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LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. Press and hold on the Ctrl key on Custom Configuration. Press Next to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. 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. RAID 1: at least two disks and the number of RAID are: RAID 0: at least two disks; You could also let the Configuration Wizard to continue. 4. The minimum requirements of hard drives for different types of disks must be even. 1-4
LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. Press and hold on the Ctrl key on Custom Configuration. Press Next to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. 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. RAID 1: at least two disks and the number of RAID are: RAID 0: at least two disks; You could also let the Configuration Wizard to continue. 4. The minimum requirements of hard drives for different types of disks must be even. 1-4
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Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse five ready drives, then click on Accept Array to continue. 4. Click Next to setup Array 1. At least three hard disks are needed for establishing RAID 5. 1-10 If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. 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 on your keyboard and select with your mouse five ready drives, then click on Accept Array to continue. 4. Click Next to setup Array 1. At least three hard disks are needed for establishing RAID 5. 1-10 If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration.
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Then press Next to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. If the setting is needed for RAID 50. 1-16 You could also let the Configuration Wizard to continue. 4. Note: a minimum of 6 hard drives is to setup RAID 50. Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse three ready drives, then click on Accept Array to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3.
Then press Next to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration. If the setting is needed for RAID 50. 1-16 You could also let the Configuration Wizard to continue. 4. Note: a minimum of 6 hard drives is to setup RAID 50. Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse three ready drives, then click on Accept Array to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3.
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Click Next to set up Array 1 as RAID 0. Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives, click on Accept Array to continue. 4. Repeat this procedure to setup RAID 10. 1-22 At least four hard disks are need to setup Array 2. If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration.
Click Next to set up Array 1 as RAID 0. Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives, click on Accept Array to continue. 4. Repeat this procedure to setup RAID 10. 1-22 At least four hard disks are need to setup Array 2. If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Configuration. LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 3. You could also let the Configuration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Configuration.
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...any RAID type you will find the ready disk in the Physical Drives window. Click on Logical Drives to setup. Click "Go" to discover the disk first. There are to be installed onto the SCSI backplane, please select Scan Devices to apply the settings. 1-28 RAID Migration ...only: to make the Array 1 and the new hard disk to do the "RAID Migration". II...
...any RAID type you will find the ready disk in the Physical Drives window. Click on Logical Drives to setup. Click "Go" to discover the disk first. There are to be installed onto the SCSI backplane, please select Scan Devices to apply the settings. 1-28 RAID Migration ...only: to make the Array 1 and the new hard disk to do the "RAID Migration". II...
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Select Make Hotspare and click Go to set as a part of RAID (Online) could not be selected. 2. Note: The disks already set this hard disk as Hotspare. Select a ready physical drive and set it as Hotspare. 1-29 1.8 Hotspare Setup LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1.
Select Make Hotspare and click Go to set as a part of RAID (Online) could not be selected. 2. Note: The disks already set this hard disk as Hotspare. Select a ready physical drive and set it as Hotspare. 1-29 1.8 Hotspare Setup LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1.
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... BIOS Configuration Utility to: • create hotspare drives • configure physical arrays and logical drives • initialize 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. This will be noted in logical...
... BIOS Configuration Utility to: • create hotspare drives • configure physical arrays and logical drives • initialize 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. This will be noted in logical...
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...-based utility that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network with several servers. Power Console Plus can run at any logical drive while the system remains operational. Cont'd Chapter 1 Overview 3 MegaRAID Manager MegaRAID Manager is an object-oriented GUI utility that you to :...Console Plus Power Console Plus provides on the fly RAID migration, creating almost limitless adaptability and expansion of hard disk drives, tape drives, and CDROM drives. Use MegaRAID Manager to control and monitor the status of any time. Power Console Plus allows you can...
...-based utility that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network with several servers. Power Console Plus can run at any logical drive while the system remains operational. Cont'd Chapter 1 Overview 3 MegaRAID Manager MegaRAID Manager is an object-oriented GUI utility that you to :...Console Plus Power Console Plus provides on the fly RAID migration, creating almost limitless adaptability and expansion of hard disk drives, tape drives, and CDROM drives. Use MegaRAID Manager to control and monitor the status of any time. Power Console Plus allows you can...
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... 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...
... 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...
