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...at the same time can be realized. Chapter 4. For more information about current page on the right pane of the ThinkServer Remote Management Module. By clicking these buttons, you can take the relevant tasks listed in general, this tab allows ..., control several BMCs at present are Chinese and English. The four tabs on the browser have the following table. ThinkServer Remote Management quick start 9 Each tab has one sub-menu (on the page. By clicking this button, you ... Maintenance Group Control Languages Features By clicking this mode, you can update the firmware.
...at the same time can be realized. Chapter 4. For more information about current page on the right pane of the ThinkServer Remote Management Module. By clicking these buttons, you can take the relevant tasks listed in general, this tab allows ..., control several BMCs at present are Chinese and English. The four tabs on the browser have the following table. ThinkServer Remote Management quick start 9 Each tab has one sub-menu (on the page. By clicking this button, you ... Maintenance Group Control Languages Features By clicking this mode, you can update the firmware.
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...status. The default setup is divided into several parts corresponding separately to select the types of the selected sensors. © Copyright Lenovo 2010 15 For more details, see the section below lists the available options on this page: Option The Sensor Selection drop-down..., such as sensor readings and event logs. System information By default, the home page of ThinkServer Remote Management Module shows the system information page including general information of BMC Firmware. The table below . The revision of the system. View System Information The System Information page...
...status. The default setup is divided into several parts corresponding separately to select the types of the selected sensors. © Copyright Lenovo 2010 15 For more details, see the section below lists the available options on this page: Option The Sensor Selection drop-down..., such as sensor readings and event logs. System information By default, the home page of ThinkServer Remote Management Module shows the system information page including general information of BMC Firmware. The table below . The revision of the system. View System Information The System Information page...
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... KVM redirection window from this page. Maintenance You can update the firmware. Chapter 6. Console Redirection The Console Redirection page will reboot after 60... Note: Once you can be installed with the power-off immediately. ThinkServer Remote Management Module Web console options 19 Power Off Serve - Other Control... to you start the redirection console and remotely manage the server. The firmware of the chassis ID light, including four control options: Off (extinguish ...firmware update files can save the settings and shut down the system through the...
... KVM redirection window from this page. Maintenance You can update the firmware. Chapter 6. Console Redirection The Console Redirection page will reboot after 60... Note: Once you can be installed with the power-off immediately. ThinkServer Remote Management Module Web console options 19 Power Off Serve - Other Control... to you start the redirection console and remotely manage the server. The firmware of the chassis ID light, including four control options: Off (extinguish ...firmware update files can save the settings and shut down the system through the...
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If any error is completed successfully, the update firmware window will be sent to the Remote Management Module. By clicking Add Host, you to control multi-host BMC at same time. The languages currently offered are Chinese and English. 20 ThinkServer RD230 and RD240 Remote Management User Guide In the procedure of the Upload...
If any error is completed successfully, the update firmware window will be sent to the Remote Management Module. By clicking Add Host, you to control multi-host BMC at same time. The languages currently offered are Chinese and English. 20 ThinkServer RD230 and RD240 Remote Management User Guide In the procedure of the Upload...
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... Parameters 5.7.5 Display Current BBU Properties 5.7.6 Start BBU Learning Cycle 5.7.7 Place Battery in Low-Power Storage Mode 5.7.8 Set BBU Properties 5.8 Options for Displaying Logs Kept at Firmware Level 5.8.1 Event Log Management 5.8.2 Set BBU Terminal Logging 5-2 5-4 5-4 5-4 5-5 5-6 5-6 5-7 5-7 5-7 5-8 5-9 5-10 5-10 5-10 5-11 5-11 5-11 5-12 5-12 5-13 5-13 5-13 5-14 5-14 5-15 5-16 5-16 5-17...
... Parameters 5.7.5 Display Current BBU Properties 5.7.6 Start BBU Learning Cycle 5.7.7 Place Battery in Low-Power Storage Mode 5.7.8 Set BBU Properties 5.8 Options for Displaying Logs Kept at Firmware Level 5.8.1 Event Log Management 5.8.2 Set BBU Terminal Logging 5-2 5-4 5-4 5-4 5-5 5-6 5-6 5-7 5-7 5-7 5-8 5-9 5-10 5-10 5-10 5-11 5-11 5-11 5-12 5-12 5-13 5-13 5-13 5-14 5-14 5-15 5-16 5-16 5-17...
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... Drives 5-34 5.11.14 Display List of Physical Devices 5-34 5.11.15 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices 5-35 5.12 Enclosure-Related Options 5-35 5.13 Flashing the Firmware 5-35 5.13.1 Flash the Firmware with the ROM File 5-36 5.13.2 Flash the Firmware in Mode 0 with the ROM File 5-36 5.14 SAS Topology 5-36 5.15...
