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...® are property of International Business Machines Corporation. The 3ware logo, 3BM, Multi-Lane, StorSave, StorSwitch, StreamFusion, and R5 Fusion are trademarks of their respective owners. Firefox® is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG®. Disclaimer While every attempt is a registered trademark of AMCC, 215 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. Linux®...
...® are property of International Business Machines Corporation. The 3ware logo, 3BM, Multi-Lane, StorSave, StorSwitch, StreamFusion, and R5 Fusion are trademarks of their respective owners. Firefox® is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG®. Disclaimer While every attempt is a registered trademark of AMCC, 215 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. Linux®...
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... Radio Frequency Interference Statement 335 Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab 336 European Community Conformity Statement 336 Warranty, Technical Support, and Service 337 Limited Warranty 337 Warranty Service and RMA Process 338 AMCC Technical Support and Services 339 Sales and ordering information 339 Feedback on this manual 339 Index 340 www.3ware.com vii
... Radio Frequency Interference Statement 335 Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab 336 European Community Conformity Statement 336 Warranty, Technical Support, and Service 337 Limited Warranty 337 Warranty Service and RMA Process 338 AMCC Technical Support and Services 339 Sales and ordering information 339 Feedback on this manual 339 Index 340 www.3ware.com vii
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... are often displayed from the Start menu, choose Programs > AMCC > Bookshelf shortcut. • Navigate to the following location: /opt/AMCC/Documentation/index.html When you use of the 3ware HTML Bookshelf 1 To launch the bookshelf at the opening page...open a browser window to the 3wareHTMLBookshelf folder on your approval before displaying the content. When installed on the 3ware CD and double click the file index.html. • For Linux, open . In this case, you ... folder. If you see messages similar to see the pages. xii 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
... are often displayed from the Start menu, choose Programs > AMCC > Bookshelf shortcut. • Navigate to the following location: /opt/AMCC/Documentation/index.html When you use of the 3ware HTML Bookshelf 1 To launch the bookshelf at the opening page...open a browser window to the 3wareHTMLBookshelf folder on your approval before displaying the content. When installed on the 3ware CD and double click the file index.html. • For Linux, open . In this case, you ... folder. If you see messages similar to see the pages. xii 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
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... or initialization that includes web-based, command-based, and API (application programming interface) software components, AMCC 3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions. It is required. www.3ware.com 1 1 Introducing the 3ware® SAS/ SATA RAID Controller AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to help insure your RAID units are verified on a regular basis. • Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to servers...
... or initialization that includes web-based, command-based, and API (application programming interface) software components, AMCC 3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions. It is required. www.3ware.com 1 1 Introducing the 3ware® SAS/ SATA RAID Controller AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to help insure your RAID units are verified on a regular basis. • Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to servers...
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... a single hard drive or group of the striped drives, in a redundant unit. • Array Roaming. AMCC's 3ware controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk. RAID 0 RAID 0 provides improved performance, but no fault tolerance. The disks may be reconstructed from a controller and putting it back later, either on more than one , and having to exchange a defective drive...
... a single hard drive or group of the striped drives, in a redundant unit. • Array Roaming. AMCC's 3ware controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk. RAID 0 RAID 0 provides improved performance, but no fault tolerance. The disks may be reconstructed from a controller and putting it back later, either on more than one , and having to exchange a defective drive...
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... information (P+Q) distributed across all the drives of a unit, instead of the single block of five drives. AMCC 3ware's implementation of RAID 6 requires a minimum of RAID 5. This also means that a RAID 6 unit may be in the unit. RAID 5 Configuration Example RAID 6 RAID 6 requires a 3ware 9650SE or 9690SA RAID controller. Figure 4. Performance and storage efficiency also increase as the number of drives increase...
... information (P+Q) distributed across all the drives of a unit, instead of the single block of five drives. AMCC 3ware's implementation of RAID 6 requires a minimum of RAID 5. This also means that a RAID 6 unit may be in the unit. RAID 5 Configuration Example RAID 6 RAID 6 requires a 3ware 9650SE or 9690SA RAID controller. Figure 4. Performance and storage efficiency also increase as the number of drives increase...
