Thecus N8850 User Manual

Thecus N8900 series/N12000 series/N16000 series N5550/N6850/N8850/N10850 N7700PRO V2/N8800PRO V2 N4510U/N7510 User’s Manual

10 Front Panel N8900 series: Front Panel Item Description 1.Power Button  Power on/off N8900 2.Power LED  Solid green: System is power on. 3.

100 To allocate space for an iSCSI target on the current RAID volume, follow the steps below: 1. Under the iSCSI Target List, select iSCSI Target

101 Iqn_Month Select the current month from the dropdown. Authentication You may choose CHAP authentication or choose None. Username Enter a username

102 Modify iSCSI Volume To modify iSCSI target on the current RAID volume, follow the steps below: 1. Under the iSCSI Target List, click Modify.

103 You will then see the dialog box displayed below. Drag the Expand Capacity bar to the size you want. Then press Expand to confirm the operation.

104 2. Press YES. All data in the volume will be removed. iSCSI Thin-Provisioning If iSCSI Thin-Provisioning is selected when creating an iSCSI targ

105 If creating an iSCSI target volume under “Instant Allocation”, physical memory is assign to the target, being limited by the available memory. Fo

106 The accessible Initiator will be listed as shown in the screen shot displayed below. The listed “Ini

107 iSCSI CRC/Checksum To enable this option, the initiator can connect with “Data digest” and “Header digest”. Max Connections The maximum numb

108 fabric failures, and in a completely OS independent fashion (i.e. below the host OS storage stack). High-Availability (N8900, N12000 series/N

109 2nd unit: Host name: PMS (172.16.66.24) with JBOD RAID volume. This unit will be setup as the Secondary server. Setting up the Primary u

11 N12000 series: The Thecus N12000 series front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1

110 ii. Click on “Enable” radio button, then the setting page will appear. iii. Choose the server role of the system, for this example, we will

111 vi. Fill in the “Secondary Server” hostname information. For this example, we will use “PMS” for the secondary server hostname. Please make sur

112 ix. Advance options can be setup by pressing the associated button. Heart Beats Configuration Item Description Keep aliv

113 x. Click “Apply”, the Primary server will prompt the message below and wait for the “Standby” server settings to be completed. Setting up

114 After the Secondary server has communicated with Primary Server successfully, then the state will changed to: Click “Yes” to reboot both Primar

115 At this time, the virtual IP address will be mapped to the PMS system because it is in an active state. HA Ready: After both Primary and Seconda

116 HA Recovery: If one of the HA member is down and need to be recovered, simply go to the RAID management page and the “HA Recovery” icon will be

117 If the other HA member is running smoothly, please choose “Recovery HA” to complete HA recovery. Or select “No, continue” to let both HA members

118 Item Description Work Group / Domain Name Specifies the SMB/CIFS Work Group / ADS Domain Name (e.g. MYGROUP). ADS Support Select Disable to disab

119 Local User Configuration From the Accounts menu, choose the User item, and the Local User Configuration screen appears. This screen allows you t

12 N16000 series: The Thecus N16000 series front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1.

120 Edit Users 1. Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen. 2. Click on the Edit button, and the Local User Setting s

121 Local Group Configuration From the Accounts menu, choose the Group item, and the Local Group Configuration screen appears. This screen allows yo

122 5. Select users to be in this group from the Users List by adding them to the Members List using the << button. 6. Click the Apply butt

123 Batch Users and Groups Creation The Thecus IP storage can also add users and groups in batch mode. This enables you to conveniently add numerous

124 User Quota The Thecus IP storage support local or AD users with storage quota limitations in each RAID volume of the system. To enable this funct

125 LDAP Support The LDAP is the other way to authenticate login users who has joined LDAP server, fill in the LDAP server information and get LDAP

126 Samba Service U

127 UNIX Extension The default is enable for Samba usage, with situation using Mac OSX with smb connection may have permission issue. When it happen

128 There are 2 more setting could help to manage the recycle bin for deleted folders/files. 1. Setup the “Day” to remove deleted folders/file

129 asterisk (*) to use the default setting. Time Machine Click the enable checked box if you would like your MAC system to use the Thecus IP storage

13 N6850: The Thecus N6850’s front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1. Power Button 

130 Security FTP Enable or disable Security FTP, be sure the client FTP software has also security FTP setting enabled. Port Specifies the port num

131 Item Description TFTP Enables TFTP Service on the Thecus IP storage. IP Checked WAN/LAN1 or LAN2 to enable port use Port Specifies the port numbe

