Bosch DVAS Instruction Manual

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  • Page 1 DVAS Instruction Manual EN Digital Video Array...
  • Page 2: Important Safeguards

    EN | 2 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Important Safeguards Important Safeguards 1. Read, Follow, and Retain Instructions - All safety 10. Power Sources - Operate the unit only from the type and operating instructions should be read and of power source indicated on the label.
  • Page 3: Safety Precautions

    EN | 3 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Safety Precautions WARNING: For Indoor Product Electrostatic-sensitive device. Use 1. Water and Moisture - Do not use this unit near proper CMOS/MOSFET handling water - for example, in a wet basement, in an...
  • Page 4: Fcc & Ices Information

    EN | 4 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | FCC & ICES Information FCC & ICES INFORMATION Sécurité (U.S.A. and Canadian Models Only) This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference, ATTENTION : POUR ÉVITER TOUT RISQUE D'ÉLECTROCUTION,...
  • Page 5 EN | 5 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Safety Precautions Precauciones de Seguridad Sicurezza PRECAUCIÓN: PARA DISMINUIR EL RIESGO DE DESCARGA ATTENZIONE: PER RIDURRE IL RISCHIO DI SCOSSE ELÉCTRICA, NO RETIRE LA CUBIERTA (NI LA PARTE ELETTRICHE NON RIMUOVERE LA COPERTURA (O IL POSTERIOR).
  • Page 6 EN | 6 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Safety Precautions Zasady Bezpieczeństwa PRZESTROGA: ABY ZMNIEJSZYĆ RYZYKO PORAŻENIA ELEKTRYCZNEGO, NIE NALEŻY ZDEJMOWAĆ POKRYWY GÓRNEJ (ani tylnej). WEWNĄTRZ URZĄDZENIA NIE MA ŻADNYCH ELEMENTÓW, KTÓRE MOGĄ BYĆ NAPRAWIANE SAMODZIELNIE PRZEZ UŻYTKOWNIKA. SERWIS NALEŻY ZLECAĆ...
  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

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  • Page 8: Dvas Series | Instruction Manual | Table Of Contents En

    EN | 8 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Table of Contents Map Volume ..............29 Rename Volume .
  • Page 9: Product Introduction

    DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Product Introduction PRODUCT INTRODUCTION UNPACKING Safety Concerns DVAS Series Digital Video Array is a high speed, fault tolerant RAID subsystem design. It uses a mid-plane • Computer components and disk drives are design to eliminate the problems associated with cable sensitive to static charge.
  • Page 10: Serviceable Parts

    90° to the main PSU unit. Line up the PSU transport the unit. Save it and all packing materials for with the guide rails in the DVAS Series. Insert the PSU future use. gently until it comes to a halt, then close the handle and secure it in place with the attached screw.
  • Page 11: Raid Controller

    EN | 11 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Physical Components 3.2 RAID Controller 3.2.1 Insertion A RAID controller should not be inserted while the unit is powered on. Shut down before replacing a faulty RAID controller. Insert the RAID controller into its slot, lining up the metal runners with the internal guides.
  • Page 12: Product Overview

    EN | 12 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | Product Overview PRODUCT OVERVIEW Drive Module Chassis Services LEDs Reset Button Drive Status Indicators Drive Release Button Drive Release Lever Figure 2 DVAS Front Power Switch Fan or Optional Power Supply...
  • Page 13: Led Display

    EN | 13 DVAS Series | Instruction Manual | LED Display LED DISPLAY Temperature + Ventilation Status Power Supply Status Management Alarm Silence Button Disk Activity Disk Drive Alarm Figure 4 LED Display Status Indicators Status Temperature and Ventilation Status GREEN LED indicates that blowers are operating at an acceptable RPM, and the internal temperature sensors are within acceptable limits.
  • Page 14: Before You Begin

    If no crossover cable was used to connect the unit to a If an audible alarm is heard, the DVAS unit does not network, the network’s subnet mask may not allow access have a RAID group configured, or no disks are to this IP address without some reconfiguration.
  • Page 15: Manually Setting The Ip Address

