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SAS RAID2108 User Manual

1. eS dd to SPAN Cancel n Back nm ext Figure4 18 Select Add to SPAN to add array to the Span pool on the right side click Next and press Enter The following screen appears as shown in figure 4 19 segaR ID BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Virtual Drive Definition i A ba Pya RAID Level ams a Virtual Drives Brive Cache rocr Wi Next LD Possible RAID Levels R0 407 917 GE ESOS GE ano BGI Mo Accept gt Reclaim Cancel u Back m Det Figure4 19 4 You can select RAID level strip size read and write policy and other properties of new virtual 38 drive on the screen shown in figure 4 19 39 5 If it is unnecessary to modify properties of virtual drives default properties will be displayed on the screen Here we give a brief introduction on options of virtual drive RAID Level Pull down menu lists RAID levels that virtual drive can create Strip Size Stripe size specifies a size of strip to write in RAID configuration Available strip sizes are 8 16 32 64 and 128 kilobytes A large strip size will improve read performance significantly If computer performs random access request regularly it is recommended to select a small strip size Access Policy Select a data access type allowed by virtual drive Available options are Read Write Read Only and Blocked Read Policy Specify a read policy for disk array Available options Ahead This option has read ahead capacity
2. Connected Port 1 Media Errors 0 Make Global HSP s Make Unconf Bad Prepare Removal amp Locate Figure4 27 Physical device properties are read only and custom description including status properties of 46 physical device Changes in operation list at the bottom of screen depend on drive status If an option is selected click Go to begin operation 1 Make Global HSP Force to adopt HSP mode 2 Locate Make LED of physical device blink It is available only when device have been mounted on disk ports 3 Make Unconf Bad If a selected hard disk is separate from disk array it can be used as global hot spare drive or partial hot spare drive for certain array 4 Prepare Removal A ready to move option may appear 4 4 8 Events Menu SAS controller Firmware monitors all storage configuration system device status and performance When an event occurs for example create a new virtual drive or move a physical device a piece of event information will be generated and saved in NVRAM of controller Click Events in WebBIOS main screen and then event information will appear as shown in figure 4 28 Riega RAID BIOS Config Utility Event Information ah Fel First Sequence 1 515 Last Sequence 5 Event Locale virtual Drive Physical Device Enclosure EEU DALS Start Sequencet jo of Events Max 246 at a
3. If the first or second option is selected all data in the settings will be deleted Be sure to 29 back up the data you want to save before choosing these options Clear Configuration Clear current configuration New Configuration Clear current configuration and guide you to create a new configuration 3 Click Next and the system will prompt ll data on all virtual drives will be lost Are you sure you want to clear the configuration EO ee Figure 4 10 4 System prompts that this operation will destroy the data on all virtual drives Click Yes to continue or click No to go back to previous page as picture 4 2 shows 30 31 FiegaR lD BIOS Config Utility Configuration Wizard Redundancy when possible RSE Figure 4 11 5 On previous screen select a configuration mode Manual Configuration Create a disk array manually and set all properties of storage array Automatic Configuration Redundancy when possible Make an optimum RAID or RAIDS automatically providing data redundancy It is preferred to configure RAID Auto Configuration without Redundancy Create a RAIDO configuration without redundancy automatically As picture 4 11 shows click Next to go to the interface in picture 4 12 iegaRALD BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Preview A 515 Configuration Preview This is the configuration defined Click ACCEPT to save iE this configuration Backplane 64
4. allowing controller to read ahead requested data to memory through estimating data to be used It will improve the speed of continuous data reading but impose little impact on random data access Normal Selecting this option will close Read Ahead function Adaptive When proper read ahead is selected controller will first adopt Read Ahead If the last two disk accesses occur in continuous sectors but read request is random the controller will return to Normal status non read ahead Write Policy Specify read policy of virtual drives Wback write back In write back mode controller will send a transmission completion signal to host when the controller has processed received data This option is recommended as standard mode Wthru In Writethrough mode controller will send a data transmission completion signal to host when disk sub system has received all data transmitted Bad BBU Select this mode when controller has no BBU or BBU has failed but you need controller to use Writeback mode If this mode is not selected controller s Firmware will automatically shift to Writethrough mode when the controller detects BBU failure or can t detect BBU IO Policy IO policy is suitable for reading special virtual drive It imposes no impact on reading ahead cache Drive Cache drive cache policy option Available status open close and unchanged Disable BGI Select No to allow opening background initialization which means
5. and click lt OK gt L O see deat K IDUPCE 6 Select lt dev sdal gt on the pop up window and click OK to continue Driver Disk Source TETE 7 In case where the USB drive contains several drivers the Driver Selection window appears where you can select a proper driver and click lt OK gt and press Enter Then the system begins to install the driver and the following window pops up to prompt whether to add other drivers upon completion of 17 the installation 8 If you need to add other drivers click Yes and follow above instructions to add other drivers If no other drivers to add select No and following instructions to complete the installation of Red Hat Linux operating system As shown in the figure below sdb 1907MB USB DISK Pro represents USB drive Uncheck USB drive in the File System Type during the partition creation Add Partition Mount Point Y sda 952714 MB LSI oe Allowable Drives Additional Size Options Fixed size Fill all space up to MB f E Fill to maximum allowable size _ Force to be a primary partition Note Under RedHat Linux 5 0 operating system or above the system can automatically detect USB drive during the partition creation Be sure to uncheck USB drive in the File System Type to avoid 18 creating partition on USB drive 3 3 SUSE Linux 10 SP2 Operating System Installation 1 Use the above method introduced to copy the HDD cont
