Document Outline

• white.pdf
• Cover.pdf
• 00.Preface.pdf
• ACS82410TOC.pdf
• ACS82410LOT.pdf
• ACS82410LOT2.pdf
• ACS82410Rev.pdf
• 01.Introduction.pdf
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
    • 1.1 Overview
    • 1.2 Key Features
    • 1.3 How to Use This Manual
    • 1.4 RAID Structure Overview
    • 1.5 User Interfaces to Manage the RAID System
    • 1.6 Initially Configuring the RAID System
    • 1.7 Maintaining the RAID System
• 02.GUI.pdf
  • Chapter 2: Using the RAID GUI
    • 2.1 Accessing the RAID GUI
      • 2.1.1 Browser Language Setting
      • 2.1.2 Multiple System Viewer
    • 2.2 Monitor Mode
      • 2.2.1 HDD state
      • 2.2.2 Information icons
      • 2.2.3 Rear side view
      • 2.2.4 Login
    • 2.3 SAS JBOD Enclosure Display (for SAS expansion controller only)
      • 2.3.1 Rear side monitor of the SAS JBOD chassis
      • 2.3.2 SAS JBOD Installation with RAID subsystem
      • 2.3.3 Monitor mode
      • 2.3.4 Information icons
      • 2.3.5 SAS/SATA HDD information
    • 2.4 Config Mode
    • 2.5 Quick Setup
      • 2.5.1 Performance profile
      • 2.5.2 RAID setup
    • 2.6 RAID Management
      • 2.6.1 Hard disks
      • 2.6.2 JBOD
      • 2.6.3 Disk groups
      • 2.6.4 Logical disks
      • 2.6.5 Volumes
      • 2.6.6 Snapshot Volumes
      • 2.6.7 Storage provisioning
    • 2.7 Maintenance Utilities
      • 2.7.1 Expanding disk groups
      • 2.7.2 Defragmenting disk groups
      • 2.7.3 Changing RAID level / stripe size for logical disks
      • 2.7.4 Expanding the capacity of logical disks in a disk group
      • 2.7.5 Shrinking logical disks
      • 2.7.6 Expanding volumes
      • 2.7.7 Shrinking volumes
      • 2.7.8 Cloning hard disks
      • 2.7.9 Scrubbing
      • 2.7.10 Regenerating the parity
      • 2.7.11 Performing disk self test
      • 2.7.12 Array roaming
      • 2.7.13 Array recovery
      • 2.7.14 Schedule task
      • 2.7.15 Cache Configurations
      • 2.7.16 Miscellaneous
    • 2.8 Hardware Configurations
      • 2.8.1 Hard disks
      • 2.8.2 Ports
      • 2.8.3 COM port
    • 2.9 Event Management
      • 2.9.1 Setting up the SMTP
      • 2.9.2 Setting up the SNMP
      • 2.9.3 Event logs
      • 2.9.4 UPS
      • 2.9.5 Miscellaneous
    • 2.10 System Management
      • 2.10.1 Restoring to factory settings
      • 2.10.2 NVRAM configuration
      • 2.10.3 Setting up the network
      • 2.10.4 System Time
      • 2.10.5 Security control
      • 2.10.6 System information
      • 2.10.7 Battery backup module
      • 2.10.8 Update system firmware, boot code and external enclosure F/W
      • 2.10.9 Restart or halt the controller
      • 2.10.10 Miscellaneous
    • 2.11 Performance Management
      • 2.11.1 Hard disks
      • 2.11.2 Cache
      • 2.11.3 LUN
      • 2.11.4 Storage port
• 03.LCD.pdf
  • Chapter 3: Using the LCD Console
    • 3.1 Starting LCD Manipulation
      • 3.1.1 Confirm password
    • 3.2 LCD Messages
      • 3.2.1 LCD layout
      • 3.2.2 Status info
      • 3.2.3 Emergent info
      • 3.2.4 Background task messages
      • 3.2.5 Hotkeys
    • 3.3 Menu
      • 3.3.1 Menu Tree
      • 3.3.2 Creating an Array
      • 3.3.3 Network Settings
      • 3.3.4 Terminal Port Settings
      • 3.3.5 System Settings
      • 3.3.6 System Information
• 04.CLI.pdf
  • Chapter 4: Using the CLI Commands
    • 4.1 Overview
      • 4.1.1 Embedded CLI
      • 4.1.2 Conventions Overview
    • 4.2 Basic RAID Management
      • 4.2.1 Hard disks
      • 4.2.2 JBOD disks
      • 4.2.3 Disk groups
      • 4.2.4 Spare and rebuild
      • 4.2.5 Logical disks
      • 4.2.6 RAID algorithms options
      • 4.2.7 Volumes
      • 4.2.8 Cache
    • 4.3 RAID Maintenance Utilities
      • 4.3.1 RAID attributes reconfiguration utilities
      • 4.3.2 Data integrity maintenance utilities
      • 4.3.3 Task priority control
      • 4.3.4 Task schedule management
      • 4.3.5 On-going task monitoring
      • 4.3.6 Array and volume roaming
      • 4.3.7 Array recovery utilities
    • 4.4 Storage Presentation
      • 4.4.1 Hosts
      • 4.4.2 Host groups
      • 4.4.3 Storage groups
      • 4.4.4 Presentation planning
      • 4.4.5 Selective storage presentation
      • 4.4.6 Simple storage presentation
      • 4.4.7 Symmetric-LUN storage presentation
    • 4.5 Hardware Configurations and Utilities
      • 4.5.1 Generic hard disk
      • 4.5.2 SAS ports
      • 4.5.3 SCSI ports
      • 4.5.4 FC ports
      • 4.5.5 Management network interface
      • 4.5.6 Local terminal ports
      • 4.5.7 Enclosure
      • 4.5.8 Uninterruptible power supply
      • 4.5.9 iSCSI target / ports
    • 4.6 Performance management
      • 4.6.1 Hard disks
      • 4.6.2 Cache
      • 4.6.3 LUN
      • 4.6.4 Storage ports
    • 4.7 Redundant Controller Configurations
      • 4.7.1 Mirrored write cache control
      • 4.7.2 Change preferred controller
      • 4.7.3 Path failover alert delay
      • 4.7.4 Controller fallover mode
    • 4.8 Event Management
      • 4.8.1 NVRAM event logs
      • 4.8.2 Event notification
      • 4.8.3 Event handling
    • 4.9 System Management
      • 4.9.1 Configurations management
      • 4.9.2 Time management
      • 4.9.3 Administration security control
      • 4.9.4 System information
      • 4.9.5 Miscellaneous
    • 4.10 Miscellaneous Utilities
      • 4.10.1 Lookup RAID systems
      • 4.10.2 Turn on/off CLI script mode
      • 4.10.3 Get command list and usage
    • 4.11 Configuration shortcuts
      • 4.11.1 RAID quick setup
      • 4.11.2 Performance profile
    • 4.12 Snapshot
• 05.Advanced.pdf
  • Chapter 5: Advanced Functions
    • 5.1 Multi-Path IO Solutions
      • 5.1.1 Overview
      • 5.1.2 Benefits
      • 5.1.3 Configuring MPIO Hosts and RAID Controller
      • 5.1.4 Windows Multi-Path Solution: PathGuard
      • 5.1.5 Linux Multi-Path Solution
      • 5.1.6 MAC Multi-Path Solution
      • 5.1.7 VMware ESX Server Multi-Path Solution
      • 5.1.8 Sun Solaris 10 OS Multi-Path Solution
    • 5.2 Multiple ID solutions
      • 5.2.1 Overview
    • 5.3 Redundant Controller
      • 5.3.1 Overview
      • 5.3.2 Controller Data Synchronization
      • 5.3.3 Redundant-Controller System Configuration with MPIO
      • 5.3.4 Controller and Path Failover/Failback Scenarios
    • 5.4 Snapshot
      • 5.4.1 Introduction
      • 5.4.2 How Snapshot Works
      • 5.4.3 How to Use Snapshots
    • 5.5 Dynamic Capacity Management
      • 5.5.1 Free chunk defragmentation
      • 5.5.2 Logical disk shrink
      • 5.5.3 Logical disk expansion
      • 5.5.4 Disk group expansion
      • 5.5.5 Volume expansion and shrink
      • 5.5.6 Windows DiskPart Utility
    • 5.6 RAIDGuard Central
      • 5.6.1 Introduction
      • 5.6.2 Deployment Overview
      • 5.6.3 Installing the RAIDGuard Central
      • 5.6.4 Uninstalling the RAIDGuard Central
      • 5.6.5 Launching the RAIDGuard Central
      • 5.6.6 RGC GUI Overview
      • 5.6.7 RAID System Registration
      • 5.6.8 RAID System Monitoring
      • 5.6.9 Configuring MSN Event Notification
    • 5.7 VDS Provider
      • 5.7.1 Overview
      • 5.7.2 Installing the VDS Provider
      • 5.7.3 Uninstalling the VDS Provider
      • 5.7.4 Using the VDS Provider Configuration Utility
      • 5.7.5 VDS-Based RAID Management Software
• 06.Troubleshooting.pdf
  • Chapter 6: Troubleshooting
    • 6.1 General Guidelines
    • 6.2 Beeper
    • 6.3 Performance Tuning
    • 6.4 Hard Disks
    • 6.5 User Interfaces
    • 6.6 RAID Configuration and Maintenance
    • 6.7 Redundant Controller and MPIO
• 0A.Appendix.pdf
  • Appendix A: Understanding RAID
    • A.1 RAID Overview
    • A.2 RAID 0
    • A.3 RAID 1
    • A.4 RAID 3
    • A.5 RAID 5
    • A.6 RAID 6
    • A.7 RAID 10
    • A.8 RAID 30
    • A.9 RAID 50
    • A.10 RAID 60
    • A.11 JBOD
    • A.12 NRAID
• 0B.Appendix.pdf
  • Appendix B: Features and Benefits
    • B.1 Overview
    • B.2 Flexible Storage Presentation
    • B.3 Flexible Storage Provisioning
    • B.4 Comprehensive RAID Configurations
    • B.5 Dynamic Configuration Migration
    • B.6 Effective Capacity Management
    • B.7 Adaptive Performance Optimization
    • B.8 Proactive Data Protection
    • B.9 Fortified Reliability and Robustness
    • B.10 Vigilant System Monitoring
    • B.11 Convenient Task Management
    • B.12 Extensive Supportive Tools
    • B.13 Easy-To-Use User Interfaces
• 0C.Appendix.pdf
  • Appendix C: Boot Utility
    • C.1 (N) Set IP address
    • C.2 (L) Load Image by TFTP
    • C.3 (B) Update Boot ROM
    • C.4 (S) Update System ROM
    • C.5 (H) Utility menu
    • C.6 (P) Set password
    • C.7 (R) Restart system
    • C.8 (Q) Quit & Boot RAID system
• 0D.Appendix.pdf
  • Appendix D: Event Log Messages
    • D.1 RAID
    • D.2 Task
    • D.3 Disk
    • D.4 Host ports
    • D.5 Controller hardware
    • D.6 Enclosure
    • D.7 System
    • D.8 Network
    • D.9 Miscellaneous
    • D.10 Snapshot
• ACS82410IOM.pdf