SATA RAID Cards ARC-1110/1120/1130/1160/1170 ( 4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers ) ARC-1130ML/1160ML/1160ML2 ( 12/16-port Multi-lane connector PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers ) ARC-1210/1220/1230/1260/1280/ ( 4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controllers ) ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML (12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controllers) ARC-1201 (OEM Version) (8-Port PCI-Express x1 SATA RAID Controller) USER Manual Version: 4.
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Contents 1. Introduction............................................................... 10 1.1 Overview........................................................................ 10 1.2 Features......................................................................... 12 2. Hardware Installation................................................ 16 2.1 Before Your Begin Installation............................................ 16 2.2 Board Layout...................................................................
• Cache Mode................................................................... 68 • Tag Queuing................................................................... 68 3.7.3.2 Delete Volume Set.................................................. 69 3.7.3.3 Modify Volume Set.................................................. 70 3.7.3.4 Check Volume Set................................................... 72 3.7.3.5 Stop Volume Set Check........................................... 72 3.7.3.6 Display Volume Set Info.
4. Driver Installation...................................................... 95 4.1 Creating the Driver Diskettes............................................. 95 4.2 Driver Installation for Windows.......................................... 97 4.2.1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 2003/XP-64/Vista.. 97 4.2.2 Install Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista on a SATA RAID Volume................................................................................... 97 4.2.2.1 Installation Procedures.......................
.5.2 Delete Raid Set......................................................... 120 6.5.3 Expand Raid Set........................................................ 120 6.5.4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set...................................... 121 6.5.5 Create Hot Spare...................................................... 122 6.5.6 Delete Hot Spare....................................................... 123 6.5.7 Rescue Raid Set........................................................ 123 6.5.8 Offline Raid Set...
6.8.2.1 Stagger Power On Control...................................... 136 6.8.2.2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle (Minutes) . .................. 136 6.8.2.3 Time To Hdd Low RPM Mode (Minutes) . .................. 136 6.8.2.4 Time To Spin Down Idle HDD (Minutes) ................. 136 6.8.3 Ethernet Configuration (Ethernet Port Support)............. 137 6.8.4 Alert by Mail Configuration (Ethernet Port Support)....... 138 6.8.5 SNMP Configuration (Ethernet Port Support)................. 138 6.8.
RAID Set.......................................................................... 164 Volume Set....................................................................... 164 Ease of Use Features.......................................................... 165 • Foreground Availability/Background Initialization............... 165 • Online Array Roaming.................................................... 165 • Online Capacity Expansion..............................................
INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction This section presents a brief overview of the SATA RAID Series controller, ARC-1110/1120/1130/1130ML/1160/1160ML/1160ML2/1170 (4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers), ARC-1201(OEM version 8-port PCIex1 controller) and ARC-1210/1220/1230/1231ML/ 1260/1261ML/1280/1280ML (4/8/12/16/24-port PCIe SATA RAID Controllers). 1.
INTRODUCTION port controllers support one DDR2-533 DIMM socket that allows for upgrading up to 2GB of memory. The controllers use Marvell 4/8 channel SATA PCI-X controller chips, which can simultaneously communicate with the I/O processor and read or write data on multiple drives. Unsurpassed Data Availability As storage capacity requirements continue to rapidly increase, users require greater levels of disk drive fault tolerance, which can be implemented without doubling the investment in disk drives.
INTRODUCTION boot-up screen. This pre-boot manager utility can be used to simplify the setup and management of the RAID controller. The controller firmware also contains a web browser-based program that can be accessed through the ArcHttp proxy server function in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and more environments. This web browserbased McRAID storage manager utility allows both local and remote creation and modification RAID sets, volume sets, and monitoring of RAID status from standard web browsers. 1.
INTRODUCTION RAID Features • RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, Single Disk and JBOD • Multiple RAID selection • Online array roaming • Online RAID level/stripe size migration • Online capacity expansion & RAID level migration simultaneously • Online volume set growth • Instant availability and background initialization • Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding • Greater than 2TB per volume set for 64-bit LBA • Redundant flash image for adapter availability • Support SMART, NCQ and OOB sta
INTRODUCTION Operating System • Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista • Red Hat Linux • SuSE Linux • FreeBSD • Novell Netware 6.5 • Solaris 10 X86/X86_64 • SCO Unixware 7.1.4 • Mac OS 10.X (EFI BIOS support) (For latest supported OS listing visit http://www.areca.com.
INTRODUCTION Internal PCI-Express RAID Card Comparison (ARC-12XX) 1210 RAID processor 1220 1230 IOP332 1260 IOP333 Host Bus Type 1201 ARM PCI-Express x8 PCI-Express x1 RAID 6 support N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Cache Memory 256MB 256MB One SODIMM One SODIMM 128MB Drive Support 4 * SATA ll 8 * SATA ll 12 x SATA ll 16 x SATA ll 8 x SATA ll SATA SATA SATA SATA 2 x SFF-8087 Disk Connector Internal PCI-Express RAID Card Comparison (ARC-12X1ML/1280) 1231ML 1261ML RAID processor Host Bu
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2. Hardware Installation This section describes the procedure for installing the SATA RAID controllers. 2.1 Before Your Begin Installation Thank you for purchasing the SATA RAID Controller as your RAID data storage and management system. This user guide gives you a simple step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the SATA RAID Controller.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.2 Board Layout Follow the instructions below to install a PCI RAID Card into your PC / Server.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-4, ARC-1201 (8-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-5, ARC-1130/1160 (12/16-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) 18
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-6, ARC-1130ML/1160ML (12/16-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-7, ARC-1230/1260 (12/16-port PCI-EXpress SATA RAID Controller) 19
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-8, ARC-1170 (24-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-9, ARC-1280 (24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller) 20
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-10, ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML (12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller) Tools Required An ESD grounding strap or mat is required. Also required are standard hand tools to open your system’s case. System Requirement The controller can be installed in a universal PCI slot and requires a motherboard that: ARC-11xx series required one of the following: • Complies with the PCI Revision 2.3 32/64-bit 33/66MHz, 3.3V. • Complies with the PCI-X 32/64-bit 66/100/133 MHz, 3.3V.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Installation Tools The following items may be needed to assist with installing the SATA RAID controller into an available PCI expansion slot. • Small screwdriver • Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed. Personal Safety Information To ensure personal safety as well as the safety of the equipment: • Always wear a grounding strap or work on an ESD-protective mat.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.3 Installation Follow the instructions below to install a SATA RAID controller into your PC / Server. Step 1. Unpack Unpack and remove the SATA RAID controller from the package. Inspect it carefully, if anything is missing or damaged, contact your local dealer. Step 2. Power PC/Server Off Turn off computer and remove the AC power cord. Remove the system’s cover. See the computer system documentation for instruction. Step 3.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-11, Insert SATA RAID controller into a PCI-X slot Step 4. Mount the Cages or Drives Remove the front bezel from the computer chassis and install the cages or SATA Drives in the computer chassis. Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed. Be sure that the power is connected to either the cage backplane or the individual drives.