Adaptec ICP5165BR User guide

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Contents
About This Guide
How This Guide is Organized .......................................................................... 13
What You Need to Know Before You Begin ................................................... 14
Terminology Used in this Guide...................................................................... 14
Part I: Getting Started
Introduction to ICP Storage Manager
Getting Started Checklist.................................................................................. 17
About ICP Storage Manager ............................................................................ 17
About the ICP Storage Manager Agent ........................................................... 17
Growing Your Storage Space with ICP Storage Manager............................... 18
A Simple Storage Space............................................................................ 18
An Advanced Storage Space..................................................................... 18
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space................................................ 19
System Requirements........................................................................................ 20
Controller Support............................................................................................ 20
Installing ICP Storage Manager
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 22
Installing on Linux............................................................................................ 23
Installing on UnixWareor OpenServer............................................................ 24
Using ICP Storage Manager with a Firewall.................................................... 24
Running ICP Storage Manager from the CD .................................................. 25
When to Choose Bootable-CD Mode ..................................................... 25
Getting Started in Bootable-CD Mode ................................................... 25
Running ICP Storage Manager from the CD ......................................... 25
Contents 7
Building Your Storage Space
Overview............................................................................................................ 28
Choosing a Management System ..................................................................... 28
‘Local’ or ‘Remote’?.................................................................................. 28
Starting and Logging In on the Local System.................................................. 29
Understanding Permission Levels ........................................................... 29
Starting and Logging In ........................................................................... 30
Starting ICP Storage Manager on Remote Systems ........................................ 32
Starting the Full Application.................................................................... 32
Starting the Agent Only ........................................................................... 32
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System .................................... 33
Removing a Remote System .................................................................... 34
Creating Logical Drives..................................................................................... 35
Express Configuration: The Easy Way .................................................... 35
Custom Configuration (Advanced) ........................................................ 38
Managing Your Storage Space.......................................................................... 42
Part II: Working in ICP Storage Manager
Exploring ICP Storage Manager
Working in ICP Storage Manager.................................................................... 45
About the Actions Menu ......................................................................... 45
The Enterprise View ................................................................................ 46
The Physical Devices View....................................................................... 47
The Logical Devices View ........................................................................ 48
Revealing More Device Information................................................................ 50
Checking System Status from the Main Window ........................................... 51
Getting Help ...................................................................................................... 51
Logging Out of ICP Storage Manager.............................................................. 52
Logging Back In........................................................................................ 52
Uninstalling ICP Storage Manager .................................................................. 52
Uninstalling From Windows Systems..................................................... 52
Uninstalling From Linux Systems ........................................................... 52
Uninstalling From UnixWare or OpenServer Systems .......................... 52
Uninstalling From Solaris Systems.......................................................... 53
Uninstalling From VMWare Systems ..................................................... 53
Protecting Your Data
Creating and Managing Hot Spares................................................................. 55
Hot Spare Limitations.............................................................................. 55
Dedicated Spare or Global Spare? ........................................................... 55
Contents 8
Designating a Global Hot Spare .............................................................. 55
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare ............................. 56
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?...................................................... 56
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare........................................ 57
Deleting a Global Hot Spare .................................................................... 57
Creating a Snapshot .......................................................................................... 58
Snapshot Limitations ............................................................................... 58
Creating a Snapshot With Backup .......................................................... 59
Creating a Snapshot Without Backup..................................................... 60
Deleting a Snapshot.................................................................................. 60
Enabling Copyback ........................................................................................... 60
Modifying Your Direct Attached Storage
Understanding Logical Drives.......................................................................... 62
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives........................................................... 63
Creating a Logical Drive of a Specified Size............................................ 63
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive ...................... 64
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments............................... 65
Stopping the Creation of a Logical Drive................................................ 65
Changing the Priority of the Creation of a Logical Drive ...................... 65
Fine-tuning Logical Drives ............................................................................... 66
Renaming a Logical Drive........................................................................ 66
Adjusting a Logical Drive’s Advanced Settings....................................... 66
Changing the Stripe Size .......................................................................... 67
Changing the Write Cache Setting .......................................................... 67