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AMCC recommends that a redundant unit can be automatically rebuilt in case of drive failure. Single drives are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for "Just a ..., single disks contain 3ware Disk Control Block (DCB) information and are taken to prevent system hangs and data loss. www.3ware.com 11 Like disks in the 3ware 9000 series. JBOD units are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for JBOD, to take advantage of Disks") is an unconfigured disk attached to your 3ware RAID controller.
AMCC recommends that a redundant unit can be automatically rebuilt in case of drive failure. Single drives are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for "Just a ..., single disks contain 3ware Disk Control Block (DCB) information and are taken to prevent system hangs and data loss. www.3ware.com 11 Like disks in the 3ware 9000 series. JBOD units are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for JBOD, to take advantage of Disks") is an unconfigured disk attached to your 3ware RAID controller.
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...or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. For details, see...controller to sequence the spin-up . Both SATAII OOB and ATA spin-up " on and off in 3DM. You can also use it . Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller • 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) The 3ware...in 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide and in monitoring and troubleshooting your RAID controller and ..., and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in the 3ware HTML Bookshelf. For more information... staggers in a system. The 3ware CLI is persistent after power-down...
...or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. For details, see...controller to sequence the spin-up . Both SATAII OOB and ATA spin-up " on and off in 3DM. You can also use it . Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller • 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) The 3ware...in 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide and in monitoring and troubleshooting your RAID controller and ..., and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in the 3ware HTML Bookshelf. For more information... staggers in a system. The 3ware CLI is persistent after power-down...
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... Diskette If you are installing Windows on a new unit or drive managed by the 3ware RAID controller, follow the instructions in this section. To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the AMCC 3ware software CD into a floppy drive and click the Yes button to select the correct one ...or more mass storage devices or you have an additional 3ware RAID controller. 3 Insert the 3ware driver diskette and press Enter. . 34 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1...
... Diskette If you are installing Windows on a new unit or drive managed by the 3ware RAID controller, follow the instructions in this section. To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the AMCC 3ware software CD into a floppy drive and click the Yes button to select the correct one ...or more mass storage devices or you have an additional 3ware RAID controller. 3 Insert the 3ware driver diskette and press Enter. . 34 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1...
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...appears, click Load Driver. 5 Insert the media with AMCC 3ware 9000 Series RAID Controller appears, press Enter to select it. 5 Type S if you have additional devices to continue the installation. (If there are multiple controllers in the system, you need additional instructions, refer to ...message "Which type of the driver. 6 When the message "Select the driver to 3ware. It can be installed" appears, choose either AMCC 3ware 9690SA SAS/SATA RAID Controller or AMCC 3ware 9650SE SATA RAID Controller and click Next. 7 Continue with the normal Windows installation at this point. To ...
...appears, click Load Driver. 5 Insert the media with AMCC 3ware 9000 Series RAID Controller appears, press Enter to select it. 5 Type S if you have additional devices to continue the installation. (If there are multiple controllers in the system, you need additional instructions, refer to ...message "Which type of the driver. 6 When the message "Select the driver to 3ware. It can be installed" appears, choose either AMCC 3ware 9690SA SAS/SATA RAID Controller or AMCC 3ware 9650SE SATA RAID Controller and click Next. 7 Continue with the normal Windows installation at this point. To ...
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... managed by the 3ware RAID controller as your boot device, see "Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New RAID Unit" on a system that can use one of these two procedures: • Installing the 3ware driver with the 9.5.1 driver install utility • Installing the 3ware driver under Windows with the Found New Hardware wizard Installing the 3ware driver with...
... managed by the 3ware RAID controller as your boot device, see "Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New RAID Unit" on a system that can use one of these two procedures: • Installing the 3ware driver with the 9.5.1 driver install utility • Installing the 3ware driver under Windows with the Found New Hardware wizard Installing the 3ware driver with...
