Supermicro AOC-USAS-L4iR - Manuals

vii Safety Information and Technical Specifications Introduction Overview This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate SuperMicro's AOC-USAS-L4i and/or the AOC-USAS-L4iR add-on cards to their system. Product Features The AOC-USAS-L4i...

viii Add-on Card User's Guide Contacting SuperMicro Headquarters Address: SuperMicro Computer, Inc.980 Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000 Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008 Email: [email protected] (General Information)[email protected] (Technical Support) Web Site: www.super...

1-1 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the components. 1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage ...

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2-2 Add-on Card User's Guide 2-2 Front Connector and Pin Definitions #3. Active LED Connector Allows the add-on card to display activity and status using a standard LED panel. #1. Internal SAS Connector The Internal SAS port (J3) connects to the backplane allowing the motherboard to access the hard d...

2-3 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions Jumper Settings Jumper Jumper Settings Note SWR5 1-2: Enabled 3: Disabled Enables or Disables Software Raid 5 AOC-USAS-L4iR only. Leave disabled for AOC-USAS-L4i 1 3 1 4 A C A C A C A C A C A C A C A C A...

2-4 Add-on Card User's Guide Front Pane LEDs LED STATE SPECIFICATION LED1 Flashing SAS Port Activity LED2 Flashing Heartbeat and Fault LNP0 ON Fault in HHD #0 LNP1 ON Fault in HHD #1 LNP2 ON Fault in HHD #2 LNP3 ON Fault in HHD #3 LNP4 ON Fault in HHD #4 LNP5 ON Fault in HHD #5 LNP6 ON Fault in HHD ...

2-5 Safety Information and Technical Specifications RAID Minimum Drive Requirements RAID Minimum Hard Drives RAID 0 2 RAID 1 2 RAID 5* 3* RAID 10 4 (2 RAID 1 Arrays) Use the following chart to determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment. * Raid 5 is supported by th...

3-1 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 3 Driver Installation The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility (CU) is used to configure disk arrays and logical drives and to do other configuration tasks in a pre-bootenvironment. 3-1 Performing a Quick Configuration This section provides high ...

3-2 Add-on Card User's Guide 3-2 Configuring Arrays and Logic Drives This section provides detailed instructions for configuring arrays and logical drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU. LSI recommends that you use drives with the same capacity when you create a storage configuration. If you use drives with...

3-3 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Note: When you start the MegaRAID BIOS CU by pressing Ctrl-H the Configuration Manager Module of the BIOS allocates three segments of memory using either PMM or conventional memory: these are the Destination Segment, Scratch Segment, and Read Write B...

3-4 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 3-2: Logical Drive Configuration 8. Highlight RAID and press Enter. The available RAID levels for the current logical drive are displayed. 9. Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press Enter. 10. (Optional) Change the drive’s default Write Cache and Read A...

3-6 Add-on Card User's Guide 9. Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press Enter. 10. (Optional) Set the logical drive size by highlighting Size and Enter. The minimum valid logical drive size is 64 Mbytes. An error will appear if you try to create a logical drive that is smaller 64 Mbytes....

3-7 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 3. Select an unconfigured drive or Ready drive from the list, and press Enter. 4. 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 hotspare drive. Note: To remove a...

3-9 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 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 menu. If you press Esc while initialization is in progress, the Stop,...

3-10 Add-on Card User's Guide 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 change the cache setting. The settings are changed for all logical drives defi...

3-12 Add-on Card User's Guide • 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 insert or remove a drive, the CU will first display the message Rebuilding Of Driv...

3-13 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 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. If the MegaRAID BIOS CU finds any data inconsistencies while compa...

3-14 Add-on Card User's Guide Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties To view or change adapter properties, follow these steps: 1. On the Management Menu, select Objects→ Adapter. 2. Select an adapter from the list. The following list of adapter properties appears: 1. The Disk coercion property can ...

3-15 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 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. Select View/Update Parameters. The only logical drive properties you can cha...

