ATTO Technology FastStream VT 5700 Installation And Operation Manual

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FastStream VT 5700

Fibre Channel to Fibre Channel Virtual Tape Appliance

Installation and Operation Manual

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ATTO Technology, Inc.

155 CrossPoint Parkway Amherst, New York 14068 USA

www.attotech.com

Tel (716) 691-1999 Fax (716) 691-9353

Sales support: sls@attotech.com Technical support: Monday -- Friday, 8am-8pm EST

techsupp@attotech.com

© 2009 A TT O Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or pro duct names are trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc.

1/2009 PRMA-0385-000

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Contents

1.0 ATTO FastStream VT Increases Reliability .................................................1

Virtual Tape features Backup and restore features Management and control features

1.1 FastStream VT 5700 Physical Attributes ..........................................3

Dimensions Cooling and airflow Power Fibre Channel ports Management ports Reset/restore factory default switch LED indicators

2.0 Install the FastStream VT ..............................................................................5

Verifying the contents of the packing box Installing the FastStream Installing Windows drivers Discovering the IP address Setting up Internet Explorer Beginning initial configuration

3.0 Ensure Drive Integrity ....................................................................................7

Before creating RAID groups After creating RAID groups

4.0 Configure Virtual Tape ..................................................................................9

Hot Spares Using quick initial configuration Using custom setup

5.0 Modify System Values ...................................................................................13

Customizing the user name, password Creating a read-only user name, password Customizing system configurations

6.0 Monitor Storage, Configurations ..................................................................15

Monitor VTL page Health and Status Monitor page Configuration Display page

6.1 Remote System Monitoring ................................................................19

Email notification

6.2 Drive Diagnostics ................................................................................21

Preliminary steps Initializing and verifying drives Read only drive test Drive performance and health Identifying a drive attached to the FastStream

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6.3 SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) .........................................................23

Setting up SES Identifying SES elements Monitoring SES elements

Use the Health and Status Monitor

Use the Manage menu

7.0 Modify Storage ...............................................................................................27

Preliminary steps Virtual Tape Library operations

Create a Virtual Tape Library

Delete a Virtual Tape Library

Secure data through Write Protection

Move Virtual Tape cartridges RAID group procedures

Increase the size of a VTL or replace faulted drives

Rebuild RAID groups FastStream operations: adding or removing Hot Spares Adding a VTL from another FastStream, replacing a failed appliance

8.0 Manage ATTO Devices ..................................................................................31

Creating a unique name for your FastStream Discovering, managing other ATTO devices Adding a VTL from another FastStream, replacing a failed appliance

9.0 Interface Options ...........................................................................................33

Using the ExpressNAV VTL manager Using the serial port Using Telnet

10.0 Update Storage, Firmware ..........................................................................35

Cleaning RAID configuration information Updating firmware

Appendix A Glossary ............................................................................................i

Appendix B Design RAID Groups .......................................................................iii

JBOD: Just a Bunch of Disks RAID Level 0: striping, no redundancy RAID Level 1: mirroring (duplicate drives) RAID Level 1 plus additional mirroring RAID Level 1+0: striping, mirror spans two drives RAID Level 5: striping, parity distributed among drives

Appendix C CLI Provides an ASCII-based Interface ..........................................vii

CLI error messages CLI summary CLI command explanations

Appendix D Standards, Compliances .................................................................xxiii

Appendix E Warranty ............................................................................................xxv

Manufacturer limited warranty

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1.0 ATTO FastStream VT Increases Reliability

ATTO FastStream™ Virtual Tape appliances are storage solutions that integrate with disk storage and emulate a tape library for fast restores on demand and error-free backups of critical data.

The A TT O FastStream Virtual T ape appliance is seen by system applications as a conventional tape library, allowing you to use disk-based storage as if it were tape.

The ATTO FastStream VT delivers immediate performance improvements to backup, restore and archive applications.

Adding a disk-based Virtual Tape Library (VTL) ensures high speed access to your data. The FastStream VT can be seamlessly integrated into storage environments as if it were a traditional tape library. The ATTO FastStream VT also provides high performance RAID parity protection to disk-based storage without regard to manufacturer, type of drive, capacity or speed.

RAID improves data accessibility and reliability during normal operations, however, you still need a good backup strategy for long-term protection of your data.

The ATTO FastStream VT is available in 1U industrystandard rack mount enclosure which is O/S and platform independent supporting 64 bit OS.

The FastStream VT 5700 features four 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel interfaces to integrate direct attached storage into a high performance SAN environment

independent

Virtual Tape features

• Seen by ISV applications as a conventional tape library.

• Configure one or two Virtual Tape libraries

• Configure up to 30 Virtual Tape drives and 256 Virtual tapes for each library.

• Hardware RAID Level 0, 1, 5, 1+0 and JBOD, all user configurable

Backup and restore features

• Performs up to 30 concurrent backups for each Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

• ATTO SpeedRead™ feature ensures responsive and error-free backup in the shortest possible time

• Backup and restore data at up to 1.89 TB per hour

• Uses reliable disk storage to take the place of conventional tape to deliver immediate performance improvements to backup and restore applications

Management and control features

• The ATTO ExpressNAV™ VTL manager, a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI), simplifies configuration, management and navigation

• Automatic rebuild of RAID groups and Rebuild Priority keep the system operational if a drive fails

• Global Hot Spares ensure continuous operation if a drive fails. The Hot Spare automatically comes on-line and rebuild starts if a disk failure is detected

• ECC Protected Memory assures data integrity and continued up time by implementing Error Correcting Checksum (ECC) and Parity checks on all data paths. Potential corruption cannot go undetected

• Phone Home error notification automatically generates an Email alert in the event of a failur e

• Drive initialization and verification identifies attached drives which exhibit poor performance or soft failures

• Capable of measuring performance during normal operation and during the drive initialization process

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1.1 FastStream VT 5700 Physical Attributes

The A TTO FastS tream VT 570 0 is a Fibre Channel to Fibre Channel storage appliance which can be seamlessly integrated into a new or existing backup environment.

The ATTO FastStream VT 5700 is available in an industry-standard 1U form factor for easy integration into industry-standard racks. Refer to and

Exhibit 1.1-2

on page 4.

Exhibit 1.1-1

Dimensions

Width: Length: Height: Weight:

17 inches

8.94 inches

1.7 inches (1U) approximately 8 pounds

Cooling and airflow

Operating Temperature: Humidity: Airflow:

10-90% non-condensing

air enters through slots on the right of the

rear panel and exits through slots on the left of the rear panel.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not block the enclosure’s vents. The FastStream VT 5700 does not allow data transfer if overheating occurs.

0°-40° C external

Power

Input voltage: Battery-backed event log:

ion battery cell holds the event log memory for up to 30 days. If the FastStream VT 5700 has been disconnected from power, recharging begins automatically when power is restored to the system. The battery is fully charged after 36 hours of continuous power application.

WARNING

Risk of explosion if battery is removed and/or replaced by an incorrect type. Dispose of used batteries in accordance with your local environmental regulations.

Explosionsgefahr , wenn die Batterie falsch entfernt und/oder ersetzt wird. Entsorgen Sie benutzte Batterien in Übereinstimmung mit Ihren lokalen Umweltschutzbestimmungen.

100-240VAC, 1.7-.7A, 50-60 Hz

A rechargeable Lithium

WARNING

Fibre Channel ports

The four independent 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel ports use Small Formfactor Pluggable (SFP) interface and multimode fiber optic cable. Make sure all cables are anchored securely at both ends with the proper connectors.

Ports 1 and 2 connect to the host. Ports 3 and 4 connect to devices. Refer to

Exhibit 1.1-1

Management ports

A 10/100 Ethernet standard RJ45 management port provides monitoring and management.

The RS-232 serial port provides support for remote monitoring and management using a DB9 connector. The baud rate is programmable and preset at the factory to 115200 bps.

GND

1 2

3 4

6 7

8 9

Reset/restore factory default switch

T o reset the FastS tream, briefly insert a tool in the hole in the back panel.

T o restore factory default s, insert the tool in the hole in the back panel for more than four seconds until the green Ready LED blinks.

LED indicators

The LED indicators can be viewed from the back or the front side of the FastStream VT 5700.

LEDs on the connector side are: A bicolor Ready/Fault LED

ready , lights yellow to indicate a faulted condition, and is off to indicate not ready.

Embedded in the Ethernet port connector:

lighted green LED indicates a valid link. Off indicates that no link is present. A separate blinking yellow LED indicates activity.

Fibre Channel port:

an active link. Off means there is no link. A separate green LED indicates activity if it is illuminated but indicates no activity if it is off.

lights green to indicate

A lighted green LED indicates

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LEDs on the front are: A green power LED

A bicolor Ready/Fault LED

is lighted green to indicate ready, lighted yellow to a faulted condition, and off indicates not ready.

Fibre Channel ports:

speed. If it is off, speed is 1-Gb. If it is green it indicates 2-Gb. A yellow light indicates 4-Gb FC. A separate green LED indicates activity if it is illuminated but indicates no activity if it is off.

Exhibit 1.1-1 The connector side of the FastStream VT 5700.

Exhibit 1.1-2 The faceplate of the FastStream VT 5700.

bicolor LED indicates FC

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2.0 Install the FastStream VT

If you have not already completed the instructions on the Getting Started manual packed with your FastStream VT, use the following instructions to install the FastS tream VT.

V erifying the contents of the packing box

• The FastStream. Note the serial n umber of your

FastStream unit: ________________________

• Power cord

• “L” brackets for mounting in a 19” rack

• CD which includes the Firmware, Installation

and Operation Manual, QuickNAV IP discovery program and system drivers

Installing the FastStream

1 Place the FastStream VT on a stable flat

surface or install it into a standard rack. If installing into a rack (see Exhibit 2.0-1

a. Attach “L” brackets so that the front side

with the LEDs face front and the connector side is at the back.

b. Install the FastStream horizontally within

the rack so it does not reduce the air flow within the rack.

2 Attach the appropriate cables.

a. Using SFPs and multimode fiber optic

cables, connect the FastStream Fibre Channel ports 1 and 2 to your host computer and ports 3 and 4 to your devices (see Exhibit 1.1-1

b. Power up the devices. 3 Connect the Ethernet port to your network. 4 Connect the AC power cord from the

FastStream to the proper AC source outlet. If you are using a rack:

a. Properly ground the FastStream to the rack

equipment. The earth ground connection must be maintained.

b. The power requirements plus the power

draw of the other equipment in the rack must not overload the supply circuit and/or wiring of the rack.

5 Use the power switch and switch on power to

the FastStream.

6 Wait for the FastStream Ready LED to light

indicating the FastStream has completed its power-on self test sequence.

7 Windows

Windows drivers. Mac® users continue to Discovering the IP address

users continue to Installing

on page 4).

Installing Windows drivers

1 Windows automatically detects the FastStream

and ask for the driver in the wizard. select

location.

2 Click Next. 3 Choose 4 Click Next. 5 Choose Have disk. 6 The VT media changer and the VT tape have

separate driver files. Repeat the following steps for each driver.

a. Specify the driver as found in the

VTMediaChanger or VTTapeDrive folder

in the setup CD. The files are in a folder based on your operating system: Win2K drivers for Windows 2000 and Windows XP and Win2K3 drivers for all 2003 Server products.

Note

Use the files directly from the CD or copy them onto a floppy or to a local directory on your hard drive.

b. Follow the remaining instructions to

complete the installation procedure.

7 After the driver for each device is installed, the

tape drive is listed under VT media changer is listed under

Changer

Install from a list or specific

Don’t Search.

in the System Devices folder.

Add Hardware

Tape Drives and the

Media

Discovering the IP address

Note

The FastStream VT is initially configured with DHCP enabled. It is best if you have access to a DHCP server.

1 Work from the computer attached to the

FastStream VT Ethernet port on the same broadcast domain. From the CD supplied with your FastStream, run the QuickNav Utility

QuickNAV-windows.exe for Windows or QuickNAV-Mac

2 Locate the FastStream with the serial number

recorded earlier.

for Mac OS X.

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3 Highlight the serial number. 4 Click

5 Click

Next.

If a DHCP server is available on your network, an address is assigned automatically by the server. Note the assigned address: _____________________________________

If you do not have a DHCP server, get an IPaddress and subnet mask from your network administrator, type it into the area provided, and Click

Next. Launch Browser.

Your browser points to the FastStream VT splash screen. If you use Internet Explorer as a browser, continue on to Setting up Internet

Explorer below. If not, continue on to Beginning initial configuration.

8 Clear Require server verification. 9 Click 10 At the bottom of the Internet Options panel,

OK.

click

OK and close the panel.

