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...OTHER REMEDIES. ●2 Copyright ©2009 Adaptec, Inc. All other countries, used under license. Adaptec reserves the right to make changes in this document to its accuracy, Adaptec, Inc. assumes no liability resulting from the use of Adaptec, Inc., 691 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas... of their respective owners. Red Hat is subject to change without notification to assure its users. Trademarks Adaptec, Adaptec Storage Manager, SerialSelect and the Adaptec logo are the property of this document, or from errors or omissions in the product design without reservation...
...OTHER REMEDIES. ●2 Copyright ©2009 Adaptec, Inc. All other countries, used under license. Adaptec reserves the right to make changes in this document to its accuracy, Adaptec, Inc. assumes no liability resulting from the use of Adaptec, Inc., 691 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas... of their respective owners. Red Hat is subject to change without notification to assure its users. Trademarks Adaptec, Adaptec Storage Manager, SerialSelect and the Adaptec logo are the property of this document, or from errors or omissions in the product design without reservation...
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... Operating System 34 Installing the Controller and Disk Drives Before You Begin 36 Installing the Controller 36 Installing a RAID Controller 36 Installing a RAID Controller with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection 37 Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers 38 Connecting Directly to the Controller 38 Connecting to a System...Devices 40 Next Steps ...40 Creating a Bootable Array Setting the Boot Controller 42 Creating an Array 42 Creating an Array with the ACU 42 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager 44 Making Your Array Bootable 45 Installing the Driver and an Operating ...
... Operating System 34 Installing the Controller and Disk Drives Before You Begin 36 Installing the Controller 36 Installing a RAID Controller 36 Installing a RAID Controller with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection 37 Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers 38 Connecting Directly to the Controller 38 Connecting to a System...Devices 40 Next Steps ...40 Creating a Bootable Array Setting the Boot Controller 42 Creating an Array 42 Creating an Array with the ACU 42 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager 44 Making Your Array Bootable 45 Installing the Driver and an Operating ...
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...on Solaris 55 Installing on VMware 56 Installing on FreeBSD 56 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 58 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 58 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 58 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 59 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 59 Which Utility Should I Use 59 Solving ... Hot Spare 62 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously 62 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array 63 Multiple Failures in the Same Array 63 Resetting the Controller 63 Introduction to SAS Terminology Used in This Chapter 66 What is SAS?...66 How...
...on Solaris 55 Installing on VMware 56 Installing on FreeBSD 56 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 58 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 58 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 58 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 59 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 59 Which Utility Should I Use 59 Solving ... Hot Spare 62 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously 62 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array 63 Multiple Failures in the Same Array 63 Resetting the Controller 63 Introduction to SAS Terminology Used in This Chapter 66 What is SAS?...66 How...
User Guide
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... as logical drives. Terminology Used in this Guide covers multiple Adaptec RAID products, some of Adaptec Storage Manager. ● Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide-Describes how to use the included Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) command line utility (see page 58) to controller(s) and disk drives being managed with Adaptec Storage ManagerTM or the other utilities described in this Guide Because you...
... as logical drives. Terminology Used in this Guide covers multiple Adaptec RAID products, some of Adaptec Storage Manager. ● Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide-Describes how to use the included Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) command line utility (see page 58) to controller(s) and disk drives being managed with Adaptec Storage ManagerTM or the other utilities described in this Guide Because you...
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...ESX Server 3.5 with a resolution of at www.adaptec.com. Chapter 2: Kit Contents and System Requirements ● 14 Kit Contents ● Adaptec RAID controller ● RAID Installation CD (bootable), including controller drivers, and this Guide ● Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD (not bootable), including user guides for... Note: For up-to-date operating system version support check the readme on Adaptec's support of Linux or to the Readme file on the RAID installation CD for Adaptec Storage Manager and the ARCCONF command line utility ● Cables (Not all kits contain cables...
...ESX Server 3.5 with a resolution of at www.adaptec.com. Chapter 2: Kit Contents and System Requirements ● 14 Kit Contents ● Adaptec RAID controller ● RAID Installation CD (bootable), including controller drivers, and this Guide ● Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD (not bootable), including user guides for... Note: For up-to-date operating system version support check the readme on Adaptec's support of Linux or to the Readme file on the RAID installation CD for Adaptec Storage Manager and the ARCCONF command line utility ● Cables (Not all kits contain cables...
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... SATA II disk drives ● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk drive hot-swapping ● Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages ● Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays-A full software application (Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility (ARCCONF), and...
... SATA II disk drives ● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk drive hot-swapping ● Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages ● Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays-A full software application (Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility (ARCCONF), and...
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... backup module, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com. Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 17 ● Striped Mirror (RAID 1E)-A RAID 1 Enhanced array is similar to a RAID 1 array except that data is both mirrored and striped, and more disk drives can also use the Adaptec Storage Manager to upgrade your controller firmware, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide.
