Dell PowerVault MD3000 Manuel technique

Dell™ PowerVault™

Modular Disk MD3000 System

Updating Storage

Arrays to Support

SATA Physical Disks

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Updating Your MD3000 to Support

SATA II Disks

SATA Support Available in MD3000 Storage

Arrays

MD3000 storage arrays now support a total of 45 3.5” SAS and/or SATA II

physical disks. The enclosure can contain a mixture of SAS and SATA physical

disks; however, a disk group must consist of either SAS or SATA physical

disks. If SAS disk groups and SATA II disk groups are configured in the same

storage array, a hot spare must be available for each type and of equal or

greater size than the disk group member drives. Both SAS and SATA physical

disks are hot-pluggable, allowing you to remove and insert disks without

shutting down your enclosure.

NOTE: SATA I Physical disks are not supported in the MD3000 storage array

enclosure.

NOTE: Please follow the included guidelines to insert or remove physical disks

from the enclosure.

This document covers the steps you must perform to upgrade your MD3000

storage array to support SATA physical disks.

Who Needs to Perform These Steps?

You only need to perform these steps if your storage array controller firmware

or Modular Disk Storage Manager versions are earlier than those shown in

Table 1-1.

You can check the MD Storage Manager version by going to the Support tab

and clicking About Modular Disk Storage Manager. You can also determine

the Controller Firmware Version by going to Support

→

Download

Firmware

→

Download RAID Controller Module Firmware while connected

to the MD3000 that is to be updated. The current firmware version will be

displayed in the window.

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If your controller firmware or MD Storage Manager versions are later than

those shown in Table 1-1, you do not need to perform these steps. Controller

firmware and MD Storage Manager versions later than those shown can

support SATA physical disks without performing any additional steps.

Before You Begin the Upgrade

Before completing any of the steps in this document,

• Verify that the SATA physical disk(s) you are using is supported according

to the support matrix for the MD3000 available on

support.dell.com

under

Products

→

PowerVault

™

Storage

→

MD3000

in the

Manuals

section

• If you have an MD1000 attached to a PERC adapter to use with your

MD3000, you need to prepare your MD1000, as described in the following

section, before attaching it to the MD3000.

NOTE: SATA physical disk firmware, controller firmware, NVSRAM, and SAS 5/E

drivers are available for download from the Drivers and Downloads section of

support.dell.com. It is recommended that you have your SATA physical disk

manufacturer model number available when searching for the appropriate

firmware.

What You Will Need for the Upgrade

It will be helpful to keep the following available before you begin the upgrade

• Latest Resource CD for the MD3000 that is available for download as an

ISO

file from

support.dell.com

under

Products

→

PowerVault

Storage

→

MD3000

in the Drivers and Downloads section. You will need to

burn the ISO file to a CD using CD burning software. Also, you can

request Dell Support to ship you a physical copy of the CD

• Latest firmware and NVSRAM for the MD3000 that is available for

download from the Drivers and Downloads section of

support.dell.com

Table 1-1. Controller Firmware and MD Storage Manager Versions Not Supporting

SATA Physical Disks

Storage Array Controller Firmware Version MD Storage Manager Version

MD3000 06.17.77.60 or earlier 02.17.G6.26 or earlier

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• Latest supported firmware for the SATA physical disks to be used with the

MD3000 available from

support.dell.com

under the Drivers and

Downloads section.

• Access to the MD3000 Support Matrix available at

support.dell.com

under

Products

→

PowerVault Storage

→

MD3000

in the

Manuals

section.

Steps to Upgrade Your MD3000 System to Support

SATA Physical Disks

NOTE: If you have an MD1000 attached to a Dell PERC adapter to use with your

MD3000, you must follow the migration procedure in the following section for the

MD1000 before attaching it to your MD3000 storage array.

NOTE: All SATA physical disks to be used with the MD3000 should be upgraded to

the latest firmware version as listed in the MD3000 Support Matrix available online

at support.dell.com. Physical disk firmware upgrades can be performed in multiple

ways . Dell recommends upgrading the SATA drives firmware prior to moving the

drives over to an MD3000.

To enable SATA support on your RAID controller module, you must upgrade

your controller firmware and NVSRAM. The following sections detail the

specific steps you must take to upgrade your MD3000 to support SATA

physical disks from a management station or from a host server attached to

your storage array controller

Updating Your MD3000 RAID Controller Module Firmware from a

Management Station

In MD Storage Manager, click the

Support

tab and choose

Gather

Support Information

to create a support information.zip file.

