Sonnet Technologies Web Management Tool User Manual

Sonnet Web Management Tool User’s Guide

for Fusion Fibre Channel Storage Systems

Contents

1.0 Getting Started......................................................................................................................... 1

Discovering the IP address

Optional - Setting up Internet Explorer

Beginning Initial Configuration

1.1 Ensure Drive Integrity............................................................................................................... 3

Before Creating RAID Groups

After Creating R AID Groups

1.2 Configure Storage into RAID Groups.......................................................................................... 7

Features You May Choose Auto-Rebuild Fault Tolerance Initialization

Selecting a Quick Storage Configuration Preliminary Steps Quick Digital Video Audio General Digital Video, General IT or Database

Creating a Custom Setup

Mac OS Drive Formatting

Windows Drive Formatting

1.3 Modify System Values............................................................................................................. 17

Changing the Current User Name, Password

Creating a Read-Only User Name, Password

Changing System Variables - System Configuration

1.4 Monitor Storage, Configurations.............................................................................................. 19

Health and Status Monitor Page

Configuration Display Page

SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

1.5 Remote System Monitoring...................................................................................................... 21

Types of Errors Warning messages Message Severity Levels

Email Notification Setup

1.6 Drive Diagnostics....................................................................................................................23

Preliminary Steps

Read-Only Drive Test

Drive Performance and Health Test

Identifying a Drive

Contents

1.7 SCSI Enclosure Services(SES)................................................................................................... 27

Setting up SES

Identifying SES Elements

Monitoring SES Elements Using the Health and Status Monitor

1.8 Modify Storage....................................................................................................................... 31

Preliminary Steps

RAID Group Processes Creating RAID Groups Deleting RAID Groups Adding Drives to a R AID Group Adding Mirrors to a RAID Configuration Changing RAID Configuration: RAID Migration Modifying R AID Group Mapping Modifying R AID Group Partitions Rebuilding RAID Groups Modifying R AID Options

Adding or Removing Hot Spares

Removing RAID Configuration Data

Advanced CLI Page

2.0 Manage Sonnet Devices, Configurations................................................................................... 43

Creating a Unique Name for Your RX1600Fibre

Discovering, Managing Other Sonnet Devices

Saving or Restoring a Configuration

2.1 Interface Options.................................................................................................................... 47

Using the ExpressNAV Storage Manager

Using the Serial Port

Using Telnet

2.2 Update Firmware.................................................................................................................... 49

Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface........................................................................................... i

CLI Error Messages

CLI Summary

CLI Command Explanations

Appendix B - RAID Group Designs................................................................................................. xix

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 4: Striping, One Parity Drive

DVRAID: Digital Video RAID

RAID Level 5: Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives

RAID Level 6: Striping, Two Parity Blocks Distributed Among Drives

Contents

Appendix C - Multipathing.......................................................................................................... xxiii

Mac OS Users’ Instructions

Appendix D - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions........................................................................... xxv

Mac OS Users’ Instructions

Windows Vista Users’ Instructions

Windows XP/Server 2003 Users’ Instructions

1.0 Getting Started

Discovering the IP address

The Fusion RX1600Fibre 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 RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet port. From the CD supplied with your RX1600Fibre, run the QuickNav Utility QuickNAV-windows.exe for Windows or QuickNAV-Mac for Mac OS X.

2. Locate the RX1600Fibre with the serial number recorded earlier.

3. Highlight the serial number.

4. 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 IP address and subnet mask from your network administrator, type it into the area provided, and click Next. See Figure 1 on page 2.

5. Click Launch Browser. Your browser points to the Sonnet Web Management Tool splash screen.

Optional - Setting up Internet Explorer

If you use Internet Explorer as a browser, you must conﬁgure it to work with the Sonnet Web Management Tool. If not, continue on to Beginning Initial Conﬁguration.

Beginning Initial Configuration

1. The Sonnet Web Management Tool interface splash screen appears. Click Enter Here. See Figure 2 on page 2.

2. Type in the user name and password.

Note: The default values are user name root and password Password.

The user name is case insensitive and the password is case sensitive. It is best practice to change the default user name and password. Refer to Changing the Current User Name, Password on page 17.

3. If the Fusion RX1600 was shipped from Sonnet with hard drives preinstalled, the Health and Status Monitor page appears. Otherwise, the Initial Setup page appears. Continue to Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3.

1. Open your browser.

2. Select Internet Options.

3. In the Internet Options screen, select the Security tab.

4. Click the Trusted Sites icon.

5. Click the Sites button.

6. In the text box Add this Web site to the zone, add the IP address of the controller. You may use wild cards.

7. Click Add.

8. Uncheck the Require server verification checkbox.

9. Click OK.

10. At the bottom of the Internet Options box, click OK and close the box.

1.0 Getting Started

Using the QuickNav application to find the IP address for the RX1600Fibre

Figure 1

The Sonnet ExpressNav Storage Manager splash screen with login

Figure 2

1.1 Ensure Drive Integrity

Support Note: In Fusion RX1600 systems shipped from

Sonnet with hard drives installed, the drives are formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled), configured as a single RAID 6 RAID group, and ready for use with Mac OS X-based systems. If you need to change the configuration, delete the existing RAID group (see Deleting RAID Groups on page 31), and use the Sonnet Web Management Tool and the operating system software tools to reformat and reconfigure the drives. See Appendix D for Quick Drive Reformat instructions for Mac OS and Windows users.

The ATTO FastStream “Initialize and Verify Drives” feature discovers and remaps bad sectors on drives, providing reliable media for your RAID groups.

WARNING: 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.

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 FastStream writes a pattern to the entire drive, verifying the drive’s readiness and reliability.

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

Before Creating RAID Groups

1. If you’re not already in the Sonnet Web Management Tool, type the IP address of your RX1600Fibre in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click Enter Here. In the box provided, type in your user name and password, and then click OK.

2. Select Initialize and Verify Drives.

3. Click Next.

4. Select Initialize and Verify Drives. All eligible drives are highlighted in green; the system only initializes highlighted drives. See Figure 3 on page 5.

5. Click Commit.

6. A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

WARNING: Do not restart the RX1600Fibre or disconnect

or power cycle drives during drive initialization and verification, or you must start the verification process from the beginning.

7. When the process is complete, the Drive Performance and Health page appears. The drive(s) selected are now

initialized and veriﬁed.

If you do not want to initialize or verify drives now, continue on to Conﬁgure Storage Into RAID Groups on page 7.

Check drive integrity after you have created RAID groups on drives which you wish to add to your FastStream conﬁguration. This can be accomplished by using the Initialize and Verify Drives procedure or a read-only scan of drives.

The Read-Only Drive Test performs a nondestructive scan over the entire surface of each drive to identify bad areas and determine their read performance. It may be run while data is passing through the FastStream. Running this test may negatively impact performance.

Once the Read-Only Drive Test has completed, system operation returns to normal.

All data on the highlighted drives has been erased and you may continue with Conﬁgure Storage Into RAID Groups on page 7.

1.1 Ensure Drive Integrity

After Creating RAID Groups

2. Click the Diagnostics button on the left side of the window.

3. Choose Initialize and Verify Drives to test newly added drives that are not part of a RAID group. Choose Read-Only Drive Test to nondestructively test any drives.

4. Click Next.

5. If no drives appear, click System Scan in the Drives box. If drives are available, click the drives you wish to verify, initialize or test; the drives are highlighted. See Figure 4 on page 5.

6. Click Commit.

7. A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

WARNING: Do not restart the RX1600Fibre or disconnect

or power cycle drives during Drive Initialization and Verification or you must start the verification process from the beginning.

8. The Drive Performance and Health page appears showing what tests are running and their results. You may select other tests to run or continue on to other tasks. See Figure 5 on page 6.

1.1 Ensure Drive Integrity

Drives selected for initialization and verification when the Initialize and Verify Drives page is displayed

Read-Only Drive Test page before drives selected

Figure 3

Figure 4

1.1 Ensure Drive Integrity

Drive Performance and Health Page Drive Info tab

Figure 5

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Support Note: In Fusion RX1600 systems shipped from

Sonnet with hard drives installed, the drives are formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled), configured as a single RAID 5 RAID group, and ready for use with Mac OS X-based systems. If you need to change the configuration, delete the existing RAID group (see Deleting RAID Groups on page 31), and use the Sonnet Web Management Tool and the operating system software tools to reformat and reconfigure the drives. See Appendix D for Quick Drive Reformat instructions for Mac OS and Windows users.

The Fusion RX1600Fibre enables conﬁguration of storage into JBOD, RAID Level 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5, 6, or DVRAID RAID groups with the ability to create multiple partitions.

RAID is a storage conﬁguration which uses multiple drives to increase capacity, performance, and/or reliability. The RX1600Fibre can automatically set up an application-ready RAID conﬁguration. Also, you may custom design a RAID conﬁguration, or combine a custom and an automatic conﬁguration. The RX1600Fibre uses all available drives when you select Quick Digital Video, General Digital Video, Audio, General IT, or Database. Available drives include those which are on-line and not currently conﬁgured for RAID or Hot Spares.

If you wish to have more than one type of RAID group in your system, you have several options:

• Set up a customized RAID group (refer to Creating a Custom Setup on page 9), then return to the main menu and select a particular application to use the remainder of your attached storage.

• Attach only the storage you want using an automated setup (refer to Selecting a Quick Storage Conﬁguration on page 8), then attach more storage and use either the custom or speciﬁc user processes outlined in this chapter.

• Set up storage now using any of the processes in this chapter, then modify or add to storage using the procedures listed in Modify Storage on page 31.

WARNING: Before creating any RAID group you should

initialize and verify the drives you want in the R AID group.

Refer to Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3.

Configuration of drives in protected RAID groups improves data accessibility and reliability during normal operations. However, you still need a good backup strategy for long-term protection of data.

When you have created RAID groups, you may use, monitor and modify the storage as needed. Refer to Monitor Storage, Conﬁgurations on page 19, Modify System Values on page 17 Manage Sonnet Devices, Conﬁgurations on page 43, and Modify Storage on page 31.

Features You May Choose

Depending on the application you choose, the number of drives you choose and several other factors, you may have other choices to customize your RX1600Fibre to your particular needs. Some features are customized by you only if you use the custom setup. Refer to Creating a Custom Setup on page 9.

Auto-Rebuild

When Auto-Rebuild is enabled and an existing RAID group member becomes faulted, the RX1600Fibre’s controller initiates a rebuild using an available unallocated drive. If no drives are available, the rebuild is initiated only after you replace the faulted drive and initiate a system scan to discover the drive. Hot Spares will be used ﬁrst, regardless of the Auto-Rebuild setting. Various outcomes are available when Auto-Rebuild is enabled.

• If an existing RAID group member becomes faulted or unavailable, such as when a drive is pulled out from an array, the controller initiates a rebuild using an available unallocated drive.

• If the RX1600Fibre boots up with drives missing or faulted, it tries to switch them out automatically.

• If no unallocated drive is available, you must replace the faulted drive and a rebuild will begin. Hot Spares are not required, allowing the maximum number of drives for data storage.

However, if you require maximum fault tolerance, it is best practice to have a Hot Spare available to supply the unallocated drive for immediate use. Refer to Adding or Removing Hot Spares on page 34.

Fault Tolerance

Choose either Standard Fault Tolerance (no Hot Spare drives) or Maximum Fault Tolerance (which adds Hot Spares to the system) when creating parity RAID Groups. Refer to Adding or Removing Hot Spares on page 34 for details.

Initialization

If you have not already initialized your drives as outlined in Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3, you may choose to use the Advanced Initialization for new drives to erase and verify drive media and correct some soft drive errors. The RAID Group is unavailable until the operation completes.

Choose Express Initialization to perform a quick background

initialization if you have already completed a full initialize and verify operation. You may also choose Express Initialization to change the conﬁguration of drives in RX1600 storage systems shipped from Sonnet with pre-installed drives. The RAID Group being initialized is available for use during express initialization.

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Selecting a Quick Storage Configuration

After initializing drives or setting up new storage, select an application from the Initial Setup page or via the Manage page. The Fusion RX1600Fibre ﬁnds all available drives and creates the appropriate setup using those drives.

The most ﬂexible choice is to use Custom Setup, but you must understand your needs and your system well to use this option. Refer to Appendix B - RAID Group Designs for more information about RAID conﬁgurations.

Preliminary Steps

2. If you have not performed the steps detailed in Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3 or created other RAID groups, the Initial Setup menu appears. If you have initialized your storage or created other RAID conﬁgurations,

a. From the selections at the left, select Manage. b. Click RAID Groups inside the Select User Process box. c. Click Create RAID Group. d. Click Next.

3. Select one of the listed quick storage conﬁgurations, click Next, and then continue using the directions in each

speciﬁc section. See Figure 6 on page 12.

• Quick Digital Video: provides parity RAID protection

(DVRAID) and optimized performance for digital video (sequential access) conﬁgurations.

Note: DVRAID is only available using the Quick Digital Video setup

wizard.

• General Digital Video: provides parity RAID protection

for digital applications for conﬁgurations using three or more drives.

• Audio: audio track streaming technology provides parity

RAID protection while managing latency to enable highspeed availability to support up to 192 tracks of 16-bit audio or 96 tracks of 24-bit audio in a single editing session. You must have only 4, 6, 8 or 12 drives available in the system.

Quick Digital Video

1. After choosing Quick Digital Video, the Setup Wizard page appears. See Figure 7 on page 12.

2. Select your operating system, click Yes, and then the system

restarts.

3. If all your drives do not appear in the Find Drives box, click

System Scan; this setup requires exactly 6, 12 or 24 drives to appear as available on the screen after the scan. Physically add or disconnect drives as needed and rescan.

4. Click Next.

5. Choose an Initialization method (refer to Initialization on

page 7).

6. Choose an Auto-Rebuild option (refer to Auto-Rebuild on

page 7).