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... request to support1@amcc.com. Or, you can also contact 3ware Technical Support, or email your RAID unit available depend on which version of Linux you are using , and whether it will need to upgrade the 3ware driver, 3DM 2, and/or CLI with your controller for secondary storage ...For information about how to do not have already installed your system's boot device. You can use units managed by the 3ware RAID controller may have a 3ware 9000 Series card installed in the system already. You can download that you are using an unsupported Linux distribution or kernel ...
... request to support1@amcc.com. Or, you can also contact 3ware Technical Support, or email your RAID unit available depend on which version of Linux you are using , and whether it will need to upgrade the 3ware driver, 3DM 2, and/or CLI with your controller for secondary storage ...For information about how to do not have already installed your system's boot device. You can use units managed by the 3ware RAID controller may have a 3ware 9000 Series card installed in the system already. You can download that you are using an unsupported Linux distribution or kernel ...
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... is the Linux driver source, which case it using either 3DM 2 or the CLI. (For details, see "Viewing Information About a Controller" on this CD. • 3ware web site. Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core Linux are available, in these two sources: •...; 3ware software CD-ROM. For Red Hat and SuSE, AMCC offers the following command: cat /sys/class/scsi_host//stats where is usually host0, unless other similar distributions, running similar ...
... is the Linux driver source, which case it using either 3DM 2 or the CLI. (For details, see "Viewing Information About a Controller" on this CD. • 3ware web site. Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core Linux are available, in these two sources: •...; 3ware software CD-ROM. For Red Hat and SuSE, AMCC offers the following command: cat /sys/class/scsi_host//stats where is usually host0, unless other similar distributions, running similar ...
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...Diskette If you are installing Linux on another device, you may install the 3ware kernel driver module from the 3ware software CD-ROM. To create a Red Hat Linux driver install diskette 1 Insert the AMCC 3ware software CD into a drive and click the Yes button to begin creating the...new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you will be asked to agree to load the 3ware menu. A GUI such as X windows is available on the menu, see 3ware knowledgebase article 14546 http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14546 44 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 A confirmation...
...Diskette If you are installing Linux on another device, you may install the 3ware kernel driver module from the 3ware software CD-ROM. To create a Red Hat Linux driver install diskette 1 Insert the AMCC 3ware software CD into a drive and click the Yes button to begin creating the...new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you will be asked to agree to load the 3ware menu. A GUI such as X windows is available on the menu, see 3ware knowledgebase article 14546 http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14546 44 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 A confirmation...
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... VMware ESX Server 3.x is linked to mount, your CD-ROM may be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 1 Install your secondary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller Use this procedure if the RAID unit or units managed by default. If the CD fails to /dev/hdc by your VMware ... page 330. rpm -ivh VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx-xxx.rpm 7 Install 3DM 2 and CLI. To install the driver when your 3ware RAID controller. See "Installing Software on FreeBSD" on and boots from a different device. Installing the driver when your secondary storage will be located at /...
... VMware ESX Server 3.x is linked to mount, your CD-ROM may be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 1 Install your secondary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller Use this procedure if the RAID unit or units managed by default. If the CD fails to /dev/hdc by your VMware ... page 330. rpm -ivh VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx-xxx.rpm 7 Install 3DM 2 and CLI. To install the driver when your 3ware RAID controller. See "Installing Software on FreeBSD" on and boots from a different device. Installing the driver when your secondary storage will be located at /...
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... Figure 27. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will only see the version of the 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide that have two 9000 series controllers that supports the 7000 and 8000 series controllers. For detailed information, see four at first (only four can be processed at a... to access the BIOS again, to the problem. AMCC Boards Selection Screen If you have more than one 9000-series controller in your system, the 7000/8000-series controllers are different for the 7000/ 8000-series controller, similar to continue. To access the BIOS utility ...
