A series of blue capacity lights along the right side of the drobopro let you know how full your array is with 3 blue lights indicating a 30% full, 6 blue lights equally 60% and so on. Drobopro fs is currently available from select partners worldwide, including preferred launch partner cdw. Drobopro is a businessclass raid storage array that accepts virtually any sata disk on the market, supports iscsi and pretty much looks after itself. My drobopro decided to stop booting would go about half way through the boot process and restart for no reason last week. Had to pull all the drives, do a factory reset, put the drives back, and connect it via usb to reconfigure iscsi. Documentation products droboelitedroboelite getting started guide drobopro fsdrobopro fs getting started guide droboprodrobopro getting started guide drobo fs drobo fs. To install a firmware update from the drobo website, read the manual firmware update instructions for dashboard 1. Using drobodr to replicate data drobo online user guide. This version of drobo firmware is compatible with drobo model drobo fs.
Drobo recovery what is drobo and how is it organized. Before you begin, its a good idea to check your system and hardware requirements. The drobopro has a capacity for 16 terabytes of data. Wait for the drobopro to finish its startup process. We strongly encourage you to keep the drobo firmware drobo dashboard up to date, as each update adds new features, enhancements and increases stability of. The drobopro is designed to be directly connected to a single computer via the gb iscsi, firewire 800, or usb 2. Drobopro to a drobo other than drobopro, that is, only drobopro to drobopro is supported. In other words, i just really like my fs and 5n, and i want to make the most out of both. Drobo is a series of multidisk devices featuring a wide range of capacities, from 1 to 40 tb, using from 4 to 12 disk bays. If you are a drobo fs5n owner, then please, have a look around and find out how to get more out of that cool looking black box. While designed with simplicity and reliability in mind, the drobopro uses a fairly complex, proprietary beyondraid technology with a single or dual drive redundancy, which means that. Those things can be a little finicky to say the least. Crosscompiling and readytouse applications for the drobofs and drobo5n. It is a fantastic data machine that i have quickly fallen in love with.
When i first got my drobopro i had an old dell xps420 that was overdue for retirement, but i wanted to back everything up before getting a new system. Drobopro will be able to handle up to 256tb as larger drives become available on the market. In this example, droboprodrobo b800 series is used for primary storage files are accessed directly off of drobopro rather than the hosts internal hard drives. As always, we recommend following best practices, which include backing up your data prior to installing the latest firmware. Since drobo mini introduces a new form factor for drives, only migration from another drobo mini is supported. You can do it over your regular network but any communication between your server and the iscsi target will decrease the bandwidth you have left on your network.
Drobopro is the first business class directattached storage array that manages itself. Drobo documentation for legacy products this page contains documentation for legacy drobo products. Display results with all search words % end of search results. Can i use the microsoft exchange or sql server software with drobopro. If the drobopro has dual disk protection enabled and was in the middle of protecting data, it can take up to five minutes for the drobopro to completely start up after a power loss. View online or download drobo drobopro 32tb user manual. Su001901 april 2011 drobo data sheet drobopro 1 drobopro rack mount ready, desktop quiet drobopro is equally at home in a rack mount environment as it is on your desktop. The iscsi interface is ideal for connection to a server. I was able to set up a dedicated vswitch, connected the drobopro, i am able to get the luns. However, i bought the drobopro because it was vmware certified and using it as temporary backup storage in my vmware environment was the intent.
That way you can keep both drobo dashboard and your products firmware current. Why trade simplicity for safety, or stability for expandability. Periodic offsite storage is also managed either automatically through software or manually by carrying disk packs or other storage offsite. Jan 23, 2017 contents version information key highlights known issues related technical documentation version information drobo firmware. So im trying to set up a drobo pro on iscsi on windows server 2003 r2. Simply, its the easiest way to configure and manage storage. Regarding virtualization, data robotics is in the process of certifying the drobopro with vmware esx which is the top priority due to market share. Now the software will work for a while with small file records, as long as you dont enable ntfs compression or server deduplication on the storage, but after a while you exceed the ntfs fragmentation limit unless you defrag regularly something drobos also dont like. The drobopro allows me to have over 10tb of storage by mixing and matching drives as i need to. Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Drobo drpr1a21 drpr1a raid data robotics storage usb. Connecting debian 8 to a drobopro via iscsi vorkbaard. This is a data replication tool that creates a complete image of your source files on the destination.