NOTE: Before performing any maintenance or upgrade task, you should create a

support information file. Failure to create this file prior to a firmware update may

make it difficult to perform a system recovery procedure, if needed. Refer to

Modular Disk Storage Manager User’s Guide for more information on creating

this file.

Using the latest version of the MD3000 Resource CD, run a pre-requisite

check of your management station for your supported operating systems.

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Update the version of MD Storage Manager installed on your management

station using the Resource CD (or

support.dell.com

). Refer to your

Dell

™

PowerVault Modular Disk 3000 Systems Installation Guide

for detailed

information.

Stop all I/O to your RAID storage enclosure.

Using MD Storage Manager, update the MD3000 RAID controller

firmware and NVSRAM by selecting

Support

→

Download Firmware

→

Download RAID Controller Module Firmware

. Select appropriate file

locations for both the Firmware as well as NVSRAM update packages and

click

Transfer

. When a successful download confirmation message is

displayed, the firmware and NVSRAM have been updated.

Update the MD Storage Manager for each management stationconnected

to the MD3000.

Follow steps 1 through 5 of the next section (Updating your MD3000

RAID Controller Module Firmware from an Attached Host) to update the

software on all the hosts connected to the MD3000.

Updating your MD3000 RAID Controller Module Firmware from an

Attached Host

Stop all I/O to your RAID storage enclosure.

In MD Storage Manager, click the

Support

tab and choose

Gather

Support Information

to create a support information.zip file.

Using the latest version of the MD3000 Resource CD, run a pre-requisite

check of your host server for your supported operating systems.

Install recommended updates per the Resource CD checks. You will need

to update your SAS 5/E drivers and update to the latest Microsoft

Windows

Hotfix. To update the SAS 5/E firmware, download the latest

version from

support.dell.com.

For Windows system users, use the.exe

update package. For Linux systems, use the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel

Module Support) package.

The Following Steps (Linux OS Only) are only for an MD3000 connected

to a host running Linux Operating systems:

NOTE: You must uninstall your current RDAC Multi-path driver support before using

the Multi-Pathing driver rpm install method (MD3000 Resource CD Menu Option 4:

Install Multi-Pathing Driver).

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Follow these procedures before installing the Multi-Pathing Driver:

Change the bootloader entry in

/boot/grub/menu.lst

to use

the original default

initrd - without mpp support

Uninstall current RDAC Multipath driver - run “

make

uninstall

” from the

linuxrdac

source directory; the default

linuxrdac

directory is

/opt/dell/mdstoragemanager/Linuxrdac-

xx.xx.xx.xx

DO NOT REBOOT. Rebooting may cause DATA corruption.

Update the version of MD Storage Manager installed on your host server

using the Resource CD. Refer to your

Installation Guide

for detailed

information.

Using MD Storage Manager, update the MD3000 RAID controller

firmware and NVSRAM by selecting

Support

→

Download Firmware

→

Download RAID Controller Module Firmware

. Select appropriate file

locations for both the Firmware as well as NVSRAM update packages and

click

Transfer

. When a successful download confirmation message is

displayed, the firmware and NVSRAM have been updated.

Repeat steps 1 through 6 for each host server attached to your RAID

storage enclosure.

Follow steps 1 through 3 of the previous section (Updating your MD3000

RAID Controller Module Firmware from a Management Station) to

update the software on all the management stations connected to the

MD3000.

Preparing an MD1000 Attached to a PERC Adapter

before Connecting it to the MD3000

If you have an MD1000 attached to a PERC Adapter to use with your

MD3000, the following steps MUST be performed before attaching it to a

MD3000.

• Upgrade the SATA Physical Disk firmware for all SATA physical disks in

the MD1000 following the procedure described below

• Prepare the MD1000 as described in the following section, before

attaching it to the MD3000.

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Upgrading Supported SATA Physical Disks in an MD1000 Attached to a

PERC Adapter

NOTE: This is the Dell recommended method of upgrading the firmware on

physical disks that are not supported for the MD3000 without a firmware upgrade.

Before migrating SATA physical disks currently in an MD1000 expansion

enclosure to an MD3000 storage array enclosure, perform the following steps:

Stop all I/O to and from the enclosure

Download the SATA physical disk firmware utility from the

Drivers and

Downloads

section of

support.dell.com

NOTE: Refer to the MD3000 Support Matrix on support.dell.com for minimum

physical disk firmware requirements. Using physical disks with mismatched

firmware versions may produce unknown behavior.

