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Universal RAID Utility Ver2.31 (Windows Edition)
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[Software name ] Universal RAID Utility Ver2.31
[Registered name ] uru231r1492_win_e3.zip
[Copyright (C) ] NEC Corporation 2007-2011
[Applicable model] Express5800/51Lf
Express5800/53La
Express5800/140Rf-4
Express5800/R140a-4
Express5800/R140b-4
Express5800/B140a-T
Express5800/120Rj-2
Express5800/120Rh-1
Express5800/120Ei
Express5800/120Lj
Express5800/i120Ra-e1
Express5800/110Ri-1
Express5800/110Ge
Express5800/R120a-1
Express5800/R120a-2
Express5800/R120b-1
Express5800/R120b-2
Express5800/T120a-M
Express5800/T120a-E
Express5800/T120b-M
Express5800/T120b-E
Express5800/GT110a
Express5800/iR120a-1E
Express5800/E120b-1
Express5800/GT110b
Express5800/B120a
Express5800/B120b
Express5800/B120a-d
Express5800/B120b-d
[Users ] For users who will install following Windows on NEC
Express5800 series.
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Professional SP2 or later
[Software type ] Utility
[Creation method ] Windows Zip format
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[Software Introduction]
Universal RAID Utility (hereinafter called "this software") is RAID System
Management Utility for the following RAID Controllers.
- Onboard RAID Controller on NEC Express5800/140Rf-4, R140a-4, B140a-T,
120Rh-1, 120Ei, i120Ra-e1, 110Ri-1, R120a-1, R120b-1, R120b-2, T120a-E,
T120b-M, T120b-E, GT110a, iR120a-1E, E120b-1, GT110b, 51Lf, 53La
- Internal RAID Controller on NEC Express5800/120Rj-2, 120Rh-1, 120Ei,
120Lj, R120a-1, R120a-2, T120a-M, T120a-E
- N8103-90 Disk Array Controller (External SAS HDD)
- N8103-109 RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-115 RAID Controller (512 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-116 RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1)
- N8103-117 RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-118 RAID Controller (256 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-116A RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1)
- N8103-117A RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-118A RAID Controller (256 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-128 RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1)
- N8103-129 RAID Controller (256MB, RAID 0/1)
- N8103-130 RAID Controller (256MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-134 RAID Controller (512MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-135 RAID Controller (512MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8403-026 RAID Controller
- N8403-027 SATA Interface Card(When using for RAID System)
- Storage and I/O Blade AD106a
- Storage and I/O Blade AD106b
When you monitor the computer where Universal RAID Utility has been
installed by using NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver. 4.0 - 5.1, please be sure
to install NEC ESMPRO Agent ESMDiskArray (hereinafter called "ESMDiskArray")
first and then install Universal RAID Utility. Otherwise the alert
notifications of Universal RAID Utility will not be correctly logged.
Please refer to the [Universal RAID Utility NEC ESMPRO Update Setup
Procedure] for the detailed procedure of the installation.
Carefully read the following user license agreement for NEC software
before using this software.
If you do not agree to the terms of the agreement, do not download this
software. By downloading this software, you agree to be bound by the terms
of the agreement.
[User license agreement for NEC software]
This user license agreement is an agreement between you and NEC Corporation
(hereinafter called "NEC").
Under the following terms of this agreement, NEC grants you the right to
use the software program (hereinafter called "licensed program"), and you
are to agree to the terms. You are to take responsibilities for the choice,
installation, or use of the licensed program, or the results of the usage
of the usage of the licensed program.
1. Term
(1) This user license agreement goes into effect on the day you receive
this software product.
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by letter.
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destroy the licensed program, all the copies of the licensed program,
and the related documents (e.g., manuals) provided with the licensed
program as soon as your right to use the licensed program terminates.
2. Use right
You may use the licensed program only on NEC Express5800 servers using Windows
as follows.
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Professional SP2 or later
3. Copy, alteration, and linkage of the licensed program
(1) You may make a copy of the licensed program only to use it as a backup
copy in case the program data is lost or destroyed. However, this is
not the case if the licensed program is installed in fixed storage.
