Fibrenetix E8 Series Instructions d'installation

Hardware Guide

E8 Series Storage Enclosure

Revision

0.90

February,

2012

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Lim

tations

Warranty

and

ity

Fibrenetix has tested the hardware described in this User Guide and reviewed its contents.

In no event will Fibrenetix, or its distributors, be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, or

consequential damage resulting from any defect in the hardware or User Guide, even if

they have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In particular, they shall have no

liability for any program or data stored in or used with Fibrenetix products, including the

costs of recovering or reproducing these programs or data.

During the specified warranty period, Fibrenetix guarantees that the product will perform

according to specifications determined by the manufacturer, and will be free of defects.

Parts and labor of the received product, and replacement parts and labor are guaranteed

during the specified warranty period. The warranty covers defects encountered in normal

use of the product, and does not apply when damage occurs due to improper use,

abuse, mishandling, accident, sand, dirt, excessive dust, water damage or unauthorized

service. The product must be packed in its original packing material when shipped, or the

warranty will be void. In all cases, proof of purchase must be presented when a

warranty claim is being made.

Fibrenetix operates a Return to Factory warranty. The period of this warranty is three (3)

years. Warranty registration for your Fibrenetix E8 Series should be completed

electronically via the web. Please register for the Return to Factory warranty at

www.fibrenetix.com.

Technical

Support

Policy

If you have a problem installing your system or suspect it is malfunctioning, please

contact Fibrenetix Support via email: support@fibrenetix.com, or register your

support issue via our website: www.fibrenetix.com. Please have the model, serial

number, date of purchase and the distributor/reseller’s name available, as you will need to

provide this information to our support team.

Return

Product

If a distributor or Fibrenetix deems it necessary for a system to be returned for testing or

servicing, a Return Materials Authorization (RMA) number will be issued. The RMA

number must be placed on the outside of the carton in large, visible letters near the address

label. Return the complete system including all cables and software. The system must be

packed in the original packing materials and shipped prepaid. Fibrenetix will repair the

system and return it prepaid by similar common carrier and priority. Please record the

RMA number and make reference to it when enquiring on the status of the system.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1

Features

and

Benef

................................................................................................................. 1

Understanding

................................................................................................................. 1

RAID 0...................................................................................................................................... 2

RAID 1...................................................................................................................................... 2

RAID 0+1.................................................................................................................................. 3

RAID 3...................................................................................................................................... 3

RAID 5...................................................................................................................................... 4

RAID 6...................................................................................................................................... 4

Chapter 2 – Initial Setup and Installation.................................................................................. 5

Safety

Statements

....................................................................................................................... 5

Unpacking

................................................................................................................................. 5

Environmental

Considerations

................................................................................................... 5

Temperature .............................................................................................................................. 6

Air Flow.................................................................................................................................... 6

Electrical

Considerations

........................................................................................................... 6

nstal

Drive

............................................................................................................... 6

Locating

Components

................................................................................................................ 7

FRU removal............................................................................................................................. 8

Power

and

Cooling

(PAC)

......................................................................................................... 8

RAID

Controller

........................................................................................................................ 8

LCD

Pane

l................................................................................................................................. 8

Drive

Carrier

............................................................................................................................. 8

Chapter 3 – Initial Configuration............................................................................................ 10

Attaching

the

Fibre

Channe

Cab

Fibre

Channel

enc

osures

............................................ 10

Attaching the SAS Channel Cables to a JBOD enclosure

........................................................ 10

Power sequencing of subsystems

.............................................................................................. 11

Power up ................................................................................................................................. 11

Power down............................................................................................................................. 11

Accessing

the

Control

............................................................................................... 11

VT100

terminal

(via

serial

port)

.............................................................................................. 11

RAID subsystem RS-232C Port Configuration....................................................................... 11

Web

browser-based

RAID

manager

........................................................................................ 12

Web

browser-based

RAID

manager

via

HTTP

Proxy

............................................................. 13

Front Panel Operation............................................................................................................. 15

Front Panel removal and insertion........................................................................................... 15

Appendix

............................................................................................................................. 16

Troubleshooting...................................................................................................................... 16

Appendix

............................................................................................................................. 17

Technical Specifications ......................................................................................................... 17

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Figures

Figure 1 RAID 0 configuration................................................................................................ 2

