Diamond Storage Array Installation, Operations, Maintenance Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- 1.0 Diamond Storage Array Product Overview
- 2.0 Diamond Storage Array Technical Overview
- 3.0 Installation Instructions
- 3.2 Physical Set Up
- 4.0 Determining Drive and Sled Designations
- 5.0 Accessing the Array
- Command Line Interface
- ATTO ExpressNAV
- In-band SCSI over Fibre Channel
- RS-232 port
- Ethernet port
- SNMP
- I/O details
- Browser compatibility
- Opening an ExpressNAV session
- Navigating ExpressNAV
- Exhibit 5.4-1 Atypical page in the ATTO ExpressNAV configuration tool.
- Status
- Ethernet
- SNMP
- Serial Port
- Fibre Channel
- Storage Management
- RAID
- Clear Data
- Logical Units
- Rebuild
- Configuration
- Advanced
- Restart
- Help
- FirmwareRestart
- Help
- RestoreConfiguration
- SaveConfiguration
- SystemSN
- VerboseMode
- EthernetSpeed
- FTPPassword
- IPAddress
- IPDHCP
- IPGateway
- IPSubnetMask
- SNMPTrapAddress
- SNMPTraps
- SNMPUpdates
- TelnetPassword
- TelnetTimeout
- TelnetUsername
- FcConnMode
- FcDataRate
- FcFairArb
- FcFrameLength
- FcFullDuplex
- FcHard
- FcHardAddress
- FcNodeName
- FcPortInfo
- FcPortList
- FcPortName
- FcWWName
- SerialPortBaudRate
- SerialPortEcho
- SerialPortHandshake
- SerialPortStopBits
- AudibleAlarm
- DiamondModel
- DiamondName
- DriveCopyStatus
- DriveInfo
- FcNodeName
- FcPortList
- FcPortName
- Help
- IdentifyDiamond
- Info
- LUNInfo
- SerialNumber
- SledFaultLED
- SMARTData
- Temperature
- VirtualDriveInfo
- FcScsiBusyStatus
- FirmwareRestart
- MaxEnclTempAlrm
- MinEnclTempAlrm
- Temperature
- Zmodem
- ATADiskState
- AutoRebuild
- ClearDiskReservedAreaData
- DriveCopy
- DriveCopyHalt
- DriveCopyResume
- DriveCopyStatus
- DriveInfo
- DriveSledPower
- DriveWipe
- IdeTransferRate
- LUNInfo
- LUNState
- QuickRAID0
- QuickRAID1
- QuickRAID5
- QuickRAID10
- RAID5ClearData
- RAID5ClearDataStatus
- RAIDInterleave
- RAIDHaltRebuild
- RAIDManualRebuild
- RAIDRebuildState
- RAIDRebuildStatus
- RAIDResumeRebuild
- RebuildPriority
- ResolveLUNConflicts
- RestoreModePages
- SledFaultLED
- VirtualDriveInfo
- 6.0 Configuring Drives
- JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)
- RAID Level 0
- RAID Level 1
- RAID Level 10
- RAID Level 5
- Interleave
- Hot Spare sleds
- Enhancing performance
- Sled-based versus disk-based
- Exhibit 6.2-1 Sled-based QuickRAID0 stripe groups with LUN designations in a fully populated Array set up as QuickRAID0 6 sled. If sled 6 were to be withdrawn from the array, LUN 3 (grayed boxes) would be unavailable.
- Exhibit 6.2-2 Drive-based QuickRAID0 stripe groups with LUN designations in a fully populated Array set up as QuickRAID0 6 Drive. If sled 6 were to be withdrawn from the array, LUNs 2 and 5 would be unavailable.
- Exhibit 6.2-3 Configurations of a fully populated Diamond Storage Array in RAID Level 0.
- Exhibit 6.3-1 Drive sleds, LUNs and mirror partners in a RAID Level 1 configuration.
- Hot Spare sleds
- Configuring a fully-populated array
- Configuring a partially-populated array
- Removing RAID groups
- Hot Spare sleds
- 7.0 Hardware Maintenance
- 8.0 Copying Drives
- 9.0 Updating Firmware
- 10.0 System Monitoring and Reporting
- RS-232 monitoring port and CLI
- Ethernet monitoring port and CLI
- Power On Self Test (POST)
- Ready LED
- Audible alarm
- Thermal monitoring
- Power supply monitoring
- System fault LED and error codes
- Disk drive activity and disk fault LEDs
- Windows 2000 special instructions
- Error messages
- Specific situations and suggestions
- Default
- Factory Default
- Appendix A ATA Disk Technology
- Appendix B Information Commands Results
- Appendix C Product Safety
- Appendix D Specifications
- Appendix E Warranty
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Product overview
• JBOD, RAID Level 0, RAID Level 1, RAID Level
10 and RAID Level 5 configurable
• Staggered drive spin-up to reduce peak power
demand
• Tagged command queuing to process up to 255
simultaneous data requests
• RS-232 management for local management
control; Ethernet option available for setup
connection only
• ATTO ExpressNAV
TM
browser-based interface
for management and information
• Two power supplies capable of 85-264 V (rated
100-240V AC) operation (340 watts each)
• UL, TUV and CE marked and compliant
• Internal thermal and power management
• Redundant hot swappable power supplies with
integrated thermal and power management
• Hot spare sleds: replace degraded sleds with
spares on the fly using software
• Floor model cabinet or 19” 3U rack mount
Fibre Channel model
• 2 gigabit Fibre Channel Port (single or dual
channel)
• SFP-based Fibre Channel interface supports
long wave and short wave optical cables
• Built-in hub for daisy-chaining
• Up to 9,500 I/Os per second per port
• Up to 180 MB/sec. sustained Fibre Channel
transfer rates per interface
SCSI model
• Ultra 160 SCSI bus.
• Dual stacked VHDCI connectors for daisy-
chaining and termination
• SCSI Target ID selection switch
• Support for single-ended and LVD SCSI
• No onboard termination
Exhibit 1.0-1 Back of rack mount model, Diamond Storage Array. Left: Fibre Channel. Right: SCSI.