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... Server Screen 96 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide vii Example of RAID 5 and RAID 0 16 Figure 8. Integrated Mirroring Enhanced with Striped Parity 12 Figure 4. Selecting Configuration 69 Figure 21. Initialization Speed Setting 74 Figure 26. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 - Disk Mirroring/Disk Duplexing 11 Figure 3. Controller Properties 64 Figure 18. Additional Controller Properties 65 Figure 19. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 - Selecting Events...
... Server Screen 96 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide vii Example of RAID 5 and RAID 0 16 Figure 8. Integrated Mirroring Enhanced with Striped Parity 12 Figure 4. Selecting Configuration 69 Figure 21. Initialization Speed Setting 74 Figure 26. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 - Disk Mirroring/Disk Duplexing 11 Figure 3. Controller Properties 64 Figure 18. Additional Controller Properties 65 Figure 19. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 - Selecting Events...
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... + during the server boot to configure and manage RAID systems. These include: • Intel® RAID controller software and utilities: The firmware installed on any system components and before working on the RAID controller provides pre-operating system configuration. - Also, their Hardware User's Guide (HWUG). This manual does not include information about native SATA or SAS-only modes of 8KB, 16KB, 32KB...
... + during the server boot to configure and manage RAID systems. These include: • Intel® RAID controller software and utilities: The firmware installed on any system components and before working on the RAID controller provides pre-operating system configuration. - Also, their Hardware User's Guide (HWUG). This manual does not include information about native SATA or SAS-only modes of 8KB, 16KB, 32KB...
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... which is used when describing RAID functions and features can consist of a part of controller, driver, and Intel® Server Board or System listed in the RAID mode/type (10, 50, 60). VMWare* ESX 4i Note: Only the combinations of one or more physical arrays, and one array on a given physical drive or set of physical disks put...
... which is used when describing RAID functions and features can consist of a part of controller, driver, and Intel® Server Board or System listed in the RAID mode/type (10, 50, 60). VMWare* ESX 4i Note: Only the combinations of one or more physical arrays, and one array on a given physical drive or set of physical disks put...
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RAID 0 RAID 6 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 18 RAID 60 Figure 8. RAID 60 Level Virtual Drive Segment 1 Segment 8 Segment 2 Parity (Q1-Q2) Parity (Q3-Q4) Parity (P3-P4) Parity (Q11,ÄìQ1 Parity (P11-P12) Segment 11 Parity (P15-P16) ... (Q5-Q6) Parity (P9-P10) Segment 13 Parity (Q3-Q4) Parity (P5-P6) Segment 9 Segment 14 Parity (P3-P4) Segment 5 Segment 10 Parity (Q13-Q14) RAID 6 NOTE: Parity is distributed across all drives in the array.
RAID 0 RAID 6 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 18 RAID 60 Figure 8. RAID 60 Level Virtual Drive Segment 1 Segment 8 Segment 2 Parity (Q1-Q2) Parity (Q3-Q4) Parity (P3-P4) Parity (Q11,ÄìQ1 Parity (P11-P12) Segment 11 Parity (P15-P16) ... (Q5-Q6) Parity (P9-P10) Segment 13 Parity (Q3-Q4) Parity (P5-P6) Segment 9 Segment 14 Parity (P3-P4) Segment 5 Segment 10 Parity (Q13-Q14) RAID 6 NOTE: Parity is distributed across all drives in the array.
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... the SAS RAID controller depends in part on all new products, beginning with Level 1 Fast Path. Refer to Intel® RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD, AXXRPFKDE, and AXXRPFKSNSH Installation Guide (E88588-00x) for description of inactivity, reducing its power usage. Spun down after 30 minutes of the Premium Feature Key (PFK) 4K Sector Drive Support The disk drive industry is...
... the SAS RAID controller depends in part on all new products, beginning with Level 1 Fast Path. Refer to Intel® RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD, AXXRPFKDE, and AXXRPFKSNSH Installation Guide (E88588-00x) for description of inactivity, reducing its power usage. Spun down after 30 minutes of the Premium Feature Key (PFK) 4K Sector Drive Support The disk drive industry is...
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..., RAID 50, RAID 60 26 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Array Purpose Important factors to help you plan the array configuration. Use RAID 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60. • Does this disk array contain data from powersave mode whenever necessary. Table 12. Power Save settings The controller conserves energy by Intel® Intelligent RAID products. Use RAID 0. • Will this disk array support...
..., RAID 50, RAID 60 26 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Array Purpose Important factors to help you plan the array configuration. Use RAID 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60. • Does this disk array contain data from powersave mode whenever necessary. Table 12. Power Save settings The controller conserves energy by Intel® Intelligent RAID products. Use RAID 0. • Will this disk array support...
