Seagate X8 Accelerator Quick Start Guide
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...be created. Detailed instructions are listed in the User Guides, one of the supported versions of the Seagate® X8 Accelerator. Step 5: Create a File System After driver installation the Seagate® X8 Accelerator will reduce the total available storage for performance tuning options.... User Guide for Linux, Windows and vSphere. Use the configuration utility "vgc-config" to install and configure your Seagate Support at http://www.seagate.com/support/. 100731279 Rev. Step 1: Review System Requirements The host system must have 2 to achieve full performance. Run install...
...be created. Detailed instructions are listed in the User Guides, one of the supported versions of the Seagate® X8 Accelerator. Step 5: Create a File System After driver installation the Seagate® X8 Accelerator will reduce the total available storage for performance tuning options.... User Guide for Linux, Windows and vSphere. Use the configuration utility "vgc-config" to install and configure your Seagate Support at http://www.seagate.com/support/. 100731279 Rev. Step 1: Review System Requirements The host system must have 2 to achieve full performance. Run install...
Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Linux
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Contents 13.0 Troubleshooting 21 13.1 Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 21 13.2 Performance is Lower than Expected 22 13.3 Driver Crash on System Boot 22 13.4 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is Hung 22 14.0 Onboard Diagnostic LEDs 22 15.0 Contacting Support 22 iv Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Linux, Rev. A
Contents 13.0 Troubleshooting 21 13.1 Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 21 13.2 Performance is Lower than Expected 22 13.3 Driver Crash on System Boot 22 13.4 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is Hung 22 14.0 Onboard Diagnostic LEDs 22 15.0 Contacting Support 22 iv Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Linux, Rev. A
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... personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to install and use of this license agreement may be found at http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us / support/ downloads/. 2. b Reproduce the Product, in whole or in all right, title, and interest in a "Read Me" file...Software You must not reverse engineer or decompile the Program(s) except to your compliance with the applicable third party service provider. seagate. com/www I en-us /support/downloads/. Subject to the extent permitted by the terms set forth below , sell, assign, license, disclose, or otherwise...
... personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to install and use of this license agreement may be found at http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us / support/ downloads/. 2. b Reproduce the Product, in whole or in all right, title, and interest in a "Read Me" file...Software You must not reverse engineer or decompile the Program(s) except to your compliance with the applicable third party service provider. seagate. com/www I en-us /support/downloads/. Subject to the extent permitted by the terms set forth below , sell, assign, license, disclose, or otherwise...
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...producing or using nuclear weapons, materials, or facilities, missiles or supporting missile projects, or chemical or biological weapons. You acknowledge that you shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the U.S. Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for any restricted end-use of any one...you must possess a valid license to the previous version in order to support the previous versions of the Software upon availability of , any related technical data made available for download under U.S. Seagate has no obligation to use the previous version(s) of the Software in ...
...producing or using nuclear weapons, materials, or facilities, missiles or supporting missile projects, or chemical or biological weapons. You acknowledge that you shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the U.S. Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for any restricted end-use of any one...you must possess a valid license to the previous version in order to support the previous versions of the Software upon availability of , any related technical data made available for download under U.S. Seagate has no obligation to use the previous version(s) of the Software in ...
Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for Linux
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...apt-get install linux-generic". 5.2 SUSE: ENABLE UNSUPPORTED MODULES TO ALLOW DRIVER LOADING While the Seagate X8 Accelerator device driver is fully tested under SUSE Linux, it . Edit the file "/...of your kernel revision ends in Red Hat or CentOS: # service cpuspeed stop # chkconfig cpuspeed off SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV. This can # be disabled. By default, SUSE will... be unable to load without this setting must be changed to allow the Seagate device driver to be loaded, so this change. 5.0 OS SETTINGS 5.1 UBUNTU: USE "GENERIC" ...
...apt-get install linux-generic". 5.2 SUSE: ENABLE UNSUPPORTED MODULES TO ALLOW DRIVER LOADING While the Seagate X8 Accelerator device driver is fully tested under SUSE Linux, it . Edit the file "/...of your kernel revision ends in Red Hat or CentOS: # service cpuspeed stop # chkconfig cpuspeed off SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV. This can # be disabled. By default, SUSE will... be unable to load without this setting must be changed to allow the Seagate device driver to be loaded, so this change. 5.0 OS SETTINGS 5.1 UBUNTU: USE "GENERIC" ...
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... INSTALLED AND DETECTED PROPERLY After powering on the system for the first time with the X8 Accelerator or at http://www.seagate.com/support/ downloads/ for the supported Operating Systems versions. A 8 Log in Ubuntu/ Debian): 1) Drivers RPM: kmod-vgc-drivers---.x86_64.rpm 2) Utilities RPM...packages are using Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, or Fedora Core you are available on the Seagate Support site. If it is still not detected, please contact Seagate support for every device installed. Red Hat, CentOS # rpm -ivh vgc-utils-3.2-55402.C7.x86_64.rpm #...