7. Select a Fault Tolerance (refer to Fault Tolerance on page 7).

8. Click Commit.

9. A warning box appears. If you want to continue click Yes.

The conﬁguration completes and the Health and Status Monitor page appears. If you wish to start over, click No. The Setup Wizard page appears.

10. Every RAID group must ﬁnish initializing, and be formatted

by your computer’s operating system software before it becomes available for use; Mac users will use Disk Utility, Windows

users will use Disk Management. For more information on drive formatting, see Mac OS Drive Formatting or Windows Drive Formatting on page 11.

Audio

1. After choosing Audio, the Audio Setup Wizard page

appears. See Figure 8 on page 13. Choose to use the same or a different node name for each host Fibre Channel port.

• If you know you want all drives to be available or

unavailable to all Fibre Channel ports, select Yes or No. If you do not know, select Not Sure.

• If you select Not Sure, you will be asked a series of

questions to determine the correct conﬁguration for your needs and setup.

• General IT: provides parity RAID protection optimized for random access applications using three or more drives.

• Database: provides parity RAID protection for database applications (small transfer, random access) for conﬁgurations using more than three drives.

• Several deﬁnitions are listed in a grey box at the bottom of the Audio Setup Wizard screen which may help you determine answers to the setup questions.

2. Click Next.

Note: Depending on your choice and your current system, the controller

may need to restart.

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Audio (continued)

3. If all your drives do not appear in the Find Drives box, click System Scan. This setup requires 4, 6, 8 or 12 drives. Add or

disconnect drives as needed to ensure you have 4, 6, 8 or 12 drives appearing on the screen after the scan.

4. Click Next.

5. Choose an Initialization method (refer to Initialization on page 7).

6. Choose an Auto-Rebuild option (refer to Auto-Rebuild on page 7).

7. Select the number of users for this system.

8. Depending on the number of users and the number of drives you have in your system, you may be asked choose a Fault Tolerance (refer to Fault Tolerance on page 7).

9. Click Commit.

10. A warning box appears. If you want to continue click Yes. The conﬁguration completes and the Health and Status Monitor page appears. If you wish to start over, click No. The Setup Wizard page appears.

6. Every RAID group must ﬁnish initializing, and be formatted

by your computer’s operating system software before it becomes available for use; Mac users will use Disk Utility, Windows

users will use Disk Management. For more information on drive formatting, see Mac OS Drive Formatting or Windows Drive Formatting on page 11.

Creating a Custom Setup

If the quick storage conﬁgurations do not suit your needs, you may use Custom Setup to conﬁgure the FastStream.

1. After clicking Custom Setup, the RAID Setup Wizard page appears. See Figure 10 on page 14. Click Next.

2. Decide if all drives are to be available to all ports; the choice you make establishes the access for all RAID groups attached to this FastStream.

• If you select Yes, the same node name is assigned to all

ports.

• If you select No, different node names are assigned to each

FC port.

3. Select a RAID level (refer to Appendix B - RAID Group Designs). See Figure 11 on page 14.

11. Every RAID group must ﬁnish initializing, and be formatted

by your computer’s operating system software before it becomes available for use; Mac users will use Disk Utility, Windows

users will use Disk Management. For more information on drive formatting, see Mac OS Drive Formatting or Windows Drive Formatting on page 11.

General Digital Video, General IT or Database

1. After choosing General Digital Video, General IT or Database, the Setup Wizard page appears. See Figure 9

on page 13. Choose an Initialization method (refer to Initialization on page 7).

2. Choose an Auto-Rebuild option (refer to Auto-Rebuild on page 7).

3. If all your drives do not appear in the Find Drives box, click System Scan.

4. Click Commit.

5. A warning box appears. If you want to continue click Yes. The conﬁguration completes and the Health and Status Monitor page appears. If you wish to start over, click No. The Setup Wizard page appears.

4. Type a unique name for your RAID group in the box provided on the page under the Step 3 heading.

5. Click Next.

6. If your Fusion RX1600Fibre or attached Fusion RX1600 Expansion has drives associated with it, choose a method for selecting drives from the following:

a. Use all drives in an enclosure for your RAID Group.

Support Note: Due to the configuration its components,

a Fusion RX1600Fibre enclosure’s drives will be displayed as being spread across two enclosures (eight in each). When you intend to use all 16 drives in a RAID group, be sure to select drives from both “enclosures”, other wise only eight drives will be selected.

b. Use all drives in an enclosure for your RAID Group plus

one for a Dedicated Hot Spare.

c. Select your own drives.

7. If necessary, click System Scan to discover the drives available for RAID conﬁguration.

8. When the scanned drives box is populated, click the boxes representing the drives for the RAID group named in Step 4. See Figure 12 on page 15.

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Creating a Custom Setup (continued)

9. Click Next.

10. Choose the number of partitions for the RAID group. See Figure 13 on page 15.

• A RAID group may have several Terabytes of total data

capacity because of the size of the included drives. Partitions allow you to break up large RAID groups into smaller, more manageable groups.

• Most host systems can address only 2TB per LUN.

Partitioning increases storage efﬁciency by providing more LUNs without using lower capacity RAID groups.

• Partitioning allows the creation of multiple logical

volumes.

Note: If you don't want to use partitions, click the All Unallocated

button.

a. Click Create One Partition, or enter the desired partition

size for the ﬁrst partition from the available RAID group capacity.

b. Click Create.

c. If you have created more than one partition, repeat entering

the partition size and clicking Create as often as you need to partition the remaining capacity. Whenever you have completed designating partitions, click All Unallocated to put all the remaining capacity into one partition.

14. Choose the Interleave by clicking the drop-down box and selecting a value. See Figure 15 on page 16.

Support Note: The interleave value chosen when

creating a RAID group makes a significant impact on performance. Fusion RAID storage systems shipped from Sonnet with pre-installed hard disk drives are now optimized for use with video editing (larger files) applications, typically with an interleave value of 512KB or 1MB selected. If you intend to use your storage system primarily for storage of smaller files (database, office documents, etc.), choose a smaller interleave value of 64KB or 128KB.

15. Select a Sector Size. The 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.

• For Windows XP (32-bit support) select 4KB sectors

to enable large volume support (greater than 2TB, up to 16TB).

16. Select a SpeedRead feature. SpeedRead looks ahead during reads and stores the data in cache memory. The optimum setting depends on your actual I/O and storage. You may adjust this setting later.

• Enabling SpeedRead may boost performance when you

are running video playback and other applications which access data sequentially.

• Disabling SpeedRead is a better choice for audio

applications.

11. Click Next. The storage capacity is allocated.

12. RAID partitions are mapped onto the Fibre Channel network as FC LUNs (SCSI-FCP LUNs). Select the method you wish to use to map the partitions. See Figure 14 on page 16.

• If you select Auto, all mapping for all RAID groups

attached to the RX1600Fibre is changed, destroying any previous mapping.

• If you do not wish to change the mapping of your other

RAID groups, select Manual. Manual mapping allows you to make LUN assignments for each RAID partition in the selected RAID group.

a. From the RAID Conﬁguration page presented, under

Select the mapping method, click the Manual radio button.

b. Click any partition to map that partition to a Port and

LUN.

13. Choose an Initialization method (refer to Initialization on page 7).

• SpeedRead Auto is usually the best choice for database applications.

17. Choose a Prefetch option. The number of extra stripes that

are read when the SpeedRead setting is set to enabled or auto.

18. Choose an Auto-Rebuild feature if it is available for your

RAID conﬁguration (refer to Auto-Rebuild on page 7).

19. Choose a Rebuild Priority level. Rebuild Priority allows

you to determine whether rebuild or I/O transactions take precedence during rebuild operations. If you choose low priority, for example, rebuilds take longer but the rebuild has minimal impact on performance.

Support Note: Rebuild priority affects the performance

of your Fusion storage system when a drive is replaced and a degraded RAID group is rebuilt. Selecting Low rebuild priority enables you to continue working at the best performance level possible, but the RAID group will take much longer to rebuild.

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

20. Click Next.

21. A chart showing the setup you have selected appears. If everything is the way you want it, click Commit to save your conﬁguration.

22. For RAID types that rebuild, a warning box tells you that all data on the attached disks is to be destroyed during the rebuild process. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

23. The RX1600Fibre conﬁgures the storage (the process will likely take several hours). Upon clicking Yes, the Health and

Status Monitor page appears.

24. Every RAID group must ﬁnish initializing, and be formatted

by your computer’s operating system software before it becomes available for use; Mac users will use Disk Utility, Windows

users will use Disk Management. For more information on drive formatting, see Mac OS Drive Formatting or Windows Drive Formatting below.

Mac OS Drive Formatting

1. Depending on how you conﬁgure your setup, a Disk Insertion window stating that there is an unreadable volume will appear at some point during the RAID group creation process; click Initialize, and then Disk Utility will open.

2. In the Disk Utility window, each RAID group you created using the ATTO Conﬁguration Tool will appear as a single volume. Select the volume, and then click the Erase tab at the top of the window.

Support Note for Power Mac G5 Users: When

creating RAID groups 16TB or larger, uncheck the Install Mac OS 9 Drivers checkbox; OS 9 drivers do not support volumes greater than 16TB.

Windows Drive Formatting

1. Select Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools from the Windows Start menu. In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer Management.

2. In the Computer Management window, click Storage on the left, and then double-click Disk Management.

3. When the Initialize Disk window appears, click OK.

4. In the Disk Management window, each RAID group you created will appear (listed as “unallocated”) as a single volume. Right-click where the word “unallocated” appears, and then select New Simple Volume.

5. When the Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard window appears, click next to start the process.

6. Follow the remaining steps to complete the process.

Note: If you do not select the quick format option, formatting will take

much longer to complete.

7. Repeat steps 4–6 for each remaining “unallocated” disk.

8. Depending on how you conﬁgured the RAID groups, the

volumes may already be mounted and present on the desktop. If you created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group, conﬁguration will take much longer. You may check on the process by clicking the Monitor button to the left of the window.

9. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and ﬁnish building, they are ready to use.

3. Click the Erase button; a window will appear asking you to approve your choice; click Erase.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each remaining unformatted RAID group, and then close Disk Utility.

5. Depending on how you conﬁgured the RAID groups, the volumes may already be mounted and present on the desktop. If you created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group, conﬁguration will take much longer. You may check on the process by clicking the Monitor button to the left of the window.

6. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and ﬁnish building, they are ready to use.

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Initial Setup page before a storage configuration has been selected

Quick Digital Video Setup Wizard start page

Figure 6

Figure 7

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Audio Setup Wizard start page

Figure 8

General Digital Video Setup Wizard start page with all drives selected for RAID group

Figure 9

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Custom RAID Setup Wizard start page

Figure 10

Selecting the RAID level and RAID group name using the custom RAID Setup Wizard

Figure 11

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Creating a RAID group comprised of eight drives using the custom RAID Setup Wizard

Figure 12

Creating a RAID 5 RAID group comprised of a single partition using the custom RAID Setup Wizard

Figure 13

1.2 Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups

Selecting automatic SCSI-FCP LUN mapping for RAID partitions using the custom RAID Setup Wizard

Figure 14

Selecting the RAID group options using the custom RAID Setup Wizard

Figure 15

1.3 Modify System Values

Default values are appropriate for most conﬁgurations, but may be modiﬁed for your needs using the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

It is best practice to change the default user name and password to a user name and password important to you.

Other conﬁgurations may also be changed; however, use extreme caution when changing default values.

Changing the Current User Name, Password

It is best practice to change the user name and password on all Telnet, FTP and Sonnet Web Management Tool sessions. Refer to the CLI commands UserName and Password in Appendix A.

1. Open a Command Line Interface session either using Telnet or the serial port as described in Interface Options on page 47, or use the Advanced CLI page in a Sonnet Web Management Tool session as described in Advanced CLI Page on page 35.

2. Type set UserName [name].

3. Press Return (Enter).

4. Type set Password.

5. Press Return (Enter).

6. Follow the onscreen instructions to conﬁrm your old and new passwords.

Changing System Variables - System Configuration

You may change several system conﬁgurations to suit your needs.

1. If you are not already in the Sonnet Web Management Tool, type the IP address of your RX1600Fibre in a standard browser, click Enter Here on the splash screen, then type in your user name and password in the box provided. Click OK.

2. Click the Manage button on the left side of the window.

3. Click Fusion RX1600Fibre inside the Select User Process box.

4. Click System Configuration.

5. Click Next. The System Configuration page appears. See Figure 16 on page 18.

6. Make any changes:

• Appliance name: the appliance name is a unique

8-character identiﬁer which is displayed at the top of each screen. You may ﬁnd this useful if you are managing

multiple ATTO controller-based devices from a single workstation.

• Time and date: use a remote time server to set the time

and time zone, or manually set the time and date. Refer to Date, Time, TimeZone in Appendix A.

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

The user name and password for all Telnet, FTP and Sonnet Web Management Tool sessions is 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 Sonnet Web Management Tool settings. Refer to the CLI commands ReadOnlyPassword and ReadOnlyUsername in Appendix A.

1. Open a Command Line Interface session either using Telnet or the serial port as shown in Interface Options on page 47.

2. Type set ReadOnlyUsername [name].

3. Press Return (Enter).

4. Type set ReadOnlyPassword.

5. Press Return (Enter).

6. Follow the onscreen instructions to conﬁrm the read-only password; the read-only user name and read-only password for all user interface sessions is changed.

• Fibre Channel configuration: change the data rate or the connection mode for each FC port. Refer to FCDataRate and FCConnMode in Appendix A.

• Hard address assignment: refer to FCHard and FCHardAddress in Appendix A.

• Establish access through FC Ports: change whether all drives are to be available to both ports, creating one node name for all ports, or if different node names should be created for each port.

• Ethernet management port: change whether or not you use DHCP for an IP address, subnet mask and gateway, or manually change these parameters and set a DNS server address. Refer to IPDHCP in Appendix A.

