Cybernetics V Series CY-miSAN-V User manual

UM-MV-86-B1-0801 Cybernetics
Operator’s
MANUAL
miSAN-V-Series
D2D2T Backup with removable
AIT Tape Drive
UM-MV-86
Rev. B1-0801

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Guide to conventions
Throughout the miSAN-V-Series manual, you will find caution and note boxes similar to
those below. Please read the contents of the cautions and notes carefully.
FCC Notice
This equipment is tested to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to
Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This
equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed
and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to
radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause
harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at
his own expense.
This icon indicates the existence of a potential hazard that could
result in personal injury, damage to your equipment or loss of data if
the safety instruction is not observed.
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Table of Contents
Guide to conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
FCC Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 1 Introduction to the miSAN 11
miSAN-V-Series Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Parallel SCSI Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
High-Speed Archiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Multiple Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Selective Device Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Web Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Telnet Menu System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Network Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Information available without password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Java™ Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Telnet Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
iSCSI Initiator Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Chapter 2 Setting Up the miSAN 17
Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing the Hardware Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Rackmount Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Parallel SCSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting the Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Parallel SCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Management LAN Port (ETH0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
iSCSI Network Ports (ETH1, ETH2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting Power to an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Power Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Configuring the Network and iSCSI Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Network Setup Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Network Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
iSCSI Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Remote iSCSI Target Device Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
miSAN-V-Series iSCSI Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Host iSCSI Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
User Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Security Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting Up the miSAN-V-Series Virtual Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Initial Setup Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

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Creating Virtual Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Deciding How Many Virtual Tapes to Create. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Deciding What Kind of Virtual Tape Drives to Create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Virtual Standalone Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Virtual Stacker Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Deciding How to Assign Virtual Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating Virtual Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating Virtual Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Assigning Virtual Tapes to Virtual Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring a Physical Stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Testing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Shut Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 3 Operating the Web Control Panel 33
Interface Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Main Menu Bar Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
HSTC Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Browser links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tabs introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Devices Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Virtual tape Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Physical tapes Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Disk Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Create Virtual Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Basic Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Advanced Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Format Disks Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Configure Virtual Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Assign Virtual Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Physical Stacker Copy Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configure Auto-archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Set Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Update License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Export or Import Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Rescan Physical Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Shut Down the HSTC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
HSTC Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Device ID order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Host vs. job I/O policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Host I/O idle minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Overwrite non-committed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Drive compression for copying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copy volume tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Virtual Device Emulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Receive SNMP messages from UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Configuring a Tripp Lite® SmartPro®/SmartOnline™ model UPS with

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SNMPWEBCARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Data Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SCSI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SCSI HBA Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
HBA X direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
HBA X base SCSI ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
HBA X speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Incoming iSCSI Connections from Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
iSCSI login control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
iSCSI access password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
iSCSI host username . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
iSCSI host password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Outgoing iSCSI Connections to Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Remote iSCSI device X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Device X DNS Name or IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Device X iSCSI Username . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Device X iSCSI password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Setup for using an external iSCSI device for additional Virtual Tape storage58
Network Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Hostname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Default gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Nameserver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
ethX ( 1000 Mbps) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
ethX IP bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ethX IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ethX subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ethX MTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
bondX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
bondX IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
bondX subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
bondX MTU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Message Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Send messages by email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
SMTP server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SMTP username. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SMTP password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Email address(es). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Admin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Advanced Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Advanced Menu(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Define Emulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Host iSCSI Debug Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Product Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Physical Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Virtual Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Virtual device assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Credits and Licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Browser links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Devices Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Virtual Tape Drive Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

