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... About Status and Activity 124 Monitoring Your GuardianOS-Powered Snap Servers 126 Chapter 11 Updating and Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager 133 Updating Adaptec Storage Manager 133 Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager 133 Creating and Working with Display Groups 135 Chapter 12 Solving Problems 137 General Troubleshooting Tips 137 Troubleshooting Questions and Answers 138 Silencing an Alarm 142 Identifying Failed or Failing Components 143 Hot Swapping Disk Drives 144 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 145 Rebuilding Pools 147 Recovering Snapshots After a Pool Capacity Failure...
... About Status and Activity 124 Monitoring Your GuardianOS-Powered Snap Servers 126 Chapter 11 Updating and Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager 133 Updating Adaptec Storage Manager 133 Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager 133 Creating and Working with Display Groups 135 Chapter 12 Solving Problems 137 General Troubleshooting Tips 137 Troubleshooting Questions and Answers 138 Silencing an Alarm 142 Identifying Failed or Failing Components 143 Hot Swapping Disk Drives 144 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 145 Rebuilding Pools 147 Recovering Snapshots After a Pool Capacity Failure...
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Snap Server and Expansion Array Hardware Specifications 196 Safety Precautions 198 Appendix D RAID Quick Reference 199 Comparing RAID Levels 199 Selecting a RAID Level by Size of Pool 200 Expanding Pool Capacity 200 Changing from One RAID Level to Another 200 Appendix E OS Support Quick Reference 201 iSCSI Initiator Support by OS 202 Adaptec Storage Manager Feature Support by OS 203 Appendix F Completing a Silent Windows Installation 205 Completing a Silent Installation 205 Available Properties and Values...
Snap Server and Expansion Array Hardware Specifications 196 Safety Precautions 198 Appendix D RAID Quick Reference 199 Comparing RAID Levels 199 Selecting a RAID Level by Size of Pool 200 Expanding Pool Capacity 200 Changing from One RAID Level to Another 200 Appendix E OS Support Quick Reference 201 iSCSI Initiator Support by OS 202 Adaptec Storage Manager Feature Support by OS 203 Appendix F Completing a Silent Windows Installation 205 Completing a Silent Installation 205 Available Properties and Values...
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... 't appear during installation on any system running Windows 2003, to install. The Adaptec Storage Manager InstallShield wizard opens automatically. (If it doesn't, use Windows Explorer to display the CD contents, then double-click setup.exe.) 3 Click Next to begin the installation. 4 Select I accept..., then click Next. 5 Select iSCSI Storage Setup, then click Next. 6 Select the features you aren't installing the Management Service.) 28 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide Installing on Windows 2 Power on the...
... 't appear during installation on any system running Windows 2003, to install. The Adaptec Storage Manager InstallShield wizard opens automatically. (If it doesn't, use Windows Explorer to display the CD contents, then double-click setup.exe.) 3 Click Next to begin the installation. 4 Select I accept..., then click Next. 5 Select iSCSI Storage Setup, then click Next. 6 Select the features you aren't installing the Management Service.) 28 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide Installing on Windows 2 Power on the...
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... your iSCSI Storage Appliance and set up your iSCSI storage. Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide 33 Once setup in your systems automatically (systems running Windows 2003 only) or manually. 6 Re-open the wizard to guide you create RAID pools (pools). This is an overview of systems in Adaptec Storage Manager is to a Management Service and add your iSCSI Storage Appliance. 2 The wizard opens automatically and prompts you configure your iSCSI Storage Appliance. 3 Register your iSCSI storage. Adaptec Storage Manager provides a wizard to add more iSCSI Storage Appliances, create more...
... your iSCSI Storage Appliance and set up your iSCSI storage. Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide 33 Once setup in your systems automatically (systems running Windows 2003 only) or manually. 6 Re-open the wizard to guide you create RAID pools (pools). This is an overview of systems in Adaptec Storage Manager is to a Management Service and add your iSCSI Storage Appliance. 2 The wizard opens automatically and prompts you configure your iSCSI Storage Appliance. 3 Register your iSCSI storage. Adaptec Storage Manager provides a wizard to add more iSCSI Storage Appliances, create more...
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... users have user-level access only to Management Service window pops up . Note If your iSCSI Storage Appliance is on a network without a DHCP server, complete the steps in to run Adaptec Storage Manager. The wizard opens and the Add iSCSI Storage Appliance window pops up . Chapter 4 Setting Up Your iSCSI Storage Appliance and IP SAN 35 You might want to be prompted to log in "Building an IP SAN Without a DHCP Server" on which the Management Service is installed...