7. When you have completed your changes, click Commit.

1.3 Modify System Values

System Configuration page

Figure 16

1.4 Monitor Storage, Conﬁgurations

You may determine the performance of drives in the Fusion RX1600Fibre or attached RX1600 Expansion systems using various displays and tests in the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

The following instructions assume you have already set up at least one RAID group. The ATTO FastStream controller in the RX1600Fibre collects various metrics to measure performance for physical drives during normal system operation and drive initialization and veriﬁcation.

Note: New performance data is updated every 60 seconds which

impacts performance slightly, even if you minimize the browser window. Exit the Sonnet Web Management Tool completely whenever you need maximum performance.

Health and Status Monitor Page

The Health and Status Monitor page is the ﬁrst page you see when you open the Sonnet Web Management Tool after completing the conﬁguration of at least one RAID group. You may return to it at any time by clicking the Monitor button on the left side of the window. See Figure 17 on page 20.

SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Fusion RX1600Fibre and Fusion RX1600 expansion enclosures feature a SCSI Enclosure Processor which indicates enclosure health status, drive identiﬁcation and drive fault identiﬁcation.

Use SES to identify individual drives, all the drives in the same enclosure, all the drives in a single RAID group, or faulted drives. Clicking Details in the Enclosure Status section on the Health and Status Monitor page brings up the SES Monitor page. Refer to SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) on page 27.

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears. If you click Details, additional information about each parameter appears on the Configuration Display page.

Configuration Display Page

Clicking Details from the Health and Status Monitor page brings up the Configuration Display page. See Figure 18 on page 20. Click the following links to view detailed information:

• RAID groups: RAID group names, RAID status, available

Hot Spares, number of faulted drives, RAID level, number of partitions, interleave and total capacity of each RAID group

• Partitions: RAID group name, partition ID, capacity and block

size

• 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

1.4 Monitor Storage, Conﬁgurations

The Health and Status Monitor page during a RAID group initialization operation

Figure 17

Fusion RX1600Fibre configuration and status information displayed on the Configuration Display page

Figure 18

1.5 Remote System Monitoring

You may set up the Fusion RX1600Fibre to send notiﬁcations using Email when certain events occur.

You may set up the RX1600Fibre to send notiﬁcations using the Sonnet Web Management Tool’s Error Notifcation page when certain events occur. You designate the person or people receiving notiﬁcation of conditions and the level of severity which prompt Email notiﬁcation.

Types of Errors

• 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

• Enclosure issues

Warning messages

• Device down

• Medium error

When an event occurs that warrants Email notiﬁcation, the RX1600Fibre 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.

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears. Click the Manage button on the left side of the window.

3. The Manage menu page appears. Click Fusion RX1600Fibre.

4. Click the Set Up Error Notification button.

5. Click Next. The Error Notification page appears. See Figure 19 on page 22.

6. Click the Enabled radio button for Notiﬁcation Conﬁguration.

7. Type in the sender address or use the default. (Emails show this name in the From ﬁeld).

• Abort command

Message Severity Levels

• Critical: critical event Emails

• 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

• None: no Emails are sent

Email Notification Setup

Phone home Email notiﬁcation enables the RX1600Fibre to send an Email message to you, a network administrator or other users when certain events occur with the storage system.

Messages about serious errors are sent immediately, while messages for less serious errors are sent every 15 minutes. You may send messages to up to ﬁve Email addresses and designate which conditions prompt each Email notiﬁcation. For example, a recipient set to receive only critical severity level messages receives critical messages and not warning or informational messages.

8. Type or use the default SMTP Server (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.

9. Type in up to ﬁve Email addresses.

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 RX1600Fibre by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

13. Your settings are displayed. You may change or disable Email notiﬁcation at any time from the Error Notiﬁcation page.

1.5 Remote System Monitoring

Error Notification setup page

Figure 19

1.6 Drive Diagnostics

You may determine the performance of drives in the Fusion RX1600Fibre and attached RX1600 Expansion systems using various displays and tests in Sonnet Web Management Tool.

The following instructions assume you have already set up at least one RAID group. The RX1600Fibre collects various metrics to measure performance for physical drives 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 Storage Manager completely whenever you need maximum performance.

Note: Initialize and Verify Drives is Described in Section x.x, Ensure

Drive Integrity on page 3.

Preliminary Steps

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

3. Click the Diagnostics button on the left. The Diagnostics Menu page appears. See Figure 20 on page 25.

4. Select the operation you wish to perform.

Read-Only Drive Test

The Read-Only Drive Test performs a nondestructive 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 RX1600Fibre.

6. A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change. If you chose to do a Read-Only Drive Test, the Drive Performance and Health page appears showing what tests are running and their results. You may select other tests to run or continue on to other tasks.

Drive Performance and Health Test

Another way to determine your drives’ status is to follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on this page, and click the Drive Performance and Health menu item.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on this page.

2. Click the Drive Performance and Health menu item.

3. The Drive Performance and Health page appears. See Figure 22 on page 26.

4. Click the Start or Stop buttons next to individual drives to start or stop drive performance and health testing. Alternatively, you may click Start All Metrics to test all the drives.

• Click Show Help Text and Drives for an alternative view

of the test progress.

• During testing the Time Remaining box tells you how

much time remains until the veriﬁcation process is complete. The representation of each drive in the Drives box shows the percentage of veriﬁcation completed.

• Drive performance is displayed in the Drive Metrics section.

Running this test may negatively impact performance. Once the Read-Only Drive Test has completed, system operation returns to normal. To ﬁx errors on disks, use the Initialize and Verify Drives process as described in Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps above.

2. Click the Read-Only Drive Test button.

3. Click Next. The Read-Only Drive Test page appears. See Figure 21 on page 25.

4. If no drives appear in the information box, click the System Scan button. If drives are available, click the drives you wish to test; the drives are highlighted.

5. Click Commit.

• Drive errors are displayed in the Drive Errors section.

5. When the test is complete, click each drive to see its information highlighted in the Drive Metrics window. If you close the browser or navigate away from this page, you may re-access these results by clicking the Diagnostics button and choosing the Drive Performance and Health option. Results are available until the FastStream is restarted.

1.6 Drive Diagnostics

Identifying a Drive

WARNING: Executing this command adversely impacts

performance and throughput for the time that the LED is illuminated. The preferred method to identify SES elements as described in Identifying SES Elements on page 27.

You may want to physically identify a drive in the RX1600Fibre or attached RX1600 Expansion systems. This method will work even if SES is unavailable.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 23.

2. Click Identify Drive. The Identify SES Elements page appears. See Figure 23 on page 26.

3. Click the box representing the drive you wish to identify. Alternatively, you may click Identify All to select all the drives.

4. Click Commit. The drive activity LED(s) for the drive(s) in the Fusion drive enclosure illuminates for one minute.

5. To stop the operation, deselect the drive(s).

1.6 Drive Diagnostics

Diagnostics Menu page

Drives selected for testing on the Read-Only Drive Test page

Figure 20

Figure 21

1.6 Drive Diagnostics

Drive Performance and Health page while a RAID group is tested

Figure 22

Identify enclosure, RAID group and drives, enclosure, RAID group, or individual drives using the Identify SES Elements page

Figure 23

1.7 SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Fusion RX1600 drive enclosures have a SCSI Enclosure Processor which monitors enclosure health status, drive identiﬁcation and drive faults.

You may use SES to identify individual drives, all the drives in the same enclosure, all the drives in a single RAID group, or faulted drives. SES also provides status on power supplies, fans and thermal sensors in the enclosures.

Setting up SES

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears. Click the Manage button on the left side of the window.

3. Select Enclosure Services in the Select User Process box.

4. Select Manage Enclosure Services.

5. Click Next. The Manager Enclosure Services page appears. See Figure 24 on page 28.

6. Select the type of SES monitor and control you wish to use:

• Pass-Through: the host application manages SES

information.

Identifying SES Elements

The SES Monitor page found by clicking Details in the Enclosure Status section of the Health and Status Monitor page

shows the RX1600Fibre and any attached RX1600 Expansion systems’ SES information. If you would like information about speciﬁc drives of the RAID groups or enclosures of which they are members, use the Identify SES Elements page.

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears. Click the Diagnostics button on the left side of the window.

3. Click Identify Drives.

4. Click Next. The Identify SES Elements page appears. See Figure 25 on page 28.

5. Move the cursor over any drive to display its information.

6. After choosing a drive, click its button, and then click Drive, RAID Group, Enclosure, or Identify All to identify enclosures or RAID groups associated with that drive. LEDs for the devices light up when selected.

• Monitor and Control by the Fusion RX1600Fibre: the RX1600 controls SES services.

• SES Monitoring Disabled: the host application does not

receive any SES monitoring information.

7. If you enable enclosure services, select the amount of time

in seconds that SES enclosures are asked (or polled) for their current status. The default is 60 seconds: you may choose an interval up to 60 minutes.

8. If you have elected to enable enclosure services, and you

want the enclosure to sound an alarm if a drive becomes faulted, select the Enable Faulted Drive Alarm box.

9. 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.

10. If Email Notiﬁcation is enabled (see Email Notiﬁcation Setup

on page 21), all SES status changes are sent via email.

7. Select Stop All to stop the LEDs from lighting.

Monitoring SES Elements Using the Health and Status Monitor

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears. In the Enclosure Status section, click Details.

3. The Monitor Enclosure Services page appears. See Figure 26 on page 29.

1.7 SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Set SES monitor and control on the Manage Enclosure Services page

Figure 24

Identify enclosure, RAID group and drives, enclosure, RAID group, or individual drives using the Identify SES Elements page

Figure 25

1.7 SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Expanded view of an enclosure’s SES elements in the Monitor Enclosure Services page

Figure 26

1.8 Modify Storage

Use the Sonnet Web Management Tool to replace a failed drive, add new drives or change RAID conﬁgurations.

You may modify various aspects of storage using the Manage menu found by clicking the Manage button on the left side of the window. Be cautious when deleting storage or rearranging storage conﬁgurations because data could be compromised or lost.

The Sonnet Web Management Tool takes you step by step through many procedures which allow you to modify your storage and RAID conﬁgurations. Read all notes and warnings carefully as you go to ensure the best performance and use of your storage. When you initially set up the Fusion RX1600Fibre, replace a failed drive or add new drives to the system, perform drive initialization and veriﬁcation. Refer to Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3.

Many of these procedures are only available on unallocated storage which is not currently part of a RAID group, not designated as a Hot Spare (refer to Adding or Removing Hot Spares on page 34), or has been designated as “Replaced” when you initially set up RAID conﬁgurations.

Preliminary Steps

Begin with these steps, then choose the process you wish to use.

2. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

3. Click the Manage button on the left side of the window.

4. The Manage menu page appears. From the Select User Process box, select the operation you wish to perform.

RAID Group Processes

You may create or delete RAID groups, change RAID group levels, rebuild RAID groups or modify RAID group mapping or partitions.

Creating RAID Groups

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps above, and then click the RAID Groups arrow in the Select User Process box.

2. Click Create RAID Group.

Deleting RAID Groups

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on this page, and then click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click Delete RAID Groups.

3. Click Next. The Delete RAID Groups page appears. See Figure 27 on page 36.

4. If you want to delete Hot Spares, click the appropriate radio button. (Refer to Adding or Removing Hot Spares on page

34.)

5. Click each RAID group to be deleted.

6. Click the Delete button.

7. When you have selected all the groups to be deleted, click Commit.

8. A warning box appears. If you want to continue click Yes. The conﬁguration completes and the Health and Status

Monitor page appears. If you wish to start over, click No.

Adding Drives to a RAID Group

Mac User’s Support Note: Although this feature is

supported by the ATTO utility, as of this writing, Mac

OS X does not support RAID group capacity expansion.

You can increase the number of drives used by an existing RAID group by adding an unallocated drive to the group. The new drive is set up in a separate partition within the RAID group. You may have to add more than one drive depending on the RAID group setup.

WARNING: Adding drives to an existing RAID group may

adversely impact per formance. You cannot reverse this

operation unless you delete the RAID group.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on this page and click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click Add Drives to a RAID Group.

3. Click Next. The Add Drives to RAID Group page appears. See Figure 28 on page 36.

3. Follow the directions as found in Selecting a Quick Storage Conﬁguration on page 8 or Creating a Custom Setup on page 9.

4. Select the RAID group you wish to add the drives to from the drop-down menu.

5. Click the drives you wish to add to your RAID group.

6. When you have completed your changes, click Commit.

1.8 Modify Storage

Adding Drives to a RAID Group (continued)

7. A warning box appears noting that information on the added drives is erased. Back up all data on the new disks before proceeding. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

8. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

9. Depending on how the drives are added, when the process completes, the added drives may be in a separate, new partition within the RAID group.

Adding Mirrors to a RAID Configuration

To increase data protection in RAID Level 1 groups, you may add additional mirrors from unallocated storage. Also known as n-way mirroring, adding mirrors can only be performed if no other Add Drives, Add Mirror or RAID Migration operations are being performed.

WARNING: Adding drives to an existing RAID group may

adversely impact per formance. You cannot reverse this

operation unless you delete the RAID group.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 31 and click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click Add Mirrors to a RAID Group.

Changing RAID Configuration: RAID Migration

If you have unallocated drives, you can use them to change the RAID Level of certain existing RAID groups. The following migration levels are supported:

• JBOD to RAID Level 0

• JBOD to RAID Level 1

• RAID Level 0 to RAID Level 1 + 0

• RAID Level 1 to RAID 1 + 0

WARNING: Adding drives to an existing RAID group may

adversely impact per formance. You cannot reverse this

operation unless you delete the RAID group.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 31 and click RAID Groups in the Select User Process box.

