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  • Page 1 DS-A81 Series Storage System Quick Operation Guide UD.6L0205B1021A01...
  • Page 2 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Thank you for purchasing our product. If there is any question or request, please do not hesitate to contact dealer. This guide may contain several technically incorrect places or printing errors, and the content is subject to change without notice.

  • Page 3: Regulatory Information

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Regulatory Information FCC Information FCC compliance: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Contents Regulatory Information ........................II FCC Information ..........................II FCC Conditions ........................... II EU Conformity Statement ........................II Contents............................. 1 Chapter 1 Introduction ........................4 Description ......................... 4 Features..........................4 Chapter 2 Installation and Working Environment ................
  • Page 5 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System System Requirements ......................21 Configuring Private Volume....................21 5.2.1 Quick Settings ....................... 21 5.2.2 Manual Configuration ....................23 Configuring Record Settings ....................26 5.3.1 Logging in the CVR System .................... 26 5.3.2 Adding the Encoding Device ..................
  • Page 6 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 10.2 Environmental Information ....................73 Chapter 11 Bad Disk Management ..................... 75 11.1 Configuring Alarm for Bad Disks ..................75 11.2 Replacing the Bad Disks ....................75 Chapter 12 Appendix ........................77...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Description Developed on the basis of Linux operating system, the storage system is a kind of high-performance and cost-effective Gigabit network storage system and is mainly applicable to the medium and large-scale video security system, featuring flexible allocation and facilitated configuration.

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Installation And Working Environment

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 2 Installation and Working Environment The device described in this manual should be installed in a standardized equipment room. 2.1 Power Supply System The storage system is very sensitive to the change of a voltage, and an excessive high or low voltage, or a sudden change of the voltage may delete the data in the memory or even cause the damage of the components.

  • Page 9: Installation And Initial Power-On

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System  The floor in the equipment room must be capable of loading more than 600kg/m , and the height between the floor and the ceiling must be more than 2.7 m. The loading capability of the rack can be computed in 10 kg/U, e.g., for a 4U chassis, the required loading capability of...

  • Page 10: Device Reliability

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 2.5 Device Reliability To enhance the reliability of the operating of the device, you can take the following measurements:  Use the mobile alarm software installed on the storage system, and the message will be sent to your mobile phone as SMS.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Hardware System The Network Storage System includes hardware system and software system, which can be installed separately. The software storage system is an IP-based system which can manage the network storage devices online.
  • Page 12 Alarm LED Indicator supply failure alarm. Indicates the power connection status. When the Power LED Indicator device is powered up, the indicator lights in green. The USB interface is reserved and not available on the front panel of DS-A81 series storage system.

  • Page 13: Description Of Rear Panel

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 3.1.4 Description of Rear Panel Rear Panel of Single Power Supply Figure 3. 4 Rear Panel of Single Power Supply Table 3-2 Description of Rear Panel Icon Description Power Supply Power Switch...

  • Page 14: Installation Requirement

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Rear Panel of Redundant Power Supply Figure 3. 5 Rear Panel of Redundant Power Supply Table 3-3 Description of Rear Panel Icon Description Power Supply Power Switch Data Port 2 Data Port 1...

  • Page 15: Hdd Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Gigabit Ethernet switch (second-layer switch, user-provided) Rack guide apparatus (optional) Please refer to the packing list for the attached accessories. 3.3 HDD Installation 3.3.1 Selecting HDD Model Adopt the certificated professional HDD models to ensure the stable running of the system and the reliable data storage.
  • Page 16 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 3. 7 Disassemble Front Panel To avoid the bayonet damage under the front panel, the separation distance between the front panel and chassis cannot be too long. 3. Press the spring lock of the HDD, and then pull out the HDD bracket from the chassis along the guide apparatus.

  • Page 17: Precautions For Hdd Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 3. 9 Unplug HDD Bracket 5. Use four screws to secure the HDD to the bracket (with the HDD label facing up). Figure 3. 10 Install HDD to Bracket 6. Press the spring lock of the HDD, insert the HDD bracket to the chassis and push it along the guide apparatus until to the bottom, to ensure the bracket being seated into position and locked.

  • Page 18: Hardware Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 7. The certification for the new hard disk is required when it is plugged to the system for the first time. Please refer to Chapter 11 Bad Disk Management for details. Please avoid unplugging a hard disk when it is writing/reading data so as to prevent data loss.

  • Page 19: Chapter 4 System Ip Address Configuration

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 4 System IP Address Configuration 4.1 Login Management port (mainly for parameter settings) and data port (mainly for data transmission) are provided. The administrator is allowed to access the system via web browser and then configure the network parameters if needed.

