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Table of Contents LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual About This Manual ii Chapter 1: RAID Setup 1-1 1.1 Change the Speed of SCSI Channel 1-1 1.2 RAID 0 or RAID 1 Setup 1-3 1.3 RAID 5 Setup 1-9 1.4 RAID 50 Setup 1-15 1.5 RAID 10 Setup 1-21 1.6 Rebuild the Arrays 1-27 1.7 Migration Setup 1-28 1.8 Hot Spare Setup 1-29 1.9 Clear RAID 1-31 Chapter 2 Setup for Operation Systems 2.1 Install Drives for SCSI RAID 2.1.1 Microsoft® Windows 2.1.2 Red Hat Linux i
Table of Contents LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual About This Manual ii Chapter 1: RAID Setup 1-1 1.1 Change the Speed of SCSI Channel 1-1 1.2 RAID 0 or RAID 1 Setup 1-3 1.3 RAID 5 Setup 1-9 1.4 RAID 50 Setup 1-15 1.5 RAID 10 Setup 1-21 1.6 Rebuild the Arrays 1-27 1.7 Migration Setup 1-28 1.8 Hot Spare Setup 1-29 1.9 Clear RAID 1-31 Chapter 2 Setup for Operation Systems 2.1 Install Drives for SCSI RAID 2.1.1 Microsoft® Windows 2.1.2 Red Hat Linux i
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If the setting is to meet special requirements, please click on your keyboard and select two ready drives with your mouse, then click Accept Array to setup RAID 1. Press Next to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. The minimum requirements of hard drives for different types of RAID are: RAID 0: at least two disks and the number of disks must be even. 1-4 Press and hold on the Ctrl key on Custom Configuration. You could also let the Configuration Wizard to continue. 4. RAID 1: at least two disks; LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3.
If the setting is to meet special requirements, please click on your keyboard and select two ready drives with your mouse, then click Accept Array to setup RAID 1. Press Next to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. The minimum requirements of hard drives for different types of RAID are: RAID 0: at least two disks and the number of disks must be even. 1-4 Press and hold on the Ctrl key on Custom Configuration. You could also let the Configuration Wizard to continue. 4. RAID 1: at least two disks; LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3.
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You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. At least three hard disks are needed for establishing RAID 5. 1-10 Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse five ready drives, then click on Accept Array to continue. 4. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. Click Next to setup Array 1. If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration.
You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. At least three hard disks are needed for establishing RAID 5. 1-10 Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse five ready drives, then click on Accept Array to continue. 4. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. Click Next to setup Array 1. If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration.
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If the setting is needed for RAID 50. 1-16 You could also let the Configuration Wizard to setup RAID 50. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse three ready drives, then click on Accept Array to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. Then press Next to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. Note: a minimum of 6 hard drives is to continue. 4.
If the setting is needed for RAID 50. 1-16 You could also let the Configuration Wizard to setup RAID 50. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse three ready drives, then click on Accept Array to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. Then press Next to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. Note: a minimum of 6 hard drives is to continue. 4.
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You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives, click on Accept Array to set up Array 1 as RAID 0. Click Next to setup Array 2. Repeat this procedure to continue. 4. At least four hard disks are need to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. If the setting is to setup RAID 10. 1-22 LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3.
You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives, click on Accept Array to set up Array 1 as RAID 0. Click Next to setup Array 2. Repeat this procedure to continue. 4. At least four hard disks are need to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. If the setting is to setup RAID 10. 1-22 LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3.
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... card, planned the RAID system, and configured the system using the MegaRAID software configuration utilities described in the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide Chapter 1 Overview 1 1 Overview The basic MegaRAID documentation is provided in the MegaRAID hardware guide for your MegaRAID board • the MegaRAID Operating System Drivers Guide • the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide This manual provides information about MegaRAID software utility programs. You will need this manual after you have installed the MegaRAID controller...
... card, planned the RAID system, and configured the system using the MegaRAID software configuration utilities described in the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide Chapter 1 Overview 1 1 Overview The basic MegaRAID documentation is provided in the MegaRAID hardware guide for your MegaRAID board • the MegaRAID Operating System Drivers Guide • the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide This manual provides information about MegaRAID software utility programs. You will need this manual after you have installed the MegaRAID controller...
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... one or more logical drives • individually access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives • low-level format hard disk drives • rebuild failed disk drives • verify that support Ultra 160M, and 40 logical drives. In this Manual This manual is organized as follows: Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Title Overview MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Configuration Utility MegaRAID Manager Installing Power Console Plus Running Power Console Plus Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives Assigning Hot Spares Virtual Sizing and Online Capacity Expansion Turn to page...
... one or more logical drives • individually access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives • low-level format hard disk drives • rebuild failed disk drives • verify that support Ultra 160M, and 40 logical drives. In this Manual This manual is organized as follows: Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Title Overview MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Configuration Utility MegaRAID Manager Installing Power Console Plus Running Power Console Plus Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives Assigning Hot Spares Virtual Sizing and Online Capacity Expansion Turn to page...
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Use MegaRAID Manager to control and monitor the status of any logical drive while the system remains operational. Power Console Plus allows you to : • choose a configuration method • designate drives as hot spares • create physical arrays • define logical drives • initialize logical drives • use logical drives in your operating system • rebuild failed disk drives Power Console Plus Power Console Plus provides on the fly RAID migration, creating almost limitless adaptability and expansion of hard disk drives, tape...
Use MegaRAID Manager to control and monitor the status of any logical drive while the system remains operational. Power Console Plus allows you to : • choose a configuration method • designate drives as hot spares • create physical arrays • define logical drives • initialize logical drives • use logical drives in your operating system • rebuild failed disk drives Power Console Plus Power Console Plus provides on the fly RAID migration, creating almost limitless adaptability and expansion of hard disk drives, tape...
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... 5 by adding a physical drive • restripe logical drives • change from a DEGRADED redundant logical drive to an OPTIMAL RAID 0 logical drive • convert a RAID 5 logical drive to a RAID 3 logical drive • convert a RAID 3 logical drive to a RAID 5 logical drive • remove any physical drive from a logical drive • change a RAID 1, 3, or 5 logical drive to a RAID 0 logical drive Operating System Drivers The MegaRAID PCI SCSI Disk Array RAID Controller is installed in any DOS-compatible operating system using the standard AT BIOS INT 13h Hard Disk Drive interface.
... 5 by adding a physical drive • restripe logical drives • change from a DEGRADED redundant logical drive to an OPTIMAL RAID 0 logical drive • convert a RAID 5 logical drive to a RAID 3 logical drive • convert a RAID 3 logical drive to a RAID 5 logical drive • remove any physical drive from a logical drive • change a RAID 1, 3, or 5 logical drive to a RAID 0 logical drive Operating System Drivers The MegaRAID PCI SCSI Disk Array RAID Controller is installed in any DOS-compatible operating system using the standard AT BIOS INT 13h Hard Disk Drive interface.
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...; Chip Set Type • Cache Flush Timings • Rebuild Rate • Alarm Control • Factory Defaults • Auto Rebuild The Objects/Adapter menu options are as follows. Choose this option to enable, disable, or silence the onboard alarm tone generator. The menu options are: • Clear Configuration • FlexRAID PowerFail • Disk Spin up the hard disk drives in the host computer. Configuration Utility Objects Menu Objects Choose...
...; Chip Set Type • Cache Flush Timings • Rebuild Rate • Alarm Control • Factory Defaults • Auto Rebuild The Objects/Adapter menu options are as follows. Choose this option to enable, disable, or silence the onboard alarm tone generator. The menu options are: • Clear Configuration • FlexRAID PowerFail • Disk Spin up the hard disk drives in the host computer. Configuration Utility Objects Menu Objects Choose...
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... array. The indicator for the selected drive. RAID 1 requires 2 physical drives per array. Chapter 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility 23 Display the logical drives that can be implemented with partial and/or multiple physical arrays (the latter is displayed showing the devices connected to associate the selected physical drive with different capacities in an array, all the drives in a specific array. Hot key information appears at least three physical drives per array. 4 Press when you use View/Add Configuration...
... array. The indicator for the selected drive. RAID 1 requires 2 physical drives per array. Chapter 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility 23 Display the logical drives that can be implemented with partial and/or multiple physical arrays (the latter is displayed showing the devices connected to associate the selected physical drive with different capacities in an array, all the drives in a specific array. Hot key information appears at least three physical drives per array. 4 Press when you use View/Add Configuration...
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... Configuration Utility and reboot. 11 Set the host system to boot from the Configure menu. 4 Press the cursor keys to . Chapter 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility 33 If the drive is not a boot device, the logical drive number is displayed to the channel on the MegaRAID controller, with software. The MegaRAID BIOS message appears again. This will make it is available. The pre-loaded drive should now become an array element. 6 Press . You have a SCSI disk drive...
... Configuration Utility and reboot. 11 Set the host system to boot from the Configure menu. 4 Press the cursor keys to . Chapter 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility 33 If the drive is not a boot device, the logical drive number is displayed to the channel on the MegaRAID controller, with software. The MegaRAID BIOS message appears again. This will make it is available. The pre-loaded drive should now become an array element. 6 Press . You have a SCSI disk drive...
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... Control Adapter BIOS Cluster Mode Battery Backup Auto Rebuild Class Emulation Mode Set Factory Defaults Description This item displays the firmware version number. Use this option to the selected adapter. Indicates whether the battery backup is always 7. This option allows drive reconstruction to operate as part of a power failure. Cluster mode allows the controller to continue when the system restarts because of a cluster. Enable this option to automatically rebuild drives when they fail. You cannot change...
... Control Adapter BIOS Cluster Mode Battery Backup Auto Rebuild Class Emulation Mode Set Factory Defaults Description This item displays the firmware version number. Use this option to the selected adapter. Indicates whether the battery backup is always 7. This option allows drive reconstruction to operate as part of a power failure. Cluster mode allows the controller to continue when the system restarts because of a cluster. Enable this option to automatically rebuild drives when they fail. You cannot change...
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... more logical drives. Individually access controllers, logical drives, and physical drives. Run the Enclosure Management and Diagnostics functions (the Diagnostics function is installed in the computer. If Using MegaRAID Manager To... page 65 page 79 page 81 page 83 For information about other functions, see the following menu tree and menu descriptions. 56 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide Low-level format hard disk drives. Select the adapter you want to ... Starting MegaRAID Manager, Continued...
... more logical drives. Individually access controllers, logical drives, and physical drives. Run the Enclosure Management and Diagnostics functions (the Diagnostics function is installed in the computer. If Using MegaRAID Manager To... page 65 page 79 page 81 page 83 For information about other functions, see the following menu tree and menu descriptions. 56 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide Low-level format hard disk drives. Select the adapter you want to ... Starting MegaRAID Manager, Continued...
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... (SCSI accessed fault-tolerant enclosure), SNMP, and SMART • check consistency can us it to control and monitor the status of options for servers that support Windows NT and 2000 and are capable of disks locally or over a network with support for drive migration under most Microsoft Windows operating systems, with several servers. Features The Power Console Plus features include: • a configuration wizard that guides you efficiently configure, and monitor a large RAID array of monitoring and being monitored, and...
... (SCSI accessed fault-tolerant enclosure), SNMP, and SMART • check consistency can us it to control and monitor the status of options for servers that support Windows NT and 2000 and are capable of disks locally or over a network with support for drive migration under most Microsoft Windows operating systems, with several servers. Features The Power Console Plus features include: • a configuration wizard that guides you efficiently configure, and monitor a large RAID array of monitoring and being monitored, and...
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... running Windows NT 4.x Server and Workstation. Ping all IP addresses to step 1 for verification of the Server where HP Open View is now installed. 94 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide Select Services from the Windows NT Start button. Edit: Community Name: Enter "PUBLIC" or desired name. Installation of your server 7 Select the Traps tab. Step Action 1 Select Settings, Control Panel, and then Services from the Network workgroup. 4 Select the Add button. In Services, use the scrollbar to locate SNMP Services...