Beginning initial configuration

1 The ExpressNAV VTL manager welcome

screen appears. click

2 Type in the user name and password.

Note

The default user name is insensitive. The default password is

Password

practice to change the passwords. Refer to

Modify System Values

. It is case sensitive. It is best

Enter Here.

root.

on page 13.

It is case

Setting up Internet Explorer

1 Open your browser. 2 Click 3 Click 4Select 5 Click 6In

7 Click

Exhibit 2.0-1 General bracket assembly.

Internet Options. Security.

Trusted Sites.

Sites.

Add this Web site to the zone, type the IP

address of the appliance. You may use wild cards.

Add.

3The Initial Setup page appears.

If you wish to create a single VTL using default values, follow the procedure Using quick initial

configuration on page 9. Initialize the drives in

the VTL before using them for data. If you wish to initialize drives or set up system

configurations before creating one or two customized VTLs, follow the procedures in

Before creating RAID groups Modify System Values

continuing with Configure Virtual Tape

on page 7 and

on page 13 before

on page

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3.0 Ensure Drive Integrity

The A TTO FastS tream initialize and verify feature discovers and remap s bad sectors on drives, providing reliable media for your RAID groups.

Before creating any RAID group you should initialize and verify the drives you want in the RAID group to ensure drive integrity. When selected, the FastS tream writes a pattern to the entire drive, verifying the drive’s readiness and reliability.

You may, however, follow the procedure

initial configuration

Library, then initialize the drives in the VTL before using them for data using the procedure outlined in

After creating RAID groups

During initialization and verification, the FastStream collects performance measurements. Performance data is available once initialization begins. You may view it from the page accessible from the performance data is lost when the appliance is powered off.

You may check drive integrity after you have created RAID groups on drives in RAID groups or drives which

on page 9 to set up a Virtual Tape

on page 8.

Drive Performance and Health

Diagnostics

Using quick

menu. This

you wish to add to your FastStream configuration using the initialize and verify procedure or using a read-only scan of drives.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Selecting Drive Initialization causes all previous storage data on the drive to be erased. Make sure all of your information is backed up before initializing drives.

The read-only drive test performs a non-destructive scan over the entire surface of each drive to identify bad areas of disk drives and determine read performance. It may be run while data is passing through the FastStream.

Running this test may negatively impact performance. Once the read-only test has completed, system operation returns to normal.

Before creating RAID groups

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2Select

3 Click 4Select Initialize and Verify Drives.

All eligible drives are highlighted in green. The system only initializes highlighted drives.

, type in your user name and

Initialize and Verify Drives.

Next.

Enter Here. In the box OK.

5 Click

6 A warning box appears. In the warning box,

7 When the process is complete, the

The drive(s) selected are now initialized and verified. All data on the highlighted drives has been erased and you may continue with page 9.

Commit.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not restart the FastStream or disconnect or power cycle drives during Drive Initialization and Verification or you must start the verification process from the beginning.

verify that you want to complete the configuration by selecting ends the procedure without making a change.

Status Monitor

page appears.

Configure Virtual Tape

Yes. Selecting No

Health and

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After creating RAID groups

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2 Click

ExpressNAV VTL Manager.

3 Select either I

Read-Only Drive Test Process

4 Click 5 If no drives appear in the information box, click

System Scan.

, type in your user name and

Diagnostics on the left side of the

menu.

Next.

Enter Here. In the box OK.

nitialize and Verify Drives or

from the Select User

If drives are available, select the drives you wish to verify, initialize or test. The drives are highlighted.

6 Click

7 A warning box appears. In the warning box,

8 If you chose to initialize and verify drives, the

Commit.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not restart the FastStream or disconnect or power cycle drives during Drive Initialization and Verification or you must start the verification process from the beginning.

verify that you want to complete the configuration by selecting ends the procedure without making a change.

Health and Status Monitor page appears and

all data on the previously-highlighted drives has been erased.

If you chose to do a read-only test, the

Performance and Health

which tests are running and the test results. You may select other tests to run or continue on to other tasks.

Yes. Selecting No

Drive

page appears listing

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4.0 Configure Virtual Tape

The A TTO FastS tream VT allows configuration of storage into one or two JBOD, RAID Level 0, 1, 1+0 or 5 Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL).

The FastStream VT appears to hosts as a tape library, allowing ISV packages to issue a set of tape library commands to perform backup and restore operations to the FastStream.

The FastStream VT configures your storage into one or two Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) depending on the choices you make.

For every Virtual Tape Library created on the FastStream VT, an underlying RAID Group is created from the selected drives to provide the physical storage medium for the Virtual Tape cartridges.

Y ou may initially use either the or

Custom Setup

Quick Configuration

Tape Library after you answer a few key questions. The procedure uses all attached Fibre Channel disks to build a single VTL. If you want to initially create more than one VTL, use custom setup. Y ou may modify this configuration after initial setup. If you have initialized and verified drives, modified the system configuration, or already created a VTL, the Quick Configuration option is not available.

Custom Setup

FastStream VT to best suit the needs, performance and level of reliability for your application. If you want to initially create more than one VTL, use custom setup.

Although you may change the configuration later, changing configuration erases data and may affect

: allows you to configure the

Quick Configuration

: quickly generates a Virtual

performance. Backup all previously stored data and plan carefully. Read all information and warnings.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Selecting Commit during configuration causes all previous storage data on the drive to be erased. Make sure all of your information is backed up.

Hot Spares

During the set up process you are asked if you wish to add Hot Spares. You may set up Hot Spares now or you may set up a pool of Hot Spares later. Refer to

FastStream operations: adding or removing Hot Spares

When you set up Hot Spares, the ATTO FastStream VT replaces degraded or faulted drives in a VTL without intervention by you or a host.

Drives in the Hot Sp are pool should be o f appropriate size to the RAID group so that smaller drives are not replaced by much larger Hot Spare devices.

When the ATTO FastStream VT detects a faulted drive:

• The Controller searches the Hot Spare pool for

• The FastStream replaces the faulted drive with

• The FastStream begins an automatic rebuild of

on page 30 for instructions.

the smallest drive of sufficient size to substitute for the faulted drive.

the drive from the Hot Spare pool.

the RAID groups.

Using quick initial configuration

Quick Configuration

Library after you answer a few key questions. The procedure uses all attached disks to build a single VTL. If you want to initially create more than one VTL, use

Custom Setup

on page 10). You may modify this configuration after initial setup.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

, type in your user name and

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generates a Virtual Tape

. (Refer to

Using custom setup

Enter Here. In the box OK.

2From the

Initial Setup page, select Quick

Configuration

The FastStream scans your system for devices. The

Quick Configuration page appears listing

the number of devices and the total amount of storage on those devices.

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3In Step 1 on the screen, type in a name for your

Virtual Tape Library. Names may be up to 14 characters and may not contain any spaces.

4 Answer the questions in

needs of your software vendor.

• If your storage is RAID protected, the FastStream does not reconfigure it. If it is not, the FastStream sets the RAID level.

• Select the number of simultaneous backups you wish to run, from 1 to 30.

• Select if you want a Hot Spare. The FastStream rescans the system to recalculate capacity.

5 Click 6The VTL Setup Summary page appears. If the

Next.

configuration is the way you want it, click

Commit. A warning box appears.

Step 2 based on the

Using custom setup

7 In the warning box, verify that you want to add

the VTL by selecting

Note

Selecting No returns you to the page. The Quick Configuration is no longer available and you must use the instructions in

Using custom setup

8The Virtual Tape Library Setup page appears.

If you select

Custom Configuration

fields to be completed as listed in the procedure

Using custom setup

drives required by the custom setup you desire and continue with the procedure.

Configure Another, the VTL

Yes.

Monitor VTL

to set up your VTL.

page reappears with

. Connect the number of

Custom Setup

FastStream VT to best suit the needs, performance and level of reliability for your application. If you want to create more than one VTL, use custom setup. You may create up to two VTLs.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2 If you have not yet verified drives, changed the

system configuration or configured another VTL, the

Custom Setup.

If you have initialized or verified drives, changed the system configuration or created a VTL, the

allows you to configure the

Enter Here. In the box

, type in your user name and

OK.

Initial Setup page appears. Select

Monitor VTL page appears.

a. From the left menu, click

b. The

c. Select 3 Click 4 Type a name for your Virtual Tape Library in the

box provided on the page under the label.

5In

RAID Groups on page iii in the Appendix for

more information.

Manage VTL page appears. Select

Virtual Tape Libraries.

Create Virtual Tape Library.

Next.

Step 2, select a RAID level. Refer to Design

Manage.

Step 1

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6Select Yes, Assign a Hot Spare if you want a

Hot Spare.

7In

Step 3, click System Scan to discover the

drives available for VTL configuration.

8 When the scanned drives box is populated,

select the drives to be used for the underlying RAID group associated with the VTL. The

Minimum Number Additional Drives Required

label lists the number of drives you must add to fulfill the RAID level and Hot Spare requirements you have selected.

9 Answer the questions in

Step 4 to define your

virtual storage as if it were a physical tape storage array based on the needs of your ISV.

You may select a library to emulate or select

Custom to define your own setup.

• If you select a library, default values for that

library are entered into the fields in the rest of

Step 4 and in Step 5.

• If you select the fields in

Custom, you must complete

Step 4 and Step 5 on the

screen. However, some fields may be populated automatically for you depending on your system.

10 When you have completed your choices, click

Next.

11 The

Virtual Tape Library Setup page appears.

If the new configuration is the way you want it, click

Commit.

12 In the warning box, verify that you want to add

the VTL by selecting Selecting

No returns you to the Virtual Tape

Library Setup

Yes.

page and you can choose to

begin this procedure again.

13 The

Virtual Tape Library Setup page appears.

Select

Done if you do not want to create

another VTL. Select

Configure Another to create another

VTL.

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5.0 Modify System Values

Default values are appropriate for most configurations, but may be modified for your needs using the ExpressNA V VTL manager.

Customizing the user name, password

It is best practice to change the default user name and password. Refer to the CLI commands

PartitionWriteCache Username

1 Open a CLI session either using Telnet or the

2Type 3 Press Enter.

on page xxii of the Appendix.

serial port as described in Interface Options page 33.

set Username [user name]

on page xvii of the Appendix and

4Type set Password

Note

The user name is case insensitive and password is case sensitive.

5 Press Enter. 6 Follow the instructions on the screen to confirm

your old and new password.

The user name and password for all user interface sessions are changed.

Creating a read-only user name, password

You may wish to set up a read-only user name and password to prevent changes to storage and FastStream VT settings. Refer to the CLI command

ReadOnlyUsername

1 Open a Command Line Interface session either

using Telnet or the serial port as described in

Interface Options

2Type

set ReadOnlyUsername [name]

on page xviii of the Appendix

on page 33.

3 Press Enter. 4Type set ReadOnlyPassword 5 Press Enter 6 Follow the instructions on the screen to confirm

the read-only password.

The read-only user name and read-only password for all user interface sessions are changed.

Customizing system configurations

You may change several parameters using the

System Configuration

VTL manager. 1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your appliance in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click

Enter Here. In the box provided, type in

your user name and password, and click If you have already created a VTL or initialized

drives, the left menu, click

FastStream VT arrow.

If you have not yet created a VTL or initialized drives, the

Monitor VTL page appears. In the

Initial Setup page appears.

page of the ExpressNAV

OK.

Manage, then click the

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2Select

3 Click 4 Select the items you wish to change and type in

text boxes as required. A choice may be greyed because it is not available based on a previous choice.

• Appliance name: give this FastStream VT a

System Configuration.

Next.

name which is significant to you if you are managing several ATTO devices from a single workstation.

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• Time and Date: refer to Timeand TimeZone on page xxii and Date

on page xiii of the

Appendix.

• Fibre Channel data rate and connection mode for each Fibre Channel port: refer to

FCDataRate

on page xv and FCConnMode

on page xv of the Appendix.

• Enable or disable hard address assignment: refer to FCHard

on page xv of the Appendix.

• Establish access through FC ports: refer to

FCMultiNode

on page xv of the Appendix.

• Change the Ethernet management port configuration: refer to IPDHCP

IPDNSServer

and IPAddress

, IPGateway, IPSubnetMask

on page xvi of the Appendix.

5 When you have completed your changes, click

Commit.

6 A warning box appears. If you wish to keep the

changes you made on the page, select

Yes and

the FastStream restarts to save the changes.

7 If you selected

completes its power cycle, the

Configuration

No or when the firmware

System

page appears.

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6.0 Monitor Storage, Configurations

You may monitor storage and determi ne the performance of drives attached to the FastStream VT using the ExpressNAV VTL manager.

If you have set up at least one Virtual Tape Library (refer to monitor various aspects of your storage and the VT and view various metrics to measure performance for physical drives attached to the FastStream during normal system operation and drive initialization and verification.

