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ii Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. This document contains proprietary information of LSI Logic Corporation. The information contained herein is not to be used by or disclosed to third parties without the express written permission of an officer of LSI Logi...

Page 3 - Preface; Audience

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide iii Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Preface This document explains how to use the MegaRAID Storage Manager™ software, the MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility (CU), and the MegaCLI utility to configure, monitor, and m...

Page 4 - MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus; , describes how to use the Embedded; Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices; , provides descriptions of the; Conventions; Notation; module

iv Preface Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • Chapter 6, MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus , describes the layout of the Embedded MegaRAID Software window and lists the available menu options. • Chapter 7, Configuration , describes how to use the Em...

Page 5 - Revision History; Braces; Initial release of this document.

Preface v Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Note: Notes contain supplementary information that can have an effect on system performance. Caution: Cautions are notifications that an action has the potential to adversely affect equipment operation, system perf...

Page 7 - Contents

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide vii Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Contents Chapter 1Overview 1.1 Embedded MegaRAID Software Features 1-1 1.1.1 Driver Features 1-1 1.1.2 BIOS Features 1-2 1.1.3 Ctrl-M Configuration Utility Features 1-3 1.1.4 Manag...

Page 11 - Customer Feedback

Contents xi Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.3 Changing Adjustable Task Rates 7-14 7.4 Changing Virtual Disk Proper ties 7-15 7.5 Deleting a Virtual Disk 7-15 7.6 Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk 7-16 7.7 Clearing a Storage Configuration from a Cont...

Page 13 - xiii; Figures

xiii Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Figures 1.1 RAID 0 Array Example with Two Disk Drives 1-6 1.2 RAID 1 Array 1-7 1.3 RAID 5 Array 1-8 1.4 RAID 10 Array 1-9 3.1 Configuration Utility Main Menu 3-3 3.2 Logical Drive Configuration Screen 3-5 3.3 Logical Dr...

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Page 15 - xv; Tables

xv Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Tables 4.1 Conventions 4-3 4.2 Display Adapter Information 4-5 4.3 Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild 4-5 4.4 Set Adapter Properties 4-6 4.5 Display Specified Adapter Proper ties 4-6 4.6 Display Adapter Time 4-7 4.7 Set ...

Page 16 - xvi

xvi Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.36 Display Number of Physical Disk Drives 4-20 4.37 Display List of Physical Drives 4-20 4.38 Display MegaCLI Version 4-21 4.39 Display MegaCLI Help 4-21 A.1 Event Error Levels A-1 A.2 Event Messages A-2

Page 17 - Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide; This manual explains the features of the Embedded MegaRAID; Embedded MegaRAID Software Features; Driver Features; Suppor t for 48-bit LBA

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 1-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 1Overview This manual explains the features of the Embedded MegaRAID ® Software. It includes instructions for using the MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility, the MegaCLI com...

Page 18 - Overview; BIOS Features

1-2 Overview Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • Suppor t for migration path from Embedded MegaRAID Software to MegaRAID SAS/SATA hardware (this requires support from hardware RAID) • Automatic resumption of rebuilding, Check Consistency, full initialization...

Page 19 - None; Ctrl-M Configuration Utility Features

Embedded MegaRAID Software Features 1-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • Suppor t for Post Memory Management (PMM): Specification v1.01, November 21, 1997 • Industry-standard EBDA • POST and run-time BIOS suppor t for device insertion and removal • Suppor...

Page 20 - Manageability/Disk Console Features; RAID Overview; arrays

1-4 Overview Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 1.1.4 Manageability/Disk Console Features The following features are available to manage the logical and physical disks in the system: • Configuration information display (in MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility ...

Page 21 - A RAID 5 array consists of three to eight drives.; Maximize Fault Tolerance:; mirroring; Maximize Logical Drive Performance:; striping; Maximizing Storage Capacity:

RAID Overview 1-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • A RAID 1 array consists of two physical drives. • A RAID 5 array consists of three to eight drives. • A RAID 10 array consists of four, six, or eight drives. Note: Some hardware configurations do not supp...