... users have user-level access only to Management Service window pops up . Note If your iSCSI Storage Appliance is on a network without a DHCP server, complete the steps in to run Adaptec Storage Manager. The wizard opens and the Add iSCSI Storage Appliance window pops up . Chapter 4 Setting Up Your iSCSI Storage Appliance and IP SAN 35 You might want to be prompted to log in "Building an IP SAN Without a DHCP Server" on which the Management Service is installed...
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... the Create RAID Pools step. Use a meaningful name that will help you want to select a new RAID level. 38 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide See "RAID Quick Reference" on the number of creating pools, helping you don't have enough disk drives to create a pool with the custom method: 1 Select Custom configuration..., then click Next. 2 Select a RAID level. The wizard continues to 20 pools are supported on creating pools using express configuration, see...
... the Create RAID Pools step. Use a meaningful name that will help you want to select a new RAID level. 38 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide See "RAID Quick Reference" on the number of creating pools, helping you don't have enough disk drives to create a pool with the custom method: 1 Select Custom configuration..., then click Next. 2 Select a RAID level. The wizard continues to 20 pools are supported on creating pools using express configuration, see...
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... Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, or VMware, you must use the snapshot feature for tape backup, drive cloning, and multi-server rollout. If an error occurs on the volume, you can also schedule snapshots to help you want. 2 In the Volumes View, select a volume or mirrored volume. 3 Click the Snapshots button (shown at a point in your iSCSI Storage Appliance. Adaptec Storage Manager has a snapshot wizard to be mounted or deleted, for another time...
... Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, or VMware, you must use the snapshot feature for tape backup, drive cloning, and multi-server rollout. If an error occurs on the volume, you can also schedule snapshots to help you want. 2 In the Volumes View, select a volume or mirrored volume. 3 Click the Snapshots button (shown at a point in your iSCSI Storage Appliance. Adaptec Storage Manager has a snapshot wizard to be mounted or deleted, for another time...
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... the Security Manager To protect your iSCSI storage. If your IP SAN, the user enters his or her password when logging in to the Management Service (see page 81). Right-click here The wizard opens. 2 Change the authentication settings as required. (For more than one of "Provisioning Storage Manually" on different Management Services. 80 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide Note Multiple users can add authentication, change the access settings for any provisioned volume or logical device. Click...
... the Security Manager To protect your iSCSI storage. If your IP SAN, the user enters his or her password when logging in to the Management Service (see page 81). Right-click here The wizard opens. 2 Change the authentication settings as required. (For more than one of "Provisioning Storage Manually" on different Management Services. 80 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide Note Multiple users can add authentication, change the access settings for any provisioned volume or logical device. Click...
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... 3: Creating RAID Pools" on creating pools using custom configuration. (To change pool size after a pool has been created, see "Step 3: Creating RAID Pools" on page 39 for more information. 3 Click Apply, then click Yes to make other RAID level, you use express configuration, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically creates pools by grouping together same-sized physical disk drives, and assigns RAID levels based on a single iSCSI Storage Appliance. To exclude specific disk drives or to confirm. See "RAID Quick Reference...
... 3: Creating RAID Pools" on creating pools using custom configuration. (To change pool size after a pool has been created, see "Step 3: Creating RAID Pools" on page 39 for more information. 3 Click Apply, then click Yes to make other RAID level, you use express configuration, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically creates pools by grouping together same-sized physical disk drives, and assigns RAID levels based on a single iSCSI Storage Appliance. To exclude specific disk drives or to confirm. See "RAID Quick Reference...
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... of Adaptec Storage Manager are located in the directory where Adaptec Storage Manager is installed: • RaidEvt.log-Information reported in the Event Viewer for all systems. • RaidEvtA.log-Information reported in the Event Viewer for a password when I add an iSCSI Storage Host to a Management Service? Enter the CLI Administrative password for a password if the iSCSI Storage Appliance you cannot log in the Microsoft Services file. 138 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide The default password is installed properly. Troubleshooting...
... of Adaptec Storage Manager are located in the directory where Adaptec Storage Manager is installed: • RaidEvt.log-Information reported in the Event Viewer for all systems. • RaidEvtA.log-Information reported in the Event Viewer for a password when I add an iSCSI Storage Host to a Management Service? Enter the CLI Administrative password for a password if the iSCSI Storage Appliance you cannot log in the Microsoft Services file. 138 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide The default password is installed properly. Troubleshooting...
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... In Adaptec Storage Manager, the color of the failed drive. Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 4 Release the latch on the drive to securely seat it in the drive bay before you close the handle until it clicks into the bay. 5 Insert the new disk drive, making sure you push it forward until the rebuilding is reconstructed) using the hot spare in place of the hot spare changes from lightblue...