... Drives 5-34 5.11.14 Display List of Physical Devices 5-34 5.11.15 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices 5-35 5.12 Enclosure-Related Options 5-35 5.13 Flashing the Firmware 5-35 5.13.1 Flash the Firmware with the ROM File 5-36 5.13.2 Flash the Firmware in Mode 0 with the ROM File 5-36 5.14 SAS Topology 5-36 5.15...
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9.8 Monitoring Battery Backup Units 9.8.1 Battery Learn Cycle 9.9 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes Chapter 10 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations 10.1 Initializing a Virtual Drive 10.2 Running a Consistency Check 10.3 Scanning for New Drives 10.4 Rebuilding a Drive 10.5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing 10.6 Upgrading the Firmware Appendix A Events and Messages Appendix B Glossary Appendix C Notices 9-22 9-24 9-26 10-1 10-2 10-3 10-3 10-4 10-5 Contents
9.8 Monitoring Battery Backup Units 9.8.1 Battery Learn Cycle 9.9 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes Chapter 10 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations 10.1 Initializing a Virtual Drive 10.2 Running a Consistency Check 10.3 Scanning for New Drives 10.4 Rebuilding a Drive 10.5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing 10.6 Upgrading the Firmware Appendix A Events and Messages Appendix B Glossary Appendix C Notices 9-22 9-24 9-26 10-1 10-2 10-3 10-3 10-4 10-5 Contents
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... to an Controller 5-34 5.58 Display List of Physical Devices Attached to Controller(s) 5-34 5.59 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices 5-35 5.60 Display Enclosure Information 5-35 5.61 Flash Firmware with ROM File 5-36 5.62 Flash Firmware in Mode 0 with ROM File 5-36 5.63 Display PHY Connection Information 5-37 5.64 Start Diagnostics Setting...
... to an Controller 5-34 5.58 Display List of Physical Devices Attached to Controller(s) 5-34 5.59 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices 5-35 5.60 Display Enclosure Information 5-35 5.61 Flash Firmware with ROM File 5-36 5.62 Flash Firmware in Mode 0 with ROM File 5-36 5.63 Display PHY Connection Information 5-37 5.64 Start Diagnostics Setting...
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... II protocols use a thin, 7-wire connector instead of SCSI commands eliminates clock-skew challenges. 1.2 Serial-attached SCSI Device Interface SAS is compatible with existing ATA firmware. 1.3 Serial ATA II Features The SATA bus is the future mainstay of the enterprise and high-end workstation storage markets. The SAS interface uses the...
... II protocols use a thin, 7-wire connector instead of SCSI commands eliminates clock-skew challenges. 1.2 Serial-attached SCSI Device Interface SAS is compatible with existing ATA firmware. 1.3 Serial ATA II Features The SATA bus is the future mainstay of the enterprise and high-end workstation storage markets. The SAS interface uses the...
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... II targets through an expander • Allows multiple initiators to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) through an expander 1.4 Solid State Drive Features MegaRAID firmware supports SSD drives attached to behave like SATA HDDs or SAS HDDs. The major advantages of SSD drives include: • High random read -write head...
... II targets through an expander • Allows multiple initiators to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) through an expander 1.4 Solid State Drive Features MegaRAID firmware supports SSD drives attached to behave like SATA HDDs or SAS HDDs. The major advantages of SSD drives include: • High random read -write head...
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... the power consumption of the devices connected to a designated hot spare or newly inserted drive. Dimmer Switch Feature 1-5 To handle these challenges, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) was developed to share resources more common than in cards. automatically copying data from a drive with potential to fail to a MegaRAID controller. This...
... the power consumption of the devices connected to a designated hot spare or newly inserted drive. Dimmer Switch Feature 1-5 To handle these challenges, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) was developed to share resources more common than in cards. automatically copying data from a drive with potential to fail to a MegaRAID controller. This...
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... SAS devices that are part of a single path, can be replaced and the data automatically rebuilt by multiple paths. The firmware dynamically recognizes new enclosures added to a configuration along with load balancing, instead of the same enclosure. Multipathing provides the following ...group continues to them. Devices connected to enclosures have multiple paths to handle requests while the rebuild occurs. 2.4.4.1 Multipathing The firmware provides support for changing the load balancing path while the system is generated. AENs about drives contain correct information about the...
... SAS devices that are part of a single path, can be replaced and the data automatically rebuilt by multiple paths. The firmware dynamically recognizes new enclosures added to a configuration along with load balancing, instead of the same enclosure. Multipathing provides the following ...group continues to them. Devices connected to enclosures have multiple paths to handle requests while the rebuild occurs. 2.4.4.1 Multipathing The firmware provides support for changing the load balancing path while the system is generated. AENs about drives contain correct information about the...
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... path display this information. The copyback operation runs as a rebuild drive. The drive with parity, checking consistency means computing the data on one enclosure. The firmware supports online replacement of enclosure modules. 2.4.5 Consistency Check The Consistency Check operation verifies correctness of a virtual drive. The failed drive is marked as "failed" only...