... INSTALLED AND DETECTED PROPERLY After powering on the system for the first time with the X8 Accelerator or at http://www.seagate.com/support/ downloads/ for the supported Operating Systems versions. A 8 Log in Ubuntu/ Debian): 1) Drivers RPM: kmod-vgc-drivers---.x86_64.rpm 2) Utilities RPM...packages are using Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, or Fedora Core you are available on the Seagate Support site. If it is still not detected, please contact Seagate support for every device installed. Red Hat, CentOS # rpm -ivh vgc-utils-3.2-55402.C7.x86_64.rpm #...
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... and DOD publication): Perform a full chip purge as per manufacturer's data sheets. Complies with sanitization requirements for magnetic disk media are supported by performing a full chip erase as per manufacturer's data sheets • Purge (directly quoting from flash media. Complies with instructions...all user data is being leveraged for a new project by the customer, all addressable locations with a single character, followed by the Seagate Secure Erase Utility. A 13 In most cases, the Clear level of Sanitization in the standards: Clear and Purge. The standards ...
... and DOD publication): Perform a full chip purge as per manufacturer's data sheets. Complies with sanitization requirements for magnetic disk media are supported by performing a full chip erase as per manufacturer's data sheets • Purge (directly quoting from flash media. Complies with instructions...all user data is being leveraged for a new project by the customer, all addressable locations with a single character, followed by the Seagate Secure Erase Utility. A 13 In most cases, the Clear level of Sanitization in the standards: Clear and Purge. The standards ...
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... device in two physical partitions in Max Performance and Max Capacity modes. Only workloads that 550 GB and 1100GB models supports only one physical partition and using the default configuration with vgc-config will erase NOTE existing data on these partitions. ... 16 However, in Max Capacity mode. Making changes with one physical partition. # vgc-config --help vgc-config: 3.2.55402.C7 Utility to configure Seagate X8 Accelerator drives Usage: vgc-config -d|--drive [-l|--list] vgc-config -d|--drive -r|--reset [-f|--force] vgc-config -d|--drive -m |--mode [-f|--force] -n|--num-...
... device in two physical partitions in Max Performance and Max Capacity modes. Only workloads that 550 GB and 1100GB models supports only one physical partition and using the default configuration with vgc-config will erase NOTE existing data on these partitions. ... 16 However, in Max Capacity mode. Making changes with one physical partition. # vgc-config --help vgc-config: 3.2.55402.C7 Utility to configure Seagate X8 Accelerator drives Usage: vgc-config -d|--drive [-l|--list] vgc-config -d|--drive -r|--reset [-f|--force] vgc-config -d|--drive -m |--mode [-f|--force] -n|--num-...
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SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV. A 17 Example: Configure vgca device with two physical partitions in Max Capacity mode: # vgc-config -d vgca -n 2 -m maxcapacity # vgc-... (223.70TB) (reads) 271283269402624 (271.28TB) (writes) Remaining Life : 99.6% Partition State : READY Flash Reserves Left : 99.86% NOTE 550GB and 1100GB devices do not support split partition.
SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV. A 17 Example: Configure vgca device with two physical partitions in Max Capacity mode: # vgc-config -d vgca -n 2 -m maxcapacity # vgc-... (223.70TB) (reads) 271283269402624 (271.28TB) (writes) Remaining Life : 99.6% Partition State : READY Flash Reserves Left : 99.86% NOTE 550GB and 1100GB devices do not support split partition.
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... the format vgc[a,b, ---] : default is all devices: # vgc-diags Example. Please send the vgc.diags.tar file to Seagate technical support whenever requesting technical assistance. # vgc-diags --help vgc-diags: 3.2.55402.C7 Utility to capture Seagate X8 Accelerator diagnostics Usage: vgc-diags -p|--outputpath [-v|--verbose] [device list] vgc-diags [-h|--help] Options: -h| --help : display this...
... the format vgc[a,b, ---] : default is all devices: # vgc-diags Example. Please send the vgc.diags.tar file to Seagate technical support whenever requesting technical assistance. # vgc-diags --help vgc-diags: 3.2.55402.C7 Utility to capture Seagate X8 Accelerator diagnostics Usage: vgc-diags -p|--outputpath [-v|--verbose] [device list] vgc-diags [-h|--help] Options: -h| --help : display this...
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...or abrupt device shutdowns by lowering the IO performance of devices if power consumption and/ or temperature of MySQL InnoDB and XtraDB support increasing IO threads. A MySQL Performance Optimization paper is brought down and stays below the threshold value, IO performance increases and brought...continues to the lowest IO performance if power consumption exceeds 24W and stays above the threshold. Please contact Seagate support for more information on optimizing MySQL on the Seagate X8 Accelerator device. However, if device cools down to enable the highest performance on the...
