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1. ee pone Type Event Text 0x0010 16 Information Factory defaults restored 0x0011 17 Information Flash downloaded image corrupt 0x0012 18 Caution Flash erase error 0x0013 19 Caution Flash timeout during erase 0x0014 20 Caution Flash error 0x0015 21 Information Flashing image s 0x0016 22 Information Flash of new firmware image completes 0x0017 23 Caution Flash programming error 0x0018 24 Caution Flash timeout during programming 0x0019 25 Caution Flash chip type unknown 0x001a 26 Caution Flash command set unknown 0x001b 27 Caution Flash verify failure 0x001c 28 Information Flush rate changed to d seconds 0x001d 29 Information Hibernate command received from host 0x001e 30 Information Event log cleared 0x001f 31 Information Event log wrapped 0x0020 32 Dead Multi bit ECC error ECAR x ELOG x s 0x0021 33 Warning Single bit ECC error ECAR x ELOG x s 0x0022 34 Dead Not enough controller memory 0x0023 35 Information Patrol Read complete 0x0024 36 Information Patrol Read paused 0x0025 37 Information Patrol Read Rate changed to d 0x0026 38 Information Patrol Read resumed 0x0027 39 Information Patrol Read started 0x0028 40 Information Rebuild rate changed to d 0x0029 41 Information Reconstruction rate changed to d 0x002a 42 Information Shutdown command received from host 0x002b 43 Information Test event s 0x002c 44 Information Time established as s d seconds since power on 0x002d 45 Information Us
2. LSI Corporation 117 Severity Level Meaning Information Informational message No user action is necessary Warning Some component might be close to a failure point Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 Configuring Alert Notifications Table 48 Event Severity Levels Continued Severity Level Meaning Critical A component has failed but the system has not lost data Fatal A component has failed and data loss has occurred or will occur The Log menu has four options Save Saves the current log to a logfile Save as Text Saves the current log in txt format Clear Clears the current log information You have the option of saving the log first Load Enables you to load a local Log file The following figure shows the log menu Figure 72 Log Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help L p g Save Save as Text Clear Load Dashboard Physical Logical 9 WIN AEC34GFELOU lt 4 LSI Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 sA Group 0 RAID 1 5 Virtual Drive s Virtual Drive 0 231 898 GB Optimal Drives Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications The Alert Notification Configuration feature allows you to control and configure the alerts that MegaRAID Storage Manager sends when various sy
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5. Description Manages a drive rebuild or displays the rebuild progress on a single controller multiple controllers or all controllers Note that the drive must meet the capacity requirements before it can be rebuilt and it must be part of a drive group m Start Starts a rebuild on the selected drive or drives and displays the rebuild progress optional m Stop Stops an ongoing rebuild on the selected drive or drives m ShowProg Displays the current progress percentage and time remaining for the rebuild This option is useful for running the application through scripts m ProgDsp1ly Displays the ongoing rebuild progress This routine displays the rebuild progress until at least one initialization is completed or a key is pressed m Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives LSI Corporation 88 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 8 9 5 8 10 5 8 11 5 8 12 Drive Commands Locate Physical Disk Drive or Drives and Activate LED Use the command in the following table to locate physical disk drive or drives by flashing the drive activity LED Table 39 Locate Drive and Activate LED Syntax MegaCLI PDLocate Start Stop PhysDrv E0 Sn aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Locates the drive or drives for the selected controller or controllers and activates the drive activity LED Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies
6. Stop CC on Error Enable this option if you want to stop a consistency check when the controller BIOS encounters an error The default is No Maintain PD Fail Enable this option to maintain the history of all drive failures The default is Enabled History Schedule CC Indicates whether the option to schedule the date and time for a consistency check is supported Snapshot Use this option to create a snapshot of a volume MegaRAID Recovery also known as Snapshot offers a simplified way to recover data and provides automatic protection for the boot volume You can use the Recovery feature to take a snapshot of a volume and to restore a volume or file Snapshot functionality allows you to capture data changes to the volume and if data is deleted accidentally or maliciously restore the data from the view or roll back to a snapshot at a previous point in time PiT MegaRAID Recovery supports up to eight snapshots of PiTs for each volume Viewing Virtual Drive Properties Policies and Operations The MegaRAID BIOS CU displays properties policies and operations for virtual drives To view these items for the currently selected virtual drive click on a virtual drive icon in the right panel on the MegaRAID BIOS CU main screen LSI Corporation 42 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Viewing and Changing Device Properties The Virtual Drive screen appears as s
7. Corporate Headquarters Website Milpitas CA www lsi com 800 372 2447 Document Number 48712 00 Rev A Copyright 2011 LSI Corporation All Rights Reserved Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter T Overview a c s 5 csi os o 8 ieee usmon EEE EE A TA E EEE Se EE sb Aeieinl se EEEE oes nda ores O 7 1 1 Embedded MegaRAID Software Features cece cece eect ene nnn n een enn n nee een een ene ene Ene Ee tne eee Een ee as 7 Lal Driver Features sonore arose d duciai ete AET REENE TA i artic abl miata Soatelo OE EAT E EEEE EE EAE AEREE 7 Ts1 2 BIOS Features ia o8 su neier a getelidtonsiecad cage bebe cite Gn eee lage de Pianeta EE E EE dana EN E Nawal eE 8 LAS Alli Configuration Features ecg cscc cescwieieeis inasra ii slale de ed adsl adieu avenagddalelegelgeb a aa chy sevens aa 8 1 1 4 Manageability Disk Console Features 2 1 00 0 cece c cece cee eee eee entree eee e ene erent eee e een teen e nee e teen teen tears 9 Ts S WEFESUPPOFE 3 cicca casein slow rang hese acied i annei end sae laa A E AE S E E Aa EE gs mece na caaue 9 TZ RAID OVE EW i a lagu se Crane one ealtagtys balsa EE sedan aural oan AEE ht dupa tamer tamed eens 9 1 2 1 RAID O DESERPTION 5 vided ea seen deta ee cede ds gabe alone sadededendada nae eeed acted wade GG Guieb sabadseub ee baa sadeedouwaeasds 10 TAZ RAID I DOSER PTO Mic Sa e wh E bie Ua sevevys danni ins whet RE ark etarnveve angnar aye E A nie af AA
8. Running a Group Consistency Check You can run a consistency check on multiple drives at one time Follow these steps to run a group consistency check 1 Click Manage gt gt Check Consistency The Group Consistency Check appears as shown in the following figure Figure 89 Group Consistency Check Dialog Box n LSI Select Virtual Disks JT Virtual Drive 0 YD_0 544 875 GB Optimal I Virtual Drive 2 272 437 GB Optimal Select All Deselect All Start Cancel Check the virtual drives to run the consistency check on or click Select All to select all of the virtual drives Click Start You can monitor the progress of the group consistency check See Section 9 8 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes for more information Scanning for New Drives You can use the Scan for Foreign Configuration option to find drives with foreign configurations A foreign configuration is a RAID configuration that already exists on a replacement set of physical disks that you install in a computer system In addition if one or more drives are removed from a configuration by a cable pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller Drives that are foreign are listed on the physical drives list with a special symbol in MegaRAID Storage Manager LSI Corporation 136 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurati
9. SSD Caching Disabled Load configuration How to enable MegaRAID A Drive security Disabled Uodate Severe Glossar Unconfigured good spin down Disabled bidii Hot spare spin down Disabled x Information Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Through informati Controller Policy change on VD O Current Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Information 2011 03 22 1 Controller Properties updated on VD 0 Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing battery Dis 2011 03 22 16 24 37 Controller ID 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing ba 2011 03 22 1 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 169 254 109 128 Access Mode Full Client Time 2011 03 22 16 23 15 1011 03 22 1 Controller ID 0 VDisnow OPTIMAL VD 0 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller 1D O Image version 14 02 0222 2011 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller 1D 0 Firmware initialization started PCIID 0x8086 0x2822 0x1014 0x3a20 Displaying log from server 2j Ijo Ae z Pwo gami 2 Click Create Virtual Drive Configuration Creating a New Storage Configuration The d
10. This chapter explains how to use MegaRAID Storage Manager to create and modify storage configurations on LSI RAID controllers The LSI RAID controllers support RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 and RAID 10 storage configurations The Configuration Wizard allows you to create new storage configurations and modify the configurations To learn more about RAID and RAID levels see Section 1 2 RAID Overview NOTE You cannot create or modify a storage configuration unless you are logged on to a server with S administrator privileges Creating a New Storage Configuration You can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager to create new storage configurations on systems with LSI RAID controllers You can create the following types of configurations Simple configuration Specifies a limited number of settings and has the system select drives for you This option is the easiest way to create a virtual drive Advanced configuration Lets you choose additional settings and customize virtual drive creation This option provides greater flexibility when creating virtual drives for your specific requirements This section describes the virtual drive parameters and explains how to create simple storage configurations and advanced storage configurations Selecting Virtual Drive Settings This section describes the virtual drive settings that you can select when you use the advanced configuration procedure to create virtual drives Change these parameters only i
11. When you select Manual Configuration and click Next the Drive Group Definition screen appears You use the Drive Group Definition screen to select drives to create drive groups Hold the Ctrl key while you select two ready drives in the Drives panel on the left Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed two drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim Click Accept DG to create a RAID 1 drive group An icon for the next drive group displays in the right panel Click on the icon for the next drive group to select it Hold the Ctrl key while you select two more ready drives in the Drives panel to create a second RAID 1 drive group with two drives Click Add To Array to move the drives to a second two drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel as shown in the following figure If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim Figure 17 MegaRAID BIOS CU Drive Group Definition Screen 7 8 9 onfig Utility Config Wizard Dr oup Definition Drives Drive Groups onnector Port 0 i Enclosure MD1000 12 Slot 0 545 Slot 3 SATA HDD 232 375 GB UKi Enclosure ND1000 12 Slot 1 SAS Slot 4 SAS HDD 67 843 GB On dG Drive Groupi Slot 5 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un E Enclosure MD1000 12 Slot 3 SATA H i Slot 6 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un H Slot 7 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un Slot 8 SAS HDD 1
12. 21 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu screen appears Viewing and Changing Device Properties This section explains how you can use the MegaRAID BIOS CU to view and change the properties for controllers virtual drives drives and BBUs Viewing Controller Properties The MegaRAID BIOS CU displays information for one LSI RAID controller at a time If your computer system has multiple LSI RAID controllers you can view information for a different controller by clicking Controller Selection on the main screen When the Controller Selection screen appears select the controller you want from the list LSI Corporation 39 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Follow these steps to view the properties of the currently selected controller 1 Click Controller Properties on the MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu screen Three Controller Properties screens exist The following figure shows the first screen Figure 21 First Controller Properties Screen i Utility Controller I LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280 8e Serial Number SubVendorID Ox Drive Security Capable SubDevicelD Drive Security Enabled PortCount 5 Security Method HostInterface Firmware Version FW Package Version Firmware Time WebBIOS Version 6 Virtual Drive Count Drive Count lt HotSpare Spin Doum Enabled
13. LSI Corporation 84 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 7 3 5 7 4 5 7 5 Virtual Drive Commands Manage Virtual Drive Initialization Use the command in the following table to manage initialization of the virtual drive or drives on the selected adapter or adapters N NOTE This command is not supported in DOS Table 26 Manage Virtual Drive Initialization Syntax MegaCLI LDInit Start Fast Full Abort ShowProg ProgDsply Lx L0O 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Allows you to select the following actions for virtual drive initialization m Start Starts the initialization writing 0s on the virtual drive or drives and displays the progress optional The fast initialization option initializes the first 100 MB on the virtual drive The full option allows you to initialize the entire virtual drive Abort Aborts the ongoing initialization on the LD or LDs ShowProg Displays the snapshot of the ongoing initialization if any ProgDsp1y Displays the progress of the ongoing initialization until at least one initialization is completed or a key is pressed Manage Consistency Check Use the command in the following table to manage a data consistency check CC on the virtual drives for the selected adapter or adapters N NOTE This command is not supported in DOS Table 27 Manage Consistency Check Syntax MegaCLI LDCC
14. MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 lej x Manage GoTo Log Tools Help ives On MO la LSI K Welcome administrator Full Access Logoff Power savings on unconfigured drives Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Unconfigured Good Power savings on hot spares Optical Drive 4 Unknown HLDTSTDVDRAM Backend SAS Address 0 Backend SAS Address 1 Backend SAS Address 2 Backend SAS Address 3 Backend SAS Address 4 Backend SAS Address 5 Cluster Enable Cluster Active Lo ee Peet ae SSD Guard Drive Security Properties Drive security capable m Frrartavel Nate Time Neerrintinn 7 2 1 3 Logical View The Logical view shows the hierarchy of controllers virtual drives and the drives and drive groups that make up the virtual drives The properties for these components appear in the right panel under the Properties tab The following figure shows the Logical view Figure 57 MSM Logical View jegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help i sOekwe Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off Dashboard Physical Logical 9 WIN AEC34GFELOU E LSI Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 E Drive Group 0 RAID 1 i Virtual Drive s va B Driv Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online B Unconfigured Drives Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Unconfigured Good Size 231 898 GB 10 Policy Dir
15. Stop Locating Virtual Drive WIN AEC34GFELOU LSI Embedded MegaR Start Consistency Check amp Drive Group 0 R Start Initialization amp Virtual Drive s i Virtual Drive 0 231 898 GB Optimal Drives P Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online Drive Group 1 RAID 0 amp Virtual Drive s i Virtual Drive 1 MegaSR RO 1 231 89 Drives i Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Online The Set Virtual Drive Properties dialog box appears as shown in the following figure Figure 70 Set Virtual Drive Properties Screen x ala Lsis Description Defines virtual disk operation parameters Nam os Read Policy No Read Ahead Write Policy Write Through 7 t0 Pokey Drect 10 Access Policy Read Write v Background Initialization Disabled z ka ee 3 Change the virtual drive properties as needed For information about these properties see Section 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings 4 Click Ok to accept the changes The virtual drive settings are updated LSI Corporation 115 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 Deleting a Virtual Drive 8 4 Deleting a Virtual Drive NOTE Be sure to back up the data that is on the virtual drive before you delete it Be sure that the operating J system is not installed on this virtual drive You can d
16. You can use the commands in this section to select settings for the drives and perform actions on them Display Drive Information Use the command in the following table to display information about the drives on the selected adapter or adapters Table 31 Display Physical Disk Drive Information Syntax MegaCLI PDInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL PhysDrv E0 Sn Description Provides information about the drives connected to the enclosure and controller slot This includes information such as the enclosure number slot number device ID sequence number drive type capacity if a drive foreign state and inquiry data Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives to provide information about LSI Corporation 86 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 8 2 5 8 3 5 8 4 5 8 5 Drive Commands Set the Drive State to Online Use the command in the following table to set the state of a drive to Online In an online state the drive is working normally and is a part of a configured virtual drive Table 32 Set Physical Disk Drive State to Online Syntax MegaCLI PDOnline PhysDrv E0 Sn aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state to Online Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives Set the Drive State to Offline Use the command in the following table t
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18. Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status e No Leave background initialization enabled This setting means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use the MegaRAID BIOS CU to do other configuration tasks This setting is the default e Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select size Specify the capacity of the virtual drive in MB GB or TB Normally this would be the full capacity for RAID 10 shown in the configuration panel on the right You can specify a smaller capacity if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim After you finish defining the virtual drives click Next LSI Corporation 38 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 4 3 4 1 Viewing and Changing Device Properties The Configuration Preview screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 20 RAID 10 Configuration Preview 19 Check the information in the configuration preview 20 If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save the configuration Otherwise click Cancel to end the operation and return to the MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu or click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration
19. ECAR x ELOG x s critical threshold exceeded 0x00cb 203 Caution Single bit ECC error ECAR x ELOG x s further reporting disabled 0x00cc 204 Caution Enclosure s Power supply d switched off 0x00cd 205 Information Enclosure s Power supply d switched on 0x00ce 206 Caution Enclosure s Power supply d cable removed Ox00cf 207 Information Enclosure s Power supply d cable inserted 0x00d0 208 Information Enclosure s Fan d returned to normal 0x00d1 209 Information BBU Retention test was initiated on previous boot 0x00d2 210 Information BBU Retention test passed 0x00d3 211 Caution BBU Retention test failed 0x00d4 212 Information NVRAM Retention test was initiated on previous boot 0x00d5 213 Information NVRAM Retention test passed 0x00d6 214 Caution NVRAM Retention test failed 0x00d7 215 Information s test completed d passes successfully 0x00d8 216 Caution s test FAILED on d pass Fail data errorOffset x goodData x badData x LSI Corporation 144 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Appendix A Events and Messages June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued rae Ree Type Event Text 0x00d9 217 Information Self check diagnostics completed Ox00da 218 Information Foreign Configuration Detected 0x00db 219 Information Foreign Configuration Imported Ox00dc 220 Information Foreign Configuration Cleared 0x00d
20. Enter User Name amp Password Pe Lsis Server 135 24 228 176 Use your Operating System s login username and password to login the MSM server User Name Password Login Mode Full Access 3 Enter your user name and password The question mark icon opens a dialog box that explains what you need for full access to the server and for view only access to the server 4 Select an access mode from the drop down menu for Login Mode and click Login Select Full Access if you need to both view and change the current configuration Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the current configuration NOTE If the computer is connected to a network this procedure is the login to the computer itself J not the network login 5 Enter the root administrator user name and password to use the Full Access mode N NOTE In Linux users belonging to the root group can log in You do not have to be the user root If your user name and password are correct for the Login mode you have chosen the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu appears LSI Corporation 97 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus June 2011 7 2 7 2 1 7 2 1 1 MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Screen MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Screen This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen which is shown in the following figure Figure 54 MegaRAID Sto
21. Strip Size 64KB Virtual Disk State Optimal 10 and Cache Policies Access Policy Size 231 898 GB 10 Policy Direct 10 Disk Cache Policy Disable Read Policy No Read Ahead Write Policy Current Write Policy Write Through Default Write Policy Write Through ay ID Error Level Date Time Description 12 information 2011 03 22 17 42 53 Controller ID 0 Initialization complete on VD 1 11 Information Controller ID 0 Fastinitialization startedonVD 1 10 information Controller 1D O Created VD 1 a Information 2011 03 22 17 42 50 Controller 1D 0 State change PD 0 2 Previous UnconfiguredGood Current Online g Information 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller 1D 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Through 7 information 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller 1D 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write g Information 2011 03 22 16 24 37 Controller 1D 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing battery Dis 5 information 2011 03 22 16 24 37 Controller ID 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing ba
22. UntartheMSM linux _installer tar gz file using the following command tar zxvf MSM linux _installer tar gz A new disk directory is created 3 Goto the new disk directory In the disk directory find and read the readme txt file To start the installation enter the following command install sh If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager you cannot connect to a remote server unless you first edit the startupui sh file Specifically you must add the IP address of the remote server to the end of the startupui snh file LSI Corporation 94 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation June 2011 6 3 3 Installation For example to connect to a remote framework on server 192 168 0 10 add the IP address to startupui shas shown in this example start JRE bin javaw classpath GUI jar GUI VivaldiStartupDialog ajsgyqkj 71244 192 168 0 10 Be sure to include a space in front of the IP address as shown in the example Linux Installation Messages One or more of the following messages can appear while you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on a Linux system More than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager has been installed This message indicates that you have installed more tha
23. 4 Information 2011 03 22 16 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 169 254 109 128 Access Mode Full Client Time 2011 03 22 16 23 15 3 information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller 1D 0 VDis now OPTIMAL VD 0 2 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller 1D 0 Image version 1402 0222 2011 1 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller 1D O Firmware initialization started PCIID 0x8086 0x2822 0x1014 0x3a20 9 7 Displaying log from server z Sle ale zel The RAID level stripe size and access policy of the virtual drive are set when the virtual drive is configured PEO Sam Monitoring Enclosures N NOTE You can change the read policy write policy and other virtual drive properties See Section 8 3 Changing Virtual Drive Properties for the procedure you can use to change these properties If the drives in the virtual drive are in an enclosure you can identify them by making their LEDs blink To do this follow these steps Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel 2 Click Go To gt gt Virtual Drive gt gt Start Locating Virtual Drive or right click a virtual drive and select Start Locating Virtual Drive from the menu The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking except for hot spare drives 3 To stop the LEDs from blinking click Go To gt gt Virtual Drive gt gt Stop Locating Virtual Drive Monitoring Enclosures When MegaRAID Stor
24. A Drive Has Been Inserted Removed Configuration Updated Press ESC After you press Esc the inserted or removed drive is reflected in the list of drives that appears in the configuration utility Do not insert or remove a drive while you are defining a new virtual drive or while an initialization or other process is running The following bullets describe how the CU handles hot plugging when various actions occur m If the Physical Drive window or one of the Configuration windows is open when you insert or remove a drive the window closes when the hot plug message appears CU menus suchas Select Boot Drive Select Adapter and Logical Drive menus completely or partially close when a drive is inserted or removed m Ifa Rebuild is in progress when you insert or remove a drive the CU first displays the following message Rebuilding Of Drive Not Complete Press Esc followed by the hot plug message If the Rebuild was not affected by this hot plug event it continues to rebuild from where it left off provided that Auto Resume is enabled otherwise Rebuild starts over from the beginning If the rebuilding drive group was affected by the hot plug event the Rebuild aborts and the drive group status changes based on the hot plug operation Ifan Initialization is in progress when you insert or remove a drive the CU displays the following message Initialization of Array Not Complete Press ESC followed by the hot plug me
25. AbortCCOnError Abort the consistency check if an error occurs during the process AlarmEnb1 Set alarm to Enabled AlarmDsb1 Set alarm to Disabled AlarmSilence Silence an active alarm SMARTCpyBkEnb1 Enable copyback operation on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology SMART errors Copyback is initiated when the first SMART error occurs on a drive that is part of a virtual drive AutoDetectBackPlaneDsb1 Detect automatically if the backplane has been disabled CopyBackDsb1 Disable or enable the copyback operation LoadBalanceMode Disable or enable the load balancing mode NCQEnb1 Enable the native command queueing NCQDsb1 Disable the native command queueing SSDSMARTCpyBkEnb 1 Enable copyback operation on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology SMART errors on a Solid State Drive SSD Copyback is initiated when the first SMART error occurs ona SSD that is part of a virtual drive MaintainPdFailHistoryEnb1 Enable maintenance of the history of a failed drive EnblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs Enable spindown of unconfigured drives Enb1SSDPatrolRead Enable the patrol read operation media scan on a SSD AutoEnhancedImportEnb1 Enable the automatic enhanced import of foreign drives AutoEnhancedImportDsb1 Disable the automatic enhanced import of foreign drives UseFDEOnlyEncrypt Use encryption on FDE drives only PrCorrectUncfgdAreas Correct any media errors found during a p
26. Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Controllers The Controller Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 32 Controller Management Screen Controller Management View Controller Information Displays information Change Controller Properties of the controller Clear Configuration 2 Highlight View Controller Information and press Enter The Controller Management gt gt View Controller Information screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 33 Controller Management gt gt View Controller Information Screen Controller Management gt View Controller Information Controller Properties Controller Marketing Name LSI Embedded MegaRAID Serial Number none PCI ID 0x8086 10x2822 10x1014 10x 3A20 Host Interface PCI E Host Port Count 6 PCI Slot Number Integrated Drive Count 4 Virtual Drive Count 1 Encryption Capable lt No gt Minimum Stripe Size lt 64 KB gt Maximum Stripe Size lt 64 KB gt LSI Corporation eee 58 es Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility Managing Controllers The information on this screen is read only This screen presents basic information such as the number of virtual drives that are defined on this controller and the number of drives connected to the controller The following table defines the controller properties Table 3 Controller
27. Locate to make the LED flash on the drive This works only if the drive is installed in a drive enclosure LSI Corporation 44 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 4 4 MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Virtual Drive B Properties Policies Viewing and Changing Device Properties If the drive state is Unconfigured Good four additional operations appear on this screen Select Make Global HSP to make a global hot spare available to all of the virtual drives Select Make Dedicated HSP to make a hot spare dedicated to a specific virtual drive The MegaRAID BIOS CU displays the global hot spare as Global and the dedicated hot spare as Ded The icon for the dedicated hot spare displays under its associated virtual drive The drive number drive state drive capacity and drive manufacturer display Select Enclosure Affinity so if there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration then the hot spare is used first on the backplane side that it resides in Select Prepare for Removal to prepare the drive for removal from the enclosure The Prepare for Removal feature is different from spinning a drive down into powersave mode because it also involves flagging the drive as ready to remove Therefore if you choose to prepare a drive for removal Ready to Remove displays in the device tree for that drive instead of Powersave Expanding a Virtual Drive You can increase
28. Management Select this option to access the Virtual Drive Management screen where you can create virtual drive configurations change the virtual drive name delete virtual drives initialize drives and perform other tasks For more information see Section 4 3 Managing Virtual Drives Drive Management Select this option to access the Drive Management screen where you can view drive properties and perform other tasks For more information see Section 4 4 Managing Drives LSI Corporation 56 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Controllers Figure 31 Configuration Options Screen Configuration Options Controller Management Manages controller Virtual Drive Management properties foreign Drive Management configurations and the battery backup unit clears configurations and perforns high level controller functions 4 2 Managing Controllers This section explains how you can use the HII configuration utility to view and change the properties for controllers and clear a configuration 4 2 1 Viewing Controller Properties The HIl configuration utility displays information for one controller at a time Perform the following steps to view the controller properties 1 Highlight Controller Management on the Configuration Options screen see the previous figure and press Enter LSI Corporation 57 Embedded MegaRAID Software User
29. Physical Logica H Jed Casi Save TTY Log U WIN AEC34GFELOU B LSI Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 P Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online gt A Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Online r LSI Embedded MegaRAID a Optical Drive 4 Unknown HLDTSTDVDRAM none 0x8086 0x1014 LSI Corporation 128 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 The Patrol Read Set properties screen displays as shown in the following figure Figure 84 Patrol Read Configuration x LSI Select Patrol Read mode Maximum number of Physical drives allowed for Patrol Read concurrently BS Include the Virtual drives for whose physical drives Patrol Read should be performed Available Virtual drives Induded Virtual drives Virtual Drive me VirtualDrve VirtualDrve E Virtual Drive 0 231 898 GB Optimal o gt 9 Virtual Drive 1 MegaSR RO 1 231 898 GB Optimal da Patrol Read Interval Select Weekly 7 Run Patrol Read non stop Patrol Read Schedule JV Perform Patrol Read when I press OK Start Patrol Read on Month Date Year Time 24 v 2011 v 03 00PM j cone 3 Select a mode for a patrol read The options are Automatic Patrol read runs automatically at the time interval you specify on this screen Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Running a Patrol Read Manual Patrol read runs only when you manually star
30. Program Maintenance screen appears Read the screen text and select Modify Repair or Remove LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation Installation 4 When the next screen appears read and accept the user license and click Next The Customer Information screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 50 Customer Information Screen i Megaraid Storage Manager v1 00 01 InstallShield Wizard Customer Information Please enter your information User Name Jadministr ator Organization MegaComputer Allow availability of this application for All users C Only for current user Administrator Installshield lt Back cancel 5 Enter your user name and organization name In the bottom part of the screen select an installation option Ifyou select All users any user with administrative privileges can use this version of MegaRAID Storage Manager to view or change storage configurations Ifyou select Only for current user the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcuts and associated icons are available only to the user with this user name Click Next to continue 7 On the next screen accept the default Destination Folder or click Change to select a different destination folder Click Next to continue The Setup Type screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 51 Setup Type Screen i Meg
31. RAID 0 1 or 5 Configuration Use the command in the following table to add a RAID level 0 1 or 5 configuration to the existing configuration on the selected adapter For RAID level 10 see Section 5 6 3 Add RAID 10 Configuration Table 15 Add RAID 0 1 or 5 Configuration Syntax MegaCLI CfgLDAdd RO R1 RS E0O Sn szXXXXXXXX szYYYYYYYY Lecce ht strpszM Hsp E5 S5 afterLdx aN Description Adds a RAID level 0 1 or 5 configuration to a specified adapter Even if no configuration is present you have the option to write the configuration to the adapter m Rx E0 Sn Used to specify the RAID level and the physical drive enclosure slot numbers for a drive group NOTE No enclosure number is needed for simple swap configurations in which a drive is not part of an enclosure For example in a RAID 1 configuration with a drive in slot 2 that is not in an enclosure and a drive in an enclosure in slot 3 the syntax is R1 2 1 3 strpszM Used optionally to specify a stripe size You can set the stripe size to 64 KB Hsp Ex Sx Used to create a global hot spare with physical drive enclosure slot numbers specified m szXXXX Used to specify the size of a virtual drive where XXXX is a decimal number of MB However the actual size of the virtual drive might be smaller because the driver requires the number of blocks from physical drives in each virtual drive to be aligned to the strip
32. Settings for CacheCade SSD Guard Policy Optimum Setting Write Policy Write Through 1 0 Policy Direct I O Read Policy No Read Ahead Stripe Size 64KB Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration Simple configuration is the quickest and easiest way to create a new storage configuration When you select simple configuration mode the system creates the best configuration possible using the available drives NOTE You cannot created RAID 10 spanned drives using the simple configuration procedure To create RAID S 10 spanned drives use the advanced configuration procedure described in Section 8 1 5 Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in simple configuration mode 1 Click the Dashboard tab on the main menu screen The Create Virtual Drive option appears in the Actions section of the Dashboard as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 105 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Figure 58 Virtual Drive Creation Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager Manage GoTo Log Tools Help iTS OED alya LSI Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off Dashboard physical Logical D Advanced Software Option Actions Help Alarm Disabled Create virtual drive How to use MSM MegaRAID RECOVERY Disabled Create CacheCade SSD Caching How to create virtual drive CacheCade
33. Use the command in the following table to display the virtual drive and physical disk drive information for the configuration on the selected adapter or adapters This command also provides information about the remaining unconfigured space Table 19 Display Existing Configuration Syntax MegaCLI CfgDsply aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the existing configuration on the selected adapter or adapters which includes the virtual drive and component physical drive related details Save Adapter Configuration Use the command in the following table to save the configuration for the selected adapter or adapters to the given file name Table 20 Save Adapter Configuration Syntax MegaCLI CfgSav fFileNam aN Description Saves the configuration for the selected adapter or adapters to the given file name in binary format The command also stores the controller properties structure in the file Restore Configuration Data from File Use the command in the following table to read the configuration from the file and load it on the selected adapter or adapters You can restore the read write properties and RAID configuration using hot spares Table 21 Restore Configuration Data from File Syntax MegaCLI CfgRestor fFileNam aN Description Reads the configuration from the file and loads it on the adapter MegaCLlI can store or restore all read and write adapter properties all read and write pro
34. a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the total number of physical disk drives attached to an adapter The return value is the number of physical disk drives LSI Corporation 89 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 8 13 Miscellaneous Commands Display List of Physical Drives 5 9 5 9 1 5 9 2 Use the command in the following table to display a list of the physical drives connected to the selected adapter or adapters Table 43 Display List of Physical Drives Syntax MegaCLI PDList aN a0 1 aAll Description Displays information about all physical disk drives connected to the selected adapter or adapters This information includes information such as the drive type size and serial number Miscellaneous Commands The commands in this section are used to display various information Display MegaCLI Version Use the command in the following table to display the version number of the MegaCLI utility Table 44 Display MegaCLI Version Syntax MegaCLI v Description Displays the version number of the MegaCLl utility Display MegaCLI Help Use the command in the following table to display help information for the MegaCLI utility Table 45 Display MegaCLI Help Syntax MegaCLI h Help Description Displays help for the MegaCLl utility LSI Corporation 90 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAI
35. allow a drive to be forced online if its capacity is smaller than the defined capacity of the array To force a drive online or offline follow these steps 1 On the Management Menu select Objects gt gt Physical Drive 2 Highlight a physical drive that is a member of an array and press Enter 3 Select Force Offline or Force Online from the menu If the drive was online its status changes to FAIL If it was offline its status changes to ONLIN Configuring a Bootable Virtual Drive The default boot virtual drive is LD 0 If you change the boot drive to another virtual drive the BIOS and the CU preserve this change However if you delete the new boot virtual drive you must be sure to configure another virtual drive for booting The MegaRAID BIOS CU does not automatically select a different boot virtual drive Follow these steps to configure a bootable virtual drive 1 Onthe Management Menu select Configure gt gt Select Boot Drive 2 Select a virtual drive from the list to be the designated boot drive Deleting a Virtual Drive The MegaRAID BIOS CU allows you to delete any single virtual drive defined in the configuration sometimes referred to as random deletion A CAUTION Before you delete a virtual drive be sure to back up all the data you want to keep To delete a specified virtual drive follow these steps 1 Select Objects gt gt Logical Drive 2 Highlight the virtual drive that you want to delete and p
36. close the configuration session 9 Select Yes or No to indicate whether you want to create additional virtual drives If you select Yes the system takes you to the Create Virtual Drive screen as shown in Figure 60 If you select No the utility asks whether you want to close the wizard 10 If you selected No in the previous step select Yes or No to indicate whether you want to close the wizard If you select Yes the configuration procedure closes If you select No the dialog box closes and you remain on the same page LSI Corporation 112 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 8 2 Changing Adjustable Task Rates Configuration Changing Adjustable Task Rates Follow these steps if you need to change the adjustable rates for rebuilds and other system tasks that run in the background N NOTE Leave the adjustable task rates at their default settings to achieve the best system performance If you raise the task rates above the defaults foreground tasks run more slowly and it might seem that the system is not responding If you lower the task rates below the defaults rebuilds and other background tasks might run very slowly and might not complete within a reasonable time If you decide to change the values record the original default value here so you can restore them later if necessary Rebuild Rate Background Initialization BGI Rate Check Consistency Rate 1 Select a controller icon in the Ph
37. configuration Load all of the values from a previously saved backup into the dialog to edit or send to the monitor N NOTE When you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session are lost Select the Mail Server tab to perform the following actions Enter or edit the sender email address Enter the name of the SMTP server Require authentication of the email server Save an xm1 backup file of the entire alert configuration Load all of the values from a previously saved backup into the dialog to edit or send to the monitor N NOTE When you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session are lost LSI Corporation 119 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 9 2 1 9 2 2 Configuring Alert Notifications Select the Email tab to perform the following actions Add new email addresses for recipients of alert notifications Send test messages to the recipient email addresses Remove email addresses of recipients of alert notifications Save an xml backup file of the entire alert configuration Load all of the values from a previously saved backup into the dialog to edit or send to the monitor N NOTE When you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session are lost Setting Alert Delivery Methods You can select the methods used to send alert deliveries including by p
38. configuration on the selected adapter For RAID levels 0 1 or 5 see Section 5 6 1 Add RAID 0 1 or 5 Configuration NOTE Ona RAID 10 array you can create only one virtual drive and that virtual drive must occupy the entire S space of the RAID 10 array Table 17 Add RAID 10 Configuration Syntax MegaCLI CfgSpanAdd R10 Array0 E0 Sn Arrayl E0 Sn WT WB NORA RA ADRA Direct Cached strpszM aN Description Creates a RAID level 10 spanned configuration from the specified arrays Even if no configuration is present you must use this option to write the configuration to the adapter Multiple arrays are specified using the ArrayX E0 Sn option Note that X starts from 0 not 1 All the arrays must have the same number of physical drives At least two arrays must be provided The options WT WB NORA RA ADRA Direct Cached must be entered in the sequence that is shown LSI Corporation 82 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 6 4 Configuration Commands Clear Existing Configuration 5 6 5 5 6 6 5 6 7 Use the command in the following table to clear the existing storage configuration on the selected adapter or adapters Table 18 Clear Existing Configuration Syntax MegaCLlI CfgClr aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Clears the existing storage configuration Display Existing Configuration
39. device by default virtual drive 0 is the boot drive Support for RAID levels 0 1 5 and 10 Support for running a consistency check Support for running a patrol read Ability to set the rates for the BGI consistency check and patrol read Ability to place drives online or offline Support for drive cache setting RAID 10 volume is considered as a single array though it can have 2 3 or 4 spans LSI Corporation 8 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Overview June 2011 1 1 4 1 1 5 1 2 RAID Overview Support for virtual drives larger than 2 TB Support for random deletion of virtual drives Manageability Disk Console Features The following features are available to manage the virtual drives and the physical drives in the system Configuration information display in HII Configuration Utility and MegaRAID Storage Manager Support for RAID levels 0 1 5 and 10 Online mirror rebuilding Online consistency checks Array management software Error logging and notification Support for hot device insertion and removal Automatic resume of rebuilding on restart Support for manual rebuild Ability to create up to eight virtual drives per configuration Auto configuration support of newly added drive Support for global hot spares Support for disk coercion Drive group initialization support fast and full Virtual drive availability immediately after creation Supported stripe size of 64 KB only UEFI Support
40. disk group the number of free space slots in each disk group the start block and the size in both blocks and MB of each free space slot Virtual Drive Commands You can use the commands in this section to select settings for the virtual drives and to perform actions on them Display Virtual Drive Information Use the command in the following table to display information about virtual drives on the selected adapter or adapters Table 24 Display Virtual Drive Information Syntax MegaCLI LDInfo Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays information about the virtual drive or drives on the selected adapter or adapters This information includes the name RAID level RAID level qualifier size in MB state stripe size number of drives and span depth It also displays activity progress if any including initialization background initialization and consistency check Display Virtual Drive Disk Cache Settings Use the command in the following table to display the disk cache settings for the virtual drive or drives on the selected adapter or adapters Table 25 Display Virtual Drive Cache Settings Syntax MegaCLI LDGetProp DskCache Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the disk cache settings of the virtual drive or drives DskCache Displays physical drive cache policy NOTE Embedded MegaRAID Software does not support setting virtual drive parameters
41. drives N to the drive group rather than the physical slot order that displays in the physical trees N NOTE The minimum screen resolution for the MegaRAID BIOS CU is 640x480 To toggle between the physical view and logical view of the storage devices connected to the controller click Physical View or Logical View in the menu in the left frame When the physical view screen appears it shows the drive groups that are configured on this controller For drives in an enclosure the screen shows the following drive information Enclosure Slot Interface type such as SATA Drive type HDD or SSD Drive capacity Drive status such as Online or Unconfigured Good LSI Corporation 20 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Configuring Drive Groups and Virtual Drives The toolbar at the top of the MegaRAID BIOS CU has the buttons listed in the following table Table 1 MegaRAID BIOS CU Toolbar Icons Icon Description Click this icon to return to the main screen from any other MegaRAID BIOS CU screen E Click this icon to return to the previous screen that you were viewing Click this icon to exit the MegaRAID BIOS CU program Click this icon to turn off the sound on the onboard controller alarm Click this icon to display information about the MegaRAID BIOS CU version browser version and HTML interface engine EE e The following
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44. given adapter or adapters m ProgDsp1ly Allows you to view ongoing background initialization until all background initialization processes complete or you press a key to exit ShowProg Displays current progress value m GetSetting Displays current background initialization setting enabled or disabled Display Virtual Drive and Physical Drive Information Use the command in the following table to display information about the virtual drives and physical disk drives for the selected adapter or adapters such as the number of virtual drives RAID level and physical disk drive size Table 29 Display Virtual Drive and Physical Disk Drive Information Syntax MegaCLI LDPDInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays information about the virtual drive or drives and physical disk drive or drives on the selected adapter or adapters Displays information including the number of virtual drives the RAID level of the virtual drives and physical drive size information which includes the raw size coerced size uncoerced size and address Display Number of Virtual Drives Use the command in the following table to display the number of virtual drives attached to the adapter Table 30 Display Number of Virtual Drives Syntax MegaCLI LDGetNum aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the number of virtual drives attached to the adapter The return value is the number of virtual drives Drive Commands
45. gt Adapter gt gt AutoResume The initialization is stopped and the CU stores the percentage of the initialization already completed If AutoResume is enabled and if Fast Init is not enabled the initialization resumes where it left off when you restart it instead of starting over from 0 percent Continue The initialization continues normally Abort The initialization is completely aborted If you restart initialization it begins at 0 percent Second Initialization Method Follow these steps to initialize a virtual drive using the Objects menu 1 From the Management Menu select Objects gt gt Logical Drive A list of configured virtual drives appears Select a virtual drive if there is more than one configured and press Enter Select Initialize from the submenu and press Enter Select Yes at the prompt and press Enter The CU displays a bar graph showing the initialization progress 5 When initialization completes press Esc to return to the previous menu If you press Esc while initialization is in progress the Stop Continue and Abort options are available as explained earlier in this section LSI Corporation 47 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 5 3 6 Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies You can use the MegaRAID BIOS CU to set the drive Write Cache and Read Ahead
46. normally the icon looks like this WW if the virtual drive is running in Degraded mode for example if a drive has failed a small yellow circle appears to the right of the icon j A red circle indicates that the virtual drive has failed and data has been lost When the Logical tab is selected the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen shows which drives are used by each virtual drive The same drive can be used by multiple virtual drives To display complete virtual drive information click the Logical tab in the left panel and click a virtual drive icon in the left panel The properties appear in the right panel The following figure shows the Properties panel for a virtual drive LSI Corporation 130 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Figure 85 Virtual Drive Properties Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 lej xj Manage GoTo Log Tools Help i sOekwe Dashboard Physical Logical 9 WIN AEC34GFELOU E LSI Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 E Drive Group 0 RAID 1 Gf Virtual Drive s B Drives Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online E Drive Group 1 RAID 0 S Virtual Drive s B Drives Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Online GB Virtual Drive 1 MegaSR RO 1 231 89 n LSI K Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off va RAID Level 1
47. options are listed on the left of the main MegaRAID BIOS CU screen the hotkey shortcut for each option is shown in parentheses next to the option name Controller Selection Alt c Select this option to view the Controller Selection screen where you can select a different controller You can then view information about the controller and the devices connected to it or create a new configuration on the controller Controller Properties Alt p Select this option to view the properties of the currently selected controller For more information see Section 3 4 1 Viewing Controller Properties Drive Security Alt r Select this option to encrypt data on the drives and use disk based key management for the data security solution This solution protects your data in case of theft or loss of physical drives Scan Devices Alt s Select this option to have the MegaRAID BIOS CU rescan the physical and virtual drives for any changes in the drive status or the physical configuration The MegaRAID BIOS CU displays the results of the scan in the physical and virtual drive descriptions Virtual Drives Alt v Select this option to view the Virtual Drives screen where you can change and view virtual drive properties delete virtual drives initialize drives and perform other tasks For more information see Section 3 4 2 Viewing Virtual Drive Properties Policies and Operations Drives Alt d Select this option to view the Drives screen where y
48. settings Any read or write cache policy changes apply to all virtual drives on a drive group In other words if two virtual drives are defined on a single drive group and you change the Read Ahead setting on one virtual drive the change also applies to the other virtual drive on the drive group The Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead policies can be set to On or Off m When the disk Write Cache is On a write transaction is considered to be complete when all the data has been written to the disk cache When disk Write Cache is Off the write transaction is complete only when the data has been written to the disk m When disk Read Ahead is On extra data is read sequentially ahead of the data that is actually requested and this extra data is stored in a cache If the additional read ahead data is then requested it can be read faster from the cache than from the disk directly NOTE When the disk Write Cache is On there is a danger that data could be lost if the power fails before Y the cached data is written to disk Follow these steps to view or change the virtual drive Write Cache or Read Ahead settings On the Management Menu select Objects gt gt Logical Drive gt gt Logical Drive gt gt View Update Parameters Use the arrow key to move the cursor to Disk WC or Read Ahead and press Enter Use the arrow key to select Off or On for Disk WC DWC or Read Ahead When you see the prompt Change DWC or Change Read Ahead use the arro
49. severity level of events exceptions and email settings Figure 71 Event Information Window le Manage GoTo Log Tools Help iTS ORDO LSI u Welcome administrator Full Access Log off Dashboard Physical Logical lg WIN AEC34GFELOU E LSI Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 E Drive Group 0 RAID 1 a GE Drive s Virtua B Drives Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online E Drive Group 1 RAID 0 E Virtual Drive s Virtual Drive 1 MegaSR RO 1 231 89 B Drives Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Online Strip Size Virtual Disk State Access Policy Disk Cache Policy 1 Read Policy 231 898 GB 10 Policy 64KB Write Policy Optimal Current Write Policy 10 and Cache Policies Default Write Policy No Read Ahead Direct 10 Write Through Write Through Information 2011 03 22 16 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 169 254 109 128 Access Mode Full Client Time 2011 03 22 16 23 15 _ ID Error Level Date Time Description 12 Information 2011 03 22 17 42 53 Controller ID 0 Initialization complete on VD 1 11 nformation 2011 03 22 17 42 50 Controller ID 0 Fast initialization started on VD 1 10 Information 2011 03 22 17 42 Controller 1D O Created VD 1 9 Information 2011 03 22 17 Controller
50. that you A want to save Viewing Drive Properties The Physical Drive screen displays the properties of a selected drive and enables you to perform operations on the drive Two ways exist to access the Physical Drive screen Onthe main menu screen click on a drive in the right panel under the heading Physical Drives On the main menu screen click on Physical Drives in the left panel to display the Physical Drive screen Then click on a drive in the right panel Click on the Properties button and click Go The properties for the selected drive displays The following figure shows the Physical Drive screen Figure 25 Physical Drive Screen HegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Advanced Oper The drive properties are view only and are self explanatory Note that the properties include the state of the drive Operations you can perform are listed at the bottom of the screen After you select an operation click Go to start the operation The operations vary depending on the drive state If the drive state is Online the following operations appear Select MakeDriveOffline if you want to force the drive offline NOTE If a good drive is part of a redundant drive group with a hot spare and you force that drive offline N the date on the drive is rebuilt on the hot spare drive The drive you forced offline goes into the Unconfigured Bad state Access the BIOS utility to set the drive to the Unconfigured Good state m Select
51. the Red Hat Linux Driver on a New System This section describes the fresh installation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 4 5 or 6 device driver on systems with the Embedded MegaRAID Software stack After you prepare the installation disks with the driver image perform the following steps to install the driver on a new system LSI Corporation 16 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Driver Installation June 2011 Linux Driver Installation 1 Boot to CD ROM Disk 1 The Red Hat introductory screen appears 2 Type the following at the boot prompt linux dd noprobe it depends on the number of drives For example to install Red Hat Linux on a RAID 5 configuration with three drives enter the following linux dd noprobe ata1 noprobe ata2 noprobe ata3 3 Press Enter The prompt asks whether you have a driver disk Use the arrow key to select Yes and then press Enter Select fdO to indicate you have a floppy diskette with the driver on it Insert the floppy diskette in the A drive and press Enter The installer locates and loads the driver for your device The following message appears Loading megasr driver The prompt at the next screen asks whether you have another driver 7 Follow the Red Hat Linux installation procedure to complete the installation Reboot the system 2 2 4 Updating the Red Hat Linux Driver Generic Perform the following steps to update the Red Hat Linux driver or to install the Red Hat Linux driver in an exi
52. the Stop Operation field is highlighted 5 Highlight Yes and press Enter to confirm that you want to carry out the operations NOTE After you choose an operation and select Start Operation the progress bar appears showing zero S percent To see the change in percentages return to the previous page and then access this page again Viewing Drive Group Properties You can use the Virtual Drive Management screen to access the drive group properties screen and view the properties The drive group contains the drives that are used to create the virtual drive Perform the following steps to access the drive group properties screen and view the drive group properties LSI Corporation 67 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Virtual Drives 1 Highlight Virtual Drive Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 42 Virtual Drive Management Screen Virtual Drive Management Manage Virtual Drive Properties Select Virtual Drive Operations View Drive Group Properties Tl Move Highlight Enter gt Select Entry t Warning s Detected Check POST Event Viewer 2 Highlight View Drive Group Properties and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management gt gt View Drive Group Properties screen appears as shown in the following figur
53. this allows you to select the controller from which to boot Support for power on self test POST Support for Post Memory Management PMM Specification v7 July 2010 Industry standard EBDA POST and run time BIOS support for device insertion and removal Support for the option to stop the boot process when the controller BIOS encounters an error during boot up The following features are supported by the BIOS and the Ctrl M Configuration Utility Automatic resumption of rebuilding Check Consistency and full initialization and background initialization BGI BGI is for RAID 5 configurations only N NOTE The BIOS and the BIOS Configuration Utility Ctrl M do not start or resume background initialization BGI If BGI is already in progress you cannot start Check Consistency Global hot spare support Soft Bad Block Management SBBM support Support for SATA 6Gb s drives Support for RAID levels 0 1 5 and 10 Support for auto rebuild Support for up to eight physical drives and eight virtual drives Stripe size of 64 KB only Support for disk coercion HII Configuration Features The HII Configuration Utility supports the following features Ability to configure controllers drive groups and virtual drives in a pre boot environment Ability to perform other configuration tasks in a pre boot environment Ability to select and change the settings for some virtual drive parameters Ability to select a virtual drive as boot
54. to the Management Menu Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties To view or change virtual drive properties follow these steps 1 Onthe Management Menu select Objects gt gt Logical Drive 2 Select View Update Parameters The only virtual drive properties you can change are Disk WC Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead see Section 3 5 Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies The other properties are view only Viewing Physical Drive Properties To view physical drive properties follow these steps 1 Onthe Management Menu select Objects gt gt Physical Drive Highlight a physical drive on the list that appears and press Enter Select Drive Properties from the menu LSI Corporation 51 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 10 3 11 3 12 Forcing Drives Online or Offline The drive properties are Device Type Disk Capacity Product ID and Revision No These properties are view only Forcing Drives Online or Offline The MegaRAID BIOS CU enables you to force drives online or offline You might want to force a drive of a redundant drive offline so that a hot spare drive automatically replaces it An auto rebuild begins immediately if the MegaRAID BIOS CU finds a valid hot spare drive to replace the offline drive You might need to force a drive online if it has gone offline because of a power failure The MegaRAID BIOS CU does not
55. virtual drive e WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode e WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is the default e Bad BBU Select this mode if you want the controller to use Writeback mode but the controller has no BBU or the BBU is bad If you do not choose this option the controller firmware automatically switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU CAUTION LSI allows Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery LSI recommends that you A use either a battery to protect the controller cache or an uninterruptible power supply UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache l policy The I O policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache e Direct In direct I O mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory This setting is the default e Cached In cached I O mode all reads are buffered in cache memory Dr
56. virtual drive after expansion 5 Click Ok The virtual drive expands by the selected percentage of the available capacity 3 4 5 Creating a Global Hot Spare Drive The MegaRAID BIOS CU enables you to create global hot spare drives dedicated hot spare drives are not supported A hot spare drive can automatically replace a failed drive in a redundant RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 10 drive group to protect against data loss Important When you select a disk drive for a global hot spare be sure it is the same type of drive as the drives in the drive group that it protects You can create a hot spare when you are configuring a new storage configuration as described in the previous sections To add a hot spare drive to an existing redundant storage configuration follow these steps Select Objects from the Management menu 2 Select Physical Drive A list of physical drives appears 3 Select an unconfigured drive or Ready drive from the list and press Enter When the Physical Drive Property menu appears select Make Hot Spare and press Enter 5 Select Yes from the pop up menu to create the hot spare drive LSI Corporation 46 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 4 6 3 4 6 1 3 4 6 2 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 6 To remove a hot spare drive perform steps 1 and 2 listed previously select the HOTSP disk press Enter select Force Offline and press Enter The status o
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58. 14 Event Log Management Syntax MegaCLI AdpEventLog GetEventlogInfo GetEvents GetSinceShutdown GetSinceReboot IncludeDeleted GetLatest lt number gt f lt filename gt Clear aN a0 1 2 aALL Description The RAID driver maintains a volatile circular list of 100 events which is deleted at reboot The following command options are available GetEventlogInfo Displays overall event information such as total number of events newest sequence number oldest sequence number shutdown sequence number reboot sequence number and clear sequence number GetEvents Gets event log entry details The information shown consists of the total number of entries and the details of each error log entry Start_entry specifies the initial event log entry when displaying the log GetSinceShutdown Displays all the events since last adapter shutdown GetSinceReboot Displays all the events since last adapter reboot IncludeDeleted Displays all events including deleted events GetLatest Displays the latest number of events if it exists The event data is written to the file in reverse order Clear Clears the event log for the selected adapter or adapters Configuration Commands You can use the commands in this section to create storage configurations LSI Corporation 80 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 Configuration Commands 5 6 1 Add
59. 36 218 GB Un Enclosure MD1000 12 Slot 4 SAS Choose whether to use drive encryption NOTE RAID 10 supports a maximum of eight spans with a maximum of 32 drives per span Other factors N such as the type of controller can limit the number of drives You must use an even number of drives in each RAID 10 drive group in the span Repeat the previous three steps until you have selected all the drives you want for the drive groups After you finish selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and click Accept DG for each LSI Corporation 35 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration 10 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears as shown in the following figure This screen displays the drive group holes you can select to add to a span Figure 18 MegaRAID BIOS CU Span Definition Screen 11 Under the heading Array With Free Space hold Ctrl while you select a drive group with two drives and click Add to SPAN The drive group you select displays in the right frame under the heading Span 12 Hold the Ctrl key while you select a second drive group with two drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 13 If there are additional drive groups with two drives each you can add them to the virtual drive 14 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown
60. AID Storage Manager main menu screen If the controller is operating normally the controller icon looks like this If the controller has failed a small red circle appears to the right of the icon See Section 7 2 1 Dashboard Physical View Logical Views for a complete list of device icons To display complete controller information click a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen The controller properties display in the right panel as shown in the following figure Figure 81 Controller Properties MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 la x Manage GoTo Log Tools Help TSOs WO Welcome administrator Full Access Loa Off Dashboard Physical Logical WIN AEC34GFELOU Power savings on unconfigured drives Disabled Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online P Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Unconfigured Good LSI Embedded MegaRAID Power savings on hot spares Disabled Optical Drive 4 Unknown HLDTSTDVDRAM none Backend SAS Address 0 0x0 Backend SAS Address 1 0x0 Backend SAS Address 2 0x0 Backend SAS Address 3 0x0 Backend SAS Address 4 0x0 Backend SAS Address 5 0x0 Cluster Enable No Cluster Active No SSD Guard Drive Security Properties Drive security capable Tn T Frrariaual Data Time i Recrrintinn her Most of the information on this screen is self explanatory Note that the Rebuild Rate Patrol Read Rate Reconstruction Rate Consistency Check R
61. Capacity Figure 87 Group Show Progress Window Group Show Progress x Rgs Lsis f Ongoing Operations on Physical Drives Close Abort All LSI Corporation 132 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 wn EEE Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes Operations on virtual drives appear in the left panel of the Group Show Progress window and operations on drives appear in the right panel The following operations appear in this window Background or foreground initialization of a virtual drive see Section 10 1 Initializing a Virtual Drive Rebuild see Section 10 4 Rebuilding a Drive Check Consistency see Section 10 2 Running a Consistency Check Optional Click Abort All to abort all ongoing processes Click Close to close the window LSI Corporation 133 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations June 2011 Initializing a Virtual Drive Chapter 10 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations This chapter explains how to use MegaRAID Storage Manager to maintain and manage storage configurations 10 1 Initializing a Virtual Drive To initialize a virtual drive after completing the configuration process follow these steps 1 Select the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen and click the icon o
62. Conventions 5 3 Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions This section explains the abbreviations and conventions used with MegaCLI Configuration Utility commands 5 3 1 Abbreviations Used in the Command Line The following table lists the abbreviations for the virtual drive parameters used in the following sections Table 5 Command Line Abbreviations Abbreviation Description WB Writeback write policy WT Writethrough write policy ADRA Adaptive read ahead read policy RA Read ahead read policy NORA Normal read policy No read ahead DIO Direct I O cache policy clo Cached I O cache policy 5 3 2 Conventions You can specify multiple values for some options You can enter commands for a single adapter aN multiple selected adapters a0 1 2 or all adapters aALL These options are denoted as aN a0 1 2 aALLin the command line syntax used in this chapter The following table lists all of the conventions used in the command line options and specifies that you can enter commands for one controller multiple controllers or all controllers N NOTE All options in the MegaRAID Command Tool are position dependent unless otherwise specified Table 6 Conventions Convention Description MegaCLI Specifies the command line interface used Type MegaCLI under Microsoft Windows and Linux Specifies or meaning you can choose between options aN N specifies th
63. D Storage Manager Overview and Installation June 2011 Overview Chapter 6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation 6 1 6 1 1 6 1 2 6 1 3 MegaRAID Storage Manager MSM is a configuration and monitoring utility used with Embedded MegaRAID Software This chapter provides a brief overview of the MegaRAID Storage Manager and explains how to install it on the supported operating systems Overview MegaRAID Storage Manager can be installed either on the local system that contains the MegaRAID controllers that you wish to monitor or on a remote system such as a workstation or a laptop with network connectivity to the system you wish to monitor Because of these options the system hardware and software requirements for installing MegaRAID Storage Manager might differ from the system requirements for the MegaRAID controller or controllers you are using MegaRAID Storage Manager enables you to configure monitor and maintain storage configurations created under Embedded MegaRAID Software The MegaRAID Storage Manager graphical user interface GUI makes it easy for you to create and manage storage configurations NOTE MegaRAID Storage Manager can be used to manage a wide range of MegaRAID controllers Some S MegaRAID Storage Manager features are not applicable for Embedded MegaRAID Software Creating Storage Configurations MegaRAID Storage Manager enables you to easily configure the controllers disk drives and virtu
64. Disks Virtual Drive 0 D_O 544 875 GB Optimal Initialization Type J Fast Initialization Select All Deselect All Start Cancel Check the virtual drives to run the initialization on or click Select All to select all of the virtual drives Click Start You can monitor the progress of the group initialization See Section 9 8 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes for more information Running a Consistency Check The Consistency Check operation verifies correctness of the data in virtual drives that use RAID levels 1 5 and 10 RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy For example in a system with parity checking consistency means computing the data on one drive and comparing the results to the contents of the parity drive You should run a consistency check on fault tolerant virtual drives periodically You must run the consistency check if you suspect that the virtual drive data might be corrupted Be sure to back up the data before running a consistency check if you think the data might be corrupted To run a consistency check first set the consistency check properties and then schedule the consistency check This section explains how to set the properties schedule the check and run the consistency check LSI Corporation 135 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 10 2 1 10 3 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations Scanning for New Drives
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66. ENE OAE 11 1 2 3 RAID 5 D SCnIPUIOMN so gcd cdc ieasadedecanetaredaad hb dewudeade Peale da Dena end Gace Leo aeeDerianmua dibadseededeeaeb oun eanedins 11 12 4 RAID 10 DESCHPUON sirensis ernpu enan EAEE E CMa bia aleags debe PEOR AE MO esd ey EE MME sale b E Ne ge dae sewer eee 12 Chapter 2 Driver Installation cece cece cece cece ence eet n eee e tenet nett nee e eee teen eee eee e eee e sense eee e estes eeeseeeeees 14 231 Windows Driver Installations sss2ce 0s sat Treron CaaS asia berate vate eieeds bowie E alle Mad ated GGG RA A EA 14 2 1 1 Updating the Windows DIVER icsssrsrsren 05 steaiec tore saa nia EEEE saline ainled seed arta EEEE NEEE EE EEKE 15 2 1 2 Confirming the Windows Driver Installation 00 cece cece eee ee ene eee en tee ene n nen een etn tenet nee tenet ees 15 2 2 LINUX Driver MStallatiom esise E Ee 0 9 erm EEE AE E TEE EE EE nip pp EEA ech 15 2 2 1 Obtaining the Driver Image Files ai eisern iaren saad PAA aie EENET aged EEEE EE AA AN EELEE ENA 15 2 2 2 Preparing the Installation Disk or Disks for LINUX ssssssssssesurrsrrsrrrrrrsrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrerrrrrrerrrrrerrrerererrree 15 2 2 3 Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver on a New System sssssssssrssrrsrrerrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrerrerrrrrrrrrerrreresrrreere 16 2 2 4 Updating the Red Hat Linux Driver Generic 0 cece een enn n ened etn e ne eben een eben eee eben tenons 17 2 2 5 Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 10 or 11 Driver
67. I and StorelibIRJNI are available Master GUI Monitor Configurator Help files for both MSM and Monitor Configurator and DebugLog are not available Select StandAlone if you use MegaRAID Storage Manager to create and manage storage configurations on a stand alone workstation All of the components are available except for the Network Capability Plugin 9 Click Next to proceed 10 Click Install to install the program 11 Click Finish when the final Configuration Wizard screen appears If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager you cannot connect to a remote server unless you first edit the startupui bat file Specifically you must add the IP address of the remote server to the end of the startupui bat file For example to connect to a remote framework on server 192 168 0 10 add the IP address to the end of startupui bat as shown in this example start JRE bin javaw classpath GUI jar GUI VivaldiStartupDialog ajsgyqkj 71244 192 168 0 10 Be sure to include a space in front of the IP address as shown in the example Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager for Linux Follow these steps to install MegaRAID Storage Manager on a system running Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux Copy theMSM linux installer tar gz file to a temporary folder 2
68. ID 0 State change PD 0 2 Previous UnconfiguredGood Current Online Information 2011 03 22 16 Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Through Dinformation 2011 03 22 Controller ID 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Information 2011 03 22 16 Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing battery Di ol Controler 1D 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing ba Information Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller ID 0 VDis now OPTIMAL VD 0 Controller ID O Image version 14 02 0222 2011 is 7 6 5 Information 2011 03 22 3 3 2 1 Controller ID 0 Firmware initialization started PCIID 0x8086 0x2822 0x1014 0x3a20 Displaying log from server z S lala zel Pa ee Each message that appears in the event log has a severity level that indicates the importance of the event as shown in the following table a date and timestamp and a brief description You can click an event to display the same information in a window For a list of all events see Appendix A Events and Messages Table 48 Event Severity Levels
69. KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access policy Select the type of data access allowed for this virtual drive e RW Allow read write access e Read only Allow read only access this setting is the default e Blocked Do not allow access Read policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive e Normal This setting disables the read ahead capability This setting is the default e Ahead This setting enables read ahead capability which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory anticipating that the data is needed soon This setting speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data LSI Corporation 37 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 17 18 Creating a Storage Configuration Write policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive e WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommende
70. MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 4 2 3 4 3 Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility Managing Virtual Drives 3 Change the following controller properties as desired a Set Factory Defaults Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to this property and press Enter On the Confirm screen select Yes to confirm your selection b Set Boot Device Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to this property and press Enter Select a virtual drive to set as the boot device or select None c Rebuild Rate Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to this property Press the plus key to increase the rate or press the minus key to decrease the rate d Background Initialization BGI Rate Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to this property Press the plus key to increase the rate or press the minus key to decrease the rate e Consistency Check Rate Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to this property Press the plus key to increase the rate or press the minus key to decrease the rate The following table defines these controller properties Table 4 Changing Controller Properties Property Set Factory Defaults Description Resets factory default values for all of the controller properties Set Boot Devices Rebuild Rate Selects the virtual drive to use as the boot device The percentage of central processing unit CPU resources devoted to rebuilding data onto a new drive af
71. MegaRAID Software driver for Windows or to install this driver on an existing system booted from a standard IDE drive 1 Click Start point to Settings and then click Control Panel 2 Double click System click the Hardware tab and then click Device Manager Device Manager starts 3 In Device Manager double click SCSI and RAID Controllers right click the device for which you are installing the driver and then click Properties 4 On the Driver tab click Update Driver to open the Update Device Driver wizard and then follow the wizard instructions to update the driver Confirming the Windows Driver Installation Perform the following steps to confirm that the Embedded MegaRAID Software driver for Windows is installed properly 1 Click Start point to Settings and then click Control Panel 2 Double click System click the Hardware tab and then click Device Manager Device Manager starts 3 In Device Manager double click SCSI and RAID Controllers right click the device for which you are installing the driver and then click Properties 4 On the Driver tab click Driver Details and verify that the driver information is correct Linux Driver Installation This section explains the steps to install the Embedded MegaRAID device driver in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation or a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server installation Obtaining the Driver Image File The Linux driver is offered in the form of a driver update disk The req
72. Menus June 2011 7 2 3 7 2 3 1 7 2 3 2 7 2 3 3 7 2 3 4 7 2 3 5 MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Screen Menu Bar Brief descriptions of the main selections on the MegaRAID Storage Manager menu bar follow Specific menu options are described in more detail in Chapter 9 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices and Chapter 10 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations of this manual Manage Menu The Manage menu has a Refresh option for updating the display in the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen refresh is seldom required the display normally updates automatically and an Exit option to end your session on MegaRAID Storage Manager The Server menu item shows all the servers that were discovered by a scan In addition you can perform a check consistency initialize multiple virtual groups and show the progress of group operations on virtual drives Go To Menu The Go To menu is available when you select a controller drive group physical drive virtual drive or battery backup unit in the main menu screen The menu options vary depending on the type of device selected in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu The options also vary depending on the current state of the selected device For example if you select an offline drive the Make Drive Online option appears in the Physical Drive menu Configuration options are also available in which you access the Configuration Wizard to co
73. N LSI allows Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery LSI recommends that you A use either a battery to protect the controller cache or an uninterruptible power supply UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache 1 0 policy The I O policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache e Direct In Direct I O mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory This setting is the default e Cached In Cached I O mode all reads are buffered in cache memory Drive policy Specify the drive cache policy e Enable Enable the drive cache e Disable Disable the drive cache e NoChange Leave the current drive cache policy as is This drive policy is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status e No Leave background initialization enabled This setting means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use the MegaRAID BIOS CU to do other configuration tasks This setting is the default e Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller LSI Corporation 29 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 3 3 3 3 MegaRAID BIOS Configurat
74. OT TOTO COTO 1t1011000011011001100111001100100011101101101100110110 2 Highlight Select Drive Operations and press Enter The Drive Management gt gt Select Drive Operations screen appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 72 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Figure 49 Drive Management gt gt Select Drive Operations 10011011000110000111011001100 01101010010101 noni VEE ETa TakTak Tat ETa Yat Etat Takt Drive Management gt Select Drive Operations Select Drive lt Drive 0 SATA 237464MB Online gt Drive Operation lt Place Drive Offline gt Start Operation OTTO vu R 9011011001100111001100100611101101101100110110011 3 Highlight an operation and press Enter The following items define the drive operations Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility Managing Drives Select Drive Select the drive you want to carry out operations on The screen displays the drive number slot number drive type drive capacity and drive status Drive Operation Make a drive offline or online The options are Place Drive Offline and Place Drive Online NOTE If a good drive is part of a redundant drive group with a hot spare and you force that drive N offline the data on the drive rebuilds to the hot spare drive The drive you forced offline goes into the Unconfigured Bad state 4 Highlight Start Operation and press Enter The confirmation s
75. Properties Property Controller Marketing Name Description LSI Embedded MegaRAID Serial Number The manufacturer assigned serial number PCI ID The ID number for the Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus Host Interface The type of interface used by the computer host system such as PCI E Host Port Count The maximum number of ports supported by the software RAID controller in which devices such as CD ROM and disks can be connected PCI Slot Number The number of the PCI slot in which the selected controller is installed Drive Count The number of drives connected to the selected controller Virtual Drive Count Encryption Capable The number of virtual drives supported by the selected controller Indicates whether the controller offers the ability to encrypt data on the drives This solution provides data protection in the event of theft or loss of physical drives Minimum Stripe Size The minimum length of the data segments that the controller writes across multiple drives not including the parity drives The default minimum stripe size is 64 KB Maximum Stripe Size The maximum length of the data segments that the controller writes across multiple drives not including the parity drives The default maximum stripe size is 64 KB 4 2 2 Changing Controller Properties You can use the HII configuration utility to change the properties for a controller Perf
76. RAID Software User Guide Overview June 2011 Embedded MegaRAID Software Features Chapter 1 Overview 1 1 1 1 1 This manual explains the features of the Embedded MegaRAID Software It includes instructions for using the MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility the MegaCLI command line utility and the MegaRAID Storage Manager configuration utility You can use these three utilities to create storage configurations on drives controlled by Embedded MegaRAID Software The manual also includes instructions for installing the Embedded MegaRAID Software drivers in Microsoft Windows systems and Linux systems Embedded MegaRAID Software Features The Embedded MegaRAID Software supports up to eight SATA ports depending on the hardware platform This application provides a cost effective way to achieve higher transfer rates and reliability The following sections list the features of the driver BIOS the Ctrl M Configuration Utility and the disk management features Driver Features The Embedded MegaRAID Software driver supports the following features Support for 48 bit LBA Support for drive roaming Support for virtual drives larger than 2 TB Support for migration path from Embedded MegaRAID Software to MegaRAID SATA hardware this feature requires support from hardware RAID Automatic resumption of rebuilding check consistency full initialization and background initialization Online mirror rebuilding Support for aut
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78. Significant challenges face operating system and platform developers to innovate using the legacy PC AT BIOS boot environment These challenges include memory constraints maintenance challenges and increased complexities because of a lack of industry wide standards To handle these challenges the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI was developed to perform the following activities Define a clean interface between operating systems and the hardware platform at boot time Support an architecture independent mechanism for initializing add in cards UEFI provides expanded platform support The MegaRAID UEFI driver a boot service device driver handles block I O requests and SCSI pass through commands SPT and offers the ability to launch pre boot MegaRAID management applications through a driver configuration protocol DCP The UEFI driver also supports driver diagnostic protocol which allows administrators to access pre boot diagnostics RAID Overview This section provides a brief overview of the types of RAID configurations that Embedded MegaRAID Software supports The first step in creating a RAID storage configuration is to configure drives in drive groups also known as arrays As defined for Embedded MegaRAID Software a drive group is a group of one to eight physical disks that is seen by the host computer system as one large disk drive or virtual drive Only one RAID level can be assigned to each array LSI Corporati
79. Start Abort ShowProg ProgDsply Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Allows you to select the following actions for a data consistency check m Start Starts a CC on the virtual drive or drives and then displays the progress optional and time remaining Abort Aborts an ongoing CC on the virtual drive or drives ShowProg Displays a snapshot of an ongoing CC ProgDsp1y Displays ongoing CC progress until at least one CC is completed or a key is pressed View Ongoing Background Initialization Use the command in the following table to view ongoing background initialization of the selected virtual drives after the LDInit command has been issued to start the initialization This function completes only when all background initialization processes complete or you press a key to exit N NOTE This command is not supported in DOS LSI Corporation 85 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 7 6 5 7 7 5 8 5 8 1 Drive Commands Table 28 View Ongoing Background Initialization Syntax MegaCLI LDBI Enbl1 Dsbl GetSetting ShowProg ProgDsply Lx LO 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays ongoing background initialization of the selected virtual drives This function completes only when all background initialization processes complete or you press a key to exit m Enbl Dsb1 Enables or disables the background initialization on the
80. Unconfig Good Ena Spin Down Time S0 minutes SpinDowm The information on this screen is read only and cannot be modified directly Most of this information is self explanatory The screen lists the number of virtual drives that are already defined on this controller and the number of drives connected to the controller 2 Click Next to view the second Controller Properties screen as shown in the following figure Figure 22 Second Controller Properties Screen RAID BIOS Config Utility Controller Pr i is ttery Backup Coercion Mode Set Factory Defaults SMART Polling Cluster Mode Di zg 7 Alarn Control Rebuild Rate Patrol Read Rate BGI Rate Cache Flush Interval E CC Rate Spinup Drive Count 2 Reconstruction Rate l Spinup Delay e BIOS F StopOnError ca f LSI Corporation 40 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Viewing and Changing Device Properties 3 Click Next to view the third Controller Properties screen as shown in the following figure Figure 23 Third Controller Properties Screen aRAID BIOS Config Utility Controller Properties elage Stop CC On Error Maintain PD Fail History 4 Ifyou make changes to the options on this screen click Submit to register them If you change your mind click Reset to return the options to their default values The following table describes the entries options listed on the second and third Controll
81. aRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation June 2011 6 2 6 3 6 3 1 Hardware and Software Requirements Hardware and Software Requirements MegaRAID Storage Manager has the following hardware requirements PC compatible computer with an IA 32 32 bit Intel Architecture processor or an EM64T 64 bit processor and at least 128 MB of system memory N NOTE LSI recommends that you use at least 1 Gbyte of system memory m Physical drive with at least 50 MB available free space MegaRAID Storage Manager supports these operating systems m Microsoft Windows Server versions 2008 2008R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 and 6 m SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 10 and 11 with latest updates and service packs Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for more information on hardware requirements and operating system requirements Installation This section explains how to install or reinstall MegaRAID Storage Manager on your workstation or server Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on Microsoft Windows Follow these steps to install MegaRAID Storage Manager on a system running a Microsoft Windows operating system 1 Unzip the zip file containing MegaRAID Storage Manager in Windows Explorer 2 Double click the setup exe file to start the installation program 3 When the Welcome screen appears click Next If MegaRAID Storage Manager is already installed on this system the
82. able writes this table to the target drive and displays an error message Additional error messages appear if the SBBM table is 80 percent full or 100 percent full If the SBBM table is completely full the rebuild operation is aborted and the drive is marked as FAIL LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 7 Hot Plug Support 4 When the rebuild is complete the CU displays the following message Rebuilding of Drive X Completed Successfully Press Esc where X is the ID of the rebuilt drive 5 Press Esc to display the Management Menu The state of the rebuilt disk drive changes from FAIL to ONLIN If you press Esc while the rebuild is running the following options display m Stop Available only if AutoResume is enabled on the adapter Management Menu gt gt Objects gt gt Adapter gt gt AutoResume The rebuild is stopped and the CU stores the percentage of the rebuild already completed If AutoResume is enabled the rebuild resumes where it left off when you restart it instead of starting over from 0 percent Continue The rebuild continues normally Abort The rebuild is completely aborted and the disk drive remains in the FAIL state If you restart the rebuild it begins at 0 percent Hot Plug Support The MegaRAID BIOS CU supports hot plugging of drives The following hot plug message appears when you insert or remove a drive
83. able to set the time and date on the selected controller or controllers Table 11 Set Time and Date on Controller Convention MegaCLI AdpSetTime yyyymmdd HH mm ss aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets the time and date on the controller This command uses a 24 hour format For example 7 p m displays as 19 00 00 The order of date and time is reversible 5 4 6 Display Adapter Time Use the command in the following table to display the current time and date of the selected adapter Table 12 Display Adapter Time Syntax MegaCLI AdpGetTime aN Description Displays the time and date on the controller This command uses a 24 hour format For example 7 p m would display as 19 00 00 5 4 7 Set Factory Defaults Use the command in the following table to set the factory defaults on the selected adapter or adapters Table 13 Set Factory Defaults Syntax MegaCLI AdpFacDefSet aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets the factory defaults on the selected adapter or adapters You cannot set the factory defaults if the adapter already has a configuration defined on it LSI Corporation 79 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 5 5 5 5 1 5 6 MegaCLI Command Tool Event Log Commands Event Log Commands Manage the Event Log Entries Use the command in the following table to manage the event entries in the event log for the selected adapter or adapters Table
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85. age Configuration Figure 11 MegaRAID BIOS CU Drive Group Definition Screen After you finish selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 5 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in the following figure You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives Figure 12 MegaRAID BIOS CU Virtual Drive Definition Screen 6 Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed LSI Corporation 28 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Brief explanations of the virtual drive options follow RAID level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 1 Strip size The strip size is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single drive in the drive group The stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The def
86. age Manager is running you can see the status of all enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel If an enclosure is operating normally the icon looks like this a If the enclosure is not functioning normally for example if a fan has failed a small yellow or red circle appears to the right of the icon LSI Corporation 131 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 9 8 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes MegaRAID Storage Manager allows you to monitor the progress of rebuilds and other lengthy operations in the Group Show Progress window Follow these steps to monitor the progress of these operations 1 Select Manage gt gt Show Progress on the menu bar as shown in the following figure Figure 86 Group Show Progress Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help Refresh FS Server Check Consistency Initialize Show Progress Exit E4 LSI Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 ay amp Virtual Drive s J Virtual Drive 0 231 898 GB Optimal E amp Drives Slot 0 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online Eg Drive Group 1 RAID 0 Virtual Drive s The Group Show Progress window appears as shown in the following screen Properties General Total Capacity Free
87. al disks on your workstation or server The Simple Configuration mode and the Advanced Configuration mode greatly simplify the process of creating drive groups and virtual drives You can use the these configuration modes to create the best possible configuration with the available hardware You can create the following types of configurations m Simple configuration Specifies a limited number of settings and has the system select drives for you This option is the easiest way to create a virtual drive Advanced configuration Lets you choose additional settings and customize virtual drive creation This option provides greater flexibility when creating virtual drives for your specific requirements See Section 8 1 Creating a New Storage Configuration for the procedures used to create storage configurations Monitoring Storage Devices MegaRAID Storage Manager displays the status of virtual disks physical disks and other storage devices on the workstation or server that you are monitoring System errors and events are recorded in an event log file and are displayed on the screen Special device icons appear on the screen to notify you of disk failures and other events that require immediate attention Maintaining Storage Configurations You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager to perform system maintenance tasks such as running consistency checks on arrays that support redundancy LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Meg
88. and Managing Storage Configurations June 2011 10 5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing Making a Drive Offline or Missing If a drive is currently part of a redundant configuration and you want to use it in another configuration you can use MegaRAID Storage Manager commands to remove the drive from the first configuration and change the drive state to Unconfigured Good CAUTION After you perform this procedure all data on that drive is lost To remove the drive from the configuration without harming the data on the virtual drive follow these steps 1 In the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu click Go To gt gt Physical Drive gt gt Make Drive O ffline The drive status changes to Offline 2 Click Go To gt gt Physical Drive gt gt M ark Drive as Missing The drive status changes to Unconfigured Good A CAUTION After you perform this step the data on this drive is no longer valid 3 If necessary create a hot spare drive for the virtual drive from which you have removed the drive When a hot spare is available the data on the virtual drive is then rebuilt You can now use the removed drive for another configuration CAUTION If MegaRAID Storage Manager detects that a drive in a virtual drive has failed it makes the A drive offline If this happens you must remove the drive and replace it You can make the drive so that another configuration cannot use it by using the Mark physical disk as missing c
89. araid Storage Manager 1 00 01 InstallShield Wizard Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs Please select a setup type cE 8 This option will install all program features C Client te This option will only install components required to remotely view and configure servers C Server ie This option will only install components required for remote server management C StandAlone This option will only install components required for local server management lt Back Next gt Cancel InstallShield LSI Corporation 93 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation June 2011 6 3 2 Installation 8 Select one of the Setup options The screen text explains the options Normally you select Complete if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on a server This option installs the complete MSM Select Client if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on a PC that is used to view and configure servers over a network Master GUI Monitor Configurator Help files for both MSM and Monitor Configurator and DebugLog are available The following files are not available Popup SNMP Monitor Framework Storelib and Storelib IR StorelibJNI and StorelibIRJNI Select Server to install only those components required for remote server management Popup SNMP Monitor Framework Storelib and Storelib IR StorelibJN
90. art in 1 day 0x00a0 160 Information Battery relearn will start in 5 hours 0x00a1 161 Information Battery removed 0x00a2 162 Information Current capacity of the battery is below threshold 0x00a3 163 Information Current capacity of the battery is above threshold 0x00a4 164 Information Enclosure SES discovered on s 0x00a5 165 Information Enclosure SAFTE discovered on s 0x00a6 166 Caution Enclosure s communication lost 0x00a7 167 Information Enclosure s communication restored 0x00a8 168 Caution Enclosure s fan d failed 0x00a9 169 Information Enclosure s fan d inserted Ox00aa 170 Caution Enclosure s fan d removed 0x00ab 171 Caution Enclosure s power supply d failed 0x00ac 172 Information Enclosure s power supply d inserted Ox00ad 173 Caution Enclosure s power supply d removed 0x00ae 174 Caution Enclosure s EMM d failed Ox00af 175 Information Enclosure s EMM d inserted 0x00b0 176 Caution Enclosure s EMM d removed LSI Corporation 143 Appendix A Events and Messages Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Appendix A Events and Messages June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued re d Ree Type Event Text 0x00b1 177 Warning Enclosure s temperature sensor d below warning threshold 0x00b2 178 Caution Enclosure s temperature sensor d below error threshold 0x00b3 179 Warning Enclosure s tempera
91. ary Window x Lsisi Review the summary and go back if you need to make corrections The virtual drive s will be created when you click finish Summary RAID level RAID 0 Number of virtual drives i Capacity of each virtual drive 231 898 GB Drive security method No encryption Number of drives used i 8 Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration The new virtual drive is created after you click Finish After the configuration is completed a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage configuration Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive In addition you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced configuration mode LSI Corporation 108 Configuration Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Creating a New Storage Configuration June 2011 1 Click the Dashboard tab on the MSM main menu screen The Create Virtual Drive option appears in the Actions section of the Dashboard as shown in the following figure Figure 62 Virtua
92. as virtual adapters or controllers Because the drivers are not actual hardware components some of the adapter parameters do not apply to them LSI Corporation 76 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 4 1 5 4 2 5 4 3 Adapter Commands Display Adapter Information Use the command in the following table to display information on adapter parameters such as the number of virtual drives and initiator ID Table 7 Display Adapter Information Syntax MegaCLI AdpAllInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays parameters on the selected adapter or adapters Displayed information includes initiator ID current status of auto rebuild alarm number of virtual drives rebuild rate bus number device number present RAM settings serial number of the board and address Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild Use the command in the following table to turn automatic rebuild on or off for the selected adapter or adapters If you have configured hot spares and enabled automatic rebuild the RAID adapter automatically tries to use them to rebuild failed disks Automatic rebuild also controls whether a rebuild starts when a drive that was part of the array is reinserted Table 8 Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild Syntax MegaCLI AdpAutoRbld Enbl Dsbl Dsply aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Enables or disables automatic rebuild on the selected adapter or adapters The Dspl
93. ate and BGI Rate background initialization are all user selectable For more information about these rates see Section 8 2 Changing Adjustable Task Rates The controller properties are defined in Appendix A Events and Messages 9 4 Monitoring Drives When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running you can see the status of all drives in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen If the drive is operating normally its icon looks like this Ga If the drive has failed a small red circle appears to the right of the icon like this qj See Section 7 2 1 Dashboard Physical View Logical Views for a complete list of device icons LSI Corporation 126 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 Monitoring Drives To display complete drive information click a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen The drive properties appear in the right panel as shown in the following figure Figure 82 Drive Information MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 E d x Manage GoTo Log Tools Help SsO820 LSI gt K u Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off Dashboard Physical Logical E9 WIN AEC34GFELOU q Properties ER ist Embedded MegaRAID Bus 0 Dev 31 gt 3 O General Temperature 33C 91 4F Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB 3 Onine amp Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Online Usable Capacity 231 898 GB Power Sta
94. atrol read process LSI Corporation 78 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 Adapter Commands 5 4 4 Display Specified Adapter Properties Use the command in the following table to display specified properties on the selected adapter or adapters Table 10 Display Specified Adapter Properties Syntax egaCLI AdpGetProp CacheFlushInterval RebuildRate PatrolReadRate BgiRate CCRate ReconRate SpinupDriveCount SpinupDelay CoercionMode PredFailPollInterval ClusterEnable BatWarnDsbl EccBucketSize EccBucketLeakRate EccBucketCount AlarmDsply AbortCCOnError AutoDetectBackPlaneDsbl CopyBackDsbl LoadBalanceMode SMARTCpyBkEnbl SSDSMARTCpyBkEnbl aintainPdFailHistoryEnbl EnblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs Enb1lSSDPatrolRead NCQDsply UseFDEOnlyEncrypt WBSupport AutoEnhancedImportDsbl PrCorrectUncfgdAreas DsblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the properties on the selected controller or controllers m EccBucketCount Count of single bit ECC errors currently in the bucket m WBSupport Enables support for the Writeback option as the write policy m DsblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs Disable spindown of unconfigured drives See the previous table for explanations of the other options 5 4 5 Set Time and Date on Controller Use the command in the following t
95. ault is 64 KB Access policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive e RW Allow read write access This setting is the default e Read only Allow read only access e Blocked Do not allow access Read policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive e Normal This setting disables the read ahead capability This setting is the default e Ahead This setting enables read ahead capability which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory anticipating that the data is needed soon This setting speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data Write policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive e WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode e WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is the default e Bad BBU Select this mode if you want the controller to use Writeback mode but the controller has no BBU or the BBU is bad If you do not choose this option the controller firmware automatically switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU CAUTIO
96. bal due to missing arrays Ox00f5 245 Information s rebuild not possible as SAS SATA is not supported in an array Ox00f6 246 Information SEP s has been rebooted as a part of enclosure firmware download SEP will be unavailable until this process completes Ox00f7 247 Information Inserted s Info s 0x00f8 248 Information Removed s Info s Ox00f9 249 Information s is now OPTIMAL 0x00fa 250 Warning s is now PARTIALLY DEGRADED Ox00fb 251 Caution s is now DEGRADED Ox00fc 252 Fatal s is now OFFLINE Ox00fd 253 Warning Battery requires reconditioning please initiate a LEARN cycle LSI Corporation 145 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued Appendix A Events and Messages ae d Rees Type Event Text Ox00fe 254 Warning VD s disabled because RAID 5 is not supported by this RAID key OxOOff 255 Warning VD s disabled because RAID 6 is not supported by this controller 0x0100 256 Warning VD s disabled because SAS drives are not supported by this RAID key LSI Corporation 146 Pe LSIs 48712 00A
97. creen appears 5 Highlight Yes and press Enter The controller performs the selected operations LSI Corporation 73 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 MegaCLlI CT Overview Chapter 5 MegaCL I Command Tool 5 1 5 2 This chapter describes the commands for the MegaCLI Command Tool and how to use them The MegaCLI Command Tool CT is a command line interface application that you can use to configure and maintain storage configurations created with Embedded MegaRAID Software NOTE The MegaCLI CT utility runs in the Microsoft Windows and Linux environments For DOS the utility is S called MegaDCLI CT and it supports a subset of the full command set MegaCLI CT Overview MegaCLI CT and MegaDCLI CT are command line interface applications you can use to configure and manage storage configurations under Embedded MegaRAID Software You can use these command tools to perform the following tasks Configure virtual drives and create configurations on the adapter Display the configuration on the adapter Display and change virtual drive s properties on the adapter Display and change physical drive s properties on the adapter Display and change adapter properties Load a configuration to the adapter from a file Save an adapter configuration to a file Start or stop rebuild consistency check and initialization Suspend and display an ongoing background initialization Display relevant use
98. criptions include placeholders for specific values that are determined when the event is generated Some of the error messages are relevant only for hardware RAID Table 50 Event Messages pee pean Type Event Text 0x0000 0 Information Firmware initialization started PCI ID 04x 04x 04x 04x 0x0001 1 Information Firmware version s 0x0002 2 Fatal Unable to recover cache data from TBBU 0x0003 3 Information Cache data recovered from TBBU successfully 0x0004 4 Information Configuration cleared 0x0005 5 Warning Cluster down communication with peer lost 0x0006 6 Information s ownership changed from 02x to 02x 0x0007 7 Information Alarm disabled by user 0x0008 8 Information Alarm enabled by user 0x0009 9 Information Background initialization rate changed to d 0x000a 10 Fatal Controller cache discarded due to memory battery problems 0x000b 11 Fatal Unable to recover cache data due to configuration mismatch 0x000c 12 Information Cache data recovered successfully 0x000d 13 Fatal Controller cache discarded due to firmware version incompatibility 0x000e 14 Information Consistency Check rate changed to d Ox000f 15 Dead Fatal firmware error s LSI Corporation 139 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Appendix A Events and Messages June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued
99. ctions you can perform Links to Online Help LSI Corporation 98 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus June 2011 7 2 1 2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Screen The following figure shows the Dashboard view Figure 55 MSM Dashboard View MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 lB x Manage GoTo Log Tools Help SOE WO LSI Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off Dashboard physical Logical troller Usage Background Operations a status Optimal Virtual drive operations in AB Enclosures 0 ere U Backplanes 0 Sess Configured Capacity amp Drives 3 jay 463 7978 Drive operations in progre i Unconfigured Capacity Drive groups 1 o eer pacity Virtual Drive s 1 More details a E Information 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Through e 7 Information 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller ID 0 Policy changeon VD O Current Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write g information 2011 03 22 16 _ Controller 1D 0 Properties updated on VD _0 Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing battery Dis 5 Information 2011 03 22 Co
100. cy Check found inconsistent parity on s at strip lx 0x0040 64 Warning Consistency Check inconsistency logging disabled on s too many inconsistencies 0x0041 65 Progress Consistency Check progress on s is s 0x0042 66 Information Consistency Check started on s 0x0043 67 Warning Initialization aborted on s 0x0044 68 Caution Initialization failed on s 0x0045 69 Progress Initialization progress on s is s 0x0046 70 Information Fast initialization started on s 0x0047 71 Information Full initialization started on s 0x0048 72 Information Initialization complete on s 0x0049 73 Information Properties updated to s from s 0x004a 74 Information Reconstruction complete on s 0x004b 75 Fatal Reconstruction of s stopped due to unrecoverable errors 0x004c 76 Fatal Reconstruct detected uncorrectable double medium errors s at lx on s at lx 0x004d 77 Progress Reconstruction progress on s is s 0x004e 78 Information Reconstruction resumed on s 0x004f 79 Fatal Reconstruction resume of s failed due to configuration mismatch 0x0050 80 Information Reconstructing started on s 0x0051 81 Information State change on s from s to s 0x0052 82 Information Clear aborted on s 0x0053 83 Caution Clear failed on s Error 02x 0x0054 84 Progress Clear progress on s is s 0x0055 85 Information Clear started on s 0x0056 86 Information Clear completed on s 0x0057 87 Warning Error on s Error 02x 0x0058 88 Information Format complete on s 0x0059 89 Inf
101. d 221 Warning NVRAM is corrupt reinitializing Ox00de 222 Warning NVRAM mismatch occurred Ox00df 223 Warning SAS wide port d lost link on PHY d 0x00e0 224 Information SAS wide port d restored link on PHY d 0x00e1 225 Warning SAS port d PHY d has exceeded the allowed error rate 0x00e2 226 Warning Bad block reassigned on s at lx to lx 0x00e3 227 Information Controller Hot Plug detected 0x00e4 228 Warning Enclosure s temperature sensor d differential detected 0x00e5 229 Information Disk test cannot start No qualifying disks found 0x00e6 230 Information Time duration provided by host is not sufficient for self check 0x00e7 231 Information Marked Missing for s on array d row d 0x00e8 232 Information Replaced Missing as s on array d row d 0x00e9 233 Information Enclosure s Temperature d returned to normal 0x00ea 234 Information Enclosure s Firmware download in progress 0x00eb 235 Warning Enclosure s Firmware download failed 0x00ec 236 Warning s is not a certified drive 0x00ed 237 Information Dirty cache data discarded by user 0x00ee 238 Information PDs missing from configuration at boot 0x00ef 239 Information VDs missing drives and will go offline at boot s Ox00f0 240 Information VDs missing at boot s Ox00f1 241 Information Previous configuration completely missing at boot Ox00f2 242 Information Battery charge complete Ox00f3 243 Information Enclosure s fan d speed changed Ox00f4 244 Information Dedicated spare s imported as glo
102. d in Standard mode e WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is the default e Bad BBU Select this mode if you want the controller to use Writeback mode but the controller has no BBU or the BBU is bad If you do not choose this option the controller firmware automatically switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU CAUTION LSI allows Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery LSI recommends that you A use either a battery to protect the controller cache or an uninterruptible power supply UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache l policy The I O policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache e Direct In Direct I O mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory This setting is the default e Cached In Cached I O mode all reads are buffered in cache memory Drive policy Specify the drive cache policy e Enable Enable the drive cache e Disable Disable the drive cache e NoChange Leave the current drive cache policy as is This drive policy is the default
103. d required for your operating system environment To start MegaRAID Storage Manager on a Microsoft Windows system select Start gt gt Programs gt gt MegaRAID Storage Manager gt gt StartupUI or double click the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcut on the desktop NOTE If a warning appears stating that Windows Firewall has blocked some features of the program D click Unblock to allow MegaRAID Storage Manager to start The Windows Firewall sometimes blocks the operation of programs that use Java MegaRAID Storage Manager StartupUl To start MegaRAID Storage Manager on a Red Hat Linux system select Applications gt gt System Tools gt gt To start MegaRAID Storage Manager on a SUSE Linux SLES system select Start gt gt System gt gt More Programs gt gt MegaRAID Storage Manager When the program starts the Select Server window appears as shown in the following figure The remote servers display along with their IP address operating system and health status Figure 52 Select Server Window MegaRAID Storage Manager 2 76 Host View Server Details This page displays all the servers that were discovered Choose a server and click on Login to start managing that server You will be prompted for entering host credentials while logging in Use Configure Host to configure the hosts that you want to view IP Address 135 24 228 192 Discover Host Remote servers Host IP Address Operating System
104. des redundancy for one drive failure without duplicating the contents of entire drives requires less space then RAID 1 RAID 0 Description RAID 0 provides disk striping across all drives in the drive group RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but offers the best performance of any RAID level RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller segments called strips and then stripes the data segments across each drive in the array The size of each data segment is determined by the strip size which is 64 KB N NOTE It is possible to create each disk as a single drive RAID 0 drive group However spanning across single drive RAID 0 drive groups is not supported By breaking up a large file into smaller segments and writing or reading from several drives at once the Embedded MegaRAID Software utility can read or write the file faster This feature makes RAID 0 ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance Uses Provides high data throughput especially for large files any environment that does not require fault tolerance Strong Points Provides increased data throughput for large files no capacity loss penalty for parity Weak Points Does not provide fault tolerance all data lost if any drive fails Drives One to eight LSI Corporation 10 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 1 2 2 1 2 3 The following figure shows a RAID 0 array with two drives Figure 1 RAID 0 Array Example wi
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106. drive if the drive is still operational If hot spare drives are available the failed drive is rebuilt automatically without any user intervention If a drive has failed a red circle appears to the right of the drive icon qj A small yellow circle appears to the right of the icon of the virtual drive that uses this drive gj This indicates that the virtual drive is in a degraded state the data is still safe but data could be lost if another drive fails Follow these steps if you need to rebuild a drive Right click the icon of the failed drive and select Rebuild 2 Click Yes when the warning message appears If the drive is still good a rebuild starts You can monitor the progress of the rebuild in the Group Show Progress window by selecting Manage gt gt Show Progress If the drive cannot be rebuilt an error message appears Continue with the next step Shut down the system disconnect the power cord and open the computer case Replace the failed drive with a new drive of equal capacity Close the computer case reconnect the power cord and restart the computer OMe w Restart MegaRAID Storage Manager When the new drive spins up the drive icon changes back to normal status and the rebuild process begins automatically You can monitor the progress of the rebuild in the Group Show Progress window by selecting Manage gt gt Show Progress LSI Corporation 137 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Maintaining
107. e Write Through In this mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction This option eliminates the risk of losing cached data in case of power failure Always Write Back In this mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction I O policy The I O policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache Direct I O default In this mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory Cached I O Provides faster processing and Direct I O ensures that the cache and the host contain the same data Access policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive Read Write default Allow read write access This setting is the default Read only Allow read only access Blocked Do not allow access Disk cache policy Select a cache setting for this drive Enabled Enable the disk cache Disabled Disable the disk cache Unchanged default Leave the current disk cache policy unchanged Optimum Controller Settings for CacheCade SSD Caching Software Guard CacheCade SSD Guard a feature that is unique to MegaRAID
108. e Figure 43 View Drive Group Properties Screen Virtual Drive Management gt View Drive Group Properties Drive Group 0 Capacity Allocation Virtual Drive 0 MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO 711679MB Optimal gt t Warnings Detected Check POST Event Viewer LSI Corporation 68 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Drives The screen displays the drive group number drive group name RAID level virtual drive capacity and virtual drive status 3 Highlight the drive group and press Enter The drive group properties and any free capacity appear in the list as shown in the following figure Figure 44 Drive Group Properties Screen and Free Space 11001101100011000011101100110010011001101100 0410101001010110001101110101100061 f OIII 10 fa oii Virtual Drive Management gt View Drive Group Properties Drive Group 0 Capacity Allocation Virtual Drive 0 MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO 711679MB Optimal gt Virtual Drive 0 MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO 711679MB Optimal O UOTOTOTIUU Oru 19191011900011011001100111001100100011101101101100 1101100710010 4 4 Managing Drives You can use the Drive Management screen to view and change the physical drive properties of the drives in a drive group 4 4 1 Viewing Drive Properties Perform the following steps to access the drive properties screen and view the values for the properties LSI Cor
109. e Email tab on the Event Notification Configuration screen The Email section of the screen appears as shown in the following figure Click an email address in the Recipient email addresses field Click Test Confirm whether the test message was sent to the email address If MegaRAID Storage Manager cannot send an email message to the email address an error message appears 9 2 11 Removing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications Use the Email tab portion of the Alerts Notification Configuration screen to remove email addresses of the recipients of alert notifications 1 Click the Email tab on the Event Notification Configuration screen The Email section of the screen appears as shown in the previous figure 2 Click an email address in the Recipient email addresses field The Remove button which was grayed out is now active 3 Click Remove The email address is deleted from the list LSI Corporation 125 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 Monitoring Controllers 9 3 Monitoring Controllers NOTE The Embedded MegaRAID Software drivers act as virtual controllers Because these are not actual S hardware storage controllers installed in the computer system some of the controller properties shown in the following screen do not apply to them When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running you can see the status of all controllers in the left panel of the MegaR
110. e adapter number for the command a0 1 2 Specifies the command is for adapters 0 1 and 2 You can select two or more controllers in this manner aALL Specifies the command is for all adapters LX x specifies the virtual drive number for the command L0 1 2 Specifies the command is for virtual drives 0 1 and 2 You can select two or more virtual drives in this manner Lall Specifies the command is for all virtual drives E0 S0 E1 S1 Specifies when one or more physical devices must be specified in the command line Each E S pair specifies one physical device where E means device ID of the enclosure in which a drive resides and S means the slot number of the enclosure LSI Corporation 75 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 Adapter Commands Table 6 Conventions Continued Convention Description Indicates that the parameter is optional Indicates that the parameters are grouped and that they must be given at the same time Force Specifies that the MegaCLl utility does not ask you for confirmation before it performs this command You might lose data using this option with some commands You can specify the Silent command line option for all possible functions of the MegaCLI CT If you enter this option at the command line no messages appear on the screen Some MegaCLI CT commands that are supported in hardware RAID configurations are not supported
111. e size This option can also be used to create a configuration on the free space available in the array m AfterLdx Used to specify which free slot should be used optional By default MegaCLI CT uses the first free slot available in the array This option has no meaning if the array is not already used for configuration 5 6 2 Configure Each Disk as RAID 0 Use the command in the following table to configure each physical disk in Unconfigured Good state as RAID 0 N NOTE The MegaCLI CT does not support spanning across these single drive RAID 0 configurations LSI Corporation 81 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 Configuration Commands Table 16 Configure Each Disk as RAID 0 Syntax MegaCLI CfgEachDskRAIDO WT WB NORA RA ADRA Direct Cached strpszM aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Configures each physical disk in Unconfigured Good state as RAID 0 on this controller The options WT WB NORA RA ADRA Direct Cached must be entered in the sequence that is shown m WT Used to select Write through caching in which a write transaction is considered to be complete when all the data has been written to the disk cache m WB Used to select Write back caching in which the write transaction is complete only when the data has been written to the disk m NORA Used to select Normal Read Ahead caching which specifies that the controller reads on
112. each drive to the capacity of the smallest drive The number of physical drives in a specific array determines the possible RAID levels that you can implement with the array m RAID O requires from one to eight physical drives m RAID 1 requires two physical drives m RAID 5 required three to eight physical drives m RAID 10 requires four six or eight physical drives LSI Corporation 19 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Configuring Drive Groups and Virtual Drives The following screen appears when you start the MegaRAID BIOS CU and select a controller Figure 5 MegaRAID BIOS CU Main Menu Screen LE Virtual Drive 0 YD 0 67 843 GB Optimal Lag Drives 4 MD1000 13 Slot 0 545 HDD 67 643 GB Onli 4 MD1000 13 Slot 1 SAS HDD 136 215 GB Onli Drive Group 1 RAID 1 Ugg Virtual Drives Ugg Virtual Drive 1 33 406 GB Degraded Lag Drives i o Missing Enclosure 13 Slot 2 Slot 3 SAS HDD 33 406 GB Onli a Slot 3 SAS HDD GB Te losure ND1O00 13 Slot 9 SAS HDD 136 216 GB Unc nelosure MD1000 13 Slot 10 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Unc In the right frame the screen shows the virtual drives configured on the controller and the drives that are connected to the controller In addition the screen identifies drives that are foreign or missing NOTE In the list of virtual drives the drive nodes are sorted based on the order in which you added the
113. ect 10 Strip Size 64KB Write Policy Virtual Disk State Optimal Current Write Policy Write Through 10 and Cache Policies Default Write Policy Write Through Access Policy Description informatio 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Through a Informatio 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller ID 0 Policy change onVD O Current Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Writ Informatio 2011 03 22 16 24 37 Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing battery Informatio 2011 03 22 16 24 37 Controller ID 0 Policy change onVD O Current Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing Informatio 2011 03 22 16 23 15 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 169 254 109 128 Access Mode Full Client Time 2011 03 22 16 23 15 Mnfarmatin 1011 03 77 149914 ICantralier TH N VN ie naw NPTTMAI VN n i caj Aje lB z PBS am M LSI Corporation 100 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 7 2 2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Screen The following icons in the left panel represent the con
114. ed MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 9 5 1 9 6 Monitoring Virtual Drives 8 Click OK to enable your patrol read selections NOTE Patrol read does not report on its progress while it is running The patrol read status is reported in N the event log only To start a patrol read without changing the patrol read properties follow these steps 1 Click a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen 2 Select Go To gt gt Controller gt gt Start Patrol Read in the menu bar 3 When prompted click Yes to confirm that you want to start a patrol read Patrol Read Task Rates You can change the patrol read task rate The task rate determines the amount of system resources that are dedicated to a patrol read when it is running LSI recommends however that you leave the patrol read task rate at its default setting If you raise the task rate above the default foreground tasks run more slowly and it might seem that the system is not responding If you lower the task rate below the default rebuilds and other background tasks might run very slowly and might not complete within a reasonable time For more information about the patrol read task rate see Section 8 2 Changing Adjustable Task Rates Monitoring Virtual Drives When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running you can see the status of all virtual drives If a virtual drive is operating
115. elete virtual drives to rearrange the storage space To delete a virtual drive follow these steps Back up all user data that is on the virtual drive you want to delete 2 On the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen select the Logical tab and click the icon of the virtual drive you want to delete 3 Select Go To gt gt Virtual Drive gt gt Delete Virtual Drive When the warning messages appear click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the virtual drive N NOTE You are asked twice whether you want to delete a virtual disk to avoid deleting the virtual disk by mistake LSI Corporation 116 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Chapter 9 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices 9 1 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Monitoring System Events This chapter explains how to use MegaRAID Storage Manager to monitor the status of drives virtual drives and other storage devices Monitoring System Events The MegaRAID Storage Manager utility monitors the activity and performance of all controllers in the system and the storage devices connected to them When an event occurs such as the creation of a new virtual drive or the removal of a drive an event message appears in the log at the bottom of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen as shown in the following figure You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager to alert you about events Settings exist for the delivery of alerts the
116. er Properties screen LSI recommends that you leave these options at their default settings to achieve the best performance unless you have a specific reason for changing them Table 2 Controller Properties Menu Options Option Battery Backup Description This entry indicates whether the selected controller has a BBU If present you can click Present to view information about the BBU Set Factory Defaults Use this option to load the default MegaRAID BIOS CU settings The default is No Cluster Mode Use this option to enable or disable Cluster mode The default is Disabled A cluster is a grouping of independent servers that can access the same data storage and provide services to a common set of clients When Cluster mode is disabled the system operates in Standard mode Rebuild Rate Use this option to select the rebuild rate for drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30 percent The rebuild rate is the percentage of system resources dedicated to rebuilding a failed drive The higher the number the more system resources devoted to a rebuild BGI Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to background initialization of virtual drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30 percent CC Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to consistency checks of virtual drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30
117. er entered firmware debugger 0x002e 46 Warning Background Initialization aborted on s 0x002f 47 Warning Background Initialization corrected medium error s at lx 0x0030 48 Information Background Initialization completed on s 0x0031 49 Fatal Background Initialization corrected medium error s at lx s at lx 0x0032 50 Fatal Background Initialization detected uncorrectable double medium errors s at lx on s 0x0033 51 Caution Background Initialization failed on s 0x0034 52 Progress Background Initialization progress on s is s 0x0035 53 Information Background Initialization started on s 0x0036 54 Information Policy change on s from s to s 0x0038 56 Warning Consistency Check aborted on s LSI Corporation 140 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued Appendix A Events and Messages nee d Rees Type Event Text 0x0039 57 Warning Consistency Check corrected medium error s at lx s at lx 0x003a 58 Information Consistency Check done on s 0x003b 59 Information Consistency Check done with corrections on s corrections d 0x003c 60 Fatal Consistency Check detected uncorrectable double medium errors s at lx on s 0x003d 61 Caution Consistency Check failed on s 0x003e 62 Fatal Consistency Check failed with uncorrectable data on s 0x003f 63 Warning Consisten
118. erview June 2011 RAID Overview The following figure shows a RAID 10 array with four drives Figure 4 RAID 10 Array Segment 1 Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 5 Segment 6 Segment 6 7 eee eee ia ea i i i i i I RAID 0 j LSI Corporation 13 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Driver Installation June 2011 Windows Driver Installation Chapter 2 Driver Installation This chapter explains how to install the Embedded MegaRAID Software drivers for the following operating systems m Microsoft Windows Server 2008 2008R2 m Microsoft Windows Workstation version 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 and 6 m SUSE Linux Enterprise SLES 10 and 11 2 1 Windows Driver Installation Perform the following steps to install the MegaRAID device driver in a new Windows operating system The Windows operating system automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to the appropriate directory 1 Start the Windows installation by booting from the appropriate Windows CD ROM The system BIOS must support booting from a CD ROM BIOS settings might require changes to allow CD ROM booting Refer to your system documentation 2 Press F6 when the following displays at the bottom of the screen unless you are installing Windows Vista Press F6 if you need NOTE For the system to recognize the new driver for Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server N 2003 you
119. et to RAID perform the following steps a Highlight the Configure SATA as options and press Enter IDE AHCI and RAID appear as the options Highlight RAID and press Enter Press Esc until you return to the System Configuration and Boot Management screen Highlight Save Settings and press Enter Reboot your system Press F1 during bootup to enter setup The System Configuration and Boot Management screen appears as shown in Figure 28 g Highlight System Settings and press Enter The System Settings screen appears The Storage menu option is now available on this screen mo and LSI Corporation 55 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Accessing the Configuration Options Screen 7 Highlight Storage and press Enter The Storage screen appears as shown in the following figure N NOTE If multiple controllers exist multiple options appear on the Storage screen Figure 30 Storage Screen 8 Highlight your controller and press Enter The Configuration Options screen appears as shown in the following figure This screen lists the following management options Controller Management Select this option to view and or change the controller properties save configurations and perform other tasks You can view information about the controller and the devices connected to it For more information see Section 4 2 Managing Controllers Virtual Drive
120. f the virtual drive that you want to initialize Select Go To gt gt Virtual Drive gt gt Start Initialization The initialize dialog box appears Select the virtual drive or drives to initialize CAUTION Initialization erases all data on the virtual drive Make sure to back up any data you want to A keep before you initialize Make sure the operating system is not installed on the virtual drive you are initializing Select the Fast Initialization check box if you want to use this option If you leave the box unchecked MegaRAID Storage Manager runs a Full Initialization on the virtual drive For more information see Section 10 1 1 Running a Group Initialization Click Start to begin the initialization You can monitor the progress of the initialization For more information see Section 9 8 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes 10 1 1 Running a Group Initialization Initialization prepares the storage medium for use You can run an initialization on multiple drives at one time Follow these steps to run a group initialization 1 Click Manage gt gt Initialize The Group Initialization appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 134 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations June 2011 10 2 Running a Consistency Check Figure 88 Group Initialization Dialog Box Group Initialization LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260 6i Bus 2 Dev 0 r Select Virtual
121. f the drive changes to READY and it can then be used in another new array Initializing Virtual Drives This section explains the two methods used to initialize a virtual drive with the MegaRAID BIOS CU If the Fast Init property is enabled fast initialization is used In fast initialization the MegaRAID BIOS CU quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 8 MB regions of the new virtual drive If the Fast Init property is not enabled the MegaRAID BIOS CU performs a complete initialization on the virtual drive This process can take a long time if the physical disk drives are large A CAUTION When you initialize a virtual drive all of the existing data on the virtual drive is erased First Initialization Method Follow these steps to initialize a virtual drive using the Initialize menu 1 Onthe Management Menu select Initialize 2 Use the spacebar to highlight the virtual drive to initialize The virtual drive name is highlighted in yellow To deselect it highlight the virtual drive and press the spacebar again 3 Press F10 Select Yes at the prompt and press Enter to begin the initialization A graph shows the progress of the initialization until it is complete 5 After the initialization is complete press Esc to return to previous menus If you press Esc while initialization is in progress the following options appear Stop Available only if AutoResume is enabled on the adapter Management Menu gt gt Objects gt
122. f you have a specific reason for doing so It is usually best to leave them at their default settings a Initialization state Initialization prepares the storage medium for use Specify the initialization status Nolnitialization default The new configuration is not initialized and the existing data on the drives is not overwritten Fast Initialization This option allows you to start writing data to the virtual drive immediately Full Initialization A complete initialization is done on the new configuration You cannot write data to the new virtual drive until the initialization is complete A full initialization can take a long time if the drives are large N NOTE New RAID 5 virtual drives require at least five drives for a background initialization to start m Stripe size Stripe size of 64 KB only m Read policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive No read ahead default Disables the read ahead capability Read ahead capability allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory anticipating that the data is needed soon Read ahead capability speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data LSI Corporation 103 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 8 1 2 Creating a New Storage Configuration Write policy Specify the write policy for this virtual driv
123. gment 13 Segment 14 Segment 15 Parity 11 15 Segment 11 Segment 12 Segment 19 Segment 20 Parity 16 20 Segment 16 Segment 17 Segment 18 Segment 25 Parity 21 25 Segment 21 Segment 22 Segment 23 Segment 24 Parity 26 30 Segment 26 Segment 27 Segment 28 Segment 29 Segment 30 Note Parity is distributed across all drives in the array RAID 10 Description RAID 10 a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 has mirrored drives It breaks up data into smaller blocks and then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 1 RAID set Each RAID 1 RAID set then duplicates its data to its other drive The size of each block is determined by the strip size parameter which is 64 KB RAID 10 can sustain one drive failure in each drive group while maintaining data integrity N NOTE On a RAID 10 array you can create only one virtual drive and that virtual drive must occupy the entire space of the RAID 10 array Works best for data storage that must have 100 percent redundancy of RAID 1 mirrored drive groups and that also needs the enhanced I O performance of RAID 0 striped drive groups RAID 10 works well for medium sized databases or any environment that requires a higher degree of fault tolerance and moderate to medium capacity Uses Strong Points Provides both high data transfer rates and complete data redundancy Weak Points Requires twice as many drives Drives Four six or eight LSI Corporation 12 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Ov
124. harry 135 24 i 228 l 1 78 Windows 2003 Health Optimal Configure Host idlisys Windows 2003 Linux Optimal Onti E Windows 2003 dhcp 135 24 228 188 msmtestpc 8 Windows 2003 dhcp 135 24 228 131 lsi com K 131 131 Linux Isi 77e242f 184 Windows 2003 Optimal dhep 135 24 228 192 135 24 228 192 SunOS Optimal AWIN AQLIMAMSZUS 135 24 228 138 Windows Server 2008 Optimal 10 Server s Found Discovery stopped LSI Corporation 96 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus June 2011 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager If the circle in the server icon is orange instead of green it means that the server is running in a degraded state for example because a drive used in a virtual drive has failed If the circle is red the storage configuration in the server has failed NOTE To access servers on a different subnet type in the box at the bottom of the screen the IP address S of a server in the desired subnet where MegaRAID Storage Manager is running and click Update If you check the Connect to remote server at IP address box you can also access a standalone remote installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager if it has a network connection 2 Double click the icon of the server that you want to access The Server Login window appears as shown in the following figure Figure 53 Server Login Window
125. he attached drives the operating system does not allow you to create a RAID 5 virtual drive In both cases you have to use the BIOS Configuration Utility Ctrl M to create the initial configuration before you can create a RAID 5 virtual drive NOTE If there are multiple storage host controllers you have to create the initial configuration using the BIOS D Configuration Utility for each controller before you can create RAID 5 configurations for the controllers Using Manual Configuration RAID 10 RAID 10 a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 has mirrored drives It breaks up data into smaller blocks and then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 1 drive group Each RAID 1 drive group then duplicates its data to its other drive The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter which is 64 KB RAID 10 can sustain one drive failure in each drive group while maintaining data integrity RAID 10 provides both high data transfer rates and complete data redundancy It works best for data storage that must have 100 percent redundancy of RAID 1 mirrored drive groups and that also needs the enhanced I O performance of RAID 0 striped drive groups it works well for medium sized databases or any environment that requires a higher degree of fault tolerance and moderate to medium capacity LSI Corporation 34 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration
126. he configuration Otherwise click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu appears Using Manual Configuration RAID 1 In RAID 1 the RAID controller duplicates all data from one drive to a second drive RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity It is appropriate for small databases or any other environment that requires fault tolerance but small capacity When you select Manual Configuration and click Next the Drive Group Definition screen appears You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups 1 Hold Ctrl while you select two ready drives in the Drives panel on the left You must select an even number of drives Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right as shown in the following figure If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim Choose whether to use drive encryption NOTE A RAID 1 virtual drive can contain up to 16 drive groups and 32 drives in a single span Other N factors such as the type of controller can limit the number of drives You must use two drives in each RAID 1 drive group in the span LSI Corporation 27 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Stor
127. hown in the following figure Figure 24 Virtual Drive Screen HegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Virtual Drive 8 RAID Level 1 Capacity 67 843 GB Secured No Access RW x Read 10 Cached x Disable BGI No x Default Hrite Write Through x Current Hrite Write Through Operations C Delete C Locate C Fast Init C Slow Init cc Status Optimal Strip Size 64 KB Disk Cache Wochange x Change C AdyOpers C Enable MegaRAID Recovery Expand The Properties panel of this screen displays the virtual drive s RAID level state capacity strip size The Policies panel lists the virtual drive policies that were defined when the storage configuration was created For information about these policies see Section 3 3 3 Using Manual Configuration To change any of these policies make a selection from the drop down menu and click Change The Operations panel lists operations that can be performed on the virtual drive To perform an operation select it and click Go Choose from the following options Select Delete to delete this virtual drive For more information see Section 5 6 8 Delete Virtual Drive or Drives Select Locate to make the LEDs flash on the drives used by this virtual drive This works only if the drives are installed in a drive enclosure that supports SAFTE SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure Select Fast Init or Slow Init to initialize this virtual drive A fast initial
128. ht Apply Changes and press Enter to make the selected change The name of the virtual drive is changed Selecting Virtual Drive Operations You can use the Virtual Drive Management screen to select and launch operations related to the virtual drive properties Perform the following steps to access the virtual drive operations screen and carry out operations for the virtual drive properties LSI Corporation 65 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Virtual Drives 1 Highlight Virtual Drive Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 40 Virtual Drive Management Screen Virtual Drive Management Igt Manage Virtual Drive Properties Select Virtual Drive Operations View Drive Group Properties Tl Move Highlight Enter gt Select Entry t Warning s Detected Check POST Event Viewer 2 Highlight Select Virtual Drive Operations and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management gt gt Select Virtual Drive Operations screen appears as shown in the following figures Figure 41 Select Virtual Drive Operations Screen Virtual Drive Management gt Select Virtual Drive Operations Select Virtual Drive Virtual Drive 0 MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO 711679MB Optimal gt Delete Virtual Drivel Virtual Drive Operation lt Fast Init
129. hysical defects on the drive Predicted Fail Count Indicates the predicted number of drive failures Cache Setting Indicates the disk cache setting of the drive The options are Disabled or Enabled Available Size MB Indicates the free capacity of the selected drive Used Space MB Indicates the configured space of the selected drive in MB Disk Protocol Indicates the type of drive selected such as SATA Negotiated Drive Transfer Speed Indicates the negotiated link speed for the data transfer to or from the selected drive Number of Connections Indicates the number of devices connected Associated Virtual Drive Indicates the virtual drive number virtual drive name RAID level virtual drive capacity and virtual drive status LSI Corporation 71 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Drives 4 4 2 Selecting Drive Operations Perform the following steps to access the drive operations screen and carry out the operations 1 Highlight Drive Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter The Drive Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 48 Drive Management Screen 9119110001110011011000110000111011001100100 10011 001010110101001010110001101110101100 f faba Drive Management View Drive Properties Select Drive Operations COTOTO TO
130. ialization Start Operation t Warning s Detected Check POST Event Viewer LSI Corporation 66 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 4 3 4 Managing Virtual Drives 3 Highlight each operation you want to carry out and press Enter The following two operations appear Select Virtual Drive Select the virtual drive you want to carry out operations on The screen displays the virtual drive number virtual drive name RAID level virtual drive capacity and virtual drive status Virtual Drive Operation Select Fast Initialization or Slow Initialization to initialize this virtual drive A fast initialization quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 10 MB regions of the new virtual drive and then completes the initialization in the background A slow initialization is not complete until the entire virtual drive has been initialized with zeroes It is seldom necessary to use this option because the virtual drive was initialized when you created it N NOTE If you have redundant virtual drives you have the option to perform the Check Consistency operation 4 Highlight Start Operation and press Enter The confirmation screen appears NOTE The Start Operation option and the Stop Operation option toggle based on the current status of S the operation For example after you start an operation the Start Operation field is no longer highlighted and
131. ialog box for the configuration mode Simple or Advanced appears as shown in the following figure Figure 59 Virtual Drive Simple Configuration Mode e Choose mode eate Virtual This wizard will help you quickly create virtual drives Choose how to create the virtual drive g Specify a limited number of settings and have the system pick drives for you This is the easiest way to create a virtual drive Advanced Choose additional settings and customize virtual drive creation This option provides greater flexibility when creating virtual drives for your specific requirements LSI Corporation 106 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 Creating a New Storage Configuration 3 Click Simple and press Next The Create Virtual Drive screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 60 Create Virtual Drive Screen Create Virtual Drive Drive group and Virtual drive settings x LSI gt K ey Use the suggested virtual drive settings or change them if needed Pick a RAID level to specify the amount of fault tolerance and performance for the virtual drive s RAID level Ram oa I Assign a hot spare Suitable for high performance with zero data redundancy Choose this option only for non critical data Hot spare will be assigned depending upon the availability of eligible hot spare candidate drives A hot spare drive will takeover for a drive if a failure hap
132. igh read rates and good performance in most environments It also provides redundancy with lowest loss of capacity RAID 5 provides high data throughput RAID 5 is useful for transaction processing applications because each drive can read and write independently If a drive fails the RAID controller uses the parity drive to recreate all missing information You can use RAID 5 for office automation and online customer service that require fault tolerance In addition RAID 5 is good for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates LSI Corporation 30 a Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration When you select Manual Configuration and click Next the Drive Group Definition screen appears You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups Hold Ctrl while you select at least three ready drives in the Physical Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right as shown in the following figure If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim Figure 14 MegaRAID BIOS CU Drive Group Definition Screen i Enclosure MD1000 13 Slot 3 SAS SAS HDD 67 843 GB On Enclosure MD1000 13 Slot 6 SAS SAS HDD 136 218 GB Un 8 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un HK Slot 9 SAS HDD 136 218 GB Un 3 Choose whether to use drive enc
133. in the drive group The stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive e RW Allow read write access This setting is the default e Read only Allow read only access e Blocked Do not allow access Read policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive e Normal This setting disables the read ahead capability This setting is the default e Ahead This setting enables read ahead capability which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory anticipating that the data is needed soon This setting speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data LSI Corporation 25 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Write policy Specify the write policy for this
134. in the following figure You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives LSI Corporation a 36 z Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 19 MegaRAID BIOS CU Virtual Drive Definition Screen HegaRAID B ig Utility Config Span Definition Array With Free Space 15 Hold the Ctrl key while you select two drive groups with two drives in the Configuration panel on the right NOTE The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility shows the maximum available capacity while creating D the RAID 10 drive group In version 1 03 of the utility the maximum capacity of the RAID 10 drive group is the sum total of the two RAID 1 drive groups In version 1 1 the maximum capacity is the capacity of the smaller drive group multiplied by two 16 Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed Brief explanations of the virtual drive options follow RAID level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 10 Strip size The strip size is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single drive in the drive group The stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16
135. increases the reliability of CacheCade SSD Guard software by automatically copying data from a drive with potential to fail to a designated hot spare or newly inserted drive CacheCade SSD Guard works by looking for a predictive failure while monitoring the SDD Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology S M A R T error log If errors indicate a CacheCade SSD Guard software failure is imminent MegaRAID Storage Manager starts a rebuild to preserve the data on the CacheCade SSD Guard software and sends appropriate warning event notifications The following table contains the optimum settings for the CacheCade feature Table 46 Optimum Controller Settings for CacheCade SSD Guard Policy Optimum Setting Write Policy Write Back 1 0 Policy Cached I O Read Policy No Read Ahead Stripe Size 64KB LSI Corporation 104 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 8 1 3 8 1 4 Creating a New Storage Configuration Optimum Controller Settings for FastPath MegaRAID FastPath is a high performance I O accelerator for CacheCade SSD Guard software drive groups connected to a MegaRAID controller card CacheCade SSD Guard software has a read performance advantage over HDDs and use less power This feature dramatically boosts storage subsystem bandwidth and overall transactional application performance when used with a 6 Gb s MegaRAID SATA SAS controller Table 47 Optimum Controller
136. ing recovery on s at lx 0x006f 111 Fatal Unrecoverable medium error during recovery on s at lx 0x0070 112 Information Removed s 0x0071 113 Warning Unexpected sense s CDB s Sense s 0x0072 114 Information State change on s from s to s 0x0073 115 Information State change by user on s from s to s 0x0074 116 Warning Redundant path to s broken 0x0075 117 Information Redundant path to s restored 0x0076 118 Information Dedicated Hot Spare PD s no longer useful due to deleted array 0x0077 119 Caution SAS topology error Loop detected 0x0078 120 Caution SAS topology error Unaddressable device 0x0079 121 Caution SAS topology error Multiple ports to the same SAS address 0x007a 122 Caution SAS topology error Expander error 0x007b 123 Caution SAS topology error SMP timeout 0x007c 124 Caution SAS topology error Out of route entries 0x007d 125 Caution SAS topology error Index not found 0x007e 126 Caution SAS topology error SMP function failed 0x007f 127 Caution SAS topology error SMP CRC error 0x0080 128 Caution SAS topology error Multiple subtractive 0x0081 129 Caution SAS topology error Table to table 0x0082 130 Caution SAS topology error Multiple paths 0x0083 131 Fatal Unable to access device s 0x0084 132 Information Dedicated Hot Spare created on s s 0x0085 133 Information Dedicated Hot Spare s s disabled 0x0086 134 Caution Dedicated Hot Spare s no longer useful for all arrays 0x0087 135 Information Spare created on s
137. ing the source data to the target drive After the CU fixes the data the following message appears at the bottom of the screen The Data on the Drives is inconsistent Repair done If the MegaRAID BIOS CU finds a media error on the source drive it pops up a dialog box with this message Error in Reading Sectors Proceed Anyway Y N If you press Y the program skips the bad block and continues If you press N the program aborts the consistency check The same message appears if the program finds a hard media error on the target drive If you press Esc while a Check Consistency is running the following options appear Stop Available only if AutoResume is enabled on the adapter Management Menu gt gt Objects gt gt Adapter gt gt AutoResume The Check Consistency is stopped and the CU stores the percentage of the task already completed If AutoResume is enabled the Check Consistency resumes where it left off when you restart it instead of starting over from 0 percent Continue The Check Consistency continues normally Abort The Check Consistency is completely aborted If you restart it it begins at 0 percent Viewing and Changing Device Properties The MegaRAID BIOS CU allows you to view properties for controllers virtual drives and physical drives You can also change some properties for adapters and virtual drives Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties To view or change adapter properties follow these step
138. ion Utility Creating a Storage Configuration Select size Specify the capacity of the virtual drive or drives in MB GB or TB Normally this would be the full capacity for RAID 1 shown in the Configuration panel on the right You can specify a smaller capacity if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 7 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 8 Click Next after you finish defining the virtual drives The Configuration Preview screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 13 RAID 1 Configuration Preview i Preview 3 SAS HDD 33 406 GB Un 6 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un 7 SAS HDD 136 218 GB Un 8 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un Bj Slot 9 SAS HDD 136 218 GB Un 9 Check the information in the configuration preview 10 If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save the configuration Otherwise click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration 11 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu appears Using Manual Configuration RAID 5 RAID 5 uses drive striping at the block level and parity In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all drives It is best suited for networks that perform a lot of small input output I O transactions simultaneously RAID 5 provides data redundancy h
139. irtual Drive Management Create Configuration Manage Virtual Drive Properties Select Virtual Drive Operations View Drive Group Properties LSI Corporation 62 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Virtual Drives 2 Highlight Create Configuration and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management gt gt Create Configuration screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 37 Virtual Drive Management gt gt Create Configuration Screen 101100011000011101 91001010110 Virtual Drive Management gt Create Configuration Select RAID Level lt RAIDO gt Select Drives From lt Unconfigured Capacity gt Select Drives Virtual Drive Name ue 100 Virtual Drive Size Unit lt GB gt pe lt 64 KB gt lt NoChange gt lt No gt 00110110011001110011001000111011011011001101100110 3 Use the arrow keys to select any highlighted fields one at a time that you want to change the setting for and press Enter 4 Select the setting for each property that you want to change from the default You can change the settings for the following fields on this screen Select RAID Level The possible RAID levels for the virtual drive See Section 1 2 RAID Overview for more information about the RAID levels Select Drives From The sources that you can use to select drives for the virtual drive The options are Unconfigured Capacity a
140. irtual drives require at least five drives for a background initialization to start Select size Specify the size of the virtual drive in MB GB or TB Normally this would be the full size for RAID 5 shown in the Configuration panel on the right You can specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 7 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 8 Click Next after you finish defining the virtual drives The Configuration Preview screen appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 33 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 5 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 16 RAID 5 Configuration Preview 9 Check the information in the configuration preview 10 If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save the configuration Otherwise click Cancel to end the operation and return to the MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu screen or click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration 11 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The MegaRAID BIOS CU main menu screen appears Creating RAID 5 Virtual Drives If No Drives or Configuration Exist If there are no drives attached to the host storage controller device or if there is no configuration on any of t
141. isk drive groups and virtual drives and to perform other configuration tasks in a pre boot environment 3 1 Performing a Quick Configuration This section provides high level instructions for quickly configuring drive groups and virtual drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU These instructions are intended for users that are familiar with configuration utilities and tools See Section 3 2 Configuring Drive Groups and Virtual Drives for detailed configuration instructions To ensure the best performance select the optimal RAID level for the virtual drive you create For an explanation of RAID levels see Chapter 1 Overview Perform the following steps to configure drive groups and virtual drives using the MegaRAID BIOS CU Boot the system Press Ctrl M to start the MegaRAID BIOS CU Select Configure from the Management menu Bw NS Select a configuration method from the Configuration menu Easy Configuration New Configuration or View Add Configuration Create drive groups using the available drives ui 6 Define the virtual drive or drives using the space in the drive groups 7 Initialize the new virtual drive or drives 3 2 Configuring Drive Groups and Virtual Drives This section provides detailed instructions for configuring drive groups and virtual drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU Use drives with the same capacity when you create a storage configuration If you use drives with different capacities in one array the CU limits
142. ive The new virtual drive appears under the drive group The options Update Virtual Drive and Remove Virtual Drive are available Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive settings and Remove Virtual Drive allows you to delete the virtual drive LSI Corporation 111 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 Creating a New Storage Configuration 7 Click Next The Create Virtual Drive Summary window appears as shown in the following figure This window shows the selections you made for the advanced configuration Figure 66 Virtual Drive Summary Window x f Lsis Review the summary and go back if you need to make corrections The virtual drive s will be created when you dick finish Summary Drive group name Drive Groupi RAID level RAID 0 Number of drives used i Drive security method No Encryption Total capacity 231 898 GB Free capacity 0 Bytes Virtual drive 1 name VD_1 Capacity 231 898 GB 8 Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration After you click Finish the new storage configuration is created and initialized After the configuration is completed a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives have been successfully created If more drive capacity exists the dialog box asks whether you want to create more virtual drives If no more drive capacity exists you are prompted to
143. ive cache Specify the drive cache policy e Enable Enable the drive cache e Disable Disable the drive cache e NoChange Leave the current drive cache policy as is This setting is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status e No Leave background initialization enabled This setting means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use the MegaRAID BIOS CU to do other configuration tasks This setting is the default e Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select size Specify the size of the virtual drive in MB GB or TB Normally this size is the full size for RAID 0 shown in the Configuration panel on the right You can specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 7 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 8 Click Next after you finish defining the virtual drives The Configuration Preview screen appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 26 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 10 RAID 0 Configuration Preview 3 3 3 2 11 Check the information in the configuration preview If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save t
144. ization quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 10 MB regions of the new virtual drive and then completes the initialization in the background A slow initialization is not complete until the entire virtual drive has been initialized with zeroes It is seldom necessary to use this option because the virtual drive was already initialized when you created it CAUTION Before you run an initialization back up any data on the virtual drive that you want to save All A data on the virtual drive is lost when you initialize the drive Select CC to run a consistency check on this virtual drive For more information see Section 3 8 Checking Data Consistency This option is not available for RAID 0 virtual drives Select AdvOpers to access screens to remove drives migrate RAID levels that is change the virtual drive configuration by adding a drive and changing the RAID level and use MegaRAID Recovery Select Expand to increase the capacity of a virtual drive to occupy the remaining capacity in the drive group In addition you can add drives to the virtual drive to increase capacity LSI Corporation 43 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 4 3 Viewing and Changing Device Properties See Section 3 4 4 Expanding a Virtual Drive for the procedure you can use to expand a virtual drive CAUTION Before you change a virtual drive configuration back up any data on the virtual drive
145. l Drive Creation Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help PBs OE WMO Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off Dashboard Physical Logical Controle TST Embedded MegaRAID Bis 0 Dev 3i Advanced Software Option Actions Help Alarm Disabled Create virtual drive How to use MSM MegaRAID RECOVERY Disabled Create CacheCade SSD Caching How to create virtual drive CacheCade SSD Caching Disabled Load configuration How to enable MegaRAID A Drive security Disabled Update firmware Glossar Unconfigured good spin down Disabled Silence alarm Hot spare spin down Disabled Ma Information 2011 03 22 16 24 55 Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Through Information 2011 03 22 16 24 Controller ID 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Write Policy Write Through Disk Cache Policy Disable Current Write Policy Write Controller ID 0 Properties updated on VD 0 Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing battery Dis Controller ID 0 Policy change on VD O Current Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing ba Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 169 254 109 128 Access Mode Full Cient Time 2011 03 22 16 23 15 Information 2011 03 22 C
146. l Events Dialog Box Change Individual Events Eg LSI K y gt Events Severity Warning Warni 374 Snspshot deleted due to resource constraints on 373 WVD is no longer being cached in 55C YD a a 372 ND is being cached in 55C YD information 371 WD is used for 55C VD g Information 370 WDis available YD Information 369 WD is not available YD Warning 368 Power state change failed on Warning 367 COD on PD updated as it was stale PD Information 366 Configuration command could not be committed to disk please retry Critical 365 Auto Snapshot disabled on Information 364 Auto Snapshot enabled on Information 363 Snapshot encountered an unexpected internal error Critical 362 Repository restored for VD Warning 361 Repository lost for YD Critical 360 Snapshot view Full on Critical 359 Snapshot View 80 Full on Warning 358 Snapshot repository full on 357 Snapshot repository 80 full on 15 hot rollback progress on Point In Time on hot ed for Point In Time on Snapshot rollback internally aborted For Point In Time on 353 Snapshot rollback started for Point In Time on i Information v Alert Delivery Methods V MSM Log JV System Log J Email I Popup Lox Cancel Restore defaults 3 Click an event in the list to select it The current alert delivery methods appear for the
147. l address and the SMTP server 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Mail Server tab The Mail Server options appear as shown in the following figure Figure 79 Mail Server Options fa Lsis Alert Settings Mail Server Email Sender email address nonitor server com SMTP Server 127 0 0 1 IV This server requires authentication User name Password Moo Save Backup Load Backup OK Cancel Help 2 Enter a new sender email address in the Sender email address field or edit the existing sender email address 3 Click OK Authenticating a Server You can use the Alerts Notification Configuration screen to authenticate the SMTP server providing an extra level of security The authentication check box enables the User name and Password fields when selected by default Clearing the check box disables these fields Perform the following steps to enter or edit the address 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Mail Server tab The Mail Server options appears as shown in the previous figure The authentication check box is selected by default Enter a user name in the User name field Enter the password in the Password field Click OK LSI Corporation 123 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 9 2 7 9 2 8 9 2 9 Configuring Alert Notifications Saving Backup Co
148. l drives Perform the following steps to access the Configuration Options screen 1 Boot the system 2 Press F1 during bootup to enter setup The System Configuration and Boot Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 28 System Configuration and Boot Management Screen System Configuration and Boot Management System Information This selection will System Settings take you to the System Date and Time Settings Start Options Boot Manager System Event Logs User Security Save Settings Restore Settings Load Default Settings Exit Setup LSI Corporation 54 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Accessing the Configuration Options Screen 3 Highlight System Settings and press Enter The System Settings screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 29 System Settings Screen System Settings Adapters and UEFI Drivers Select this option to Processors see all the Storage Memory Device options Devices and I 0 Ports Power Operating Modes Legacy Support Integrated Management Module System Security Network Storage 4 Highlight Devices and I O Ports and press Enter The Devices and I O Ports screen appears 5 Verify that the Configure SATA as field is set to RAID on the Devices and I O Ports screen If this field is set to RAID press Esc to return to the System Settings screen If this field is not s
149. l version gt img new Update the boot loader If the boot loader is LILO run the following LILO command to update the boot loader lilo Reboot the system to the new boot loader entry Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 10 or 11 Driver This section describes the fresh installation of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 10 or 11 driver on a system with the Embedded MegaRAID Software stack Prepare installation disks with the driver image and then perform the following steps to install the driver 1 Create a RAID drive group using the Human Interface Infrastructure configuration utility See Chapter 4 Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility Boot the system using the SLES Disk When the first screen appears select Installation on the menu Type the following in the Boot Options field brokenmodules achi Press F6 for the driver and select Yes Insert the driver update diskette in the A drive and press Enter Yes appears under the F6 Driver heading Press OK The following message appears LSI Soft RAID Driver Updates added At the menu select the driver update medium and press the Back button Continue and complete the installation process LSI Corporation 18 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Performing a Quick Configuration Chapter 3 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Use the MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility CU to configure d
150. la LSISSK Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide 48712 00 Rev A June 2011 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Revision History Version and Date Description of Changes June 2011 Initial release of document LSI the LSI amp Design logo MegaRAID and MegaRAIDStorage Manager are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation or its subsidiaries All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective companies LSI Corporation reserves the right to make changes to the product s or information disclosed herein at any time without notice LSI Corporation does not assume any responsibility or liability arising out of the application or use of any product or service described herein except as expressly agreed to in writing by LSI Corporation nor does the purchase lease or use of a product or service from LSI Corporation convey a license under any patent rights copyrights trademark rights or any other of the intellectual property rights of LSI Corporation or of third parties LSI products are not intended for use in life support appliances devices or systems Use of any LSI product in such applications without written consent of the appropriate LSI officer is prohibited This document contains proprietary information of LSI Corporation The information contained herein is not to be used by or disclosed to third parties without the express written permission of LS Corporation
151. lity June 2011 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 Creating a Storage Configuration 2 Click Yes when you are prompted to save the configuration 3 Click Yes when you are prompted to initialize the new virtual drive or drives The MegaBlOS CU begins a background initialization of the virtual drives New RAID 5 virtual drives require a minimum number of drives for a background initialization to start If there are fewer drives the background initialization will not start Using Manual Configuration This section contains the procedures for creating RAID drive groups for RAID levels 0 1 5 and 10 Using Manual Configuration RAID 0 RAID 0 provides drive striping across all drives in the RAID drive group RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but offers excellent performance RAID 0 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance RAID 0 also denotes an independent or single drive NOTE RAID level 0 is not fault tolerant If a drive in a RAID 0 drive group fails the whole virtual drive all drives S associated with the virtual drive fails When you select Manual Configuration and click Next the drive group Definition screen appears You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups 1 Hold the Ctrl key while you select two or more ready drives in the Drives panel on the left until you have selected all desired drives for the drive group 2 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a
152. ly the requested data and does not read ahead for the current virtual drive m RA Used to select Read Ahead caching which specifies that data is read sequentially ahead of the data that is actually requested and is stored in a cache If the additional read ahead data is then requested it can be read faster from the cache than from the disk directly Read Ahead supplies sequential data faster but is not as effective when accessing random data m ADRA Used to select Adaptive Read Ahead which specifies that the controller begins using Read Ahead caching if the two most recent disk accesses occurred in sequential sectors If all read requests are random the algorithm reverts to No Read Ahead however all requests are still evaluated for possible sequential operation If you select Read Ahead there is a danger that data could be lost if the power fails before the cached data is written to disk m Direct Used to specify that the controller does not buffer reads in cache memory Data is transferred to cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory Cached Used to specify that the controller buffers all reads in cache memory strpszM Used to specify the size of the segments written to each drive in the configuration You can set the stripe size to 64 KB 5 6 3 Add RAID 10 Configuration Use the command in the following table to add a RAID 10 configuration to the existing
153. mbedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Overview June 2011 1 2 4 RAID Overview RAID 5 addresses the bottleneck issue for random I O operations Because each drive contains both data and parity numerous writes can take place concurrently Provides high data throughput Use RAID 5 for transaction processing applications because each drive can read and write independently If a drive fails the RAID controller uses the parity drive to recreate all missing Uses i s information Use also for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates Provides data redundancy high read rates and good performance in most environments Provides redundancy Strong Points with lowest loss of capacity Not well suited to tasks requiring lot of small writes Suffers more impact if no drive cache is used clustering Drive performance is reduced if a drive is being rebuilt or a background initialization is in progress Weak Points Environments with few processes do not perform as well because the RAID overhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes Drives Three to eight The following figure shows a RAID 5 drive group with six drives Figure 3 RAID 5 Array SSS FP Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Parity 1 5 Segment 7 Segment 8 Segment 9 Segment 10 Parity 6 10 Segment 6 Se
154. must press F6 If you are installing Windows Vista you do not need to press F6 For Windows Vista after the first installation screen an option displays to allow you to load the driver from either a floppy diskette or a USB key Otherwise it loads the default driver from the DVD 3 Select S to specify an additional device when the screen displays Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices The system prompts for the manufacturer supplied hardware support disk NOTE If the screen does not display this message after you press F6 then the setup program did not S recognize the F6 command Reboot the system and return to step 2 4 Insert the driver diskette containing the Windows device driver and press Enter Select the appropriate MegaRAID adapter from the menu by using the arrow key to highlight it and then press Enter to proceed 6 Press Enter again to proceed Return to the Windows Setup screen Windows displays a Welcome to Setup window 8 Press Enter to continue 9 Press C to continue the Microsoft Windows installation procedure 10 Follow the Windows installation procedure 11 Repeat this process for all the adapters on your system LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Driver Installation June 2011 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 Linux Driver Installation Updating the Windows Driver Perform the following steps to update the Embedded
155. n Configuration screen closes Adding Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications The Email tab portion of the Alerts Notification Configuration screen shows the email addresses of recipients of the alert notifications MegaRAID Storage Manager sends alert notifications to those email addresses Use the screen to add or remove email addresses of recipients and to send test messages to recipients that you add To add email addresses of recipients of the alert notifications perform the following steps 1 Click the Email tab on the Event Notification Configuration screen The Email section of the screen appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 124 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 Configuring Alert Notifications Figure 80 Email Settings fps LSI Alert Settings Mail Server a New recipient email address a aeaee Add Recipient email addresses root localhost Save Backup Load Backup fea E 2 Enter the email address you want to add in the New recipient email address field 3 Click Add The new email address appears in the Recipient email addresses field 9 2 10 Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications Use the Email tab portion of the Alerts Notification Configuration screen to send test messages to the email addresses that you added for the recipients of alert notifications 1 Click th
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157. n one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager You can perform this installation by using the rpm force command to install the rpm file directly which is not recommended instead of using the install sh file In such cases you must uninstall all the rpm files manually before installing MegaRAID Storage Manager with the procedure listed previously The version is already installed This message indicates that the version of MegaRAID Storage Manager you are trying to install is already installed on the system The installed version is newer This message indicates that a version of MegaRAID Storage Manager is already installed on the system and itis a newer version than the version you are trying to install Exiting installation This message appears when the installation is complete RPM installation failed This message indicates that the installation failed for some reason Additional message text explains the cause of the failure LSI Corporation 95 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Chapter 7 MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus This chapter explains how to start MegaRAID Storage Manager and describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen and menus 7 1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Follow these steps to start MegaRAID Storage Manager and view the main menu screen 1 Start the program using the metho
158. nalysis and Reporting Technology error The default is 300 seconds 5 minutes Alarm Control Select this option to enable disable or silence the onboard alarm tone generator on the controller The default is Disabled Patrol Read Rate Use this option to select the rate for patrol reads for drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30 percent The patrol read rate is the percentage of system resources dedicated to running a patrol read Cache Flush Interval Use this option to control the interval in seconds at which the contents of the onboard data cache are flushed The default is 4 seconds Spinup Drive Count Use this option to control the number of drives that spin up simultaneously The default is 2 drives Spinup Delay Use this option to control the interval in seconds between spinup of drives connected to this controller The delay prevents a drain on the system s power supply that would occur if all drives spun up at the same time The default is 12 seconds StopOnError Enable this option if you want the boot process to stop when the controller BIOS encounters an error during boot up The default is Disabled Spin Down Delay Time Use this option to control the interval in seconds between spindown of drives connected to this controller The delay prevents a drain on the system s power supply that would occur if all drives spun down at the same time The default is 30 minutes
159. nd Free Capacity Select Drives Select this button and a screen appears that lists Unconfigured Good drives or free capacity depending on the value you selected in the Select Drive From field Virtual Drive Name Enter the name of the virtual drive Virtual Drive Size Enter the capacity of the virtual drive Normally this value is the full capacity of the drive You can specify a smaller capacity if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group Virtual Drive Size Unit Enter the unit of capacity you want to use for the virtual drive The options are MB GB and TB Stripe Size A stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives The default is 64 KB This setting is read only LSI Corporation 63 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 4 3 2 Managing Virtual Drives Managing Virtual Drive Properties After you create a virtual drive you can use the Virtual Drive Management screen to change the name of the virtual drive NOTE You can change only the virtual drive name for the virtual drive that is selected The other virtual drive N properties are read only Perform the following steps to access the virtual drive properties screen and change the name of the virtual drive 1 Highlight Virtual Drive Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and
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161. ndant RAID 0 drive group Select one of the following options in the Redundancy field e Redundancy when possible e Noredundancy If you select Automatic Configuration you can choose whether to use a drive security method Select one of the following options in the Drive Security Method field e No Encryption e Drive Encryption 5 Click Next to continue If you select the Automatic Configuration option continue with Section 3 3 2 Using Automatic Configuration If you select Manual Configuration continue with Section 3 3 3 Using Manual Configuration 3 3 2 Using Automatic Configuration Follow these instructions to create a configuration with automatic configuration either with or without redundancy 1 When the MegaRAID BIOS CU displays the proposed new configuration review the information on the screen and click Accept to accept it Or click Back to go back and change the configuration RAID 0 If you select Automatic Configuration and No Redundancy the MegaRAID BIOS CU creates a RAID 0 configuration RAID 1 If you select Automatic Configuration and Redundancy when possible and only two drives are available the MegaRAID BIOS CU creates a RAID 1 configuration RAID 5 If you select Automatic Configuration and Redundancy when possible and three or more drives are available the MegaRAID BIOS CU creates a RAID 5 configuration LSI Corporation aJ Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Uti
162. nfigurations You can save an xm1 backup file of the entire alert configuration This includes all the settings on the three tabs 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alert Setting tab Mail Server tab or Email tab 2 Click Save Backup The drive directory appears 3 Enterafilenamewithan xml extension for the backup configuration in the format filename xm1 Click Save The drive directory disappears 5 Click OK The backup configuration is saved and the Alert Notification Configuration screen closes Loading Backup Configurations You can load all of the values from a previously saved backup into the dialog all tabs to edit or send to the monitor NOTE If you choose to load a backup configuration and the Configure Alerts dialog currently contains J changes that have not yet been sent to the monitor the changes are lost You are prompted to confirm your choice Onthe Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alert Setting tab Mail Server tab or Email tab 2 Click Load Backup A message warns that when you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session are lost 3 Click Yes The drive directory appears from which you can select a backup configuration to load Select the backup configuration file it should be in xm1 format 5 Click Open The drive directory disappears 6 Click OK The backup configuration is loaded and the Alerts Notificatio
163. nfigure drive groups and virtual drives To access the Wizard select the controller in the left panel and then select Go To gt gt Controller gt gt Create Virtual Drive Log Menu The Log menu includes options for saving and clearing the message log For more information about the Log menu see Appendix A Events and Messages Tools Menu On the Tools menu you can select Tools gt gt Configure Alerts to access the Configure Alerts screen which you can use to set the alert delivery rules event severity levels exceptions and email settings For more information see Section 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications Help Menu On the Help menu you can select Help gt gt Contents to view the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help file You can select Help gt gt About MegaRAID Storage Manager to view version information for MegaRAID Storage Manager NOTE When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help you might see a warning message that S Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content If this warning appears click on the active content warning bar and enable the active content NOTE If you are using the Linux operating system you must install Firefox or Mozilla for the MegaRAID N Storage Manager Online Help to display LSI Corporation 102 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 Creating a New Storage Configuration Chapter 8 Configuration 8 1 8 1 1
164. ntroller ID 0 Policy change on VD 0 Current Default Read Policy No Read Ahead Default Write Policy Write Back for failed or missing ba 4 Information 2011 03 22 16 Successful log on to the server User administrator Client 169 254 109 128 Access Mode Full Client Time 2011 03 22 16 23 15 13 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller ID 0 VDis now OPTIMAL VD 0 2 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controler ID 0 Image version 1402 0222 2011 1 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller ID 0 Firmware initialization started PCIID 0x8086 0x2822 0x1014 0x3a20 Displaying log from server 3 na 5 29PM Sax ale E Ez 3 fp PHG sp2p01u E Physical View The Physical view shows the hierarchy of physical devices in the system At the top of the hierarchy is the system itself followed by the controller and the backplane One or more controllers are installed in the system The controller label identifies the controller so that you can easily differentiate between multiple controllers Each controller has one or more ports Drives and other devices are attached to the ports The properties for each device appear in the right panel of the screen under the Properties tab The following figure shows the Physical view and the Properties tab LSI Corporation 99 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and Menus June 2011 MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Screen Figure 56 MSM Physical View
165. ntry in the configuration file The Red Hat configuration file is etc modules conf If the Megasr entry is not present in etc modules conf add the following line alias scsi hostadapter megasr If the ahci SCSI driver entry located on the following paragraph is present in etc modules conf remove it It must be removed otherwise the ahci driver takes control of the RAID controller without checking the subsystem device or Vendor ID The ahci SCSI driver entry follows alias scsi hostadapter ahci Create a new initrd image for the required kernel Red Hat installation uses the mk_ initrd command to create an initrd image The following command creates an initrdimage for the lt kernel version gt smp kernel in the boot directory mkinitrd boot initrd lt kernel version gt smp img new lt kernel version gt smp Modify the Lilo conf grub conf file by adding newly created initrd or initrds as new entries in the etc lilo conf file The suggested method is to copy an existing LILO entry in the file and paste it as a new one Then modify its kernel image name initrd image name and label name Sample LILO Entry image boot vmlinux lt kernel version gt smp label linuxnew initrd boot initrd lt kernel version gt smp img new read only appended root LABEL Sample Grub Entry title Red Hat Linux lt kernel version gt with Megasr driver root hd0 0 kernel vmlinuz lt kernel version gt ro root LABEL initrd initrd lt kerne
166. o rebuild SATA CD DVD ROM support SATA tape support to allow backups to SATA tape devices Support for SATA 6Gb s drives Support for Solid State Drives SSDs Optical device CD DVD hot plug feature used to connect internal and external optical devices while the operating system is running Check consistency for RAID 1 RAID 5 and RAID 10 Global hot spare support Soft Bad Block Management SBBM support Support for up to 8 physical drives and eight virtual drives Stripe size of 64 KB only Support for disk coercion with options None 128Mbytes and 1Gbyte Hot plug support drive insertion and removal Support for array cache setting a RAID 10 volume is considered as a single array though it might have 2 3 or 4 spans Support for the random deletion of virtual drives Error logging and notification LSI Corporation 7 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Overview June 2011 1 1 3 Embedded MegaRAID Software Features Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Support for Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux for 2 4 and 2 6 kernels BIOS Features The Embedded MegaRAID Software BIOS has the following features Support for Interrupt 13 and Enhanced Disk Drive Specification Support for Int19h Option ROM size of 64 KB Support for BIOS Boot Specification BBS If available in system BIOS
167. o set the state of a drive to Offline In the offline state the virtual drive is not available to the controller Table 33 Set Physical Disk Drive State to Offline Syntax MegaCLI PDOffline PhysDrv E0 S aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state to Offline Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives Change the Drive State to Unconfigured Good Use the command in the following table to change the state of a drive from Unconfigured Bad to Unconfigured Good Table 34 Set Physical Disk Drive State to Unconfigured Good Syntax MegaCLI PDMakeGood PhysDrv E0 Sn aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state to Unconfigured Good Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives Force Force the drive to the Unconfigured Good state Change the Drive State Use the command in the following table to change the drive state as it relates to hot spares and to associate the drive to an enclosure and to a drive group for the selected controller or controllers Table 35 Change Drive State Convention MegaCLlI PDHSP Set Dedicated ArrayN Array0 1 EnclAffinity nonRevertible Rmv PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state as it relates to hot spares and associates the drive to an enclosure and virtual drive on a single contr
168. oing clear progress The routine continues to display the initialization progress until at least one initialization is completed or a key is pressed 5 8 7 Manage Global Hot Spares Use the command in the following table to manage the configuration and assignment of global hot spares Make sure the capacity of the hot spare drive is equal to or larger than the capacity of the disks in the drive group and that it is the same type of drive NOTE The hot spare drive rebuilds a failed drive even if the hot spare drive and the drives in the drive group S are different types of drives After the rebuild is completed LSI recommends that you replace the new drive group member with a drive of the same type Table 37 Manage Hot Spares Syntax MegaCLI PDHSP Set Rmv PhysDrv E0 Sn aN a0 1 2 aALL Description m Set Changes the physical disk drive state to hot spare for the enclosure m Rmv Changes the physical drive state to ready removes the hot spare 5 8 8 Rebuild a Drive Use the command in the following table to start or stop a rebuild on a physical disk drive and display the rebuild progress When a physical disk in an array fails you can rebuild the physical disk by recreating the data that was stored on the physical disk before it failed Table 38 Rebuild Physical Disk Drive Syntax MegaCLI PDRbld Start Stop ShowProg ProgDsply PhysDrv E0 Sn aN a0 1 2 aALL
169. oller multiple controllers or all controllers Set Changes the drive state to dedicated hot spare for the enclosure Array0 Dedicates the hot spare to a specific drive group number N EnclAffinity Associates the hot spare to a selected enclosure Rmv Changes the drive state to ready removes the hot spare Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives You can get the list of arrays by using the CLI command CfgDsp1y In the results of the CfgDsply command the number associated with DISK GROUPS is the array number LSI Corporation 87 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 Drive Commands 5 8 6 Manage a Drive Initialization Use the command in the following table to manage a drive initialization on the selected controller or controllers Table 36 Drive Initialization Convention MegaCLlI PDClear Start Stop ShowProg ProgDsply PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 51 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Manages initialization or displays initialization progress on a single controller multiple controllers or all controllers Start Starts initialization on the selected drive or drives Stop Stops an ongoing initialization on the selected drive or drives ShowProg Displays the current progress percentage and time remaining for the initialization This option is useful for running the application through scripts ProgDsp1y Displays the ong
170. ollowing task rates Rebuild Rate Patrol Read Background Initialization BGI for fast initialization Check Consistency for consistency checks Reconstruction Each task rate can be set from 0 to 100 percent The higher the number the faster the activity runs in the background possibly impacting other system tasks Click OK to accept the new task rates 5 When the warning message appears click OK to confirm that you want to change the task rates Changing Virtual Drive Properties You can change the read policy the write policy and the other virtual drive properties at any time after a virtual drive is created Follow these steps to change the virtual drive properties 1 Select a virtual drive icon in the Physical tab or the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen LSI Corporation 114 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Configuration Changing Virtual Drive Properties 2 Select Go To gt gt Virtual Drive gt gt Set Virtual Drive Properties from the menu bar as shown in the following figure Figure 69 Set Virtual Drive Properties Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help 3 t Controller gt Drive Group P Physical Drive b Set Virtual Drive Properties Start Locating Virtual Drive Defines virtual disk operation parameters
171. ommand and the Rescan command LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Appendix A Events and Messages June 2011 Appendix A Events and Messages MegaRAID Storage Manager monitors the activity and performance of all controllers in the workstation and the devices attached to them When an event occurs such as the start of an initialization an event message appears in the log at the bottom of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen This appendix lists the MegaRAID Storage Manager events that can appear in the event log NOTE MegaRAID Storage Manager can be used to manage a wide range of MegaRAID controllers Some of N the events and messages listed in this appendix are not applicable to Embedded MegaRAID Software Each message that appears in the event log has an error level that indicates the severity of the event as shown in the following table Table 49 Event Error Levels Error Level Meaning Information Informational message no user action is necessary Warning Some component may be close to a failure point Caution A component has failed but the system has not lost data Fatal A component has failed and data loss has occurred or will occur Dead A catastrophic error has occurred and the controller has died This event is seen only after the controller has been restarted The following table lists all of the MegaRAID Storage Manager event messages The event message des
172. on za Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Overview June 2011 1 2 1 RAID Overview A RAID 0 drive group consists of one to eight drives ARAID 1 drive group consists of two drives ARAID 5 drive group consists of three to eight drives A RAID 10 drive group consists of four six or eight drives N NOTE Some hardware configurations do not support eight drives Depending on the hardware the actual maximum number of drives for RAID 0 RAID 5 and RAID 10 drive groups can be fewer than eight You can use any of these three strategies when creating RAID drive groups and virtual drives Maximize Fault Tolerance You can maximize fault tolerance to protect against loss of data by creating a RAID 1 drive group with mirroring All data is written to the primary drive in the drive group and is also written mirrored to asecond drive Maximize Virtual Drive Performance You can maximize virtual drive performance by creating a RAID 0 array with striping Data is broken into segments and can be simultaneously written to or read from several different stripes on several different drives in the array RAID 10 arrays combine both striping and mirroring to provide high data transfer rates and data redundancy Maximizing Storage Capacity You can maximize storage capacity when selecting a RAID level Striping alone RAID 0 requires less storage space than mirrored data RAID 1 or distributed parity RAID 5 RAID 5 which provi
173. ond drive group The selected drives appear under the second span Span number below the second drive group Drive Group number Click Create Drive Group to make a drive group with the spans Click Next to complete the steps for a RAID 10 configuration d Click Create Drive Group to make a drive group LSI Corporation 110 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 e Click Next to complete this step Configuration Creating a New Storage Configuration The Virtual drive settings window appears as shown in the following figure The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed out until you create the virtual drive Figure 65 Virtual Drive Settings Dialog Box Create Virtual Drive Virtual drive settings x fa Lsis Specify parameters for the new virtual drive Virtual drive name o Capacity 231 8984 Units GB v Initialization state No Initialization Strip size eske Read policy No Read Ahead 7 Write policy Always write Back I O policy Direct 10 Access policy Read write Disk cache policy Junchanged Drive Group1 RAID 0 Available Capacity231 898 GB 5 Select the virtual drive settings to fit your environment See Section 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings for more information about the virtual drive settings 6 Click Create Virtual Dr
174. onfigurations view and change the virtual drive properties delete virtual drives initialize drives and perform other tasks related to the virtual drives LSI Corporation 61 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 4 3 1 Managing Virtual Drives Configuring Virtual Drives This section provides detailed instructions for configuring drive groups and virtual drives with the HII configuration utility Use drives with the same capacity when you create a storage configuration If you use drives with different capacities in the same drive group the CU limits each drive to the capacity of the smallest drive The number of physical drives in a specific array determines the possible RAID levels that you can implement with the array RAID 0 requires from one to eight physical drives RAID 1 requires two physical drives RAID 5 required three to eight physical drives RAID 10 requires four six or eight physical drives N NOTE The stripe size is read only You cannot change the settings for this property Follow these steps to access the Virtual Drive Management screen and create a virtual drive configuration 1 Highlight Virtual Drive Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 36 Virtual Drive Management Screen 011 nf 101041 V
175. ons June 2011 10 4 Rebuilding a Drive The utility allows you to import the existing configuration to the RAID controller or clear the configuration so you can create a new configuration using these drives You can preview the foreign configuration before you decide whether to import it MegaRAID Storage Manager normally detects newly installed drives and displays icons for them in the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen If for some reason MegaRAID Storage Manager does not detect a new drive or drives you can use the Scan for Foreign Configuration command to find it Follow these steps to scan for a foreign configuration Select a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen 2 Select Go To gt gt Controller gt gt Scan for Foreign Configuration If MegaRAID Storage Manager detects any new drives it displays a list of them on the screen If not it notifies you that no foreign configuration is found 3 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the drive detection Rebuilding a Drive If a single drive in a RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 10 virtual drive fails the system is protected from data loss If hot spare disks are available a failed drive is rebuilt automatically without any user intervention A failed drive must be replaced and the data on the drive must be rebuilt on a new drive to restore the system to fault tolerance You can choose to rebuild the data on the failed
176. ontroller ID 0 VDisnow OPTIMAL VD O E nformation 2011 03 22 Controller ID 0 Image version 14 02 0222 2011 Information 2011 03 22 16 22 14 Controller ID 0 Firmware initialization started PCIID 0x8086 0x2822 0x1014 0x3a20 e 7 g Information 2011 03 22 5 Information 2011 03 22 4 3 2 1 information 2011 03 22 Displaying log from server 2 Click Create Virtual Drive in the Actions section of the screen The dialog box for the configuration mode Simple or Advanced appears as shown in the following figure Figure 63 Virtual Drive Advanced Configuration Mode lt lt x LSIs This wizard will help you quickly create virtual drives Choose how to create the virtual drive Simple Specify a limited number of settings and have the system pick drives for you This is the easiest way to create a virtual drive oose additional settings and customize virtual drive creation This option provides greater flexibility when creating virtual drives for your specific requirements LSI Corporation 109 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Configuration June 2011 Creating a New Storage Configuration 3 Click Advanced and then click Next The Create Drive Group Settings dialog box appears as shown in the following figure Figure 64 Create Drive Group Settings Dialog Box Create Drive Group Drive Group Settings E xj LSI 28 y g
177. op up email system log or MSM log You can select the alert delivery methods for each event severity level Information Warning Critical and Fatal Perform the following steps to select the alert delivery methods 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alerts Setting tab Under the Alerts Delivery Methods heading select one of the severity levels Click Edit The Alert Notification Delivery Methods dialog box appears as shown in the following figure Figure 75 Alert Notification Delivery Methods Dialog Box Severity Fatal Alert Delivery Methods Select the desired alert delivery methods for alert notifications at the event severity level 5 Click OK to set the delivery methods used for the severity level that you selected Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events You can change the alert delivery options for an event without changing the severity level 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alerts Setting tab The the Alerts Setting portion of the screen appears as shown in Figure 74 LSI Corporation 120 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 Configuring Alert Notifications 2 Click Change Individual Events The Change Individual Events dialog box appears as shown in the following figure The dialog box shows the events by their ID number description and severity level Figure 76 Change Individua
178. orm the following steps to change information for a controller 1 Highlight Controller Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter The Controller Management screen appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation 59 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Figure 34 Controller Management Screen Controller Management View Controller Information Updates controller Change Controller Properties properties and or Clear Configuration restores factory defaults for the controller 2 Highlight Change Controller Properties and press Enter The Controller Management gt gt Change Controller Properties screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 35 Controller Management gt gt Change Controller Properties Screen 1011011001109100011101101400011100110110001100001110110011001001100110110006 ave 011011001101010010101101010010101100011011101011000111001010911001 BARA AL ainoina Controller Management gt Change Controller Properties Apply Changes Set Factory Defaults Set Boot Device Rebuild Rate Background Initialization BGI Rate Consistency Check Rate Apply Changes Submits the changes made to the entire Virtual Drive 0 form MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO 711679MB Optimal gt 30 30 30 LSI Corporation m 60 a Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility Managing Controllers Embedded
179. ormation Format started on s 0x005a 90 Caution Hot Spare SMART polling failed on s Error 02x 0x005b 91 Information Inserted s 0x005c 92 Warning s is not supported 0x005d 93 Warning Patrol Read corrected medium error on s at lx 0x005e 94 Progress Patrol Read progress on s is s Ox005f 95 Fatal Patrol Read found an uncorrectable medium error on s at lx 0x0060 96 Caution Predictive failure s LSI Corporation 141 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Appendix A Events and Messages June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued ae i Rees Type Event Text 0x0061 97 Fatal Puncturing bad block on s at lx 0x0062 98 Information Rebuild aborted by user on s 0x0063 99 Information Rebuild complete on s 0x0064 100 Information Rebuild complete on s 0x0065 101 Caution Rebuild failed on s due to source drive error 0x0066 102 Caution Rebuild failed on s due to target drive error 0x0067 103 Progress Rebuild progress on s is s 0x0068 104 Information Rebuild resumed on s 0x0069 105 Information Rebuild started on s 0x006a 106 Information Rebuild automatically started on s 0x006b 107 Caution Rebuild stopped on s due to loss of cluster ownership 0x006c 108 Fatal Reassign write operation failed on s at lx 0x006d 109 Fatal Unrecoverable medium error during rebuild on s at lx 0x006e 110 Information Corrected medium error dur
180. ou can view drive properties create hot spares and perform other tasks For more information see Section 3 4 3 Viewing Drive Properties Configuration Wizard Alt o Select this option to start the Configuration Wizard and create a new storage configuration clear a configuration or add a configuration For more information see Section 3 3 Creating a Storage Configuration Logical View Physical View Alt l for Logical View Alt h for Physical View Select this option to toggle between the Physical View screen and the Logical View screen Events Alt e Select this option to view system events in the Event Information screen Exit Alt x Select this option to exit the MegaRAID BIOS CU and continue with system boot LSI Corporation 21 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration 3 3 Creating a Storage Configuration This section explains how to use the MegaRAID BIOS CU Configuration Wizard to configure RAID drive groups and virtual drives to create storage configurations 3 3 1 Selecting the Configuration with the Configuration Wizard Follow these steps to start the Configuration Wizard and select a configuration option and mode 1 Click Configuration Wizard on the MegaRAID BIOS main screen The first Configuration Wizard screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 6 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Wizard Screen HegaRAID B g
181. owed for this virtual drive e RW Allow read write access This setting is the default e Read only Allow read only access e Blocked Do not allow access Read policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive e Normal This setting disables the read ahead capability This setting is the default e Ahead This setting enables read ahead capability which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory anticipating that the data is needed soon This setting speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data LSI Corporation 32 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Write policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive e WBack In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode e WThru In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is the default e Bad BBU Select this mode if you want the controller to use Writeback mode but the controller has no BBU or the BBU is bad If you do not choose this option the controller firmware automatically
182. pens ensuring your data will remain intact Drive security method will be assigned depending upon the controller settings The drive security will USE drive security E MEN make the virtual drive secure by applying encryption logic to the data in the drive Dm Def Virtual drives 1 Choose how many virtual drives you want to create Capacity 231 898 GB x Select the capacity for the virtual drive s Each virtual drive have the same capacity el eal ee 4 Select the RAID level desired for the virtual drive When you use simple configuration the RAID controller supports RAID levels 1 and 5 In addition it supports independent non redundant drives configured as RAID 0 The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level that you select The RAID levels that you can choose depend on the number of drives available To learn more about RAID levels see Section 1 2 RAID Overview 5 Use the drop down menu in the Virtual drives field to choose how many virtual drives you want to create Select the capacity of the virtual drive or drives Each virtual drive has the same capacity LSI Corporation 107 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 8 1 5 Configuration Creating a New Storage Configuration 7 Click Next The Create Virtual Drive Summary window appears as shown in the following figure This window shows the selections you made for simple configuration Figure 61 Create Virtual Drive Summ
183. percent Reconstruction Rate Controller BIOS Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to reconstruction of drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30 percent Use this option to enable or disable the BIOS for the selected controller The default is Enabled If the boot device is on the selected controller the BIOS must be enabled otherwise the BIOS should be disabled or it might not be possible to use a boot device elsewhere NCQ Native Command Queuing NCQ gives an individual drive the ability to optimize the order in which it executes the read and write commands The default is Enabled LSI Corporation 41 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 3 4 2 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Viewing and Changing Device Properties Table 2 Controller Properties Menu Options Continued Option Coercion Mode Description Drive coercion is a tool for forcing drives of varying capacities to the same capacity so they can be used in a drive group The coercion mode options are None 128MB way and 1GB way The default is None The number you choose depends on how much the drives from various vendors vary in their actual capacity LSI recommends that you use the 1GB coercion mode option S M A R T Polling Use this option to determine how frequently the controller polls for drives reporting a Predictive Drive Failure S M A R T Self Monitoring A
184. perties for virtual drives and the RAID configuration including hot spares NOTE The CfgSave option stores the configuration data and adapter properties in the file Configuration data has only the device ID and sequence number information of the physical drives used in the configuration The Cf gRestore option fails if the same device IDs of the physical drives are not present The utility does not validate the setup before restoring the configuration LSI Corporation 83 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 5 6 8 5 6 9 5 7 5 7 1 5 7 2 Virtual Drive Commands Delete Virtual Drive or Drives Use the command in the following table to delete one or more virtual drives on the selected adapter or adapters Table 22 Delete Virtual Drives Syntax MegaCLlI CfgLDDel Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Deletes one virtual drive multiple virtual drives or all the selected virtual drives on selected adapter or adapters Display Free Space Use the command in the following table to display the free space that is available to use for configuration on the selected adapter or adapters Table 23 Display Free Space Syntax MegaCLI CfgFreeSpaceInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays all the free space available for configuration on the selected adapter or adapters The information includes the number of disk groups the number of spans in each
185. poration 69 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Managing Drives 1 Highlight Drive Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter The Drive Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 45 Drive Management Menu Screen nll Drive Management Wiew Drive Properties Select Drive Operations t Warning s Detected Check POST Event Viewer 2 Highlight View Drive Properties and press Enter The Drive Management gt gt View Drive Properties screen appears as shown in the following two figures This screen contains additional options that you can scroll down to view Figure 46 shows the first options Figure 47 shows the additional options Figure 46 Drive Management gt gt View Drive Properties Screen Drive Management gt View Drive Properties Select Drive lt Drive 0 SATA 237464MB Onl ine gt Drive Prog f Drive ID 0 State lt Online gt Coerced Size MB 237464 Revision 02 0 Device Type lt Disk gt Comected Port 1 Media Errors 0 Predicted Fail Count 0 Cache Setting lt Disabled gt fuailable Size MB 237 Used Space MB 237226 t Warning s Detected Check POST Event Viewer LSI Corporation 70 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Figure 47 Drive Management gt gt View Drive Properties Screen Drive Management gt View D
186. press Enter The Virtual Drive Management screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 38 Virtual Drive Management Screen Virtual Drive Management Create Configuration Manage Virtual Drive Properties Select Virtual Drive Operations View Drive Group Properties LSI Corporation 64 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 4 3 3 Managing Virtual Drives 2 Highlight Manage Virtual Drive Properties and press Enter The Virtual Drive Management gt gt Manage Virtual Drive Properties screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 39 Virtual Drive Management gt gt Manage Virtual Drive Properties Screen 0001110011011000110000111011001100 01001010110101001910110001101110101 Virtual Drive Management gt Manage Virtual Drive Properties Select Virtual Drive lt Virtual Drive 0 Submits the changes MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO made to the entire 711679MB Optimal gt form Virtual Drive Name MegaSR RO 0 Target ID 0 RAID Level lt RAIDO gt Virtual Drive Status lt Optimal gt Virtual Drive Capacity 711679 MB Segment Size lt 64 KB gt sk Cache lt Disable gt View Associated Drives Apply Changes OTOTOTOTOT TTS 01110011001000111011011011001101 3 Highlight the Virtual Drive Name field and press Enter Enter a different name for the virtual drive and press Enter 5 Highlig
187. proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right as shown in the following figure To undo the changes click Reclaim 3 Choose whether to use drive encryption Figure 8 MegaRAID BIOS CU Drive Group Definition Screen t 0 SAS HDD 67 843 SAS ly 5 z n Slot 1 SAS HDD 136 218 GB On i Slot 3 SAS HDD 33 406 GB Onl 2 Slot 6 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un Rj Slot 7 SAS HDD 136 218 GB Un Slot 8 SAS HDD 67 843 GB Un re 3 i Slot 9 545 HDD 136 216 GB Un 4 After you finish selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG LSI Corporation 24 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration 5 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in the following figure This screen lists the possible RAID levels for the drive group Use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives Figure 9 MegaRAID BIOS CU Virtual Drive Definition Screen wray With e Spa _ eae fee en ma 6 Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed Brief explanations of the virtual drive options follow RAID level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 0 Strip size The strip size is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single drive
188. r coded according to the legend shown on the screen m Configured space is blue m Available space is white m Reserved space is red When you select a virtual drive from the drop down menu the drive space used by that virtual drive appears in green LSI Corporation 127 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 9 5 Running a Patrol Read Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Running a Patrol Read A patrol read periodically verifies all sectors of drives connected to a controller including the system reserved area in the RAID configured drives A patrol read can be used for all RAID levels and for all hot spare drives This operation is initiated only when the controller is idle for a defined time period and has no other background activities You can set the patrol read properties and start the patrol read operation or you can start the patrol read without changing the properties To set the patrol read properties and then start a patrol read follow these steps 1 Click a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen 2 Select Go To gt gt Controller gt gt Set Patrol Read Properties Figure 83 Start Patrol Read Menu E MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help Start Patrol Read Set Patrol Read Properties Load Configuration Save Configuration Clear Configuration Set Adjustable Task Rates Dashboard
189. r messages on the console or write them to the log file Work in silent mode if selected no messages are displayed on the console Display adapter inventory data in a single command Customize output strings Exit with predefined success or failure exit codes Set some predefined environment variables such as number of adapters and number of virtual drives after the execution of CT Display help on how to use the command line options of CT Exception Handling MegaCLlI CT exits with exit code 0 for all successful operations In case of failure it exits with exit code 1 to 255 depending on the failure conditions For example assume that a rebuild is started on three physical drives MegaCLl CT successfully starts rebuilding the first drive but fails to start rebuilding the second drive If this happens MegaCLl CT does not attempt to start rebuilding the third drive instead it exits with an error exit code In this case the error code is EXIT_ERR_START_RBLD So even if the command was partially successful an error code is still generated Some operations such as GetNumberOfAdapters or GetNumberOfLogicalDrives return with the actual number of controllers or virtual drives These return values are special cases and do not reflect any error conditions based on the return code which in these cases contains meaningful values LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaCLI Command Tool June 2011 Command Line Abbreviations and
190. rage Manager Main Menu Screen MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 laj xi Manage GoTo Log Tools Help is OE MO Welcome administrator Full Access Log Off Dashboard Physical Logical Shot 0 232 r e Power savings on unconfigured drives Disabled Slot 1 SATA 232 886 GB Online Slot 2 SATA 232 886 GB Unconfigured Good LSI Embedded MegaRAID Power savings on hot spares Disabled Optical Drive 4 Unknown HLDTSTDVDRAM none Backend SAS Address 0 0x0 Backend SAS Address 1 0x0 Backend SAS Address 2 0x0 Backend SAS Address 3 0x0 Backend SAS Address 4 0x0 Backend SAS Address 5 0x0 Cluster Enable No Cluster Active No SSD Guard Drive Security Properties Drive security capable m Frari evel Nata Time Neerrintian Oo The following sections describe the panels and the menu options that appear on this screen Dashboard Physical View Logical Views The left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen displays the Dashboard view the Physical view or the Logical view of the system and the related devices depending on which tab is selected Dashboard View The Dashboard view shows an overview of the system and covers the following features Properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives Total capacity configured capacity and unconfigured capacity Background operations in progress MSM features and their status enabled or disabled A
191. raints on 373 WDis no longer being cached in S5C YD 372 WDis being cached in SSC VD Warning 371 WDis used for SSC VD Information 370 WDis available YD Information 369 VD is not available YD Warning 5 Selecta different severity level for the event from the menu 6 Press ESC to return to the Alerts Notification Configuration screen 7 Click OK to save all of the changes made to the events Multiple Events Displayed in a Single Pop Up Window You can view multiple events in a single pop up window as shown in the following figure Figure 78 Pop Up for Multiple Events Change Individual Events Ea LSI u Events ID Description Severity SSC VD capacity changed YD 376 Controller reset on board expander 375 Auto Snspshot Failed for 374 Snspshot deleted due to resource constraints on 373 WD is no longer being cached in S5C YD 372 VD is being cached in SSC VD Warning 371 WDis used for 55C VD Information 370 WDis available YD Information 369 VD is not available YD Warning LSI Corporation 122 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 9 2 5 9 2 6 Configuring Alert Notifications Entering or Editing the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server You can use the Alerts Notification Configuration screen to enter or edit the sender emai
192. reas val aN a0 1 2 aALL LSI Corporation 77 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 MegaCLI Command Tool Adapter Commands Table 9 Set Adapter Properties Continued Description Sets the properties on the selected controller or controllers The possible settings are CacheFlushInterval Cache flush interval in seconds Values 0 to 255 RebuildRate Rebuild rate Values 0 to 100 PatrolReadRate Patrol read rate Values 0 to 100 BgiRate Background initilization rate Values 0 to 100 CCRate Consistency check rate Values 0 to 100 ReconRate Reconstruction rate Values 0 to 100 SpinupDriveCount Maximum number of drives to spin up at one time Values 0 to 7 SpinupDelay Number of seconds to delay among spinup groups Values 0 to 7 CoercionMode Drive capacity Coercion mode Values 0 None 1 128 MB 2 1 GB NOTE The coercion type can be set only when there is no configuration present on the adapter Description Continued ClusterEnable Cluster is enabled or disabled Values 0 Disabled 1 Enabled PredFailPollInterval Number of seconds between predicted fail polls Values 0 to 65535 BatWarnDsbl Disable warnings for missing battery or missing hardware Values 0 Enabled 1 Disabled EccBucket Size Size of ECC single bit error bucket Values 0 to 255 EccBucketLeakRate Leak rate in minutes of ECC single bit error bucket Values 0 to 65535
193. ress Delete 3 Select Yes when the confirmation message appears LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Clearing a Storage Configuration 3 13 Clearing a Storage Configuration CAUTION Before you clear a storage configuration be sure to back up all the data you want to keep A To clear a storage configuration follow these steps 1 Onthe Management Menu select Configure gt gt Clear Configuration 2 When the message appears select Yes to confirm All of the virtual drives are deleted from the configuration LSI Corporation 53 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility June 2011 Accessing the Configuration Options Screen Chapter 4 Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility The Human Interface Infrastructure HII Configuration Utility CU is used to configure controllers drive groups and virtual drives and to perform other configuration tasks in a pre boot environment This chapter describes how to configure controllers drive groups and virtual drives with the HII Configuration Utility To ensure the best performance select the optimal RAID level for the virtual drive you create For an explanation of RAID levels see Section 1 2 RAID Overview 4 1 Accessing the Configuration Options Screen You can use the Configuration Options screen to manage the controller virtual drives and physica