6. image in over two disks which are very similar RAID1 adopts n plus n protection mode so double number of disks is required 2 Application It enjoys relatively high performance and reliability in reading operation intensive OLTP and other transaction data Other applications also benefit from RAID1 for example e mail operating system application files and random access environment RAID level RAIDO 1 1 Characteristics Data stripe and image are available and n plus n drives are used enjoying higher stripe performance and image reliability In case of one disk drive fault performance and reliability will not be affected But in RAIDO drive fault will affect performance and reliability Furthermore disk stripe technology will improve performance 2 Application OLTP and I O intensive application ask for high performance and reliability including transaction log log file data index etc The total cost is calculated based on each I O operation rather than each storage unit cost RAID level RAID1 0 RAID10 1 Characteristics Similar to RAIDO 1 data stripe and image are available and n n drives are used enjoying higher stripe performance and image reliability RAID10 differs from RAIDO 1 in achieving image functions following centralized stripe of all disks 2 Application OLTP and I O intensive applications necessitate high performance and reliability including transaction log log file data index etc The total cost
7. is a 6 Gbps and 8 port SAS RAID card If SAS RAID 2108 has been installed on your computer please refer to product specifications according to your needs One Product interface specification 1 Bus interface PCI E 2 0 x8 interface 2 SAS interface every SAS TAID card contains 2Mini SAS SFF 8087x4 internal interfaces Two Description of basic functions 1 Disk Type supports SAS and SATA hard disk of 6 Gbps and 3Gpbs supports SDD disk supports insertion of different types of disks 2 RAID level supports multiple Stripe Size settings 3 Hot backup battery supports optional hot backup battery 4 Maximum number of physical disks Through SAS Expander cascade each SAS RAID card supports no less than 120 disks 5 Maximum number of virtual disks no less than 64 6 Hot spare function supports Global hot spare function and hot spare function for specified array 7 Disk location supports Disk LED location in both WebBIOS and Operating System 8 Online capacity expansion supports online capacity expansion 9 RAID level immigration supports RAID level immigration 10 Auto rebuild function After fault hard disk 1s replaced with new disk RAID can be auto rebuilt 11 Background initialization After creating a new RAID background initialization is supported 12 RAID Array Drive Roaming Drive roaming is supported It means that RIAD configuration and disk data will not lose after the same type of SAS RAID card is replaced 13 Firmw
8. on RAID Basic Knowledge RAID an acronym for Redundant Arrays of Independent Disk is a cheap redundant disk array RAID falls into soft array and hard array Soft array is achieved through software which needs computer processor to provide computing capacity and only basic RAID fault tolerance functions are available Hard array means that separate hard ware RAID card for example provides control and computing functions of whole disk arrays Separate processor is available on RAID card independent of system CPU resource All necessary fault tolerance functions are available for hard RAID so it can provide better functions and performance than soft array SAS RAID 2108 card supports RAID 0 1 5 6 10 50 60 Simple Volume and JBOD It also supports multiple Stripe Size settings Here we give a brief introduction on RAID levels characteristics RAID level RAID 0 1 Characteristics Data is transferred among over two disk drives parallel with I O system to improve I O performance If n represents the number of disks each disk drive stores one nth of data 2 Application Relatively higher read and write performance but the data is not redundant RAIDO itself is only suitable for the applications that have fault tolerance for data access and data that can be 5 rebuilt in other approaches RAID level RAID1 1 Characteristics Disk image is supported which can protect data and improve data read performance RAID1 can build data
9. system will automatically start rebuild operation Chapter 2 Driver CD Utility This chapter mainly introduces the use of driver CD including how to make the driver in Windows and Linux operating system respectively and how to use Inspur driver U disk and floppy drive to make the driver Before installing the system please read this chapter carefully to properly make the driver so as to ensure successful operating system installation 2 1 Driver Making With RAID CARD Driver CD Make RAID Card Driver CD automatically run or manually run the setup exe in the root directory the following screen appears el gt a wit 1 Click Make Driver the following screen appears SE Make Floppy Driver filmy _ Dear Inspur User According to your needed installation OS please choose the following items in the dropdown menu insert the Inspur U disk click Make Driver button finish the Driver making Please select OS 2 Select an operating system that you want to install in the pull down menu of Operating System Selection and click Make Driver The Driver Creation screen will vary depending on the selected operating system Here we give instructions respectively 2 2 Driver Making for Windows Operating System When making the Driver for Windows operating system the Driver will be directly copied to the virtual floppy drive A for the Inspur driver U disk Select a Windows Operating System version and click Make Dri
10. time ENE Figure 4 28 Attention The right area of the screen is blank until an event 1s selected Follow these steps to view event information 1 Select an event in menu and for example select Enclosure to view information of events 47 associated with disk Event types include Information Warning Misidentification Fatal Fault and Full Fault 2 Enter a beginning sequence number 3 Enter an event type you want to view and click Go Then the first event in the sequence will be displayed on the right panel 4 Click Next and Prev to view next or previous page event information 5 If you want to view other event information select a different event standard on the left side of panel then click Go 6 Event information includes event occurrence time and detailed description 4 4 9 Exit Menu Select this menu and press Enter to exit configuration program Chapter 5 MSM Software MAM is the abbreviation of MegaRaid Storage Manager It enables you to configure monitor and change configurations on controllers Its graphical user interface makes use easier It supports the Windows and Linux operating systems Its management functions are similar to WebBIOS Configuration Utility a Html based configuration tool we have expatiated in previous chapter So only the installation and notes are concerned in this chapter but the configuration and application guide are not covered Here we only introduc
11. Cluster Mode Disabled y E Alarm Control Disabled Rebuild Rate EN l Patrol Read Rate EZ BGI Rate EN Cache Flush Interval EM CC Rate so Spinup Drive Count l ll Reconstruction Rate 0 Spinup Delay Controller BIOS StopOnError Enabled y vo eee E Figure 4 4 3 Scan Devices Menu Select this option to re scan for any changes in the status of drives and physical configuration WebBIOS displays physical drives and logical drives record scanned 4 4 4 Virtual Drives Menu Select this menu to view virtual drives where you can change and view properties of virtual drives delete virtual drive initialize drive and perform other tasks as shown in below figure 23 FiegaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Virtual Drives DO RAIDS 271 545 GB Optimal 26 Figure 4 5 Select Properties and Go the system will enter into the below figure a kie egaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Virtual Drive 0 meae Properties RAID Level 5 status Optimal Strip Size 1MB Capacity 271 945 GB Policies Access Ry Read Normal KJ Disk Cache NoChange 7 1 0 Direct E Disable BGI mo W Default Write Write Through Current Write Write Through Change Operations c Delete Locate C Fast Init co Slow Init o cc O Adv Opers O Expand Properties panel displays RAID properties RAID policies and other RAID options for example delete Del button and move cursor to Go button RAID array