Changing the Read Cache Setting ........................................................... 67
Changing the Initialize Priority ............................................................... 68
Changing the Initialize Method............................................................... 68
Verifying Logical Drives ................................................................................... 68
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive....................................................... 69
Verifying a Logical Drive (Without Fix)................................................. 69
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check............................. 70
Setting the Background Consistency Check Period ............................... 70
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive ...................................................... 70
Extending a Partition on a Logical Drive................................................ 72
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive................................................... 73
Deleting a Logical Drive.................................................................................... 73
Creating a RAID Volume ................................................................................. 74
Scheduling Recurring or Resource-Intensive Jobs
Scheduling a Task.............................................................................................. 77
Opening the Task Manager .............................................................................. 78
Contents 9
Monitoring Tasks.............................................................................................. 79
Monitoring Upcoming Tasks in the Task List........................................ 79
Checking Past Tasks and Events in the Event Log.................................. 79
Modifying a Task............................................................................................... 80
What if a task misses its start time? ......................................................... 80
Deleting a Task.................................................................................................. 80
Disabling the Task Manager............................................................................. 80
Re-enabling the Task Manager................................................................ 81
Maintaining Physical Devices
Viewing Component Properties....................................................................... 83
Blinking a Component...................................................................................... 83
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives.................................................... 84
Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive................................................ 84
Setting a Disk Drive to ‘Failed’ ................................................................ 84
Initializing and Erasing Disk Drives................................................................. 84
Initializing Disk Drives ............................................................................ 85
Clearing Disk Drives ................................................................................ 85
Working with Controllers ................................................................................ 85
Registering New Controllers.................................................................... 86
Testing a Controller Alarm...................................................................... 86
Silencing a Controller Alarm ................................................................... 86
Disabling a Controller Alarm .................................................................. 86
Rescanning a Controller .......................................................................... 87
Saving Your Controller Configuration ................................................... 87
Setting a Controller’s Default Task Priority............................................ 87
Testing and Silencing System and Enclosure Alarms...................................... 88
Working with System Alarms.................................................................. 88
Working with Enclosure Alarms ............................................................. 90
Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware................................................. 91
Before You Begin...................................................................................... 91
Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware ........................................ 91
Monitoring Status and Activity
Monitoring Options.......................................................................................... 95
Checking Status from the Main Window ........................................................ 95
Viewing Activity and Status in the Event Log......................................... 95
What Do the Event Status Icons Mean?.................................................. 96
Using Enclosure Icons to Monitor Enclosure Status.............................. 97
Notifying Users by Event Log Message About Status and Activity ................ 98
Setting up Logged Notifications ........................................................... 98
Sending a Test Event .............................................................................. 100
Contents 10
Modifying a System’s Information or Remove a System ..................... 101
Disabling Logged Notifications ............................................................. 102
Clearing the Notifications Manager Log............................................... 102
Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity ................................... 103
Setting Up Email Notifications.............................................................. 103
Sending a Test Message.......................................................................... 105
Modifying a Recipient’s Information or Removing a Recipient ......... 106
Modifying Email Settings....................................................................... 106
Disabling Email Notifications................................................................ 107
Clearing the Email Notifications Log ................................................... 107
Notifying Users by SNMP Trap About Status and Activity.......................... 108
Setting Up SNMP Notifications on Windows ...................................... 108
Setting Up SNMP Notifications on Linux ............................................ 109
Nofifying All Users About Status and Activity .............................................. 109
Changing an Operating System’s Event Log Setting..................................... 110
Updating and Customizing ICP Storage Manager
Updating Adaptec Storage Manager .............................................................. 112
Adding Enhanced Features ............................................................................ 112
Unlocking the Enhanced Features......................................................... 112
Setting Preferences and Changing Views....................................................... 112
Reorganizing the Enterprise View ......................................................... 113
Setting the Standard Unit of Measure................................................... 114
Changing the Main Window Appearance ............................................ 114
Managing Remote Systems............................................................................. 114
Adding and Removing Remote Systems in the Wizard ....................... 115
Changing Auto-Discovery Settings ....................................................... 117
Working with Display Groups ....................................................................... 118
Creating Display Groups........................................................................ 119
