HP ProLiant ML110 G1 User manual

HP ProLiant Storage Server

user guide

Part number: 378128–004

Fourth edition: June 2005

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HP ProLiant Storage Server user guide

Contents

AboutthisGuide.......... 9

Intendedaudience.................. 9

Prerequisites .................... 9

Relateddocumentation................ 9

Conventions .................... 9

Documentconventions ............ 10

Textsymbols................. 10

Equipmentsymbols ................ 11

Gettinghelp ................... 12

HPtechnicalsupport............. 12

HPhardwaresupportservices ......... 13

HPauthorizedreseller ............ 13

Helpfulwebsites............... 14

1Overview ........... 15

2SystemConﬁguration ...... 21

Deployingthestorageserveronthenetwork...... 21

IPnetworkingandsetuprequirements...... 21

Collecting conﬁgurationinformation ......... 22

Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI) on Storage

ServerServiceReleaseDVD............. 23

WebUI conﬁguration................ 23

Method 1: Remote browser (using hostname) . . . 24

Procedure............... 24

Method2:Directattach............ 25

Procedure............... 25

Rapid Startup Wizard conﬁguration....... 26

Procedure............... 27

Completingbasicsetup .............. 29

Completing the system conﬁguration ...... 29

Clustersetup ................... 30

3 Storage Management Overview . 31

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Storagemanagementelements ........... 31

StorageManagementexample......... 31

Physicalstorageelements........... 32

Arrays ................ 33

Faulttolerance............. 34

OnlineSpares ............. 35

Logicalstorageelements ........... 36

Logicaldrives(LUNs) .......... 36

Partitions ............... 37

Volumes................ 37

FileSystemElements ............. 38

File-SharingElements............. 38

VolumeShadowCopyServiceOverview .... 39

UtilizingStorageElements........... 39

ClusteredServerElements........... 40

4ServerStorage......... 41

Overview .................... 41

Storage for ML110 G1 and DL100 HP ProLiant Storage

Servers ..................... 41

Physical drive conﬁguration .......... 41

DiskManager................ 43

Disk partitioning and RAID conﬁguration (ML110

G1andDL100)............... 43

Storage for ML110 G2 HP ProLiant Storage Servers . . 46

Physical drive conﬁguration .......... 46

ML110G2(Express) .......... 46

ML110G2(Workgroup)......... 47

DiskManager................ 48

Disk Partioning and RAID conﬁguration (ML110

G2Express)................. 48

Disk partitioning and RAID conﬁguration (ML110

G2Workgroup)............... 51

Storage for 300 series and 500 series ProLiant storage

servers...................... 53

Physical drive conﬁguration .......... 53

A Regulatory Compliance Notices . . 55

FederalCommunicationsCommissionNotice ..... 55

ClassAequipment.............. 55

ClassBequipment.............. 55

Modiﬁcations................ 56

Cables................... 56

Declaration of conformity for products marked with

theFCClogo-UnitedStatesonly........ 56

CanadianNotice(AvisCanadien).......... 57

ClassAequipment.............. 57

ClassBequipment.............. 57

EuropeanUnionNotice .............. 57

BSMINotice ................... 58

JapaneseNotice ................. 58

JapanesePowerCordNotice ......... 58

BatteryReplacementNotice............. 59

TaiwanBatteryRecyclingNotice........ 59

Englishnotice................... 59

Dutchnotice ................... 60

Czechoslovakiannotice .............. 60

Estoniannotice .................. 61

Finnishnotice................... 61

Frenchnotice................... 61

Germannotice .................. 62

Greeknotice................... 62

Hungariannotice ................. 63

Italiannotice................... 63

Latviannotice................... 64

Lithuaniannotice ................. 64

Polishnotice ................... 65

Portuguesenotice ................. 65

Slovakiannotice ................. 65

Sloveniannotice ................. 66

Spanishnotice .................. 66

Swedishnotice .................. 67

BElectrostaticDischarge...... 69

Groundingmethods................ 69

Index.............. 71

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Figures

1RapidStartupwizardscreen .............. 27

2RapidStartupconﬁgurationreviewscreen ........ 28

3StorageManagementprocessexample ......... 32

4Conﬁguring the physical drives into an array dramatically

improves read/write efﬁciency .............. 33

5 RAID 0 (data striping) (S1-S4) of data blocks (B1-B12) . . . 34

62arrays(A1,A2)and5logicaldrives(L1throughL5)spread

over5physicaldrives.................. 36

7HardwareRAID ................... 42

8 Disk management, partitioning (ML110 G1 and DL100) . . 45

9ML110G2(Express)softwareRAID........... 47

10ML110G2(Workgroup)hardwareRAID ........ 48

11 Disk management, partitioning (ML110 G2 Express) . . . 50

12 Disk management, partitioning (ML110 G2 Workgroup) . 52

13HardwareRAID................... 54

Tables

1Documentconventions................. 10

2Modelquickreference(ML110throughDL100)...... 17

3Modelquickreference(ML350throughML370)...... 18

4Modelquickreference(DL380throughDL585) ...... 19

5ConﬁgurationInformation ............... 22

6SummaryofRAIDMethods............... 35

7 Hard drive conﬁguration................ 42

8RAIDconﬁgurationbyharddrives............ 43

9RAIDconﬁgurationbylogicaldrives........... 44

10 ML110 G2 (Express) Hard drive conﬁguration...... 46

11 ML110 GS (Workgroup) Hard drive conﬁguration .... 47

12 RAID conﬁgurationbyharddrives ........... 49

13 RAID conﬁgurationbylogicaldrives .......... 49

14 RAID conﬁgurationbyharddrives ........... 51

15 RAID conﬁgurationbylogicaldrives .......... 51

16 Hard drive conﬁguration ............... 53

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About this Guide

Intended audience

This book is intended for use by technical professionals who are

experienced with the following:

•Microsoft®administrative procedures

•System and storage conﬁgurations

Prerequisites

Before you set up the HP ProLiant Storage Server, HP recommends that you

obtain supplemental documentation relative to the items listed above in the

section titled “Intended Audience.”

Related documentation

In addition to this guide, HP provides corresponding information:

•HP ProLiant Storage Server Administration Guide

•HP ProLiant Storage Server Release Notes

Conventions

Conventions consist of the following:

• Document conventions

•Textsymbols

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Document conventions

This document follows the conventions in the following table.

Table 1 Document conventions

Convention Element

Blue text Cross-reference links

Bold Menuitems,buttons,andkey,tab,and

box names

Italics Text emphasis and document titles in

body text

Monospace font User input, commands, code, ﬁle and

directory names, and system responses

(output and messages)

Monospace, italic

font Command-line and code variables

Blue underlined text

(http://www.hp.com)Web site addresses

Text symbols

The following symbols may be found in the text of this guide. They have

the following meanings:

WARNING!

Text set off in this manner indicates that failure to follow directions in the

warning could result in bodily harm or death.

CAUTION:

Text set off in this manner indicates that failure to follow directions could

result in damage to equipment or data.

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