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5. Connect the SATA Cable Model ARC-11XX and ARC-12XX controllers have dual-layer SATA internal connectors. If you have not yet connected your SATA cables, use the cables included with your kit to connect the controller to the SATA hard drives. The cable connectors are all identical, so it does not matter which end you connect to your controller, SATA hard drive, or cage backplane SATA connector. Figure 2-13, SATA Cable Note: The SATA cable connectors must match your HDD cage.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-14, Multi-Lance Cable Step 5-3. Connect the Min SAS 4i to 4*SATA Cable Model ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML have Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) internal connectors, each of them can support up to four SATA drives. These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a standard SATA connector backplane. Min SAS 4i to SATA cables are included in the ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML package. The following diagram shows the picture of MinSAS 4i to 4*SATA cables.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5-4. Connect the Min SAS 4i to Multi-lance Cable Model ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML have Min SAS 4i internal connectors, each of them can support up to four SATA drives. These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Multilance connector (SFF-8470) backplane. Multi-lance cables are not included in the ARC-12XXML package. If you have not yet connected your Min SAS 4i to Multi-lance cables, buy the Min SAS 4i to Multi-lance cables to fit your enclosure.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-17, Min SAS 4i to Min SAS 4i Cable The SGPIO signal can carry the fault/activity signal without needing any individual LED cable. The SGPIO is included in the SFF-8087.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION HDD R3+ A16 HDD T3+ B16 HDD R3- A17 HDD T3- B17 GND A1, A4, A7, A12, A15, A18 GND B1, B4, B7, B12, B15, B18 Table-1 Min SAS 4i cable(SFF8087) pin assignment Step 5-6. Connect the Min SAS 4x to Min SAS 4x Cable Model ARC-12X0ML/12X1ML have external Min SAS 4x (SFF-8088) connectors, each of them can support up to four SATA drives. These adapters can be installed in a server which works with external RAID enclosure with a Min SAS 4x connector.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION The intelligent LED controller outputs a low-level pulse to determine if status LEDs are attached to pin sets 1 and 2. This allows automatic controller configuration of the LED output. If the logical level is different between the fist 2 sets of the HDD LED header (LED attached to Set 1 but not Set 2), the controller will assign the first HDD LED header as the global indicator connector. Otherwise, each LED output will show only individual drive status.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION A: Global indicator connector If the system use only a single global indicator, attach the global indicator cable to the two pins HDD LED connector. The following diagrams show the connector and pin locations. Figure 2-20, ARC1110/1120/1210/1220 global LED connection for computer case. Figure 2-21, ARC1130/1160/1230/1260 global LED connection for computer case. Figure 2-22, ARC-1170 global LED connection for computer case.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-23, ARC-1280 global LED connection for computer case. Figure 2-24, ARC-1231ML/ 1261ML/1280ML global LED connection for computer case. Figure 2-25, ARC-1201 LED connection for computer case.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION B: Individual LED indicator connector Connect the cables for the drive activity LEDs and fault LEDs between the backplane of the cage and the respective connector on the SATA RAID controller. The following describes the fault/activity LED. LED Normal Status Activity LED When the activity LED is illuminated, there is I/O activity on that disk drive. When the LED is dark, there is no activity on that disk drive.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-27, ARC1130/1160/1230/1260 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. Figure 2-28, ARC-1170 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. Figure 2-29, ARC-1280 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-30, ARC-1231ML/ 1261ML/1280ML individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. Figure 2-31, ARC-1201 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. C: I2C Connector You can also connect the I2C interface to a SATA backplane enclosure which includes Areca CPLD decoder controller on the backplane. This can reduce the number of activity LED and/or fault LED cables.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-32, Activity/Fault LED I2C connector connected between SATA RAID controller & SATA HDD cage backplane. Figure 2-33, Activity/Fault LED I2C connector connected between SATA RAID controller & 4 SATA HDD backplane. Note: Ci-Design has supported this feature in its 4-port 12-633605A SATA ll backplane. The following is the I2C signal name description for LCD & fault/activity LED.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION PIN Description PIN Description 1 power (+5V) 2 GND 3 LCD Module Interrupt 4 Protective Key 5 LCD Module Serial Data 6 Fault/Activity clock 7 Fault/Activity Serial Data 8 LCD Module clock D: SGPIO bus The preferred I/O connector for server backplanes is the Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) internal serial-attachment connector.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION PIN Description PIN Description SideBand0 SClock (Clock signal) SideBand1 SLoad (Last clock of a bit stream) SideBand2 Ground SideBand3 Ground SideBand4 SDataOut (Serial data output bit stream) SideBand5 SDataIn (Serial data input bit stream) SideBand6 Reserved SideBand7 Reserved The following signal defines the sideband connector which can work with Areca sideband cable on its SFF-8087 to 4 SATA cable. The sideband header is located at backplane.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 10. Install the Controller Driver For a new system: • Driver installation usually takes places as part of operating system installation. Please refer to Chapter 4 Diver Installation for the detail installation procedure. In an existing system: • Install the controller driver into the existing operating system. Please refer to the Chapter 4, Driver Installation, for the detailed installation procedure. Note: For latest release versions of drivers, please download from http://www.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 13. Determining the Boot Sequences For PC system: • The SATA RAID controller is a bootable controller. If your system already contains a bootable device with an installed operating system, you can set up your system to boot a second operating system from the new controller. To add a second bootable controller, you may need to enter setup of M/B BIOS and change the device boot sequence so that the SATA RAID controller heads the list.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.3.1 Hot-plug Drive Replacement The RAID controller supports the ability of performing a hot-swap drive replacement without powering down the system. A disk can be disconnected, removed, or replaced with a different disk without taking the system off-line. The RAID rebuilding will be processed automatically in the background. When a disk is hot swap, the RAID controller may no longer be fault tolerant.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Summary of the Installation The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for SATA RAID controller. These procedures include hardware installation, the creation and configuration of a RAID volume through the McBIOS/McRAID, OS installation and installation of SATA RAID controller software.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION SNMP Manager Console Integration • Out of Band-Using Ethernet Port (12/16/24-port Controller) Before launching the firmware-embedded SNMP agent in the sever, you need first to enable the fireware-embedded SNMP agent function on your SATA RAID controller. If you need additional information about installation and start-up this function, see the section 6.8.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3. McBIOS RAID Manager The system mainboard BIOS automatically configures the following SATA RAID controller parameters at power-up: • I/O Port Address • Interrupt Channel (IRQ) • Adapter ROM Base Address Use McBIOS RAID manager to further configure the SATA RAID controller to suit your server hardware and operating system. 3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager This section explains how to use the McBIOS RAID manager to configure your RAID system.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Setup Select An Adapter To Configure ( 3/14/ 0)I/O=DD200000h, IRQ = 9 ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ** Select & Press F10 to Reboot** Use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the adapter you want to configure. While the desired adapter is highlighted, press the Enter key to enter the main menu of the McBIOS RAID manager.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • • • • • Modify volume sets, Modify RAID level/stripe size, Define pass-through disk drives, Modify system functions, and Designate drives as hot spares. 