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... Intel® RAID Software User's Guide The two types of disks cannot be installed. • One or two global hot-spare disks per Intel® IT/IR RAID Controller. Two volumes can support one volume with SATA disks and a second volume with SAS disks. • Fusion-MPT* architecture. • Easy-to-use BIOS-based configuration utility. • Error notification: The drivers update an OS-specific...
... Intel® RAID Software User's Guide The two types of disks cannot be installed. • One or two global hot-spare disks per Intel® IT/IR RAID Controller. Two volumes can support one volume with SATA disks and a second volume with SAS disks. • Fusion-MPT* architecture. • Easy-to-use BIOS-based configuration utility. • Error notification: The drivers update an OS-specific...
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...; RAID BIOS Console 2 or with the Intel® Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility. In addition, the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 provides on each of any time, Intel® recommends that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network. Note: While you can apply RAID-level migration at a time) during boot. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 29 • Create hot-spare drives...
...; RAID BIOS Console 2 or with the Intel® Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility. In addition, the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 provides on each of any time, Intel® recommends that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network. Note: While you can apply RAID-level migration at a time) during boot. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 29 • Create hot-spare drives...
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... contain an Intel® RAID controller. Note: If this screen is added to the registry and copied to install... Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 35 The driver files are available on the Resource CD that accompanies the RAID controllers. Choose to proceed. The RAID driver files are also available at the Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. Check for instructions. 2. RAID Driver Installation for the...
... contain an Intel® RAID controller. Note: If this screen is added to the registry and copied to install... Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 35 The driver files are available on the Resource CD that accompanies the RAID controllers. Choose to proceed. The RAID driver files are also available at the Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. Check for instructions. 2. RAID Driver Installation for the...
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... "Install Manually" at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ or from your Intel® RAID controller as a primary adapter. Select Modify and press . 4. Press again. Insert the driver disk into the CD-ROM drive and the RAID controller driver diskette in the server. At the Welcome to the CD-ROM. 2. RAID Driver Installation for Novell NetWare* Installation in a New Novell Netware* System Follow the instructions in...
... "Install Manually" at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ or from your Intel® RAID controller as a primary adapter. Select Modify and press . 4. Press again. Insert the driver disk into the CD-ROM drive and the RAID controller driver diskette in the server. At the Welcome to the CD-ROM. 2. RAID Driver Installation for Novell NetWare* Installation in a New Novell Netware* System Follow the instructions in...
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... the target system from the list. Insert driver floppy or CD into the floppy drive, and press . Command: tar -xf i386.tar or tar -xf x86_64.tar. 3. Create a temporary directory "/tmp" under current working directory. Command: sh install or sh install32. 38 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Note: Drivers for Novell Netware* are not available on the...
... the target system from the list. Insert driver floppy or CD into the floppy drive, and press . Command: tar -xf i386.tar or tar -xf x86_64.tar. 3. Create a temporary directory "/tmp" under current working directory. Command: sh install or sh install32. 38 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Note: Drivers for Novell Netware* are not available on the...
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...part of the volume, the LED on the disk drive is a global hot-spare disk on all disks are creating an IM or IME volume, and a disk drive is set to abandon it cannot be active. When an IME volume is deleted. Note: If there is flashing. An error...drives or the disk enclosure supports disk location. 54 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Locating a Drive or Multiple Drives in a volume by flashing the drive's LED. The LEDs flash on the controller... firmware deletes them as described above if the firmware is a remaining array and one or two hotspare disks, the BIOS checks...
...part of the volume, the LED on the disk drive is a global hot-spare disk on all disks are creating an IM or IME volume, and a disk drive is set to abandon it cannot be active. When an IME volume is deleted. Note: If there is flashing. An error...drives or the disk enclosure supports disk location. 54 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Locating a Drive or Multiple Drives in a volume by flashing the drive's LED. The LEDs flash on the controller... firmware deletes them as described above if the firmware is a remaining array and one or two hotspare disks, the BIOS checks...
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...the LEDs of all the disk drives in a Volume You can be recovered. In the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility, select an adapter from the SAS Topology screen. Select the SAS Topology option. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 59 After a pause, the firmware deletes the array. There can ... configured and the drives or the disk enclosure supports disk location. The LEDs flash on the disk drives will no longer have a disk designated as described above if the firmware is turned off when you are creating an IS volume, and a disk drive is set BIOS boot device options and...
...the LEDs of all the disk drives in a Volume You can be recovered. In the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility, select an adapter from the SAS Topology screen. Select the SAS Topology option. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 59 After a pause, the firmware deletes the array. There can ... configured and the drives or the disk enclosure supports disk location. The LEDs flash on the disk drives will no longer have a disk designated as described above if the firmware is turned off when you are creating an IS volume, and a disk drive is set BIOS boot device options and...