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Mounted Medium listbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Autoload checkbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Virtual Stacker Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Physical Tape Drive Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Menu Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Host access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Job control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Physical Stacker Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Inventory tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Properties tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Optical Drive Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Virtual Tapes Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Status Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Virtual Tape Popup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Bar code:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Physical Tapes Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Status Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Jobs Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Jobs Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Job Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Activity Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Messages Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
USB offload. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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Chapter 4 Telnet Menu System 105
Telnet Menu System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
miSAN-V-Series Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Menu Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
SCSI configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Configure iSCSI hosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Assign virtual devices to hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Swap SCSI HBA ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Offline Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Display debug output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Rescan SCSI buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Reset options to defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Test system memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Shut Down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Chapter 5 Using the 3ware Disk Manager® 111
Browser Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Accessing From a Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Logging In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Working with the 3DM Screens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
3DM Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Refreshing the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
3DM Screens and What They're Used For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Setting Up 3DM Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Managing E-mail Event Notification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Caution About Disabling Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Caution About Changing Incoming Port # . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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3DM2 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Controller Summary Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Controller Details Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Unit Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Unit Details Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Drive Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
SMART Details About Drive at Particular Port Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Controller Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Background Task Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Unit Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Unit Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Other Controller Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Scheduling Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
About Task Schedules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
About Self-tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Maintenance Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Rescan Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Unit Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Unit Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Drive Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Maintenance Task Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Available Drives (to Create Units). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Alarms Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
3DM Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
E-mail Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Page Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Incoming Port # . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Configuring Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Creating a New Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Drives to Be Included in the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Type of RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Rebuilding a Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Configuring Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Creating a Hot Spare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Adding a Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Removing a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Chapter 6 Packing and Shipping Instructions 141
Removing the miSAN-V-Series from its Installation Environment . . . . . . . . . . 141
Using the Proper Packing Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Chapter 7 Product Specifications 147
Supported iSCSI Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Drive Interface Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Ethernet Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Management LAN Port (ETH0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
iSCSI Network Ports (ETH1, ETH2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
SCSI Parallel Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Low Voltage Differential (LVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Physical Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Humidity and Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Non-operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

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Operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Appendix A Microsoft® iSCSI Initiator Software Client A-149
Downloading the Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Installing the Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Configuring the iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Changing initiator node name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Adding Target Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Creating System Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Using iSCSI Disk Devices with the iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
Using Backup Software with the iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Logging Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Appendix B Linux iSCSI Initiator B-163
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Linux Kernel 2.6 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Core-iSCSI Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Debian lk 2.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Red Hat 9 & Enterprise Linux 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
SuSE Linux Pro 9.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Source Compilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Test the setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Appendix C Glossary C-167
Appendix D Common Questions D-175
Appendix E Return Policies E-179
Shipping Damage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Hardware Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Software Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Tape Media Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Promotional Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Maintenance Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Exceptions to Cybernetics’ 30-day Hardware Return Policy: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Return Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Appendix F Technical Support F-183
Appendix G Cybernetics miSAN-V-Series Notices G-i

