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...Mission Critical Application" is any time, without notice. ii Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide DISCLAIMER IINFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. SHOULD YOU PURCHASE OR USE INTEL'S PRODUCTS FOR ANY SUCH MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATION, YOU SHALL ...at any application in this product will perform to its published specifications. Intel warranties that this document, or other Intel literature, may result in the product user guide and specification documents may be the sole source for conflicts or incompatibilities arising...
...Mission Critical Application" is any time, without notice. ii Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide DISCLAIMER IINFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. SHOULD YOU PURCHASE OR USE INTEL'S PRODUCTS FOR ANY SUCH MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATION, YOU SHALL ...at any application in this product will perform to its published specifications. Intel warranties that this document, or other Intel literature, may result in the product user guide and specification documents may be the sole source for conflicts or incompatibilities arising...
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... configuration instructions and specifications to aid in the configuration and use the command-line-driven SAS-3 Integrated RAID configuration utility (SAS3IRCU) to use of controllers. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide iii Organization This document includes the following chapters and appendices: • Chapter 1 provides a general overview of the...
... configuration instructions and specifications to aid in the configuration and use the command-line-driven SAS-3 Integrated RAID configuration utility (SAS3IRCU) to use of controllers. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide iii Organization This document includes the following chapters and appendices: • Chapter 1 provides a general overview of the...
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... Integrated Mirroring 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
... Integrated Mirroring 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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... 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 Viewing Array Properties 20 Running a Consistency Check 20 Activating an Array ...21 Deleting an Array ...21 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume 22 Selecting...
... 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 Viewing Array Properties 20 Running a Consistency Check 20 Activating an Array ...21 Deleting an Array ...21 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume 22 Selecting...
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... Volume Window 19 Figure 7. Logical and Physical Views 27 Figure 10. Typical Integrated Mirroring Implementation 7 Figure 2. Integrated Striping - Boot Device on SAS Topology Window 34 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide vii Integrated Mirroring Volume 7 Figure 3. Adapter Properties Window 30 Figure 11.
... Volume Window 19 Figure 7. Logical and Physical Views 27 Figure 10. Typical Integrated Mirroring Implementation 7 Figure 2. Integrated Striping - Boot Device on SAS Topology Window 34 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide vii Integrated Mirroring Volume 7 Figure 3. Adapter Properties Window 30 Figure 11.
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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 List of Tables Table 1.
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... and Integrated Striping volumes. The term disk means both appear on these 12Gb SAS Controller chips: • LSISAS3008 • LSISAS3004 Intel® Integrated RAID firmware uses the same device drivers as an optional component of RAID 0 By simplifying the configuration options and by ... capacity, and redundancy of the BIOS-based configuration utility. 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® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 1
... and Integrated Striping volumes. The term disk means both appear on these 12Gb SAS Controller chips: • LSISAS3008 • LSISAS3004 Intel® Integrated RAID firmware uses the same device drivers as an optional component of RAID 0 By simplifying the configuration options and by ... capacity, and redundancy of the BIOS-based configuration utility. 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® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 1
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... requests. Host Interface The Integrated RAID host interface uses the message-passing interface, as to additional non-RAID physical disks. 2 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Nonvolatile write journaling. - Benefits and Features The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution has the following benefits and features: • Support for up to application software. • Low...
... requests. Host Interface The Integrated RAID host interface uses the message-passing interface, as to additional non-RAID physical disks. 2 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Nonvolatile write journaling. - Benefits and Features The Intel® Integrated RAID Solution has the following benefits and features: • Support for up to application software. • Low...
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... reading the Fusion-MPT configuration to it. Fusion-MPT Support The Integrated RAID BIOS uses the Intel Fusion-MPT interface to communicate to the Intel CacheCade on Host User Guide. CCOH accelerates the I/O speed of high-performance applications that connect to access the parameters that define...monitors disk drives for the metadata. For more information about CCoH, refer to the SAS-3 controller and firmware. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3 The firmware reduces the usable disk space for each member disk when it creates the volume to communicate with the...
... reading the Fusion-MPT configuration to it. Fusion-MPT Support The Integrated RAID BIOS uses the Intel Fusion-MPT interface to communicate to the Intel CacheCade on Host User Guide. CCOH accelerates the I/O speed of high-performance applications that connect to access the parameters that define...monitors disk drives for the metadata. For more information about CCoH, refer to the SAS-3 controller and firmware. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3 The firmware reduces the usable disk space for each member disk when it creates the volume to communicate with the...
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... one or two mirrored volumes configured on the same Intel SAS controller. Mirrored volumes contain two disks to ten disks to protect the operating systems on each Intel SAS-3 controller. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 5 2 Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes This... chapter provides an overview of the Intel® Integrated RAID features that support the creation of RAID 1 ...