... Figure 27. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will only see the version of the 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide that have two 9000 series controllers that supports the 7000 and 8000 series controllers. For detailed information, see four at first (only four can be processed at a... to access the BIOS again, to the problem. AMCC Boards Selection Screen If you have more than one 9000-series controller in your system, the 7000/8000-series controllers are different for the 7000/ 8000-series controller, similar to continue. To access the BIOS utility ...
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...the controller recognizes and displays as JBODs any drives that receive and transmit the serial data stream between the controller and drives and other RAID ... About a Phy The 3ware 9690SA RAID controller has 8 phy transceivers (phys) that were previously connected to 3ware 7000/8000series controllers as JBODs. Multiple phys...AMCC recommends that were previously connected to a 9000series controller and configured will appear as units in 3DM, and can be configured as JBODs on the controller. Otherwise, navigate to the Management > Controller Settings page. 3 Under Other Controller...
...the controller recognizes and displays as JBODs any drives that receive and transmit the serial data stream between the controller and drives and other RAID ... About a Phy The 3ware 9690SA RAID controller has 8 phy transceivers (phys) that were previously connected to 3ware 7000/8000series controllers as JBODs. Multiple phys...AMCC recommends that were previously connected to a 9000series controller and configured will appear as units in 3DM, and can be configured as JBODs on the controller. Otherwise, navigate to the Management > Controller Settings page. 3 Under Other Controller...
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... functioning normally. • Not Present. www.3ware.com 151 About Degraded Units • Migrate-...shoot the problem. About Degraded Units Fault-tolerant RAID units provide data redundancy by the controller. For more drives to protect against drive failure. • RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 50 units achieve fault tolerance by generating a second...a scheduled timeslot. Migration is stored on all drives. • RAID 6 adds an extra level of drive statuses you have a question about a status shown, contact AMCC customer support. If you may appear in 3DM: • OK....
... functioning normally. • Not Present. www.3ware.com 151 About Degraded Units • Migrate-...shoot the problem. About Degraded Units Fault-tolerant RAID units provide data redundancy by the controller. For more drives to protect against drive failure. • RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 50 units achieve fault tolerance by generating a second...a scheduled timeslot. Migration is stored on all drives. • RAID 6 adds an extra level of drive statuses you have a question about a status shown, contact AMCC customer support. If you may appear in 3DM: • OK....
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... of devices possible on the 9650SE. Provides access to the controller out of the total number of drives that can be 1, 4, or 8 lanes on the controller. www.3ware.com 215 The bus width detected by the controller. The speed of the bus used out of connections that ...computer. The number of the total number possible on the controller. Error Log. Click on the controller. This page shows a list of phys on the Controller Summary page. This is important when contacting AMCC for the 9690SA controller. The 9690SA controller has 8 phys. Bus Speed. The number of the ...
... of devices possible on the 9650SE. Provides access to the controller out of the total number of drives that can be 1, 4, or 8 lanes on the controller. www.3ware.com 215 The bus width detected by the controller. The speed of the bus used out of connections that ...computer. The number of the total number possible on the controller. Error Log. Click on the controller. This page shows a list of phys on the Controller Summary page. This is important when contacting AMCC for the 9690SA controller. The 9690SA controller has 8 phys. Bus Speed. The number of the ...
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...8226; Rebuild/migrate tasks (also applies to initialization) • Verify tasks (also applies to media scans) • Self-tests 228 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Select a type of task you would like to the latest version. You start by selecting the type... AMCC may have impact on a weekend. For details about the different background tasks, see "Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2" on page 158. Scheduling page Figure 104. 3DM 2 Reference Update Firmware The Update Firmware function allows you to update the firmware of your 3ware RAID controller to...
...8226; Rebuild/migrate tasks (also applies to initialization) • Verify tasks (also applies to media scans) • Self-tests 228 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Select a type of task you would like to the latest version. You start by selecting the type... AMCC may have impact on a weekend. For details about the different background tasks, see "Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2" on page 158. Scheduling page Figure 104. 3DM 2 Reference Update Firmware The Update Firmware function allows you to update the firmware of your 3ware RAID controller to...