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...to a 9550SX or 9590SE Controller 166 Adding a Drive through 3BM 191 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 194 Verifying Units 194 www.3ware.com iii Maintaining Units 173 Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM 173 Reviewing Alarms and Errors 175 ... Removing a Unit Through 3BM 162 Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 163 Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9500S Controller 164 Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller 164 Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller 166 Moving Units from a 9500S to be Performed 188 Rebuilding...
...to a 9550SX or 9590SE Controller 166 Adding a Drive through 3BM 191 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 194 Verifying Units 194 www.3ware.com iii Maintaining Units 173 Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM 173 Reviewing Alarms and Errors 175 ... Removing a Unit Through 3BM 162 Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 163 Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9500S Controller 164 Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller 164 Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller 166 Moving Units from a 9500S to be Performed 188 Rebuilding...
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... RAID concepts and levels. Also includes information about the controller, check its status, and change existing configurations, and set up your 3ware RAID controller. Provides compliance and conformity statement. Maintaining Your Controller 11. Includes system requirements and an introduction to check unit and drive status, review alarms and errors, schedule background maintenance tasks, and manually...
... RAID concepts and levels. Also includes information about the controller, check its status, and change existing configurations, and set up your 3ware RAID controller. Provides compliance and conformity statement. Maintaining Your Controller 11. Includes system requirements and an introduction to check unit and drive status, review alarms and errors, schedule background maintenance tasks, and manually...
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... Like disks in other RAID configurations, single disks contain 3ware Disk Control Block (DCB) information and are seen by the number of ports on your controller, and the number of drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller. JBOD A JBOD is no longer supported in case of...RAID configuration most appropriate for your particular controller model and the number of disk drives available for high availability systems unless additional precautions are determined by the OS as a unit through 3ware software. (3BM, 3DM 2, or CLI). Review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts ...
... Like disks in other RAID configurations, single disks contain 3ware Disk Control Block (DCB) information and are seen by the number of ports on your controller, and the number of drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller. JBOD A JBOD is no longer supported in case of...RAID configuration most appropriate for your particular controller model and the number of disk drives available for high availability systems unless additional precautions are determined by the OS as a unit through 3ware software. (3BM, 3DM 2, or CLI). Review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts ...
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... step-by-step instructions in the installation guide that came with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these main steps: • Physically Install the Controller and Drives • Configure the RAID Unit and Drives • ...review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on and boot from the 3ware website at http:// www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp. If the operating system is also included in your system, you can download it from a drive managed through the Command Line Interface (CLI). Physically Install the Controller...
... step-by-step instructions in the installation guide that came with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these main steps: • Physically Install the Controller and Drives • Configure the RAID Unit and Drives • ...review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on and boot from the 3ware website at http:// www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp. If the operating system is also included in your system, you can download it from a drive managed through the Command Line Interface (CLI). Physically Install the Controller...
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...review these features as staggered spinup, use of write cache, use of queueing mode, selection of a StorSave profile, and specifying how unconfigured disks (JBODs) are handled • Email notification of the New Drives Instructions for updating the driver under "Updating the Driver and Firmware" on page 184 16 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller.... When you first set up individually. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers come with Your 3ware RAID Controller CLI for when background tasks will also find instructions for installing drivers are described ...
...review these features as staggered spinup, use of write cache, use of queueing mode, selection of a StorSave profile, and specifying how unconfigured disks (JBODs) are handled • Email notification of the New Drives Instructions for updating the driver under "Updating the Driver and Firmware" on page 184 16 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller.... When you first set up individually. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers come with Your 3ware RAID Controller CLI for when background tasks will also find instructions for installing drivers are described ...
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... the size your array is overwritten until you want to continue. For details, see "Boot volume size" on page 121. 24 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For more information about carving the unit into multiple volumes. In addition, if you specify a boot volume, you do not...drives in Gigabytes that you have finished making all your changes and press F8. 3 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key to review the information about creating a boot volume, see "Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support" on page 130. Multiple ...
