RAID Machine 5000 User manual

12/16/24 Bays SAS JBOD Enclosure
USER Manual
Version: 1.2
Issue Date: July, 2017
www.raidmachine.com
RAID Machine 5000 Series

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FCC Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the lim-
its for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against in-
terference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses,
and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used
in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to
radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interfer-
ence will not occur in a particular installation.
Manufacturer’s Declaration for CE Certication
We conrm 5000 series 12/16/24-bay 12Gb/s JBOD enclosure have
been tested and found compliant with the requirements in the council
directive relating to the EMC Directive 2004/108/EC. Regarding to the
electromagnetic compatibility, the following standards were applied:
EN 55022: 2006, Class A
EN 61000-3-2: 2006
EN 61000-3-3: 1995+A1: 2001+A2: 2005
EN 55024:1998+A1:2001=A2:2003
IEC61000-4-2: 2001
IEC61000-4-3: 2006
IEC61000-4-4: 2004
IEC61000-4-5: 2005
IEC61000-4-6: 2006
IEC61000-4-8: 2001
IEC61000-4-11: 2004

Contents
1. Introduction ................................................................ 6
1.1 Overview .........................................................................6
1.1.1 Enclosure Front View ....................................................7
1.2 SAS Expander ................................................................ 10
1.3 Power Supply/Cooling Fan Modules .................................... 11
1.4 Enclosure Alarm.............................................................. 12
1.5 Enclosure Working Mode .................................................. 12
2. Hardware Installation ............................................... 15
2.1 Installing an Enclosure into the Rack ................................. 16
2.2 Installing or Removing SAS/SATA ..................................... 17
Drives in the Enclosure.................................................... 17
2.2.1 Installing SAS/SATA Drives in the Enclo-........................ 18
sure ......................................................................... 18
2.2.1.1 Installing 2.5-inch Drives into 2.5-inch or ................ 18
3.5-inch Drive Tray............................................... 18
2.2.1.2 Installing 3.5-inch Drives into 3.5-inch Drive ............ 20
Tray .................................................................... 20
2.2.2 Installing SATA Drives with Interposer .......................... 21
Board....................................................................... 21
2.2.2.1 Installing 2.5-inch Drives into 3.5-inch Drive ............ 21
Tray .................................................................... 21
2.2.2.2 Installing 2.5-inch drives into 2.5-inch drive tray ...... 23
2.2.2.3 Installing 3.5-inch Drives into 3.5-inch Drive ............ 24
Tray ................................................................... 24
2.2.3 Removing Drives from the Enclosure ............................. 25
2.3 Installing or Removing the Expander in ............................. 25
the Enclosure ................................................................. 25
2.3.1 Installing the Expander into the Enclosure ..................... 25
2.3.2 Removing the Expander from the Enclosure ................... 26
2.4 Installing and Removing the Power .................................. 27
Supply/Cooling Fan Modules ............................................. 27
2.4.1 Installing the Power Supply/Cooling Fan ....................... 27
Modules.................................................................... 27
2.4.2 Removing a Power Supply/Cooling Fan ........................ 27
Modules.................................................................... 27
2.5 Installing the Power Cord Clamp ....................................... 28
2.6 Connecting the SAS JBOD Enclosure ................................. 30
2.6.1 Connecting the Host System ........................................ 30

2.6.2 Connecting Additional Enclosure ................................... 30
2.6.3 Power Up the Enclosure ............................................. 30
2.7 Conguring the Enclosure................................................. 31
3. LCD Conguration Manager ....................................... 32
3.1 Using LCD Front Panel Touch-Control Keypad ..................... 32
3.2 Navigation Map of the LCD .............................................. 34
4. CLI Features.............................................................. 37
4.1 Commands..................................................................... 38
• Help Command ................................................................ 38
• PASS Command ............................................................... 38
• LO Command .................................................................. 39
• LINK Command ............................................................... 39
• EDFB Command (Same as “DHPM”).................................... 42
• TH Command .................................................................. 44
• GROUP Command ............................................................ 46
• SYS Command................................................................. 48
● BU Command .................................................................. 49
• FAN Command................................................................. 50
• SPIN Command ............................................................... 51
• ST Command................................................................... 52
• LSD Command................................................................. 53
• SHOWLOGS Command...................................................... 55
• FDL Command ................................................................. 55
• Counters Reset Command ................................................. 57
• Sasaddr Command ........................................................... 58
• Sub Command................................................................. 58
Technical Specications ................................................ 60

