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NEC Express5800 Series MegaRAID Storage Manager™ User's Guide - Windows Edition - 7th Edition 12-2006 808-882425-676-G

6 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 4. The installation is started. When MSM has been installed, the [Setup finished] dialog box appears. Select [Yes

Installing and Uninstalling MSM 7 2.2.2 Uninstalling MSM from Server Uninstall MSM in the following procedure: IMPORTANT: Do not uninstall MSM thro

8 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 2.3 MSM Operation Environment (Management PC) The following shows the hardware and software operation environment

Installing and Uninstalling MSM 9 2.4.1 Installing MSM to Management PC Install MSM in the following procedure: 1. Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD

10 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 6. The screen shown below appears. Click [Next]. To change the installation folder, click [Change] and specify a

Installing and Uninstalling MSM 11 2.4.2 Uninstalling MSM from Management PC Uninstall MSM in the following procedure: IMPORTANT: Do not uninstall

12 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 5. The screen shown below appears. Click [Remove]. 6. The screen shown below appears. Click [Finish]. Now the

Operation 13 3. Operation This chapter describes how to start MSM and how to operate MSM. The supported features of MSM are depended on MegaRAID Sto

14 Operation 3.1.1 Controlling MegaRAID Storage System with Local/Remote Computer To control MSM with local and/or remote computers, start MSM in the

Operation 15 A circle icon appears on each host in the server selection screen. The host status is shown by one of the following colors: Green: Norma

Preface The User's Guide explains the utility MegaRAID Storage Manager™ to be used for “LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID(tm)”, “N8103-91 Disk Array C

16 Operation 3.2 MSM Operation Screen An example of the MSM screen is shown below (after logged in, the screen shown below appears). MSM has four s

Operation 17 3.2.1 Menu Bar Selectable objects on the menu bar can also be selected/executed by right-clicking them. The menu bar appears as follows:

18 Operation  [Log] menu On the [Log] menu, you can select the following items: [Save Log]: Save the logs appearing in the Event Viewer to the spe

Operation 19 3.2.2 Physical/Logical View On the Physical/Logical View, the physical and logical drives connected to the disk array controller are dis

20 Operation [Scan For Foreign Config]: Read configuration info from HDD and try to rebuild array by using that info. This feature is not supported.

Operation 21 When physical drive is in offline status: [Make Drive Online]: Makes the physical drive online. The feature is dedicated for maintenan

22 Operation When physical drive is not used yet: [Locate Physical Drive]: Start to blink LED of Physical disk. [Stop Locating Physical Drive]: Sto

Operation 23  Menu appearing when right-clicking Virtual Disk [Context Menu] : The menu appearing when right-clicking Virtual Disk varies depending

24 Operation When logical drive is degraded: [Check Consistency] disappears to be unavailable while it is displayed if the logical drive operates nor

Operation 25 3.2.3 Properties /Operations/Graphical View The Properties/Operations/Graphical view indicates the information on controllers and drive

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26 Operation [Start Patrol Read / Stop Patrol Read]: Start or stop the Patrol Read. The screen display varies depending on how the Patrol Read is exe

Operation 27 When physical drive is selected (under rebuild processing): [Abort Rebuild]: Abort the rebuild processing. [Locate Physical Drive]: Sta

28 Operation When physical drive is selected (being hot-spare disk): [Remove Hotspare]: Release the setting as a hot-spare disk. [Locate Physical D

Operation 29 [Prepare For Removal]/ [Undo Prepare For Removal]: Do not use the feature. It's the function which stops and restarts a revolution

30 Operation When logical drive is selected (in execution of consistency check): [Delete Virtual Disk]: Select this feature to delete the logical dr

Operation 31  Graphical View Indicate the capacity of the selected drive graphically. The following shows the sample displays of physical and logi

32 Operation 3.2.4 Event Viewer The Event Viewer indicates the log information acquired in the period from the time at which the server is started.

Operation 33 3.3 Creating and Deleting Logical Drive (Array) The creation method of a logical drive and the deletion method are explained here. If

34 Operation 3.3.1 Creating Logical Drive You can create a logical drive on the Configuration Wizard appearing by right-clicking the controller in t

Operation 35 3.3.1.1 Auto Configuration The auto configuration mode allows the draft of the logical drive configuration to be created automatically d

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36 Operation Redundancy Type [No Redundancy]: Do not provide redundant array configuration. [With Redundancy]: Provide redundant array configuration

Operation 37 4. Set parameters in Virtual Disk Properties appropriately and click [Accept]. Then click [Next]. [RAID Level]: Select the RAID level

38 Operation [IO Policy]: Select either Direct IO or Cached IO. The default setting is Direct IO. [Access Policy]: Select Read Write, Read Only, or

Operation 39 3.3.1.3 Guided Configuration The guided configuration mode allows a logical drive to be created by specifying setting items sequentiall

40 Operation [Don’t use Existing Arrays]: Do not use existing arrays. [Use Existing and New Arrays]: Use both existing and new arrays. 3. Specify t

Operation 41 [Init State]: Select the logical drive initialization procedure out of No Initialization, Fast Initialization and Full Initialization.