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Choose this option to select a MegaRAID host adapter to work on. Choose this option to low-level format hard disk drives. page 16 page 29 page 31 page 32 page 33 For information about other functions, see the following appears: Configuration ...option to verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 3, or 5 is installed in the computer. If Using MegaRAID Configuration Utility To... configure arrays and logical drives initialize logical drives format a disk drive rebuild a disk drive use a pre-loaded SCSI drive as-is Use this option to initialize one ...
Choose this option to select a MegaRAID host adapter to work on. Choose this option to low-level format hard disk drives. page 16 page 29 page 31 page 32 page 33 For information about other functions, see the following appears: Configuration ...option to verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 3, or 5 is installed in the computer. If Using MegaRAID Configuration Utility To... configure arrays and logical drives initialize logical drives format a disk drive rebuild a disk drive use a pre-loaded SCSI drive as-is Use this option to initialize one ...
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... Utility 11 Adapter Choose Adapter from the Configuration Utility main menu to automatically rebuild drives when they fail. Choose this option to access the controllers, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually. Choose this option to allow drive reconstruction to enable, disable, or silence the onboard alarm tone generator. Choose this... 6, 8, or 10 seconds. You can also install other controllers. The menu options are: • Clear Configuration • FlexRAID PowerFail • Disk Spin up the hard disk drives in the host computer.
... Utility 11 Adapter Choose Adapter from the Configuration Utility main menu to automatically rebuild drives when they fail. Choose this option to access the controllers, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually. Choose this option to allow drive reconstruction to enable, disable, or silence the onboard alarm tone generator. Choose this... 6, 8, or 10 seconds. You can also install other controllers. The menu options are: • Clear Configuration • FlexRAID PowerFail • Disk Spin up the hard disk drives in the host computer.
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... selected channel. You can perform the following : Physical Drive Options Rebuild Format Make Online Fail Drive Make HotSpare View Drive Information Synchronous Negotiation SCSI Command Tagging Description Rebuild the selected physical drive. MegaRAID automatically sets this option to enable or disable ...Drive Choose this option from the Configuration Utility Objects menu to select a SCSI channel on the currently selected controller. Choose this option to change this setting. The default setting is Enabled. Choose this option. When set to Fail. The physical hard disk drives...
... selected channel. You can perform the following : Physical Drive Options Rebuild Format Make Online Fail Drive Make HotSpare View Drive Information Synchronous Negotiation SCSI Command Tagging Description Rebuild the selected physical drive. MegaRAID automatically sets this option to enable or disable ...Drive Choose this option from the Configuration Utility Objects menu to select a SCSI channel on the currently selected controller. Choose this option to change this setting. The default setting is Enabled. Choose this option. When set to Fail. The physical hard disk drives...
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...Format Menu Format Choose the Format option from the Configuration Utility main menu to erase existing information on the drive. Warning Formatting a hard drive destroys all data on your SCSI disks, such as a system partition. See page 32 for additional information. Formatting See page 31 for additional... Rebuild Menu Rebuild Choose the Rebuild option from the Configuration Utility main menu to lowlevel format one or more physical drives. Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, or • an excessive number of media errors have to choose Format...
...Format Menu Format Choose the Format option from the Configuration Utility main menu to erase existing information on the drive. Warning Formatting a hard drive destroys all data on your SCSI disks, such as a system partition. See page 32 for additional information. Formatting See page 31 for additional... Rebuild Menu Rebuild Choose the Rebuild option from the Configuration Utility main menu to lowlevel format one or more physical drives. Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, or • an excessive number of media errors have to choose Format...
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...: • RAID level • stripe size • cache write policy • read policy • I /O policy If logical drives have already been configured when you select Easy Configuration, the configuration information is not disturbed. Chapter 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility 17 Choosing the Configuration...; stripe size • cache write policy • read policy • I /O policy • logical drive size • spanning of disk space is reserved when a hard disk drive is saved. View/Add Configuration View/Add Configuration allows you to 32 KB of arrays If you select New ...
...: • RAID level • stripe size • cache write policy • read policy • I /O policy If logical drives have already been configured when you select Easy Configuration, the configuration information is not disturbed. Chapter 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility 17 Choosing the Configuration...; stripe size • cache write policy • read policy • I /O policy • logical drive size • spanning of disk space is reserved when a hard disk drive is saved. View/Add Configuration View/Add Configuration allows you to 32 KB of arrays If you select New ...
