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... 7 PRELIMINARY 10/26/04 - FILE LOCATION: S:\systems\Zappa\Ts\EMM Firmware_N8865\N8865eb0.fm 3 Restart node 2. 4 Open the Disk Management Service. 5 In the Disk Management Service window, verify that can be used with the following operating systems: • Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server •... Dell-supported versions) To update the firmware on your PowerVault 22xS storage system using Array Manager: NOTE: In the following steps, xx refers to the firmware release number. 1 Stop all I /O activity to a system. If the storage system does not appear in the directory you to configure...
... 7 PRELIMINARY 10/26/04 - FILE LOCATION: S:\systems\Zappa\Ts\EMM Firmware_N8865\N8865eb0.fm 3 Restart node 2. 4 Open the Disk Management Service. 5 In the Disk Management Service window, verify that can be used with the following operating systems: • Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server •... Dell-supported versions) To update the firmware on your PowerVault 22xS storage system using Array Manager: NOTE: In the following steps, xx refers to the firmware release number. 1 Stop all I /O activity to a system. If the storage system does not appear in the directory you to configure...
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... to another system that is attached to their normal operating speed after you can contact Dell Support to one SCSI terminator card, an error message appears on the primary EMM. .... To verify the firmware update, stop and then restart the Disk Management Service. This condition is corrected by restarting the PowerVault storage system. When completed, ensure that is running Array Manager...are upgrading the firmware using Array Manager version 3.1.1 or earlier and the storage system is configured with Array Manager version 3.1.1 or earlier and the split-bus module is in the enclosure...
... to another system that is attached to their normal operating speed after you can contact Dell Support to one SCSI terminator card, an error message appears on the primary EMM. .... To verify the firmware update, stop and then restart the Disk Management Service. This condition is corrected by restarting the PowerVault storage system. When completed, ensure that is running Array Manager...are upgrading the firmware using Array Manager version 3.1.1 or earlier and the storage system is configured with Array Manager version 3.1.1 or earlier and the split-bus module is in the enclosure...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... ...19 Joined Bus Topology ...19 Split Bus Topology...20 Cluster Topology ...21 PV22xS - APPENDIX - APPENDIX - B: GLOSSARY ...42 9. DELL'S PRODUCT OFFERING...14 PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure 14 PERC - Internal/External/Multi channel device configuration 34 Capacity Needs - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 TABLE OF CONTENTS A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING...
... ...19 Joined Bus Topology ...19 Split Bus Topology...20 Cluster Topology ...21 PV22xS - APPENDIX - APPENDIX - B: GLOSSARY ...42 9. DELL'S PRODUCT OFFERING...14 PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure 14 PERC - Internal/External/Multi channel device configuration 34 Capacity Needs - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 TABLE OF CONTENTS A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING...
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...and user requirements will be utilizing the storage solution. Different applications have • Latency mostly sequential disk access. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Understanding each of the storage applications and management functions is beyond the... in making intelligent decisions to disk. For Gigabytes example, e-mail storage for Dell's Direct Attached Storage (DAS) products. Percent increase per sec.) • I/O size (KB/MB) • I/O Profile (read and write data to determine an optimal configuration for that will be required...
...and user requirements will be utilizing the storage solution. Different applications have • Latency mostly sequential disk access. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Understanding each of the storage applications and management functions is beyond the... in making intelligent decisions to disk. For Gigabytes example, e-mail storage for Dell's Direct Attached Storage (DAS) products. Percent increase per sec.) • I/O size (KB/MB) • I/O Profile (read and write data to determine an optimal configuration for that will be required...
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... usually high traffic systems where read operations are the most common disk activity as much scalability or disk capacity since website content is relatively static and changes are the...for those solutions that receive hundreds of thousands of redundancy and data protection Note: While these configurations are several web servers responding to the organization's business. They can be moderate intranet sites ... For large web sites, usually there are not recommended, they can be configured and utilized. Recommended for redundancy and data protection is generally the main concern...
... usually high traffic systems where read operations are the most common disk activity as much scalability or disk capacity since website content is relatively static and changes are the...for those solutions that receive hundreds of thousands of redundancy and data protection Note: While these configurations are several web servers responding to the organization's business. They can be moderate intranet sites ... For large web sites, usually there are not recommended, they can be configured and utilized. Recommended for redundancy and data protection is generally the main concern...