132 Bonjour Setting Bonjour, is Apple Inc.'s trade name for its implementation of Zeroconf, a service discovery protocol. Bonjour locates devic

133 Item Description SSH Service Enable or disable SSH service. Port The port number is default 22. SFTP Enable or disable SFTP protocol under SS

134 UPnP Port Management One of the most convent way to allow users to access required services such as FTP, SSH, web disk and http etc. from Inter

135 And click “Add Rule” to add more port mapping from Internet to access desired services or press “Refresh” to get most updated list. A descrip

136 iTunes® Server With the built-in iTunes server capability, Thecus IP storage enables digital music to be shared and played anywhere on the netwo

137 Auto Module Installation Choose the Auto Module Installation item and the available system Module screen appears. The default for this module l

138 Auto Module Source List Item Description Installed Status of module Name Module name Version The version of the released module Description The

139 Rsync Target Server When it comes to backing up your data, it’s very important to have flexibility. Data guard provides you with many option

14 N8850: The Thecus N8850’s front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1. Power Button 

140 1. Enable Rsync Target Server 2. Add a username and password (they can be different than your NAS’s username and password) 3. Select Apply

141 re-start the real-time operation. Restore Restore the associated task Log Click to view the associated task in process details. Restore NAS C

142 destination. It could also create shares automatically from destination if it is not existent. This only applies if the target server is the same

143 -Fill out all the necessary details and choose your parameters Add Rsync Backup Task Item Description Task Name This is how this task will appe

144 Speed Limit Input the bandwidth control for data backup operation. Timeout Limit Setup the timeout when trying to build up a connection in betw

145 3. Click “Next” and more setting appears. These are the as the settings for “Full backup” 4. Click “Finish” and the data guard task will ap

146 iSCSI Backup If the source unit contains iSCSI volume, it can be backed up to the target unit as a single file. The procedure is the same as for

147 4. Click “Finish” and the data guard task will appear in the list as shown below. From the task list, you can now see the newly added “iscsibac

148 Restore NAS Configuration This is a useful feature if the system configuration needs to be restored to a brand new unit. Let’s go thru the fo

149 2. Click on “Restore NAS Configuration” and the screen shown below will appear. Input the target server’s IP address where the system configu

15 N10850: The Thecus N10850’s front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1. Power Button

150 4. After clicking “Next”, a screen will appear as shown below. Listed on the left hand side, you will see the configuration backup details whic

151 The current system has 2 RAID volumes, “RAID” and “RAIDa”. Select the RAID volume from the backup configuration volume list which is going to be

152 After inputting the ACL backup file and clicking the “Next” button, the system will show another screen to list the matched folders in between

153 1. Write Files/folders to disc a. Click the Add button and the NAS share list appears. b. Select files/folders which you would like

154 d. Select the burning speed from the drop down list. e. Select whether disc data verification is required or not. f. Click “Burn” to sta

155 3. Create image file from files/folders a. Click the Add button and the NAS share list will appear. b. Select the files/folders which you wou

156 When you execute this utility for the first time, it will ask you to create a DB file. Click Yes. 1. Click Add to create a Backup task. The Add

157 4. Click Next and in the Backup Type, Destination, and Name page, specify a backup location using the Browse button. 5. Find and select the d

158 If a corrupt print job is sent to a printer, printing may suddenly fail. If your print jobs seem to be locked up, pressing the Remove All Documen

159 2. Click the right mouse button in anywhere on the Printers folder and then select Add Printer. 3. Select Add a network, wireless

16 N7700PRO V2: The Thecus N7700PRO V2 front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1.Power

160 You can press The printer that I want isn’t listed to go into next page without waiting for Searching for available printers to finish. 5. Cl

161 8. You can choose to set this printer as the default printer by checking the Set as the default printer box. Click Next to continue.

162 Uninterrupted Power Source From the External Devices menu, choose the Uninterrupted Power Source item and the UPS Setting screen appears. Make an

163 The Thecus IP storage also supports eSATA hard disks with its eSATA port. Before attaching an eSATA or USB disk drive to Thecus IP storage, you

164 Part I - Setup a DynDNS Account 1. Go to http://www.dyndns.org from your home PC. 2. Click on the Sign Up Now link. 3. Check the Check boxes,

165 Replacing Damaged Hard Drives If you are using RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50 or RAID 60 you can easily replace a damaged hard drive in the The

166 Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Forgot My Network IP Address If you forget your network IP address and have no physical access to the system, you can