  • Page 20: Modifying Network Parameters

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 4.2.1 Modifying Network Parameters Steps: Click System > Network to enter the Network Management interface. Check the checkbox to select the data or management NIC on the NIC List for configuration. Click Modify to open the Modify NIC Info dialog box.

  • Page 21: Configuring Multi-Nic Bonding

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Select the bonding mode from the drop-down list to meet the actual needs, and then click OK to save the settings. Figure 4. 4 Modify NIC Bonding Mode Restart the system after the NIC bonding mode is modified to activate the new settings.

  • Page 22: Network Connection

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System On the Network Management interface, select the bond NIC from the list in the Bond NIC info field. Figure 4. 7 NIC Bonding Information Cick Delete to delete the selected bond NIC and a dialog box pops up.
  • Page 23 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Both management NIC and data NIC can be used for system debugging. Figure 4. 10 Network Connection...

  • Page 24: Chapter 5 Cvr Configuration

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 5 CVR Configuration 5.1 System Requirements  Create private volume and record volume for management and record respectively.  Establish private volume on the physical volume of RAID which is created on the enterprise-class HDD;...
  • Page 25 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 2 Confirm the Quick Settings Automatically, the physical volume or created RAID group will be added to the virtual storage pool first, and then the private volume, spare volume and record volume will be set.

  • Page 26: Manual Configuration

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 5 Service Condition of CVR and LUN  The bad disk and warning disk cannot be added to the virtual storage pool.  If there is any non-enterprise-class disk in the system, adopt the single disk working mode.
  • Page 27 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 7 Create LUN Input the LUN name, LUN size in the text fields and select the block size from the drop-down list. Check the checkbox to select a physical volume on which the LUN is created.
  • Page 28 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System to set it as private volume 1 or private volume 2. Two LUNs will be automatically set as the spare volumes of the two private volumes. You can check the checkbox of Use sparelun of privatelun to enable the use of spare volume in case of private volume failure.

  • Page 29: Configuring Record Settings

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System becomes full. 5.3 Configuring Record Settings 5.3.1 Logging in the CVR System Steps: Input the IP address of the storage system in the address bar of the web browser, and press the Enter key. The address is formatted as: https://IP address of the storage server:2004.
  • Page 30 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 11 Encoding Device Management Click the Add encoding device button to open the Add Encoding Device page. Configure the corresponding settings for the device. Name: Edit a name for the encoding device as desired.

  • Page 31: Editing The Record Schedule

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 12 Add Encoding Device Click OK to confirm the settings. You can view the status of the added encoding devices on the Information interface (Information > Information). The status will be displayed as Ready after device is connected.

  • Page 32: Live View And Playback

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 14 Configure Record Schedule Select Use encoding device or Use group to show the added encoding devices or groups, and then check the checkboxes to select the encoding device(s) for schedule settings.
  • Page 33 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 15 Add Trusted Sites On the IE browser menu bar, navigate to Tools > Internet Options > Security > Custom level to enable the all the ActiveX and plug-ins. Figure 5. 16 Enable ActiveX Steps: Enter Encoding Device List interface.

  • Page 34: Searching & Playing Back Record Files

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 17 Encoding Device List Check the checkbox in the Select column to select the encoding device for live view, and then click the Live View button to view the live video of the selected encoding device.
  • Page 35 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 19 Search Record Files Select the encoding device(s) for search, and then specify the search conditions including start time, end time, record type, etc. Click OK to start the search and the matched record files will be displayed on a list.
  • Page 36 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 5. 21 Record File Playback...

  • Page 37: Chapter 6 Creation And Use Of Raid

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 6 Creation and Use of RAID The system supports RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) service which provides redundant storage for the data on disks. When the RAID 5 is adopted, there will be no data loss in case of one disk failure in this RAID group.

  • Page 38: Viewing Disk Checking Status

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System If there are no hard disks installed in the storage system, no disk information is available. Figure 6. 2 Disk Management Interface Click Details in the Disk State column, and you can view status of each disk.

  • Page 39: Checking Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System The Check button above the disk list is only available in the checking process of some disks. Figure 6. 5 Check Status of Disk There are 3 types of check status available in the system: checking, unsubmitted and waiting.

  • Page 40: Array Management

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 7 Set Disk Check Select Quick Check or Full Check as the check style. Quick Check: check all disks simutanously and it takes a short time. Full Check: check the disks one by one in details which may take a long time. It is recommended when the disks are used for the first time.
  • Page 41 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Enter the Array Management interface. Storage > Array Figure 6. 9 Array Management Interface Click the Create button to open the Create Array page. Figure 6. 10 Create Array Interface Edit the array name. Only the letters and numeric are allowed.
  • Page 42 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System I/O), and four options are available. Intelligent (default): When the business I/O is small, the RAID I/O will be increased automatically; when the business I/O increases, the RAID I/O will be decreased automatically.