2. Click the RAID Migration button.

3. Click Next. The RAID Migration page appears. See Figure 30 on page 37.

4. Follow the onscreen directions.

5. When you have made your changes, click Commit.

6. A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

3. Click Next. The Add Mirrors page appears. See Figure 29 on page 37.

4. Select the RAID Level 1 group you wish to add the mirror drive(s) to from the drop-down menu.

5. Select the drive(s) you wish to add.

6. When you have completed your changes, click Commit.

7. A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

8. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

7. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

Modifying RAID Group Mapping

You may change the LUNs of drives manually or let the Sonnet Web Management Tool map drives for you.

WARNING: Changing RAID group mapping after data has

been stored may make the data inaccessible to

workstations in the SAN.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 31 and click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click the Modify RAID Group Mapping button.

3. Click Next. The Mapping Page page appears. See Figure 31 on page 38.

4. Select the RAID group you wish to change from the drop- down box.

1.8 Modify Storage

Modifying RAID Group Mapping (continued)

5. Select the method you wish to use to map the partitions. Refer to Modifying RAID group partitions below.

• If you select Auto, all mapping for all RAID groups

attached to this FastStream is changed, destroying any previous mapping.

• If you do not wish to change the mapping of your other

RAID groups, select Manual.

Click any partition to map that partition to a Port and LUN.

6. Click Commit to save the new mapping.

7. A warning box tell you some mapping conﬁgurations may impair performance. Complete the mapping change by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

8. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

Modifying RAID Group Partitions

A RAID group may have several Terabytes of total data capacity because of the size of the included drives. Partitioning enables you to break up large RAID groups into smaller, more manageable groups. Most host systems can address only 2TB per LUN. Partitioning increases storage efﬁciency by providing more LUNs without using lower capacity RAID groups. Partitioning enables the creation of multiple logical volumes.

Rebuilding RAID Groups

When RAID groups become compromised in some fashion, you must rebuild them. If you have previously enabled Auto-Rebuild and unallocated drives or Hot Spares are available, one of those drives is substituted for the failed drive and a rebuild takes place automatically.

Refer to step 18 under Creating a Custom Setup on page 10 for information on Auto-Rebuild, and to Adding or Removing Hot Spares on page 34 for information on Hot Spares.

Hot Spares, if available, are used ﬁrst, regardless of the Auto-Rebuild setting. If you have not enabled Auto-Rebuild and no Hot Spares are available, use this procedure to rebuild the faulted RAID group.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 31 and click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click the Rebuild RAID Groups button.

3. The Click Next.RAID Rebuild page appears. See Figure 33 on page 39.

4. Select the RAID group you wish to rebuild.

5. If you have enabled RAID 6, choose to rebuild one or two drives at the same time.

6. Follow the on-screen directions, ending by clicking Commit.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 31 and click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click the Modify RAID Group Partitioning button.

3. Click Next. The Partition Page appears. See Figure 32 on page 38.

4. Select the RAID Group Name from the drop-down menu.

5. Using the graphic and drop-down boxes, choose to either merge or split existing partitions or to assign different values for the partition sizes.

6. Click Commit.

7. A warning box tell you some mapping conﬁgurations may impair performance. Complete the mapping change by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

8. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

7. A warning box tell you some mapping conﬁgurations may impair performance. Complete the mapping change by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

8. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

Modifying RAID Options

You may change Auto-Rebuild, SpeedRead and Prefetch conﬁgurations. Refer to Creating a Custom Setup on page 9 for details on these features.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps on page 31 and click the RAID Groups arrow from the Select User Process box.

2. Click the Modify RAID Options button.

3. Click Next. The Modify RAID Options page appears. See Figure 34 on page 39.

4. Select the RAID group from the drop-down box.

5. Select the options you wish to change.

6. Click Commit.

1.8 Modify Storage

Adding or Removing Hot Spares

If a member of a RAID group becomes degraded or faulted, lose some redundancy is lost in the RAID group until a new member is rebuilt into it. However, Hot Spare drives may be designated as replacements for faulted drives without intervention by you or a host. You may set up a pool of Hot Spare drives of different capacities appropriate for your RAID groups.

Hot Spares may be set up by the Fusion RX1600Fibre automatically depending on the choices made during initial setup. There are two types of Hot Spares:

• Dedicated: Hot Spares that are dedicated solely for use with a speciﬁc RAID group and may not be used by any other RAID group

• Global: Hot Spares that may be used by any RAID group

Support 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 drives, thus wasting storage capacity.

Drives will be searched for in this order: a. Search for Dedicated Hot Spare b. Search for Global Hot Spare (Smallest available drive of

sufﬁcient size)

When the RX1600Fibre detects a faulted device:

• The RX1600Fibre replaces the faulted device with the device from the Hot Spare pool.

• The RX1600Fibre begins an automatic rebuild of the RAID group(s).

Support Note: A RAID group rebuild may take several

hours to complete, depending on the operating system,

drive capacities, and RAID configuration.

7. When you have completed your changes, click Commit.

8. A warning box tell you some mapping conﬁgurations may impair performance. Complete the mapping change by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

9. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

Removing RAID Configuration Data

If you move single drives between Fusion storage systems without erasing the drives, you should clean stale RAID conﬁguration data from them, permanently removing the drive from the RAID group. This operation can be performed on drives that belong to a RAID group now or have once belonged to a RAID group and are labeled Replaced after system scans.

WARNING: Continue with extreme caution: data is lost

on the drive when it is cleaned of RAID information.

2. Click the Diagnostics button on the left side of the window.

3. Click Clean RAID Configuration Data in the Select User Process box.

4. Click Next. The Clean RAID Configuration Data page appears. See Figure 36 on page 40.

5. Click the drives you wish to update; the drives are highlighted.

6. Click Commit.

1. Follow the instructions in Preliminary Steps on page 31 and click Fusion RX1600Fibre in the Select User Process box.

2. Click Add/Remove Hot Spares.

3. Click Next. The Add/Remove Hot Spares page appears. See Figure 35 on page 40.

4. Select Designated or Global Hot Spares.

5. If Designated is selected, you will be prompted to select the RAID Group.

6. Select the drive(s) to be added or removed from the Hot Spare pool by clicking the boxes representing those drives.

7. A warning box appears. In the warning box, verify that you want to complete the conﬁguration by clicking Yes. Clicking No ends the procedure without making a change.

8. When the process is complete, the Health and Status Monitor screen appears.

1.8 Modify Storage

Advanced CLI Page

Changes to various parameters may be made using the Advanced CLI page.

WARNING: Do not use this page unless you are directed

to by a Sonnet technician. Changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to the performance and reliability of the Fusion storage system.

Note: The Sonnet Web Management Tool is the preferred method to

manage the Fusion storage system.

2. Click the Advanced button on the left side of the window.

3. The Advanced CLI Configuration page appears. See Figure 37 on page 41.

4. Wait for the Ready prompt, then type in the CLI command in the text box provided. Refer to CLI Provides an ASCIIbased Interface on page i of Appendix A.

5. Click the Submit button: this is equivalent to typing in the CLI command into a Telnet or serial port CLI session.

A text ﬁeld beneath the box lists the most recent commands issued to the FastStream through this page. If you enter an incorrect parameter, the CLI help text is displayed, showing the parameters available. An asterisk next to the Ready prompt indicates you must type SaveConﬁguration restart in the text box for changes to take effect.

1.8 Modify Storage

RAID group selected for deletion on Delete RAID Groups page

Add Drives to RAID Group page

Figure 27

Figure 28

1.8 Modify Storage

Add Mirrors page

RAID Migration page

Figure 29

Figure 30

1.8 Modify Storage

Selecting auto-mapping for SCSI-FCP LUNs on the Mapping page

Split or merge RAID group partitions on the Partition page

Figure 31

Figure 32

1.8 Modify Storage

Rebuilding a degraded RAID group manually on the RAID Rebuild page

Figure 33

Modify settings on an existing RAID Group on the Modify RAID Options page

Figure 34

1.8 Modify Storage

Add or remove global or dedicated hot spares on the Add/Remove Hot Spares page

Figure 35

Clean stale RAID configuration data from drives on the Clean RAID Configuration Data page

Figure 36

1.8 Modify Storage

Advanced CLI Page

Figure 37

2.0 Manage Sonnet Devices, Conﬁgurations

You may save the current conﬁguration of your Fusion RX1600Fibre, use a conﬁguration from another RX1600Fibre, or change the conﬁgurations of other RX1600Fibre storage systems using the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

If you have other RX1600Fibre storage systems in the same broadcast domain with no routers between them, and any switches between this RX1600Fibre 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.

You may also save the conﬁguration of the RX1600Fibre you are currently using, or restore it from a previously-saved conﬁguration, or import a conﬁguration from another RX1600Fibre. It is best practice to give your current RX1600Fibre a recognizable name so that you can distinguish it more easily from among other RX1600Fibre storage systems.

Creating a Unique Name for Your RX1600Fibre

You may wish to name your RX1600Fibre if you are going to manage several of them from one browser.

2. The Monitor page appears. Click the Manage button on the left side of the window.

5. Select a device from the list. An arrow points to the controller you are currently using.

6. Press the Identify button to activate a blinking LED on the selected product. Click the listed device again to stop the blinking LED.

7. Click the device from the list and click the Launch in Browser button to view the device's management console.

Saving or Restoring a Configuration

You may save the conﬁguration of the RX1600Fibre you are currently using, restore the conﬁguration from a previously-saved conﬁguration for that RX1600Fibre, or clone a conﬁguration from another RX1600Fibre using the Save/Restore feature.

Note: It is best practice to save a copy of your conﬁguration settings to

a ﬁle to easily replace a unit or to set up additional controllers.

1. Follow steps 1-2 in Creating a Unique Name for Your RX1600Fibre.

2. Click Fusion RX1600Fibre in the Select User Process box.

3. Under Fusion RX1600Fibre, click System Configuration Save/Restore.

4. Click Next. The System Conﬁguration Save/Restore page appears. See Figure 40 on page 45.

5. Choose the option you wish to use.

3. Click Other Devices in the Select User Process box.

4. Under Other Devices, click Set Appliance Name.

5. Click Next. The System Configuration page appears. See Figure 38 on page 44.

6. Type in a name for your RX1600Fibre in the text box provided.

7. Click Commit. The name you typed appears in the upper right corner of the screen under the Fusion RX1600Fibre banner.

Discovering, Managing Other Sonnet Devices

1. Follow steps 1-3 in Creating a Unique Name for Your RX1600Fibre above.

2. Under Other Devices, click Find Sonnet Devices.

3. Click Next. The Find Devices page appears. See Figure 39 on page 44.

4. Click Rescan.

WARNING: If you perform a full restore on multiple

Fusion RX1600Fibre storage systems on the same SAN, you will have World Wide Name conﬂicts. Use a partial restore to keep unique WWNs on your SAN.

6. Click Commit.

7. A warning box appears. If you wish to continue with the changes you have chosen and restart your RX1600Fibre, select Yes. If you do not wish to make the changes, select No.

2.0 Manage Sonnet Devices, Conﬁgurations

Name the RX1600Fibre enclosure in the Appliance Name box on the System Configuration page

Figure 38

Use the Find Devices page to manage multiple Fusion enclosures from the RX1600Fibre

Figure 39

2.0 Manage Sonnet Devices, Conﬁgurations

System Configuration Save/Restore page

Figure 40

2.1 Interface Options

The best way to manage, monitor and conﬁgure the Fusion RX1600Fibre is to use the ExpressNAV Storage Manager, a browser-based application installed in your system, but you may use a terminal emulation program or Telnet.

Using the Sonnet Web Management Tool

Use the Sonnet Web Management Tool to manage, monitor and conﬁgure the RX1600Fibre and any attached RX1600 Expansion systems. The choices you make lead you from screen to screen. Choices which are not available are greyed out.

Note: The RX1600Fibre 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 RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet port. From the CD supplied with your system, run the QuickNav Utility QuickNAV-Mac for Mac OS X or QuickNAV-windows.exe for Windows.

2. Locate the RX1600Fibre with the serial number recorded earlier.

3. Highlight the serial number.

5. Click Launch Browser. Your browser points to the Sonnet Web Management Tool splash screen. Press Return (Enter).

6. Type in the user name and password values.

Note: The default values are user name: root and password: Password.

The user name is case insensitive and the password is case sensitive. It is best practice to change the user name and password. Refer to Changing the Current User Name, Password on page 17.

The pages which next appear depend on whether or not you have begun conﬁguring the RX1600Fibre.

Using the Serial Port

To connect to a terminal emulation program to manage the RX1600Fibre, use the serial port.

1. Connect the supplied cable between the RX1600Fibre’s serial port and a personal computer or server’s serial (COM) port.

2. Start a terminal emulation program on the computer, and use it to connect to the RX1600Fibre. For example, if you are using Hyper Terminal on a computer running a Windows operating system:

a. Type Fusion RX1600Fibre in the New Connection dialog

box.

b. Click OK.

c. In the Connect To dialog box in the Connect using ﬁeld,

select the COM port number to which your serial cable is connected.

d. Click OK.

e. In the COM Properties dialog box select the following

values:

• Bits per second: 115200

• Data Bits: 8

• Parity: None

• Stop Bits: 1

• Flow Control: None

• Terminal type: ASCII

• Echo: off

f. Click OK.

3. Turn on the RX1600Fibre.

4. After you connect to the RX1600Fibre, startup messages are displayed. The last line in the startup message sequence is Ready. Make adjustments to the RX1600Fibre using the Command Line Interface as described in CLI Provides an ASCII-Based Interface on page i of the Appendix.

Note: In serial port sessions, there is no prompt on the line below the

word Ready. Begin typing commands in the blank line where the cursor is resting. No user name or password is required for serial port access.

5. To verify that you have connected successfully, type help after the Ready prompt and press Return (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 in length.

2.1 Interface Options

Using Telnet

Up to three Telnet sessions using the Fusion RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet management port 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 that requires a SaveConﬁguration can continue to issue set commands, while the other sessions can only issue get commands or display information. Once a connection is established, refer to CLI Provides an ASCII-based Interface on page i of the Appendix.