4-1 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation MegaRAID Storage Manager software is a configuration and monitoring utility used with the Embedded MegaRAID Software. This chapter provides a brief overview of the MegaRAID Storage...

4-2 Add-on Card User's Guide You can use the Configuration Wizard Auto Configuration mode to automatically create the best possible configuration with the available hardware. You can use the Guided Configuration mode, which asks you a few brief questions about the configu-ration, and then creates it for ...

4-6 Add-on Card User's Guide 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 software), you cannot connect to a remote ...

4-7 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Linux Error Messages One or more of the following messages may appear while you are installing Mega-RAID Storage Manager software on a Linux system: • More than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software has been in-stalled. This message indicate...

5-1 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 5 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus This chapter explains how to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and de-scribes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and menus. 5-1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Follow these steps ...

5-4 Add-on Card User's Guide 5-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, which is shown in Figure 5-3. The following topics describe the panels and menu options that appear in this window.

5-5 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 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 on which tab is selected. • The Physical view shows the hierarchy ...

5-7 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Menu Bar Here are brief descriptions of the main selections on the MegaRAID Storage Man-ager menu bar. File Menu The File menu has an Exit option for exiting from the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. It also has a Rescan option for updating the di...

6-1 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 6 Configuration You use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to create and modify storage configurations. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 storage configurations are supported. Important: LSI recommends that you do not use both SAS and SATA dri...

6-2 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 6-1: First Screen Configuration Wizard The menu lists three configuration modes: • Auto Configuration automatically creates an optimal configuration from the avail-able disk drives. • Manual Configuration gives you the greatest level of control in creating a new virtua...

6-3 Safety Information and Technical Specifications The following subsections explain how to use the Configuration Wizard to create storage configurations: • “Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters” • “Using Auto Configuration” • “Using Guided Configuration” • “Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0” • “Using ...

6-4 Add-on Card User's Guide Using Auto Configuration Auto Configuration is the quickest and simplest way to create a new storage configu-ration. When you select Auto Configuration mode on the first Configuration Wizard screen, the Configuration Wizard creates the best configuration possible using the avail...

6-5 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 2. Select an initialization option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the window: – No Initialization: The new configuration is not initialized, and the existing data on the disks is not overwritten. – Fast Initialization: MegaRAID Storage Mana...

6-6 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 6-3: First Guided Conguration 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 window: – Redundancy Only: Create a configuration only if redundancy (RAID ...

6-7 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 3. Select a maximum number of virtual disks to be created. The Configuration Wizard may not be able to create as many virtual disks as you want, depending on the current configuration and the number of virtual disks that have already been created. 4. ...

6-8 Add-on Card User's Guide 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 6-5 shows the first screen that appears when you select Manual Configura-tion. 1. In the first Manual Configurat...

6-10 Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1 Follow these steps to create a RAID 1 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard: 1. In the first Manual Configuration window, shown in Figure 6-5, select two avail-able drives in the left panel. Cl...

6-12 Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 5 Follow these steps to create a RAID 5 storage configuration using the Manual Con-figuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. Remember that RAID 5 requires: • AOC-USAS-L4iR card with the enabled SWR5 jumper enabled • activated Super Micro ...

6-13 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Using Manual Configuration: RAID 10 Follow these steps to create a RAID 10 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard: 1. In the first Manual Configuration window, shown in Figure 6-5, select two avail-able driv...

6-14 Add-on Card User's Guide 10. 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. 11. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step. The Virtual Disk Sum-mary window appears. 12. Review ...

6-15 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 6-3 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 adjustable task rates at their default set-ting...

6-16 Add-on Card User's Guide 6-4 Changing Virtual Disk Properties You can change a virtual disk’s Read Policy, Write Policy, and other properties at any time after the virtual disk is created. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Ma...

6-17 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 6-6 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 a controller icon in the left panel of the Mega...

6-18 Add-on Card User's Guide 6-8 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration When you replace a controller, or when you want to duplicate an existing stor-age configuration on a new controller, you can add a saved configuration to the controller. Caution: When you add a saved configuration to a replacement co...