Promise Technology PAM User's Guide

NEC Express5800 Series Web-based Promise Array Management Professional User's Guide (Linux Version) (For N8103-105 Disk Array Control

- 5 - 3. Operation This chapter describes how to start WebPAM PRO and operations on screens appearing after starting WebPAM PRO. 3.1 Starting and E

- 6 - 3.1.1 Controlling WebPAM PRO with a Local Computer 1. Start WebPAM PRO by either of the following methods. - Double-click the WebPAM PRO ic

- 7 - 3.1.2 Controlling WebPAM PRO with a Remote Computer NOTES:  If using a proxy server for making access to the Internet, you need to bypass

- 8 - 3.2 WebPAM PRO Operation Window 3.2.1 Using WebPAM PRO for the First Time 1. Click the Subsystem/Host Management icon in the Tree View appea

- 9 - 3. Make sure that "127.0.0.1" is entered in the Subsystem/Host Port IP address field, and click the [Submit] button. The host PC inf

- 10 - 3.2.2 WebPAM PRO Operation Screen The WebPAM PRO window is mainly configured with three parts; Tree View, Management Window, and Event Frame.

- 11 - 3.3 Icons When you click the link to an icon on the Tree View, several setting and status display screens appear on the Management Window. The

- 12 - Tree View Management Window display Controller icon Indicates the information on BIOS and drivers. In addition, you can provide various se

- 13 - 3.4 Managing Users Creating user account To create a new user account, follow the procedure described below: 1. Logon to WebPAM PRO as an ad

- 14 - Privilege Description Power Users of the privilege can create (but cannot delete) disk arrays and logical drives, change RAID levels and stri

Preface This User's Guide explains the management utility [Web-based Promise Array Management Professional] to be used for operating N8103-105 D

- 15 - Deleting User Account 1. Logon to WebPAM PRO as an administrator, or a super privilege user. 2. Click the User Management in the Tree View

- 16 - 3.5 Several Settings and Information Review Clicking an icon on the Tree View allows the relevant information to be displayed on the Manageme

- 17 - Firmware Update tab The Firmware Update tab allows the firmware for the RAID card to be updated from WebPAM PRO. Do not manipulate this tab ge

- 18 - If you click the downward arrow at the right end of the tab, then a menu item for changing the priorities of tasks (Settings) and those for s

- 19 - IMPORTANT: The information is set to proper values by default. Do not change the settings. Scheduler tab If you click the center of the Sched

- 20 - Information tab The Information tab indicates the information on the controller. Settings tab The Settings tab allows you to set alias of the

- 21 - <Description of major items> Adaptive Writeback Cache Adaptive Writeback Cache controls the write cache mode for all of the logical driv

- 22 - Buzzer tab If you click the center of the Buzzer tab, the current buzzer setting appears. Clicking the downward arrow at the right end of the

- 23 - Global Settings tab The Global Settings tab allows you to provide settings on write and read caches for all physical drives. IMPORTANT:  “

- 24 - 3.5.5 Physical Drive If you click a specific Slot icon below Physical Drives in the Tree View, then the information on the HDD appears in th

(7) NEC will not guarantee the proper operation of the open source software including Linux kernels. Please be sure to implement and operate the Lin

- 25 - Information tab <Description of major items> Operation Status OK The physical drive operates normally. Rebuilding The physical drive

- 26 - 3.5.6 Disk Arrays If you select the Disk Arrays icon in the Tree View, all disk arrays are listed in the Management Window. Information tab Th

- 27 - <Description of major items> Operation Status OK The disk array operates normally. Degraded One of the members of the disk array is i

- 28 - 3.5.8 Logical Drives If you select the Logical Drives icon in the Tree View, all logical drives are listed in the Management Window. Informati

- 29 - Current Write Policy This item indicates the status of the current write cache for this logical drive. The status varies depending on the sett

- 30 - See the description of each BGA for details. Check Table tab If a consistency error is detected during redundancy check and the error cannot b

- 31 - 3.6 Creating Disk Array or Logical Driver A disk array can be created in any of the following three ways. Automatic Configuration Checks the

- 32 - The following options can be set. Redundancy Determines whether redundant logical drives are created or not. If you check the checkbox, RAID

- 33 - The following list shows the difference of the settings for each Application Type. Type Stripe Size Read Policy Write Policy File Server

- 34 - Advanced Configuration (Step 1 - Disk Array Creation) Disk Array Alias Alias (any name) Enable Media Patrol Enables media patrol. The checkb

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- 35 - Advanced Configuration (Step 2 - Logical Drive Creation) Alias Alias (any value) RAID level Indicates the available RAID level depending on

- 36 - Advanced Configuration (Step 3 - Summary) If no problems are found, click [Submit]. Disk arrays and logical drives are created. 3.6.4 Addin

- 37 - 3.7 Deleting Disk Array or Logical Drive IMPORTANT: Delete neither disk arrays nor logical drives saving Windows file systems. Before a disk

- 38 - 3.8 Redundancy Check Routine redundancy check allows consistencies to be detected, checked and repaired to prevent rebuild from failing at oc

- 39 - The progress of the redundancy check appears in the Background Activities tab. If you click the link of the displayed task being advanced, the

- 40 - 3.8.1 Scheduling Redundancy Check To schedule routine redundancy check, follow the procedure below. 1. Click the subsystem (ST EX4650EL) icon

- 41 - (Do not provide setting for any option with "*unavailable." Failure to follow this instruction may cause the system to operate impro