12. Config Wizard Drive Group Definition 515 By Drive Group Definition To add drives to Drive Group hold Control key while selecting Unconf Good drives and click on Add to Array Then Accept Drive Group Drive addition can be undone by selecting the Reclaim button Drives Drive Groups Backplane 64 HE Drive Groupo m olot 0 545 HDD 135 972 GB Uncon a olot 1 SAS HDD 135 972 GE Uncon Us Slot 2 545 HDD 135 972 GB Uncon 4 es Add To Array Xx Cancel u Back m ext Figure 4 15 On the disk Group Definition screen select physical hard disk to create disk array 1 Press ALT D to enter disk selection state press Shift and select physical drive that are ready to create disk array on the left side of the window Move cursor to Add To Array press Enter and then the following screen appears as shown in figure 4 16 Attention Select two physical drive to create RAID1 array and select three physical drive to create RAIDS array 35 segaR ID BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Drive Group Definition fi 515 Drive Group Definition To add drives to Drive Group hold Control key while selecting Unconf Good drives and click on Add to Array Then Accept Drive Group Drive addition can be undone by selecting the Reclaim button Drives Drive Groups Backplane 64 HE Drive Groupo Hiki Slot 0 545 ADD 135 972 GE Onlin i Hiki alot 1 545 HDD 135 972 GB Onlin 5 HDD 13 Ls Sl
13. Displaying log from server Figure 5 11 The main screen is divided into three parts 1 Dashboard 56 Display status of master controller and hard disks as shown in figure 5 11 Using View server profile detailed information on managed host can be displayed when you can view it by directly clicking relative link 2 Physical Display information on physical drives in the system as shown in figure 5 12 3 MegaEAID Storage Manager 6 90 0500 na g L SI A s 520eT0 c6lal4 E LST MegaRAID SAS 9260 Bi Bus T Dev 0 Ei Backplane 252 SATA 149 051 GB Online SATA 149 051 GB Online SATA 149 051 GB Online SATA 149 051 GB Online 42 Infor 2010 10 15 11 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 41 Infor 2010 10 13 Me Successful log out from the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Client Ti 7 40 Infor 2010 10 13 113 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 39 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Controller ID O Time established since power on Time 2010 10 13 11 14 41 Figure5 12 3 Logical Display information on logical disks in the system as shown in figure 5 13 MegaRAID Storage Manager 6 90 0500 s 526eT08c61a14 E LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260 81 Bus T Dev 0 EB Drive Group 0 RAID 5 SETT Virtual Drive s Y Virtual Drive 0 297 062 GB Opt Y Drives E
14. Drive Group O 5 Slot 0 545 HDD 135 972 GE onlin a Virtual Drivel RAIDS 271 945 GB HIK Slot 1 545 HDD 135 972 GE Onlin HK Slot 2 S45 HDD 135 972 GE Onlin Y Cancel Back 3 Accept Figure 4 12 Here we give an introduction on making RAID automatically and manually respectively Automatic configuration utility The following steps show hot to make a RAID configuration without redundancy automatically 1 As shown in figure 4 12 click Accept to accept configuration or click Back to change configuration If Auto Configuration with Redundancy is selected WebBios will create RAIDS when there are three available disks It will create RAID1 when there are only two available disks 32 RiegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Confirm Page save this Configuration 1 Best Figure 4 13 When the system prompts Save this configuration click Yes The system will prompts a screen as picture 4 14 shows hiegaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Confirm Page All data on the neu Virtual Drives will be lost Want to Initialize ey e Figure 4 14 3 When you are prompted to initialize virtual drive click Yes and then WebBIOS will begin to 33 initialize virtual drive in background mode 34 Manual Configuration Utility On the screen shown in figure 4 11 select Manual Configuration and click Next and the following screen appears as shown in figure 4 15 ieqaRAID BIOS Config Utility
15. Hki Slot 2 SAS HDD 135 972 GB Onlin Figure 4 22 10 If disk configuration above is confirmed click Accept to enter the screen below iegaR ID BIOS Config Utility Confirm Page save this Configuration 7 EXE 43 Figure 4 23 11 Click Yes to save the configuration and the system prompts segaR ID BIOS Config Utility Confirm Page All data on the neu Virtual Drives will be lost Want to Initialize PSE aes 44 Figure 4 24 12 Click Yes to save configuration RAID array configuration completes and then enter the screen below FiegaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Virtual Drives YEO RAIDS 271 945 GE Optimal Figure 4 25 On this screen you can select fast initialization After Fast Initialize is selected click Go to start array initialization 45 xiegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Confirm Page All data on selected Virtual Drives will be lost Want to Proceed with Initialization es ee Figure 4 26 Select Yes to start initialization Upon initialization press Home to go back 4 4 7 Physical View Menu Physical View Physical drive screen lists properties and content of selected physical device and physical device that can be operated as shown in below figure Miega RAID BIOS Config Utility Drive 0 Connector Port pee Enclosure ID asz de rive Group oO Model Name i Hitachi HTE54501 Vendor jaa Revision EE Slot Number IN Device Type HDD SATA
16. Making completes and then click OK 2 4 Make the Driver for Suse Linux Operating System When making the Driver for Suse Linux operating system the Driver will be directly copied to the virtual floppy drive A for the Inspur driver U disk Select a Suse Linux Operating System version you want to install and click Make Driver as shown in the figure below 13 Dear Inspur User According to your needed installation OS please choose the following items in the dropdown menu insert the Inspur U disk click Make Driver button finish the Driver making Please select OS SUSE Linux 10 sp2 32 v a o I z eee Scan o gt a ij 7 4 A o A BR pas A 5114 ol Make Driver l F ee P gt i 14 t es sib J el gt A te gt 4 i 5 woi t gt gt lt As shown in figure below the system prompts Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy Disk connect the USB drive to your PC and click OK Make Driver Inspur driver U disk E _ ar Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy Disk The system begins to copy the Driver Soon the system pops up a window prompting that Driver Making completes and then click OK 14 Chapter 3 Operating System Installation Guide This chapter mainly introduces how to load RAID card driver in Windows and Linux operating system Detailed steps for operat