3.3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID manager automatically using “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” or manually using “Raid Set/Volume Set Function”. Each configuration method requires a different level of user input.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.5 Using Quick Volume/Raid Setup Configuration “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” configuration collects all available drives and includes them in a RAID set. The RAID set you create is associated with exactly one volume set. You will only be able to modify the default RAID level, the stripe size, and the capacity of the new volume set. Designating drives as hot spares is also possible in the RAID level selection option.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 The capacity for the current volume set is entered after highlighting the desired RAID level and pressing the Enter key. The capacity for the current volume set is displayed. Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to set the capacity of the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm. The available stripe sizes for the current volume set are then displayed. 4 Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the current volume set stripe size and press the Enter key to confirm.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Step Action 1 To setup the hot spare (option), choose “Raid Set Function” from the main menu. Select the “Create Hot Spare” and press the Enter key to define the hot spare. 2 Choose “RAID Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create Raid Set” and press the Enter key. 3 The “Select a Drive For Raid Set” window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the SATA RAID controller. 4 Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 11 If space remains in the raid set, the next volume set can be configured. Repeat steps 8 to 10 to configure another volume set. Note: The “Modify Volume Set” method provides the same functions as the “Create Volume Set” configuration method. In the “Volume Set function”, you can use “Modify Volume Set” to change all volume set parameters except for capacity (size). 3.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Clear Event Buffer Clear all information in the event buffer Hardware Monitor Show the hardware system environment status System Information View the controller system information This password option allows user to set or clear the RAID controller’s password protection feature. Once the password has been set, the user can only monitor and configure the raid controller by providing the correct password.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Total 4 Drives Physical Drives Raid System Function Raid 0 Raid 1 + 0 Hdd Power Management Ethernet ConfigurationRaid 1 + 0 + Spare View System Events Raid 3 Raid 5 Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 + Spare Hardware Monitor System Information Raid 5 + Spare Raid 6 ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC
BIOS CONFIGURATION • Use 4K Block It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Bytes. the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB. This option works under Windows platform only. And it can not be converted to “Dynamic Disk”, because 4k sector size is not a standard format. For more details please download PDF file from ftp://ftp.areca. com.tw/RaidCards/Documents/Manual_Spec/Over2TB_ 050721.zip A single volume set is created and consumes all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this RAID set.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Available Capacity : 160.1GB Quick Volume/Raid Setup Selected Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Sel “Noect Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Available Capacity : 160.1GB Quick Volume/Raid Setup Selected Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3. A “Select SATA Drive For Raid set” window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the current controller. Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives. Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the current RAID set. Repeat this step; the user can add as many disk drives as are available to a single RAID set. When finish selecting SATA drives for RAID set, press the Esc key.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.2.2 Delete Raid Set To erase and reconfigure a RAID set completely, you must delete it and re-create the RAID set first. To delete a RAID set, select the RAID set number that user want to delete in the “Select Raid Set to Delete” screen. The “Delete Raid Set” dialog box appears, then press Yes option to delete it. Please noticed data on RAID set will be lost if this option is used.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Raid Function Set Function Volume Set Function Select Drives For Raid Set Expansion Create Raid Set Physical Drives Delete Raid 80.0GBST380013AS Set Are you Sure? [*]Ch05| Raid System Function Expand Raid80.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.2.4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set The following screen is used to activate the RAID set after one of its disk drive was removed in the power off state. When one of the disk drives is removed in power off state, the RAID set state will change to “Incomplete State”. If a user wants to continue to work while the SATA RAID controller is powered on, the user can use the “Activate Raid Set” option to active the RAID set.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Create Raid Set Raid Set Function Raid Set VolumeDelete Set Function Select Drives For HotSpare, Max 3 HotSpare Supported Expand Physical DrivesRaid Set Activate Raid Set80.0GBST380013ASAre you Sure? [*]Ch05| Raid System Function Create Spare 80.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.2.7 Raid Set Information To display RAID set information, move the cursor bar to the desired RAID set number, then press the Enter key. The “Raid Set Information” will display. You can only view information for the RAID set in this screen.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Hdd Power Management Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System Information ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw 3.7.3.1 Create Volume Set 1.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3. The “Create Volume From RAID Set” dialog box will be appeared. This screen displays the existing arranged RAID sets. Select the RAID set number and press the Enter key. The “Volume Creation” dialogue is displayed in the screen. 4. A window with a summary of the current volume set’s settings. The “Volume Creation” option allows user to select the Volume Name, Capacity, RAID Level, Strip Size, SCSI Channel/ SCSI ID/SCSI LUN, Cache Mode and Tag Queuing.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • Select "No Init (To Rescue Volume)" for no initialization of the selected volume set. 6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create additional volume sets. 7. The initialization percentage of volume set will be displayed at the button line. • Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set #. You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • Capacity The maximum available volume size is the default value for the first setting. Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your application. The capacity value can be increased or decreased by the UP and DOWN arrow keys. The capacity of each volume set must be less than or equal to the total capacity of the RAID set on which it resides. If volume capacity will exceed 2TB, controller will show the "Greater Two TB Volume Support" sub-menu.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Quick Volume/Raid Setup No Raid Set Function Use 64bit LBA Volume Set Function Total 4 Drives For Windows Use 4K Block Physical Drives Raid System FunctionRaid 0 Raid 1 + 0 Hdd Power Management Ethernet ConfigurationRaid 1 + 0 + Spare View System Events Raid 3 Clear Event Buffer Raid 5 Raid 3 + Spare Hardware Monitor System Informati
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Creation Create Volume Set Create Volume From Raid Set Volume Set Function Delete Volume Set Volume Name : Volume Set # 00 Physical Drives Modify Volume SetRaid Set # 00 Raid Level : 5 Raid System Function Check Volume SetRaid Set # 01 Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Create Volume Set Creation Volume Set Function Create Volume From Raid Set Delete Volume Set Physical Drives Volume Name : Volume Set # 00 Modify Volume Set Raid Set # Raid System Function Raid Level : 5 00 Check Volume SetRaid Set # 01 Hdd Power Management Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Create Volume Set Creation Create Volume From Raid Set VolumeDelete Set Function Volume Set Volume Name : Volume Set # 00 Physical Drives Modify Volume SetRaid Set # 00 Raid Level : 5 Raid System Check Function Volume SetRaid Set # 01 Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.3.3 Modify Volume Set Use this option to modify volume set configuration. To modify volume set values from RAID set system function, move the cursor bar to the “Modify Volume Set” item, then press the Enter key. The “Volume Set Functions” menu will show all RAID set items. Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number item, then press the Enter key to show all volume set items. Select the volume set from the list to be changed, press the Enter key to modify it.
