Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Sep.24 2007 - Manual (Page 743)

September 7, 2007 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual 743
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 743
• “Checking controller microcode” on page 744
• “Identifying disks” on page 744
• “Get controller logs” on page 747
• “Unbind RANK” on page 747
• “About full/background bind” on page 748
• “About full/background bind” on page 748
• “Binding Hot Spare drives” on page 751
• “Loading RAID controller microcode” on page 751
• “Downloading disk drive firmware” on page 752
• “Replacing a disk module” on page 753
• “Replacing a controller” on page 754
• “Upgrading to L30 controllers” on page 755
• “Configuring Level 2 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on page 756
• “Configuring Level 3, 10, 20, 30 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on
page 757
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