Page 22 - RAID 0 Description; shows a RAID 0 array with two disk drives.; RAID 0 Array Example with Two Disk Drives; Uses; Does not provide fault tolerance all data lost if any drive fails; Drives; One to eight

1-6 Overview Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 1.2.1 RAID 0 Description RAID 0 provides disk striping across all disk drives in the array. RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy, but does offer the best performance of any RAID level. RAID 0 breaks up da...

Page 23 - RAID 1 Description; shows a RAID 1 array.; RAID 1 Array; RAID 5 Description; Two

RAID Overview 1-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 1.2.2 RAID 1 Description 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. Figure 1.2 sho...

Page 24 - shows a RAID 5 array with six disk drives.; RAID 5 Array; Three to eight

1-8 Overview Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 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. Figure 1.3 shows a RAID 5 array with six disk drive...

Page 25 - RAID 10 Description; shows a RAID 10 array with four disk drives.; Requires twice as many drives

RAID Overview 1-9 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 1.2.4 RAID 10 Description RAID 10, a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0, has mirrored drives. It breaks up data into smaller blocks, then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 1 RAID set. Each RAID 1 RAID s...

Page 27 - Setup is inspecting your computers hardware; Enter

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 2-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 2Driver Installation This chapter explains how to install the Embedded MegaRAID Software drivers for the Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux, and SuSE Lin...

Page 28 - Driver Installation; Confirming the Windows 2000/2003/XP Driver Installation

2-2 Driver Installation Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 5. Scroll down the list and select the appropriate driver for the Windows version installed on your system, then click OK . 6. Continue with the normal installation procedure. 2.1.1 Updating the Windo...

Page 29 - Linux Driver Installation; Obtaining the Driver Image File; Preparing Installation Disks with the Windows Operating System; rawrite

Linux Driver Installation 2-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 2.2 Linux Driver Installation This section explains how to make fresh installations of the Embedded MegaRAID Software driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Se...

Page 31 - Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver on a New System; linux dd; Updating the Red Hat Linux Driver (Generic)

Linux Driver Installation 2-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 2.2.3 Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver on a New System This section describes the fresh installation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 or 4.0 device driver on systems with the Embedded Mega...

Page 32 - modules

2-6 Driver Installation Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 3. Mount the driver update diskette (DUD) using the following command: #mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 4. Unzip the modules.cgz file that is on the DUD to get driver images for different Red Hat operating...

Page 33 - ahci

Linux Driver Installation 2-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. controller without checking the subsystem device or Vendor ID. The ahci SCSI driver entry is the following: alias scsi_hostadapter ahci 7. Create a new initrd image for the required kernel. Red ...

Page 34 - Installing the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Driver; Chapter 3, “MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility.”; Installation; LSI Soft RAID Driver Updates added.; Back

2-8 Driver Installation Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 2.2.5 Installing the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Driver This section describes the fresh installation of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 driver on a system with the Embedded MegaRAID Software st...

Page 36 - MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility; Performing a Quick Configuration; for detailed; Configure; from the Management Menu.; Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives

3-2 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 3.1 Performing a Quick Configuration This section provides high level instructions for quickly configuring arrays and logical drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU. These instructions are i...

Page 37 - RAID 5 required three to eight physical drives.; Starting the MegaRAID BIOS CU; Press Ctrl-M to run LSI Logic Software RAID Setup Utility; Ctrl

Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives 3-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • 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 p...

Page 38 - Using Easy Configuration; Configuration; READY; Yes

3-4 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. (Destination Segment), 6000:0 (Scratch Segment) and 7000:0 (Read Write Buffer Segment) after POST. 3.2.2 Using Easy Configuration When you select the Easy Configuration option, the CU ...

Page 39 - Section 3.3, “Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and; Using New Configuration and View/Add Configuration

Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives 3-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Figure 3.2 Logical Drive Configuration Screen 8. Highlight RAID and press Enter . The available RAID levels for the current logical drive are displayed. 9. Select a RAID level for th...

