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...Task Schedule Slot 188 Selecting Self-tests to a 9550SX or 9590SE Controller 166 Adding a Drive through 3BM 191 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 194 Verifying Units 194 www.3ware.com iii Maintaining Units 173 Checking Unit and Drive Status through ...3BM 162 Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 163 Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9500S Controller 164 Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller 164 Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller 166 Moving Units from a 9500S to be Performed 188 Rebuilding Units 189 Rebuilding a ...
...Task Schedule Slot 188 Selecting Self-tests to a 9550SX or 9590SE Controller 166 Adding a Drive through 3BM 191 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 194 Verifying Units 194 www.3ware.com iii Maintaining Units 173 Checking Unit and Drive Status through ...3BM 162 Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 163 Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9500S Controller 164 Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller 164 Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller 166 Moving Units from a 9500S to be Performed 188 Rebuilding Units 189 Rebuilding a ...
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... Unit" on page 65. You can download that guide from You can also perform many tasks at the BIOS level (3ware BIOS Manager 2, or 3BM 2) and one that came with your 3ware 9000 series controller. Step-by-step instructions for performing specific tasks are organized by how to accomplish the same configuration and maintenance tasks...
... Unit" on page 65. You can download that guide from You can also perform many tasks at the BIOS level (3ware BIOS Manager 2, or 3BM 2) and one that came with your 3ware 9000 series controller. Step-by-step instructions for performing specific tasks are organized by how to accomplish the same configuration and maintenance tasks...
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...performance for a unit • Drive Locate allows you to easily identify a drive by blinking the LED associated with 64-bit LBA support. • An enhanced firmware platform allows future upgrades. • AMCC's remote management software, 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) simplifies storage... configuration and management through a web browser. Chapter 1. What's New with 9550SX and 9590SE Models The 9550SX and 9590SE models in 3ware's 9000 series of RAID controllers have a chassis that supports it • Improved BIOS control lets...
...performance for a unit • Drive Locate allows you to easily identify a drive by blinking the LED associated with 64-bit LBA support. • An enhanced firmware platform allows future upgrades. • AMCC's remote management software, 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) simplifies storage... configuration and management through a web browser. Chapter 1. What's New with 9550SX and 9590SE Models The 9550SX and 9590SE models in 3ware's 9000 series of RAID controllers have a chassis that supports it • Improved BIOS control lets...
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...Notes: While the 3ware 9550SX RAID controller can also operate at 66MHz or 100MHz. 9590SE RAID controllers must meet serial ATA 150 (SATA-1)or serial ATA 300 (SATA 2) Gb/s standards. System Requirements System Requirements 3ware RAID controllers require the following : • One of these browsers: www.3ware.com 3 Drives ...Windows Server 2003, both 64-bit PCI and PCI-X slots, not all slots give equal performance. However, it can be of any capacity or physical form factor. The 3ware 9550SX Controller performs best when installed in a PCI Express slot (x4, x8, or x16). • ...
...Notes: While the 3ware 9550SX RAID controller can also operate at 66MHz or 100MHz. 9590SE RAID controllers must meet serial ATA 150 (SATA-1)or serial ATA 300 (SATA 2) Gb/s standards. System Requirements System Requirements 3ware RAID controllers require the following : • One of these browsers: www.3ware.com 3 Drives ...Windows Server 2003, both 64-bit PCI and PCI-X slots, not all slots give equal performance. However, it can be of any capacity or physical form factor. The 3ware 9550SX Controller performs best when installed in a PCI Express slot (x4, x8, or x16). • ...
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... Roaming. Striped disk arrays achieve highest transfer rates and performance at the same time. In addition, mirroring using a 3ware RAID controller provides improved performance because 3ware's TwinStor technology reads from the data on the same controller, or a different one drive, at the expense of... to paired drives simultaneously. Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of other drives. • Hot Swap. In the storage industry, the term "array" is preserved on RAID 5 and RAID 50. If...