Drobopro can easily sit on a desktop, and theres an optional 3u mount for standard 19 racks see photo below. It seemed like a good idea, but that system proved to not work well with iscsi and was having some issues that made it really hate the drobopro. I upgraded my machine to windows 10 about 2 weeks ago and the drobo has been working ever since until today. Drobopro mounts on your server like any other drive. To ensure optimal performance, set your drobo device to automatically check for software updates.
Weve added this product to our database but we havent actually tested it yet. Drobopro is ideal for creative professionals, such as photographers and videographers, who have large amounts of rich media to store and protect. Drobo data recovery june 23, 2014 data robotics is one of the more innovative server companies in the world today, and their main offering is a line of servers called drobo servers with exceptional stability and versatility, available as raid, san, or nas. If youre given a choice to install or run drobo dashboard or save the installation file to your computer, choose to save the file to your computer. Luckily it is used for backups only, and it has been. Replace your aging tape infrastructure with the drobopro as your disktodisk backup target and enjoy drobo speed and reliability. This getting started guide will help you get your drobopros set up in just a few easy steps. So i decided to use it via iscsi as storage on my small esx. Once reclaime pro completes drobo reconstruction process, it returns to the disk and partition list window and places the reconstructed drobos under the drobo disk packs group. If you need documentation for current drobo products, click here. Drobopro is a rackmountabledesktop eightdrive storage array that protects against two simultaneous drive failures. Heres how i connect from debian 8 to my drobopro over iscsi. Minidlna is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with dlnaupnpav clients.
Disk packs from drobo gen 2 and drobo s can be migrated to the new drobo 5d. Drobo is a manufacturer of a series of external storage devices for computers. In terms of connectivity, nobody in their right mind would consider hooking a. Then the software tries to reconstruct drobo configurations like disk order, drobo chunk positions, and the like based on the found metadata. Current drobo devices can house up to four, five, eight, or twelve 3. Got the latest iscsi initiator software installed, configured the drobo via usb to use a static ip in the same subnet as the server have tried the automatic option too, plugged in the drobo directly to the server nic to eliminate a switch as a point of failure, and bam nothing. The software scans those files, and asking each device if it is a drobo. Drobopro is a rackmountabledesktop eightdrive storage array that protects.
Using it via usbfirewire on a macwin workstation is really nice and fast. My debian server has a dedicated network card for this purpose. Drobo downloads for legacy products to ensure optimal performance and to take advantage of the latest features, set your drobo device to automatically check for software updates. Engineered to be both simple and scalable, the revolutionary beyondraid technology incorporated into drobopro frees businesses of making the difficult and confining choices commonly associated with storage management. The latest version of our dashboard management software has support for multihost and up to 16 x 16tb virtual volumes.
So i bought a used drobo pro a few month back and it has worked great since. As an iscsi target it performs decent when using the microsoft iscsi software initiator. Apart from its shiny black casing, the drobo pro hardware is pretty unremarkable. Locate the link for the latest drobo dashboard software and click on it.
Drobodr is the builtin data replication feature that allows you to easily copy your data from one drobo nas device to another drobo nas device on the network. Improved communication between drobdashboard and drobo. Additionally a manual update of the drobo firmware can. Once connected to that single computer you can network share the resource through your computer to others on the network. Corrected a performance problem that could occur in a sma. Traffic light led indicators tell you when the drobopro needs attention. Locate the file and doubleclick on it to begin installation. Checking box contents check your products box to ensure it contains all the components listed below. Drobopro takes a long time to startup when in the process of protecting data. Also, drobopro is an excellent alternative to internal raid for a single server. If you get to near full capacity, drobopro will notify you through lights and its dashboard software.
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