Viewing Display Group Status............................................................... 120
Moving a System from One Display Group to Another ...................... 120
Renaming a Display Group.................................................................... 121
Removing a System from a Display Group........................................... 121
Deleting a Display Group....................................................................... 121
Solving Problems
General Troubleshooting Tips ....................................................................... 123
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component ................................................... 123
Stopping the Creation of a New Logical Drive.............................................. 124
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ........................................................... 124
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare ......................................... 124
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare .................................. 125
Contents 11
Failure in Multiple Logical Drives Simultaneously .............................. 125
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Logical Drive ...................................... 125
Multiple Disk Drive Failures in the Same Logical Drive...................... 126
Forcing a Logical Drive with Multiple Drive Failures Back Online .... 127
Removing a Failed Disk Drive’s Icon .................................................... 127
Rebuilding Logical Drives............................................................................... 127
Solving Notification Problems ....................................................................... 128
Creating a Support Archive File ..................................................................... 128
Understanding Error and Warning Messages ............................................... 129
Warning Messages.................................................................................. 129
Error Messages........................................................................................ 129
Part III: Appendices
Completing a Silent Installation..................................................................... 137
Available Properties and Values..................................................................... 138
Example Command Line Installations .......................................................... 138
Selecting the Best RAID Level
Comparing RAID Levels................................................................................. 140
Understanding Drive Segments ..................................................................... 140
Non-redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)...................................................... 141
RAID 1 Logical Drives .................................................................................... 142
RAID 1 Enhanced Logical Drives................................................................... 142
RAID 10 Logical Drives .................................................................................. 143
RAID 5 Logical Drives .................................................................................... 144
RAID 5EE Logical Drives................................................................................ 145
RAID 50 Logical Drives .................................................................................. 146
RAID 6 Logical Drives .................................................................................... 147
RAID 60 Logical Drives .................................................................................. 147
Quick Answers to Common Questions...
How do I...? ..................................................................................................... 149
Set up my storage space? ........................................................................ 149
Create or add a new logical drive? ......................................................... 149
Open the Configuration wizard? ........................................................... 149
Turn off the alarm?................................................................................. 149
Add a new user to ICP Storage Manager?............................................. 149
Add a remote system?............................................................................. 149
Prevent a user from changing my storage space? ................................. 149
Check disk drive or logical drive status? ............................................... 149
Access a feature with a padlock icon beside it?..................................... 149
Contents 12
Log out of ICP Storage Manager?.......................................................... 150
Schedule a task? ...................................................................................... 150
Find the Task Manager?......................................................................... 150
Find the Notification Manager?............................................................. 150
Find the Email Notification Manager?.................................................. 150
What’s the difference between...? ................................................................... 151
ICP Storage Manager and the Agent? ................................................... 151
Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts?................... 151
What options are on the Actions menu? ...................................................... 151
Local and remote systems ...................................................................... 151
Controllers?............................................................................................. 152
Disk drives?............................................................................................. 152
Enclosures?.............................................................................................. 152
Logical drives?......................................................................................... 153
Managed system?.................................................................................... 153
The Notification Manager?.................................................................... 153
The Email Notification Manager? ......................................................... 153
The Task Manager? ............................................................................... 154
What tasks can be scheduled to run at a specified time? .............................. 154
Glossary
Index
About This Guide
ICP
®
Storage Manager
TM
is a software application that helps you build a storage space using
ICP RAID controllers, disk drives, and enclosures, and then manage your stored data, whether
you have a single RAID controller installed in a server or a complex Storage Area Network
(SAN) with multiple RAID controllers, servers, and enclosures.
This Users Guide describes how to install and use ICP Storage Manager to build and manage
ICP direct attached storage—a RAID controller and disk drives which reside inside, or are
directly attached to, the computer accessing them, similar to the basic configurations shown in
these figures:
How This Guide is Organized
This
User’s Guide
is divided into three sections:
Server with ICP RAID
controller and disk drives
System running
ICP Storage Manager
System running
ICP Storage Manager
Server with ICP
RAID controller and
disk drives
Server with ICP RAID
controller, running ICP
Storage Manager
Storage enclosures
with disk drives
installed
Network (SAN)
Connection
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Part I: Getting Started—Follow the instructions in this section to install
ICP
Storage
Manager and build your storage space. (For a definition of ‘storage space’ and other terms
used in this
User’s Guide
, see page 14.)