Page 41 - Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press; and pressing; (Optional) Change the disks’s default Write Cache and Read Ahead; Accept; and press; to the Management Menu.; Creating a Global Hotspare Drive

Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives 3-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. A list of the available RAID levels for the current logical drive appears. 9. Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press Enter . 10. (Optional) Set the logical drive size by...

Page 42 - Initializing Logical Drives; Fast Init

3-8 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. You can create a hotspare when you are configuring a new storage configuration, as described in the previous sections. To add a hotspare drive to an existing redundant storage configur...

Page 43 - AutoResume

Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives 3-9 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 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 initiali...

Page 44 - Stop

3-10 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4. 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 me...

Page 45 - Change DWC; Rebuilding a Drive; Rebuild

Rebuilding a Drive 3-11 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 3. Use the arrow key to select Off or On for Disk WC (DWC) or Read Ahead. 4. When you see the prompt Change DWC or Change Read Ahead , use the arrow key to select Off or On , then press Enter to chang...

Page 46 - Rebuilding of Drive X Completed Successfully. Press Esc.; Hot Plug Support; hot plug message

3-12 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4. When rebuild is complete, the CU displays the message: Rebuilding of Drive X Completed Successfully. Press Esc. (X = the ID of the rebuilt drive.) 5. Press Esc to display the Manag...

Page 47 - Rebuilding Of Drive Not Complete!; Checking Data Consistency; Check Consistency

Checking Data Consistency 3-13 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • CU menus such as Select Boot Drive, Select Adapter, and Logical Drive menus will completely or partially close when a drive is inserted or removed. • If a Rebuild is in progress when you inse...

Page 48 - The Data on the Drives is inconsistent. Repair done!; Viewing and Changing Device Properties

3-14 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4. Press F10 . 5. 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...

Page 49 - Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties; Objects; Property

Viewing and Changing Device Properties 3-15 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 3.7.1 Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties To view or change adapter proper ties, follow these steps: 1. On the Management Menu, select Objects → Adapter . 2. Select an adapter ...

Page 50 - Viewing and Changing Logical Drive Properties; Disk WC; Viewing Physical Drive Properties; Forcing Drives Online or Offline

3-16 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 3.7.2 Viewing and Changing Logical Drive Properties To view or change logical drive properties, follow these steps: 1. On the Management Menu, select Objects → Logical Drive . 2. Sele...

Page 51 - Configuring a Bootable Logical Drive; random deletion; Clearing a Storage Configuration

Configuring a Bootable Logical Drive 3-17 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 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. 3.9 Configuring a Bootable...

Page 52 - To clear a storage configuration, follow these steps:; When the message appears, select; All logical drives are deleted from the configuration.

3-18 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. To clear a storage configuration, follow these steps: 1. On the Management Menu, select Configure → Clear Configuration . 2. When the message appears, select Yes to confirm. All logic...

Page 53 - The MegaCLI CT utility runs in the Microsoft

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 4-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 4MegaCLI Command Tool The MegaCLI Command Tool (CT) is a command line interface application that you can use to configure and maintain storage configurations created with E...

Page 54 - MegaCLI Command Tool; MegaCLI CT Overview

4-2 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.1 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 the...

Page 55 - Some operations such as; Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions; in the command line syntax used in this chapter.; Convention; CmdTool

Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions 4-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. but fails to start rebuilding the second drive. If this happens, MegaCLI CT will not attempt to star t rebuilding the third drive; instead, it will exit with an error exit code....

Page 56 - not

4-4 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 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 are displayed on the screen. Some MegaCLI CT co...

Page 57 - Adapter Commands; Display Adapter Information; Syntax; Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild; option shows the status of the automatic rebuild state.

Adapter Commands 4-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. E0:S n syntax that enables you to specify a disk drive in a particular “slot” in this default enclosure. 4.4 Adapter Commands You can use the commands in this section to set or display properties related...