17. Next gt to continue On the next screen as shown in Figure 5 4 50 you can select an installation path E MegaRAID Storage Manager v6 90 0500 InstallShield F X Destination Folder Y A Hes Click Nest bo install to this Folder or click Change to install to a different Folder Install MegaR 410 Storage Manager v6 90 0500 to D Program FilesiMegaR AID Storage Manager InstallShield Cancel Figure 5 4 5 Click lt next gt to continue and then new screen appears as shown in 5 5 Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs Please select a setup type Figure 5 5 51 6 You can select a setup type depending on your requirement Click lt Next gt to continue and then the next screen appears as shown in figure 5 6 Ready to Install the Program The wizard is ready to begin installation Click Install to begin the installation Click Back bo review or change any of your installation settings Click Cancel to exit the utility Figure 5 6 Click lt Install gt to install the program When it completes the next screen appears as shown in Figure 5 7 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Y6 90 0500 The program Features you selected are being installed Please wait while the InstallShield Wizard installs MegaRAID Storage Manager v6 90 0500 This ma
18. No Device No Type Firmware Version 0 y 7 0 LSI MegaRAID SAS9260 8i 2 90 03 0933 PP A Y figure 4 1 When the cursor falls on the Start key please press Enter to enter the interface as figure 4 2 shows Attention When mouse is inactive press TAB button to shift 21 iegaR lD BIOS Config Utility Virtual Configuration Logical View Unconfigqured Drives Backplane 64 Slot 0 545 ADD 135 972 GB Unconfiqured Controller Selection Backplane 64 Slot 1 545 HDD 135 972 GB Unconfiqured Controller Properties Scan Devices Yirtual Drives Drives Configuration Wizard hb Physical View Figure4 2 Table 4 1 Introduction on WebBIOS Toolbar Icons 22 Function Description Click this icon to return to main screen from any other WebBIOS screen Click this icon to return to previous screen that you were viewing Click this icon to exit the WebBIOS program Click this icon to turn off the sound on the onboard controller alarm Click this icon to display information about the WebBIOS version and browser version o The following is the basic description of menus listed on the left side of WebBIOS main screen and detailed description can be referred to following chapters Attention Press TAB button to shift 4 4 Introduction on SAS RAID 2108 Main Menu This sector mainly explains the menu of setting program including disk array create and view 4 4 1 Controller Selection M
19. S Backplane 252 Slot 1 SATA P Backplane 252 Slot 2 SATA EP Backplane 252 Slot 4 SATA E Backplane 252 Slot 5 SATA ES Total Free Capacity 148 532 GB J Capacity 148 532 GB ID Error Dates Time 3 3 3 53535 Derion 3 O 42 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 41 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Successful log out from the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Client Ti 40 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 39 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Controller ID O Time established since power on Time 2010 10 13 11 14 41 58 Figure5 13 Appendix A Technical Support If you have any questions or problems that can t be solved during using Inspur server please feel free to 1 Contact your product provider when you have any questions about product configuration and specification 2 Directly contact the Inspur Server Technical Support Center when your computer system has any problems Our technical staff will offer solution or on site maintenance after receiving your service request 3 You can contact the Inspur Server Technical Support Center by telephone or through e mail Technical Service Telephone 86 531 88546554 Free Hotline 800 8600011 E mail sv_str_pcs inspur com 59
20. User Manual for SAS RAID 2108 Dear User of Inspur Heartfelt thanks to you for your use of Inspur Product In the user manual for our product operating system installation adopts the installation method based on standard configuration However the product you purchased has reinforced functions For installation of operating systems the product supports please refer to related part in this user manual This manual is the property of the Inspur Group Co Ltd Please deliver the package of our product to the waste recycling station for recycling in favor of pollution prevent and benefit the humankind This User Manual is not to be copied by any group or person in any manner without the consent of Inspur Group Co Ltd The Inspur Group Co Ltd reserves the right of revise this manual momentarily Any alteration about the content of this manual will be noticed Please contact Inspur Group Co Ltd if you have any questions or advice about this manual Inspur Group Co Ltd July 2011 Inspur is registered trade marks of the Inspur Group Co Ltd Other trade marks belong to other corresponding registered companies Regarding the Manual Chapterl Introduction on SAS RAID 2108 This chapter mainly introduces the specification performance structure RAID level and other basic knowledge about SAS RAID 2108 Before you use this RAID card please read carefully this part especially the RAID level part which can give you su
21. Virtual Drive Option to perform operations on physical drive 3 Log 55 Save Save event log as file in log format Save as text Save event log as file in txt format Clear Clear event log Load Load event log saved before 4 Tools Configure Alerts Configure transfer mode of alerts 5 Help Contents Illumination documents for management software You can refer to it when facing problems About MegaRAID Storage Manager Display software version and version information 5 3 MSM Configuration The main screen of MSM configuration is shown in Figure 5 11 E MezgaRAID Storage Manager 6 90 0500 E lej x Manage Ga To Log Tools Help tS ORTO Na LSI es u Welcome adminis Log 0 Froperties igi Status ad Enclosures Total capacity Backplanes 594 125 GB Configured Capacity 594 125 GB E Drives ES Drive groups Unconfigured Capacity O Bytes E Virtual Drive ls View server profile la MY 42 Infor 2010 10 13 110 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 41 Infor 2010 10 13 li Successful log out from the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Client Ti 40 Infor 2010 10 13 113 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 39 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Controller ID O Time established since power on Time 2010 10 13 11 14 41
22. are update supports firmware update 14 Disk location and fault disk LED alarm Through SGPIO transport protocol hard disk LED location and fault hard disk LED indication can be achieved 15 Beeper alarm Beeper alarm is available in case of disk fault and offline 16 Virtual drive verification or virtual disk conformity test and fixing function are supported Three Disk Management 1 Supports Disk management by means of WebBIOS 2 Supports disk management in command line 3 Supports Disk management in operating system Windows operating system preferred Four Product Performance Under the same test environment it has equivalent performance with 6 Gbps SAS RAID sta Five Reliability MTBF more than 400 000 hours Six Product Structure Low profile card and half length cards have both low profile and full profile I O tailgates Seven Operating System Compatibility Following operating systems and monitoring software are compatible Windows Server 2003 x32 x64 Windows Server 2008 x32 x64 Red hat Enterprise Server 4 x x32 x64 Red hat Enterprise Server 5 x x32 x64 Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 x32 x64 Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x32 x64 Centos 5 2 Enterprise Server x32 x64 Centos 5 1 Enterprise Server x32 x64 Free BSD 7 0 and more advanced edition Eight Product Craft 1 RoHS 10 years 2 EMC Class B Nine Working Environment 1 Working temperature 0 C 55 C 2 Relative humidity 5 90 Non condensing 1 2 Introduction