  • Page 43: Rebuilding An Array

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 6.3.2 Rebuilding an Array Purpose: The array rebuilding function helps to protect the data saved on the unstable or failure physical disk in the array, to ensure the high security and stability of the system.
  • Page 44 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 14 Pop-up Dialog Box Click the Close button to finish the adding of hot spare disk. You can view the information of the added hot spare on the Hot Spare Disk List: Figure 6.
  • Page 45 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 17 Add Local Hot Spare Disk Select the array to which the hot spare is added. Select the available disk to be used as hot spare disk. Click the OK button and confirm the following pop-up dialog box to add the local hot spare.
  • Page 46 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 21 Array Maintenance Interface Click the Rebuild button. Select the available free disk and click the OK button to start the array rebuilding. Auto-rebuilding (optional) Purpose: When the array is degraded due to disk disconnection or failure, you can insert a new disk to the system and the system will start to rebuild the array automatically.

  • Page 47: Array Verification

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System error. You will be prompted to replace this non-rebuilt disk in the operation log after the array rebuilding is complete, to avoid data loss and enhance the data security. Steps: Click Storage > Settings to enter the device settings interface, Click the Open button to enable the Force-rebuild function.
  • Page 48 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 24 Check Array Manually Click the Check button to start checking the selected array. When the array is in checking process, you can view the checking status on the Array List, including the checking speed and remaining time.
  • Page 49 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 26 Add Strategy Select the type to RAID verification from the drop-down list and the verify mode to Check. Select the array for verification form the array list. Edit the name of the strategy as desired, and then set the cycle time and the start time/end time for verification.
  • Page 50 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 28 Repair Array Click the Repair button to start repairing the selected array. When the array is in repairing process, you can view the repairing status on the Array List, including the repairing speed and remaining time.

  • Page 51: Virtual Storage Pool Management

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 30 Add Strategy Select the type to RAID verification from the drop-down list and the verify mode to Repair. Select the array to repair. Edit the name of the strategy as desired, and then set the cycle time and the start time/end time for repairing verification.
  • Page 52 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 32 Storage Pool Management Click the Add button to open the Add Storage Pool page. Figure 6. 33 Add Storage Pool Check the checkboxes to select the arrays or physical disks to be added into the virtual storage pool.

  • Page 53: Creating Luns

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Select the physical volume, click Position under the Physical Volume List, and you can positioning all the disks in the selected physical volume. Click the Delete button above the Physical Volume List, and you can delete the virtual storage pool from the storage system.
  • Page 54 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Check the checkbox to select a physical volume in which the LUN is located. Click the OK button, and then confirm the pop-up dialog box. Figure 6. 37 Pop-up Dialog Box Click the Close button to finish creating the LUN. You can view the information of Added LUNs on the LUN List.

  • Page 55: Chapter 7 Configuring Iscsi Settings (Optional)

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 7 Configuring iSCSI Settings (optional) Purpose: The iSCSI connection is capable of mapping the storage space to the local client server, thus to provide the local management and operations for the system.

  • Page 56: Creating Iscsi Connection In Windows 2008

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 7. 2 Enable iSCSI Input the client IP and iSCSI ID in the corresponding text fields, set the CHAP authentication and select the access mode. Select a LUN from the list to work as the iSCSI volume.
  • Page 57 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System In Windows XP or Windows 2003, you need to click Help to enter the Help interface and download the corresponding software and install it on your PC. If the downloaded software cannot be installed properly, or the latest software is needed, you can log on to the Microsoft official website to download the corresponding software and install it.
  • Page 58 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 7. 7 iSCSI Initiator Properties Figure 7. 8 Add Target Portal 3. Enter the IP address and port of the storage system, and click OK to confirm the settings. Click the Targets tab to enter the following interface.
  • Page 59 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 7. 9 Targets 4. Click the Log on… button and the Log On to Target dialog box will pop up. If you check checkbox, the iSCSI storage system will be automatically connected when the PC starts next time. Click OK to complete the connection.
  • Page 60 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 7. 11 iSCSI Connected Task 2: Disconnecting iSCSI Service Steps: 1. Select the storage target and click the Details button. 2. In the pop-up Target Properties interface, check checkbox for the Identifier and click the Log off…...

  • Page 61: Mapping To Local Disk & Formatting Iscsi Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 7.3 Mapping to Local Disk & Formatting iSCSI Disk After iSCSI connection, the storage system can be considered as a local disk. Steps: Enter the Start menu, and select Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage >...