... In Adaptec Storage Manager, the color of the failed drive. Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 4 Release the latch on the drive to securely seat it in the drive bay before you close the handle until it clicks into the bay. 5 Insert the new disk drive, making sure you push it forward until the rebuilding is reconstructed) using the hot spare in place of the hot spare changes from lightblue...
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... iSCSI Storage Appliance have access to "Removing iSCSI Targets and Adding the Appliance IP Address" on your iSCSI Storage Appliance, or if you used new settings while configuring your IP SAN: • For iSCSI Storage Hosts, see the next section. • For systems running Windows XP, Linux, or VMware, see page 153. Otherwise, skip to the logical device, then click Add. 150 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide f If prompted, enter the administrator password...
... iSCSI Storage Appliance have access to "Removing iSCSI Targets and Adding the Appliance IP Address" on your iSCSI Storage Appliance, or if you used new settings while configuring your IP SAN: • For iSCSI Storage Hosts, see the next section. • For systems running Windows XP, Linux, or VMware, see page 153. Otherwise, skip to the logical device, then click Add. 150 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide f If prompted, enter the administrator password...
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... iSCSI Storage Appliance. You can use the CLI to the management port on your iSCSI Storage Appliance. This appendix introduces the CLI and provides instructions for example, hyperterminal) to Off. You can access the CLI two ways. Otherwise, the system will appear as local disk storage on the iSCSI Storage Appliance. Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide 177 Appendix B U sin g th e C LI The Command Line Interface (CLI) software is admin...
... iSCSI Storage Appliance. You can use the CLI to the management port on your iSCSI Storage Appliance. This appendix introduces the CLI and provides instructions for example, hyperterminal) to Off. You can access the CLI two ways. Otherwise, the system will appear as local disk storage on the iSCSI Storage Appliance. Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide 177 Appendix B U sin g th e C LI The Command Line Interface (CLI) software is admin...
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... INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Adaptec Storage Manager\"" • To install and have installed the DSM feature, or if any files can't be overwritten. If you have setup wait until the install finishes before it closes: start /WAIT setup.exe /w /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=Console,Agent REBOOT=ReallySupress" • To install the VDS/VSS Services with support for a remote Management Service (already installed on a machine named COMP1234, then force a reboot: setup.exe /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=ALL USERNAME=admin PASSWORD=pass REBOOT=Force...
... INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Adaptec Storage Manager\"" • To install and have installed the DSM feature, or if any files can't be overwritten. If you have setup wait until the install finishes before it closes: start /WAIT setup.exe /w /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=Console,Agent REBOOT=ReallySupress" • To install the VDS/VSS Services with support for a remote Management Service (already installed on a machine named COMP1234, then force a reboot: setup.exe /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=ALL USERNAME=admin PASSWORD=pass REBOOT=Force...
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... deleting mirrored volumes 75 DHCP configuring iSCSI Storage Appliance without DHCP server 24 settings 37 Direct Attached Storage display options 134 documentation 53 Enterprise View 53 discovering network attached storage 128 discovery settings 45 disk drives available space 55 capacity 58 capacity limitations 87 connection limitations 18 failed disk drives 145-147 hot swapping 144 in logical devices 39 maximum per iSCSI Storage Appliance 18 RAID levels 200 recovering from failure 145-147 relative capacity 58 status 127 viewing logical devices 56 viewing status 55 display groups...
... deleting mirrored volumes 75 DHCP configuring iSCSI Storage Appliance without DHCP server 24 settings 37 Direct Attached Storage display options 134 documentation 53 Enterprise View 53 discovering network attached storage 128 discovery settings 45 disk drives available space 55 capacity 58 capacity limitations 87 connection limitations 18 failed disk drives 145-147 hot swapping 144 in logical devices 39 maximum per iSCSI Storage Appliance 18 RAID levels 200 recovering from failure 145-147 relative capacity 58 status 127 viewing logical devices 56 viewing status 55 display groups...
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... settings 45 iSCSI ports 37 iSCSI Storage access control 77 auto-discovery control lists 77 CHAP authentication 79 display options 134 Security Manager 80 SRP authentication 79 iSCSI Storage Appliance access control 79 adding new 86 administrative password 180 authentication 79 auto-discovery control lists 77 creating 45 configuring during setup 36 configuring without DHCP server 24 date and time settings 37 DHCP settings 37 disk drive limitations 18 email notifications 120 Ethernet ports 37 failure recovery 149 flash drive failure in mirrored appliance 153 IP addresses 37 logical device...
