Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.3 - Manual (Page 543)

June 25, 2009 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual 543
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 543
• “Checking controller microcode” on page 544
• “Identifying disks” on page 544
• “Get controller logs” on page 547
• “Unbind RANK” on page 547
• “About full/background bind” on page 548
• “About full/background bind” on page 548
• “Binding Hot Spare drives” on page 551
• “Loading RAID controller microcode” on page 551
• “Downloading disk drive firmware” on page 552
• “Replacing a disk module” on page 553
• “Replacing a controller” on page 554
• “Upgrading to L30 controllers” on page 555
• “Configuring Level 2 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on page 556
• “Configuring Level 3, 10, 20, 30 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on
page 557
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