23. can meet application requirement 1 3 Introduction on Essential Terms of RAID 1 Battery backup Normally it is optional which provides data protection for RAID cache after power failure in some special applications Generally it can only protect data security for cache within 72 hours after power failure Once the system restores cache data will be re written to hard disks or other storage system As battery has a limited life it is required to replace a new one when it is charged for about 1100 times 2 Hot fix hot spare disks Hot fix disk can automatically replace the failed disk having matched capacity and the array starts rebuilding action in case where one or two disks in array failed Notes Be sure that the capacity of hot fix disk is equal to or more capacious than the largest disk to be protected 3 Array Roaming compatibility It allows complete RAID array transfer from one server system to another and ensures the completeness of data and configuration information Array roaming is based on the premise of compatibility between RAID controllers for two systems that is RAID configuration information written into disks shares the same data format The feature also allows replacing another compatible one in case of a RAID card on server failed to prevent data in disk array from losing 4 Array level migration As data application changes in user storage array it is possible to bring the performance of array into f
24. e has no existing partitions the USB drive occupies the C drive letter If the hard disk has existing partitions and the USB drive occupies the D drive letter you need to delete all partitions on hard disk D and make new partitions again the USB drive will not occupy hard drive letter anymore The following steps are shown as pictures below Follow the prompts of the system and complete the installation Notes Be sure to distinguish the USB drive and hard drive and must not delete or format the USB drive 6 Follow instructions to continue until Windows 2003 operating system is installed 3 2 RedHat Linux Operating System Installation Note The Inspur driver U disk only supports the creation of Driver under Red Hat Linux 4 5 operating system or above and the Driver has to be copies to the normal partition of USB drive 1 Use the above method introduced to copy the HDD controller Driver to the normal partition of USB drive Note Not allowed to copy to the virtual drive A 2 Connect the Inspur driver U disk to your PC power up the server insert the Operating System Installation CD into your CD ROM drive and enter BIOS settings to enable Boot from CD ROM drive 3 Enter linux dd when prompting boot and press Enter to continue 4 You are prompted that Do you have a driver disk click lt Yes gt and press Enter to continue 16 Driver 5 You are prompted to select Driver Disk Source select sda
25. e the installation in the Windows operating systems 5 1 MSM Installation MegaRaid Storage Manager software is an object oriented GUI storage manager software which can monitor configure and manage both local and remote storage arrays 5 1 1 MSM Functions 1 Disk array configuration wizard 2 Online seamlessly extended FlexRAID function 3 RAID level migration 4 Array performance monitoring 5 Pre define the conformity check for calendar data 6 SMART and SAF TE management features supported 48 5 1 2 MSMInstallation Environment The hardware requirements for MegaRaid Storage Manager software are as follows Processor Intel A 32 32 bit or EM64T 64 bit Memory 128 Mbytes or above 256 Mbytes recommended Available free space of hard disk 50 Mbytes or above 5 1 3 MSM Installation Procedures Follow these steps to install the software 1 Insert the installation CD contained in the RAID card package into your CD ROM drive Open the MSM 6 90 05_Windows_MSM DISKI folder and double click the setup exe file to start the MSM Installation Program A screen appears as shown in Figure 5 1 E MegaRAID Storage Manager v6 90 0500 InstallShield F X Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for MegaRAID Storage Manager v6o 90 0500 The InstallShield R Wizard will install MegaRAID Storage Manager 6 90 0500 on your computer To continue click Next WARNING This program is protected by copyright law and i
26. enu If there are several controllers in the system use this option to select an adapter 4 4 2 Controller Properties Menu Controller Properties option explains how to use WebBIOS to observe and change properties of adapters virtual drives and physical drives As picture 4 2 shows select Controller Properties and press Enter the system will enter the following screen 23 wegaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Controller Information LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260 81 None FRU None SublendorlD lOX1bd4 Drive Security Capable SubDevicelID O PortCount g HostInterface PCIE NURANSize 32KB Firmuare Version 2 90 03 0933 Memory Size EZET 112 90 0 0037 Min Stripe Size 8KB lJulos 2010 MaxStripe Size 1MB 6 0 18 Rel Virtual Drive Count 4 FW Package Version Firmware Time WebBIOS Version Drive Count E Hotspare SpanDown Enabled Unconfig Good SpinDown Enabled SpinDown Time 30 minutes Figure 4 3 This screen displays read only properties that cannot be modified directly The screen lists the number of virtual drives that have been defined on this adapter and the number plus the number of physical drives connected to the adapter The system will enter a more specified interface by clicking Enter 24 FiegaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Controller Properties Properties Battery Backup None Coercion Mode 1GB 0ay wl 1GB way y Set Factory Defaults No yl S M A R T Polling a E seconds
27. figurations might not support this function 3 If a selected hard disk is separate from disk array it can be used as global hot spare disk or partial hot spare disk for certain array 4 4 6 Configuration Wizard Menu RAID array create This sector explains how to use WebBIOS configuration wizard to set RAID array and virtual drive The following steps show how to start configuration wizard 1 On WebBIOS main screen click Configuration Wizard then the first configuration wizard screen appears as shown in figure 4 9 MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Configuration Wizard fi 515 Configuration Wizard guides you through the steps for configuring the MegaRAID ysten easily and efficiently The steps are as follows 1 Drive Group definitions Group drives into Drive Groups amp Virtual Drive definitions Define virtual drives using those drive groupes 2 Configuration Preview Preview configuration before it 13 saved Please choose appropriate configuration type if Clear Configuration Allows you to clear existing configuration only OO New Configuration Clears the existing configuration If you have any existing data in the earlier defined drives the data will be lost f ddd Configuration Retains the old configuration and then adds new drives to the configuration This is the safest operation as it does not result in any data loss Cancel m Next Figure 2 Select a configuration option Warning