167 Problems with Time and Date Settings The administrator is able to select an NTP Server to keep Thecus IP storage time synchronized. However, if T

168 Chapter 7: Updates for FW v2.03.01 Changes for FW v2.03.01 - Added JBOD device info to General in the System Information category - Modifed the

169 Added Hardware Information From the System Information category, choose the Hardware Information item and the system will display the related HW

17 N8800PRO V2: The Thecus N8800PRO V2 front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1.Power

170 Disks Information Item Description Disk No. Indicates disk location. Capacity Shows the SATA hard disk capacity. Model Displays the SATA hard d

171 and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping and "reallocated" sectors are call

172 The JBOD device will have a unique ID that ranges from 1 to 10. The disk no. lead ID will indicate the different JBOD devices. The screen shot be

173 The local backup has 6 different selection you can choose from. Local Data backup Item Description Import This is associated with external d

174 1. Import: click on “Import” and a screen will appear as below. If there is an external device installed on system such as USB disk, then it w

175 In here, we have selected the “Intel Graphi…” and “N10850” folders from the external device and imported them to the NAS under the RAID60volume.

176 Read the notes and check the “Accept” box for confirmation. If a share name already exists for the import, then the import will be rename automat

177 Folder to Folder Folder to external device External device

178 Let’s take “Folder to External device” as an example. In the source pane, select the desired RAID volume and its associated folder list will appe

179 Choosing the sync type, “Incremental” or ‘Sync”, and select the log path from the drop menu list. Read the notes and chec

18 N5550: The Thecus N5550 front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1.System LED  Blink

180 3. Realtime Backup: click on “Realtime Backup” and this screen will appear. 2 different options can be selected from, folder to folder, folder t

181 Realtime Backup Item Description Task Name Input the task name, length limited to 4~12 characters. Sync Type Select “Incremental” or “Synch

182 Now, you can see in the data guard task list that your created task is listed. The task status will say “Processing” untill the “Stop” button is

183 Read the notes and check the “Accept” box for confirmation. Now, you will see in the data guard task

184 5. iSCSI Backup: click on “iSCSI Backup” and screen appear as below. It can be backup to two different storage pool, iSCSI to folder, iSCSI to

185 Reading the note and check on “Accept” for confirmation. Now, from the data guard task list will have create

186 States change to “Finish” after task complete. From the RAID volume folder ‘andy_local’, it has backup iSCSI volume file stored. Thi

187 Next, provide where the task log will store. Reading the note and check on “Accept” for confirmation.

188 Now, from the data guard task list will have created task listed. Volume Expansion Management The user guide please refers to UR

189 Appendix A: Customer Support If your Thecus IP storage is not working properly, we encourage you to check out Chapter 6: Troubleshooting, located

19 N4510U: The Thecus N4510U front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description

190 Appendix B: RAID Basics Overview A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is an array of several hard disks that provide data security and h

191 This is excellent for complete data security. RAID 5 RAID 5 offers data security and it is best suited for networks that perform many small I/O

192 Stripe Size The length of the data segments being written across multiple hard disks. Data is written in stripes across the multiple hard disks o

193 Appendix C: How to open the top cover N8900 series:

194 N12000 series: N16000 series:

195 Appendix D: Active Directory Basics Overview With Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced Active Directory (ADS), which is a large database/informatio

196 Appendix E: Licensing Information Overview This product included copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public

197 CGIC License Terms Basic License CGIC, copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Thomas Boutell and Boutell.Com, Inc. P

198 modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced b

199 copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program

2 Copyright and Trademark Notice Thecus and other names of Thecus products are registered trademarks of Thecus Technology Corp. Microsoft, Windows, a

20 N7510: The Thecus N7510 front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1.Power LED  Solid

200 though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code. 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute th

201 permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of th

21 Rear Panel N8900 Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords to these connectors 2.Serial Port  This por

22 5.USB Port  USB 3.0 port for compatible USB devices. 6.WAN/LAN1 Port  WAN/LAN1 port for connecting to an Ethernet network through a switch or ro

23 N16000: The N16000 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords

24 N16000V/N16000PRO: N16000V/N16000PRO rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the inclu

25 N6850: The N6850 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords t

26 N8850: The N8850 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords to th

27 N10850: The N10850 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords to

28 N7700PRO V2: The N7700PRO V2 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.LAN2 Port  LAN2 port fo

29 N8800PRO V2: The N8800PRO V2 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included po

3 Safety Warnings For your safety, please read and follow the following safety warnings: Read this manual thoroughly before attempting to set up y