... settings 45 iSCSI ports 37 iSCSI Storage access control 77 auto-discovery control lists 77 CHAP authentication 79 display options 134 Security Manager 80 SRP authentication 79 iSCSI Storage Appliance access control 79 adding new 86 administrative password 180 authentication 79 auto-discovery control lists 77 creating 45 configuring during setup 36 configuring without DHCP server 24 date and time settings 37 DHCP settings 37 disk drive limitations 18 email notifications 120 Ethernet ports 37 failure recovery 149 flash drive failure in mirrored appliance 153 IP addresses 37 logical device...
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... modifying 99 Protocol Data Unit settings 45 RAID level 56 selecting disk drives 39 size 39 SRP authentication settings 44 viewing disk drives 56 Logical Devices View 52, 56 logical drives. See logical devices M main window 52 display groups 135 display options 135 management ports 37 Management Service access levels 80 adding new 85 defined 16 display group status 136 email notifications 120 installation requirements 18 Jobs Manager 109 logging in progress 109 Network Attached Storage 126-132 Snap Servers (GuardianOS-powered) 126-132...
... modifying 99 Protocol Data Unit settings 45 RAID level 56 selecting disk drives 39 size 39 SRP authentication settings 44 viewing disk drives 56 Logical Devices View 52, 56 logical drives. See logical devices M main window 52 display groups 135 display options 135 management ports 37 Management Service access levels 80 adding new 85 defined 16 display group status 136 email notifications 120 installation requirements 18 Jobs Manager 109 logging in progress 109 Network Attached Storage 126-132 Snap Servers (GuardianOS-powered) 126-132...
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... 90 moving 91 names 87 RAID levels 199, 200 read caches 94 rebuilding 147 recovering snapshots 148 size limitation 87 troubleshooting 145 viewing status 56 write caches 94 power supply status 114, 127 privilege levels 81 properties Network Attached Storage 128 Snap Servers (GuardianOS-powered) 128 Properties button 114 protecting data mirrored volumes 69-75 snapshots 64-67 Protocol Data Unit settings 45 226 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide Multipath Input Output Device Specific Module Driver.
... 90 moving 91 names 87 RAID levels 199, 200 read caches 94 rebuilding 147 recovering snapshots 148 size limitation 87 troubleshooting 145 viewing status 56 write caches 94 power supply status 114, 127 privilege levels 81 properties Network Attached Storage 128 Snap Servers (GuardianOS-powered) 128 Properties button 114 protecting data mirrored volumes 69-75 snapshots 64-67 Protocol Data Unit settings 45 226 Snap Server 700i Series User's Guide Multipath Input Output Device Specific Module Driver.
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... 750i checklist 194 specifications 196 See also iSCSI Storage Appliance Snap Server Manager 126, 128 Snap Servers (GuardianOS-powered) disabling remote discovery 129 discovering 128 GuardianOS Web Administrator 130 management settings 130 monitoring 126-132 properties 128 removing offline servers 129 status 126 Web Administrator 130 snapshot sets 57 snapshots 64-67 creating 64 mounting 66 recovering from pool capacity failure 148 recurring jobs 67 scheduling 67 snapshot sets 57 third-party snapshots 57 troubleshooting 148 Snapshots View...
... 750i checklist 194 specifications 196 See also iSCSI Storage Appliance Snap Server Manager 126, 128 Snap Servers (GuardianOS-powered) disabling remote discovery 129 discovering 128 GuardianOS Web Administrator 130 management settings 130 monitoring 126-132 properties 128 removing offline servers 129 status 126 Web Administrator 130 snapshot sets 57 snapshots 64-67 creating 64 mounting 66 recovering from pool capacity failure 148 recurring jobs 67 scheduling 67 snapshot sets 57 third-party snapshots 57 troubleshooting 148 Snapshots View...
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... file 142 disk drive failure 145-147 email notification problems 140 failed components, identifying 143 installing Windows Support components 137 iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 log-in problems 138 provisioning storage 139 reconnecting to iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 replacing an iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 shutting down the iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 snapshots 148 support archive file 142 volumes 139 typographical conventions 10 U uninstalling Adaptec Storage Manager 60 Linux 60 Windows 60 units of measure 134 updating Adaptec Storage Manager 133 updating controller images 105 user documents...
... file 142 disk drive failure 145-147 email notification problems 140 failed components, identifying 143 installing Windows Support components 137 iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 log-in problems 138 provisioning storage 139 reconnecting to iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 replacing an iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 shutting down the iSCSI Storage Appliance 149 snapshots 148 support archive file 142 volumes 139 typographical conventions 10 U uninstalling Adaptec Storage Manager 60 Linux 60 Windows 60 units of measure 134 updating Adaptec Storage Manager 133 updating controller images 105 user documents...