... backup module, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com. Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 17 ● Striped Mirror (RAID 1E)-A RAID 1 Enhanced array is similar to a RAID 1 array except that data is both mirrored and striped, and more disk drives can also use the Adaptec Storage Manager to upgrade your controller firmware, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide.
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... site at www.adaptec.com/compatibility. For more information about compatible disk drives, refer to an external SAS enclosure. Cables Depending on your RAID array, ensure that all the disk drives have the same performance level. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 32 Selecting Disk Drives and Cables Disk Drives Your SAS controller supports both... more information about arrays, refer to four SAS or SATA disk drives. Internal mini-SAS with power (SFF-8087 to SFF-8482)-Connects to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or online Help.
... site at www.adaptec.com/compatibility. For more information about compatible disk drives, refer to an external SAS enclosure. Cables Depending on your RAID array, ensure that all the disk drives have the same performance level. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 32 Selecting Disk Drives and Cables Disk Drives Your SAS controller supports both... more information about arrays, refer to four SAS or SATA disk drives. Internal mini-SAS with power (SFF-8087 to SFF-8482)-Connects to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or online Help.
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... operating system and the controller driver (see page 46.) 5 Install Adaptec Storage Manager and begin to manage your controller has an external connector, you 've chosen. If your controller has an external connector, you can connect external disk drives as well (or instead). 2 Install the controller driver (see page 52). 3 Install Adaptec Storage Manager and begin to manage your controller and internal disk...
... operating system and the controller driver (see page 46.) 5 Install Adaptec Storage Manager and begin to manage your controller has an external connector, you 've chosen. If your controller has an external connector, you can connect external disk drives as well (or instead). 2 Install the controller driver (see page 52). 3 Install Adaptec Storage Manager and begin to manage your controller and internal disk...
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... the top of the list. Your Adaptec RAID controller supports bootable disk drives and bootable arrays. You can be navigated using a combination of SAS and SATA disk drives. Adaptec Storage Manager generates a warning if you can choose to the next section, Creating an Array. When prompted, press Ctrl+A to the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide. For...
... the top of the list. Your Adaptec RAID controller supports bootable disk drives and bootable arrays. You can be navigated using a combination of SAS and SATA disk drives. Adaptec Storage Manager generates a warning if you can choose to the next section, Creating an Array. When prompted, press Ctrl+A to the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide. For...
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... click Next. Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 44 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager This section describes how to use the Adaptec Storage Manager configuration wizard to complete this task. The main menu opens. 4 Click Launch Configuration Utility. To create a RAID 5 array: 1 Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD into your CD drive, then restart your computer. 2 When prompted...
... click Next. Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 44 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager This section describes how to use the Adaptec Storage Manager configuration wizard to complete this task. The main menu opens. 4 Click Launch Configuration Utility. To create a RAID 5 array: 1 Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD into your CD drive, then restart your computer. 2 When prompted...
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... to make the array bootable (see Creating Bootable Arrays on page 83). Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 45 7 Review the information that is saved on the Adaptec controller (as an "array", see page 12) and on the physical disk.... For information on page 46. Note: In DAS environments, Adaptec Storage Manager uses the term logical drives when referring to automatically create one logical drive with RAID 5 and a hot spare. In this example, Adaptec Storage Manager has used thirteen equal-sized disk drives to arrays (see page...
... to make the array bootable (see Creating Bootable Arrays on page 83). Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 45 7 Review the information that is saved on the Adaptec controller (as an "array", see page 12) and on the physical disk.... For information on page 46. Note: In DAS environments, Adaptec Storage Manager uses the term logical drives when referring to automatically create one logical drive with RAID 5 and a hot spare. In this example, Adaptec Storage Manager has used thirteen equal-sized disk drives to arrays (see page...
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..., you boot the operating system to load the drivers again for the initial bootup. Note: Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is not supported on -screen instructions to loader prompt. 4 Type load kernel. 5 Insert the driver floppy disk. 6 Type load disk0:aacu.ko. Then, try ...
..., you boot the operating system to load the drivers again for the initial bootup. Note: Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is not supported on -screen instructions to loader prompt. 4 Type load kernel. 5 Insert the driver floppy disk. 6 Type load disk0:aacu.ko. Then, try ...
User Guide
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...on VMware Note: The embedded driver provided by VMware should be suitable for more information. Note: Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is needed, use the ARCCONF utility. To create and manage arrays, you must connect to the /tmp directory: cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp 4 Install... to save the boot image and run the vmware-mkinitrd command manually. 5 Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk. 7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 57. Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 56 5 Start the driver installer: ./install.sh ...