1. Connect to the RX1600Fibre 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 using

a Telnet program. Your Telnet program may operate differently than in the following instructions.

3. At the Telnet prompt, issue the open command telnet > open x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the RX1600Fibre.

4. If you have to specify a port type, type in the port type “telnet” and the terminal type “SC100”.

port type: telnet terminal type: SC100

5. Type in the default values for the user name root and the password Password if you did not set new values in Changing the Current User Name, Password on page 17.

2.2 Update Firmware

Firmware updates are available on the Sonnet Web site.

The ATTO FastStream controller in the Fusion RX1600Fibre has several processors which control the ﬂow of data. The ﬁrmware to control these processors can be upgraded in the ﬁeld using the Sonnet Web Management Tool. Be sure all data is backed up before updating ﬁrmware to prevent data loss.

WARNING: Ensure that all I/O to the RX1600Fibre has

stopped. During this procedure, do not interrupt the

update process.

1. The Fusion RX1600Fibre ﬁrmware is distributed as an image ﬁle (.ima). Download the appropriate ﬁrmware ﬁle from the Sonnet Web site (http://www.sonnettech.com/support/) or insert the Installation CD containing the ﬁle into your computer.

2. If you’re not already in the Sonnet Web Management Tool, type the IP address of your RX1600Fibre in a standard browser. On the splash screen, click Enter Here. In the box provided, type in your user name and password, and then click OK.

3. The Health and Status Monitor page appears.

4. Click the Diagnostics button on the left side of the window.

5. The Diagnostics menu page appears. From the Select User Process box, select Update the Firmware.

6. Click Next. The Firmware Update page appears. See Figure 41 on page 50.

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, click Browse to navigate to the new ﬁrmware and click it until the ﬁle name appears in the text box.

8. Click Upload.

WARNING: Do not power down the host or the

RX1600Fibre. Interrupting the update process makes your Fusion storage system inoperable and you must return it to Sonnet for repair.

9. Wait for a success message to be displayed.

10. Click Restart.

11. When the Diagnostics menu page appears your new ﬁrmware has been uploaded and installed.

2.2 Update Firmware

Update RX1600Fibre firmware to add features and improve usability

Figure 41

Appendix A - CLI ASCII-Based Interface

The command line interface (CLI) uses ASCII commands typed in the CLI window.

WARNING: Do not use CLI unless you are directed to by

a Sonnet technician, as changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the Sonnet RAID controller. The Sonnet Web Management Tool is the preferred tool to operate and manage the Fusion RX1600Fibre and attached Fusion RX1600 Expansion systems.

The command line interface (CLI) is a set of ASCII-based commands which perform conﬁguration and diagnostic tasks. You may use them through the Sonnet Web Management Tool Advanced CLI page (refer to Advanced CLI page on page 35) or by using the serial port interface or the Ethernet management port (refer to Interface Options on page 47).

• 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.

• 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 SaveConfiguration command and 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 FirmwareRestart command. A number of set commands may be issued before the SaveConfiguration command.

• Responses to set commands are either an error message or Ready. *. The asterisk indicates you must use a SaveConfiguration command to ﬁnalize the set command.

• Set commands which do not require a SaveConfiguration command, deﬁned as immediate commands, are immediately executed.

Support Note: Using certain CLI commands during

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

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

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

Symbol Indicates

– A range (6 – 9 = 6, 7, 8, 9)

… Indicates optional repetition of the preceding item

[ ] Required entry

| Pick one of

< > Optional entry

EnclosureIndex Index designation of an enclosure found by using the SESIdentify command

ﬂ Fibre Channel LUN ID (0 <= ﬂ <= 31)

fp Fibre Channel port number (1 <= fp <= 2)

GroupName The name of the RAID group, designated by the user, to which a block device is assigned. Use RGDisplay to discover

RAID group names

MemberIndex Index designation of a RAID group member as found in the RMStatus command

mp1 Ethernet port used to manage the FastStream

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

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CLI Error Messages

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

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. Please note that commands which have no default values have a blank entry in that column of the table.

WARNING: Do not use the CLI unless you are directed

to by a Sonnet technician, as changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the Fusion storage system.

Command Default Example

AutoMap automap

AutoResume initialize = enabled

rebuild = enabled erase = disabled

BlockDevClean blockdevclean 30

BlockDevIdentify blockdevidentify alpha 3

BlockDevIDStop blockdevidstop

BlockDevScan blockdevscan

BootDelay 5 set bootdelay 25

BridgeModel get bridgemodel

BridgeName set bridgename Omega6

ClearEventLog cleareventlog

Date set date 03/03/2009

DeleteAllMaps deleteallmaps

DisplayEventLog displayeventlog

DisplayEventLogFilter all all all set displayeventlogﬁlter gen info all

DriveTest drivetest begin

set autoresume all disabled

DriveTestConﬁg not initiated set drivetestconﬁg read

DriveTestList get drivetestlist all

DriveTestStatus get driveteststatus

DumpConﬁguration dumpconﬁguration

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Command Default Example

DumpEventLog dumpeventlog

EmailFromAddress set emailfromaddress

EmailNotify disabled set emailnotify enabled

EmailNotifyAddress get emailnotifyaddress

EmailPassword set emailpassword

EmailServerAddress 0.0.0.0 get emailserveraddress

EmailUsername get emailusername

EthernetSpeed auto set ethernetspeed mp1 100

EventLog enabled set eventlog disabled

EventLogFilter all all all set eventlogﬁlter gen info all

Exit exit

FCConnMode loop set fcconnmode all ptp

FCDataRate auto get fcdatarate all

FCHard disabled set fchard enabled

FCHardAddress fp1=3; fp2=4, fp3=5, fp4=6 set fchardaddress 1 122

FCMultiNode disabled set fcmultinode enabled

FCPortErrors get fcporterrors all

FCPortList fcportlist

FCWWName get fcwwname 1

FirmwareRestart ﬁrmwarerestart

Help help eventlog

HSAdd hsadd 3

HSDisplay hsdisplay

HSRemove hsremove 3

IdentifyBridge disabled set identifybridge enabled

Info info

IPAddress 10.0.0.1 get ipaddress mp1

IPDHCP enabled set ipdhcp mp1 disabled

IPDNSServer set ipdnsserver mp1 172.15.12.123

IPGateway 0.0.0.0 get ipgateway mp1

IPSubnetMask 255.255.0.0 get ipsubnetmask mp1

IsReserved isreserved

MaxOpTemp 70 get maxoptemp

Metrics metrics display all

MinOpTemp 0 set minoptemp 10

OpTempWarn 5 set optempwarn 15

Partition partition alpha1 6 4 GB

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Command Default Example

PartitionDisplay partitiondisplay alpha1

PartitionMerge partitionmerge all

PartitionWriteCache set partitionwritecache enabled

PartitionSplit partitionsplit alpha1 22 2

PassThroughMode disabled set passthroughmode all

PassThroughPersistent passthroughpersistent

PassThroughRediscover passthroughredicsover

Password Password set password

Performance get performance 2

Ping ping mp1 192.42.155.155

RAIDRebuildPriority same set raidrebuildpriority low

RAIDSpeedWriteLimit 8 set raidspeedwritelimit 16

ReadOnlyPassword Password set readonlypassword

ReadOnlyUsername user set readonlyusername

Reserve reserve

ResetFCPortErrors resetfcporterrors 1

RestoreConﬁguration restoreconﬁguration default

RGAddStorage rgaddstorage groupname1 span commit

RGAutoRebuild disabled set rgautorebuild all enabled

RGCancelAddStorage rgcanceladdstorage groupname1

RGCommit rgcommit all

RGCreate rgcreate groupname1 raid0

RGDelete rgdelete groupname1

RGDiskWriteCache set rgdiskwritecache g1 enabled

RGDisplay rgdisplay all

RGErase rgerase groupname1

RGHaltConversion rghaltconversion groupname1

RGHaltErase rghalterase groupname1

RGHaltInitialization rghaltinitialization groupname1

RGHaltRebuild rghaltrebuild groupname1

RGMemberAdd rgmemberadd groupname1 30

RGMemberRemove rgmemberremove groupname1 30

RGPrefetch 0 rgprefetch groupname1 2

RGRebuild rgrebuild groupname1

RGResumeConversion rgresumeconversion groupname1

RGResumeErase rgresumeerase groupname1

RGResumeInitialization rgresumeinitialization groupname1

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Command Default Example

RGResumeRebuild rgresumerebuild groupname1

RGSectorSize 512 setrgsectorsize groupname1 8192

RGSpanDepth 1 set rgspandepth groupname1 22

RGSpeedRead auto set rgspeedread groupname1 enabled

RGUnmap rgunmap groupname1

RMStatus rmstatus groupname1

Route route fc 1 0 raid alpha1 6

RouteDisplay routedisplay fc

SASPortList

SASTargets sastargets

SaveConﬁguration saveconﬁguration

SerialNumber get serialnumber

SerialPortBaudRate 115200 set serialportbaudrate 19200

SerialPortEcho enabled get serialportecho

SES enabled set ses disabled

SESAlarmTest sessalarmtest 22 set

SESDiskFailureAlarm disabled set sesdiskfailurealarm enabled

SESEnclosures sesenclosures

SESIdentify off set sesidentify all

SESIdentifyStop sesidentifystop all

SESMute

SESPoll 30 set sespoll 0

SESStartingSlot 1 set sesstartingslot 2

SESStatus sesstatus

SNTP enabled get sntp

SNTPServer 192.43.244.18 set sntpserver 129.6.15.28

TailEventLog taileventlog

Temperature get temperature

Time set time 03:32:30

TimeZone EST set timezone pst

UserName root set username Binky

VerboseMode enabled set verbosemode disabled

VirtualDriveInfo virtualdriveinfo

WrapEventLog enabled set wrapeventlog disabled

zModem zmodem receive

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CLI Command Explanations

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

WARNING: Using CLI without contacting a Sonnet

technician is not recommended because changing parameters may cause loss of data and/or disruption to performance and reliability of the Fusion storage system.

• AutoMap (Immediate, Disabled on Error)

Automatically assigns a subset of source protocol LUNs to a subset of target destination devices visible to the unit. The unit reports a ﬁve-second delay while it scans for devices. All previous maps are deleted.

If FCMultiNode is enabled (multiple node):

AutoMap <fp>

SaveConﬁguration command required

If FCMultiNode is disabled (single node):

AutoMap

SaveConﬁguration command required

• AutoResume Regulates the AutoResume features for interrupted rebuild and erase operations at startup. If no group name is speciﬁed, all existing RAID groups are affected.

Default: enabled for AutoResume Rebuild, Initialize disabled for AutoResumeErase

set AutoResume [Rebuild | Erase |Initialize | All ] [enabled | disabled] <group name>

• BlockDevClean (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Removes any RAID conﬁguration data from the block device with the speciﬁed block ID.

BlockDevClean [BlockDevID]

WARNING: All RAID group setup information is lost

when the BlockDevClean command is performed, therefore all data is lost. Back up your files before performing this command.

• BlockDevIdentify (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Turns on a drive activity LED on the Fusion drive enclosure for a speciﬁed drive until a BlockDevIDStop command is given. Use either RAID group name and member index, or block ID.

WARNING: The BlockDevIdentify command is intended

for diagnostic purposes only. Executing this command may adversely impact the performance and throughput of the Fusion storage system for the time that the LED is illuminated.

BlockDevIdentify <Groupname> [BlockDevID | member index]

• BlockDevIDStop (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Turns off the previously identiﬁed disk drive‘s activity LED.

BlockDevIDStop

• BlockDevScan (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Lists all currently-connected drives and any potential RAID group association. Each drive listed is assigned a unique index at the time of the scan which is used to identify drives for other CLI operations.

BlockDevScan

• 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 speciﬁc model and ﬁrmware information.

get BridgeModel

• BridgeName Speciﬁes an ASCII name assigned to the unit to identify individual units. It is not the World Wide Name. Changes take effect immediately. The name may be contain up to 8 characters.

set BridgeName [name]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get BridgeName

• ClearEventLog (Immediate) Clears the contents of the EventLog. No new entries are recorded until the operation is completed.

ClearEventLog

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• Date Sets/displays the current date. The date range is 01/01/2000 to 12/31/2099.

set Date [MM]/[DD]/[YYYY] get Date

• DeleteAllMaps (Immediate, Disabled on Error) 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 (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Displays the EventLog. The event log may be ﬁltered using the DisplayEventLogFilter command. The optional parameter n is the number of lines to be displayed as a single page with no user interaction. After the command has executed, use +, - or = to scroll through the log. Type quit and press Return (Enter) to exit the command.

DisplayEventLog <n>

• DisplayEventLogFilter (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Filters the display of data for speciﬁed subsystems and levels during DisplayEventLog mode. Valid event log subsystem entries are platform-dependent. For set commands, the ﬁnal parameter indicates whether or not events from the speciﬁed subsystem and level are displayed.

Default: all all all

• DriveTest (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Starts or stops a drive test with the previously speciﬁed conﬁguration. Drives being tested are not available for RAID conﬁguration or RAID operations. Only one test can be run at a time.

DriveTest [Begin | Cancel]

• DriveTestClearList Conﬁgures the next drive test to perform one of the following operations: initialize (destructive write-only), read (nondestructive read-only), verify (destructive verify), or initverify (destructive write-read-verify). The test is not started until the DriveTest Begin command is given.

set DriveTestConfig [init | read | verify | init-verify] get DriveTestConfig

• DriveTestConfig (Disabled on Error) Conﬁgures the next drive test to perform one of the following operations: initialize (destructive write-only), read (nondestructive read-only), verify (destructive verify), or initverify (destructive write-read-verify). The test is not started until the DriveTest Begin command is given.

set DriveTestConfig [init | read | verify | init-verify] get DriveTestConfig

• DriveTestList (Disabled on Error) Speciﬁes drives to be run in the next drive test. This command can be called with different eligible block IDs and each one is added to the list. Drives which are not part of a RAID group or are not hot spares are eligible. The all parameter automatically chooses eligible drives. The test is not started until the DriveTest Begin command is given..