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Figure 2-1 miSAN-V-Series Rear Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Figure 2-2 miSAN-V-Series Front Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 2-3 “Confirm shutdown method” Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Figure 3-1 Main Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Figure 3-2 “Tools” Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Figure 3-3 “HSTC Options” Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Figure 3-4 Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 3-5 Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 3-6 “Browser links” Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 3-7 “Help” Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 3-8 “Tools” Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Figure 3-9 Virtual Tape Disk Space Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Figure 3-10 Create Virtual Tapes Basic Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Figure 3-11 Create Virtual Tapes “Advanced” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Figure 3-12 Create Virtual Tapes “Format disks” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Figure 3-13 “Configure virtual devices” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Figure 3-14 “Virtual tape assignments” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Figure 3-15 “Physical stacker copy profiles” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Figure 3-16 “Auto-archive configuration” Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Figure 3-17 “Set date and time” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Figure 3-18 “Update License” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Figure 3-19 “Rescan physical devices” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Figure 3-20 “Confirm shutdown method” Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Figure 3-21 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Figure 3-22 “Devices” Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Figure 3-23 Renaming a Virtual Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Figure 3-24 Virtual Tape Drive Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Figure 3-25 Virtual Stacker Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Figure 3-26 “Move to slot” Popup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Figure 3-27 “Move to drive” Popup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Figure 3-28 Physical Tape Drive Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Figure 3-29 “Setup offload” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Figure 3-30 “Select virtual tape” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Figure 3-31 “Clear VT for offloading” Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Figure 3-32 “Offload disk to tape” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Figure 3-33 “Load tape onto disk” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Figure 3-34 Physical Stacker Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Figure 3-35 “Setup offload” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Figure 3-36 Assigning a Virtual Tape to a Physical Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Figure 3-37 “Wait for backup” Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Figure 3-38 “Clear VT for offloading” Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Figure 3-39 “Copy selections” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Figure 3-40 “Copy profiles” Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Figure 3-41 “Copy options” Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Figure 3-42 “Load tapes onto disk” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Figure 3-43 Assigning Physical Tapes To Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Figure 3-44 Physical Stacker “Properties” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Figure 3-45 Optical Drive Device Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Figure 3-46 “Select virtual tape to backup” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Figure 3-47 “Virtual tapes” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Figure 3-48 Virtual Tape Popup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Figure 3-49 “Rename virtual tapes” Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Figure 3-50 “Select copy destination” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Figure 3-51 “Confirm data overwrite” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Figure 3-52 “Manage volume tags” Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Figure 3-53 “Copy profiles” Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Figure 3-54 “Edit” Tab for Volume Tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Figure 3-55 Virtual Tape Properties Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Figure 3-56 “Physical tapes” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Figure 3-57 “Jobs” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Figure 3-58 Exporting the “Job log”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Figure 3-59 “Activity monitor” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Figure 3-60 “Messages” Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Figure 3-61 New Message Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Figure 5-1 3DM Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Figure 5-2 3DM Menu Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Figure 5-3 Controller Summary Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Figure 5-4 Controller Details Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Figure 5-5 Unit Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Figure 5-6 Unit Details Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Figure 5-7 Drive Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Figure 5-8 S.M.A.R.T Data Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Figure 5-9 Controller Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Figure 5-10 Scheduling Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Figure 5-11 Maintenance Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Figure 5-12 3DM Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Figure 5-13 Removing a Drive in 3DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Figure 5-14 Result of Removing Drive from Unit in 3DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Figure A-1 Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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C h a p t e r 1
Introduction to the miSAN
miSAN-V-Series Overview
The Cybernetics miSAN-V-Series is a disk-based storage appliance that runs Cybernet-
ics’ CY-HSTC (High Speed Tape Cache) tape virtualization engine. Using the HSTC
engine, the miSAN-V-Series emulates conventional tape drives and tape cartridges. Host
applications use miSAN-V-Series virtual tapes and drives as conventional backup
resources. Virtual drives appear to hosts as physically-attached, parallel SCSI devices.
Virtual tapes appear as tape cartridge images written in their native format. The miSAN-
V-Series stores virtual tapes securely on disk drives and allows for copying to physical
tape cartridges.
miSAN-V-Series virtual drives write and read data using virtual tapes at speeds unreach-
able with physical devices.
miSAN-V-Series resources are administered remotely over the network using a web
browser or telnet terminal. Using the iSCSI protocol, the miSAN-V-Series can function as
a network backup solution, by offering tape backup and archiving services to multiple
hosts. Virtual tape backups can be automatically duplicated to tape cartridges, assuring
data integrity by maintaining redundant tape backups.
The miSAN-V-Series increases the functionality and extends the usefulness of a current
parallel SCSI backup solution. iSCSI provides network accessibility for peripheral backup
devices. With virtual tape drive autoloading, the miSAN-V-Series handles tapes like a
library changer. The internally mounted AIT tape drive allows for integrated tape offload.
Attached tape drives and tape libraries, connected remotely via iSCSI, can also be made
available for direct host access.
Options
The miSAN-V-Series models use internal hot-swap disk drives for the virtual tape cache.
The total storage capacity for the virtual tape cache is based on the number and configu-
ration of the disk drives. For example, the miSAN-V-Series, with six internal disk drives of
nearly 750 GB capacity each, will have about 4.5 TB of raw capacity available for the vir-
tual tape cache. However, in a RAID 5 configuration, the usable capacity would be
approximately 3.75TB. In the most secure, and recommended configuration of RAID 5
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Standard miSAN-V-Series models include software support for virtual tapes, drives and libraries.
Hardware support is offered for data backup and restoration using the integrated SCSI tape drive or
via network with the iSCSI interface.
The LVD parallel SCSI interface can allow the miSAN-V-Series to connect directly to a host system,
either instead of or in addition to the iSCSI interface, allowing for off-network backup and data resto-
ration.
All miSAN-V-Series models come with an integrated Tape Drive. A new feature for miSAN-V-Series
is a removable AIT Tape Drive. If your model comes equipped with this feature, please note that the
drive must not be installed or removed while the miSAN-V-Series is powered on. For more details on
this feature, please see the Removeable AIT manual that was included in your product documenta-
tion CD.