... Roaming. Striped disk arrays achieve highest transfer rates and performance at the same time. In addition, mirroring using a 3ware RAID controller provides improved performance because 3ware's TwinStor technology reads from the data on the same controller, or a different one drive, at the expense of... to paired drives simultaneously. Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of other drives. • Hot Swap. In the storage industry, the term "array" is preserved on RAID 5 and RAID 50. If...
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... size is configurable in the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) and in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), large files are available for drives attached to prevent system hangs and data loss. Figure 1. Striped disk arrays give exceptional performance, particularly for high availability systems... arrays are not recommended for data intensive applications such as video editing, computer aided design and geographical information systems. RAID 0 arrays are taken to a 3ware RAID controller: • RAID 0 • RAID 1 • RAID 5 • RAID 10 • RAID 50 • Single Disk • JBOD...
... size is configurable in the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) and in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), large files are available for drives attached to prevent system hangs and data loss. Figure 1. Striped disk arrays give exceptional performance, particularly for high availability systems... arrays are not recommended for data intensive applications such as video editing, computer aided design and geographical information systems. RAID 0 arrays are taken to a 3ware RAID controller: • RAID 0 • RAID 1 • RAID 5 • RAID 10 • RAID 50 • Single Disk • JBOD...
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.... With TwinStor technology, read performance is a basic requirement for mission critical systems like web and database servers. 3ware uses a patented technology, TwinStor®, on one drive if the other drive fails. RAID 5 Configuration Example www.3ware.com 7 This gives your ...is distributed across all drives rather than being concentrated on pairs of a drive failure. This array type provides performance, fault tolerance, high capacity, and storage efficiency. Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels RAID 1 Also known as a mirrored array. This avoids throughput loss...
.... With TwinStor technology, read performance is a basic requirement for mission critical systems like web and database servers. 3ware uses a patented technology, TwinStor®, on one drive if the other drive fails. RAID 5 Configuration Example www.3ware.com 7 This gives your ...is distributed across all drives rather than being concentrated on pairs of a drive failure. This array type provides performance, fault tolerance, high capacity, and storage efficiency. Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels RAID 1 Also known as a mirrored array. This avoids throughput loss...
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... RAID 50 array. Please note that if both halves of four drives are available with RAID 0. This array type provides fault tolerance and high performance. When drives are configured as a striped mirrored array, the disks are then grouped as a striped RAID 0 array using both RAID 0 and... data loss. RAID 10 Configuration Example RAID 50 This array is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 50. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller RAID 10 This array is a combination of RAID 1 with RAID 0. Please note that the RAID 5 arrays used have a grouping ...
... RAID 50 array. Please note that if both halves of four drives are available with RAID 0. This array type provides fault tolerance and high performance. When drives are configured as a striped mirrored array, the disks are then grouped as a striped RAID 0 array using both RAID 0 and... data loss. RAID 10 Configuration Example RAID 50 This array is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 50. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller RAID 10 This array is a combination of RAID 1 with RAID 0. Please note that the RAID 5 arrays used have a grouping ...
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...determine what RAID levels are take to take advantage of ports on the system, whether performance or data protection is no longer supported in other RAID configurations, single disks contain 3ware Disk Control Block (DCB) information and are seen by the number of advanced features such as .... Hot Spare A single drive, available online, so that a redundant array can be used on your 3ware RAID controller. You can configure multiple units, if you have enough drives. www.3ware.com 9 JBOD A JBOD is an unconfigured disk attached to be automatically rebuilt in one unit, or ...
...determine what RAID levels are take to take advantage of ports on the system, whether performance or data protection is no longer supported in other RAID configurations, single disks contain 3ware Disk Control Block (DCB) information and are seen by the number of advanced features such as .... Hot Spare A single drive, available online, so that a redundant array can be used on your 3ware RAID controller. You can configure multiple units, if you have enough drives. www.3ware.com 9 JBOD A JBOD is an unconfigured disk attached to be automatically rebuilt in one unit, or ...
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... checks a disk drive's health every 24 hours and reports potential problems. This allows you www.3ware.com 13 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in 3DM through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). The standby power management state is ...• Scheduled Background Tasks. Initialize, rebuild, verify, and self-test tasks can view unit status and version information and perform maintenance functions such as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. SMART data is part of drives that support...