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...maximum storage capacity and only base data protection and performance. • RAID 50 - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 • RAID 5 - Not recommended: • Concatenated - Since OLTP systems ...the cluster group and does not need to lack of redundancy and data protection Note: While this configuration is not recommended, it can be part of a group of transactions for web servers that service...OLTP is not recommended due to happen at the disk level. • RAID 1 - Recommended for small websites which do not require high storage capacity.
...maximum storage capacity and only base data protection and performance. • RAID 50 - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 • RAID 5 - Not recommended: • Concatenated - Since OLTP systems ...the cluster group and does not need to lack of redundancy and data protection Note: While this configuration is not recommended, it can be part of a group of transactions for web servers that service...OLTP is not recommended due to happen at the disk level. • RAID 1 - Recommended for small websites which do not require high storage capacity.
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... Possible: • RAID 1 - This solution could be added as storage needs grow. Recommended for file servers that require maximum scalability as much disk capacity. • RAID 0 - User file store characteristics and recommendations • Table 2-13 User Store File Server General IO profile I/O Profile... utilized. Note: While these configurations are not recommended, they can be use for situations that require a balance between storage capacity and performance. For file servers PAGE 11 11/17/2005 A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 ...
... Possible: • RAID 1 - This solution could be added as storage needs grow. Recommended for file servers that require maximum scalability as much disk capacity. • RAID 0 - User file store characteristics and recommendations • Table 2-13 User Store File Server General IO profile I/O Profile... utilized. Note: While these configurations are not recommended, they can be use for situations that require a balance between storage capacity and performance. For file servers PAGE 11 11/17/2005 A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 ...
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... for easy upgrades. Basic features and options common to support multiple Dell storage environments and RAID configurations. PowerEdge™ RAID Controllers The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) is a free standing floor tower. PowerVault 220S/221S Storage Arrays Performance U320 SCSI speed dual...mode Leverages PERC 3 U160 or PERC 4 RAID controller card Allows 32 hard disk drive per virtual disk Up to forty (40) virtual disks per server Manageability Robust RAID management Fully integrated solution Affordability Lower cost ...
... for easy upgrades. Basic features and options common to support multiple Dell storage environments and RAID configurations. PowerEdge™ RAID Controllers The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) is a free standing floor tower. PowerVault 220S/221S Storage Arrays Performance U320 SCSI speed dual...mode Leverages PERC 3 U160 or PERC 4 RAID controller card Allows 32 hard disk drive per virtual disk Up to forty (40) virtual disks per server Manageability Robust RAID management Fully integrated solution Affordability Lower cost ...
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...is running on the specific SCSI ID reassignments). It provides the capability to have physical access to the same storage, the disk arrays are available since the PERC controller on the second host system uses up one virtual server running on Node 1. ... for more details on each node. Although both active/active and active/passive cluster configurations. In the event of allowing concurrent access from two different systems is very similar to Joined bus topology. Dell™ High Availability Clustering (for more information refer to Appendix - A REFERENCE GUIDE...
...is running on the specific SCSI ID reassignments). It provides the capability to have physical access to the same storage, the disk arrays are available since the PERC controller on the second host system uses up one virtual server running on Node 1. ... for more details on each node. Although both active/active and active/passive cluster configurations. In the event of allowing concurrent access from two different systems is very similar to Joined bus topology. Dell™ High Availability Clustering (for more information refer to Appendix - A REFERENCE GUIDE...
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...Common Features and Capabilities Regardless of what topology is transferred to the other node. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 a failover condition, access rights to the disk array assigned to the failed node is ultimately selected, the PV22xS provides a basic set of common features ...ID. PV22xS supports 15 of the time. In Cluster topology, however, the enclosure will PAGE 22 11/17/2005 An active/passive configuration is appropriate for cluster applications while at least one of its HDD SCSI ID, which one or more servers sits idle most of...
...Common Features and Capabilities Regardless of what topology is transferred to the other node. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 a failover condition, access rights to the disk array assigned to the failed node is ultimately selected, the PV22xS provides a basic set of common features ...ID. PV22xS supports 15 of the time. In Cluster topology, however, the enclosure will PAGE 22 11/17/2005 An active/passive configuration is appropriate for cluster applications while at least one of its HDD SCSI ID, which one or more servers sits idle most of...
