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Tecal ES3000 High Performance PCIe SSD Card V100R002C01 User Guide Issue Date 2014-03-05 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
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About This Document About This Document Purpose Huawei provides the Tecal ES3000 PCIe SSD high-performance storage card (ES3000 for short) of 800 GB, 1.2 TB, and 2.4 TB. PCIe standards for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, and SSD standards for solid state drive.
This document describes the safety information you must comply with when installing and maintaining the devices. 1.2 General Safety Notice This topic describes the safety precautions you must take before installing or maintaining Huawei equipment. 1.3 Labels on Devices This topic describes the warning labels, grounding labels, and electrostatic discharge (ESD) labels on devices.
Only the qualified professionals can install and maintain the devices. They must be trained and familiar with correct operation skills and all safety preventive measures. 1.2 General Safety Notice This topic describes the safety precautions you must take before installing or maintaining Huawei equipment. Overview To ensure safety of humans and the equipment, pay attention to the safety symbols on the equipment and all the safety instructions in this document.
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Only qualified professional personnel are allowed to install, configure, operate, and disassemble the device. Only the personnel authenticated or authorized by Huawei are allowed to replace or change the device of the parts of the device (including the software). Any fault or error that might cause safety problems must be reported immediately to a supervisor.
2.1 Overview This topic describes the ES3000 appearance. As a high-performance solid state drive (SSD) card launched by Huawei, the ES3000 provides local data storage for servers to improve input/output operations per second (IOPS) performance. It applies to frequent random or sequential read and write operations and high IOPS services, such as search engines, cache, databases, and videos.
This topic describes the driver supported by the ES3000 and how to obtain them. Table 3-1 lists the drivers supported and related operating systems (OSs). You can log in to http://support.huawei.com/enterprise, choose Software Downloads > IT > Server > Accelerator > Tecal ES3000, and download the required driver program. NOTE 2.0.0.5 in the driver file name indicates the software version, and the actual version may be different.
Procedure Step 1 Log in to the operating system (OS) as an administrator. Step 2 Choose Start > All Programs > Huawei SSD > Utility > Huawei SSD Utility(GUI). The graphical user interface (GUI) is displayed, as shown in Figure 4-1.
Procedure Step 1 Log in to the operating system (OS) as an administrator. Step 2 Choose Start > All Programs > Huawei SSD > Utility > Huawei SSD Utility(CMD). The HW SSD Utility(CMD) command line window is displayed. Step 3 Run the following command to query the temperature of the SSD: HioTemperature.exe -d number_of_SSD...
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PRODUCE DATE: 2012-07-13 13:43 MANUFACTURER: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ============================================= Step 7 In the Huawei SSD Label Editor dialog box, set the asset information, and click OK, as shown Figure 4-4. Figure 4-4 Setting e-label information Issue 04 (2014-03-05) Huawei Proprietary and Confidential...
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Figure 4-5 Selecting an ES3000 Step 6 In the Warning dialog box, click OK. The Huawei SSD Capacity Selection dialog box is displayed. Step 7 In Huawei SSD Capacity Selection, set Input Capability Size, as shown in Figure 4-6. Click...
Procedure Step 1 Log in to the operating system (OS) as an administrator. Step 2 Choose Start > All Programs > Huawei SSD > Utility > Huawei SSD Utility(CMD). The HW SSD Utility(CMD) command line window is displayed. Step 3 Run the following command to delete all user data on an SSD device: HioTemperature.exe -d number_of_SSD...
Context NOTE You can run the hio_info command to view the health status of the ES3000. If the value of Health in the command output is not OK, contact Huawei Technical Support. 5.1.1 Failure to Install the ES3000 Driver Symptom When you install the driver, a message is displayed indicating a file collision.
Event log: Health: If the value of Health in the command output is OK, contact Huawei Technical Support. Step 2 Log out of the operating system (OS) and turn off the power to the server. Step 3 Remove the chassis cover.
Step 6 Install the chassis cover. Step 7 Turn on the power to the server and observe the mount process. l If the ES3000 is successfully mounted, the problem is resolved. l If the fault persists, contact Huawei Technical Support. ----End Reference Information None 5.1.3 Querying and Setting the Fan Speed (fanlevel)
The Huawei SSD driver Uninstall dialog box is displayed. Step 7 Click Yes to uninstall the ES3000 driver and its programs. Step 8 After uninstalling the driver, click Close to close the Huawei SSD driver Uninstall window. ----End 5.2.3 Uninstalling the ES3000 Driver in VMware Operation Scenarios If you want to stop using, replace, or upgrade an ES3000, uninstall the driver first.
A.2 Windows System Tools This topic describes how to use the ES3000 tools in Windows. Huawei SSD Utility (GUI) tools are installed along with the ES3000 driver. You can use these tools to upgrade firmware and query hardware information. A.2.1 Hardware Information Tool...
For details about how to install and use it, see http://www.net-snmp.org. hio_snmp is the SNMP agent extension in Linux that Huawei has developed based on the Net- SNMP platform. hio_snmp defines the ES3000 management information base (MIB), and the SNMP client uses the hio_snmp to monitor ES3000 health status.
User Guide D How to Get Help How to Get Help This topic describes how to contact Huawei for technical support if a fault persists during routine maintenance or troubleshooting. D.1 Preparations Before Contacting Huawei Before you get technical support from Huawei, collect fault information or prepare the commissioning environment.
Fault severity and deadline for rectifying the fault D.1.2 Making Debugging Preparations When you seek for technical support, Huawei technical engineers may help you to perform some operations to further collect fault information or rectify the fault. Therefore, you need to make certain preparations before seeking for technical support.
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User Guide D How to Get Help NOTE Alternatively, you can quickly locate a product document by entering a keyword in the Search text box at the upper right corner at http://support.huawei.com/enterprise. For details about server compatibility, see the Compatibility List.