- 42 - Apply to Redundant Logical Drives Check the checkboxes of logical drives for which you want to schedule redundancy check. Do not use the optio

- 43 - click Delete Schedules. 3. Check the checkbox of the redundancy check which you want to delete and click [Submit]. The confirmation dialog box

- 44 - 3.9 Media Patrol The media patrol feature provides entire reading for the following target HDDs. Because of aged deterioration, it may not be

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- 45 - The media patrol is started. The progress of the media patrol appears in the Background Activities tab. If you click the link of the displaye

- 46 - Progress on Current Physical Drive Indicates the progress of the current media patrol on a physical drive. Number of Physical Drives Completed

- 47 - To add schedule setting of media patrol, follow the procedure below. 1. Click the subsystem (ST EX4650EL) icon in the Tree View. 2. Click the

- 48 - Recurrence Pattern The display screen varies depending on the Recurrence Pattern selected in the previous screen. [daily] • [Every–days] (*u

- 49 - Suspending (deleting) schedule setting 1. Click the subsystem (ST EX4650EL) icon in the Tree View. 2. Click the arrow at the right end of the

- 50 - 3.10 Rebuild The rebuild feature can recover redundancy if a single HDD is defected in RAIL level 1, 10 or 5. During rebuild, data read/write

- 51 - 3.10.3 Manual Rebuild For manual rebuild, follow the procedure below. 1. Click a degraded disk array in the Tree View. 2. Click the arrow at t

- 52 -  If Enable Buzzer is checked in controller setting, the buzzer rings with the logical drive being in the critical or offline state or rebuil

- 53 - 3.11 PDM The PDM (Predictive Data Migration) feature always monitors HDDs configuring logical drives, previously senses HDDs suspected to be d

- 54 - 3. Specify the following. Source Physical Drive Specify the physical drive which is suspected to be defected and from which data is desire

- 1 - 1. Overview 1.1 Web-based Promise Array Management Professional Web-based Promise Array Management Professional (hereafter abbreviated for Web

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- 56 - 3.12 Transition At the occurrence of a fault, logical drives may be degraded and recovered by hot spare rebuild. This results in separation of

- 57 - 3. Hot spare rebuild is done by using PD4 to create a logical drive having PD1, PD3 and PD4 as configured HDDs. 4. Replace the defected phys

- 58 - <Example of manual transition> 1. Original state: RAID1 Create spare drives of revertible type. (See "3.15 Creating or Deleting S

- 59 - 3. Hot spare rebuild is done by using PD4 to create a logical drive having PD1 and PD4 as configured HDDs. 4. To make free physical drive PD3

- 60 - NOTE: The “Operation Status” field may show “Transition Running” although Transition has finished. Check the messages regarding Transition in

- 61 - 3.13 Transport The transport feature is used to move a disk array in the online state with its normal status remaining unchanged. 1. Click a d

- 62 - 5. Insert the pull-out HDDs into slots in the environment subordinate to a new disk array controller N8103-105 and refresh the HDDs. Then a n

- 63 - 3.14 Initializing Logical Drive A disk array can be initialized additionally after it is created. Full initialization set all data bits in log

- 64 - 3.15 Creating or Deleting Spare Drives 3.15.1 Creating Spare Drives IMPORTANT: The following HDDs cannot be used for spare drives. - HDD th

- 2 - 1.2 Precautions Be sure to read the following notes and precautions before using WebPAM PRO:  It is strongly recommended to provide media pat

- 65 - 4. Click the Update button. The specified spare drives are added to the list of New Hot Spare Drives at the bottom. 5. Click [Submit]. The s

- 66 - 3.15.2 Deleting Spare Drives Follow the procedure below to delete spare drives. 1. Click Spare Drives in the Tree View. 2. Click the Delete t

- 67 - 3.16 Expansion IMPORTANT:  Before logical drives are provided with expansion, be sure to back up the data in the disks. If an unexpected

- 68 - 2. Click the arrow at the right end of the Background Activities tab in the Management Window and select Start Migration. 3. Select physical

- 69 - 4. Set detailed information on the disk array. RAID Level RAID5 only Expand Capacity Check the checkbox to increase the capacity. This item

- 70 - 6. The confirmation dialog box appears. Type "confirm" and click [OK]. The screen indicating the progress of the expansion appears.

- 71 - 3.17 Event WebPAM PRO classifies every event occurred in a RAID system as an error, warning or information to record it. This is effective t

- 72 - If an event occurs, such a popup as shown below appears at the upper right corner of the WebPAM PRO screen. NOTE: Sorting the events is unav

- 73 - 3.18 Collecting Configuration Information Controller and array configuration information can be saved in a text format by specifying destinati

- 74 - Appendix A First Logon Perform the following procedure to make settings for security: 1. The security alert dialog box appears. Click [Exami

- 3 - 2. Installation/Uninstallation 2.1 Operation Environment for WebPAM PRO The following operation environment is required for the proper operati

- 75 - window will be displayed at next logon. The setting for security is completed.

- 76 - Appendix B Report Monitoring To use Alert notification feature after installing NEC ESMPRO Manager, the following settings are required. (Thi

- 77 - Alert report messages and actions After the installation of WebPAM PRO, the following messages registered with the name "Promise Event Lo

- 78 - Event ID Message Action 6684 Physical Disk is marked as DEAD due to PFA condition of the disk Replace the failed HDD. 6685 Physical Disk is ma

- 4 - 2.3 Uninstalling WebPAM PRO IMPORTANT: Follow the procedure described in this chapter to uninstall WebPAM PRO. NOTE: WebPAM PRO is required f