Lacie professional server table of contents technical brief: raid page 1 table of contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................. 4 2. Administrator ..............................................................
Lacie professional server table of contents technical brief: raid page 2 8.3. Creating the system mirror ............................................................................................................. 64 8.4. Swap file and data: mirror .....................................................
Lacie professional server foreword technical brief: raid page 3 copyrights copyright © 2011 lacie. All rights re- served. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherw...
Lacie professional server introduction technical brief: raid page 4 1. Introduction this technical brief assumes that the reader has a basic understand- ing of raid (redundant array of independent/inexpensive disks) and the benefits of securing data on multiple disk arrays. For those interested in l...
Lacie professional server 5big enclosure: disk install technical brief: raid page 5 3. Removing and installing disks important info: in the event that an individual hard disk fails in the lacie 5big storage server, contact your lacie reseller or lacie customer support for technical assistance. If th...
Lacie professional server 5big enclosure: disk install technical brief: raid page 6 3.3. Drives with capacities greater than 2tb at the time of this writing, disks larger than 2tb are not tested within the 5big enclosure. Please note that lacie cannot support disks larger than 2tb without evaluating...
Lacie professional server 5big enclosure: disk install technical brief: raid page 7 off off off fig. 01 fig. 02 fig. 03 3.4. Removing a disk tray adding a non-lacie disk to an empty slot in the 5big stor- age server: the order of disks in the 5big enclosure can be important. Lacie recommends inserti...
Lacie professional server 5big enclosure: disk install technical brief: raid page 8 fig. 04 - 5big drive tray and four screws fig. 05 - to prevent esd, avoid touching the hard drive printed circuit board 3.5. Fastening a non-lacie hard disk to the 5big enclosure drive tray important info: drives sol...
Lacie professional server 5big enclosure: disk install technical brief: raid page 9 fastening a disk to the drive tray: 1. Find a suitable work area with adequate space and a flat, even surface. 2. Locate the empty 5big drive tray and four drive tray screws in- cluded in your packaging. Do not faste...
Lacie professional server 5big enclosure: disk install technical brief: raid page 10 3.6. 5big enclosure numbered slots and disk trays for convenience when adding or removing disks, the 5big enclosure drive slots and trays have matching numbers ( fig. 09 ). Important info: the order of disks in the ...
Lacie professional server disk numbering technical brief: raid page 11 4. Disk numbering the 5big storage server uses windows storage server disk man- agement to configure raid. Before reading how to create and repair the raid arrays, it may be helpful to know how the utility assigns numbers to the ...
Lacie professional server disk numbering technical brief: raid page 12 in fig. 12 and fig. 13 , disk 1 has been physically removed from its slot. Disk management no longer has a disk 1 but a missing disk. The other four disks keep their default number assignments since the 5big storage server has no...
Lacie professional server disk numbering technical brief: raid page 13 in our example, disk 1 was removed from its slot, becoming the missing disk in windows disk management. If the 5big storage server is restarted with the empty slot, windows will assign new num- bers to three of the five drives ( ...
Lacie professional server disk numbering technical brief: raid page 14 when a replacement drive is inserted into the empty slot, windows assigns the next available number, disk 4 ( fig. 16 and fig. 17 , b ). Certainly, drive renumbering is not a problem that will impact the integrity of the data. Ho...
Lacie professional server disk numbering technical brief: raid page 15 4.1.1. Recovering the 5big storage server default disk order while not imperative to optimal operation, you can easily recover the 5big storage server default drive order by restarting the device. Please make certain that the 5bi...
Lacie professional server disk numbering technical brief: raid page 16 4.2. Disk numbering: lacie hardware monitor lacie hardware monitor is a software utility that helps to manage your 5big storage server (start > lacie hardware monitor). The hardware monitor also numbers the system drives but they...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 17 5. Raid - five disk server 5.1. Default raid the default raid configurations for the 5big storage server are based upon the general requirements of an active business that wants to keep data and the server operating system saf...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 18 5big storage server default raid configurations (five disks) volume disks and raid level usage notes system ✦ 2 disks ✦ mirror ✦ windows storage server must run from its own volume. ✦ storing data on the sys- tem volume will i...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 19 5.2. Adjusting the raid administrators may change raid configurations to suit the needs of a business or after a server system recovery. Launch disk management to view or change raid configurations in windows storage server. 1...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 20 5.3. Five disks: system volume mirror in this example, disk 0 , volume letter c contains the windows stor- age server operating system. Note that system is listed in its contents ( fig. 20 ). The operating system, as shipped, ...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 21 in the scenario where disk 0 fails some time after a recovery, the front led will blink continuously since it cannot boot from the first drive with an operating system. The administrator may feel a bit inconvenienced by having...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 22 5.3.2. Creating the mirror 1. Right-click on the sole partition that lists system as one of its components. Choose add mirror... ( fig. 21 ) 2. From the list of drives, choose disk 1. Click add mirror. Continued on the next pa...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 23 3. The disk management prompt in fig. 23 is standard for the 5big storage server ( 5.3.1. Boot order and creating the mirror after a recovery ). Click ok to continue. 4. The new configuration will resynch until the mirror is c...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 24 5. The mirror has finished building when resynching is replaced by healthy . Note that the storage space used for the mirror on disk 1 is identical to disk 0 . The remaining capacity for each disk is unallocated for the moment...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 25 5.4.1. Create the swap volume 1. Launch disk management to make certain that the system vol- ume has been mirrored ( fig. 26 ). If there is a question, please confirm the color coding for volumes. In this example, mirrored vol...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 26 3. The new raid-5 volume wizard will launch. Click next> ( fig. 28 ). 4. Disk 2 is listed in the selected column. Choose disk 3 and disk 4, then click add> ( fig. 29 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 28 fig. 29.
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 27 5. The lacie default for the raid 5 swap volume matches the indi- vidual disk capacity of the system volumes. In select the amount of space in mb , type 35000. Click next> ( fig. 30 ). 6. The default letter assignment for the ...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 28 7. Make certain that format this volume with the following settings is selected and choose the settings below ( fig. 32 ): ✦ file system: ntfs ✦ allocation unit size: default ✦ volume label: type swap ✦ for a faster format, ch...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 29 10. The new configuration will resynch until the raid 5 volume is created ( fig. 34 ). 11. The raid 5 volume has finished building when resynching is replaced by healthy . The remaining capacity for each disk is unallocated fo...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 30 2. On the left of the window, click once on advanced system settings ( fig. 35 ). 3. From the system properties window, select the advanced tab. In the first category, performance , click settings... ( fig. 36 ) continued on t...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 31 4. At the performance options window, click the advanced tab and select change... 5. In the virtual memory window, click once on s: [swap] ( fig. 37 ). 6. Select custom size to activate the fields initial size (mb) and maximum...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 32 7. Exit performance options and system properties ( fig. 39 ) before restarting the server, start > restart. Create the raid 5 data volume after the server has restarted. 5.5. Data volume: raid 5 1. Launch disk management ( 5....
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 33 4. Add all the disks from available to selected ( fig. 40 ). Click next>. 5. The default letter for the data volume is d . Select d and click next>. Continued on the next page>> fig. 40 fig. 41.
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 34 6. Make certain that format this volume with the following settings is selected and choose the settings below ( fig. 32 ): ✦ file system: ntfs ✦ allocation unit size: default ✦ volume label: type data ✦ lacie recommends checki...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 35 8. Confirm the settings before clicking finish ( fig. 43 ). 9. The raid 5 volume has finished building when resynching is replaced by healthy . Please note that building the data raid 5 volume may take between 15 and 40 hours ...
Lacie professional server raid - five disks technical brief: raid page 36 5.6. Volume activity during a resynch 5.6.1. Rebooting during a resynch rebooting the 5big storage server while disk management is re- synching a mirror or raid 5 volume will not harm the configuration or its data. However, si...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 37 6. Raid - two disk server a 5big storage server with two drives offers many options for the user, including the raid configuration. While it is possible to create spanned disks or a raid 0 array, lacie highly recommends mirror-...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 38 6.2. Adjusting the raid administrators may change raid configurations to suit the needs of a business or after a server system recovery. Launch disk management to view or change raid configurations in windows storage server. 1....
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 39 6.4. Boot order and creating the system mirror all windows storage server system files are duplicated on each disk in the mirror. In most instances, when there are two versions of a windows operating system, the user is prompte...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 40 6.5. Creating the system mirror important info: before creating the system mirror, please follow the instructions in 6.4. Boot order and creating the system mirror . 1. Launch disk management ( 5.2. Adjusting the raid ). You sh...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 41 4. A prompt will ask you to select the second disk for the mirror ( fig. 48 ). The only choice is disk 1 since there are two drives within the 5big enclosure. Click on disk 1 then select add mir- ror. 5. Two windows prompts wil...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 42 6. The system mirror will be created during the resynching ( fig. 51 ). You may build the data mirror while the system mirror is resynching. 6.6. Creating the data mirror 1. Please create the system mirror ( 6.5. Creating the s...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 43 4. A prompt will ask you to select the second disk for the mirror ( fig. 53 ). The only choice is disk 1 since there are two drives within the 5big enclosure. Click on disk 1 then select add mir- ror. 5. The data mirror will be...
Lacie professional server raid - two disks technical brief: raid page 44 6. All disks will be listed as healthy once the resynching is com- plete ( fig. 55 ). Fig. 55.
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 45 7. Raid - three disk server the directions that follow will help you to create the recommended raid configuration for a 5big storage server with three disk. 7.1. Three disk suggested raid configuration while it is possible to...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 46 5big storage server suggested raid configurations (three disks) volume disks and raid level usage notes system ✦ 2 disks ✦ mirror ✦ windows storage server must run from its own volume. ✦ storing data on the sys- tem volume wi...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 47 7.2. Adjusting the raid administrators may change raid configurations to suit the needs of a business or after a server system recovery. Launch disk management to view or change raid configurations in windows storage server. ...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 48 7.4. Boot order and creating the system mirror all windows storage server system files are duplicated on each disk in the mirror. In most instances, when there are two versions of a windows operating system, the user is promp...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 49 7.5. Creating the system mirror important info: before creating the system mirror, please follow the instructions in 7.4. Boot order and creating the system mirror . 1. Launch disk management ( 7.2. Adjusting the raid ). You ...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 50 4. A prompt will ask you to select the second disk for the system mirror ( fig. 59 ). Click on disk 1 then select add mirror. 5. Two windows prompts will appear. Click yes ( fig. 60 ) and ok ( fig. 61 ) with each prompt to co...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 51 6. The system mirror will be created during the resynching ( fig. 62 ). You may build the swap partition while the system mirror is resynching. 7.6. Simple volume: swap file create the swap volume once the system has been mir...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 52 2. Right-click on the disk 2’s unallocated partition. Select new simple volume... ( fig. 63 ). 3. The simple volume wizard will open. Click next> ( fig. 64 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 63 fig. 64.
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 53 4. To match the disk capacity of the system volume type 35000. In select the amount of space in mb . Click next> ( fig. 65 ). 5. The default letter for the lacie 5big storage server swap vol- ume is s ( fig. 66 ). However, yo...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 54 6. Make certain that format this volume with the following settings is selected and choose the settings below ( fig. 32 ): ✦ file system: ntfs ✦ allocation unit size: default ✦ volume label: type swap ✦ for a faster format, c...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 55 7. Confirm your settings and click next> if they are correct ( fig. 68 ). 8. Fig. 69 shows the system mirror and the swap volume. 9. Please see 5.4.2. Create the swap file for details on moving the page file to the swap volum...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 56 7.7. Data volume: raid 5 1. Launch disk management ( 5.2. Adjusting the raid ). Please note that disk 0 has the active partition data (d:) . To create the raid 5 array using disks 0 , 1 , and 2 , we must have three un- alloca...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 57 4. Right-click on the disk 0 unallocated partition and choose new raid-5 volume... To launch the new raid-5 volume wizard ( fig. 73 ). 5. Click next> ( fig. 74 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 73 fig. 74.
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 58 6. Click disk 1 and disk 2 from available then click add to move them to selected ( fig. 75 ). 7. Click next> ( fig. 76 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 75 fig. 76.
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 59 8. The default letter for the lacie 5big storage server data volume is d ( fig. 77 ). However, you may choose any free letter for the volume. Click next> after you have chosen a letter. 9. Make certain that format this volume...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 60 10. Confirm your settings before clicking finish ( fig. 79 ). 11. A windows prompt may appear confirming that disks will be converted from basic to dynamic ( fig. 80 ). Click yes to begin the raid 5 resynch. Continued on the ...
Lacie professional server raid - three disks technical brief: raid page 61 12. The raid 5 volume has finished building when resynching ( fig. 81 ) is replaced by healthy ( fig. 82 ). Please note that building the data raid 5 volume may take between 15 and 40 hours depending upon the capacity of your...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 62 8. Raid - four disk server four disks within the 5big storage server offers plentiful storage as well as additional protection for data. Since the setup is similar to two and three disks configurations, this section will offer...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 63 5big storage server suggested raid configurations (four disks) volume disks and raid level usage notes system ✦ 2 disks ✦ mirror ✦ windows storage server must run from its own volume. ✦ storing data on the sys- tem volume will...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 64 8.2. Adjusting the raid administrators may change raid configurations to suit the needs of a business or after a server system recovery. Launch disk management to view or change raid configurations in windows storage server. 1...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 65 2. Create a swap partition before attempting to resynch the mirror. Right-click on the disk 3’s unallocated partition. Select new simple volume... ( fig. 84 ) 3. The simple volume wizard will open. Click next> ( fig. 85 ) cont...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 66 4. To match the disk capacity of the system volume, type 35000 in select the amount of space in mb . Click next> ( fig. 86 ). 5. The default letter for the lacie 5big storage server swap vol- ume is s ( fig. 87 ). However, you...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 67 6. Make certain that format this volume with the following settings is selected and choose the settings below ( fig. 88 ): ✦ file system: ntfs ✦ allocation unit size: default ✦ volume label: type swap ✦ for a faster format, ch...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 68 7. Confirm your settings and click next> if they are correct ( fig. 89 ). The simple volume has been created ( fig. 90 ). Move to the next step to create the mirror. Continued on the next page>> fig. 89 fig. 90
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 69 8. Right-click on the swap (s:) partition to select add mirror... ( fig. 91 ) 9. Select disk 3 to mirror the drives ( fig. 92 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 91 fig. 92.
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 70 10. A windows prompt will confirm that you want to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk. Click yes to create the mirror ( fig. 93 ). 11. The mirror will start resynching ( fig. 94 ). Please see 5.4.2. Cre- ate the swap file ...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 71 8.5. Data volume: raid 5 1. Launch disk management ( 8.2. Adjusting the raid ). Please note that disk 0 may have an active partition data (d:) . To create the raid 5 array using disks 0 , 1 , and 2 , we must have three unal- l...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 72 3. Right-click on the disk 0 unallocated partition and choose new raid-5 volume... To launch the new raid-5 volume wizard ( fig. 96 ). 4. Click next> ( fig. 97 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 96 fig. 97.
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 73 5. Click disk 1, disk 2 and disk 3 from available then click add to move them to selected ( fig. 98 ). 6. Click next> ( fig. 99 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 98 fig. 99.
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 74 7. The default letter for the lacie 5big storage server data volume is d ( fig. 100 ). However, you may choose any free letter for the volume. Click next> after you have chosen a letter. Continued on the next page>> fig. 100
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 75 8. Make certain that format this volume with the following settings is selected and choose the settings below ( fig. 101 ): ✦ file system: ntfs ✦ allocation unit size: default ✦ volume label: type data ✦ lacie recommends check...
Lacie professional server raid - four disks technical brief: raid page 76 10. A windows prompt may appear confirming that disks will be converted from basic to dynamic. Click yes to begin the raid 5 resynch. 11. The raid 5 volume has finished building when resynching ( fig. 103 ) is replaced by heal...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 77 9. Repairing raid configu- rations 9.1. Reinserting a healthy disk if you accidentally remove a healthy disk from the 5big storage serv- er while it is on, the system must reactivate and resynch the raid(s). For example, if disk 1 i...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 78 1. Reinsert the healthy disk into its slot on the 5big storage server ( 3. Removing and installing disks ). 2. Disk management will recognize the reinserted disk but the failed redundancy persists until the raids are reactivated ( f...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 79 4. In this example, there is no need to perform the step a second time since disk management will rebuild the system mirror and the raid 5 data configurations at the same ( fig. 108 ). Please be patient as resynching the raid 5 data...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 80 1. If it is not open, launch disk management (server manager > storage > disk management). This example assumes that the disk has failed and that a replacement from lacie is avail- able to repair the raids. 2. Note that disk 1 is mi...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 81 4. The replacement disk is recognized by disk management but the capacity is unallocated ( fig. 110 ). 5. The mirror must be broken before recreating it with the replace- ment disk. Right-click on the system volume and select remove...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 82 6. In the remove mirror pop-up window, click on missing ( fig. 112 ). Click remove mirror. 7. Click yes at the disk management prompt. 8. The mirror has been successfully removed ( fig. 113 ). Continued on the next page>> fig. 112 f...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 83 9. Right-click on the system disk and select add mirror... ( fig. 114 ). 10. From the add mirror pop-up window, select your replacement disk (in this example, disk 1) ( fig. 115 ). Click add mirror. Continued on the next page>> fig....
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 84 11. Click yes at the disk management pop-up window. 12. Click ok at the disk management pop-up window. 13. Disk management will begin resynching the system mirror ( fig. 116 ). To save time, you may resynch the data raid 5 volume wh...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 85 14. Right-click on one of the data partitions (do not use the missing disk). Choose repair volume... ( fig. 117 ). 15. In the repair raid-5 volume window, choose the disk to aid in the repair of the data volume (in our example, disk...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 86 9.2.1. Removing the missing disk disk management must be told to remove the missing disk once resynching has begun. Follow the easy steps below to delete the missing disk from the list of drives. 1. If you have not closed disk manag...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 87 3. The missing disk will remain in the list of disk management disks ( fig. 120 ). However, it should no longer be a part of the data volume. 4. Right-click on missing and select remove disk ( fig. 121 ). Continued on the next page>...
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 88 5. The missing disk should now be removed from the disk man- agement list ( fig. 122 ). Fig. 122.
Lacie professional server raid repair technical brief: raid page 89 9.2.2. Replacing disk 0 replacing and repairing disks 0 and 1 require the same series of steps. The one difference is how the system will react to a reboot while the system mirror is resynching. If the 5big storage server restarts w...
Lacie professional server contacting customer support technical brief: raid page 90 10. Contacting customer support 10.1. Lacie technical support contacts lacie asia http://www.Lacie.Com/cn/contact/ lacie australia http://www.Lacie.Com/au/contact/ lacie belgium http://www.Lacie.Com/be/contact/ (dutc...