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

• DriveTestStatus Displays the status of the currently running drive test but does not display performance metrics. If a block device ID is not running or cannot be found, its state is idle and percent complete is 0.

get DriveTestStatus <drive [BlockDevID]>

• DumpConfiguration (Immediate) Displays the unit’s conﬁguration to the Advanced page of the Sonnet Web Management Tool or a terminal emulation or Telnet session. The record may not be displayed completely in the Sonnet Web Management Tool page.

DumpConfiguration

• DumpEventLog (Immediate) Displays the contents of the EventLog to the Advanced page of the Sonnet Web Management Tool or a terminal emulation or Telnet session. The record may not be displayed completely in the Sonnet Web Management Tool page.

DumpEventLog

• EmailFromAddress Conﬁgures the Email address that the unit uses to communicate with the Email server. Full Email address is a fully qualiﬁed

Internet Email address, not more than 128 characters long.

set EmailFromAddress [full email address] get EmailFromAddress

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• EmailNotify Regulates Email notiﬁcation.

Default: disabled.

set EmailNotify [enabled | disabled] get EmailNotify

• EmailNotifyAddress Conﬁgures notiﬁcation addresses. Index is a number between 1 and 5. Full Email address is a fully qualiﬁed Internet Email address, not more than 128 characters long. Emails are sent based on the warning level you set to trigger an Email alert.

Warning levels

None: no Emails Critical: only critical severity events Warning: warnings and critical events Informational: information All: all warnings, critical events and informational messages

set EmailNotifyAddress [index] [full email address] [warning level] get EmailNotifyAddress <index | all>

• EmailPassword Conﬁgures the password which authenticates 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

SaveConﬁguration command required

• EmailServerAddress Conﬁgures the address of the server the unit must contact in order to send out Email notiﬁcations using either an Email address (xxx.xxx.x.x) or a fully qualiﬁed domain name (mail. myserver.com).

Default: 0.0.0.0

set EmailServerAddress [IP address |domain name]

SaveConﬁguration command required

get EmailServerAddress

• EmailUsername Conﬁgures the user name which authenticates 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 [username]

SaveConﬁguration command required

get EmailUsername

• EthernetSpeed Regulates the speed of the RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet port. If Auto is enabled, the Ethernet speed is negotiated. When hard set, 10 and 100 speeds are half duplex.

Default: auto

set EthernetSpeed [mp1] [10 | 100 | auto]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get EthernetSpeed [mp1]

• EventLog (Enabled, Disabled on Error) Regulates event logging. When enabled, records various system errors to the event log.

set EventLog [enabled | disabled] get EventLog

• EventLogFilter (Enabled, Disabled on Error) Filters data from speciﬁc unit subsystems and levels when event logging is enabled. The speciﬁc entries supported are platformdependent. For set commands, the ﬁnal parameter indicates whether or not events from the speciﬁed subsystem and level are displayed.

• Exit (Immediate) Terminates the current CLI session over Telnet. This command has no effect if used during a serial CLI session.

Exit

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• FCConnMode Speciﬁes the connection mode the unit uses when communicating across a Fibre Channel network.

Connection modes:

FC_AL arbitrated loop: loop Point-to-point: ptp auto-negotiation, loop preferred: loop-ptp auto-negotiation, ptp preferred: ptp-loop:

Default: loop

set FCConnMode [fp| all] [loop | ptp | loop-ptp | ptp-loop]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get FCConnMode [fp | all]

• FCDataRate Speciﬁes the Fibre Channel data rate at which operation will occur. If no connection has been made, the data rate in the Info command output toggles among 1Gb, 2Gb or 4Gb on hardware capable of 4Gb per sec., and 8Gb on hardware capable of 8Gb per sec.

set FCDataRate [fp | all] [1Gb | 2Gb | 4Gb | 8Gb | auto] get FCDataRate [fp | all]

• FCHard Regulates Fibre Channel hard address assignment. When enabled, the unit tries to use its internal hard address as its address on the Fibre Channel loop. Under soft addressing, the unit loop address is assigned during loop initialization.

Default: disabled set FCHard [enabled | disabled]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get FCHard

• FCHardAddress Speciﬁes the value used as the FC-AL hard address. This value represents the address that will be used if the FCHard command is enabled. Valid Fibre Channel hard address values are from 0 through 125.

set FCHardAddress [fp | all] [address] get FCHardAddress [fp | all]

• FCMultiNode Determines the reported identity of Fibre Channel ports. When enabled (multiple node mode), each port reports a separate unique Node Name; 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.

Support Note: Changing the FC port reporting causes

all maps to be deleted: you must perform a SaveConfiguration command before creating new maps using the AutoMap or Route commands.

Default: disabled

set FCMultiNode [enabled | disabled] get FCMultiNode

• FCPortErrors Displays the number of Fibre Channel errors that have occurred since the last reboot/power-on or use of the ResetFCPortErrors command.

get FCPortErrors [fp | all]

• FCPortList Displays a list of available FC ports and their current status. Valid reported status values are Up, Down, Failed, Reserved and Disabled.

FCPortList

• FCWWName Reports the World Wide Port Name of the Fibre Channel interface referenced. Each Fibre Channel port has an individual and unique 8-byte Port Name.

get FCWWName [fp | all]]

• FirmwareRestart Resets and reinitializes the unit ﬁrmware. Use the forced option to override any CLI reservations held by other sessions.

FirmwareRestart <forced>

• Help (Immediate) Displays a list of available commands. If command name is speciﬁed, displays detailed command-speciﬁc information

Help <command>

• HSAdd (Immediate) Assigns a drive to the Hot Spare pool. If RAID and RAID group name are speciﬁed, the Hot Spare is assigned only to the speciﬁed RAID group. If no group name is speciﬁed, the Hot Spare is a global Hot Spare and available for use by any RAID group.

HSAdd <RAID Group Name> [BlockDevID]

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• HSDisplay (Immediate) Lists all drives in the Hot Spare pool.

HSDisplay

• HSRemove (Immediate) Removes a drive from the Hot Spare pool

HSRemove [BlockDevID | all]

• IdentifyBridge (Immediate) When enabled, the fault LED on this unit blinks so that hardware may be identiﬁed. Disabling this option cancels the blinking..

Default: disabled

set IdentifyBridge [enabled | disabled] get IdentifyBridge

• Info (Immediate) Displays version numbers and other production information for key components. Use the optional “brief” parameter to display a more concise subset of system information.

Info <brief>

• IPAddress Controls the current IP address of the RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet port. If IPDHCP is enabled, the get command reports the current IP address assigned by the network DHCP server, followed by the DHCP identiﬁer.

Default: 10.0.0.1

set IPAddress [mp1] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get IPAddress [mp1]

• IPDHCP Regulates how the unit acquires its IP address. When disabled, the unit uses the IP address speciﬁed by the IPAddress CLI command; when enabled, the unit gets its IP address from a DHCP server.

Default: enabled

set IPDHCP mp1 [enabled | disabled]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get IPDHCP

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

set IPDNSServer mp1 [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] get IPDNSServer

• IPGateway Controls the current default gateways used by the RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet port. If IPDHCP is enabled, the get command reports the current IP gateway assigned by the network DHCP server.

Default: 0.0.0.0

set IPGateway [mp1] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get IPGateway [mp1]

• IPSubnetMask Controls the current subnet masks used by the RX1600Fibre’s Ethernet port. If IPDHCP is enabled, the get command reports the current IP subnet mask assigned by the network DHCP server.

Default: 255.255.0.0

set IPSubnetMask [mp1] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get IPSubnetMask [mp1]

• IsReserved (Immediate) Displays the reservation status of the current services session or interface.

IsReserved

• MaxOpTemp Regulates or lists the maximum operating temperature. Valid entries are from 55 through 70°Celsius.

Default: 70

set MaxOpTemp [55 – 70]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get MaxOpTemp

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• Metrics (Immediate) Controls the collection of standard data metrics within a product based on the command parameters.

Metrics [Start | Stop | Display] [drive [BlockDevID] | all | running]

• MinOpTemp Regulates or lists the minimum operating temperature. Valid entries are from 0 through 15° Celsius.

Default: 0

set MinOpTemp [0 – 15]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get MinOpTemp

• OpTempWarn Regulates or lists the offset when a warning is issued before a thermal control event. Valid entries are from 0 to 15° Celsius.

Default: 5

set OpTempWarn [0 – 15]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get OpTempWarn

• Partition (Immediate) Creates a speciﬁed partition to the speciﬁed capacity in Gigabytes (GB), Megabytes (MB), or blocks. The speciﬁed capacity must be smaller than the speciﬁed partition’s current capacity. A new partition is created to acquire the remainder of the original partition’s space.

Partition [GroupName] [PartIndex] [capacity] [GB | MB | blocks]

• PartitionDisplay (Immediate) Lists all the partitions available in the speciﬁed RAID group. The partitions are listed contiguously (as opposed to index order). GroupName is the ASCII name of the RAID Group for which partitions will be displayed.

PartitionDisplay [GroupName]

• PartitionMerge (Immediate) Merges the speciﬁed contiguous partitions into one partition. GroupName is the ASCII name of the RAID Group containing the partitions to merge. PartIdx is the index of a partition to merge, along with a number of contiguous partitions to merge to that index. Group will be merged into a single Virtual Disk. The RAID Group must not be in a NEW state. None of the partitions to merge may be mapped.

PartitionMerge [GroupName] [[[PartIdx] [2-128]] | All]

• PartitionSplit (Immediate) Divides the speciﬁed partition into one or more partitions whose capacities are evenly distributed among the capacity of the original partition. GroupName is the ASCII name of the RAID Group containing the partition to split. PartIdx is the index of the partition to split. The partition to split cannot be mapped and the RAID group must not be in a NEW state.

PartitionSplit [GroupName] [PartIdx] [2-128]

• PartitionWriteCache If enabled, RAID internal Write Cache performs with a higher write rate providing a small risk of data loss after a system failure. If disabled, RAID internal Write Cache performs at a higher level of data integrity with lower write performance..

set PartitionWriteCache [GroupName] [PartIdx]

[enabled | disabled] get PartitionWriteCache [GroupName] [PartIdx]

• PassThroughMode Speciﬁes the non-disk device types which are automatically mapped at startup. Use all to map all non-disk devices. Use SES to map dedicated SES processor LUNs. Use non-SES to map all non-SES devices. Use disabled to disable the passthrough mode.

Default: disabled

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

• PassThroughPersistent Stores maps for currently-attached passthrough devices to persistent memory.

PassThroughPersistent

All indicates that all partitions in the RAID

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

PassThroughRediscover

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• Password Speciﬁes the password used for all sessions: Telnet, FTP and Sonnet Web Management Tool. Password is case sensitive, from 0 through 32 characters, and cannot contain spaces. Conﬁgure an empty password by pressing Return (Enter) when asked to designate a new password and conﬁrmation.

Default: Password

set Password

• Performance Lists performance data for the speciﬁed Fibre Channel port including the average rate (MB/sec.) and number of I/Os measured over the previous sampling period. Samples are taken about every second. Successful SCSI Read (08h, 28h) and Write (0Ah, 2Ah) commands are considered I/Os.

get Performance <fp>

• Ping Sends an ICMP echo request to the speciﬁed host.

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

• RAIDRebuildPriority Sets or displays the RAID rebuild priority. A RAID rebuild priority set to high gives higher priority to RAID rebuilds and lower priority to the processing of simultaneous read/write transactions. A RAID rebuild priority set to low gives lower priority to the rebuild and a higher priority to read/write transactions. Set to same, the RAID rebuild and processing of read/write transactions is the same.

Default: same

set RAIDRebuildPriority <GroupName | all> [high | low | same]

SaveConfiguration command required

get RAIDRebuildPriority <GroupName | all>

• RAIDSpeedWriteLimit Speciﬁes or displays the limit on the RAID Speed Write function. Warning: Changing the default setting (8) may result in poor performance or timeouts. A lower setting is recommended when using multiple initiators. A higher setting may improve performance with multiple streams of sequential write I/O, but too high a setting will cause timeouts.

Default: 8

set RAIDSpeedWriteLimit [0–256] get RAIDSpeedWriteLimit

• 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.

Default: Password

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.

Default: user

set ReadOnlyUsername [username] get ReadOnlyUsername

• Reserve (Immediate) 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 Resets all Fibre Channel error counts for the speciﬁed port to zero.

ResetFCPortErrors [fp | all]

• RestoreConfiguration (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Use default to force the NVRAM setting to its original defaults. Use factory to force the NVRAM setting to its original defaults, including the unit's World Wide Name (WWN). Use saved to undo any changes made since the last save.

RestoreConfiguration [default | factory | saved]

• RGAddStorage (Immediate) Adds additional storage to an existing RAID group. Warning: This feature is not supported under Mac OS X. Up to 10 indices of available block devices, provided by the BlockDevScan command, may be added to the RAID group. If this list is omitted, use RGMemberAdd instead of RGAddStorage. If you use Commit to automatically save the conﬁguration, all user data is removed from each new member drive. If you do not use Commit, you must use the command RGCommit to save the conﬁguration. If you do not use the Commit parameter and you have not used RGCommit, you may use the command RGCancelAddStorage. Note: Mirrors cannot be added to a RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, or DVRAID RAID group.

RGAddStorage [GroupName] [Mirror | Stripe | Span] <BlockDevID… <commit>

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• RGAutoRebuild RGAutoRebuild enables and disables Auto-Rebuild functionality for one or more RAID Groups. Auto-Rebuild uses drives assigned as Hot Spares, followed by all other available drives, as automatic replacements for any member that fails. Auto-

Default: disabled

set RGAutoRebuild [GroupName | all] [enabled | disabled] get set RGAutoRebuild [GroupName | all]

• RGCancelAddStorage (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Cancels the RGAddStorage command.