28. ggestion and advice about what kind fof RAID level suit your application more Chapter 2 Driver CD Utility This chapter mainly introduces the use of driver CD including how to make the driver in Windows and Linux operating system respectively and how to use Inspur driver U disk and floppy drive to make the driver Before installing the system please read this chapter carefully to properly make the driver so as to ensure successful operating system installation Chapter 3 Operating System Installation Guide This chapter mainly introduces how to load RAID card driver in Windows and Linux operating system Detailed steps for operating system installation have been demonstrated in the user manual for this product If you have any questions during the installation please refer to Operating System Installation part in the user manual If you need any further assistance please contact our customer service center and our professional service engineer will solve installation problems for you Chapter4 Configuration and Usage of SAS RAID 2108 This chapter focuses on the configuration and usage of SAS RAID 2108 including how to make configure and delete RAID SAS RAID 2108 provides Configuration tool WebBIOS Configuration Utility which is based ton Html to assist administrator maintain and manage the system Chapter 5 MSM Software This chapter mainly introduces the installation configuration and usage of MSM software on machines insta
29. ing system installation have been demonstrated in the user manual for this product If you have any questions during the installation please refer to Operating System Installation part in the user manual If you need any further assistance please contact our customer service center and our professional service engineer will solve installation problems for you 3 1 Windows Server 2003 Operating System Installation 1 Use the above method to copy the Driver on hard disk drive to the virtual floppy drive A for the Inspur driver U disk 2 Connect the Inspur driver U disk to your PC boot the server insert the Operating System Installation CD into your CD ROM drive and enter BIOS settings to enable Boot from CD ROM Drive 3 When the screen appears Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver press to install the driver 4 When the system displays setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage press S Press Enter the system then displays the list of drivers contained in the Inspur driver U disk You can select an appropriate driver and then press Enter to automatically install the driver 5 Follow instructions to continue the installation program the Disk Partition screen appears listing all existing partitions and unpartitioned space on the server The Inspur driver U disk occupies a drive letter as shown below 15 On the above screen as the hard disk driv
30. is calculated based on each I O operation rather than each storage unit cost RAID level RAIDS 1 Characteristics Disk stripe and floating parity protection mode are provided in n 1 mode providing high reliability for most users and I O stream concurrent operation and enjoying high read performance Vacant disk drives can be used to rebuild data disk rebuild so as to prevent data from re destroying after disk rebuild 2 Application Reduce the number of necessary disks and provide good reliability and read performance If write cache is not used write performance will be affected to some extent Applications RAIDS suits including relational data read intensive database form file sharing and web application RAID level RAID6 1 Characteristics Disk stripe and floating parity are provided in double parity mode which are designed to minimize the influence on data reliability during disk rebuilding especially when using high capacity fiber channel and SATA disk drives The problem for RAID6 and other multiple drive parity mode lies in that parity is necessary when writing data or rebuilding fault disk drives when performance will be affected 2 Application In general if you want to achieve high performances read and write operations using 6 small disk drive is feasible avoiding using RAID6 On the other hand if you want to store mass data but storage position may be rebuilt Proper configuration of RAIDS and RAID6
31. lled SAS RAID 2108 Appendix A Technical Supports This part provides contact information and service of out technical supports Contents Chapter 1 Introduction on SAS RAID 2108 ici acarici 4 PP PROAUCE SPECIAL CAOS AA ERA AAA AAA AAA DER A 4 1 2 Introduction on RAID Basic Knowledge cocoooooooooooooccccccccnnnnononnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnanos 5 1 3 Introduction on Essential Terms of RAID ooooooooooocccnncccccnnonononnnnnonononononnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnns 8 Chapter 2 Diver CDA A E 9 2 1 Driver Making With RAID CARD Driver CD ooooooooononcccncnononnnonononononnnnnooncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnss 9 2 2 Driver Making for Windows Operating SysteM ocooooooooooooooccccnncnnnnnnnnnnonononononanancnnnncnnnnnnnnnnos 10 Chapter 3 Operating System Installation Guide cooooooooooooooccnncnnnnnonnnnnnnnnonononononnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 15 3 1 Windows Server 2003 Operating System Installation ococcccccccccnnnnnoonnononnncnnnccnnnnnnnnnnos 15 3 2 Red Hat Linux Operating System Installation ooooooooonnncncncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonononnncnnnnnnnnnnononos 16 3 3 SUSE Linux 10 SP2 Operating System Installation oooccccncncccccnnnonononononnnnnnnnccnnnnnnnonos 19 Chapter 4 Configuration and Use of SAS RAID 2108 ooooooonnnnnncccconcnnnonononnnononoooncncnncnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnos 20 4 1 Introduction on WebBIOS Configuration Utility oocccccccccnnnnononononnnnn
32. ls O Unconfigured Capacity O Bytes View server profile al Description 42 Infor 2010 10 13 110 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 41 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Successful log out from the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Client Ti 40 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 127 0 0 1 Access Mode 39 Infor 2010 10 13 11 Controller ID O Time established since power on Time 2010 10 13 11 14 41 Displaying log from server Figure 5 10 Here we give an introduction on main options in each sub menu Those options not commonly used will not be expatiated any more 1 Manage Refresh Refresh software configuration screen or you can press F5 to perform this operation Server Display basic information of server to be managed Check Consistency Array Consistency check menu Initialize Virtual disk Initialization Menu it can be used to initialize virtual drive Show Progress Show progress of array consistency check Exit exit the software 2 Go To Controller Select a master controller and then you can perform operations on it Create Virtual Drive Create a virtual array Disable Alarm Disable RAID card alarm Silence Alarm RAID card silence option Update Controller Firmware Update RAID card firmware Physical Drive Option to perform operations on physical drive