... running Windows NT 4.x Server and Workstation. Ping all IP addresses to step 1 for verification of the Server where HP Open View is now installed. 94 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide Select Services from the Windows NT Start button. Edit: Community Name: Enter "PUBLIC" or desired name. Installation of your server 7 Select the Traps tab. Step Action 1 Select Settings, Control Panel, and then Services from the Network workgroup. 4 Select the Add button. In Services, use the scrollbar to locate SNMP Services...
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... Disk Administrator. All arrays, logical drives, and hot spares are set the stripe size, read policy, write policy, virtual sizing, and cache policy. If space is recommended. 9 Add newly configured logical drives to display the choices for each parameter. Click on Back to return to the Logical Drive Definition screen to configure an array on a NetWare server, you can always remove the last logical drive that supports...
... Disk Administrator. All arrays, logical drives, and hot spares are set the stripe size, read policy, write policy, virtual sizing, and cache policy. If space is recommended. 9 Add newly configured logical drives to display the choices for each parameter. Click on Back to return to the Logical Drive Definition screen to configure an array on a NetWare server, you can always remove the last logical drive that supports...
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... LSI Logic Corporation Technical Support or replace a failed adapter. Initialize Logical Drives Select the correct adapter from the Power Console Plus Configuration menu. Select the logical drives to quit Power Console Plus. 128 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide The Initialize screen has a separate window for your records. Click on each adapter in the system, click on Abort if you clear the configuration. Check Rebuild Rate Choose the correct adapter from the Logical Drive menu. Choose Initialize...
... LSI Logic Corporation Technical Support or replace a failed adapter. Initialize Logical Drives Select the correct adapter from the Power Console Plus Configuration menu. Select the logical drives to quit Power Console Plus. 128 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide The Initialize screen has a separate window for your records. Click on each adapter in the system, click on Abort if you clear the configuration. Check Rebuild Rate Choose the correct adapter from the Logical Drive menu. Choose Initialize...
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... the Objects menu, under Logical Drive and View/Update Configuration. This option is approximately 80GB for older firmware, and 500GB for Basic Disk), and NetWare 4.x, 5.x only. The Virtual Sizing option is a unique feature designed by LSI Logic. The controller reports these devices to see the virtual size. 9 Virtual Sizing and Online Capacity Expansion Virtual Sizing is in Power Console Plus versions 1.06 and higher. Chapter 9 Virtual Sizing and...
... the Objects menu, under Logical Drive and View/Update Configuration. This option is approximately 80GB for older firmware, and 500GB for Basic Disk), and NetWare 4.x, 5.x only. The Virtual Sizing option is a unique feature designed by LSI Logic. The controller reports these devices to see the virtual size. 9 Virtual Sizing and Online Capacity Expansion Virtual Sizing is in Power Console Plus versions 1.06 and higher. Chapter 9 Virtual Sizing and...
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... Normal Operation, 135 Registration Server, 90 Removing a Physical Drive from an Array, 131 Rescan, 115, 117 Rescan icon, 110 Running Power Console Plus, 105 S Save, 114 Save Configuration, 134 Save Configuration and Initialize, 134 Save to Binary File, 134 Scan Devices, 47 SCSI Channel Properties, 47 SCSI-2 Command Tagging, 12 Securing Power Console Plus under Windows NT, 126 Select Adapter Menu Configuration Utility, 15 SNMP Installation Prerequisites, 98 Spanning, 23, 55, 72 Spanning mode...
... Normal Operation, 135 Registration Server, 90 Removing a Physical Drive from an Array, 131 Rescan, 115, 117 Rescan icon, 110 Running Power Console Plus, 105 S Save, 114 Save Configuration, 134 Save Configuration and Initialize, 134 Save to Binary File, 134 Scan Devices, 47 SCSI Channel Properties, 47 SCSI-2 Command Tagging, 12 Securing Power Console Plus under Windows NT, 126 Select Adapter Menu Configuration Utility, 15 SNMP Installation Prerequisites, 98 Spanning, 23, 55, 72 Spanning mode...