In this case, you may keep it only to use in case the storage medium of
the licensed program is lost or destroyed.
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and other rights to all the copies of the licensed program.
(3) Unless otherwise specified in this user license agreement, you may not
use, copy, alter, or link the licensed program, you may not reproduce
it in publications or networks, or you may not make your own decision
on handling it in any other ways.
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the licensed program or reproduce them in publications or networks
under any circumstances.
(5) This user license agreement is not to transfer the intellectual
property for the licensed program to you.
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only if satisfying all the following condition:
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all the copies of the licensed program, and the related documents
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them.
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(2) Unless otherwise specified in this user license agreement, you may not
loan or transfer the licensed program or the right to use it to a third
party, or you may not make your own decision on handling it in any
other ways.
5. Decompilation
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the licensed program.
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(1) NEC does not give any guarantee for the licensed program. You are to be
liable and to pay for problems arising from the use of the licensed
program.
(2) Irrespective of the term (1), when NEC corrects licensed-program errors
(bugs), NEC may, at its discretion, provide an error-corrected program,
a program for correction (hereinafter called a modification program),
or information for correction by an NEC-decided method. The modification
program provided to you is regarded as the licensed program.
7. No liability
NEC assumes no liability for your lost profit, damages arising from
special circumstances (including damages which NEC can or could foresee),
or damages you are asked for by any third party.
8. Others
Disputes over this user license agreement are to be settled at the Tokyo
District Court as the exclusively agreed competent court.
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[Installation Procedure]
Please extract the installation image and then start installation.
Refer to the "Universal RAID Utility Ver2.3 User's Guide" which is contained
in the installation image for the detailed procedure of the installation.
(1) Download the archive "uru231r1492_win_e3.zip".
(2) Copy the archive to any folder in the server in which this software
will be installed.
(3) The archive "uru231r1492_win_e3.zip" is in the Windows ZIP format.
After extracting the archive, the following files will appear.
- Universal RAID Utility Ver2.31 Installation Image
bin folder
- Setup.exe - Universal RAID Utility Setup Program
- eci folder - Setup Program related modules
doc folder
- uru23eug.pdf - Universal RAID Utility Ver2.3 User's Guide
- uru23euga.pdf - Appendix A : Glossary
- uru23eugb.pdf - Appendix B : raidcmd Command Reference
- uru23eugc.pdf - Appendix C : Logs/Events
(4) To install this software, please refer to the section [Installation
and Uninstallation] in Universal RAID Utility Ver2.3 User's Guide.
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[General Notice]
1. The order of the installation: NEC ESMPRO ESMDiskArray
The software works in cooperation with ESMDiskArray Ver1.50 or later
when you monitor the computer by using NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver. 4.0 -
5.1.
Please be sure to install ESMDiskArray before installing this software.
Otherwise, the extra alert notification or no alert
notification may be sent. Please install ESMDiskArray and then this
software.
2. Use of Update Installation or Add Installation
Universal RAID Utility Ver2.3 does not support Update Installation
and Add Installation.
If you need Universal RAID Utility update, you must uninstall the
previous version at first.
3. Update of the runtime component of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1
library
When you use RAID Viewer of Universal RAID Utility Ver2.3 or later,
you need install runtime component of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
SP1 library which applied ATL Security Update has already been applied.
In case of using the older version of Universal RAID Utility than Ver
2.3, the version of runtime component of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
SP1 library may also be old. Update the runtime component of the Microsoft
Visual C++ 2005 SP1 library to which ATL Security Update has been applied
and then install Universal RAID Utility.
4. About support of Solid State Drive(SSD)
To display the Solid State Drive correctly in the environment where
either of the following RAID Controllers is used, you need the driver
and firmware which supports the Solid State Drive.
- Onboard RAID Controller (LSI Embedded MegaRAID)
The Solid State Drive is displayed as the Hard Disk Drive in Universal
RAID Utility Ver2.31.