Features
Hardware
• Two iSCSI interface ports for data transfer (Gigabit Ethernet, 10/100/1000Base-T)
• One Ethernet interface port for remote administration (Gigabit Ethernet, 10/100/1000Base-T)
(Web Control Panel and Telnet Menu System)
• Two 68-pin VHDCI LVD ports (“Host”: Ultra160, “Reserved”: Ultra320)
• Removable AIT Tape drive
• Up to 6 Hot Swap SATA Disk Drives
Software
• CY-HSTC (High Speed Tape Cache) tape virtualization engine
• Web browser-based control panel
• Telnet menu system control
• iSCSI interface for multiple-host access
• optional Tape Library Control support
Caution
Although the miSAN-V-Series uses a removable AIT drive, the tape
drive is NOT able to be hot swapped in the miSAN-V6. In order to
remove or install the tape drive you must power down the miSAN first.
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Functionality
Network Connection
The miSAN-V-Series includes two Gigabit Ethernet network interfaces (10/100/1000Base-T capable)
for iSCSI data transfer. Each interface provides a connection for hosts to access and use the
miSAN-V-Series virtual devices like directly-connected SCSI devices. A third Gigabit Ethernet inter-
face (10/100/1000Base-T capable) provides a connection for hosts to configure and operate the
miSAN-V-Series via the Web Control Panel and Telnet Menu Interface.
Parallel SCSI Connection
The two installed Ultra 3 Wide LVD parallel SCSI ports are available to provide the option for a direct
host connection. With a single parallel SCSI interface, the miSAN-V-Series offers a direct SCSI path
to a tape drive or library for archiving virtual tapes to physical tapes. As an option, the miSAN-V-
Series can also be connected to a host, so that the directly-connected host can use the miSAN-V-
Series, without reducing network bandwidth, while allowing iSCSI remote backups over the network.
High-Speed Archiving
With disk-speed virtual tape access, and gigabit-capable data transfers for iSCSI, the miSAN-V-
Series reaches backup speeds that exceed even the fastest SCSI tape drive. miSAN-V-Series hard-
ware and software are tuned to generate the widest possible data pipe for increased archiving
speed. Multiple Ethernet interfaces can be aggregated (“bonded”) for increased data transfer band-
width. The RAID-based disk storage provides enhanced data integrity and security. The miSAN-V-
Series makes efficient use of storage space and network bandwidth. It transfers stored data in raw
block format without the overhead of traditional file systems. This can dramatically narrow the time
required for even the most extensive backup schedule. Limited and broad scale restores from virtual
tapes are accelerated as well.
Multiple Host Access
The Web Control Panel allows the ability to administer the miSAN-V-Series, using a web browser,
from any point on the network. The iSCSI interface allows any iSCSI-capable host system to write
data to the miSAN-V-Series.
The miSAN-V-Series can maintain concurrent host connections. This allows multiple hosts to oper-
ate and view the status of the miSAN-V-Series simultaneously. The gigabit bandwidth combined with
disk-to-disk transfer rates enables the miSAN-V-Series to support and maintain high backup speeds
from multiple host systems to multiple virtual tape drives. This level of multitasking greatly decreases
the necessary backup time window.
Selective Device Visibility
The miSAN-V-Series allows you to make individual virtual or physical devices available only to
selected host systems via iSCSI or a direct parallel SCSI connection. This allows multiple simulta-
neous backups. Each host system sees only its designated tape device(s) and writes only to its des-
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Web Control Panel
The miSAN-V-Series offers a universally compatible Web Control Panel accessible
through a network connection. The Web Control Panel is used for configuring, operating
and viewing the status of the miSAN-V-Series in real-time. Multiple clients can access the
interface using any Java™-enabled web browser. Chapter 3 “Operation” describes the
Web Control Panel layout and functions.
Telnet Menu System
The miSAN-V-Series provides an extensive text-based menu system for remote configu-
ration via telnet over a network connection. Used primarily for device and network setup
or offline maintenance, the telnet menu system allows a client to view and make changes
to the miSAN-V-Series configuration. Chapter 3 “Operation” describes the Telnet Menu
System context-sensitive menus and functions.
