User guide
Table Of Contents
- MSA1000 User Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Operating System Specific Information
- Chapter 3: MSA1000 Setup and Sample Configurations
- Chapter 4: Operation and Management
- Chapter 5: Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
- Installing the ACU on the Server
- Accessing the ACU
- Description of Screen Regions
- Configuring a New Controller
- Modifying an Existing Controller
- Probability of Logical Drive Failure
- Chapter 6: Command Line Interface (CLI)
- CLI Overview
- CLI Setup
- Help Commands
- Display Commands
- Array Controller Configuration Commands
- LUN Management Commands
- Server Connection Commands
- Selective Storage Presentation/Access Control List Commands
- Appendix A: Regulatory Compliance Notices
- Appendix B: Electrostatic Discharge
- Appendix C: Specifications
- Appendix D: Hard Drive Arrays
- Appendix E: Recovering from Hard Drive Failure
- Appendix F: Controller Display Messages
- Appendix G: Recovery ROM and ROM Cloning
- Appendix H: SCSI ID Assignments
- Index

Contents
xiModular SAN Array 1000 User Guide
36 Installing the replacement blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
37 Removing the power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
38 Installing the replacement power supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
39 Opening the drive tray latches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
40 Inserting the new drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
41 Removing the failed SFP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
42 MSA1000 expansion SCSI connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
43 ProLiant Storage Manager welcome screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
44 Configuration mode selection screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
45 Typical wizard-based screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
46 Typical More Information popup window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
47 Typical standard mode screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
48 Starting to configure a new controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
49 Express mode start screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
50 Choosing a RAID level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
51 Physical drive selection screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
52 Configured array screen (no logical drives) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
53 New logical drive before saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
54 Typical task list for a logical drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
55 Typical SSP screen for MSA 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
56 Typical task list for a logical drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
57 Relative probability of a logical drive failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
58 HyperTerminal New Connection dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
59 HyperTerminal Connect To dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
60 HyperTerminal COM1 Properties dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
61 Physical drives added to system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
62 Physical drives configured into a logical drive (L1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
63 Data striping (S1-S4) of data blocks B1-B12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
64 Two arrays (A1, A2) containing five logical drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
65 Drive mirroring of P1 to P2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
66 Data Striping and Drive Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
67 Distributed data guarding, showing parity information (Px,y) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
68 Advanced data guarding (RAID ADG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
69 Hard drive indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
70 Array capacity expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
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