BIOS CONFIGURATION To expand an existing volume noticed: • Only the last volume can expand capacity. • When expand volume capacity, you can’t modify stripe size or modify RAID revel simultaneously. • You can expand volume capacity, but can’t reduce volume capacity size. • After volume expansion, the volume capacity can't be decreased.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.3.4 Check Volume Set Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set. For example, in a system with a dedicated parity disk drive, a volume set check entails computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing those results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive. To check volume set, move the cursor bar to the “Check Volume Set” item, then press the Enter key. The “Volume Set Functions” menu will show all RAID set number items.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Select Volume To Display The Volume Set Information Raid Set Function Create Volume Set Volume Set # 00 Volume Set Function Volume Set Name : Volume Set # 00 Display Delete Volume Set Volume Info in Raid Physical Drives Raid Set Name : Raid Set # 00 Modify Function Volume SetRaid Set # 00 Raid System Volume Capacity : 1
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Physical Ch01 Drive Information Quick Volume/Raid Setup Model Name : ST380013AS View Drive Information Raid Set Function Serial NumberDisk : 5JV944ZF Create Pass-Through VolumeModify Set Function Firmware Rev. Pass-Through Disk : 3.18 Physical Drive Information Drives Select Drives Disk Capacity : 80.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.4.3 Modify a Pass-Through Disk Use this option to modify pass-through disk attributes. To select and modify a pass-through disk from the pool of pass-through disks, move the cursor bar to the “Modify Pass-Through Drive” option and then press the Enter key. The “Physical Drive Function” menu will show all pass-through drive number options. Move the cursor bar to the desired item and then press the Enter key to show all pass-through disk attributes.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Physical Drive Information Raid Set Function VolumeView Set Function Drive Information Select The Drive Physical Drive Information Drives Create Pass-Through Disk Raid System ModifyFunction Pass-Through Disk Ch01| 80.0GB|RaidSet Member|ST380013AS Hdd Power Management Delete Pass-Through Disk Ch04| 80.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.3 Change Password The manufacture default password is set to 0000. The password option allows user to set or clear the password protection feature. Once the password has been set, the user can monitor and configure the controller only by providing the correct password. This feature is used to protect the SATA RAID system from unauthorized access. The controller will check the password only when entering the main menu from the initial screen.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.4 JBOD/RAID Function JBOD is an acronym for “Just a Bunch Of Disk”. A group of hard disks in a RAID controllers are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. User needs to delete the RAID set, when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Raid System Function Main Menu Mute TheRaid AlertRebuild BeeperPriority Alert Beeper Setup Setting Quick Volume/Raid UltraLow(5%) Change Password Raid Set Function Low(20%) Function VolumeJBOD/RAID Set Function Medium(50%) Background Task Priority Physical Drives High(80%) Maximum SATA Raid System Function Mode HDDManagement Read Ahead Cache Hdd Power Volume Data Read Ahea
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.7 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead (Default: Enabled)—When Enabled, the drive’ s read ahead cache algorithm is used, providing maximum performance under most circumstances.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Raid System Function Main Menu Mute The Alert Beeper Alert BeeperSetup Setting Quick Volume/Raid Password Raid SetChange Function Volume JBOD/RAID Set FunctionFunction Task Priority PhysicalBackground Drives Maximum SATA Mode Data Read Ahead Raid System Function Volume HDDManagement Read Aead Cache Hdd Power Normal Enabled Data Read Ahead EthernetVolume Configuration Empty
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.10 HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller. However, PCI cards do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis. The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller. For this reason, "HDD SMART Status Polling" was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function.
BIOS CONFIGURATION The following screen shot shows how to change the McBIOS RAID manager setting to disable the beeper function. (This function is not available in the web browser setting.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.13 Auto Activate Raid Set When some of the disk drives are removed in power off state or boot up stage, the RAID set state will change to “Incomplete State”. But if a user wants to automatically continue to work while the SATA RAID controller is powered on, then user can set the “Auto Activate Raid Set” option to “Enabled”. The RAID state will change to “Degraded Mode” while it powers on.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.15 Capacity Truncation SATA RAID controller use drive truncation so that drives from differing vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other. Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units. The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration: “Multiples Of 10G”, “Multiples Of 1G”, and “No Truncation”.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.6 HDD Power Management Areca has automated the ability to manage HDD power based on usage patterns. The “HDD Power Management” allows you to choose a “Stagger Power On Control”, “Low Power Idle”, “Low RPM” and completely “Spins Down Idle HDD”. It is designed to reduce power consumption and heat generation on idle drives.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value. The values can be selected from 0.4s to 6s per step which powers up one drive. I/O Port Addr : 28000000h, F2(Tab): Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Stagger Power On Quick Volume/Raid Setup Hdd Power Management Raid Set Function 0.4 Volume Set Function Stagger 0.7 Stagger Power Power On On Physical Drives 1.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.6.3 Time To Low RPM Mode (Minutes) This function can automatically spin disks at lower RPM if there have not been used during the setting idle time.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.7 Ethernet Configuration (Ethernet Port Support) Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration. It is not necessary to create reserved disk space on any hard disk for the Ethernet port and HTTP service to function; these functions are built into the controller firmware. To choose the "Ethernet Configuration" of the controller, move the cursor bar to the main menu “Ethernet Configuration” function item and then press the Enter key.