RGCancelAddStorage [GroupName]

• RGCommit (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Saves a RAID group’s conﬁguration to its member drives. If you add storage to an existing RAID group, the additional storage is stamped with the existing group’s conﬁguration. Use Advanced to initialize new drives, erasing and verifying the drive media; the RAID group is unavailable until the operation completes. Use Express to perform a background initialization; the RAID group is immediately available for use.

RGCommit < GroupName <Advanced | Express> | all <Advanced | Express> >

• RGDisplay (Immediate) Displays status information for a single RAID group, or if All is used, all available RAID groups.

RGDisplay <GroupName | all>

• RGErase (Immediate) Erases the data from the speciﬁed existing RAID group. Warning: All data is lost when you use the RGErase command!

RGErase [GroupName]

• RGHaltConversion (Immediate) Stops the conversion on the speciﬁed existing RAID group.

RGHaltConversion [GroupName]

• RGHaltErase (Immediate) Stops the erase on the speciﬁed RAID group.

RGHaltErase [GroupName]

• RGHaltInitialization (Immediate) Stops the initialization process on the speciﬁed existing RAID group.

RGHaltRebuild [GroupName]

• RGCreate (Immediate) Creates a new RAID group with the name, RAID level and interleave level, if speciﬁed. KB denotes interleave in kilobytes. Without the KB sufﬁx, interleave is set in 512 byte blocks. If interleave is not provided, the system’s default interleave is used.

RGCreate [Group Name] [RAID [0|1|10|4|5|6] |JBOD] <8KB|16KB|32KB|64KB|128KB|256KB|512KB|1024 KB |16|32 |64|128|256|512|1024|2048>

• RGDelete Deletes all RAID group conﬁgurations or the speciﬁed RAID group conﬁguration.

RGDelete [group name | all] RGDisplay <GroupName | all>

• RGDiskWriteCache (Immediate)

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]

• RGHaltRebuild (Immediate) RGHaltRebuild halts the rebuild(s) on the speciﬁed existing RAID Group. Optional parameter MemberIndex speciﬁes the RAID Member whose rebuild will be halted. For RAID 6 Groups, if a MemberIndex is speciﬁed, all rebuilding RAID Members on the span with that MemberIndex will halt as well. If no MemberIndex is speciﬁed, all rebuilds on that RAID Group will be halted.

RGHaltRebuild [GroupName] <MemberIndex>

• RGMemberAdd (Immediate) Adds available block devices to a new RAID group or as part of an RGAddStorage operation and resets the number of RAID partitions to 1. Up to 10 block IDs may be speciﬁed. If all is speciﬁed, then all available unused blocks are added to the RAID group until the maximum number of RAID group members has been met.

RGMemberAdd [GroupName | all] [BlockDevID]

• RGMemberRemove (Immediate) Removes a RAID member from a new RAID group and resets the number of partitions to 1.

RGMemberRemove [GroupName] [MemberIndex]

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• RGPrefetch

Speciﬁes or lists the prefetch value..

set RGPrefetch [GroupName | all] [Value 0 to 6] get RGPrefetch [GroupName | all]

• RGRebuild (Immediate) Starts rebuilding the speciﬁed existing RAID Group. Optional parameters MemberN specify the members to rebuild. If no member is speciﬁed, all degraded members will be rebuilt. Optional parameters BlockDevID1 allows an available block device to be substituted for the RAID Member currently assigned to the Member Index. RAID 6 groups can rebuild two members using the optional and.

RGRebuild [GroupName] <Member1> <BlockDevID1> <and> <Member2> <BlockDevID2>

• RGResumeConversion (Immediate) Continues the stopped conversion on the speciﬁed existing RAID group.

RGResumeConversion [GroupName]

• RGResumeErase (Immediate) Continues the erase on the speciﬁed existing RAID group.

RGResumeErase [GroupName]

• RGResumeInitialization (Immediate) Continues the initialization on the speciﬁed existing RAID group.

RGResumeInitialization [GroupName]

• RGResumeRebuild Continues the rebuild on a RAID group. For RAID 6 groups, if a Member Index is speciﬁed, all rebuilds stopped on the span with that Member Index resume. If no Member Index is speciﬁed, all stopped rebuilds on that RAID Group are resumed.

RGResumeRebuild [Group Name] <Member Index>

• RGSpanDepth Regulates the span depth on the speciﬁed existing new RAID group for all RAID conﬁgurations except JBOD, which implicitly supports spanning as members are added.

set RGSpanDepth [GroupName] [SpanDepth [1-16]] get RGSpanDepth [GroupName]

• RGSpeedRead Performs look-ahead during reads from RAID group member disks for all or the speciﬁed RAID group. Choose Auto to base the read algorithm on each I/O command.

set RGSpeedRead [GroupName | all] [enabled | disabled | auto] get RGSpeedRead [GroupName | all]

• RGUnmap (Immediate) Removes all mapped partitions of the speciﬁed RAID group from the routing table. The partitions themselves will be unaffected, though they will now be inaccessible to any initiators.

RGUnmap [GroupName | all]

• RGWaitTimeout (Disabled on Error) Speciﬁes the maximum time in seconds that the system waits to discover previously-conﬁgured RAID groups. The time out is used during system boot time and when the BlockDevScan command is issued.

Default: 5

set RGWaitTimeout [1-3600]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get RGWaitTimeout

• RMStatus (Immediate) Lists the status of all RAID members within a RAID group or a speciﬁc RAID member.

RMStatus [GroupName] <MemberIndex>

• RGSectorSize

Set or get 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 4K sectors to enable large volume support (greater than 2TB, up to 16TB) in Windows XP (32-bit).

Default: 512

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

• Route Maps a RAID partition or SAS/SATA PassThrough device onto the Fibre Channel network as an FC LUN (SCSI-FCP LUN). Mapping a RAID partition to a current FC LUN overwrites the previous map. If the unit is conﬁgured for verbose mode, overwriting a map requires secondary conﬁrmation.

If FCMultiNode is enabled:

Route FC [fl] [ [RAID [Group Name] [Part Index]] | [SAS [SAS Index]]| Delete ]

If FCMultiNode is disabled:

Route FC [fl] [ [RAID [Group Name] [Part Index]] | [SAS [SAS Index]]| Delete ]

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• RouteDisplay (Immediate) Lists all maps with RAID group partition identiﬁer, group name and FC LUN (SCSI-FCP LUN). Use Passthrough to list only passthrough device maps. Use Persistent to list only Pass Through maps stored in persistent memory.

If FCMultiNode is enabled:

RouteDisplay FC <LUN> | <passthrough> | <persistent>

If FCMultiNode is disabled:

RouteDisplay FC <LUN> |<passthrough> | <persistent>

• SASPortList (Immediate)

Lists the status of all available SAS ports.

SasPortList

• SASTargets (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Lists the physical devices that are connected to all SAS ports.

SASTargets

• SaveConfiguration (Immediate, Disabled on Error) Issued with the restart option, cycles unit power after saving conﬁguration changes. The norestart option saves changes without restarting. Note: Certain modiﬁcations require a system restart.

SaveConfiguration

• SerialNumber Displays the serial number. The serial number is a 13 character ﬁeld. The ﬁrst seven alphanumeric characters are an abbreviation representing the product name. The remaining six digits are the individual unit’s number.

get SerialNumber

• SerialPortBaudRate

Conﬁgures the baud rate for the unit’s RS-232 serial port. The number of data bits per character is ﬁxed at 8 with no parity.

Default: 115200

set SerialPortBaudRate [9600 | 19200 | 38400 | 57600 | 115200]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get SerialPortBaudRate

• SerialPortEcho

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

Default: enabled

set SerialPortEcho [enabled | disabled] get SerialPortEcho

• SES (Enabled, Disabled on Error)

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

set SES [enabled | disabled] get SES

• SESAlarmTest (Immediate, Disabled on Error)

Turns on an enclosure's audible alarm if certain conditions exist. Reset turns off the alarm. Use SESEnclosures before setting the alarm.

SESAlarmTest [EnclIdx] [SET | RESET] [INFO | NON-CRIT | CRIT | UNRECOV]

• SESDiskFailureAlarm (Disabled, Disabled on Error)

When enabled, activates an audible alarm when the RAID controller determines that a RAID member disk drive has failed. The alarm in the enclosure which contains the failed disk drive will sound, other enclosures will be unaffected.

set SESDiskFailureAlarm [enabled | disabled] get SESDiskFailureAlarm

• SESEnclosures (Immediate, Disabled on Error)

Displays a list of SES-enabled enclosures which have been discovered by the controller.

SESEnclosures

• SESIdentify (Disabled on Error)

Commands the SES enclosure to identify the speciﬁed element. ALL identiﬁes all disks. RAID and RAID group name identify all disks in a RAID group. If the Member Index is also speciﬁed, only that disk is identiﬁed. ENC and enclosure index identify all slots in the speciﬁed enclosure. DRIVE and BlockDevID identify the speciﬁed disk. Use SESEnclosures ﬁrst before identifying elements using ALL or ENC. If using ENC, use BlockDevScan ﬁrst.

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• SESIdentifyStop (Immediate, Disabled on Error)

Commands an SES enclosure to stop identifying the speciﬁed element. ALL stops identifying all enclosure drive slots. RAID and RAID group name stop identifying disks in a RAID group. ENC and enclosure index stop identifying all slots in the enclosure. DRIVE and BlockDevID stop identifying the speciﬁed drive. Use SESEnclosures ﬁrst before identifying elements using ALL or ENC.

SESIdentifyStop [ALL | RAID Group Name <Member Index> | ENC Enclosure Index | DRIVE BlockDevID]

• SESMute (Immediate, Disabled on Error)

Causes the audible alarms of all known enclosures or the speciﬁc enclosure to be muted or set to the remind state if supported. The remind state causes an occasional audible reminder of the alarm condition. Use SESEnclosures ﬁrst before using this command.

Default: Mute

SESMute <EnclIdx> <REMIND>

• SESPoll (Enabled, Disabled on Error)

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

• SESStartingSlot (Disabled on Error)

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

set SESStartingSlot [0 | 1] get SESStartingSlot

• SESStatus (Immediate, Disabled on Error)

SESStatus displays the last polled status of the speciﬁed element type in the speciﬁed enclosure. SupportLevel indicates the SES features supported by the speciﬁed enclosure: Fan, Power, Temp, Alarm, DriveLEDs. If no element type is speciﬁed, all status is displayed. Note that SESEnclosures must be executed prior to executing SESStatus.

• SNTP Controls whether an SNTP time server is used to set the date and time.

Default: enabled

set SNTP [enabled | disabled]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get SNTP

• SNTPServer Regulates or lists the main IP address the client uses to retrieve the SNTP time and date.

Default: 192.43.244.18

set SNTPServer [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get SNTPServer

• TailEventLog Displays new events to the terminal. Type quit then press return (Enter) to exit tail mode.

TailEventLog

• Temperature Lists the current internal operating temperature in degrees Celsius. The value is read-only.

get Temperature

• Time (Disabled on Error) Sets or displays the current time as in 24 hour format.

set Time [HH: MM: SS] get Time

• TimeZone Sets or displays the time zone or an offset from GMT. GMT offset must be in the format +/-HH:MM

Default: EST

set TimeZone [[EST | CST | MST | PST] | [[+|-] [HH]:[MM]]]

SaveConﬁguration Restart command required

get TimeZone

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• Username Speciﬁes the user name for all sessions: Telnet, FTP and Sonnet Web Management Tool. It is case insensitive, from 1 through 32 characters, and cannot contain spaces.

Default: root

set Username [username]

SaveConﬁguration command required

get Username

• VerboseMode (Enabled) Controls the level of detail in CLI Help output and command response output for the current CLI session.

Default: enabled

set VerboseMode [enabled | disabled] get VerboseMode

• VirtualDriveInfo (Immediate) Displays characteristics and statistics for all the available virtual drives or any available virtual drive identiﬁed by its virtual drive ID.

VirtualDriveInfo <Virtual Drive ID>

• WrapEventLog (Enabled, Disabled on Error) When enabled, the unit logs up to 2,048 event entries before wrapping (overwriting the ﬁrst entries). If disabled, the unit stops logging event entries when the buffer is full.

Default: enabled

set WrapEventLog [enabled | disabled] get WrapEventLog

• zModem Transfers a ﬁle using the RS-232 port and the zModem protocol. You must type in the ﬁle name to send a ﬁle.

zModem [[send [file name]] | receive]

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The ATTO FastStream controller in the Fusion RX1600Fibre provides instant hardware data protection and intelligence to existing storage independent of the storage type.

JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)

WARNING: RAID improves data accessibility and

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

To set up RAID groups refer to Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups on page 7. The Fusion RX1600Fibre allows RAID functionality. 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 Ensure Drive Integrity on page 3 or Removing RAID conﬁguration data on page 34.

A RAID group is a virtual, independent single drive whose data is written to physical drives according to a RAID algorithm. The ATTO FastStream supports JBOD, DVRAID, RAID Level 0, 1, 1+ 0, 4, 5 and 6.

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

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. See Figure B-1. A special case of a RAID group, multiple physical drives are assigned to a JBOD RAID group and their storage areas appear as a single spanned area of storage. The Fusion RX1600Fibre supports 1 to 32 drives per JBODconﬁgured RAID group.

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3

Data 1 Data 5 Data 9

Data 2 Data 6 Data 10

Data 3 Data 7 Data 11

Data 4 Data 8 Data 12

Figure B-1

RAID Level 0: Striping, No Redundancy

Stripe 1

Stripe 2

Stripe 3

Disk 1

Data 1

Data 5

Data 9

Disk 2

Data 2

Data 6

Data 10

Figure B-2

Disk 3

Data 3

Data 7

Data 11

Disk 4

Data 4

Data 8

Data 12

RAID Level 0: Striping, No Redundancy

RAID Level 0 (striping) is based on the fact that increased performance can be achieved by simultaneously accessing data across multiple drives, increasing data transfer rates while reducing average access time by overlapping drive seeks. 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. See Figure B-2.