30 N5550: The N5550 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords t

31 N4510U-R: Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords to these connectors 2. WAN/LAN1 Port  WAN/LAN1 port f

32 N7510: The N7510 rear panel features ports and connectors. Back Panel Item Description 1.Power Connector  Connect the included power cords t

33 Chapter 2: Hardware Installation Overview Your Thecus IP storage is designed for easy installation. To help you get started, the following chapter

34 ▲ ▲ 2. Connect the provided power cord into the universal power socket on the back panel. Plug the other end of the cord into a surge protect

35  3. Press the power button on the Front Panel to boot up the Thecus IP storage. ▲ 

36 ▲ ▲ ▲

37 Chapter 3: First Time Setup Overview Once the hardware is installed, physically connected to your network, and powered on, you can configure the T

38 6. Name your Thecus IP storage and configure the network IP address. If your switch or router is configured as a DHCP Server, configuring the T

39 8. Finished! Access the Thecus IP storage Web Administrator Interface by pressing the Start Browser button. You can also configure another Thecus

4 Table of Contents About This Manual ... 2 Limited Warranty ...

40 Display Mode During normal operation, the LCD will be in Display Mode. Display Mode Item Description Host Name Current host name of the system. W

41 OLED Operation(Does not apply to the N7700PRO V2/N8800PRO V2/N5550/N4510U/N7510) OLED Operation The Thecus IP storage is equipped with an OLED

42 3. The LCD will display “USB Copy?” 4. Press Enter () and the Thecus IP storage will start copying USB disks connected to the front USB port

43 To find out about configuring Folder Access Control Lists, see Chapter 4: Storage Management > Share Folder> Folder Access Control List (ACL

44 Chapter 4: System Administration Overview The Thecus IP storage provides an easily accessible Web Administration Interface. With it, you can confi

45 Following the disclaimer page, you will see the Web Administration Interface. From here, you can configure and monitor virtually every aspect of t

46 Menu Bar The Menu Bar is where you will find all of the information screens and system settings of Thecus IP storage. The various settings are p

47 Message Bar You can get quick information about your system status by moving your mouse over these icons. Message Bar Item Status Description

48 System Information Information provides viewing on current Product info, System Status, Service Status and Logs. The menu bar allows you to see va

49 System Fan 1 Speed Displays current System fan (left 1) status System Fan 2 Speed Displays current System fan (left 2) status System Fan 3 Speed D

5 Networking ... 63 DHCP/RADVD ...

50 See the following table for a detailed description of each item: System Logs Item Description All Provides all log information including system m

51 Syslog Management Generates system log to be stored locally or remotely, it also can be chose to act as syslog server for all other devices. Th

52 Configuration with syslog client and target to store remotely: See the following table for a detailed description of each item: Time Item Descrip

53 It is divided into 4 sections. Each section can be modified to monitor specific items by using the drop down list from the “Monitors” tab, simply

54 For the on-line users list, system monitor will display the on-line users and the share folder they have visited. System Monitor Item Descri

55 System Management The System Management menu gives you a wealth of settings that you can use to configure your Thecus IP storage system administra

56 Notification Configuration Item Description Beep Notification Enable or disable the system buzzer that beeps when a problem occurs. Email Notific

57 Schedule Power On/Off Using the Thecus IP storage System Management, you can save energy and money by scheduling the Thecus IP storage to turn

58 Administrator Password From the menu, choose the Administrator Password item and the Change Administrator Password screen appears. Enter a new pa

59 Factory Default From the menu, choose the Factory Default item and the Reset to Factory Default screen appears. Press Apply to reset Thecus IP st

6 Part III - Setting up Virtual Servers (HTTPS)... 164 Firewall Software Configuration ...

60 Click Yes to reboot the system. Once the system has rebooted, you will be returned to the File System Check promp

61 Wake-Up On LAN (WOL) The Thecus IP storage has the ability to be awoken from sleep mode via WAN/LAN1 or LAN2 port. From the menu, choose

62 fields. With the SNMP management software, you can get other system’s basic information. From the menu, choose the SNMP item, and the SNMP Sup

63 System Network Use the System Network menu to make network configuration settings to an on board network port or additional NIC as well as DHCP an

64 Network Configuration (NIC port) Link speed Display associated NIC port link speed. Link status Display associated NIC port link status. MAC a

65 DHCP/RADVD Server Configuration A DHCP/RADVD server can be configured to assign IP addresses (IPv4) or Prefix (IPv6) to devices connected to the a