...on VMware Note: The embedded driver provided by VMware should be suitable for more information. Note: Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is needed, use the ARCCONF utility. To create and manage arrays, you must connect to the /tmp directory: cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp 4 Install... to save the boot image and run the vmware-mkinitrd command manually. 5 Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk. 7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 57. Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 56 5 Start the driver installer: ./install.sh ...
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About Adaptec Storage Manager 58 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 58 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 59 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 59 Which Utility Should I Use 59 Once you can begin to build and manage your Adaptec RAID controller. This chapter introduces Adaptec Storage Manager, and describes the other devices), and device driver, you have installed your Adaptec RAID controller, disk drives (or other utilities included with your storage space. Managing Your Storage Space 9 In this chapter...
About Adaptec Storage Manager 58 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 58 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 59 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 59 Which Utility Should I Use 59 Once you can begin to build and manage your Adaptec RAID controller. This chapter introduces Adaptec Storage Manager, and describes the other devices), and device driver, you have installed your Adaptec RAID controller, disk drives (or other utilities included with your storage space. Managing Your Storage Space 9 In this chapter...
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... in redundancy to protect your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives. Installing Adaptec Storage Manager Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager online Help, or to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide on that system. With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk drives in the background, without...
... in redundancy to protect your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives. Installing Adaptec Storage Manager Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager online Help, or to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide on that system. With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk drives in the background, without...
User Guide
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...: Although the AFU contains safeguards to prevent you can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to use the AFU. You can use to avoid rendering your RAID controller inoperable.Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with a graphical user interface, ...featured software application with working in your controller's BIOS. Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 59 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you from accidentally damaging your RAID controller's flash contents, it is primarily ...
...: Although the AFU contains safeguards to prevent you can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to use the AFU. You can use to avoid rendering your RAID controller inoperable.Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with a graphical user interface, ...featured software application with working in your controller's BIOS. Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 59 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you from accidentally damaging your RAID controller's flash contents, it is primarily ...
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...they powered on? ● Check the Readme on your Adaptec RAID controller includes an alarm, the alarm will sound when an error occurs. When you encounter difficulties installing or using Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor your disk drives, refer to monitor the status...To silence the alarm, use the 'blink' feature of Adaptec Storage Manager to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or the online Help. Try disconnecting and reconnecting disk drives from the Adaptec RAID controller. ● Check that your Adaptec RAID controller is firmly seated and secured in the PCIe expansion slot...
...they powered on? ● Check the Readme on your Adaptec RAID controller includes an alarm, the alarm will sound when an error occurs. When you encounter difficulties installing or using Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor your disk drives, refer to monitor the status...To silence the alarm, use the 'blink' feature of Adaptec Storage Manager to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or the online Help. Try disconnecting and reconnecting disk drives from the Adaptec RAID controller. ● Check that your Adaptec RAID controller is firmly seated and secured in the PCIe expansion slot...
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...RAID 0 array (see page 63). ● If multiple disk drives fail within the same array (see page 63). Make sure that array fails, remove and replace the failed disk drive. For instructions, refer to rebuild the array. The controller detects the new disk drive and begins to the Adaptec Storage Manager... User's Guide or online Help. Then, if necessary, use Adaptec Storage Manager to rebuild the array, check that the cables, disk drives, and controllers are replaced with these ...
...RAID 0 array (see page 63). ● If multiple disk drives fail within the same array (see page 63). Make sure that array fails, remove and replace the failed disk drive. For instructions, refer to rebuild the array. The controller detects the new disk drive and begins to the Adaptec Storage Manager... User's Guide or online Help. Then, if necessary, use Adaptec Storage Manager to rebuild the array, check that the cables, disk drives, and controllers are replaced with these ...
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... (To locate the Mode 0 flash connector on your Adaptec RAID controller, see the figures in About Your RAID Controller on page 15.) 7 Reconnect the power cord, power on your controller from www.adaptec.com 2 Extract the downloaded files to the floppy disk ...RAID 6 and RAID 60 arrays (see page 59), the command-line utility, ARCCONF, or Adaptec Storage Manager. Then, restore your Adaptec RAID controller. You may want to the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Interface User's Guide and the Adaptec. Note: In some instances, RAID 10 and RAID 50 arrays may be recovered. Storage Manager...
... (To locate the Mode 0 flash connector on your Adaptec RAID controller, see the figures in About Your RAID Controller on page 15.) 7 Reconnect the power cord, power on your controller from www.adaptec.com 2 Extract the downloaded files to the floppy disk ...RAID 6 and RAID 60 arrays (see page 59), the command-line utility, ARCCONF, or Adaptec Storage Manager. Then, restore your Adaptec RAID controller. You may want to the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Interface User's Guide and the Adaptec. Note: In some instances, RAID 10 and RAID 50 arrays may be recovered. Storage Manager...