Configure Virtual Tape

CAUTIONCAUTION

New performance data is updated every 60 seconds which impacts performance slightly, even if you minimize the browser window. Exit the ExpressNAV VTL manager completely whenever you need maximum performance.

on page 9.), you may

Monitor VTL page

The

Monitor VTL

you open the ExpressNAV VTL manager after setting up at least one VTL. If you have not created a VTL or if you have deleted all VTLs associated with this FastStream, the body of the page is blank.

Each VTL has its own tab. Information includes RAID level, RAID status, capacity, the Fibre port and LUN to

page is the first page you see when

Email notification of errors allows the FastStream VT to send an Email message to you, a network administrator or other users when certain events occur. Refer to

19. The FastStream VT collects various metrics to

measure performance for physical drives attached to the FastStream during normal system operation and drive initialization. Refer to 21

SES data may also be available for enclosures attached to the FastS tream. Refer to

Services (SES)

which the VTL is mapped, the element, element type, its bar code and whether or not the element is write protected.

To get further information or to manage the VTL, select the menu items on the left side of the screen. T o return to this screen at any time, click

Remote System Monitoring

Drive Diagnostics

SCSI Enclosure

on page 23.

VTL.

on page

Exhibit 6.0-1 The ATTO FastStream VT Monitor VTL page.

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Health and Status Monitor page

The Health and Status Monitor provides information about RAID group status, FastStream VT environmental status, Ethernet and Fibre Channel interface states, and drive status, including links to diagnostics and more detailed information.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2The

at the left side of the page, click

3The

If you click each parameter appears on the

Display

page below).

Exhibit 6.0-2 The Health and Status Monitor page.

, type in your user name and

Monitor VTL page appears. On the menu

Health and Status Monitor page appears.

Details, added information about

page (refer to Configuration Display

Enter Here. In the box OK.

Monitor.

Configuration

RAID Groups: RAID Group names, RAID

•

status, available Hot Spares and the number of Hot Spares which have been substituted for faulted drives.

•

Environmental Status: Temperature and

voltage of the FastStream VT.

•

Enclosure Status: Enclosure index, ID and

index number and status. Click to the

SES Management page.

•

Interface Status: Ethernet management

port link status and Fibre Channel port link, speed and connection mode.

•

Drive status by port: Size and status.

4 Click

5 Click

Drive Health. The Drive Performance

and Health

be reached by clicking menu.

for attached drives and populates the

Drives

page appears. The page may also

Diagnostics in the left

System Scan. The FastStream VT scans

and Port 2 Drives sections of the page.

Details to go

Port 1

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Configuration Display page

Clicking page gives you added information about each parameter on the may view the details of any parameter from this page.

• RAID Groups: RAID Group names, RAID

Exhibit 6.0-3 The Configuration Display page.

Details

status, available Hot Spares, number of faulted

in the

Health and Status Monitor

Configuration Display

page. You

drives, RAID level, interleave and total capacity of each RAID Group.

•

Drives: Drive Configuration by port, including

drive size and status

•

Interfaces: Ethernet management port link

status and Fibre Channel port link, speed, connection mode, Node Name and Port Name.

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6.1 Remote System Monitoring

You may set up the FastStream to send notifications using Email when certain events occur.

You may set up the FastStream to send notifications when certain events occur using the

Notification

You designate the person receiving notification of conditions and the level of severity which prompt notification using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or Email notification.

The following are the types of errors which may be recorded:

• Device/drive errors such as medium error, aborted command and hard error

• Device/drive transitions from online to offline

• Critical and warning temperature conditions

• Critical and warning voltage conditions

• Power recycle/power failure conditions

page of the ExpressNAV VTL Manager.

Error

Email notification

The following are warning messages which may be recorded:

• device down

• medium error

• abort command You may select the severity level at which you want

notification:

• Critical: critical event Emails are sent

•

Warning: warnings and critical event Emails are

sent

•

Informational: information which you may want

to know but which probably does not require action: only information messages are sent

•

All: warnings, critical events and informational

messages are sent

•

None: no Emails are sent

Phone home Email notification allows the FastStream to send an Email message to you, a network administrator or other users when certain events occur with the FastStream.

Serious error messages are sent immediately, while messages for less serious errors are sent every 15 minutes.

You may send Emails to up to five Email addresses and designate which conditions prompt each Email notification.

For example, a recipient with a critical severity level only receives critical messages and not warning or informational messages.

When an event occurs that warrants Email notification, the FastStream sends the message. It cannot respond to a rejection by a server for an invalid address. Ensure all Email addresses typed in are valid.

Each Email is time stamped when it is sent as part of the SMTP header information.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

, type in your user name and

Enter Here. In the box OK.

2The

3The

4Select 5 Click 6Select Enabled for Notification

7 Type in the sender address or use the default.

8 Type or use the default SMTP Server (the

9 Type in up to five Email addresses.

Monitor VTL page

appears. Click the menu on the left side of the page.

Manage VTL page

appears. Click the

FastStream arrow.

Set up Error Notification.

Next.

Configuration.

(Emails list this name in the

Email server) IP address or the name of the SMTP server and, if required, the user name and password used to log into the server.

Manage from

From field).

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10 Choose All, Critical, Warning, Informational

or None for each Email address.

11 When all information is typed in, click

Commit.

12 A warning box appears. In the warning box,

verify that you want to complete the notification procedure including a restart of the FastStream

Exhibit 6.1-1 The Erro r Notification page.

by selecting

Yes. Selecting No ends the

procedure without making a change. 13 Your settings appear on the page. You may change or disable Email notification at any

time from the

Error Notification

page.

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6.2 Drive Diagnostics

You may determine the performance of drives att ached to the FastStream using the ExpressNA V VTL Manager.

The following instructions assume you have already set up at least one RAID group.

The ATTO FastStream collects various metrics to measure performance for physical drives attached to the FastStream during normal system operation and drive initialization and verification.

New performance data is updated every 60 seconds which impacts performance slightly, even if you minimize the browser window. Exit the ExpressNAV VTL Manager completely whenever you need maximum performance.

You may also access drive information using SCSI Enclosure Services (SES). Refer to

Services (SES)

on page 31.

SCSI Enclosure

Preliminary steps

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click

Enter Here. In the box

provided, type in your user name and

password, and click 2The

3 Select the operation you wish to perform from

Monitor VTL page appears. Click

Diagnostics on the left menu.

the

Select User Process menu.

OK.

Initializing and verifying drives

4 Follow the Preliminary steps above. 5Select

6 Click 7 If no drives appear in the information box, click

8 Click

Initialize and Verify Drives from the

Select User Process menu.

Next.

System Scan.

If drives are available, select the drives you wish to verify, initialize or test. The drives are highlighted.

Commit.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not restart the FastStream or disconnect or power cycle drives during Drive Initialization and Verification or you must start the verification process from the beginning.

9 A warning box appears. In the warning box,

verify that you want to complete the

configuration by selecting

ends the procedure without making a change. 10 The

Health and Status Monitor page app ears.

All data on the previously-highlighted drives

has been erased.

Yes. Selecting No

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Read only drive test

The read only test performs a non-destructive scan over the entire surface of each drive to identify bad areas of the disk drives and determine read performance. It may be run while data is passing through the FastStream.

Running this test may negatively impact performance. Once the Read-only test has completed, system operation returns to normal.

To fix errors on disks, use the Initialize and Verify Drives process as described in on page 15.

1 Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps on

page 21.

2Select

Read-Only Drive Test.

Ensure Drive Integrity

Drive performance and health

Another way to determine the status of your drives is to use the

1 Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps on

2Select 3The Drive Performance and Health page

Drive Performance and Health

page 21.

Drive Performance and Health.

appears.

•Select

• During the tests the

Show Help Text and Drives for an

alternative view of the test progress.

Time Remaining box

tells you how much time remains until the verification process is complete. The representation of each drive in the

page.

Drives

3 Click 4 If no drives appear in the information box, click

5 Click 6 A warning box appears. In the warning box,

4 When the test is complete, select each drive to

If you close the browser or navigate away from this page, you may re-access these results by clicking

Diagnostics Performance and Health

page. Results are available until the FastStream is restarted.

Next.

System Scan.

If drives are available, select the drives you

wish to test. The drives are highlighted.

Commit.

verify that you want to complete the

configuration by selecting

ends the procedure without making a change.

The

Drive Performance and Health page

appears listing which tests are running and their

results. You may select other tests to run or

continue on to other tasks.

box indicates the percentage of verification completed.

• Drive performance appears under the

Metrics

• Drive errors appear in the section of the page.

see its information highlighted in the

Metrics

section.

window.

on the left menu and choosing

Yes. Selecting No

Drive Errors

on the

Diagnostics

Drive

Identifying a drive attached to the FastStream

Y ou may want to physically identify a drive attached to the FastStream.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Executing this command adversely impacts performance and throughput for the time that the LED is illuminated.

1 Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps on

page 21.

2Select 3The

drive you wish to identify. Only one drive may be selected at a time.

4 Click

illuminates for one minute.

5 To stop the operation, unselect the drive.

Identify Drive.

Identify Drive page appears. Select the

Commit. The I/O LED of the drive

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6.3 SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Drive enclosures may provide a SCSI Enclosure Processor which indicates enclosure health status, drive identification and drive fault.

The ATTO FastStream VT recognizes drive enclosures that provide SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) information. You may use SES to identify

Setting up SES

individual drives, all the drives in the same enclosure, all the drives in a single RAID group, or faulted drives.

You may also select drives and monitor the status of the enclosure.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2The

on the left side of the screen.

3Select

4 Click

appears.

5 Select the type of SES monitor and control you

wish to use.

Exhibit 6.3-1 The Enclosure Services page.

, type in your user name and

Monitor VTL page appears. Click Manage

Manage Enclosure Services.

Next. The Enclosure Services page

Enter Here. In the box OK.

•

Pass-Through: the host application

manages SES information.

•

Monitor and Control by the FastStream:

the FastStream VT controls SES services.

•

SES Monitoring Disabled: the host

application does not receive any SES monitoring information.

6 If you have elected to enable enclosure

services, select the amount of time in seconds that SES enclosures are asked (or polled) for their current status. The default is 30 seconds: you may choose an interval up to 60 minutes.

7 If you have elected to enable enclosure

services, and you want the enclosure to sound an alarm if a drive becomes faulted, select

Enable Faulted Drive Alarm.

8 Choose to test an enclosure’s alarm or to mute

alarms. You may also choose to have an occasional audible reminder of the alarm condition if it is supported by your enclosure.

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Identifying SES elements

The

SES Monitor

the

Enclosure Status

Status Monitor

specific enclosures (see like information about specific drives of the RAID groups or enclosures of which they are members, use the

Identify SES Elements

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2The

Exhibit 6.3-2 The Identify SES Elements page.

VTL Monitor page appears. Click the

Diagnostics menu on the left side of the

screen.

page, found by clicking

section of the

page, lists SES information about

Exhibit 6.3-4

page.

Enter Here. In the box

, type in your user name and

OK.

Details

Health and

). If you would

3Select

4 Click

appears (Exhibit 6.3-2

5 Select any drive for information about that

drive.

6 After selecting a drive, select whether to identify

the drives, enclosures or RAID groups associated with that drive. LEDs for the devices light up when selected.

7 Click

SES Elements.

Next. The Identify SES Elements page

Stop All to stop the LEDs from lighting.

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Monitoring SES elements

Enclosures which provide SES information are listed in the

Enclosure Status Status Monitor Enclosure Services

(see

section of the

Exhibit 4

arrow on the

) and through the

Health and

Manage

menu.

Use the Health and Status Monitor

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click

Exhibit 6.3-3 The ExpressNAV VT Controller Health and Status Monitor page.

Enter Here. In the box

provided password, and click

2The

menu, click

3The

(see Exhibit 6.3-3 section, click

4The SES Monitor page appears (see

Exhibit 6.3-4

, type in your user name and

VTL Monitor page appears. In the left

Monitor.

Health and Status Monitor page app ears.

). In the Enclosure Status

Details.

OK.

Exhibit 6.3-4 The SES Monitor page.

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Use the Manage menu

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2The

on the left side of the screen.

, type in your user name and

VTL Monitor page appears. Click Manage

Enter Here. In the box OK.

3 In the

4Select

Select User Process box, click the

Enclosure Services arrow.

Monitor Enclosure Services.

5 Click 6The

Next.

SES Monitor page appears (see

Exhibit 6.3-4

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7.0 Modify Storage

Use the ExpressNAV VTL manager to replace a failed drive, add new drives or redesign VTL configurations.

The ExpressNA V VTL manager takes you step by step through many procedures which allow you to modify your storage and VTL. Read all notes and cautions carefully as you go to ensure the best performance and use of your storage.