... the size your array is overwritten until you want to continue. For details, see "Boot volume size" on page 121. 24 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For more information about carving the unit into multiple volumes. In addition, if you specify a boot volume, you do not...drives in Gigabytes that you have finished making all your changes and press F8. 3 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key to review the information about creating a boot volume, see "Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support" on page 130. Multiple ...
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... display a list of the drives in the unit, delete the unit from the main 3BM screen and recreate it into multiple volumes. Figure 59. www.3ware.com 135 then press Enter again to set the size. 10 Tab to the OK button and press Enter to confirm creation of the unit.... 11 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any appropriate changes to the settings for: • Write Cache Setting • Drive Queuing Mode • Continue on Error During Rebuild...
... display a list of the drives in the unit, delete the unit from the main 3BM screen and recreate it into multiple volumes. Figure 59. www.3ware.com 135 then press Enter again to set the size. 10 Tab to the OK button and press Enter to confirm creation of the unit.... 11 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any appropriate changes to the settings for: • Write Cache Setting • Drive Queuing Mode • Continue on Error During Rebuild...
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... if you want to save your changes, or press Esc and then Yes. 160 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 67. Chapter 8. Backup any data that you want to keep. 3 On the Delete Disk Array screen, review the information about the unit to make sure it is deleted. Deleting a Unit in...
... if you want to save your changes, or press Esc and then Yes. 160 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 67. Chapter 8. Backup any data that you want to keep. 3 On the Delete Disk Array screen, review the information about the unit to make sure it is deleted. Deleting a Unit in...
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... units or drives that help maintain the integrity of your controller and drives, and drill down to help you maintain your 3ware RAID controller, configured units, and available drives in 3DM. 9 Maintaining Units 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features in the firmware that have ...section includes the following tasks to get additional detail about your units: • Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM • Reviewing Alarms and Errors • About Background Tasks • Scheduling Background Tasks • Rebuilding Units • Verifying Units Checking Unit...
... units or drives that help maintain the integrity of your controller and drives, and drill down to help you maintain your 3ware RAID controller, configured units, and available drives in 3DM. 9 Maintaining Units 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features in the firmware that have ...section includes the following tasks to get additional detail about your units: • Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM • Reviewing Alarms and Errors • About Background Tasks • Scheduling Background Tasks • Rebuilding Units • Verifying Units Checking Unit...
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... of all events (also called Asynchronous Event Notifications, or AENs) that occur when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when sectors have occurred on units. Reviewing Alarms and Errors Reviewing Alarms and Errors 3DM provides several levels of detail about the Alarms page, see "Managing... events: • A summary log of all alarms on the Alarms page • A detailed error listing, available for download from the Controller Details page • SMART data for individual drives Viewing Alarms The Alarms page in 3DM shows a log of these events to one or ...
... of all events (also called Asynchronous Event Notifications, or AENs) that occur when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when sectors have occurred on units. Reviewing Alarms and Errors Reviewing Alarms and Errors 3DM provides several levels of detail about the Alarms page, see "Managing... events: • A summary log of all alarms on the Alarms page • A detailed error listing, available for download from the Controller Details page • SMART data for individual drives Viewing Alarms The Alarms page in 3DM shows a log of these events to one or ...
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... 6 above, in your system. 3 For each controller, review the option for the first controller. . Figure 81. Maintaining Your Controller Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers When your system has multiple 3ware RAID controllers installed, the update utility lets you update the firmware on multiple controllers 1 Follow steps 1 through 5 above, under "Current" Controller to change it lists the number...
... 6 above, in your system. 3 For each controller, review the option for the first controller. . Figure 81. Maintaining Your Controller Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers When your system has multiple 3ware RAID controllers installed, the update utility lets you update the firmware on multiple controllers 1 Follow steps 1 through 5 above, under "Current" Controller to change it lists the number...