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User Guide 3ware® Serial ATA RAID Controller Supports the 9000 Series PN 720-0114-01 March 2005
User Guide 3ware® Serial ATA RAID Controller Supports the 9000 Series PN 720-0114-01 March 2005
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... With the 3ware 9000 Series Controller 6 System Requirements 6 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 8 Available RAID Configurations 9 Determining What RAID Level to Use 12 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 14 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 14 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 14 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface 15 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features 15 Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller 17 3ware BIOS Manager...
... With the 3ware 9000 Series Controller 6 System Requirements 6 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 8 Available RAID Configurations 9 Determining What RAID Level to Use 12 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 14 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 14 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 14 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface 15 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features 15 Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller 17 3ware BIOS Manager...
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... Viewing Information About Different Controllers 73 Viewing Controller Policies in 3DM 75 Setting Policies for a Controller through 3BM 76 Exporting JBOD Disks 77 Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup 78 Disabling Write Cache on Unit Degrade 79 Multi LUN Support and Auto-... 3DM 107 Removing a Unit Through 3BM 108 Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 109 Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9000 Series Controller 109 Adding a Drive through 3DM 110 Removing a Drive 111 Rescanning the Controller 113 Naming a Unit 114 ii 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
... Viewing Information About Different Controllers 73 Viewing Controller Policies in 3DM 75 Setting Policies for a Controller through 3BM 76 Exporting JBOD Disks 77 Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup 78 Disabling Write Cache on Unit Degrade 79 Multi LUN Support and Auto-... 3DM 107 Removing a Unit Through 3BM 108 Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 109 Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9000 Series Controller 109 Adding a Drive through 3DM 110 Removing a Drive 111 Rescanning the Controller 113 Naming a Unit 114 ii 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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...About a Drive 118 About Background Tasks 119 About Initialization 119 Initialization of Different RAID Types 120 Auto Initialization After Power Failure 121 About Rebuilds 121 About Verification ...With Multiple Controllers 145 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 146 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat 153 Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE 154 Updating the 3ware Driver Under...3DM 160 Hardware Installation 160 Software Installation 161 Screen Display Messages 162 AEN Messages 163 Glossary 179 Appendix A. Warranty, Technical Support and Service 187 www.3ware.com iii ...
...About a Drive 118 About Background Tasks 119 About Initialization 119 Initialization of Different RAID Types 120 Auto Initialization After Power Failure 121 About Rebuilds 121 About Verification ...With Multiple Controllers 145 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 146 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat 153 Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE 154 Updating the 3ware Driver Under...3DM 160 Hardware Installation 160 Software Installation 161 Screen Display Messages 162 AEN Messages 163 Glossary 179 Appendix A. Warranty, Technical Support and Service 187 www.3ware.com iii ...
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Limited Warranty 187 Exclusions 187 State Law Provisions 188 Obtaining Warranty Protection 188 AMCC Technical Support and Services 189 Sales and ordering information 189 Feedback on this manual 189 Index 191 iv 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Limited Warranty 187 Exclusions 187 State Law Provisions 188 Obtaining Warranty Protection 188 AMCC Technical Support and Services 189 Sales and ordering information 189 Feedback on this manual 189 Index 191 iv 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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... Unit" on page 27. Step-by-step instructions for configuring and maintaining your controller in sections about how to create a unit from 3ware's website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. You can also perform many tasks at the BIOS level (3ware BIOS Manager, or 3BM) and one at the command line, using the...
... Unit" on page 27. Step-by-step instructions for configuring and maintaining your controller in sections about how to create a unit from 3ware's website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. You can also perform many tasks at the BIOS level (3ware BIOS Manager, or 3BM) and one at the command line, using the...
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...on a BBU (Battery Backup Unit). Describes how to update the driver, move a unit from one controller to contact technical support. 2 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide About This Guide Table 1: Sections in this guide. Provides a summary of all associated drives... units and spares, change configuration settings that affect the controller and all the 3DM pages. Also includes information about the controller, check it's status, and change existing configurations, and set up your 3ware RAID controller. Describes the basics of using 3BM. Provides common problems...
