Installation manual

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Preliminary Steps
1 Locate the ConfigTool icon in the folder you
created during installation (Refer to ATTO
ConfigTool on page 1).
2 Double-click on the icon to start the application.
3The Welcome screen appears.
4 From the left-hand panel Device Listing,
expand all the elements of the selected hosts in
the Network tree.
5 Click on ExpressSAS R6XX or
ThunderStream SC 3808.
6 A new set of tabs appears in the right panel.
Click on the RAID tab.
7 The application scans for drives.
A list of drives appears. Devices are displayed
in the top panel and RAID groups and Hot
Spares are displayed in the bottom panel.
If you have not yet defined any RAID groups,
selecting the RAID tab automatically starts a
RAID wizard. The wizard is displayed in the
bottom panel.
If the RAID wizard does not start automatically,
select the RAID Management menu item at the
top of the screen, then select the Create RAID
Group from the menu presented.
8 Select either Setup DVRAID (continue with
Setting up DVRAID
on page 18) or Custom
RAID setup (continue with Custom
izing a RAID
setup on page 19).
Setting up DVRAID
DVRAID (Digital Video RAID) provides parity
redundancy for your data. Optimized for performance
for the high data transfer rates required in digital video
environments, DVRAID is ATTO Technology
proprietary technology which supports the editing of
uncompressed 10-bit High Definition (HD) video and
multiple streams of real-time, uncompressed Standard
Definition (SD) video. The DVRAID wizard
automatically sets up DVRAID using all storage
attached to the ExpressSAS RAID or ThunderStream
SC storage controller based on the number of
available drives. See
Exhibit 1.4.1--2 . DVRAID setup
cannot be used if any other RAID groups are present.