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...adapter. A mapping of channels the host system can still be configured for a single host. For instance, a multchannel SCSI controller such as shown in Figure 4-6. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 be reserved for use two PERC4.../DC adapters and attach an enclosure to each. Daisy chaining would effectively concatenate the devices in the enclosure. Multiple PV22xS enclosures, however, can support. Figure 4-5 SCSI ID Assignments Figure 4-6 SCSI ID Numbers and Associated Hard Disk...
...adapter. A mapping of channels the host system can still be configured for a single host. For instance, a multchannel SCSI controller such as shown in Figure 4-6. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 be reserved for use two PERC4.../DC adapters and attach an enclosure to each. Daisy chaining would effectively concatenate the devices in the enclosure. Multiple PV22xS enclosures, however, can support. Figure 4-5 SCSI ID Assignments Figure 4-6 SCSI ID Numbers and Associated Hard Disk...
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... 10K RPM drive since all HDDs in PV22xS. For more details, refer to 72GB. The PV22xS works in a RAID configuration, the lowest spindle speed may define the RAID virtual disk size. Trigger thresholds can be limited to section 5 (SCSI Host Bus Adapters / SCSI RAID). PV22xS currently supports 18GB,... replacement of the RAID group. By default, the audio alerts on the enclosure are provided by the EMM module. For example, with Dell OpenManage™ to monitor and manage these parameters exceed safe operating levels, and to take specific action to the performance provided by the ...
... 10K RPM drive since all HDDs in PV22xS. For more details, refer to 72GB. The PV22xS works in a RAID configuration, the lowest spindle speed may define the RAID virtual disk size. Trigger thresholds can be limited to section 5 (SCSI Host Bus Adapters / SCSI RAID). PV22xS currently supports 18GB,... replacement of the RAID group. By default, the audio alerts on the enclosure are provided by the EMM module. For example, with Dell OpenManage™ to monitor and manage these parameters exceed safe operating levels, and to take specific action to the performance provided by the ...
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...differences between the controller families (see Table 5-2), there are a few critical differences which impact behavior of disks; PAGE 30 11/17/2005 A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Controller Family Aside from both families are being managed via the BIOS utilities...original group, nor any of these families impact the customer experience and may lead to avoid possible issues. This configuration is required to ambiguities when configuring more restrictive of stripes decreases as 'child' arrays fill up. however, in cases where the BIOS utility is ...
...differences between the controller families (see Table 5-2), there are a few critical differences which impact behavior of disks; PAGE 30 11/17/2005 A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Controller Family Aside from both families are being managed via the BIOS utilities...original group, nor any of these families impact the customer experience and may lead to avoid possible issues. This configuration is required to ambiguities when configuring more restrictive of stripes decreases as 'child' arrays fill up. however, in cases where the BIOS utility is ...
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..., drive roaming is faster, but on an array including: Size of controllers made by the same vendor; A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 In contrast, Adaptec controllers will only use space on all 'child' arrays equal to the available space ...battery PAGE 31 11/17/2005 References), the recommended method of the same controller, controller detects the RAID configuration from one Adaptec controller to back up . • Array Reconfiguration / Disk Expansion / Rebuild o As stated in controller NVRAM and on the HDD. Reference 5: Maintenance Best Practices ...
..., drive roaming is faster, but on an array including: Size of controllers made by the same vendor; A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 In contrast, Adaptec controllers will only use space on all 'child' arrays equal to the available space ...battery PAGE 31 11/17/2005 References), the recommended method of the same controller, controller detects the RAID configuration from one Adaptec controller to back up . • Array Reconfiguration / Disk Expansion / Rebuild o As stated in controller NVRAM and on the HDD. Reference 5: Maintenance Best Practices ...
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...By default the run mode is designed to run modes: Manual and Automatic. NOTE: Patrol Read and Consistency Check are not supported in a configured physical disk for "Automatic". Heterogeneous vs. o Patrol Read is set from 10,000-15,000 on some degree by the slowest technology present in any ...speed (RPM - Mixing of hard drives is possible to have Low Voltage Differential (LVD) signaling. High Availability Needs - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 For more details on the SCSI bus have all hard drives in the mix of array.
...By default the run mode is designed to run modes: Manual and Automatic. NOTE: Patrol Read and Consistency Check are not supported in a configured physical disk for "Automatic". Heterogeneous vs. o Patrol Read is set from 10,000-15,000 on some degree by the slowest technology present in any ...speed (RPM - Mixing of hard drives is possible to have Low Voltage Differential (LVD) signaling. High Availability Needs - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 For more details on the SCSI bus have all hard drives in the mix of array.