Be cautious when deleting storage or rearranging storage configurations because data could be compromised or lost. Many of these procedures are only available when using unallocated drives or storage.

Preliminary steps

Note

An unallocated drive or unallocated storage is storage which is not part of a RAID group, not designated as a Hot Spare or was offline when you initially set up a RAID configuration using the ExpressNAV VTL manager.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your

When you initially set up the FastStream, replace a failed drive or add new drives to the FastStream, perform drive initialization and verification to ensure the integrity of these drives (refer to

Integrity

2The 3 Click the appropriate menu item on the left side

4 Select the operation you wish to perform from

on page 7).

CAUTIONCAUTION

Clicking Commit during RAID configuration causes all previous storage data on the drive to be erased. Ensure all data is backed up.

FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

of the ExpressNAV VTL manager.

the next menu presented.

, type in your user name and

Monitor VTL page appears.

Enter Here. In the box OK.

Ensure Drive

Virtual Tape Library operations

You may add to, delete or change the VTLs in your configuration using the ExpressNAV VTL manager.

Create a Virtual Tape Library

1 Follow Preliminary steps above and click

Manage.

2The

3Select Create a Virtual Tape Library.

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Manage VTL page appears. Click the

Virtual Tape Libraries arrow.

4 Follow the instructions in Using custom setup

Delete a Virtual Tape Library

1 Follow Preliminary steps above and click

2The

3Select 4 Click 5 Select the name of library. 6 Click 7 In the warning box, verify that you want to

8 After the process completes, the

on page 10.

Manage.

Manage VTL page appears. Click the

Virtual Tape Libraries arrow.

Delete Virtual Tape Library.

Next.

Commit.

delete the VTL by selecting ends the procedure without making a change.

page appears.

Yes. Selecting No

VTL Monitor

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Secure data through Write Protection

For added security , write protection can be enabled for any tape cartridge with a VTL. When write protection is enabled, existing data on the tape cartridge cannot be overwritten or erased.

The data can be sorted by any field by clicking the label for the field. Clicking twice reverses the sort order.

1 Follow Preliminary steps on page 27 and click

Manage from the left menu.

2The

3Select 4 Click 5 Select the tab with the name of the VTL for

6 Select the element you wish to change. 7 Click 8 A warning box appears. If you wish to proceed,

9The

Manage VTL page appears. Click the

Virtual Tape Libraries arrow.

Enable/Disable Write Protection.

Next.

which you wish to change write protection.

Commit.

select

Yes. Selecting No ends the procedure

without making a change.

Enable/Disable Write Protection page

appears.

If you wish to protect other elements or elements in another library, select the library and repeat this procedure.

Move Virtual Tape cartridges

The

Move Medium

simulates a generic library front panel operation. 1 Follow Preliminary steps on page 27 and click

Manage from the left menu.

2The

3Select Move Medium. 4 Click 5The

6 Select the Virtual Tape Cartridge element you

7 Select the new place where you want the

8 Click 9The If you wish to move other VTL cartridge elements,

repeat this procedure.

Manage VTL page appears. Click the

Virtual Tape Libraries arrow.

Next.

Move Medium page appears. Click the tab

with the name of the Virtual Tape Cartridge for which you wish to move medium.

wish to move.

Virtual Tape Cartridge element.

Commit.

Move Medium page appears.

page is an interface which

RAID group procedures

You may change the RAID groups underlying your VTLs using the ExpressNAV VTL manager.

Increase the size of a VTL or replace faulted drives

If you have unallocated drives, you can increase the number of drives used by an existing VTL by adding an unallocated drive to the VTL RAID group. The increased capacity of the RAID group becomes additional Virtual Tape cartridges in the library. You may have to add more than one drive.

1 Follow Preliminary steps on page 27 and click

Manage from the left menu.

2The

3Select

4 Click Next. 5 Select the RAID group associated with the VTL

6 Click the drives you wish to add to the RAID

Manage VTL page appears. Click the

RAID Groups arrow.

Add Drives to an existing RAID

Group.

you wish to add the drives to from the drop down menu.

group.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Adding drives to an existing RAID group may adversely impact performance. You cannot reverse this operation unless you delete the RAID group.

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7 When you have completed your changes, click

Commit.

CAUTIONCAUTION

During this procedure, do not power down the host or the ATTO FastStream VT until the Health and Status Mo nitor page appears. Any interruption of power while storage is being reorganized results in the loss of data.

8 In the warning box, verify that you want to add

the drives to the RAID group by selecting Selecting making a change.

9The

No ends the procedure without

Health and Status Monitor page appear s.

Yes.

Rebuild RAID groups

If you receive an Email notification from the FastStream VT as set up previously using the Phone Home error notification (refer to

Configurations

drive has failed, and you do not have available drives in the Hot Spares pool, follow this procedure to replace the failed drive and manually begin a rebuild operation. If you have available drives in the Hot Spare pool, any failed drive is replaced by a Hot Spare automatically.

1 Follow Preliminary steps on page 27 and click

on page 15) or otherwise realize a

Diagnostics from the left menu.

2The

Diagnostics page appears. Select

Identify Drive.

3 Click Next. 4 Select the degraded drive. 5 Click 6 The LED on the degraded drive flashes.

Commit.

Monitor Storage,

Note

The status of a drive which cannot be accessed is listed as this drive, observe the access lights for all drives in the RAID group during disk access: if the LED is not flashing on a drive, it is the unavailable drive.

7 When you have identified the failed drive, select

the drive in the LED flash.

Note

It is best practice to stop drive activity while changing drives.

8 Remove the failed drive from the array. 9 Insert the new drive into the array. 10 In the ExpressNAV VTL manager, click

Identify Drive box to stop the

Unavailable

. T o identify

Manage from the left menu.

11 Click the 12 Select 13 Click 14 At the

RAID Groups arrow.

Rebuild RAID Groups.

Next.

Step 1: Select a RAID group, select

Degraded Drives from the drop down menu.

15 Degraded drives are listed under

select a RAID group member

degraded drive to rebuild. The graphic chang es color.

16 Under

select the new drive. The graphic changes

color. 17 Click 18 In the warning box, verify that you want to

rebuild the RAID group by selecting

Selecting

making a change. 19 When the procedure is complete, the

Group Rebuild

Step 3: select a replacement drive,

Commit.

No ends the procedure without

page appears.

Step 2:

. Select the

Yes.

RAID

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FastStream operations: adding or removing Hot Spares

The ATTO FastStream VT replaces degraded or faulted drives in a VTL without intervention by you or a host if you set up a pool of Hot Spare drives of dif ferent sizes appropriate for your VTL. Hot Sp ares may be set up by the FastStream VT automatically depending on your choices during initial setup.

Note

Drives in the Hot Spare pool should be of appropriate size to the RAID Group so that smaller drives are not replaced by much larger Hot Spare devices.

When the ATTO FastStream VT detects a faulted drive:

• The Controller searches the Hot Spare pool for the smallest drive of sufficient size to substitute for the faulted drive.

• The FastStream replaces the faulted drive with the drive from the Hot Spare pool.

• The FastStream begins an automatic rebuild of the RAID groups.

1 Follow Preliminary steps

Manage from the left menu.

on page 27 and click

2The

3Select 4 Click 5 Select the drive(s) you want to add or remove

6 When you have completed your changes, click

7 In the warning box, verify that you want to add

8 When the process is complete the

For refer to

13. For

System Monitoring

Manage VTL page appears. Click the

FastStream arrow.

Add/Remove Hot Spares.

Next.

from the Hot Spare pool. The drive icon changes color.

Commit.

or remove the Hot Spare by selecting Selecting making a change.

Status Monitor

System Configuration

No ends the procedure without

Health and

page appears.

and

Other Devices,

Customizing system configurations

Set Up Error Notification

on page 19.

, refer to

Yes.

on page

Remote

Adding a VTL from another FastStream, replacing a failed appliance

Y ou may att ach a VTL from another FastS tream VT to the FastStream VT you are currently working with or replace a failed appliance. The current FastStream VT must discover the other VTL or appliance through mapping. When you create your first library , the media changer and tape drive LUNs are mapped automatically to one of two ports. When you recognize a second library , it may be mapped to the other port or to the same port.

Note

The FastStream VT supports two libraries, one on each port or two on one port.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click

Enter Here. In the box

provided password, and click

2 Click

menu.

3 In the text box provided type

blockdevscan.

4 Click 5 The FastStream discovers the

VTL from the other FastStream. In

the text box provided type 6 Click 7 When

type 8 Click 9 Click 10 The

for the library you just added.

, type in your user name and

OK.

Advanced from the left

Submit.

AutoMap.

Submit.

Ready* appears in the screen below,

SaveConfiguration.

Submit. VTL on the left side of the screen.

Monitor VTL page appears including a tab

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8.0 Manage ATTO Devices

You may manage other ATTO devices from your current browser using the ExpressNAV VTL Manager.

If you have other ATT O devices in the same broadcast domain with no routers between them, and any switches between this FastStream and the other devices are configured to forward UDP broadcast messages, you may physically identify these devices

and manage them from within the browser you are currently using.

It is best practice to give your current FastStream a recognizable name so that you can distinguish it more easily from among other ATTO devices.

Creating a unique name for your FastStream

You may wish to name your FastStream if you are going to manage several ATTO devices from one browser.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your FastStream in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click provided password, and click

2The

menu, click screen.

, type in your user name and

VTL Monitor page appears. In the left-

Manage on the left side of the

Enter Here. In the box OK.

3 Click the

4 In the

Appliance Name.

5 Click Next. 6The System Configuration page appears.

Type in a name for your appliance in the text

box provided. 7 Click

the upper right corner of the screen under the

ATTO FastStream VT banner.

Other Devices arrow.

Other Devices menu, select Set

Commit. The name you typed a ppears in

Discovering, managing other ATTO devices

1 Follow steps 1-3 in Creating a unique name for

your FastStream above.

2Select 3 Click 4 Click Rescan. 5 Select a device from the list. An arrow points to

the appliance you are currently using.

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Find ATTO Devices.

Next.

6Select

7 Select the device from the list. 8Select

Identify to activate a blinking LED on the

selected product. Select the listed device again to stop the blinking LED.

Launch in Browser to view the device's

management console.

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9.0 Interface Options

The best way to manage, monitor and configure the FastStream VT is to use the ExpressNA V VTL manager , but you may use a terminal emulation program or Telnet.

The ExpressNAV VTL manager is the preferred method to operate and manage the FastStream VT. However, it may be necessary to use other methods to access the FastStream VT, such as to change the

user name and password (refer to

user name, password

Using the ExpressNAV VTL manager

Use the ExpressNAV VTL manager to manage, monitor and configure the unit. The choices you make lead you from screen to screen. Choices which are not available are greyed out.

1 Working from the computer attached to the

FastStream VT Ethernet port, open your

browser and type in the FastStream VT IP

address as noted in Discovering the IP address

on page 5. 2 Your browser points to the FastStream VT

splash screen. Click

Enter here...

3 Type in the user name and password values.

The pages which next appear depend on whether or not you have begun configuring the FastStream VT. Refer to

Customizing the

on page 13).

CAUTIONCAUTION

Changing parameters other than those offered in the ExpressNAV VTL manager may cause loss of data and/or disruption to the performance and reliability of the FastStream.

Note

The default values are user name: password: insensitive and the password is case sensitive

Configure Virtual Tape

Password

. The user name is case

on page 9.

root

and

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Using the serial port

To connect to a terminal emulation program or Telnet to manage the FastStream VT, use the serial port.

1 Connect a cable from FastStream VT RS-232

serial port or header to the serial (COM) port on

a personal computer. 2 Turn on the FastStream VT. 3 Start a terminal emulation program on the

personal computer, and use it to connect to the

FastStream VT. For example, if you are using

HyperTerminal on a computer running a

Windows operating system,

a. Type

b. Click c. Select the COM port number to which your

d. In the COM Properties dialog box select

FastStream VT 5700 in the New

Connection

OK.

serial cable is connected in the

dialog box, then click OK in the

To Connect using field.

the following values:

• Bits per second: 115200

• Data Bits: 8

• Parity: None

• Stop Bits: 1

• Flow Control: None

• Terminal type: ASCII

•Echo: on

dialog box.

Connect

e. Click

4 After you connect to the FastStream VT, start-

up messages appear. The last line in the startup message sequence is

Make adjustments to the FastStream VT using the Command Line Interface as described in

CLI Provides an ASCII-based Interface

vii of the Appendix..

5 To verify that you have connected successfully,

type

Enter.

If a list of all available commands does not appear on the screen, review the steps in this section, check the cable, or contact service personnel until the problem is solved.