Page 58 - , you can enter a value between 0; Display Specified Adapter Properties; Set Adapter Properties; RebuildRate; Display Specified Adapter Properties

4-6 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.4.3 Set Adapter Properties This command sets the properties on the selected adapter(s). For example, for {RebuildRate -val} , you can enter a value between 0 percent and 100 percent. (The rebuild r...

Page 59 - Display Adapter Time; Set or Display Bootable Logical Drive ID; Display Adapter Time; CmdTool –AdpGetTime -aN; Set Factory Defaults; will look for a boot sector in the specified logical drive.

BIOS Commands 4-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.4.5 Display Adapter Time Use the command in Table 4.5 to display the current time and date of the selected adapter. 4.4.6 Set Factory Defaults Use the command in Table 4.7 to set the factory defaults on t...

Page 60 - Event Log Commands; Manage the Event Log Entries; Set BIOS Options; : Enables, disables or displays the BIOS status on; Event Log Management

4-8 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.5.2 Set BIOS Options Use the command in Table 4.9 to set the options for the BIOS status. 4.6 Event Log Commands 4.6.1 Manage the Event Log Entries Use the command in Table 4.10 to manage the event...

Page 61 - Configuration Commands; Add RAID 0, 1 or 5 Configuration

Configuration Commands 4-9 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.7 Configuration Commands You can use the commands in this section to create storage configurations. 4.7.1 Add RAID 0, 1 or 5 Configuration Use the command in Table 4.11 to add a RAID level 0, 1, ...

Page 62 - : Used to specify RAID level and physical drive enclosure/slot; Configure Each Disk as RAID 0

4-10 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.7.2 Configure Each Disk as RAID 0 Use the command in Table 4.12 to configure each physical disk in Unconfigured-Good state as RAID 0. Note: The MegaCLI CT does not suppor t spanning across these s...

Page 63 - not read ahead for the current; Add RAID 10 Configuration

Configuration Commands 4-11 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.7.3 Add RAID 10 Configuration Use the command in Table 4.13 to add a RAID 10 configuration to the existing configuration on the selected adapter. For RAID levels 0, 1 or 5, see Section 4.7.1, “A...

Page 64 - must be entered in the sequence that is shown.; Clear Existing Configuration; Clears the existing storage configuration.; Display Existing Configuration; CmdTool –CfgSave –fFileName -aN

4-12 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.7.4 Clear Existing Configuration Use the command in Table 4.14 to clear the existing storage configuration on the selected adapter(s). 4.7.5 Display Existing Configuration Use the command in Table...

Page 65 - Restore Configuration Data from File; CmdTool –CfgRestore –fFileName -aN; Delete Logical Drives

Configuration Commands 4-13 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.7.7 Restore Configuration Data from File Use the command in Table 4.17 to read the configuration from the file and load it on the selected adapter(s). You can restore the read/write properties a...

Page 66 - Logical Drive Commands; except; Display Logical Drive Information; Display Logical Drive Cache Settings

4-14 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.8 Logical Drive Commands You can use the commands in this section to select settings for the logical drives and to perform actions on them. 4.8.1 Display Logical Drive Information Use the command ...

Page 67 - View Ongoing Background Initialization; Manage Logical Drive Initialization; : Displays the snapshot of the ongoing initialization, if any.; Manage Consistency Check; : Displays ongoing CC progress until at least one CC is completed

Logical Drive Commands 4-15 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.8.4 Manage Consistency Check Use the command in Table 4.23 to manage a data consistency check (CC) on the logical drives for the selected adapter(s). Note: In all operating system environments e...

Page 68 - In all operating system environments; Display Logical Drive and Physical Drive Information; : Enables or disables the background initialization on the given; Display Logical Drive and Physical Disk Drive Information

4-16 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. background initialization processes complete or the user presses a key to exit. Note: In all operating system environments except DOS, the OS driver starts initializing the logical drives when the -...