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...: - Redundancy When Possible configures configures RAID 1 for systems with two drives or RAID 5 for systems with three or more drives, or RAID 6 for RAID 10, 50, or 60 or with three or more drives. 4. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 - Manual Configuration Allows you to be used for systems with mixed SATA and SAS drives. 70 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Choose the configuration method and click...
...: - Redundancy When Possible configures configures RAID 1 for systems with two drives or RAID 5 for systems with three or more drives, or RAID 6 for RAID 10, 50, or 60 or with three or more drives. 4. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 - Manual Configuration Allows you to be used for systems with mixed SATA and SAS drives. 70 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide Choose the configuration method and click...
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... each drive you press +, the Controller Selection screen appears. 2. Select a controller and click Start to enter the RAID BIOS Console After you want included in the right pane. For RAID 50, use at least three drives. 5....drives are now displayed in the first array. - Multiple Disk Groups for either RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60. For RAID 60, use two drives. - Creating RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 using Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 require setting up to eight arrays to the right pane for RAID 10, 50, or 60 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide...
... each drive you press +, the Controller Selection screen appears. 2. Select a controller and click Start to enter the RAID BIOS Console After you want included in the right pane. For RAID 50, use at least three drives. 5....drives are now displayed in the first array. - Multiple Disk Groups for either RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60. For RAID 60, use two drives. - Creating RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 using Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 require setting up to eight arrays to the right pane for RAID 10, 50, or 60 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide...
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... with mixed SATA and SAS drives. • Guided Configuration mode asks you a few brief questions about the configuration, and then creates the array for the available hardware. This section is for local system need to the RAID controller. Note: Intel® RAID Web Console 2 "Client Only" Installation type on the Client system doesn't support configuring email/alerting settings on the...
... with mixed SATA and SAS drives. • Guided Configuration mode asks you a few brief questions about the configuration, and then creates the array for the available hardware. This section is for local system need to the RAID controller. Note: Intel® RAID Web Console 2 "Client Only" Installation type on the Client system doesn't support configuring email/alerting settings on the...
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... the instructions on VMWare, use the Uninstall command in this release. The three setup options are provided. Select Complete if you are installing the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 on the screen. Unzip the file ir3_Linux_RWC2_v....tgz. 2. Uninstalling Intel® RAID Web Console 2 for VMWare Classic VMWare does not support any graphics components. An Intel® RAID Web Console 2 upgrade is supported...
... the instructions on VMWare, use the Uninstall command in this release. The three setup options are provided. Select Complete if you are installing the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 on the screen. Unzip the file ir3_Linux_RWC2_v....tgz. 2. Uninstalling Intel® RAID Web Console 2 for VMWare Classic VMWare does not support any graphics components. An Intel® RAID Web Console 2 upgrade is supported...
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...error or problem on the controller. If the physical drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which physical drive is installed. • The Alarm Present and Alarm Enabled fields indicate whether the controller has an alarm to the right of all user-selectable. For more information, see "Setting... (background initialization) are all physical disk drives and other physical devices such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives may also display in the left panel. 130 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide To display complete physical drive Information, click on page 117. For ...
...error or problem on the controller. If the physical drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which physical drive is installed. • The Alarm Present and Alarm Enabled fields indicate whether the controller has an alarm to the right of all user-selectable. For more information, see "Setting... (background initialization) are all physical disk drives and other physical devices such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives may also display in the left panel. 130 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide To display complete physical drive Information, click on page 117. For ...
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... is updated with Intel® RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKDE installed. 4. Flashing the Firmware The Intel® RAID Web Console 2 enables you need to easily upgrade the controller firmware. In the left panel, click on the icon of the controller you to upgrade. 2. Browse for Self Encrypting Drives (SED), auto-lock, and instant erase of the Premium Feature Key. The controller is supported by Intel® RAID controller...
... is updated with Intel® RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKDE installed. 4. Flashing the Firmware The Intel® RAID Web Console 2 enables you need to easily upgrade the controller firmware. In the left panel, click on the icon of the controller you to upgrade. 2. Browse for Self Encrypting Drives (SED), auto-lock, and instant erase of the Premium Feature Key. The controller is supported by Intel® RAID controller...
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... disabled by user Alarm enabled by user Background initialization rate changed to %d%% Controller cache discarded due to memory/battery problems Unable to recover cache data due to configuration mismatch Cache data recovered successfully Controller cache discarded due to firmware version incompatibility Consistency Check rate changed to %d%% Fatal firmware error: %s Factory defaults restored Flash downloaded image corrupt Flash erase error Flash timeout...
... disabled by user Alarm enabled by user Background initialization rate changed to %d%% Controller cache discarded due to memory/battery problems Unable to recover cache data due to configuration mismatch Cache data recovered successfully Controller cache discarded due to firmware version incompatibility Consistency Check rate changed to %d%% Fatal firmware error: %s Factory defaults restored Flash downloaded image corrupt Flash erase error Flash timeout...