- N8103-109 RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
Please check if the version of firmware is 1.05.0070.08 or later.
If it is older than 1.05.0070.08, the Solid State Drive is displayed as
Hard Disk Drive. For how to check the version of the firmware, refer to
the User's Guide of N8103-109 RAID Controller.
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[Revision History]
2011/4/6 Ver2.31 Rev1492
* Note that there is no change in the installation image.
The changes described below are related to only the expansion of the
range of the support.
"Enhancement"
1. Additional support of the following OS
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Windows 7 SP1
2011/2/14 Ver2.31 Rev1492
* Note that there is no change in the installation image.
The changes described below are related to only the expansion of the
range of the support.
"Enhancement"
1. Additional support of new Solid State Drive(SSD)
2. Replacement of the User's Guide
The User's Guide in the archive was replaced to the latest edition.
2010/10/27 Ver2.31 Rev1492
"Enhancement"
1. Additional support of the following RAID Controllers
- N8103-128 RAID Controller (128 MB, RAID 0/1)
2. Additional support of the applicable model
- Express5800/E120b-1
3. Expansion of support range
- The models and RAID Controllers that have been managed only by
Universal RAID Utility Ver2.3 are now available with Ver2.31.
2010/7/30 Ver2.31 Rev1492
"General Notice"
1. Addition of General Notice
General Notice (4) is added.
2. Addition of Notes on Use of Universal RAID Utility in User's Guide
"Patrol Read" is added.
"Enhancement"
1. Additional support of applicable model
- Express5800/R120b-1
- Express5800/R120b-2
- Express5800/T120b-M
- Express5800/T120b-E
"Changes"
1. Change of the method to identify Solid State Drive (SSD)
The internal method to identify a Solid State Drive and Hard Disk
Drive has been changed so that it is independent on the model of
physical device.
2. Change of measures to monitor battery of N8103-134/135 RAID
Controllers
The method to check the health of the battery of N8103-134/135
RAID Controllers has been changed so that it is determined based
on the remaining capacity of battery.
"Improvement"
1. Improvement of Easy Configuration
Even if making more than 3 Hot Spares with Easy Configuration from
raidcmd, the error does not occur.
2010/6/30 Ver2.30 Rev1447
"General Notice"
1. The following General Notice are removed
- Update for URU Ver2.0, 2.01, 2.02, or 2.03
- Installation path
2. Addition of General Notice
General Notice (2) and (3) are added.
"Enhancement"
1. Additional support of the following RAID Controllers
- N8103-129 RAID Controller (256MB, RAID 0/1)
- N8103-130 RAID Controller (256MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-134 RAID Controller (512MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
- N8103-135 RAID Controller (512MB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
2. Additional support of applicable model
- Express5800/R140b-4
- Express5800/B120b
- Express5800/B120b-d
"Changes"
1. Change registration policy of Physical Device Warning
Even if command timeout or Physical Device reset occurs, Universal
RAID Utility does not register Physical Device Warning from this
version.
"Bug Fixes"
1. When using N8103-109 RAID Controller (128MB, RAID 0/1/5/6), it
takes URU about 10 times as long to complete full-initialize as
SuperBuildUtility does.
2. You cannot initialize or delete Logical Drive(s) when using N8103-109
RAID Controller (128MB, RAID 0/1/5/6) and USB Flash disk at the
same time.
2010/1/28 Ver2.11 Rev1297
"General Notice"
1. Addition of General Notice
General Notice (2) and (3) are added.
2009/10/30 Ver2.11 Rev1297
"Enhancement"
1. Additional support of new Solid State Drive(SSD)
2009/9/30 Ver2.11 Rev1297
"Enhancements"
1. Addition of OS for management
"Windows Server 2008 R2" and "Windows 7" are added to the OS for
management.
2. Support of the remote management of RAID System using NEC ESMPRO
Manager Ver5.2 or later
Universal RAID Utility (Windows Edition) can manage the RAID System
using NEC ESMPRO Manager Ver. 5.2 or later. The RAID System that
exists in a remote environment can be managed by using NEC ESMPRO
Manager. Refer to "Management of RAID System using NEC ESMPRO
Manager" for detail.