66 The associated screen shot will appear after the “+” is clicked. Select from available network port then move over to selected box. Click “Li

67 Jumbo Frame Support Enable or disable Jumbo Frame Support of the associated interface on your Thecus IP storage. Link Type Select from drop down l

68 Storage Management The Storage menu displays the status of storage devices installed in the Thecus IP storage. It includes storage configuration

69 Disk No. Indicates disk location. Capacity Shows the SATA hard disk capacity. Model Displays the SATA hard disk model name. Link Displays the hard

7 Chapter 1: Introduction Overview Thank you for choosing the Thecus IP Storage Server. The Thecus IP storage is an easy-to-use storage server that a

70 transfer it to the reserved disk area (spare area), and mark this sector as remapped. If this attribute value remains at zero, it indicates that t

71 RAID Information Item Description Master RAID The RAID volume currently designated as the Master RAID volume. ID ID of the current RAID volume.

72 storage volume. To create a RAID volume, follow the steps below: 1. On the RAID Information screen, clicks create. 2. On the

73 4. If this RAID volume is meant to be the Master RAID volume, tick the Master RAID checkbox. 5. Selected whether the RAID volume wi

74 We strongly recommended copying the RAID volume encryption key to a safe place. You can find the encryption key file from the USB disk in the foll

75 9. Press Submit to build the RAID storage volume. 10. Press “Yes” for RAID volume creation preparation. Then cli

76 RAID Level You can set the storage volume as JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50 or RAID 60 (depending on model).

77 but not data safety. RAID 0 requires a minimum of 2 disks. RAID 1 Offers disk mirroring. Provides twice the read rate of a single disk, but same w

78 Remove RAID Click to remove the RAID volume. All user data and iSCSI created in the selected RAID volume will be deleted. To remove a RAID

79 WARNING Remove RAID destroys all data in the selected RAID volume. The data will be unrecoverable.

8 Thecus IP storage supports multiple RAID volumes on one system. So, you can create RAID 0 for your non-critical data, and create RAID 1,5,6,50 or 6

80 Global Hot Spare Up to 5 RAID volumes can be created per system. The global hot spare support can eliminate the redundant disk usage in each RAI

81 Migrating a RAID Once a RAID volume has been created, you may want to move it to other physical drives or change the RAID array all together. To

82 Here is a list of limitation with RAID level migration function: 1. During RAID level migration, it is not permitted to reboot or shutdow

83 Below is a table listing of possible RAID migration schemes: To From RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 1 [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx3 [RAID 1] HDD

84 RAID 6 X X [RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx5 [RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx6 [RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx7 [RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx8 ………

85 With the added stack target you can “Enable” or “Disable” the stack target now or later depending on usage required. Next, input the target

86 The Stacked Target name will become the network share name and will be displayed through network access such as SMB. You may refer to the figure b

87 The Browseable setting is the same method used for setting a system share folder. It designates whether or not this folder will be visible through

88 With this newly attached stack target device, you will see the information displayed and also have access to several options to choose from.

89 After your changes have been made, click Apply to confirm any modifications. Once changes are applied, the associated information will be updated

9 Package Contents N8900/N12000/N16000 Series/N8800PRO V2/N4510U-R The Thecus IP storage should contain the following common items:  System Unit x1

90 ISO Mount The ISO Mount feature is a very useful tool from the Thecus products. With it, users can mount an ISO file and have the export name di

91 To mount the new ISO file, select one file from the list of files and input the desired mounting name into the “Mount as:” field. Click “ADD” to

92 After completion, the page will display all mounted ISO files. You can click “Unmount” to eliminate a mounted ISO file. B. Using ISO The mo

93 Share Folder From the Storage menu, choose Share Folders, and the Shared Folder screen appears. This screen allows you to create and configure fol

94 Modify Folders On the Folder screen, press the Edit button and the Modify Folder screen appears. This screen allows you to change folder inform

95 NFS Share To allow NFS access to the share folder, enable the NFS Service, and then set up hosts with access rights by clicking Add. NFS Shar

96 share (root:root).  Guest system root account will be mapped to anonymous user (nobody:nogroup) on NAS.  All user on guest system will be mapp

97 Writable Provides Write access to users or groups who are displayed in this column. Recursive Enable to inherit the access right for all its sub-f

98 2. From the drop down select the group you would like to search for the user in. 3. Click Search. iSCSI You may specify the space a

99 iSCSI Target To add iSCSI target volume, click iSCSI with associated RAID volume from its drop down list and select the desired RAID volume.