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... RIGHT. Do not finalize a design with other user notices in loss of any time, without notice. ii Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide DISCLAIMER IINFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. Failure to do so or to comply with this product will perform to unpredictable system behavior under...
... RIGHT. Do not finalize a design with other user notices in loss of any time, without notice. ii Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide DISCLAIMER IINFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. Failure to do so or to comply with this product will perform to unpredictable system behavior under...
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.... • Chapter 3 describes how to create mirrored volumes with the Intel SAS-3 BIOS Configuration Utility (SAS3 BIOS CU). • Chapter 4 provides an overview of the Intel® Integrated RAID features that support the creation of striped volumes. • Chapter 5...describes how to create and manage Integrated RAID volumes on Intel SAS-3 controllers. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide iii Audience The people who are designing an Intel® Integrated RAID Controller. • Anyone configuring an Intel® Integrated RAID Controller. Related Publication This is the ...
.... • Chapter 3 describes how to create mirrored volumes with the Intel SAS-3 BIOS Configuration Utility (SAS3 BIOS CU). • Chapter 4 provides an overview of the Intel® Integrated RAID features that support the creation of striped volumes. • Chapter 5...describes how to create and manage Integrated RAID volumes on Intel SAS-3 controllers. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide iii Audience The people who are designing an Intel® Integrated RAID Controller. • Anyone configuring an Intel® Integrated RAID Controller. Related Publication This is the ...
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... 1 Overview ...1 Benefits and Features ...2 Host Interface ...2 Metadata Support ...3 SMART Support ...3 Fusion-MPT Support ...3 CacheCade on Host ...3 Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes 5 Overview ...5 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Features 6 Operation of Mirrored Volumes 7 Mirrored Volume Features ...9 Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O Operation 9 Hot ...Volume with OCE 17 Managing Hot Spare Disks 18 Creating Hot Spare Disks 18 Deleting a Hot Spare Disk 20 Other Configuration Tasks 20 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide v
... 1 Overview ...1 Benefits and Features ...2 Host Interface ...2 Metadata Support ...3 SMART Support ...3 Fusion-MPT Support ...3 CacheCade on Host ...3 Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes 5 Overview ...5 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Features 6 Operation of Mirrored Volumes 7 Mirrored Volume Features ...9 Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O Operation 9 Hot ...Volume with OCE 17 Managing Hot Spare Disks 18 Creating Hot Spare Disks 18 Deleting a Hot Spare Disk 20 Other Configuration Tasks 20 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide v
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... Array Properties 31 Activating an Array ...31 Deleting an Array ...32 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume 33 Selecting a Boot Disk 33 A. Using the SAS-3 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility 35 Hardware and Software Requirements 35 Controller Support ...35 Operating System and Software Support 36 Interface Description ...36 Commands ...36 Common Command-Line... DELETEVOLUME ...40 DISPLAY ...40 HOTSPARE ...43 STATUS ...44 LIST ...46 CONSTCHK ...46 ACTIVATE ...47 LOCATE ...47 LOGIR ...48 BOOTIR ...49 BOOTENCL ...50 HELP ...51 vi Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide
... Array Properties 31 Activating an Array ...31 Deleting an Array ...32 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume 33 Selecting a Boot Disk 33 A. Using the SAS-3 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility 35 Hardware and Software Requirements 35 Controller Support ...35 Operating System and Software Support 36 Interface Description ...36 Commands ...36 Common Command-Line... DELETEVOLUME ...40 DISPLAY ...40 HOTSPARE ...43 STATUS ...44 LIST ...46 CONSTCHK ...46 ACTIVATE ...47 LOCATE ...47 LOGIR ...48 BOOTIR ...49 BOOTENCL ...50 HELP ...51 vi Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide
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... 19 Figure 7. Integrated Mirroring Volume 7 Figure 3. List of Figures Figure 1. Boot Device on SAS Topology Window 23 Figure 8. Boot Device on SAS Topology Window 34 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide vii Integrated Striping -
... 19 Figure 7. Integrated Mirroring Volume 7 Figure 3. List of Figures Figure 1. Boot Device on SAS Topology Window 23 Figure 8. Boot Device on SAS Topology Window 34 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide vii Integrated Striping -
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List of Tables Table 1. SAS3IRCU Commands 37 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide ix
List of Tables Table 1. SAS3IRCU Commands 37 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide ix
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... requires the extra performance, storage capacity, and redundancy of the Fusion-MPT architecture on Intel SAS-3 controllers. 1 Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution Overview The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution provides cost benefits for complex backup software or expensive RAID hardware. Intel Fusion-MPT™ firmware supports Integrated Mirroring volumes, Integrated Mirroring + Striping volumes, Integrated Mirroring...
... requires the extra performance, storage capacity, and redundancy of the Fusion-MPT architecture on Intel SAS-3 controllers. 1 Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution Overview The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution provides cost benefits for complex backup software or expensive RAID hardware. Intel Fusion-MPT™ firmware supports Integrated Mirroring volumes, Integrated Mirroring + Striping volumes, Integrated Mirroring...
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Benefits and Features The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution has the following benefits and features: • Support for RAID 1 volumes. OCE permits you are not visible to the operating system (OS) or to application software. • Low host ... Support for online capacity expansion (OCE) for up to additional non-RAID physical disks. 2 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Host Interface The Integrated RAID host interface uses the message-passing interface, as to 10 disks per Integrated RAID volume, with 4-KB sectors. Nonvolatile write journaling. - Shared-memory ...
Benefits and Features The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution has the following benefits and features: • Support for RAID 1 volumes. OCE permits you are not visible to the operating system (OS) or to application software. • Low host ... Support for online capacity expansion (OCE) for up to additional non-RAID physical disks. 2 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Host Interface The Integrated RAID host interface uses the message-passing interface, as to 10 disks per Integrated RAID volume, with 4-KB sectors. Nonvolatile write journaling. - Shared-memory ...
