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Resources

In the S1 system, storage node servers play a central role. Physical drives provides storage resources that are connected to storage node servers through disk enclosures. Storage resources are managed by the S1 software utility that run on the node servers. The Resources section provides status information about hardware resources and allows you to provision storage for the S1 system. You can then use the provisioned storage to create a robust abstract layer of VSC (volume drives).
To access the Resources section, select Inventory admin > Resources admin.

List resources

To create a table listing of the resources of the node servers, select List from the top menu.

  • Resource type: to select a resource type, options are:
    • CPU: Central processing Unit.
    • Memory: Random Access memory (RAM).
    • HBA: The Host Bus Adapter.
    • NIC: The Network Interface Cards.
    • HDD: The internal Hard Disk Drives.
    • SSD: The internal Solid State Drives.
    • NVMe: The Non-Volatile Memory Express.
    • Chassis: Internal components, such as motherboard, expansion cards etc.
  • Node: To filter the table by a node server
  • Errors: To display only components with errors.
  • Details: To display advanced information.
  • Sensors: To display sensor information.
  • Ids: Each resource is assigned with a unique ID. To filter the table of resources by the ID, enter or select IDs, multiple IDs may be selected.
  • Submit: To apply your display preferences.

The table displays status info and details for the resource that you have selected.

Delete missing resources

To delete missing (detached or non-functional) resources, select Delete.

  • Entity ids: Select the hardware to be deleted. Enter or select IDs, multiple IDs may be selected.
  • All: Select to delete all missing hardware.

Select Submit to apply your settings.

Provisioning storage

To provision storage space from physical drives to pools, select Drives admin.

List physical drives

To list available drives in a table, select List from the top navigation control.

  • Node: Filter the table by node server name.
  • Errors: To display only components with errors.
  • Details: To display advanced information.
  • IDs: Filter the table by the unique ID of the resources. Select IDs and enter the desired resource ID.
  • LED: Display the LED status of the drives.
  • Patterns: Filter the table by drive name, capacity, serial, or type. Enter free text and select using the mouse. Regular expressions (regex) patterns are supported in the “Patterns” field, but certain characters like “?” or “.” are not allowed.

SMART output

To get smart output of drives select SMART from the top navigation control.

  • Node: To select the the node server.
  • Driveid: To select the ID of the drive.
  • Submit: To display the SMART information of the selected drive.

Approving new drives for pools

To approve new drives, select Approve from the top navigation control.

  • Drive IDs: Select the drives to be approved by the pools. Click the All checkbox to select all drives.

To further filter the approved drives, expand the Patterns section:

  • Patterns: Enter a pattern to filter the selected drives by drive name, capacity, serial, or type. Use free text and mouse selection. Regular expressions (regex) patterns are supported in the “Patterns” field, but certain characters like “?” or “.” are not allowed.
  • Count: Limit the number of approved drives that were selected and filtered.

To manually specify the pool for drive approval, expand the Manual Pool, Force section.

  • Manual pool: Specify the pool for drive approval manually.
  • Force: Approve drives without prompting for approval.

Select Submit to apply your settings.

Creating and managing pools

To create and manage pools, select Pools admin.

List existing pools

To create a table list of existing pools, select List from the top menu. You can expand the table by checking the Drive, volume, or capacity check-boxes. This will add columns to the table that displays additional information

  • Drives: Add information about Drive type, capacity, Drive name, and id.
  • Volumes: Add information about Volume IDs, Applications, and Volume names.
  • Capacity: Adding information about Used capacity of the pool.
  • Submit: To display the table list with the expanded checklists.

You can also apply on-the-fly operations on the table.

Creating new pool

To create a new pool, select Create from the top menu.

  1. In the Name field, enter a name for the pool.
  2. Select Submit to apply.

Renaming a pool

To rename a pool, select Rename from the top menu.

  1. Use the Name drop-down list to select a pool.
  2. In the New Name field enter a new name for the selected pool.
  3. Select Submit to rename the pool.

Associating and disassociating pools with VJBOD

StorONE’s vJBOD technology enables the creation of a shared storage pool that can be accessed by multiple hosts or virtual machines, providing high performance and high availability.

  1. To associate or disassociate a pool from a vJBOD, select Vjbod from the top menu.
  2. Use the Name drop-down list to select a pool.
    • To associate the selected pool from a vJBOD, check VJBOD and Submit.
    • To disassociate the selected pool, check Normal Pool and Submit.

Configuring Self Encrypted Drive (SED)

To configure a Self Encrypted Drive (SED), select Sed admin.

Initialize an SED password for the S1 system

In the S1 system supports one initialized password for all the self encrypted drives that has the same pass phrase. To create an initialized SED password, select Initialized from the top menu.

  • Drive ids: To select the self encrypted drives manually.
  • All: To select all the self encrypted drives.
  • Password: To enter a password, recognized by S1, for self encrypted drive. This password is used by S1 for all self encrypted drives.
  • Confirm Password: To confirm, retype the password.
  • Submit: To apply your settings.

Supplying the SED password

The S1 system can have access to self-encrypted drives if they are unlocked. To unlock a self encrypted drive, select Supply Password. In the Password field, enter unlock passphrase for your drive and Submit. In case you have other self-encrypted drives with different passphrases, repeat the operation for each of your self-encrypted drives.

Network configurations

To configure the storage network, select Network admin.

List network interfaces

To display a table listing all available network interface cards, select List from the top menu.

  • Errors: To show only components with errors, check the Errors box.
  • Details: Expand the table to display additional advance information, such as Device, Vendor, Slaves, IPs (IP address), iSCSI enable status, TCP NVMe-oF enable status, RDMA NVMe-oF enable status, and Speed Gbs.
  • ids: To filter the table by the network interface card IDs.
  • Submit: To display the table according to your settings.

You can also apply on-the-fly operations on the table.

Testing connectivity with ping

To test the connectivity with an IP address, select Ping admin from the top menu. Enter an IP address in the IP field and select Submit to test connectivity with this IP address.

Configuring iSCSI protocol

To enable or disable iSCSI protocol over an IP address, select Iscsi admin.

  • To disable iSCSI protocol over an IP address, select an IP address with iSCSI enabled from the IP drop-down list and Submit.
  • To enable iSCSI protocol over an IP address, select an IP address with iSCSI disabled from the IP drop-down list and Submit.
  • To enable iSCSI protocol over an IP address, regardless of its iSCSI enable/disable status, check the Enable checkbox.
  • Select Submit to apply the configurations.

Configuring NVMe-oF protocol

To enable or disable NVMe-oF protocol over an IP address, select Nvmeof admin.

  • To disable NVMe-oF protocol over an IP address:
    1. Select an IP address with NVMe-oF enabled from the IP drop-down list.
    2. Enter IP port number in the Port field.
    3. Leave the Enable checkbox unchecked.
    4. To select the transport layer, check either Rdma or Tcp.
    5. Select Submit to apply the configurations.
  • To enable NVMe-oF protocols on an IP address:
    1. Select an IP address with NVMe-oF disabled from the IP drop-down list.
    2. Enter IP port number in the Port field.
    3. Select the Enable checkbox.
    4. Select the transport layer, check either Rdma or Tcp.
    5. Select Submit to apply.
Last updated on 6 Mar 2023
Published on 8 May 2023