Part II: Using ICP Storage Manager—Once your storage space is built, refer to this section
for help protecting, modifying, monitoring, and troubleshooting your storage space and
its components.
Part III: Quick Reference—Refer to this section for quick answers to common questions
about
ICP
Storage Manager. A comparison of RAID levels is also included.
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
This User’s Guide is written for advanced computer users who want to create a storage space for
their data. Advanced knowledge of storage networks is not required, but you should be familiar
with computer hardware, data storage, and DAS and Redundant Array of Independent Disks
(RAID) technology.
If you are using ICP Storage Manager as part of a complex storage system, such as a SAN, you
should be familiar with network administration terminology and tasks, have knowledge of
Local Area Network (LAN) and SAN technology, and be familiar with the input/output (I/O)
technology—such as Serial ATA (SATA) or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)—that you are using on
your network.
Note:
Because this User’s Guide covers multiple ICP RAID products, some of the features and
functions described may not be available for your controller or enclosure.
Terminology Used in this Guide
Because this
User’s Guide
provides information that can be used to manage multiple ICP RAID
products in a variety of configurations from DAS to SAN, the generic term “storage space” is
used to refer to the controller(s) and disk drives being managed with ICP Storage Manager.
For efficiency, the term “components” or “component” is used when referring generically to
the physical and virtual parts of your storage space, such as systems, disk drives, controllers,
and logical drives.
Many of the terms and concepts referred to in this
Users Guide
are known to computer users by
multiple names. In this
User’s Guide
, this terminology is used:
Controller (also known as adapter, HBA, board, or card)
Disk drive (also known as hard disk, hard drive, or hard disk drive)
Logical drive (also known as logical device)
System (also known as a server, workstation, or computer)
Enclosure (also known as a JBOD, storage enclosure, or disk enclosure)
Note:
For more terminology information, see the Glossary on page 155.
In this part:
Introduction to ICP Storage Manager ........................... 16
Installing ICP Storage Manager ................................... 21
Building Your Storage Space ....................................... 27
Getting Started
Part I:
1
Introduction to ICP Storage Manager
In this chapter...
Getting Started Checklist .......................................................................................................17
About ICP Storage Manager.................................................................................................. 17
About the ICP Storage Manager Agent................................................................................. 17
Growing Your Storage Space with ICP Storage Manager..................................................... 18
System Requirements .............................................................................................................20
Controller Support................................................................................................................. 20
This chapter describes ICP Storage Manager and the ICP Storage Manager Agent, explains the
concept of a “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
Chapter 1: Introduction to ICP Storage Manager 17
Getting Started Checklist
Part I of this
Users Guide
includes three special Getting Started chapters to help you install,
start, and begin to use ICP Storage Manager.
D Step 1: Familiarize yourself with ICP Storage Manager and the ICP Storage Manager Agent
(see the remainder of this chapter).
D Step 2: Install ICP Storage Manager on every system that will be part of your storage spaces
(see page 21).
D Step 3: Build your storage space (see page 27).
About ICP Storage Manager
ICP Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space for your
online data, using ICP RAID controllers, disk drives, and enclosures.
Note:
For information about creating an IP SAN with ICP Storage Manager and the Snap Server
700i Series, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com.
With ICP Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in
redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance. You can also use ICP
Storage Manager to monitor and maintain all the controllers, enclosures, and disk drives in
your storage space from a single location.
About the ICP Storage Manager Agent
When ICP Storage Manager is installed on a system, the ICP Storage Manager Agent is also
installed automatically. The Agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. Its
designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and
manage system health, event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on
that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when
errors or failures occur on that system.
The Agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems
that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface described
in this
User’s Guide
), you can choose to run the Agent only on those systems instead of the full
application (see page 17). You may want to do this if system resources are limited, or if you
want more system resources available for other tasks.
