Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Nov.18 2008 - Manual (Page 493)

July 15, 2008 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual 493
Working with RAID storage
Working with RAID storage
Use the procedures in this section when doing configuration or service work on the
RAID storage devices of an existing K2 Storage System. Procedures are as follows:
• “Checking RAID storage subsystem status” on page 493
• “Checking controller microcode” on page 494
• “Identifying disks” on page 494
• “Get controller logs” on page 497
• “Unbind RANK” on page 497
• “About full/background bind” on page 498
• “About full/background bind” on page 498
• “Binding Hot Spare drives” on page 501
• “Loading RAID controller microcode” on page 501
• “Downloading disk drive firmware” on page 502
• “Replacing a disk module” on page 503
• “Replacing a controller” on page 504
• “Upgrading to L30 controllers” on page 505
• “Configuring Level 2 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on page 506
• “Configuring Level 3, 10, 20, 30 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on
page 507
Checking RAID storage subsystem status
Some limited status information for storage subsystems is displayed in the Storage
Utility. This can be helpful when configuring storage. You can view status
information by selecting items in the tree view.
Item in tree view Status information displayed
Controllers in Device Number of Controllers
Controller Peer Status
Primary IP
Serial Number
Slot
Peer Slot
Microcode Version
Bound Number of LUNs
RANK Binding Type, such as RAID 1
State (online or offline)
Number of Logical Units