RAID Level 0 is used by applications requiring high performance for non-critical data. The Fusion RX1600Fibre supports 2 to 16 drives per RAID Level 0 group.

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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. See Figure B-3.

RAID Level 1: Mirroring (Duplicate Drives)

Disk 1

Disk 2

The Fusion RX1600Fibre supports an even number of 2 to 16 drives per RAID Level 1 group.

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 performance, especially for small database applications. See Figure B-4.

Data 1

Data 2

Data 3

Figure B-3

Data 1

Data 2

Data 3

RAID Level 1 Plus Additional Mirroring

Disk 1

Data 1

Data 2

Disk 2

Data 1

Data 2

Disk 3

Data 1

Data 2

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 Levels 1 and 0. See Figure B-5.

The Fusion RX1600Fibre supports an even number of 4 to 16 drives per RAID Level 1+0 group.

Stripe 1

Stripe 2

Stripe 3

Data 3

Figure B-4

Data 3

RAID Level 1+0:

Striping, Mirror Spans Two Drives

Disk 1

Data 1

Data 3

Data 5

Disk 2

Data 1

Data 3

Data 5

Figure B-5

Disk 3

Data 2

Data 4

Data 6

Disk 4

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Data 4

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RAID Level 4: Striping, One Parity Drive

RAID 4 writes data across multiple drives or devices (striping) with parity blocks written to a single drive in the RAID group. This increases reliability while using fewer drives than mirroring. RAID Level 4 is best suited for applications that perform mostly sequential access such as video applications. See Figure B-6.

You must have at least three drives to set up RAID Level 4.

RAID Level 4: Striping, One Parity Drive

Disk 1

Disk 2

Disk 3

Disk 4

DVRAID: Digital Video RAID

Digital Video RAID provides parity redundancy for your data. Optimized for performance for the high data transfer rates required in digital video environments, DVRAID is ATTO Technology proprietary technology which supports the editing of uncompressed 10-bit High Deﬁnition (HD) video and multiple streams of real-time, uncompressed Standard Deﬁnition (SD) video. See Figure B-7.

You must use the Quick Digital Video setup wizard in the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

Stripe 1

Stripe 2

Stripe 3

Stripe 1

Stripe 2

Stripe 3

Data 1

Data 4

Data 7

Data 2

Data 5

Data 8

Figure B-6

Data 3

Data 6

Data 9

Parity 1–3

Parity 4–6

Parity 7–9

DVRAID: Striping, One Parity Drive

Disk 1

Data 1

Data 4

Data 7

Disk 2

Data 2

Data 5

Data 8

Disk 3

Data 3

Data 6

Data 9

Parity 1–3

Parity 4–6

Parity 7–9

Disk 4

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. See Figure B-8.

The Fusion RX1600Fibre supports 3 to 16 drives per RAID Level 5 group.

Figure B-7

RAID Level 5:

Striping, Parity Distributed Among Drives

Stripe 1

Stripe 2

Stripe 3

Stripe 4

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Disk 1

Data 1

Data 5

Data 9

Parity

10–12

Disk 2

Data 2

Data 6

Parity 7–9

Data 10

Figure B-8

Disk 3

Data 3

Parity 4–6

Data 7

Data 11

Disk 4

Parity 1–3

Data 4

Data 8

Data 12

Appendix B - RAID Group Designs

RAID Level 6: Striping, Two Parity Blocks Distributed Among Drives

RAID Level 6 increases reliability for mission critical applications by striping both data and dual parity across multiple drives, writing data and parity blocks across all the drives in a RAID group. RAID 6 provides can tolerate failure of two drives and provides redundancy during rebuilds. See Figure B-9.

The Fusion RX1600Fibre requires at least four drives to build a RAID 6 group. Two drives per RAID group are used for parity protection and are unavailable for data.

RAID Level 6: Striping, Two Parity Blocks

Distributed Among Drives

Disk 1

Data 2

Data 6

Parity 7–9

Disk 2

Data 3

Parity 4–6

Parity 7–9

Disk 3

Parity 1–3

Parity 4–6

Data 7

Stripe 1

Stripe 2

Stripe 3

Disk 1

Data 1

Data 5

Data 9

Disk 4

Parity 1–3

Data 4

Data 8

Stripe 4

Parity

10–12

Parity

10–12

Data 10

Figure B-9

Data 11

Data 12

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Appendix C - Multipathing

The Fusion RX1600Fibre supports multipath I/O through its ATTO FastStream RAID storage controller, a technique that enhances performance and fault tolerance, combining data paths from two or more Fibre Channel ports to increase performance and provide redundancy in case of a port or cable malfunction, the leading causes of storage failure. Multipathing additionally provides load balancing to distribute I/O across multiple paths for improved system and application performance.

For environments where storage availability and increased performance are important, it is recommended that you take advantage of the ATTO FastStream controller’s Failover and Load Balancing functionality.

The FastStream storage controller is compatible with generic Multipathing for Windows, OS X and Linux, however best results are achieved and supported with the ATTO Windows DSM MPIO driver and ATTO Celerity Multipathing for OS X.

Setup instructions for ATTO Celerity Multipathing for OS X and ATTO Windows DSM MPIO can be found on the software CD included with the Fusion RX1600Fibre, and may also be

downloaded from the Sonnet Web site. Setup instructions for Red Hat and SuSE Linux Multipathing can be found on the same disc.

Load Balancing Algorithms for OS X and Windows DSM MPIO

Pressure: The path with the fewest number of bytes being transferred is selected for I/O. Pressure load balancing is domainbased. The ﬁrst level of path selection is based on the domain (adapter channel) with the fewest number of bytes being transferred. If there are multiple paths to a target on a domain, a second level of selection is used. Pressure load balancing provides the best (or equal) performance of all load balancing policies regardless of storage topology.

Queue Depth: The path with the fewest outstanding I/O transactions is selected for I/O. This target-based policy is not generally recommended for use in an environment with mixed I/O transfers to many devices.

Round Robin: The least-used path is selected for I/O. This targetbased policy uses the conﬁguration’s cumulative I/O count for path selection. For example, if an I/O operation starts and ﬁnishes on one path to a dual ported device, the second path is used when the next I/O operation starts.

Setup of the RX1600Fibre with Multipathing

Multipathing functionality is set up and controlled from the Fibre Channel host adapter; minimal interaction is required on the RX1600Fibre. When the RX1600Fibre’s FastStream storage controller is used with any multipathing technology, it must have MultiNode functionality disabled. This can be set via the Advanced CLI page with the command “FCMultiNode disabled” or from the Sonnet Web Management Tool from the Manage Menu > System Conﬁguration > Establish Access through FC Ports (this must be set to Yes). No other setting changes are required in order for multipathing compatibility.

Improved Availability of Storage With Improved Performance

Multipathing Failover: Redundant physical path components host adapters, SFPs, cables and switches are used to create logical paths between the server and the storage device. In the event that one or more of these components fails, causing the path to fail, ATTO Multipathing logic uses an alternate path for I/O so that applications can still access their data.

Multi-Load Balancing: Multipathing software also serves to redistribute the read/write load among multiple paths between the server and storage, thereby helping to remove bottlenecks and to balance workloads for better overall performance.

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Appendix D - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions

If your Sonnet Fusion RAID storage system shipped with pre-installed hard disk drives, the following information will assist you to reformat the drives per your needs.

In Fusion RX1600 systems shipped from Sonnet with hard disk drives installed, the drives are formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and conﬁgured as a single RAID 6 RAID group. If you need to change the conﬁguration, use the Sonnet Web Management Tool interface and the operating system software tools to reformat and reconﬁgure the drives.

Mac OS Users’ Instructions

1. Follow all the steps in the included documentation to install the software and the Sonnet Fibre Channel host adapter, and to set up and connect the Fusion RX1600Fibre drive enclosure.

2. Start your computer, and then turn on the Fusion drive enclosure; the RAID volume should appear on the desktop.

3. Drag the volume to the trash (changes to an eject icon) to eject it.

4. Log into the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

11. Repeat steps 8–10 for each remaining unformatted RAID group.

12. Close Disk Utility.

13. Depending on how you conﬁgured the RAID groups, the volumes may already be available to the system. If you created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group, conﬁguration will take much longer. You may check on the progress by clicking the Monitor button to the left of the window.

14. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and ﬁnish building, they are ready to use.

Windows Vista Users’ Instructions

1. Follow all the steps in the included documentation to install the software and the Sonnet RAID controller, and to set up and connect the Fusion RAID enclosure.

2. Start your computer, and then turn on the Fusion drive enclosure.

3. Log into the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

5. Delete the RAID group as described in Deleting RAID Groups on page 31.

6. Set up new RAID groups following the instructions in Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups starting on page 7.

WARNING: After selecting the DVRAID, RAID Level 4,

RAID Level 5, or RAID Level 6 option, configuration of

the drives will take several hours to complete, with the total time depending on the operating system and drive capacities.

7. Depending on how you conﬁgure your setup, a Disk Insertion window will appear at some point stating that there

is an unreadable volume; click Initialize, and then Disk Utility will open.

8. In the Disk Utility window, each RAID group you created using the ATTO Conﬁguration Tool will appear as a single volume. Select the volume, and then click the Erase tab at the top of the window.

Support Note for Power Mac G5 Users: When

creating RAID groups 16TB or larger, uncheck the Install Mac OS 9 Drivers checkbox; OS 9 drivers do not support volumes greater than 16TB.

9. Click Erase; a window will appear asking you to approve your choice.

10. Click Erase.

4. Delete the RAID group as described in Deleting RAID Groups on page 31.

5. Set up new RAID groups following the instructions in Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups starting on page 7.

WARNING: After selecting the DVRAID, RAID Level 4,

RAID Level 5, or RAID Level 6 option, configuration of

the drives will take several hours to complete, with the total time depending on the operating system and drive capacities.

6. Select Computer Management From the Windows Start menu. If Computer Management is not available in the Start Menu, select Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools. In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer Management.

7. In the Computer Management window, click Storage on the left, and then double-click Disk Management.

8. When the Initialize Disk window appears, select the RAID volume you created. Select the MBR partition style if you need to access your RAID storage from a computer running Windows XP Professional or 32-bit Windows Server 2003; otherwise, select GPT. Click OK.

9. In the Disk Management window, each RAID group you created will appear (listed as “unallocated”) as a single volume. Right-click where the word “unallocated” appears, and then select New Simple Volume.

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Windows Vista Users’ Instructions (continued)

10. When the Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard window appears, click next to start the process.

11. Follow the remaining steps to complete the process.

Note: If you do not select the quick format option, this process will take

much longer to complete.

12. When the Assign Drive Letter or Path window appears, select Assign the following drive letter, choose a letter, and then click Next.

13. When the Format Partition window appears, enter a new name for the volume table if you’d like. For RAID volumes up to 16TB, accept the default allocation unit size; for RAID volumes greater than 16TB, select 8192 from the drop-down menu. Select Perform a quick format, and then click Next.

14. When the next window appears, click Finish.

15. Repeat steps 9–14 for each remaining “unallocated” disk.

16. Depending on how you conﬁgured the RAID groups, the volumes may already be available to the system. If you created a DVRAID, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 6 RAID group, conﬁguration will take much longer. You may check on the progress by clicking the Monitor button to the left of the window.

17. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and ﬁnish building, they are ready to use.

Windows XP/Server 2003 Users’ Instructions

1. Follow all the steps in the included documentation to install the software and the Sonnet RAID controller, and to set up and connect the Fusion RAID enclosure.

2. Start your computer, and then turn on the Fusion drive enclosure.

3. Log into the Sonnet Web Management Tool.

4. Delete the RAID group as described in Deleting RAID Groups on page 31.

5. Set up new RAID groups following the instructions in Conﬁgure Storage into RAID Groups starting on page 7.

WARNING: After selecting the DVRAID, RAID Level 4,

RAID Level 5, or RAID Level 6 option, configuration of

the drives will take several hours to complete, with the total time depending on the operating system and drive capacities.

6. Select Computer Management From the Windows Start menu. If Computer Management is not available in the Start Menu, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools. In the Administrative Tools window, double-click Computer Management.

7. In the Computer Management window, click Storage on the left, and then double-click Disk Management.

8. When the Initialize and Covert Disk Wizard window appears, click OK.

9. When the Select Disks to Initialize window appears, select the RAID volume(s), and then click Next.

10. When the next window appears, click Finish.

11. In the Disk Management window, each RAID group you created will appear (listed as “unallocated”) as a single volume. Right-click where the word “unallocated” appears, and then select New Partition.

12. When the Welcome to the New Partition Wizard window appears, click Next.

13. When the Select Partition Type window appears, select Primary Partition, and then click Next.

14. When the Specify Partition Size window appears, click next.

15. When the Assign Drive Letter or Path window appears, select Assign the following drive letter, choose a letter, and then click Next.

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Appendix D - Quick Drive Reformat Instructions

Windows XP/Server 2003 Users’ Instructions (continued)

16. When the Format Partition window appears, enter a new name for the volume table if you’d like. For RAID volumes up to 16TB, accept the default allocation unit size; for RAID volumes greater than 16TB, select 8192 from the drop-down menu. Select Perform a quick format, and then click Next.

17. When the next window appears, click Finish.

Note: If you do not select the quick format option, this process will take

much longer to complete.

18. Repeat steps 11–17 for each remaining “unallocated” disk.

19. Depending on how you conﬁgured the RAID groups,

the volumes may already be available to use. If you created a DVRAID, RAID Level 4, or RAID Level 5 group, conﬁguration will take much longer. You may check on the progress by clicking the Monitor button to the left of the window.

20. Once all the RAID groups have been formatted and ﬁnish building, they are ready to use.

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