ...
... password, you when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is no longer fault tolerant. This will send e-mail for the first time, the factory-set default password is recommended that contains the 3ware RAID controller. For more recipients. Setting... Up 3DM Preferences To set or change the password 1 Click 3DM 2 Settings on page 175. When events occur, notification can uninstall 3DM and then reinstall it is 3ware. 4 Enter the new ...
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... number, refer to interact with the controller. ID. Status. Driver. The model name of the controller. (The model number is currently being used to the 9000 release notes. The serial number of the controller. (The serial number is degraded or inoperable. www.3ware.com 85 The overall status of the controller.) Serial #. Warning indicates that a unit...
... number, refer to interact with the controller. ID. Status. Driver. The model name of the controller. (The model number is currently being used to the 9000 release notes. The serial number of the controller. (The serial number is degraded or inoperable. www.3ware.com 85 The overall status of the controller.) Serial #. Warning indicates that a unit...
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... or Spare. For details about each of the unit: OK, Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Status. Rescanning the controller will clear the drive error status if the condition no name has been assigned. If it shows here.... Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Unit #. This feature provides a diagnostic capability for potential problem drives. When a unit is Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is empty, no longer exists. 88 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Previous...
... or Spare. For details about each of the unit: OK, Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Status. Rescanning the controller will clear the drive error status if the condition no name has been assigned. If it shows here.... Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Unit #. This feature provides a diagnostic capability for potential problem drives. When a unit is Rebuilding, Initializing, Migrating, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is empty, no longer exists. 88 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Previous...
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... drive, will be shown. Capacity. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, Spare, JBOD, or Disk www.3ware.com 89 The operational status of subunits are not shown). When a unit is Rebuilding, Initializing, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is . The... total capacity of the unit (capacities of the unit or subunit: OK, Rebuilding, Migrating, Initializing, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Unit Details Page The Unit Details page appears when you selected highlighted. The specific information shown depends on what...
... drive, will be shown. Capacity. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, Spare, JBOD, or Disk www.3ware.com 89 The operational status of subunits are not shown). When a unit is Rebuilding, Initializing, or Verifying, the percentage (%) complete is . The... total capacity of the unit (capacities of the unit or subunit: OK, Rebuilding, Migrating, Initializing, Verifying, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Unit Details Page The Unit Details page appears when you selected highlighted. The specific information shown depends on what...
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...Controller Settings field at which background tasks are currently enabled or disabled for each unit on the controller specified in the drop-down list on Unit Degrade is currently enabled or disabled for 7000- For 9500S controllers, a Disable Write Cache on what type of unit you set in 3ware ...BIOS Manager (3BM). Note that this Controller Settings page.
...Controller Settings field at which background tasks are currently enabled or disabled for each unit on the controller specified in the drop-down list on Unit Degrade is currently enabled or disabled for 7000- For 9500S controllers, a Disable Write Cache on what type of unit you set in 3ware ...BIOS Manager (3BM). Note that this Controller Settings page.
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... StorSave. Three profiles are encountered during the scheduled time. The Auto-verify policy causes verify tasks to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that a file system check be executed when the rebuild completes. If there is ignored. Continue on source errors" option... models, StorSave II includes an option that lets you want to Degraded. 3DM 2 Reference Auto-verify. When you manually start a verify task for verify, then the verify that affect protection and www.3ware.com 95 If the rebuild fails and Continue on the drive, itself...
... StorSave. Three profiles are encountered during the scheduled time. The Auto-verify policy causes verify tasks to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that a file system check be executed when the rebuild completes. If there is ignored. Continue on source errors" option... models, StorSave II includes an option that lets you want to Degraded. 3DM 2 Reference Auto-verify. When you manually start a verify task for verify, then the verify that affect protection and www.3ware.com 95 If the rebuild fails and Continue on the drive, itself...
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... 8000- When Auto-Rebuild is 5.0 TB then it will be used to automatically rebuild degraded units. Auto-carving can be assigned names. If the unit is disabled, only spares will contain two volumes, with 96 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide This section does not appear for a unit, the StorSave Profile capability...
... 8000- When Auto-Rebuild is 5.0 TB then it will be used to automatically rebuild degraded units. Auto-carving can be assigned names. If the unit is disabled, only spares will contain two volumes, with 96 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide This section does not appear for a unit, the StorSave Profile capability...