33. n in figure below the system prompts Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy Disk connect the USB drive to your PC and click OK 11 Make Driver Inspur driver U disk _ NH Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy Disk The system starts driver copy soon the following window pops up prompting that the Driver Making completes click OK Make Drive oar o e Driver has been completed 2 Make Driver in Floppy Disk Please select RedHat 5 4 for Inspur drive U whose name is correspondent with its own version Different version may use different names Select a Red Hat Linux version you want to install click Make Driver 12 Sf Make Floppy Driver as Dear Inspur User According to your needed installation OS please choose the following items in the dropdown menu insert the Inspur U disk click Make Driver button finish the Driver making Please select OS Redhat5 4 for Inspur drive U w Mae er The following screen appears where the system prompts Please insert Inspur driver or Floppy Disk and quick format lt a gt disk firstly Please confirm the Inspur driver U disk has been connected then format the virtual floppy drive Then click OK to start the Driver Making Make Driver Inspur driver U disk i O8 Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy Disk and quick format lt a disk firstly The system pops up a window prompting that Driver
34. nnnnonnnnnnnonononnnnnnanos 20 AD bale WebBlOS Cia iia dada dida dado 21 A WEDD LO SSCL Mar Interact il aia 2i 4 4 Introduction on SAS RAID 2108 Main MenU ooocooonnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnnnos 23 4A 1 Controller Selection Mentsen A cai clean 23 44 2 Controller Properties ME ata A AA A NA 23 ABD A AAA A lth Gree a As et i ee sorb de bt ein 25 AA EN irua Drives Mens dada 25 AA Drives MED A A A AS 21 4 4 6 Configuration Wizard Menu RAID array Create ccccccccnnnonooononnncncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonononnns 29 AA Ply SICAL View WIC rito 46 A Events INV UIA cc sonic Nee a Seen seat ict cet a ahah nee dee Te ashanti Shenae oR ee ern ads 47 A AD Ext INI CII O cada 48 Chapter MSM SOU W era A AAA AAA A AA AR 48 LMS M ISA ON iia 48 IAEN NEFCIO ses lona nai 48 3 1 2 MSMInstallaion Environ MEA E 49 Sao MSM Mmstallaton Procedures acid dildo 49 A AA A AA E EAE 53 IAMS M COn tess ES A ia dich nadine hers A denen dees 54 DS MSM OMIT ural OM iio iodo aaa 56 Appendix At Technical SUPPORT A EA AE AA AAA AAA 59 Chapter Introduction on SAS RAID 2108 This chapter mainly introduces the specification performance and structure of SAS RAID 2108 and basic knowledge about RAID levels Before using RAID card please read this chapter carefully especially RAID levels part which can offer reference and suggestion on how to select a RAID level that fits your application 1 1 Product Specification SAS RAID 2108
35. nternational treaties j Cancel FigureS 1 2 Click lt Next gt on the screen as shown in Figure 5 1 and then the next screen appears as Figure 5 2 Note If you have already installed the software before the below screen appears and you are prompted to select Remove Modify or Repair 49 iz MegaRAID Storage Banager vb 90 0500 InstallShield License Agreement Please read the Following license agreement carefully STOP BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE CAREFULLY READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Installing this software indicates that you agree to abide by this Software License Agreement If you do not agree with it promptly return the Software and we will refund the purchase price software License Agreement PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE STARTING INSTALLATION OF THE COT accept the terms in the license agreement Cancel Figure5 2 3 Carefully read and select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click lt Next gt The next screen appears as shown in Figure 5 3 iva MegaRAID Storage Manager v6 90 0500 InstallShield Y Customer Information Please enter your information User Name Organization INSPUR Allow availability of this application for All users Only For current user lvce Figure 5 3 4 Enter your user name and organization name If you select lt All users gt all users have administrative privileges Click lt
36. ot 2 SAS HDD 135 972 GB Onlin 5 HDD 13 S45 HDD 13 es Add To Array w Cancel nn Back mb ext Figure4 16 2 Click Accept DG to move disk that 1s ready to make disk array to the right side of disk array window MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Drive Group Definition 515 Drive Group Definition To add drives to Drive Group hold Control key while selecting Unconf Good drives and click on Add to Array Then Accept Drive Group Drive addition can be undone by selecting the Reclaim button Drives Drive Groups Backplane 6 4 LE Hiki Slot 0 245 HDD 135 972 GE Onlin Hiki Hiki alot 1 545 ADD 135 972 GE Onlin Hiki Hki Slot 2 545 HDD 155 972 GE Onlin Drive GroupO Sizelss 972 GB ackplane 64 Slots 545 HDD 13 ackplane 64 Slots 545 HDD 13 y ackplane 64 Sloti 545 HDD 13 LE rive Groupl es Add To Array Y Cancel Back m ext Figure4 17 To undo the change click Reclaim button 3 Upon selection click Next and then the Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in 36 figure 4 18 37 ieqaRAID BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Span Definition Span Definition To add array hole to a Span select an array hole from the drop down Click on Add To Span Array hole will be added to the span rray Hole addition can be undone by selecting the Reclaim button Array With Free Space Drive croup 0 Hole 0 R0 R5 407 917 GE
37. roller Driver to the virtual floppy drive A for the Inspur driver U disk if the driver is written to the normal partition of USB drive it can t be installed 2 Connect the Inspur driver U disk to your PC power up the server insert the Operating System Installation CD into your CD ROM drive and enter BIOS settings to enable Boot from CD ROM drive 3 On the Boot Options screen press F5 and a window pops up Click lt Yes gt and press Enter select Installation and press Enter to install the Driver it will need several minutes please wait Raat fram Hard Bisk installation ACPi Disabled installation Local APIE Disabled installation Sate Settings Rescue System Memory Test Boot Gptions Hein Language 1029 x 768 CD ROH Driver 4 Upon completion of the driver installation 1t prompts installed driver name select lt OK gt to continue 5 Enter into the screen as shown below 19 Please choose the Driver Update mediun sdb Usb Floppy 6 As the Driver Installation completes select lt Back gt to continue 7 Follow instructions to complete the installation of Suse Linux operating systems Note Be sure to distinguish the USB drive and hard drive during the partition definition and must not delete or format the USB drive Chapter 4 Configuration and Use of SAS RAID 2108 SAS RAID 2108 provides a Html based configuration tool WebBIOS Configuration Utility while MCM depends on operating s
38. that a new configuration can be initialized in background mode during performing other configuration task using WebBIOS Select Yes to disable background initialization Select size Specify capacity of virtual drive in Megabyte Normally it is recommended to select the 40 maximum size listed on the right panel of configuration screen If you want to make several virtual drives in one disk array it is advisable to specify a relatively small size 6 Click Accept to accept changes on virtual drives or click Reclaim to go back to previous settings 7 Click Next upon completion of all virtual drive definitions and the following screen appears PiegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Confirm Page Write Through mode eliminates risk of losing cached data in case of power failure But it may result in slower performance Are you sure you want to select Write Through mode Ae E Figure 4 20 8 Select Yes to enter information screen in configuration test preview 4 42 FiegaRAlD BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Virtual Drive Definition RATDO Drive Group i 64 KE o Write Through EA Ey Nocuanse i O gt EI SS o gt Figure 4 21 9 If virtual drive configuration is accepted click Next to enter the screen below RiegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Config Wizard Preview Backplane 64 Drive Group O nj alot 0 SAS HDD 135 972 GB Onlin m alot 1 AS HDD 135 972 GE Onlin