...or abrupt device shutdowns by lowering the IO performance of devices if power consumption and/ or temperature of MySQL InnoDB and XtraDB support increasing IO threads. A MySQL Performance Optimization paper is brought down and stays below the threshold value, IO performance increases and brought...continues to the lowest IO performance if power consumption exceeds 24W and stays above the threshold. Please contact Seagate support for more information on optimizing MySQL on the Seagate X8 Accelerator device. However, if device cools down to enable the highest performance on the...
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... If the device is detected by lspci, please try a different slot. Enabling swap devices... A 21 Please install vgc-firmware bundle from support site to section 5.2 "Installing drivers and utilities packages". 13.0 TROUBLESHOOTING 13.1 CANNOT FIND BLOCK DEVICE /dev/vgca0 Step 1. If manually starting...) 45801 Expected 52879. If the device is installed, then the device driver will not load. Ensure the vgcd service is created, please contact Seagate support. 3) "vgcd: FATAL: Module vgcdrive not found." In case you see one of vgc-monitor for "VGC" error messages. # cat /var...
... If the device is detected by lspci, please try a different slot. Enabling swap devices... A 21 Please install vgc-firmware bundle from support site to section 5.2 "Installing drivers and utilities packages". 13.0 TROUBLESHOOTING 13.1 CANNOT FIND BLOCK DEVICE /dev/vgca0 Step 1. If manually starting...) 45801 Expected 52879. If the device is installed, then the device driver will not load. Ensure the vgcd service is created, please contact Seagate support. 3) "vgcd: FATAL: Module vgcdrive not found." In case you see one of vgc-monitor for "VGC" error messages. # cat /var...
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... the back bracket and always indicate the state of these LEDs indicates: 15.0 CONTACTING SUPPORT • Email: Support.seagate.com • Phone: 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4238) • Website: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/ssd/x8-accelerator/ SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV. When the system has been debugged...
... the back bracket and always indicate the state of these LEDs indicates: 15.0 CONTACTING SUPPORT • Email: Support.seagate.com • Phone: 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4238) • Website: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/ssd/x8-accelerator/ SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV. When the system has been debugged...
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A 23 INDEX A Auto-Mounting Seagate Device on Linux Systems 11 B Bracket Installation 5 C Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 21 Contacting Support 22 Creating File Systems 11 D Data Sanitization Standards 13 Double Board 5 Driver Crash on System Boot 22 Dynamic Throttling 20 E Enhance Performance by Disabling CPU ... LEDs 22 Operation 14 OS Settings 7 P PCI Slot Selection 5 Performance is Lower than Expected 22 Power Throttling 20 Processor Settings in BIOS 6 R Red Hat, CentOS 8 SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV.
A 23 INDEX A Auto-Mounting Seagate Device on Linux Systems 11 B Bracket Installation 5 C Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 21 Contacting Support 22 Creating File Systems 11 D Data Sanitization Standards 13 Double Board 5 Driver Crash on System Boot 22 Dynamic Throttling 20 E Enhance Performance by Disabling CPU ... LEDs 22 Operation 14 OS Settings 7 P PCI Slot Selection 5 Performance is Lower than Expected 22 Power Throttling 20 Processor Settings in BIOS 6 R Red Hat, CentOS 8 SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR USER GUIDE FOR LINUX, REV.
Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for VMware
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A Contents 12.0 Troubleshooting on ESXi Systems 28 12.1 Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 28 12.2 Performance is Lower than Expected 29 12.3 Driver Crash on System Boot 29 12.4 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is Hung 29 13.0 Onboard Diagnostic LEDs 30 14.0 Contacting Support 30 iv Seagate X8 Accelerator for VMware ESXi User Guide, Rev.
A Contents 12.0 Troubleshooting on ESXi Systems 28 12.1 Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 28 12.2 Performance is Lower than Expected 29 12.3 Driver Crash on System Boot 29 12.4 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is Hung 29 13.0 Onboard Diagnostic LEDs 30 14.0 Contacting Support 30 iv Seagate X8 Accelerator for VMware ESXi User Guide, Rev.
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...for such Third-Party Software for the Third Party Software can be found at http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us / support/ downloads/. 2. If you to link to terms and conditions of Seagate and its suppliers. A 1 The Software includes components that this Section 1 and Sections ...Party Software. c Except as expressly stated herein, this EULA, Seagate grants you any contractual prohibition. e Use the Product to provide services to or include "Third-Party Software". com/www I en-us /support/downloads/. The Software is expressly permitted by third parties ("Third ...