Page 69 - Display Number of Logical Drives; Display Physical Disk Drive Information; Online; Display Number of Logical Drives; Changes the physical disk drive state to

Physical Drive Commands 4-17 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.8.7 Display Number of Logical Drives Use the command in Table 4.26 to display the number of logical drives attached to the adapter. 4.9 Physical Drive Commands You can use the commands in this ...

Page 70 - Offline; Set Physical Disk Drive State to Unconfigured-Good; Set Physical Disk Drive State to Unconfigured-Good; Changes the physical disk drive state from; Manage Hotspares; : Changes the physical disk drive state to

4-18 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.9.3 Set Physical Disk Drive State to Offline Use the command in Table 4.29 to set the state of a physical disk drive to Offline . In the offline state, the logical drive is not available to the ad...

Page 71 - Locate Physical Disk Drive(s) and Activate LED; Rebuild Physical Disk Drive; is completed or a key is pressed.; Locate Physical Disk Drive and Flash LED; Replace Configured Disk Drives and Start Automatic Rebuild

Physical Drive Commands 4-19 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. array fails, you can rebuild the physical disk by recreating the data that was stored on the physical disk before it failed. Note: In all operating system environments except DOS, the OS driver s...

Page 72 - Prepare Unconfigured Physical Disk Drives for Removal; Replace Configured Disk Drives and Start Automatic Rebuild (Cont.); unaffiliated; Display Number of Physical Disk Drives

4-20 MegaCLI Command Tool Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.9.9 Prepare Unconfigured Physical Disk Drives for Removal Use the command in Table 4.35 to prepare an unconfigured physical disk drive(s) for removal from the selected adapter(s). 4.9.10 Display N...

Page 73 - Miscellaneous Commands; Display MegaCLI Version; CmdTool –v; Description; Displays the version number of the MegaCLI utility.; Display MegaCLI Help; Displays help for the MegaCLI utility.

Miscellaneous Commands 4-21 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 4.10 Miscellaneous Commands The commands in this section are used to display various information. 4.10.1 Display MegaCLI Version Use the command in Table 4.38 to display the version number of the ...

Page 75 - Section 5.2, “Hardware and Software Requirements”; Creating Storage Configurations

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 5-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 5MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation MegaRAID Storage Manager software is a configuration and monitoring utility used with the Embedded MegaRAID Sof...

Page 76 - MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation; Monitoring Storage Devices; Hardware and Software Requirements; Hard disk drive with at least 50 Mbytes available free space

5-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. You can use the Configuration Wizard Auto Configuration mode to automatically create the best possible configuration with the available hardware. You can use th...

Page 77 - SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs; file to start the; Next; The Customer Information screen appears, as shown in

Installation 5-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • Red Hat Linux 3.0 or 4.0 • SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for more information on hardware and operating sys...

Page 80 - Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux; disk; Client

5-6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 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 ...

Page 81 - Linux Error Messages; rpm

Installation 5-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Be sure to include a space in front of the IP address, as shown in the example. 5.3.3 Linux Error Messages One or more of the following messages may appear while you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager s...

Page 83 - Section 6.1, “Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software”; Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software; Storage Manager shortcut on the desktop.; Unblock; to; MegaRAID Storage Manager StartupUI

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 6-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 6MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus This chapter explains how to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and menus....

Page 84 - Select Server Window; box, you can also access

6-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. When the program starts, the Select Server window appears, as shown in Figure 6.1 . Figure 6.1 Select Server Window If the circle in the server icon is yellow instead of green, i...

Page 85 - Server Login Window

Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software 6-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Figure 6.2 Server Login Window 3. Select an access mode from the drop-down menu. – Select Full Access if you need to both view the current configuration and change the configura...

Page 86 - MegaRAID Storage Manager Window; Main MegaRAID Storage Manager Window

6-4 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 6.2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, which is shown in Figure 6.3 . Figure 6.3 Main MegaRAID Storage Manager Window The...

Page 87 - Physical/Logical View Panel; Physical view

MegaRAID Storage Manager Window 6-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 6.2.1 Physical/Logical View Panel The left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays either the Physical view or the Logical view of the system and the devices in it, depending...

