StorCase Technology Fibre-to-SCSI Single RAID - Manual (Page 7)

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StorCase Technology, Inc. S10C100 User's Guide - Rev. A01
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 1
Packaging Information .................................................................................................. 1
Serial Number ................................................................................................................ 1
General Description ...................................................................................................... 2
InfoStation RAID Module Panel ............................................................................. 5
INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................... 6
Installing the RAID Module into the InfoStation ............................................................ 6
RAID CHANNEL CONFIGURATIONS ..................................................................................... 6
Typical RAID Channel Configurations ......................................................................... 7
Fibre Channel Configurations ...................................................................................... 9
Typical FC-AL Configurations .............................................................................. 9
CONFIGURATION ................................................................................................................ 12
Configuration Overview ............................................................................................. 12
Starting the Disk Array Administrator Utility ..................................................... 12
Selecting Menu Options ..................................................................................... 16
Creating and Managing Arrays and Partitions .......................................................... 17
Creating Arrays .................................................................................................. 17
Creating a Single-Partition Array .................................................................. 18
Creating a Multiple-Partition Array ................................................................ 24
Managing Arrays ................................................................................................ 26
Viewing Array and Drive Status Information .............................................. 26
Viewing Array Status .............................................................................. 26
Viewing Drive Status ............................................................................... 29
Stopping the Array Initialization Process ..................................................... 30
Adding a Partition ............................................................................................... 31
Verifying an Array ............................................................................................. 34
Viewing Verification Status .......................................................................... 35
Stopping the Verification .............................................................................. 36
Reconstructing an Array ................................................................................... 36
Expanding Array Capacity (OCE) ...................................................................... 37
Viewing Expand Status ................................................................................ 40
Changing an Array Name ................................................................................... 40
Trusting an Array ............................................................................................... 41
Deleting an Array ............................................................................................... 42
Managing Partitions .................................................................................................... 43
Understanding Partitions .................................................................................... 43
Viewing Partition Status Information ................................................................. 45
Viewing Partition Status ............................................................................... 45
Viewing Partition Statistics ........................................................................... 47
Resetting Partition Statistics ........................................................................ 50
Expanding a Partition .......................................................................................... 51