BIOS CONFIGURATION disable the DHCP function. If DHCP is disabled, it will be necessary to manually enter a static IP address that does not conflict with other devices on the network.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.7.3 Ethernet Address A MAC address stands for “Media Access Control” address and is unique to every single Ethernet device. On an Ethernet LAN, it’s the same as your Ethernet address. When you’re connected to a local network from the SATA RAID controller Ethernet port, a correspondence table relates your IP address to the SATA RAID controller’s physical (MAC) address on the LAN.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup RaidTime Set Function Device Volume Set Function 2004-1-1 12:00:00 H/W Monitor Physical Drives 2004-1-1 12:00:00 H/W Monitor Raid System Function 2004-1-1 12:00:00 H/W Monitor Hdd Power Management Ethernet Ethernet Configuration Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Event Type ElapseTime
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.11 System Information Choose this option to display main processor, CPU instruction Cache and data cache size, firmware version, serial number, system memory/speed and controller model name. To check the system information, move the cursor bar to “System Information” item, then press Enter key. All relevant controller information will be displayed.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4. Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to your operating system. The installation procedures use the following terminology: Installing operating system on the SATA volume If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install operating system on a disk drive managed by the SATA RAID Controller. The driver installation is a part of the operating system installation.
DRIVER INSTALLATION These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating system installations. Determine the correct kernel version and identify which diskette images contain drivers for that kernel. If the driver file ends in .img, create the appropriate driver diskette using “dd” utility. The following steps are required to create the driver diskettes: 1. The computer system BIOS must be set to boot-up from the CD-ROM. 2. Insert the SATA Controller Driver software CD disc into the CDROM drive.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.2 Driver Installation for Windows The SATA RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Vista. The SATA RAID controllers support SCSI Miniport and StorPort device driver for Windows Server 2003/Vista. 4.2.1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 2003/XP-64/Vista The Storport driver is new to Windows 2003/XP-64/Vista.
DRIVER INSTALLATION For details, see Chapter 3 “McBIOS RAID manager”. Once a volume set is created and configured, continue with next step to install the operating system. 3. Insert the Windows setup CD and reboot the system to begin the Windows installation. Note: The computer system BIOS must support bootable from CD-ROM. 4. Press F6 key as soon as the Windows screen shows ”Setup is Inspecting your Computer’s Hardware Configuration”.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 9. After the installation is completed, reboot the system to load the new drivers/operating system. 10. See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID volume sets using McRAID storage manager. 4.2.2.2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system, log in as a system administrator. Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass-through disks accessible to Windows.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager utility. Use the configuration utility to create the raid set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3, McBIOS RAID Manager. Once a volume set is created and configured, continue with installation of the driver. 3. Re-Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SATA RAID Controller and launch the “Found New Hardware Wizard”, which guides you in installing the SATA RAID driver. 4.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.2.3.1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system, log in as a system administrator. The following steps show how to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware, driver, and Windows are installed and operational in your system. 1. Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Administrator: a.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 3. Go to “Control Panel” and select “System”. Select the “Hardware” tab and then click the “Device Manager” button. In “Device Manager”, expand the “SCSI and RAID Controllers” section. Right click on the “Areca SATA RAID Adapter” and select “uninstall”. 4. Click “Yes” to confirm removing the SATA RAID driver. The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed. 4.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to FreeBSD. Before installing the SATA RAID driver to FreeBSD, complete following actions: 1. Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives according to the instructions in Chapter 2, Hardware Installation. 2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID Manager configuration utility.
DRIVER INSTALLATION Power Mac G5 or Mac Pro as below: 1. Insert the Areca Mac Driver & Software CD that came with your Areca SAS RAID controller. 2. Double-click on the following file that resides at \ packages\MacOS to add the installer on the Finder. a). install_mraid_mac.zip (For Power Mac G5) b). install_mraid_macpro.zip (For Mac Pro) 3. Launch the installer by double-clicking the install_mraid_mac or install_mraid_macpro on the Finder. 4.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.6.2 Making Volume Sets Available to Mac OS X When you create a volume through McRAID storage manager, the Mac OS X recognizes that a new disk is avail, and displays a message asking what you next want to do. If the message does not show up, start the “Macintosh Disk Utility” manually from the “Finder”, use the “Go” menu and open the “Utilities” folder. Double-click on the “Macintosh Disk Utility” program.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5. ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation Overview After hardware installation, the SATA disk drives connected to the SATA RAID controller must be configured and the volume set units initialized before they are ready to use. The user interface for these tasks can be accessed through the builtin configuration that resides in the controller’s firmware.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5.1 For Windows You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and Windows are installed and operational in your system. Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation. If you are running another version of Windows, your instalation screen may look different, but the ArcHttp proxy server installation is essentially the same. 1.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Click on the “Start” button in the Windows task bar and then click “Program”, select the “McRAID” and run “ ArcHttp proxy server”. The ArcHttp proxy server dialog box appears. 1. When you select “Controller#01(PCI)” then click “Start” button. Then web broswer McRAId storage manager appears. 2. If you select “Cfg Assistant” then click “Start” button. The “ArcHttp Configuration” appears. (Please refer to section 5.6 ArcHttp Configuration) 5.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION (2). Copy \PACKAGES\Mac\http directory to local (Ex:/ usr/local/sbin). Or (1). Download from the www.areca.com.tw or from the email attachment. 2. You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID controller ArcHttp proxy server software. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and driver are installed and operational in your system.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Controller [1] Http: New Recv 243 bytes Controller [1] Http: Send [174] bytes back to the client (3). If you need the “Cfg Assistant”, please refer to section 5.6 ArcHttp Configuration. (4). See the next chapter detailing the McRAID storage manager to customize your RAID volume set. 5.3 For FreeBSD You should have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION tor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp proxy server. The Archttp proxy server for Mac, please reference Chapter 4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x or refer to the the Mac_manual_xxxx.pdf that resides at CD \DOCS directory. You can install driver, archttp64 and arc-cli from software CD < CD >\package\Mac OS directory at the same time. 5.6 ArcHttp Configuration The ArcHttp proxy server will automatically assign one additional port for setup its configuration.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Scanning RS-232 Device: No Scanning Inband Device: No • Mail Configuration When you open the mail configuration page, you will see following settings: SMTP server IP Address: Enter the SMTP server IP address which is not McRAID storage manager IP. Ex: 192.168.0.2 Sender Name: Enter the sender name that will be shown in the outgoing mail.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION the outgoing mail. Mail Address: Enter the alert receiver mail address. Ex: admin@areca.com.tw • SNMP Trap Configuration Note: Please make sure you have completed mail address before you submit mail configurations. Please refer to the 6.8.4 SNMP configuration(12/16/24-port) section. Configure configuration and submit. After ArcHttp configurations have successfully submitted, the Archttp console restarts again. Note: Event Notification Table refer to Appendix D.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6. Web Browser-based Configuration Before using the firmware-based browser McRAID storage manager utility, do the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up the operating system from a volume set, you must first create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Manager. Please refer to section 3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration for information on creating this initial volume set.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION more and a supported browser. A locally managed system requires all of the following components: • A supported web browser, which should already be installed on the system. • Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SATA RAID system. (Refer to Chapter 5, Archttp Proxy Server Installation) • Remote and managed systems must have a TCP/IP connection.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • Start-up McRAID Storage Manager from Linux/ FreeBSD/Solaris/Mac Local Administration To configure the SATA RAID controller. You need to know its IP address. You can find the IP address assigned by the Archttp proxy server installation:Binding IP:[X.X.X.X] for[Computer IP Address] and controller listen to port for [Port Number]. (1). Launch your McRAID storage manager by entering http:// [Computer IP Address]:[Port Number] in the web browser. (2).
