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
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2 MSA1000 Features, summarized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 MSA1000 Supported Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Available Array Configuration Methods by Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5 Supported Software Components, Summarized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6 Supported HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
7 Configuration Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
8 MSA1000 Controller Indicator Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
9 Determining Hard Drive Status from Indicator Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
10 Fibre Channel I/O Module Global Status Indicator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
11 Fibre Channel I/O Module Link Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
12 Optimum Stripe Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
13 Possible Tasks in Standard Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
14 Optimum Stripe Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
15 Possible Tasks in Standard Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
16 CLI Special Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
17 MSA1000 Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
18 Summary of RAID Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
19 Choosing a RAID Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
20 LCD Message Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
21 MSA1000 SCSI ID Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
22 Additional 4314 Storage Enclosure SCSI ID Assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
23 Additional 4354 Storage Enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
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