If you have difficulty using the serial port, verify that you have the correct settings and that your serial cable is less then two meters long.

OK.

Ready.

on page

Note

In serial port sessions, there is no prompt on the line below the word commands in the blank line where the cursor is resting. No user name or password is required for serial port access.

help after the Ready prompt and press

Ready

. Begin typing

Using Telnet

Up to three Telnet sessions can be conducted simultaneously. A serial port session can use the CLI while Telnet sessions are open. Whichever session issues the first “set” CLI command can continue to issue set commands, while the other sessions can only issue “get” commands or list information.

Once a connection is established, refer to

Provides an ASCII-based Interface

Appendix.. 1 Connect to the FastStream VT from a computer

on the same Ethernet network. 2 Start a Telnet session.

Note

There is more than one way to connect to the FastStream VT using a telnet program.Your

CLI

on page vii of the

telnet program may operate differently than in the following instructions.

3 At the telnet prompt, issue the open command

where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the FastStream VT.

telnet > open x.x.x.x

4 If you have to specify a port type, type in the

port type “telnet” and the terminal type “vt100”.

port type: telnet terminal type: vt100

5 Type in the default values for the user name,

root, and the password, Password, if you did

not set new values in Discovering the IP

address on page 5.

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10.0 Update Storage, Firmware

You can update the ATTO FastStream VT at any time. Refer to

Several methods are available to update the ATTO FastStream firmware and to re-initialize unattached

www.attotech.com

storage. Be sure all data is backed up before using any of these procedures to prevent data loss.

Cleaning RAID configuration information

This feature only works with drives that belong to RAID groups and drives that had once been part of a RAID group and are now flagged

CAUTIONCAUTION

Data is erased during this process. Back up your data before selecting

These operations have a negative impact on the performance of normal operations. All activity should be stopped.

1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your

FastStream in a standard browser. On the

splash screen, click

provided

password, and click 2 Click

, type in your user name and

Diagnostics from the left menu.

Replaced

Enter Here. In the box OK.

Commit

3Select

4 Click Next. 5 Select the drive you wish to process. The drive

is highlighted. 6 Click 7 A warning message appears. Select

continue. 8The

Health and Status Monitor screen

appears

for complete information.

Clean RAID Configuration Data.

Commit.

yes to

Updating firmware

Firmware updates are available on the A TTO website. Contact your ATTO sales representative for complete information.

The ATTO FastStream has several processors which control the flow of data. The firmware to control these processors can be upgraded in the field using the ExpressNAV VTL Manager.

Be sure all data is backed up before updating firmware to prevent data loss.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Ensure that all I/O to the A TT O FastStream has stopped. During this procedure, do not interrupt the flash process.

Note

To clean Hot Spare information from a drive, use the delete the Hot Spare. Refer to

operations: adding or removing Hot Spares

on page 30.

1 The ATTO FastStream firmware is distributed

as an image file (

appropriate firmware file from the ATTO

website or insert the Installation CD containing

the file into your computer. 2 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV VTL

Manager, type the IP address of your appliance

in a standard browser. On the splash screen,

click

your user name and password, and click 3The

4 Click

ExpressNAV VTL Manager.

Add/Delete Hot Spares

.ima). Download the

Enter Here. In the box provided, type in

VTL Monitor page appears.

Diagnostics on the left side of the

feature to

FastStream

OK.

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5The Diagnostics Menu page appears. From

the

Select User Process box, select Update

the Firmware

6 Click

Next.

7 If you know the name and location of the .ima

file, enter it into the text box provided. If you do

not know the file name and location, select

Browse to navigate to the new firmware.

8 When the filename appears in the text box, click

Upload.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not power down the host or the ATTO FastStream. Interrupting the flash process makes your FastStream inoperable and you must return it to ATTO for repair.

9 Wait for a success message to appear. 10 Click 11 When the

Restart.

Diagnostics Menu page appears

your new firmware has been uploaded and

installed.

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Appendix A Glossary

Familiarity with the following terms may be useful. Other sources for terms used in storage applications may be found at

Term Definition

Bridge LUN Virtual Tape Appliance LUN for processor functionality. CLI Command Line Interface, A set of ASCII-based commands which perform

configuration and diagnostic tasks. Refer to

Provides an ASCII-based Interface on page vii of the Appendix.

Heterogeneous block devices

Hot Spare A block device reserved to replace a failed member of a RAID group by assuming the

Block devices which may be comprised of different protocols, vendors, products and capacities, but must have the same block size.

role and contents of the failed member. The ATTO FastStream VT replaces degraded or faulted drives in a VTL without intervention by you or a host if you set up a pool of Hot Spare drives of different sizes appropriate for your VTL. Hot Spares may be set up by the FastStream VT automatically depending on your choices during initial setup. Drives in the Hot Spare pool should be of appropriate size to the RAID Group so that smaller drives are not replaced by much larger Hot Spare devices. Refer to

FastStream operations: adding or removing Hot Spares on page 30

Logical Unit A target device that implements a device model and manages tasks to process

commands sent by an application client. LUN Logical Unit Number. A 64-bit identifier for a logical unit. LUN Mapping The ability to map a virtual media changer and tape drives to specific LUNs. Partition A subset of addressable storage space within a RAID group. Partial Data Transfer The act of breaking a single large data transfer into several smaller individual data

transfers across a storage protocol. RAID Group Physical block devices of an arbitrarily-sized set which are acted upon as a group

using a single RAID algorithm. RAID Member A block device assigned to a RAID group. Span Depth The number of block devices concatenated to behave logically as a single RAID

member. Storage Network A bus, Storage Area Network (SAN) or other topology on which storage devices are

attached. Tape Group A set of RAID groups, associated with virtual tape drives and a virtual media changer,

whose storage is divided into virtual tape volumes. Virtual Tape Volume A logical simulation of a tape volume using a subset of addressable storage space

within a RAID group assigned to a tape group. Virtual Tape Drive A logical simulation of a Sequential Access tape device associated with a tape group

and that reads data from and writes data to virtual tape volumes within the tape group. Virtual Media Changer A logical simulation of a media changer associated with a tape group permits the

assignment of specific virtual tape volumes of the tape group to specific virtual tape

drives within the tape group.

Interface Options on page 33 and CLI

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Appendix B Design RAID Groups

The ATTO FastStream VT 5700 provides instant hardware data protection and intelligence to existing storage independent of the storage type.

The FastStream VT appears to hosts as a tape library, allowing ISV packages to issue a set of tape library commands to perform backup and restore operations to the FastStream.

For every Virtual Tape Library created on the FastStream VT, an underlying RAID group is created from the selected drives to provide the physical storage medium for the Virtual Tape cartridges.

CAUTIONCAUTION

While RAID improves data accessibility and reliability during normal operations, you still need a good backup strategy for long-term protection of your data.

A RAID group is a virtual, independent single drive whose data is written to physical drives according to a

JBOD: Just a Bunch of Disks

JBOD configuration allows many individual drives to be available for normal storage operations with no special data protection by combining several drives into one large drive. A special case of a RAID group, multiple physical drives are assigned to a JBOD RAID

RAID algorithm. The ATTO FastStream VT 5700 supports JBOD and RAID levels 0, 1, 1+ 0 and 5.

In general, the process begins with individual drives called block devices.

Note

If a drive has corrupt or outdated configuration data, that drive cannot be assigned to any RAID group. Ensure all drives are configured properly. Refer to page 7 and

information

To set up RAID groups refer to

Tape

on page 9.

While RAID improves data accessibility and reliability during normal operations, you still need a good backup strategy for long-term protection of your data.

group and their storage areas appear as a single spanned area of storage.

The ATTO FastStream supports 1 to 32 drives per JBOD-configured RAID group.

Ensure Drive Integrity

Cleaning RAID configuration

on page 35.

Configure Virtual

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4

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RAID Level 0: striping, no redundancy

RAID Level 0 (striping) increases performance by simultaneously accessing data across multiple drives by overlapping drive seeks. The process increases data transfer rates. Drives are accessed alternately, as if stacked one on top of the other. RAID Level 0

provides no data protection. If one drive fails, all data within that stripe set is lost.

RAID Level 0 is used by applications requiring high performance for non-critical data.

The ATTO FastStream supports 2 to 16 drives per RAID Level 0 group.

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4

Stripe 1

Data 3 Data 7

Data 1 1

Stripe 2 Stripe 3

Data 1 Data 5 Data 9

Data 2 Data 6

Data 10

RAID Level 1: mirroring (duplicate drives)

RAID Level 1 ensures the security of data by writing the exact same data simultaneously to two different drives. With RAID Level 1, the host sees what it believes to be a single physical drive of a specific size: it does not know about the mirrored pair.

This application is used for critical data which cannot be at risk to be lost or corrupted due to the failure of a single drive.

The ATTO FastStream supports an even number of 2 to16 drives per RAID Level 1 group.

Data 4 Data 8

Data 1 2

Disk 1 Disk 2

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3

RAID Level 1 plus additional mirroring

RAID Level 1 with multiple mirrors uses at least 3 drives with the same data on each drive. This application offers the highest fault-tolerance with good

RAID Level 1: additional mirror

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3

performance, especially for small database applications.

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RAID Level 1+0: striping, mirror spans two drives

RAID Level 1+0 increases data transfer rates while ensuring security by writing the exact same data simultaneously to two or more different drives.

RAID Level 1+0 is used in applications requiring high performance and redundancy, combining the attributes of RAID 1 and 0.

The ATTO FastStream supports an even number of 4 to 16 drives per RAID Level 1+0 group.

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4

Stripe 1

Data 2 Data 4 Data 6

Stripe 2 Stripe 3

Data 1 Data 3 Data 5

RAID Level 5: striping, parity distributed among drives

RAID Level 5 increases reliability while using fewer drives than mirroring by using parity redundancy: parity is distributed across multiple drives.

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4

The ATTO FastStream supports 3 to 16 drives per RAID Level 5 group.

Data 2 Data 4 Data 6

Stripe 1 Stripe 2 Stripe 3

Stripe 4

Data 1 Data 5 Data 9

Parity 10-12

Data 2 Data 6

Parity 7-9

Data 3

Parity 4-6

Data 7

Data 1 1Data 1 0

Parity 1-3

Data 4 Data 8

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Appendix C CLI Provides an ASCII-based Interface

The command line interface (CLI) uses ASCII commands typed while in CLI mode.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not use CLI unless you are directed to by an ATTO technician.

Changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the FastStream.

The ExpressNAV VTL manager is the preferred method to operate and manage the FastStream VT. Refer to

Options

The command line interface (CLI) is a set of ASCIIbased commands which perform configuration and diagnostic tasks. Refer to

33.

• CLI commands are context sensitive and generally follow a standard format

[Get|Set] Command [Parameter1|Parameter2]

followed by the return or enter key.

• CLI commands are case insensitive: you may type all upper or all lower case or a mixture. Upper and lower case in this manual and the

help screen are for clarification only.

• Commands generally have three types of operation: get, set and immediate.

on page 33 for details.

Interface Options

Interface

on page

• The get form returns the value of a parameter or setting and is an informational command.

• Responses to get commands are followed by

Ready.

• The set form is an action that changes the value of a parameter or configuration setting. It may require a restart of the system before it is implemented. The restart can be accomplished as part of the

SaveConfiguration command or by using a

separate number of set commands may be issued before the

• Responses to message or you must use a to finalize the

• Set commands which do not require a

SaveConfiguration command, defined as

immediate commands, are immediate l y executed.

SaveConfiguration command and a

FirmwareRestart command. A

SaveConfiguration command.

set commands are either an error

Ready. *. The asterisk indicates

SaveConfiguration command

set command.

Note

Using CLI commands during normal operation can cause a performance drop. Once command actions are complete, performance should return to normal levels.

Exhibit A-1 Symbols, typefaces and abbreviations used to indicate functions and elements of the command line interface used in this manual.

Designation Indicates

...

MemberIndex Index designation of a RAID group member as found by using the

[ ]

< >

BlockDevID Index designation of a block as found by using the BlockDevScan

EnclosureIndex Index designation of an enclosure found by using the SESIdentify

a range (6 – 9 = 6, 7, 8, 9) optional repetition of the preceding item

RGDisplay

Required entry pick one of Optional entry

command

Fibre Channel lun number (0 <= fl <= 31) Fibre Channel port number (1<= fp <= 4)

command

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Designation Indicates

GroupName The name of the RAID group, designated by the user, to which a block

device is assigned. Use RGDiskWriteCache names

mp1 Ethernet port used to manage the FastStream

PartitionIndex Index designation of a partition as found by using the PartitionDisplay

command

CLI error messages

The following error messages may be returned by the Command line Interface

to discover RAID group

ERROR. Invalid Command. Type 'Help' for command list.