2.1 Browsing the information of RAID System
- The information of RAID System can be browsed as a tree view
by using Data Viewer, the same as RAID Viewer.
- The property information of RAID Controller, Battery, Logical
Drive, Physical Device and Disk Array can be browsed.
2.2 Maintenance of RAID System
- The operations such as Consistency Check, Rebuild and Initialize
can be run.
- The maintenance functions such as Locate(Lamp), Make Online
and Make Offline can be used.
- The parameters such as priority of some operations and Cache
Mode of Logical Drive can be changed.
2.3 Monitoring of RAID System
- The state of RAID System can be seen at a glance by displaying
the icon and status on Data Viewer.
- The event occurred on the RAID System can be received as alert
on Alert Viewer.
- The RAID Log similar to Log Viewer can be browsed on Data Viewer.
3. Operation
The function to start Consistency Check to all Logical Drives is added
raidcmd can start Consistency Check following Logical Drives at a time.
- All Logical Drives of all RAID Controllers
- All Logical Drives of a RAID Controller
"Changes"
1. Setup Program of Universal RAID Utility
Setup Program does not check whether or not to install Microsoft
.NET Framework and Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 library.
2. Display of information
The status definition of RAID Controller made by Promise is changed
When a broken physical device is replaced with a hot spare because
of hot swap rebuilding, etc., and no longer a member of the logical
drive, Universal RAID Utility Ver2.01 has changed the state of the
Physical Device into "Ready."
Universal RAID Utility Ver2.11 changes the state of the Physical
Device into "Failed."
3. Log/Event
Changing the policy of event logging to RAID Log
- The event of changing Cache Mode of Logical Drive changed by RAID
Viewer and raidcmd is not registered in RAID Log as an event.
- The "Degraded" event of Logical Drive that RAID level is 6 is
registered to RAID Log when one Physical Device becomes "Failed"
and also when two Physical Devices become "Failed."
- Improved the error detection condition for "Temperature Fatal" of
an Enclosure.
[Attached Files]
date size filename
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2011/01/04 10:26 2447097 doc/uru23eug.pdf
2011/01/04 10:26 74934 doc/uru23euga.pdf
2011/01/04 10:26 185632 doc/uru23eugb.pdf
2011/01/04 10:26 140567 doc/uru23eugc.pdf
2010/07/02 11:51 17888832 bin/Setup.exe
2010/03/26 15:13 2330422 bin/eci/setup.exe
2010/03/26 15:13 36352 bin/eci/1041.mst
2010/03/26 15:13 4487382 bin/eci/Data1.cab
2009/07/29 20:16 318 bin/eci/setup.iss
2010/03/26 15:13 1162 bin/eci/doc/MIT_license.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 1686 bin/eci/doc/OpenSLP_license.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 3458 bin/eci/doc/OpenSLP_EULA.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 11560 bin/eci/doc/ApacheLicense_v2.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 25283 bin/eci/doc/LGPL_v2.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 568 bin/eci/doc/ApacheNotice.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 2244 bin/eci/doc/OpenSSL_WOILA.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 1249 bin/eci/doc/zlib_license.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 6406 bin/eci/doc/OpenSSL_license.txt
2009/07/29 20:16 197 bin/eci/update.iss
2010/03/26 15:13 6656 bin/eci/1033.mst
2010/03/26 15:13 2232236 bin/eci/ISSetup.dll
2010/03/26 15:13 275968 bin/eci/ExpressUpdate Agent.msi
2010/03/26 15:13 3919945 bin/eci/src/libiconv-1.9.2.tar.gz
2010/03/26 15:13 45 bin/eci/src/revision.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 554 bin/eci/src/axis2c-1.6.0.patch
2010/03/26 15:13 186 bin/eci/src/readme.txt
2010/03/26 15:13 7867598 bin/eci/src/axis2c-src-1.6.0.zip
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