194. rive Properties Device Type Connected Port Media Errors Predicted Fail Count Cache Setting fuailable Size MB Used Space MB Disk Protocol Negotiated Drive Transfer Speed Number of Connections Associated Virtual Drive lt Disk gt 1 0 0 lt Disabled gt 237 237226 lt SATA gt lt 3 06b s gt 0 Virtual Drive 0 Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility Managing Drives MegaSR RO 0 RAIDO 711679MB Optimal gt 01110011001000 You can highlight the Associated Virtual Drive field and press Enter to view the properties However you cannot change the values in this field The following list shows the drive properties and their values Select Drive The drive number drive slot drive type drive capacity and drive status of the selected drive Drive ID The ID and the drive slot of the selected drive State The state of the selected drive such as Online Offline or Unconfigured Good Coerced Size MB The capacity to which the selected drive has been coerced to make it compatible with other drives that are nominally the same capacity Revision The firmware revision of the drive Device Type Indicates the type of device selected such as a drive tape or CD DVD ROM Connected Port Indicates the port to which the selected drive is connected Media Errors Indicates the number of media errors on the drive Media errors are p
195. ryption After you finish selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 5 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in the following figure You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives LSI Corporation 31 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 15 MegaRAID BIOS CU Virtual Drive Definition Screen 6 Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed Brief explanations of the virtual drive options follow RAID level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 5 Strip size The strip size is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single drive in the drive group The stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access policy Select the type of data access that is all
196. s 1 2 On the Management Menu select Objects gt gt Adapter Select a controller from the list LSI Corporation Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 3 9 2 3 9 3 The following list of adapter properties appears MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Viewing and Changing Device Properties initialization rate Property Options Default Rebuild Rate 0 to 100 of system resources 30 Chk Const Rate check 0 to 100 of system resources 30 consistency rate FGI Rate foreground 0 to 100 of system resources 30 initialization rate BGI Rate background 0 to 100 of system resources 30 property can be accessed only when no configuration is present for the adapter Otherwise an error message appears NOTE The Disk Coercion Disk WC disk write cache Off On Off write through enabled Read Ahead On Off On BIOS State Enable Disable Enable Stop On Error No Yes No Fast Init Enable Disable Enable Auto Rebuild On Off On Auto Resume Enable Disable Enable When enabled you can stop a consistency check rebuild or initialization and resume it later where it left off instead of aborting it and starting over Disk Coercion None 128MB 1GB 1GB 3 Ifyou want to change the value of a property highlight it and press Enter 4 Select or type a different value for the property and press Enter 5 When you are finished press Esc until you return
197. s 0x0088 136 Information Spare s s disabled LSI Corporation 142 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 Table 50 Event Messages Continued ee eee Type Event Text 0x0089 137 Caution Spare s does not cover all arrays 0x008a 138 Information Created s 0x008b 139 Information Deleted s 0x008c 140 Information Marking s inconsistent due to active writes at shutdown 0x008d 141 Information Battery Present 0x008e 142 Warning Battery Not Present Ox008f 143 Information New Battery Detected 0x0090 144 Information Battery has been replaced 0x0091 145 Caution Battery temperature is high 0x0092 146 Warning Battery voltage low 0x0093 147 Information Battery started charging 0x0094 148 Information Battery is discharging 0x0095 149 Information Battery temperature is normal 0x0096 150 Fatal Battery needs replacement SOH Bad 0x0097 151 Information Battery relearn started 0x0098 152 Information Battery relearn in progress 0x0099 153 Information Battery relearn completed 0x009a 154 Caution Battery relearn timed out 0x009b 155 Information Battery relearn pending Battery is under charge 0x009c 156 Information Battery relearn postponed 0x009d 157 Information Battery relearn will start in 4 days 0x009e 158 Information Battery relearn will start in 2 day 0x009f 159 Information Battery relearn will st
198. selected event under the Alert Delivery Methods heading Select the desired alert delivery methods for the event 5 Press ESC to return to the Alerts Notification Configuration screen Click OK This saves all of the changes made to the event 9 2 3 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events See Table 48 for details about the severity levels To change the event severity level for a specific event perform the following steps 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alerts Setting tab The Alerts Setting portion of the screen appears LSI Corporation 121 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 9 2 4 2 Click Change Individual Events Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Configuring Alert Notifications The Change Individual Events dialog box appears as shown in the previous figure The dialog box shows the events by their ID number description and severity level 3 Click an event in the list to select it The current alert delivery methods appear for the selected event 4 Click the Severity cell for the event The Event Severity drop down menu appears for that event as shown in the following figure Figure 77 Change Individual Events Severity Level Menu Change Individual Events Ea LSI SK u Events Severity SSC YD capacity changed YD 376 Controller reset on board expander 375 Auto Snspshot Failed for 374 Snspshot deleted due to resource const
199. ssage m If aconsistency check is in progress when you insert or remove a drive the CU displays the following message CC Not Completed Press ESC followed by the hot plug message LSI Corporation 49 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 3 8 3 9 3 9 1 Checking Data Consistency Checking Data Consistency The check consistency feature can be used on RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 10 virtual drives to verify the consistency of the data on the physical drives The MegaRAID BIOS CU automatically corrects any differences found in the data when a consistency check is run Follow these steps to check consistency 1 On the Management Menu select Check Consistency and press Enter A list of configured virtual drives appears Highlight a virtual drive with the arrow keys Press the spacebar to select the virtual drive to check for consistency NOTE If you select a RAID 0 virtual drive a message appears stating that a Check Consistency cannot be N performed To continue deselect the virtual drive highlight a redundant virtual drive and press the spacebar again Press F10 At the prompt select Yes to start the Check Consistency process and press Enter A graph shows the progress of the Check Consistency operation until it is complete If the MegaRAID BIOS CU finds any data inconsistencies while comparing the source and target drives it fixes the inconsistency by writ
200. stem events occur To access this screen select Tools gt gt Configure Alerts on the main menu screen as shown in the following figure Figure 73 Alert Notification Configuration Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager 6 90 0100 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help KETE E LSI Corporation 118 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices June 2011 Configuring Alert Notifications The Alerts Notification Configuration screen appears as shown in the following figure The screen contains three tabs Alert Settings Mail Server and Email You can use each tab to perform tasks for that topic Figure 74 Alerts Notification Configuration Screen f Lsis Mail Server Email You may edit the alert delivery methods for each event severity level All events at that severity level will use the listed alert delivery methods unless you define exceptions by changing individual events Alert Delivery Methods Severity Level Alert Delivery Method Fatal System Log MSM Log Popup Email Critical System Log MSM Log Popup Warning System Log MSM Log iji Information System Log MSM Log Edit Change Individual Events Save Backup Load Backup OK Cancel Help You can select the Alert Settings tab to perform the following actions Select the methods for the delivery of alerts Change the severity level of events Save an xm1 backup file of the entire alert
201. sting system booted from a standard SATA drive or systems with the Embedded Software RAID stack 1 Boot the system with the Red Hat Linux Installation CD from the primary controller or disk The Red Hat introductory screen appears 2 Mount the driver update diskette DUD using the following command mount dev fd0 mnt floppy 3 Unzip the modules cgz file that is on the DUD to get driver images for different Red Hat operating systems mkdir p home megasr cd home megasr cp mnt floppy modules cgz gunizip S cgz modules cgz This action generates a new file named modules cpio ivd lt modules This action provides the following driver images lt kernel version gt lt kernel version gt smp lt kernel version gt BOOT megasr o 4 Update the Megasr driver module for the required kernels using the following commands cd home megasr Ifthe lib modules lt kernel version gt update directory is present use the following command cp lt kernel version gt megasr o ko lib modules lt kernel version gt update megasr 0 ko Ifthe lib modules lt kernel version gt update directory is not present use the following command cp lt kernel version gt megasr o ko lib modules lt kernel version gt kernel drivers scsi megasr o ko LSI Corporation 17 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Driver Installation June 2011 2 2 5 9 Linux Driver Installation Create a Megasr driver e
202. switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU CAUTION LSI allows Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery LSI recommends that you A use either a battery to protect the controller cache or an uninterruptible power supply UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache I O policy The I O policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache e Direct In Direct I O mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory This setting is the default e Cached In Cached I O mode all reads are buffered in cache memory Drive policy Specify the drive cache policy e Enable Enable the drive cache e Disable Disable the drive cache e NoChange Leave the current drive cache policy as is This drive policy is the default Disable BGI Specify the background initialization status e No Leave background initialization enabled This setting means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use the MegaRAID BIOS CU to do other configuration tasks This setting is the default e Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller N NOTE New RAID 5 v
203. t Create the drive group by specitying the RAID level and Drive security method RAID level Pick a RAID level to specify the amount of fault tolerance and performance for the virtual drives Drive security will make the virtual drive secure by applying encryption logic to underlying data in the drive Drive groups I ST Fmhedded MegaRAIn Rus 0 Nev 31 Brive croup Crei _ tock net reo 4 Perform the following actions in the Create Drive Group Settings dialog box a Select the RAID level desired for the drive group from the drop down menu The drive group appears in the Drive groups field The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1 5 and 10 In addition it supports independent drives configured as RAID 0 The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level you select Which RAID levels you can choose depend on the number of drives available b Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add gt to add them to the drive group The selected drives appear under Drive Group number c Ifyou are creating a RAID 10 drive group perform the following steps If not go to step d NOTE On a RAID 10 array you can create only one virtual drive and that virtual drive must occupy S the entire space of the RAID 10 array Click Create Span to create a second span in the drive group Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add gt to add them to the sec
204. t Config Utility Configuratior 2 Select a configuration option Clear Configuration Clears the existing configuration New Configuration Clears the existing configuration and lets you create a new configuration Add Configuration Retains the existing storage configuration and adds new drives to it this does not cause any data loss CAUTION If you choose to clear the existing configuration or to create a new configuration the system A deletes all of the existing data in the configuration Make a backup of any data that you want to keep before you choose an option 3 Click Next A dialog box warns that you will lose data if you select Clear Configuration or New Configuration The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Method screen appears as shown in the following figure LSI Corporation a 22 m Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 7 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Method Screen MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility Conf 4 On this screen select a configuration mode Manual Configuration Allows you to control all attributes of the new storage configuration as you create drive groups and virtual drives and set their parameters Automatic Configuration Automatically creates an optimal RAID configuration If you select Automatic Configuration you can choose whether to create a redundant RAID drive group or a non redu
205. t it by selecting Start Patrol Read From the controller Options panel Disabled Patrol read does not run 4 Specify the maximum number of drives to include in the patrol read Eight drives is the maximum supported by Embedded MegaRAID Software click Add All gt gt to include all of the virtual drives 6 Optional Change the frequency at which the patrol read runs Click virtual drives in the list under the heading Virtual Drives to include in the patrol read and click Add gt gt or The default frequency is weekly 168 hours which is suitable for most configurations The other options are hourly daily and monthly NOTE LSI recommends that you leave the patrol read frequency and other patrol read settings at the S default values to achieve the best system performance If you decide to change the values record the original default value here so you can restore them later if necessary Patrol Read Frequency Continuous Patrolling Enabled Disabled Patrol Read Task Rate 7 Optional Set Patrol Read to run at a specific time The default is for the patrol read to start when you click OK on this screen To change the default so that the patrol read starts at a specific time follow these steps otherwise skip this step and proceed to the next step a Uncheck the box Perform Patrol Read when I click OK b Select the month year day and time to start patrol read LSI Corporation 129 Embedd
206. ter a drive in a storage configuration has failed The default value is 30 percent Background Initialization BGI Rate Background initialization is a check for media errors on the drives when you create a virtual drive It is an automatic operation that starts five minutes after you create the virtual drive This check ensures that striped data segments are the same on all of the drives in the drive group The default value is 30 percent Consistency Check Rate A consistency check is an operation that verifies that all stripes in a virtual drive with a redundant RAID level are consistent and that automatically fixes any errors The consistency check rate is the rate at which consistency check operations are run on a computer system The default value is 30 percent 4 Highlight Apply Changes and press Enter to register your changes Your changes are registered and the controller properties are changed Clearing Configurations Perform the following steps to clear all existing configurations on the controller 1 Highlight Controller Management on the Configuration Options screen see Figure 31 and press Enter Highlight Clear Configuration on the Controller Management screen see Figure 32 and press Enter Highlight Yes to confirm your selection on the Confirm screen This action clears the existing configurations Managing Virtual Drives You can use the Virtual Drive Management screen to create virtual drive c
207. th Two Drives Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6 Segment 7 Segment 8 RAID 1 Description Overview RAID Overview RAID 1 duplicates all data from one drive to a second drive RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity Uses Strong Points Weak Points Drives Two Databases or any other mission critical environment that requires fault tolerance Provides complete data redundancy RAID 1 is ideal for any application that requires fault tolerance Requires twice as many drives performance is impaired during drive rebuilds The following figure shows a RAID 1 drive group Figure 2 RAID 1 Array Segment 1 Segment 1 Duplicated Segment 2 Segment 2 Duplicated Segment 3 Segment 3 Duplicated Segment 4 Segment 4 Duplicated RAID 5 Description RAID 5 includes disk striping at the block level and parity Parity is the data s property of being odd or even and parity checking is used to detect errors in the data In RAID 5 the parity information is distributed to all drives RAID 5 is best suited for networks that perform a lot of small input output I O transactions simultaneously N NOTE RAID 5 is a premium feature You might need to install a software key to enable RAID 5 The key you need depends on your supplier Contact your supplier for more information LSI Corporation 11 E
208. the capacity of a virtual drive to occupy the remaining capacity in a drive group In addition you can add drives to the virtual drive to increase capacity Follow these steps to expand a virtual drive Access the Virtual Drive screen by clicking a virtual drive icon in the right panel on the MegaRAID BIOS CU main screen The Virtual Drive screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 26 Virtual Drive Screen RAID Level 1 Status Optimal Strip Size 64 KB Capacity 67 843 GB Secured No Access RW x Read Normal A Disk Cache Nochange E 1 0 Cached x Disable BGI No Default Hrite Write Through x Current Hrite Write Through Change Operations C Delete C Locate C Fast Init C Slow Init cc C fAdyvOpers EnableMegaRAID Recovery Expand LSI Corporation 45 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility June 2011 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 2 Click the Expand radio button and then click Go The Expand Virtual Drive screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 27 Expand Virtual Drive Screen HeqaRAID BIOS ig Utility Ex 3 Enter the percentage of the available capacity that you want the virtual drive to use For example if there are 100 GB of capacity available and you want to increase the capacity of the virtual drive by 30 GB select 30 percent Click Calculate to determine the capacity of the
209. the following dud img Before you reboot go to text console and follow these steps Press Ctrl Alt F2 goes to the text console Enter the command cat proc partitions to get the major and minor number of floppy drive Executemknod dev sd x b major minor Create a directory suchasmkdir swr Mount the floppy drive to that directory mount dev sd x swr Run the script replaceachi sh Reboot the system ampang Press Enter You are prompted for the target drive diskette Insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and type A Press Enter Press Enter again to start copying the file to the diskette After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out remove the diskette Label the diskette with the image name Preparing Installation Disks with the Linux Operating System Under Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux you can use a driver diskette utility to create disk images from image files Perform the following steps to create the driver update disk PWN gt wi Copy the driver update disk image dud driver version img toa Linux system Insert a blank floppy diskette into the floppy drive Confirm that the files are in the selected directory Create the driver update diskette using the following command dd if dud driverversion img of dev d0 After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out remove the diskette Label the diskette with the image name Installing
210. the physical drive enclosure and the slots for the drives Replace Configured Disk Drives and Start Automatic Rebuild Use the command in the following table to replace a configured physical disk drive and start an automatic rebuild of the drive Table 40 Replace Configured Disk Drives and Start Automatic Rebuild Syntax MegaCLI PDReplaceMissing PhysDrv E0 Sn ArrayX RowY aN Description Replaces the configured physical drives and then starts an automatic rebuild The specified array Index and row must be a missing drive Prepare Unconfigured Physical Drives for Removal Use the command in the following table to prepare an unconfigured physical disk drive or drives for removal from the selected adapter or adapters Table 41 Prepare Unconfigured Physical Disk Drives for Removal Syntax MegaCLI PDPrpRmv Undo PhysDrv E0 Sn aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Prepares unconfigured physical drive or drives for removal The drive is spun down and the drive state is set to unaffiliated which marks it as offline even though it is not a part of configuration The Undo option undoes this operation and the physical disk is marked as Unconfigured Good Display Number of Physical Drives Use the command in the following table to display the total number of physical disk drives attached to an adapter Table 42 Display Number of Physical Disk Drives Syntax MegaCLI PDGetNum aN
211. trollers drives and other devices Status Oa System Controller m Backplane i Port RAID Drive group 2 3 Virtual drive g Online drive Global hot spare w p z Tape drive CD ROM Foreign Drive cA g Unconfigured Foreign Drive Unconfigured Drive NOTE MegaRAID Storage Manager shows the icons for tape drive devices but the utility does not support tape related operations If these operations are required use a separate backup application A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed For example this icon indicates that a drive has failed A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a partially degraded state For example this icon indicates that a virtual drive is running in a degraded state because a drive has failed B Event Log Panel The lower part of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen displays the system event log entries New event log entries appear during the session Each entry has an ID an error level indicating the severity of the event the timestamp and date and a brief description of the event For more information about the event log see Section 9 1 Monitoring System Events For more information about the event log entries see Appendix A Events and Messages LSI Corporation 101 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide MegaRAID Storage Manager Screen and
212. ture sensor d above warning threshold 0x00b4 180 Caution Enclosure s temperature sensor d above error threshold 0x00b5 181 Caution Enclosure s shutdown 0x00b6 182 Warning Enclosure s not supported too many enclosures connected to port 0x00b7 183 Caution Enclosure s firmware mismatch EMM d 0x00b8 184 Warning Enclosure s sensor d bad 0x00b9 185 Caution Enclosure s phy bad for slot d Ox00ba 186 Caution Enclosure s is unstable 0x00bb 187 Caution Enclosure s hardware error 0x00bc 188 Caution Enclosure s not responding 0x00bd 189 Information SAS SATA mixing not supported in enclosure s disabled Ox00be 190 Information Enclosure SES hotplug on s was detected but is not supported Ox00bf 191 Information Clustering enabled 0x00c0 192 Information Clustering disabled 0x00c1 193 Information PD too small to be used for auto rebuild on s 0x00c2 194 Information BBU enabled changing WT virtual disks to WB 0x00c3 195 Warning BBU disabled changing WB virtual disks to WT 0x00c4 196 Warning Bad block table on s is 80 full 0x00c5 197 Fatal Bad block table on s is full unable to log block lx 0x00c6 198 Information Consistency Check Aborted Due to Ownership Loss on s 0x00c7 199 Information Background Initialization BGI Aborted Due to Ownership Loss on s 0x00c8 200 Caution Battery charger problems detected SOH Bad 0x00c9 201 Warning Single bit ECC error ECAR x ELOG x s warning threshold exceeded Ox00ca 202 Caution Single bit ECC error
213. tus On Optical Drive 4 Unknown HLDTSTDVDRAM Raw Capacity 232 886 GB Revision Level 02 0 Product ID WD2502ABYS2387A Media Error Count 0 Vendor ID ATA Pred Fail Count 0 Device ID 0 Slot Number 0 Status Online Drive Security Properties Drive Speed 3 0 Gbps Full Disk Encryption capable No Negotiated Link Speed 3 0 Gbps Data Protection Properties SCSI Device Type Disk Data Protection Incapable Date Time Displaying log from server z B Per zel Pao Sm The information on this panel is self explanatory No user selectable properties for physical devices exist Icons for other storage devices such as CD ROM drives and DAT drives can also appear in the left panel If the drives are in a drive enclosure you can identify which drive is represented by each drive LED on the enclosure Follow these steps to locate the drive 1 Click the drive icon in the left panel 2 Click Go To gt gt Physical Drive gt gt Start Locating Drive The LED on the drive in the enclosure starts blinking to show its location N NOTE LEDs on drives that are global hot spares do not blink 3 To stop the drive LED on the enclosure from blinking select Go To gt gt Physical Drive gt gt Stop Locating Drive To display a graphical view of a drive click a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen and click the Graphical View tab In Graphical View the drive s storage capacity is colo
214. ual Drive Information 0 cece cen o KRET ne nnn E En EEE Een en EE Ene Ede Een AEREE ERES 84 5 7 2 Display Virtual Drive Disk Cache Settings 0 cece cece cence ene ene nee e tenn tn ened ete tent n eben ene teen e ees 84 5 7 3 Manage Virtual Drive Initialization 0 c cece cece ce nen ene n nnn ene n een e ene teste teen eben eben eee es 85 5 7 4 Manage Consistency Check srra ears he wet nas dela snie ae Bade awed E etubd aieeek oa bag sep hades cea E TEER EN ee ae 85 5 7 5 View Ongoing Background Initialization 6 ccc e ene ne nn ee tn eee eben e een eee eee e beeen eee es 85 5 7 6 Display Virtual Drive and Physical Drive Information ccc cece eee cence eee eee en ene ene tbe e nent een een een eeeeees 86 5 7 7 Display Number of Virtual Drives sisari irssi ii 424 cen oena ani DERAN EENE NEEE E TEE 86 5 8 Drive COMANA S ssoi cesia ia E E as kage wena A RE EEI NEE ETARA NTE EEE TEE E EE ER ERSA 86 5 8 1 Display Drive Informations 2cssadasocdaektens baud ches a EEEE E A cabs EEA E EEA 86 5 8 2 Set the Drive State to OnIING 655 cas iirressire ri atre tn TERE EPEE evans Aesacnns bac NAT ORENEAN EEE EEN aa a 87 LSI Corporation 4 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Table of Contents June 2011 5 8 3 Set the Drive State to OffliNe is inc vsesasceaaeeiveesiealnae cas sew a Ea E EEEE EEEREN EE EEEE RR S 87 5 8 4 Change the Drive State to Unconfigured Go0d 6 cece ccc ccc e nnn e
215. uired file is dud driver version img which is the driver update disk for the Embedded MegaRAID Software stack You can obtain the latest driver files from the Download Center on the LSI website Preparing the Installation Disk or Disks for Linux This section describes how to prepare the Linux installation disk or disks from the driver image files using either the Windows operating system or the Linux operating system Preparing Installation Disks with the Windows Operating System Under Windows you can use the rawrite floppy image writer utility to create disk images from image files The image writer can be downloaded from the Internet Perform the following steps to build installation diskettes 1 Copy the driver update disk image dud driver version img and the file raw write exe to a directory 2 Confirm that the files are in the selected directory LSI Corporation 15 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide Driver Installation June 2011 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 Linux Driver Installation If necessary use this command to change the file name of the driver update disk to a name with fewer than eight characters copy dud driver version img dud img Open the DOS Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where raw write exe is located Type the following command to create the installation diskette raw write Press Enter You are prompted to enter the name of the boot image file Type
216. under Embedded MegaRAID Software These commands include the following commands Adapter Cache Flush AdpCacheF lush Set Adapter Properties Only the RebuildRate BgiRate CCRate and CoercionMode properties are supported Get Adapter Properties Only the RebuildRate BgiRate CCRate and CoercionMode properties are supported Cluster Enable is not supported Set Adapter Time AdpSet Time Foreign configuration CfgForeign Virtual Drive Reconstruction LDRecon Set Virtual Drive Properties LDSet Prop Display Enclosure Information EncInfo Mark Configured Physical Disk Drive as Missing PDMarkMissing Display List of Missing Physical Disk Drives PDGetMissing Diagnostics AdpDiag AdpBatTest AdpNVRAM The following sections describe the MegaCLI CT commands N NOTE The Embedded MegaRAID Software utility does not support write policy read policy or I O policy Software RAID supports only enabling and disabling the drive s write cache and read ahead functions N NOTE MegaCLI CT for Embedded MegaRAID Software does not support the concept of disk enclosures except for a default Enclosure 0 E0 Some of the commands support an E0 Sn syntax that enables you to specify a drive in a particular s ot in this default enclosure 5 4 Adapter Commands You can use the commands in this section to set or display properties related to the adapter or adapters N NOTE The Embedded MegaRAID Software drivers function
217. w key to select Off or On and then press Enter to change the cache setting fw N gt The settings are changed for all virtual drives defined on the drive group Rebuilding a Drive The MegaRAID BIOS CU enables you to rebuild a drive of a redundant drive group if the drive group has a failed drive If the failed drive is still good that is if the drive is physically present and its capacity is greater than or equal to the defined capacity of the drive group it is rebuilt If the drive is small an error message appears and the MegaRAID BIOS CU does not allow the drive to be rebuilt A rebuild cannot be started on a failed drive if its capacity is even 1 byte smaller than the defined capacity of the drive group Follow these steps to rebuild a drive 1 Select Rebuild from the Management Menu 2 When the list of drives appears highlight the FAIL drive that you want to rebuild and press the Spacebar to select it 3 After selecting the physical drive press F10 and select Yes at the confirmation prompt The rebuild process begins and a graph shows the progress of the rebuild until it is complete Although the CU changes the disk drive state to Rebuild at this point the change does not appear on the screen while the rebuild is in progress If the CU detects a media error on the source drive during rebuild it initiates a sector read for that block If the sector read fails the CU adds entries to the Soft Bad Block Management SBBM t
218. y option shows the status of the automatic rebuild state Set Adapter Properties This command sets the properties on the selected adapter or adapters For example for RebuildRate val you can enter a value between 0 percent and 100 percent The rebuild rate is the percentage of the compute cycles dedicated to rebuilding failed drives At 0 percent the rebuild is done only if the system is not doing anything else At 100 percent the rebuild has a higher priority than any other system activity N NOTE The default rebuild rate of 30 percent is recommended Use the command in the following table to display or set adapter properties Table 9 Set Adapter Properties Syntax MegaCLI AdpSetProp CacheFlushInterval val RebuildRate val PatrolReadRate val BgiRate val CCRate val ReconRate val SpinupDriveCount val SpinupDelay val CoercionMode val ClusterEnable val PredFailPollInterval val BatWarnDsbl val EccBucketSize val EccBucketLeakRate val AbortCCOnError val AlarmEnbl AlarmDsbl AlarmSilence SMARTCpyBkEnbl val AutoDetectBackPlaneDsbl CopyBackDsbl LoadBalanceMode NCQEnbl1 NCQDsbl SSDSMARTCpyBkEnbl val MaintainPdFailHistoryEnbl val Enb1lSpinDownUnConfigDrvs val Enbl1SSDPatrolRead val AutoEnhancedImportEnbl AutoEnhancedImportDsbl UseFDEOnlyEncrypt val PrCorrectUncfgdA
219. ysical tab or the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen 2 Select Go To gt gt Controller gt gt Set Adjustable Task Rates from the menu bar as shown in the following figure Figure 67 Set Adjustable Task Rates Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager 8 17 2000 Manage GoTo Log Tools Help Strt Paal ed D Group Set Patrol Read Properties Load Configuration Save Configuration Clear Configuration Dashboard Physical Logica Controller LSI Embeddec User configurable task rate priorities for controller Save TTY Log Advanced Software Option Actions Alarm Disabled Create virtual drive MegaRAID RECOVERY Disabled Create CacheCade SSD Caching CacheCade SSD Caching Disabled Load configuration Drive security Disabled Update firmware Unconfigured good spin down Disabled Silence alarm Hot spare spin down Disabled LSI Corporation 113 Embedded MegaRAID Software User Guide June 2011 8 3 Configuration Changing Virtual Drive Properties The Set Adjustable Task Rates dialog box appears as shown in the following figure Figure 68 Set Adjustable Task Rates Dialog Box LSis peepee User configurable task rate priorities For controller Rebuild Rate 30 Patrol Rate 30 BGI Rate 30 Check Consistency Rate 30 Reconstruction Rate 30 Ok Cancel Jdvuld 3 Enter changes as needed to the f

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