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION To configure RAID controller on a remote machine, you need to know its IP address. The IP address will default show in McBIOS RAID manager of “Ethernet Configuration” or “System Information” option. Launch your firmware-embedded TCP/IP & web browser-based McRAID storage manager by entering http:// [IP Address] in the web browser. Note: You can find controller Ethernet port IP address in McBIOS RAID manager “System Information” option. 6.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.3 Main Menu The main menu shows all available functions, accessible by clicking on the appropriate link. Individual Category Description Quick Function Create a default configuration, which is based on the number of physical disks installed; it can modify the volume set Capacity, Raid Level, and Stripe Size. RaidSet Functions Create a customized RAID set. VolumeSet Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION The number of physical drives in the SATA RAID controller determines the RAID levels that can be implemented with the RAID set. You can create a RAID set associated with exactly one volume set. The user can change the RAID level, stripe size, and capacity. A hot spare option is also created depending upon the existing configuration.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.5.2 Delete Raid Set To delete a RAID set, click on the “Deleted Raid Set” link. The “Select The Raid Set To Delete” screen is displayed showing all existing RAID sets in the current controller. Click the RAID set number you which to delete in the select column on the delete screen. Click the “Confirm The Operation” check box and click on the “Submit” button in the screen to delete it. 6.5.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets. The volume sets associated with this RAID set appear for you to have chance to modify RAID level or stripe size. Follow the instruction presented in the “Modify Volume Set ” to modify the volume sets; operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions. Note: 1. Once the “Expand Raid Set” process has started, user can not stop it. The process must be completed. 2.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION To activate the incomplete the RAID set, click on the “Activate Raid Set” link. A “Select The RAID SET To Activate” screen is displayed showing all RAID sets existing on the current controller. Click the RAID set number to activate in the select column. Click on the “Submit” button on the screen to activate the RAID set that had a disk removed (or failed) in the power off state. The SATA RAID controller will continue to work in degraded mode. 6.5.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.5.6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target Hot Spare disk to be deleted by clicking on the appropriate check box. Click the “Confirm The Operation” check box and click the “Submit” button on the screen to delete the hot spares. 6.5.7 Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the RAID set update/creation period, it possibly could disappear due to this abnormal condition. The “RESCUE” function can recover the missing RAID set information.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.6 Volume Set Functions A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device. It is organized in a RAID level with one or more physical disks. RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set. A volume set capacity can consume all or a portion of the disk capacity available in a RAID set. Multiple volume sets can exist on a group of disks in a RAID set.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION To create a volume set on a RAID set, move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the “Create Volume Set” link. This “Select The Raid Set To Create On It” screen will show all RAID set numbers. Click the RAID set number that to be used and then click the “Submit” button. The “Enter Volume Attributeid Set=xx” option allows users to select the volume name, capacity, RAID level, strip size, SCSI ID/LUN, cache mode, and tag queuing.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses. There is no initialization happed when you select “No Init” option. “No Init“ is for customer to rescue volume without losing data in the disk. • Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID level 0, 1, 10, 5 or 6 logical drive. You can set the stripe size to 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, or 128 KB.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.6.2 Delete Volume Set To delete a volume set from RAID set, move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the “Delete Volume Set” link. The “Select The Raid Set To Delete” screen will show all RAID set numbers. Click a RAID set number and the “Confirm The Operation” check box and then click the “Submit” button to show all volume set items in the selected RAID set.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION expand the last volume set capacity , move the cursor bar to the “ Capacity” item and entry the capacity size. When finished the above action, press the ESC key and select the Yes option to complete the action. The last volume set starts to expand its capacity. To expand an existing volume noticed: • Only the last volume can expand capacity. • When expand volume capacity, you can’t modify stripe size or modify RAID revel simultaneously.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.6.4 Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a RAID set: (1). Click on the “Check Volume Set” link. (2). Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check. Tick on “Confirm The Operation” and click on the “Submit” button. Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.7 Physical Drive Choose this option to select a physical disk from the main menu and then perform the operations listed below. 6.7.1 Create Pass Through Disk To create pass through disk, move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the “Create Pass Through” link. The “Select the IDE Drive For Pass Through” screen appears. A pass through disk is not controlled by the SATA RAID controller firmware, it cannot be a part of a volume set.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION When the “Enter Pass Through Disk Attribute” screen appears, modify the drive attribute values, as you want. After you complete the selection, mark the check box for “Confirm The Operation” and click on the “Submit” button to complete the selection action. 6.7.3 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool, move the mouse cursor bar to the main menus and click the “Delete Pass Through” link.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION screen appears mark the check box for the SATA device from the drive pool. After completing the selection, click on the “Submit” button to identify selected drive. 6.8 System Controls 6.8.1 System Config To set the RAID system configuration, move the cursor to the main menu and click the “System Controls” link. The “System Controls” will show all items, then select the desired function.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • JBOD/RAID Configuration JBOD is an acronym for “Just a Bunch Of Disk”. A group of hard disks in a RAID controllers are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. User needs to delete the RAID set, when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION identify, user can set this option to "OFF". Choose option "ON", the SATA RAID controller will light the fault LED; if no HDD installed. • HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller. However, PCI type controllers do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION Multiples Of 10G: If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors; chances are that the capacity varies slightly. For example, one drive might be 123.5 GB, and the other 120 GB. “Multiples Of 10G” truncates the number under tens. This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other. Multiples Of 1G: If you have 123 GB drives from different vendors; chances are that the capacity varies slightly. For example, one drive might be 123.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.2.1 Stagger Power On Control In a PC system with only one or two drives, the power can supply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously. But in systems with more than two drives, the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power supply, causing damage to the power supply, disk drives and other system components. This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin-up of the drives.