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

Index
Modular SAN Array 1000 User Guide 237
disks, viewing information about 127
display commands 127
global settings 134
hard drives, locating 137
help command, described 124
Hyper Terminal, setting up 121
inter-controller link, defined 118
LUN management commands 137
LUN names, assigning 145
LUN names, viewing 130
LUN, adding a spare to 145
LUN, cache, enabling/disabling 151
LUN, creating 140
LUN, deleting 146
LUN, extending 149
LUN, RAID level, changing 150
LUN, spare, including 144
LUN, viewing information about 128
overview of 118
prompt, changing of 136
serial cable requirements 121
serial connection, setup 121
setup 121
spare drives, deleting 147
SSP commands 152, 156
command line interface, see CLI
Compaq Insight Manager
drive failure detection 186
indicating faults 52
comparison
of hardware-based RAID with
software-based RAID 182
of logical drive failure risk for different RAID
levels 115
of RAID methods with other fault-tolerance
methods 182
components
hardware, of the MSA1000 9
hot-pluggable 7
replacing 7
software, of the MSA1000 20
compromised fault tolerance 186
configuration
fault-tolerant 13
of drives 13
configuration needs, specific
Linux 27
NetWare 28
OpenVMS 29
Tru64 UNIX 31
Windows 26
configurations, samples of 42
connections
changing the HBA, with the CLI 161
changing the name of, with the CLI 160
deleting names of, with the CLI 161
managing profiles of, with the CLI 155
naming, with the CLI 154
viewing, with the CLI 153, 157
Controller
removing 62
Controller display
box numbering 196
components 195
defined 10, 195
deleting messages 197
error messages 10, 196
illustrated 10
informational messages 196
message types 196
redundancy link light 197
user input messages 196, 197
Controller display messages
access control conflict detected 217
access control resources exceeded 217
array Controller disabled 218
array Controller overheated 218
array Controller overheating 218
array Controller restarting 218
array Controller temperature ok 217
bad drive firmware box, bay 212
bad SCSI bus mode non-lvd device found
199
begin redundancy support 200
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