MSI X2-109 v1- User Manual

MSI X2-109 v1

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – ii; Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.; To receive product literature, visit us at
  • Page 3 – Preface; Audience
  • 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
  • Page 5 – Revision History; Braces; Initial release of this document.
  • Page 7 – Contents
  • Page 11 – Customer Feedback
  • Page 13 – xiii; Figures
  • Page 14 – xiv
  • Page 15 – xv; Tables
  • Page 16 – xvi
  • 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
  • Page 18 – Overview; BIOS Features
  • Page 19 – None; Ctrl-M Configuration Utility Features
  • Page 20 – Manageability/Disk Console Features; RAID Overview; arrays
  • Page 21 – A RAID 5 array consists of three to eight drives.; Maximize Fault Tolerance:; mirroring; Maximize Logical Drive Performance:; striping; Maximizing Storage Capacity:
  • 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
  • Page 23 – RAID 1 Description; shows a RAID 1 array.; RAID 1 Array; RAID 5 Description; Two
  • Page 24 – shows a RAID 5 array with six disk drives.; RAID 5 Array; Three to eight
  • Page 25 – RAID 10 Description; shows a RAID 10 array with four disk drives.; Requires twice as many drives
  • Page 27 – Setup is inspecting your computers hardware; Enter
  • Page 28 – Driver Installation; Confirming the Windows 2000/2003/XP Driver Installation
  • Page 29 – Linux Driver Installation; Obtaining the Driver Image File; Preparing Installation Disks with the Windows Operating System; rawrite
  • Page 31 – Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver on a New System; linux dd; Updating the Red Hat Linux Driver (Generic)
  • Page 32 – modules
  • Page 33 – ahci
  • Page 34 – Installing the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Driver; Chapter 3, “MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility.”; Installation; LSI Soft RAID Driver Updates added.; Back
  • Page 36 – MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility; Performing a Quick Configuration; for detailed; Configure; from the Management Menu.; Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives
  • 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
  • Page 38 – Using Easy Configuration; Configuration; READY; Yes
  • Page 39 – Section 3.3, “Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and; Using New Configuration and View/Add Configuration
  • 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
  • Page 42 – Initializing Logical Drives; Fast Init
  • Page 43 – AutoResume
  • Page 44 – Stop
  • Page 45 – Change DWC; Rebuilding a Drive; Rebuild
  • Page 46 – Rebuilding of Drive X Completed Successfully. Press Esc.; Hot Plug Support; hot plug message
  • Page 47 – Rebuilding Of Drive Not Complete!; Checking Data Consistency; Check Consistency
  • Page 48 – The Data on the Drives is inconsistent. Repair done!; Viewing and Changing Device Properties
  • Page 49 – Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties; Objects; Property
  • Page 50 – Viewing and Changing Logical Drive Properties; Disk WC; Viewing Physical Drive Properties; Forcing Drives Online or Offline
  • Page 51 – Configuring a Bootable Logical Drive; random deletion; Clearing a Storage Configuration
  • Page 52 – To clear a storage configuration, follow these steps:; When the message appears, select; All logical drives are deleted from the configuration.
  • Page 53 – The MegaCLI CT utility runs in the Microsoft
  • Page 54 – MegaCLI Command Tool; MegaCLI CT Overview
  • Page 55 – Some operations such as; Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions; in the command line syntax used in this chapter.; Convention; CmdTool
  • Page 56 – not
  • Page 57 – Adapter Commands; Display Adapter Information; Syntax; Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild; option shows the status of the automatic rebuild state.
  • Page 58 – , you can enter a value between 0; Display Specified Adapter Properties; Set Adapter Properties; RebuildRate; Display Specified Adapter Properties
  • 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.
  • Page 60 – Event Log Commands; Manage the Event Log Entries; Set BIOS Options; : Enables, disables or displays the BIOS status on; Event Log Management
  • Page 61 – Configuration Commands; Add RAID 0, 1 or 5 Configuration
  • Page 62 – : Used to specify RAID level and physical drive enclosure/slot; Configure Each Disk as RAID 0
  • Page 63 – not read ahead for the current; Add RAID 10 Configuration
  • 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
  • Page 65 – Restore Configuration Data from File; CmdTool –CfgRestore –fFileName -aN; Delete Logical Drives
  • Page 66 – Logical Drive Commands; except; Display Logical Drive Information; Display Logical Drive Cache Settings
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Page 75 – Section 5.2, “Hardware and Software Requirements”; Creating Storage Configurations
  • 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
  • Page 77 – SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs; file to start the; Next; The Customer Information screen appears, as shown in
  • Page 80 – Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux; disk; Client
  • Page 81 – Linux Error Messages; rpm
  • 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
  • Page 84 – Select Server Window; box, you can also access
  • Page 85 – Server Login Window
  • Page 86 – MegaRAID Storage Manager Window; Main MegaRAID Storage Manager Window
  • Page 87 – Physical/Logical View Panel; Physical view
  • Page 88 – Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel; Properties; Event Log Panel
  • Page 89 – Menu Bar; File Menu
  • Page 90 – Log Menu; On the Help menu you can select
  • Page 92 – Creating a New Storage Configuration; First Configuration Wizard Screen
  • Page 93 – Guided Configuration; Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters; Unchanged
  • Page 94 – Using Auto Configuration; shows the Auto Configuration screen.; Auto Configuration Screen; : The new configuration will have no data
  • Page 95 – Using Guided Configuration
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Page 99 – Left Arrow; Arrays with Free Space
  • Page 100 – Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1
  • Page 101 – Manual Configuration – Adding a Hotspare
  • Page 102 – Using Manual Configuration: RAID 10
  • Page 103 – Adding Hotspare Disks
  • Page 104 – Changing Adjustable Task Rates
  • Page 105 – Changing Virtual Disk Properties
  • Page 106 – Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk; Save; Clearing a Storage Configuration from a Controller
  • Page 107 – Adding a Saved Storage Configuration
  • 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.
  • Page 110 – Monitoring Controllers; icon looks like this:; tab in the right panel.; Controller Information
  • Page 111 – Monitoring Disk Drives; “Physical/Logical View Panel”
  • Page 112 – Click the physical disk icon in the left panel.
  • Page 113 – Graphical View; Monitoring Virtual Disks; Logical
  • Page 115 – Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes; by selecting; Group
  • Page 116 – Check”; Abort
  • Page 117 – Section 9.1, “Initializing a Virtual Disk”; Initializing a Virtual Disk
  • Page 118 – Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations; Start; “Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes”; Running a Consistency Check; Select All
  • Page 119 – Making a Drive Offline; all data on that drive is lost
  • Page 120 – Select; Make drive offline; status changes to Offline.; Rescan
  • Page 121 – lists all of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software event; Event Error Levels; Error Level
  • Page 122 – Events and Messages; Event Messages; Number
  • Page 131 – Thank you for your help in improving the quality of our documents.
  • Page 132 – Reader’s Comments; Embedded MegaRAID Soft-
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Page 2 - ii; Copyright © 2006 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.; To receive product literature, visit us at

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...

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