User's Guide

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Physical Devices Available for "Create Logical Drive - Simple Mode"
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Creating Logical Drives by "Create Logical Drive - Simple Mode"
................................................................. 74
Creating Logical Drive Freely ....................................................................................................... 75
Operation Procedure of "Create Logical Drive - Custom Mode" .................................................................... 75
Disk Arrays and Physical Devices Available for "Create Logical Drive - Custom Mode"
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Creating Logical Drives by "Create Logical Drive - Custom Mode"
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Deleting Logical Drive ................................................................................................................. 80
Deleting Logical Drive ............................................................................................................................... 80
Using CacheCade ....................................................................................................................... 81
Create SSD Cache Drive ........................................................................................................................... 81
Deleting SSD Cache Drive
......................................................................................................................... 84
Maintenance of RAID System ..................................................................................... 85
Providing Patrol Read for Physical Devices .................................................................................... 85
Setting Whether Patrol Read Is Executed or Not ......................................................................................... 85
Checking Result of Executing Patrol Read
.................................................................................................. 86
Setting Patrol Read Priority
....................................................................................................................... 86
Checking Logical Drive Consistency ............................................................................................. 87
Executing Consistency Check Manually ...................................................................................................... 87
Executing Consistency Check for arbitrary Logical Drive
.............................................................................. 88
Stopping Consistency Check
..................................................................................................................... 89
Checking Result of Executing Consistency Check
........................................................................................ 89
Setting Consistency Check Priority
............................................................................................................. 90
Initializing Logical Drive .............................................................................................................. 91
Executing Initialize ................................................................................................................................... 91
Stopping Initialize
.................................................................................................................................... 92
Checking Result of Executing Initialize
....................................................................................................... 92
Setting Initialize Priority
............................................................................................................................ 93
Changing Cache Mode of Logical Drive ........................................................................................ 94
Setting cache mode .................................................................................................................................. 94
Rebuilding Physical Device .......................................................................................................... 95
Executing Rebuild ..................................................................................................................................... 95
Stopping Rebuild
...................................................................................................................................... 96
Checking Result of Executing Rebuild
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Setting Rebuild Priority
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Reducing the power consumption of the Physical Device ............................................................... 98
Setting Power Saving Devices ................................................................................................................... 98
Setting Device Standby Time
.................................................................................................................... 99
Checking Location of Physical Device ..........................................................................................101
Procedure of Checking Location of Physical Device ................................................................................... 101
Changing Status of Physical Device Forcibly ................................................................................102
To Online Forcibly ................................................................................................................................... 102
To Failed Forcibly
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Refreshing the battery of the RAID Controller ..............................................................................105
Executing Battery Refresh Manually ......................................................................................................... 105
Scheduling Battery Refresh
..................................................................................................................... 106
Troubleshooting RAID System ................................................................................. 107
Failure Detection Measures ........................................................................................................108
Status Display by RAID Viewer ................................................................................................................ 108
Status Display by raidcmd
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Logging Events to RAID Log
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Logging Events to OS Log
....................................................................................................................... 108
Buzzer in RAID Controller
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Sending Alert to ESMPRO Manager
.......................................................................................................... 111
Monitoring Faults of Physical Devices ..........................................................................................112
Operation in no failures of Physical Devices ............................................................................................. 113
Operation when redundancy of Logical Drive degraded or lost due to failure of Physical Device
.................. 114
Operation when failed Physical Device is replaced to recover RAID System
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