...for such Third-Party Software for the Third Party Software can be found at http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us / support/ downloads/. 2. If you to link to terms and conditions of Seagate and its suppliers. A 1 The Software includes components that this Section 1 and Sections ...Party Software. c Except as expressly stated herein, this EULA, Seagate grants you any contractual prohibition. e Use the Product to provide services to or include "Third-Party Software". com/www I en-us /support/downloads/. The Software is expressly permitted by third parties ("Third ...
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... upgrade to, or a new version of, any Software ("Update") you agree to restricted countries, or used by U.S. Seagate has no obligation to support the previous versions of the Software upon availability of this EULA may not be sold, leased or otherwise transferred to indemnify...in proliferation activities. Further, you acknowledge that you may also be subject to provide support, maintenance, Updates, or modifications under this EULA are not under this EULA. Privacy. SEAGATE DOES NOT PROVIDE THE THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND MAKES NO WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ...
... upgrade to, or a new version of, any Software ("Update") you agree to restricted countries, or used by U.S. Seagate has no obligation to support the previous versions of the Software upon availability of this EULA may not be sold, leased or otherwise transferred to indemnify...in proliferation activities. Further, you acknowledge that you may also be subject to provide support, maintenance, Updates, or modifications under this EULA are not under this EULA. Privacy. SEAGATE DOES NOT PROVIDE THE THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND MAKES NO WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ...
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...(VCLI) http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/ NOTE If any command uses a filename, the file should be present on the target system and not on the ESXi host after logging in via SSH (SSH service must be identified as a Seagate X8 Accelerator device (or as ... --server='lab-m6' --username='root' -password='password' software vib list 5.1 DEVICE DRIVER INSTALLATION & UPDATE Download the device driver offline bundle from Seagate Support website before proceeding. NOTE Full path to the driver offline bundle must be enabled) Syntax ~# esxcli Example ~# esxcli software vib list 2.
...(VCLI) http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/ NOTE If any command uses a filename, the file should be present on the target system and not on the ESXi host after logging in via SSH (SSH service must be identified as a Seagate X8 Accelerator device (or as ... --server='lab-m6' --username='root' -password='password' software vib list 5.1 DEVICE DRIVER INSTALLATION & UPDATE Download the device driver offline bundle from Seagate Support website before proceeding. NOTE Full path to the driver offline bundle must be enabled) Syntax ~# esxcli Example ~# esxcli software vib list 2.
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...Initialize /dev/vgcmgmta-v2_secondary_image Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 1fe0000 -- 100% complete. Remove the current VIBs ### ### 2. The same is supported in this release. Reboot Required: true VIBs Installed: VIBs Removed: Seagate_bootbank_block-vgc_3.2.55402.C7-1OEM.500.0.0.472560, Seagate_bootbank_esxcli-vgc-utils_3.2.55402...driver versions 3.0, 3.1 and 3.1.1 only is also described in few seconds, Please wait... NOTE This is a potentially destructive operation and Seagate recommends the back-up before proceeding. ~# cd /opt/vgc/bin/ /opt/vgc/bin # sh vgc-downgrade.sh WARNING! This ...
...Initialize /dev/vgcmgmta-v2_secondary_image Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 1fe0000 -- 100% complete. Remove the current VIBs ### ### 2. The same is supported in this release. Reboot Required: true VIBs Installed: VIBs Removed: Seagate_bootbank_block-vgc_3.2.55402.C7-1OEM.500.0.0.472560, Seagate_bootbank_esxcli-vgc-utils_3.2.55402...driver versions 3.0, 3.1 and 3.1.1 only is also described in few seconds, Please wait... NOTE This is a potentially destructive operation and Seagate recommends the back-up before proceeding. ~# cd /opt/vgc/bin/ /opt/vgc/bin # sh vgc-downgrade.sh WARNING! This ...
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....500.0.0.472560, Seagate_bootbank_esxcli-vgc-utils_3.2.55402.C7-5.0.0.464360 VIBs Skipped: The host must be rebooted for the changes to be effective. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR VMWARE ESXI USER GUIDE, REV. 2. Now install the previous version of firmware and device driver. 5.3.3 Uninstalling ... completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the X8 Accelerator drivers and utilities to be removed completely from Seagate Support web site. ~ # esxcli software vib install -d /VSI-51450.C6.zip Installation Result Message: The update completed successfully, but...
....500.0.0.472560, Seagate_bootbank_esxcli-vgc-utils_3.2.55402.C7-5.0.0.464360 VIBs Skipped: The host must be rebooted for the changes to be effective. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR VMWARE ESXI USER GUIDE, REV. 2. Now install the previous version of firmware and device driver. 5.3.3 Uninstalling ... completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the X8 Accelerator drivers and utilities to be removed completely from Seagate Support web site. ~ # esxcli software vib install -d /VSI-51450.C6.zip Installation Result Message: The update completed successfully, but...