...on a BBU (Battery Backup Unit). Describes how to update the driver, move a unit from one controller to contact technical support. 2 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide About This Guide Table 1: Sections in this guide. Provides a summary of all associated drives... units and spares, change configuration settings that affect the controller and all the 3DM pages. Also includes information about the controller, check it's status, and change existing configurations, and set up your 3ware RAID controller. Describes the basics of using 3BM. Provides common problems...
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... sections: "Product Features" on page 5 "What's New With the 3ware 9000 Series Controller" on page 6 "System Requirements" on page 6 "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 8 "Determining What RAID Level to Use" on page 12 Product Features The 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-12...
... sections: "Product Features" on page 5 "What's New With the 3ware 9000 Series Controller" on page 6 "System Requirements" on page 6 "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 8 "Determining What RAID Level to Use" on page 12 Product Features The 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-12...
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...cables. Drives must meet serial ATA 150 (SATA-1)or serial ATA 300 (SATA 2) Gb/s standards. The length of shielded and unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M (39") for best performance. Drives Depending on the particular model, the 3ware RAID controller may be connected to up to two, ...four, eight, or twelve SATA drives using Stream Fusion technology. Extended drive and unit status information. Drives may be of any...
...cables. Drives must meet serial ATA 150 (SATA-1)or serial ATA 300 (SATA 2) Gb/s standards. The length of shielded and unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M (39") for best performance. Drives Depending on the particular model, the 3ware RAID controller may be connected to up to two, ...four, eight, or twelve SATA drives using Stream Fusion technology. Extended drive and unit status information. Drives may be of any...
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...you need to move the unit to another controller. Disk Roaming. In addition, mirroring using a 3ware RAID controller provides improved performance because 3ware's TwinStor technology reads from the data on page 179. 8 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For definitions of other drives. ... in rotation. Parity information is preserved on the paired drive. Introducing the 3ware 9000 Series Controller Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of exchanging a drive without having to shut down the system.
...you need to move the unit to another controller. Disk Roaming. In addition, mirroring using a 3ware RAID controller provides improved performance because 3ware's TwinStor technology reads from the data on page 179. 8 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For definitions of other drives. ... in rotation. Parity information is preserved on the paired drive. Introducing the 3ware 9000 Series Controller Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of exchanging a drive without having to shut down the system.
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... and configurations are available for drives attached to a 3ware RAID controller: RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk JBOD Hot Spare RAID 0 Provides striping, but no mirroring or redundancy of drives. Striped disk arrays achieve high...large files are distributed across the multiple disks using RAID 1 algorithms (see www.3ware.com 9 Requires a minimum of all the data in the loss of two drives. RAID 0 arrays are not fault tolerant. RAID 0 Configuration Example RAID 1 Also known as video editing, computer aided ...
... and configurations are available for drives attached to a 3ware RAID controller: RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk JBOD Hot Spare RAID 0 Provides striping, but no mirroring or redundancy of drives. Striped disk arrays achieve high...large files are distributed across the multiple disks using RAID 1 algorithms (see www.3ware.com 9 Requires a minimum of all the data in the loss of two drives. RAID 0 arrays are not fault tolerant. RAID 0 Configuration Example RAID 1 Also known as video editing, computer aided ...
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... in case of a drive failure. For the sequential requests generated when accessing large files, both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques. 10 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID 5 0 parity A1 A2 A3 A4 A Blocks B0 1 parity B2 B3 B4 B Blocks C0... during sequential read requests. Introducing the 3ware 9000 Series Controller Figure 2). Figure 2. Requires a minimum of RAID 1 with parity (exclusive OR) to contention for fault tolerance and high performance. RAID 1 Configuration Example RAID 5 Combines striping data with RAID 0. This array type provides performance,...
... in case of a drive failure. For the sequential requests generated when accessing large files, both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques. 10 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID 5 0 parity A1 A2 A3 A4 A Blocks B0 1 parity B2 B3 B4 B Blocks C0... during sequential read requests. Introducing the 3ware 9000 Series Controller Figure 2). Figure 2. Requires a minimum of RAID 1 with parity (exclusive OR) to contention for fault tolerance and high performance. RAID 1 Configuration Example RAID 5 Combines striping data with RAID 0. This array type provides performance,...