ERROR. Wrong/Missing Parameters Usage: <usage string> ERROR Invalid RAID Group state ERROR Invalid Block Device index ERROR Invalid RAID Member index

ERROR Maximum number of RAID Groups exceeded

ERROR Insufficient number of RAID Group members

ERROR Block Device at specified index no longer

available ERROR Insufficient RAID Group members for

RAID type

CLI summary

The following chart summarizes the Command Line Interface commands, their defaults, and an example of how to enter the commands. Commands which have no default values have a blank entry in that column of the table.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not use CLI unless you are directed to by an ATTO technician. Changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the FastStream. The ExpressNAV VTL manager is the preferred method to manage the FastStream VT.

Command Default Example

AutoMap automap AutoResume

BlockDevClean blockdevclean 30 BlockDevIdentify blockdevidentify alpha 3 BlockDevIDStop blockdevidstop BlockDevScan blockdevscan BootDelay

BridgeModel get bridgemodel BridgeName

initialize = enabled rebuild = enabled erase = disabled

set autoresume all disabled

5 set bootdelay 25

“ “

set bridgename Omega6

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Command Default Example

ClearEventLog cleareventlog Date set date 03/03/2007 DefaultInterleave DeleteAllMaps DisplayEventLog displayeventlog DisplayEventLogFilter DriveTest drivetest begin DriveTestClearList DriveTestConfig set drivetestconfig read DriveTestList get drivetestlist all DriveTestStatus get driveteststatus DumpConfiguration dumpconfiguration DumpEventLog dumpeventlog EmailFromAddress EmailNotify EmailNotifyAddress EmailPassword set emailpassword alpha123 EmailServerAddress EmailUsername set emailusername bwallace EthernetSpeed EventLog EventLogFilter Exit exit FCConnMode FCDataRate FCHard FCHardAddress FCMultiNode FCPortErrors get fcporterrors FCPortList fcportlist FCTargets fctargets 1 FCWWName get fcwwname 1 FirmwareRestart firmwarerestart Help help eventlog HSAdd hsadd 3 HSDisplay hsdisplay HSRemove hsremove 3 IdentifyBridge Info info

fp1=3, fp2=4, fp3=5, fp4=6

128

all all all

disabled

0.0.0.0

auto enabled all all all

loop

auto

disabled

enabled

disabled

set defaultinterleave 64 deleteallmaps

set displayeventlogfilter gen info none

drivetestclearlist all

set emailfromaddress notify1@attot ec h. c om set emailnotify enabled set emailnotifyaddress 1 anyone@attotech.com

get emailserveraddress

set ethernetspeed mp1 100 set eventlog disabled set eventlogfilter gen info all

set fcconnmode all ptp get fcdatarate 1 set fchard enabled

set fchardaddress 1 122

set fcmultinode disabled

set identifyBridge enabled

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Command Default Example

IPAddress IPDHCP IPDNSServer set ipdnsserver 172.15.12.123 IPGateway IPSubnetMask IsReserved isreserved MaxOpTemp Metrics metrics display all MinOpTemp OpTempWarn PartitionDisplay partitiondisplay alpha1 PartitionWriteCache PassThroughMode PassThroughPersistent PassThroughRediscover Password Performance get performance 2 Ping ping 192.42.155.155 Quicktape RAIDRebuildPriority ReadOnlyPassword set readonlypassword ReadOnlyUsername set readonlyusername atto1 Reserve reserve disabled ResetFCPortErrors resetfcporterrors 1 RestoreConfiguration restoreconfiguration default RGAddStorage rgaddstorage g1 span commit RGAutoRebuild

10.0.0.1 enabled

0.0.0.0

255.255.0.0

0 5

Password

same

enabled (RAID 5)

get ipaddress mp1 set ipdhcp mp1 disabled

get ipgateway mp1 get ipsubnetmask mp1

get maxoptemp

set minoptemp 10 set optempwarn 15

set partitionwritecache g1 1 enabled set passthroughmode all passthroughpersistent passthroughredicsover

set password

set raidrebuildpriority low

set rgautorebuild g1 enabled

disabled (JBOD, RAID

0,1,10)

RGCancelAddStorage rgcanceladdstorage g1 RGCommit rgcommit all RGCreate rgcreate g1 RGDelete rgdelete g1 RGDiskWriteCache RGDisplay rgdisplay all RGHaltConversion rghaltconversion g1 RGHaltInitialization RGHaltRebuild rghaltrebuild g1 RGMemberAdd rgmemberadd g1 22

set rgdiskwritecache g1 enabled

rghaltinitialization g1

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Command Default Example

RGMemberRemove rgmemberremove g1 22 RGPreFetch RGRebuild rgrebuild g1 RGResumeConversion rgresumeconversion g1 RGResumeInitialization RGResumeRebuild rgresumerebuild g1 RGSectorSize RGSpanDepth RGSpeedRead RGWaitTimeout RMStatus rmstatus g1 Route route fc 1 0 raid alpha1 6 RouteDisplay routedisplay FC SaveConfiguration saveconfiguration restart SerialNumber get serialnumber SerialPortBaudRate SerialPortEcho SES SESAlarmTest SESDiskFailureAlarm SESEnclosures SESIdentify SESIdentifyStop SESMute SESPoll SESStartingSlot SESStatus SNTP SNTPServer TailEventLog taileventlog TapeLibDelete tapelibdelete barb2 TapeLibInfo tapelibinfo barb1 TapeWriteProtect Tempera ture get temperature Time TimeZone Username VerboseMode Voltage get voltage

0 rgprefetch g1 2

rgresumeinitialization g1

512 rgsectorsize g1 8192

disabled

115200

enabled

set rgspandepth g1 22 set rgspeedread enabled set rgwaittimeout 30

set serialportbaudrate 19200 get seriallportecho

enabled set ses disabled

sessalarmtest 22 set

disabled set sesdiskfailurealarm enabled

sesenclosures set sesidentify RAID g1 sesidentifystop all

mute sesmute remind

60 set sespoll 20

1 set sesstartingslot 2

sesstatus

enabled

192.43.244.18

disabled

00:00:00

EST

root enabled

get sntp set sntpserver 129.6.15.28

tapewriteprotect all enabled

set time 03:32:30 set timezone pst set username Barbara set verbosemode disabled

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Command Default Example

VTLCapInfoNotify VTLCapWarnNotify WrapEventLog zModem zmodem receive

75 90

enabled

set vtlcapinfonotify 65 set vtlcapwarnnotify 85 set wrapeventlog disabled

CLI command explanations

Command Line Interface commands are listed alphabetically with explanations of what they are used for, their defaults and syntax.

CAUTIONCAUTION

Do not use CLI unless you are directed to by an ATTO technician.

Changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the FastStream.

The ExpressNA V VTL manager is the preferred method to operate and manage the FastStream VT. Refer to

AutoMap

Automap automatically maps a subset of target devices visible to the firmware. All previous maps are deleted.

FCMultiNode

SaveConfiguration command required If

FCMultiNode

AutoResume

Regulates the initialization, rebuild and erase operations at startup. If no GroupName is specified, all existing RAID groups are affected.

Default: enabled for AutoResume Initialize, Rebuild

disabled for AutoResumeErase

set AutoResume [Initialize | Rebuild | Erase | All ]

[enabled | disabled] <GroupName>

Interface Options

is enabled: AutoMap [fp] is disabled: AutoMap

AutoResume

features for interrupted

on page 33 for deta ils

BlockDevIdentify

Causes the I/O LED of the drive to illuminate for one minute if it is accessible through the device port

CAUTIONCAUTION

The BlockDevIdentify command is intended for diagnostic purposes only. Executing this command may adversely impact the performance and throughput of the FastStream for the time that the LED is illuminated.

BlockDevIdentify <GroupName> [BlockDevID | Member

Index]

BlockDevIDStop

Turns off the IO LED of a previously identified disk drive.

BlockDevIDStop

BlockDevClean

Removes any ATTO configuration data from the block device with the specified BlockDevID.

BlockDevClean [BlockDevID]

WARNING

All RAID group setup information and RAID group data is lost if you use the BlockDevClean command.

BlockDevScan

Lists all currently connected physical drives along with any potential RAID group association. Each block device listed is assigned a unique index at the time of the scan to identify drives for other CLI operations.

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Boot Delay

Regulates the delay (in seconds) which the unit waits after startup before allowing hosts to detect target devices. The value 0 produces no delay.

Default: 5 set BootDelay [0-255] get BootDelay

BridgeModel

Reports model information about the FastStream.

get BridgeModel

BridgeName

Allows you to specify an eight-character name to an individual FastStream unit. It is not the World Wide Name. The string is alphanumeric, eight characters long,.

Default: ““ set BridgeName [name] get BridgeName

ClearEventLog

Clears the contents of the event log. No new entries are recorded until the command has completed.

ClearEventLog

Date

Regulates the current date for this unit. The possible date range is 1/1/2000 to 12/31/2099.

Default: 01/01/2000 set Date [MM] /.[DD]/ [YYYY] get Date

DefaultInterleave

Assigns or retrieves the system-default interleave size for new RAID groups. kb denotes interleave in kilobytes; without the kb suffix, the default is set in 512-byte blocks. If an interleave size is not explicitly specified when a RAID group is created, the used instead.

Default: 128 set DefaultInterleave [16 | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 ] get DefaultInterleave

DefaultInterleave

value is

DeleteAllMaps

Removes all mapped devices from the map table. Upon the subsequent POST , the default maps are loaded if no maps are present.

DeleteAllMaps SaveConfiguration command required

DisplayEventLog

Lists the the parameter page with no user interaction. After the command has executed, use +, - or = to scroll through the log. Type and press

DisplayEventLog <n>

EventLog

DisplayEventLogFilter

is the number of lines to be listed as a single

Enter

.The event log may be filtered using

to exit the command.

command. The optional

quit

DisplayEventLogFilter

Filters the data of specified subsystems and levels listed after the subsystem entries are platform-dependent. For set commands, the final parameter indicates whether or not events from the specified subsystem and level are listed.

Default: all all all set DisplayEventLogFilter [subsystem | all] [level | all] [all

Requires a SaveConfiguration command get DisplayEventLogFilter [subsystem | all] [level | all]

DisplayEventLog

| none]

command. Valid event log

DriveTest

Starts or stops a drive test with a previously specified configuration and drive list (refer to and

DriveTestList

are not available for RAID configuration or RAID operations. Only one test can be run at a time. Drives to be tested cannot be part of a RAID group or in use as Hot Spares.

DriveTest [Begin | Cancel]

).Drives which are in-use by the test

DriveTestConfig

DriveTestClearList

Specifies the drive to be removed from the drive test list. the drive BlockDevID parameter removes the specified drive from the list. The all parameter removes all drives from the list.

DriveTestCl earList [drive [BlockDevID] | all]

DriveTestConfig

Configures the next drive test to perform one of the following operations: initialize (destructive write-only), read (non-destructive read-only), verify (destructive verify), or init-verify (destructive write-read-verify).The test is not started until the is given. Drives to be tested cannot be part of a RAID group or in use as Hot Spares.

Default: not initiated set DriveTestConfig [init | re ad | verify | init-verify] get DriveTestCon fig

DriveTest Begin

command

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DriveTestList

Specifies drives to be run in the next dri v e te st of drives which are not part of a RAID group or which are Hot Spares. The drives. The test is not started until the command is given.

set DriveTestList [drive [BlockDevID] | all] get DriveTestList

all

parameter automatically chooses eligible

DriveTest Begin

DriveTestS tatus

Lists the status of the currently running drive test but does not list performance metrics. If a block device ID is not running or cannot be found, its state is complete is

get DriveTestStatus <drive [BlockDevID]>

idle

and percent

DumpConfiguration

Lists the unit’s configuration to a current CLI session.

DumpConfiguration

DumpEventLog

Lists the contents of the entire event log to the current CLI session without impact on the log itself (the log is not cleared). No events are recorded until the command has been completed.

DumpEventLog

EmailFromAddress

Configures the Email address that the FastStream uses to talk to the Email server. Full Email address is a fully qualified Internet Email address, with no more than 128 characters.

set EmailFromAddress [full email address] get EmailFromAddress

EmailNotify

Turns email notifications off and on.

Default: disabled. set EmailNotify [enabled | disabled] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get EmailNotify

EmailNotifyAd d ress

Configures notification addresses using an index (a number between 1 and 5, inclusive), the full Email address of the recipient, a fully qualified Internet Email address not more than 128 characters long, and a level.