Page 88 - Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel; Properties; Event Log Panel

6-6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 6.2.2 Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel The right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window has either two or three tabs, depending on what kind of device is selected...

Page 89 - Menu Bar; File Menu

MegaRAID Storage Manager Window 6-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 6.2.4 Menu Bar Here are brief descriptions of the main selections on the MegaRAID Storage Manager menu bar. Specific menu options are described in more detail in Chapters 7 , 8 , and 9 of ...

Page 90 - Log Menu; On the Help menu you can select

6-8 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 6.2.4.4 Log Menu The Log menu includes options for saving and clearing the message log. For more information, see Appendix A, “Events and Messages.” 6.2.4.5 Help Menu On the Help...

Page 92 - Creating a New Storage Configuration; First Configuration Wizard Screen

7-2 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.1 Creating a New Storage Configuration You can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager Configuration Wizard to create new storage configurations. To open the MegaRAID Storage Manager Configuration Wizard, select...

Page 93 - Guided Configuration; Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters; Unchanged

Creating a New Storage Configuration 7-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. • Guided Configuration asks you a few simple questions about what kind of configuration you want and then automatically creates it from the available disk drives. Note: You can use Au...

Page 94 - Using Auto Configuration; shows the Auto Configuration screen.; Auto Configuration Screen; : The new configuration will have no data

7-4 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.1.2 Using Auto Configuration Auto Configuration is the quickest and simplest way to create a new storage configuration. When you select Auto Configuration mode on the first Configuration Wizard screen, th...

Page 95 - Using Guided Configuration

Creating a New Storage Configuration 7-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. – With Redundancy : The new configuration will have data redundancy via mirrored data (RAID 1). If a physical disk fails, data is still protected. 2. Select an initialization option f...

Page 96 - First Guided Configuration Screen; : Create a configuration only if redundancy; Redundancy when possible; : Create a redundant configuration; No Redundancy; Use Existing Arrays Only

7-6 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Figure 7.3 First Guided Configuration Screen Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Guided Configuration mode: 1. Select a redundancy option at the top of the Guided Configuration windo...

Page 98 - Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0; shows the first screen that appears when you select Manual; First Manual Configuration Screen; button to; to accept these drives for the new RAID 0 array.

7-8 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.1.4 Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0 Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. Figure 7.5 shows the first screen that a...

Page 99 - Left Arrow; Arrays with Free Space

Creating a New Storage Configuration 7-9 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Note: To remove a single drive from a proposed new array, select the drive icon in the right panel and click the Left Arrow button. 3. Click Next . The next Configuration Wizard windo...

Page 100 - Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1

7-10 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 8. Click Accept to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk. Note: Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just defined. 9. Click Next to continue with the next configu...

Page 101 - Manual Configuration – Adding a Hotspare

Creating a New Storage Configuration 7-11 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Figure 7.7 Manual Configuration – Adding a Hotspare 4. To remove a hotspare from an array, select it in the right panel and click Remove HotSpare . 5. Click Next . The next Configura...

Page 102 - Using Manual Configuration: RAID 10

7-12 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Note: Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just defined. 11. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step. The Virtual Disk Summary window appears. 12. Review the...

Page 103 - Adding Hotspare Disks

Adding Hotspare Disks 7-13 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 9. (Optional) Change the other Virtual Disk Properties, if necessary. For more information, see Section 7.1.1, “Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters.” 10. Click Accept to accept the configuration ...

Page 104 - Changing Adjustable Task Rates

7-14 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.3 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: Note: LSI recommends that you leave the adju...

Page 105 - Changing Virtual Disk Properties

Changing Virtual Disk Properties 7-15 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.4 Changing Virtual Disk Properties You can change a vir tual disk’s Read Policy, Write Policy, and other properties at any time after the virtual disk is created. To do this, follow th...

Page 106 - Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk; Save; Clearing a Storage Configuration from a Controller

7-16 Configuration Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.6 Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk You can save an existing controller configuration to a file so you can apply it to another controller. To save a configuration file, follow these steps: 1. Select...