INTRODUCTION
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1. Introduction
1.1 Overview
RAID Machine 5000 Series 12Gb/s SAS-to-SAS JBOD enclosures
provide a 2U/3U rack-mounted external storage chassis capable of
accommodating up to 12/16/24 12Gb/s SAS drives or 6Gb/s SATA
drives. The enclosure can support both 3.5-inch disk drives and
2.5-inch disk drives. The dual expander models provide fault-toler-
ant links across separate SAS domains, while the single expander
models provide a straight-through data path. If your enclosure has
two expander modules and you are installing SATA disk drives, an
interposer board is required so that both expander modules can ac-
cess the SATA disk drives.
The 12Gb/s SAS-to-SAS JBOD enclosures incorporate the latest
enhancements in SAS along with new LSI DataBolt bandwidth
optimizer technology. This is designed to help facilitate the indus-
try transition to 12Gb/s SAS-enabled systems by allowing users
to take advantage of 12Gb/s speeds while utilizing existing 6Gb/s
drives and backplanes. Using DataBolt, the SAS-to-SAS JBOD
buers 6Gb/s data and then transfers it out to the host at 12Gb/s
speeds in order to match the bandwidth between faster hosts and
slower SAS or SATA devices.
Each SAS-to-SAS JBOD enclosure connects to the host system
through one Mini SAS HD SFF-8644 connector (In) and two Min
SAS HD SFF-8644 connectors (In/Out and Out) to the next SAS-
to-SAS JBOD enclosure. Conguration and environmental informa-
tion is accessible either via in-band or out-of-band serial port. The
enclosure can be daisy-chained with up to seven additional enclo-
sures to provide up to 84 (2U-16)/112 (3U-16)/168 (2U-24) drives
per controller host connection. The total drive numbers depend on
the RAID controller or the host adapter rmware. Host-based RAID
conguration is supported via an external SAS/Fibre/iSCSI to SAS
RAID controller, external series SAS RAID and SAS host adapters.

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Figure 1-2. 12-bays Front View
Figure 1-3. 16-bays Front View
Figure 1-4. 24-bays Front View
1.1.1 Enclosure Front View
● 2U-12 bays SAS JBOD Front View
● 3U-16 bays SAS JBOD Front View
● 2U-24 bays SAS JBOD Front View
●Disk Slot Numbers
To perform a disk hot-plug procedure, you must know the
physical disk slot number for the drive that you want to
install or remove. The number on the drive tray shows how
SAS JBOD enclosure disk slots are numbered.

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LED Normal status Problem Indication
Blue LED
(Activity)
1. When the activity LED
is lit, there is I/O acti-
vity on that disk
drive.
2. When the LED is not
lit; there is no activity
on that disk drive.
N/A
Green/Red LED
(Power/Fault)
1. When the fault LED is
lit, there is no disk
present.
2. When the link LED is
lit, there is a disk pre-
sent.
1. When the fault LED is o, the
disk is present and status is
normal.
2. When the fault LED is blink-
ing (2 times/sec.), the disk
drive has failed and should
be hot-swapped immediately.
3. When the activity LED is lit
and fault LED is fast blinking
(10 times/sec.) there is re-
building activity on that disk
drive.
Figure 1-6. 3.5-inch SAS/SATA Drive Tray LED
Figure 1-5. 2.5-inch SAS/SATA Drive Tray LED
Drive Tray LED Indicators
Each drive tray in your enclosure has two LEDs: an activity
LED (blue) and one power/fault (two colors green/red) status
LED. The activity LED ashes whenever the drive is accessed.
The following table describes the SAS JBOD enclosure drive tray
LED status.

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●1.3.2 Enclosure Rear View
Figure 1-7. 12-bays Rear View
Figure 1-8. 16-bays Rear View
Figure 1-9. 24-bays Rear View

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1.2 SAS Expander
Each SAS expander provides data path and enclosure management
functions for the enclosure, including:
• Monitoring and controlling enclosure environment elements (tem-
perature, cooling fans, power supplies, and enclosure LEDs)
• Controlling access to the drives
• Communicating enclosure attributes and states to the host server
The rear of SAS expander panel is shown as below:
There is one 6-pin UART RJ-11 connector (for CLI manager), one
RJ-45 LAN connector (manufacturer use only) and three SAS chan-
nel ports. The following table describes the SAS expander link/ac-
cess LED.
SAS Port LED Status
Link LED
(Green light)
1. When SAS port link LED is lit for 1 second and turns o
for 3 seconds that indicates one link has connected.
2. When SAS port Link LED is lit for 2 seconds and turns
o for 2 seconds that indicates two links have con-
nected.
3. When SAS port Link LED is lit for 4 seconds that indi-
cates four links have connected. This is most common.
Access LED
(Blue light)
When access LED is lit that indicates the SAS host is ac-
cessing to the SAS enclosure.
Figure 1-10. Expander I/O Shield
Note:
At least one SAS expander must be installed in the enclosure.
If only one SAS expander is installed, it must be in the prima-
ry SAS expander slot and the other one must contain a cover.