... path display this information. The copyback operation runs as a rebuild drive. The drive with parity, checking consistency means computing the data on one enclosure. The firmware supports online replacement of enclosure modules. 2.4.5 Consistency Check The Consistency Check operation verifies correctness of a virtual drive. The failed drive is marked as "failed" only...
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A drive on which the firmware detects an unrecoverable error. Table 2.4 Virtual Drive States State Optimal Degraded Partial Degraded Failed Offline Description The virtual drive operating condition is offline, the cache ... 2.4. RAID 6 can tolerate up and ready for the virtual drive is discarded. A drive that was originally configured as Online or Hot Spare, but which the firmware detects an unrecoverable error; Note: When a virtual drive with cached data goes offline, the cache for use as the RAID configuration is concerned. Components and...
A drive on which the firmware detects an unrecoverable error. Table 2.4 Virtual Drive States State Optimal Degraded Partial Degraded Failed Offline Description The virtual drive operating condition is offline, the cache ... 2.4. RAID 6 can tolerate up and ready for the virtual drive is discarded. A drive that was originally configured as Online or Hot Spare, but which the firmware detects an unrecoverable error; Note: When a virtual drive with cached data goes offline, the cache for use as the RAID configuration is concerned. Components and...
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... controller-encrypted drives, because deleting the virtual disk destroys the encryption keys and causes a secure erase. An optional authenticated mode is supported in the system - Firmware uses the user passphrase to a user passphrase. For Full Disk (FDE) drives, when the drive lock key is deleted, the drive is unlocked and any...
... controller-encrypted drives, because deleting the virtual disk destroys the encryption keys and causes a secure erase. An optional authenticated mode is supported in the system - Firmware uses the user passphrase to a user passphrase. For Full Disk (FDE) drives, when the drive lock key is deleted, the drive is unlocked and any...
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... to the user. Option Description Security Key Un-Authenticated Mode A key based on the controller. In this mode, the security key is irretrievably lost. The firmware (FW) uses a unique 512-bit key for you enter the security key. If the security key is unavailable, user data is encrypted into the security...
... to the user. Option Description Security Key Un-Authenticated Mode A key based on the controller. In this mode, the security key is irretrievably lost. The firmware (FW) uses a unique 512-bit key for you enter the security key. If the security key is unavailable, user data is encrypted into the security...
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This speeds up reads for this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to protect the entire system. If you use either a battery to protect the controller cache, or an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to Writethrough ... read ahead if the two most recent drive accesses occurred in a transaction. This is a power failure, you want the controller to be needed soon. Caution: Lenovo allows Writeback mode to use a battery or a UPS, and there is the default. ◊ Bad BBU: Select this virtual drive: ◊ WBack: In Writeback mode...
This speeds up reads for this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to protect the entire system. If you use either a battery to protect the controller cache, or an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to Writethrough ... read ahead if the two most recent drive accesses occurred in a transaction. This is a power failure, you want the controller to be needed soon. Caution: Lenovo allows Writeback mode to use a battery or a UPS, and there is the default. ◊ Bad BBU: Select this virtual drive: ◊ WBack: In Writeback mode...
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... This enables read ahead capability, which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to be needed soon. Caution: Lenovo allows Writeback mode to store the additional data in sequential sectors. This is the default. ◊ Bad BBU: Select this mode ... sequential data, but the controller has no read ahead). • Write Policy: Specify the write policy for this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to protect the controller cache, or an uninterruptible power Creating a Storage Configuration 4-17 This is the default. ◊ Read...
... This enables read ahead capability, which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to be needed soon. Caution: Lenovo allows Writeback mode to store the additional data in sequential sectors. This is the default. ◊ Bad BBU: Select this mode ... sequential data, but the controller has no read ahead). • Write Policy: Specify the write policy for this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to protect the controller cache, or an uninterruptible power Creating a Storage Configuration 4-17 This is the default. ◊ Read...
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... completion signal to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU. 4-22 WebBIOS Configuration Utility This speeds up reads for this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of data access that the data will be needed soon. This setting is...
... completion signal to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU. 4-22 WebBIOS Configuration Utility This speeds up reads for this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of data access that the data will be needed soon. This setting is...
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...recommended in Standard mode. ◊ WThru: In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to be needed soon. Caution: Lenovo allows Writeback mode to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of requested data and to protect the controller cache, or an ...disables the read ahead). • Write Policy: Specify the write policy for this mode if you do not choose this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU. If you want the controller to use either a battery to ...
...recommended in Standard mode. ◊ WThru: In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to be needed soon. Caution: Lenovo allows Writeback mode to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of requested data and to protect the controller cache, or an ...disables the read ahead). • Write Policy: Specify the write policy for this mode if you do not choose this option, the controller firmware automatically switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU. If you want the controller to use either a battery to ...