Levels are

None: no Emails sent. Critical: critical event notification. Warning: warnings and critical event notification. Informational: information notification All: all warnings, critical events, informational notices

set EmailNotifyAddress [index] [full email address]

[warning level]

get EMailNotifyAddress

EmailPassword

Configures the password used to authenticate the login to the SMTP Email server. The password must not be more than 64 characters. A password is not required if the Email server does not require authentication.

set EmailPassword Requires a SaveConfiguration command

EmailServerAddress

Configures the address of the server that the FastStream should contact in order to send Emails.

Default: 0.0.0.0 set EmailServerAddress [IP address] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get EmailServerAddress

EmailUsername

Configures the user name used to authenticate the login to the SMTP Email server. The user name must not be more than 128 characters. A user name is not required if the Email server does not require authentication.

set EmailUsername [user name] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get EmailUsername

EthernetSpeed

Sets/lists the current speed of the Ethernet connection. Choices are

Default: auto set EthernetSpeed [mp1] [ 10 | 100 | Auto ] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get EthernetSpeed [mp1]

10, 100

, and

Auto

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EventLog

When enabled, records various system events and errors to the event log.

Default: enabled set EventLog [enabled | disabled] get EventLog

EventLogFilter

Filters data from specific unit subsystems and levels when event logging is enabled. The specific entries supported are platform-dependent.

Default: all all all set EventLogFilter [subsys | all] [event level | all] [all |

none]

get EventLogFilter [subsystem | all] [level | all]

Exit

Ends the current Ethernet telnet CLI session. It has no effect if used during a serial CLI session.

Exit

FCConnMode

Controls/reports the connection mode the FastStream uses when communication across a FC network, either to a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) when you select

loop

mode, or point-to-point when you choose you choose to use the first parameter first.

Default: loop set FCConnMode [fp] [loop | ptp | loop-ptp | ptp-loop] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get FCConnMode [fp | all ]

loop-ptp

ptp-loop

, the FastStream tries

ptp

. If

FCHardAddress

Sets/lists the value used as the FC-AL hard address. This hexadecimal value represents the address the FastStream tries to use if hard addressing is enabled. When an address is not set, the current value is listed. The valid range of values is 0 through 125.

Default

fp1=3, fp2=4

set FCHard Address [fp | [address]] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get FCHardAddress [fp | all ]

FCMultiNode

When enabled (multi node), each port reports a separate unique Node Name and logical units may be mapped to any port. When disabled (single node), each port reports the same Node Name and each logical unit map is applied to all ports.

Note

Changing the state of this parameter deletes all existing maps. Add new maps using the

AutoMap

Default: disabled set FCMultiNode [enabled | disabled] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get FCMultiNode

Route

commands.

FCPortErrors

Lists the number of Fibre Channel errors that have occurred since the last reboot/power-on or use of the

ResetFCPortErrors

get FCPortErrors

command.

FCDataRate

Specifies the rate the FastStream uses, 1 Gigabit/sec., 2 Gigabit/sec. 4 Gigabit/sec. or auto negotiate.

Default: auto set FCDataRate [fp |all ] [1Gb | 2Gb | 4Gb | auto] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get FCDataRate [fp | all ]

FCHard

Used to enable or disable FC hard address assignment. Under soft addressing, the FastStream loop address is assigned during loop initialization.If you enable hard addressing use

Default: disabled set FCHard [enabled | disabled] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get FCHard

FCHardAddress

(described below).

FCPortList

Returns a list of available FC ports and their current status. Valid status values are

Reserved

FCPortList

and

Disabled.

FCTargets

Lists all target devices available on the Fibre Channel port with the index specified by all target devices on all Fibre ports are listed. A portunique index is assigned to each target which is used with the

to specify a Fibre Channel target for a subsequent

Route

CLI command.

FCTargets <fp>

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FCWWName

Reports the Word Wide Name (WWN) of the FC interface. Each FC port has an individual and unique WWN. The least significant 3 bytes of the WWN are used as the Ethernet MAC address. The lower nibble of the highest byte designates the port number.

get FCWWN [fp | all ]

FirmwareRestart

Resets and reinitializes the unit firmware. Use the

forced

other sessions.

FirmwareRestart <forced>

option to override any CLI reservations held by

Help

Lists available commands. If command name is specified, lists detailed command-specific information.

Help <command name>

HSAdd

Assigns a block device to the Hot Spare pool.

HSAdd [BlockDevID]

HSDisplay

Lists all devices in the Hot Spare pool.

HSDisplay

IPDHCP

Selecting DHCP allows the FastStream to request an IP address from the network. The network must have at least one DHCP server.

Default: enabled set IPDHCP [mp1] [enabled | disabled] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get IPDHCP [mp1]

IPDNSServer

Controls the current DNS Server address. If enabled, the DNS Server address is automatically detected. If IPDHCP is disabled, you must set the address manually using this command.

set IPDNSServer [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] get IPDNSServer

IPDHCP

IPGateway

Controls the current default gateways used by the Ethernet port on the unit. If command reports the current IP gateway assigned by the network DHCP server.

Default: 0.0.0.0 set IPGateway [mp1] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get IPGateway [mp1]

IPDHCP

is enabled, the

get

HSRemove

Removes a block device from the Hot Spare pool

HSRemove [BlockDevID]

IdentifyBridge

Enabling this option causes the front panel Ready LED of the FastStream to blink until the parameter is disabled.

Default: disabled set IdentifyBridge [enabled | disabled] get IdentifyBridge

Info

Lists version numbers and other production information for key components.

Info

IPAddress

Regulates the current FastStream IP address.If is enabled (see below), IP address assigned by the network DHCP server.

Default IP Address: 10.0.0.1 set IPAddress [mp1] xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get IPAddress [mp1]

get

command reports the current

IPDHCP

IPSubnetMask

Sets/lists the current subnet mask. If enabled, assigned by DHCP server.

Default: 255.255.0.0 set IPSubnetMask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get IPSubnetMask

get

command reports current subnet mask

IPDHCP

IsReserved

Lists the reservation status of the FastStream.

IsReserved

MaxOpTemp

Regulates the maximum operating temperature of this unit in degrees Celsius. Valid entries are between 55 and 70

Default: 70 set MaxOpTemp [55 – 70] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get MaxOpTemp

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Metrics

Controls the collection of standard data metrics within a product via the command’s parameters.

Metrics [St art | S top | Display| Clear] [drive [BlockDevID] |

all | running]

Start, Stop

and

Display

MinOpTemp

Regulates the minimum operating temperature of this unit in degrees Celsius. Valid entries are between 0 15

Default: 0 set MinOpTemp [0 – 15] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get MinOpTemp

C and

OpT empWarn

Regulates the number of degrees Celsius before a thermal control event precipitates a warning to the user. Valid entries are between 0

Default: 0 set OpTempWarn [0 – 15] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get OpTemp Warn

° C

and 15° C.

PassThroughPersistent

Stores maps for currently-attached passthrough devices to persistent memory,

PassThroughPersistent

PassThroughRediscover

Makes any previously-deleted pass through target devices visible to the host.

PassThroughRediscover

Password

Specifies password for all non-serial sessions: T elnet, ftp and FastStream browser-based user interface. You are prompted for the current password, to type the new password, and to confirm the new password. If local

echo

is enabled, password echoes all * characters. In verbose mode only, CLI requests the password be retyped. When the password is all validate the password and MD5 authentication is disabled. Passwords are case sensitive and can be 1-32 characters long with no spaces.

Default: Password set Password Requires a SaveConfiguration command

s, T elnet and f tp do not

PartitionDisplay

Lists all the partitions available in the specified RAID group. The partitions are listed in order of contiguousness (as opposed to index order).

PartitionDisplay [GroupName]

PartitionWriteC ache

If enabled, allows higher write performance with a small risk of data loss after a system failure. If disabled, provides a higher level of data integrity with lower write performance.

set PartitionWriteCache [GroupName] {PartIndex]

[enabled | disabled]

get PartitionWriteCache [GroupName] {PartIndex]

PassThroughMode

Specifies the non-disk device types which are automatically mapped at boot time. The all option allows all non-disk devices to be mapped. The SES option allows dedicated SES processor LUNs to be mapped. The non-SES option allows all non-SES devices to be mapped. The disabled option disables the pass-through mode.

Default: disabled set PassThroughMode [all | SES |non-SES | disabled] get PassThroughMode

Performance

Returns the performance data for the FC port you specify. Data includes the average rate (MB per sec.) and number of I/Os measured over the previous sampling period where a sampling period is approximately one second. Successful SCSI Read (08h, 28h) and Write (Oah, 2Ah) commands are considered I/Os.Reported performance may be affected by FC port availability and saturation, device speeds and overall system use.

get Performance <fp>

Ping

Sends an ICMP echo request to the specified host.

ping [mp1] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] <count <size>>

RAIDRebuildPriority

Sets or lists the RAID rebuild priority. A RAID rebuild priority set to and lower priority to the processing of simultaneous I/O transactions. A RAID rebuild priority set to lower priority to the rebuild and a higher priority to I/O transactions. Set processing of I/O transactions is the same.

Default: same set RAIDRebuildPriority [high | low | same] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get RAIDRebuildPriority

high

gives higher priority to RAID rebuilds

low

same,

the RAID rebuild and

gives

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ReadOnlyPassword

Specifies a password which allows only read and no writes. It is case sensitive, 0 to 32 characters, and cannot contain spaces. An empty password can be configured by not specifying one.

set ReadOnlyPassword

ReadOnlyUsername

Specifies the user name which allows only read and no writes. It is case insensitive, 1 to 32 characters, and cannot contain spaces.

set ReadOnlyUsername [username] get ReadOnlyUsername

Reserve

Reports the state of CLI reservation for the current CLI session. If the command reports that Reservations are enabled, then another CLI session has control of parameter modification on the unit.

Reserve

ResetFCPortErrors

ResetFCPortErrors resets all Fibre Channel error counts for the specified port to zero. Refer to

ResetFCPortErrors [fp] [all]

FCPortErrors

RGAutoRebuild

Uses drives assigned as Hot Spares, then available drives, as automatic replacements for any member that fails.

Default: enabled (RAID 5) Default: disabled (JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10) set RGAutoRebuild [GroupName |all] [enabled | disabled] get RGAutoRebuild [GroupName |all]

RGCancelAddStorage

Cancels the

RGCancelAddStorage [GroupName]

RGAddStorage

command.

RGCommit

Stamps a new RAID group's configuration to its member drives. After this command, a RAID group can be considered operational and transitions from the new state to online, degraded or offline depending on the health of the selected member drives. Also stamps an existing RAID group's configuration to its member drives when the existing RAID group is in the process of having storage added. If the configuration information is erased from each new member drive.

RGCommit <GroupName <init> | all] <init> >

init

option is specified, previous user

RestoreConfiguration

Issued with the settings to their original defaults. The undoes any changes made to this session since the last save.

RestoreConfiguration < Default | Saved >

default

option, forces the unit NVRAM

saved

option

RGAddStorage

Adds additional storage to an existing RAID group.

Mirror|Stripe|Span

expand the storage. Optional parameter BlockDevID specifies available block device(s) to be added to the RAID group. Optional parameter the

RGCommit

Note

Mirrors cannot be added to a RAID 5 group.

RGAddStorage [GroupName] [Mirror | Stripe | Span]

specifies the method used to

commit

command is run automatically.

specifies that

RGCreate

Creates a new empty RAID group. The optional value after the RAID group type parameter represents the desired interleave for the RAID group. If this value is not provided then the system-default interleave size is used.

RGCreate [GroupName] [RAID [ 0 | 1 | 10 | 5] | JBOD] < [16 | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 ]

RGDelete

Deletes the specified RAID group. If command deletes all existing RAID groups that do not have mapped Virtual drives. Any commands outstanding to the RAID group when this command is issued are completed before deleting the RAID group. A successful delete clears the configuration area of the member drives. If you have enabled verbose mode, you are asked to confirm the delete.

RGDelete [GroupName | All]

All

is used, the

RGDiskWriteCache

If enabled, produces higher write performance with a small risk of data loss after a system failure. If disabled, drives are updated at the expense of some write performance.

set RGDiskWriteCache [GroupName | all] [enabled |

disabled]

get RGDiskWriteCache [GroupName | all]

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RGDisplay

Lists status information for a single RAID group, or if is used, all available RAID groups.

RGDisplay < GroupName | All >

All

RGHaltConversion

Stops the conversion on the specified existing RAID group.

RGHaltConversion [GroupName]

RGHaltInitialization

Stops the initialization of the specified RAID group.

RGHaltInitialization [GroupName]

RGHaltRebuild

Stops the rebuild(s) on the specified existing RAID group. If no Member Index is specified, all rebuilds on that RAID group are stopped.

RGHaltRebuild [GroupN ame] <Member Index>

RGMemberAdd

Adds up to 10 available block devices to a new RAID group. This command fails if the specified RAID group does not exist, if the specified RAID group is not in the new state, or if the specified block device index does not represent an available device. If available block devices are added to the RAID group until the maximum number of RAID group members has been met. The command resets the number of RAID group partitions to 1.