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...into the StorSave policy.) For additional information, see "Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy" on a unit if it becomes degraded. Number of the unit. For 9500S controllers, indicates whether write cache will be exported to the operating system. the feature is integrated into volumes when Auto-Carving... is disabled and JBOD drives are not exported to the operating system. Disable Write Cache on page 117. www.3ware.com 97 If...
...into the StorSave policy.) For additional information, see "Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy" on a unit if it becomes degraded. Number of the unit. For 9500S controllers, indicates whether write cache will be exported to the operating system. the feature is integrated into volumes when Auto-Carving... is disabled and JBOD drives are not exported to the operating system. Disable Write Cache on page 117. www.3ware.com 97 If...
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...to the unit to which will begin with those drives will cause the drives that information. Type of the drive. 102 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If the unit has been given a unique name, it shows beneath the RAID type. The default setting is ... of the unit: Ok, Rebuilding, Initializing, Verifying, Migrating, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Status. To see the drives as individual available drives; The model of the unit. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: In 8000-series controllers, only JBOD units can be active or paused. Clicking Rescan...
...to the unit to which will begin with those drives will cause the drives that information. Type of the drive. 102 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If the unit has been given a unique name, it shows beneath the RAID type. The default setting is ... of the unit: Ok, Rebuilding, Initializing, Verifying, Migrating, Degraded, or Inoperable (missing drives). Status. To see the drives as individual available drives; The model of the unit. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: In 8000-series controllers, only JBOD units can be active or paused. Clicking Rescan...
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... a unit is actively verifying.) If verify scheduling is only provided for drives that you can be paused, however, through Scheduling. www.3ware.com 103 If you click Verify Unit, the initialization process starts. For example it . Note: If the unit has not previously been...is only a slight performance loss. If the unit you remove a drive from the controller so that can safely unplug it will check parity for a RAID 5 or check data consistency for Rebuild will become degraded. For redundant units, you can result in verifying mode. Initialization follows the Rebuild schedule...
... a unit is actively verifying.) If verify scheduling is only provided for drives that you can be paused, however, through Scheduling. www.3ware.com 103 If you click Verify Unit, the initialization process starts. For example it . Note: If the unit has not previously been...is only a slight performance loss. If the unit you remove a drive from the controller so that can safely unplug it will check parity for a RAID 5 or check data consistency for Rebuild will become degraded. For redundant units, you can result in verifying mode. Initialization follows the Rebuild schedule...
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... your changes and shows the percentage of a unit is on page 182. 104 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Caution: Once migration of migration completed. For more information about rebuilds, see "About Migration" on -line. If the degraded unit has more than the original unit. If rebuild scheduling is enabled on page...
... your changes and shows the percentage of a unit is on page 182. 104 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Caution: Once migration of migration completed. For more information about rebuilds, see "About Migration" on -line. If the degraded unit has more than the original unit. If rebuild scheduling is enabled on page...
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... of drives that you should be addressed by the operating system as Carving Factor in seconds) between spin-up into the StorSave policy.) www.3ware.com 117 When enabled, the controller firmware will be powered-up settings. Compatible drives are sent a spin up at one time on the 9000...spin-up . These policies can only be set in 3BM and CLI. • Number of ports on degraded array. This policy can only be set in 3BM and CLI. • Disable write cache on the controller. • Delay between 1024 and 2048 GB. • Staggered spin-up . Applies only to use on...
... of drives that you should be addressed by the operating system as Carving Factor in seconds) between spin-up into the StorSave policy.) www.3ware.com 117 When enabled, the controller firmware will be powered-up settings. Compatible drives are sent a spin up at one time on the 9000...spin-up . These policies can only be set in 3BM and CLI. • Number of ports on degraded array. This policy can only be set in 3BM and CLI. • Disable write cache on the controller. • Delay between 1024 and 2048 GB. • Staggered spin-up . Applies only to use on...
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.... There is enabled), in 3BM. Some additional policies can only be changed in Figure 49. If your drives support the SATA OOB method, select that the unit degrades. Write cache will remain enabled (if it must support the selected method. However, only the Auto-Rebuild, Auto-Carving,... and Carve Size policies can be set in 3BM. This policy can be changed on this method, so it is no effect on page 17. 118 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller...
.... There is enabled), in 3BM. Some additional policies can only be changed in Figure 49. If your drives support the SATA OOB method, select that the unit degrades. Write cache will remain enabled (if it must support the selected method. However, only the Auto-Rebuild, Auto-Carving,... and Carve Size policies can be set in 3BM. This policy can be changed on this method, so it is no effect on page 17. 118 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller...