Accusys ExaRAID GUI - Manual (Page 9)

Contents
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Chapter 3: Using the LCD Console
3.1 Starting LCD Manipulation .............................................................................3-1
3.1.1 Confirm password ...................................................................................3-1
3.2 LCD Messages ..............................................................................................3-2
3.2.1 LCD layout ..............................................................................................3-2
3.2.2 Status info ...............................................................................................3-3
3.2.3 Emergent info .........................................................................................3-4
3.2.4 Background task messages ....................................................................3-4
3.2.5 Hotkeys ...................................................................................................3-5
3.3 Menu ..............................................................................................................3-6
3.3.1 Menu Tree ..............................................................................................3-6
3.3.2 Creating an Array ....................................................................................3-6
3.3.3 Network Settings .....................................................................................3-7
3.3.4 Terminal Port Settings ............................................................................3-7
3.3.5 System Settings ......................................................................................3-8
3.3.6 System Information .................................................................................3-8
Chapter 4: Using the CLI Commands
4.1 Overview ........................................................................................................4-1
4.1.1 Embedded CLI ........................................................................................4-1
4.1.2 Conventions Overview ............................................................................4-6
4.2 Basic RAID Management ...............................................................................4-7
4.2.1 Hard disks ...............................................................................................4-7
4.2.2 JBOD disks .............................................................................................4-7
4.2.3 Disk groups .............................................................................................4-8
4.2.4 Spare and rebuild ...................................................................................4-9
4.2.5 Logical disks .........................................................................................4-10
4.2.6 RAID algorithms options .......................................................................4-10
4.2.7 Volumes ................................................................................................4-11
4.2.8 Cache ...................................................................................................4-12
4.3 RAID Maintenance Utilities ..........................................................................4-13
4.3.1 RAID attributes reconfiguration utilities .................................................4-13
4.3.2 Data integrity maintenance utilities .......................................................4-14
4.3.3 Task priority control ..............................................................................4-15
4.3.4 Task schedule management .................................................................4-15
4.3.5 On-going task monitoring ......................................................................4-16
4.3.6 Array and volume roaming ....................................................................4-16
4.3.7 Array recovery utilities ..........................................................................4-17
4.4 Storage Presentation ...................................................................................4-17
4.4.1 Hosts .....................................................................................................4-17
4.4.2 Host groups ..........................................................................................4-18