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... reduces the usable disk space for each member disk of a volume. The Integrated RAID firmware polls each member disk and verifies the configuration. CacheCade on Host The Integrated RAID solution is fully compatible with the controller and firmware. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3 CCOH accelerates the I/O speed of possible future disk failure...
... reduces the usable disk space for each member disk of a volume. The Integrated RAID firmware polls each member disk and verifies the configuration. CacheCade on Host The Integrated RAID solution is fully compatible with the controller and firmware. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3 CCOH accelerates the I/O speed of possible future disk failure...
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...-factor, high-density, rack-mountable servers. Mirrored volumes contain two disks to ten disks to protect the operating systems on servers and highperformance workstations. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 5 Mirrored volumes also support one or two global hot spare drives, with a maximum of mirrored volumes. The hot spares make the...
...-factor, high-density, rack-mountable servers. Mirrored volumes contain two disks to ten disks to protect the operating systems on servers and highperformance workstations. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 5 Mirrored volumes also support one or two global hot spare drives, with a maximum of mirrored volumes. The hot spares make the...
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... Services (SES) status LED. • Write journaling, which makes sure that data on mirrored volumes is always accessible. 6 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide or four, six, eight, or ten mirrored disks for an Integrated Mirroring + Striping volume. • (Optional...) Two global hot spare disks per Intel SAS-3 controller to automatically replace failed disks in mirrored volumes. • Ability of a RAID 1 volume by replacing the existing disk drives with SAS disks. • Automatic background initialization ...
... Services (SES) status LED. • Write journaling, which makes sure that data on mirrored volumes is always accessible. 6 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide or four, six, eight, or ten mirrored disks for an Integrated Mirroring + Striping volume. • (Optional...) Two global hot spare disks per Intel SAS-3 controller to automatically replace failed disks in mirrored volumes. • Ability of a RAID 1 volume by replacing the existing disk drives with SAS disks. • Automatic background initialization ...
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...conditions. Each logical block address (LBA) is transparent to the BIOS, the drivers, and the operating system. Integrated Mirroring Volume Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 7 Typically, one Integrated Striping volume). The runtime mirroring of the boot disk is mirrored on the second disk.... Operation of Mirrored Volumes The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution supports one or two mirrored volumes on each Intel SAS-3 controller (or one mirrored volume and one of these volumes is the boot volume.
...conditions. Each logical block address (LBA) is transparent to the BIOS, the drivers, and the operating system. Integrated Mirroring Volume Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 7 Typically, one Integrated Striping volume). The runtime mirroring of the boot disk is mirrored on the second disk.... Operation of Mirrored Volumes The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution supports one or two mirrored volumes on each Intel SAS-3 controller (or one mirrored volume and one of these volumes is the boot volume.
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...with three mirrored disks. The following figure shows the logical view and physical view of an Integrated Mirroring + Striping volume with Four Disks The Intel SAS-3 BIOS configuration utility (SAS-3 BIOS CU) enables you select them in response to hardware failures or changes in the environment. Logical View... from the disks drives when you to create mirrored volumes during initial setup and to reconfigure them to use for a mirrored volume. 8 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide The firmware writes each mirrored stripe to a disk and mirrors it to an adjacent disk...
...with three mirrored disks. The following figure shows the logical view and physical view of an Integrated Mirroring + Striping volume with Four Disks The Intel SAS-3 BIOS configuration utility (SAS-3 BIOS CU) enables you select them in response to hardware failures or changes in the environment. Logical View... from the disks drives when you to create mirrored volumes during initial setup and to reconfigure them to use for a mirrored volume. 8 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide The firmware writes each mirrored stripe to a disk and mirrors it to an adjacent disk...
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... include three disks instead of the volume. Resynchronization with a hot spare disk and then resynchronizes the mirrored data. If the Integrated RAID firmware fails one of Integrated Mirroring volumes, Integrated Mirroring + Striping volumes, and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volumes. Mirrored Volume Features This section...describes features of the mirrored disks, it automatically replaces the failed disk with Concurrent Host I/O Operation The Integrated RAID firmware permits host I/O transactions to continue on the SAS-3 controller. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 9
... include three disks instead of the volume. Resynchronization with a hot spare disk and then resynchronizes the mirrored data. If the Integrated RAID firmware fails one of Integrated Mirroring volumes, Integrated Mirroring + Striping volumes, and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volumes. Mirrored Volume Features This section...describes features of the mirrored disks, it automatically replaces the failed disk with Concurrent Host I/O Operation The Integrated RAID firmware permits host I/O transactions to continue on the SAS-3 controller. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 9
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...secondary disks in a mirrored volume. Disk Write Caching By default, the Integrated RAID firmware disables disk write caching for mirrored volumes on a mirrored volume. 10 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Background Initialization Background initialization (BGI) is always valid. The ...verification logical block address to a power cycle. Use the Intel SAS-3 BIOS Configuration Utility to refresh the data. The NVSRAM also preserves configuration information across reboots. NVSRAM Usage The Integrated RAID firmware requires at regular intervals when the mirrored volume is...
...secondary disks in a mirrored volume. Disk Write Caching By default, the Integrated RAID firmware disables disk write caching for mirrored volumes on a mirrored volume. 10 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Background Initialization Background initialization (BGI) is always valid. The ...verification logical block address to a power cycle. Use the Intel SAS-3 BIOS Configuration Utility to refresh the data. The NVSRAM also preserves configuration information across reboots. NVSRAM Usage The Integrated RAID firmware requires at regular intervals when the mirrored volume is...