    EN | 15 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Before You Begin 6.3 Manually Setting the IP Address Using a web browser program (Netscape or Internet Explorer), type the unit’s IP address in the URL and press GO (the default IP address is 10.11.12.13).
  • Page 16: Quick Configuration

    Configuration options are: recommended that you have your DHCP server 1 DVR CONFIG: Select if your unit is to be used with reserve a static IP for your DVAS Series disk array. a single DVR. IP Address...
  • Page 17: Setting Up Scsi Interfaces

    Defines the maximum speed of the SCSI bus. The Figure 10 Quick Config Confirmation default setting for the DVAS is Ultra2. This setting should only be changed if the DVR specifies a Quick Config adjusts the settings required to configure different setting.
  • Page 18: Creating A Raid Set

    Use the tick boxes to select the drives to be used in the 6.6 Creating a RAID Set array. As stated earlier, the DVAS is shipped with drives preconfigured for RAID. However, if any of the NOTE: Unused disks are not automatically used as following occurs, you must create a RAID set.
  • Page 19: Adding And Mapping A Volume

    A maximum of 16 volumes can be created (with a Once the volumes have been created and mapped, maximum of eight volumes per channel). Once a restart the computer to access the DVAS Series disk volume has been created, it must be mapped to a array.
  • Page 20: Bosch (Gui) Graphic User Interface

    EN | 20 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Bosch GUI Bosch GUI (Graphic User Interface) Menu Tree Home Information RAID Arrays – Volumes – Drives – Progress – System Information – Disk Statistics – Network Statistics – Bad Blocks – Problems –...
  • Page 21: Information Menu

    EN | 21 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Bosch GUI Information Menu Click Information to view various information. No edit capability is available from this view. Use the tabs to access the various pages. Figure 16 Information Menu Available Information: RAID Array This page provides information on the created array.
  • Page 22: Volumes

    EN | 22 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Bosch GUI Click on a drive to view its information. Volumes This page provides information on the volumes within the created array. Figure 20 Drive Information Available Information: Information Description Figure 18 Volume Array Status Displays ownership status.
  • Page 23: System Information

    EN | 23 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Bosch GUI Available Information: System Information This page may help with troubleshooting. This page provides information regarding non-disk hardware. Information Description Cooling Displays the status of the blowers. Power Displays the status of the power supplies.
  • Page 24: Disk Statistics

    EN | 24 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Bosch GUI Disk Statistics The page shows information on the disks in the system. Figure 23 Disk Statistics Each disk displays its Reads, Writes, Others, Transfer Retries, and Media Retries. If a disk is generating errors, it may fail sometime in the future.
  • Page 25: Network Statistics

    Bad blocks are sections of the disk that data can no link. If you are having problems with the network, this longer be read from or written to. A DVAS array page may be helpful. automatically remaps single bad blocks to a spare blocks portion of the disk when using a parity- protected RAID level.
  • Page 26: Problems

    DVAS. In normal circumstances, this page should be empty. Figure 26 DVAS Problems 7.12 Key The key is a legend of all symbols used in the Bosch web interface. 7.13 Event Log This page displays controller events (disk information, RAID status changes, power supply status changes, network events, etc.).
  • Page 27: Raid Menu

    EN | 27 DVAS | Instruction Manual | RAID Menu RAID MENU This page is used to create or alter settings related to the RAID array. To access the RAID page, click RAID, on the left-hand side of the main screen.
  • Page 28: Add Volume

    EN | 28 DVAS | Instruction Manual | RAID Menu 8.2 Add Volume 8.3 Expand Volume To add a volume, you must have an array create free To expand the capacity of a volume, a volume must space available. To create an array, first click the radio have been created, with free space available before the button of the array, from the top of the page.
  • Page 29: Map Volume

    EN | 29 DVAS | Instruction Manual | RAID Menu 8.5 Map Volume Although this page is functional, it is recommended to use the Quick Config page. To be accessed, each volume must be mapped to a LUN on at least one host channel. If you failed to map a volume when it was created, or want to change the mapping, use this page.
  • Page 30: Rename Array