39. ull play only by changing RAID level when RAID level migration is required Different array level migration is supported depending on RAID cards we provided generally only migration among RAIDO RAID and RAIDS can be supported and data completeness can be ensured 5 Initialize background RAID card supports operating system installation and other operations during building disks array through background initialization Of course you can install operating system after the initialization and the installation will be more quickly in this way 6 Online capacity expansion without reboot OCE It allows adding new physical drives to the array that 1s configured and completes build task to achieve capacity expansion on the server without supporting reboot For some of RAID cards we provided the OCE function can only achieve online capacity expansion for part of RAID levels like RAIDO RAID5 AND RAID10 in Windows 2000 NT and NetWare operating systems while server reboot is required in other operating systems It is estimated that storage demand will go up at the rate of 30 percent annually The features of OCE can gradually satisfy users growing demand on storage in several steps and lay foundation for policy formulation 7 Auto rebuild When a disk failed the system will automatically enable hot spare disk or detect a new disk that is inserted to the same ID location and has a capacity larger than or equal to the failed one Then the
40. ver as shown in below figure IE Make Floppy Driver es Dear Inspur User According to your needed installation OS please choose the following items in the dropdown menu insert the Inspur U disk click Make Driver button finish the Driver making Please select OS Windows 2003 X64 server w ini i The following screen appears where the system prompts Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy 10 Disk and quick format lt a gt disk firstly Please confirm the Inspur driver U disk has been connected then format the virtual floppy drive Then click OK to start the Driver Making Make Driver Inspur driver U disk _ l i E lt a Please insert Inspur driver U disk or Floppy Disk and quick format lt a disk firstly When the process completes the system pops up a window prompting that Driver Making completes and then click OK 2 3 Make the Driver for RedHat Linux 1 When making the Driver for RedHat Linux operating system the Driver will be copied to the normal partition of the Inspur driver U disk as shown in below figure Select a Red Hat Linux version you want to install click Make Driver se Make Floppy Driver Dear Inspur User According to your needed installation OS please choose the following items in the dropdown menu insert the Inspur U disk click Make Driver button finish the Driver making Please select OS Redhat5 4 for Inspur drive U w As show
41. will be deleted After storage configuration 1s rebuilt defined virtual drive policies will be listed on policies panel To change any policy change in pull down menu and then click Change 4 4 5 Drives Menu Select this menu can enter into physical devices view screen where you can view and change physical drive properties as shown in below figure 21 Backplane 6 4 Slot 0 545 HDD 135 972 GE Online Slot 1 545 HDD 135 972 GB Online Slot 4 SAS HDD 135 972 GB Online Figure 4 7 After physical drive are selected click Properties option and Go button as shown in above screen then below screen appears where you can achieve force physical drive offline and other operations RiegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Drive 0 Enclosure ID ET rive Group O Model Name Hitachi HTES4501 Wendor ATA Revision ale l Slot Number 1 Device Type E Connected Port 1 Media Errors Make Drive Offline Figure 4 8 Physical device properties are read only and custom description including physical device status 28 Change in operations list depends on physical drive status If an operation is selected click Go to Start 1 Select Make Drive Offline to force physical drive offline 2 Select Locate to enable LED for corresponding physical device on front panel to blink This function 1s available only when hard drive location is supported while other con
42. y take several minutes Status rn 2 Ees iI T E 32 Figure 5 7 Click lt Finish gt when installation completes 5 1 4 MSM Utility 1 Starting MSM Select Start gt Programs gt MegaRaid Storage Manager gt StartupUI or double click the MSM shortcut on the desktop 2 When the program starts the next screen appears as shown in Figure 5 8 MegaRAID Storage Hanager 6 90 0500 Host Vier E xj LSI SK s 526e708c61214 127 0 0 1 Windows 2003 Figure 5 8 If the circle before the lt optimal gt is green it means that the server is running in the normal state 3 Double click the icon of the server that you want to log in the next screen appears as shown in Figure 5 9 53 Enter User Name 4 Passvord Figure5 9 4 Select login mode from the pull down menu If you need to view and change the configuration select lt Full Access gt If you only need to view and monitor the configuration select lt View Only gt 5 Enter your user name and password and click lt Login gt The main MegaRaid Storage Manager screen appears as shown in Figure 5 10 5 2 MSM Window 54 MezgaRAITD Storage Manager 6 90 0500 xj Manage Go To Log Tools Help TERET fl Lsis Welcome adminis Log Off Properties Status a Enclosures Total capacity Backplanes 544 125 GB a Dr Configured Capacity AS 594 125 GB ES Drive groups g Virtual Drive
43. ystem 4 1 Introduction on WebBIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS CU enables you to build and manage RAID configuration on LSI logic s SAS controller Unlike MegaRAIDStorage Manager MSM software WebBIOS CU is built in BIOS of SAS controller but independent on operating system WebBIOS CU can achieve the following operations 1 Build physical array and logic drive for storage configuration 2 Delete virtual disk 3 RAID level migration and configuration deletion 4 Display properties for adapter valid disks physical drives and battery backup units 5 Initialize virtual disk 6 Check data consistency configuration WebBIOS CU provides a configuration wizard guiding you through logic drive and physical array configuration steps 20 4 2 Start WebBIOS CU To start WebBIOS CU and enter into the main screen follow these steps 1 Startup host and press the lt Curl gt and H key when the following texts appears Copyright LSI Logic Corporation Press lt Curl gt lt H gt for Pebbles Adapter option window appears 2 If multiple adapters are available in the system select one and enter into 3 Press Start to continue then WebBIOS main screen appears 4 3 WebBIOS CU Main Interface In Post period when Press Ctrl H For WebBIOS appears on the screen please press Ctrl plus H the system will enter RAID configuration interface as figure 4 1 shows adapter Selection a LSI Adapter No Bus

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