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1.
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................... 7
1.1.
Overview................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Unparalleled Performance for 12Gb/s SAS .................................................................................................................... 7
Unsurpassed Data Availability ........................................................................................................................................ 7
Maximum Interoperability ............................................................................................................................................. 7
Easy RAID Management ................................................................................................................................................. 7
1.2.
Features .................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Controller Architecture .................................................................................................................................................. 8
2.
Hardware Installation ..................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.1.
Before You First Installing....................................................................................................................................... 9
Package Contents ........................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.2.
Board Layout ........................................................................................................................................................ 10
2.3.
Tools Required ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
System Requirement .................................................................................................................................................... 10
Installation Tools .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
Personal Safety Instructions ......................................................................................................................................... 11
Electrostatic Discharge ................................................................................................................................................. 11
2.4.
Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 11
2.5.
Hot-plug Drive Replacement ................................................................................................................................ 14
2.6.
Summary of the installation ................................................................................................................................. 14
McRAID Storage Manager ............................................................................................................................................ 15
ArcHTTP Proxy Server ................................................................................................................................................... 15
CLI Utility ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15
SNMP Manager Console Integration ............................................................................................................................ 16
Out of Band-Using LAN Port Interface ......................................................................................................................... 16
In-Band-Using PCIe Host Bus Interface ........................................................................................................................ 16
Single Admin Portal (SAP) Monitor .............................................................................................................................. 16
3.
McBIOS RAID Manager ................................................................................................................................................. 16
3.1.
Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager ..................................................................................................................... 16
3.2.
McBIOS RAID manager ......................................................................................................................................... 18
3.3.
Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets ................................................................................................................ 18
3.4.
Designating Drives as Hot Spares ......................................................................................................................... 18
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