Network Traffic
Some network traffic is encrypted for security purposes, and some network traffic isn't
encrypted.
Encrypted:
• Control link between miSAN and Java applet
• Web browser session to 3ware 3DM2 utility
• iSCSI passwords during login
Not encrypted:
• iSCSI data during backup or restore
• Telnet session to miSAN
It would normally be safe to access the Java applet or 3ware 3DM2 utility over an
untrusted network, but iSCSI and telnet should be used only over trusted networks
Information available without password
The miSAN makes the following information available without asking for a password:
1) The debug log
2) The menu settings page (passwords are not shown)
3) The hardware info page
4) The Java applet can be downloaded but not used without a password
Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
The miSAN has the ability to receive SNMP messages from a UPS to shut down cleanly
before power fails. This feature is turned off by default as a security measure because the
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an illegitimate device on the network could perform a denial-of-service attack on the
miSAN by sending it a SNMP message to shut down.
Open Ports
The miSAN has the following open ports:
23 Telnet
80 HTTP
162 SNMP-trap
888 3ware 3DM2
3260 iSCSI
18083 Java applet control
Client and Host Software
Introduction
The miSAN-V-Series is accessed and controlled over a TCP/IP network connection. Two
methods are available: a Java™-based graphical interface and text-only telnet menus.
Since some configuration items are available exclusively via either the Java-based Web
Control Panel or the Telnet Menu System, both interfaces should be available.
Java™ Installation
The miSAN-V-Series requires at least one host system installed with a web browser and
the Java™ plug-in (version 1.4.2 or later) be available on the local network. The Java
plug-in is included with most installations of the Java Runtime Environment™ (JRE) or
Java Virtual Machine™ (JVM).
Refer to the Sun Microsystems Java website (http://www.java.sun.com) for a list of com-
patible operating systems and download locations. The miSAN-V-Series’s Java-based
Web Control Panel will not be available until the unit is connected to the network and con-
figured, as described later in this chapter.
Telnet Installation
The miSAN-V-Series requires at least one host system installed with telnet client software
for access to the text-only Telnet Menu System. The menu system will not be available
until the unit is connected to the network and configured. For convenience, it is recom-
mended that the same host system be used for both the Java™ Web Control Panel and
the Telnet Menu System, although this is not required.
iSCSI Initiator Driver Installation
Internet SCSI (iSCSI) refers to a method of transmitting SCSI commands, data and status
across Ethernet-based transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) networks.
This allows SCSI devices, such as tape drives, and SCSI-aware software, such as
backup applications, to communicate remotely via existing IP networks. To do this, iSCSI
uses an interface for both the host system, the initiator, and the miSAN-V-Series, the tar-
get, to encapsulate SCSI within TCP/IP packets.
On a host system (the initiator), the iSCSI interface will typically include a TCP/IP network
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SCSI host bus adapter (HBA) to the operating system and application software. To the
host system, this appears to be a physical HBA, but all traffic for the iSCSI HBA is encap-
sulated for delivery via the network to the remote iSCSI target.
Host systems that will transmit commands and data via iSCSI should have iSCSI initiator
software installed and configured. iSCSI initiator drivers are available for many operating
systems. For host systems running the Windows® operating system, Microsoft® offers an
iSCSI initiator driver. See Appendix A, “Microsoft® iSCSI Initiator Software Client”, for
information on downloading, installing and configuring the driver. Linux users should see
Appendix B “Linux iSCSI Initiator setup..
Host systems for which iSCSI initiator drivers are not available cannot access iSCSI
devices directly. For these systems, the Cybernetics iClient device is available, which
enables hosts to access remote iSCSI devices as if they were directly connected to the
host system. The iClient connects to the SCSI bus on the host system and relays SCSI
commands and responses between the host system and the iSCSI target devices via the
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C h a p t e r 2
Setting Up the miSAN
This chapter provide requirements and instructions for unpacking and installing the
miSAN-V-Series:
• Installation Requirements
• Installing the Hardware and Software Components
• Connecting the Cables
• Configuring the Network and iSCSI Settings
• Setting Up the miSAN-V-Series Virtual Components
• Testing the Installation
To ensure correct installation and proper operation, make sure all the items listed in
“Installation Requirements” are available before beginning.