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... arrays are then grouped as available units. RAID 10 Configuration Example RAID 50 This array is an unconfigured disk attached to your 3ware RAID controller. For example, on the four, eight, and twelve port 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controllers. Like disks in the 3ware 9000 series. JBOD A JBOD is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 50. AMCC recommends that you can have...
... arrays are then grouped as available units. RAID 10 Configuration Example RAID 50 This array is an unconfigured disk attached to your 3ware RAID controller. For example, on the four, eight, and twelve port 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controllers. Like disks in the 3ware 9000 series. JBOD A JBOD is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 50. AMCC recommends that you can have...
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... available for single disk 12 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Table 2: Possible Configurations Based on Number of Drives # Drives 1 2 3 4 5 Possible RAID Configurations Single drive or hot spare RAID 0 or RAID 1 RAID 0 RAID 1 with hot spare RAID 5 RAID 5 + hot spare RAID 10 Combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, single disk RAID 5 + hot spare RAID 10 + hot spare Combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, hot spare, for use the...
... available for single disk 12 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Table 2: Possible Configurations Based on Number of Drives # Drives 1 2 3 4 5 Possible RAID Configurations Single drive or hot spare RAID 0 or RAID 1 RAID 0 RAID 1 with hot spare RAID 5 RAID 5 + hot spare RAID 10 Combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, single disk RAID 5 + hot spare RAID 10 + hot spare Combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, hot spare, for use the...
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...for drives under "Creating a Hot Spare" on the number of 5 drives each drive is rounded down so that drives from 2 to 4 subunits. www.3ware.com 13 For example, with the number of disks: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1)/(number of drives) (number of drives / 2) X (capacity... of smallest drive) (number of 3. For example, a 44.3 GB drive will contain 2 subunits of drives, a RAID 50 may contain from differing manufacturers are more likely to be able to a unit exceeds 2 Terabytes (TB), you can enable auto-carving when you configure...
...for drives under "Creating a Hot Spare" on the number of 5 drives each drive is rounded down so that drives from 2 to 4 subunits. www.3ware.com 13 For example, with the number of disks: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1)/(number of drives) (number of drives / 2) X (capacity... of smallest drive) (number of 3. For example, a 44.3 GB drive will contain 2 subunits of drives, a RAID 50 may contain from differing manufacturers are more likely to be able to a unit exceeds 2 Terabytes (TB), you can enable auto-carving when you configure...
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... 3DM, see See "Multi LUN Support and Auto-Carving" on page 79. 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which runs in configuring and managing units attached to the 3ware controller: 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3ware CLI (Command Line...
... 3DM, see See "Multi LUN Support and Auto-Carving" on page 79. 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which runs in configuring and managing units attached to the 3ware controller: 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3ware CLI (Command Line...
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... redundant data. Monitoring, Maintenance, 3DM 2 is described in 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Throughout this feature to interchangeably as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. The 3ware CLI is the current version of drives. Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in monitoring and troubleshooting your drives...
... redundant data. Monitoring, Maintenance, 3DM 2 is described in 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Throughout this feature to interchangeably as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. The 3ware CLI is the current version of drives. Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in monitoring and troubleshooting your drives...
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... processing time. Write Cache. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the cache stored on page 146. 16 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However when data is committed to disk. This lets you choose a time for these tasks to be least disruptive to... process multiple write commands at scheduled times. Introducing the 3ware 9000 Series Controller Scheduled Background Tasks. Write cache ...
... processing time. Write Cache. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the cache stored on page 146. 16 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However when data is committed to disk. This lets you choose a time for these tasks to be least disruptive to... process multiple write commands at scheduled times. Introducing the 3ware 9000 Series Controller Scheduled Background Tasks. Write cache ...
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... act as your boot drive. Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these steps depends in part on whether one of this manual, you can download it from the 3ware website at http:/ /www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp Configure the RAID Unit and Drives You may want to review the information...
... act as your boot drive. Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these steps depends in part on whether one of this manual, you can download it from the 3ware website at http:/ /www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp Configure the RAID Unit and Drives You may want to review the information...