Figure 2 RAID 1 configuration................................................................................................ 2

Figure 3 RAID 0+1 configuration............................................................................................ 3

Figure 4 RAID 3 configuration................................................................................................ 3

Figure 5 RAID5 configuration................................................................................................. 4

Figure 6 RAID6 configuration................................................................................................. 4

Figure 7 Front view of enclosure............................................................................................. 7

Figure 8 Rear view of E88 12 bay dual RAID enclosure......................................................... 7

Figure 9 Rear view of E8 16 bay JBOD enclosure .................................................................. 8

Figure 10 Drive mounting........................................................................................................ 9

Figure 11 Upgrading/replacing memory.................................................................................. 9

Figure 12 Rear view of JBOD I/O module ............................................................................ 10

Figure 13 Daisy chaining JBOD enclosures .......................................................................... 10

Figure 14 Serial Port Menu.................................................................................................... 12

Figure 15 GUI Configuration Screen..................................................................................... 14

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Preface

This User Guide describes the installation, configuration and operation of the following

products:

•E8-1264-F281, 12 drive bay, single controller RAID subsystem with quad 8 gigabit

Fibre Channel interfaces (total 4 x 8gigabit F/C ports)

•E88-1264-F281, 12 drive bay dual controller RAID subsystem with quad 8 gigabit Fibre

Channel interfaces per RAID controller (total 8 x 8gigabit F/C ports)

•E8-1664-F281, 16 drive bay, single controller RAID subsystem with quad 8 gigabit

Fibre Channel interfaces (total 4 x 8gigabit F/C ports)

•E88-1664-F281, 16 drive bay dual controller RAID subsystem with quad 8 gigabit Fibre

Channel interfaces per RAID controller (total 8 x 8gigabit F/C ports)

•E8-1262-J31 JBOD Expansion enclosure.

•E88-1262-J31 JBOD Expansion enclosure.

•E8-1662-J31 JBOD Expansion enclosure.

•E88-1662-J31 JBOD Expansion enclosure

The E8 is the latest member of a family of high performance Fibre Channel to

SAS/SATA systems. The dual system (E88 models) uses Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk

drives only and the single controller (E8 models) can use SAS or SATA drives. In addition

the system supports a JBOD expansion unit (E8-1262-J31) via wide (4 lane) 6 gigabit SAS

ports for future use.

Audience

This User Guide is intended for use by the person installing and/or operating the E8

storage enclosure. For details about the host system, refer to the documentation supplied

with the host system.

Related Documentation

•SmartGUI User Guide

Conventions

Used

This

User

Guide

The following conventions are used throughout this User Guide.

WARNING

means

beware.

There

risk

electric

shock

personal

injury.

Before working

the

enclosure,

aware

the

hazards

that

exist.

CAUTION

means

take

care.

There

risk

causing

damage

the

equipment

of losing

data.

NOTE

gives

general

information,

such

helpful

tips

and

references

related information.

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Chapter 1 – Introduction

Thank you for purchasing your Fibrenetix E8 Series RAID enclosure. Designed for speed,

reliability, compatibility and performance, the E8 enclosure is easy to install, providing an

outstanding and versatile solution to meet all your data storage requirements. The User

Guide presumes that you are familiar with standard computer operations including

managing and organizing files and folders. If you are unfamiliar with these operations,

please consult your computers User Guide.

Features

and

Benef

The Fibrenetix E8 series of RAID enclosures offers an extremely versatile, high capacity

solution, perfect for any End-User environment where high performance, problem free

mass storage is required, including:

•Backup storage.

•Direct Attached Storage – High-speed local storage device for dedicated

workstations.

•Server Attached Storage – High-speed storage device attached to your server.

Features include:

•Single or dual controller models

•RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 or JBOD

•RAID set migration

•Four 8Gbit Fibre Channel ports per controller

•High performance 6 gigabit SAS expansion channels

•Up to 112 SAS hot-swap hard drives.

•Up to 32 physical drives per individual RAID set

•Up to 4 GB controller cache

•Dual Power and Cooling (PAC) Modules

•Removable push button LCD panel for easy setup and configuration (16 bay only)

•WEB based RAID management via onboard Ethernet

•Variable speed fans

•O/S independent and transparent

•Optimized for high performance, high capacity applications

Understanding

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. A RAID system consists

of an array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provide high performance and

fault tolerance. The RAID controller implements several levels of the Berkeley RAID

technology. An appropriate RAID level is selected when the volume sets are defined or

created. This decision is based on disk capacity, data availability (fault tolerance or

redundancy) and disk performance.