Installation Requirements
Make sure the following are available before beginning the installation:
• Level surface (or 2U rackmount space) near a readily accessible power outlet
• Cybernetics miSAN-V-Series unit
• Rackmount hardware kit and tools for rackmount installations
• Standard, 3-prong AC power cord (IEC320 C13 to NEMA 5-15P) for each power
supply (2 cords)
• Ethernet cable (CAT 5e or 6 unshielded twisted pair with RJ-45 connector) for each
standard network interface (3)
• Parallel SCSI cable with male, 68-pin connector for each SCSI device. Depending on
case configuration, the required connector may be either VHDCI 68-pin or High
Density
68-pin socket (Ultra Wide SCSI-3).
• Either the Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla™ Firefox® 1.0 Web browser
with the Java™ plug-in version 1.4.2 or later, and telnet client software, on a network
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Installing the Hardware Components
Rackmount Installation
The rackmount installation requires a 2U space in your rack. Follow the instructions
included in the rackmount kit.
Parallel SCSI
Host systems that will transmit commands and data via a directly-connected SCSI inter-
face to the miSAN-V-Series should have the host SCSI bus adapter installed and config-
ured.
Connecting the Cables
Parallel SCSI
The miSAN-V-Series includes two installed VHDCI 68-pin LVD ports. Each parallel SCSI
port is terminated internally. The port marked “host” is an Ultra160 LVD which is factory-
set to connect to an initiator (host system). The port marked “Reserved” or “Unused” is
used for the internal tape drive and should not be connected to by the user. The miSAN-
V-Series may not function properly if any device is attached to the reserved port..
Figure 2-1 shows the rear view of a typical miSAN-V-Series.
When attaching SCSI cables to the miSAN-V-Series, make sure the
host is connected to the appropriately labeled SCSI port.
Figure 2-1 miSAN-V-Series Rear Components
AC Power
Receptacles
iSCSI Network Ports
(RJ-45 Ethernet)
ETH2
ETH0
ETH1
Network Reset Button Hole SCSI Ports (VHDCI
Management LAN Por
t
(RJ-45 Ethernet)
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Network
Management LAN Port (ETH0)
Using the Management LAN port, connect the miSAN-V-Series to your LAN using a CAT
5e or CAT 6 Ethernet cable. Please note that in some configurations the ETH0 port may
be located in a different position than shown in the above illustration. Each port is clearly
labeled.
iSCSI Network Ports (ETH1, ETH2)
Using one or both iSCSI network ports, connect the miSAN-V-Series to your LAN, Gigabit
Ethernet switch or backup server using a CAT 5e or CAT 6 Ethernet cable. Please note
that in some configurations the ETH1 and ETH2 ports may be located in a different posi-
tion than shown in the above illustration. Each port is clearly labeled.
Power
Using the AC socket on both power supplies, connect the miSAN-V-Series to a readily
accessible AC power source using a standard 3-prong power cord for each socket.
Connecting Power to an Uninterruptible Power
Supply (UPS)
You should use an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) rated to at least 460 watts with
the miSAN-V-Series. This will ensure data buffered in the RAM cache will get written to
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Series to a UPS. If you do not use a UPS, each power supply should be connected to a
separate power main.
Power Button
The miSAN-V-Series is powered on using the power button on the front panel (See Fig-
ure 2-2). Figure 2-2 shows the front view of a typical miSAN-V-Series.
Both power supplies must be connected to an AC power source, preferably
separate power mains. The miSAN-V-Series uses both power supp
l
simultaneously to provide immediate failover in case one power supply fail
s
If you use an APC® Smart-UPS® model UPS with a Network Managem
Card or a Tripp Lite® SmartPro®/SmartOnline™ model UPS with
SNMPWEBCARD, you can configure the UPS to send messages to the HS
when the power fails, enabling the HSTC to automatically shut itself d
o
cleanly.
Figure 2-2 miSAN-V-Series Front Components
Power
Button
Hot Swap
SATA Disk Drive