Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network v.7.1 - Manual (Page 450)

26 October 2009 K2 Storage Area Network Installation and Service Manual 450
Working with RAID storage
Working with RAID storage
This section refers to K2 Lx0 RAID storage devices.
K2 Level 2 and K2 Level 3 RAID storage devices were released with previous
versions of K2 SANs. Refer to previous versions of this manual for information about
Level 2 and Level 3 RAID.
Use the procedures in this section when doing configuration or service work on the
RAID storage devices of an existing K2 SAN. Procedures are as follows:
• “Checking RAID storage subsystem status” on page 450
• “Checking controller microcode” on page 451
• “Identifying disks” on page 451
• “Get controller logs” on page 454
• “Unbind RANK” on page 454
• “About full/background bind” on page 455
• “Bind RANK” on page 456
• “Binding Hot Spare drives” on page 457
• “Loading RAID controller and expansion chassis microcode” on page 458
• “Downloading disk drive firmware” on page 459
• “Replacing a disk module” on page 460
• “Replacing a controller” on page 461
• “Upgrading to L30 controllers” on page 462
• “Configuring Level 10/20/30/35 RAID chassis network and SNMP settings” on
page 463
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 RANKS or LUNs
RANK Binding Type, such as RAID 1
State (online or offline)
Number of Logical Units