Note:
Linux or Unix users only
—If your storage space includes systems without X-Windows installed or
running, you can run the Agent, even though you can’t run the full ICP Storage Manager application.
You can manage and monitor systems running the Agent only by logging into them as remote
systems (see page 32).
You can also customize the Agent settings to suit your storage space requirements.
Chapter 1: Introduction to ICP Storage Manager 18
Growing Your Storage Space with ICP Storage Manager
As your requirements change, ICP Storage Manager grows with your storage space as you add
more controllers, more disk drives, more logical drives, and more data protection.
A Simple Storage Space
This example shows a simple storage space that might be appropriate in a home office or for a
small business. This storage space includes one RAID controller and three disk drives installed
in a server. For data protection, the disk drives have been used to build a RAID 5 logical drive.
An Advanced Storage Space
This example shows how you can grow your storage space to meet the expanding requirements
of your business. On the first server, segments of space from each disk drive have been used to
build two RAID 5 logical drives. A second server connected to two 12-disk-drive enclosures
has been added. The additional storage space has been used to create two RAID 50 logical
drives. The Administrator of this storage space can create and modify logical drives and
monitor both
controllers, disk drives, and enclosures from a single system, called the
local
system (see
page 28
).
RAID 5
Server with RAID Controller
and Disk Drives
System running
ICP Storage Manager
Business and
Customer Data
Local
System
RAID 5
System running
ICP Storage Manager
RAID 5
Accounting and
Payroll Data
Personnel Data
Server with RAID
controller and
disk drives
Server with RAID
controller, running
ICP Storage
Manager Agent
RAID
50
RAID
50
Storage enclosures with
disk drives installed
Customer Data
Network (SAN) Connection
Local
System
Chapter 1: Introduction to ICP Storage Manager 19
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space
As your needs change, ICP Storage Manager will help you grow your storage space to include
multiple controllers, storage enclosures, and disk drives in multiple locations.
In this example, multiple systems, servers, disk drives, and enclosures have been added to the
storage space. The Administrator can create and modify logical drives and monitor all the
controllers, enclosures, and disk drives in the storage space from the local system (see page 28).
RAID
50
RAID 60
RAID 5
RAID 5
Server running ICP
Storage Manager Agent
System running
ICP Storage Manager
Network (SAN) Connection
RAID
5EE
RAID
5EE
RAI
5E
Storage enclosures with
disk drives installed
Storage enclosures with
disk drives installed
Local
System
Server running ICP
Storage Manager Agent
Server running ICP
Storage Manager Agent
Server with RAID
controller and disk
drives installed
Chapter 1: Introduction to ICP Storage Manager 20
System Requirements
To install ICP Storage Manager and create a direct attached storage space, each system in your
storage space must meet these requirements:
PC-compatible computer with Intel Pentium 1.2 GHz processor, or equivalent
At least 256 MB of RAM
80 MB of free disk drive space
256-color video mode
CD drive
One of these operating systems:
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Server 2008, Windows Vista
TM
, Windows Server 2003
(Enterprise, Standard, Web Edition 32-bit or 64-bit with current service pack),
Windows 2000 (Server, Advanced Server, Professional), or Windows XP Professional
32-bit or 64-bit
Red Hat
®
Linux
SUSE Linux
Note:
For the latest on ICP’s support of Linux, or to download driver sources, visit
www.icp-vortex.com.
SCO
®
OpenServer
®
6.0
SCO UnixWare
®
7.1.4
Sun Solaris 10 with current update
VMWare
®
ESX Server 3.0.1
Note:
ICP Storage Manager can also be used before an operating system is installed. See
Running ICP Storage Manager from the CD on page 25 for more information.
Controller Support
The maximum number of controllers supported by ICP Storage Manager for each supported
operating system is:
Windows—Up to 16 ICP controllers
Linux—Up to 16 ICP controllers
UnixWare—Up to 16 ICP controllers
OpenServer—Up to 16 ICP controllers
Solaris—Up to 16 ICP controllers
VMWare—Up to 16 ICP controllers
Note:
For the most recent operating system support information, visit www.icp-vortex.com.
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