  • Page 62: Creating Iscsi Connection In Redhat5

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System You can map the storage system to a basic disk or a dynamic disk. The basic disk is accessible when the device is started, and the dynamic disk processes more features than the basic disk, e.g., extended dynamic volume and multiple disk volumes.
  • Page 63 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System The fdisk command is the most common partition tool and is defined as the Expert partition tool. A second-level menu is included in the fdisk command. Enter the command: # fdisk /dev/sdb. And the command prompts will come out: Command (m for help).

  • Page 64: Creating Iscsi Connection In Suse 10

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Mount an iSCSI disk automatically. Modify /etc/rc.local through the vi editor. Use the command Shift + G to locate the cursor at the last line. Use the command o and then enter #mount /dev/sd1 /mnt/scsi01. After saving the file and rebooting the Linux server, the server can mount the iSCSI disk automatically.

  • Page 65: Chapter 8 Configuring Nas Settings (Optional)

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 8 Configuring NAS Settings (optional) Purpose: The NAS space can be used as the network shared disk within the office network to realize the share of data, software tools and other materials.

  • Page 66: Configuring Basic Nas Settings

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 3 NAS Volume List 8.1.2 Configuring Basic NAS Settings Steps: Enter the NAS Configuration interface. NAS > NAS Config Figure 8. 4 NAS Configuration You can configure the Server name, NetBIOS name and Workgroup to meet the actual needs in office.
  • Page 67 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 5 NAS User Management Click the Add NAS user button to open the Add NAS User page. Figure 8. 6 Add NAS User Input the name, password and confirm password in the corresponding text fields.

  • Page 68: Creating Nas Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System 8.1.4 Creating NAS Disk Steps: Enter the NAS Disk Management interface. NAS > NAS Disk Figure 8. 7 NAS Disk Management Click the Add NAS disk button to open the Add NAS Disk page.

  • Page 69: Creating Nas Disk Connection

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 9 Protocol Settings Click OK to confirm the settings. You can view the information of added NAS disks on the NAS Disk List. 8.2 Creating NAS Disk Connection We take the Windows 7 operating system as an example in this section.

  • Page 70: Cautions For Proper Use Of Nas Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Example: If the IP address of the storage system is 172.8.72.241 and the NAS disk name is NAS_disk1, then you should enter \\172.8.72.241\NAS_disk1 in the Folder text field. Figure 8. 11 Map Network Drive Guide Optionally, you can check the checkbox of Reconnect at logon to connect the NAS disk automatically after the system startup.
  • Page 71 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System storage server. Disconnect all the NAS disks from the PC before you switch the NAS user. Please refer to the following table for detailed information. Table 8-1 Relation between Client and User...

  • Page 72: Chapter 9 Configuring Nas Settings For Dvr (Optional)

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 9 Configuring NAS Settings for DVR (optional) The DVR storage share mode is applicable to the embedded encoding devices, e.g., DVR, DVS, IP camera, IP dome, etc. The DVR in the following section refers to the embedded encoding device.
  • Page 73 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System R/W IP: Input the IP address of the DVR to which the DVR NAS disk is to be connected. Number: Input the number of the DVR NAS disks to be created. (The default value is 1.) Available physical volume: Select the physical volume on which the DVR NAS disk(s) is located.

  • Page 74: Dvr Configuration

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Figure 9. 5 Modify the DVR NAS Disk You can check the checkbox to select the DVR NAS disk, click Delete under the list, and then confirm the pop-up dialog box to delete the selected DVR NAS disk.
  • Page 75 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Here we take the DVR local menu as an example. Steps: Enter the Add NetHDD interface of the DVR local menu. For details, see the user manual of the DVR. Select NAS from the drop-down list as the network HDD type.

  • Page 76: Chapter 10 System Monitoring And Alarm

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 10 System Monitoring and Alarm 10.1 System Monitoring After logging in the storage system, the administrator can view the basic status and the running information of the system. The current status of the system is displayed in the upper-right corner of the web page.
  • Page 77 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Motherboard Information The information of CPU fan speed, CPU temperature, motherboard fan speed and system temperature will be monitored. When the fan is abnormal (e.g., low speed) or the temperature is abnormal (e.g., high temperature), the system shows the corresponding alarm messages.

  • Page 78: Chapter 11 Bad Disk Management

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 11 Bad Disk Management Purpose: The failure possibility of hard disk increases with increment of its working time. That is the reason why we set RAID as the HDD working mode. When RAID 5 working mode is adopted, the storage system will keep running in case of single hard disk failure, in an unstable status.
  • Page 79 Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System The navigation bar will be displayed when more than 10 disks are installed in the storage system. Replace the bad disk with a new one in normal status after the checking process is complete.

  • Page 80: Chapter 12 Appendix

    Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System Chapter 12 Appendix  IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 browsers are supported by the storage system.  The default IP address of Data NIC is 192.168.0.100, and the default working mode is Active-backup.

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