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... whether the battery backup is always 7. Enable this option to select the rebuild rate for drives attached to operate in the computer. Identifying number for spinning up the hard disk drives in I2O or mass storage mode. Use this option to the selected adapter. You can change...Description This item displays the firmware version number. This item displays the size of a power failure. Enable this option to automatically rebuild drives when they fail. This item displays the BIOS version number. You cannot change the Initiator ID only when you disable cluster mode,...
... whether the battery backup is always 7. Enable this option to select the rebuild rate for drives attached to operate in the computer. Identifying number for spinning up the hard disk drives in I2O or mass storage mode. Use this option to the selected adapter. You can change...Description This item displays the firmware version number. This item displays the size of a power failure. Enable this option to automatically rebuild drives when they fail. This item displays the BIOS version number. You cannot change the Initiator ID only when you disable cluster mode,...
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On the following screen, you can: • select Create New Configuration to delete the previous configuration and create a new configuration • select View Disk Configuration to restore the configuration from the hard disk • select View NVRAM Configuration to restore the configuration from the NVRAM Chapter 3 WebBIOS Configuration Utility 53 Configuration Mismatch A configuration mismatch occurs when the data in the NVRAM (Non-volatile Random Access Memory) and the hard disk drives are different.
On the following screen, you can: • select Create New Configuration to delete the previous configuration and create a new configuration • select View Disk Configuration to restore the configuration from the hard disk • select View NVRAM Configuration to restore the configuration from the NVRAM Chapter 3 WebBIOS Configuration Utility 53 Configuration Mismatch A configuration mismatch occurs when the data in the NVRAM (Non-volatile Random Access Memory) and the hard disk drives are different.
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... drives. Starting MegaRAID Manager, Continued The first MegaRAID Manager screen is not yet implemented). Rebuild failed disk drives. 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...
... drives. Starting MegaRAID Manager, Continued The first MegaRAID Manager screen is not yet implemented). Rebuild failed disk drives. 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...
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... and the cache memory size. Cont'd Chapter 4 MegaRAID Manager 59 You can install only one and to access the controllers, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually, along with the battery backup. This will reduce the size of the logical... drive by (1 MB times the number of adapter used. Displays the type of drives in the computer. Option Clear Configuration View Adapter Performance FlexRAID PowerFail Disk Spin up the hard disk drives in the computer...
... and the cache memory size. Cont'd Chapter 4 MegaRAID Manager 59 You can install only one and to access the controllers, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually, along with the battery backup. This will reduce the size of the logical... drive by (1 MB times the number of adapter used. Displays the type of drives in the computer. Option Clear Configuration View Adapter Performance FlexRAID PowerFail Disk Spin up the hard disk drives in the computer...
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...button when done. Removing a Physical Drive from an Array You can assign physical drives to the new array by changing the array configuration, selecting the array, and then clicking on Add Spare to a New Array You can selectively remove hard drives from the Power Console Plus main... screen by clicking on a physical drive icon (the drive must be in the Ready status and clicking on Reclaim. Displaying Physical Drive Properties To display the physical drive properties, double-click on the main menu....
...button when done. Removing a Physical Drive from an Array You can assign physical drives to the new array by changing the array configuration, selecting the array, and then clicking on Add Spare to a New Array You can selectively remove hard drives from the Power Console Plus main... screen by clicking on a physical drive icon (the drive must be in the Ready status and clicking on Reclaim. Displaying Physical Drive Properties To display the physical drive properties, double-click on the main menu....
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...Enable this feature once you select this feature for Basic Disk), and NetWare 4.x, 5.x only. With virtual sizing, the Administrator can create logical drive partitions in Power Console Plus versions 1.06 and higher. The Virtual Sizing option is approximately 80GB for older firmware, and 500GB for storage devices... the capacity is added, so you exit the Boot Up Configuration Manager. Because Disk Administrator recognizes a virtual storage capacity of a hard drive that was just added to use the disk space of 80 or 500 GB, the user or Administrator can use this option in...
...Enable this feature once you select this feature for Basic Disk), and NetWare 4.x, 5.x only. With virtual sizing, the Administrator can create logical drive partitions in Power Console Plus versions 1.06 and higher. The Virtual Sizing option is approximately 80GB for older firmware, and 500GB for storage devices... the capacity is added, so you exit the Boot Up Configuration Manager. Because Disk Administrator recognizes a virtual storage capacity of a hard drive that was just added to use the disk space of 80 or 500 GB, the user or Administrator can use this option in...