RGMemberAdd [GroupName] [all | BlockDevID]

all

is specified, then all

RGMemberRemove

Removes a RAID member from a new RAID group. This command fails if the specified RAID group does not exist, if the specified RAID group is not in the new state, or if the specified block device index does not represent an available device. The command resets the number of RAID group partitions to 1.

RGMemberRemove [GroupName] [BlockDevID]

RGPreFetch

Specifies the prefetch value for all RAID groups or for the specified RAID Group.

Default: 0 set RGPreFetch [GroupName | all] [1-6] get RGPreFetch [GroupName | all]

RGRebuild

Starts rebuilding the specified existing RAID group. Optional parameter member to rebuild. If no member is specified, all degraded members are rebuilt. Optional parameter

BlockDevID

substituted for the RAID member currently assigned to the Member Index.

RGRebuild [GroupName] <Member Index>

Member Index

allows an available block device to be

specifies the

RGResumeConversion

Continues the stopped conversion on the specified existing RAID group.

RGResumeConversion [GroupName]

RGResumeIn itialization

Continues a stopped initialization for the specified RAID group.

Set RGresumeInitialization [GroupName]

RGResumeRebuild

Continues the rebuild(s) on the specified existing RAID group. If no Member Index is specified, all stopped rebuilds on that RAID group are continued.

RGResumeRebuild [GroupName] <Member Index>

RGSectorSize

Sets or lists the sector size of the specified RAID Group. The desired RAID Group sector size must be evenly divisible by the sector size of any member disk. 512 bytes is the default size for most operating systems. Use 4 KB sectors to enable large volume support (greater than 2 TB) in Windows XP (32-bit).

Default: 512 set RGSectorSize [GroupName] [512-8192] get RGSectorSize [GroupName]

RGSpanDepth

Sets the span depth on the specified existing RAID group. The RAID group must be RAID Level 0, 1, 5 or 1+0.

Default: 1 set RGSpanDepth [GroupName] [Span Depth [1-32]] get RGSpanDepth [GroupName]

RGSpeedRead

Performs look-ahead during reads from RAID group member disks for

Default: all disabled set RGSpeedRead [GroupName | all] [enabled | disabled] get RGSpeedRead [GroupName | all]

all

or the specified RAID group.

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RGWaitTimeout

Specifies the maximum time in seconds that the system waits to discover previously -co n figured RAID groups attached to the drive. The timeout is used during system boot time and when the issued.

Default: 5 set RGWaitTimeout [1-3600] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get RGWaitTimeout

BlockDevScan

command is

RMStatus

Lists the status of all RAID members within the specified RAID group or a specific RAID member (if specified) within a RAID group.

RMStatus [GroupName] <Member Index>

SerialPortBaudRate

Configures the baud rate for the unit’s RS-232 serial port. The number of data bits is fixed at

Default: 115200 set SerialPortBaudRate [ 9600 | 19200 | 38400 | 57600 |

115200] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get SerialPortBaudRate

with no parity.

SerialPortEcho

Controls if the unit echoes characters on its RS-232 port. When enabled, all non-control character keyboard input is output to the screen.

Default: enabled set SerialPortEcho [enabled | disabled] get SerialPortEcho

Route

Assigns a host protocol address to a target destination device. More than one FC LUN may be assigned to a partition. If you try to map a new partition to the same FC LUN, the previous map is overwritten.Use the identifier to remove the map. In verbose mode, overwriting a map requires secondary confirmation of the action.

Route [FC] [fp] [lun] [ [RAID [GroupName] [Partition

Index]] [ Bridge | Delete ]

Delete

RouteDisplay

Lists a combined list of host protocol address to target destination device mappings.

RouteDisplay FC <fp> <lun>

SaveConfiguration

Issued with the saving configuration changes. The saves changes without restarting.

SaveConfiguration <Restart | NoRestart>

restart

Note

Certain modifications require a system restart.

option, cycles unit power after

norestart

option

SerialNumber

Reports the FastStream serial number which is unique for each FastStream. The serial number tracks the board throughout its life and should not be changed.

get SerialNumber

SES

Enables support for SES enclosures that have been discovered by the appliance.

Default: enabled set SES [enabled | disabled] get SES

SESAlarmTest

Turns on the specified enclosure's audible alarm at the specified warning level. Reset turns off the alarm.

Note

The SESEnclosures command must be executed before executing

SESAlarmTest [EnclosureIndex] [SET | RESET] [INFO |

NON-CRIT | CRIT | UNRECOV]

SESDiskFailureAlarm

Activates an audible alarm when the appliance determines that a RAID member disk drive has failed. The enclosure which contains the failed disk drive creates the sound, other enclosures are unaffected.

Default: disabled set SESDiskFailureAlarm [enabled | disabled] get SESDiskFailureAlarm

SESEnclosures

List SES-enabled enclosures which have been discovered by the appliance.

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SESIdentify

Tells the appropriate SES enclosure to identify the specified element(s). ALL identifies all disks. RAID GroupName identifies all disks in a RAID Group. If the MemberIndex is also specified, only that disk is identified. ENC and enclosure index identifies all slots in the specified enclosure. DRIVE BlockDevID identifies the specified disk.

Note

The SESEnclosures command must be executed before executing the SESIdentify ENC or SESIdentify ALL command.

set SESIdentify [ALL | RAID GroupName

<MemberIndex> | ENC EnclosureIndex | DRIVE BlockDevID]

get SESIdentify [ALL | RAID GroupName

<MemberIndex> | ENC EnclosureIndex | DRIVE BlockDevID]

SESIdentifyStop

T ells the appropriate SES enclosure(s) to stop identifying the specified element(s). If the MemberIndex is specified, only that disk is identified. DRIVE and BlockDevID identify the specified disk.

SESIdentifyStop [ALL |GroupName <MemberIndex> |

DRIVE BlockDevID]

SESMute

Causes the audible alarms for all known enclosures to be muted or to use the remind state. The remind state causes an occasional audible reminder, if supported by the hardware, of the alarm condition.

Note

The command SESEnclosures must be executed before executing SESMute.

Default: Mute SESMute <EnclosureIndex> <remind>

SESStartingSlot

Establishes the starting slot/ID number for all attached SES enclosures.

Default: 1 set SESStartingSlot [ 0 | 1] get SESStartingSlot

SESStatus

Lists the last polled status of the specified element type in the specified enclosure. Supported SES features include: fan, power, temperature, alarm and drive LEDs. If no element type is specified, the status of each is listed.

Note

The command SESEnclosures must be executed before executing SESStatus.

SESStatus [EnclosureIndex] <ENC | DRIVES | FAN |

POWER | TEMP | ALARM | SUPPORTLEVEL>

SNTP

Controls whether an SNTP time server is used to set the FastStream time.

Default: enabled set SNTP [enabled | disabled] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get SNTP

SNTPServer

Controls or lists the main IP address the client uses to retrieve the SNTP time.

Default: 192.43.244.18 set SNTPServer[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Requires a SaveConfiguration Restart command get SNTPServer

TailEventLog

Lists new events to the terminal. Type

Enter

to exit tail mode.

TailEventLog

quit

and press

SESPoll

Specifies the SES enclosure polling interval in seconds. At the specified interval, all known SES enclosures are polled for their current status. A setting of 0 disables SES enclosure polling.

Default: 60 set SESPoll [0 | 30-3600] get SESPoll

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T apeLibDelete

Deletes the specified tape library or all tape libraries.

TapeLib Delete [GroupName | all]

T apeLibInfo

Lists information for the specified tape library or all tape libraries.

TapeLib Info [Lib Name | all]

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TapeWriteProtect

Controls write protection for a particular virtual tape or two virtual tapes.

set TapeWriteProtect [Tape Vol ID | all] [enabled |

disabled]

get TapeWriteProtect

T emperature

Lists the current internal operating temperature of this unit in degrees Celsius.

get Temperature

Time

Controls or lists the current time as clocked by the unit in 24 hour format. Time cannot be set if

set Time [HH: MM: SS] get Time

SNTP

is enabled.

Voltage

Lists the voltage levels monitored by the FastStream.

Representations of the voltages are

VDDA: +3.31 V VDDB: +2.49 V VDDC: +1.5V VDDD: +1.35V ALL: all monitored voltages

get Voltage [VDDA |VDDB |VDDC VDDD | all]

VTLCapInfoNotify

Specifies what percentage of total storage capacity used triggers an informational level notification is sent to the user. The valid range is 50 percent to 75 percent.

Default:75 set VTLCapInfoNotify [percentage] get VTLCapInfoNotify

TimeZone

Controls or lists the time zone or an offset from GMT for the unit.

set TimeZone [[EST | CST | MST | PST] | [+/-HH:MM]] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get TimeZone

Username

Specifies the user name used for all sessions: NDMP, Telnet, FTP and ExpressNAV. insensitive, 1 to 32 characters, and cannot contain spaces.

Default: root set Username [user name] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get Username

Username

is case

VerboseMode

Controls the level of detail in CLI command response output for the current CLI session.

Default: enabled set VerboseMode [enabled | disabled] get VerboseMode

Help

output and

VTLCapW a rnN o tify

Specifies what percentage of total storage capacity used triggers a warning notification is sent to the user. The valid range is 75 percent to 90 percent.

Default: 90 set VTLCapWarnNotify [percentage] get VTLCapWarnNotify

WrapEventLog

When enabled, the FastStream logs up to 2,048 event entries before wrapping (overwriting the first entries). If disabled, the FastStream stops logging event entries when the buffer is full.

Default: enabled set WrapEventLog [enabled | disabled] Requires a SaveConfiguration command get WrapEventLog

zModem

Uses the zMODEM protocol to transfer a file to or from the unit via the RS-232 port. The filename to retrieve is required if the

Zmodem [send [filename] | receive]

send

option is specified.

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Appendix D Standards, Compliances

The equipment described in this manual generates and uses radio frequency energy. If this equipment is not used in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instruction, it can and may cause interference with radio and television reception. See the ATTO FastStream VT Technical Specification sheet for your particular model for a full list of certifications for that model.

FCC Standards: Radio and Television Interference

This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual,

may cause interference to radio communications. It has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to FCC rules Title 47 of the CFR, Part 15, Subpart B which are designed to provide a reasonable protection against such interference when operating in a commercial environment. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference, in which case the user, at his own expense, will be required to take whatever measures may be required to correct the interference.

If this equipment does cause interference to radio and television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Move the receiving antenna.

• Relocate the FastStream VT with respect to the

receiver, or move the FastStream VT away from the receiver.

• Plug the computer into a different outlet so the

computer and receiver are on different branch circuits.

• If necessary, consult an ATTO authorized dealer, ATTO Technical Support Staff, or an experienced radio/television technician for additional suggestions.

• The booklet How to Identify and Resolve Radio/TV Interference Problems prepared by the Federal Communications Commission is a helpful guide. It is available from the US Government printing office, Washington, DC 20402, Stock No. 004-000-00345-4.

MET

Listed with MET UL 60950-1/CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1.

Canadian Standard

This Class A digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil numérique de la classe A est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.

European Standard

Declaration of Conformity

This following statement applies to the ATTO FastStream VT. This device has been tested in the basic operating configuration and found to be compliant with

the following European Union standards: Application of Council Directive: 89/336/EEC Standard(s) to which conformity is declared: EN55022, EN50082-1, EN60950 This Declaration will only be valid when this product is used in conjunction with other CE approved devices and

when the entire system is tested to the applicable CE standards and found to be compliant.

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Appendix E Warranty

Manufacturer limited warranty

Manufacturer warrants to the original purchaser of this product that it is free from defects in material and workmanship as described in the ATTO Technology website, limited to replacing or repairing, at its option, any defective product. There is no charge for parts or labor should Manufacturer determine that this product is defective.

Products which have been subject to abuse, misuse, alteration, neglected, or have been serviced, repaired or installed by unauthorized personnel shall not be covered under this warranty provision. Damage resulting from incorrect connection or an inappropriate application of this product shall not be the responsibility of Manufacturer . Manufacturer’s liability is limited to Manufacturer’s product(s); damage to other equipment connected to Manufacturer’s product(s) is the customer’s responsibility.

This warranty is made in lieu of any other warranty, express or implied. Manufacturer disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Manufacturer’s responsibility to repair or replace a defective product is the sole and exclusive remedy provided to the customer for breech of this warranty. Manufacturer is not liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages irrespective of whether Manufacturer has advance notice of the possibility of such damages. No Manufacturer dealer, agent or employee is authorized to make any modification, extension or addition to this warranty.

www.attotech.com.

Manufacturer liability shall be

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