Page 107 - Adding a Saved Storage Configuration

Adding a Saved Storage Configuration 7-17 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 7.8 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration When you replace a controller, or when you want to duplicate an existing storage configuration on a new controller, you can add a saved confi...

Page 109 - Section 8.5, “Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes”; Monitoring System Events; The Log menu has three options:; Save Log; : Enables you to load a different log file.

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 8-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 8Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices The MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to monitor the status of disk drives, virtual disks, and other storage devic...

Page 110 - Monitoring Controllers; icon looks like this:; tab in the right panel.; Controller Information

8-2 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. 8.2 Monitoring Controllers Note: The Embedded MegaRAID Software drivers act as virtual “controllers.” Because these are not actual hardware storage controllers installed in th...

Page 111 - Monitoring Disk Drives; “Physical/Logical View Panel”

Monitoring Disk Drives 8-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Most of the information on this screen is self-explanatory. Note the following: • The Rebuild Rate , Consistency Check Rate , and BGI Rate (background initialization) are all user selectable. For m...

Page 112 - Click the physical disk icon in the left panel.

8-4 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Figure 8.2 Physical Drive Information The information on this panel is self-explanatory. There are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other storage ...

Page 113 - Graphical View; Monitoring Virtual Disks; Logical

Monitoring Virtual Disks 8-5 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. To display a graphical view of a disk drive, click on a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and click the Graphical View tab. In Graphical View, the drive’s stora...

Page 115 - Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes; by selecting; Group

Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes 8-7 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. To display a graphical view of a virtual disk, click on a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and click the Graphical View tab. In Graphical...

Page 116 - Check”; Abort

8-8 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Operations on virtual disks appear in the left panel of the Group Show Progress window, and operations on physical drives appear in the right panel. The following operations a...

Page 117 - Section 9.1, “Initializing a Virtual Disk”; Initializing a Virtual Disk

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide 9-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Chapter 9Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations This section explains how to use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to maintain and manage storage configurations. This chap...

Page 118 - Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations; Start; “Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes”; Running a Consistency Check; Select All

9-2 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. information, see Section 7.1.1, “Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters.” ) 5. Click Start to begin the initialization. You can monitor the progress of the initialization. S...

Page 119 - Making a Drive Offline; all data on that drive is lost

Making a Drive Offline 9-3 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. if the drive is still operational.) If hotspare disks are available, the failed drive is rebuilt automatically without any user intervention. If a drive has failed, a red circle appears to the righ...

Page 120 - Select; Make drive offline; status changes to Offline.; Rescan

9-4 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. To remove the disk drive from the configuration without harming the data on the virtual disk, follow these steps: 1. In the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager windo...

Page 121 - lists all of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software event; Event Error Levels; Error Level

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide A-1 Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Appendix AEvents and Messages This appendix lists the MegaRAID Storage Manager software events that may appear in the event log. MegaRAID Storage Manager software monitors the acti...

Page 122 - Events and Messages; Event Messages; Number

A-2 Events and Messages Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Table A.2 Event Messages Number (Hex) Number (Decimal) Type Event Text 0x0000 0 Information Firmware initialization started (PCI ID %04x/%04x/%04x/%04x) 0x0001 1 Information Firmware version %s 0x0002...

Page 131 - Thank you for your help in improving the quality of our documents.

Embedded MegaRAID Software User’s Guide Version 2.0 Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Customer Feedback We would appreciate your feedback on this document. Please copy the following page, add your comments, and fax it to us at the number shown. If appropriate, please al...

Page 132 - Reader’s Comments; Embedded MegaRAID Soft-

Reader’s Comments Fax your comments to: LSI Logic CorporationTechnical PublicationsM/S AF-198Fax: 408.433.4333 Please tell us how you rate this document: Embedded MegaRAID Soft- ware User’s Guide. Place a check mark in the appropriate blank for each category. What could we do to improve this documen...