Upgrade the SATA physical disk firmware in your MD1000 using the

Utility-diagnostic Distribution Package specified in the readme.txt file

included with the utility.

Select the appropriate file for your SATA physical disk vendor model.

Upgrade each SATA physical disk within the MD1000 with the latest

firmware.

Preparing an MD1000 Attached to a Dell PERC Adapter before

Connecting It to an MD3000

Use this procedure if your MD1000 is now directly attached to and configured

on a Dell PERC system and you wish to connect it to your MD3000. Data

from virtual disks created on a PERC SAS controller cannot be directly

migrated to an MD3000 or to an MD1000 expansion enclosure connected to

an MD3000.

NOTE: If an MD1000 that was previously attached to PERC SAS controller is used

as an expansion enclosure to an MD3000, the physical disks of the MD1000

enclosure will be re-initialized and data will be lost. All data on the MD1000 must be

backed up before attempting the expansion.

Perform the following steps to attach a previously configured MD1000

expansion enclosure to the MD3000:

Back up all data on the MD1000 enclosure(s).

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While the enclosure is still attached to the PERC SAS controller, upgrade

the MD1000 firmware to version A03 or above. Windows systems users

can reference the DUP.exe package; for Linux systems, users can reference

the DUP.bin package available on

support.dell.com

NOTE: MD1000 EMM firmware versions A00 and A01 are not supported in an

MD1000 expansion enclosure attached to a MD3000 storage array enclosure.

Before adding the MD1000 enclosure(s), make sure the MD3000 software

is installed and up to date. For more information, refer to the

MD3000

Support Matrix

available on

support.dell.com

Install or update (to the latest version available on

support.dell.com

)

the MD Storage Manager on each host server. Install or update (to the

latest version available on

support.dell.com

) the multipath drivers on

each host server. The multipath drivers are bundled with Modular

Disk Storage Management install. On Windows systems, the drivers

are automatically installed when a Full or Host selection is made.

Using the MD Storage Manager, update the MD3000 RAID controller

firmware to the latest version available on

support.dell.com

(

Support

→

Download Firmware

→

Download RAID Controller Module

Firmware

) and the NVSRAM (

Support

→

Download Firmware

→

Download RAID Controller Module NVSRAM

Stop I/O and turn off all systems:

Stop all I/O activity to the array and turn off affected host systems

attached to the MD3000.

Turn off the MD3000.

Turn off the MD1000 enclosure(s).

Referencing the applicable configuration for your rack (Figure 2-1 through

Figure 2-5 of the installation guide), cable the MD1000 enclosure(s) to the

MD3000.

Turn on attached units:

Turn on the MD1000 expansion enclosure(s). Wait for the enclosure

status LED to light blue.

Turn on the MD3000 and wait for the status LED to indicate that the

unit is ready if:

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• Status LEDs light a solid amber, the MD3000 is still coming

online.

• Status LEDs are blinking amber, there is an error that can be

viewed using the MD Storage Manager.

• Status LEDs light a solid blue, the MD3000 is ready.

After the MD3000 is online and ready, turn on any attached host

systems.

After the MD1000 is configured as the expansion enclosure to the

MD3000, restore the data that was backed up in step 1.

After they are online, the MD1000 enclosures are available for use within the

MD3000 system.

Preparing SATA Physical Disks for Use in an

MD3000

If you wish to use supported SATA drives from an existing Dell server or an

MD1000 in your MD3000, you will need to update them before they can be

used. This firmware update can be performed using the procedure described

below. Only Dell-supported SATA physical disks can be used in your MD3000

storage array enclosure. For a list of Dell-supported SATA physical disks, see

support.dell.com.

CAUTION: User must upgrade the SATA disk to current supported firmware

before use in a Disk Group or Virtual Disk. Unknown behavior may occur if not

updated before use in a Disk Group or Virtual Disk.

Upgrading Supported SATA Physical Disks in a Dell Server or in an

MD1000 attached to a PERC Adapter

NOTE: This is the Dell recommended method of upgrading the firmware on physical

disks that are not supported for the MD3000i without a firmware upgrade.

Before migrating SATA physical disks currently in a server or in an MD1000

expansion enclosure to an MD3000i storage array enclosure, perform the

following steps:

Stop all I/O activity to and from the enclosure

Download the SATA physical disk firmware utility from the Drivers and

Downloads section of

support.dell.com

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