42 Operation 3.4 Check Consistency Feature The check consistency feature checks consistency and automatically corrects data if some inconsistency is

Operation 43 2. Check one or more logical drives to be subject to the check consistency in [Select Virtual Disks] and click [Start]. [Select All]:

44 Operation Starting execution on [Operations] tab 1. Select a logical drive on the Logical view and select the [Operations] tab. 2. Check [Check

Operation 45 3.4.2 Canceling Check Consistency The check consistency can be cancelled in the following procedure. Check consistency canceling proce

Overview 1 1. Overview 1.1 MegaRAID Storage Manager™ MegaRAID Storage Manager™ (hereafter abbreviated for MSM) is an application that locally or rem

46 Operation 3.5 Patrol Read Feature The Patrol Read feature operates in physical drives configuring all arrays including hot-spare disks to detect

Operation 47 To interrupt the Patrol Read being executed, click [Operations] → [Stop Patrol Read].

48 Operation 3.5.2 Scheduling Patrol Read The Patrol Read can be scheduled in the following procedure. Patrol Read scheduling procedure 1. Select a

Operation 49 [Execution Frequency]: Specify the interval at which the Patrol Read is executed. You can set the interval in hours, minutes, or seconds

50 Operation 3.6 Rebuild Feature The rebuild feature can recovers a degraded array. Before the feature can be used, the defected hard disk drive must

Operation 51 3.6.1 Hot-swap Rebuild The feature can be done in the following procedure: 1. Find the defected hard disk drive. The following figure s

52 Operation 3.6.2 Hot-spare Rebuild 3.6.2.1 Hot-spare Disk Setting Procedure Global hot-spare setting procedure 1. Specify an unused hard disk driv

Operation 53 3.7 Reconstruction Feature The reconstruction feature allows you to increase in the capacity of an existing array and/or change its RAID

54 Operation The reconstruction is divided into three types; Add Drive, Remove Drive and Change RAID Level. [Add Drive]: Add a physical drive to the

Operation 55 2. Select the physical drive to be added from the upper list and click the button to move the physical drive to the lower list. Then cl

2 Overview  Auto array rebuild feature in array degrading MSM supports the hot-spare rebuild executed at the insertion/removal of a disk and the ho

56 Operation 3.7.1.2 Remove Drive This feature removes the physical drive from the logical drive and converts the RAID level to RAID 0. The procedure

Operation 57 3.7.1.3 Change RAID Level This feature converts the RAID level to RAID 0. The procedure is described below. 1. Click [Change RAID Leve

58 Operation 3.8 Help Selecting [Help] → [Help] on the menu bar allows the help normally attached to MSM to be displayed. NOTE: The help normally att

Miscellaneous Information 59 4. Miscellaneous Information 4.1 Supported function of MegaRAID Systems Supported function of MSM depends on the MegaRA

60 Miscellaneous Information 4.2 How to confirm the type of Hot Spare Disks You could confirm the type of Created Hot Spare Disks by MSM. There are

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 61 5. CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 5.1 Common Cautions and Restrictions for MegaRAID Storage Systems(SAS/SATA) Installing /

62 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS The MSM log may be reviewed to see accesses from other clients.  You can specify the local users only as the Administr

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 63 Patrol Read feature  If the server is restarted, the Patrol Read feature is aborted. If you restart the Patrol Read af

64 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 5.2 Cautions and Restrictions for N8103-90 Disk array controller(External SAS HDD) and N8103-91 Disk array controller(

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 65 • To avoid selecting wrong drives, it is highly recommended to check them properly by executing ‘Locate Physical Drive’

Installing and Uninstalling MSM 3 2. Installing and Uninstalling MSM 2.1 MSM Operation Environment (Server Specification) The following shows the h

66 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 5.3 Cautions and Restrictions for LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID™ MSM Operation  MSM can not set "Virtual Disk Pro

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 67  Guided Configuration". Miscellaneous  MSM logs are shown as GMT. The system event logs are shown correctly b

68 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS Appendix A Report Monitoring Event messages associated with the MegaRAID Storage system can be displayed on the NEC ESM

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 69 Alert report messages and actions against the messages If MSM is installed, the following messages registered as "M

70 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 57 Consistency Check corrected medium error: If the error occurs frequently, take the preventive replacement of physical

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 71 102 Rebuild failed due to target drive error: The target physical drive may be damaged. Take the replacement of the phys

72 CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 166 Communication lost on enclosure: Check the connection of the enclosure. √ √ 168 Fan failed on enclosure: Check th

CAUTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 73 216 FAILED Test: The test detects an error. Take the replacement of the disk array controller into account. √ √ 221

4 Installing and Uninstalling MSM 2.2 Installing and Uninstalling MSM in Server This section describes the installation and uninstallation of MSM i

Installing and Uninstalling MSM 5 2.2.1 Installing MSM to Server Install MSM in the following procedure: 1. Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM i