Advantech DNS-3200 - Manual (Page 17)

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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction ..................................................... 2
1.1 About the Product.............................................................. 2
1.1.1 Hardware Features ......................................................... 2
1.1.2 Software Features .......................................................... 3
1.1.3 System Protection .......................................................... 3
1.1.4 Product Appearance ....................................................... 5
Figure 1.1:DNS-3200 Front panel ................................. 5
Figure 1.2:DNS-3200 Rear panel .................................. 6
1.2 Panel Indicators ................................................................. 7
Chapter 2 Chassis Description and Installation ........... 10
2.1 Chassis Description ......................................................... 10
2.2 Chassis Installation.......................................................... 11
2.2.1 Important Safety Guidelines ........................................ 11
2.2.2 Tools Needed ............................................................... 12
2.2.3 Accessing the SCA Drive Tray and Installing a HDD 12
2.2.4 Accessing the 760W Power Supply ............................. 13
2.2.5 Rack Installation .......................................................... 17
Chapter 3 Configuration................................................. 24
3.1 Configuration Settings..................................................... 24
3.1.1 Turning the system on for the first time ...................... 24
3.1.2 WSS2003 Activation ................................................... 29
3.1.3 Network configuration setting ..................................... 34
Chapter 4 Managing Arrays and Disks......................... 40
4.1 RAID Minimum Disk Requirements .............................. 40
Table 4.1:Min and Max Disks for RAID levels ........... 40
4.2 Understanding Array and Disk States ............................. 40
4.3 Starting and Stopping Tasks............................................ 44
4.4 Working with Spares....................................................... 45
4.4.1 About Sparing Options ................................................ 45
4.4.2 Using Distributed Sparing ........................................... 46
4.4.3 Using Dedicated Sparing ............................................. 48
4.4.4 Using Global Sparing ................................................... 50
Chapter 5 Using the BIOS Configuration Utility ......... 52
5.1 When to Use the BIOS Configuration Utility ................. 52
5.2 Color Codes for the BIOS Array Config Utility ............. 53
5.3 Initializing Disks from the BIOS .................................... 53
5.4 Creating Arrays from the BIOS ...................................... 54
Figure 5.1: Create an array .......................................... 57
5.5 Deleting Arrays from the BIOS ...................................... 58
5.6 Swapping Arrays from the BIOS .................................... 58
Figure 5.2:Swap arrays ................................................ 59