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

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