    EN | 30 DVAS | Instruction Manual | RAID Menu 8.7 Rename Array Use the Rename Array tab to change the user-defined name of each configured array. To rename an array, enter the new name of the array in the text box and click Save Settings.
  • Page 31: System Menu

    SCSI ID Subnet Mask Allows alteration of the SCSI ID of the DVAS array. Set the subnet mask that fits your network class. In For most operating systems, the default SCSI ID of most cases, 255.255.255.0 is fine. Enter the new subnet 0 is fine.
  • Page 32: Network Port

    Fixed to 10Megabits Full Duplex • Fixed to 10Megabits Half Duplex If the DVAS Series disk array is connected to a switch, you may use full duplex. Half duplex will work properly with hubs and switches, but may run a little slower.
  • Page 33: Date + Time

    ATA RAID System-friendly Name Time Server IP address for auto time and date This aids in determining the location of a DVAS Series configure allows selection of a time server manually, disk array that has sent e-mail. This feature is useful for or from the preconfigured list.
  • Page 34: Cache Settings

    9.7 Cache Settings DVAS Series disk array has a write cache memory, which is normally enabled. The cache memory holds data being written to disk, enabling the controller to confirm that a command is complete before data is physically written.
  • Page 35: Log Off

    EN | 35 DVAS | Instruction Manual | System Menu • Set Rebuild Priority • Reboot Controller Use this setting to increase the amount of IO Click Reboot Controller to reboot the ATA time dedicated to rebuilding a critical array. If RAID controller.
  • Page 36: Additional Information

    EN | 36 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Additional Information NOTE: Make sure the flange is on the bottom edge. Additional Information Step 4. Attach left and right front (short) extended 11.1 Required Components brackets to the outer rail using 2 x 8300045 •...
  • Page 37: Technical Specifications

    EN | 37 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Technical Specifications DVAS Series Disk Array Technical Specifications Physical Specifications Information Description Height 132mm [5.16in] 3U Width 483mm [18.87in] Depth 521mm [20.35in] Depth Including power 537mm [20.98in] supply handles Approximate weight 32kg (including drives + packaging)
  • Page 38: Troubleshooting

    192.168.1.201 4. When the DVAS Series disk array receives the first packet, it will set the IP address that it has received. This means that the first few packets should timeout. It may take up to thirty seconds for the IP address to be saved. It is not necessary to reboot the DVAS for the IP address to take effect.
  • Page 39 Insert the new disk into the empty slot. The DVAS Series disk array will detect the new disk, and rebuild to it if the array is critical. If you already had a spare disk, the DVAS Series disk array will assign the new disk as a spare too.
  • Page 40: Firmware Update

    DVAS Upgrades to provide improved operation capabilities Series disk array off. may be issued by Bosch from time to time, in the form of e-mail or similar means. Here are some example messages from the controller’s event log BEFORE the firmware update completes.
  • Page 41 (and possibly other systems), the FTP process in Windows 98 will time out during Step 3. This occurs after all data has been transferred to the DVAS Series disk array, but before the storage process (flash update) is complete. In this case, the Transfer OK message will not appear, although the download should have completed successfully.
  • Page 42: Appendix A

    PSU unit. Line up the PSU with the guide rails on the sure the handle is open, and the carrier push button is DVAS. Insert the PSU gently until it comes to a halt, toward the bottom of the chassis. Push the disk carrier then close the handle and secure it in place with the in until it is fully inserted.
  • Page 43 EN | 43 DVAS | Instruction Manual | Bosch Security Systems | 20 January 2004...
  • Page 44 Tel: 800-326-3270 70049 Stuttgart The Netherlands Fax: 1-717-735-6560 Telefax (0711) 8 11-12 34 Tele +31 40 27 80000 www.boschsecuritysystems.com © 2004 Bosch Security Systems GmbH 3935 890 43112 04-04 | January 20, 2004 | Data subject to change without notice.

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