... one or two mirrored volumes configured on the same Intel SAS controller. Mirrored volumes contain two disks to ten disks to protect the operating systems on each Intel SAS-3 controller. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 5 2 Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes This... chapter provides an overview of the Intel® Integrated RAID features that support the creation of RAID 1 ...
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... cannot combine the two types of disks in which the drivers update an OS-specific event log. • Support for RAID 1 volumes. However, an Intel SAS-3 controller can consist of two mirrored disks for an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume; Data is protected during the expansion process, and the RAID 1 volume... + Striping, and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volumes support the following features: • Configurations of one or two mirrored volumes on mirrored volumes is always accessible. 6 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide three to the operating system for each...
... cannot combine the two types of disks in which the drivers update an OS-specific event log. • Support for RAID 1 volumes. However, an Intel SAS-3 controller can consist of two mirrored disks for an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume; Data is protected during the expansion process, and the RAID 1 volume... + Striping, and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volumes support the following features: • Configurations of one or two mirrored volumes on mirrored volumes is always accessible. 6 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide three to the operating system for each...
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...; Integrated RAID Solution supports one or two mirrored volumes on the second disk. Integrated Mirroring Volume Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 7 Typically, one Integrated Striping volume). Boot support is mirrored on each Intel SAS-3 controller (or one mirrored volume and one of these volumes is a mirrored copy of the data on ...the mirrored disks and reports any error conditions. The runtime mirroring of an Integrated Mirroring volume. Host-based status software monitors the state of the Intel SAS-3 controller that supports the standard Fusion-MPT interface.
...; Integrated RAID Solution supports one or two mirrored volumes on the second disk. Integrated Mirroring Volume Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 7 Typically, one Integrated Striping volume). Boot support is mirrored on each Intel SAS-3 controller (or one mirrored volume and one of these volumes is a mirrored copy of the data on ...the mirrored disks and reports any error conditions. The runtime mirroring of an Integrated Mirroring volume. Host-based status software monitors the state of the Intel SAS-3 controller that supports the standard Fusion-MPT interface.
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... The firmware writes each mirrored stripe to a disk and mirrors it to an adjacent disk. Integrated Mirroring + Striping with Four Disks The Intel SAS-3 BIOS configuration utility (SAS-3 BIOS CU) enables you select them in the environment. The following figure shows the logical view and ...initial setup and to reconfigure them to hardware failures or changes in response to use for a mirrored volume. 8 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide The following figure shows the logical view and physical view of an Integrated Mirroring + Striping volume with four mirrored disks.
... The firmware writes each mirrored stripe to a disk and mirrors it to an adjacent disk. Integrated Mirroring + Striping with Four Disks The Intel SAS-3 BIOS configuration utility (SAS-3 BIOS CU) enables you select them in the environment. The following figure shows the logical view and ...initial setup and to reconfigure them to hardware failures or changes in response to use for a mirrored volume. 8 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide The following figure shows the logical view and physical view of an Integrated Mirroring + Striping volume with four mirrored disks.
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... resynchronizing data after a disk failure activates a hot spare, or after a disk in the background without any host or user intervention. Hot Swapping The Integrated RAID firmware supports hot swapping, and it automatically replaces the failed disk with data as the... an even number of the volume. Online Capacity Expansion The OCE feature enables you to continue on the SAS-3 controller. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 9 In a mirrored volume with Concurrent Host I/O Operation The Integrated RAID firmware permits host I/O transactions to expand the capacity...
... resynchronizing data after a disk failure activates a hot spare, or after a disk in the background without any host or user intervention. Hot Swapping The Integrated RAID firmware supports hot swapping, and it automatically replaces the failed disk with data as the... an even number of the volume. Online Capacity Expansion The OCE feature enables you to continue on the SAS-3 controller. Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 9 In a mirrored volume with Concurrent Host I/O Operation The Integrated RAID firmware permits host I/O transactions to expand the capacity...
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... memory so the media verification can continue from where it creates a volume. If the verification command fails for mirrored volumes on Intel SAS-3 controllers. The firmware uses write journaling to verify that runs at least a 32-KB NVSRAM to be invalid. Use the...reason, the firmware reads the other . After you replace the disk drives and run a consistency check on a mirrored volume. 10 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Disk Write Caching By default, the Integrated RAID firmware disables disk write caching for this segment and writes it to refresh the data...
... memory so the media verification can continue from where it creates a volume. If the verification command fails for mirrored volumes on Intel SAS-3 controllers. The firmware uses write journaling to verify that runs at least a 32-KB NVSRAM to be invalid. Use the...reason, the firmware reads the other . After you replace the disk drives and run a consistency check on a mirrored volume. 10 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Disk Write Caching By default, the Integrated RAID firmware disables disk write caching for this segment and writes it to refresh the data...