The RAID controller makes the RAID implementation and the disks physical configuration

transparent to the host operating system. This means that the host operating system drivers

and software utilities are not affected, regardless of the RAID level selected. Correct

installation of the disk array and the controller requires a proper understanding of RAID

technology and the concepts.

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RAID 0

RAID 0, also referred to as striping, writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives.

RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy, but does offer the best high-speed data

throughput. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each

drive in the array. Disk striping enhances performance because multiple drives are

accessed simultaneously; but the reliability of RAID Level 0 is less than any of its member

disk drives due to its lack of redundancy.

Figure 1 RAID 0 configuration

RAID 1

Figure 2 RAID 1 configuration

RAID 1 also known as “disk mirroring”, means that data written to one disk drive is

simultaneously written to a second disk drive. Read performance may be enhanced if the

array controller can simultaneously access both members of a mirrored pair. During writes,

there will however, be a minor performance penalty when compared to writing to a single

disk as two writes must occur (one to each disk drive). If one drive fails, all data (and

software applications) is preserved on the other drive. RAID 1 offers extremely high data

reliability, but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity.

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RAID 0+1

Figure 3 RAID 0+1 configuration

RAID 0+1 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1, combining striping with disk

mirroring. RAID Level 0+1 combines the fast performance of Level 0 with the data

redundancy of Level 1. In this configuration, data is distributed across several disk drives,

similar to Level 0, which are then duplicated to another set of drives for data protection.

RAID 3

Figure 4 RAID 3 configuration

RAID 3 provides disk striping and data redundancy though the use of a dedicated parity

drive. RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks, calculates parity by performing an

exclusive-or operation on the blocks, and then writes the blocks to all but one drive in the

array. The parity data created during the exclusive-or operation is then written to the

remaining drive in the array. If a drive fails, data on the failed drive can be recovered using

the information on the parity drive. RAID 3 is a good choice for applications that require

very fast data transfer rates or large data transfers.

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RAID 5

In RAID5, theparity information is written to all of the drives in the array rather than

being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk. If one drivein the array fails, the parity

information can be used to reconstruct the missing data from that drive. All drives in the

array can read and write data at the same time, greatly increasing the performance of the

RAID system.

Figure 5 RAID5 configuration

RAID 6

RAID 6 extends a RAID 5 array by using dual distributed parity. Data and parity is striped

at block level across all member drives, just like in RAID 5. However, two sets of parity

are calculated and written across all the drives. When a disk fails, the data is recovered

from the remaining disks. RAID 6 provides the ultimate level of fault tolerance and can

sustain two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss. RAID 6 offers a

good solution for mission-critical data.

Figure 6 RAID6 configuration

RAID levels 30, 50 and 60 are used to combine multiple RAID sets together to appear as a

single volume.

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Chapter 2 – Initial Setup and Installation

This Chapter describes the installation and set up of the E8 storage enclosure. Important

safety details are described along with the environmental and electrical precautions that

must be taken. The location of components within the enclosure is also shown.

Please

read

this

chapter

carefully

before

attempting

install

operate

the

enclosure.

Safety

Statements

The following safety requirements must be understood before you install or operate the

system.

Warning:

Disconnect

all

power

supply

inlets

before

opening

the

series

storage enclosure

for

maintenance.

Caution:

not

place

the

enclosure

uneven

unstable

work

surface.

Caution:

not

place

drop

objects

onto

the

enclosure

and

not

force

any

foreign objects

into

it.

Caution:

not

expose

the

series

storage

enclosures

extreme

temperatures

(below

ºC

above

ºC)

direct

sunlight.

Caution:

Allow

disk

drives

and

power

supplies

reach

ambient

room

temperature before

applying

power

the

enclosure.

Unpacking

When you receive the system, visually inspect the exterior of the packaging for any signs of

damage. If any damage is found, you should inform your distributor. Once the packaging is

opened, the contents should be checked against the enclosed Packing List. If any items are

missing or damaged you should contact your distributor immediately.

Environmental

Considerations

This section outlines the environmental factors that must be considered when choosing a

suitable location to install the storage enclosure.

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