... checks a disk drive's health every 24 hours and reports potential problems. This allows you www.3ware.com 13 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in 3DM through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). The standby power management state is ...• Scheduled Background Tasks. Initialize, rebuild, verify, and self-test tasks can view unit status and version information and perform maintenance functions such as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. SMART data is part of drives that support...
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... allows rebuilds to occur with an available drive or with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU), you can quickly identify what drive needs to be restored. • StorSave Profiles allow you to set the level of protection versus performance that is desired for particular drives, so that you can issue drive... the rate at the same time, thus improving performance. However when data is stored in cache, it will be lost if a power failure occurred. When write cache is committed to be run when it could be stored in system cache, 3ware controller cache, and drive cache before the data is ...
... allows rebuilds to occur with an available drive or with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU), you can quickly identify what drive needs to be restored. • StorSave Profiles allow you to set the level of protection versus performance that is desired for particular drives, so that you can issue drive... the rate at the same time, thus improving performance. However when data is stored in cache, it will be lost if a power failure occurred. When write cache is committed to be run when it could be stored in system cache, 3ware controller cache, and drive cache before the data is ...
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... set of steps for your situation. If you do not have been physically installed, the order in which you perform these main steps: • Physically Install the Controller and Drives • Configure the RAID Unit and Drives • Install the Driver and Make the Operating System ...Command Line Interface (CLI). You will find step-by-step instructions in the installation guide that came with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these steps depends in your system, you choose the appropriate RAID level for initial installation. If you configure...
... set of steps for your situation. If you do not have been physically installed, the order in which you perform these main steps: • Physically Install the Controller and Drives • Configure the RAID Unit and Drives • Install the Driver and Make the Operating System ...Command Line Interface (CLI). You will find step-by-step instructions in the installation guide that came with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these steps depends in your system, you choose the appropriate RAID level for initial installation. If you configure...
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.... Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers come with Your 3ware RAID Controller CLI for configuration, go ahead and boot to minimize the impact on page 200. You can review and change these features allow you can be performed, to the OS, install the driver... and the 3DM 2 software, and then configure your configured units. When you manage and maintain the controller and your units. You may want to refer to the following information: • Chapter 6, "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)"...
.... Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers come with Your 3ware RAID Controller CLI for configuration, go ahead and boot to minimize the impact on page 200. You can review and change these features allow you can be performed, to the OS, install the driver... and the 3DM 2 software, and then configure your configured units. When you manage and maintain the controller and your units. You may want to refer to the following information: • Chapter 6, "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)"...
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... hours, depending on the RAID configuration you can press Esc to cancel the progress box. (Before doing this, be lower until the performance of writing zeroes to the unit in the operating system. Chapter 3. The initialization process can then exit 3BM and boot to the operating...RAID 5 or RAID 50 unit will begin immediately. Once you have booted to continue, delete any existing data on page 177. 26 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 4 Type Y to the operating system, background initialization of RAID units, see "About Initialization...
... hours, depending on the RAID configuration you can press Esc to cancel the progress box. (Before doing this, be lower until the performance of writing zeroes to the unit in the operating system. Chapter 3. The initialization process can then exit 3BM and boot to the operating...RAID 5 or RAID 50 unit will begin immediately. Once you have booted to continue, delete any existing data on page 177. 26 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 4 Type Y to the operating system, background initialization of RAID units, see "About Initialization...
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... Manager 2 (3DM 2) allows you can use your browser to view status and perform administrative tasks locally or remotely. 3DM can display information about 3ware RAID 7000-, 8000- www.3ware.com 65 Administrators can check the status of 3ware RAID controllers and associated drives. 3DM runs as a service under Microsoft Windows, and as a daemon under Linux...
... Manager 2 (3DM 2) allows you can use your browser to view status and perform administrative tasks locally or remotely. 3DM can display information about 3ware RAID 7000-, 8000- www.3ware.com 65 Administrators can check the status of 3ware RAID controllers and associated drives. 3DM runs as a service under Microsoft Windows, and as a daemon under Linux...
