How To Add Drives To A Dip N Recording Appliance

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1 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 1 DIP N Initial RAID Setup Technical Brief Purpose The purpose of this technical brief is to provide the step-by-step process of adding drives to a DIP N Recording appliance. Prior to Starting: To better understand the setup procedure in this technical brief you must first understand the functional state which you must configure. The DIP N Recording Appliance is equipped with an 80GB SSD (Solid State Drive) which contains the device s operating system. The device contains a SATA DOM (Disk On Module) which contains restoration images of the devices in its factory defaulted condition. This version of the DIVAR IP Recording Appliance ships with no storage drives. Drives are supplied by the customer and must be configured as outlined in this technical brief. Equipment needed: Customer s Drives, PS/2 Mouse, and PS/2 KBD The DIP N Recording Appliance can perform RAID 5 via an internal LSI Controller Card. The LSI Controller when configured will present all drives in the device as a virtual drive. Virtual Drive 0 once configured will equal the entirety of all drives added. The available size of your RAID array will vary based on the number and size or hard disks added. To the right we see a functional DIP 7000 with four drives added to the unit. All drives are configured and assigned to VD0. (Functional 4 Drive Unit) The LSI Controller Card will write basic RAID-Configuration Information to any drive it configures. This is referred to COD (Configuration on Disk) and is only accessible by the controller card itself. The small cache area where the COD resides is not affected by normal read/write operations. Drives with a valid COD are green and marked as Online. Drives that are viewed as unrecognized or have no COD are blue and marked as Unconfigured. Lastly, RAID 5 devices can only sustain a one drive loss, if not configured with a hot spare. The following procedure is based upon adding all new drives to a DLA base unit with no hot spare configured.

Prior to Starting: To better understand the setup procedure in this technical brief you must first understand the functional state which you must configure.

2 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 2 Accessing LSI BIOS After receiving the DIP 7000 and physically installing replacement drives, boot your storage appliance. After the Bosch splash screen you will see the LSI boot process messages: Press Ctrl + h throughout the boot process to access the LSI BIOS interface. 1) Once you access the LSI BIOS Interface select the start button. 2) The main LSI WEBBIOS page should load. From this page you should see all new replacement drives as Unconfigured. Select the Configuration Wizard menu option.

After the Bosch splash screen you will see the LSI boot process messages: Press Ctrl + h throughout the boot process to access the LSI BIOS

3 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 3 3) From the Configuration Wizard page ensure Ne w Configuration is selected and the select Next. 4) From the second page of the wizard ensure the following are selected: Manual Configuration Redundancy when possible Select Next.

4 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 4 5) From the third page of the wizard you will need to add all new drives to a Drive Group. Select all drives while holding the Ctrl key then select the Add To Array button. 6) After selecting Add To Array all drives should appear on the right side of the menu under Drive Group0. Select Accept DG 7) After accepting the disk group you should see Drive Group1 below Drive Group0. Select the next button

Select all drives while holding the Ctrl key then select the Add To Array button.

5 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 5 8) The Array With Free Space menu on the left should show Drive Group0 available. Select Add to Span. Drive Group0 should appear in the Span menu on the right Select Ne xt 9) From this menu page you will need to ensure the following settings: RAID Level: 5 Strip Size: 64 KB Access Policy: RW READ Policy: Ahead Write Policy: Alwa ys Write Back o This setting can impact performance! IO Policy: Cached Drive Cache: NoChange Disable BGI: No Select Size: Enter the amount shown for the R5 option. Shown here TB Select Accept 10) After selecting Accept you will be asked Are you sure you want to select Always Write Back mode?. Select Yes

Access Policy: RW READ Policy: Ahead Write Policy: Alwa ys Write Back o This setting can impact performance!

6 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 6 11) After selecting Yes you will be brought back to the Virtual Drive Definition menu page. The message will appear Press Back Button to Add Another Virtual Drive Select the Ne xt button 12) You should see VD 0 in the Virtual Drive Definition menu page select Accept.

The message will appear Press Back Button to Add Another Virtual Drive Select the Ne

7 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 7 13) You will now be presented with two options: Save this Configuration? o Select Yes All data on the Virtual Drives will be lost. Want to Initialize? o Select Yes 14) You should be in the last menu page of Virtual Drives. Select VD0 then select Fast Initialize Select GO After the screen refreshes select Home 15) The WebBIOS home page should appear and look similar to what is pictured below Select Exit You will be prompted to exit again, select Exit and reboot the appliance

o Select Yes 14) You should be in the last menu page of Virtual Drives.

8 CCTV Video Solutions Technical Brief DIP N Initial RAID Setup 8 Preparing Your RAID ARRAY to receive video: Restore Image (SATA DOM) NOTE: Th e n ext step will prep your array with VHDs that act as iscsi Targets. At this point you have unpartitioned and unfo rmatted drives. This document covers DIP 7000 Appliance equipped with a SATA DOM. 1) After reboot you will need to press and hold F11. If prompted to select between a SSD and SATA boot option select SATA. A Windows shell should load as shown here. 2) Once Windows has loaded, you should be presented with a splash screen as seen to the right. Select : Initial to Factory Setup (all data will be deleted) 3) After the image process reboot the appliance: You may need to check the boot sequence of your drives in the BIOS: The 80 GB SSD Drive should be you first Boot Option The Appliance will reboot several times as it sets up Windows for the first time On initial log on your credentials will be: o User: BVRAdmin o Password: WSS4Bosch If prompted to change your password enter WSS4Bosch

1) After reboot you will need to press and hold F11. If prompted to select between a SSD and SATA boot option select SATA. A Windows shell should load as shown here.

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