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.3 Ethernet Configuration (Ethernet Port Support) Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration. A customer doesn’t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working. The firmware-embedded Web Browser-based RAID storage manager can access it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.4 Alert by Mail Configuration (Ethernet Port Support) To configure the SATA RAID controller e-mail function, move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the “System Controls” link. The “System Controls” menu will show all items. Move the cursor bar to the “Alert By Mail Config” item, then select the desired function. This function can only be set via web-based configuration. The firmware contains a SMTP manager monitoring all system events.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP Trap IP Address. • SNMP System Configurations About community, please refer to Appendix C of SNMP community name. The system Contact, Name and Location that will be shown in the outgoing SNMP Trap. • SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Please refer to Appendix D of Event Notification Table. 6.8.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate, reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be used in the configuration file. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability. Our NTP configuration supports two existing public NTP synchronization subnets.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.7 View Events/Mute Beeper To view the SATA RAID controller’s information, click on the “View Events/Mute Beeper” link. The SATA RAID controller “System Events information” screen appears. Choose this option to view the system events information: Timer, Device, Event type, Elapse Time and Errors. The RAID system does not have a built-in real time clock. The time information is the relative time from the SATA RAID controller power on. 6.8.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.9 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information. 6.8.10 Modify Password To set or change the SATA RAID controller password, select “Modify Password” from the menu and click on the “Modify Password” link. The “Modify System Password” screen appears. The manufacture default password is set to 0000. The password option allows user to set or clear the SATA RAID controller’s password protection feature.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.11 Update Firmware Please refer to the appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process. 6.9 Information 6.9.1 RaidSet Hierarchy Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller current RAID set, current volume set and physical disk configuration. Please reference this chapter “Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets”.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.9.2 System Information To view the SATA RAID controller’s information, move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the “System Information” link. The “Raid Subsystem Information” screen appears. Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller’s information. The controller name, firmware version, serial number, main processor, CPU data/instruction cache size and system memory size/speed appear in this screen.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.9.3 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller’s hardware monitor information, move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click the “Hardware Monitor” link. The “Hardware Monitor Information” screen appears. The “Hardware Monitor Information” provides the temperature, and fan speed (I/O Processor fan) of the SATA RAID controller. The ARC-1231/1261/1280/1280ML card interface lists two temperatures; one for the I/O processor and the other one for the controller.
APPENDIX Appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process Since the SATA RAID controller features flash firmware, it is not necessary to change the hardware flash chip in order to upgrade the RAID firmware. The user can simply re-program the old firmware through the In-Band PCI-X/PCIe bus or Out-of-Band Enthernet port McRAID storage manager. New releases of the firmware are available in the form of a DOS file on the shipped CD or Areca’s web site.
APPENDIX 1. To upgrade the RAID controller firmware, move the mouse cursor to “Upgrade Firmware” link. The “Upgrade The Raid System Firmware” screen appears. 2. Click "Browser". Look in the location to which the firmware upgrade software was downloaded. Select the file name and click “Open”. All files (BIOS, BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) can be updated through this function. 3. Click “Confirm The Operation” and press the “Submit” button. 4.
APPENDIX From a remote PC, you can directly open a web browser and enter the IP address. Then enter user name and password to login and start your management. You can find the firmware update feature in the browser console: "System Controls" option. Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility Areca now offers an alternative means communication for the SATA RAID controller – Upgrade the all files (BIOS, BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) without necessary system starting up to running the ArcHttp proxy server.
APPENDIX Upgrading Firmware Through CLI This Command Line Interface (CLI) provides you to configure and manage the Areca SAS RAID controller components in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and more environments. The CLI is useful in environments where a graphical user interface (GUI) is not available. Through the CLI, you perform firmware upgrade that you can perform with the McRAID storage manager GUI. From firmware version 1.43 and CLI version 1.72.
APPENDIX Appendix B Battery Backup Module (ARC6120-BATxxx) The SATA RAID controller operates using cache memory. The Battery Backup Module is an add-on module that provides power to the SATA RAID controller cache memory in the event of a power failure. The Battery Backup Module monitors the write back cache on the SATA RAID controller, and provides power to the cache memory if it contains data not yet written to the hard drives when power failure occurs.
APPENDIX Battery Backup Capacity Battery backup capacity is defined as the maximum duration of a power failure for which data in the cache memory can be maintained by the battery. The BBM’s backup capacity varied with the memory chips that installed on the SATA RAID controller. Capacity 128MB DDR Memory Type Battery Backup duration (Hours) Low Power (18mA) 56 Operation 1. Battery conditioning is automatic.
APPENDIX 2. 3. 4. to 5. 6. Disconnect the BBM cable from J2 on the RAID controller. Disconnect the battery pack cable from JP2 on the BBM. Install a new battery pack and connect the new battery pack JP2. Connect the BBM to J2 on the SATA RAID controller. Disable the write-back function from the McBIOS or Utility. Note: Do not remove BBM while system is running. Battery Functionality Test Procedure: 1. Writing amount of data into controller volume, about 5GB or bigger. 2.
APPENDIX Appendix C SNMP Operation & Definition Overview The McRAID storage manager includes a firmware-embedded Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and SNMP Extension Agent for the SATA RAID controller. An SNMP-based management application (also known as an SNMP manager) can monitor the disk array. An example of An SNMP management application is Hewlett-Packard’s Open View.
APPENDIX MIB Compilation and Definition File Creation Before the manager application accesses the SATA RAID controller, it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management application’s database of events and status indicator codes. This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application. This process is highly vendor-specific and should be well-covered in the User’s Guide of your SNMP application. Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID.
APPENDIX Starting the SNMP Function Setting • Community Name Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device. Type in the community names of the SNMP agent. Before access is granted to a request station, this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request; otherwise, the SNMP agent will deny access to the system. Most network devices use “public” as default of their community names. This value is case-sensitive.
APPENDIX 2. Run the setup.exe file that resides at: \packages\ windows\http\setup.exe on the CD-ROM. (If SNMP service was not installed, please install SNMP service first.) 3. Click on the “Setup.exe” file then the welcome screen appears. 4. Click the “Next” button and then the “Ready Install the Program” screen appears. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete Areca SNMP Extension Agent installation.
APPENDIX 5. A Progress bar appears that measures the progress of the Areca SNMP Extension Agent setup. When this screen complete, you have completed the Areca SNMP Extension Agent setup. 6. After a successful installation, the “Installshield Wizard Completed” dialog box of the installation program is displayed. Click the “Finish” button to complete the installation. Starting SNMP Trap Notification Configruations To start "SNMP Trap Notification Configruations", There have two methods.