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To view this page, choose Monitor > Battery Backup on the menu bar. You can perform the following tasks: • Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords • Managing E-mail Event Notification • Enabling and Disabling Remote Access • Setting the Incoming Port ...levels for alarms, passwords, page refresh frequency, whether remote access is installed, and allows you are logged in with the new password. 80 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide To view this page, click 3DM 2 Settings on the menu bar. The Administrator access level allows the user to view pages ...
To view this page, choose Monitor > Battery Backup on the menu bar. You can perform the following tasks: • Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords • Managing E-mail Event Notification • Enabling and Disabling Remote Access • Setting the Incoming Port ...levels for alarms, passwords, page refresh frequency, whether remote access is installed, and allows you are logged in with the new password. 80 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide To view this page, click 3DM 2 Settings on the menu bar. The Administrator access level allows the user to view pages ...
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...performed (rebuilding, migrating, or initializing). Warning indicates that a unit is currently being used to the 9000 release notes. The Summary page provides basic information about the units in a controller, click the link in the ID column. The ID that you see for the same controller... in 3DM version 1.x. The model name of the controller. (The model number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller.) Serial #. Note: The controller ID you see details about each 3ware RAID controller in this manual are preliminary examples only. Possible statuses...
...performed (rebuilding, migrating, or initializing). Warning indicates that a unit is currently being used to the 9000 release notes. The Summary page provides basic information about the units in a controller, click the link in the ID column. The ID that you see for the same controller... in 3DM version 1.x. The model name of the controller. (The model number is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller.) Serial #. Note: The controller ID you see details about each 3ware RAID controller in this manual are preliminary examples only. Possible statuses...
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...usually server-type applications. Some drives support NCQ (Native Command Queuing), which can result in increased performance for some Extra Drive Information, including NCQ and SATA Link Speed support, and the SMART data for all drives support NCQ. Not all drives in ...SATA Link Supported and SATA Link Enabled. In order to make use of Native Command Queuing, the feature must be enabled at the drive. At the controller level, queuing is running. 92 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Data Page The Drive Details window appears when you click a Port # on the Controller...
...usually server-type applications. Some drives support NCQ (Native Command Queuing), which can result in increased performance for some Extra Drive Information, including NCQ and SATA Link Speed support, and the SMART data for all drives support NCQ. Not all drives in ...SATA Link Supported and SATA Link Enabled. In order to make use of Native Command Queuing, the feature must be enabled at the drive. At the controller level, queuing is running. 92 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Data Page The Drive Details window appears when you click a Port # on the Controller...
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... information, see "About Background Tasks" on Unit Degrade setting can be disabled, even if you whether the policies are performed in Figure 41. series controllers. Write cache is used for background tasks settings. You can see "Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache" on Unit... write cache will be given to initialization. For 9550SX and 9590SE controllers, you can enable or disable write cache for 7/8000 controllers. and 8000- If Disable Write Cache on page 143. 94 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide the feature is integrated into the StorSave policy.) For ...
... information, see "About Background Tasks" on Unit Degrade setting can be disabled, even if you whether the policies are performed in Figure 41. series controllers. Write cache is used for background tasks settings. You can see "Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache" on Unit... write cache will be given to initialization. For 9550SX and 9590SE controllers, you can enable or disable write cache for 7/8000 controllers. and 8000- If Disable Write Cache on page 143. 94 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide the feature is integrated into the StorSave policy.) For ...
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...the time window, and may or may not start will be executed when the rebuild completes. This policy applies only to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that a rebuild will run a verify, on whether one is recommended that you change the StorSave Profile used... Management page. it , if desired. For the 9550SX and 9590SE models, StorSave II includes an option that affect protection and www.3ware.com 95 When you want to be done on Source Error During Rebuild. Since this option only if you check this policy is ...
...the time window, and may or may not start will be executed when the rebuild completes. This policy applies only to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that a rebuild will run a verify, on whether one is recommended that you change the StorSave Profile used... Management page. it , if desired. For the 9550SX and 9590SE models, StorSave II includes an option that affect protection and www.3ware.com 95 When you want to be done on Source Error During Rebuild. Since this option only if you check this policy is ...