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USER'S GUIDE Integrated RAID for SAS April 2007 Version 1.1 ® DB15-000357-01
USER'S GUIDE Integrated RAID for SAS April 2007 Version 1.1 ® DB15-000357-01
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...and appendixes: • Chapter 1, Introduction to Integrated RAID, provides an overview of Integrated RAID for SAS User's Guide v Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Audience This user's guide assumes that you have some familiarity with installing and confi... utility. All rights reserved. Preface This user's guide explains how to configure mirrored or striped volumes on LSI SAS controllers. Integrated RAID for SAS controllers, its features, and its benefits. • Chapter 2, Overview of Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring ...
...and appendixes: • Chapter 1, Introduction to Integrated RAID, provides an overview of Integrated RAID for SAS User's Guide v Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Audience This user's guide assumes that you have some familiarity with installing and confi... utility. All rights reserved. Preface This user's guide explains how to configure mirrored or striped volumes on LSI SAS controllers. Integrated RAID for SAS controllers, its features, and its benefits. • Chapter 2, Overview of Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring ...
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...disks. • Integrated Striping (IS), which supports striped arrays with the following LSI SAS controllers: • LSISAS1064/1064E • LSISAS1068/1068E • LSISAS1078 1.1 Introduction The LSI Integrated RAID solution provides cost benefits for the server or workstation market where... the extra performance, storage capacity, and/or redundancy of the LSI Integrated RAID solution for SAS User's Guide 1-1 Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Integrated RAID for LSI SAS controllers, its features, and its benefits. All rights ...
...disks. • Integrated Striping (IS), which supports striped arrays with the following LSI SAS controllers: • LSISAS1064/1064E • LSISAS1068/1068E • LSISAS1078 1.1 Introduction The LSI Integrated RAID solution provides cost benefits for the server or workstation market where... the extra performance, storage capacity, and/or redundancy of the LSI Integrated RAID solution for SAS User's Guide 1-1 Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Integrated RAID for LSI SAS controllers, its features, and its benefits. All rights ...
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... disks requires Integrated RAID firmware v1.20.00 or above.) • Support for up to two Integrated RAID storage volumes on the same LSI SAS controller. 1.2 Integrated RAID Benefits and Features Integrated RAID has the following benefits and features: • Support for two-disk...meets the needs of most internal RAID installations • Easy to ten disks per IME or IS volume, with one or two storage volumes per SAS controller. installation and configuration are not complex • System can offer the Integrated RAID solution at a lower cost than a hardware RAID...
... disks requires Integrated RAID firmware v1.20.00 or above.) • Support for up to two Integrated RAID storage volumes on the same LSI SAS controller. 1.2 Integrated RAID Benefits and Features Integrated RAID has the following benefits and features: • Support for two-disk...meets the needs of most internal RAID installations • Easy to ten disks per IME or IS volume, with one or two storage volumes per SAS controller. installation and configuration are not complex • System can offer the Integrated RAID solution at a lower cost than a hardware RAID...
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...-performance, fault-tolerant solution to restore the volume by LSI Logic Corporation. The firmware then automatically re-mirrors the swapped disk. The IM and IME features support one or two hot spare disks. Additionally, each SAS Integrated RAID for critical data. Chapter 2 Overview of ... Storage (NAS), ISPs need a cost effective, fault-tolerant solution to twelve disk drives total, plus one or two mirrored volumes per LSI SAS controller, to safeguard critical information such as the operating system on small form factor, high-density, rack-mountable servers. If a disk ...
...-performance, fault-tolerant solution to restore the volume by LSI Logic Corporation. The firmware then automatically re-mirrors the swapped disk. The IM and IME features support one or two hot spare disks. Additionally, each SAS Integrated RAID for critical data. Chapter 2 Overview of ... Storage (NAS), ISPs need a cost effective, fault-tolerant solution to twelve disk drives total, plus one or two mirrored volumes per LSI SAS controller, to safeguard critical information such as the operating system on small form factor, high-density, rack-mountable servers. If a disk ...
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Note: You can also configure one IM or IME volume and one Integrated Striping (IS) volume on the same LSI SAS controller. This eliminates the need for two volumes per SAS controller. • Mirrored volumes run in optimal mode or in degraded mode (if one or two global hot spare disks.... All rights reserved. IM volumes have three to conserve system resources. Hot spares make the IM/IME volume even more faulttolerant. However, an LSI SAS controller can have up to 12 disks total. (Requires Integrated RAID firmware v1.20.00 or above.) • One or two global hot ...
Note: You can also configure one IM or IME volume and one Integrated Striping (IS) volume on the same LSI SAS controller. This eliminates the need for two volumes per SAS controller. • Mirrored volumes run in optimal mode or in degraded mode (if one or two global hot spare disks.... All rights reserved. IM volumes have three to conserve system resources. Hot spares make the IM/IME volume even more faulttolerant. However, an LSI SAS controller can have up to 12 disks total. (Requires Integrated RAID firmware v1.20.00 or above.) • One or two global hot ...
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The runtime mirroring of the boot disk is always accessible. 2.3 IM/IME Description The LSI Integrated RAID solution supports one or two IM/IME volumes on mirrored disks. • Automatic background resynchronization while host I/Os continue. • Background media veri... ensures that supports the standard Fusion-MPT interface. Host-based status software monitors the state of the LSI SAS controller that data on IM/IME volumes is transparent to store volume configuration on each LSI SAS controller (or one IM/IME volume and one of these volumes is the boot volume, as...
The runtime mirroring of the boot disk is always accessible. 2.3 IM/IME Description The LSI Integrated RAID solution supports one or two IM/IME volumes on mirrored disks. • Automatic background resynchronization while host I/Os continue. • Background media veri... ensures that supports the standard Fusion-MPT interface. Host-based status software monitors the state of the LSI SAS controller that data on IM/IME volumes is transparent to store volume configuration on each LSI SAS controller (or one IM/IME volume and one of these volumes is the boot volume, as...
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...disadvantage is that there is always a second, mirrored copy of Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Each mirrored stripe is written to a disk and mirrored to ten mirrored disks. (One or two global hot spares can be... configured with up to an adjacent disk. Figure 2.1 Typical Integrated Mirroring Implementation IM Volume Primary Mirror SAS LSI Fusion-MPT Controller Memory Bus NVSRAM (For Write Journaling) FLASH (For Configuration) The advantage of an IM/IME volume is...
...disadvantage is that there is always a second, mirrored copy of Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Each mirrored stripe is written to a disk and mirrored to ten mirrored disks. (One or two global hot spares can be... configured with up to an adjacent disk. Figure 2.1 Typical Integrated Mirroring Implementation IM Volume Primary Mirror SAS LSI Fusion-MPT Controller Memory Bus NVSRAM (For Write Journaling) FLASH (For Configuration) The advantage of an IM/IME volume is...
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.... If the verification command fails for any reason, the other . 2.5 Fusion-MPT Support The BIOS uses the LSI Fusion-MPT interface to communicate to the SAS controller and firmware to communicate with the controller and firmware. The current Media Verification Logical Block Address... memory occasionally to allow media verification to a power-cycle. 2.4.7 Disk Write Caching The firmware disables disk write caching by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. The Fusion-MPT drivers for this segment is used to define behavior between the...
.... If the verification command fails for any reason, the other . 2.5 Fusion-MPT Support The BIOS uses the LSI Fusion-MPT interface to communicate to the SAS controller and firmware to communicate with the controller and firmware. The current Media Verification Logical Block Address... memory occasionally to allow media verification to a power-cycle. 2.4.7 Disk Write Caching The firmware disables disk write caching by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. The Fusion-MPT drivers for this segment is used to define behavior between the...
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... an IM/IME volume must be used . Refer to create Integrated Mirroring (IM) and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME) volumes using the LSI SAS BIOS Configuration Utility (SAS BIOS CU). The chapter includes these topics: • Section 3.1, "IM/IME Configuration Overview," page 3-1 • Section... • Section 3.5, "Other Configuration Tasks," page 3-8 3.1 IM/IME Configuration Overview You can use the SAS BIOS CU to the same LSI SAS controller. Integrated RAID for the volume. All rights reserved. In other words, the excess space of all disks in the volume ...
... an IM/IME volume must be used . Refer to create Integrated Mirroring (IM) and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME) volumes using the LSI SAS BIOS Configuration Utility (SAS BIOS CU). The chapter includes these topics: • Section 3.1, "IM/IME Configuration Overview," page 3-1 • Section... • Section 3.5, "Other Configuration Tasks," page 3-8 3.1 IM/IME Configuration Overview You can use the SAS BIOS CU to the same LSI SAS controller. Integrated RAID for the volume. All rights reserved. In other words, the excess space of all disks in the volume ...
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... volume(s). You can have two drives. In addition, one volume with SAS disks and a second volume with SMART support). The following initialization! LSI recommends that you see the message about the LSI Configuration Utility, press Ctrl-C to : Please wait, invoking SAS Configuration Utility... After a brief pause, the main menu of twelve physical...
... volume(s). You can have two drives. In addition, one volume with SAS disks and a second volume with SMART support). The following initialization! LSI recommends that you see the message about the LSI Configuration Utility, press Ctrl-C to : Please wait, invoking SAS Configuration Utility... After a brief pause, the main menu of twelve physical...
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... Disk column and select a disk. The Create New Array screen shows a list of disks available to be added to create an IM volume with the SAS BIOS CU: 1. Creating IM and IME Volumes 3-3 Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by pressing the + key, − key, or space bar. When... you to select an LSI SAS adapter. 2. On the Adapter Properties screen, use the arrow keys to either keep existing data or overwrite existing data. To add the disk to the...
... Disk column and select a disk. The Create New Array screen shows a list of disks available to be added to create an IM volume with the SAS BIOS CU: 1. Creating IM and IME Volumes 3-3 Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by pressing the + key, − key, or space bar. When... you to select an LSI SAS adapter. 2. On the Adapter Properties screen, use the arrow keys to either keep existing data or overwrite existing data. To add the disk to the...
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... first disk or press D to commit the changes. Figure 3.2 shows an IM volume configured with one or two global hot spares by LSI Logic Corporation. Ok --- The first disk will be mirrored onto the second disk, so any data you keep the existing data, this menu to... overwrite it. The first disk must be on the first disk selected for the volume. The SAS BIOS CU pauses while the array is overwritten. All rights reserved. Size (MB) 35074 35074 35074 35074 Esc = Exit Menu F1/Shift+1 = Help Space/+/- = Select...
... first disk or press D to commit the changes. Figure 3.2 shows an IM volume configured with one or two global hot spares by LSI Logic Corporation. Ok --- The first disk will be mirrored onto the second disk, so any data you keep the existing data, this menu to... overwrite it. The first disk must be on the first disk selected for the volume. The SAS BIOS CU pauses while the array is overwritten. All rights reserved. Size (MB) 35074 35074 35074 35074 Esc = Exit Menu F1/Shift+1 = Help Space/+/- = Select...
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...Corporation. If one or two global hot spares to add a second volume. The first is being created. 3.3 Creating a Second IM or IME Volume The LSI SAS controllers allow you add disks, the Array Size field changes to reflect the size of the new volume. 7. [Optional] Add one volume...volume by pressing the + key, − key, or space bar. 6. Move the cursor to select an LSI SAS adapter. 2. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to create an IME volume with the SAS BIOS CU: 1. Press Enter to go to ten disks for the volume. The Create New Array screen...
...Corporation. If one or two global hot spares to add a second volume. The first is being created. 3.3 Creating a Second IM or IME Volume The LSI SAS controllers allow you add disks, the Array Size field changes to reflect the size of the new volume. 7. [Optional] Add one volume...volume by pressing the + key, − key, or space bar. 6. Move the cursor to select an LSI SAS adapter. 2. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to create an IME volume with the SAS BIOS CU: 1. Press Enter to go to ten disks for the volume. The Create New Array screen...
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... and press Enter. 4. On the Adapter Properties screen, use the arrow keys to add a second volume is as follows: 1. 1. The other way to select an LSI SAS adapter. 2. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to create a second volume. Select Manage Hot Spare on... a SAS controller. Press C to add global hot spare disks later: 1. Follow these steps to create a new volume. 3. Press Enter to go to protect the IM or ...
... and press Enter. 4. On the Adapter Properties screen, use the arrow keys to add a second volume is as follows: 1. 1. The other way to select an LSI SAS adapter. 2. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to create a second volume. Select Manage Hot Spare on... a SAS controller. Press C to add global hot spare disks later: 1. Follow these steps to create a new volume. 3. Press Enter to go to protect the IM or ...
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...in the IM/IME volumes. 5. [Optional] Select a second hot spare disk. 6. Select Manage Hot Spare on the Manage Array screen. Figure 3.3 Manage Array Screen LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility Manage Array -- The global hot spare disk must have 512-byte blocks, it cannot have removable media, and the disk type... must also be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with SMART support. If SATA disks are being added. The configuration utility pauses while the global hot spares are used , the ...
...in the IM/IME volumes. 5. [Optional] Select a second hot spare disk. 6. Select Manage Hot Spare on the Manage Array screen. Figure 3.3 Manage Array Screen LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility Manage Array -- The global hot spare disk must have 512-byte blocks, it cannot have removable media, and the disk type... must also be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with SMART support. If SATA disks are being added. The configuration utility pauses while the global hot spares are used , the ...
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... to resynchronize the data on the mirrored disks has been resynchronized. 3-8 Creating IM and IME Volumes Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Select Save changes then exit this command, because the firmware automatically keeps the mirrored data synchronized during normal ... state until the data on the mirrored disks in the array. If two volumes are two hot spares, select which one volume using SAS disks, another volume using SATA disks, and global hot spare disks, the hot spare disks will only appear when you want to use...
... to resynchronize the data on the mirrored disks has been resynchronized. 3-8 Creating IM and IME Volumes Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Select Save changes then exit this command, because the firmware automatically keeps the mirrored data synchronized during normal ... state until the data on the mirrored disks in the array. If two volumes are two hot spares, select which one volume using SAS disks, another volume using SATA disks, and global hot spare disks, the hot spare disks will only appear when you want to use...
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..., for example, it . 3.5.3 Activating an Array An array can become active. Other Configuration Tasks 3-9 Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Follow these steps to delete a selected array: 1. Select Synchronize Array on the Manage Array screen. 2. Follow these steps to delete the array.... disks, the BIOS checks the hot spare disks to determine if they are not the same type as the hot spare disk (SATA versus SAS). 3.5.4 Deleting an Array CAUTION: Before deleting an array, be sure to proceed with the remaining array. Press Y to back up all ...
..., for example, it . 3.5.3 Activating an Array An array can become active. Other Configuration Tasks 3-9 Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. Follow these steps to delete a selected array: 1. Select Synchronize Array on the Manage Array screen. 2. Follow these steps to delete the array.... disks, the BIOS checks the hot spare disks to determine if they are not the same type as the hot spare disk (SATA versus SAS). 3.5.4 Deleting an Array CAUTION: Before deleting an array, be sure to proceed with the remaining array. Press Y to back up all ...
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...LEDs on the primary disk. Follow these steps to the name of the volume, the LED on the SAS Topology screen. When an IM volume is deleted, the data is preserved on the disk drives will ... deleted. 3.5.5 Locating a Disk Drive, or Multiple Disk Drives in a Volume You can also use the SAS BIOS CU to locate and identify a specific physical disk drive by flashing the drive's LED...on all the disk drives in a volume by LSI Logic Corporation. When an IME volume is deleted, the master boot records of all the disk drives in the SAS Topology screen. To do this position. The ...
...LEDs on the primary disk. Follow these steps to the name of the volume, the LED on the SAS Topology screen. When an IM volume is deleted, the data is preserved on the disk drives will ... deleted. 3.5.5 Locating a Disk Drive, or Multiple Disk Drives in a Volume You can also use the SAS BIOS CU to locate and identify a specific physical disk drive by flashing the drive's LED...on all the disk drives in a volume by LSI Logic Corporation. When an IME volume is deleted, the master boot records of all the disk drives in the SAS Topology screen. To do this position. The ...
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... to this disk. All rights reserved. 3-11 This controller will no longer have a disk designated as the boot device, the Device Info column on the SAS Topology screen will move the cursor down to the disk and press Alt+B. 4. Other Configuration Tasks Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by...
... to this disk. All rights reserved. 3-11 This controller will no longer have a disk designated as the boot device, the Device Info column on the SAS Topology screen will move the cursor down to the disk and press Alt+B. 4. Other Configuration Tasks Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by...