APPENDIX SNMP Community Configurations Please refer to the community name in this appendix. SNMP Trap Notification Configruations The "Community Name" should be the same as firmwareembedded SNMP community. The "SNMP Trap Notification Configruations" include level 1: Serious, level 2: Error, level 3: Warning and level 4: Information.
APPENDIX hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your system. For the SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux procedure, please refer to \packages\Linux\SNMP\Readme or download from http://www.areca.com.tw SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system.
APPENDIX Appendix D Event Notification Configurations The controller classifies disk array events into four levels depending on their severity. These include level 1: Urgent, level 2: Serious, level 3: Warning and level 4: Information.
APPENDIX PassThrough Disk Created Inform Pass Through Disk created PassThrough Disk Modified Inform Pass Through Disk modified PassThrough Disk Deleted Inform Pass Through Disk deleted B.
APPENDIX C. RAID Set Event Event Level Meaning Create RaidSet Warning New raidset created Delete RaidSet Warning Raidset deleted Expand RaidSet Warning Raidset expanded Rebuild RaidSet Warning Raidset rebuilding RaidSet Degraded Urgent Raidset degraded Action Replace HDD D.
APPENDIX Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In Serious a API login detected Lost Rebuilding/ MigrationLBA Urgent Some rebuilding/ migration raidset member disks missing before power on. Reinserted the missing member disk back, controller will continue the incompleted rebuilding/ migration. Note: It depends on models, not every model will encounter all events.
APPENDIX Appendix E RAID Concept RAID Set A RAID set is a group of disks connected to a RAID controller. A RAID set contains one or more volume sets. The RAID set itself does not define the RAID level (0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, etc); the RAID level is defined within each volume set. Therefore, volume sets are contained within RAID sets and RAID Level is defined within the volume set.
APPENDIX In the illustration, volume 1 can be assigned a RAID level 5 of operation while volume 0 might be assigned a RAID level 10 of operation. Alternatively, the free space can be used to create volume 2, which could then be set to use RAID level 5. Ease of Use Features • Foreground Availability/Background Initialization RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used immediately after creation because they do not create parity data.
APPENDIX on the existing volume sets (residing on the newly expanded RAID set) is redistributed evenly across all the disks. A contiguous block of unused capacity is made available on the RAID set. The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets. A disk, to be added to a RAID set, must be in normal mode (not failed), free (not spare, in a RAID set, or passed through to host) and must have at least the same capacity as the smallest disk capacity already in the RAID set.
APPENDIX • Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities, a system with Areca online RAID level/stripe size migration allows a simplified upgrade to any supported RAID level without having to reinstall the operating system. The SATA RAID controllers can migrate both the RAID level and stripe size of an existing volume set, while the server is online and the volume set is in use.
APPENDIX is completed, the volume set transitions to degraded mode. If a global hot spare is present, then it further transitions to rebuilding state. • Online Volume Expansion Performing a volume expansion on the controller is the process of growing only the size of the lastest volume. A more flexible option is for the array to concatenate an additional drive into the RAID set and then expand the volumes on the fly.
INTRODUCTION ically take its place and the data previously located on the failed drive is reconstructed on the global hot spare. For this feature to work properly, the global hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces. Global hot spares only work with RAID level 1, 10, 3, 5, or 6 volume set. You can configure up to three global hot spares with ARC-11xx/12xx. The “Create Hot Spare” option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare disk drive.
APPENDIX The Hot-Swap function can be used to rebuild disk drives in arrays with data redundancy such as RAID level 1, 10, 3, 5, and 6. • Auto Rebuilding If a hot spare is available, the rebuild starts automatically when a drive fails. The SATA RAID controllers automatically and transparently rebuild failed drives in the background at user-definable rebuild rates.
APPENDIX initialization, after a volume rebuilds, it does not require a system reboot. High Reliability • Hard Drive Failure Prediction In an effort to help users avoid data loss, disk manufacturers are now incorporating logic into their drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems.
APPENDIX tentially defective. A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location prove to have a defect. Auto Reassign Sector does not affect disk subsystem performance because it runs as a background task. Auto Reassign Sector discontinues when the operating system makes a request. • Consistency Check A consistency check is a process that verifies the integrity of redundant data.
APPENDIX mal operating conditions, the batteries last for three years before replacement is necessary. • Recovery ROM The SATA RAID controller firmware is stored on the flash ROM and is executed by the I/O processor. The firmware can also be updated through the PCI-X/PCIe bus port or Ethernet port (if equipped) without the need to replace any hardware chips. During the controller firmware upgrade flash process, it is possible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller firmware.
APPENDIX • RAID 0 RAID 0, also referred to as striping, writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive. RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy, but does offer the best highspeed data throughput. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array.
APPENDIX • RAID 10(1E) RAID 10(1E) is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1, combing stripping with disk mirroring. RAID Level 10 combines the fast performance of Level 0 with the data redundancy of Leve1 1. In this configuration, data is distributed across several disk drives, similar to Level 0, which are then duplicated to another set of drive for data protection. RAID 10 has been traditionally implemented using an even number of disks, some hybrids can use an odd number of disks as well.
APPENDIX • RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with parity at byte level. In RAID 5, the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk. If one drive in the system fails, the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive. All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the same time, greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system.
APPENDIX • RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability. It is similar to RAID 5, but it performs two different parity computations or the same computation on overlapping subsets of the data. RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data. RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5 but uses a second, independent distributed parity scheme.
APPENDIX 1 10(1E) 3 5 178 Also known as mirroring All data replicated on N separated disks. N is almost always 2. This is a high availability solution, but due to the 100% duplication, it is also a costly solution. Half of drive capacity in array devoted to mirroring. 2 Also known Block-Interleaved Parity. Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disks. Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array.
APPENDIX 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability. Similar to RAID 5, but does two different parity computations. RAID 6 offers fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5. Parity data consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives. 4 Highest reliability Reads are similar to RAID 0; Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0; Writes are slower than a single disk.
APPENDIX Appendix G Technical Support Areca Technical Support provides several options for Areca users to access information and updates. We encourage you to use one of our electric services, for the lastest product information updates and efficient support service. If you have decided to contact us, please have the following information ready. Kindly provide us the product model, serial number, BIOS, driver version, and a detailed description of the problem at http://www.areca.com.
HISTORY Version History Revision Page Description 4.01 p.52, 66 For Windows changed to Use 4K Block 4.01 p.58, 121 Added a note for RAID set expand 4.01 p.84, 87 Added HDD Power Management and LED Polarity Setting 4.01 p.
